VOL. XXXX.
February Prices
Biclcel's.
Men's Gray Felts and Extra Heavy Goodyear—Glove Overs *1 W
Man's Extra Heavy Goodyear Glove perfections JV
Men's first quality rubbers
Boys' first quality rubbers ,
Misses' Canvas boots
LEATHER GOODS-
Men's fine satin calf shoes—latest styles $ jjjjj
Boys- " " •' • ;; ;; ..
Youths " ' ' , n0
Men's Heavy sole and tap working shoes ' " _
Men's Double sole and tap. box-toe shoes 1
Boys' Heavy every day shoes
LADIES' FINE SHOES
Ladies' $1.33 warm lined shoes /jj
Misses' fine Dongola shoes, sizes lli to
1 lot Misses'fine Kangaroo-calf $1.75 shoes '
1 lot Ladies' fine Dongola $1.50 shoes ■• • • ••• 0 .
Baker & Bowman's *4.00 fine shoes—hand turns and hand welta -
llotchildren's 75c red shoes at —■• • - ' cand
Children s fine shoes ■ •
All Winter Goods to be closed out Regardless of Cost.
Leggins and Overgaiters at greatly reduced prices-
Sample Counters filled with Interesting Bargains.
Repairing neatly and Promptly Done.
JOHN BICKEL,
128 South Main St., BUTLER, PA.
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IM Lost and made in Shoes this month! W A
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L'V 1250 pairs Fall and Winter Shoes. W A
w2 Men's, Women's and Children's —so far not sold —will,
as is our custom —BE CUT IN PRICE and prompt- yA
> ly gotten rid of! kl
' SALE IS NOW GOING ON! M
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I At 1-2 Prices. |
} We will sell 150 Men's Overcoats at 1-2 price i
? The balance of our Men's Overcoats at a bargain. \
\ Your choice ol any Boys' or Child's Overcoat in /
% our store for just 1-2 price. /
\ The public knows we only have ONE PRICE and always mane J
I it in plain flguers. So when we say i price it means something. \
j We also have odds and ends in Suits, Shirts, Hats and Furnish- /
\ ings that we will close out at a Bargain. C
f CALL SOON—THIS SALE ONLY LASTS 15 DAYS. <
C Yours lor Clothing, C
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KECK
% Fall & Winter Weights
7, \ (I / j K Jjj Have a nattiness about them that Jj
/jj( C NrN / / W mark the wearer, it won't do to
' / l\ [a/ (flO 1 p\ wear the last year's output. You
i f p \l~ >1 54 won't get the latest things at the
V l/K \ ICJ t* stock clothiers either. The up-to
' i I I J l ,; date tailor only can supply them, ,
I I\% |. /jIT| f] if you want not only the latest (
I f 111 I things in cut and fit and work
llf ■III manship, the finest in durability,
I If llf I ■ vhere else can you get combina
; I h j!j [l ™ tions, you get them at
F, E C K
G. F. KECK, Merchant Tailor,
24 North Mairt Street All Work Guaranteed Butler. Pa
Now Is The Time
To begin to think about what papering you are going to do before the
Spring rush begins. Our stock of Wall Paper for 1903 surpasses all
previous seasons. Double the amount we ever carried. Quality, tasty
designs and colorings can't be beat. Come in and look around even if
you don't want to buy. It will be time well spent and a pleasure for you
to cee the FINEST and LARGEST display of Wall Coverings ever shown
in Butler. No trouble to show goods.
Picture and Mirror Framing a specialty. k
Patterson Bros'
236 N. Main St. Phone 400. Wick Building
HAMMILL'S CELEBRATED INDUN ROOT TABLETS
Greatest Kidney and Liver Remedy. Positive cure for Sick
Headache, Sour Stomach, Loss of Appetite, Constipation
\C Rheumatism, Blood Purifier.
F or Sale by all Druggists, or by mail, 25c, 50c, and £I.OO
HAMMILL MEDICINE CO,
if No. 302 MILTENBERGER STREET, PITTSBURG, PENN'A.
Subscribe for the CITIZEN.
THE BUTLER CITIZEN.
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CATARRH
Ely's Creaßialm y
cleanses, soothes and heals f
the diseased membrane.
It cures catarrh and drives
away a ©old In the head
quickly.
Cream Balm is placed into the nostrils, ppread
over the membrane and is absorbed. Re! ef is Ihi
mediate and a cure follows. It is not drying—doe
not produce sneezing. Sizc t 50 cents at Pvuj;
gists or by mail; Trial Size, 10 cents.
Bilious?
Dizzy? Headache? Pain
back of your eyes? It's your
liver! Use Ayer's Pills.
I want your moustache or heard a
beautiful brown or rich black ? Use
Buckingham's Dye
50ctJ.ofdruggi»tsorR. P. Hall&Co., Nithm.N.H
Johnsion's p>J
Beef, Iron and Wine j[^
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Blood Purifier. A 1
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Pharmacy. M
N H. M. LOGAN, Ph. G..
