VOL. XX XXI. 0 Stock Nearly Complete M || T' c targes* Best and Cheapest Line of M j Furniture and Carpets w r We have Ever Shown Yo". H y Carpets and Rugs—all kinds —at lowest prices. { { Bed Room Suits from $25.00 to $150.00. fA \ Combination and Library Cases $7.00 to $40.00. Music Cabinets and Writing Desks—any finish— r J \ $8 to S3O. k 1 J Couches —velour or leather —steel construction r 4 r, sl3 to S6O. k] V Parlor Suits —Davenports and odd pieces—from W. $5 to $85.. • ] L' Buffets —Sideboards —-latest designs—from 518 fi r to SBS. %] y Chiffoniers and Odd Dressers—oak, mahogany fj W, and bird's eye maple—s7.oo and up. Special line of Mirrors and Pictures at very low r A fj prices. ft] k One hund.ed different patterns in Rockers of all TJ f kinds —at prices you cannot dispute. We are showing a large line of Round and Square 4 Extension Tables —and Diners to match. It will pay pi 1 you to see us before buying. f f We will show the largest line of medium-priced fc * fancy Parlor Stands and Library Tables this store f J has ever carried —dainty and inexpensive Xmas • presents. Ask for what you don't see. We can furnish your k j house from attic to basement. fij DON'T wait for DISCOUNTS later. It's a mis- kl take. Come, make your selections and get our best J prices NOW! We are Ready-to-Sell. # There Are No Installment j Prices Asked at This Store. COME nsTTFTcTcOMPARB. j BROWN &• CO. t| No. 135 Horth Main St., Butler. >1 THE MODERN STORE. g Sale Coutinued UutilSaturday Evening, Nov. 5 I GREAT CROWDS ATTENDED LAST WEER MANY HEW BARGAINS ADDE©. OUR GREAT Firry SPECIAL SALES were certainly appreciated by the publio and in order to give many who were unable to get out last week an opportunity to share in the bargains, we have decided to oontinne these sales until Saturday evening, Nov sth. THE STORE BRIMFUL OF BARGAINS STOCS THE MOST Ujp-TO-DATE. EVERYTHING OFFERED SEASONABLE GOODS. COME THIS WEES SURE. EISLEK-MARDORF COMPANY, SOUTH MAI* STREET J QfM I t-L\Send in Your Mail Orders. OPPOSITE HOTEL ARLINGTON. BUTLFR. PA. I $75 to $l5O ■ For Fifteen Minutes Time Ej Pretty high wages, Eh? 'that's what people are ■ making who take abvantage of I [NEWTON'S ■ Price Sacrifice Pianc Sale E| On accoun4 of cleaning out my store in order Ejj to get it finished for 'Christmas tr'side. It will sell ■ at factory prices, and many less. I will ■ quote you a few of the bargains I have for yoy; H Upright fully warranted, retail price, $275.0 Q. ■ 6»>t Price #'Bs 00 ■ Upright Piano, fully warranted, retail price, $375.00. ■ Sale Price $225.00 R Upright Piano, fully warranted, retail price, $575,90. ■ This piano has been used, but is a bargain, $250 H Squre pianos from $25.00 to $125. Orgaps frorr| 0 SIO.OO up. 10 pgr cent, fgr cash. H There are |4 of these Pianos to select from—new H and used—so you certainly ought to make a selec ■ tion. Bring this advertisement with you. 1 NEWTON'S I Ql? South Majn, Open Evenings, K E K i E Werchant Tailor, jg Fall and Winter Suitings ( JUST ARRIVED p vy 142 North Main St. KECK ___ 1 "vHE BUTLER CITIZEN. 1 For Sale. I Si The real estate of Mrs Marys 3 \\. Muntz, deceased, consisting of the following- tracts, all located in jg* §( the Uorough of Butler, Pa |Bj Main street and extending along the B. & ESS O. R. R. about 500 feet. This tract is well gg *si| adapted for manufacturing or warehouse jsg; 2nd. The homestead of about two acres, j[l|[ having a large comfortable dwelling house jUs *|& and outbuildings, fronting 150 feet on Main street and lying between the plank road jj| and the B. &O. R. R., having a frontage |§k Sgjl on the latter of over 500 feet. This tract ]g is unexcelled for manufacturing purposes. and has a never failing spring of water jg jS 3rd, A tract of about eight acres south %=& jel of the plank road and west of Main street. This tract can be subdivided into about gg forty buildings lots, commanding a splendid jet view and within a few minutes walk of the jsis business portion of the town, Sgj£ 4th. A large lot fronting 120 feet on g Main street and having thereon 3 two story j|p jHf frame slate roof dwelling house in excel- fl§s >f- • lent condition and wiih all modern con- S veniences, */' For prices, terms, e'c,, inquire of Jg | John N t /Vluntz, j IBf NO. 637 8. Main Street, Q utler, Pa, ® t&35 A?. Wallace Silver Plate fj I 1 | ■ and especially the new "FLORAL" pattern ■ ■ I II Soup Spoon and Dessert Fork of which we K II II RALSTON & SMITH, I IM 110 West Jeffer&ort Street, Byl'er P3 *1 f} Fall and Winter Millinery. 