VOL. XXXX. HEW SPRING COTTONS g #5 The freqnent arrivals of fresh, new Cottons are fast crowding out J jp| the winter goods and give the stole a decided spring-like appearance. 3 SUPERB WHITE GOODS <K ■ Finest line we have ever shown. Beautiful Mercerized Fancies jw stripes, brocades and openwork patterns, at 25c to 6i)c. India *|F Linens. Dimities and Francy White Goods at f>ic. Bc. 10c, 121 c, ft NEW PERCALES |p| The Mnlhonse Percales are much superior to the ordinary percales Sk usual 1) sold at the same price. Finer cloth, softer and better finish U* R and more attractive patterns. 30 inches wide —12£ c yard. TJ 8 NEW GINGHAMS 8 W More new arrivals added to our large assortment of the very choicest styles of Ginghams and Seersuckers, at l<)c and 12ic M) NEW DRAPERIES Decidedly new patterns in Curtain Swiss, Madras, Silkalinefr, Denims, and Cretonnes that are very handsome and attractive, 12} c ♦o 25c. THE NEW IDEA WOMAN'S MAGAZINE ft The finest home publication in the country, with articles PJ of interest to women, 100 pages and colored cover. Numerous illn strations of the latest fashions. March number now ready—subscrip- ▼* tion price ."iOc a year. Single copy 5 cents. Monthly Fashion Sheet > Free. V L. Stein & Son,| 108 N MAIN STREET. BUTLER, PA ft 79 79 79 79 79 79 79 79 _ 79 G. E. Miller's | 79 GREAT 79 -| 79-Cent s 79 SALE OF 79 „MEN'S PLOW SHOES, I ! We have just purchased a large lot of Men's good solid 79 Plow shoes at about cost of material. As our stock Spring is extremely large and we are crowded for room,; Jwe have put this entire lot on sale at a very small margin yg over what we paid for them. jg They are regular $1.25, $1.50 and 51.75 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 L DOROTHY DODD ™ Fine Shoes and Oxfords for Ladies. 79 Largest line of WALKOVER and DOUGLASS Fine , jg Shoes for Men we have ever carried, and they are nicer and better than ever before. 79 Make us a visit before purchasing your fine shoes for 79 Spring ' 79 C. E. miller, 215 South Main Street, - - Opposite Hotel Arlington & 79 79 79 79 79 79" 79 79 LEVIINTOINS' 122 South Main St. Your money's worth or money back. Men's and Boys' Spring Clothing. The finest ready-to-wear attire that is made. We have the facilities to search out the best that the market can afford, and it is now ready in a complete Spring array on our floor. Everything that a dressing man can desire for his attire can be found here at a smaller price than he would expect to pay for such smartly tailored garments. Men's Suits and Top Coats ft! 2, ft 14, at $7.50, #9, sl6, ft] 8, ft2o, and ujr to ft2s. We show Men's Spring Overcoats which, like all of our attire, could not fit or wear better if they were custom tailored. LEVINTONS' Early Spring Hats. We are showing all the new shapes for Spring, 1903 READY-TO-WEAR HATS, SAILORS and STREET HATS are now ready for your inspection, FLOWERS and FRUIT are going to be worn very extensively for early Spring style. See the fine display at Rockenstein's MILLINERY EMPORIUM. 3.18 .South Main Street - - Butler, Pa K E C K W % Spring & Summer Weights j\ ■ /'] 'K E Have a nattiness about them that Jj] ,"i rjJ k JHJ) / J Uy mark tbe wearer, it won't do to / ■V.J'' J F\ wear the-last year's output. You I U A \|r3 U won't get the latest things at the t \/ (L 7 stocjf*clothiers either. The up-to j f7\ L tt-tA I C\ date tailor only can supply them, j I I J/ / 1 ll IJb .you want not only the latest I! I f * ' /11 I things in cut and fit and work- II ..//// I ' '-"■•nship, the finest in durability, >) i j ' i I "here else can -you get combina *>* 11 "-{(/ ions, yon get them at y*' , FECK G. F. KfeCK, Merchant Tailor, 2* North Main Streat All Work Guaranteed Butler, Pa THE BUTLER CITIZEN. Heed's Wine of Cod feiver Oil will build you up and make you strong, will give you an appetite and new life. If you feel tired and u/orn out try our Wine of Cod Liver Oil and find relief. It is stronger and better than pure Cod Liver Oil. Pleasant to take and is inoffensive to delicate stomachs. Indorsed and recom mended by physicians every where. The best Spring tonic to give you Health and strength. For sale only at Reed's Pharmacy Transfer Corner Main and Jefferson Sts . Butler. Pa PROFESSIONAL CARUS. ATTORNEYS. RP. SCOTT, • ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, Office on second floor of Armory Building. Butler, Pa. AT. scon, • ATTORNEY AT LAW. Office at No S. West Diamond ?t R>M ler, Pa. poi'LTER & Mi. V vrTOHVKYS < f ' - *■* Ro-mt, R.. \r?TT.