VOL. XXXX. ! Cottage Hill! I Extension of South Main street, Butler's 1 : principal thorofare, through this property. | % * I Overlooking Butler's busy business center. | Kaleidoscope view of Greater Butler. Most desirable home-site in Butler county. | Buy before the big improvement comes, f | and double your money. This is not idle talk; the improvements | now being made will double values in this % f section within six months. i c • For information, call at our office, 116 E. | Diamond. I Cottage Hill Land Co I Puselton's Shoes a In Snappy Spring Styles, i fA Everybody and his sister >j kl Will have new shoes for Easter A VA We hope including you. n tj We show a dashing variety of W striking new Spring styles, includ- kl If. ing all the leathers: Ideal Patent VA Tf Jg Kid and Colt, Velour and Box-calf, k] Cordovan, Vici and Cuban Kid both A in Ladies' and Men's Lace, Button "Sy l and Blucher cut at very low prices. A Won't you let us show them to you v &>, HusELTON'sss;;; 3 REMOVAL! Will. Cooper, the tailor, will remove his stock of goods, April Ist, from the Newton Music Store to Room No. 1, Stein Block, near Willard Hotel. These will be but temporary quarters pendi g his removal to his old stand at corner of Diamond. ) OUR MOTTO. (One price to all, not all prices to onej'T ? To Have and To Hold. j ( Your 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 s Spring goods now have the shelves. Low cuts are b \ very much in evidence. S S Men's Shoes 98c to $6.00 Ladies' Shoes 88c to £4.00 J / Boy's Shoes 88c to *2. HO Misses' Shoes 08c to $8.35 V S Hanan and Torry Shoes $5.00 and SO.OO Children's Shoes 48c to $1.50 t | beTer The Patrician Shoes F » B j \ DAUBENSPECK & TURNER, j C NEXT TO BUTLER SAVINGS & TRUST CO. / % 108 S. Main St. (People's Phone 633) Butler, Pa J KECK %■ >rJix it Spring & Summer Weights , .-i 1 j\ , // IS Have a nattiness about them that J]] \ mJ i fvp) / J \\ mark the wearer, it won't do to -J'J \la 7 W e\ wear the last year's output. You | s/ p 1«"a/ Vi-j won't get the latest things at the \/ \ x its vS stock clothiers either. The up-to j\ Yin |y\ Jtf /-< date tailor only can supply them, . I \ I 1// ISI \J you want not onl y the latest I J / {/I I things in cut and fit and work- I I 111 iiiansliip, the finest in durability, H I I ill 11 I vhere else can you get combina- I I In M, • 'lons, you get them at P £■ - KEO . K G. F. KECK, Merchant Tailor, '24 North Main Street All Work Guaranteed Butler, Pa WALL PAPER WE HAVE IT. , THE LATEST. LOTS OF IT- F. W. Devoe Ready Mixed Paints—All Colors. Patterson Bros' 236 N. Main St. Phone 400. Wick Building. THE BUTLER CITIZEN. % The flodern Store u Continues for another week its Uk 2 MILLINERY OPENINC $ g AND ANNIVERSARY SALE. g f| Easter Hats in Brilliant array '* 5 Easter Furnishings and Novelties y* 6 Easter Neckwear and Gloves. £ <£ Our styles, variety and prices defy competition $ (R Men's wearables for Easter. g All the latest Neckwear, Shirts, Gloves and Furnishings. J? 5 See our Magnificent Assortment. S g Eisler-'Mardorf Co., $ SODTH MAW STREET | QQI Mail or Phone orders promptly Sf 3 XJSiSW 8 J" 1 and carefully filled. & - OPrOSITK HOTEL ARLINGTON. BUTLER, PA. Ok mete*;wvww 79 7979 79 79 79 79 79 79 I C. E. Miller's 79 GREAT 79 79-Cent 79 . SALE OF 79 „ MEN'S PLOW SHOES,, We have just purchased a large lot of Men's good solid _ Q Plow shoes at about cost of material. As our stock this yg Spring is extremely large and we are crowded for room, 1 we have put this entire lot on sale at a very small margin 'over what we paid for them. yg They are regular $1.25, $1.50 and $1.75 Shoes. Are all clean new goods and are displayed on Bargain 79 Counters so you can look them all over and take your 79 pick of the whole lot. We have all sizes at present, but at this ridiculous low price it is only a short time till 79 best sizes will be picked out, so do not wait, as "first here 79 —first served." SPRING GOODS nearly all in and they are all 79 beauties! Style and quality away up! Prices away down! 79 We are exclusive agents in Butler for famous DOROTHY DODD 79 Fine Shoes and Oxfords for Ladies. |79 Largest line of WALKOVER and DOUGLASS Fine Shoes for Men we have ever carried, and they are nicer ™ and better than ever before. Make us a visit before purchasing your fine shoes for 79 Spring ' 79 C. E. miller, 215 Sotith Main Street, - - Opposite Hotel Arlington 79 79 79 79 79 79 79 79 79 BICKEL'S Opening of Spring and Summer