\qH. xxxx. I&&s&ssseKXXXae&3iex arse* acapacj W A Linen Opportunity! | 5 A lot of Fine Linens, bought for Holiday trade, are * S here several months ahead of time. a S This is the best assortment of hemstiched and fine Oj |5 drawn work Linens we ever had and consists of Scarfs, « Squares, Lunch Cloths, Doylies, Mexican Drawn Work, g £ Teneriffe Doylies, etc. Included in this lot are Fine Table M 5 Linens, Napkins, Pattern Cloths, Match Setts and Towels.£ U GET WISE TO THIS. 5 We sell Fine Linens at all seasons, so this Holiday assortment goes on •I sale at once, but at much less than Holiday prices We'll chaoce getting A more for Holiday trade. Bay now and save on<"-fourth to one-half. £0 Fine Mexican Drawn Work 12Jc, 20c, 35c and up JO Teneriffe Doylies, 6, 9 and 12 inches 25c, 50c and toe *J> Hemstiched Sqanrm J'if, 7.E 2 vards Pattern Cloth, worth |2 00 at ? n yards Pattern Cloth, worth $2 50 at jF1.98 £v Mutch Setts —Cloth and Napkins $4.50 op ff Cleaning up Summer Goods at Bargain Prices. % All Shirt Waists at half price. Wash Goods, half price and less. NEW FALL WAITINGS. Two qualities Fancv Wstings at 40c and 50c, are worth yonr atten- ' tio'J. Entirely new and very handsome for Fall Waists L. Stein & Son, 138 N MAIN STREET, BUTLER. PA # nenets j 6 Special Blanket and Bidding Sale g 5 Sold Might Suggestions S«me tx:cllent Values. S 6 THE MODERN STORE. $ X - !t .... I r~i Plaid, black and while PuiJ, p. «.d gray Special for th.s -eek .2.83 ■ Belt-r quality Inrie site, in plain wbite, id. itray an! f*i. y Plaids,* S S4-50- S5 Pure sne the ceK-lnatwl l';.ff: .) t;i !>»•; also ® finer Hi iuk». ts up fo J|o • Pine Silhhiii.a Onufoite, filled with pure white cotton. Si 2" each (P S Smite in 1 r.y »is.>. sl-50 each. Fine Sitinr Covered Comforts. $2 eHch. jp Fine Satiue eovereil fane) borders, best whit*? cotton, $2 50 each. jf Large Size White Spreads, worth SI.OO each, at 75c Extra large® U size Spreads, worth $1.25. at 98c- jv Sheets and Pillow Cases. fltir Good 9 4 Seamless Unbleached Sheets, 45c each. Good 9-4 Bleached K U Sheets 55c each. 42-in Pillow Case, 10c each. 45-in Pillowcase. 11ceach §5 These are cheaper than yon can bny the muslin at the advance in cotton. IR Come Now While the Assortment is Full- " Co., I STREET | Qf)l 5 d - } CCA Send in Your Mail Orders, g OSITE HOTEL ARLINGTON. BUTLER. PA. ******** P***** |j 40 per cent. Discount*! II On all Oxfords & Slippers j 4 i New Fall Shoes now being 31 J- shown in window. 3| | j YOURS FOR SHOES, & jj Daubenspeck & Turner | i * Next to Butler Savings & Trust Co., jg jj| 108 S. Main St., - - Butler, Pa.^jjj AUGUST SALE! 816 BARGAINS IN ALL LINES. You can buy goods during this sals at a big saving Men's $2.50 fine box- r-f* Ladies' fine box-calf {1 calf shoes at s>l»OU 1.50 shoes at «p'«UU Men's fine satin-calf qj- Ladies' fine dongola <tl cn $1.50 shoes at welt sole 2.50 shoes ai I«OU Men s $1.50 heavy Ladies' fine dongola.*., e n sole working shoes at *I.UU tum so , e 25Q shoes at sl.bU Men's fine box-calf, vici- ... , ~ , , kid and patent kid $3.50 „ Mlsses fm f 25 d °^ a at 80c and 4.00 shoes ats"o 1 shoes at " Boys' 1.25 heavy sole or 4 Boys fine dress shoes working shoes at oUC 1-25 grade at Children's fine dongola - n Youths' fine dress 71 -75 c 75c shoes at shoes at ' OC All Oxfords to be closed out regardless of cost. si ll; • Repairing neatly and promptly done. JOHN SICK6Is, 128 South Main Street," Butler, Pa. WKE C K Jit Spring Summer Weights I KI Jj| /. /k j5 Have a D.ttmess about thera that f] f 'Jtl u| C 11 W mark the wearer, it won't do to " 1 \ |\ ]/* '} W p\ wear the last year's output. You | / "p \2 U won't get the latest things al the » f (j IS stock clothiers either. The up-to " ' /I ■ Jy date tailor only can supply them, r j I V» •' l.n rl I. if you want not only the latest ( ' P . .11 II »///'/ I 'hings in cut and fit and work- I \ j i (If If I mansbip, the finest in durability, Kr ' | I l//-|f I vhere else can you get combina 'l In IT • ions, you get them at | KECK G. F. KECK, Merchant Tailor, 14 North Main Street All Work Guaranteed Butler Pa THE BUTLER CITIZEN. IhNew Fall Goods. I 4zf !