VOL. XXXX. & 8 We Are Now Showing jj o B Fall Styles g O JmL In AH Sorts® § /ML Of Footwear. O o /mm We have always noticed that © et THE MAN J* ■ BEHIND ll O m THE PLOW X X time looking for high-priced 49 footwear, but he does like O Ymnß t0 £ et k* B mone y ' 8 worth. 0 0 * 1.26, * 1.60, * 2.00 and 2.50 9 Q That is wny you aee buys the best wearing 0 Jj to many teams driving shoes made for either 0 0 up to this store. man or women. § HUSELTON'S. f • 0 Opposite Hotel Lowry. , 0 ©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©© 9-XXX XiKW ***2 5 FALL FASHIONS. 5 $ TEE EARLY ARRIVALS HERE. M S THE MODERN STORE. % j* NEW FALL WAISTINGS. g p Nice new patterns in heavy white and white with neat figures at 16c V S per yard. A choice line white and colored 25c yd. Beautiful variety in |f all the swell designs, 36c, 60c, 75c yd. All wool Trecota, all colors 25c yd. K fl| Special on New Flanneletts. (n U Beautiful patterns, latest arrivals, a full line at 10c yd. Uk S OUR FALL MILLINERY OPENINGS S 8 THURSDAY, FRIDAY AND SATURDAY S 5 of next week, September 24th, 26th and 36th. 8 (n Call and see us. J Mail or phone orders promptly filled. Jn 6 Co., J sotrr* mil STiziT \ QOI 5 8 ZESISISSF') "I Send in Your Mail Orders. g R OPPOSITE HOTEL ARLINGTON. BUTLER. PA. IFF 1 g Merchant Tailor. I I Fall and Winter Suitings I ■ P JUST ARRIVED. ( ) ■ ■ 142 North Main St. ■ Qidtel's Fail Footwear. Largest Stock and Most Handsome Styles of Fine Footwear we Have Ever Shown. Twenty new fall styles—Dongola, Box-calf, Enamel and Patent-kid made in the lateat up- WUI UOIg WIIUvO to-dste styles in medium or high tops. «%%%%%%%%%%% Misses' and Children's Shoes Extremely large stock of Misses' and Children's fine shoes comprised of many new and pretty styles for fall. ■■ J PL. All the latest styles in Men's fine shoes. A full iy|PH Q >nriPQ line of Men's Patent kid, the latest style lasts, IVIWII W VIIUWO 82.50 to 16.00. Men's fine Calf, Yici-kid and Box calf shoes SI.OO to |5.00. Large Assortment of Boys', Youths' and Little Gents' Fine Shoes A | of Jamestown, N. Y., who failed sometime ago and who was lltlK&V c ' down for over a year has started up again. We gave him a Wvnvv very large order for Men's box-toe and plain toe shoes; also boys' and.Youths' copper tipped shoes. The goods are all in. These shoes are cut from good water proof kip—hand pegged, sewed with heavy waxed ends. The best of Hemlock out and insoles. Nothing lacking to make them a first class winter shoe. Every pair Stamped on sole, N. W. Go key <& Son, Jamestown, NY. We invite you to call and see this well known line be fore baying: yonr winter shoes. Large stock of Ladies' Kan garoo, Calf, Oil-grain and Kip shoes at away down prices. SPECIAL BARGAINS IN SCHOOL SHOES. Repairing promptly done. JOHN siCKeis, 128 South Main Street, Butler, Pa. I A Linen Opportunity! | K A lot of Fine Linens, bought for Holiday trade, are w Uh here several months ahead of time. jS u . This is the best assortment of hemstiched and fine S drawn work Linens we ever had and consists of Scarfs, ® Squares, Lunch Cloths, Doylies, Mexican Drawn Work, tn R Teneriffe Doylies, etc. Included in this lot are Fine Table « ■ Linens, Napkins, Pattern Cloths, Match Setts and Towels. 2 £ GET WISE TO THIS. 2 U We sell Fine Linens at all seasons, so this Holiday assortment goes on uj JR B *le at once, but at much less than Holiday prices We'll chaDce getting W ]■ more for Holiday trade. Buy now and save one-fourth to one-half. U jn Fine Mexican Drawn Work 121 c, 20c, 25c and up ■ Teneriffe Doylies, 6, 9 and 12 inches 26c, 50c and 65c U » Hemstiched Squares 10c up jafe 2 yards Pattern Cloth, worth |3.00 at $1.69 U ■ Match Setts—Cloth and Napkins $4.50 up m M Cleaning up Summer Goods at Bargain Prices, p ■ All Shirt Waists at half price. Wash Goods, half price and less. Uj 3 NEW FALL WAISTINGS. 3 S Two qualities Fancy Vestings at 40c and 50c, are worth your atten- o OT tion. Entirely new and very handsome for Fall Waists. (f~- 1 L.i Stein & Son, jg fj 108 N MAIN STREET, BUTLER, PA 2 I MF. BUTLER CITIZEN. . (feed's Wine of Cod fciver Oil will build you up and make you strong, will give you an appetite and new life. If you feel tired and worn 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 Sta.. * i tier. Pa Do You Buy Medicines? Certainly You Do. Then you want the best for the least money, "i hat ic our motto Come an ! see us when in neeu of anything in the Line ami we are sure you will caii again. We carry a full line of Drugs, Chemicals, Toilet Articles, etc. Purvis' Pharmacy S. G. PURVIS, PH. G Both Phones. 