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VOL. XXXXJI. February Prices BICKEL'S An immense stock of Seasonable Footwear to be closed out in order to reduce our extremely large stock. Ladies' Fine Shoes. Ladies' $1.25 fnr trimm-d felt slippers * *•* Ladies' fl 30 fine Dongoia patent tip shoes 1 "v Ladies' 75c felt slippers Ladies' fI.OO fine Jersey leggins •?* Ladies' 60c ten button fine Jersey over gaiters TV Children s 75c fine Jem y leggins '*'* Children'a 85c fine patent leather shoee **'* Children's 75c fine Dong jla shoes, spring heels Infanta' 35c fine shoes, to select from i _ One lot Misses' fine shoes i'.* One lot Ladies" fine slippers * _ Ladies' Laml>wool soles 10 Men's Fine Shoes. Men's fl 50 fine satin-caif shoes JJJJ Boy's $1.25 fine satin-calf shoes Little Gknts' SI.OO fine K tin calf shoes ' « Mens $2.50 fine Patent Leather shoes, latest styles 1 '»•» Men's 90c fine felt slippers "*V Men's $1 50 heavy sole arid tap working ehoes » One lot Men s higb-< ut lox-toe shoes 1 All Winter Goods to be closecTout regardless of cost Big Bargains in Felt Boots and Rubber Goods of all Kinds. SOLE LEATHER by the side or cut to any amount you wish to purchase. SHOE-MAKERS SUPPLIES. Repairing Promptly Done. JOHN BICKEL, 128 S. Main St., BUTLER. PA. EVERYBODY WAITING FOR IT THE MODERN STORE- Great Spring Muslin Underwear Sale Never before have wo offered each bargains. Sale begins Wednesday morning. February Ist. and con tinues till Saturday evening, February 11th. JUST A FEW OF THE GRAND OFFERINGS CHILDREN'S DRAWERS IQR LADIES' CORSET COVERS . VC - LADIES' TRIMMED CORHET COVERS 1 |Q R PBAWEBB ,YT LADIES' FINE LACE-TRIMtfED CORSET < OVERS , ** DBAWEKS CHILDREN' S ... LADIES' 'FELL SIZE VioWNS , ( and CTJRSET COVERS I Late ana • z(}/^ " SKIRTS KS ) Embroidery Trimmed^ LADIE3' GOWNS ) - SSSSB- COVERS Beautifully Trimmed 49c DRAWERS _ _J .... HANDSOMELY TIUMME!^'A ;WN- 1 * BEIRTS ' Pi nt » famhr r 60C i, - CORSET COVERS / rlnc camuric ovc •• " DRAWERS I Beautiful Onrnent* worth Si 25 anfl i!SO at BSc. tI.TS Gowns, Skirts. Corset Coven, all at ft 25. 18.00 Con ns and Skirts, czqnlslto garments. *l,4*. r ancy (jarments, lace and embrold«ry trimmed, making would cost more, lI.W. The Boost and I jest at (2.58. Ft SO to p">.«). at a .living of a per '-erit. SEE LA HUE CIKCCLARS FOK PARTLCL'LA HA. EISLER-MARDORF COHPANY, HW1221 Send In Your Mail Orders. OPPOSITE HOTEL ARLINGTON PUTTER, PA, IpßeduceVpricesl I Carpets and Furniture. j Why Not Get Some of the sargalns 4 # We are Offering Now. *2 A Any 75c all-wool carpet, made at 65. ► 10 per cent discount on cash price of any € £< 9x12 Rug in stock. j Any Couch in stock at 10, 20 and 25 per > W cent off regular cash price. < J Any Parlor Suit or Parlor Piece at greatly } # reduced prices. J W Any Extension Table in stock for less than < F regular cash price. > w Any thing this store has in stock for less i than lowest cash price to make room for * P epring goods. J k We will pay the freight any place on earth. < f COME 1N AND 00MPARE. W | BROWN & CO. | i No. 136 North Main St., Butler. M [keck g Merchant Tailor. Fall and Winter Suitings ( ) JUST ARRIVED. ( ) 142 North Main St. KECK | II Fall and Winter Millinery. | •« » 4 Arrival of a large line of Street Hats, Tailor-made ±1 and ready-to-wear Hats. All the new ideas and designs in Millinery Novelties. Trimmed and Un trimmed Hats for Ladies, Misses and Children. All 'H the new things in Wings, Pom-pons; Feathers, t ; Ostrich Goods, etc, etc. 14 II Rockensteln's ! J tt 45 Millir\ery B v mpori 11 m, n? t»3B fkjntli Main Htrc-et, Butler, Pa. j|| THE BUTLER CITIZEN. Stele Library juijOe I ©OfefeAß { I Hat Sale || i Commence? Saturday, Jan. 14th, # \ and lasts two weeks. We are a 5 not going to take np space tell- A \ ing about these hats. Just come J J in and see tliem. J # J \ $1 50 to $3 j t *\ * Soft and Stiff Hats at | | SIOO 5 i i S A SIG CUT \ 1 t f in odd lots underwear, soft and J ' v stiff shirts and neckwear. ? jjno. S.Wickj € HATTER AXD FURNISHER, . J 9 Peoples Phone. (515. # J butleb, pa. $ ? International { J Stock Food. |s P 3 feeds for one cent. j ) In 25c. 50c, SI.OO and »3. 60 , C Packages J S International c ? Poultry Food. / / A 25c package contains 100 \ \ feeds for 12 fowls. C C In 25c, 50c, sl. $3.50 Packages. J ? And all other International \ ) Stock Food Co's remedies C C 8914 \>j ? ? Redick & Grohman; ? 109 North Main St., 7 Butler, Pa. Do You Buy Medicines? Certainly You Do. Then you want the best for the least money. That is our motto. Come and see us when in need of anything in the Drug Line and we are sure you will call again. We carry a full line of Drugs. Chemicals, Toilet Articles, etc Purvis' Pharmacy s. a. PUBVIS, Pu. G Both Phones. 218 S Main St. Butler Pa. Vinol The Great Tonic and Flesh Builder. The best remedy for throat and lung trouble. We have the exclusive agency for this remedy. Ask for a calendar. THE Crystal Pharmacy R. M. LOGAN, Ph. G., BOTH PHONES. 106 N. Main St., Butler, Pa. L. H. McJUNKIN. I ISA McJUNKIN" OEO. A. MITCIIF.I.L. fc. S McJUNKIN &r CO., Insurance & Real Estate 117 E Jefferson St. QUTbER, .... PA M. A. BERKIMER, Funeral Director, 245 S. MAIN ST., BUTLER, PA BUTLER, PA., THURSDAY, PROFESSIONAL CARDS. PHYSICIANS, T C. BOYLE, M. D. T) . EYE, EAS, NOSE and THROAT, SPECIALIST. 