VOL. XX XXI. oooo©©eo©ooo©o©©®®®®®®®®®s § GREEN & YOUNG'S 8 9 THIRD GREAT SEMI-ANNUAL o 1 SALE § 0 Starts lan. 23. at 9 o'clock in the Morning. 0 8 Every heavy garment in our store must be sold, ** regardless of cost. This is the store that is a iittle , © over one year old and has made a wonderful record for 0 Itself. We have but two sales a year—one at this JJ 0 time, and the other in August—and when we say sale " O we mean an honest sacrifice of wearing apparel for §men and boys. We do not have much room in this , small space to tell you about this wonderful sale, but will quote you a few prices:— A 4% Men's h«aTT fle«wed lined underwear, worth 50c. price. 24c. One lot «t bojn' hnvy wintt-r nclerwear, worth ! MS »*le pnoe. 10<~ W V (jgt lot of men's h**»y working coats, worth $1 M and fl «. 0 ft Oofe'lotT-f boys' kiwv p\nU Mitft, bik* from 9to 1«, at i price. o On« lot of m«-D » and boys' *miu. worth to |7 sale price. |3 <5. One l«t nu-n's and owoosta, wortn to f. sale price, +> <■> ffc All 50c ortfrnlla, 3 9c. 3? 3C Ail 50c working s.lnM, 35k:. 0 v We hare terrains sit throa*h the store. 0 RemtfUiber the date snd come t-ariy before the good nninbers are W X all picked ont 0 § Green « young, § W One-price Clothiers and Hatters, 0 5 118 South /Wain Street. 0 February Prices AT Bickel's. Men's Gray Felt Boot* and heary Goodyear—Glove overs I 1 ® Men's extra heary Goodyear —Glove Perfections 75 Men's first quality robbers Boys'first quality robbers *■» Ladiei' fine gmie robbers LEATHER 000D8. Men's fine lace shoes, tipped, latest rtyle ®# Bo s' fice lace shoes, tipped, latest «tyle Little MOtV fine lace shoes, tipped, latest style 75 I lot Men's |4 fine palest leather, vlei snd box calf shoes 2 50 Ms«'« besry fole sad Up working shoes 100 Msa's fins slippers, r.*nlsr price, fl <*> LADIES' FINE SHOES. Ladies' fl 25 wsrm lined Congress shoes 50 t^tiiit 1 fl 50 wsrm-lined lace shoes 75 One lot Misses' f 1 25 fine shoes TO Ore lot ladies' f 1 50 fine lace shoes, patent tips 1 00 Bsker tc Bowman's 94 One shoes, band tarns and hand welts 2 25 One lot Misses' fine Kaogsroo-calf fl 75 shoes 1 00 One lot Ladies' good every day shoes reduced to f5 Ladies' fl 25 fins felt slippers redbced to 75 Children's fiae shoes, wedge heel, sizes 4 to 8 * Infsnt's fine shoes'sizes 0 to 4 1® Ladies' f 1 fine Jerwty I'-ggin* reduced to 50 Ladias' fine bnckle Arctics redoewd to 50 All winter goods to be closed out regardless of cost. Sole leather by the side or cut to any amount you wish to purchase. High iron stands with four lasts for repairing. John Sickel, 138 South Main St.. Batler, Pa. 8 THE MODERN STORE S g Annual Muslin Underwear Sale. IS jj THE GREATEST 07 THEM ALL. J -5 EXTRAORDINARY FBEPARATIONS MADE. & 8 See Posters for Prices. S ff Begins Tuesday, February 2d, and continues all jn M week. Bargains in Undermnslins jn M never before offered. JR 1 EISLER-MARDOkP COriPANY, i 8 wwrK^t 1 ' f 221 Rend in Your Mail Order#. 5 fik OPPOBITK HOTEL ARLINGTON. BUTLEH, PA. Uk %WX llSltittfi "£ i Remodeling pH . Sale . Nothing reserved. Winter «cooda are to be sacrificed, beginning Hatnrday, January Mb, an<' continuing nntil January 25tb, We most empty our shelves of all onr w|nter «oo4j| pf|<*», Sj i(utntxllatejy att«r w» intend fq uiftfce some ettsnsivs alterations on our store, aad roust innkr ■ COOPER CQ„ TAILORS. A. vc i\ow occupying tlieir old loct»tii»r\ ill corner of tl"|e Diamorid. Huitw Trorn s#>ir> to Sr>(), 1 BUTLER. PA., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1904. /n§ro\ 9 CORN SYRUP M I Griddle Cakes 3 % of ell y Catarrh quickly yields to treat ment by Ely's Creum lialrn, which is agree ably aromatic. It is received through tho nostrils, cleanses and heals tho whole sur face over which it diffuses itself. Druggists sell the 50c. size; Trial size by mail, 10 cents. Test it and you are sure to continue the treatment Announcement. To accommodate those who are partial to the use of atomizers in applying iiquids into the natal passages for catarrhal troix- Uei, the proprietors prepare Cream Balm iu liquid form, which will be known as Ely's Liquid Cream Balm. Price including the spraying tube is 75 cents. Druggists or by mail. The liquid form embodies the med icinal properties of the solid preparation. Bilious Dizzy? Headache? Pain back of your eyes? It's your liver! Use Ayer's Pills. Want your cr tcard a j beautiful trcrcn or rich Hick ? Use BuekirigSsanfsDfe 50eta. of druggiitior R- P. HaJ' UCo., huhu.N.HJ FOUR-FOLD LINIMENT. FOR MAN OR BCAST. Cures Rheumatism, ! Neuralgia, spralns and Bruises. AT ALL DRUGGISTS. 