VOL. XXXX. g WARM WINTER WEAR g M SOME SURPRISING LOW FRICES. & m Stylish Millinery at Moderate Cost. 3 g TThie Moderq Store ? J FLANNELETTE NIOftT ROBES AND UNDERGARMENTS. fl| Ladiee' Robes—Good quality flannelette fall size 30c; better quality. fK & he ivier weight 75c; very best, extra fall and long, plain pink, white ami jJh •J bine. also fancy patterns, nicely trimmed $1 each. Ladies' Flannelette jR Petticoats, 25c and 50c each. C> ildren's Flanuelette Gowns all sizes ?• to W 14, 50c each: Flannel Pe it; coats 2oc each. Men's Flannelette Robes, good jO U quality, good length 50o; better oues, heavier weights. 75c and sl. Fifty jgt JR different patterns fianneletUs of the best qnality Teazledown 10c per ■ yard All plaiu colors b*at quality Daisy cloth, 10c a >ard Nice line S cheaper qqatitv 8c a yard V jp) FANCY MILLINERY AT REASONABLE RATES-We have struck the popular M idea iu this department to give yon such value for your money that yon jP will bring yonr friends uext tiuie. Oar Stylish Fall Hats will appeal to S yon not only in appearance bat also in price, and these t*o essentials go fl together. We want you to note the millinery from this store, how it does W S not have that stiff, hand-me-down look so often seen in other headwear Ck Kfa for this reason that onr millinery is daily growing in popularity. JR Vlarclorf Co., mm Mini STSHT I F\F\H ™I Send in Your Mail Orders, g OPPOSITE HOTEL ARLINGTON. BCTLFR. HA. 1 \ New Fall Goods. § *? & !? We are showing an extensive line of advance !" Styles of Fall Hats, Tailor- fll ATO iT : : Made, Ready-to-Wear, M|l I :j? ]| Dress and Street Tj; ;; If Always First to Show ibe New Ideas. $ :? !|t 0 Rockenstein's I i ; | » #3B Sonth Main Street, - - Butler, Pa. ••• A Magnificent October Showing at BROWN & CO S. Every Furniture Fancy Is favored in our grand showing. | Th§r<s marked absence of the uncouth and trashy. I Everything for the Home—Stock Large, Qualities Right, You Buy for Less. Make your Home Beautiful. You can do It right here at little cost. We anticipate by far the largest October trade we hayg §ver experienced. As our store is full to overflowing, with a I LARGE STOCK still to arrive, we are offer ing SPECIAL INDUCEMENTS on LOW f * PRICES DURING OCTOBER to make room. \ COME IN AND COMPARE! ' BROWN &r CO 90. wy. mmp at (Sell Phone iQ6) BUTLER. PA. 8 1 J? Merchant Tailor, p B I Fall and Winter Suitings I ■ n JUST ARRIVED. ■ ■ V, 142 North Main St. H Cohn's Bargain Store, 150 Main and Cunningham St. W§ an nady f@r fall feugißtsg with a wonderful showing of ladies' tailor-made suits, xoats, skirts, waists and furs. Ladies' men's and children's under wear and hosiery, hats, caps and children's clothing. Girl's dresses and coats. We are not only ready with WW* styliSi feyt wjth ißt#f#§ting'priges, which RQ §t©re can meet. Ladies' flannelette Aoh Children's under- J fc. wrappen worth $1.50 at wear from\ QQ JR ladies' flannelette dressing IQ. Ladies' heavy ribbed vests A£ a Mcqoes worth 78c at and pants worth 35c at Men's heavy ribbed t IQ. Ladies'all wool vests and AOr " W ~^ouJ n worsTfcat , pen to worth »l. 50 at J)© 0 Cohn's Store, Not the handsomest looking stare in town but fcy 1 far trie Cheapest and best to TRADE AT. T-HE BUTLER CITIZEN. Reed'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 Mais and Jefferson Sts., a tier. Pa Do You Buy Medicines? Certainly You Do. Then you want the best for the least money. That is our motto. Come and see us when in need of anything in the Drug Line and we are sure you will call again. We carry a full line of Drugs, Chemicals, Toilet Articles, etc. Purvis' Pharmacy S. G. PURVIS. PH. O Tilth Phones. 218 S. Main St RntW Pa j {'SHIRTS || Host If" TTeT — SHIRTS H nes , OUR STOCK OF - I HATS AND ; i Men's Furnishings $ J IS NOW COMPLETE. < J Come in and let ns show yon ? € the new fall shirts. \ # We have shirts at «11 prices. ¥ 9 Our leader of cour-e, IB the # i Manhatten Shirt. $ 5 The best in the World. 5 jj In Underwear j || we have all the different weights d II and grades. 4 \ We can surely suit you if yon J need underwear. Z J Haven't the space to call atten- J 5 tion to bll the good things we £ # have. £ # Jnst come in and see for your- # # self. # j Strict attention paid to uinil d 1 i orders. jJno.S. Wick j i HATTER and i 5 MEN'S FURNISHER. 5 5 People's 'Phone. 615 r J RUTLER, PA. J PIANO BUYERS. You must trust somebody in making a Piano purchase. In asking for your patrcpagp w£ fgfpr you to tfi£ 'mafiy users of ■THE HINTERMEISTER PIANO, as to our reliability and fair dealing. Every Piano is fully guaranteed. Come in and look at it, try it, hear it Columbia Phonographs. Bran's Guitars and Mauditlins. 