121 East Cunningham Street. Office Honrs 11 to 12 a. m.. 3 to 5 and 7 to 9 p. m. BOTH TELEPHONES. DB7 JULIA E. FOSTER, OSTEOPATH. Consultation aDd examination free. Office hours —9 to 12 A. M.. 2 to M., daily except Sunday Evening appointment. Office—'Stein Block, Rooms 9-l<), Bu R ler, Pa. People's Phone 478. pLARA E. MORROW, D 0., V GRADUATE ROSTON CGLUKJK OF OSTEOPATHY. Women's disease? a specialty. Con sultatian and examination free. Office Hours, 9to 12 m., 2 to 3 p. m People's Phone 573. u6 S. Main street, Butler, Pa p M. ZIMMERMAN "I. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON At 327 N, Main St. R. HAZLETT, M. D., 1 106 West Diamond, Dr. Graham's foroicr ot^ce. Special attention g'.vsL. to Eye. y ;.*« and Throat Peoole's Phone 274. OAMUEL M. BIPPUS, PHYSICIAN AND SCBGFON 200 West O.ininghatn St. DENTISTS. DR FORD n. HAYES. DENTIST Graduate of Dental Department, University of Pennsylvania. Office— 215 S. Main Street, Butler, Pa HR. S. A. JOHNSTON, I* GRJITNEON DENTIST. Formerly of Bntler, Has located opposite Lowry Honse, 1 Main St., Butler, Pa. The finest work i a specialty. Exjieit painless extractor 1 of teeth by his new method, no medi- ; cine used or jabbing a needle into the gums; also gas and ether used. Com j munitiatiGns by mail receive prompt at . tent ion. f|R J. WILBERT McKEE, 1/ SURGEON DENTIST Office over I.eighner's ,Jewelry store, 1 Butler, Pu Peoples Telephone 505. A specialty made of gold fillings, gold j crown and bridsre work. m J HINDMAN, V? , DENTIST. 12 South Main street, (ov Metzer's j shoe store. 1 nR. H. A. McCAXDLRSS, DENTIST. Office in Butler County National Bank Building, 2nd floor. DR. M. D. KOTTRASA, Successor to Dr. Johnston. DENTIST Office at No 114 K. Jefierson St., over O. W. Millet's giocerv ATTORNEYS. RP. SCOTT, • ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, Office in Butler Conu'y Natiornl Bank building 4 T. SCOTT, rl» ATTORN KY AT LAW. Office at No. 8. West Diamond St. But ler. Pa. POL'LTKR & BAKER, v ATTORNEYS At Office in Butler Ciuuty National Bank building. JOHN W. COULTER, A TTOR NEY AT-LA W. Office on Diamond, Butler, Pa. Special attention given to collections and business matters. I D McJUNKIN. '/ • A"ir*oßNi»y-A*-LAW. Office in Reiber building, cornei Main and E. Cunningham Sts, Entrance on Main street. j B. HKEDIN, •' ' ATTORNEY AT LAW. Office on Main St. nc.ar Court Hous> [1 11. GOUCHER, ' 1 • ATTORNEY AT LAW. Office In Wise buil'lin^ EH. NEGLEY, • ATTORNEV AT LAW. Office In the t-Jegley Building, West Diamond. \Y C. FINDLEY, M . ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, AN'D PENSION ATTORNEY. Office on South side of Diamond, Sutler, Pa MISfjELLANEODS. |i F. L. McQUISTION, V. CIVII. ENGINEER AND SURVKVOK Office near Court House I P. WALKER, NQ'+'ARV PUUI.IC, BUTI.HH, Office with Berkmer, next door to P. O D F. BILLIARD, !>• GENERAr. Surveying. MineM and Land. County Surveyor. R. F D. 4'J. West Snnbnry. Pa. VI C WAGN EK ARTIST PHOTOGRAPHER 130 South Main Ht.. CATARRH A« ; fever4)^^ T -' %/ j £ X-V* ELY'S CREAM BALM This Remody i« a Specific, Suro to Civo Satisfaction. CIVES RELIEF AT ONCE. It el('iiiinf<s, soothes, lieals, and protect* the diseased iiioinbraiio. It eur<;H ('utarrh and drives away a f!'>id in the Head quitkly. Restores tlio Senses of 'Lute and Smell. Easy to UHD. Contains no injurious drugs. Applied into tho nostrils and absorbed. Large Size, f.U eon is at Druggists or by mail; Trial Size, 10 cents by mail. ELY BROTHt-KO, 53 Warren SI., Now York, AdvertlKJ in The Oitizeu. §The Simple Life By CHARLES WAGNER Translated From the French by Mary Louise Hendee J Cooyriaht, 1001. by McClur*. Phillips Is Co. CHAPTER XI. SIMPLE IJEAUTT. SOME one may protest against the nature of the simple life in the name of aesthetics or op pose to ours the theory of t!.e pervioe of luxury, that providence of business, fostering mother of arts aud grace of civilized society. We shall try briefly to anticipate these objec tions. It will no doubt have been evident that the spirit which animates these pages is not utilitarian. It would be an error to suppose that the simplicity we seek has anything in common with that which misers Impose upon them selves through cupidity or narrow minded people through false austerity. To the former the simple life is the pne that costs least; to the latter it is A Bat and colorless existence, whoso merit lies in depriving oneself of ev erything bright, smiling, seductive. It displeases us not a whit that peo ple of large means should put their fortune into circulation Instead of hoarding It, so giving life to com merce and the fine art". That i* l "i* ing one's privileges to good advantage. What we would combat is foolish prod igality. the selfish use of wealth and, above all, the quest of the superfluous on the part of those who have the greatest need of taking thought for the necessary. The lavishness of i\ il«< sas ro'ulu not nave the same effect in 1 a society as that of a common spend thrift who astonishes his contempo raries by the magnificence of his life and the folly of his waste. In thesp two cases the same ttirp» means very different tiling*. To scatter money broadcast does not say it at all. There are ways of doing It which