VOL. XXXX. 4»»»«»«****»*<»» ilr * filf ' |rll/1| ' IfT ' r ft " **** -****************| | Cottage Hill f Extension of South Main street, Butler's | J. principal thorofare, through this property. 1 - Overlooking Butler's busy business center. | Kaleidoscope \iew of Greater Butler. : Most desirable home-site in Butler county. | ■> Buy before the big improvement comes, | * and double your money. . This is not idle talk; the improvements | ■« now being made will double values in this % section within six months. | - For information call at our office, 116 E. § j* Diamond. | Cottage Hill Land Co | f *««*»»»»************ a********?******************' 0 * We are having Spring weather, whj not look about for your new Spring Suit, Showing the newest shades and stripes in Scotch Cloths and Fancy Worsteds. Prices range from $5 to #ls. Coats are all made non-breakable front and are cut the latest fashion. Have a look. No trouble to us. Schaul & Nast, LEADING CLOTHIERS AND FURNISHERS 137 South Main St.. Butler REMOVAL! Wm. Cooper, the tailor, will remove his stock of goods, April 1 st, from the Newton Music Store to Room No. 1, Stein Block, near Willard Hotel. These ill 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^one*)"} ) 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. ? s Spring goods now have the shelves. Low cuts are J \ very much in evidence. j 7 Men's Shoes 98c to *6.00 Ladies' Shoes 88c to *4.00 ) / Boy's Shoes 88c to *2.50 Misses Shoes 68c to *2.25 \ S Hanan and Torry Shoes $.1.00 and *O.OO Children's Shoes 48c to *1.50 f /Hi The Patrician Shoes "53!" j j DAUBENSPECK & TURNER. \ I NEXT TO BUTLER SAVINGS & TRUST CO. # | 108 S. Main St. (People's Phonel633) Bntler, Pa ) KECK fl. Spring & Summer Weights -tft \ /t , (JI E Have a nattiness about them that ['] !J &V /j [|\ mark the wearer, it won't do to ' yJ *v/ \[A j W \p\ wear the last year's output. You I y jh S~\/ y f--i I£4 won't get the latest things at the I/ v'x LJ I stock clothiers either. The up-to | V Ji\s\ IJ If date tailor only tan supply them, . I j ll]lf ICJ yon want not only the latest I! . I II till things in cut and fit and work ; \ I 111 liianship, the finest in durability, y I I jit vhere e'.se can you get combina ',jf I I i 111 [I " ions, you get them at E C K G. F. KECK, Merchant Tailor, 24 North Main Street All Work Guaranteed Butler, Pa WALL PAPER WE HAVE ,T. LOTS OF IT- F. W. Devoe Ready Mixed Paints—All Colors. Patterson Bros' 23Q if. Main St. Phone 400. Wick Buildini?. THE BUTLER CITIZEN. Spring and Summer UNDERWEAR for Ladies, Chil-|R j » dren and Men. /'l sizes, qualities and prices. m The flodern Store S Ladies' Lisle thread vests, hijili neck, long and short sleeves. '25 and 50c. 1 W Ladies' sleeveless vests 10c, 1"»*. Lisle. -"> c. 50c: silk. $1 00 1 I , a Ladies' knee and ankle length drawers, ribbed, 25c and »oe. £» ( Lous sleeve. Lisle thread corset overs. 25c and oOc. _ i Ladies' Union Snits, high neck. lonssleeves ankie length, .w)c bame , kind in sleeveless and knee length. 50. | t OT The Finest Line of Ladies' Muilin Underwear Ever Shown Here. I i Children's Underwear from 10c np. Boys' grey snminer underwear, all j 1 sizes. 24 to :U. 25c. Knee and ankle length drawers in all sizes Metis | m finestßalbrignan Underwear, cream, white, pink, bine and 11 ik oOc M S each. Fine Silk Lisle, pink and bine, all sizes. 41.00 each Men s mediutu 40? weight merino underwear. 50c each. Pare lambs wool, fine as silk, sl. O • S each. Men's Lisle thread Union Suits, 50c and SI.OO each. W. Our MILLINERY has made a record. It is exclusive. We have the best ♦alent obtainable. Our facilities and stock are not excelled anywhere. Step in and see for yourself. »V f Eisler-Vlardorf Co., SOOTH MAIH STREET I rjOl Mail or Phone orders promptly & S i" * carefully filled. £ OPPOSITE HOTEL ARLINGTON. BUTLRR. PA. yi 79 79 79 79 79 79 79 79 79 G. E. miller's 79 GRfcAT 79 ' 79-Cent » 79 SALE OF 79 > MEN'S PLOW SHOES,, We have just purchased a large lot of Men s good solid nq Plow shoes at about cost of material. As our stock this Spring is extremely large and we are crowded for room, we have put this entire lot on sale at a very small margin yg over what we paid for them. 79 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. J* y Largest line of WALKOVER and DOUGLASS Fine 7 g 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 7 Q Spring. 