-v t'liil.l-i... JOHN . COL'LTER, T) ATTORNHY-AT-LA W . Office with H. C. McAboy, J. I^., south side Diamond. Special HUention given to collection and business matters. Reference: Cutler Savings R;tnk, ■ Butler County National Hank ] D. McJUXKIN, (J • ATTORNKV-AT-LAW. Otiice in Reiber building, cornei MAIL' and E. Cunningham Sts, Entrance on Main street. I B. HKEDIN, •J . ATTORNEY AT LAW. Dffice on Main St. near Coui t House. EVERETT L. RALSTON, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, No. 25- South Main Street, Butler, Pa. Fisher Building, l'irst door on South Main street, next my former office in Boyd Building. HFL. GOUCHER, • ATTORNEY AT LAW. Office' in Wise bnildinv EH. NEGLEV, . ATTORNEY AT LAW. Office In the Negley linilding, West Diamond PHYSICIANS, Hemorrhoids and Chronic Diseases a Specialty. VTT H. BROWN, M. D-. TV • Office in Riddle bnildiufr.Diamond. next door to Dr. Bella old office. Office Hours:—9 to 11 a. m,l to 3 and 6 to 8 p. m. PEO. K. McADOO. M. D. VJ EYE, EAR, NOSE AND THROAT, Exclusively. Hours 9-12, j -5. Both Phor.es. Troutman building, S. Main St. T C. BOYLE, M. D. r) • EYE, EAR, NOSE and THROAT, After Apiil Ist, office in former Dr. Peters' residence, No. 121 E Cunning ham St., Butler, Pa., next door to Times printing office. PLARA E. MORROW, D. 0., V GRADUATE BOSTON COLLEGE OK OSTEOPATHY. Women's diseases a specialty. Con sultatian and examination free. Office Hours, 9 to 12 m., 2 to 3 p. tn. People's Phone 573. 116 S. Main street, Butler, Pa. (1 M. ZIMMERMAN II PHYSICIAN AND SUHGEON At 327 N. Main St. LR. HAZLETT, M. D., • 106 West Diamond, Dr. Graham's former office. Special attention given to Eye, Nose and Throat. People's Phone 564 SAMUEL M. BIPPUS, O PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON too West Cunningham SI, DR. JULIA E. FOSTER. DR. CLARENCE M. LOWE. OSTEOPATHIC PHYSICIANS. Rooms 9 and 10 Stein Building, Butler. Consultation and examination free, daily; and evenings by appointment. DENTISTS. DR. H. A. MCCANDLESS, DENTIST. Office in New Martincourt Building, ' 1 2 9Y1 S. Main St., (adjoining Dr. j Atwell's office.) HW. WICK, • DENTIST. Has located in the new Stein building, j with all the latest devices for Dental i work. DR. M. D. KOTTRABA, j Successor to Dr. Johnston, J DENTIST Office at No 114 E. Jeftersou St., over G. W. Miller's grocery | J. DONALDSON, 0 • DBNTIST. Artificial Teeth inserted on the latest improved plan. Gold Fillings a spec ialty. Office next to postoffice. DR J. WILBERT MCKEE, SURGEON DENTIST. Office over C. E. Miller's Shoe Store, 2X5 S. Main street, Butler, Pa. Peoples Telephone 505. A specialty made ot gold fillings, gold crown and bridge work. MISCELLANEOUS. WM. H. WALKER, »' SURVEYOR, Residence 214 W. Pearl St., Butler, PA, p F. L. McQUISTION, V. Civil, ENGINEER AND SURVEYOR. Office near Court House. TT the Butler iNivines \ Trust Company i successor to the Kutli-r Savings Hank, the latter by a vote of Its Stockholders and the Hoard of Directors went into llmildatlon I January Ist. LOOLI, notice Is hori-hy elven that ' siiid Butler Savings Bank is winding up Its' affairs, the creditors thereof UR« notifled to present : their claims. If any. for payment at the Butler Savings ,t Trust Company, dolnir 1 business at the old stand. WM. CAMPBELL, .Tr,, 1 0-11-Jm V»es«ieut. Nervous Dyspe))si;i Its Cause and Cure Overwork any organ and it givt-s out —the stomrh is no exception Ask it to digest anything, at any time in half the time required, ami like an over driven horse it balks Nature iLtend-d tiie stonia?h should have regular h >i:rs. A lime to work, a nine to rest—and when you break up this habit, you U;J set the whole arrangement. The s'omach nerves become exhausted, tlie glands refuse to act, the food does not digest—lies heavy.feriuentsand repeats. There is pain, gas forms, 11 >nting oc enrs. the heart becomes invgul ir at.d a nt-ryons, irritahle feeling sets m. This is nervous dyspepsia and Or. A. \V t base's Nerve Pills its cure. Mrs. Finnell of 2tU Center Ave., liutler, Pa., says.— "Dr A. W. Chase's Xerve P lis are just splendid They brae * one up so finely—after a short use I f« It so much refreshed. I presume because I f. 1' s I well. So far HS the st*>in.ich is concerned they a d digestion finely I hive used (hem m>s;*lf and tiven them T • • 11 • • children wir.i equally UIMMI re suits It was fortunate I was t«-M D H. Wnlier, Druggist of ll'JSonh Main St., had them." a box at dealers oi Dr A. W. C'hise Medicine Co., Buffalo. N. Y. See that j ortraic and signature of A 'V Chase M. D., are on ever) p;ick <g»\ Cross?. Poor man ! He can't help it. It's his liver. He needs a liver pill. Ayers Pills. } Want your moustache or beanl a j j beautiful browa or rich black ? Vzz j Buckingham's Dye| |sQcts. of druggists or R. P. Hal' 8c Co., Nashua, N. H | Nasal j? CATARRH Tn all its stages. "To/ik Ely's Cream cloansof*, soothes and heals a the diseased membrane. It eurescatarrh and drives away a cold in the head quickly, Cream Halm is placed into the nostrils,spreads over the membrane and is absorbed. Relief is im mediate and a cure follows. It is not drying—does not produce sneezing. Large Size, 50 cents at Drug gists or by mail; Trial Size, 10 cents. ELY BROTHERS, 50 Warren Street, New York N a Johnston's M Beef, Iron and Wine is f-e rA VA Best TciJc kl and r M f £ Blood Purifier. m j Price, 50c