ennoble men and others which degrade them. Besides, to scatter money supposes that one is well provided with it. When the love of sumptuous living takes possession of those whose means w r« limited the matter becomes , strangeiy altered. And a very strlk- I ing characteristic of our time is the j rage for scattering broadcast which ! the very people have who ought to husband their resources. Munificence Is a benefit to society; that we grant willingly. Let us even allow that the prodigality of certain rich men 1>» a gafetv valvp i'n' thu eaoape of the su perabundant. We shall not attempt to gainsay it. Our contention Is that too many people meddle with the safety valve when to practice economy is the part of both their Interest and their duty. Their extravagance is a private misfortune nud a public dangur. Hu much for the utility of luxury. Wc now wish to explain ourselves upon the question of aesthetics —oh t very modestly and Without trespass ing on the ground of the specialists. Through a too common illusion sim plicity and beauty are considered as rivals. But simple Is not synonymous with ugly any more than sumptuous, stylish and costly are synonymous with beautiful. Our eyes are wounded )>y bpectaclt; of gaudy orna ment, venn! art and senseless and graceless luxury. Wealth coupled with bad taste sometimes makes us regret that so much money Is In circulation to provoke the creation of such a prod igality of horrors. Our contemporary art suffers sts muph from th« want of ■lnipllcity as does our literature - too much in it that Is irrelevant, over wrought, falsely imagined. Rarely Is It given us to contemplate in line, form or color that simplicity allied to per fection which commands the eyes ns evidence does the mind, We need to bo rebaptized in the ideal purity of Immortal beauty which puts Its seal on the masterpieces. One shaft of Its radiance Is worth more than all our pompous exhibitions. Yet what we now lmvo most nt heart Is to speak of th* ordinary aesthetics of life, of the care one should bestow upon the adornment of Ida dwelling and his person, giving to existence that luster without which It |ael[s chunn. for It Is not a matter of Indifference whether man pays attention to these superfluous necessities or whether he does not; it is by them that we know whether he puts soul into his work. Far from considering It as wasteful to give time and thought to the perfect ing, beautifying and poetizing of foniiH, I think we should spend as much as we can upon them. Nature gives us her example, and the man who should affect contempt for the ephem eral splendor of beauty with which we garnish our brief days would lose bight of the Intentions of Idm who has put the same care and love Into the painting of the lily of an hour and the etcrnnl hills. But we must not fall Into the gross OlTf.r of eohfoundlng true beauty with that which has only the name. The beauty and poetry of existence He In the understanding we have of It. Our homo, our table, our tlress, should bo the Interpreters of Intentions. That these Intentions be so expressed It Is first necessary to have them, and ho who possesses them makes them cvl dent through the simplest means One need not be rich to give grace and charm to his habit and his habitation. It suffices to have good tasto and good will. Wo come here to a point very Important to everybody, but perhaps of more Interest to women than to men. Those who would have women con ceal themselves In coarse garments of the Hhapeiess uniformity of bags vio late nature In her very heart and mis understand completely the spirit of things. If dress were only a preenu tlon to shelter us from cold or rain a piece of sacking or the skin of a lteast would answer. But It Is vastly more than this. Man puts himself entire Into all that he does. lie transforms Into types the things that serve him. The dress Is not simply a covering; it. Is a symbol. I call to witness tho rich flowering of national and provincial costumes and those worn by our early corporations. A woman's toilet, too, lias something to say to us. The more meaning there Is in It tho greater its worth. To be truly beautiful It. must tell us of beautiful things, things per sonal and veritable. Spend all the mon ey you possess upon It; If Its form Is determined by chance or custom, If It has no relation to her who wears It, It Is only toggery, n domino. Ultra fash ionable dress, which completely uiasks feminine personality under designs of pure convention, despoils It of its prin cipal attraction. From this abuse it comes about that many thing); which ! women ttdmlre do as much wromj to their beauty as to the purses of their j husbands and fathers. What would you say of a young girl who expressed 'her thoughts in terms very choice in deed, but taken word for word from a phrase book? What charm could you find in this borrowed language? The effect of toilets well designed in them selves. but seen again and agaiu en Ail women indiscriminately, is precise ly the same. I cannot resist citing here a passage from Camille Lemonnier that harmo nizes with my idea; "Nature has given to the fingers of woman a charming art, which she knows by Instinct and which Is pecul iarly her own, as silk to the worm and lacework to the swift and