VOL. XXXXI. BICKEL'S FALL FOOTWEAR. Largest Stock and most Handsome Styles of Fine Footwear we Have Ever Shown. Sorosls Shoes. Twenty new Fall styles—Dongola, Enamel and Patent-kid, made in the latest up-to-date styles. Extremely large stock of Misses' and Children's fine shoes In many new and pretty styles for fall. MAM'A DL aaa Showing all the latest styles in men S onoes Men's fine shoes, all leathers, $2.00 to $6.00. Complete stock of Boys', Youths' and Little Gents' fine shoes. Prices this Fall will be lower than Tast season as prices on stock are lower and consequently will be able to give much better values for the money. A complete stock of Cokey's hand-made box-toe and plain toe shoes. High-cut copper-toe shoes for boys and good water-proof school shoes for girls. Large stock of Women's heavy shoes in Kangaroo-calf and oil-grain for country wear. RUBBER AND FjU G<|JJ (Wr stock of Rubber and Felt Goods is extremely large, and owing to the large orders which we placed, we were able to get very close prices and are in a position to offer you the lowest prices for best grades of Felts and Rubber Goods. An Immense business enables us to name the very lowest prices for reliable footwear. When in need of anything in our line give us a call. Repairing promptly done. JOHN BICKEL, BUTLER, PA. |" 1M PORT A NT."" | [ We seldom refer to the fact thatO i iwe are sole agents for the celebrated* > ! Patterns, but we call par-|£ | Jticular attention to it just, now for this] | J [season. All Standard Patterns 10c< [ Oand 15c, none higher. You can now* > Zbuy the best Pattern for same price i Xas the cheapest are sold for. Oncel I Xuse Standard Patterns you will here-J \ •after use no other. All seams allowed.] | |Mrs. J. E. Zimmerman.; X Bell PboMtot. P„ , . O People's Phone Itt. 13 Lit J er, tr" ti . < \ aa a ii a A a Afh A M n J i )POQOPO<IOOQQ9tfOO(?9QOOOfXXK^ A Determination Sale Ever hear of one? We call it a DETERMINATION SALE because we are determined to carry over no Spring and Summer goods if cut prices will remove them. No matter what the loss. Here are some of our prices: Choice of a lot of 2 Piece Suits that sold for $lO and sl2 for $5. Fine Blue Serge and Cheviot Suits regular $lO and sl2 values closing price $6.75. Balance of our line of $13.50 and sls suits, comprising, Cheviots, Casslmeres and Worsteds for SB. Any suit that formerly sold at $lB and S2O for sl2 Grand bargains in our Children's Department. Extraordinary values in Men's Pants. Men's Furnishings at unheard of Low Prices. schaul & Nast, LEADING CLOTHIERS AND FURNISHERS, 137 South Main St., Butler. KECK Merchant Tailor. Spring & Summer Suitings N JUST ARRIVED. vy 142 North Main St. vy KECK ~ _ || PARK INSTITUTE, « ii 8 North Ave. West, Allegheny, Penn'a. ** )[ FULL BUSINESS, ii il SHORTHAND AND § ENGLISH COURSES.|* nt We teach the Budget System of Bookkeeping •• f J and McKee and the Graham Systems of T ? , 1: Shorthand. * t I J | Tuition payable monthly. !! { j Write for Illustrated catalogue. {( Rowan & Hughes, Managers. \\ «giiiigiiiia»aiaigigigigiiiiaiqiaiiiniii!iiiiaiaiiiiii!iiii!i THE BUTLER CITIZEN. PROFESSIONAL CARDS. PHYSICIANS, DR. JDLIA E FOSTER. OSTEOPATH. Consultation and examination free. Office hoars—9 to 12 A. M., '2 to> M., daily except Sundsy. Evening appointment. ! Office—Stein Block, Room? 9-10, But i ler, Pa. People's Phone 478. F»BO. M BEATTY, M. D, VJ PHYSICIAN AN"D SURGEON, Office in John Richey Bnilding. ! * Office Hours -9-11 A. M., 2:30 5:30 P. : M . 6:30-8:30 P. M Sunday —9-10:45 A. M.. 1-3:00 P. M. Night calls 331 N. Washington St. People's Phone 739. DR H J. NEEL\, K'IOUIS 6 and 7 Hughes Build-ng, South Maiu St. Cbronic diseases of genito urinary organs and rectum treated by the mo* approved methods. JC. BOYLE, M D. . EYK, EAR, NOSE and THROAT, Alter April Ist. office in forni<-r Dr. Peters'rcbidence, No. 121 E Cunning ham St., Butler. Pa., next door to Timts printing office. PLARA E. MOK ROW V 0.. V GRADUATE BOSTON COLLEGE OF OSTEOPATHY. Women's diseases a specialty. Con sultation and examination free. Office Hours, 9to 12 ui., 1 to J p. m People's Phone 57.V 116 S. Main sirttl, Butit-r, PJ J ■ M. ZIMMERMAN 'J • PHYSICIAN AND SUBGEOI* At 327 N. Main St. RTHAZLETT, *f. D., • 106 West Diamond, Dr. Graham's former office. Special attention given to Eye, Note and Throat Peoole's Phone 274. CAMUELM. BIPPUS, U PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON 200 West Cunningham St. DENTISTS. DR. S. A. JOHNSTON. SURGEON DENTIST. Formerly of Bntler, Has located opposite Lowry Honse, Main St.. Butler, Pa. The finest work a specialty. Expert painless extractor of teeth by his new method, no medi cine nsed or jabbing a needle into the gnrns; also gas and ether nsed. Com munications by mail receive prompt at tention. DR J. WILBERT MCKEE, SCRGKON DENTIST. Office over Leighner's Jewelry store, Butler, Pa Peoples Telephone 505. A specialty made of gold fillings, gold crown and bridye work. \Y J HIND MAN, 11 • DENTIST. 