25 cent records. " " §hee\ Musifc'. Pittsburg Organ & Piano Co., Butler Branch, Old P. 0. B'd'g., JNO. C. DICKSON, Mgr. See the sign direct opposite the Old Posloffice, * Theodore yogeley, Real Estate and EEY I nsnrame Agency, 238 S. Mata St. * Butler, Pa. if you have property to sell, trade, or rent or, want to buy or rent can. write or uhoup me List Mailed Uppp Application TiaTIOK Clara M. Tlrablin, hav ing left my bed and board without cauiie, any one harboring or furnishing her goodx. board or maintenance will do .so at their own perllas I will not be responsible therefor or payany bills conntractud by h<*r. L. M. TIMBLIIf. Kept. Bth. I'.KQ.. Petrolla.Pa. Liver That's v/hat you need: some thing to cure your bilious ness. You need Ayer's Pills. j Want your moustache or beard a j beautiful brown cr rich tlack ? Use j Buckingham'sßye sOct* of dhjfcguttorß P HeU&Co.,Nashua.H r | Nesel CATARRH (mm EljVcSa'^ata^W eleuueg, soothes and heals M the diseased membrane. It CUR'S catarrh and drives M-- away a cold in the head quickly. Cream Balm ia placed into the noatrilß. spread* over the membrane and ia absorbed. Relief is im mediate and a cure followa. Itianot drying—doe* nut produce sneezing. Large Size, 50 cents at Drug gists or by mail; Trial Size, 10 cents. ELY BROTHERS, 66 Warren Street, New York FOR • Drugs Ffadicl< &. Grohman, 109 N. y\a\n Street, SUTbeR, PA. Service. Prompt and Careful Attention. Four Registered Pharmacists. Prescription Worl< a Specialty fcllTlif OWNER nIrVW drugs I 11-WW 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. i L McKee, Pharmacist, -tein Block. S. Main St., Butler. Pa. DR. HARRIS' Summer Cordial, TRADH MARX " | BPEEDII.Y CUBES Diarrhoea, Dysentery, Sick Headache, Summer Complaint. Vomiting, Sour Stomach, , -j Indigestion y • and for Children Teething, g AnSOIXTKI.V HARMLESS, a Prepared t>J B. A. FAHNESIOCK CO. ! I J*ittsburg, Pa. B. AB. dry goods priced in your favor For years we've been selling Dry | Goods by mail —over all the United ; States—and in most eveiy country in. | the world. Stands to reason mqgt be gome extra ' qrdipary pft\yerfnl inducement to impel \ people to send hundreds and thousands | of miles for Dry Goods. ; -Send for samples of anj thing you j wa it —note superior qnality for m mey ; i —and the abundant variety we send— i You'll see it's—"selling for a Small. Profit with large assortment of careful- ' ly selected good 1! to choise from." ! Built the business on hasis—and j yf -'.ce gojiig ta wyll enough alone. | example:— *1.50, rich black, Cashmere de L'lnde, 75c _ 44 inches wide, 50c double width Clan Tartan Plaids ' —dark colorings, 25 c. 7e know our line of Tweeds at SI.OO j presents money's-worth you won't often t j g- 1 a chance at—s2 to 56 inches wide— : > Gr*-ys, Tans, Browns, Blues, Greeria ~ ! 1 « ii irtest and wanted goods shown i V- i Pall, I j ..ibelines—all colors—7sc to $3.50 a 1 yard. 1 'mr 200 page Catalogue, just out, tells m -re explicitly and copiously just how , t n-se 65 large and energetic depart ; m its are doing this mail order business so nnch to the advantage of the people —pent free if yon send name and addres *. When sending samples mark your B. 0. 4U, to give ub an intimation ( of what you want—also give us an iJta 01 price and colors. I Boggs & Buhl I ALI,EGH©N¥. PA , I M. C. WAGNER \ : ARTIST PHOTOGRAPHER 139 Soatb Main St, ! BUTLER, PA., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1903. ELAfNE Of? THE ORCHARDS By M&rtha. McCulloch-Williams Copyright, 190t, by the S. H. itcClure Comjxinu ;• •$ The joy of midsummer possessed Elaine. Commonly she was pale, with shadowed eyes and piteously drooping mouth. Today the shadows, the drooping, had vanished. She smiled until dimples played hide and seek through cheeks faintly pink as the sweetbrier in the hedgerow. She was picking the tirst ripe poaches in the young orchard that was her moth er's pride. It had but just come into | bearing and was full three weeks ahead of anything the neighborhood had ever known. Elaine and her moth ir were piously glad that the ripening fell in with the date of the big meet ing. The peach basket would go to church tomorrow along with other baskets overflowing with good things. There were to be three sermons, with dinner nnd supper in between; much choice gossip also, with, incidentally, lovemak lng. Everybody within ten miles round would be there. That meant to Elaine mainly sight and speech of Allan May. He would be sure to fetch his mother, a lady of gracious speech, but coldly calculating eyes. Klnine dreaded the eyes, yet was glad Allan had a mother to look out for. It saved her the tor ture of seeing him gallanting other girls ever so much prettier than her own pale self. Until he came she had never loved anybody. She was sure that he loved her. Had he not kissed her fingers and called them "precious" after she 'had played for him a