213 S. Main St. Butler Pa. I /WAKE LIARS OP («y CO/VIP6TITORS If they told the truth con cerning my pianos, myself, and my way of doing business I would sell all of the pianos that are sold in Butler. When a party comes to yon with a story concerning my business, ask them to call at my store with yon and repeat it in my presence. I am here for business, and I am hap py to say I have lots of it. My patrons are my friends, I always refer to them. Ask them. I can give yon a list of over 300 patrons to whom I have sold pianos since I came here four years ago. And if yon will find any of them who will say that I have not been honorable in all my dealings with them. I will present you with a piano. Trusting to have my just share of yonr patronage, I am yours for business. Your credit is good at W. R. Newton's THEJJPIANO MAN, 317 S. Main St.. Butler, Pa. REMOVAL We have removed our Marble and Granite shops from corner of Main and Clay streets to No. 208 N. Main street, (opposite W. D. Brandon's residence), where we will be pleased to meet our customers with figures that are right on Monuments & Headstones of all kinds and are also prepared to give best figures on Iron Fence, Flower Vases etc., as wc have secured the sole agency from the Stewart Iron Works of Cincinnati, 0., for this town and vicinity. P. H. Sechler See the sign direct opposite tbe Pog toff Ice, Theodore Vogeley, Real Estate and E Insurance Agency, 238 S. Main St. Bntler, Pa. fw3 If you have property 1 to sell, trade, or rent ifl or, want to buy or rent call, write or übone me. List Mailed Upon Application L. c. WICK, DBAI.BX M t ! LUFLBER. BUTLER, PA., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1903. Good Ayer's Pills arc good pills. You know that. The best family laxative you cm buy. I Want your moustache or beard i beautiful brown or rich black ? Vzc , 'Buckingham's Dyei pOctt of druggistsos R P. Hall & Co-, Nashua, N.H J Nasal y£S??X CATARRH In all iu stages. % & Ely's Cream Balmv Jl®/ cleanses, soothes and heals f f the diseased membrane. ->*\l It cures catarrh and drives M away a cold in the head quickly. Cream Halm is placed into the nostrils, spreads over the membrane and is absorbed. Belief is im mediate and a cure foiiowa. It Is not drying—doe® not produce sneezing. Large Size, 50 cents at 4Drug gists or by mail; Trial Size, 10 cents. ELY BROTHERS. 66 Warren Street, New York FOR Drugs Ffcdicl< Grohman, 109 N. (Vlain Street, fIUTbeR, PA. Service. Prompt and Careful Attention. Four Registered Pharmacists- Prescription Worl< a Specialty. NEW ™ LIA -" STOCK I have purchased the C. J. Harvey Pharmacy, in the Stein building, at 345 S. Main St., am remodeling and restocking the store. I 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. We put our entire time to studying the best and latest methods of doing our work. If you are thinking of having some work done in this line I am sure you will be well pi; ased if you have it done at rbe Butler Book Binder;, W. W. AMOM, Prop. Opp Conrt House. P CRAMPS? I DR. HARRIS' CRAMP CURE, » Relievo* Pain Quicklv. A never tailing remedy for Kvery Aeho j anil Pain. Highly recommended for j; Cholera-Morbus and Pains in the i| Stomach. ! AnSOLUTEI.Y HARMLESS, j As a Liniment Dr. Harris' Cramp rf Cure excels all others. ■ Prepared bj B. A. FAHNKSTOCK CO. M Pittsburg, Pa. At Druggists 85c a Mottle Music Department! Wo have added a musical department —good music—good instruments and everything that belongs to a music store. Call and inspect the famous Merrill Pi *llO. One of the best high grade pinuos on the market. We can sell it on easy payments. Want a Violin, Mandolin, Banjo, Guitar or Accordeon, we have them. Send for our catalogue of 10c sheet music, containing over 1000 titles, and we have them all in stock. We will get any piece of music you need, in fact we are in shape to supply all your wants in the musical line at DOUGLASS BOOK store: Near P. 0.. 241 S. Main St jet The best place t o to stop at lS' when in town is the &i n WAVERLY HOTEL, | Q\ '4,' O J. H. HARVEY, Prop, Rates, $1.50 per day. j^] EH. NEGLEY, • ATTORNEY AT LAW. 'ifficeln the Negley Building, West Diamond ••• | PROOF| i By * EDWIN L. SABIN * * CtpuriOM, IXX, by E. L- Sabii i j MY lady was out of Normandy. My lord was a Durgundian. A couple worse mated you never looked upon. She was tall and straight, round of waist and broad of shoulders, for her house gave to the world mighty men and splendid women; her skin wa-t the fairest, her Hps were tbe reddest, her eyes the bluest, the contour of her fea tures tbe most noble and perfect that all Normandy could boast, and her hair was a living mass of ruddy gold. He was square and squat, for his house gave to the world bull-like fight -BHE BENT AND KI9BED HIM. ere and of women none worth the men tion. His skin was swarthy and hairy, and his features were disfigured by battle and the plague. Indeed, what with his bowed legs and his low stat ure and his unprepossessing face