12JJ South Main street, (ov Metzer's shoe store.) H. A. McCANDLESS, DENTIST. Office in Bntler Conrity National Bank Bnilding, 2nd floor. DR. M. D. KOTTRABA, Successor to Dr. Johnston DENTIST Office at No 114 E. Jefferson St., over G. W. Miller's grocery | J.DONALDSON, *) • DENTIST. Artificial Teeth inserted on the latest improved plan. Gold Fillings a spec ialty. Office next to postoffice. ATTORNEYS. TV C. FINDLEY, TT . ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, AND PENSION ATTORNEY. • Office on Sonth Bide of Diamond, Butler, Pa. RP. SCOTT, . ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, Office in Bntler County National Bank bnildinj{. AT. SCOTT, » ATTORNEY AT LAW. Office at No. 8. West Diamond St. But ler, Pa. COULTRR & BAKHR, ATTORNEYS AT LAW. Office in Butler Connly National Bank building. JOHN COULTER, RJ ATTORNEY-AT-LAW. Office on Diamond, Bntler, Pa. Special attention given to collections and business matters. JD. McJUNKIN, • ATTORNEY-AT-LAW. Office in Reiber building, cornel Main and E. Cunningham Sts. Entrance on Main street. JB. BKEDIN, • ATTORNEY AT LAW. Office on Main St. near Court Hon*' HH. GOUCHER, • ATTORNEY AT LAW. Office «n Wise building; EH. NEGLEY, • ATTORNEY AT LAW, Office in the Negley Building, West Diamond MISCELLANEOUS. n P. L. McQUISTION, V. CIVII. ENGINEER AND SURVEYOR Office near Court House. BF. HILLIARD, • GENERAL SURVEYINO. Mines and Land. Connty Surveyor. R. F D. 4!>, West Snnbury, Pa. P. WALKER, • NOTARY PUBLIC, BUTI.EE, Office with Bcrkmer, neit door to P. O WM. WALKER. CHAS. A. MCELVAIN WALKER & McELVAIN, gO7 Bntler County National Bank Bldg. F.AL FHTATF.. INSURANCE. OIL PROPERTIES. LOANS. BOTH PHONES. W M H. MILLER, FIRE and LIFE INSURANCE and REAL ESTATE. OFFICE —Room SOW, Bntler Connty National Bank bnildinir. M A. BERKIMER, Funeral Director, 245 S. MAIN ST., BUTLER, PA BUTLER, PA., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1904. Drying preparations simply <l - dry catarrh; they dry up the secretio: which adhere to the membrane and de< .• pose, caosing a far more serious trouble t\.' n the ordinary form of catarrh. Avoid*o ing inhalants, fumes, smokes and - and use that which cleatses, soot I.to ti.a heals. 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 56 Warren St., N. Y. The Balm cures without pain, does not irritate or cause sneezing. It spreads itself over an irritated and angTy surface, reliev ing immediately the painful inflammation. With Ely's Cream Balm you are armed against Nasal Catarrh and Hay FeTer. tiugir IT'S FOR YOU to decide how you'll appear to others. We're bontid to t»-l• you though, that BEING WELL DRESSED ceitiinly helps yon in your business. We al ways impress this on our customers and help them select goods that are be coming. Our new stock of fnll and winter suitings are the finest and cheapest we've eyer had. Stock's r»-ady for in spection and yon've onr invititi"u to inspect same. Come in and give us your measure before the rash. WM. COOPER, LEADING TAILOR, Cor. Diamond, Butler, Pa i tj. 25cSuitings,15c Jnst think of it -pretty Dreps Goods for fifteen cents a yard. It's one of the most extraordinary values we have offered oar mail order customer* in many years. We overbought—they were so trool — and in consequence have to sacrifice and are going to give the nihil order trade the advantage. Nobfcy mixtures in small indistinct check effects-Grey, Green, Blue and Tan—double fold—jnst what any wo man can use for a serviceable dress. Lot 45c all wool Suitings, 25e— when we say forty-five cents we me in that was our small profit price -50 c is got for these nice goods elsewhere -Tan, Grey and Blue Mixtures Lot two-tone, half wool American Brocade Novelties, 8 13 a yard. We don't recommend these as high class dressy goods, but mmy women will find them fine for wrappers and children's dresses. Red, Bine, Green and Garnet grounds with Brocade effects in Black—also other styles. People who want sotneof these nnder price goods send for samples and see what's to be saved. Boggs& Buhl ALLEGHENY. PA PIANOS AT YOUR PRICE. W. R. Newton, The Piano Man, 317 S. flain Street. 1 £!?") at $:■!?•-) Cash. 1 $875 at $250 Cash. 1 *340 at $245 Cashu Re-posessed and you get the benefit of what the other fellow paid Yon would not know it if I didn't tell you They look as good as new. Other pianos from SSO upwards. Everything in music. Call and see. Yon know in the Mnsic Store your credit is good. 