subtle spi der. She is the poet, the interpreter of her own grace and ingenuousness, the spinner of the mystery in which her wish to please arrays itself. All the talent she expends In her effort to equal man In the other arts Is never worth the spirit and conception wrought out through a bit of stuff in hep skillful hands. "Well, I wish that this art were more honored than it is. As educatiou should consist in thinking with one's mind, feeling with oue's heart, expressing the little personalities of the inmost, invis ible 'l'—which, on the contrary. «re repressed, leveled d<jvi n, by conformi ty—J wouiit that the young girl in her novitiate of womanhood, the future mother, might early become the little exponent of tills art of the toilet—her own dressmaker, in short-aho who one day shall niak* the dresses of her chil dren, but with the taste and the gift to Improvise, to express herself In that masterpiece of feminine personality and skill, a gown, without which a wo man is no more than a bundle of rags." The dress you have made for your self is almost always the most becom ing, and, however that may be, It Is the ony that pleases you most. Wom of leisure too often forget this; working women also in city and coun try alike. Since these last are cos tumed by dressmakers and milliners lu very doubtful imitation of the mod ish world, grace has almost disappear ed from their dress. Apd has anything more surely the gift to please than the fresh apparition of a young working girl or a daughter of the fields wearing the costume of her country and beau tiful from her simplicity alone? These same reflections might Vfi ..!• piled to the fashion of decorating and arranging qur uuuses. If there are toi ieis which reveal an entire conception of life, hats that are poems, knots of ribbon that are veritable works of art, so there are interiors which after their marmer upeak to the mind. W by, un der pretext of decorating our homes, do we destroy that personal character which always has such value? Why have our sleeping rooms conform to those of hotels, our reception rooms to waiting rooms, by muklng predomi nant a uniform type of official beauty? What u pity to go through the houses of a city, the cities of a country, the countries of a vast continent, and encounter everywhere certain forms identical, inevitable, exasperating by their repetition! How aesthetic* would gain by liiory simplicity! Instead of this luxury In Job lots, till these deco rations, pretentious, but -apld from Iteration, we should have an Infinite variety; happy Improvisations would strike our eyes, the unexpected in n thousand forms would rejoice our hearts, and we should rediscover the secret t<f impressing on a drapery or a piece of furniture that stamp of hu man personality which makes certain nnthiuea priceless. Let us pass at last to thins* simpler still; I mean tbt» details of house keeping which many young people of our day find so unpoetlcal. Their con tempt for material things, for the hum ble cares a house demands, arises front a confusion very common, but none the Jess unfortunate, which comes from the belief that beauty and poetry ure within some things, while others lack them; that some occupations are dis tinguished and agreeable, such as culti vating letters, playing the harp, and that othors are menial and disagree able, like lilucklug shoes, sweeping and watching the pot boll. Childish error! Neither harp nor broom has anything to do with It. All depends on the hand in which they rest and th« spirit that moves It. Poetry Is not In tilings; It l« lu us. it must It® impressed ou ob jects from without, as the sculptor Im presses his dream on the marble. If our life and our occupations remain too often without charm lu spite of any outward distinction they may have It Is becuuso we have not known how to put anything into them. The height of art Is to make the inert live and to tame the savage. I would have out young girls apply themselves to th© develop ment of the truly feminine art of giv ing a soul to things which have none. The triumph of woman's charm is lu that work. Only a woman knows how to put into a home that Indefinable some thing whose virtue has mude the poet say, "The luitiso top rejoices aud Is glad," They say there are no such things as fairies or that there are fairies uo longer, but they know not what they say. The original of the fairies sting by poets was found and Is still among those amiable mortal* who knead bread with energy, mend rents with cheerfulness, nurse the sick with smiles, put witchery Into a ribbon and Renins Into a stew. It Is indisputable that the culture of Lite lint? arts has somethlnM refining about It and that our thoughts and nets are In the end Impregnated with that which strikes our eyes. But the sxerclse <if the arts and the contempla tion of their products are restricted privileges. It Is not given to every one to possess, to comproiiena <>r to create fine things. Yet there Is a kind of ministering beauty which may tuako Its way everywhere the beauty width springs from the hands of our wives and daughters. Without It what Is the most richly decorated house? A dead dwelling place. With It the bar est home has llfo and brightness. Among the forces capable of trans forming