1 ?? Arrival of a large line of Street Hats, Tailor-made 3; • a and ready-to-wear Hats. All the new ideas and designs in Millinery Novelties. Trimmed and Un- 3; J 4 trimmed Hats for Ladies, Misses and Children. All Jp the new things in Wings, Pom-pons; Feathers, Ostrich Goods, etc, etc. » Rockensteln's I • i iji 3j Mi 11 i qery Km pori um, # jj I South Street -- - ' Butler, Pa. P/\TRICM (VTffl WOMANS SffOE v) THE FATIGUE OF SHOPPING 1 is greatly lessened by comfortable footwear. The flexibility of Patrician Shoes for women makes walking a pleasure. All the attractiveness, stylt; and service of a enstom-made shoe is found in the Patrician- There art I 3* styles to select from DAUBENSPECK & TURNER. People's Phone 633. 108 S. Main St., Butler, Pa. BUTLER, PA., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1904. Nasal Catarrh quickly yields to treat ment by Ely's Cream Balm, which is agree ably aromatic. It is received through the nostrils, cleanses and heals the whole sur face over which it diffuses itself. Druggists sell the 50c. size; Trial nze by mail, 10 cents. Test it and you are 6ure to continue the treatment. Announcement. To accommodate those who are partial to the use of atomizers in applying liquids into the nasal passages for catarrhal trou ble*, the proprietors prepare Cream Calm 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 icinal properties of (he solid preparation. Prescriptions! For prompt an 1 " rcful service, pure drugs and right price have your prescriptions filled here. Mail orders receive prompt atten'ion. The Crystal Pharmacy M. LOGAN, Ph. G., Ml T ( lISS'Mt TO , !Si .a's C y c ta» Pti ;ma y, HOT 11 PHONES. 136 N Main St., Butler. Pa Du Y<;u buy Medicines? Certainly You Do. Then you want the- best for h le ast money. i hat is our mott ome and see us wher. in neea <> anything in the Drug Line an. iv>- are sure you will call aga % We carry a ful line of Uroy Chemicals Toilet Articles, etc. Purvis' Pharmacy 8, tj, PURVIS, PH. ii Both Phones. 213 S Main Rt. Bntler Pa. ~5\4 J plf 1 v 1 i ij *• | Selling as 3 hat is no £ J no great shakes—but f 4 selling such a hat as the J i I t Imperial J at $3 is Something ' $ They are guaranteed. 1 * We have dozenß of dif- £ ferent shapes. 4 4 Have just rooeivad i*ew 2 f Shirts and Neckwear, £ * t J SOI4E AGENT: J \ Knox Hats, | i Imperial Hats.j Jno.S.Wickj * Peoples Phone. 6)5. # $ HUTLEK, i'A. J The Hunting Season Is Approaching. We have on display the most complete line of hunting outfls ever sljQWft jn Bntler. VI diffet'&nV .ptylf a of Hunting Coa's ranging iu price from $ 1 to £>. A large line of «uiis and rifles in price from $2 to S4O. An immense stock of loaded whellx. A complete lino of ieggins, cleaning Vod», gun cleaners, recoil pads, belts,etc. Everything for the dogs—collars, leads, chains, whips, muzzles, (Jog cakes, etc. At Douglass' 341 8, Main St. Sporting Goods. yyM. H. MILLER, FIRE and LIFE INSURANCE and REAL ESTATE. OFFICE —Room 508, Butler County National Bank building. i —^ Bhe Desertion of Daifodil Maid By RVTH SANTELLE Copyright, l'JOt, by T. C. McClure ) Ou the subject of how he had beeu Inveigled into his present position Harrington was more inclined to beg enlightenment than to furnish it. llad It not been for the aggressive solem nity of the vestry walls and the en grossing task of getting successfully into his white gloves, an undertaking whieh habit had taught him was not to be regarded with levity or indiffer ence, he might have fancied it all a hideous dream. But here were Bob at his elbow, looking as self conscious as only bride groom can, and the rector in cere monial vestments fluttering his service book leaves. Kealest of the real! Coufound it all! After thirty years of sanity how had he been drawn into this worst of transgressions? But when a fellow is the best friend you have in the' world and is so beastly happy and so dead in earnest over the thing and comes at you with that tears his eyes voice—ln short, when he's Robert Montgomery Blake, what's to be done? At any rate, it was done, and he who had carried himself unscathed through the campaigns of one season after an other was the victimized best man at last. Harrington felt suddenly as ill at ease in his dress clothes as a college boy at his first "prom." Even now the organ was pealing its preliminary riot of music. A moment more and the march would