79 C. E. /VViller, .315 South Main Street, - - Opposite Hotel Arlington! 79 79 79 79 79 79 "79 79 79 BICKEL'S Opening of Spring and Summer Footwear. Every newjjjstyle is here, every M new shape and every new leather. B 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 all the new styles. A Growing Demand for Oxfords. These beautiful 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. gxtvsiwitx&x&xx ? If NEW SPRING COTTONS g P The frequent arrivals of fresh, new Cottons are fast crowding out J the winter goods and give the store a decided spring-like appearance. $ SUPERB WHITE GOODS g Finest line we have ever showu. Beautiful Mercerized Fancies fIP in stripes, brocades and openwork patterns, at 25c to <soc. India \ Linens, Dimities and Francy White Goods at Gic, Bc. 10c, 12ic, M NEW PERCALES $ The Mulhonse Percales are much superior to the ordinary peroales In usually sold at the same price. Finer cloth, softer and bettor finish Q* K and more attractivo patterns, 3(1 inches wide—l3lc yard. g NEW GINGHAMS g More new arrivals added to our large assortment of the very C Jdk choicest styles of Ginghams and Seersuckers, at 10c and 12Jc. * NEW DRAPERIES g jv Decidedly new patterns in Curtain Swiss, Madras, Silkalines, v g Denims, and Cretonnes that are very handsome and attractive, 12Jc g THE NEW IDEA WOMAN'S MAGAZINE jp The finest home publication in the country, replete with articles R u of interest to women, 100 pages and colored cover. Numerous ilia- strationg of the latest fashions. March number now ready—sabscrip- in tion price 50c a year. Single copy 5 cents. Monthly Fashion Sheet V |L. Stein & Son,| 3 108 N MAIN STREET. BUTLER, PA ft Subscribe for the CITIZEN. BUTLER, PA., THURSDAY, APRIL 1(3, 1903. Nasal jgeiYs*\. CATARRH /pMI cleanses, goothts and heals M m the diseased membrane. 11 cures catarrh and drives M away a cold in the head quickly. Cream Balm is placed into the nostrils, spreads over the membrane and is absorbed. Belief is im mediate and a care follows. It is not drying—does not produce sneezing. Large Size, 60 cents at Drug gists or by mail; Trial Size, 10 cents. ELY BBOTHERS, 56 Warren Street, New York Cross? Poor man! He can't help it. It's his liver. He needs a liver pill. Ayer's Pills. ; Want your moustache or beard a beautiful brown or rich black ? Use Buckingham's Dye SO cts. of druggists or R. P. HtllieCo., Nashua, N.H Johnston's M Beef, Iron and Wine M F J Blood Purifier. kl L V Prepared and yj sold only at Johnston's J Crystal J Pharmacy, ►J H. M. LOGAN, Ph. 0., L* A Manager, ' i 10d N. Main St., Butler, Pa V Both 'Phones W Everything in the L drug line. VA jUJ 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 8. G. PURVIS, PH. G' Both Phones. 313 S, Main St. Butler Pa. ARE YOU GOING TO I BUr.D OR REMODEL Tor:^.. I ■ I -! f . - ir . " *!v ——— Let us give you a figure on the Plumbing and Gas Fitting of your home. WHITEHILL, Plumber, 381 S. Main St., Both Phones \l. F. T. Pape,| \ iJEWELER! \ S 121 E. Jefferson Street. / TWO MIRANDAS By Clinton Dangerfield I'opj right, ISO 2, by the S. S. McClure Company > =0 When Herbert Moxou climbed out of the wagon in front of the farmhouse gate, he looked forward with all a city boy's delight to a whole mouth in the country. That he had never seeu his aunt or uncle before did not trouble him in the least. He had been brought up in a wholesome belief in the kindness of human nature in general and showed it so frankly that people invariably turned their best side toward this sun ny faced lad of ten. His uncle came hurrying down the box trimmed path to meet him. "I'm glad ter see ye, real glad," he declared warmly. "I'd 'a' come myself stead of sendin' Lucas, but I've had the rheumatiz considerable lately." The boy paused a second at the door step to remark on the beauty of two full leaved and fruited apple trees which grew almost at the threshold, one on each side. But to his surprise his uncle scowled slightly and hurried him into the house. Only the cheery voice of the fire welcomed him. Herbert turned ques tioningly to his uncle. "Aunt? Is she well?" Jonas Alwyn showed a momentary confusion before the boy's clear glance. Then he said hastily: "Well—oh, yes; but she ain't to home jest now—won't be fer several days." Time sped swiftly. There was so much to see and to do! True, his un cle's disposition varied from extreme cheeriness to fits of moody