VOL. XXXXI. JUST RECEIVED New Lace Curtains ALSO Blankets and Comforts. THE MODERN STORE- LACE CURTAINS FOR FALL We hare the most comprehensive assortment of new patterns, an >c. fl. per pair! Full line of Portieres. Sash Curtains Material. Cortaia Poles. Etc. BLANKETS AND COMFORTS FOR COLD WEATHER. Oar aasortawmt is complete in every detail and we can fill yonr every want at oricea that cannot be duplicated. Good Large Size Cotton Blankets, 75c, sl, $1.25 and $1.50 per pair. FinelinsFiincTCotton Blankets, for Bath Robes. sl, $1.25 tos3. Lane Henry All-Wool Blankets, a srreat bargain, $3 per pair. Finer snd better ones. $4. $4 50, $5 to $lO per pair. Comfort* large and filled with good cotton. sl. $1.25. $1 •>0 to $3. This store is showing a stock that will interest you. AH new and up to-date and of every gnde, variety and price. EISLER-MARDORF COfIPANY, ■""Hum? i 991 | HmS^aSSx 9 I Send in Your Mail Orders. g OPPOSITE HOTEL ARLINGTON. BUTLKR. K BICKEL'S FALL FOOTWEAR. Largest Stock and most Handsome Styles of Fine Footwear we Have Ever Shown. Sorosis 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, || A ' OL nn - Showing all the latest styles in men S WIIUGS 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 last season as prices on stock are lower and consequently will be able to give much better values for the money, A complete stock of Gokey's hand-made box-toe and plain toe shoes. High-cut copper-toe shoes for boys and goo 4 water-proof school shoes for girls. Large stock of Women s heavy shoes in Kangaroo-calf and oil-grain for country wear. Rubber and Felt Goods. Our 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. I IMPORTANT. ; o We seldom refer to the fact that< j Xwe are sole agents for the celebrated > XStandard Patterns, but we call par-! ' xticuJar attention to it just now for this] [ •season. All Standard Patterns 10c| J Oand 15c, none higher. You cannow< ► Xbuy the best Pattern for same price; Xas the cheapest are sold for. Once! \ xuse Standard Patterns jou will here-! [ vafter use no other. All seams allowed.j | furs. J. E. Zimmerman.;; 8 Butler, Pa. < > 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 Tot 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, Cassimeres 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 Jg Merchant Tailor. Spring & Summer Suitings KE C K ,I I J ' "-TTI F . ' THE BUTLER CITIZEN. PROFESSIONAL CARDS. PHYSICIANS, DR. JULIA E FOSTER. OSTEOPATH. Consultation and examination free. Office hoars— 9 to 12 A. M., 2 toi M., daily except Sunday. Evening appointment. Office—Stein Block, Rooms 9-10, But ler, Pa. People's Phone 478. fiEO. M BEATTY, M. D, V.T PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, Office iu John Richey Building. Office Honrs—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. NEEIA, Rooms 6 and 7, Hughes Build'ng, South Main St. Chronic diseases of genito urinary organs and rectum treated by the mo-* approved methods. T C. BOYLE, M D. T) • EYE, EAR, NOSE and THROAT, After April Ist. office in former Dr. Peters' residence, No. 121 E. Cunning ham St., Butler, Pa., next door to Tinv-s printing office. fVLAR\ E. MORROW, I> 0., V GRADUATE BOSTON COLLEGE OF OSTEOPATHY. Women's diseases a specialty. Con sultatian and examination free. Office Hours, 9to 12 m., a to 3 p. m People'; Phone 573. I»6 i>. Main street, Butler, Pa i■■ jJTziAJMERMAN VI , PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON At 327 N. Main St. LR. IIAZLETT, M. D., • 106 West Lnamotid, Dr. Graham's formtr office. Special attention given to Eye, '-ose and Throat Peotjle's Phone 274. BIPPUS, U PHYSICIAN AND SUHGBOW aoo West Cunningham St. DENTISTS. DR. 9. A. JOHNSTON, SURGEON DENTIST. Formerly of Butler, Has located opposite Lowry House, Main St . Butler, Pa. The finest work a specialty. Expert painless extractor of t*eth by his new method, no medi cine used or jabbing a needle into the gumt<; also gas and ether nsed Com munications by mail receive prompt at tension. R~7TWILBKRT MCKEE, SCRGEON DENTIST. Office over Leighner's Jewelry store, Butler, Pa Peoples Telephone 505. A specialty made of gold fillings, gold crown and bridge work. W" J. HIND.MAN, T DENTIST. IJ7J South Main street, (ov Metzer's shoe 6tore.) DR. H. A. I^IcCANDIvHSS, DUNTOI. Office in Butler County National Bank Building, 2nd floor. DR, M. D. KGTTRABA, Bpcc«»3or to Dr. Jolim>ion DKNTJJW Office at No 114 K. JeSersou St., over 1 G. W. Miller's Krocerv 1 1. nONAI.DSON, t) . DKWTWT. Artificial Teeth inserted on the '.atent improved plan. Gold Killings spec ialty. Offic** next to postoffice. ATTORNEYS. WC. FiNDLEV, • ATTOBNEY-AT-LAW. AND PENSION ATTORNEY. Office on South side of