summon them forth to the altar rail to await the rest of the party. They had re hearsed the "business"' night with half a dozen caudles and supply music. The bride would have her wedding march played by no other than a west ern school friend, who was to arrive late, Down the two aisles would t*ome the lines of ushers and brides maids, the toddling ring bearers, the maid of honor in yellow, with hat of palest green and an armful of daffo dils (Madeleine had confided to him all the sickening details), then the stately bride on her father's arm. If one must marry, Madeleine was the right sort, and Rob was getting about the best there was. This daffodil maid of honor was an other of his miseries, a second out of town friend of Madeleine's, a pale crea ture who would match her daffodils, \iea ripg the impossible name of Claris ua. If Madeleine hadn't betrayed her overinterest In the pairing oil and elab orated so upon his official duties to Miss Daffodil it "Heavens, Bob! There's our cue! Take a brace, old man. I'll stand by you!" Then internally. "Yes, with the heart in me like n flstfwl of liquefied air!" Custom and good breeding save many a day. Everything moved delightfully, and the breath holding moment of the ceremony arrived- was 'ar na Jlarrington over got in his memory of iM'oafiian, As they faced the altar his eyes were arrested by a vision. It AvaM seated before the organ in a bow er of palms, and the soft lights fell on a glorious crown of shining auburn hair. The side of the face was to\Yf\i'd him, and there was a faint tuipreaston of a filmy green gqwu, It wa* kbe violent beginning of a tempestuous end. The sight went through hhn like a physical shock. He sa\v only the lovely picture, iu»)y the soft music that fell from tho slen \ler linger*. fbo first usher profiled him intq consciousness when the ring was demanded, the daffodil maid had to clutch an unproffered arm for the recessioual. Once outside Harrington came again into his self sufficiency. the sec ond carriage wtuy MP the yellow con- was hustled into it, the door biammed upon the astonished girl, a peremptory "drive on" issued, and a hatless young man dashed breathlessly around the corner to thu urgan en trance. .lust in time! In another ve hicle auburn head wns being ex tinguished. "Why, Joe Harrington! What's wrong?" The bride's brother was a clear headed master of cereiftcniios. "You belong with Clarissa, you know." "Yer*. I know. Some mistake. Every body excited, of course, Say, Dickie, 1 can go in here just as well. l)ou't wor yy, old man. I dou't mind In the feast." "All serene! Here, Ethel, you can shelter this carriageless Joe." A n 'l Dickie flew off to see that s\ich ''care lessness as the Uesl man's being Btraude\v? It would never, never do. We've not even been ntroduced! I'm t » I<• here several w.you I"mv .uul it must coiii<; to wrj gradual.}'." "I suppose so, bless your proper lit tle heart! But isn't it a wee bit more unconventional to have it happen thus than that it should merely be known of? Anyway I promise to be the most persistently lovelorn of any swain who ever aspired to fair lady's hand. Ah, here we are!" Fortunately the avenue was well shaded just before the blaze of light at the steps was reached. Dickie greeted them—how he had managed to pass them a certain team might have borne breathless testimony— in an agony of contrition, his very first blunder. He supposed, of course, they'd met. Clarissa had come alone. Madeleine had been Investigating and wrenched from him the whole sad tale. Clarissa wouldn't say a word. They sweetly forgave him and were smiling ly introduced. During the ensuing hours of the re ception Harrington, ingenuous to the point of bluntness. found use for all his skill as a dissembler. The auburn head was an irresistible magnet, and his telltale eyes followed where his feet were forbidden to tread. Again and again he dragged himself back to the daffodil maid und his proper duty, to find her always mysteriously smiling at him out of a quizzical face. It was hard that the first madly happy hours of one's life should be made to speed so slowly, but at last the bride and groom were off in a shower of rice, kisses and merry cries. Then quoth the maid of the daffodils to Dickie, "Do look at Joe and Ethel!" There they stood on the top step, hand In hand, placidly and absently waving after the disappearing carriage with their disengaged hands. The other two members were