abstraction. He proved to be so skillful a cook that he filled his nephew with wonder. "I'll bet aunt's pancakes don't beat yours," he remarked one morning, his mouth full of light cakes and sirup making the compliment a trifle indis tinct. Jonas started, then pushed away his coffee as though something had affect ed his appetite. "They're a sight better," he said so gloomily that Herbert laughed out right. "I didn't think you'd be sensitive on the subject, uncle. When she comes, I'll tell her what you said. Have you heard from her lately?" "Not to say lately." "Mother thought she was here when you wrote," went on Herbert. Ills uncle rose excitedly. "Ye don't mean it," he declared ve hemently. "No; ye don't mean it, 'cause ye don't know uawthin' about it. But she ain't set foot in this house for eight year come next November." Herbert rose, pale in his turn. "I'm sorry," he faltered. "I never knew—mother doesn't know—that any thing had—gone wrong." "Everything's gone wrong," said his uncle miserably. Suddenly he clutched his nephew and hurried him to the door, then down in the pathway, where he faced him about before the two fruit trees. "This one," said his uncle, waving his right hand much as if he were in troducing a duchess, "Is Miranda Sweet, and this one," a wave to the left and a frown, "is Miranda Sour." Herbert smothered a desire to laugh. "Oh! Named after my aunt?" "Jest so! Them two are seedlln's, an* I planted 'em the spring she went away. It's mighty queer that they come true ter the names I give 'em! As ter her goin'—that wuz a mlsunder standin'. She's got prop'ty of her own, about ez much ez I own, an' she's Uvin' on it ten miles away. I ain't"— be choked a little —'"I ain't seen her Bcnce that spring moriiin' when she an' mc had it out In the kitchen. I watched her bunnit go round the turn, an'—an' I ain't heard a word of her 'cept what the neighbors let drop." "Since she's only ten miles away," said Herbert with all the straightfor ward confidence of youth, "I should go to her and tell her it was just a misunderstanding." "That's jest what I can't do," re turned his uncle with extreme moodi ness. "Every time I start, an' I've itarted more'n onct, suthin pulls me back. I do b'lieve it's Miranda Sour." "Miranda Sour?" "When she went away, I named them two seedlln's fer her —Miranda Sweet," his voice faltered, "to 'mind me of how purty she looked the day she an' me stood up before tho preach er. She was the pink cheekedest and softest eyed gal In the hull village then. "I named that tree Miranda Sour," the old man went on doggedly, "to 'mind me how set an' contrary your aunt kin be when she's a Inclination that a way! That tree has got all of Miranda's aggravatlnest ways —the very way them leaves flirt at ye is Jest perzactly like the fling Miranda could give them skirts of hern when she was swishin' paßt ye an' wouldn't listen to reason." Herbert hit Miranda Sour a sharp blow with a stick. "I wish a worm would gnaw you. I wish a hurricane would blow you down." "No slch luck," said Jonas in tones which expressed a certain mournful pride 2n his forecasting. "No sich luck. She'll keep on a-growin', an' Miranda an' me will keep on glttln' furder an' furder apart." Herbert looked round furtively, then sidled up to his uncle. "Cut her down," he whispered, one eye on Miranda Sour to see if she over heard. "Cut her down!" exclaimed Jonas angrily. "Cut down an apple tree ez cost me all that trouble! By gum, I'll do nawthln' of the kind! It's all yer aunt's fault that them trees is there, an' there they kin stuy fer me." Preoccupied himself, Jonas never de tected the purpose throbbing in Her bert * whole being nor even observed the guilty glance that his nephew stole at him when the boy asked with as sumed «'iilm if he might go lishing in stead of accompanying Jonas to mill. "Jest us ye like," said his uncle, somewhat surprised. "Ain't no good fish in' round here, but I s'pose throw- In' tli£ line in the water'll satisfy ye." Herbert waited until his uncle bad been gone a full half hour; then he flew round to the wood pile and seized the ax, his heart throbbing to suffoca tion. He hurried back to the front yard, glancing right and left. There was 110 one in sight. He looked at Miranda Sour, the representative of "the ungodly." Yes, it was no fancy. Her leaves rustled an insolent chal lenge. He sprang to her side and sunk