Footwear. < Every new style is here, every new shape and every new leather. In Ladies' fine shoes we are show ing many handsome styles in fine Patent-kid, Dull-kid and fine Dongola shoes, latest style toe, with low, medium or extra high heels. Girls' shoes same styles as the Ladies' shoes with spring or half heels. Men's fine shoes in Patent Colt Skin, Velour, Box Calf and Cadet kid, Lace or Blucher cut, very hand some styles, prices $2.00 to $5.00. A large stock of Boys' fine shoes in all the new styles. A Growing Demand for Oxfords. These beauiiful days start the sale of Oxfords, and every thing points to a good Oxford season. Ladies and Gents will find us splendidly equipped in this line. All the latest lasts in Lace, Bluchers and Button. One, two, three and four strap slippers, 75c to $3.50. Complete stock of Gokey's hand made plain toe and box-toe shoes. A large stock of Men's and Boys' good solid working shoes, 85c to $2.50. Repairing neatly and promptly done. JOHN BICKEL, 128 South Main St., BUTLER, PA. NEW SPRING COTTONS g The frequent arrivals of fresh, new Cottons are fast crowding out C the winter goods and give the store a decided spring-like appearance, ip SUPERB WHITE GOODS g Finest line we have ever shown. Beautiful Mercerized Fancies fIP in stripes, brocades and openwork patterns, at 25c to (iOc. India \ Linens, Dimities and Francy White Goods at Oic, Bc, 10c, 12Jc, (R NEW PERCALES % * The Mulhouse Percales are much superior to the ordinary percales R usually sold at the same price. Finer cloth, softer and better finish and more attractive patterns, 36 inches wide—l2Jc yard. g NEW GINGHAMS S More new arrivals added to our large assortment of the very C jdl choicest styles of Ginghams and Seersuckers, at 10c and 12Jc. jpfe g NEW DRAPERIES g fIP Decidedly new patterns in Curtain Swiss, Madras, Silkalines, MP Denims, and Cretonnes that are very handsome and attractive, 12Jc % THE NEW IDEA WOMAN'S MAGAZINE jfc #5 The finest home publication in the country, replete with articles R U of interest to women, 100 pages and colored cover. Numerous illu- U strations of the latest fashions March number now ready—subscrip- tion price 30c a year. Single copy 5 cents. Monthly Fashion Sheet J? |L. Stein & Son,| Subscribe for the CITIZEN. BUTLER, PA., THURSDAY, APRIL* 9, 1903. Nasal CATARRH jk In ail ita stages. JUoM Ely's Cream cleanses, soothes and healr m the diseased mcmhrsrte. 1 It cures catarrh and drives away a cold in the head quickly. Cream Ralin is placed into the noetrils, spreads over the memoranc and is absorbed. Relief is im mediate and a cure follows. It is not drying—does not produce eneezing. Large Size, 50 cents at Drug gists or by mail; Trial Size, 10 cents. ELY BROTHERS, 50 Warren Street, New York Bilious? Dizzy? Headache? Pain back of your eyes? It's your liver! use Ayer's Pills. Want your moustache or beard a beautiful brown or rich black ? Use Buckingham's Dye 50cts. of druggiitsofß. P. Hall &Co-, Nashua,N.H l l [4 Johnston's fl rj Beef, Iron and Wine f £ 81-iod Pnrifier. B J kl Price, 50c pint. £ M L V Prepared and W A J Johnston s » j Crystal I Pharmacy, ►1 k. M. LOGAN, Ph. G., V Manager, Pi 'i ICS N. Main St., Butler, Pa V Both 'Phones V 2 *1 Everything in the drug line. VA I * 1 Do You Buy Medicines ? Certainly You Do. Then you want the best for the least money. That is our motto. Come and see us when in need of anything in the Drug Line and we are sure you will call again. We carry a full line of Drugs, Chemicals, Toilet Articles, etc. Purvis' Pharmacy S. G. PURVIS, PH. G ; Both Phones. 213 S. Main St. Butler Pa. Are you going to i 'BIT.D or remodel Let us give you a figure on the Plumbing and Gas Fitting of your home. WHITEHILL, Plumber, 381 S. Main St., Both Phones jc. F. T. Pape, j \ IJEWELERI i S 121 E. Jefferson Street. / 1 AS THROUGH A | I GLASS - - - | § By LILIAN C. PASCHAL <j> X Copyright. I*ol, by the X O S. S. MeClure Company g "Will you look at that?" Miss Davidson swung around on her swivel chair and held an open letter toward "Katherine Howard, Editor Woman's Page," known in private life as Jack Iliggins. lie took his feet down from his desk and his cigarette from his mouth, which small incivilities lose their im politeness ia the good chumship of newspaperdoia, even if he had not b»H'n her cousin and privileged, and read aloud: New York. Oct. 7. Dear Miss Howard—Will you please ad vise me through your valuable column— which I read daily with much