VOL. XXXXI. I KECK Jg Merchant Tailor. Fall and Winter Suitings CJUST ARRIVED. ( ) 142 North Main St. w KECK h 1 in !i * 1 The Most Complete and Extensive Stock of Fall Under wear for Ladies, Children and Men. THE MODERN STORE- We a specialty of underwear and have, beyond a doubt, the beat line in Bntler. No matter what you want we can suit you. LADIES' FALL WEIGHT UNDERWEAR. We handle the celebrated Forest Mills hand-finished Underwear for The nicest garments made. Ladies' long-sleeve Lisle vests, -oc. Ladies' medium weight long sleeve corset cover*. 25c. Ladies fle ?ced vests and drawers, white cream and black. 50c. Ladies medium weight wool Teste and drawers. $1 each Ladies' medium weight silk and cot ton veata and drawers, $1 each. Ladies' medium weight silk and wool vests and drawers, $1.50 each. Ladies' medium weight union suits, 50c. ft. $1 50 to $2 76 for silk and wool. ChHd'en's Fall Weight Underwear—ah sizes and grades. Vesta and pants from 10c up, according to quality and size. MEN'S FALL WEIGHT UNDERWEAR Medium weight camel's hair, 50c each. Medium weight all wool, very fine, $1 each. Union suits, the most comfortable for men, JOC, f I to fo suit. We will have onr Fall Millinery Opening. Thursday. Sept. 29th, Friday, Sept. 80th and Saturday. Oct Ist Don't fail to come. EISLER-MARDORF COMPANY, | Mm lUBHUn | f\r%4 P ' [ LLI Send in Your Mail Orders. I OPPOSITE HOTEL ARLINGTON. ——^.l I The Bargaii\ Counter » Unfavorable weather and trade conditions that have existed all t-eason are responsible for more than the usual quantity of desirable merchandise finding its outlet by way of the bargain counter. Stocks are larger than usnal at this season of the year and extra ordinary redactions are made to move them. 5 Shirt Waists Reduced 3 Entire stock of "Acorn" brand fine shirt waists at one-fourth off, a and some at one-third off former prices. White Goods Reduced 8 A ureat chance to get bargains in white goods. 50c goods duced to 29c. 85 and 25c goods reduced to 19c and others in proportion. |a Bar6air\B ir~| Wash Goods £ All wash goods greatly reduced. 85 and 25c fine wash goods (R BOW 100. 30c and 18c fine wash goods now 12* c. 15c wash goods now 9a Bargains in ICvery Department 5 Silks, Drew Goods, Laces, Ribbons. Underwear, Hosiery, Notions u and domestics all contribute their share of bargains. ™ L. Stein & Son, 1 108 N MAIN STREET, DUTLER. PA. § 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. y > Showing all the latest styles in men S OllUoS 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 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 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. 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, 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. -THE BUTLER CITIZEN. PROFESSIONAL CARDS. PHYSICIANS, DR. JCLIA E. FOSTER, OSTEOPATH. Consultation and examination free. Office hours—9 to 12 A. M., 2 to> M., daily except Sunday. Evening appointment. Office—Stein Block. Rooms 9-10, But ler. Pa. People's Phone 478. GEO. M BEATTY. M. D., PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, Office in John Ricbey Building. Office Hours —9ll 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. NEELA, Rooms 0 and 7, Hughes Build'ng South Main S f . Chronic diseases of genito urinary organs and rectum treated by the inos approved methods. T C. BOYLE, M. D. J • EYE, EAR, NOSH and Tin .T, After April ist, office in fort * Dr. Peter 3* residence, No. 121 E. Ci ing hatn St, Butler. Pa., next door to ues printing office. PLARA E. MORROW. D. 0., V GRADUATE BOSTON COLLEGE OF OSTEOPATHY. Women's diseases a specialty. Con «ultatian and examination free. Office Hours, 9to 12 m., a to 3 p. m People's Phone 573. 1/6 S. Main street, Bntler, Pa M. ZIMMERMAN U, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON At 327 N- Main St. T R. IIAZLETT, M. D., Ij. 106 West Lnamoi:d, Dr. Graham's former office. Special attention g;ven to Eye, >ote and Throat Peoole's Phcne 274. OAMUELM. BIPPUS, U PHYSICIAN AND SURGHON 200 West Cunningham St. DENTISTS. DR. S. A. JOHNSTON, ScnuKON DENTIST. Formerly of Butler, Has located opposite Lowry House, 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 r.eedle into the gums: also gas and ether used. Com munications by mail receive prompt at tention. DR J. WILBEP-T McKEE, SURGEON DENTIST. Office over Leighner's Jewelry store, Butler, Pa Peoples Telephone 505. A specialty made nf gold fillings, gold crown and bridge work. J. HIND.UAN, , DENTIST. 