his ax deeply in her new smooth bark. After that the blows fell fast and furiously. In less than fifteen min utes she lay quivering and sighing at the feet of Miranda Sweet. With desperate strength lie drugged the fallen one round to the buck yard, sometimes in cold terror over hla deed, sometimes with the same exultation that Achilles felt in driving round the wails of Troy. The funeral pyre of Miranda Sour was no easy work, for the day was hot and the limbs full of sap. but at last nothing was left of her save a few blackened pieces not to lie distinguished as parts of an apple tree. Then a tired but determined boy put old Dobbin in the ancient bug try and drove up the road at a rate that threatened an immediate smashup. It was 0 o'clock when Jonas re turned. He was dusty, tired and hun gry. Then as he opened the gate he , rubbed his eyes—it could only be a vision. liut certainly the vision had warm arms. They clasped him round the neck, and a face still good to look on was upturned to his own, and the old, beloved voice cried out: '•lCiss me, Jonas—right here, right now!" "Miranda!" he gasped, and then brokenly, "Thank God, oh, thank God!" ' Yes, thank him," faltered Miranda, tears falling now. "And his instru ment was that blessed boy! Oh, Jonas, he told me how you missed me an' how you kept that beautiful apple tree in front the door to remember me by!" Hot shame aud fear flooded Jonas. He glanced at the house and felt like rubbing his eyes again, for of Miranda Sour not even a stump was left, while in sweet and placid humility, comfort ed with many apples and tremulous with hints of years of happiness, Mi randa Sweet shaded the doorway lov ingly. Whnt Baddliftsm Aimed to Do. The Greeks were capable of much poetical pessimism. They saw the van ity of things as plainly as Gotama did, but they also saw the pleasure of pro claiming this vanity in sonorous hex ameters or musical elegiacs. To give everything up because you cannot en joy everything forever would not have entered into their very sound brains and healthy nervous systems. Buddha knew this, knew that mankind was light minded, a child pursuing a bird. But in the slack and demoralizing cli mate of India he found countless dis ciples. Most of them perhaps cling to the Brahamic survivals in Buddhism, the gods, the fairy tales, more closely than to the doctrine of renunciation. It is a hospitable religion and has many mansions. But it did aim at do ing away with the sacredness of caste, at proving all men to be equally hu man, equally capable, as far as social distinctions go, of moral excellence. In this view, where Buddhism most di rectly reacts against Brahminism, it has not been a success. The caste sys tem in all its Indian minuteness has survived the Buddhist doctrine. "Bud dha for the soul and the gods for the world," an old Cingalese saying, still exists in that popular superstition. Hu man nature cannot be boxed up in a system.—London News. "The Jerk*." The most remarkable manifestation of the great religious movement which swept over this country just before the war of 1812 was the physical anil nerv ous disorder known as "the jerks." The Jerks took their name from the fact that the arms and legs would be thrown about apparently by a force beyond control of the individual. The disorder was epidemic in Tennessee. A slave owner, a man of great wealth and prominence and irreligious, called his slaves together one Sunday morning, when a camp meeting was in progress near by, and announced his deliberate Intention of horsewhipping any one of their number who took the jerks. "It is all imagination," he said, "and I'll whip any one of you that takes It with in au inch of his life." He went to camp meeting, and while conversing with a friend in the outskirts of the ground was told that one of his ne groes had the jerks. Seizing his horse whip, he hastened toward the spot and when half way was himself seized by the jerks. George Peabody. George Peabody spent his money alike for England and America, and his seventy-five years of life gave him ample opportunity to give vent to his Instincts of benevolence. Like Peter Cooper, he did not wait for death to come before he parted with his surplus fortune. Peabody was American born, and to his glory he declined the offer of a baronetcy from the queen. Far more grateful to the good man was the resolution of thanks