clasped. • *•«••• It was three Interminable months be fore Harrington was permitted to an nounce a farewell dinner to his bach elor friends. When he reached the club on the memorable night a letter awaited him bearing the familiar for eign postmark of Mr. and Mrs. Blake's honeymooning nest. Over the signa ture of Madeleine Blake he read the following: "Bless you, my children! Nothing could delight me more, especially when It's my own particular little pie. Joe the woman hater! Joe the celibate! Clarissa was already engaged, you know, so made a willing martyr on the altar of my schemes. And my Ethel had to play instead of standing by my side, where she belonged. If she had not—if you'd thought you belonged to her by custom, Joe, Joe—my beautiful girlie, instead of becoming the happy Jklrs. Harrington shortly, would have •hared the sad, sad fate of the daffodil maid." "And thus," observed Harrington, with a charitable grin, "do some peo ple flatter themselves." Wanted It to Come Gradually. One evening recently a well known writer received a check from a maga zine which was a good deal larger than he had anticipated. The occurrence seemed worthy of a celebration; so, in company with a young artist, who had SQUietimes shared his dinner on a less prosperous occasion, he sought a res taurant noted for its expensive menu. With a luxurious shrug and with in difference to the cares of the world, he ordered an elaborate repast. His com panion, being of the sex especially thrifty whew dealing with household matter*, begged him to be cautious. No. Indeed, for that night he was Prince Bountiful. At length it came time, as It always floes with things both good and evil, for the reckoning. ''Waiter," drawled the host, "bring me my check. And. waiter, bring it T•e-r-y gradually."—New York Tribune. The Dentil ot Ctvrtrar. Courtesy lay dead. Ou either side of her mangled form her sisters, Gallantry and Chival ry- The fatal wounds in the breasts -of each were so similar that there could be no doubt that they had all been made by the same weapon, wielded by the same ruthless hand. Above them stood and wept their tottering parents, themselves 111 cato feath with the infirmities of old age. Respect and Veneration. When Cqvoner Observation arose ffOli. u careful inspection of the three dead forms he brushed the soil from his knees and said to Policeman Shame, who stood close by: "Make no delay in arresting the Modern Street Car on suspicion. It is my firm belief that he is guilty of all of these cold blooded mur ders."—Baltimore American. The Dainty Ant. Ants have no set time for brushing up, but certain conditions plainly incite thereto, as when they feel particu larly comfortable, as after eating or after awakening from or before going to sleep. The keen sense of discom fort aroused by the presence of dirt Incites to cleansing. Often one may see au ant suddenly pause in tlm midst of the duties of field or formicary and begin to comb herself. Here is a moun tain mound maker driven by the pas sion of nest building to the utmost fervor of activity. Suddenly she drops out of the gang of yellow workers and, mounting a nearby clod, poses upon her hind legs and plies teeth, tongue ami comb. For a few moments the aim of being is centered upon that act. Around her coign of vantage sweeps to and fro the bustling host of builders with all their energies bent upon reconstruct ing their ruined city. She combs on unconcernedly. From top of head to tip of hind legs she goes, smoothing out ruffled hairs und removing atoms of soil Invisible to human eyes. Her toilet Is ended at last. —H. C. McCook In Harper's Magazine. The Charm of Victoria Kail*. How the \ ietorla falls impress a vis itor Is recorded in Miss C. W. Mackin tosh's journal of a tour in South Africa. Miss Mackintosh says; "We perceived no hint of the falls, only seeing before us a screen of rocky based, bright green forest, apparently closing in the river, like a lake. Ten minutes' walk brought us to the camp, on a cliff which liter ally overhung the gorge, and we saw the cataract thundering down into the boiling pot at our feet. The walls of the chasm, 100 feet high, were spanned by a rainbow. The charm of these falls lies not in the one overwhelming crash as at Niagara, but in the cumulative ef fect of various glimpses, the matchless beauty of t!i# surroundings and the strangeness of the whole setting, but chiefly In the columns of spray, called the "thundering