127* South Main street, (ov Metzer's shoe store.) DR. H. A. MCCANDLESS, DENTIST. Office in Butler County National Bank Building, 2nd floor. DR. M. D. KGTTRABA, Successor ta Dr. Johnston. DENTIST Office at No 114 E. Jefferson St., over G. W. Miller's jjrocerv J J. DONALDSON, T DENTIST. Artificial Teeth inserted on the latest improved plan. Gold Killings a spec ialty. Office nezt to postofSee. ATTORNEYS. YIT C. FINDLEY, VY • ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, AND PENSION ATTORNEY. Office on South side of Diamond, Bntler, Pa. RP. SCOTT, ■ ATTORNBY-AT-LAW, Office in Butler County National Bank building. AT. SCOTT, • AI'TORNKY AT LAW. Office at No. 8. West Diamond St. But ler, Pa. POULTKR & BAKKR, B ATTORNEYS AT LAW. Offiee in Butler County National Bank buildinß JOHN W. COULTER, A TTORNEY-AT-LA w. Office on Diamond, Butler, Pa. "Special nttention given to collections and business matters. JD. MCJUNKIN, . ATTORNEY-AT-LAW. Office in Retber building, cornet Main and E. Cunningham Sts, Entrance ov Main etreet. JB. BK.EDIM, . ATTORNEY AT LAW. Office on Main St. near Court Hons, HH. GOUCHER, • ATTORNEY AT LAW. Office ia Wise building. EH. NEGLEY, . ATTORNEY AT LAW. Office in the Negley Building, West Diamond MISCELLANEOUS. p P. L. McQUISTION, V. Crvii, ENGINEER AND SURVEYOR Office near Court House. BF. BILLIARD, • GENERAL SURVEYING. Mines and Land. County Surveyor. R. F D. 49, West Sunbury, Pa. P. WALKER, • NOTARY PUBLIC, BUTUSR, Office with Berkmer, next door to P. O WM, WALKER. CHAS, A. MCELVAIN WALKER & McELVAIN, gO7 Butler County National Bank Bldg. EAL ESTATE. INSURANCE. OIL i'ROI'EKTIES. LOANS. BOTH PHONES, H. MILLER, FIRE and LIFE INSURANCE and REAL ESTATE. OFFICE —Room 508, Butler County National Bank building. BUTLER, PA., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1904. Nasal Catarrh quickly yields to treat ment bv Ely's Cream llalm, which is agree ably aromatic. It is received through the nostrils, cleanses and heals the whole sur i face over which«it diffuses itself. Druggists sell the 50c. size; Trial size by mail, 10 cents. Test it and you are sure to continue the treatment. Announcement. To accommodate those who aro partial to the use of atomizers in applying liquids into the nasal passages for atttirr/inl trou ble*, the proprietors prepare Cream Balm in liquid form, which will be known as Ely's Liquid Cream Balm. Price including the spraying tube is 75 cents. Druggists or by mail. The liquid form embodies the med i icinal properties of the sobd pteparation. ! \ \ _ 'j-y | I | j'The Reggiel Wo are now 4 showing all the 4 r new shapes in £ t soft and stiff i hats for fall. 5 * Comment is 4 unnecessary; J f the reputation £ £ our hats have £ gained should # J induce you to t *' see them before \ a you buy your £ 4 fall hat. 4 f We are showing £ *1 more new shapes t * than ever before. « Jno. S.Wickj * Peoples Phone, bl». f $ P.UTLEK, PA $ i PAINT i 20 |p ijiOIFFERENTiji § KINDS *j? BUT ALL kj ' *▼ * ▼ • W 1 1 • *l' *l* jgSHERWIN-WILLIAMS CO'sjjt A FAINT 4? FOR # # EVERY % : : M PURPOSE Redick & Grohrnan ijt 109 N. Main St., H BUTLER, PA. PIANOS AT YOUR PRICE. W. R. Newton, The Piano Man, 317 S Haiti Street. 1 JJ375 at Cash. 1 $375 at &250 Cash. 1 at #J4S Cash. 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 K°od as new. Other pianos from SSO upwards. Everything in music. Call 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 motto. Come and see us when in need of anything in the Drug Line and vve are sure you will call again. We carry a full line of Drugs, Chemicals, Toilet Articles, etc. Purvis' Pharmacy S. G. PURVIS, PH. G Both Phones, 213 S Main St. Butler Pa. Pearson B. Nace's Livery Feed and Sale Stable Rear of Wick House Butler lenn'i Tbe best of horses and first class rigs al wavs on hand and for hire. Rest accommodations In towh for perma nent boarding and transient trade. Sped al care guaranteed. Stable Room For 65 Horses A good c ass of horses, both drivers and draft horses always on nand and for sale u-der a full guarantee; and horses bough pon proper notification bv PEARSON B. NACE, Te»«stfiione No. 21 . Watches Cured of all their ills. Our treatment is quick, sure, cheap. Ralston & Smith 110 West Jefferson St. : LIFE'S GRAB | ! BAG .> • i By KEITH GORDON * • • • ? J CojihTight, lOOU, bu Kc it! i Gonfon * "Life," meditated Cynthia as she tucked in the ends of her veil more neatly, "is nothing more than a grab bag on a huge scale. Pay by day you put your hand in and grab something, but until you take it out and unfold it you never know whether it is a joy or a sorrow!" With a droll smile at the idea, she picked up her gloves and card case, took a last comprehensive survey of herself in the eheval glass and then passed down the stairs and out into the street filled with the gentle exhil aration that her view of life induced. Oue did not know, for instance, what charming adventure might befall, even In the pursuit of so banal a duty as a round of formal calls. M using thus, she turned into Fifth avenue, her face alight with eager expectancy