VOL. XXXX. Iflusclton's liocsl In Snappy Spring Styles. fj W Everybody and his sister §K Will have new shoes for Easter We hope including you. p r We show a dashing variety of striking new Spring styles, includ- k 1 C v»jd4%-. in B all the fathers: Ideal Pafent TA /j V T Kid and Colt, Velour and Box-calf, h') Ll / Cordovan, Vici and Cuban Kid both VA r A "' .in Ladies' and Men's Lace, Button j| > Ll and Blucher cut at very low prices. M Won't you-let us show them to you t JtiJSEt T ° w 'S Ss zj! REMOVAL! Win Cooper, the tailor, will remove his'stock of goods, April Ist, from t lie Newton Music Store to Room No 1, Stein Block, near Willard Hotel. These will be l>ut temporary quarters pendi g his removal to his old stand ai corner of Diamond. ) OUR MOTTO. (One price to all, not all prices to one.) ) ? To Have and To Hold. SYour trade for our mutual benefit is our chief aim. / In order to do this we offer to the buying public the / the best possible value for the least money. 7 Spring goods now have the shelves. Low cuts are ) very much in evidence. \ S Men's Shoes 08c to $6 00 LadieV Shoes BSc to *4.00 / / Boy's Shoes HHc to |r3.50 Misses' Shoes f>Hc to $2.25 \ S lianan and Torry Shoes S."S 00 and 00 Children's Shoes 48c to $1 50 f / better The Patrician Shoes Fo s r 3 L so' es | \ DAUBENSPECK & TURNER. | I NEXT TO BUTLER SAVINGS & TRUST CO. ) BICKEL'S Spring Footwear A grand display of fine footwear in all the new styles for Spring Jnst received a large shipment of SOROSIS SHOES tiDIEV FINE and the styles are very handsome, made in lace or punr-c button, light or heavy soles, with low or extra high SHOES. heels, made of the finest Dongola kid and Patent vici kid. Many styles to show yon, All widths. AA to EE MISSES' AND moßt complete stock we have ever had All CHILDREN S SHOES the lateßtßtyles in plain ° r pilteDt leulhe " MEN'S A full line of Men's Patent-kid shoes -the latest styles PIMP ounce —s2 50, |3.00, $3.50. $5.00, SO.OO. Men's fine Calf, Vici- FINE SHOES. kid and Box-calf shoes. $1 50 to |5.00; also complete utock of Men's fine Oxfords. BOYS' AND Onr stock of Boys' and Youth's shoes made on the wAiiTiiei «unre latest style Spring last are very attractive We have TOUTHS SHUto. a fnll stock of Boys'and Little Gents' floe shoes in Patent-calf, Bo* calf aud Vici-ktd. Miiti ig^S Gokey of Jamestown, N. Y., has started up again and we have a fnll stock of the well known Gokey hand made box toe and plain toe shoes for men, and copper tipped shoes for the boys. All Winter goods to be closed out regardless of cost. Blacksmith Aprons, Shoe-makers supplies, High Jron Standa for repairing Sole Leather eat to any amount you wish to purchase. JOHN BICKEL, 128 South Main St., BUTLER, PA. KECK W J*L fl. Spring & Snmmer Weights .. — p 1 Ji E H*ve a naltineßS about Ibeiu that J r\ fm L I®) /jf lIA mark the wearer, it won't do to ' IJ (\ Ir'/ W lln wear laßt y e » r ' B out P ut - You i / f»-v/ \ n won't get the latest al the l/TxV in TS stock clothiers either. The up-to « /I Y IV\ 111 date tailor only can supply them, * 11 I i\% 1/ /I u1 vJ y° u n °t on, y t^ie ' atest vj \ 1 II { )11 I things in cut and fit and work- II If ,1/1 Mianship, the finest in durability, ,II I I 111 11 I vhere else can you get combina -1 I Iff [i ™ 'ions, you get them at KECK Q. W. KECK, Merchant Tailor, 24 North Main Straat All Work Guaranteed Butler, Pa HAMMILL'S CELEBRATED INDUN ROOT TABLETS Greatest Kidney and Liver Remedy. Positive enre for Sick Headache, Sonr Stomach. Loss of Appetite, Constipation ff Rhenmatism, Blood Purifier. HAMMILL MEDICINE CO , I No. 803 MILTENBERUER STRfiIET. PITTSBURG, PENN'A. -THE BUTLER CITIZEN. Ndssl CATARRH fm&h In all its «U£es. J if, *^£o Ely's Cream BalrnC' rmt "4f/ cleanses, soothe sand bcal B§[ y m the diseased membrane. It cores catarrh and drives Jr&m\ away a cold in the head quickly. Cream Balm is placed into the nostrils.spreads over the membrane and is absorbed. Relief im mediate and a cure foTows. It is not drying—<ioca not produce sneezing. Large Size, 50 cents at Drug jf-stt or by mail; Trial Size, 10 cents. Your him* Is it acting weii ? Bo v : - regular? Digestion gooc not, remember Aver's ,v ! Want your moustache cr I.ai i . beautiful brown or ricli black ? ' Buokinghani'sDfej 50ct».of dfuggutjor RP Hi t' .c • ( i - M % O '(i ■A b ft . M [i Jol r.fc'tr.'fe j^j *S 'J , Y/ Seef, iron ano Wire ; n » l< ::" • fj f'A i I -I t n Li I fl Pre, .ircf' .ira' M, TA M N 0 Johnston's fcj Crystal *1 ' ' * Pharmacy. K M. LOO AN, Ph. G . kl fA y 103 N. Main St.. Butter. I'a [ fl Roth 'Phn»«B i WA Everything in thr *3 drug line. 7 A «* >; « is y; little Do You Huy Medicines ? Certainly Yon On. ! lien ) "ii want t'v best En :lie le i-st money. i hat is our oiotto. Cimc and ?c : us w!u n i i mt d «>I an) tiling i-i tie Urn.; i.inc ami wc i'c sun; you v\i!l c.ill .l;.; Wc carry a fu 1 • line of i 'rugs. Chemicals Toikt Arucles, <;tc. Purvis' Pharmacy S. G. Punvrs, Ph. G Both I'JlOneF. 