pint. r <w Ll Prepared and 92 only ntj Johnston s M Crystal N N Pharmacy. M tl u Wi U. M. L.OQAN, Ph. G., Ll L V Manager, 91 WA ICS N. Main St., Hutlor, l'a L [ « Both 'Phones Vj w2 Everything in the drug line. f DR. HARRIS' 3 Summer Cordial, TRADK MARK SPEEDILY CURES Diarrhoea. Dysentery, Sick Headache. Summer Complaint, Vomiting, Sour Stomach, Indigestion and for Children Teething. Ansoi.l TKI.Y HARMLESS. Prepared by It. A. FAHXESTOCK CO. I'Utitbarg, I':u jC. F. T. Pape, \ SJEWELER S) J^ i 121 E. Jefferson Street. / I P. WALKFR, NOTARY PUBLIC, BUTLKR, PA. Ottica with Eerkmer, next door to P. O. BIT LER, PA.. THI'RSDAY, JULY «.», 1903. j -BETH'S t | CAHEE'R I By RUBY DOUGLAS f T t $ Copyright• i£of, Ly T. C. McClure # Forrest Harwood walked aimlessly through the arclnvay of trees leading to bis old home. Those two weeks of his summer holiday ha., been happily spent—too happily—for now, on the last night, it all seemed like a dream. There had been an awakening. Why, he asked himself, bad be been FO blind to the harvest lie was reaping for himself? All the days ho had spent telling Beth Ivnox of his life in New York were now to Forrest Ilarwood as so many stones added to the obstacle impeding his life's happiness. And with what a different purpose he had related all the pleasant little happen ing in the literary world—in his world. The hope that she should learn to see it through his eyes has prompted all the prettily told incidents. Little did he know then of the am bition ho was creating within Beth's breast to be of that world, not merely In it. When he had asked her 011 that last night to come with him, to live with him ill his world, to help him climb still higher 011 the ladder he had chosen, she told him gently, but firmly, 1 no. She would have a career; she would write and be some one. And so it was that Forrest Harwood returned to his desk conscious that he had, all unintentionally, made an am bitious woman of his little playmate. He felt that she had loved him, but he had spoiled all that. She would liavo her career, and 110 would take up the work where he had left it—with no Beth. The little blue missives fronj the home town were filled with enthusiasm for the new work. More and more of the ambitious woman and less of the little Beth peeped out from between the liqfcs. But Forrest was none the less eager to search through the great piles of mail for the coveted letters. They came at regular intervals, each one laying the foundations for big castles. C FFnn =j = ==p*«^ THE EDITOR HEAD AND BEHEAD THE LIT TLE STORY. Several weeks bad elapsed since a blue envelope had added to the number of letters 011 the editor's desk, when one morning lie searched through the heap of manuscripts and nothing blue met bis eye. Disappointment was his first sensa tion; then his heart began to beat faster, for a long, white, commonplace looking envelope with a familiar hand writing across it starod him in the face. He tore it open nervously. Beth had begun her career. Leaning back in his chair, the editor read and re-read the little story. "Yes," he thought, "it is good. It is well told. It is well worth printing." A realization of the fact that Beth's storv was good took her farther and fartner from Forrest. He read it again, and as he finished the last page a light dawned on his face. Turning to his stenographer, he dic tated a businesslike and still some what friendly letter to Beth. He told her the story was not bad, yet it was not available for publication. He re frained from inclosing the usual printed slip, he said, fearing that It might dis courage her. He would keep the manu script, and she could, if she desired, submit others to him for his criticism. When the letter was signed, the editor wore a more hopeful expression than had been 011 his face since his return. He saw a way out of his own unhappl ness. He would win Beth yet. After that his letters were always dic tated to her. Less and less of the lover was suggested in them and more of the critical editor. One by one her manu scripts came to him, and one by ono they were folded and placed in the drawer reserved for them. Each one brought back to Beth a letter saying there was an improvement, but that they were still "unavailable." The stories came frequently for months, and very few little blue let ters came to Forrest. Tho manuscript? were better than any he was printing monthly in his magazine, but he must gain his end. He was not an editor in this case. He was a determined wooer. Fewer itories and more blue letters began to' arrive from the little home town. Could he read between the line* that discouragement was dawning In Beth's heart? It was with difficulty that the editor kept within the limits of New York when each letter now said plainly, "I am tired of my career." .But he would wait. One day an editorial in Beth's unmis takable style arrived at the office. It was her first attempt at editorial writ ing. but it was a success. "Women aud Careers" It was headed, and it dealt harshly with the woman who gives up the opportunities to possess a home and husband for a career, especially a literary career. "A woman." tho edi torial stated, "is not intended for ca reering. but to help man In his." If it had not been for the picture of a probably tear stained little face some miles from New York and a dejected little figure. Editor Harwood would have laughed at the strenuous manner In which the editorial was written. 