VOL. XXXX. jkjfc IT Still Greater Reductions! 3 SJif Bargain sale all this Month | 5 Wash goods have been selling freely at the reduced & W prices, but we now make still lower prices on balance , V of stock. Good assortment of choice styles, and in most g 2 cases they are now half, or less than half former prices. jv 5 Choice Lawns and Dimities, were 10c & 12 1 -2c now 5c £ 2 Fine Dimities and Batistes, 12 l-2c and 15c goods for 7c 5 20c and 25c fine Wash Fabrics, now 10c and 12 1-2 c £ 5 SHIRT WAISTS AT HALF PRICE. £ S Entire stock of Fine Shirt Waists now offered at U 5 half. These are the well-known "Acorn" Waists, noted for style and faultiest fit. & VI EMBROIDERIES ANO LACES ONE-FOURTH OFF, JN Our stock of Fine Embroideries and Laces is too » large and must be reduced. Twenty-five per centdis- \0 t 5 count is the inducement we offer. k 5 Special bargain price on Ribbons, Belts, Fancy 6 Collars, Silks and Dress Goods. Ni «L. Stein & Son J yj 108 N MAIN STREET. BUTLER. PA f-XSS&VX *** 2 8 THE FINAL CLEAN-UP G SSummer Qoods and Hillinery^ J PRICES CUT WITHOUT REGARD TO COST g £ THE MODERN STORE. £ S OUT WITH Abb STOCK « S is the motto in every department of the store. Nothing is to remain on Ok * the shelve* that belongs to the hot season. Prices no longer any object (A and we call your attention to the following: 5 All Ladies' White Lawn Shirt Waists at 1-2 Price. g R All Fancy Parasols at One-Half Price. fl Final clean-up of all smsU lots of Summer Goods at a a fraction of former prices Ufc g LAST CALL ON SUMMER MILLINERY g aB Don't wait if yoa want another hat. Oat lot Ladies' and Children s W Trimmed Hata, sold from SI.OO to 13.00 all at 48c a| * On® lot Lvlies' Triiamtd Hats, sold i ® HPKKIMI.Y (t It ICS ■ Diarrhoea, Dysentery, ■ Sick Headache. U Summ.4 OUIUflSI'lt. k Vomltlixf, Sour Stomach, B Indigestion [I and for Children Tcethine. n Anstll.t TEI.V IIAIIMI.KHH. y FTOtwul b) 11. A. FA II NKSTOt K CO. M I'lltakuric, I'm. At Itrqicfiilii 20c u Ixittlf BUTLER. PA.. -THURSDAY. AUGUST 13, 1903. . .-j";-. J When Si;ence s 2 Was e*. Virtue f I -j.r .. | 4. NELLIE V.OKE | j Cop: right. e J Margaret Kelton folded the Tiin< s mechanically and laid it on the table Inside her. For some time she snt in Ceep thought. Then she reopened the paper and studied the paragraph more closely, with a vague hope that she had made some mistake. But hardly. She read: "Mr. Richard Kent K» ltou, formerly popular it, this city in business and so cial circle*, now a resident of Phila delphia, Is spending the cold months in Florida for the beiKtit of his wife's health." The problem of her life confronted her, or, rather, the scruple. She had never been greatly iu love with the man, nor yet especially antipathetic toward him. Ilence it was no easy thing to do what she was forced to contemplate. But there was the other womaa. Palpably the finger of duty pointed but one way. Two days were required to put her affairs into shape and to prepare for the journey south. There was no difficulty about the exact location. She had often been there in the past—with him, before the separation five years ago, he to live his life, she her own. There was never the semblance of a quarrel. She could almost have wished there had been— anything, all things, but what was. Margaret found herself overwhelmed by a tumult of emotions as she sat iu the familiar old fashioned parlor where so many of her old days had been spent. There was very little change beyond the few trifling effects wrought by the touch of a new individ uality. It was a quaint, picturesque old home, a typical architectural relic of the antebellum south. A smooth box hedge, green the year round, bordered a magnificent flower garden. Outside were wild oranges, great rows of them, whose dainty waxen blossoms of this season mingled with the glistening gold fruit of the last. Dotted about the wide Bermuda lawn were roses, pink "MK TRAIN' WILL LEAVE IN TWKNTY MINUTES," BIIIS SAID. and white and red and yellow bloomed, tilling the air with midwinter fra grance, A half hour passed, and, impatient of waiting, Margaret rose and walked over to one of the Windows. There was a tiny artificial pond Just below, with ducks skimming over its rlppleless surface. Weeping willows trailed their graceful branches along the edges where daisies and white vio lets sprang up In profusion. Presently a child with long yellow curls toddled down to the rim of the bank and dabbled his fingers In the water. The nurse followed close be hind, laughing and protesting