passed by the con gress of the United States. That was a distinction, coming from the whole people, of which he was justly proud. Picture* and the Eye. Sir Thomas Lawrence, an eminent English painter and president of the Royal academy, commended the pic tures of a young artist and then said to him: "You have around your room two or three rough, clever, but coarse Flemish sketches. If I were you, I would not allow my eye to become fa miliarized with any hut the highest forms of art. If you cannot afford to buy good oil paintings, buy good en gravings of great pictures, or have nothing at all upon your walls. "You allow, in intercourse with your fellows, that 'evil communications cor rupt good manners.' So is it with pic tures. If you allow your eye to become familiar with what is vulgar In con ception, however free and dashing the handling aud however excellent the feeling for color, your taste will Insen sibly become depraved. Whereas, if you habituate your eye to look only on what is pure and grand or refined aud lovely, your taste will insensibly become elevated." Ether Hrinkiiiß In Bamla. The habit of ether drinking is known to be prevalent in some parts of Rus sia, also in east Prussia, aud all the ef forts of the authorities to combat tho evil have hitherto been almost fruit less. An idea of the extent to which the habit prevails may be gathered from records given in tho Russian newspapers of a recent accident which occurred at a place called Trossno. Ether Is drunk by farmers on festive occasions, when it appears to be con sumed In pailfuls. A farmer, celebrat ing bis son's wedding, in the fullness of his hospitality got in two pailfuls of ether. During the process of decant ing the ether into bottles a violent ex plosion took plactv, by which six chil dren were killed ami one adult dauger ously and fourteen others more or less severely injured.—British Medical Jour nal Absolutely Pant Mope. "She Is the most Inconsistent woman I ever knew." "fever does what she ought to or what you expect, eh?" "That is just it. Sometimes she does. She is Inconsistently Inconsistent." Beware of the man who offers you advice at tlie expense of a mutual frieud. None are less eager to learn than they who know nothing.—Suard. PRUNING ORCHARDS. Plain ln>lrarlloni In the Art—The Ln» of Winter the Best Time. Very familiar are the questions "How to prune?" and "When to prune?" Many orchardists have nrrlved at the conclusion that it is a very easy matter \\ FIOS. 1 AND 3. to prune too much and that it requires the greatest good Judgment to prune just enough. llow tc Prune.—l. Never cut away more wood than U necessary to obtain the end in view. Err on the side of cut ting too little rather than too much, for if too much is taken off it cannot be replaced in many years. Large crops of fruit cannot be grown on trees with a few exposed branches. 2. Cut out all dead wood as soon as it is dis covered. (Summer Is a good time to do this, as dead branches can then be seen at a glance.) 3. If two branches rub together so as to Injure one anoth er, the weakest should be cut away. 4. If one branch rests on the top of another, as in Fig. 1, one should be removed. 5. Iload back and thin out the top rather than cut off the lower branches to bring the fruit as low as possible on account of thinning, spraying and harvesting (see Fig. 2). C. Never remove side branches If It can bo avoided. If it must be done, cut as shown at B, Fig. 3, and cover the injured parts with two coats of lin seed oil paint, gas tar or grafting wax. Cover all wounds over half an inch In diameter with one of the above pre servatives. 7. Remove branches that are too low or resting on the ground. When to Prune.—The winter is gen erally a time of most leisure to the farmer or orchardist, and It is a good time to prune, * y but if the work '1 Is done in the \ early part of the V, winter more y>— i care must be V. / given to protect j, \\ / ing the injured J\X parts, for with \f the freezing and ]\-A thawing of sev j| eral months the • u cut surface will !'|\ dry In very deeply, and the * l °' longer the ex posure the greater the injury. If the work can be done the last of winter, Just before growth begins, the injury will be but little. The above practice will apply about equally to the apple, pear and plum, but perhaps should be applied with some variations to the peach.