VOL. XXXXI.
| Great Muslin Underwear Sale
I Continued for Another Week,
From Monday, Feb. *ll, to Satnrdaj, Feb. 13th. |
——THE MODERN STORE- 1
BIGGER BARGAINS THAN EVER
New Spring Good* Arriving Dally
New Dress Goods, Silks, Wash Goods, Embroideries, g
Laces, Stock Collars, etc. -1
EISLEK-MARDOkF COMPANY,§
5 SOOTH *AI« STSEET .1 r)QI $
JB PHoiEi ;people's \ Cu\ Send in Your Mail Orders. £
jp iDsrovricE BOX I
S OPPOSITE HOTEL ARLINGTON. , BUTLRR. HV
©©©©»©«©©®©©©©©©©©®®®®®®®S
§ GREEN & YOUNG'S;!
8 THIRD GREAT SEMI-ANNUAL «
1 SALE I
O Starts Jan. 23. at 9 o'clock in the Morning. 0
© Every heavy garment in our store must be sold, „
O regardless of cost. This is the store that is a little "
© over one year old and has made a wonderful record for
8 Itself. We have but two sales a year—one at this g
time, and the other in August —and when we say sale
© we mean an honest sacrifice of wearing apparel for
© men and boys. We do not have much room in this g
© small space to tell you about this wonderful sale, but g
© will quote you a few prices:— 0
© Men's heavy dewed lined underwear, worth 50c. sale price. 20t\
(I One lot cf boy-' h«avy winter underwear, worth y, sal< price. 10 „ U
One lot of men's heavy working coats, worth fl 33 ana *1 w. **»« 0
ft OoetoTof boy*' kner pants suite, size* from H) 16. at i regular price, ft
X One lot of m» u's and boys' suit*. worth ptUXf 7 - ©
© One lot men's and boys' overcoats, worth |C to |7 sale price, fa
ft All ."Wo overnll». »9c. * Jc
X All 50c working shirts. 390. (|
x We have bargains all through the store. ©
© Remember the datt) and come early before the good number* are V
§all picked out v
„ Green » young, §
9 One-price Clothiers and Hatters, 9
0 118 South /Wain Street. 0
— I
February Prices
AT
Bickers.
Men's «ray Felt Boots and heavy Woodyear-filove over?. fl 25
{ten* extra heavy Pfpodjrear-Oloye Piffecfions 7-
Mqp'# firei qnalitK rubber*........... ............... • W
BW first qnalit/ robbers ?•>
ladies' fine grade robbers. 00
LEATHER GOODS.
BttSiSSSSSi: m& I
Little gent's fine lace shoes, tipped, latest 5ty1e....... "
1 lot Men's 94 fine patent leather, vici and box calf shoes i WJ
Men's heavy sole and tap working shoes 1 00
Men's fine slippers, regular price, $1 w
LADIES' FINE SHOES.
Ladles' |1 23 warm lined Congress shoes #0
Ladies' $1 50 warm-lined lace shoes ™
One lot Misses' 91 25 fine shoes - 4 $
3
One lot Misses' fine Kangaroo-calf $1 75 shoes. 1
One lot Ladies' good every day shoes reduced to »j>
Ladiea'sl 25 fine felt slippers reduced t0... «
Children's fine shoes, wedge heel, sizes 4 to 8 «►
Infant's fine shoes' sites 0 to 4 . ™
Ladies' $1 fine Jersey legging reduced to <w
Ladies' fine buckle Arctics reduced to
winter goods to be closed out regardless of cost. Sole
jgstyet tb| c §id| Qt cut tp acqQunt ygu to purchase.
High iron stands with foyr lasts for repairing.
John Rici<el,
128 South Main St.,
■ p Merchant Tailor. 1
I a»I
■ H 142 Nqrth Main St ■
COOPER & CO.,
fine; tailors,
Are r\ow occupying tHelr
old locatior\ at corner of
tl\e Diamoqd.
Suits from sl3 to SSO.
Subscribe for the CITIZEN
THE BUTLER CITIZEN.
NEW 858
***«" 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 ?t.. Butler. Pa.
ss7
{&F. T. Papej
% JEWELER.I
)• j i
/ 121 E. Jetferson Street. /
\ 'fo\
Family
Reur| ions!
We often cause ourselves end
!<-s- v.. .rry -md remorse by neg
.• c* do s<>ine little thing
(let .i picture of your family
am! h'-me made at your first op
portunity. We the best at
$6.00 per dozen Bxioinches and
guarantee them permanent. Let
us know in time to go out.
The Butler Dye Works
Dj t ing, Cleaning, Pressing.
R. FISHER
| Wm. Foster, j
| Architect, j
j Plan of all kind of buildings k
X tarnished on short notice. £
€ Office in Berg Building, 7
J Butler, Pa. v.