25c, 50c, 11.00.' Indigestion, Dyspepsia j can be cured by I YtHbt Try it and if it | doesn't help you we S wilt pay back your | money. I Johnston's PHARMACY, 106 N. Main St. NFW lIN-W1 STOC|( 1 have purchased Ut« O. J. Harvey Pharmacy, In the Stein building, at 345 S. Main St., am remodeling and restocking the store. I have twenty-two years experience g nhsrm*cut, and compounding of prescriptions will be under my personal at tentlon. Pure d[rug- honest ment yuarant^Qd When In town shopping, stop and leave your packages. J. L. McKee, Pharmacist, 3Uilu Block, H M*in HI.. Hutlor, I'M. CONCERTS, ijjjl PIANOS JmjL m I'ltt"! \>ry Fa Binding of Books Ih «ur otC'Jpatfon. VVc put our entire time to studying tlw: b «t and latest method* of doing our work. If you are thinking of having some, work done in this line I am sure you will |>c well pleased If you have it done at The Butler Book Bindery, W. W AVON, I'roj.. Opv Court llooiu). oCC£oeie«3:?e:»t£? : i s i » a • • l W H E PJ : iSHAKESPEARE j : EHR.ED s I Dy OTUO ; o C-rviriaht ;s« <-*. r SENG A • 0 bj T. C. Mr dure • • • "That's one time when Shakespeare was in error; to didn't know what he was talking about." The youug man's tone was that of fine resenting a personal affront. His mother smiU-d und rsiandingly. "Was that when he said. 'What's in a name?"" "Of course." with aggrieved empha sis, "I don't want to fiud fault with you. mother. You're the best mother ever a fellow had, but I'd give my next year's salary, even with th • expected increase, if you had named me some thing elite —John or Tom or any other name that is pronounceable." "I don't like the name of Nebuzara don myself, but you know. Don, you were named for your father's uncle, and he was seventy years old then and Immensely wealthy." "Yes, and he is ninety-four years old now and still Immensely wealthy. And "Dim, 1 HAVE A DREADFUL COXrEBSIOH TO tIiKX." 1 am forced to sign myself 'N. Nye' and am the butt of all sorts of ridic ulous jokes on account of my name. I will not write out that naute, 'Nebuza radon,' and of course I don't want busi ness men to call mo 'Don.' as you do. One thing lam resolved upon—l shall marry a girl with an ordinary name, Mary or Elizabeth or Ann." Llis mother laughed teaslngly. "It will l»c just your fate to fall In love with a girl named Clytemncstrg." Don groaned d I tun ally, wouldn't k" within ten miles of her, and if I'm a lonely bachelor all my life you will know it is because no womifn will marry me on account of my horrible name. Let's change the subject. The people who have bought the Parker place urn tilting up the grounds beautifully. I noticed us I came by," "Ves; 1 called there today. Mrs. Holmes told me that her daughter had charge of nil that. She Is Just home from college arid Is a very changing girl. I'd like you tq gn with u»e to call on thejp They are likely to prove a very desirable acquisition to the neigh borhood." "I hope the girl's name Isn't Clytem nestra," growled Don. "Really, Don, tle-nr, I dldu't question her km tu her name, but her mother culled her Happy." "Happy, Happy," he repented -"that Is a very pretty name. Happy Holmes that Is a particularly pleasing com bination. 1 ijuvo no objection to cull ing on a girl with so attractive u name." During tlju long, bright summer Don and his new neighbor were together almost constantly. Happy's name was admirably appropriate. The sunshlnu In her heart seemed to shed Its bijglit ness on all around Htm hud a sweet, (tank mature and made no con cealment of her pleasure In Don's so ciety. The hitherto unimpressionable Don was soon deeply In love. "I'm thankful her name Isn't Clytem nestra. How mother would enjoy teas ing met 'J'hure tvuldu't be a ulcer lilt mo than Happy, and a more lovely girl doesn't exist." l>ou's detestation of his owu umue was d«.'C|i V>'tite«| and genuine. He had It nervous dread that almost amounted to horror whenever he thought of the possible dislike that Happy might have for it. "If It weren't for that lufviaui name I'd brace up pud ask her to marry me. put what g>r| would cure to have Mrs. Nelnizuradoii Nye on her visiting cards? Even If I used the name Don that would be almost as absurd." One day he cautiously sounded liu|»- py on the subject buuies. "llavo you no yams other than Happy V" he u»*>-d. "My middle name is Kens," she re filled. "I was named by my movheft aunt, who Is very wealthy, and prom ised to (pake pie tier heiress if I w.ru given her name,'* "You Should be