213 S. Main St. Batler Pn. MARSH ROOT No better combination, as we prepare it, coald be formulated to act more spe cifically upon the Kidnevs and Liver than Marsh Root. Ah a Liver Invigor ator Marsh Root is now a conceded fact, and where the Liver is torpid and slug gish Constipation manifest, the body tired, the eyes blurred, and weakened, the complexion poor, a sensation of dnil headaches, and languor prevailing, Marsh Root will overcome them. As to the Eflioac>; of Marsh Root, and its fight against Kidney Diseases, you can be your own judge if yon are an af fiicted, and if it fails to relieve or cure you, take the Kittle back to yonr Drug gist and he will give you your money back. MaMi Root stands for the cure of Inflammation or Catarrh of the Bladder, Blocked Kidneys, Scalding Urine, Rheumatic Gout, Gravel, Uric Acid, etc. The organs that require the most careful attention (and are the most often neglected, and the human filters or strainers —the Kidneys, and therefor donbly require yonr attention. Do not dolny when the Kidney mu.-hlriery needs repair. I)o not allow a hrewk down to ao.along when It Is too late "A stitch In time saves nine." In U9 cases out of every ion. u tiottle of Marsh Hoot for a small outlay will relieve you of your trouble and worry. For sale only ut Reed's Pharmacy Cor. Maiu and Icflerson Sts.. Butler, Pa Have You a Neighbor? fw»: If so why don't you get , together and have a tele- V. , phone'system. • g We manufacture them. ; Ask us and we will tell you all about it. /f Electrical work of all '■ icscriptionsdoneon short /t notice. The U. S. Electric Mfg. Co BUTLKR. PA. BUTLER. PA., THI RSIEYY, MAltrH 2(',. 1903. Q.O-O'O.O-O .OO'-G-.0-.-G-'O'-G «-Q 1 ACROSS | i DIVIDE 1 A By MARION BENTLEY A, P M T~u $ T Copyright, IOCS, by the Jt 0 j?. j?. McClure Company y o-o-o-o* <H>«O o = o-o-o—o-0-6 They re:iclie<l the edge of Fort Simp son one breathKss July afternoon, see in? its crude but promising outlines as through a maze of alkali dust, darkly. Their well provisioned prairie schoon er lumbered heavily on the heels of two fagged and panting horses. It bad been a terrific trip 011 man and beast. The man lay. bright eyed, dry lipped aud silent. 011 file shakedown in the wagon bed. As tlio horses stopped instinctively amid the willows beside the stream the girl turned to her father with an encouraging smile. But at sight of him the smile changed to tense lir.es of horror. On the man's chin trickled a vivid crimson stain. An hour later Anita Murdock .. a Iked away from the hastily improvised camp with young Dr. Byrne. He glanced down at her pityingly. She was so delicate, so quiet and so pret ty. What was her father thinking of? She was no more fit to take up a claim and manage a ranch on little or no capital than— She looked at him in mute inquiry. ' I thought best not to Bay this be fore your father, but you must not think of resuming your journey. He would never survive the rough roads, and the rare air 011 top of the Divide would certainly bring 011 another hem orrhage." •Then you mean that we can never go into La Junta valley?" There was anguish in the question, and the doctor hesitated. "I believe the disappointment would kill him," she continued. "Ever since we got that first railroad circular he has been counting 011 going there, get ting well and strong and working again. We've taken the La Junta Ban ner for six months, and we know just where we want to live and how to file our claim. Oh, we must go 011!" "Well, for the present you had Iwtter stop here and let your father recuper ate. Perhaps when it is cooler— At any rate, there is a tidy two room shack right back of my office. The rent is cheap, and I can keep an eye 011 him until he is In shape to travel. It won't do for him to sleep here on the river edge even one night. We must pull him together, you know." And the doctor nodded encouragingly to the girl, who stood watching him with wide open, frightened eyes. So, all unwillingly, did the Murdoeks take up their residence in Fort Simp son. The hot blasts of July merged into the sullen humidity of August, and one day in the freshening breath of September Henry Murdock tottered to the postoffiee for the La Junta Banner. Tl.ey read it together, he and Anita, read of the mountain locked valley where the sun never shone too fiercely nor yet the blasts blew cruel ly; where crops rose like air castles in the night; where the sick were made well; where—and this was the best of all—starved, weak lungs were fed and strengthened. The Murdoeks knew all the prominent La Junta citizens by name, rejoicing with them in success, sympathizing with them in adversity. They lived in Fort Simpson, but their hearts were in La Junta. And now only the Divide, with its pitiless alti tude, stood between them and this promised land, to reach which they had sold their little lowa home. That night after her father had fallen Into a troubled sleep she footed uj) their account book. They bad lived so simply, yet little remained. If they sold the horses, they might reach the valley by rail, but mountain railroad fares are high, aud without horses how could they farm? She rose impulsively and hurried to Dr. Hyrne's office. He received her with undisguised pleasure. Of late he had felt that bis calls bad been un welcome. Very delicately they Uad hinted that professionally he was not needed, and he feared that they might view bis obvious attempts to "drop In" socially as professional calls char itably paid. "Father seems stronger today. Don't you think he can stand the journey very soon?" Dr. Byrne shook Lis head. "The nights arc cold. There is al ways frost In the mountains?" "Hut you said when It was cooler," she persisted. He led her to the window and point ed silently to the distant mountain, where even ill the moonlight she could eatcli the glint of snow patches. She clasped her hands In despair. "Why—why did you