of the nest thing and trying to imagine what It was going to be. This might be the groat day of her life—one couldn't tell. Perhaps before the afternoon was over she would meet the man—that goclling of her dreams who moved in the time honored .Olym pian manner, enveloped in a mist that hid his face from view. Apparently the afternoon held nothing more than a pleasant stroll, broken by a half dozen calls, but the beauty of the thing lay in the fact that one couldn't be sure: Perhaps on that very after noon— These pleasant speculations sudden ly came to an abrupt end. Iler card case—where was it? She felt blindly in her muff, thrust her hand into one side of her coat and then the other, but in vain. It was gone—lost—just ps numberless purses, opera glasses, boas, muffs and umbrellas bad gone before it, until she was a byword among her friends and the gifts of her intimates were invariably accom panied by a beseeching: "Don't lost? this, Cynthia. Do try to be a little bit careful." And now her new card case, a gift on her birthday a few weeks before, had gone in the usual way. Just when she was expecting the very best of life too.' Her optimism disappeared like the sun behind a cloud, and, with an aggrieved sense of misplaced trust, her steps slackened and she came to a standstill, wondering if it would be worth while to go back and try to find it. "Scarcely," she decided, as tbe mov ing crowd of pedestrians slowly filed past her, and, with a sigh, she resumed her way northward once more, a lit tle comforted by the reflCt-tion that, after all, some honest person would probably find it and return it to her. Meanwhile a tall, athletic young man who was swinging up the ave nue in the same direction a block or *o behind her, unconsciously rejoic ing in his mere physical vigor and not philosophizing at all, found liis atten tion attracted by a small, dark object ornamented with a gleaming disk of silver that was lying near the edge of the sidewalk. Picking It up, lie glanced iu this way and in that, but the handsomely gowned women who were making their way in both directions gave no indica tion of distress, so he examined the monogram on the clasp, with a grunt of masculine disdain for such devices. Then he bethought him that it might be a good idea to open It, and, suiting the action to the impulse, he discov ered in one compartment a latchkey and in the other a bunch of cards. "Miss Williar, No. 4 West —th street," he read, taking out one of the cards. And, having thus satisfactorily estab lished the ownership of his find, he tucked it Into his pocket and strode on toward the University club, idly won dering if this Miss Williar could be re lated to the little Cynthia Williar lie had known in his boyhood. It was this wonder that impelled him to wait tq see Miss Williar personally when. Just before the dinner hour, he stopped at the address given ou the card. He liftd not long to wait. A tall girl with a look in her eyes that said plain ly that life was an interesting experi ence entered the room, and he found himself face to face with what seemed to him a larger, older and greatly glo riped copy of the small, freckled girl upon whom in moments of rare gen erosity he had sometimes bestowed his boyish approval. "Why, Jack Mayliew," she exclaimed with unfeigned gladness, extending her hand, "where have you dropped from?" while his hearty "Jupiter, Cyn thia, if this isn't luck!" uttered with enthusiastic heartiness while he con scientiously wrung her hand as if it had been that of another man, placed them at once on the plane of good fel lowship where they had parted ten years earlier. Ir, their delight aud surprise at the meeting they talked volubly and some times both at' once, asking about boy end girl friends and referring hilari ously to the pranks of those dear old days. But if their tongues were busy their minds were doubly so. "He's magnificent," Cynthia was say ing over and over to herself, with a thrill of delight, though ostensibly she was listening with rapt attention to his account of himself since he left Elm wood and had grown up, while he, filled with admiring wonder at this new Cynthia, suddenly lost the thread of his story and floundered helplessly, after the manner of persons who try to think about one thing nqd talk about another. "As I was saying," he observed im fressively, making a frantic but Inef fectual attempt to recall what he had been saying, "as I was saying—that is —oh, hang it nil, Cynthia, I was so busy looking at you that I forgot what I was saying. Don't know where I'm at." At this plain avowal they both laughed, and he went on with mascu line frankness: "I say, you've done yourself proud. You're ripping, you know!" And lie gazed at her with so much of tlio old boyishness In bis face