thankful your aunt had so pretty a name," ho remarked enviously. Don's eyes were fixed on a brown lock that curled against Happy's white neck, aud he fulled to notice the pain ful Uuf.ii thut crept over her round Check, "Haven't you a middle name?" she asked presently. "No," Don answered shortly, und ab ruptly changed the subject 'llie uatiie (iuuolmU him. "Happy Ness fly." he repeated. "Happy Ness Nye! f my name were John or (Jeorge hap plii' HN might be riIkli me perhaps." When a man really cares for a girl ho r.iniill a ttilf >K as an undesirable uaniu counts for little., {lot* finally conquered the Ululdlly thai assailed him when ever he thought of himself as 'Nebusa radon' IIUd was Insanely happy over the result. "I'otl, "l"nr," said Happy a few dnys after the nrinounccment of their en gageiui-iit, "do you know what first, at tracted un- to you?" "My good looks, I e'jj>(*«•»,* answered Don confident "Nuthin* of the kind, you vain crea ture. ft was your name." "My name!" groaned Don despairing iy "Yes; If Is no short «ud easy and has sucli a phmanut, debouulr sound. I said It over and over ugntn 'Don, Don, Don Nyo.' Yes; I liked your name decided ly, and from that It was not at all n difficult matter to like you." "Happy, I have s dreadful confession to make. My name isn't really lion. That la only the final syllable of the name. Whin we are married I'll have to write my name on the records Nebu za ration Nye." Happy was silent "Does it seem so very dreadful to you, Happy? I am sorry, but I cannot help it. And you don't know how I have suffered all my life with that abominable name." "Yes, I da dear Don," cried Happy, laughing hysterically, "and the fates have surely brought us together, for my name is Kerenhappuch!" That evening Don questioned his mother. "Did you know what Happy's name really is?" "Yes, I did. but I knew you wouldn't even so to call if you knew, aud I liked her so well. Happy Is just as lovely as If her name were Mary Ann. Besides, Don," with a mischievous laugh, "they are both Scripture names." "Won't they look great on the wed ding cards." exclaimed Don —"Keren- bsppuch Ness Holmes and Nebuzara don Nye! But what's in a name"— "Then you are willing to admit that Shakespeare Y*as right"— "I admit nothing. He didn't know; he simply stumbled on to the truth. He couldn't know, for he had never seen Happy." Saved fS.OOO on a fI.OOO Salary. Three commercial tourists were swap ping yarns around the table at a down town hotel recently, and the talk drift ed to expenses. "My firm has always been liberal in the matter," said the first drummer, "but they got taken In badly once. They needed a man for the western part of the state and took on a young fellow from away down oast, who put up an elegant bluff and signed a year's contract with them for SI,OOO and $5 a day expenses, ne couldn't sell gold dollars for a nickel apiece, but he saved $2,000 that year and started In business for himself and is now one of our competitors." "Our people don't care what a man's expenses are so long as he sells the goods," said salesman No. 2, "but once in uwhile they register a kick on prin ciple. I-ant year, about this time, 1 got in from a short trip through Ohio and Kentucky. It was new ground to me, and I did fairly well. When I handed in my expense account, the Junior part ner said to me, 'See here, old man, 1 made that trip myself two years ago for $25 less than it cost you, und 1 charged up a fifty dollar overcoat.' " I'hiladelphla I'ress. Japanese Wires. The position of the Japanese wife Is not that of equality with her husband. He Is the liege lord, to be obeyed by her In the most servile manner. He ex acts from her the Uttlo attentions that an American woman expects and usu ally gets from her husband. Without so much as a murmur of complaint from his spouse, who must always re ceive him with bows and smiles and ever have her mind and eyes on his comfort, he goes and comes when he pleases. When he fares forth socially he docs not take her with him; when he receives gentlemen lu his own bouse —a rare thing, by the way-madame Seldom presents herself unless In some menial capacity. And, while such a thing as conjugal love must exist In Japan, It usually escapes the notice of the foreign sojourner, the people con sidering It vulgar ta exhibit emotion of any kind In public. The wife as a so cial unit being completely submerged, It follows thut others of her sex must take her place socially, and In this office the geisha girls play an Impor tant role.