tell me he could go later? You knew all the time that lie could not take the trip, and yet"— She turned upon him fiercely and l-ead that In his eyes which made her wrath burst into a flame. In her un reasoning love for her father she read In this other man's love for herself only selfishness. lie had thought that if she stayed she might learn to love him. And now she hated him. "Oh, If I had never listened to you! Now he will stay here to die." Dr. Ilyrne tried to take her hot hands in his, but she drew away from him. "My dear girl, you are well and utrong. For you the overland Journey has no horrors; for your father It means—death." "Then," exclaimed Anita bitterly, "I must get something to do, so that we can go by rail. I thought It my duty to care for him, and now our money ia nearly gone." He gained possession of lier hands this time. "Anita, It Is your duty to care for him until the end. Won't you let me help you ? Marry me tomorrow, and I will core for you both." "No, 110!" she exclaimed passionate ly. "It has been his dreani to go there. Dr. Byrne, if you love me as you say you Uo help me to get work -anything that is honest." The man sighed and turned away. He realized that lie had 110 place in her heart or thoughts. When lie faced her again, his voice was calm and even. "I think it can be arranged. Mrs. Gallagher needs some one to help her wMh the girls. You know her husband holds ail. Interest in the Ten Strike, und she wants to take (lie girls east, then abroad. They are wild as In dians, and she has the sense to know they need training down. l)o you think"— Jim Gallagher owned the largest sa loon and dance hall in Fort Simpson. Anita's face flushed, then paled. "Thank you. I will try it.". Two days later she was Installed as governess in the noisy Gallagher house hold, with the privilege of going home ut night. She was to teach the girls how to walk and talk and dress. Mrs. Gallagher considered the last accom plishment most Important. She soon became extravagantly fond of Anita and would have loaded her with pres- cuts, but the gal preiHily declined ev erything except Uer lak-ry. So the winter crept iutp tlie tender outstretcliid arms of s;*ffig. and An® ta's bank aecouut grew. SLi had leased the Lories to a wood hauler, and she had sewed nights. She was too busy even to note the gradual change in her father. He seemed con tent and quiet each evening when she came home, and she little guessed whose hand ministered to him during the day. The Gallaghers were departing for the east. Anita was at the depot to see them off. The girls no longer shuf fled when they walked, and they un derstood the use of knives and forks. Mrs. Gallagher surveyed their neat traveling frocks with pardonable pride. Then she slipped an envelope into Ani ta's hand. "Sure, you've done wonders by me gyurls, a;:' it's that I've been tryin' to tell you in the lettlier." When the train pulled out, Anita opened the envelope. It contained "no word of writing, just a orisp banknote that fairly took tier breath. And lier salary had been paid in full. Anita walked home 011 air. They would start for I.a Junta 011 the morrow. In the doorway stood Dr. Byrne, shading his eyes with bin hand and looking up at the everlasting hills. In lier happiness she would have brushed by him, but he barred her passage. "Is he sleeping?" she inquired. Then something in the doctor's face caught and held her attention. "What is it? Xo-no, not that!" she cried. "Oh. God, and I have worked so hard!" She swayed in the doorway, and I)r. Byrne, taking her in his arms, led her gently into the darkened room. His voice was low and comforting. "It came so suddenly, though I have seen its shadow for weeks, dear. There was no time to send for you, and he left this word: 'Tell 'Nita I have crossed the Great Divide, but 1 will wait for her on the other side. Be good to her.' Darling, will you let me be good to you? In your great sorrow don't try to stand alone." Without replying she crossed the room, raised the sheet and looked long and steadily into her father's face. On it rested a smile of ineffable peace. The money fell noiselessly to the floor. It had been earned in vain. Then she turned and looked into the brown eyes bent pityingly upon her. "Harry," she murmured, "he does not need it—or me, and—l—am so tired." Her head drooped wearily up on his shoulder, and his arms folded lovingly around her. It <-tin elite nt. Refinement looks ever with disap proval upon heedless waste and need less extravagance. She carefully counts the cost and makes the most of all material brought to her hand. Consideration for others lias made her watchful, and nothing in her charge is squandered or wantonly consumed. To vulgar ostentation she firmly re fuses the radiant light of her counte nance, but seeks instead the quiet nooks, the retired haunts where dwell those who know her true worth. The spirit of refinement lives even with those whose tastes are simple and pure, who make 110 pretenses, whose faith in humanity is strong and real. To those endowed with kindly tact and genial wit, who employ all means of good within their command, whose hearts are touched by the grief and misery around them and who are quick to see and respond to others' wants—with these, too, the spirit lives. They who entertain this guest are clean in mind and person, and the motto hung upon the spiritual walls "of home is "Cleanly ness Is Next to Godliness." Ink an nu Knrnelie Core. An amusing story is tolil of a man who was suddenly attacked in the night by a violent fit of earache. His wife told there was on the window sill by the bed a bottle of chloroform and recommended him to rub some on his face. Without striking a light he reached out for the bottle, pulled out the stop per and, pouring some of the contents Into his hand, anointed his face from mouth to ear. Very soon he announced that the pain was better, lay down again and went to sleep. lie was awakened in the morning by a cry of horror from his wife. "What is the matter?" he Inquired. "Look at your face!" was the reply. A glance In the glass showed him that his face on one side was black as a negro's. The bottle which he had grasped in the dark had contained not chloroform, but ink.