1 As it was, he closed his desk early that evening, giving orders that he would not be at the office for a day or two. He also sent to the printer's be fore leaving the office the lirst of a se ries of short stories to be published in the magazine. "Beth," lie said when he had held her hand in greeting longer than was absolutely necessary for an editor to hold bis contributor's hand, "the edito rial 011 'Women aud Careers' was so good 1 had to come and tell you about It." A pretty pink suffused Beth's cheek as she drew her hand away. "Did you know I wrote it. Forrest?" she asked. "Yes," he answered, possessing him self again of her hand. "But. Beth, have you not changed your views since last summer?" He looked into her eyes strut inizingly. "Yes, Forrest; I'm so tired and dis couraged. I can't write anyway." Beth did not seem to mind when he took her other hand and gently drew her head 011 to his breast. But remorse mingled with his pleasure. "Little girl," he said after awhile, "could you forgive me if I confessed something—if I said I had purposely refused to publish your manuscripts because I wanted to discourage you, if I told you they are all good and that the first of the series lias already gone to the printer—could you forgive me, dear?" He looked dowu at her anx iously. Anil Beth decided to have a husband as well as a career. An Independent I,nsftle. i In front of a confectioner's shop in Paris there used to sit a woman with two wooden legs. She sold pictures aud songs and played well on the vio lin. In 1848 she was there, very pretty and dressed with a good deal of taste, and when Louis Napoleon, then merely Prince Louis, used to go through the street nearly every day, he never pass ed without giving her something. She knew him and was also aware of his pecuniary embarrassments and his political ambitious. One evening she said to him, "Monsieur, I want to say a word to you." "Say it. madame." "They tell me that you are a good deal cramped just now. I have at my house a comfortable sum which is earning nothing. Let mo offer it to you. YOll will return the favor when you are emperor." I'rince Louis did not accept the mon ey. but he ditl not forget the kindness, and when he became emperor he offer ed her a small annuity. The woman was as independent as she was gener ous. "Say to the emperor," she re turned, "that it is exceedingly good of him to remember me, but 1 cannot ac i cept his offer. If he had accepted I mine, I won't say what might have happened, but as It is, no!" | The Coiit of Clothe* In Iluaain. Barring the inhabitants of the earth 1 who wear practically no clothes at all, the costume of the average Uussian costs the least. Ten rubles, or about $7.50, will clothe a male citizen of the czar's realm, while the woman's cos tume will cost less than $3. The man's costume consists of coarse cotton trousers tucked into boots of half dressed leather, a cotton shirt and a sheepskin coat. A coarse Camlet caftan bound around with a sash com pletes the dress. The women wear a sarafan, or long petticoat, which is held up by straps running over the shoulders, a chemise with sleeves to the elbow, a kerchief over the head and a pair of shoes. Stockings aro sometimes worn, but more frequently the legs and feet are bound with strips of cotton or linen cloth. For outdoor wear a quilted jack et or long cloak Is added. The simplicity and cheapness of the <lrw« uru not due to any lack of vanity, but to the poor circumstances under which the majority of the Russians live. To llira That Huth. Philanthropy and "business" are rather curiously related in the minds of some people, as the Lewiston Jour nal suggests by an anecdote of a Maine farmer. lie lived at Cape Elizabeth, and when he went to Portland he in variably favored certain friends with samples of his produce. Perhaps it only "happened so," but anyway these friends were always well to do, and Mr. Lufkin never un hitched the old horse to drive home without finding tucked away in the wagon something ill return fully as valuable as his tributo of vegetables, If not more so. The neighbors noticed that lie al ways left his little remembrances with peoplo who were "well fixed." So one day, when eggs were away up in price and ho was starting to town with a lot of fresh ono» for a certain friend, some ono said to him curiously: "Why don't you give those cgg9 to some poor family?" "Oho," said Mr. Lufkin easily. "Poor