pleasure— how I can possibly obtain an introduction to a most attractive young lady in the office across the street from mine? I am sure she is good and bright and lovable from her looks, which I study surrepti tiously from my window every day. But seeing through a glass darkly is most un satisfactory she is so tantallzlngly near and yet so far. I am a young jeweler of twenty-seven—father left me a good busi ness—a Yale graduate of good family and honorable intentions, but how can I let her know all this? She is not the llirting kind, and I might wait years before find ing a mutual friend to introduce us. Yours anxiously, PERCIVAL R. C. "Uh-huh," grunted "Miss Howard," puffing new life into the dimming light of his Turkish, "like scads of others we get, isn't it?" "But do you see the address of that importing firm?" LESON & CLIFFORD. DIAMOND IM PORTERS. J. B. Leson. P. R. Clifford. Fifth floor, Center Building. N. Y. "Looks familiar," Jack ruminated, gazing thoughtfully out into the smoky side street. His glance fell upon a white lettered sign on the window op posite. He chuckled. "By Jove! I see it all, cousin. He is your conquest across the way, who probably labors under the impression that you are Miss Howard—thus ax-e my laurels stolen from me. He is standing in the window over there now, waiting, most likely, to see how you take his deep laid plot." "Who? Conquest! I have no" — be gan Miss Davidson innocently, but she flushed pinkly all over her pretty face and stopped short under Jack's amused scrutiny. "Now, Jo, dear, don't try to fool your Uncle Jack. It's my private opinion that every woman's heart is a Marconi receiving apparatus that reg isters faithfully every answer to her own charms." "Jack!" This time the tone was in dignant. "You couldn't think I'd flirt with a stranger." "Never, my child. You misread my metaphor. Well, I'll let you answer the letter. Tell him 'Faint heart ne'er won,' etc.," he added teasingly, taking up his blue pencil to begin the makeup for the next issue of the woman's page. "I shall certainly give him some good advice," she returned, with a toss of her shapely head. Accordingly the next day's issue of the Evening Arrow published the let ter of "Percival R. C." at the head of the "Cupid's Column." Below it was the chilling editorial reply: "Would refer you to a wiser author ity, the national proverbs—flrst, 'Ap pearances are deceitful'; second, 'Fate brings together those destined for each other.' Don't meddle with destiny." Which journalistic wet blanket, how ever, seemed not to have the intended cooling effect upon its recipient, for he opened his window every afternoon thereafter just the same and whistled loudly to a newsboy below to "bring up two Arrows." Having in due time received them, he sat down on the broad window sill and ostentatiously perused the entire woman's page. Across the way the assistant editor thereof dimpled and twinkled over her desk and her muci lage brush, though her head was stu diously turned away from the street. Miss Davidson prided herself on her rigid sense of justice, but sometimes it was sorely tested. It was her duty to open and read all letters and the manuscripts for the daily prize story of 500 words. These last she assorted into three piles—good, possible and im possible. The first were published, the second turned over for another read ing and final decision to the editor, "Miss Howard." The last were re turned to the writers. She came upon one which she un hesitatingly pronounced good and was about to place it on the first pile when the name and address of the author caught her eye. She recognized them as belonging to a woman who was "second reader" on a well known magazine and who had only the week before rejected a story which Miss Davidson had sub mitted for publication. Her cheeks burned anew as she recalled the curt sentence scrawled across the usual printed "declined with thanks" slip which rouses all the evil passions in the literary temperament: Dear Madam—You can surely do batter stories than this. Send us a really flrst rate story, and we will be glad con sider it. ALICE C. SMITH, Reader. She took a rejection slip from a pigeonhole in her desk. Chance had put revenge into her own hands. She dipped her pen into the violet Ink and poised it above the slip. Then she paused. This was the Sumter shot of the war between "cattiness," which she detested, and Justice. An other moment of hesitation, then