—Jason Trench lu bwart Set I'neeedvd Strata on Horses. The strength required of an averago sized team of horses and the strain on the horses to draw a heavy load aver stones or out of a deep rut hole or over many other avoidable obstacles lire often greater than to draw the same loud over a smooth surface fifty yards. It would be a small estimate to say a careless driver strulns his team in that manner tweuty times a day. if the driver prevents straining his horses twenty times each day ho will save them 1,000 yards of unnecessary pulling und In the 800 working days of the year 800,000 yurds and in five years 1,500,000 yards- yearly 1,000 miles. With proper Judgment and careful ness the driver fit the end of tho five years wl|J have, in place of a team of \veuk. overworked, bony horses, a team of hoslthy and strong ones. From a business point of view, will it not puy any horse owner, driver or teamster to be careful and considerate aud to uvold ull unnecessary strains on horses? Our Dumb Animals. SmrlltaK Oat Ilank Mills. If a bill must be sent In a letter the Safest plan Is to mil It tightly Into the shuiM) of a lamp lighter and lay It In the fold of the sheet Inclosed. Ar ranged In that fashion, the fact that It Is money canilltt Well be distinguish ed by the "feel." A thread with a knot Mm end will not be so likely to fetch a telltale fragment of the lllier paper when drawn by means of n needle through the envelope, and the smell of it will be less perceptible. »o peculiar Is the ctUlivlttUi belonging to bank or treasury notes that experts at the bu reau of engraving say that they can distinguish them when sealed In curel opes by the nose every tithe, A thief once showed to government detectives who hful caught htm that he could pick put while blindfolded from a pile of 4<>o letters every one of seven which contained paper cash merely by scent An VCnillali Kled(|«« Riprrlcnr*. An Englishman relates the following elect Iwn experience; "I was taking part in canvassing n constituency without a representative. I was announced ns a speaker nt a mass meeting held lu a large field within shadow dlstuuco of a famous cathedral. Ouo of the other orators delivered the most Im pressive speech 1 have ever heard, lie spok» of the struggle of the poor, how they had fo bear their burden. He made me almost cry by his eloquence. He talked about his own little bom©, which he only Just mtuutfed to keep together by 'the sweat of his brow.' 'Who is heV 1 asked. 'Well,' replied my friend, the candidate, 'he Is known lu his own town as "Popshop Dick" becauno h*> Is a prosperous pawn broker.'" Tin- Flrat l^sleuffraplirr. Dr. Johnson, even If we except his predecessor, Bailey, W(l# »»«>t the father of III a volume IxsUed by the feu I manuscripts comnils en manuscripts In the Welsh lan guage It Is stated that the lib a of lllu*. tratliig the meaning and correct "»»• «>f words by actual <(iie r»*se«*ded once In five or six years. They should be sown Sept. I. This Is the time they would reseefl themselves All of the seed on one plcee should l>e aoWll the same day that all may start together. I sow fourteen quarts of each kind to tho acre. Half of each kind Is sown JSf other sued should be No. 5. sown with those to raise the most val uable hoy. Use all the yard manure you can l>e fore seeding. After seeding use noth ing but bone, muriate of i*otash and nitrate of soda or their equivalent Thereafter fertilize every crop whether first or second. The second crop should be cut just before frost and the field kept clean for winter. Fields well cared for and kept clean will never winter kill, (irass fields should never be pastured. No part of the grass stand can ever be recovered except by re seeding. Eternal vigilance is the price we pay to get the best results In grass culture. My first experimental crop on sixteen acres was over sixty-four tons, and for many years the same field in two crops produced over 100 tons. The outside cost of hay produced by this method iloes not exceed $5 per ton for well dried hay In the barn. Intense cultivation had done It. It will work wonders. Tlii9 year less than eleven acres of land formerly as poor, rocky and bad as any in the county produced over 107,000 pounds of well dried hay in two crops, over seven and a half tons per acre. For eighteen years it has pro duced a similar amount.