whole evening through? He had said too: "I must be free before I marry. My mother, you know, holds everything in trust until I am thirty." It was easy for Elaine to persuade herself that he did not speak out because he was too honorable to ask any woman to wait for him five years. Gossip had it his mother was bent on matching him with her niece. Madge Clayton, who lived in the next county. But the young pair were close and *LAINH SWUNG HERSELF TO AN AMBUSH OF THICK LEAVES. friendly comrades, seeing through the scheming of their elders and finding lu It an excellent joke. Madge came often to the May house, but somehow Elaine had not seen her since the era of pigtails and ruffled pinafores. As she nestled the cream and pink peaches amid the vine leaves In her basket she seemed to see In them hints of her rival's fairness. Just as she crowded in the last a shiver ran through her; then her heart beat like mad. The orchard ran down to the road. Two people came riding there, and through the hoofbeats she caught Allan's voice. In a minute they would be upon her. Instinctively Elaine swung herself to an ambush of thick green leaves. As 6he crouched, shaking all over, the searing hoofbeats stopped. Clear across the silence she heard Allan say: "You'll have to marry me, Madge, un less you can think of some other way out. Oh, no! I am not committed, ex cept morally. It was the music laid hold on me. Elaine can make piano keys say the most wonderful things. I really forgot she was a woman until— There are things one cannot put in words!" "Evidently," a rich voice answered. "Put siuoe you have spoken so much you must tell the whole truth. Did you draw back the very minute you found out your mistake? If you did, you are not wholly despicable. Other wise"— Elaine, gasping, felt the tentative pause. A ruffling wind let her see through the leaves. A lithe young god dess, yellow haired, with straight brows and unsmiling mouth, looked full in Allan's face. Her bridle hand lay easily on the reins, but the other, banging at her side, was so tightly clinched the whip within it bent. Love may be blind; jealousy has eyes that lee far and deep. By the tense clutch Elaine understood. Madge loved her Cousin, yet had strength to sit in judg ment of him. "You are silent. That Is answer enough," Madge said after a long min fcte; then, with the least hard breath: '■"fl»e way out is the right and true one. You hare taught a woman to love you; now teach yourself to love her as she deserves." "It is your fault after all, Madge," Allan said, sighing. "You ought to have made me love —oh, I know you could have done It—but chose instead to laugh me out of sentiment, because, forsooth, you wanted ypuf own way. I don't love yon ft* matters stand, but, 9,u my soul, when I look at you I do not understand how I ever kept from It." I "Go to Blaine!" Madge command »d, wheeling her horse. ! Allan kept doggtfly beside her. "To morrow will be time enough." he said. ' "Poor Elaine! She is a million times too good for me —so much too good \ tremble to think of taking Uer happt j ness in my hands, "• I they galloped off Elaine crept from her covert and sank beside her basket, a huddled, moaning heap. She j lay there until sundown, love fighting I hard with woman's pride. And love won out. That night all her prayer was, "Lord, Lord, let him love me or I else let me die." . Allan came \je<r next day ns she j Vea»de the peach basket, lifting up Iklnk flushed beauties from their nests of cool green leaves. His whisper in her ear made her cheeks outtlush the pinkest peach, but she shook her head when he made to raise her and lead her away. "I will come presently," she said. "Mother cannot get through din ner without me." Yet when he left her she got suddenly white, and her hands trembled so she almost let fall a laden dish. Time ambles withal in spite of heart aches. Somehow dinner got itself over and left Elaine free. She slipped away toward the spring In the edge of the grove. Half way Madge overtook her and said with no pretense of greeting. "You must not mind about anything today, only being happy." For a miuute they walked In silence down the sun flecked path. It bordered the road by which teams were taken to water. There was a sharp turn in the road where the path crossed it to reach the well head. As the two came to It a thunder of hoofs bore down on them, cut through with weak, terrified screams. Wild Jaulc Lee had ventured to drive the wickedest pair upon the grounds. They had taken the bits in their teeth and were running away. Madge sprang back to let them pass, tripped on a loose stone and fell for ward almost under their feet. Elaine darted, caught the leader's bit and swerved him sharply aside. He reared, striking out with both hoofs, but she clung fast