where life had spoiled that little of grace by nature granted, my lord was not, thus to speak, attractive. Raoul le Laid—Kaoul the Ugly—was he called, and when he first heard the name instead of being angry he was pleased. He knew that he was ugly, and he took it for a blessing, not a curse. In this my lord showed some wit Would that his wit might have nerved him further! Five leagues northward across the valley from the Chateau des Bois dwelt my lady's cousin. When I say that he was styled Jean le Bel, and that he well bore the title, possibly I have explained enough. Jean the fair, Jean the handsome, he was, and 1 must not l'ali to uUd ilxut lie was a brave and tried knight. lie was all that a knight should be, and if it- Is accused that he was more let it be re membered after all that he was only a man. My lord was fifteen years my lady's senior; her cousin was scarcely fifteen months. My lord knew naught, cared for naught; beyond the melee and the rough chase; her cousin was not alone a gpod lance, but a courtier. My lord allowed my lady no voice, considered her in no point and left her to her own devices within the chateau; her cousin sought her much and helped her to pass away her time. I do not understand how it happened that my lord took my lady for wife, since he, made nothing of her and seemed to despise in her woman and woman's ways. He was ugly, he was surly, he was a man of the tourney and of the cups, but withal he might have had her for his, ever for his, had he simply treated her a little better than he did his dogs. Oh, I have seen the proud blood rußh into her white skin and her Norman spirit swell until I thought her breast would burst under his rudeness! Likely he did not deem it worth while to realize what he was doing, but even might he have realized it he would not have softened his moods—not Raoul le Laid. Nevertheless for all that I or any other of my lord's retainers or any of my lady's women attendants witnessed Bhe kept his true wife. She fought for her self —aye, she fought for herself as she must, since he made no effort by a single kind act or encouraging word to save her. Many a time when her cousin rode gayly into the court below she locked herself in her room in the tower, but sometimes she did not. There are oc casions when the thirsty heart must drink. Can one perishing in the desert because of thirst refuse unceasingly to sip of water? However tempted as she was by the very devil In the person of Jean le Bel, ray lady's honor, to the best of my knowledge, remained in the sight of God as bright as a new sword. Con scious of what is to be the end of this tale, I say it still. Now came the appeal of Bernard of Clalrvanx calling upon the Christian world to rescue Edessa from the infi dels and to make the Holy Land holy In fact as well as in name. My lord heard and obeyed, not so much for love of the cause as for love of the blows in prospect. Forth he rode, and we of his train, to don the scarlet cross and to follow the banner of France and of Guienne. As we waited, equipped and gather ed, in the court of the castle, my lady descended clad in a long gown of shimmering green which she was wont to wear when she wished to look her very best. From the steps she gazed searchlngly over the array until she had descried my lord standing ready to mount his horse as soon as he had completed In structions that he was delivering to the steward. My lady glided straight to him and put her bare arms around his neck. My lord Impatiently shook his head. "Just this once, Raoul," she pleaded. And she bent and kissed him, Qt which he frowned. "Be brave and victorious and faith ful to the cross, my husband," she said. But she spoke to his back. Thereupon with a flush upon her face and tears In her eyes, but with haughty mien that defied any glances of compassion, she returned across the crowded court and entered the door way and disappeared. An instant later as we trotted down the valley I saw her handkerchief flut- tering from the walls. My lord looked \ not back. We were not then nwnre of It. but meantime in his chateau Joan le Bel was lying 111 of a lingering fever, which all his fretting over his help lessness did not a whit abate. The sec owl crusade marshaled and advanctni without him. Everybody has heard how the army under Louis and the magnificent Klea nor bickered and dawdled and battled. We from the Chateau de 3 Bo is stayed to Damascus and the bitter end. Bronzed by the desert, scarred by the Seljuks, four years after our departure from the green valley we approached it again—not all of us, but we whom rented for a term of years, just like the habitations of the quick. Only the wealthy own burial lots. This Is in variably an evidence of wealth or aris tocracy. The poor seldom dream of buying a lot or tomb. Such purchase would be deemed among them an un necessary luxury. "At the end of the term for which a grave is rented the bones are dug up, placed in a bag, labeled with the name and date and deposited in a general re ceptacle."