—Milwaukee Wis consin. A RESOURC-R J . LA J. VEH. An Inspiration Thnl Won n Cune H«* ('uiiNldcriMl Ho pel en*. A Philadelphia lawyer tells the story that a picture of Fanny Davenport once won a case for him. Ilis client was suing the Pennsylvania Railroad company, of which Wayne MacV eagh was counsel, for $7,500 damages for tiie death of her husband. "Just a few days before the case was to have come up she happened into my office and an nounced that she had married again. 'Good Lord, madam,' I gasped, 'why couldn't you have waited until your case came up? It's next l<> impossible for me to get damages for you now. She said she didn't care very much, and went out, seeming very happy. Well, it just happened tuat I had a photograph of Fanny Davenport 011 my desk, and when the next day Wayne MacYeagh happened into my office to discuss quite another matter he picked up the photo and admired it. 'Who's your friend?' he asked. I had a sudden inspiration, and I said: 'Why, that's the lady who is suing your company for $7,500.' The deuce yon say,' said he. 'Handsome woman, isn't she?" 'She Is, indeed,' I replied. 'II Ml!' lie ex claimed, looking at the picture Closely. 'A deuced handsome woman, \ should say. A deuced handsome woman.' There was a slight pause. 'What'll you take to settle this ease?' he asked. I thought of my client's second mar riage, and I fixed the figure at !>.),000. The deal was consummated and the case never came to court." I'nlil In IIIN Own < <>!». Once in a way Archbishop Temple of Canterbury would get paid back in his own coin. A dellghtftrt Instance of this is recorded. The church people of a certain parish are said to have strong ly urged the bishop to And another sphere for their parson, whom they wished to get rid of. Dr. Temple sum moned the obnoxious clergyman to his study and suggested a change of ben efice. What was it, the parson wanted to know, that bis people had to find fault with? "Well," said the bishop in the peculiarly harsh, strident voice that so sadly marred his preaching, "If you insist 011 knowing, it's your voice they comphtln of; they don t like your voice." "How curious!" -etid the cler gyman. "A friend was with moat the cathedral the other day. when your lords' ip was preaching. and as he we: I out l.e n:iid. 'What a flue tiennou. but what aii tlii'fo;lunate voice!"' [ * r<\ :V V* BALANCED RATIONS. Much Still to Be l.<-:»ri:e<l About the Combination of Th? imp rtairce of a:: economical as well nutritive i.w.<>n is realized by evcrj feed- r. It i- tl • opinion of J. T. WilUrd of the Kansas experiment sta at the MOS. ; 11 tabic combina tions of wesi< 111 feeds for western con dit: as'e not yet k:;owu and that a p.i ;:. : V field is here pr -onted for the execution of varied and repeated feet.: • <ts with fattening cattle, dal ly cov.s, swine, horses and sheep. V. hat a Balanced liatiun Is. Con rai l-.- misapprehension ex ists, says Professor Wiilard, as to the meaning of the term "balanced ra tion." the idea being prevalent that the balanced ration is a certain combina tion of feeds and always the *aiue. In point of fact a combination of feeds that i- best adapted—that is, balanced— for purpose, with one species of animal of a given age and condition, blight be unbalanced if. the purpose, the --|i cies, the age or condition were different. Thus a ration balanced for a growing calf is unbalanced for a fat tening steer. A balanced ration for a dairy cow is still different, and even the best ration for a cow giving a larg" yield of milk Is not the best for the same cow at a later period when the milk flow has become small. A balanced ration is simply one in which the feeds are mixed in such propor tions as to provide constituents in such relative quantities as experience has shown to give the best results under the given set of conditions. lion- to Balance the Itatlon. Many farmers realize the impor tance of a properly balanced ration, but do not know how to compound one. The methods hitherto In use tend to discourage making the necessary calculations, as they Involve guess work on unfamiliar ground, followed by tedious calculations, to be followed by another guess and the succeeding calculations and so on, until approxi mately the correct quantities have been arrived at by this cut and try process. In bulletin 115 Professor Wiilard explains and illustrates a method of his own by which, he claims, it is pos sible to calculate a ration exactly If the composition of the feeds is known. He has endeavored to so simplify the calculation of a ration that any Intel ligent farmer may undertake and ac complish it with but