people can't afford to eat egg 9 at this time of year! Eggs is high!" Naming: n Yacht. The naming of a book is no holiday task, and authors particularly proud of a title are tolerably sure to discover that it has been already used. But the naming of a yacht is almost a greater perplexity. Plagiarism may in this case result in practical confusion carrying the most awkward consequences, and not all titles to which, in search of va riety, recourse has already been had are satisfactory from all points of view. Not long ago, for instance, 5 very grave British cabinet minister, porhaps wishing for once to be spright ly, called his yacht Flirt, die had not consulted his family, who were, howev er, quite sure, he thought, to delight in his outburst of gayety. However, his daughters naturally remarked how very disagreeable it would be to go ashore with that label around their hats. Followed Hlii Advice. One day a couple of girls went to the Roper livery stable and asked for a gentle horse, as they wanted to drive out in the country a few miles. The man gave them one and told them the horse would be all right if they kept the rein from his tall. When they re turned in the evening he asked them if they had any trouble. "Oh, no," said one; "there was one little shower, but we liad an umbrella and we took turns at holding it over the horse's tail, so that there was not a drop of rain touched it. and we got along all right." That explains the dnzed look the liv eryman lias been wearing.—Hickman (Ky.) Courier. The Term • < <;^ecllllo^n. ,, The term "greenhorn" originated in this way: The pioneers of the west were much given to hunting deer. It 1 was a fact known to the early settlers j that when the horn of a fawn began to grow there was a ring of green hair : around the spot where the horn was \ coming out. It was considered a dis- j graceful thing for a hunter to kill a j fawn, a cruei act, and the killing time . was regulated by the growth of the ' . horn. There was a sort of unwritten j law that no one should kill a male \ fawn before its horns could be seen. j A person who was so unthoughtful as 1 to kill a deer under the proper age was , called a "greenhorn." He was so named because the young horn of the deer and , the hair around it were still green. The , use of the appellation gradually spread until it was applied to all raw or inex perienced youths or persons easily im posed upon. HAY STACKING. Devices In I »c» on >1 i «-It Ikxiii hurras IlluMtrntt k «l IIIKI l)«*Moribed. Various parts of the country and <IIM the large farmer and the small farmer in the same region have their different ways of handling hay. Fol lowing are some stacking devices de scribed by Ohio Farmer writers. A Michigan man says: In this local ity it is not an uncommon thing for farmers to stack the larger part of the hay crop. The accompanying illustra tion shows a derrick 1 photographed on my neighbor's farm that helps to lessen the labor of stacking by hand. The derrick is made of three poles at least sis inches in diameter at the top j HAY SLINCi AND STACKING DERRICK. , and about forty feet long. The single pole at the left is set into the ground about four feet in order to hold the der dick in position. The two bracing poles are also set Into the ground about a foot to hold them from slipping. The top piece, to which the pulleys are attached, is 2 by S inches by 34 feet long. Tills piece is ! bolted to the poles with four and one lialf inch poles to give strength to the | derrick. In fastening the pulley at the i foot of the derrick a large stone was ! buried four feet in the ground and the pulley attached by means of a wire ca i ble. It may be a question with many j farmers who have never used a der : rick for stacking hay whether the hay I will keep well when stacked in this | way. I took special pains to notice the j condition of the hay when being taken ; out of the stack and observed that It i even was better than the hay that was stacked by hand by another neighbor just across the road. The hay drop ping from the fork seems to pack the stack in the center and allows less set tling there to occur. Another Michigan farmer sends a sketch of a stacking rig that he has used for years, with this explanation: A is the gin pole which swings on a pivot at its base. Bis the main stay rope which should run exactly back from the center of the stack in line with the foot of the gin pole. The foot of this pole should stand close up to the bottom (circumference) of the stack, and it should lean forward fumißh so that the top of the polo sh«u come directly over the middle of the stack or of the load, as may be re quired. C and D are stay ropes run ning at right angles with tlio main stay rope, both to be sufficiently slack so that the top of the giu pole may swing directly over the load of hay to take its forkful (the C rope being taut) and then may swing over the middle of the stack to drop the forkful (the D rope then being taut and the C rope slack). The "catch block." or lower of the two pulleys (P, P), should be about three feet from the ground, so that when the team begins to pull and the forkful clears the load the team's pulling shall swing the pole and bring Its upper end right over the stack and SWINGING POLE DERRICK. the forkful be "tripped and dropped"' just where it is wanted. Then with the trip rope the man on the load can swing the top of the gin pole back di rectly over the load for another fork ful. A common horse fork, pulley and catch block are all that is required. The device takes only a man on the load, one on the stack and a boy with the team. It works best on a round stack. The dotted lines In the illustra tion show the position of the appara tus when swung around just before dropping a forkful on the stack. Itcmcdlr* For Cabltaire Worm. The only sure and abiding remedy for cabbage worm, says an authority, Is a small handful of tine sawdust. It Is cheap, sure, harmless and effectual. Probably the best and cheapest way to combat worms on cabbages is sim ply to sprinkle salt on the infested heads. From the moment the salt is applied the worms cease to feed, and in an hour or two they drop from the heads to the ground. Get 5 cents' worth of cayenne pepper, put it in the teakettle and make a strong tea. When cool put It in a bot tle and squirt some of it on each head or sprinkle out of a pan with a whisk broom. Trft SWEEP RAKE. | l aeful Appliance In the Field Han dling of Hay. The illustration shows a sweep rake used by a Country Gentleman corre spondent. lie says: The rake or one similar to it I have used for years. Two horses pull It and draw two cocks at once. Each cock contain/, about two rake loads as raked into the wind row. I thought to rake the hay from the swath to the derrick at tlio rick. I found this would not do, as the double harpoon fork would not lift dry, short clover hay to any advantage, and, i more than this, the rake wasted too j by rubbing it on the ground from the swath to the rick. I thought , to usi' a sling, but found I could not ' on account of the work mentioned. Hence the most practical way to ban- i die the clover hay was to cock it and , allow it to settle at least overnight be fore stacking. 1 have in the main, ex cept for stacking purposes, in the past used a revolving rake in the held. I j prefer it to the spring tooth because I j can slip over trash on the ground that ' the spring tooth would gather up. For up for the derrick I found by force of circumstances that the revolving rake would not make the windrows large enough to build cocks the size desired without carrying the hay too far when cocking. A neighbor borrowed my revolving rake for two hours' use and returned it wrecked be yond useful repair. This mishap forced me to use the sweep rake for making the windrows. I would pull the rake as far as the horses could pull it. then turn the horses and pull the rake back ward to the starting point and then pull up again. I found that two rake j loads would make a large rock; that when drawn to the stack it would | make oftentimes two horse fork loads for the derrick to put ou the stack. ' t'ocks made from the windrows of the revolving rake would only make one small horse fork load. I found it Im possible with those small cocks to keep the stacking force going. Tbe large cocks made from the windrows of the sweep rake, pulled two at a time to the stack with the sweep rake, uiade it easy to keep the force in hay, and I A* SWEEP on TWO HOUSE RAKE, found them no trouble to handle with the fork after they had been standing overnight. Tbe bill of lumber and expense of the long rake is as follows: Headpiece pine. 2 inches by 18 feet=22 feet, at «.S0 J0.60 1 plank 1 by 8 Inches by 18 fcet=-12 feet, at J1.60 20 12 teeth 11* by 3 Inches, at sc. .each 60 12 *s by 4 inch bolts, at 4 l-«c 60 2 H- by 8 inch bolts, at 5c 10 Carpenter work 1.50 Total 13.50 Three upright stakes are set In the headpiece to keep the hay from slip ping over. The long plank is to put over the ends of teeth and bolts put through at teeth and headpiece. The teeth are notched into the headpiece, the notch being deeper toward the point of the teeth. The ends of the teeth should sharp and slope on the under side toward the point. This pre vents their catching in the ground as they are weighted with the load. The teeth should not be made to fit In the headpiece too tight, as if allowed to play a little up and down when at work they will follow the surface bet ter and not be so apt to catch in the ground or run over the hay. The horses are attached one at each end by a light chain, which should be at least seven and a half feet long. The horses should not be allowed to get in front of the teeth. When draw ing empty the rake should be pulled backward. The rapidity with which it can be worked depends very much on the skill of the boys who ride the horses. The