HUGH L. CONNELLY,
Wholesale Dealer in
FTne Whiskies
Fyr Medicinal Purposes,
iell Phof»e 278
People's Phone 578.
316 East Jefferson Street.
BUTLER, PA
Wm. Wuerthele,
Billiard and Pool Tables. Bar Fix
tures, Offlcee Desks, Chairs, Tables,
Partitions, Bookcases, etc. Turning of
Billiard and Pool Balls. Bowling Alley
Equipments. 418 Diamond
Above Smithfield St.) Pittsburg, Pa.
IH-03-Gm
REMOVAL.
We have removed our Marble and
Granite shops from corner of Main and
Olav streets to No. N. SJaja street
"(J. 1 re^ence);
where we will be pleased to meet our
customers with figures that-are fight
OB
Monuments & Headstones
of all kinds and are also prepared
to give best figures on
Iron Fence, Flower Vases
as we secured ooleagepv/
train Hie ytewa'ft Jro» Works of Cin
cinnati, Ohio, for this town and vicinity.
P. n. Secliler
Do You Buy Medicines ?
Certainly You Do.
Then joy want the best for tfo£
least money. That Is our motto.
Come and see us when i:i need ol
anything in the Drug Line and
we are sure you will call again.
We carry a full line of Drugs,
Chemicals, Toiltt Articles, etc.
| Purvis' Pharmacy
8. G, PUPYJB; Pit ft
Both Phones.
213 S. Main St. Butler Pa.
Butler, Fa.
Drying preparations simply devt:-
opdry catarrh; they dry up the secret-.oi.s,
which adhere to the membrane and decom
pose, causing a far more serious trouble than
the ordinary form of catarrh. Avoid all dry
ing inhalants, fumes, smokes and snuUs
and use that -which cleanses, soothes and
hf-nla Ely's Cream Balm is such a remedy
and will cure catarrh or cold in the head
easily and pleasantly. A trial size will be
mailed for 10 cents. All druggists sell the |
50c. size. Ely Brothers, 5G Warren St., K.Y. |
The Balm cures without pain, does not
irritate or cause sneezing. It spreads itself j
over an irritated and angry surface, reliev
ing immediately the painful inflammation, j
With Ely's Cream Balm you are armed ,
against Nasal Catarrh and Hay Fever.
Cross
Poor man ! He can't help it.
It's his liver. He needs a
liver pill. Ayer's Pills.
| ! Want your moustache or tcard a ]
beautiful brtnra or rich black ? Use
| Buckingham's Bye ;
50ctf. of dru££is?sor X. ° Hail & Co., N»»h\:2.V. *■;
jTFor Rheumatism,
| Cold in Chest,
| Sore Muscles,
| Stiff Joints.
I USE
Ifgur-fold
i LINIMENT.
jS "IN use OVER FIFTY YEARS."
Indigestion, j
I Dyspepsia j
I cao be cared by '
Ytnot
Try it and if it
j doesn't help you we
will pay back your
I money.
Johnston's
PHARMACY,
106 N. Main St.
CORCENTS,
" PitVd'U'K. Pa
Don't Know That?
That Stem's Creamery and Milk
depot at the rear of 417 South
1 Main street is in operation?
If IS!
• if yot} want good M<lk.
Creani, Creamery Butter ur Butter
! wUk, nail and see us or watch for
our wagon.
; People's Phone 435. Bell Phone liCJ'.
ASK YOUR GROCER for Stern's
| Boiled Cider in quart iars.
We f?nar?,a 4 .mc -pVoducts pure
ana free from any adulteration.
} J. H STEEN'S CREAW^RY.
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 of
| uaytHg frymc vy.orV, done in this
line I sure you will be well
ojeasecj if yqy have it done at
- The Butler Book Binder;,
f vv. W. AMON. Pron.
Opp Court House.
r i. i'
P Pearspp 15, Nace's
i.
r Livery Feed and Sale Stable
Rea* of
J Wick House Butler- Penn'i
'* The best of horses an<l first class rigs *1
j wavs on hand and for hire.
' Tlftit accommodations In town for perma
nent boardlni? aud VfaAe. Specl
*1 i:are ""
Stable Room For 65 Horses
I A good c ass of horses, both drivers a.id
I draft horses always on hand and for sale
under a lull guarantee; and horses bough
u in urqi>ej bj
PEARSON B. NAee.
Temunone No. 21 .
BUTLER, PA., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1904.
: VOICE AND !
: VIOLIN |
♦ :By to. tS V. Hrnej J
♦ t
♦
♦ Copyright, 1900. by T. C. McClure ♦
Herman Muller was thrifty, very
Bhy, very musical and very much In
love. The fact that he was very shy
and very much In love disturbed him
greatly, and tho fact that he was very
musical disturbed other people, par
ticularly the people In the house where
he boarded. This house was in a very
quiet part of Brooklyn, and from it
Herman went to his work in New York
every morning and returned in the
evening. During business hours, from
0 to 5, he was Herman Muller, head
bookkeeper for the importing firm of
Drummond & Hart. After business
hours he was "that moon eyed Dutch
man who plays the fiddle."
