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.
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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
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• 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 *
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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