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 8. G. PURVIS, PH. G Both Phones. 213 8 Main Ht. Butler Pa. Pearson B. Nace's Livery Feed and Sale Stable Rear of Wick House Butler °enn'a The best of horse* and flrst class rigs >1 wars on hand and for hire. Best accommodations In town for permit nent boarding and tranvler/t trade. Hpecl al c\re guaranteed. Stable Room For 05 Horaea A good c iiHi of homes, both dr.rers and draft horses always on hand and for sale U".ler a full Kuarantne; and horses bough ton urouer notification by PEARSON 8. NACE, IVi*»|l|tOViQ 21 . ELY MAY 4* v. STI AkT MAY & STUART, Livery, Feed and Sale Stables IJest Accommodations in town For Transient Custom. PHONES: People's 123; liell "»!*. Rear of Bjckel building, p. Misn St. Butler, Pa. f' 111 1 ' 1 J lit » I*! it?' ■ ALICE of OLD | VINCENNES | mm By MAURICE THOMPSON ||. Copyright. 1900. by the BOWEN-MERKILL COH?ANY |>« ' I*3* ' ••••• • • • »>**«*❖*♦#***•• tfl I'H y-i*'': ; - - ller words went home. It was as If the beauty of her face, the magnetism of her lissome and symmetrical form, the sweet fire of her eyes and the pas sionate appeal of her voice gave what she said a new and irresistible force of truth. When she spoke of Beverley's love for her and declared her love for him there was not a manly heart in all the garrison that did not suddenly beat quicker and feel a strange, sweet waft of tenderness. A mother somewhere, a wife, a daughter, a si*ter, a sweetheart, called through that voice of absolute womanhood. "Beverley, what crfh I do?" muttered Clark, his bronze face as pale as it could possibly become. "Do!" thundered Beverley. "Do! You cannot murder that man. Hamilton la the man you should shoot! He offered large rewards, he inflamed tho passions and fed the love of rum and the cupidi ty of the poor wild men like the one standing yonder. Yet you take him prisoner and treat him with distin guished consideration. Hamilton offer ed a large sum for me taken alive, a smaller one for my scalp. Long Ilalr saved me. Tou let Hamilton stand yonder in perfect safety while yoti shoot the Indian. Shame on you. Colo nel Clark! Shame on you if you do It." Alice stood looking at the stalwart commander while Beverley was pour ing forth his torrent of scathing refer ence to Hamilton, and she quickly saw that Clark was moved. The moment was ripe for the finishing stroke. They say it is gebius that avails itself of op portunity. Beverley knew the fight was won when he saw what followed. Alice suddenly left Long Hair and ran to Colonel Clark, who felt her warm, strong arms loop around him for a sin gle point of time never to be effaced from his memory; then he saw her kneeling at his feet, her hands up stretched, her face a glorious prayer, while she pleaded the Indian's cause and won It. Doubtless, while we all rather feel that Clark was weak to be thus sway ed by a girl, we cannot quite blame him. Alice's flag was over him. He had heard her history from Beverley's cunning lips. He actually believed that Hamilton was the real culprit, and be sides he felt not a little nauseated with executing Indians. A good excuse to have an end of it all did not go beg ging. But Long Hair was barely gone over the horizon from the fort, as free and as villainous a savage as ever trod the earth, when a discovery made by Oncle Jazon caused Clark to hate himself for what he had done. The old scout picked up the scalp which Hair had flung at Hamil ton and examined It with odious curi osity. He had lingered on the spot with no other purpose than to get pos session of that ghastly relic. Since los ing his own scalp the subject of crown locks had grown upon his mind until lis fascination was Irresistible. He studied the hair of every person he saw as a physiognomist studies faces. He held the grewsome thing up before him, acrutinlzlng it with the expression of u connoisseur who has discovered on a grimy canvas the signature of an old master. "Sac* bleu!" lie presently broke forth. "Well, I'll bo— Look'ee yor, George Clark! Come yer an' look. Ye've been sold ag'ln. Take a squint, ef ye please!" Colonel Clark, with his hands crossed behind him, his face thoughtfully con tracted, was walking slowly to and fro a little way off. He turned about when Oncle Jazon spoke. "What now, Jazon?" "A mighty heap right now, that's what. Come yer an' let me show ye. Yer a fine sort o' eejlt now, ain't ye?" The two men walked toward each other and met. Oncle Jazon held up the scnlp with one hand, pointing at It with the index finger of the other. "This here scalp