smoke" and in the ever changing rainbows. The mile wide river suddenly drops Into a yawning crack in the ground, stretching right across the stream at right angles to the banks, a foaming trough, quite narrow, of which the walls rose 400 feet above the surface of the water." lr you neglect your business and hare a rival who attends to his, look otL—Atchidon Globe. HIE POWERFIL FLEA |TS REMARKABLE STRENGTH AND FEROCIOUS APPETITE. Thla Tiny Prut Klicarea In Ancient LfKriiil, Sonic and Story—Attempts Which Have ilecu Made to Tame Thla Hs>maon of the Unlverae. While ;{-»d oUI St. Dominic was seat ed in his cell, calm and passionless, pondering upon the vices, the miseries of the world, a flea was sent to tor ment him. and these pestiferous little nuisam-es havefteen with us ever since, to torment saint and sinner alike. The flea is characterized by the en tire absence of wings, by having the body compressed, the legs long and stout, the coxea remarkably developed, giving great leaping power. The mouth parts are well developed and adapted for suction, all the species in the adult stage feeding upon the blood of mam mals or birds. In a word, Mr. Flea belongs to the fourth order of insects, suctorea, composing the single genus pulex linnaeus. The flea is clothed in armor quite as indestructible as that of a knight of old. Among the several species of fleas which have received the attention of the government's entomologists are the human jigger, or clique; the hen, opos sum, house, bird, rat tend mouse dog, cat. squirrel, spermophile, rabbit, pocket gopher, sand and a number of others. Of these it is difficult to de termine which gives the greater an noyance to humans. All are bad and many worse—tormentors of the most pronounced type. And yet these Jumping, biting, tic kling pirates have figured in song and story. Many an old German legend. Bavarian and Swedish story and many an old French song have had the flea for their hero, and so it must be that the flea has its place. Ancient mythol ogy relates that Orion was a giant, hunting wild beasts and, like them, very naturally coarse and unrefined. Earth, disgusted, killed him by the sting of the scorpion. Pan became en amored of his sister, aiyJ Diana, to res cue her, turned her into a flea. The Ilea has been embalmed in classic lore. It was considered among the gods as becoming enough to serve as a meta morphose in extremities. If fleas could be tamed they would be profitable, but according to entomolo gists fleas are tamed about as much as a rattlesnake. Mouffet tells of a mechanic named Marks who made a gold chain as lopg as his finger with lock and key which a flea dragged after him, and there was a golden chariot which he drew likewise. Bing ley mentions that a Mr. Boverlck, a London watchmaker, exhibited an ivory chaise with four wheels, the fig ure of a man sitting on the box, all drawn by a flea. The same man after ward constructed a landau with fig ures of six horses hitched to it, a coachman on the box, a dog between his legs, four persons inside, two foot men behind and a postilion on the fore horse, all of which were drawn by a single flea. One is at a loss which to admire most, the ingenuity and patience of th© man or the strength of the flea. Latrelle tells of a flea which dragged a silver cannon twenty-four times its own weight and manifested no alarm when it was charged with powder and fired off. Rene mentions that in 1830 he saw at a fair in England three fleas drawing a carriage in the form of an omnibus, another pair drew a carriage and a single flea a brass cannon. The only way to subdue a flea is to starve him and attach a small weight to his hind leg so that he cannot Jump. That fleas are great pugilists there can be no doubt, as it has been repeat edly shown that they will fight to the death and will land such blows as would make some of our pugilists blush. If a dozen or more fleas are put in a glass Jar for a day or two you will sec the mangled remains of the dead dnd wounded as the result of close companioiishlp. They will stand on their hind legs and buffet their oppo nents with the others. They roll and toss and tumble until It is painful to see the wrecks left behind. After ono of these battles In a glass Jar one champion lived ten days, with no an tennae, one eye gone, three plates in the Ride smashed in and only the first Joints of four legs to go upon. But the flea even in this wretched condition was game to the