—S. T. Maynard, Massachusetts. Trolley Llaea and Parma. Some of the latest trolley road enter prises are likely to be of special benefit to small towns. Most of the earlier electric roads were built parallel to steam lines, connecting only the cities and large towns already provided with railroad facilities, and directly useful to such farmers only who happened to live on or near the line of the road. But most of the main towns being already connected, there is now a tendency to reach out and secure the business of the farming towns which have never had a railroad of any kind. Already in western Massachusetts, In Connecticut and in parts of Maine new roads are branching out in all directions, bring ing new life to lonely communities and serving as feeders to the steam roads and the main street lines. Many new projects are not street lines at all, but go straight over the fields and mead ows, making cuts and fillings when needed at considerable cost. Such lines are capable of high speed and regular service. Many a town will enjoy good passenger facilities and often a freight, mall and express service by the con struction of an electric road where a steam road could never hope to do a paying business. —American Cultivator. Lime And the Land. Lime makes the father rich and the son poor is an old saying. Lime makes the nitrogen in the soil available, and if I have nitrogen there I am going to put the lime in and get it out, and If my boy wants more nitrogen he can put it in.—E. B. Voorhees, New Jersey. Good For Vermont. The Vermont legislature contains 135 farmers, and they have formed a per manent organization to look after the Interests of farmers in legislation, with the usual officers and a county commit tee of three from each county.—Coun try Gentleman. A STAND OF GRASS. Vnryiiie Soil Coiiflltlnna Call For a Clenii Cat Study. We sow grass and clover seed upon wheat In tlio spring, which necessitates sowing with some of the hand operated machines or from the hand, says a New Vi.rk correspondent In National Stockman. We use a hand seeder and the work Inn been fairly well done. But when one com pa res the even stand of tli.' drill seeding there is, after all, a vast difference. Another spring I shall see to It that the Heidi are sowed over each way. using half of the seed at a time. I'poll fertile land every small space without clover or ouly partly Covered means a prolific- growth of weeds. A fertile soil, like civilization, has Its at tendant evils. The thick seeding of all slow maturing plr.nts and a thin seed ing of those cultivated or rapid grow ing may 1 »<• laid down as a safe rule. 1 have seen Just as good a hay crop from ten quarts of seed as from sixteen quarts where no Interference was pres ent. It is phenomenal how lar|K a stool will gr« w from cue seed, i would not cure to risk light seediug. however. With wheat and oat seeding upon our No. 16. thin seeding of oatß Is far safer, par* ticularly whore clover seeding is prac« ticod. Oats are a nurse crop for cloven over a vast stretch of country and na tloubt will Ito for a long time notwith standing they are unsatisfactory ex cept when very wet. Cats require about 500 pounds of water for each pound of dry matter, and while the thin seeding will dmw heavily upon moisture dur ing the ripening days the clover will have gained a strong foothold in thai early growth of the plant. Broadcast Sowing. The oat plant does not grow rapidly] at once after comiug up, but If sown thickly the ground will be covered, re tarding clover growth. Broadcast oat seeding either by eiachine or hand la very unsatisfactory. All things consid ered, no method or machine for com bined seeding compares to a disk drill. Another point: An endless waste of clover seed takes place each year by; sowing upon soil not garden fitted. A rich soil Is not alone a qualification for a sure catch of clover. SoQ texture Is absolutely necessary. I would prefet to throw a piece of land oat of the reg ular rotatiou than to seed before this condition has taken place, and, what Is more, soils full of root growth like our own cannot be made suitable In a mo ment, no matter how much labor Is of fered. Decomposition must take place and chemical action go on. The more labor employed the quicker this action will follow. I speak from the view point of a dairy farm not deficient In vegetable matter. Upon soils where successive