V Manager, I
ICB N. Main St., Butler, l'a Lv
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: FURNISHINGS. !
f All heavy
f Winter goods
£ are included
4 in this sale.
1 All soft and stiff hats at { off 4
£ All soft and stiff bosom color- I
v ed shirts at ± off i
? All heavy lined gloves at.. .i off J
F All heavy underwear i off
# All mufflers at J off £
# All neckwear at i off W
m All Men's and Boys'caps | off #
? Odds and ends at any old price. 5
Uno.S. Wick J
2 HATTER and 2
5 MEN S FURNISHER. £
? Opposite P. 0. £
S BUTLER, PA. !
A Safe Investment -Fine Farm
For Sale.
.•?T,000; farm of 50 acres, 4 miles from
Mars Station,one mile from Brush Creek
and Perrysville road: house of nine
rooms, gas. center hall, porches, two
cellars; the farm is all fenced with wire,
locust posts; a good bank barn 40x60,
wagon shed 20x40; a large chicken house
20x:iO, piped with gas: the farm is well
watered and watered in two forms; it
has a large apple orchard, 4 oil wells,
royalty s4<> per month; 10 acres which
are not leased for oil can be leased at
any time with a guarantee of drilling a
well; the land is all cleared, good soil:
reasons for selling closing up an estate.
See M. J. Ehrenfeld,
1922 Forbes st.. Piitaburg, Pa.
BUTLER. PA.. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1903.
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Dummy Dee liad come to call upon
the bishop.
The bishop and he were very par
ticular friends and therefore shook
hands, as man to man, in a very cordial
manner.
"1 came," said Dummy Dee, "on very
particular business, and I would have
been awful sorry not to find you at
home."
'•I am very glad to be here, Dummy
Dee," said the bishop, smiling at his
guest.
There was a short pause, Dummy
Dee frowning thoughtfully into space
for ideas and the bishop waiting to
hear the manner of his guest's busi
ness.
"Are you ever lonesome, bishop?"
asked Dummy Dec at last, leaning for
ward and clasping his short arms
around his knees.
"Yes, often," said the bishop, the
note of truth vibrating through his
tone.
Childless and wife'ess and of strong
and often unpopular opinions, the
scholarly bishop was indeed a lonely
man. just now particularly so.
A controversial point had forced him
into a position where he stood almost
if not quite alone. He tried to believe
his position was a matter of principle.
His enemies said it was obstinacy and
dogmatism, and even his warmest
friends were silent and regretful over
the matter at issue.
He Lad when Dummy Dee came in
been writing 011 the point, and bitter,
fiery words were penned on the sheets
of paper that strewed the open desk.
He glanced at them now as he spoke,
and from them to the beautiful pictur
ed face of his young wife, who had
died very early in their married life.
Yes, he was very lonely.
Dummy Dec nodded and looked
thoughtfully at the glowing grate fire.
"Nice things happen sometimes when
you're lonesomcst, though," lie said by
way of giving a small crumb of com
fort to his friend.
"You know mother is sick and down
south getting her health and father
busy at the settlement work, and some
times I get kind of a stomach ache in
my heart and a lump in my throat.
"My, it most chokes me," he added
feelingly. "But just the other day the
summer boarder sent me these bicycle
trousers," sticking out his short leg
for the bishop to see, "or I never could
have stood it in the world. She knew
how I felt about kilts and aprons and
always having to wear something of
the other children's 'count of their
growing so fast and me not. I slept
with 'em that piglit in bed, and once
when I woke up and thought about
mother I just reached over and felt
of these, and then I felt better. Did
you ever try anything like that?" he
asked, looking at the bishop's trou
sered legs stretched out on the other
side of the fire.
"No," the bishop replied bravely; he
had not thought of it.
"Then there are always things to do
for folks, you know, and that's one
thing I came to see about," continued
Dummy Dee. "I've been taking soup
and books and tilings up for the settle
ment people to a little girl who lives in
an attic near the settlement.
"She's got a kind of mother, only she's
an aunt and awful bad to her. She
drinks something out of a bottle"—and
Dummy Dee lowered his voice to a
shocked whisper—"and she is awful
mean to Nora."
"What is the matter with Nora?"
bsked the bishop.
"A spinal back I think they call it,"
said Dummy Dee, with a learned air,
"and I feel so sorry. I asked father if
he'd adopt her, and he said he thought
he couldn't. I've thought I'd marry
her if necessary, but father would have
to adopt us both then. What do you
think?"
Tlio bishop's principal thought was a
desire to laugh, but he held his peace,
so Dummy Dee went on:
"She's English. I've told her about
you. She calls you lord, but I said
not lord exactly, only kind of next to
the Lord, you know."
At this the bishop could contain him
self no longer, but put back his head
and laughed a pealing laugh that star
tled the shadows In the dim, quiet li
brary, and he only stopped when he
beheld Dummy Dee gazing at him In
mild .surprise.