until stronger hands stayed the maddened beasts, then slid Into Allan's arms, with blood gusliiug over her lips. Between the spurts she whispered to him: "It has all come right, I know. I had to save her—be cause she gave you to me. You must grieve for me—a little bit. But God knew best. He heard my prayers." Hl* Son Andj. Dr. Andrew J. McCosh was in his college days a famous athlete. He could run faster, kick a football fur ther and jump higher than any man ia Princeton. Publicly his father, Presi dent McCosh. took no notice of An dy's achievements. That he privately rejoiced la Ills son's prowess the stu dents learned in this way: Jimmy, ns the president was fa miliarly called, though exceedingly courteous, was given to fits of abstrac tion in which he entirely forgot his surroundings. Once at a reception In his home, ap parently forgetful of all the world, he was pacing up and down the room with head bent and hands interlocked behind his back. Suddenly he walked up before a young lady and asked: "How tall are ye?" In an embarrassed way she replied, "Why, doctor, I'm—l'm 5 feet 2 Inches." "Me son Andy could jump over yer head," said the doctor and immediate ly resumed his walk. Are Men Inqalaltlref At Eaton Ilall in the days of the late Duke of Westminster there stood on the mantelpiece of the principal guest chamber, dedicated to bachelor visitors, a clock of remarkable design. Below it was placed a card bearing the words, "Please do not touch." A famous poli tician who chanced to And himself an occupant of the room ventured to ask his noble lioat after dinner the reason of this prohibitory notice. "I have often contended with my daughters," replied the duke, "that women are more curious than men. To satisfy me of the contrary fact they have placed the clock to which you refer in the bachelors' room with the notice affixed to it. The result has been that every man, with one notable exception, who has occupied that room has asked me Kie reason of the notice." "And who, may I ask," rejoined the interested guest, "was the notable exception you mention?" "The late Mr. Fawcett, one time postmaster general," was the re ply of the duke. "As you know, poor man, lie was blind!" The Stone Hnnnca of Eaater Island. The remarkable stone houses of East er Island are built against a terrace of earth, or rock, which in some cases forms the back wall of the dwelling. They are built of small slabs of strati fled basaltic rock, piled together with out cement. No regularity of plan is shown in the construction of a majority of them. The average measurement is as fol lows: Height from floor to ceiling, 4 feet 0 inches; thickness of walls, 4 feet to 10 inches: width of rooms, 4 feet 6 inches; length of rooms, 12 feet 9 Inches; average size of doorways, height, 20 inches; width, 19 inches. Phil May and Hi* Models. Many of the figures in Phil May'B book "Guttersnipes" were sketched from memory while staying up the riv er. "One day," he said, when speaking on the subject, "I saw a delightful lit tle model for my purpose, a dirty, rag ged bit of girl humanity. I spoke to her and wrote a message on my card for her to give to her mother. Next morning she came in charge of an older sister, as tattered and unkempt ns her self. When I had made my sketches of the two of them I asked the elder one If she had any more sisters like herself. 'Oh, yes, four or five, worse than I am.' 'Bring them round,' said I. 'ls the little un to come again?' she asked. 'No. I've done with her.' The next day they came, the little un in cluded. She had persisted in it, for she said: 'He's my artist I found him first.' " —London Tit-Bits. Fireproof Wood. Though there are a number of dif ferent kinds of wood, ebony, lronwood, etc., of such close, hard fiber that even the fiercest fire has difficulty in "get ting hold" of It, there Is only one sort, so far as now known, that Is practical ly fireproof. This Is a small, scraggy tree, a native of South America, called the sliopnla, with thick, tough, stringy bark full of a sort of fire resisting sap. This curious shrub grows largely on the great, grassy savannas, which are swept by flre almost every year dur ing the heat of the summer. There It thrives splendidly, for the annual scourge only kills oft Its bigger and hardier competitors and leaves the ground free for the growth of this vegetable asbestus. Smart Saylnß*. Lord Palmerston's reply to the illit erate member who asked him, "Are there two hens In 'Onlton?" is a speci men of his rather boisterous chaff. "No: only one. That's why heggs are so scarce there." Mr. Dlsrneli's comment upon a por , trait of himself, "Is it not hideous —and so like?" exhibited a discernment not common with unflattered sitters.