that the reproof that rose to her lips was suppressed. Then a black thought suddenly clutched at her. "You aren't married, are you?" she demanded so abruptly and intensely that she winced the moment the words were out, while his prompt negative was tempered with a certain shame as he recalled some events of the previous year. Cynthia was so direct that she inspired him with a desire to meet her on her own ground. "No. I'm not married, but I am afraid that I should have been except for the firmness of the young lady's mother," he acknowledged honestly. "She had other views for her daugh ter. You see. I wasn't rich enoutrh, and I'm mighty glad I wasn't—now," he added with a fervor that was be yond suspicion. Still. Cynthia's manner seemed to take on a slight coating of ice. ''So you're a blighted being!" she said thoughtfully, her chin resting on the back of her hand and her eyes fixed upon his face speculatively. They parted a few minutes later, reluctantly. It Is true, yet with the feeling that the fine glow of the meet ing had suddenly faded. "He's mourning for that horrid lit tle thing with the mercenary moth er." reflected Cynthia scornfully and without any compunction whatever anent the injustice of calling an un known damsel "a horrid little thing." while Jack Mayliew. his eyes dazzled by the fine, open face of bis old play mate, wondered how he could ever have fancied pretty little pink and white Dorothy. As he remembered Cynthia's mouth, with the little curlycues at the cor ner that looked like baby smiles, his face grew gloomy. "Depend upon It, old fellow, you'll find there is some man In the back ground." ho confided to himself darkly on the way homeward. "Don't get the idea that there's any chance for you. A girl like that"— Here he gave up at loss for words to express his convictions on the subject. But in spite of this mutual cynicism Miss Williar and Jack Mayliew were seen together very frequently during the next three months. They affected palm rooms aud art galleries aud such places where a certain soft splendor and quiet made for sentiment and low toned conversation. It was upon one such occasion that a patron of art who had closed the book of romance before the young people In this story were born ovW henrd the following extraordinary bit of conversation. He was sitting with one eye screwed up critically in the effort to form a Judgment of a Claude Monet on the wall before him whi*i he heard the young man murmur anx iously: "You don't suppose your mother will say that I'm not rich enough, do you?" "Indeed, no!"' replied the girl a<" his side confidently. "My mother Is not that kind. Besides, didn't our moth ers know, each other before we were born?" The patron of art looked slightly puzzled. From the tail of his cool, estimating eye he sent furtive glances at the pair, vainly endeavoring to fol low the young lady's reasoning. There was an ecstatic silence for a second, during which the patron of art found the two decidedly interest ing from an artistic standpoint. It was an eloquent moment—and paint able. It was really a pity. Then the girl's face dimpled and she to speak. "Oh, eh» said, and her tone was a caress, "isn't it lucky that 1 got you out of the grab bag after all?" The patron of art moved away, shak ing his head as if the times were get ting beyond him. "Got him out of the grab bag," he murmured, just to see how it would sound—"got him out of the grab bag!" A BUI That Never Pa«*e«l. Congressmen sometimes adopt queer expedients to gain the good will of their constituents. Years ago a mem ber from a western state was very much afraid lie would be knocked out in the approaching campaign. He had not managed to make himself a power iu congress. In fact, his constituents had never heard of him doing any thing besides voting with liis party when his name was called and draw ing his salary. lie was despprute. Something must be done tQ please his people at home or b" would be buried out of night. A bright young woman to whom he had described his troubles said to him: "You live near the center of the United States, don't you?" "Yes." "Then why don't you Introduce a bill to have the capltol moved to the principal town in your district?" "The very thing." And he introduced the bill. It work ed to a charm. The people of his dls. trict at once concluded lie was a great man and with much enthusiasm sent hijn back for another term, so that he might press his removal bill and se cure its passage. In the next con gress he reintroduced the same meas ure, and, though it was promptly pigeonholed in the committee room and of course he never got a chance to nuke a speech on It, his people stood Oy him and gave him a third term as t reward for his genius. Grnr CDCM Hard to Find. "Look -around during your next ex ploration of Chinatown," says a close observer, "aud see If you can find any Chiuainan with a gray cue. I have seen gray haired Chinamen all right and one or two with fuzz on their faces which might by courtesy be called beards, but a gray cue never. A good deal of the average cue Is all make believe anyway, several inches Of the eud of It being composed of black braid. "I have always suspected that there wa9 more or less false hair about it, too; but that is of course a matter that cannot be determined by casual inspec tion. Sueh Chinamen as I have seen with gray hair have had black cues. It may be, however, that the ends of the cue, Instead of being false, are dyed."