*T w We are showing an extensive line of advance jg ~l Styles of Fall Hats, Tailor- |J A °T' O ;L W Made Ready-to-Wear nf\|O s Dress and Street Si ft * Always First to Show the New Ideas, is | 31 S Rockenstein's $ A rjr 828 South Main Street, - - Hntler. i i ■Mrs. J. E. ZiiiEßiliAN| o | FAbb ANNOUNCE(V\i N i - K Ladies' Jacket Snii.s, Ladies' alk f 0 inn 1 Skirts, jVlusses Suits ;uid ■kiit«^- We are showing a f'jll line «>f r.r-.v Kail and W ant- T ... • 1 Saits, Skirts. Coats, Waists and Snirt Waist Suit-. II v. n 111- ... v>late a trip to Sea "■'bote or L-tkr, jfet'inij anyone r.*«dy los i • way t.« .<c school, we C!iu fit you out with ne-v Tnll Stylf- S»»,r;r:'.t- SV ii, ' ; a Silk or Heavy White Wash s* :■ S' vl sh Walking ~-kir'. ft Q. p'i<vd SIO.OO up to 0;>. Skirts <:»•.! n»- f.> •'*>. ? Dress Goods ' TTT 0 ■\ Or snppose yun want ti> bay th ■ u<) ds and h ;ve a -u uicl»- \\ yt prepared with u full I'iif < jf Hi "h t :ie ■ :intl desirsibl' in J): t# Goods. I heviots. Zilielints. Clot!'% S- an ;"' ha-rsai MndestPri *, iMillinery {; New Fall and Winter Dress H»ts. New Fall and Winter Strret Hsts, New Ostrich Plumes. Bird*' Wings. Ribbon?. New Drapery Veils. Buy your Veil here. We drape yonr hat free of charge. A JL competent trimmer always in the Department to attend your needs. JC fMrs. J. E. Zimmerman. . Bell Phone 80S. *. i 1~) 4\ ' ' People's Phone 120. ' UlJcr, I H I f *l> r Red-White-Bluej and BROW IN j > The Place to Buy Reliable I FURITURE AND CARPETS I IS BROWN'S. | The finest selection of Bed Room Suits ever placed 1 s on our floor arrived this week. Suits at any price you wish to pay. Styles to suit any fancy and t prices to suit all sizes of pocket books. g *Ky)K^yJK yyy Ayy^ Have you examined those Metallic Folding Beds? Noth ing like them for comfort, durability and usefulness. A Bed, Couch or Davenport, as you wish it, in one. Perfectly sanitary and healthful. When buying a box Couch, why not get a genuine cedar box at same money you pay for the ordfnary one? We have them —large, roomy, and they are ab solutely vermin proof, made of inch cedar. yyyyyy yyy y y yyyyy*yyy yy y yyyyyyyyyyy y?yyy y y y y y New goods ai riving daily in every line. COME IN AND COMPARE! BROWN &• CO. No. 13« N. Main St. (Bell Phone 105) BUTLER. PA. «—l—^a——SßWßfPWJtaßnn' - 3; IMPORTED AND DOMESTIC SUITINGS ijl Now on Display at Graham Building. r \" Suits from sls to sso. 3; w We Defy Competition. 4? ?F Call and Examine Goods Early. j* COOPER & CO., ffi § Leading Tailors, w 335 S. Main St, -- - - Butler, Pa. jit wiiiiaatititttaattiKtgigiaa.i.agHgl |Eberle Bros.,S . I PLUMBERS i S Estimates given on all kinds of work. ? 4 We make a specialty of s ) NICKLE-PLATED, C X SEAMLESS, / ) OPEN-WORK. / 1 354 Centre Ave., Butler. Pa ) People s Phone. 630. C BUTLER. PA., THURSDAY, AUGUST 27, 1903. parol W CORN SYRUP The new table delicacy that Wt® coaxes a new appetite fin I. | and makes you eat. I&9 10C, 25C. 50C, at all grocers. R9 New York and Chicago. Dizzy ? Appetite poor? Bowels con stipated? It's your liver! Ayer's Pilis are liver pills. Want your moustache or beard a beautiful brown or rich black? Use Buckingham's Dye 5 0c», cfd'jr; '.o-r PHs AC.' Nashua M.H i Nasal jgi CATARRH In all Its ftaces. J *>- Ely's Cream Balm v s^// cleanse?, soothes and heals m the diseased wt^rnbmnr*. 11 cares and drives M Vol away a cold in the head quickly. Cream Balm is placed into the noatrils, spreads over t:.e membrane and is absorbed. Relief is im mediate and a cure follows. It is not dryir^r—does not produce snrezing. I.arpe Size, 50 cents at Drug gists or by mail; Trial Size, 10 cents. ELY BROTHERS. 56 Warten Street, New York ?4 ;n »> i.4 ■y * Johnston's Beef. Iron and Wine K li i ati.l Fj ? A Blood Pnri6er. M *. r, • . ; " i fl - vn r- i kl Prepared and fA H H Johnston s Crystal Pharmacy. ►I fi il vj H M. LOOAN, Ph. O , v » ; .Hunger, W A ICS N. M:tln Hutler. P:t j S Both "Phones Everything in the |1 drus li,,e ' li W N is m n NEW STQCK 1 have purchased the C. J. Harvey Pharmacy, in the Stein building, at 345 S. Main St., am remodeling and restocking the store. 