— "Twenty Years In Parliament." The Socin) Side. Mrs. Waldo-Cecil—He has a barrel of money. Edltli Waldo-Cecil—But is he all right soclnl'y? Mr Waldo-Cecil—Oh, yes; he hasn't the least Idea how he got it!—ruck. SOME QUA'.RIT ENGLISH. hlrn c T the ljin*;»r.ln n .if -tfaralßß." A I) • as aiuiKii - as it is rare Is In the library of n \\ i>-alii kon student. Tlie work is OHII.HI "O Nova (luia da Conversacao." It is suppas.-d to In struct the Portr.gucse in Knjdisli con versation. nnd the following, a dia logue beaded "i rto Hide a Horse." is tli<* kind of English conversation it sup pii.>s: "Here is a horse who have a b:ul l.x>ks. Give mi another; 1 will not that. He not sail know to march, he is pursy, he is foundered. Don't you are ashatm <1 to give me a jade as like? He is ui:d shoed, he is with nails up; it want to lead to the furrier." An anecdote in the book Is: "A day came a man to consult this philosopher for to know at o'clock it was one to eat. 'lf thou art rich, told him eat when you shall wish; if you are poor, when you may do.' " In tlie preface the most elegant par agraph is the following: "We expect then, who the little book (for the care what we wrote him. and for her typographical correction) that may be worth the acceptation >f the studious persons, and especially of the youth, at which we dedicate him par ticularly." The authors of this strange volume are Jose da Fonseca and Pedro C'aro lino. It would be interesting to know where Pedro and Jose "learned" Eng lish.—Philadelphia Record. Satisfied Hla Cariosity. The curiosity of the natives of wild countries as to everything belonging to the traveler often leads to amusing sit uations. Mr. J. W. Wells tells In "Three Thousand Miles Through Rrazil" of his visit to one settlement where the only shopkeeper of the place proved very inquisitive. He was a frequent visitor and would carefully examine the few belongings of the traveler. Ilis curios ity was finally punished in a very fuu ny manner. On one of his visits, writes Mr. Wells, he found my bottle of spirits of ammo nia on the table, and, seeing It was something he had uot hitherto inspect ed. he naturally laid hold of it and asked of me, "What is this?" "Only a medicine," I replied, and with a perhaps unworthy satisfaction I watched hini hold it up to the light, look at It all round and finally remove the glass stopper and then take a good sniff. I had to rush forward to save my precious ammonia, as he staggered and gasped for breath and ejaculated, "I am dying!" By dint of much slapping of his back and dousing of cold water he quickly recovered, but nevermore did he touch any of my things. After Dinner Oratory. The fake humorous speaker has an easier career tliau even the fake elo quent speaker. Yet at any given din ner the orator who passes out mere elo cution to his hearers has a success al most as instant ami splendid as his clowning brother. It is amazing what tilings people will applaud when they have the courage of each other's inepti tude. They will listen after dinner to anything but reason. They prefer also the old speaker to new ones; they like the familiar taps of humor, of elo quence. IT tucy Dave tasted tlie brew betore. they know what they are going to get. Tlie note of tlnir uiooil is toler ance, but tolerance of the accustomed, the expected; not tolerance of the novel, the surprising. They wish to be at rest, and what taxes their minds mo lests their Intellectual repose. They do not wish to climb any great heights to reach the level of the orator.— W. D. Howells In Harper's. A Queer Itellc. In University college, London, is a singular object that is preserved care fully In a remote gallery inside a glass case, which again is contained in a huge wooden cupboard, the doors of which are locked and the keys in safe custody. The relic which Is thus so zealously guarded is described iu some notes on the history of the college as the "skeleton" of Jeremy Bei:»ham, "clad in the garments in which he lived," while his head only Is stated to have been '•mummified." it has always been understood that Bentham's body was embalmed", and in that case it can not be his mere skeleton which Is re posing there under lock and key. Ilow the Initial "M" Panctnmted tks Ureat Conqueror'* Career. From Marengo to Moscow was the long swing in the pendulum of Napo leon's life, the -one the greatest battle DUt of which he came with his life, the other the abyss which engulfed him. Mr. J. M. Buckley, who Is a literary expert on coincidences, points out how 3trangely the letter M played a-part in the life of tlie great conqueror. Marboe was the first to recognize the genius of Napoleon at the Ecole Mill taire. Melas opened to him the way to Italy. Mortier was one of his first gen erals. Moreau betrayed him, and Mu rat was the first martyr to his cause. Marie Louise