Herman had tried one boarding
house after another, but never had he
found one where violin playing at
night was encouraged either by land
lady or the other boarders. Finally
he had moved into this house and. In
desperation, resolved to brave all the
unkind remarks. The quiet part of the
city suited him, and really the other
boarders were not as entirely unrea
sonable as some others he had known.
Opening on to his room was a small
fire escape balcony, and he had secured
permission to sit on this in the even
ings and play his violin softly. The
softness was stipulated by the con
cessionnaires. It was very cold on the
balcony in winter time, but he was al
ways cheered up by the society of his
beloved "fiddle" and the knowledge
that spring was coming.
And it was in the spring that he fell
in love —not once, but twice. Now, it
was grateful to his Teutonically senti
mental soul to fall in love, but it is dif
ficult even for a German musician to
love two women at once with whole
sotiled enthusiasm. Yet he was not ex
actly in love with two women—he was
In love with a woman and with a voice.
The woman was the new stenogra
pher in the office of Drummond & Hart.
Slender, brunette and dainty, she was
In every respect antithetical to the big.
BE WORK*!) PIB WAV At-ONO FROM TUB
¥M(K IWOAVE.
blond, untidy looking fellow who so ad
mired her at first sight. But Herman
was a handsome fellow despite the
careless manner in which he dressed,
and the new stenographer often glanced
at him approvingly when she knew he
was looking the other way.
Mr. Drummond, the senior partner In
the firm, introduced Herman tq the
new stenographer. JJe knew {jermau's
repytatKin fur hiiyr<o«s and only by a
great effort kept down a smile when he
saw the big German blush conspicuous
ly upon meeting the frnnk glance of
the young girl. The introduction over,
Herman promptly turned to his books,
more for the purpose of letting the
blush die away than for Qny wthei-. rea
son. As Jifc pureu over the books he re
sected with delight that the girl's name,
Helen Dumont, was a name that emi
nently suited her.
It was uet {msinosa h»um were
gv'er, bis dinner eateu and the violin
MOd himself In close companionship on
the little balcony that he decided he
Was at last In love. Then he took the
violin Into his confidence, cuddling It
up to his chin and playing very softly
a little love song of the Ithlne country.
It was a light thing, rippling sun
shiny. ami t M express his feei
pigi}.' fie wcindered If Uolen was mu
sical. She must be, her face was BO
sensitive, he decided.
As he played he heard a window
raised In the house next door and re
flected unenslly that some one would
probably shout across to him to keejj
his fiddle playing for daytime.
However, pretest came, and he
yiiunged the air he was playing to
Schubert's serenade. Scarcely had he
taken up the measure of this than Uo
ljeard a voice LUu. No
yr.or«ft H was a sort of hum-
V'tuK. but iu a voice of so pure a so
prano quality that he was thrilled
ftrqpgli and through. Then he played
one of Bauer's peasant love songs, and
the voice still accompanied him, this
time singing the words very softly.
Ilut other windows In his own house
were raised to protest at the music.
From the window tfce sat
■ fllvera taudk ftoiuW'oui'. The wln-
Jtoft' closed,' and ihu voice amunpauled
|iis music na mure that night.
day at the office he stole many
furtive glances at Miss Dumont and
tried to decide whether he was In love
■with her or with the voice he had
heard the night before. Already bo
was beginning *0 of 11 us TW#
k.uUiu, nientarfy Wpltallzing the words.
BefoPe the day was over he decided
that he was In love with Helen Du
mont. The graceful turn of her head
And the purity fnnrpswion in hei> U»ts
*ywi seemed t« him worth all
the voices In the world. But In the
evening The Voice again accompanied
his violin playing, and for an hour ho
was near to forgetting Miss Dumont
This went on nil through the Hiring,
nnd Herman began to lose l»t»<UsK
the Bftftlu lit Yo decide whether
lie' was In love with a beautiful girl
or a beautiful voice. Time and again
be wrestled unavailingly with the shy
ness which prevented him from g«t
ting better a£q\iaintps wHh l>u-
Wont, tiw often met her on his way
home in the evening and knew that
she lived somewhere close, but he
could never <juite get his courage up
to the point of asking permission to
call on her.
Thou he made up his mind that he
would sec the owner of The Voice. He
knew Uiat slio lived in the house next
to the place where he boarded, but a
projecting bay window cut off the
view of this house from his window,
and he had no way of kno-n-infj what
room the owner of The Voice occupied.