1 have twenty-two years experience as a pharmacist, and compounding of prescriptions will be under my personal at tention. Pure drugs and honest treat ment guaranteed. When in town shopping, stop and leave your packages. J. L. McKee, Pharmacist, Stein Block. S. Main St.. Butler, Pa Binding of Books Is our occupation. Wo put our entire time to studying tin LK >t and latest methods of doing our work. If you are thinking o! having some work done in this line I am sure you will be well pleased if you have it done at He Butler Hook Bindery, W. W. A MOM, frop. OpD. Coirt Honse. P" DR. HARRIS' "X | Summer Cordial, | I TBADII MARK ■ HPEKIHLY CUBES I Diarrhoea. Dysentery, f? Sick Headache, ;i Summer Complaint. Vomit nK, Sour Stomach, I InJit'estion and for Children Teething. B ABSOI.I Tl I.V lIAItHT.KsS. lrepared by B. A. I MINI >XOt K CO. I l'ittaburj;, I'a- B V At I>ruKjfi»ta ajcal>«ttl« KALAMAZOO CELERY. IntercMt l(i|r Knot* From the Field* of a Famoua luduairy. Some facts nliout the cel. ry indus try, gathered in the famous celery growing district located 011 tlie out skirts of Kalamazoo. Mich., are given by a writer In Ohio Farmer after a trip for the purpose of obtaining such Information: "How much net profit do you aver age from an fyere of celery V" I in quired of several growers. One or two "did not know." one "didn't care to say," but others were more frank and better informed. Judging from tlie va rious replies received, I should esti mate the average annual returns, after SMITING BOX OF FINE CEI.ERT deducting rent and all other expenses, at about SIOO per acre. I think this Is a fair figure for the entire district. Celery land is valued at a!«out s3<>o an acre, but a great many of the grow ers are renters, paying from S3O to S4O rent per acre per year. The majority of the celery farms are small, four or five acres being the rule, and the grow ers are mostly Hollanders. Kalamazoo celery soil is remarkably black, spongy and rich. Pick up a handful, and it feels and looks very much like a handful of soot, only tlie soil is somewhat coarser. It is light and fine and moist, but not wet or "dirty." I walked over the fields, wear ing a pair of nicely blacked shoes; but although I sank deep into the spongy mass at every step, I was surprised to find that my shoes remained as dry and shiny as if I had been walking on dry sawdust. It Is the most peculiar soil I ever saw. Yet, despite this wonderful natural richness, tlx s growers told nie that It pays to apply liberal quantities of sta ble manure to the fields ever} - year. The celery fields are all thoroughly drained by open ditches. Tile Is seldom used. Two, sometimes three, crops are grown each season. White Plume Is the preferred early variety. Long Keep er and Winter Queen the favorite late varieties. There Is, so far as I could leant, no special local variety called Kalamazoo. The growers, as a rule, raise their own early plants in hotbeds. The operation of "hilling up" Is facili tated by double winged one horse plows. Early celery, however, Is HILLING CELERY blanched almost entirely by the aid of wide boards set on edge and held In place by stake;-. Hilling up is necessary for the late crop as a protection against frost. The very late crop Is pulled, stood up in rows a foot or more in width and then banked up by hand until only the top leaves show. As the weather got 3 colder even the tops are covered lightly with straw and earth. The celery output of tho entire dis trict is en irmous. The shippers usually pay the grower 10 cents per dozen stalks—trimmed, washed, bunched, tied and delivered at the "warehouse" (shed Is a better word). Most shipments are made by express, and the celery Is packed in neat pine boxes, holding from four to twenty dozen stalks, according to