and try ing to beguile her young charge away With u fut, stuffed elephant. The woman turned soul sick at the sight. Here dawned another and a tragic aspect, all unsuspected. The boy turned an eager, flushed face and held out both hands, dripping with crystal drops. It Mas the face of ltlchard Kelton In miniature. "15a Baby!" Xlaigapet started at the sound of a iweet, weak voice almost at her elbow and, turning, stood face to face with a very young and very delicate looking woman. But for the deep circles under the blue eyes and the lines of pain carved about a sensitive mouth it was the face of a child. "Oh, I beg your pardon," she tifeMan, with an apologetic smile. "You are felting to see my husband on busi ness, I believe?" Margaret nodded. "I completely forgot," the other went on, with a pretty air of explanation. "I was looking for my boy. 1 always wliuu I'm abl« to be about" She paused out of sheer weakness tnd sank Into a chair. Margaret made some trivial response and slipped back Into her own seat, struggling to regain her poise. What should she do? What could she do? She could never lUe worse than deathblow 10 that poor little girl (nother. upoii whom death Itself had alri iiiiy prlnti <1 Ii - i l. ;.ui or not right, she must get away. With a swift assumption of urgency she drew her watv'li from her belt and SiarteU i" her fee|. "i really must not wait longer," she said hurrlet .. . "My train will leave In twenty minutes." "I'm very sorry," the other said re gretfully. "It's t'sj bad of ltlchard to have caused you all this annoyai.ee, al though of course It was unintentional on his part. It's nothing very Impor tant, I hope?" "e a party to crime by my si lence" — ' You!" lie broke in. "You have ruined me, wrecked my home, my wife's hap piness, stolen the name from my inno cent baby'" "Come, this is no time for heroics. Listen to me. I have done none of these things of which you accuse me, though God knows you are not the one who ought to be sjiared. I have seen your 'wife,' your 'innocent baby,' and for them, for their sake, I have kept silent." lie stared at her curiously, disbe lievingly. "Then why did you not think of these things before and stay away?" "Why? I will tell you. Had 1 found your—your wife, as I expected, how ever happy, however innocent, I must have told the truth. She would have thanked me; not then, perhaps, but afterward. As it is, I see only a young girl, dying, and her ehild —a man—per haps u real, a great uiaii of the future. For his sake, I want you to remember that" The man had bowed his head. At length he lOoked up with strangely dim eyes. "Thank you," he said simply; "you have shown me what true nobility Is. I—l shall try to deserve It" Margaret had passed noiselessly through the open gate, and the rows of clustering oranges hid her from view. John Wenley'i Qaarrel. John Wesley once had a disagree ment with Joseph Bradford, his travel ing companion of many years, and they agreed to part. They retired for the night, each firm In his determina tion ami each doubtless deploring in his heart the separation soon to follow between two friends who had been so devoted and mutually helpful. In the morning Wesley asked Bradford If he hail considered during the night their agreement to part. "Yes, sir," said Bradford. "And must we part?" Inquired WTes ley. 'Tit-use yourself, sir," said Bradford grimly. "But will you not ask my pardon?" demanded Wesley. "No, sir." "You won't?" "No, sir." "In that case," said Wesley gently, "I must ask yours." It was not the ending which Brad ford anticipated. A moment he hesi tated, and then, breaking Into tears, he followed Wesley's example and for gave and was forgiven.—Youth's Com panion. Japan'* flalry Alnoa. A traveler in Japan thus describes the hairy Ainos of that country: "The men are about the middle height, broad Chested, broad shouldered, thick set, very strongly built, the arms and legs short, thick and muscular, the hands and feet large. The bodies, and espe cially the limbs, of many are covered with short, bristly hair. I have Been two boys whose backs are covered with fur as fine and soft as that of a cat. We were ferried over a river by an Aino completely covered with hair, whlr-h on lils shoulders was wavy like that of a retriever and rendered cloth ing quite needless either for covering or for warmth. A wavy black beard rippled nearly to his waist over his furry chest, and with his black locks hatitfinK In masses over his shoulders he would have looked a thorough sav age had it not been for the exceeding sweetness of his smile and eyes." Pandemonlom In a Pamphlet. They were very controversial in those days. Ilrst—Bowles wrote a book about Pope. Second.