partook of his highest destinies. Metternich conquered him on the field of diplomacy. Six marshals—Massena. Mortier, Mar mont, Macdonald, Murat and Money— and twenty-six of his generals of divi sions had names beginning with the letter M. Murat. duke of Bassano, wns the counselor in whom he placed the great est confidence. Ilis first great bat tle was that of Montenotte; his last was that of Mount St. Jean. He gained the battles of Moscow, Montmirall and Montereau. Then came the assault of Montmartre. Milan was the first ene mies' capital and Moscow the last In which he entered. He lost Egypt through the blunders of Menoa and employed Mlollls to make Pius VII. prisoner. Malet con spired against him, afterward Mar rnont. His ministers were Maret, Mon talivet and Molllen. Ills first cham berlain was Montesquieu. Woril»worth'» Secret. And Wordsworth's secret? Any poet's secret? Well, for aught we can see. It remains a secret, a something as far beyond human subtlety to explain as it is beyond human Ingenuity to produce. "The wind bloweth where It listeth." "Genius," "inspiration"—it is hard to get on without the old words, vague though they be. Nay, it is precisely because they are vague that they serve so useful a purpose. Even Professor Raleigh, after speaking almost con temptuously of "impatient critics" who seek to account for Wordsworth's "amazing inequality" by assuming that sometimes be was inspired, at other times not, is heard a little afterward lamenting that in Wordsworth's case, as In Coleridge's, "the high tide of In spiration was followed by a long and wandering ebb." One feels like quoting Lowell, whose arrow in such competitions is apt to hit the white. Wordsworth, he says, "wns not an artist In the strictest sense of the word; neither was Isaluli, l>ut Ue bail a rarer jjift, the capability of being greatly inspired."—Bradford Torrey In lilaVit • ®msigts ROOT CELLARS. Common Way of Building Them In (■rent Potato Gronlnx Begiona. A common and practical way of building root cellars is shown in the illustration, concerning which Country Gentleman says: This method of con struction is commonly used in the great potato growing sections of the country: Excavate by means of a scraper and then set up the retaining walls. The upright pieces at the sides should be 2 by 4 studding, placed not more than four feet apart. The floor may be of A CUOSS SECTION OF ItOOT CELL AIL plank or may be simply of earth. If no planks are used the studding should have the low er end imbedded In the earth to prevent it from slipping. The siding may be of inch boards and should be nailed to the studding before they are raised into position. The joists B D C should be of 2 by 4, and the supports for the roof should be of the same material. The space above the Joists may be filled with straw or leaves or hay, to prevent freezing In the cellar. The plates, which are se cured at the top of the studding, may be placed somewhat above the level of the surface of the ground. Fart of the earth which is removed In excavating should be banked up against the walls under the roof, so that the slope of the ground will be away from the cellar. I)oors may be placed at intervals iu the roof, so that roots can be shoveled from a wagon directly into the cellar. At one end of the pit there should be solid double doors, so that entrance may be had to the cellar in cold weath er without permitting the cold to enter. The upright centerpiece A E should not be more than five to aix feet high, and the length of the cellar may be made as great as desired. Tho width may be from eight to ten feet. If this can be constructed on a slight slope of land it will be all the better. HAIRY VETCH. Seed Growing Profitable—»ee«*lty of Inoculation on Some l.anda. The following information relating to the growing of the hairy vetch for seed Js furnished by the bureau of plant in dustry of the United States department of agriculture, through its seed labora tory, in response to numerous Inquiries on the subject: The cultivation of hairy vetch has in creased rapidly in the last few years and would be much more common if the seed was raised iu this country, and especially on the farms where it is to be sown. IVaciicaliy all of the j«td used In the United States 1" 1 shorter! Europe. During the fiscal year ended June 30, 1003, over 80,000 pounds of this seed was brought in. Experiments have been carried on by the seed laboratory of the bureau for two years In St. Mary's county, Md., and the past year in Wayne county, 0., to determine the practicability of grow ing the seed in this country. From the results of these trials it is evident that the seed can be produced at a profit over a wide area of the United States. Great difficulty has been experienced In harvesting the