the sizo of the celery and the market require ments. One dozen stalks make a bunch, and each hunch Is neatly tied with string at top and bottom and wrapped in waxed paper. Crimson Clover. Crimson clover has been successfully grown at tho New Jersey College farm for five years, and favorable reports of tho plant have come from the southern as well as from the northern part of the state. It Is one of the most useful of forage crops from the standpoints of yield, composition, cost and the ease with which it may be secured. It may be seeded at the rate of twelve pounds per acre in corn at tlie last cultivation or after a crop of potatoes without in terfering with regular rotations. The yield of hay will range from one to three tons per acre. Irrigation of StrnnberrlM. Experiments In Wisconsin make It appear that late summer Irrigation of itrawberries, no matter how beneficial In producing vigorous plants in the fall, is of no value unless supplemented by timely irrigation when the fruit Is ma turing. WATER FOR COWS. Milk Contamination Steam an a Clean arr of Dairy i tenail*. Typhoid fever has often been ascribed to a contaminated milk supply. As during the summer and fall, when this disease prevails, cows are frequently forced to get their drinking water from sloughs and stagnant ponds which may be contaminated with the germs of typhoid fever, It is Important to know whether such germs find their way In to the milk supply through the cow or by contamination of the milk after It Is drawn from the cow. An experiment by Pernot at the Oregon agricultural station gave negative results in trans mitting germs from polluted water to tho milk supply through the cow, but does not prove that the danger does not i exist. AB cows frequently stand In the wn ter to escape files or to cool themselves, and their udders may thus become con taminated with tho polluted water, ex periments were made to determine to what extent g> ruts enter the tents in this way. No germs were found, show ing that germs were not taken Into the udder by capillary attraction through the t. at orifice." Even if it should be proved that milk Is not contaminated in this way danger is not removed, because the body of a cow which has been wading in Impure water is itself a source of contamina tion. since it Is impossible to milk such a cow "without particles of material falling into the milk and carrying with it innumerable germs. As warm milk Is a very suitable material for germs to grow in. especially typhoid fever germs, the number which would multi ply In twelve hours from the few intro duced at the time of milking would be enormous and dangerous." On this point U. H. Forbes of the Arizona sta tion says: "When a cow wadea belly deep into a filthy pool festering in the heat and fonled with excretion* her milk will Inevitably suffer. Not only will the foul odors of the water she drinks be Imparted in some measure to the milk, but millions of bacteria, adhering to her hair and udder, will, when she is dried off and milked, find their way as dust into the inllk pall. Quick souring of milk In warm weather and undesira ble changes in butter and cheese, caused by bacteria, result." It would seem that these are suffi cient reasons why cows should be pre vented from having access to foul water, but there is the additional rea son of danger to the health of the ani mal from disease germs which may be present. <tram as a Cleanaar la the Dairy. Although the foregoing are dangers that it is well worth while to guard against. It Is evident, as Mr. Pernot poinls out. "that outbreaks of typhoid fever occur which, if the cause were carefully traced, would be found to come not from the milk as it leaves the cow. but from vessels which had been washed with contaminated water," and he calls attention to th« fact that "since the advent of the cream separator, which Is usually driven by steam power, steam has been used to clean all the utensils in the dairy. Not only Is It efficient for this purpose, but as a