—Campbell abused Bowies' book on Pope. Third.—Bowles replied to Campbell's abuse of Bowles on I'ope. Fourth.—Byron wrote an answer to Bowles' answer to Campbell's abuse of Bowles' book on Pope. Fifth.—John Bull wrote a letter to Byron about Byron's answer to Bowles' answur to CttinpU>ir» abuso of Bowies' book on Pope. Sixth.—lir. Garnett has a theory of the authorship of John Bull's letter to Byron about Byron's comments on Bowies' answer to—lt Is like "The House That Jack Built!" Andrew Lang in Longman's. k I* weeping School master. Preparation*. "Is you ijot a razor you could len' me to shave inerse'f?" asked Mr. Eras lus Plnkley. "I'zo gwlne to do yaldy tonight." "WVutw d« matter wlf yoh own rtt *or?" "Well, you see. I ]••«' got It stropped up Hn» this nftuhnoon, an' I hates to dull de edge."—Washington Star. I.nml Talk. "Henry, what does It mean In this historical novel when It says 'Our guns talked back to the enemy?'" "Why, they had Parrott kum* ty U>o»w days, my lore."—l'l"ln I*-ul Coniiilltnrnlarf. He (at the art exhibition)- Well, how do you like Brown's picture? She—That one? Why. I tluniKVt H was youpjt Yvy H?—l'unch. The safest principle through life. In stead of reforming others. Is to set about perlecUug yourself.—llaydon. FARM DAIRY CHEESE. Plain Dlrertloaa For I Maltlnc lu Ike lluunrhold. There is a popular Impression that the manufacture <>f cheese In this coun try has been so completely transferred to the factory system during the last half century" as practically to abolish cheese making 011 dairy farms. Hut the agricultural returns of the twelfth United States census show that in the year l!S9l» there were still 15,<">70 farms upon which dairy cheese was made. The quantity produced on these farms during that year was 16.572.330 t>ounds, an average of 1,045 pounds per farm. This product constituted almost P ,-r cent of all the cheese made in the United States, i It Is the purpose of farmers' bulletin No. 100. "Cheese Making on the Farm," to furnish fur the farm household a brief description of the most approved FAUM DAIKV cums FBKSS. methods used in the manufacture of several varieties of cheese. Details of management, which are briefly and plainly described. Include aeration and cooling, coloring, the use of rennet, cur dling, cutting, cooking, molding, press ing. dressing, salting and curing. The operation of pressing Is explained as follows The press may be a simple lever and weight described as follows: The lever should be about twelve feet long. A broken wagon tongue answers the purpose very well. Set a strong box, on which the mold may be placed, about three feet from a wall, post or tree. On the latter nail a slat and un der It put one end of the lever. Put a circular board about six Inches in di ameter upon the mold, and on this rest the stick or lever. A pall containing a few cobblestones will answer for the weight. Do not apply full pressure at first, but let the weight hang about halfway between the mold and the outer end of the stick. Let the cheese remain a few hours In the press, then take out and dress. The ordinary process by which our American cheese is made in factories Is not applicable to the farm dairy be cause it takes too much time and is so complicated that it requires years of practice to become sufficiently familiar with the varying conditions In which milk comes to the vat The various changes that take place in milk, and which are troublesome in making cheese, nearly all develop In the night's milk kept over until the following morning. So if milk Is made Into cheese Immediately after it is drawn no difficulty need be experienced. By employing a simple and short method of manufacture any one at all accus tomed to handling milk can with the appliances found In any well regulated farm home make uniformly a good cheese. Poultry Honae Arrangements. The cut shows roosts, dropping board platform and the nests below, the lat ter so constructed that the fowls lay in the dark, a cure for egg eating. The BOOSTS, PIiATFOUU AND NKSTB. writer has built three of these and finds them the best combination of roosts, dropping board and nests that he has ever seen, says a Farm Journal correspondent, who also sketches a trap nest. The trap nests have circular openings in front covered by a very light, thin bit of wood. An eighth of an Inch thick will