the will aud Increasing happi ness there Is perhaps none in morv universal use than this beauty. It knows how to shape Itself by liieaus if the crudest tools In the midst of the greatest difficulties. When the dwelling Is cramped, the purse limited, the table modest, a woman who litis the gift finds a way to make order, fitness and convenience reign In her house. Bbe puts care and art iuto everything she undertakes. To do well what one has to do Is not in her eyes the privilege of the rich, hut the right of all. Tbiit la her aim, and she knows how to give her home a dignity and an attractiveness thnt the dwellings of princes. If everything is left to iner leuarles, cannot possess. Thus understood life quickly shows i Itself rich In hidden beauties, la at tractions and satisfactions close at hand. To bo oneself, to realize In one's natural place the kind of beauty which Is fitting there—this Is the ideal. llow I the mission of woman broadens and j deepens In significance when it la sum . med up in this: To put a soul Into the i lnanimnte and to give to this gracious 1 spirit of things those subUe and win some outward manifestations to which the most brutish of human beings is sensible! Is not this better than to covet what one has not and to give oneself up to longings for a poor im ltaUon of others' finery? CHAPTER XII. PRIDE AKD SIMPLICITY IK THE IKTER COCBSE OF MEK. IT would perhaps be difficult to find a more convincing example than pride to show that the obstacles to a better, stronger, sereuer life are rather in us than In circumstances. The diversity and, more than that, the contrasts in social conditions give rise inevitably to all sorts of conflicts. Yet, in spite of this, how greatly would social relations be simplified if we put another spirit into mapping out our plan of outward necessities! Be well persuaded that it is not primarily dif ferences of class and occupation, dif ferences In the outward manifesta tions of their destinies, which embroil men. If such were the case, we should find an Idyllic peace reigning among colleagues and all those whose inter ests and lot are virtually equivalent. On the contrary, as every one knows, the most violent shocks come when equal meets equal, and there is no war worse tbau civil war. But that which above all things else hinders men from good understanding Is pride. It makes a man a hedgehog, wounding every one he touches. Let us speak first of the pride of the great What offends me in this rich man passing In his carriage Is not his equi page, his dress or the number and Rplen dor of his retinue. It is his contempt. That he possesses a great fortune does not disturb me, unless I atu badly dis posed. But that he splashes me with mud, drives over my body, shows by his whole attitude that 1 count for nothing in his eyes because I am not rich, like himself—this is what dis turbs me, and righteously. He heapa suffering upon me needlessly. He hu miliates and insults gratuitously. It is not what la vulgar within me, but what Is uoblest, that asserts Itself In thu face of this offensive pride. Do not accuse me of envy. I feel none. It Is my manhood that Is wounded. We need not search far to illustrate these ideas. Every man of any ac quaintance with lif« has had numerous experiences which will Justify our <J!ctl»iJi in his eyes. In certain communities devoted to material interests the pride of wealth dominates to such a degree that men are quoted like values In the stock market. The esteem In which a man Is held is proportionate to the contents of his strong box. Here "society" Is made up of big fortunes, the middle class of medium fortunes. Then come people who have little, ihen those who have nothing. All Intercourse Is regu lated by this principle. And the rela tively rich man who has shown his disdain fur those less opulent is crash ed in turn by the contempt of his su periors in fortune. So the mnditess of comparison rages from the summit to the base Such nn atmosphere Is ready to perfection for the nurture of the worst feeling. Vet It Is not wealth, but tli© spirit of the wealthy, that must be arraigned. Many rich men are free from this gross conception—especially is this true of thosv who from father to sou are accustomed to ease—yet they some times forget that there Is a certain del icacy in not making contrasts too marked. Suppose there is uo wrong }i enjoying a largo superfluity, is it Indispensable to display it, to wound the eyes of those who lack necessities, to flaunt oue's magnificence at the tloors of poverty? <lood tasto and a sort of modesty always hinder a well man from talking of hla flue appetite, his sou ad sleep, his exuberance of spir its, in the presence of one dyiug of consumption. Many of the rich do not exercise this tact and so aro greatly wanting In pity and discretion. Are they not unreasonable to complain of envy after having done everything to provoke It? But the greatest lack is that want of discernment which leads men to ground their pride in their fortune. To begin with, It ts a childish confusion of thought to consider wealth as a person al quality. It would I e hard to find a more ingenuous fashion of deceiving oneself as to the relative value of the container and the thing contained. I have no wish to dwell