germ destroyer there Is nothing tetter, because it penetrates to the bottom of the seams and heats the metal to such a degree as to kill dangerous germs." TOMATO TROUBLES. Oat of Door Dl«ea*e»-Anthracnoae. Hllftlkf and Leaf Spot. Ant lira cnose occasionally causes rmall depressed spots in tomatoes. It may be checked by the use of bordeaux mix ture. Bacterial blight of the tomato, egg plant and potato causes sudden blight ing and decay of the stems and branch es attacked. Preventive measures rec ommended include fighting the Insects, early rei oval of diseased vines, choice of fresh land not previously in potatoes or egg plant and tomato seed from healthy sources. Tomato leaf spot or leaf blight Is an outdoor trouble, as are the two already mentioned. The leaf spot fungus ap 4lf i J.EAF SPOT ON TOMATO LEAFLET AND STEM. pears to be gradually traveling west ward from the Atlantic coast. It mi'y be successfully prevented by three thorough sprayings wl'i- bor deaux mixture, though some attaches to the treatment of uutftaked plants hi the field.—A. D. Selby. Otiio Experiment Station. Ajsrlenltnral N'oteo. August seedings of alfalfa have proved successful In the southern coun ties of New Jersey. Harvest onions when the bulbs are well formed and the tops begin to die. It was stated at the Connecticut po mological convention that the Rhode Is land greening in New York and the Baldwin in Connecticut were apples :hat brought lilghest prices. Big crops of asparagus from seed eleven months from sowing are report pd by a r.ong Island correspondent of American Agriculturist WHY NOT SPEAK ENGLISH? The CM of Some Wordi la the Sta g-ntar and Plural. IS cherub an English word? If so its plural is cherubs, and not the He | brew word cherubim. Is lexicon an English word, and criterion also? If so their plurals are lexicons and cri , terions, not the Greek lexica nnd cri teria. Is appendix an English word, ! and index and vortex? If so the plu rals are appendixes and Indexes and | vortexes, and not the Greek appellees, | indices and vortices. Is memorandum an ' English word, and curriculum, gym nasium, medium and sanatorium? If ] so their plurals are memorandums and curriculums, gymnasiums, mediums j and sanatoriums, and not the I>atin I memorana, curricula, gymnasia, media | and sanatoria. Is formula an English !word and nebula also? If so the plural is formulas and nebulas and not the Latin formulae and nebulae. Is ' beau an English word, and bureau? If so the plural Is beaus and bureaus, and not the French beaux and bureaux. Is libretto an English word? If so its plural Is librettos, and not the Ital ian libretti. Why not speak English? Crisis is thoroughly acclimated in the English language, and so is thesis, and yet there are those who prefer crises and theses to the normal and regular crislses and theslses. Perhaps they are seeking to avoid the unpleas ant hissing of the English plural; but none the less they are falling Into ped antry.—Brander Matthews in Harper's Magazine. Ilia Uriah Act. "I supi>ose," said the man with the searching eye, "that drink was your ' downfall?" "It was," answered Meandering ! Mike "I took a drink o' water dat had microbes in it, an' (lat's what damaged me health so I can't work."—Washlng- I ton Star. The Popnlnr Tan*. I "What Is your idea of a popular ( tune?" "A popular tune," said the man who takes music seriously, "is one that gets to be universally disliked."