One evening in June he made his
opportunity. At the end of a waltz
song which he had been playing he
softly laid down his violin and stepped
on to the nest fire escape balcony. He
was long armed and athletic, so It
was with little difficulty that he work
ed his way along from one fire escape
to another until he had rounded the
point of the bay window. The bright
moonlight made him easily visible on
the fire escape, and he knew that he
stood an excellent chance of being
shot for a burglar, but physical danger
was not half so terrifying as the pros
pect of continuing longer with his love
divided between a voice and a woman.
As he reached the po!:it of the bay
window he |>eeped cautiously around
it. He saw a girl leaning out of a win
dow. and he instantly darted bnck. The
girl was Ili'len Dumont. lie had not
known she lived so close to liiai. and
he hoped she had not seen him. lie re
solved to wait where he was until the
girl with The Voice should come back
to her window. lie had to wait only a
few momenta before lie heard The Voice
humming the refrain of the waltz song
which he had been playing a few min
utes before. Again peeping cautiously
around the wall, he again saw only
Helen Dumont. She saw him and
laughed that sweet, silvery laugh he
had heard before.
It struck him suddenly and very
forcibly that he was a foot, a big Ger
man, musical, sentimental fool. The
owner of the voice was Helen Dumont.
Therefore he must be twice as much in
love with Helen as he had thought it
possible to love a woman. Very quiet
ly he made his way back to his own
balcony and picked up his violin again.
If, stupid fool that he was. he could
not speak for himself, he could make
his instrument speak for him. The
Voice was silent, but he did not care.
He knew that she must understand.
As a finale he played a composition of
his own only in time to escape epithets
hurled at him from half a dozen near
by houses.
And, once having told his love with
the violin, he had less difficulty than
lie anticipated when he caTled on Hel
en Dumont the following evening and
proposed in due form.
Mr. and Mrs. Herman Muller live In
one of New York's prettiest suburbs, In
a cottage where violin music and sing
ing can disturb no neighbors. The wife
is Just as happy us a wonmn can be
who takes vast pride in her husband's
talent and stupidity. She is even
prouder of his stupidity than of his
talent. Herman—well, he has never
got over fulling In love with his wife
twice, a thiug possible only to stupid
ity like this.
He Ha<l Not Invested.
There is no more effective weapon
against an evil minded man than ridi
cule. "I would sooner undertake to
disperse a mob, could I get its ear, by
ridicule than by the bayonet," wrote
the Rev. T. P. Hunt, an old time tem
perance lecturer, whose own quick wit
saved him frequently from rough
usage.
At one of his lectures, when the
cause of temperance was new, Mr.
Hunt heard a gentleman, evidently of
considerable Influence, haranguing the
crowd against temperance. As the lec
turer passed the door he heard this
man say:
"It is nothing but a money making
Bcheme."
"Sir." Hunt replied quickly, "yon do
not believe that, and I can prove it."
The man defied him to do 80.
"You are a stranger to me," said Mr.
Hunt, "but I Judge from your appear
ance that you pay close attention to
your own affairs and are always look
ing for good investments. You are
hunting for good bargains. Is it not
so?"
The man admitted that it was, and
some one In the crowd shouted, "lle'H
a regular skinflint}''
"Well, gentlemen," resumed the lec
turer, "I have been two days endeav
oring to get him to Join the temper
ance ranks. If he believed it to be a
money making business, wouldn't he
have taken stock?"
"Yes, yes," came a shout from the
crowd. Mr. Hunt'n opponent escaped
as quickly ft" he could, while the lis
teners hailed him with laughter and
cries of "Join, colonel! Join! Take
stock! Take stock! We won't belieYO
you If you don't!"
ri(ktlnc a River.
Few features of the strange lands of
central Asia are stranger or more cele
brated than the great Amu Darla, the
ancient Oxus, which has been attempt
ing once more to change its bed. For
more than two and a half ceuturte*
this river has flowed Ulto the Aral sea,
but for 'IOU year# before that, accord
ing to ancient records, its destination
was the Cuspiun, while it has changed
its whole course in the same way yet
once agalu within the period of which
there are records remaining in the later
classical authors. At the beginning of
last month for the ftrat lime in several
generations the Amu Darin began to
break new ground again. Swollen by
unusual floods, it began to drive a
channel in the direction of a prosper
bus town which has sprung up of re
cent years in the neighborhood uf a
yreut l>rWg« oa the Trauscaspluu rail
way line. A thousand men huve beeu
engaged day and night for weeks past
coiktttructiug dams to protect this town
and keep back the river In Its old bed,
and the cost of the work has already
amounted to many thousands of dol
lars.
A l>rtrlAv.«l Mat,
Abftnt four years ago, according to
the I'rescott (Ariz.) Courier, Charles
Erwln paid a visit to the petrified for
est of Arizona and while there left a
large sombrero under the natural
bridge near the falls and in such a po
sition that the water dripped on it
One side of the rim was up iu
the crown, and TVere worked
u cord the'letters "C. E." In this
Inee the hat remained until about a
month ago, when Mr. and Mrs. George
ItufTner were visiting the pJftCC.
win gave tbeui a description of the lo-
Cfttiuw of his "plant," and thither they
went and found the hat A complete
petrification of the chapeau had taken
place. It was absolutely stone. Mrs.