—-New York Herald. Reward* For Lout Property. "More lost and stolen articles would be recovered if the losers would adopt different methods in advertising for their property," said a headquarters detective the other day. "Of course honest persons do not haggle over the remuneration for returning a locket, a dog or anything else. But every one is not built along those lines. It may sound very nice to say, 'Liberal re ward if returned to owner,' but there are different ideas of liberality. The sum usually dwindles in the mind of the owner when he sees his property before him. and no one knows this bet ter than the finder. "It Is far more effective to set forth I a definite sum in the advertisement. Five or twenty-five dollars means more than a vague promise to be real gen erous. Of course there are cases when it is not wise to be too explicit, but in nine cases out of ten a stated sum will bring better results than an indefinite offer. This is nearly always true with watches with the owner's monogram engraved on the case, as the pawn broker refuses to loan so much on ar ticles so easily Identified." —New York Press. Head LeM, Think More. The average person of bo called cul ture who has leisure to read reads too much and thinks too little, and in con sequence his conversation lacks fresh ness and spontaneity. An exchange, after saying that people generally read too much and read more thau they carry, tells a story of a man who had been a great reader, but had changed his ways, and people, after he read less, finding him much more interest ing, exclaimed: "How entertaining John was today! He must have been reading a good deal." Mere reading In a waste of time. To conduce to intelligence the reader must train the mind to concentration on the subject in hand, ami to concentration must be added the effort to clothe and transmit thought in appropriate phrase. PRACTICAL DEVICES. Labor Sariac Implement! Por Cae la Removlnf and Setting P*t.ta. Among practical devices described by Ohio Farmer correspondents are the following: I had a lot of posts to pull out, and I Invented a device, shown in sketch, a lever, fulcrum and chain, made of such material as I could find lying around. With this device my hired hand and I pulled out fifty-two posts In less than an hour. The lever Is made out of an old sulky plow tongue about nine feet long. Fourteen inches from the a a* &■£■£ i ■ -' ** POST PCLLEB AND POST DTirVKB large end I bored a five-eighths inch hole for the fulcrum. A good, strong book was bolted on top of the end of the lever, with two three-eighths Inch bolts, the hook projecting over the end to catch in the links of the chain. I use an ordinary log chain, with a book on the end. The fulcrum is made of three pieces spiked together, the center piece 2 feet 8 inches long and thick enough to allow the lever to move eas ily between the two outside pieces, which are six Inches longer and pro ject above the centerpiece that much. These outside pieces are IV6 by 4 Inches. Bore the five-eighths Inch hole through these projecting outside pieces about an Inch and a half from the top. Put hi the lever, run a bolt through, and the puller is ready for business. I pulled up some old barn shed poets with this device that I could not move with two horses and chain. This de vice is not patented. I will illustrate a very handy instru ment for setting posts on clay soil. To drive a post down to a proper depth in clay soil without first making a hole is apt to splinter the top of a post. Hew to prevent this and save labor is the question we want to get at. The cut shows an Instrument for making a post hole that is used In Geauga county, 0., by quite a number of farmers. It is made of cast iron and is 20 Inches long by 3% Inches square, running to a sharp point at the bottom. It has a hole in the top for a wood handle. In the spring of the year, before the ground gets settled down hard, one can make a hole ready for a post with two or three jams, and by having a post properly sharpened one can set it with two or three taps with a maul, so that it win stand firm. By going over the fence every spring, giving each peat a couple of taps with a maul jnst after the frost comes out of the ground, it will stand straight. I have In mind several rods of fence that has been up for ten years, and the posts stand straight and solid today. Summer Silos. There is much that might be said In favor of summer silos. Undoubtedly the invested capital is somewhat great er where provision is made for ensiling a