be about right. It is pivoted at the top. The section re moved from one side of this cover en uhlcs the hen to put her head and neck into the nest, thus pushing the light sliding cover aside. When she has en tered the nest the cover falls of Its own weight, and a little flexible ash wood catch on the bottom catches over a peg, holding the layer until released. This will show which hen lays tho egg, and one can thus breed only from the best layers. Ln(« Ducks Aro Ckwiiplf Grown. Tbo early hatched ducks that nre ready for the market In May bring the best price, but those hatched later, al though they do not sell for as much per pound, are more cheaply grown, be cause bugs, grasshoppers aud green stuff become more plenty. I never have uny trouble raising my ductllngs. The I'ekln ducks are the largest of the duck family and the most jsipular. They will lay more eggs In u year than many hens, as they will lay nearly ev* cry day from February until Septem ber or October. During thin season a drake should bo kept for every five ducks, itnd there should be an Inclo sure about their house that they may be kept In during the morning. A fence two feet high will be sufficient to confine them. Ducks ur* quite free from vermin and most of tho Ills that chicken* »re heir to, says a Wisconsin woman In Orange Judd Farm- ROOT CROP SEEDS. How anil Whi-ri- They Arr (irn«a and Why Thrr Arr Often I'mir, The s<«-d division of the Canadian department of agriculture offers sug gestions of M'V.yh >i'' i 'i ,| »t to root grow er* According to Thief (). 11. t'lark of Uj'' seed division, a few farmers In Canada make a specialty of growing root crop seed, but practically the whole amount of such seed offered In the trade W Imported from Europe and Is grown In France, (jermany and Kng land. A favorable climate and eheap labor have made these countrlo* the seed gardens of the world. Turnips, swetlex, yiuiigeis and ear rots aru t'ieunlal plants-that Is, store lip nourishment In the root during the whole of the first year and use that store of food for the produc tion of seed the second and final year of their life Most of our domesticated ( plants have been evolved from wild tyjs's through long of selection, I cultlvatK.il and cross fertilization. The original wild types were usually an- ' nunU, producing seed the first year, | met there Is a tendency among all ini- | pro vet I plants to revert rapidly to the i oltl unimproved ty|h-m whenever they 1 are deprived of careful attention to ate- ' lection and cultlvstion. Canadian farmers have not fully rec ognized that the value of root crop seeds is far from depending on their vitality alone. It is even more Im portant that they be taken from care fully grown »nd selected stocks. We seldom see a field of roots that are uni formly true to type and free from j abnormal growth of top. large necks and ill shaped, prongy roots. The best quality of seed is produced from selected nud transplanted roots. Seed of turnips and swedes Is pro duced In quantity In this manner in the north of Scotland. The climate of Scotland, like that of Canada, la such that root crop seeds can ouly be suc cessfully produced by harvesting the ■ roots before winter and transplanting them the following spring. The bulk of the seed of these crops, which Is imported for the Canadian trade. Is grown in France and the south of Eng land, where the climate Is such that the roots may remain unharvested through the winter and produce seed the following year. Some of the more reliable seed growers In these coun tries exercise a great deal of care In the production of their stocks. They supply seeds from their own selected stocks to small farmers, who grow quantities of seed for them under con tract The best quality of seed offered In the Canadian trade Is grown in this way. There Is, however, evidence to show that a great deal of the seed of these crops offered in Canada is of much Inferior quality. Canadian farm ers have demanded cheap seeds with out any guarantee as to quality, and the seedsmen have simply tried to meet the demand. A great deal of the root crop seed used In Canada is grown by small. Irresponsible European farm ers whose chief object is to obtain a "maximum yield of seed Independent of its quality. In the growing of these stocks It Is a common practice to sow late in the season after an early crop has been harvested from the land. Young plants thus produced are In many cases not thinned and do not grow to a reasonable size during the first season. From a crop