—Ex change. That I« I.ove. Rosalie What makes you think he is in love with y >u? Violet The first time he called he left his gloves, the second time ills cane, atid last night he forgot his hat. DIET AND DISPOSITION. The Pood We Est Has a IMree* In fluence L'pon Onr Manners. To say that food has a direct Infill ence upon disposition is to utter a com monplace dietetic truism now accepted and acknowledged by every one who has even a rudimentary knowledge of physiology. If one Is Inclined to doubt this let him experiment upon the lower animals. Feed a pair of baby Hons from the time they are born until they are as large as a fox terrier dog on nothing but bread and milk, and you will have a couple of docile, gentle and loving pets as playful and harmless ss kittens. Take a pair of St. Bernard puppies, the gentlest of all the canine family, and as soon as their teeth come begin feeding them raw meat, and you will soon have a couple of snappish, snarling, quarrelsome dogs. Inclined to fight each other and ready to pick a fight with every dog In the street. If the meat diet is persisted In tliey will become a menace to a whole neighbor hood. Is It any wonder, then, that some men and women are snappish, snarling and quarrelsome? We give much less attention to what we feed the human animal than we do to what we feed the lower animals. What does the growling, garrulous, grumpy old scold, who makes life a burden to his family, eat anyway? On what does the nag ging woman feed? Why not look Into these matters?—Pittsburg Chronicle. Floor and Teeth. A valuable letter from a correspond ent drew attention to an Important and admitted cause of the national degen eration of physique which we have striven to emphasize in these columns. The roller mill has undoubtedly di minished the dietetic value of our bread. The entire wheat grain Is of value —the husk (which is a valuable Intestinal stimulant), the brown ex terior and the white central core. Ex cept for certain invalids white bread is an indefensible absurdity. Better Is brown bread, consisting of all but the husk, and best Is a whole meal bread, assuming such to be obtainable. The deficiency of salts In white bread Is unquestionably related to the deterior ation—also familiar to our readers—ln the national teeth. We may Illustrate this by an argument from Sir Thomas Lauder Brunton. "Why has America the cleverest dentists?" Answer: "Be cause she has the best flour mill mak ers." The better the mill Is, the finer the flour, the poorer the bread, the worse the teeth and the better the dentists. Perfectly simple!— London Chronicle. How the Forgetnenot Was Haaed. Everybody knows the pretty little forgetmenot and likes the flower more perhaps because of Its name than its beauty. How was It so called? The Germans account for It by qnlte a pa thetic romance. It seems that once upon a time a knight and a lady were walking by the bank of the Danube when the latter asked her "gallant gay" to pluck for her a tiny blue flower which she saw growing In the stream. No sooner said than done, but the knlgfat, Overbalancing, fell into the river, and owing to the slippery nature of the bank and the weight of his own armor was carried away by the cur rent. as tic flowers ssheee to his lady he cried out with his test breath, "Vergiss meln nlcht!" ("For get me not!") And ever since the flower has been looked on as the em ptem-oraaciny. A Long Felt Want. Dr. Holmes had an odd liking for In genious desk accessories In the way of pencil sharpeners, paperweights, pen holders, etc. The latest contrivances In this fashion—probably dropped down to him by the Inventor angling for a nib ble of commendation —were always making one another's acquaintance on his study table. He once said to me: "I'm waiting for somebody to Invent a mucilage brush that you can't by any chance put into your Inkstand. It would save me frequent moments of humilia tion."—Thomas Bailey Aidrich In Cen tury. Nothing to Speak 01. The little blind girl was writing a composition on the rabbit and. never having seen a creature of any sort. In quired of her teacher whether the rab bit had a tall. "Yes, a small one, none to speak of," answered the teacher. This Is the way the little girl Intro duced the matter Into her composition: "The rabbit has a small tall, but you mustn't talk about It." Finis. Tho Teacher—What were Noah Web ster's last words? The Scholar—l don't remember Just what they were, but I know they all begin with the Z.