"Come," said the bishop, springing
up like a boy, "let us go and see
Nora."
Goodby!" said Dummy Dee, getting
up, or sliding down, rather, from his
Chair. "That's what I wanted. Let's
walk. It isn't very far, and it's a fine
day."
But before they started the bishop
swept up the written sheets of paper
and threw them on the grate. They
blazed cheerfully.
"Hi!" said Dummy Dee. "See 'em
wriggle as if they hurt."
"I intended they should hurt others,"
said the bishop softly, with a curious
smile.
Many curious eyes turned to watch
the two, the dignified ecclesiastic in
his ehurchly garb and the sunny, romp
ing, rosy child, who, not altogether un
aware of these glances, took them
largely as a tribute to his beloved bicy
cle trousers and strutted proudly.
Two delightful stops were made be
fore they reached the tenement where
little Nora lived, and they went on,
laden with books, games and flowers.
"Father says she looks like a picked
flower without water," said Dummy
Dee as they climbed the steep, rickety
stairs.
They entered the room in response to
Nora's summons, and Dummy Dee,
Bom* what embarrassed, made the bish
op known to the pale faced child lying
011 the dingy bed.
No one had ever seen the scholarly
bishop in so delightful a mood as the
two children found him that afternoon.
Nora's cheeks grew pink with happi
ness and her eyes brighter than ever as
she listened to stories, guessed riddles
and played games with the bishop and
Dummy Dee.
.At last the shadows grew longer.
"I've a last story to tell you two chil
dren before we go," said the bishop,
"and you must be very quiet and listen
hard, for there is a guessing part to it.
"Once upon a time," began the bish
op, "there lived a man alone, and, as
sometimes happens to lonely people,
he grew selfish and bitter hearted. lie
forgot the teachings of the one whom
he had vowed to serve, but tried in
stead to serve himself and was unhap
py, as all such men are.
"There came to him one day a dear
little friend of his who was also lone
ly, but who tried to forget his loneli
ness by helping others and was com
forted by doing this. So the man
] learned a lesson from his little friend,
! and be, too, found comfort and lsappi
j ness as the hoy hail.
"Now, the man natur"!lv did not
want to lie lonely and unSuii.and
j bitter again, for he found the better
part, so he thought out a plan. lie
' would take the boy down south to his
j mother, who is almost well, but not
uuitc so well as she will be when the
man brings to her her youngest boy."
There was a queer gurgling sob
that was half a laugh and half a cry
and altogether a mixture of home
sickness and coming delight, and Dum
my Dee shot himself bodily into the
bishop's arms, cuddled against his
shoulder and lay there sniffling hap
pily. He groped vainly for his hand
kerchief that could not be found, and
his fingers closed gratefully over the
bishop's fine lawn that he found within
his grasp.
"Ciuessed,"' said the bishop. laughing,
with a shake in his voice. "The first
i part of my puzzle story fiuessed with
out a mistake. Now for the second.
Then he took the little sick girl to a
white, bright room that he knows of in
the children's hospital, where, sur
rounded by birds, books and flowers
anil loving care, she can get well and
perhaps come to live in the lonely house
of the lonely man to brighten it."
Another little cry from the bod, and
Nora's slender, groping fingers sought
the bishop's hand, "lie?" she said.
"Me —Nora? Would my aunt"—
"I think so," said the bishop. "We
will find a way. But what a fine pair
of guessers these two are! Never to
make a mistake!"
When the kind hearted woman on
that floor came in to look after Xora,
her aunt being away serving time for
drunkenness, they went away and left
the happy child, already better, with
hope and joy working miracles with
her.
"You make up your mind the best
and quickest of any one I ever knew.
llow did you think of such beautiful
things?" asked Dummy Dee as they
felt their way down the rickety stairs.
"It's a thank offering, Dummy Dee,"
said the bishop, with a return of his
curious smile, "for burning the pa
pers."
Three Siena.
When I was a young man, said an
old timer. I was employed in an Ohio
town of some 1,800 inhabitants. One
day the town was billed from roof to
foundation in flaming letters, "They're
Coming!" One couldn't go amiss of the
big letters. They followed him every
where, and half the town would awak
en in the middle of the night with those
huge letters staring them in the face,
while they wondered what it all meant.
A* week or more passed, and one
morning every one of those signs was
covered with another equally flaming
"They Have Come; at Town Ilall To
night!'' And you may be sure the town
turned out in force. There wasn't stand
ing room, although a liberal admittance
fee was charged. Inside a big curtain
excluded the stage, and to this all ej - es
were turned as the appointed hour drew
near. There was a little delay, and it
was about half past 8 when the curtain
slowly rose, disclosing to view another
of the big lettered signs, only the word
ing was different this time.
The sign read "They Have Gone!"
And you can bet your last dollar it
wasn't long before the townspeople had
gone. Some clever fellows had worked
the game successfully and got away
with a snug little sum, leaving only a
couple of townspeople to pull up the
curtain.