Vic tory perched on the banner of the blind goddess. She laid down the dried pen and tossed the casus belli over to the desk of the editor, saying briefly: "Better run that one tomorrow." "All right. Whatever you say goes." "May I see Miss Howard?" asked ft deep voice at the door of their clut tered den two days later. Jack Illg giu.s looked up from his sheaf of proofs and recognised "Percival It. C." "I am Miss Howard," he said coolly. "What can I do for you?" "Oh—l—l thought"— stammered the visitor; then recovered himself, catch ing iu his embarrassment at the first straw, which happened to be Jack's Greek letter fraternity pin. "I say, I am an Alpha Omega too." And he gave him the grip. "My name's Clif ford. I have a message of thanks for you from my sister, Mrs. Smith, whose story took your ten dollar prize yes terday; also the receipt for your check." Jack's eyes twinkled as he sized up this persistent suitor. "Gad, I'll help him out," was the mental result of his scrutiny. He waved his liaml toward the desk by the window where sat a very red cheeked young woman. "My cousin. Miss Davidson, attends to that. Mr. Clifford," he said. And that was the way Fate intro duced them. The way that arbitrary old datue finally disposed of thcui niij;Ut be guessed from a pretty scene enacted on the afterdeck of the Etruria as she swung out of the North river one hot day last summer. The man had just brushed off with a surreptitious gesture another stray grain of rice from his coat collar. With his companion he found a shel tered seat under a gangway while the other passengers bustled to their va rious staterooms to dress for dinner. "As through a glass darkly, Percy," murmured the girl dreamily while to gether they watched the gray line of shore recede from view till twilight fell across the purple sea. "But now"—he glanced around to see that the deck was clear, then bent his handsome face to hers—"but ROW, darling, face to face." The Fimt Almanacs. The almanac, properly so called in Its origin, is not merely a device for keep ing people in mind of the progress of the year. It is ail attempt to show what destiny has in store for us as in dicated by the position of the stars in any particular year, and as, according to astrological lore, the destinies of men are ruled by the different aspects of the planets, so also the human body is subject to the influence of the con stellations through which the sun ap pears to pass in his yearly course. A French almanac of 1610 gives a dia gram of the human body surrounded by all the signs of the zodiac and indi cates the various organs and members over which these signs have power, and this for a guide pour les saiguees, or to show at what periods blood may be let with safety. But the same al manac also gives directions sensible enough for the avoidance of the plague which would not be found fault with by a modern fashionable physician: Who would keep his body in health And resist the Infection of the plague, Let him seek joy and sadness fly. Avoid places where infections abound And cherish Joyous company. A few examples exist of almanacs of this character before the invention of printing, although none, it is believed, earlier than the twelfth century. But some of the earliest specimens of print ing are black printed German sheet al manacs, which are chiefly concerned about blood letting. All the Year Round. Early Time Sjr»tem«. The gnomon, the predecessor'of the sundial, was probably one of the earli est devices for the reckoning of time, and it may reasonably be concluded that the Egyptian pyramids, with their great altitude, formed part of a design for timekeeping by the shadow thrown on the desert sands. The obe lisk, too, in all probability served the purpose, for as a matter of history an obelisk at Rome was actually used for a sundial in the time of Emperor Au gustus. If we could step on board of a Malay prao, we should see floating in a bucket of water a cocoauut shell having a small hole in the bottom through which the water by slow degrees finds its way into the interior. The hole in the shell is so proportioned that the shell will sink in an hour, when the man on watch calls the time and sets it afloat again. The Chinese have a water clock in use at the present time, which inven tion they ascribe to Hwangti, who lived, according to their chronology, more than twenty-five centuries beforo Christ. The time system of early Rome was of the rudest