Diamond, Butler, Pa. RP. SCOTT, . ATTORNKV-AT-LAW, Office in Butler County Iffttjqral Bank building. AT. SCOTT, • ATTORNEY AT LAW. Office at No, 8. West Dinmond St. But ler. P*. pOULTER & BAKER, V ATTORNEYS AT UW. Office in Butler County National Bank building. TOHN V/. COULTKR. rj ATTORNEY-AT-LAW. Office on Diamond, Butler, Pa. Special attention given to collections and business matters. T D. MCJUNIXIN, O • ATTORNEY-AT-LAW. Office in Reiber building, cornel Main and E. Cunningham Sts, Entrance on Main street. JB. BREDIN, • ATTORNEY AT LAW. Office on Main St. near Court Ilouat nH. GOU2HER, • ATTORNKY AT LAV. Offine In Wine buildinv EM. NKGLKV, • ATTORNEY AT LAW. Office in the Neglcy R.tilding, West Diamond MISCELLANEOUS. p P. L. McQUISTION, v. Civil, ENGINEER AMP SURVEYOR Office near Court House. BF. BILLIARD, • GENERAL SURVEYING. Minea and Land. Connty Surveyor. R. F D. 40, West Sunbury, Pa. P. WALI£f,R, • NOTARY PUBLIC, BUTI«H,R, Office with Berkmer, next door to P. O WM. WALKEK. CHAS. A. MOELVAIN WALKER & McELVAIN, IjOT Butler Connty National Bank Bldg. KAL ESTATE. INHUUANOE. Ol L PKOPEftTIEH. LOA NH BOTH I'HONES. H. MILLER. FIRE and LIFE INSURANCE and REAL ESTATE, OFFICE— Room 608, Butler County National Bank building. M. A B6RKIMER, Funeral Director, 245 S. MAIN ST., BUTLER, PA BUTLER, PA., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1904. Drying preparations simply devel op dry catarrh; they dry tip the secretions, which adhere to the membrane and decom pose, causing a far more serious troubl® than the ordinary form of catarrh. Avoid all dry ing inhalants, fumes, smokes and snuffs and use that which cleanses, soothes and 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 bo mailed for 10 cents. All druggists sell tho 50c. size. Ely Brothers 5G Warren St., N.Y. The Balm cures without pain, does not irritate or cause sneezing. It spreads itself over an irritated and angry surface, reliev ing immediately the painful inflammation. With Ely's Cream Balm you are armed against Nasal Catarrh and Hay Fever. -•Sr'St * v < 5 I'The Reggie"! S We are now S * showing all the 4 r new shapes in # £ soft and stiff t 1 hats for fall. * Comment is # * unnecessary; J 2 the reputation £ j our hats have * gained should # f induce you to f t see them before f £ you buy your I 4 fall hat. # f We are showing £ 'i more new shapes | than ever before. |Jno.S.Wick,j P P?oples Phone, 6)5. # } Bin > ♦- i'A p Wk |PAINT| e St KINDS BUT ALL j| IJSHERWIN-WILLIAMS CO'S^ >A FAINT •? Rfc FOR 4? & EVERY & II& PURPOSE !p Redick & Grohman & &&&109 N. Main !! BUTLER, PA. | pianos~at your' Trice. W. R. Newton, The Piano Man, 317 S. flajn .Street. 1 s>7s at ijU75 Cash. 1 *:i7s at $250 Cash. 1 SB4O at t','4s Cash. He-ponessed and you get the benefit of what the other fellow paid. You would not know it if I didn't telj yciq They look nt» good as new. Other piauon from *SO upwards. Everything iu music. Cull and see. You know in the Music- Store your credit is good. Do You Buy Medicines? Certainly You Do. Then you want the best for the least money. That is our rrtotto Cotfic and see us when i:i need of anything in the Drug Line ai d wv are sure you will call again. We carry a full line of Drugs, Chemicals, Toilet Articles, etc. Purvis' Pharmacy H. O. PUKVIS, Fu. O Both Pfoonef!. 213 S Main St. Hutler Pa. Pearson B. Nace's Livery Feed and SaleStaoie Rear of Wick House Butler °enn'a The bent of hontim unci Hint clan* rig* m wavit ou bund auSON F j Copyright. ISKO. by T. C. McClure It had been bad enough, said the cowboys, to have Buena \ ista county turned into a rendezvous for invalids in various stages of hay fever, bronchitis and consumption. It was an outrage to have one's favorite barroom remod eled into a sanitarium, but it was heap ing insult upon injury to have a twen ty-five horsepower French racer flash ing over roads—and good roads, too— long sacred to the festive cow pony. With Harvey Thatcher, owner of said racer, the good roads surrounding Fort Norton, the county seat of Buena Vista county, had been the main at traction. When his physicians had or dered Colorado air, Thatcher had stip ulated that section of eastern Colora do where the roads would permit him to break the already brilliant record of the Comet. And so it happened that he and his machine, his vaiet and his chauffeur, were thorns in the flesh of the cowboy element, even as the latter had worried the respectable faction among the early citizens of Fort Nor ton. The cowboys had barely become ac customed to the presence of the Comet in their midst and had decided that it might prove dangerous to shoot up a gasoline engine when there arose fresh cause for dissatisfaction. Nan