—G. M. Clark in Address Before Agricultural Stu dents of Ithode Island. Goat* at the Worl«l*a Fair. Chief F. D. Coburti of the world's fair department of live stock has received an application from John \V. Fulton, secretary of the American Angora Goat Breeders' association, for a date for a public sale of Angoras under the aus pices of that association during the pe riod of the displays of goats at the I.ou- Islana Purchase exposition. The world's fair classification gives the Angora goat much larger recognition than has been accorded to It at any previous show, al lotting to the breed $3,410 for 133 cash prizes. It Is possible for a single buck to win |230 and to aid in winning $320 additional of exposition money, togeth er with diplomas, special prizes, etc. A more active Interest In the milk goat has been developed through the atten tion paid to that animal In the world's fair live stock classification. It has been suggested to breeders that the exposition's shows at St. Louis will afford an opportune occasion for the organization of a milk goat register as sociation. This has so far received the unanimous approval of the breeders concerned, and a preliminary organlza has been made.—Nntlonal Stockman. IK Poultry Breeding. If one Is to keep poultry It is just as well to have It as good as possible. To get it so be careful In the selection of breeders. For Instance, select hens and males a cross section through which would be like Fig. 2 and not like Fig. 1. Why? Because in Fig. 2 there Is a large quantity of white meat running from the breast clear back between the CBOM MICTIONS or CHICKENS. thighs. Select breeders that have thighs and legs well apart. Thnt Is one point In breeding good poultry. Another Is In selecting birds with breasts not only full, but deep down through, nnd an other Is In selecting birds with wide backs. The narrow bird can carry lit tle flesh.—Fnrm Journal. Things litil by Others, Do not let your partnership with your boy hnve a Johnnle's-plg-nnd-dad's hog ending. Wo are willing to learn from any quarter, and the farm paper should be a clearing house of Information each week to which we come with our con clusions and get In turn the best ex perience of others. "Let us make such butter that the other fellow believes It a part of his existence to have It, then let It bo known; then are we In shape to dictate prices," says Mr. Llglity. It is now admitted that the best ed ucation of the head and the hand is that which trains both together and helps to train each by training the oth er. Good friend, raise your own mutton. If there Is a single good reason why you should not we should like to know what It Is. It Is easier to make a fool of a farm er than to make a farmer of a fool. Itllr Thrni| Don't Kill! If, Instead of shooting the birds, scotching the snake, smashing tho beetle and pinching the tiny life out of the butterfly, we were to watcli any ono of these creatures on a summer day the day would pass llko an hour, so packed with exciting experience It would seem. Through whut myste rious coverts of the woodland, Into what a haunted underworld of tunnel ed banks and hidden ditches and se cret passages tho snake would show us the way, and we should have strange hearts If, as we thus watched It through Its mysterious day, we did not find our dislike of the clever little creature dying away and even chang ing Into a deep tenderness toward the ■mall, self reliant life, so lonely a speck of existence In so vast a world.—Suc cess. Uroirlh of tho lluronn Heart. A scientific analysis of the growth of the human heart demonstrates the fact that the Increase Is greatest and most rapid during the first and second years or life. Its bulk ut the end of the sec ond year being exactly double what It originally was. Between the second and seventh years It Is again doubled In size. A slower rate of growth then sets in and continues during the perl l of a cubic Inch, the Increase ceasing übout the fiftieth year. The I»elo«e. In answer to a corresjHindent a news paper says: "The deluge mentioned In the Bible was threatened In the year 176H B. ('. and liegan oti Dec. 7, 10M 11. C., and continued 377 days. The ark rested ou Mount Ararat on Miiy 0, ltl&Ii, but Noah did not leave It until Dei-. IS following." Any reader who imagines that it would Is- an easy task to figure these details from a Biblical account can find a basis for his calcu lation* In the seventh and eighth chap ters of Genesis. An Kten Ilreah. "She's a girl after his own heart, he says." "Yes, and he's a man after her mon ey." "But you know it's whispered on tho quiet that she hasn't any money." "Well, It's a notorious fact that ho hasn't any heart."—Houston l'ost.