sufiiclent quantity of forage to supply the dairy herd through the summer. Perhaps the summer silo will even cost more for a given capacity than will a winter one. Inasmuch as summer feed ing takes cognizance both of the lessen ed appetites of the cows and the great er rapidity of fermentation. It be comes necessary, therefore, for summer feeding to materially reduce the sur face area from which silage is fed. One should so limit the surface area for summer feeding that one and one lialf Inches will be dally removed when the cow's appetite for silage is lightest and that the average feed will remove about two inches. If this is not done not only will there be a waste of fod der owing to excessive fermentation, but the quality of the whole feed de teriorates, even to a point of Impart ing undesirable flavors to the milk.— Professor F. S. Cooley in American Cultivator. How to Prevent Robblas. Fond as bees are of nectar, they are yet fonder of honey and will forsake working in the fields to collect a load of ready prepared sweets. Thus bee keepers often have trouble In handling the honey In their apiaries, for when the bees get a scent of It they fall upon the plunder and quickly convey It back to their hives. Under the Intoxicating influence of ready made honey they of ten become demoralized. Swarms some times light over the honey, and finally the strong ones break Into the hives of the weak and rob tliem. Old time bee keepers understand that when honey is lo be handled It must be taken into a room and the door closed or there is danger that the whole apiary might be seized with a frenzy for robbing. Great care should be taken In opening hives at times when little or no honey is com ing In from the fields, and at no time should honey be left exposed In or near the apiary, says F. G. Herman In Amer ican Agriculturist. THE CANADIAN NORTHWEST A Possible Revolution In the Ameri can Wheat Trade. The development of the wheat fields of the Canadian northwest is the marked agricultural movement of the times. The wheat lauds of Manitoba have been under cultivation long enough to make it an old story for that province, but the tide of Immigration which is pouring into the territories farther west is opening up a new wheat district the extent of which can hardly be approximated with our pres ent knowledge of the country. By rea sons both of soil and climate tbe wheat producing area is limited, mainly con fined to Manitoba, eastern Assinlbola and Saskatchewan. It is in this terri tory last named that development Is now most rapid. The Canadian North ern railroad is building westward through tbe valley of the river of the same name, laying track at the rate of two and one-half miles per day, and it is here that settlement is rife. Experience at the few points in this valley previously settled show that It Is a great wheat country, the town of Rosthern, on the Canadian Pacific rail road. which crosses the valley, ship ping this y§ar more than a milllqn No. 27. bushels of wheat against 50,000 bushelJ three years ago. The road now build ing runa through the valley for TOO mllea, and the wheat area which it will bring Into touch with the markets will affect wheat growers In our own coun try. One possibility in this connection opens a field for Interesting specula tion. This new field Ilea within 000 mllea of Hudson bay, and the Canadian Northern railroad has definite plans for a line to a deep water harbor on that bay. For 200 years the Hudson Bay, company has brought all their sup pliea from England for their trading posts through this northern route and by the same route have shipped out their annual accumulation of furs and pelts. During al} that time officials of the country claim to have never lost a' vessel in the straits or in the bay. The straits can be navigated for seven or eight months of tbe year, or as long aa navigation is open on our great lakes. An examination of a map of tbe world will show that tbe sailing dis tance from ports on the western shores of Hudson bay to Liverpool la practi cally the same as from New York to Liverpool. The Canadian government has just dispatched an expedition of scientists and practical steamship men to survey the Hudson bay waters to determine the practicability of an ex port grain route. This expedition is to spend one year at the work, and if the conclusion is favorable it will mean a new commercial route which will han dle not only the wheat of northwestern Canada, but may divert the export channel of wheat from our own Red river valley. This Canadian wheat now commands a premium in the English market, and if an export route can be devised which will save the present cost of transportation from Lake Supe rior ports to the seaboard it will create a condition which may revolutionise the American wheat trade.