—Philadelphia Record. Southern Manchuria. The St. James' Gazette says: "The rainy season iu southern Manchuria is not so bad as it has been represented to be. Residents of long experience state that while there are days In which heavy falls of rain take place there are not many consecutive days in which torrential rains are experienced. When a really heavy downpour of rain of some hours' duration occurs it is al most Invariably followed by three or four weeks of splendid, dry, bracing weather. There is no finer summer cli mate in the world than that of south ern Manchuria. The temperature In the shade is seldom above 88 degrees." Ilia Blander. "Yes; she and her husband have quarreled. It seems he told her she was just too sweet for anything since their marriage." "Well?" "Well, she was insulted, of course. That was as much as to say she wasn't •Just too sweet for anything' always." —Exchange. Eanlns: the Problem. "Dickie, when you divided those five caramels with your little sister did you give her three?" "No, ma. I thought they wouldn't come out even, so I ate one 'fore I be gan to divide!"— New Yorker. Main Point Settled. "They have called two doctors in for consultation." "And do the doctors agree?" "I believe they have agreed upon the nrlpti " SEED CORN. Don't Gather In Too Early—'The Crit ical Time In Storage. By P. G. HOLDEN. lowa Experiment Static*. When we realize the possibilities that are wrapped up in a single ear of corn and then make careful selection we can In a few years greatly increase the value of the corn crop. Do not select the ears intended for next year's seed too early in the fall. GOOD SHAPE OF KABS. If husked before the corn is fairly well matured the ears will not have so much food stored up, and consequently thfelr vitality will be weakened. Ex periments have proved that corn al lowed to fully mature on the stalk gives the best results, If gathered before It is fully matured corn Is difficult to preserve. When dried In a warm place it is liable to sprout, and unless there Is a good cir culation of air it will become heated and moldy. Experiments indicate that the best results are obtained when the corn is stored in a dry and thoroughly ventilated place. The most critical time in the han dling of seed corn Is the first month after it has been husked. It is unwise to store It in barrels, boxes or over large quantities of other grains, as It will gather moisture, One-third of the weight pf corn at the time of husking is made up of water. While the grain may appear perfectly dry when stored, as soon as this moisture begins to ooze out the corn will become wet—"gather Trc nrry ft tlmo W «• good circulation to carry off this ex uded water. This makes it unsafe to place seed corn on the floor or on a shelf, as the lack of a free circulation of air will often cause the corn on the under side of the ear to become moldy. Jt Is good practice to place the corn on a rack. Tbe strips should be as narrow as practicable to allow admission of air from below. In case a corn rack is not used it is good practice to hang up tbe corn or to place it upon some boards over the corn in the crib where there will be a free circulation of air until such time as there is danger from severe freezing. If it is then not com pletely dry it should be dried artificial ly or placed in a ventilated room where there will be no danger from freezing. When it once becomes thoroughly dry and is kept dry, cold will not injure it. The first cut Illustrates good forms of ears. These ears are well propor tioned. Their butts and tips are good. The rows are straight and the kernels uniform. The ears are full in the mid dle parts, showing strength, constitu tion and good breeding. It is very es sential that an ear shows fullness in the middle portion, as this is the place where the greatest quantity as well as KERNELS OF DIFFERENT VALUE, the best quality of corn will be found. Ears 1 and 3 are slightly better in shape than 2. The second cut shows sections of rows of kernels taken from two differ ent ears. Judging from outward ap pearances of the ears, little or no dif