come off'n Rene de Ronvilie's head." "And who Is he?" "Who's he? Ye may well ax thet. He wtiz a Frenchman. He wuz a fine young feller o' this town. He killed a corp'ral o' Hamilton's nn' tuck ter the woods a month or two ajfo. Hamilton offered a lot o' money for '!m or 'is scalp, nn' Long Hair went In fer glttln' It. Now ye knows the whole racket. An' ye lets that InJua go! An' thet some Injun he mighty nigh kicked my ribs Inter my stomach!" Oncle Jazon's feelings were visible and audible, but f'lnrk could not resent the contempt of the old man's looks and words. He felt that he deserved far more than he was receiving. Nor was Oncle Jazon wrong. Rene de Ronvltle never came back to little Adrl enne Bourcler, although, being kept entirely Ignorant of her lover's fate, she waited and dreamed and hoped throughout more than two years, after which there Is no further record of her life. Clark, Beverley and Oncle Jazon con sulted together and agreed among themselves that they would hold pro foundly secret the story of the scalp. To have made It public would have ex asperated the Creoles and set them vio lently attainst Clark, a thins heavy with disaster for all his future plans. As It was, the releuse of Long Hair caused a great deal of dissatisfaction and muti nous talk. Even Beverley now felt that the execution ordered by the com mander ought to have been sternly car ried out. A day or two later, however, the whole dark affair was closed forever by n bit of confidence on the part of Oncle Jazon when Beverley dropped Into bis hut one evening to have«a smoke with him. The rain was river, the sky shone like one vast luminary, with n nearly full moon anil n thousand stars re-enforcing It. Up from the south poured one of those balmy, accidental wind floods sometimes due In February on the Wn bash, full of tropical dream hints, yet edged with n winter chill that smacks of treachery. Onde Jazou was unusu ally talkative. lie may have had a deep draft of liquor; at all events Ilev erley had little room for a word. "Well, beln' as It's 'twlxt us as 1* bosom frlen'i," the old fellow presently sold, "I'll Jes' show ye somepln' poor ty." He pricked the wick of n lamp and took down his bunch of scalps. "I bev been a-»ddln' one more to keep company o' tnine an' the tothers." He separated the latest acquisition from the rest of the wisp and ndded, with a heinous chuckle: vTfcLs 'n'l %joua HjUr'pP' And so it was. Beverley knocked the ashes from his pipe and rose to go. "Wen they kicks yer Oncle Jazon's ribs." the old man added, "they'd jes' as well lay down an' give up, for he's goin' to salervate 'em." Then, after Beverley had passed out of the cabin, Oncle Jazon chirruped after him: "Mebbe ye'd. better not tell leetle Al ice. The pore fcetle gal hev hed worry 'nough." CHAPTER XXII. A.\D SO IT ENDED. A FEW days after the surrender of Hamilton a large boat, the Willing, arrived from Kaskas kla. It was well manned and heavily armed. Clark fitted It out be fore beginning his march and expected it to be of great assistance to him in the reduction of the fort, but the high waters and the floating driftwood de layed its progress, so that Its disap pointed crew saw Alice's flag floating bright and high when their eyes first looked upon the dull little town from far down the swollen river. There was much rejoicing, however, when they rame ashore and were enthusiastically greeted by the garrison and populace. A courier whom they picked up on the Ohio came with them. He bore dis patches from Governor Henry of Vir ginia to Clark and a letter for Bever ley from his father. The letter to Beverley from his fa ther was somewhat disturbing. It bore the tidings of his mother's failing health. This made it easier for the young lieutenant to accept from Clark the assignment to duty with a party detailed for the purpose of escorting Hamilton, Farnsworth and several oth er British officers to Williamsburg, Va. It also gave him a most powerful as sistance in persuading Alice to marry him at once, so as to go with him on what proved to be a delightful wedding Journey through the great wilderness to til*** Old Dominion. Spring's vordnre burst abroad on the sunny hills as they slowly went their way. The mating birds sang in every blooming brake and grove by which they passed, and In their joyous hearts they heard the bubbling of love's eternal fountain. Our story must end here, because at this point its current flows away for ever from old Vincennes, and it was only of the post on the Wabash that we set out to make a record. What befell Alice and Beverley after they went to Virginia we could go on to tell, but that would be another