character. The day and night each were divided into four watches, the periods of which were roughly determined by observations of the course of the sun and stars. Lincoln'* StronKcst Attribute. The strongest attribute of Lincoln was his power of self control. Senti ment might sway him, but a mob never moved him. When jealousies in the army bred a popular clamor against General Grant, while the latter was winning famous victories in the south west, Lincoln listened to no word of scandal and by his silence rebuked the defamers of the general who afterward became the admiration of the world. When in the fevered tumult of passion an angry north seemed to voice a gen eral demand for the infliction of the death penalty upon Jefferson Davis, Lincoln listened in silence and waited for reason to resume its sway. He was always looking over the heads of the crowd. He was always listening to the still small voice that echoed in the dis tance, far away from the roar of vehe ment denunciation. The majesty of the law constantly appealed to his fine judicial sense.—Leslie's Weekly. Found Them Hard to Raise. A great gormand who had a passion for shellfish inherited a fine estate and a large sum of money. He had been extravagant, and his friends were greatly rejoiced nt his legacy. Mr. 11. Barry in "Ivan at Home" tells to what use the money was devoted: I went to town one day and soon learned that the prince was in his usu al impecunious condition. "Where has your legacy gone?" I asked. "Why," he replied, "you know that 1 am very fond of lobsters, and, having : river on ray estate, I thought I would try to acclimatize them there, but un fortunately I have spent all the legacy in the attempt without succeeding. I quite forgot the water is not salt." Short Great Men. Oliver Cromwell, Claverhouse and Mehcmet Ali must be content to take it out in brains, for they all lacked inches. Two of these great names nat urally suggest that of another famous soldier and usurper, Napoleon Bona parte. Le petit corporal, as his men lovingly called him, stood about five feet (French) in his stockings, say 5 feet 194 in English. In stature the Iron Duke beat him by about six inches, while the 5 feet 4 of Nelson place him midway or thereabouts between the victor and the victim of Waterloo. After It. "Will your employer be in after din ner?" inquired the visitor of the office boy. "Nope," was the laconic reply. "What makes you think so?" was the next query. " 'Coz," replied the boy as he pre pared to dodge, "that's what he went out after."—Judge. An Obedient lloy. Papa—Where is my new pipe? Small Son —I—l broke it. Tapa—See here! I told you that if you took my pipe again to blow bub bles with I'd whip you. Small Son—l wasn't blowiu' bubbles with it. I was only smokin' it. Cheap I.ife Savin**. Bill —The lifesaver has a thankless task. Job —Why, I saw a man offer him a ilollar yesterday for saving his life. Bill—Perhaps that was all he thought It was worth.—Town and Country. iARMsCWEN CABBAGE TALK. Four Goo<] Klmfi. That Give u Snc rr»lon Kron Knrly to I.ntP. Early Jersey Wakefield cabbage is undoubtedly the earliest variety In the eastern states of conical shape, firm, flue quality, uniform in size and ma turing well together. The Charleston Wakefield is identical with the former, only larger and a few days later. What it lacks in eariiness is compensated for in size, being about one-fourth larger than the Early Jer sey Wakefield. Early Summer is of the Flat Dutch type, a sturdy grower, with few outer GOOD TiTES OF CABBAGE. leaves, good size, firm and heavy. It follows up the Wakeflelds in succes sion if planted at the same time and is a grand, pood, all round cabbage. Premium Flat Dutch, although con sidered a winter cabbage, conies in quite early for a winter cabbage and if planted too early or left out too long is liable to burst. A ; the name implies. It is a flat headed, sturdy, short stemmed grower and a good header. Taking the four varieties mentioned and adding Succession to the list, one may get a succession crop of cabbage from early summer to November if p'anted at the same time in spring. They certainly form a strong combina tion. having quality, size and flavor to recommend them in every way. In further recommendation they have each a distinct compact growth to SUCCESSION CABBAGE, themselves, which insures a uniform ity and sure heading propensities, no waste of stem or mass of large outer leaves to support taking up space. Iu purchasing one's supply of vege table seed it is important to secure good strains. Any first class seedhouse is reliable in this respect, aud the grower will find it pays to get the best selected. The difference between a good and bad strain lies in the careful, rigor ous selection to a higli ideal. This costs money, naturally, and as a consequence the seed is higher priced. Succession is certainly a very fine cabbage and will usually succeed where others fail. If I was pinned down to one variety for every purpose, the se lection would be Succession. It comes In between Early Summer and Premi um Flat Dutch.