seed when grown alone. It ripens very unevenly and if left until most of the seed is mature it becomes matted on the ground and shells and molds badly. It was found that by sowing with rye a sufficient support was furnished to keep it off the ground and allow it to be cut easily with a mowing machine. Rye seems best adapted as a supporting crop on account of the time of ripening and the stiff straw. The best results were obtained with seeding from one-half to three-fourths bushels of vetch ami one-half bushel of rye to the acre, sowing from the middle to the last of September. The crop should be cut about the time the last pods are formed and ttie vines are getting dry. The cutting is done with an ordinary mowing ma chine, after which the vines and straw should be put in piles and allowed to dry. The thrashing fan be done with un ordinary grain thrashing machine. The four acres in Ohio yielded 13 bushels of vetch and 01 bushels of rye. In Maryland the storms knocked the >ye down so it did not till well, but the four acres yielded 18 bushels of vetch and 8 bushels of rye. Reports *rom Mississippi show a yield of from 5 to 7 bushels per acre In that sti*te. In many instances hairy vetch has been sown and proved a fitilure under ordinary cultivation. As it is adapted to a considerable variety of soils and a wide area It is certain that the failure in most instances is due to the absence of the organism which produces the root tubercles and has the property of fixing the free nitrogen in the air, mak ing it available for plant food. Unless hairy vetch has already been grown successfully on a piece of ground it should be inoculated to in sure success. Inoculating material will be furnished by, and all inquiries con cerning it should be addressed to, the bureau of plant industry. United States department of agriculture, Washington. The department lias no seed of hairy vetch for distribution. GRASS AND FERTILIZER. Hen Mnanre—G. M. Clark's Fertiliser Korunlo—(irnaii After Millet. "What would be a good fertilizing mixture with hen manure for wheat and grass? I can make the hen ma nure fine so that there will be no dilli culty in sowing." For fall use in seeding you can mix 900 pounds tine hen manure, t>oo |K)iinds acid phosphate, 200 pounds dried blood or tankage and IJOO pouuds muriate of potash. On the grass we would use nitrate of soda in the spring. Any mixture of chemicals will depend oh the price at which different forms of nitrogen and phosphoric acid can be bought. In some cases fine ground bone could take the place of the blood and acid phosphate. "(Jive analysis of fertilizer used by O. M. Clark, amount per acre and bow applied, whether broadcast or In drilL How much and what seed does he use per acre?" The fertilizer used l>y Mr. Clark is about the following mixture: Four hundred pounds of nitrate of soda, 1.200 pounds of line ground bone, 400 pounds of muriate of potash. Mr. Clark uses fourteen quarts each of timothy mid redtop per acre with four to sis quarts of red clover mr acre. No. 41; tic oroancasts this seed with groat care, going several times over, so as to have au even stand. He uses from 000 to Sl*) pounds per acre each year. If we used the mixture of nitrate, bone and muriate here mentioned we would use all the bone and potash In flip fall or early September and all the nitrate in spring. This fertilizer Is all broad cast by hand. "I have five acres sown to millet which when cut I want to seed down to hay. riease let me know how tai proceed and what mixture to sow. Cround has not had anything done to it for many years and was completely; run out. the last crop being mostly, daisies: soil sandy gravel. I have plenty of horse manure at my dispos al." We should not try to seed such a field after millet. It is not fit to put in permanent meadow. We would cut the millet, give it a good manuring and sow rye-Next year after the rye is cut we would work the soil thorough ly after the Clark method, manure it again and sow grass seed alone early in September. Mr. Clark advises four teen quarts each of timothy and red top. but on lighter and poorer soil you will l>e likely to do better with eight or ten quarts each. We would use at l*»ast 300 pounds of good fertilizer per acre hi addition to the manure. We would delaj the grass seeding for a year because we do not think you can tit the soil as it should be fitted in the short time after cutting millet. That weedy anil wornout soil needs a thor ough shaking up before trying to put It into permanent meadow. July and August are far better for this work than September, and after the rye is harvested you can fit it properly. Of course you can cut the millet, spread manure, plow it under and seed with grass this fall, but we think you will be better satisfied to sow the rye and wait a year before seeding.