little, labor. The process is designed to •meet ordinary requirements, to be within the mathe matical range of all and to demand slight expenditure of time. This bulletin combats the statements of textbooks 011 computing rations and is designed to show that rations of any degree of perplexity may be balanced with absolute exactness by simple arithmetical processes if feeds are available of the necessary composition. RADISH VARIETIES. An Early Hn«ll*h of Remarkable Size—Popular Sort*. Among garden novelties the Early Crimson Giant radish is presented as a new type of the early turnip radish, re markable for its size, which is said to attain sometimes a circumference of EARLY CRIMSON GIANT RADISH. six Inches. It is claimed, however, that in spite of this fact it does not become pithy or hollow, but is solid, crisp and Juicy. French Breakfast, Early Scarlet Tur nip and Olive Shaped Scarlet are among various other desirable early varieties. For summer the large white varieties are sown, such as White Strassburg and Stuttgart, while the California White Mammoth, Long Black Spanish and Scarlet Chinese are winter kinds which keep well. The first crop in spring may be grown in hotbeds or frames, or seed may be sown as soon as the ground is dry in rows eight to ten inches apart. A mel low, "quick" soil is essential for tender radishes. A heavy or clay soil will not grow good ones. In the N'ut Bu«liie*». The pistachio nut is known in -finer ica, generally speaking, only to confec tioners, it being too expensive for com mon use. The nut Is very popular in Mediterranean ports, where it has driv en almost all other nuts out of tile market. Although the nut is grown mainly in Greece, it is sold almost in variably by Syrian boys, who go about the streets with a bag of nuts thrown over their shoulders. These boys, by the way, have si peculiar method of do ing business. They enter cafes and other places where people are seated, and, holding out a handfulinf the nuts, invite a guess as to the number. If the person guesses correctly, he is given the nuts for nothing. If he fails to guess correctly, he is In honor bound to buy tlieni. Washington Post. AN ALL AROUND LOG SLED. It IN I *ed In Lumber t'ampa lilther With or Without Snow. I have been getting out some lumber, and as there was little snow I have used the sled shown herewith, says all Orange.l udd Farmer correspondent. It is called a snapdragon and is such as is used In the lumber camp. It can be used with or without ; BOW. I took two yellow birch stumps about six Inches through and three feet long for runners. The two bunks were about the same size and 2 feet 8 inches long. The for ward bunk is put 011 with one bolt In each end. so it can have a good chance to work. For the middle bunk I put two two inch holes through each runner, then FOR DRAWING LOOH IN WOODS, took a small, round birch of the size wanted, heated it hot In a fire and bent It In the shape needed to put over the middle bunk and the two e.'ids down through the runner, then \vt d;..il them solid, but =0 there would be plenty of play. The nose of the runners must be n 1 t.will not catch on every r<vk or stump. This can be done by putii: g the forward bunk at the very end cf the raaner. The chain is put on the l", r with a half hitch and drawn tlir !i .*». hole through both bunks, lilr. ii Is the l>*st wood, as it wears the sun-!.slu-st 0:1 frozen ground. finrly Toiuntocs* One of the southern experiment sta ll. : has ! ..!<• trials with tomatoes grown 011 plants that were started in hotlu 1 or greenhouse and transplanted co:: Jar .1 Ith th->.-< t grown 011 plants start'd directly fr m seed in the tleld. T; > 1 iti'.-r came out ahead in earllness. I 1 !>■' my friends will not be misled into the belief that such is the rule. Much of the outcome of course de pci :s < l the management of the plants s: rted under glass. For my part I can not rip.' tomatoes in July or even in Ai ,u . unless I start plants of ear ly vis-: along in February, trans plant th'-m oiv-e or twice and give them plei:;y cf room to make them grow stout and stocky, so that they can be tra: planled with :it checking growth, i'.ut if y.,u -1 ,rt the seedlings ill hotbed 1 r co! > frame in April and make them sj-'udii:;,. by inordinate crowding and then set them out in May or early June, with little loot and tall. limp stalks where it will take them several weeks to recover from the shock and begin growth anew, the plants grown from re -.1 so v.! in 1 pe:i ground In May might giv ■ ripe tomatoes in advance of the others. If wo grow the Ear liana and probably Xolte's Earliest and Maule's Early and < rher first early sorts that make eomp :natively little vine or foli age. we should bear in mind that they need very fori lie soil and more nitrog enous fo d than the later sorts, which are apt to run largely to vine anyway. Don't !>e afl'.'."