Kuffner brought it home with her and
now has it, regarding It as one pf
choice curios of her
Nothlnit Done.
"You know, they say money talks,"
suggested the woman with the sub
scription paper, cheerfully.
"Well. I never v;aa :\ny Iwml
! tfavaWßi replied the close
I fiateti millionaire.— Syracuse Herald.
"Quick as thought" is not very quick.
' While a light wave would travel
| around the equator In a ai-cond a uervu
| wave {tidlSVi Uut about 100 feet a sec
ond.
TERROR OF THE SEAS
UNCLE SAM S FIRST STEAM WARSHIP,
THE DEMOLOGOS.
Fulton's Masterpiece That Startled
Englnnd, but W«« Sever In a
Flslit—lie.- Peaceful Career Ended
In an t'Bfortsnate Tragedy.
In these days of naval activity fill
over the world, wheu each new scheme
in marine architecture is perfected ouly
to be surpassed by some newer inven
tion. it is seldom recalled that the first
steam battleship the world ever saw
was built by an American for America.
The story of the Demologos is an all
but forgotten Incident in naval annals,
yet she was the wonder of 1. r day and
her career, before her my - : ious and
tragic passing. quite i Vturesque
enough to warrant the retching.
Planned by Robert Fulton, built by
order of James Madison, the Demolo
gos appears in histcry in ISI4. Those
were days when the good folk of the
towns along the Atlantic seaboard
walked In fear of attack from English
ships and slept lightly through trou
bled dreams. Our fleet of privateers
had borne themselves gallantly and
well at sea, but the coast lay unpro
tected. President Madison and his ad
visers at Washington were quite as
much concerned over this as the fish
ermen of Maine and Delaware, and
then came Fulton with his proposal of
a "floating battery."
The strange little craft of his sugges
tion corresponds most nearly perhaps
to what we of today might call an un
protected gunboat for coast and harbor
service, but she had "freak" features.
In addition to the boilers that were to
supply steam for the first time to a
fighting ship she was to be fitted with
furnaces In which her shot might be
heated before firing. In addition to her
twenty-six thirty-two pounders she was
to carry four guns, two forward and
two aft, which it was planned should
be hung over bow or stern, as the case
might be, with the idea of discharging
heavy shot into the side of an enemy
well below the water line. She was to
l>e fitted with pumps and pipes through
which large quantities of water might
be spouted upon the decks and into the
ports of her adversary. "She will be
the most formidable fighting ship ever
constructed," wrote Mr. Fulton in con
clusion.
The scoffers laughed, and the ob
jectors argued, but James Madison ap
proved and worked to such good pur
pose that on March 14, 1814, the houses
of congress appropriated $220,000 to
build the craft. Fulton was named
engineer, and before June had passed
the keel had been laid in the New York
yards of Adam & Noah Brown. On
Oct. 29 she was launched, the focus of
a national celebration, with thousands
gathered along the river fronts and
upon the shipping that filled New York
bay to cheer, not the Fulton the
First, as the president had suggested
the vessel be christened, but the De
mologos, or "defender of the people," a
name chosen by the designer himself,
who turned to the classics as well as
to the elements for his inspirations.
She was a mighty craft. The boiler,
over which the doubters shook their
heads in fear, was 22 feet long by 12
wide and 8 deep. Her 2:475 tons were
to be driven by a water wheel sixteen
feet In diameter. She was 150 feet
over all, 50 feet beam, and her greatest
depth was 20 feet.
This is how the commission intrusted
by President Madison with her con
struction described the Demologos:
"She Is a vessel resting upon two keels,
separated from end to end by a canal
fifteen feet wide and sixty-six long.
One section contains the caldrons of
copper to prepare her steam. The vast
cylinder of iron, with its piston, levers
and wheels, occupies the other. The
great water wheel revolves in the space
between. She Is propelled by her en
ginery aionv.
"The main, or gun, deck supports her
armament and is protected by a bul
wark four feet ten Inches thick of sol
id timber. This is pierced by portholes
to enable lier 32 pounders to fire redhot
shot. Her upper, or spar, deck is
plain."
Small wonder that England was ter
rified! One of the London Journals
whose agent In New York had gath
ered his information through many
devious channels gave this account of
the Demologos under the line "Terror
of the Seas:"
"Length on deck, 300 feet; breadth,
200 feet; thickness of sides, 13 feet, of
alternate oak planks and cork wood;
carriiM torty-two guns, four of which
are 100 pounders, the quarter deck and
forecastle guns being 44 pounders. Fur
ther to annoy on enemy attempting to
board her, she can discharge 100 gal
lons of boiling water a minute and by
mechanism brandish WX) cutlasses with
the utmost regularity over her gun
wulett: works also on an equal num
ber of Iron pikes of great length, dash
ing them from her sides with prodi
gious force and withdrawing them ev
ery quarter of a minute."