—Rural New Yorker. Making IllKh Grade Cider VU«(u. In making cider for vinegar it is my plan to use all varieties of apples, those ripening in October being preferable, as they contain more sugar, conse quently the resulting cider and vinegar will be of a higher grade than when made from early ripening kinds. If you have-plenty of room, put the cider away in barrels in some airy building, leaving the bung out. Keep the build ing moderately warm during the win ter, using a little fire during the cold est days. This heat will retain the vinegar making process. In a year and a half from the time the cider was put In the barrels you should have excel lent vinegar. When the vinegar is as strong as you want it, rack out into other vessels, then rinse the barrels, and tliey can lie used again. The de mand for cider vinegar is good now, as a number of states have pure food laws regulating the sale of vinegar as well as other food products.—Cor. New England Homestead. Deat Way to Start Poultry Raising;. The cheapest mode to begin with pure breeds is to buy a few fowls in the fall, as prices are then usually very low, and have them on hand ready for operations in the spring, as a trio of fowls will lay three or four hundred eggs, and a year's time will be gained as compared with buying eggs In the spring. The yards of breeder* are surplus" cheap. It will be a good In- V' rnent to buy now.— P. H. Jacobs in i\ ■'i its Fiii^or. Sheep at the Bin Show. Sheep have fifteen classes and goats three, with a total class allotment of $42,800, at the Louisiana Purchase ex position. The Merino types are placed iu three classes, being separated into the wrinkly and delaine and an inter mediate class. News and Notea. Agricultural colleges are now open ing. Special education for farming is becoming an established thing. Orange J add Farmer reports the broom corn crop doing well. "Foreigners want our apples," says American Agriculturist. Earthing up the celery is now in or der. The literal policy adopted by the live stock department of the St. Louis ex position abolishes all entrance fees and pen or stall charges and offers generous prizes along both old and new lines. The actual advance this year in the price of harvesting machinery Is stated by American Cultivator as from $5 to $lO on a machine. Now for the fairs! Don't fail to do your part. A Mortified Wife. The Rev. John Mathews, who was a pioneer. Methodist preacher of Ala bama, has been remembered for his strict views and many peculiarities, ac cording to Lippincott's. His wife, who was more liberal in her ideas, was fond pt dress and once sold a bureau and with the money bought a new hat. The following Sunday Brother Mathews, being disturbed at the beginning of his discourse by several of the congrega tion turning to see the late arrivals, said: "Brethren and sisters, don't bother to look around any more; I'll tell you who comes In." This he did, calling each one by name, much to the mortification of the tardy members. His wife was among the last, and when she walked down the aisle he said: "Make way there for Sister Mathews. She is coming with a bureau on her head." Philadelphia'* first Daok. The first book of any kind published in Philadelphia was Atkin's Almanack for the year ICBO. It was an unpaged pamphlet of ten leaves, only two copies of which are now known to be in ex istence. The first copy of the Al manack printed was sent to Colonel Markham, Penn's deputy, who report ed to the council that the book had erroneously declared Pennsylvania to have been founded by "Lord Penn." The council disapproved such a high pounding title and directed the author and printer (William Bradford) to "■"forthwith and effectually blott out ye words 'Lord Penn.'" This had the ef fect of recalling the whole edition and the abolition of the obnoxious words. ThrniTluc tl»e Slipper at a Wedding. The throwing of the slipper after the bride comes apparently from barbarous times, when the relations of man and wife were really very much akin to those of master and slave, for it seems tliat the shoe was an emblem of author ity. and at an Anglo-Saxon marriage a shoe was given by the bride's father to her husband In token of transference of power over her, the groom usually indicating his appreciation of that fact by tapping his new wife lightly on the head with it. Coral From Italy. Much of tlio costly red, white and pink coral used for ornamental pur poses Is obtained from the coast of Italy. Men go out in boats and drag the rocky bottom of streams with wooden frames or nets, in which the coral becomes eutaugied, but the del icate branches are crushed in this way. The finest coral is obtained by diving.
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