of this sort a very large amount of top is produced and a large quantity of seed obtained per acre at a minimum cost. Until the consumers learn that it pays to use ouly seed that Is taken from selected and transplanted roots grown in a cli mate similar to that where the seed is i wanted for use the quantity of home grown stock offered in the trade will be extremely limited. It therefore ap pears that growers of root crops will find it to their advantage to purchase only seeds from extra selected stocks, no matter what the price may be, or, better still, grow their own seed from the best and most typical roots raised on their own farms. Cover Crop*. Now Is the time to begin to think of cover crops. In this latltute generally they should be sown between July 1 and July 15. Clover is perhaps the best crop for orchards In the middle and eastern states. Mammoth clover Is a little better than the common red clover. Crimson clover is good In New Jersey and southward, especially on poor, sandy soils, suggests Country Oentleman. A Device For the Para OatrUf*. A little device Illustrated by the Ru ral New Yorker will add much to the comfort of riding in a canopy topped carriage, where annoyance is frequent ly felt from the sun shining in at one side or other or at the back, It may be. A piece of cloth, preferably of the same color as the upholstering of the carriage, Is pulled over two bands of aBDTTIva OUT THE BUS. elastic. Hooks are sewed at the ends of these bands, as shown, the books be ing covered with cloth. This little cur tain can then be stretched and booked to the uprights on either side of the carriage or across the back, putting It at the right height to protect the face from the sun. It will also serve excel lently as a windbreak. If the books ■re covered with rubber they will be Was inclined to slip. The Hookah la India. The hookah Is smoked as a refreeh mcnt and sign of fellowship by the natives of India and not merely as a luxury. When a group of natives are seated together and, us Is the custom, tho hookah Is passed around to each In turn It Is considered very bad manners for any one to decline to have s few puffs, if the hookuli Is thus refused In u friend's house or while one Is the gucßt of another It Is regarded as an Insult. If for any reuson a native Is put out of casto the fact Is strictly marked by his former caste fellow's refusal to smoke with him, and sny one who eats, drinks or smokes with an outcast Is himself outcasled.— Chambers' Journal. "Executive Ability." "Dot then, of course, he has execu tive ability," wo said conclusively. "Executive ability!" repeated our ac quaintance. "What do you mean by that?" "Why, the quality of holding subor dinates responsible for failures and taking credit to ourselves for their suc cesses," we resi*onded. Which wo considered rather clever for studied impromptu. New York Herald. Mad and Bad. Kind ITearted Citizen-Tut tut tut! Don't worry over It, little boy. You didn't break your pitcher, aud there's no use, you know, In crying over split milk. Little Boy—Do I talk as if I was cry- In', mister? (Itesumes his violent lsn guuge.)—Chicago Tribune. A Myaft*rjr RiplalatA. /A' "I don't umlenitan !BK each recruit a guinea in gold and ft kiss from her own llpa. It la notorious that the regiment was raised to a full complement quicker than any ottM regiment in the British service. Bat the hlghlanders paid well for thett kiss. They were sent immediately to) fight the French, and In their first en gagement 300 fell, killed and wounded. In the year 1708 a stray kiss was th« means of bringing about a bloody and expensive war. Prince Ferdinand of Bavaria was journeying in a neighbor ing state. One day be visited "the roy a! household," and while there tola eye caught sight of a most beautiful maid* en who happened to be near him. Hd was so bewitched with her charming personality that he Impulsively and thoughtlessly Implanted a Idas upon her fair cheek. She was a prince— of the royal household, which the prince knew not, neither did he know that aba was an affianced bride and that fear be trothed was near by and saw the whole affair. Angry words and blows followed. A duel waa fought and both principals were severely wounded. Dip lomatic relations between the two king doms were suspended, and a long and bloody war ensued, all on account of a kiss which was paid for moat dearly In blood and treasure. The Mifsti Thousands of years ago a mineral having the strange power of attracting iron was found In the country