But this marvelous and dreaded ves
sel never faced an English foe. She
made her trial trips, three of them, !a
tho summer of 1815, establishing a
"record" of fifty-three miles In eigtt
hours without her armament and e?
five and a half miles att hour whe.n
fully fitted. then, Just as si/e
might cut for herself a place In
history with her redhot shot and boil
ing water and "submarine" guns, peace
with ENglaud was declared.
The good Demologos was never l W
Into commission. What had a coun n
at peace with all the world to do w
so formidable a craft? She Is cid»iv<' 4
ed, they said at Washjftsnuv and i
can be got fyr s*u-vice at sfe
notice. Boud liur over to the new no •
y-tud at Brooklyn. And so the "ter
pf the seas" crossed the bay and stea
ed up the East river and was anchoi
off the flat 'hat lay abreast of the n
fon in those days, when river and hsr
tov improvement committees vyeye
•Lings not j'et imagined. there for
fourteen years sb?. watvhed the chang
ing seasuui. her protected wheel, unoil
nl, asleep in its well, her water unboil
ed and her shot unlieated, yet not whol
ly useless, for she was the rece\yUi|f
•hip.
The vuuiw en a June evening In
IH2U. came suddenly, mysteriously,
tragically. There were visitors aboard,
examining, perhaps, those four famous
"submarine" guns of which «uch
ruiglity things had been when
there came 11 and the Do.
inologOA \uy ruined and blackened
Wtt'vk, with twenty five d.-'ad upon the
decka that had never before t.>-.'n stain
ed with blood. This much the official
reports tell, though they thn no light
on the cause of the catastrophe. And
■o closed 111 tn peaceful
Mf tho world's ttrst steam bat
tleship.—Warwick James I'rito iu New
York Mail and Express.
NAPOLEON'S DOWNFALL.
ftont** I'ufMinr Dflniilona About the
llntlle of Waterloo.
Three of the commonest delusions
about Waterloo are:
First.—That Napoleon h;iil the fines,
ami J he over comma udetl. Nothing i
more fais»>. Tlie meu mistrusted their
officers, the officers mistrusted the fu
ture. Every department was hopeless
ly short of capable leaders, and as for
the marshals whom he had relied on
for his former triumphs he now lacked
Massena, I.annes, L»avout, Marmont.
Murat, Berthier, to take but six. As
for the Old Guard of Austerliti, Jena
end Wagram, it had died In Russia,
and especially at Vllna, while those of
his men who were not "Maria Louises"
had either been cowed in Prussian
fortresses or Russian prisons or bro
ken at Vittoria or after Lelpsic. His
cavalry was undisciplined and badly
led. Its horses untrained and half
starved.
Second.—That Wellington, as he de
clared, had an "infamous army," the
worst he ever commanded. It is true
that the Americans can lay unction to
their souls from the fact that the best
regiments we had at Waterloo were
those they had Jnst so severely re
pulsed at New Orleans. Henceforth
their pride in Waterloo is that "des
vainqueurs des vainqueurs du monde."
Yet men of the rifle brigade, of the
King's Own and of the Forty-fourth
regiment were not troops that even
Wellington could Justly decry. It Is
true that of his 08,000 troops only 24,-
000 were English, but the German le
gion, the Hanoverians and the Bruns
wickers were as good.
Third.—That, as Sir William Frnser
considered, Wellington, unassured of
Blucher's aid, wonld have declined the
battle. Whether Wellington could have
declined battle without losing Brussels
or the campaign is a problem for ex
perts, but he had certainly no right to
count on Blucher for the 18th. Wel
lington had half promised to help
Blucher at Llgny, but found himself
unable to do so, though pinned by an
Inferior general and a smaller army
than his own. After Llgny, Wellington
might hope for a juncture with Blu
cher. but he could not reasonably expect
sufficient of the Prussian army to ex
tricate him. Blucher himself was like
ly enough to turn up—in fact. Napoleon
told Gourgaud that this cerveau brule
would have rushed to Wellington, If
only with two battalions.—Henry Fol
jambe Hull in Spectator.
A Medical Incident In "RonoU."
Is it not surprising that George Eliot,
with nil her knowledge of the inner
most workings of the human mind,
should have lost her way when denling
with the morbid changes of mind and
brain? Tito's father, Baldassare, bad
been a great scholar, but after a long
Illness his memory upon recovery be
came a perfect blank; he could recall
nothing of his scholarship, though he
had not forgotten who he was. With
all this, Baldnssare Is not represented
as having lost his reason. He remem
bers his past life, but he can no longer
read or write or recnll any of his
scholarship for which he had been so
distinguished. It was not amnesia nor
agraphia with which he was afflicted.