on this question It Is too painful. Ami yet one cannot e.dut saying to those ifTitcerntsl: "Take tare; do not confound what you ptusesa tvith what you are. Go learn to know the underside of worldly splendor, that you may feel Its morul misery and its puerility." The traps pride sets for us are too ridiculous. Wo should distrust association with a thing that makes us hateful to our nolghbors and robs ns of clearness of vision. Ho who yields to the pride of riches forgets litis other point, the most Im portant of all, that possession Is a pub lic trust. Without doubt Individual wealth Is as legitimate as individual existence and liberty. These tilings aro Inseparable, and it la a dream pregnant with danger* that offers bat tle to such fundamentals of life. Hut the Individual touches society at every point, and all he does should be tlouo with the whole In view. Possession, then, Is less a privilege of which to be proud than a charge whose gravity should be felt As thero Is an appren ticeship, often very difficult to serve, for the exercise of every social office, so this profession we call wealth demands an apprenticeship. To know how to be rich Is an art, and one of the least easy of arts to master. Most people, rich and poor alike, Imagine that In opulence one has nothing to do but to tako life easy. That Is why so few men know how to be rich. In the hands of too many wealth, according to the genial and redoubtable comparison of Luther, Is like it harp In the hoofs of an ass. They have no Idea of tho man ner of Its use. So when we encounter a man at once rich and sluiple~-that Is to soy. who considers his wealth as a means of ful filling his misslou In the world—we should offer him our homage, for he Is surely mark worthy. lie has sur mounted obstacles, borne trials and tri umphed In temptations, both gross and subtle. He does not fall to discrimi nate between the contents of his pock ctbook aud the contents of his head or heart, and he docs not intimate his fellow men In figures. Ills exceptional position. Instead of exalting him, makes him htjmble, fyr he In very HO- Bible of how far he falls short of reach ing the level of his duty. He has re mained a man. That says It all. He Is accessible, helpful and far from making of his wealth a barrier to sep arate him from other men; he makes It a means for coming nearer and nearer to them. Although the profession of riches has been so dishonored by the selfish and the proud, such a man as this always makes his worth felt by every one not devoid of a sense of Jus tice. Each of us who comes in contact with him and sees him live Is forced to look within and ask himself the ques tion, "What would become of me In such a situation—should I keep this modesty, this natnralness, this upright ness which uses Its own as though It belonged to others?" So long as there Is a human society In the world, so long as there are bitterly conflicting Inter ests, so long as envy and egoism exist on the earth, nothing will be worthier of honor than wealth permeated by the spirit of simplicity. And It will do more than make Itself forgiven; It will make Itself beloved. More dangerous than pride inspired by wealth is that inspired by power, and I mean by the word every preroga tive that one man has over another, be it unlimited or restricted. I see no means of preventing the existence In the world of men of unequal authority. Everj* organism supposes a hierarchy of powers; we shall never escape from that law. But I fear that if the love of power Is so widespread the spirit of power is almost impossible to find. From wrong understanding and mis- , use of it those who keep even a frac tion of authority almost everywhere succeed in compromising it. Power exercises a great influence over him who holds It A head must be very well balanced not to be dis turbed by It. The sort of dementia which took possession of the Roman emperors in the time of their world wide rule is a universal malady whose symptoms belong to all times. In ev ery man there sleeps a tyrant, await ing only a favorable occasion for wak ing. Now, the tyrant Is the worst en emy of authority, because he furnishes us Its intolerable caricature, whence come a multitude of social complica tions, collisions and hatreds. Every man who says to those dependent on him, "Do this because It Is my will and pleasure," does 111. There Is within each one of us something that Invites us to resist personal power, and this something Is very respectable, for at bottom we are equal, and there Is no one who has the right to exact obedi ence from me because he Is he and I am I. If he does so his command de grades me, and I have no right to suf fer myself to be degraded. One must have lived In schools, In workshops. In the army. In government offices, he must have closely followed the relations between masters and sen-ants, have observed a little every where where the supremacy of man exorcises Itself over man, to form any idea of the Injury done by those who use power arrogantly. Of every free soul they make a slave soul, which Is to say the soul of a rebel. And It ap pears that this result, with Its social disaster, is most certain when ho who commands Is least removed from the station of him who obeys. The most Implacable