—Country Gentleman. A CHEAP CROP. Will It Pay to Grow Rye»—Hard on the Soil—Value For Ray. Rye is a crop that demands a fair amount of moisture. Low land, not too wet and cold, is most congenial for a good yield, it draws hard upon the soil, as it derives less of its growth from the air than many other products, and while good soil will raise a more bountiful crop quite sterile lands in a wet season will produce sometimes quite a growth, but when such land will no longer produce rye it is the last seed you need to sow. While rye is a cheap crop, it yields but a small amount of grain for the amount of Btalk. In localities where fodder is scarce it can be used as a substitute for hay If cut just as It to about ready to blossom, at which time the leaf blades are In Just good condi tion and fairly well developed. If sown in the last of August tbe first of June would be the proper time for cutting, but the wholesomeness of this kind of fodder has been somewhat questioned for the use of horses unless fed alter nately with clover or timothy hay. If cut by the first of June and tbe season is wet there will be sufficient vitality In the root to throw up another crop of fodder the same season. In latitudes 43 to 44 It is best to sow as early as the last of August, yet It to easily injured by frost at about blos soming time. When that occurs the only thing to do is to cut it for hay and without delay. In sowing the last of August one-half bushel of seed to nxbr pie, but in raising rye for the grain It wTIT be more sure tf sown about 'the first part of October, making it later In Hie spring as a protection against late frosts, for It takes a very heavy frost to Injure it before it is beaded. But In sowing on the first of October it requires Bbout one and one-half bushels of seed per acre instead of half a bushel. In view of the great draft upon the soil we could hardly advise the rais ing of rye for the grain only, and only where the fodder Is much needed, con cludes a Michigan correspondent of Farm, Field and Fireside. Thlnn That Are Said. Many a time when rushed with work we are tempted to give things a "lick and a promise" and let them go. But if one will look over his own ex perience he will find that it is tbe thorough work that pays, whether it is planting a crop or setting a hen. If we were all as good as we think our neighbors ought to be this would be a grand Vorld to live in. Kindness is cheaper than the best of hay and should be universally used in the handling of cows. Don't swear at your horse, for he will not understand you, or if he does It will lower you In his estimation. An Exclusive Elevator. There is perhaps no elevator in the world more exclusive than that provid ed at the capltol for the supreme court of the United States. That elevator can be used by exactly eleven people, and no one else would for a moment consider entering it except as the guest of one of these eleven privileged gentle men. The fortunate eleven are the nine Justices of the United States supreme court, the clerk and the marshal of the court. The elevafor goes from the ground floor of the capitol to the main floor, on which is located the supreme court of the United States. It to a small elevator, so that, with its con ductor, three portly forms of justices of the supreme court of the United States would fill it. It is one of the very latest designs of electric elevators and is finished in magnificent style.— Washington Star. Superstitions. If two persons raise their glasses to their lips simultaneously they are In dicating the return of a friend or rela tive from foreign parts. The same In timation is conveyed by bubbles In coffee or by the accidental fall of a piece of soap on the floor. A flickering flame in the fire or an upright excrescence in a burning candle is interpreted as predicting the arrival of a guest, whose stature is Judged by the length of the flame or excrescence. If one drains a glass of the contents of which some one else has partaken he will learn the secrets of the latter. Mighty Cheerful. Mamma had told her little daughter that she could not go out to play, but the little maiden determined to make one more plea "Please, mamma, it isn't very wet." "No, you cannot, Dorothy," said mamma pleasantly, smiling a little at her daughter's persistency. Dorothy regarded her mother ag grievedly and the*) said, "Well, seems to me you're mighty cheerful about It"—New York Times. One on the Minister. Rev. Tubtbumer— I've been preaching this morning to a congregation of asses. Lily Sugarstick—Yes; 1 noticed you called them "beloved brethren."—Ally Sloper. After a man passes fifty he finds that bis hopes have to be jacked up and re painted twice as often as ten years be fore—Atchison Globe.