ference In their values could be dis covered. The ears from which these two rows were taken were almost ex actly of the same size, yet one ear weighed 10 per cent more than the other and shelled out 20Vi per cent more corn. One has not only very much poorer feeding value than the other, but has a much lower vitality and would give a weaker plant. It is very important that the tips of the kernels, the porttou next to the cob, should be full and pfump so that thero IK no space between the kernels down near the cob. Cider For Table U»c. Good keeping cider cannot be made in warm weather. In making cider for use as a beverage to keep during the winter months it should be made as late as possible, preferably in freezing weather, out of good apples, of course, and racked off after being allowed to settle two or three days, after which, if It can be exposed to cool weather and allowed to thoroughly chill, then stored In a cool place, It will keep a long time without fermentation. To be kept absolutely sweet for a long time cider must go through a pasteurizing process, or else some preservative must be used. A FARM WOOD LOT. •fbnatant Korenluht Xecenary Re production UIHI Succession. 6} FRANK A. WAUGII, Hatch Experi ment Station, Massachusetts. One of the commonest shortcomings lit farm management of wood lots is that the trees are cut without regard to their reproduction. Constant fore sight should be had to the future com position of the wood lot. The valuable species should be encouraged. Pines and hemlocks should I e allowed to bear seed, l'oung oak seedlings should be favored. A good growth of oak can sometimes be secured from sprouts coming up from stumps (coppice repro duction). Chestnut reproduces itself vigorously in this way, especially where young trees are cut close to the ground. It will be noticed also that some spe cies follow each other in a definite suc cession. On waste land, recently cut over areas or abandoned farm fields birch and poplar are usually the first to appear. \s soon as these trees have formed a forest cover, have begun to shade the ground, other sp.>.-;«- •; come in. Pines, oaks anil hemlocks belong to this second crop. Comparatively worthless species may thus be taken advantage of to secure the establish ment of better species. Improvtmrnt C*tlln(i. As already hinted, cuttings are to be made not with sole regard to the wants to l>e immediately supplied. The trees selected for removal should be chosen largely with reference to the trees which remain. The stand of tlm l>er should be kept fairly uniform, not so thick as to kill out good sized trees and not so thin as to allow heavy side branches to grow. Where two good trees are unduly crowding each other one of them should be removed. In de ciding which tree shall go and which shall stay the question Is not so much which will make the best lumber now its which will make the best growth in the next ten or twenty years. If the future is kept thus consistently In mind it will seldom be necessary to make any extensive "improvement cut tings" just for the sake of helping the wood lot. Every tree taken ouUwlil represent an improvement cutting. Artificial Plantations. The typical wood lot and the sort by far the most common in New England consists of a natural forest If it is properly managed It will reproduce it self indefinitely. J?o tree planting Is necessary. In many places, however, even in Massachusetts, tree planting is necessary, practicable nnd profitable. Our own wood lot contains both natu ral woods and planted areas. There is one lot of planted white birch fifteen years old. There Is another area planted with Scotch pines and larch mixture twen ty-five years old. One of the best arti ficial plantations is of pure larch twen ty-four years old. These trees were set in rows four feet apart, with trees about two feet apart in the rows. They have done very well indeed and are producing valuable timber. THE BELGIAN DRAFT HORSE. How the Native Draft Hone Has Been Improved to Highest Raalc. In connection with Its exhibit at the world's fair the department of agricul ture of Belgium has Issued a brochure giving some Interesting facts in regard to agriculture. The breeding of draft horses is an important feature in Bel glum, and it appears that the provinces of Belgium have for a long time pos sessed regulations relative to the im provement of the native draft horse, some of which date as far back as the eighteenth century. The provincial regulations have a double aim—first, to eliminate from BELGIAN DRAFT HO BSE. breeding the stallions which do not possess the qualities desired to Im prove the breed to which they belong; second, to encourage by means of mon ey bounties the preservation of the an imals, both male and female, of native breed. It