tyrant Is the tyrant himself under authority. Foremen and over seers put more violence Into their deal ings than superintendents and employ ers. The corporal Is generally harsher than the colonel. In certain families where madam has not much more ed ucation than her maid the relations be tween them are those of the convict and his warder. And woe everywhere to him who falls Into the hands ef ft subaltern drunk with his authority! We forget that the first duty of him who exercises power is humility. Haughtiness Is not Authority. It Is not wo who are the law; the law is over lir Leads. We only Interpret It, but to make It valid In the eyes of others we must first be subject to it ourselves. To command and to obey In the society of men are, after all, but two forms of the same virtue—voluntary servitude. If you aro not obeyed. It Is generally because you have not yourself obeyed first. The secret of moral ascendency rests with those who rule with simplicity. They soften by the spirit the harshness of the fact Their authority Is not in shoulder straps, titles or disciplinary measures. Thoy make use of neither ferule nor threats, yet they achieve ev erything. Why? Because we feel that they are themselves ready for every thing. That which confers upon a man the right to demand of another the sac rifice of his time, his money, his pas sions, even his life, Is not only that he is resolved upon all these sacrifices himself, but that he has made them fn advance. In the command of a man animated by this spirit of renunciation there Is a mysterious force which com municates Itself to him who Is to obey und helps him do his duty. In all tlio provinces of human activi ty there are chiefs who Inspire, strengthen, magnetize their soldiers; under their direction the troops do prodigies. With them one feels himself capable of any effort, ready to go through fire, as tho saying has ft, and if he goes it Is with enthusiasm. But the pride of the exalted is not the only pride; thero is also the pride of the humble—this arrogance of under lings, fit pendant to that of the great Tho root of these two prides U the same. It is not alone that lofty and Imperious being, the man who says, "I am tho law," that provokes insur rection by his very attitude; it is also that pigheaded subaltern who will not admit that thero Is anything beyond his knowledge. There are really many people who find all superiority Irritating. For them every piece of advice Is an otTense, ev ery criticism an imposition, every order nn outrage on their liberty. They would not know how to Bubnilt to rule. To respect anything or anybody would seem to them a mental aberration. They sny to people after their fashion, "Beyond us there is nothing." To the family of the proud belong also those difficult and supersensitive peo ple who In humble Ufo find that their superiors never do them fitting honor, whoin tho best and most kindly do not succeed In satisfying and who go about their duties with the air of a martyr. At bottom these disaffected minds have too much misplaced self respect. They do not know how to fill their place sim ply, but complicate their life and that of others by unreasonable demands and morbid suspicions. When ono takes tho trouble to study men at short range he Is surprised to find that prldo has so many lurking pin res among those who are by com mon consent called the humble. So powerful Is this vice that it arrives at forming round those who live in the most modest circumstances a wall which isolates them from their neigh bors. There they are, intrenched, bar ricaded with their ambitions sud their contempts, as Inaccessible as the pow erful of earth behind their aristocratic prejudices. Obscure or illustrious, pride wraps Itself in its dark royalty of enmity to tho human race. It is the sumo in misery fend In hlgh_ places— No. 5. ■biit&ry uui Impotent on guard against everybody, embroiling everything. And the last word about It Is always this: If there is so much hostility and ha tred between different classes of men It Is due less to exterior conditions then to an interior fatality. Conflicting in terests and differences of situation dig ditches between us, it Is true, but prld# transforms the ditches Into in reality It Is pride alone which cries from brink to brink, "There is nothing la common between you and os!" We have not finished with pride, bat it Is impossible to picture it under all its forms. I feel most resentful against it when It meddles with knowledge and appropriates that. We owe our knowl edge to our fellows, as we do our riches and power. It Is a social force which ought to be of service to everybody, and it can only be so when those who know remain sympathetically near to those who know not When knowl edge is turned into a tool for ambltloi it destroys Itself. And what shall we say of the pride of good men? For it exists and makes even virtue hateful. The Just who re pent them of the evil others do remain in brotherhood and social rectitude. But the Just who despise others for their faults and misdeeds cut them selves off from humanity, and their goodness, descended to the rank of an ornament for their vanity, becomes like those riches which kindness does not Inform, like authority untempered by the spirit of