Bearce took to riding in the Comet. And Nan was the prettiest girl in Buena Vista county, or all the 'adjoining counties, for that matter. She had been the toast of every camp on the range, tho belie at every ball, the queen of every cpunty fair tournament in which the cowboys had fought for honors after their own peculiar fashion. Her fa vors had been evenly distributed, and her devotion had gone to her worth less father, who ran the one shoe shop of which Fort Norton could boast A dilapidated, evil smelling den he kept at the end of the street leading north from the postofflce, but tho three rooms behind the shop were as fresh and sweet as Nan's stout arms and sun shiny nature could keep them. There were men, dozens of them, in Buena Vista county who would have ,- r C 9 THE MOB CAME UPON THE COMET TWO MILES FROM HETU'S RANCH. been willing to overlook the father, UJi»uLab)?, drunken wretch that he was, for love of the girl, but she seemed too proud to foist the old man ou any of her anxious suitors. The only favor she hnd ever been known to accept wan tHo hands of Ben Heth, a stolid, almost morose young ranch man, who had started into the stock raising business in a small way and who held himself nloof from the rol licking, roistering element which had terrorized Fort Norton at regular In tervals. When old Hearcc had been smitten with smallpox Heth, under cover of darkness, had removed him to his own rknch because of Nan's horror of the pesthouso, and the three had endured the relentless quarantine to gether. Then the intimacy had appar ently been broken off, old Bearce going back to his bench, Nan to her poverty Stricken life and Ileth to Ills lonely ex istence on the cattle range. All this was before Thatcher and the Comet cauie to Fort Norton. After old Bearce had skillfully mended some rents In Thatcher's leather robes the friendship between the dashing young automoblllst from New York and the humble and beautiful daughter of the village shoemaker became town gossip. Women discussed It over their back fences and at the sewing circle of the Union church. Men shook their heads around the stove at Gilbert's general store, and the news spread out ou the range. Thatcher was making a fool of Nan Bearce, and there were muttcr- Ings that boded ill for the owaer of the Comet. The only man who declined to dlseuss the situation was Ben Heth and that even after Nan and young Thatcher had ridden out to his ranch twice In the devil's wagon, as one old woman called it. To be sure, the chauf feur was In attendance, but what was a chauffeur perched up in the back seat with Nan—enticing, alluring Nan —-her soft, brown hair tossed by the wind, her eyes daneing with the ex citement of the run, urging the young New Yorker on to higher speed? Once they had been seen coming back to town at a slow pace, wim wen trying to keep his astonished pony within talking distance of the ma chine. Parties wh«J had witnessed the sceno reported it variously. Home said that Ben appeared to enjoy the pro ceediug, tuoro fool he, while others maintained that he was berating Nan for unfaithfulness, even in the pres ence of his rival. But Ben's love affair was utterly for gotten in the face of more momentous events which came with the roundup. The 11. O. Cattle comphny, with which Ben had worked before branching out for himself, discovered what it chose to designate as a shortage In 11. O. calves and a corresponding and suspi cious Increase in calves uilli the Ileth brand. The H- O. brand was a bar with an <) on the end. The Ileth brand was u dumbbell. Ituiuor and rumor In Buena Vista county Is an ugly custom er declared that It was easy to change the bar-O to the dumbbell. The air around Fort Norton became rife with tilings other than niero rumors, includ ing some very bad whisky. And Jus tice, ns drink crazed cow punchers sometimes see It, works with appalling suildcnn -SB. Kumars travel faster than half drunk en cow punchers who stop at each sa- loon to drown their threats In bad whisky, mid n twenty-five horsepower machine will travel faster than either. That was why the mob that had started out to hang Ben Ileth as n sort of climax for the annual roundup came upon the Comet, its owner, his vaiet and his chauffeur two miles beyond Heth's ranch. They were still hunting for Ileth, after having razed his ranch cabin. The Comet was piled high with luggage, a couple of dress suit cases showing al)ove the hoses, and rubber blankets, which filled in the body of the machine. Thatcher explained in a casual way that he was trying some new roads and might be gone a week or more. The cowboys sent him on his way with a volley of shots. They were bent on more