is owing to this selection of the breeding aires that Belgium is in pos session of a breed of draft horses of the highest rank. In 1886 the Belgian Draft Horse so ciety (Le Cheval de Trait Beige) was founded. This association has a double object—(a) encouragement is given to the breeding of native horses by the organization of annual national shows, (b) the keeping of a stud book of Bel gian horses. Every year an exhibition is also or ganized la one of the agricultural dis tricts of Belgium as well as a great many exhibitions of agricultural asso ciations at which horse shows of local interest are held. Afrleiltiral Notes. "Money in bee farming" is the latest cry, but swarms must be strong and well managed. Dig sweet potatoes on warm, dry, days and avoid bruising the tubers If they are to be kept for winter use. Vetch as a fall, winter and spring prowlng crop seems to be gaining fa vor In many sections, even those as widely separated as Oregon and Flor ida. THE POWDER WORKED. Aa Invention That Proved Too Mncli of a Snceeaa. A certain inventor once hit upon the happy device of desiccating eggs. He turned dozens and dozens of eggs into a powder that you might carry in a pill box. All you had to do when you wanted an omelet or a scramble was to drop a pinch of the powder into water. A teaspoonful of the stuff would swell up to till a quart tin, and half a cup ful would be enough for the meal of a company on the march. Now, this in ventor by diligent effort succeeded in making himself known to a great man In a European country, a man who moves armies by the crooking of a finger, so to speak. The great man was delighted with the desiccated egg scheme, and a box of the powder was sent to him so that he might try it on the army. Fate, however, decreed that it should be tried on the dog. It lay open on the great man's study ta ble, and there the dog nosed it out. He licked up the powder, an amount of it that forty conscientious hens could not replace with a month's hard la bor, and he liked the taste of it. It made him thirsty, however, and he swallowed nearly a gallon of water to assuage that thirst. The powder im mediately began to do what it was ex pected to do when water struck it, and before the eyes of the great man that unhappy dog swelled up and ■welled up till his seams gave way. Just forward of the port beam he sprang a leak. This is a perfectly true ■tory. The poor dog actually burst. That particular invention has never been recommended to the war office.— Washington Post. VULCANO'S VOLCANO. A Kntural Weather Prophet and In fallible at That. As a natural weather prophet, and In fallible at that, the volcano on the is land of Vulcano, twelve miles north of Sicily, in the Mediterranean, is be lieved to hold the record. The fol lowing is from an account of a dinner given by the Geographical Council Club of England in 1803: "Captain Wharton, the hydrographer to the ad mlrulty. told how he had once an chored in very deep water on the east side of Vulcano, the southernmost of the Liparl isles, but that he had kept up steam with the Intention of being off immediately if the wind changed to the eqftt. No. 56 Englishman who lived on the island and was in charge of some borax works., 'But,' said the man, there is not the remotest chance of the wind going around to the eaat without full warning.' 'What warning?" asked the other. 'Oh,' was the rejoinder, 'the volcano always warns uar The vol cano" sakl Wharton. 'Yea, the vol cano. A "fumarone" always emits a whistling sound before the east wind begins to blow.' Shortly after this Wharton was looking at Strabo and, to his astonishment, found that that writer mentions the fact The Eng lishman had never heard of Strabo In bis life. Strabo died as an old man about 25 A. D., so that this excellent fumarone' must have been giving Its warnings well nigh 2,000 years at least." BIELA'S COMET. Its Sensational Career Before It Van ished From Oar Slckt, All Europe was in pangs of terror when in 1832 it was announced that Biela's comet would cross the earth's path. People died of terror, and so se rious did the scare become that a Pari sian professor begged the Academy of Science to publicly refute the assertion. The comet came, blazed awhile in the sky and vanished. Its period of revo lution round the sun being just under seven years, it came again in 1539 and was due or.ce more early In 1846. But In that year, instead of one comet, two appeared! The original comet had di vided into two parts, each of which had a separate existence, though their paths were the same. In 1852 the two comets again came flying into sight. Their path in 1859 was too close to the sun for telescopic scrutiny, but in 1868 it was expected that they would be plainly visible. But the double comet never turned