A Lost Art.
"Graceful bowing," remarked the
statuesque young lady at the head of
the tea table, "is fast becoming one of
the lost arta. Few are proficient in it,
and, indeed, the difficulties are many.
I am referring of course to men. Wo
men are still mistresses of.the art, but
not all of them, either.
"But I have seen men who were fat,
not to say tubby, and they find that a
mere inclination of the head is a bur
den, for it induces disagreeable rushes
of blood to the head, and that is bad
for men who wear twenty inch collars.
And there are men who are tall, lean
and scraggy, and when they bow, be
ing sensitive plants, they think and
make the spectator think, of stringed
marionettes, and they dread the smile
of the man in the street.
"And I have seen men whom the crit
ical moment found unprepared, with
hands in pockets. And I have seen
them when they were wearing caps
and clutched vainly and instinctively
at hat brims, and I blushed at their
grotesque poses and involuntary carica
tures of the line of beauty."—New
York Times.
Tlicy Were Mere Paper, bnt They
Subdued tbe Artist Tnrner.
Turner, the great landscape painter,
was a curious mixture of parsimony
and generosity, determined money
grubbing and unreckoning devotion to
his art. He would drive a hard bar
gain one day and the next refuse to
sell at any price. Intending purchas
ers were sometimes excluded from his
gallery, and the refusal of admission
was communicated in anything but a
polite manner.
Mr. Gillott, the wealthy pen manu
facturer of Birmingham, once proved
himself equal to the task of storming
the castle In the teeth of the gruff art
ist and his doorkeeper and achieving a
bargain. A book on Turner gives the
story.
Mr. Gillott was met at the door of
Turner's house by an old woman, who
opened the door and asked the gentle
man's business.
"Can't let 'e in!" she snapped out,
when he told her, and tried to slam the
door.
But Mr. Gillott had put his foot in
side the door and without waiting for
permission pushed past the enraged
janitress and hurried upstairs to the
gallery. Turner met him like a spider
whose web has been invaded. The In
truder introduced himself and said
that he had come to buy.
"Don't want to sell!" was the an
swer.
"Have you seen our Birmingham pic
tures, Mr. Turner?"' inquired the visit
or, as calmly as if he had been received
as a gentleman should be.
"Never heard of 'em," said Turner.
Mr. Gillott took from his pocket some
Birmingham bank notes.
"Mere paper," remarked Turner, who
evidently enjoyed the joke.
"To be bartered for mere canvas,"
said the visitor, waving his hand to in
dicate the paintings on the wall. His
tone —perhaps also the sight of the
"mere paper"— conquered Turner, and
when the visitor departed he had bar
gained for several valuable pictures.
Easy to Meet.
"Have you any trouble in meeting
your creditors, old chap?"
"No difficulty whatever. I meet 'em
everywhere, old boy."
No vi co 111 initial.
Judge—What is your age, madam?
Witness-I'm at least five years
younger than the neighbors think me.
•-Philadelphia Press.
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MAPLE SUGAR MAKING.
An Ohio « nnn> With a Modern Suarar
■ louxe uuti Outfit.
With maple sugar making time come
added labor, profit and pleasures to
the farmer and his household in the
sections where this special industry is
pursued. The cuts from American Ag
riculturist show a modern "plant" for
this purpose. It is on the farm of a
young Oliioan who started as proprietor
MODEHN OHIO MAPf.K SUGAR HOUSE.
and manager for himself at sixteen
years of age on 200 acres, and it is
among the many substantial improve
ments which he has effected in a few
years in addition to managing his farm
successfully.
When the picture was taken, the
tankrocm was not completed. The
main house is 10 by 36 feet, 12 feet
high, with sirup and packing room in
front, 12 by 10 feet, with room for sap
pails directly above. These rooms are
ceiled with a tight partition between
the evaporator room, except doors, and
therefore exclude all steam from the
tins stored in them.
The house is built on a side hill, so
that sap can be drawn from gathering
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wagon or sled to store tank, there to
evaporator without any pumping or
handling. The camp consists of 1,000
sugar maples, a large proportion being
thrifty second growth, set in orchard
style about forty years ago by the fa
ther of this young man. The work in
this cainp is usually done by three
men, except during a very large and
long run, when a little extra help has
to l>e used. The income from the
sugar and sirup products adds ma
terially to the revenues of the farm.
The balance of the farm Is devoted to
dairying.
Onion Lore.
No more red onions for me. Nobody
seems to want them, aud thoy are a
drug in the market, while the demand
is brisk for yellow onions. I shall plant
no more pink Prize takers. Yellow ones
are good enough for me.
The imported Spanish onion is quite
subject to the attacks of black rot fun
gus, «iul a large proportion of the bulbs
brought to this country are spoiled for
use by it. The Gibraltar onion has the
same weakness. Evidently It Is of the
same blood. The only thing we can do
is to sell aud use these large onions as
soon as possible after harvesting.