It was a form of cerebral disease
known only to the eminent novelist-
British Medical Journal.
A Matter of Opinion.
Time was—and this, too, in modern
ages—when no one was considered a
scholar unless he could discourse in
Greek, and In one age of the world red
eyes were In the highest type of beau
ty. In China now the greatest beauty
Is the one with the smallest feet. In
I'eru a lady is not considered dressed
unless her face Is hidden. A dozen
different doctors will maintain conflict
ing opinions touching both diagnosis
and remedy in a sick patient. A story
Is told of a certain artisan who was de
signing so simple a thing as an ax
helve. Seven different people who pro
fessed to know what was the correct
thlpg advised him to make It In seven
different ways. He followed no one's
advice, but made a perfect helve —this
according to his own opinion. Ex
change.
The Size of the Moon.
As seen by different persons, the size
of the moon varies from that of a cart
wheel to a silver dollar. To many it
seems about a foot In diameter, from
which Professor Young concludes that
to the average man the distance of the
surface of the sky is about 110 feet It
is certain that artists usually represent
the moon much too large In size In their
paintings. Occasionally they represent
It in evening scenes with the horns
turned downward instead of upward,
whereas they must always point away
from the su::. The true angular size of
the m.-.on is about half a degree, so
that If can always be concealed behind
n lead pencil held at arm's length.
GAMES OP CHILDREN
SURVIVALS, AS A RULE, OF ANCIENT
RITES AND CUSTOMS.
"London Bridge" POMMUI »n R*-
eeedlnffly SlnUler Significance, and
••Hopscotch" Originated In the Old
Myth of the Mlnotaur*a Labyrinth.
It Is a fact that English boys and
girls In tboir plays and pastime® are
the unconscious keepers of the archaic
archives of our forbears. Children are
Instinctive conservatives. They play
the old games and repeat the old
rhymes century after century with lit
tle If any variation.
"Blind man's buff." for example, a
survival of tUo rites peculiar to the
worship ttf Odin, the sightless deity, is
pUural today exactly as it was played
2,000 years ago.
So, too, is "tag," which was original
ly a fragment of a sacred pantomime
or miracle play, portraying the old, old
story of Diana and her nymphs.
In "London bridge is broken down"
we are treated to the eutlre ritual of the
foundation sacrifice, that widespread
liideoUH custom which decreed that a
living child must be sacrificed to the
god of the structure ere it could be ex
pected to stand firm.
First, it will be remembered, the chil
dren urge alteruaUve ipeasures. "Lon
don IU"MB*> broken down!" cry the
leaders, standing with uplifted
hands clasped so as to form an arch,
beneath which the other little players
race as If in dreud.
"Build it Ul> with brleks and mortar,"
is tt\o *eply.
v ßricks and mortar will moid nwny."
"liulld it up with penny loaves, with
Kukl und silver, set a man to watch all
day, set n dog to bark all night," tvnd
the rest of it.
Then, lastly, the hauda are unclasped,
the "urcli" falUk eatchlng one of the
players, preferably a little girl, In its
uiock descent, after which all the chil
dren shout in unison: "Hurrah! Hur
rah! Now 'twill last for aye and a day,
with a fair lady,"
An allied *«uie Is called "threading
the needle." A chain of children pass
under nn arch formed by the uplifted
Joined bauds of two other children, one
being eventually taken lurteoner In the
usual way. SusfHix children say this
"makes the wheat grow." »encb chil
li i;vu cry in unison while racing under
the arch: ouU. outs! May tha
No. G.
good God prosper you!"
Here we get a relic of the immola
tion of the meriah. or sacred sacri
ficial victim, to the com god of the an
cients, a custom once everywhere prev
alent, and continued until quite lately
at Benin city, in India, and elsewhere.
"Hopscotch" is an old frame. Its gfrm
was almost certainly the labyrinth and
the well ulgh universal myth of the
Minotaur. Afterward. 011 the introduc
tion of Christianity, the labyrinth was
abandoned, to be replaced by the
ground plan of the basilica, the earliest
Christian church.
The players divided it In seven parts,
a 9 they believed heaven to be divided,
and placed paradise in the position of
the altar, the inner sanctum of their
earthly church. The whole game came
then to represent the progress of the
soul from earth to heaven through va
rious intermediate states, the name
given to the last "court" being invaria
bly "paradise" or its equivalent.
Well worship, one of the earliest and
most widespread of religious cults, is
symbolized in many games, notably
in the one where the children sing:
Draw a patl cf water
For a lady's daughter.