serious work. The Comet shot along the country road, through the soft twilight and the limpid moonlight, straight across the state line into Nebraska. At precisely the same time the Overland limited was carrying a white faced but deter mined girl over the same state line. Thatcher insisted upon giving away the bride and receiving the first kiss after the ceremony. He said it was due for excess baggage on the l>est run the Comet had ever made. Then the great red machine, its owner, his chauffeur and his valet rolled back to Fort Norton without the impressive ar ray of luggage, and Harvey Thatcher, tenderfoot, from New York, announced that when a certain bunch of unmiti gated fools had finished their annual spree and had recounted their blank ety blank calves the bride and grootn would come back to Fort Norton, at which time the damages claimed by said groom for injury done his proper ty and his reputation would be paid or the sheriff of Buena Vista county and one Harvey Thatcher, Esq.. would know the reason why, whereupon said Harvey Thatcher promptly rose in the estimation of the cowboy element, und his horseless vehicle was forgiven him. What We Find In Old Sclioofbooks. Along with the writing in old school books there is more or less drawing. The very early books sometimes have fly leaf sketches of Indians and log houses. The later booKs, says Leslie's Monthly, have houses of more modern sort, and you flud rude drawings of steamboats, horses, birds, flowers, faces and the like. Often a penny or other coin was slipped under the fly leaf and the surface of the paper covering the coin was rubbed with a piece of lead from the schoolboy's pocket or the blunt end of a pencil. The children had numerous methods for defacing their schoolbooks, and they also had certain devices tor keep ing them in good order. Many of the older books arc protected by an outer cover of sheepskin neatly folded in at the edges and sewed in place wltfo homespun tow. After 18355 this outer covering was apt to be calico, and sometimes there were tio strings at tached to the sides. The girls were ad dicted to the use of a "thumb paper" folded and slipped in where the thumb rested when the hook was in use. Her Opinion. He was very badly gone in love in deed, as may be judged by the fact that he sat up till the woe sma' hours and nibbled two Inches off a pen in composing the following epic: Benutlful one with ey«a «o blue, Oh. how my fond heart sighs for you! Bweet spirit, listen to me now, Hear once again my ardent vow! There was about two feet six inches Of this soul inspiring verse, and he sent It to the object of his adoration, with a request that she would express an opinion on its merits. He got it. Dear Mr. Theodore Hopkins—Tou ask me for my opinion of your verses. I do not like to hurt your feelings, but If you will rend the Initial letters of th« flrst four lines downward J may say that you express piy »«ntlments exactly. Yours VWy truly, MABEL BROWNE And when Theodora strung the first four letters together he pondered bit terly.—London Telegraph, Tl>* Harm .Volar Does. Noise is an undoubted factor In im pairing the tone of the nerve centers. Whether we are conscious of it or not, it hurts the brain and has a deafening, dazing, bewildering effect on the men till processes. It tire* the brain und tends to produce cerebral hyperemia* To live in a noisy atmosphere is to shorten one's day. Irritability, neu rasthenia, insomnia, are common ef fects. The tympanum, or drum mem brane, of the ear is injured, the circu lation of the cerebro spinal fluid is dis turbed and the nerip cells themselves suffer as though subjected to mechan ical violence. —Family Doctor. THROWING THE D\Cl. The Ancient Urrmnna Were Furious (imnlilera ut This Game. The invention of dice has been of old ascribed to I'alaniedes, the son of Naupliua, kliiK of Euboea, about 1214 B. «'., and also to a < J reek soldier nam ed Alea, which Is the Latin for a die, but Herodotus assigns both dice und chess to the Lydians, The ancient Germans would gamble away at dice all that they were worth and then their liberty, submitting to slavery if they lost, and the Saxons, Danes and Normans were all addicted to the game. Fox Talbot Is of opin ion that tho Latins Invented, If not the game, nt least the nume for the SIUKIC point, which they called unu*. The Germanic races, adopting this practice from the Greeks, traualatod the Greek corruption of nnus Into ass, which has now become uce. The root of tills word lies in the Latin as, the monetary unit. John of Salisbury In the twelfth century mentions ten different uses of the dice. Stow mentions two enter tainments given by the city of London at which dice were in evidence.