—A. F. Meredith In American Gardening. Corn Alone Achieve* a Conquest. A London special to the New York Mail and Express says: The American is misled in his Idea of relative crops because he makes wheat his standard, and wheat is the staple food of only a minority of the world's inhabitants. Over half Europe subsists on rye and barley. Even taking wheat as the standard, the total crop of the new world in the boom year 1899 was but 734,000,000 bushels against 1,500,000,- 000 for Europe. As for other cereals, Austria alone grows six times as much rye as the United States. Europe pro duces seven times as much barley and sixty times as much rye as the whole new world, and its crops of both are seven times the total wheat crop of Nortli and South America. The only American cereal to achieve a world conquest is corn, which out of a total world's grain crop of 12,000,000,000 bushels comprises over 2,000,000,000 l>ushels, of which four-fifths is Ameri ran. Fertilizing Anpuraffns. The plan of top dressing asparagus beds during the autumn or early win ter is gradually giving way to the more rational mode of top dressing in the spring and summer. It was believed that autumn dressing strengthened the roots aud enabled them to throw up stronger shoots during the following spring. This is now thought a mistake. Nitrate of soda and sulphate of pot ash mixed with wood ashes applied in two doses (March and May) keep the asparagus beds going and produce ft large yield of fine spears. Sulphate of ammonia (one part) and muriate of potash (two parts) applied in three doses (March, May and after the cutting season is over) has been found to be a mixture which proved a very profitable fertilizer for aspara gus. THE CALIFORNIA WASH. It I* Coining; Into Favor En«t of It» Accustomed Region. The California wash has within a short time met with increasing favor in regions to which it had hitherto been considered unsuitable. Dr. Smith of New .Tors v speaks very favorably of it. and lb ■ following shows its stand ing at Illinois experiment station: Four insecticides have been exten sively ti d a:; winter applications for the San .Jo scale In our general or chard work 1.1" tie past three years in Illinois l yilroc.va. i.- : « :,1 gas. wl:ali oil soap, km; . • en.i.l-ioii and the California v.ns'. . f lin; >. sulphur and Milt, the li -t 1. i - iPl'li"d by fumiga tion ar.d tli*' others a = liquid sprays. All are elHclent dcstr yers of the scale under favorable cognitions, but the op oration of fun. g-itiou U practically re stricted to oou.p iratlvelv small trees and to eonii'.tra lively mild and quiet weather. The < 'alii's.!:i wash has au evident s-.dvaM: e in j-er; istence of ef fect, vvliic : amounts to a:i appreciable protectioM of the iive against Immedi ate rein! . tat:-, n. These four insecticides differ mate rially in safety. In cost and in conven- No. 15. lence of application. Fumigation with hydrocyanic acid gas and spraying with the California wash are perfect-, ly safe to all trees and shrubs if ap-, plied after the old leaves have fallen and before the young leaves have pnt forth. Whale oil soap is likely to de stroy the fruit buds of the peach if used l>efore these have begun to swell; iu spring, and the kerosene emulsion in strength sufficient to insure the de struction of the scale is uncertain in its action on the more delicate kinds of trees, the peach e"i>eclally, and on those of any kind w'.ich are in poor condition. Serious injury has occasion ally been done to the peach and in one case to apple by an emulsion contain-' lng only 2<> per cent of kerosene, which is rather below the minimum strength, at which this mixture should be used for the destruction of the scale. In respect to equipment, fumigation is by far the most expensive, if the trees to be treated are large, but the three insecticide sprays are pre pared and applied by the aid of prac tically the same apparatus. The cost of preparation and application is not materially different for the four in-«j secticides under discussion. 