story. Suf fice it to say, they lived happily ever after, or at least somewhat beyond threescore and ten, and left behind them a «ood name and numerous de scendants. How Alice found out her family In Virginia we are not informed, but after * lapse of some years from the date of her marriage there appears in one of ber letters a reference to an estate in herited from her Tnrleton ancestors, and her name appears in old records signed in full, Alice Tarleton Beverley. A descendant of hers still treasures the locket, with Its broken miniature and battered crest, which won Beverley's life from Long Ilair, the savage. Be- Shc pleaded the Indian'» caune. kle It, as carefully guarded, Is the In lian charm stone that stopped Hamil ton's bullet over Alice's heart The ra piers have somehow disappeared, and there is" a tradition In the Tarletpn family that they were Riven by Alice to Gaspard Housslllon, who after Mine. Rousslllon's death In 17' JO went to New Orleans, where he stayed a year or two before embarking for France, wliithcr he took with him the beautiful pair of coleehemardes and Jean, the hunchback. Oncle Jazon lived in Vlncennes many years after the war was over, but he died at Natchez, Miss., when ninety three years old. He snld with almost his last breath that he couldn't shoot very well even in his best days, but that he had upon various occasions "Jes' kind o' happened to hit a Injun In the lef eye." They used to tell a story as late as Genoral Harrison's stay In Vincennes about how Oncle Jazon bur led ills collection of scalps with great funeral solemnity as his part of the celebration of peace and Independence about the year 17.54. Good old Father Beret died suddenly soon after Alice's marriage and depar ture for Virginia. lie was found lying face downward on tlie tloor of his cab- In. Near him on a smooth part of a puncheon were the mildewed frag ments of a letter wlrfch lie had been ar ranging as if to read its coutents. Doubtless It was the same letter brought to him by Hone de Kouville, as recorded in an early chapter of our story. The fragments were gathered up and burled with him. Ills dust lies under the present Church of St. Xavier, the dust of as noble a man and as true a prl«-»t as ever sacrificed himself for the good of humanity. In after years Simon Kenton visited Ifeverley and Alice In their Virginia homo. To his dying day he was fond of describing their happy and hospita ble welcome and the luxuries to which they Introduced him. They lived In a stately white mansion on a hill over looking a vast tobacco plantation where hundreds of negro slaves worked and sang by day and frolicked by night. Their oldest child was named Fltzliugh Gaspard. Kenton died In 1880. There repialns but one little fact worth recording before we c!ose the book. In the year 1800, on the Fourth of July, a certain leading French fami ly of Vincennes held a patriotic reun ion during which a little old flag was produced and Its snory told. Some one happily proposed that It be sent to Mrs. Alice Tarleton Beverley with a letter of explanation and In profound recog nition of the glorious circumstances which made It the true flag of the great northwest. And so It happened that Alice's little banner went to Virginia and is still preserved In an old mansion not very far from Monticello, but It seems likely that the Wabash valley will soon again possess the precious relic. The mar riage engagement of Miss Alice Bever ley to a young Indiana officer, distin guished for his patriotism and milita ry ardor, has been announced at the old Beverley homestead on the hill, and the high contracting parties have plan ned that the wedding ceremony shall take place under the famous little flag on the anniversary of Clark's capture of Post "Vincennes. When the bride shall be brought to her new home on the banks of the Wabash the flag will come with her, but Oncle Jazon will not be on hand with his falsetto shout, "Vive la banniere d'Alice Roussillon! Vive Zhorzh Vasintont" THE END. Peril* of the Lumbermen. A crew of seven men were loosening timbers from the rocks above a treat cataract on the River Des Qulnze. The nearer thoy worked to the head of the rapids the more imminent grew their peril. At last the cautious steersman, a half breed named Poison, refused to venture further the lives of his crew. The foolhaidy foreman ordered lilni out, stepped aboard and took Poison's steering paddle. Out from the bank they shot swiftly and down the steep incline. All went well until they wish ed to turn their boat beside the rocks that blocked the timber when to their consternation the speed of the boat slackened. Managing to point her bow up stream, they rowed with all their strength. For some seconds she never moved. Surely the demon of the rap ids had caught them. With pounding heart and panting breath they tugged with all their might and main, but to no purpose. Inch by inch, with in creasing rage, he drew them until at last with a deafening roar he hurled them, boat and all, like a javelin, into the very depths of the gigantic cal dron of boiling foam.