last and died breathing defiance, the rays of light scintillating from his black eyes with the brilliancy of a blacksmith's forge in full blast on a dark night. Ills power is in his legs, and he is the most accomplished of vaulters. No position appears too difficult for him to assume. Attitude in every variety Is familiar to him. He leaps upward, sideways, forward, backward and takes a dozen somersaults while you are wondering where he will light. A good healthy flea, it is estimated, can leap 200 Hints the length of his body. When about to leap or Jump the legs are drawn up to the body as close as possible and then shot out. The flea comes down very near the spot from where the leap was taken. Every de scent U nearer to the center. Of this you may convince yourself by placing a flea in a drop of red ink on a piece of white paper and letting him Jump. The flea Is always hungry, his appe tite Is never satisfied, and he will ex ercise his sucker Just as long as he Is permitted without interruption. With him there is a "continuous perform ance" so far JIB gratifying his appetite is concerned. There Is no creeping, crawling or flying insect which can ap proach the flea in strength, size consid ered. He is beyond question the Sam son of the universe.—Washington Star. Odd. "Divorces are multiplying." "That's odd. I thought that their function was to divide."—Town Topics. OMENS GOOD AND BAD. the Folly of Believing In Calickr Days and All tbe Heat. When fortune tellers swindle the poor and ignorant we should make them suffer smartly for It. Certainly the ingenuity of a professional fortune teller is in itself educative. The craft with which she throws out veiled hints, the subtlety with which she pounces upon any lucky shot and the diplomacy which she uses to extort confessions are often magnificent. Observe the rapt, far away look with which she asks you abruptly, "Who Is Ethel?" There is a possibility that you know some one of that name, In which case the odds are that you will afford lier some clew for intelligent anticipations. If, however, you indig nantly deny any such acquaintance she can always fall back upon the very safe statement that the name will be familiar to you later on. Such procedure reminds us of the famous dodge of Disraeli, who. when ever he met a man whom he did not know, but felt he ought to know, in quired suavely, "How is the old com plaint?" Playing this little comedy one day In Tall Mall, he was met with the dla- No. 4 2 concerting reply: "Complalut! I never had an ache or a pain In my life." Whereupon he put his head on one side Hud said, with a sympathetic sigh. "Ah, I meant the wife." The secret of the Buccess of most charlatans Is that if they go on making a sufficient number of shots some of them are bound even tually to hit the mark. We remember the case of a clairvoy ant who told a fair client that two good spirits were watching over her and that their names were Juliet and Jane. The visitor stoutly declared that there were no such persons. But when she came home and told her mother of the episode she was reminded, to her amazement, that those were indeed the names of two sisters who bad died In infancy. Fortune telling, we should say, is a harmless pastime so long as It is not taken seriously. But what about edu cated and most respectable folk who take It very seriously? We are accus tomed to pity Dr. Johnson because he could not pass a lamppost without touching it, but what shall we say of people who forego important enter prises on days which they imagine to be unlucky, who deliberately make themselves the sport of chance or re sign their reason to designing adven turers? We would not fly In the face of an cient beliefs, the origin of which may have been forgotten, nor do we forget that the founders of Thirteen clubs have often perished miserably. But the person who really cares about omens, unlucky days, upsetting salt and all the rest should know that he is a fool.—London Spectator. A Chinese Story. "There was once upon a time a very unfillal son," said a Chinaman. "So disobedient was he that if his father told him to go to the east he would go to the west; if his father told him to go to the west lie invariably went to the east. All his life long he had been dis obedient. At last the old man, as he lay on his deathbed, greatly feared that his undutiful son would not take the trouble to bury him in a favorable spot. After much cogitation he thought of a plan for Insuring what is of such vital importance in Chinese eyes. 