A reader asks for some hints on bow
to grow onions. It's a big subject, too
big to give many details. Try the new
oniou culture. Get a little seed of Prize
taker or Gibraltar and sow as early as
possible In a box in the house or in a
hotbed outdoors, making rows one and
a half or two inches apart and sowing
the seed rather thickly, say at the rate
of one ounce to twelve square feet of
bed. Push the growth all you dare to,
and cut off one-third of the tops when
top heavy. Then plant out in good soil
in early spring, with three or four inch
es space between each two plants In
the rows and the rows fourteen or fif
teen inches apart. If this is followed,
you will be liable to grow very large,
fine bulbs.—T. Greiner in Farm and
Fireside.
Hon- Mncli Floor Space to u Ilea?
It is a matter of great importance to
know how many hens can be kept in
one pen and at a profit. There Is quite
a general opinion that hens which are
allowed to roam at will or have spa
cious yards do best in flocks of forty to
forty-five and on being confined to win
der quarters should have about ten
equare feet for each hen. From actual
tests this has proved about right. They
may be confined closer if they have a
scratching shed where they can run in
bright weather. This may be made
open to the south and annexed to the
henhouse, and it would be better if
such shed or apartment were closed,
with plenty of glass on the south side.
This apartment need not be as warm
as the regular house. Mine is of plain
boards put on up and down and cracks
battened. It has two large windows
with a door, which can be left open
on fine winter days so the hens can en
joy a good warm sun bath. The win
dows should be arranged with curtains
to close cold nights. Most of the feed
ing is done in the scratching pens In
a litter of chaff or straw. —Cor. Ameri
can Agriculturist.
Sheep are fed for a double purpose,
wool and mutton. Don't make the mis
take of feeding for mutton and starv
ing for wool. Good wool requires uni
form feeding.
POTATO GROWING.
Don u Maine Specialist Makes Two
Good l'r»|)N on the Same (ironnd.
New England Homestead tells of a
Kennebec county (Me.) fanner, one of
whose specialties is raising potatoes,
who has been very successful in pro
ducing the earliest to be found in the
market. The past season he succeeded
in raising two good crops 011 the same
piece. The ground was thoroughly
plowed the previous fall. In the spring
it was harrowed until the earth was
fine and light, and when ready for
planting phosphate was dropped in the
hills to the amount of one ton to the
acre.
The potatoes for seed were brought
up from the cellar the last of February
or Ist of March and placed in a light,
cool room, so that when they were
planted they had large green sprouts
and well developed leaves. As soon as
the soil was warm enough these were
placed in the ground. Ills care did not
diminish any now that the potatoes
were and very soon the leaves
began tpjjpßsh up toward the light and
air. They were kept free from weeds
and bugs until the middle of July; then
he began marketing them, largely at
sl*per bushel- I
Meanwhile a second lot of potatoes
had been sprouted the same as the oth
ers and planted the Ist of July between
the rows, so that when the first crop
was dug they hood the second lot, which
was already above the ground. In Sep
tember the second crop was harvested.
From the first planting Mr. Jacobs
raised at the rate of 30«> bushels per
acre; from the second. 100 bushels. The
variety used was the New Queen, and
the only fertilizer was phosphate.
Smti'lilns Shed* For Poultry.
Kural New Yorker has been taking
testimony from correspondents on the
advisability of "scratching sheds for
poultry," and the way "doctors dis
agree" doesn't compare to the discrep
ancy of opinion brought out. To some
the scratching shed is invaluable; oth
ers wouldn't have it at any price. Four
for to six against is the record. "I am
in favor of scratching sheds. There is
no question, in my experience, that
they are beneficial," says one man.
"We have sheds attached to all our
houses aud if we were farther south
would leave off the house," declares
another.
"Iu my opinion a scratching shed is
one of the most necessary Uiings for a
successful poultry raiser to have," af
firms a third.
In the negative we are told: "I have
no use for scratching sheds in this lati
tude. My hens are none too warm in
their well built houses day or night
when the thermometer shows 10 to 15
below zero."
Again: "I am unfavorable to scratch
ing sheds. After being cold for several
days it commenced to moderate, and
we think it is really warmer than it is.
We turn the birds into the scratching
sheds to get the sunlight, and before
we know it we have a lot of frozen
combs."
"I never thought enough of a scratch
ing shed to build one; always consid
ered it a dirty, disease breeding con
cern." emphatically remarks another
man.
And very much to the point is, "The
scratching shed never pays in dollars
and cents."
The St. LODIN Exposition.
It Is generally known that the Louisi
ana Purchase exposition at St. Louis
will not be held until 1904, and when it
is learned that there will be a formal
opening next May some confusion in
the minds of many people may ensue.
The facts, though, are these: The sub
scriptions for the fair were taken with
the understanding that it would open
iu 1903. Consequently an opening is
being arranged which will provide
against invalidating these subscrip
tions. The great fair will really swing
its gates wide open a year later.—Na
tional Stockman.