up. Nor has it ever been seen since. % Comets are naturally somewhat un reliable. They are of very flimsy tex ture. One great astronomer indeed has said that you could pack the tail of the average comet in a portmanteau. So if they pass too near to Jupiter or any of the big planets they are very apt to (jet caught and so to disappear completely. Old Roman Hatrylaa. That deadly implement, the hatpin Of modern times, is a descendant of an equally formidable toilet artiele used by Roman women. The Aspaslas and Julias and Claudias who decked them selves a couple of thousand years or more ago, to the undoing of the par ticular Balbus or Marcus they desired to fascinate, wore bone hairpins of prodigious length. Yet, like the wo men of this present time, they seem to have experienced the same difficulty in keeping them in place. This fact came to light during excavations at Silches ter, near Reading, England, a hundred or so of these bone hairpins being "'-TS TtX" ULUUIUU »*«■) ■uuuui'u maybe by the bath attendant, to prove all these centuries later that there is nothing new under the sun and that hi all ages the same little foibles have been possessed by women. The Dratoa Fly's Ksrsr*- Any one who has watched a dragon fly flitting about 'the surface of small, reedy ponds or near the shores of large ones during the summer and ear ly fall months has noticed its fre quent dipping of the extremity of Its long body in the water as it Alms along. The dragon fly thus engaged Is always the female, and every time she dips her body in the water she de posits an egg. The specific gravity of the egg is such that it sinks to the bottom among the weeds. Her Purpose. "Mother thinks you'll make me a good wife," said the girl's intended "Indeed?" replied the girl with the determined jaw. "You tell your moth er I'll make you a good husband." — Philadelphia Ledger. Entirely t'seless. Agent—Buy a burglar alarm? Mr. Man—What the deuce do I want with a burglar alarm when my wife hears them every night without one? Spend no strength in worry. You seed it all for duty.—Anon. Saperstltlons That Still Abide With the Country Folk. There is a well known weed with dark blotches on It, not unlike blood stains. I have been twice assured with the utmost seriousness by an old woman that "where you find them there a-growing there's been a battle long ago." The same dame once seemed rather in a hurry when buying a setting of eggs from me about tea time, and I found the reason was that she believ ed you had no luck with eggs if you did not set them before sundown. This is curious, for, though the modern poultry keeper might make the nest and place the eggs in it during the daytime, he would probably defer put ting the "broody" on them till dusk that she might have the best chance of settling down quietly. The other day in a neighboring cot tage I was admiring a line baby and ventured to suggest that If its nails were left so long it might scratch Its face. The-mother said she would cut them, but the grandmother burst in with: "You'll do nothing of the sort, my dear, asking your pardon, sir. You don't seem to know, sir, that to cut a child's nails before It's twelve months old makes it light fingered" And I am perfectly certain the nails will not be cut It will be of interest to add that the cottagers I speak of live near enough to London to see its lights in the sky.—London Chronicle. Talked Too Hack. Speaking one day of club sociabil ity, Hy Mayer, the eartoonlst told of a club to which he was invited while in Berlin. The club was composed of elderly Germans, who met In a back room to drink beer and smoke. At in tervals one of the clubmen would re move his pipe from his mouth, nod his head sagely and remark, "Yah." After a little pause another of the smokers would say, "Yah." That was the ex tent of their conversation. "One night" said Mr. Mayer, "one of the members brought his son to the club. After sev eral of the older ones had spoken as usual the youngster spoke. He said, 'Yah, yah.' They expelled him at once," concluded Mr. Mayer, "for talk ing too much." An EBeetlve Whistle. A popular English author was whol- . ly incapacitated from work by a lady who lived next door and strummed through Handel's "Messiah." His Idea of the inviolability of an Englishman's house did not allow him to send in any message, and he was at his wits' end till he saw in a dally paper that steam whistles could be bought to fit on to kettle spouts. He provided him self with one and put the kettle on the fire in the room nearest the singer. As soon as the whistle began he went out. Of course the bottom came off the kettle, but it cost little to solder it on again, and after two or three solderings the lady took the bint
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