—Arthur Heming in Scribner's. Fateful Order to Halt. In less than half an hour my troops would have swept up and over those hills, the possession of which was of such momentous consequence. It la not surprising, with a full realization of the consequences of a halt, that I should have refused at first to obey the order. Not until the third or fourth order of the most peremptory character reached me dkl I obey. I think I should have risked the conse quences of disobedience even then but for the fact that the order to halt was •ccosipanled with the expli nation that General who was several miles away, did not wish to give battle at Gettysburg. It Is stated on good au thority that General Lee said soma time before his death that if Jackson had been there he would have won In this battle a great and possibly de cisive victory. I cannot vouch for the truth of this statement, as I did not hear it; but no soldier in a great crisis ever wished more ardently for a de liverer's hand than I wished for one hour of Jackson when I was ordered to halt.—General John B. Gordon in Scrib ner's. JUVENILE WISDOM. Willie took from Sister Sue All her candy; Peanuts too. Slater Sue Just Yelled like sin. Willie ate t.'scm With a grin. Then he said: "Thersl Not a word! Children should be Sxen, not heard." —Kansas City Times. A Diplomat. **"* " —*■— ' S Lady—How dare you come to the front door! Diplomatic Davis-W'y, ma'am, I'm a man of taste and prefer to talk to do charming laily of de house Instead of a homely menial, ma'am. New York Evening Journal. Solved at Last. "It used to be," growled the hns bond, "that women taught their daugh ters how to cook. Then when pcoplo couldn't get a servant, as we can't, the wife would take hold of things, and all went well. I must say I don't ace what the next generation will do." "The next generation will be ull right," retorted his wife, opening some more canned meats. "The? mothers of today will teach their daughters how to hunt for cooks."—Judge. Dorothy, A*ed Three. Dorothy, aged three, who was naugh ty, had been corrected with the ma ternal slipper In the usual way and left In her little room to think It over. The storm of her «rlef past, the pat ter of little feet was heard in the hall way, a golden head oppeured ut the door of her mother's room, and a baby voice said: "Dorothy good now. Main mu spank Dorothy. That make Doro thy good girl."— Philadelphia Press. A Correction. Miss Gosaway—l think you were present when she remurked that I had u big mouth. Miss Kute Yes, und I took occasion to set her right too. Miss Gusaway Old you, dear? Miss Kute Yes. I told her your inouth wasn't really s<> big: It only seemed so because you kept It open so constantly. Catholic HUtudard and WEST AFRICAN CANNIBAL'S. Ther Cultivate TUclr FltMt, but Plow Folly Aruied. An Interesting story Is told by the commissioners who have been engaged for the last eighteen months In fixing the Anglo-German frontiers In west Africa between the town of Yola and Lake Tchad. The region traversed Is little known owing to the hostility of the tribes. The Fulanl villages were found quite friendly, but beyond Lau, a large town on the Bernu, there lies a mountainous region inhabited by pagans who in many cases are cannibals. They were found to be a most indus trious people, who cultivated their fields with a good deal of method. In most cases, says Reuter, they were practically naked, but were always armed. Even when at work in the fields plowing they carried a full kit of spears, shields and poisoned arrows. The arrows are much dreaded, for they are tipped with a deadly poison extracted from vegetables and from dead bodies. This is carried In small bottles, and when fresh it proves fatal in a few minutes. These people are adepts at game stalking and disguise themselves as birds and animals in order to approach their prey. They are smaller than the Fulani, being often quite dwarfish, and they live In flimsy grass huts perched In inaccessible nooks among the moun tains. At Kuka the sheik of British Bor nu rode out to greet Colonel Jackson at the head of 300 horsemen and a large number of men on foot He was accompanied by a band and dancing girls. His people carried enormous spears, and some wore old armor, while the horses were caparisoned with housings like those of the crusaders. The survey has proved that existing maps are to a large extent Inaccurate and has placed the boundary farther to the east, thus enlarging the British sphere.