land should be smooth and free of stones and stumps. Rnstr Spot In Cheese. A* soon as an outbreak of "rusty spot" is noticed in cheese it is well, ac cording to the Geneva (N. Y.) expert mont station, to use cheese color quite freely, as the spots if small can usually be concealed by the use of annotto and the cheese marketed without loss. This is In no sense an Injury to the con sumer, since neither flavor nor texture of the cheese is affected by either the spots or color. News and Notes. The six highest yielders of corn at the Ohio experiment station last sea son stood iu the following order: Mis souri Learning, Beid's Yellow Dent, Henderson's Eureka, Farmer's Favor ite, Darke County Early Mammoth and Learning. Pink rot is a comparatively new ap ple disease prominent In New York state. It follows scab, and the remedy is a thorough use of bordeaux. Peaches, pears and plums should be thinned for flue fruit and a vigorous tree. The angumois grain moth appeared last season for the first time In the wheat fields and granaries of Michi gan. The percentage of abandoned acre age in all the important winter wheat growing states is unusually small, the abandonment, including the area to be cut for hay, reaching 100,000 acres only in Kansas, Texas and California. Copper Came From Cfproi. The word copper Is generally admit ted to be deprived from Cyprus, as it was from that island that the ancient Romans first procured their supplies. In those remote days Cyprus and Bhodes were the great copper districts, and even in our own day new discov eries of copper ore, especially the beau tiful blue and green ores, from which the metal is so much more easily ob tained than from the copper pyrites and other sulphureted ores of Corn wall, are made nearly every year in the islands of the Mediterranean.— Chambers' journal. Heal Enjoyment. "I suppose," said Mrs. Oldcastle, "that you have arranged to attend the grand opera?" "Oh, yes," replied her hostess. "Jo slali says there's nothln' like grand opera to show real culture, so he's bought a box for every night, and we're goin' to take Daisy's German teacher with us to explain what they're say in'." —Chicago Itecord-Herald. A QUEER BUSINESS. The Way llounc* on Fire W«M nought In Anelent Rome. One of the strangest businesses In anelent Home is mentioned by Juvenal in bis satires. It consisted of buying houses on Are. The speculator hurried to the scene, attended by slaves carry ins bags of money and others carrying tools, judged the chances of salvage and made a bid to the distracted house owner, who was glad to accept any thing, as a rule. The bargain struck in all haste, this earliest of tire assurers set his slaves to work and secured what he could. Sometimes even he put out the flames and so made a coup. It was a business for capitalists, but the poorest who speculated in a small way could hardly lose if he had pres ence of mind enough to grasp the chances. Thus Cato the Elder, as well as Crassus, laid the foundation of his great wealth. lie gradually collected a force of carpenters, masons and such artificers—slaves, of course— which reached 500 men. Not only did he buy houses on fire, but also, enlarg ing upon the common practice, he made a bid for those adjoining which stood in danger. His proposals were com monly welcome, we learn, so helpless were the people and so great the peril. By this means Crassus became the greatest owner of house property in Home. No. 27. MASTERS OF MUSIC/ THE GREAT composers and their PECULIAR METHODS OF WORK. E«ern(rie Habits, as a Ralr, Aral Linked With This Phase of Geaiaa. liny da's Dress Suit and Sapphire HI us; and Beethovca'a Wild Walkl* All tbe groat musical composers had their own peculiar ideas and manner of working. Tliey had their pecullaß traits, their moods, their eccentric hab its, such as are generally said to marlg the genius. In "Musical Education" M« Lavignac tells of their peculiarities. "Haydn was a very early riser." hd writes, "and yet he never worked ex -1 cept in full dress, in which he waft like Buffou. He began by shaving himself carefully, (towdered himself and put on his linger a certain ring, a sapphire, I believe, surrounded with! brilliants, which had been given hint by the great Frederick, unless it waft j Prince Esterbazy. That done, be shut I himself up in a quiet room and wrotel i for several consecutive hours, five or ! six, without stopping, j "Mozart, the gentle and pions Mo ! zart, was sometimes less particular j and comitosed a little everywhere and j under all conditions. Happily the Ideas came often enough and pursued him even Into the restaurants of Vien na, Prague and Munich, where be was very fond of playing billiards and smoking a pipe and composing in his bead. "Rossini composed almost constantly aud in all ways, rarely at the piano, most often iu tbe evening or at night, and, like Mozart, often found inspira tion in a carriage or post chaise. In the