The seesaw movement of the players
at the beginning of this ancient and
Btill popular game is intended to repre
sent the raising of the water from the
well. Next is announced the arrival of
the devotee, "my lady's daughter,"
collecting flowers for decking the well
(shrine), making a cake for presenta
tion to the god (or goddess) of the well,
offerings of jewelry, and so on. It can
be by no mere chance that a game
played by rustic village children today
duplicates step by step each detail of
the ritual of the primitive well wor
shipers.
It Is the same with almost all the
genuine old children's games. Every
where can be traced degenerate, frag
mentary survivals of the social life,
ceremonies and religious practices of
our early ancestors.
"Here we go round the mulberry
bush," for Instance, is a survival of
tree worship. "Cat cradle," played prac
tically by all savage and civilized peo
ples the world over, has its hidden
significance of horrid rites. It is a com
monplace, the important part played in
black magic by string, cords and knots.
But It is the so called matrimonial
games that throw the most lurid light
on the social manners and customs of
our prehistoric savage forefathers.
"Here we come gathering nuts in
May" symbolizes that earliest form of
Kxual union, marriage by capture. In
is game, as played to this very day
en many a British village green, there
enters absolutely no element of love or
courtship. The object of each malo
child Is to obtain possession of a fe
male child by brute strength, and l:o
always tries his luck or his skill "on
n cold and frosty morning," of course.
In those dim, faraway days there
were no roads. Across the frozen mo
rasses Into the wildest recesses of the
swampy "forest primeval" he could
under such atmospheric conditions
benr his bride In safety.
"Kiss in the ring" brings us down to
a far later date. The evolution of mar
riage has reached the point at which
choice or se ,o ~t'~iu bee iu<« the domi
nant factor, althootfu . T3 is still the
pretense of away tlio fclgnnl
resistance to capture and Us concomi
tant betrothal.
Still more modern is the game known
as "knights from Spain," In which one
lid stands out pre-eminently from the
•tbers.
"I am a gentleman come from Spain;
I've come to court your daughter Jane,"
chants the child suitor, to which the
"mother" of the assembled girls makes
reply:
"My daughter Jane Is yet too young
To listen to your forward tongue."
There Is much more In the same style,
but It ends up with the chorus, sung „
by both 6ides (all the children) in uui
son:
"Let her be young or let her be old
It's for her beauty she must be sold."
Ilerc we get, of course, marriage by
purchase, which everywhere supersed
ed In course of time marriage by cap
ture and which is not even yet by any
means entirely extinct.
The worldwide custom which decreed
that the bride should make and bake
some dainty for her spouse on the wed
ding eve Is daintily symbolized in the
favorite old Kentish singing game:
(Polly) made a pudding so nice and sweet.
And (Johnnie) got his knife and cut It
round so neat.
Saying. "Taste, love, taste, love, don't say
nay.
For tomorrow-morrow-morrow Is our
wedding day."
Our bought wedding cake is of course
an unsentimental survival of this pret
ty custom.
But perhaps the most Interesting
from the ethnologist's point of view of
all children's games is that where the
players sing the old familiar refrain,
commencing:
Sallle, Sallle, water,
Sprinkle In the pan,
Cry Sallle, cry Sallle,
For a young man.
Here "water" is not the surname to
Sallle, but actual water, as the con
text, "sprinkle In the pan," plainly
shows. It is a relic of water worship,
which everywhere has to do with love,
marriage and children. "Cry" does not
mean to weep, but to "cry" aloud her
wish (for a young man), as the town
"crier" to this day "cries" things or as
children "cry" forfeits.
Note that it Is the girl now that
makes known her need of a husband.
The game Is, in fact, a survival of the
matrlarchate of our remote pre-Celtic
progenitors, thnt strange, little under
stood custom which gave to the women
the privilege of wooing, of ruling, of
inheriting, and relegated man to an al
together subordinate iwsltion in the
communal homestead.—Pearson's Week
ly.
FOREIGN FACTS.
In Bombay and Calcutta cripples and
lepers are still allowed to stand in
rows In the streets begging alms.
If the present rate of slaughter be
continued elks threaten to become ex
tinct lu Sweden, this season's bag al
ready totaling 3,000.
Something like three-fourths of ti»c
annual expenditure of tlie Turkish gov
ernment lias of recent years been for
arms unil munitions of war.
On the boundary between Spain and
Portugal automobiles going at a furi
ous speed and refusing to stop have
come Into use for smuggling purposes.
The Austrian emperor the other day
gave a golden chain to a widow at
Itraunau whose twelve musical sons,
after serving lu the army, have formed
a military family band.
Refore the gambling establishments
at Ilomburg were closed, in 1872, the
annual number of visitors was iJI,OOO.
Tills number fell at once to 10,000 and
Is at present about 12,000.
The Irrigation commission appointed
by Lord I'urzon has unanimously rec
ommended the expenditure of £29,000,-
(HMt In damming the rivers of southern
India in order to reclaim deserts uud
end the famine.