ancient ly called Magnesia, in Asia Minor. The name of this country bss given us the word "magnet" This mineral, which Is now called the lodestone (not load stone), attracted the attention of the curious, and it was discovered that • piece of iron which had been rubbed with the lodestone acquired the same power of attracting iron. In other words, the piece of iron became a mag net. It was afterward found tbat such an iron or artificial magnet could be used like the lodestone itself to convert other pieces or iron into magnets by rubbing. Still more recently a mode of making magnets by means of elec tricity was discovered— that Is, by wrapping a piece of Insulated wire many times around the bar and then causing a current of electricity to pasa through the wire. The familiar small toy magnets are simply steel bars which have been rubbed a Tew times against powerful magnets.— St. Nich olas. lieecia of tk» Soleata Asa. Look about you, gentle reader, and consider the solemn ass In every walk of life. Who so respected, so admired, so influential? He never takes sides. He never is a partisan. He goea along with knitted brows, bis thoughts too deep for utterance. Smaller men may abandon themselves to hasty Inclina tions, to rash preferences, to robust views. He never does. If be qteaks at all it is with such profundity and circumlocution and complexity that the most recondite cryptogram ever rescued from a pyramid would seem to burst of Innocent and childish candor In comparison. Yet ha wears fine rai ment every day. He enjoys the re spect and confidence of the community. He prospers. The all of opulence anoints him. He Is the incarnation of success!— Washington Post. Too Smart. "Once when I was a Mississippi pi lot" said Mark Twain, "I got out of work and had to bustle for a new job. I talked to a number of captains, but none of them wanted a pilot Finally I met a man wbo said there was a va cancy on bis boat tbat I might fill If I could qualify. He asked me about my habits, my religion, my birth, my schooling, and so on. Then he said: 'Now, for the main thing: Do you know where the snags in the river are?* 'No, captain,' I said, 'I don't' He swore. 'Wants to be a pilot' be muttered, 'and don't know where the snags are.' 'I know where they're not,' said I. But my smartness cost me the Job." Kind, hat Firm. An English bishop owned a portable bath tub which he failed on one occa sion to take with him on a pastoral vis itation. When he returned be found that the housemaid had used the be loved tub. Calling her into his study, he said kindly, "Mary, I do not so much mind your using my tub, bnt what I object to is that you should do behind my back what you would not do before my face."—Ltpplncotfa. Hta Bxqsm. "No," said a cltlsen when asked if he would contribute anything to the relief of the flood sufferers; "I don't think I "Will" "Can't afford it eh?" "It isn't that but the last time I gave something for charity one of the paper* spelled by name wrong." Nothing Don*. "I don't think I'll wager with you," said the baker. "You haven't the dough." "That may be," replied the butcher, "but I don't see you putting up any, stskes."—Boston Commercial Bulletin. Weat Too Fas. An unsuccessful lover was asked by whu' means be bad lost the object ot bis affections. "Alas," he said, "I flsttered her till she got too proud to speak to me." i Woraaa'a War. Sbo— Time will heal the wound I've made In your heart. He—Yes; bnt you'ii be mad at me If It docs. —Detroit Free Press. Dlda't Patroalaa Her Father. A young woman living In a suburban village turned her graceful talent for dancing to account by carrying on the instruction of the young folks In the neighborhood in that art At the be* ginning of the term her class jvas at tended by un awkward, overgrown girl who was much in need of such culture, ttlie was the daughter of a local under taker. After two lessons she discon tinued attendance, and one of her ac quaintances usked her .why she had given up her lessons. "Well," said she, "Miss Bisnk never patronizes my father, and so I .won't patronise ber school." Philadelphia Ledger. QurUc PfMiMu Stoaos. In buying gems always beg, buy or borrow u microscope and examine the stone carefully through the telltale lens. Flaws Invisible to the naked eye which depreciate or entirely deetroy, the value of the gem will be easily rec ognised. it is really throwing money, away to Invest in costly stones without this examination, as many Jewel lovera have found to their cost —Good House keeping.