! to use plenty* of good old manure in the soil where you plant Eariiau;! and others of that class. It is tl. • ::!y way to get foliage enough to ma! • In'r suymtli fruit. T. Greiner (Ohio) in Farm and Fireside. Peas For n Soiling Crop. For the extreme southern limit on which field peas are grown it is be lieved that seed grown near by seems best. North of that belt northern or Canadian peed seems best, l'or the first early spring sowing the pea should be put in as soon as the ground is fit to work and has. been put in good shape for seeding, weather conditions permit ting. We have had heavy freezing and snow after the peas were up, entirely covering the plant, without serious In jury. I trilling the seed, rather than broadcasting or harrowing into the soil, secures better covering and more uni form stand. Use an ordinary grain drill set for sowing oats; use only every other lioe, or, if the ground be very rich, every third hoe and using six pecks of seed. Six pecks per acre of oats «,f stiff strawed variety may be drilled in seven to ten days later than the peas, so that both crops will reach lb" milky stage together, says 1111 Ohio Farmer correspondent. Tltc Been Ik Early SpriuK. In looking over colonies early in the spring choose a warm, sunshiny day, and be careful not to chill the brood by long exposure. If you opet- a hive, know just what you want, and do it expeditiously, and close up the hive again. If you have the bees packed in chaff, do not be in a hurry to remove the packing, as the bees spread the brood and arrange matters for the tem perature the packing gives, and should you remove the packing too early some brood may be chilled and the colony cannot make headway as rapidly. What Other* S«y. Farmers do not use their power as they should In politics and legislative movements. 111 nearly every state farm ers are in the majority. The specialist in every line will wend his way to the St. Louis exposition. But will the great backbone of all—the farming communities and individuals be on hand as they ought? Bend alt your energies to building up and beautifying your farm and home. Seest thou the dairyman who is not raising stock 011 his sklmmilk? There is more hope for the fool than for him. Many of our best and most successful farmers cultivate small farms, ferti lized with brains as well as stable com posts. The world Is Just beginning to realize the advantages and economies of doing business by mail. Agriculture is capturing more bright young men and women than ever be fore. HE STOPPED THE BELL. (;i>Dd Rcanon For Ulvlns lliai Free Entry to the Show. The requests for theater favors in the small towns are very troublesome. Every person of local standing feels that he has a right to admission at least, while the trustees and the con stable feel that they are entitled to pri vate boxes. Some of the requests are decidedly unique. Recently a company played a small southern city. The manager was taking the tickets at the door of the theater, r.nd the natives were struggling to get in. "Suddenly," he tells, "a long, thin, bushy chinned individual divided the folding doors with his shoulder and whispered confidentially. 'I stop the bell.' I asked him to repeat. "I stop the bell,' he said again in a hoarse whis per. 'YOII will have to see the opera house malinger and tell him what >ou r.top,' I said, reaching for tickets. He tripped up several ladies while backing out. Soon the manager of the house came in, saying, 'lies all right; he stops the bell.' 1 allowed him- to go in, and after the people were seated 1 asked the local man what he mean, by 'He stops the bell.' 'Well,' saul he. 'this man Is the Janitor of the town hall, right opposite, and on "show nights he does not ring nine or ten on the town clock. You see, he said, "it would disturb the performance." and so the poor people do not know what time It is until 11 o'clock, when the opera house Is open. If I bad "turned liliu down" lie would have rung out nine aud ten every half hour to get even.'" —Chicago Inter Ocean. I.lneoln the litenl rre«i«l<-nt. Lincoln is the ideal president in that lie led public sentiment, represented it and followed it. "I claim not to have controlled events," lie swid. "but con less plainly that events have con trolled llie." During Ills term of olllcti be was one day called "very weak and the next day "a tyrant," but when his whole work was done a careful sur vey of it could bring one only to the conclusion that he knew when to fol low and when to lead. He was In com plete touch with popular sentiment and divined with nicety wben he could take a step in advance. lie made an itort to ke p on good terms with con re- :, ai d he differed with that body reluctantly, although, when the neces sity came, lecislvely. W hilv he bad consideration for those who did not agree with him. and while he acted al ways with a regard to proportion, lie was nevertheless a strong and self confident executive. James Ford Khodes in Scribner's. Kill lax the Turtle. Killing a turtle with an arrow seems a very difficult feat since a very hard shell covers practically all of the ani mal, yet the natives of the Andaman islands kill huge turtles with arrows as easily as American sportsmen kill rabbits with shot. Accustomed from their childhood to use bows and arrows, they goon become wonderfully skilled in the use of these primitive weapons, and as they know the places where turtles congregate it U easy for them at any time to bring home a good bag of game. Sometimes they try their skill on large flsh. and, though the hutor are harder to kill than turtles. t!:ere are a few islanders <vho rarely mis-; their mark. The bows a:;.I arrows are made of native wood and are longer and stron ger than those used by European arch ers. ru-.ee wna itou*. The wild l- of sourherii Colorado share with the peccaries of Central :■ ml South America tlie reputation of lieini; the t! '!"