obedience. Like proud wealth and arrogant power, super cilious virtue also is fosters in man traits and an attitude provocative of I know not what The light of It repels Instead of attracting, and those whom it deigns to distin guish with its benefits feel as though they had been slapped In the face. To resume and conclude. It Is an error to think that our advantages, what ever they are, should be put to the service of our vanity. Each of them constitutes for him who enjoys It an obligation and not a reason for vain glory. Material wealth, power, knowl edge, gifts of the heart and mind, be come so much cause for discord when they serve to nourish pride. They re main beneficent only BO long as they are the source of modesty In those who possess them. Let us be humble if we have greet possessions, for that proves that we tre great debtors. All that s man has fee owes to some one, and are we sure of being able to pay our debts? Let us be humble if we sit in high places and hold the fate of others In Our hands, for no clear sighted men can fall to be sensible of unfitness for ao grave a role. Let us be humble if we have much knowledge, for It only serves to better •how thevastness of the unknown, and to compere the little we have dis covered for ourselves with the ampli tude of that which we owe to the pains of others. And, above all, let us be humble if we are virtuous, since no one should be more sensible of his defects than he whose conscience is Illumined, and since he, more than any one else, should feel the need of charity toward evil doers, even of suffering In their steed. "And what about the necessary dis tinctions in life?" Bome one may ask. "As a result of your simplifications are you not going to destroy that sense of the difference between men which must be maintained if society exists at all?" I have no mind to suppress dlstlno tlons - nd differences, but I think that what distinguishes a man Is not found In his social rank, his occupation, his dress or his fortune, but solely In him self. More than any other, our own age has pricked the vain bubble of purely outward greatness. To be somebody at present It dees not suffice to wear the mantle of an emperor or a royal crown. What honor Is there in wield ing power through gold lace, a coat of arms or a ribbon? Not that visible signs are to be despised they have their meaning and use—but on condi tion that they cover something and not a vacuum. The moment they cease to stand for realities they become useless and dangerous. The only true dlstino tion is superior worth. If you would * have social rank duly respected you must begin by being worthy of the rank that Is your own; otherwise you help to bring It Into hatred and con tempt It Is, unhappily, too true that respect Is diminishing among us, and It certainly Is not from a lack of lines drawn round those who wish to be re spected. The root of the evil Is in the mistaken idea that high station ex empts him who holds It from observing the common obligations of life. As we rise we believe that we free ourselves from the law, forgetting that the spirit of obedience and humility Bhould grow with our possessions and power. So It comes about that those who demand the most homage make the least effort to merit the homage they demand. This Is why respect Is diminishing. The sole distinction necessary is the wish to become better. The man who strives to bo better becomes more bumble, more approachable, more friendly even with those Who owe him allegiance, but as he gains by being better known he loses nothing In dis tinction, and he reaps the more respect In that be has sown the less pride. [TO SB CMHB—j Wild DOBS of Attlom. Of the wild dog of central Africa sn explorer writes: "The wild dog is com mon enough. He Is an ugly looking beast, with a pled body, coarse hair, short head and large, upright ears. These wild dogs play fearful havoc with game, occasionally clearing out whole districts precisely In the same manner as tho red dhole of India, be fore which even the tiger Is said to re trent. They have a wonderful power of scent, wonderful boldness, endur ance and pertinacity, and tholr loose, easy gallop covers the ground far more quickly than it appears to do. They usually hunt in considerable packs, al though I have sometimes met them In threes and fours. I have never heard of wild dogs actually attacking man, but they often behave as If on the point of doing so, and unarmed travel ers have been literally treed by them before now." A Monkey Detective. A monkey brought a criminal to Jus tice at Singapore some time ago. A native with a little boy, a bear and a monkey traveled lately through sever al villages In the Straits Settlements and made a good sum of money by his animals' tricks. One day he was found with his throat cut, the boy and the bear lying murdered close by, while the monkey had escaped up a tree. The bodies, with tlio moukey, were being taken to the police station when the monkey suddenly rushed at a man In the crowd, seized his leg and would not let go. The man seemed BO alarm ed and anxious to get away that the police became suspicious and searched him, with the result of finding part ot the money belonging to the murdered native. The balance was discovered at his Oousu.