—Lon don Telegraph. THE BIRD'S SONG. M Is Produced l»y n I'nlqne Voice Organ In the Syrinx. Birds have no vocal chords In the larynx, but they possess a unique voice organ in the syrlux, which Is provided with what are really vocal chords of a very effective and complicated Ulnd. This syrinx lies in the lower part of the windpipe and the upper part of the branching bronchi, but varies much In its exact position and details of struc ture in different birds. Briefly it consists of a varying num ber of muscles, as many as from live to seven being found In tho best soiig- Bters, attached to folds of membrane and the bony half rings, which at this part of the throat form u surt of en larged Adam's apple. Distinctness of the several muscles and the mode of their Insertion indi cate a bird's musical capability. The syrinx of the skylark and nightingale, for instance, Is a marvel of adjusted muscle and membrane, while, on the other hand, the ostrich and some vul tures have no voice organ, the pigeon has but little to show, and tho common fowl has no muscles to modulate its cry, LIGHT THAT KILLS PAIN. The Effect of Intense Blue flnyn In Dental Operations. In order to test personally the new anaesthetic known as the blue light system, by which tooth extraction is rendered painless, the Geneva corre spondent of the London Dally Mail has Just undergone an operation for the removal of a troublesome molar at the hands of Dr. Camille Redard, the Swiss discoverer of the method. Having placed his patient iu a re cumbent position, the doctor impressed upon him the great importance of faith iu the new process and then command ed him to gaze steadily at an ordinary sixteen candle power electric light with n blue glass bulb fixed within eighteen Inches of his eyes. Behind the lamp was a reflector. After covering up his patient with a lurge blue cloth the doctor left the room. "I found myself gazing at the daz zling blue light, which gradually seemed to penetrate my eyes and pass out of the back of my head," writes the correspondent, "At first I felt a slight burning sen sation, which in turn gave way to one of coolness around the eyeballs. "This feeling passed, and I felt noth ing more out of the ordinary except that a sensation of rest came over me, and my hands, wUich were trembling slightly before, were perfectly still now. My senses never left me, und I plainly heard the doctor entering the room. "Ile took away the cloth rapidly, placed the blue electric light farther oway, tilted the chair up sllgntly anil signed to me with the Instrument to open my mouth. "I felt the instrument grasp the tooth and watched the doctor pull. The next instant I saw the molar before me, not having felt the slightest pain." Fat fathers and Thin Sons, Talking of figures—the Interesting kind of flgurea—will somebody explain the true inwardness of obesity? Are people fated to be fat regardless of the quality or quantity of the food they consume? The late Lord Salisbury la his final years was a giant in girth as in other respects among bis so called peers. His aon, Lord Hugh Cecil, is the lankiest member of parliament. "Ah, so was I at his age," said his fa ther to a frtcTid nhortly berore hl» death. Then must Lord Hugh also, who often logche* on no more than a biscuit, go the way to all flesh? This is not a party question. Sir William Hareourt is the most weighty member of parliament—in body as well as in character, ills sou, Mr. Lulu Har eourt, is, like the son of the late Tory premier, as thin as a rail, which is ex actly what his illuminating father was at that age. Other instances might be named of young politicians who, with parental precedents before them, are In trouble about their bodies rather than their souls.—London Chronicle. Gold For Japan. A Japanese newspaper says: "When Iyeyasu captured the Osaka castle from Hideyorl and Lady Yodo he found there 300 ingots of gold hnving a value of si>oo,ooo in the currency of the pres ent day. This gold he bequeathed to his second son Yoshinao, the first of the Owarl feudal chiefs, with the in junction that it should be kept for use in any national emergency. The pres ent head of the Owarl family, Marquis Glrel, considering that the time is eoine to employ the money, recently repaired to the tomb of Yoshinao and solmenly intimated to the spirit of the dead that the gold WBB about to be employed for national purposes In ac cordance with the will of the family's illustrious ancestor, Iyeyasu. There after the marquis handed over the money to the treasury." An AuinHd Qneen. At a children's party at Buckingham palace the other day a little incident occurred which turn is he