For Comfort In the Barn.
A correspondent who has always
been more or less annoyed by the draft
of cold air which circulates up the hay
shoot in the barn near the heads of the
horses and in the sheep barn tells in an
exchange of a way to prevent this cur-
SLIDING DOOR TO HAYMOW.
rent on cold days. The trouble may be
overcome by making a sliding door at
the lower edge of the joists. Before
going up into the mow one reaches up
with a fork and slides the door open
and after throwing down what hay is
needed closes it as he comes down
again.
Agricultural Notes.
People are once more talking about
the old time "soapstone stove" for
burning rough and refuse wood.
"Intensive rye culture" is outlined by
a Itural New Yorker correspondent.
The harvest is without machinery.
Hogs harvest the grain crop, and lambs
feed off the fall growth.
Grimes' Golden is a favorite with
Ohio apple growers In general, and
Rome Beauty and York Imperial are
popular in the southern and central
parts of the state.
A good and little known vegetable is
salsify, or oyster plant. It Is very
hardy and easily grown. Sow early in
spring.
Where the land was well fitted in the
fall grass seed may be sown very early,
sven In the last of the snow.
NAPOLEON'S AWFUL HAN ID.
One Theory of the Great Man'* Fail
ure at Waterloo.
Napoleon, according to Alexander
Dumas, lost such bflktles as he did lose
because he wrote such a fiendish hand.
His generals could not read his notes
and letters, typewriting had not been
Invented, and the trembling marshals,
afraid of disobeying and striving to In
terpret the Indecipherable commands,
loitered, wandered and did not come up
to the scratch, or not to the right
scratch. Thus Waterloo was lost. Can
not you fancy Grouchy handing round
Napoleon's notes on that sanguinary
Sunday? "I say," cries the marshal to
his aid-de-camp, "is that word Gem
bloux or Wavre? Is this Blucher or
Bulow?" So probably Grouchy tossed
up for it, and the real words may have
been none of these at which he offered
his conjectures. Meanwhile on the left
and center D'Erlon and Jerome and
Ney were equally puzzled and kept on
sending cavalry to places where it was
very uncomfortable (though our men
seldom managed to hit any of the cav
aliers, firing too high) and did no sort
of good. Napoleon may never have been
apprised of these circumstances. His
old writing master was not on the
scene of action. Nobody dared to say,
"Sire, what does this figure of a centl
ped mean, and how are we to construe
these two thick strokes flanked by
blots?" The Imperial temper was pep
pery; the great man would have torn
off his interrogator's epaulets and
danced upon them. Did he not onco
draw his pistol to shoot a little dog
that barked at his horse? And when
the pistol missed fire the great soldier
threw it at the dog and did not hit him.
The little dog retreated with the hon
ors of war.
Such was the temper of Napoleon,
and we know what Marlborough
thought of the value of an equable
temper. Nobody could ask Bonaparte
to write a legible band, so bis generals
lived a life of conjecture as to his
meaning, and Waterloo was not a suc
cess. and the emperor never knew why.
Of all his seven or eight theories of his
failure at Waterloo, his handwriting
was not one. Yet if this explanation
had occurred to him Napoleon would
certainly have blamed his pens, ink
and paper. Those of Nelson at Copen
hagen were very bad. "If your guns
are no better than your pens," said a
Danish officer who came in under a
flag of truce before the flgUUand-.waa
asked to pat a message into writing,
"yon bad better retire."—Andrew Lang
In Longman's Magazine.
SICKROOM PHILOSOPHY.
Never confine a patient to OH room
if you can obtain the use of two.
Never play tbe piano to a sick person
if you can play on strings or sing.
Never stand and fidget when * sick
person is talking to you. Sit down.
Never complain that you cannot get
a feeding cup If there is a teapot to be
bad Instead.
Never read fast to a sick person.
Tbe way to make a story seem short
Is to tell it slowly.
Never judge the condition of your
patient from his appearance during a
conversation. See how he looks an
hour afterward.
Never put a hot water bottle next to
the skin. Its efficiency and the pa
tient's safety are both enhanced by
surrounding the bottle with flannel.
Never allow the patient to take tbe
temperature himself. Many patients
are more knowing than nurses where
there is a question of temperature.
Hot Cross Baa*.
In its early days, wben, it is to be
hoped, it was more toothsome than it
is now, the hot cross bun played some
part in converting the people of these
islands to Christianity. Pagan England
was in tbe habit of eating cakes in
honor of the goddess of spring, and
Christian missionaries found that
though they could alter tbe views of
the people in reference to religious
matters they could not induce them to
withhold from the consumption of con
fectionery. So they put the sign of the
cross upon the bun of the Saxon era
and launched it upon missionary enter
prise which has extended through the
intervening centuries and survived till
now.—London Tit-Bits.
A Wot Umbrella.