crop growing Is followed the principle would not apply. Then it Is a question of getting more humus and plant food into the soil. These varying conditions of soils call for a clean cut home study of our own farms. The Farmer the Orlflul Merehaat. The fanner needs to be educated to know how to dispose of the products of his farm, to study and understand the markets, that he may know when and where and how to sell, that he may not be entirely at the mercy of other class es of tradesmen, for the farmer Is em phatically and necessarily a trades man—not only a producer, but a mer chant, the original merchant. But this opens a field too wide for present dis cussion. We all know too well that the farmer has long been suffering because other parties fixed the prices of what lie sold, as well as of what he bought.— Dr. Hunnicutt, Georgia. Looks Like a Good Thin*. Procure some empty butter tubs from the grocer, the heaviest you can find. ~ I get them of oak with galvanised hoops. "With pencil and rule draw a mark around the tub five Inches from the bottom. Then with a pair of com passes space around the mark, dividing it into twenty-four spaces. Take a one and a half or two Inch bit and bore holes at every other point, making twelve holes. Remove the top hoop and with a fine saw saw out as indicated by the dotted lines. Smooth the edges with a knife, and it is ready for use A HANDY POULTHY FEED TUB. and will look something like the right hand picture. Visitors to my place al ways notice these tubs, says an Amer ican Agriculturist correspondent, and ask permission to take a pattern of them, saying they are the best thing they ever saw. They certainly are the most handy thing I ever used. Twelve hens can get around one and eat with out crowding. They are handy to carry, either empty or full: fowls cannot roost on them, consequently they are always clean, and when not in use they can be stacked up in a corner out of the way. Smaller tubs or palls can be used for chickens. What Others Say. The very people who ought to have the best milk and butter really have the worst. Do we allude to farmers T Most of the difficulties of this life are nothing but shadows anyway. They hurt nobody only as they make cow ards. A judge holds that an un sown cK>p cannot be mortgaged; that a thingvannot be encumbered which does not exist. Country or city, it is all the same If one has but the true grit. No dairyman can afford to feed twenty-five cent butter to six cent ralves. The Boy. A boy ifl an odd piece of furniture, but he is the ground and chief ingre dient of the man. Delude not yourself with the belief that the boy la not all he pretends to be, for he is a great deal more. He Is an Incomprehensible fel low to any one but another boy, ami because he will presently grow into the awkward between hay and grass period that separates boyhood from manhood, and to a lumbering idiot then, don't signify that he Is an idiot now. He never Is. But his chrysalis state fetters him and makes him teem like one sometimes. The boy Is all right He Succeeded. A man arrested for murder bribed an Irishman on the Jury with £2OO to hang out for a verdict of ter. The Jury were out a long time, and finally came in with a verdict ofj manslaughter. The man rushed up t0 ( the Irish Juror and said: "I'm obliged to you, my friend. Did yon have a hard time?" "Yes," said the Irishman; "an awful time. The other eleven wanted to ac-' quit yer."—London Answers. The Last DnelUf Cler*T»sa. "When did clergymen cease to fight duels?' Is a startling Inquiry in Notes and Queries. It will be news to manyj of us that they were ever fond of that exhilarating pastime. But, as a mat-j ter of fact, the Rev. Mr. Allan fought a duel with Lloyd Delany, Esq., and killed him in Hyde park In 1782. He' was convicted of manslaughter and fined 1 shilling plus six months-in gate. His Usual Preference. "What kind of meat have you this, morning, Larry?" asked the board of trade operator. "Well, sir," said the butcher, "Vy got some fine bear steak and some beef that's Just bully"— "H'mph! Give mo some lamb!" Chicago Tribune. Qalte Another Thla*. "He was unable to meet his bills, II understand?" ' "Welj, that's where you're wrong.. He couldn't dodge them."—Chicago Post Leave your worries at home when you travel. You can get a fresh sup-,' ply anywhere.
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