111 convenience of application the preference belongs clearly to the kero sene emulsion and the California wash, the use of whale oil soap being fre quently embarrassed in very cold weather by the solidifyiug of the solu tion in the hose if the flow is stopped, and the operation of fumigation being a laborious and complicated one for trees above medium size. It follows from the foregoing that of these various insecticide methods and materials the best for common use against the San Jose scale is spraying in winter with the California wash. POPULAR PEAS. Some Good Varieties For Early. Main and I.ate Crop*. Among the newer extra early varie ties Gradus has become extremely pop ular. The pods are very large and filled with large wrinkled deep green peas of the finest quality. Alaska, Nott's Excelsior, American Wonder, THE JtJNO PEA. Little Gem aud Premium Gem are oth er varieties of merit, and Surprise 1« a fine early wrinkled variety. Standard early and medium varieties Include Advance, Abundance, Heroine and Horsford Market Garden. Of late sorts Queen, Stratagem and Champion of England are favorites. Juno is a dwarf, wrinkled, narrow pea for main and late crops. It stands about two feet high and needs little brushing. The vines are very produc tive, the pods long aud straight and packed with seven or eight peas of fine flavor and very tender. Agricultural Notes. Sow the onion set thickly, like peas, and thin out by using the biggest for the table. Tomato vines, prunlngs of berry bushes and the refuse of all garden truck now on the ground had better be burned rather than buried. Leaning dent corn has proved a de sirable silage variety in New Hamp shire, and where the season is too short for this variety Sanford flint is used. It is claimed that no weed seed eaten by a sheep possesses the power of res urrection. Herein is one of the chief values of the sheep, and also the goat, as weed destroyers. In English experiments the yield | from the large wheat seed was almost double that from the small. "Cull" beans are said to make good feed for fattening swine if well cooked..' "DOUBLE QUICK" LOANS. Great Sums Often Hurriedly Ratnl by Wall Street Banks. An Interesting question often asked in Wall street concerns the amount of capital that a large bank could raise at an hour's notice. That is, how much accommodation could a bank extend a customer unexpectedly confronted with pressing need or for the purpose of financing a big deal. A banker of in ternational experience is authority for the statement that Wall street's facili ties in this regard are superior to Lon don's in that a large undertaking could be financed here with much greater dispatch than on the other side. Said an officer of one of Wall street's most important banks: "It is no trou ble at all n6wadays to raise $5,000,000 or $0,000,000 within an hour. I have seen it done too often to think for a moment that it would tax seriously a large bank's resources. Five times that sum, say $25,000,000, can be raised at twenty-four hours' notice. It has been done. Of course 110 one bank could do it, but the great Wall street institu tions are linked together In such a way as to provide almost unlimited re sources for the financing of any safe deal. The large banks think little of $1,000,000 or $2,000,000 loans these days, whereas in former years they at tracted general attention, for such large amounts were released only after con siderable negotiation. But that has all changed now."—New York Mail and Express. Conclusive Argument. First Office Boy—l guess de boss will raise my pay. Second Office Boy— What makes yec t'lnk so? First Office Boy—l give him ter un derstand I'd stay till he did.—Judge. Sweet Peace Assured. Bufus—Nossuh! Ah don't have no mo' trouble wif de boss at de shop. Uncle Bemus Huh! Yo' mns' 'a' done reformed yo' ways, den. Is yo'? Bufus—Nossuh! Ah'se done quit de! Job!— Chicago News. Fell Away. "I understand his friends have all 1 deserted him." "Yes. You see, they discovered that] he was actually going to need their assistance." —Colorado Springs Gazette.' It Is a poor consolation to the girl who has been stung by a bee to lcnowt that bees are partial to sweet things.
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