—London Express. !Vew Kongo Route. A meeting was recently held at the Borbonne in Furls In honor of Captain L'Enfant, the African explorer, who has found a new road Into tbe interior of that country which. It is claimed, will altogether supersede the present Kongo route. The nlm of his mission was to find a means of communication between the Benone and the Logone and to see if it was possible for a barge leaving the mouth of the Niger to reach Lake Tchad by following a water route —that Is, the Niger, lie none, Ma.vo-Kebl, Tonbori, Logone and Churl. Captain L'Enfant carried along with him a steel barge, taken over in ■ectlons, and successfully accomplished the Journey. He says the route can easily be made navigable, shortening the time of the Kongo passage to six ty-five days and reducing the cost of carrying merchandise from S4OO to SIOO per ton. The link of communica tion between tbe Niger and Lake Tchad being thus discovered, a solu tion hae been afforded of one of the greatest African problems. To Weed Oat Baroaota. A permanent tribunal for the Investi gation of all new claims to baronetcies and ull existing doubtful ones bus been suggested. The proposal iconics from the baronets themselves, and it has been Incorporated In a petition to the king. The baronets are banded together in a society for the protection of their In terests, and this 1B known as the stand ing council of the baronetage. These allied baronets certainly censor black leg baronets by refusing to enroll any person who cannot prove his claim to the title he bears. Mr. Francis William Pixley, a well known barrister, who acts as regis trar to tbe standing council, says bar onets nre waiting for the home secre tary to net in the matter. lie said: "Many of the bogus baronets nre using In all sincerity titles falsely assumed by their grandfathers and great-grand fathers. It is quite a shock to them «.o know that tliey cannot substantiate their claim." —London Express. Baaineaa Contracting. J. J. 11111 stnnds high as an indus trial and economic authority, and what he bus to offer on these subjects Is well worth attention. General busi ness, be says, is contracting. It was first apparent and Is now most evident In manufacturing enterprises. The railroads ure public carriers, and If the public has nothing to carry the rail roads can do no business. As traffic decreases they must mark up their rates or lose money. Woges must go down and working forces be lessened. The railroads are dropping men be cause there Is not work enough for all of them. The whole question falls back primarily upon decreasing busi ness und the reason for it. Tbe princi pal one is that the demand for the products of the United States Is not now commensurate with the supply.— New York Tribune. Ladr Caraon, We have ull been welcoming Lord Curzon back to London after his five eventful years In Indlu. But probably he would be the first to own that he owes not a little of his success to the tact, grace and womanliness of his charming wife. Few even of the fair sex of the stntes, who have made bo many "conquests" In this country, hove done more in this way than Lady Cur aon. The wife of a viceroy of India is perhaps the highest social position to which any lady not of royal blood can nsplre. Lady Curzon, by tbe way, possesses a beautiful voice, us beflti one who was a pupil of Marche*!.— Westminster Gazette. Hot a Remedy. "My physician suys that * worry makes people thin." "I don't believe it," answered Miss Cayenne. "There Is nothing that wor ries some people more than the dis covery that they are getting fat"— Washington Star. Ilia Private Opinion. Mrs. Enpeck—Here's a story about a man who actually sold his wife. Now, what do you think of that? Enpeck—Oh, there nre some fools In the world who will buy any old thing. ►-Brooklyn Eagle. lfot aa t'npleaannt aa tbe Impromptua "Does your wife have much to say when you come home late?" "Not us much as she did. Tliey linve made her believe she has talent enough for a public spenker ond now she pre pares everything she says."—Cleveland Plain Denier. The Modern Kndlnff. "And so," concluded the fond father, "they were luurrled" — "Oh, yes, I Ifiiow," interrupted the daughter mid heiress, "and got a di vorce nnil lived happily ever after!"'