Never leave an umbrella standing on
the point in tbe ordinary way when
wet The water trickles down, spoiling
the silk and making the wires rusty. It
is also a mistake to open it and leave it
standing, as this stretches the silk,
making it baggy so that it Is impossi
ble to fold it smoothly. Tbe proper
way is to shake out as much of the
water as possible, then stand the um
brella on its handle to drain.
Comptrlioai Are Odloma.
Perkins, Jr.—Why don't ye buy that
horse of Seth's, pop? He's got a fine
pedigree.
Perkins, Sr.—Pedigree! Tbe question
is, is he wuth anything? Why, boy,
tbem sassiety folks what comes here
In the summer has pedigrees.—Brook
lyn Life.
A Barrier.
"What have you in the way of beef
steak today?" asked the cheerful cus
tomer who hadn't paid his bill.
"Well," replied the frank butcher, "I
reckon about the only thing in the way
is its price."—Baltimore News.
Inreitlcatlßi the Delay,
Sunday School Teacher—And it took
Noab 100 years to build the arte.
Street Arab—What was the matter?
Was there a strike?— Puck.
If It wasn't for silly bens the fox
would not have his reputation.—Life.
STAGECOACH" DAYS. "
Story of a Trip From Portm««tk to
Loados la ITSO.
There are men and women—and they
are not always the old—who deplore
the breathless pace of the age. In
stagecoach days, they tell us, life wu
a different thing. People Journeyed
through the years leisurely then; ex
istence had a flavor. A century ago a
journey meant fellowship and merry
adventures and a comfortable enjoy
ment of the beauties of the landscape.
All this may be so, but a traveler
who made the journey from Ports
mouth to London In 1780 shows that
even stagecoach days had their shad
ows.
"The getting up on the coach alooo
was at the risk of one's life," he wrote,
"and when I was up I had nothing to
hold on to except a little handle at the
side. The moment we set off I thought
I saw certain death before me. Tho
machine rolled with tremendous rapid
ity over the stones and every minute
seemed to fly In the air, so that it ap
peared to me a complete miracle that
we stuck to the coach at all.
"This continual fear of death at last
became insupportable to me, and I
carefully crept along the top of the
coach and ensconced myself in the
basket behind.
"On a sudden the coach proceeded at
a rapid rate down a hill. All the boxes,
iron nailed and copper fastened, began
to dance around me, and every moment
I received such violent blows that I
thought my last hour had come. Shak
en to pieces, bleeding and sore, I crept
back to my former position. And it
rained incessantly, and as before we
were covered with dust so now we
were soaked with rain.
"My neighbor every now and then
fell asleep and when in this state per
petually rolled and Jolted against mo
with the whole weight of his body,
more than once nearly pushing mo
from the seat to which I clung with
the last strength of despair. I looked
and certainly felt like a crazy fool
when I arrived in London."
The letter is realistic. It is possible
that twentieth century traveling, al
though unromantlc, has its compensa
tions after all.—Youth's Companion.
POULTRY POINTERS.
When chickens grow very fast, it
sometimes causes leg weakness.
Under usual conditions a variety of
food is better than any medicine that
can be given.
The only safe way of disposing of
dead fowls that have died of any con
tagious disease is to burn them.
Clover contains two elements that
are in demand by the bens—nitrogen
and lime. It is rich in the elements
required for the whites of eggs.
When roup gets Into a flock, it inva
riably leaves some ailment behind.
The fowl that has been subject to it Is
seldom healthy again.
There is no cure for feather pulling
except by more labor and time than an
ordinary tlock is worth. The best plan
is to get rid of the guilty fowls as soon
as possible.
A hen seldom begins to eat eggshells
until she finds one broken or until she
becomes accustomed to eating eggs
thrown out into the yard. The safest
plan is always to crumble them up line
before feeding.
Tamlnff the Cheetah In India.
The cheetah is tied in all directions,
principally from a thick pnimmet of
rope around his loins, while a hood
lilted over his head effectually bllud3
him. lie is fastened on a strong cot
bedstead, and the keepers and their
wives and families reduce him to sub-
No. 9.
mission by starving him and keeping}
him awake. His head it made to face
the village street, and for an hour at
a time several times a day his keeper*
make pretended rushes at him and
wave cloths, staves and other articles
in his face. He is talked to continually,
and women's tongues are believed t»
be the most effective antlsoporiflcs. No»
created being could resist the effects ot
hunger, want of sleep and feminine
scolding, and the poor cheetah becomes
plteously, abjectly tame.— "Beast and
Man In India."
Taaael IMacomforts.
The prairie dog that had started out
to see the world was taking in the
sights in a neighboring village inhab
ited by his own species.
"Well," he said as be backed hastily!
out of a subterranean dwelling that ■
rattlesnake had pre-empted, "I seethe])]
have the same tunnel problem to wive
here that they have in other cities."-*
Chicago Tribune.
A Platform Speaker.