—Yonkers Statesman. The Last Dance. He—May I ask you for a dance? She—Certainly, the last one on the list. He—But I'll not be here then. She—Neither will I. Too Prevloas. The Anxious Mother—Are you sure my son has appendicitis? The Eminent Specialist—We can tell you better, madam, after the operation. —Life. Which * "Quietly, you know. Is the silent partner." "At the office or nt home!"— Cinci nnati Commercial Tribune. To get a nice polish on eyeglasses moisten with alcohol and polish as usu al with chamois. By this means all grease is removed. , HANDLING ANIMALS. Dose I*roi>erly, llsrdly the Most VW clous Will Kesent It. "There is hardly a living creature," said a naturalist, "that will not permit a human being to touch It if it is done in tho right way. It is necessary to be gentle and patient and at the same time without fear. I have seen natives scratch the heads of tigers and lions within a few days after they were trapped. Hunters of wild elephants often crawl among a herd and rub their legs. The great brutes, although they are on the alert "ill permit the caress and stand still until the plucky hunter is able to slip a rope around the leg of the animal he wishes to cap ture. "In our own country' I have seen I many men who can creep to a trout stream and gently place their hands under a trout. Very softly they rub Its belly, and the trout will lie quite •till until with a sudden Jerk it is land ed on the bank. "1 have also seen professional rat ! catchers put their hands, palm upward, i before a rat hole when the ferrets were j driving tlieni. As a rat ran out It I would sit still on the rat catcher's ' hand. Then with his other hand he would stroke it delicately, and in three Ho.». times out of four be would manaa* M lift the rat without alsnaiaf Itead ; drop it into hla bag. **l bar* even known a man who could handle the aalt water blue crab, the moat belligerent and vttllctlv* crea ture In theaea." There It one "chaptf ti really not a royal cbapei it «S* "if* the London Tatter. This li the «oa known aa Savoy chapel, whlcb not to the crown, but to th» daebrw Lancaster. Properly speaking, it tetbar chapel of the Hospital of ft Ma tba Baptist, If one mu*t gtn H tk* «nlf| title that is historically cornet A oou ple of centuries ago it was a kind at** cleslastlcal Oretna Qrecn in I*nda». with "Are private ways to tt by tead and two by water," a* the tooting ad vertisement put it, and runaway tevata were clandestinely united tbsre "witbi the utmost privacy, decency .gad reg ularity" at the nominal expenso oCoM guinea inclusive. The old wsyi bavi been reformed by act of parliament, but the famous chapel la still a favorite with those who fancy a quiet wedding. Yon can drop in casually and unosten tatiously and after the ceremony ad journ to a neighboring restaurant, la accordance with the latest custom of the best society. Tkouiaa Jcfferaoa, Ftraer. Like Washington, Jefferson delighted in farming. "The hope of a nation," he wrote in his yonth, "lies in the till ers of the soli." in his final retirement at Moutlcello a guest addressed him ceremouloualy aa "Prealdent Jeffer son." "Farmer Jefferson," the distinguish ed statesman interposed. *1 would rather be Farmer Jefferson than to have all the titles of Europe." His garden book, covering a period of half a century, shows the predaion with which he farmed at Montlcello. Here, for example, is an excerpt from his memoranda for July of one year: July 15.—Cucumbers came to table; planted out celery; sowed patch of peaa for fall; planted Bnap beans. July 22.— Had the last dish of our spring peas. July 31.—Had Irish potatoes from the garden.