< est. most vindictive and toughest annuals of ti.e western hcini sphere. They will follow tenaciously, tree and starve out an en.m.v. Their skills are t. ugh. their vitality is re markable and their te '!i sharp as ra zors. They travel in small droves and are r-ady to attack anything, he it man or beast, that armies their ire. Hunt ers in s ir.hun Colorado always oh serve the preiimtlou of stationing themselves within reacfi of a tree when in the uelghiM'rhood of a drove. licit! Ikus. "He Star, is the great ex|Hiuent of realism in the drauta." "1 kuow. that's why lie wouldn't take my i>: i.v." •\\ hat was the matter with your play?" "Why. the hero had a surgical opera tiini pel fo mi (1. and l>c Starr said if it \v;.s done at all il would have to be a real operation, and he couldn't stand I'nr that < -*ht times a week." Wash fugtoii I iuic.s. N..1 Mucli l>llfereil«e. Magistrate Now. sir. while the evi dence is not technically conclusive. 1 am fully convinced of your guilt anil it will be only a matter of time until jon are apprehended and your guilt brought to light. Prisoner And then, your honor? Magistrate - Well, then it will lie a matter of some more time.- Buffalo Express. \ llellel. Ilushand Harling. I believe that I am failing. \\ ife (in alarm i Gracious! How often I have warned yon George, against youi foolish speculations! Ilusl.aiid I don't mean in business, dear; I mean I'm falling In health. Wlft' (relieved) Oh. is thai all? Luvo In Spectacle**. He—l suppose now that I shall have to ask your father for his consent. She—No. Harry. After the first time you called, pa said I might have yon II I wanted you. Pa and 1 have under stood It for a long time. —Boston Tran script. STUFFED BLACK BEARS. The lleaxou They Are I *e«l a. Sl*m by the Furrier*. The man who conies to New York only once in ten years said he could not understand why the hears in Cen tral park seemed so much more stuck up than the rest of the animals, but after he had traveled about town for several days he saw through It. It was because IM> per cent of the furriers in tow ii have chosen a big black bear for an advertising sitn. Why the other an i,luils iu the zoo should be so discrimi nated against i.uzseled the man not a little. One day he asked a furrier about it. "It is because the bears last longet than anything else." said the furrier. "Of all the animals in New York 1 don't know of any that have a harder time than those that stand outside fur riers" stores winter and summer and try to drum up trade for their employ ers. It doesn't make any difference what kind of weather conies along, whether U blows hot or cold, those fel lows have to stand at their post and swelter or freeze, as the case may be. Naturally all those changes art' pretty hard on their hide, and mm' but bears can stand the strain. Soint furriers have tried the fox, the lynx and other animals now and then at a venture, but they have mostly come back to the hear as the most satisfactory of the lot. They cost more too. A good stuffed bear comes as high as s7.~>, but if h3 is treated well he will last for twenty live years, so that brings him down to a comparatively low price after all."— New York Press. <*hnrlea A. DAHR'n Logic. They tell a good story of Charles A. Dana —how Dana once summoned a boy reporter and said. "Tomorrow you write up the yacht race." "But," said the lad, "I don't know how; I'm a Nebraskan. 1 only came here last night, sir, and I haven't so much as seen New York harbor yet. As for yachts- why, I never saw a yacht In my life!" ".lust the reason 1 sent for you, my boy! You'll write a story that people can read; you'll picture the thing; you'll write with enthusiasm because it's ail new to you." Sane logic! The poetry of the sea has always been written by landsmen; It always will be. The barrack room bal lads are best sung by a gentle civilian. The Inside irf anything is clearest seen by nil erstwhile outsider. Mr. Bryce, not Mr. I/>dge, writes "The American Commonwealth." Emerson, not Car lylc. writes -English Trails."—ltollln i.ynde Haiti In Atlantic. \Vli> lie Should l.c.y n Spnnlah. One of t! most brilliant series of the Gohel;.! tap -strles represents the surpi ; adventures of Hon Quixote. I.ouls XV. had a great affection for the doughty chevalier. One day he said t i n ;.reat v. 'ntleinan. of his court: "I i you U .ow Spanish?" "No, r said the other. "A h. It Is a great pity." The i' thinking, at the least, the kinji v.,,.iii:g to offer him the ainb. do; - 1 '■ at Madrid, put lilin ell' ;,ll I Ilil.iuio Ken I to the it.a- cry .fS; , !i la a few weeks h i .line I > iis royal master and. v. it I: a !on lie.- ir'n air. said: "Y II- i!,: i, i have l.'art.ed Span 1 •ill." "My • r 1 lid 1.'. 111s "(tend i,. .■ t s,>.'iii-.li It Is much •. er Ihi ii I i i ein ii. ■ i. I • _lve awß> li t : | , our meals?" a.I. It: i ■. >• <! d cheaply at No. I.*}. THE BOW IN WAR. How I; \Y«« 3latfc and 1 Ked l>7 <!