"That man," remarked Smlthers,
"makes a hundred speeches from tbe
platform every day."
"Some great political leader?" asked
Smlthers.
"No," replied Smithers, "street car
conductor. He says, 'Move up forward,
please!' every time any one gets on his
car."—Cincinnati Commercial Tribune.
The Airtmlase of Waittag.
Her Father—But, my boy, surely yoe
are too young to marry AureUa. How
old are you?
Her Suitor—One and twenty, sir.
Her Father—And she is twenty
seven—too great a disparity. Why not
wait half a dozen years? Then you'll
be twenty-seven and she'll probably
be just about the same age as yoo«
A Sac* Conelasloa.
Uncle Reuben says: "Arter arguln'
fur forty y'ars dat de whale couldn't
possibly have swallered Joner and
makln' three or four enemlM a y'ar
ober it I has came to da conclusion
dat my belief, one way or de odder,
wouldn't affect de past 2 cents' wuttu
I have simply wasted a heap o' breath
for nuthin'!"—Detroit Free Press.
A Freak Tree.'"""* '
Prutuibly one of tbe most remarkable
curiosities la tbe world is tbe twin tree
growing In the province of Loire, south
ern France. This marvelous freak of
nature consists of two healthy trees
some twenty feet high, with brilliant
foliage, the top one actually growing
upon the lower.
A cavity was formed In the upper
trunk of the bottom tree, which was
filled with decaying bark and the ac
cumulated dust and debris of years.
Tills became a sort of bed, from which
sprang the roots and In time produced
the upper tree. Contrary to all the
laws of horticulture, the life of tbe tree
has not been Injured In the least by its
parasite companion on top.
The top tree is a lime, and the peas
ants In the neighborhood make occa
sional pilgrimages to this tree, as they
make a sort of ten from tbe buds of the
lime, which, they say, on account of Its
peculiar growth and situation, has
mysterious and beneficial powers If im
bibed.
The lime is firmly rooted In the lower
tree, having withstood tbe ravages of
the wind for years, and seems to be
nourished as well as If It were growing
In the natural soil of tho earth.
Camels la Africa.
At the present day camels are used
for all sorts of domestic purposes in
Africa. They may even be seen draw
ing plows In tbe interior of tbe regency
of Tunis. You may remark a woman
and a camel harnessed to tbe same
plow, and you hesitate to decide
which is the greater outrage. They
are also used for drawing watet from
tbe strange, cumbersome, old fashioned
wells of north Africa. Their chief use,
however, is for caravans. You may be
hold them bringing in huge cases of
dates from tbe oases, or you may see
them with great tentlike structures of
red silk upon their backs. These tents
are for the conveyance of Arab women
of the upper classes, who seek to main
tain the privacy of the harem when
on a Journey. Two women and some
children are "often accommodated on
one camel. They have cushions on
which they can He down and even
sleep. It is stuffy, and it is dark, but
they deem themselves well off in escap
ing from the searching rays of the
burning sun.
First European Hallway.
The first carriages that ran on rails
in Europe were those of a horse rail
way between Linz and Budweis, in
Austria. This was in working order
In 1827. Locomotive railways were
much longer coming. The first line, In
a modern sense, was opened from Paris
to St Germain In 1835, but railway
development was greatly hindered by
a terrible accident on the Paris-Ver
sailles line in 1842. The next was the
Brussels-Malines line in Belgium. Bel
gium was also the first country to be
gin, in 1830, systematic plans for a na
tional network of railways. Prussia
followed In 1835 and Austria-Hungary
in 1838. The first great trunk line in
Europe was from Paris to Rouen,
opened in May, 1843.
Valne of tbe Lessoaa.
Mrs. Bilklns—Do you think It Is
worth while for my daughter to go on
taking singing lessons? She baa been
at It for five years and cannot sing
yet.
Professor von Note —Dlt you expecd
her to learn to zing? She vill neffer
zing In zee vide vorld.
"Then why didn't you say to long
ago?"
"I thought you merely vanted to
strengthen her lungs."
Potted Plants.
Tbe reason some people "never have
any luck with plants" Is sometimes
because the drainage is defective. A
plant will not live In a heavy, sour,
soggy soil, such as fills a pot when
the drainage is not complete. This Is
especially true of palms, to which the
stagnant moisture Is sure death, but It
holds true of any pot grown plant.
Good Enough as It Is.
"Doctor, if a pale young man named
Jinks calls on you for a prescription
don't let him have It"
"Why not?"
"He wants something to improve his
appetite, and he boards at my house."
It Weald Seem So.
Fair Niece—Why do you object to
iuets so strenuously, Uncle Tom?
Uncle Tom—Because when two peo
ple attack one Inoffensive piece of
music simultaneously lfs taking aa un
fair advantage.—Chicago News.
Very conservative In all matters are
the Turks, and especially slow to adopt
modern improvements of any kind.
Wben a man quits smoking and goss
to chewing be is not much of a hero. —
Atchison Globe.