—Leslie's Monthly. Discovered Baked lasf. A Limerick tobacconist of the name of Lundyfoot, doing a comparatively amali trade, was unfortunate enough i to have his establishment destroyed by Are. On vialtlng the ruins next day he saw some of his poor neighbors among the debris gathering the half baked snuff from the canisters which had not been entirely destroyed by the Are. He tasted what he considered the worthleaa article and to hla surprise found that the heat from the fire had added pungency and aroma to the snuff. Profiting by the discovery, the shrewd Irishman at once set about baking hla anuff In ovens, and the fame of the "Blackyard snuff" was established and an Immense fortune soon made by Lundyfoot. founded upon a mere acci dent and growing out of a misfortune. Stropptas m Baser. A correspondent of the Scientific American thus describee bis method of stropping his razor: "Every oas kagWS that metal expands with beat. I jpßt my razor, handle kept out. Just befSws stropping in boiling water and learn It until it has nhanrhfifl aa nMb best aa din stand in handling. While the blade is hot I strop It well. The metal cools aa I strop. In about twenty-five strokes the edge is sharpened and is koonpr when cold, for the metal coo "Tractswhiie sharpening." How to Check tonftlnf. Here is a remedy by which the worst fit of coughing can be checked In church or theater: Pour about a half teaspoocful of good, pure cologne Into your handkerchief and hold this before your open moutli. Inhale a deep breath or two of the perfume Impregnated air, aud the coughing attack will be neatly and agreeably nipped In the bud. A Rut. Mrs. Rangle—l've advertised for a servant for a whole week with no re sults. Mrs. Cumso—Well, I advertised for ■ good looking lady help and had thirty four to select from the first day.—Balti more Sun. A Difference. Miss Parcavenue —Are you going to the muslcale at the De Squalles' to night? Miss Utaplace—l don't know. Art they going to have music or Is Gwendo lyn going to sing?— Exchange. Aa Ardent Reader. "Well," said the sheriff, with an sir of satisfaction, "noospapers don't make no great sight out o' me, now I tell ye, for it's seldom ever I set down to look at one on 'em. I got a book up home there I take an' read out on, ef I ain't got nothin' better to do. The woman she give a feller a dollar for her one time, an' put him up over night, too, she did."—From "Overhauling the Pol- Itlclaners" in Century. War. There is, besides a pleasure in order, a very real fear of disorder. A mob, a fire or a runaway horse arouses a sensation of terror in the spectator quite apart from their potentiality of barm to himself. Mere force la not, as Is supposed, the last argument of man. A civilized war would have more ter rors for the stockjobber than the cot tager were It not for the threat of un governed force veiled behind the punc tilio of Christian fighting. We are never quite certain of an army. The disciplined brigade which nowadays captures the enemy's capital as tender ly as It would guard Its own has, nev ertheless, the same badges on its but tons as those which were fouled with the rape of San Sebastian and the mur der of Bazeillee. It may drown its manners at any moment In a torrent Of blood and tears, and statesmen ud others never forget the fact. War Is but the crust of the volcano. Flias of unutterable horror bum beneath. The very perfection of the discipline which controls them is evidence of man's dread of disorder, for It Is only fear that welds so strongly the furnace doors.—Blackwood's. Diplomatic Permanency. It Is likely to be the case in America that as time goes on and our relations with foreign powers become more and more complicated and pressing perma nence In consular and diplomatic office, based upon knowledge and proved fit ness, will be the rule. This may mean that it will not be so common a prac tice to tako scholars and authors from private life and place them suddenly in foreign consulates and missions. But even then It is likely that our liter ature will be enriched by the work of men who have become authors while enjoying the opiMjrtunitles for new studies and broader observation afford ed by the foreign service of their coun try, so that If hitherto literature has contributed to diplomacy hereafter we sball sec our diplomacy contributing to our literature, as lias not Infrequently already been the case.— Century.
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