*• Akiatlc TrlbpMincn. The bow as used l»y Asiatic hcrsomon asMimcs a curious shape. They were made of horn, generally buffalo horn. In two pieces, joined by a wooden cen ter. and when unstrung had the form of a capital C, which enabled tlr-m to l»e hung over the arui on horseback. When strung, a difficult feat to those unused to them, they took the double curve of the antique bow as seen in the representation of Cupid. This w:ia-tb» "Tartar's bow," used by the Scythians, Partblans and Persians and up to iiuite recent times in India. It was drawn by the thumb alone, on which the arch er wore a broad, thick ring of l.orn. ivory or cornelian, on whose edge the bowstring rested. The long bow was also much in use among Indian infantry of the mid.lie ages, but neither they nor any other Asiatics appear to have done such exe cution as the English archers of the same period. Bernier says, describing a battle between Aurangzeb and his brother Dara: "They draw their ar rows with a marvelous swiftness, one man being able to draw six of them before a musketeer can discharge twice; but, to say truth, their arrows do but little execution. More of them are lost in the air or broken on the ground than hit." The bow, in fact, requires more than any other weapon constant practice from childhood, and strong English men of the present day are quite una ble to use the bows of the half human Mincopies of the Andamans.—Cham bers' Journal. Hon- the SprinKhoka Tr»T»I. The springboks of South Africa mi grate in vast herds, moving in a com pact body and carrying everything be fore them. If a flock of sheep be in the line of march, as sometimes hap pens, it is surrounded, enveloped and becomes, willingly or unwillingly, part of the springbok army. An African hunter tells the strange story of seeing a lion in the midst of the antelopes, forced to join tlie march. It is sup posed that the lion had sprung too far for his prey, that those upon whom he alighted recoiled sufficiently to allow him to reach the ground, and then the pressure from both flanks and the rear prevented him from escaping from his strange captivity. If the springbok travels In such armies, how can those in the middle and in the rear Oud food? In tills wise: Those in the front ranks, after they have eaten greedily of the pasture, gradually fall out of the ranks to rest and chew the cud. while the hungry ones In the rear come up, and so the columns are all the while changing. The rr.ißranl Heliotrope. You may give a heliotrope, and not a very large plant, as much water as you give a geranium and think you are giv ing all that is required. Your plant will fail to make a vigorous and healthy growth because it is not moist enough at the roots. Examine It, and you will find that the tiny roots have extracted the moisture almost wholly. If not given more water at once, some of the young and delicate roots are injured, and the plant takes on a diseased con dition, from which it often never re covers. l>o not get the idea that the soil In which heliotropes are grown ought to be kept wet. Not at all. Hut because It requires more moisture than many plants, because it extracts more rapidly from the soil, water should be given oftcncr to keep the soil iu the proper condition. The Final Straw. A story is told of a rustic who, after imbibing too freely, fell asleep by the wayside. The day was hot, and a swarm of flies settled on his face and proceeded to make his sleep anything but pleas nut. In a little while a few mosquitoes came along to add their torture to that of the flies. Of course the man woke up after repeated attacks by the com bined forces and vainly tried to brush them away. Finally along came a big wasp and stung him on the nose. "Now. for that you can all get off." ho said. Tlie Discovery of the Fork. Some believe that the fork was In use all over Europe as early ns the year 500 A. P.,but If they were their nse and the fork Itself were lost sight of up to about the beginning of the seven teenth century, when it was either dis covered or rediscovered and popular ized. Walton, Wecnis and other anti quarians hold to the earlier date, be cause a stone vessel containing coins of the middle ages and some Iron forks was found at Sevingtou, England, In the year 183-1. Obtnliilnic Heir* In Chlnn. The practical Chinese have adopted a simple way of obtaining heirs where there are no legal ones—the adoption »f children who belong to side branches of the family. In this way the family line is kept Intact In the absence of male descendants in the side branches of the family the sons of strangers are adopted. The Chinese prefer this meth od to marrying second wives. An Inrrimonnble Caption. Witticus—l think the caption of this essay is one of t lie most unreasonable things 1 ever saw. Crltlcns- llow so? Witticus—lt Is "The Decline of the Amateur." As If any one ever knew an amateur to decline.—Baltltuoro American. Spoke (he Profenxor. "Culture," sententious!}' observed the doctor, "Is like charity. It begins at home." "Yes," said the professor, "but it is Usually finished abroad." Chicago Tribune. Proved III* Cane. Mother—The whipping you had yes terday does not seem to have Improved you. Your behavior has been even worse today. Willie—That's what I wanted to prove. You said 1 was as bad as 1 pos sibly could be yesterday. I knew you were wrong. So Kiictialcn. "No, sir/' wild the cowboy. "Cncttti Cal ain't an enemy In the world." "1 should think a man like him would bo continually making enemies." "Sure, but as soon as he makes one he gits bis gun Inter play an' unmakes him."—Exchange. 11 IT. tlur<l Itemurk. Young Wire That horrid tramp said my biscuits were like cement, and yet in l ate thcui. Young Husband—Cement, eh? Well, perhaps he wanted to make himself solid.—Philadelphia Record. Hurrah For Pw! T.lttle Willie (proudly!—My pa knows a few things. Llttl» Hob (contemptuously)—Ho, my pa knows few -r things than your pa.— Smart Set
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