irregular joltings of these vehicles he perceived rhythm, and of these rhythms melodies were born. There is uo doubt that be would have found them in the trepidation of the railroad if he had dared to try, but he had such u dread of this mode of locomotion that no one was ever able to induce him to set foot in a car. "Cluck composed violently gesticu lating, walking up and down and act ing all his characters, often in the open air, on the lawn, in a garden. "lieethoven also undoubtedly found a powerful auxiliary to inspiration in motion and walking. Whatever the season, every day after dinner, which was at 1 o'clock, according to the Vien nese custom, he set out for a walk, and with big strides twice made the circuit of the city of Vienna. Neither cold nor heat nor rain nor hall was able to stop him- Then it was that his heat of fancy attained Its full ardor. He would enter a restaurant, sit down for an instant and ask the stupefied waiter for tbe bill, without having ordered anything. His clumsiness was pro digious. He usually broke everything he touched. Not a single piece of fur niture in his bouse, and any article of value less than anything else, was safe from his atiaeks, and many times his ink pot fell into the piano by which he was working, which, religiously pre served in the museum at Bonn, still retains its Indelible traces. Although he had always lived in the midst of Hie high Viennese aristocracy, in which drawing room dances were hej& j£ high honor, he never succeeded In danc ing in time. "Herold .composed while walking, humming or singing, often in the Champs Ely sees, and often passed his best friends by without recognising them. "Gounod composed especially at the table, or at least In his bead. When he wrote, everything was absolutely clear In his brain. His manuscripts prove this. "Wagner liked to wjite standing up before a large table desk like the cash desks in tbe shops. His scores wen written without erasures, in a superb calligraphic hand, admirable for tta clearness and firmness and worthy of a professional copyist. "Berlioz, who played no instruments but the guitar, flute and flageolet, nec essarily worked at the table. "Franck, who was the head of ft school, scarcely composed at all till after 9 o'clock in the evening. "Meyerbeer wrote in a regular man ner in the evening, and his servant had orders to drag him away from the piano at tbe stroke of midnight Schu mann would not admit that any one could write otherwise than at a table. Mendelssohn made much use of the piano and preferred to work in the morning. Auber generally worked at night aud very late, till 2 or S o'clock in the morning, in order to avoid out side noises. "nalevy had a table piano that bad been made for him by Pleyel: Proa time to time he would draw out his key board, strike a few chords on it, and then push It back like a simple drawer and continue to write. "Boieldieu also wrote at the piano. Feliclen David, not being much of ft pianist, sometimes sought the aid of his violin. Adolphe Adam almost al ways worked at bis grand piano, the right band side of whose keyboard was stained with innumerable splashes of ink. He played eight, ten or twelve bars, aud then wrote them down. Biset worked especially In the evening an & still more at night; he often made use of a piano bureau by Pleyel, like Gou uod and Halevy." Hia Gaeaa. "Where were they married?" "I ain't Jest sure," answered the small boy, " 'cause they left me home, but I guess it was in the steeple;'' "In the steeple?" "Well, I heard 'em say it was a high church wedding."—Chicago Poet There are two kinds of unhappy peo ple In the world—those who are sad because they are not known and tboee who are miserable because they are known too well. Rulers by Divine Rlftht. Charlemagne was the first great ruler who proclaimed himself king anfij emperor by divine right. He did not allege, however, that the divine right had come to him direct from but based his claim ou the fact thatj the bishop of Bome, then tbe spiritual) ruler of the Christian world, had; anointed him aud placed the crown of the holy Boman empire on his head. The term "Del CraUa" ("by divine right" or "the grace ofGod") was thus used to express the right to rule as coming from the head of the church' until the days of Luther and the refor mat ion. Then the power of the church was so shaken that rulers no longer, felt sure that they could rest unchal lenged on their right to rule as given to them by Bome. So tbe term "by, divine right" became construed as meaning that the kings ruled by right of God's will as expressed in the Old Testament, in which God is recorded as having chosen kings himself to rule the people.—Exchange. If Ponce de Leon bad ever seen a six ty-year-old American at a circus he would never have wasted all that time and money looking for the fountain ot perpetual youth.—Baltimore American. J
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