'lf I die,' he said, 'you must bury me in the water.' The father concluded that, in acordance with his usual line of con duct, the son would do the exact oppo site of what he was told. So, after congratulating himself, no doubt, on his astuteness In arranging to get bur ied in a good place on dry land, the old man died. But, alas, his admirable scheme failed. After the father's death the young man said to himself: 'All my lifetime I have disobeyed my father. Now that he is dead I will obey him this once.' So, in scrupulous obedience to the dying injunction, he buried his father in the water." Too Complacait. Mr. Grote, the historian of Greece, seemed incapable of caring for him self when moved by consideration for others. His exaggerated acquiesceuco in what lie thought a constructive ob ligation Is illustrated by the last sit ting he gave to Miilals, who painted his portrait. The studio was cold. Mr. Grote had removed his overcoat and presently felt sensibly chilled. Yet he did not complain nor resume his overcoat. "Why did yon not say you were chilled?" asked Mrs. Grote when she learned the circumstances. "I did not like to appear to reproach Mr. Millais for letting the fire go out." "Well, but there was your thick overcoat?" "Yes, but I did not know If he would like me to put it on." "What could one do with a man so Incapable of caring for his own abso lute necessities?" remarks Mrs. Grote in her "Personal Life" of her husband. "Had 1 beA present, it is superfluous to say, all these scruples would have gone for nothing." Drylngr an Umbrella. When you come in out of the rain don't plump your nice silk umbrella ferrule down into the umbrella stand unless you want to ruin it. That lets the water and tiny specks of grit run down Into the lining under the iron ring that secures the ribs, and it stays there, making the silk tender and rots It. Neither should you leave the um brella open to dry, as that stretches the ellk and makes it stiff, and it will soon split. Shake it well, then close it and stand it handle down where the water will run off. Never set nn umbrella or parasol away tightly folded. It will split out just as soon again. Leave the folds to !le loosely. EFFECTS OF TOBACCO. In Some Cases It la Stlmalatln* and la Others Narcotic. Whether or not tobacco is a stimu lant has been a vexed question ever since the* time of Oviedo, the first writer to describe it fully, who says that the Indians of Hlspanlola used to bacco to produce Insensibility, whereas others among the old Spanish discov erers say that the natives smoked to stimulate themselves to fresh exertions. Men whose business leads to expo sure to weather or to violent physical exercise, such as sailors, soldiers, watchmen, navvies and field laborers, all take tobacco as n stimulant and have done so from the first. These classes are mentioned as spe cially large consumers of the weed in Dr. Everard's "Panacea," published in 1659. Hobbes and Newton both used tobacco to stimulate. Goethe and Heine hated it. Scott smoked profusely; but, according to Mr. Trelawney, Byron "never smoked pipe or cigar." Modern experience and observation seem to indicate that tobacco is n stim ulant In moderation and a narcotic in excess, in this respect resembling all other Intoxicants, using the term in its widest sense, from tea to opium. CAT'S CRADLE. Orlffln of the Name of the Familiar String and Finger Game. Cat's cradle has been familiar to most of us from childhood as a game for two players, in which the first winds a looped cord over the fingers of both hands in a symmetrical figure, and the second Inserts his fingers and removes it In such a way as to produce a dif ferent figure. This they do alternately several times, always changing the formation. The art consists in making the right changes. The coril forms a rude representation of a manger, and the name originally was "cratch" cradle, cratch being a manger (creche, French), such as that in which our Saviour was laid. "They layde hym in a cratche," was Wyclifs translation of Luke il, 7. The word is still used in Itoman Catholic countries in that particular sense. The Abbe Trevost says In his "Man uel Lexique," "Cratch is the name giv en to a manger for cattle and which is consecrated by the birth of Jesus Christ." To the present day the racks which stand in the* fields for cattle to eat from are called cratches.