— Philadelphia Bulletin. | No. 34 A BELATED EXPLANATION. He Wmiltd Bm' Rllaca For Rkra niatlam. bat Not For Hlauelf. An innocent looking German l«jy walked into a drug store the other day and faced the proprietor. "Haf you got some bees' stings for rheumatisms?" he shyly inquired. "Bees' stings for rheumatism?" the proprietor repeated. "Where did yon hear of that?" "Why, mutlier vas renting It by de newsbapers," replied the lad. The proprietor laughed. "I've seen something of that kind in the papers," he said, "but I won't at tempt to offer you anything just as good. Where Is the rheumatism?" "In de handt und In de arm," the boy replied. "Well, see here," said the proprietor, with a sudden smile, "I haven't got the cure on my shelves, but I keep it In my back yard. You go out through this door and walk around my flower beds. When you see four or Ave beet resting on a flower, Just try to pick them up." The boy nodded and went out. He was gone at least ten minutes. When he came back his face was red, and his nose, where an angry hee had alighted, was beginning to swell. He held out his hand. "I picked me some of dose bees oop," he placidly remarked. "Did you?" said the amused proprie tor. "And does your hand feel any better?" The boy looked up. "It aind't for me," be placidly re plied; "it's for my bruder."—Cleveland Plain Dealer. Irregularity In the riilikmtnt. There are two boys who manage to be rather unruly in school, and their teacher was so exasperated one day that she ordered them to remain after hours and write their names a thou sand times. She watched them plunge into the task. Some fifteen minutes later one of them grew uneasy and be gan to wfltch his companion in dis grace. Suddenly the first one burst out with a roar of despair and between his sobs said to the teacher: " 'Tain't fair, mum! His name's Bush and mine's Schluttermeyelr!"— Pittsburg Dispatch. Sport. (Little boy in a hammock and anoth er standing some distance off crying. Father talking to the boy in the ham mock. > Father—What Is Willie crying ■ about? Johnnie—He says he don't like this game. "Well, what are you playing?" "We are playing with this hammock as a steamboat." "Well, why Is not Willie In it too?** "We are playing that be missed th« boat."— Life. The Reading of Character. "This Is the life line," says the ama teur palmist who is reading the hand of the young woman. "It shows that you will live to n ripe old age. This Is the head line. You have wonderful talent for writing. This Is the heart line. Lots of romance and a happy marriage, with Just trunkfuls of fine dresses and things." "How do you know about the dress es?" "Why, here's the clothes line. It runs clear around your hand."—Judge. A Fable. Once there were two little grapes. One was a good little grape and mind ed his mother. The other was a bad little grape. One day the bad little grape disobeyed his mother and rolled off the fruit stand. A ragged little negro boy came along and ate It, but all the little grape could do was to give the little boy u stomach ache. The good little grape was eaten by a rich man, and it gave him a nice case of appendicitis. Moral. —Mind your moth ers, little folks.-Kansas City Times. Are Yo« Onef "There goes Mr. Thlkkeredde," said the lady golilte. "He Is a conversation al foozle." "How's that?" asked Mr. Cleeke. "He makes love when he ought to play golf, and he tulks golf when he ought to make love."—Chicago Tribune. llerolam. "Juggins has written a novel, I'm told. They also say that he himself la the hero." "Of course. He has read the thing through, I suppose, and, goodness knows, that's heroic enough." It la the Mind That Bees. How do we sec? Did you ever chance to think? I have asked quite a number of people lately, and they reply: "With our eyes, of course. How else?" or words to that effect. Did you ever real ize how much of our vision Is mental? We see nothing properly and definitely until the mind lends its perception. We may gaze steadfastly at a picture, yet be unable to see anything but a confused mass of color, because the mind Is seeing faces and scenes a thou sand miles away perhaps. Call the mental vision back, and the figures on the canvas take their proper places. At once we Bee the picture. Or Bhut your eyes. Can you not see the faces of those you love or hate as clearly as you ever snw them with the physicol menus of sight? llow many times one glances at his watch, yet when asked the time as he replaces It In his pocket Is unable to tell simply because bo looked only with the eyes and not with' the mind also.—Exchange. lannl War* Isnbel—Fred und 1 have decided to form a life partnership. Myra—lndied! Ami of course Fred la to be n ttllcnt partner and put up the money,—Baltimore News.
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