VOL. XXXXII. THE MODERN STORE. | Great Muslin Underwear Sale Continues All I Week till Saturday Night, Feb. 11th Our Bargains Conceded to be the BEST It aeems a little egotistical to claim so much for this store but when patrons who have been around and have seen what is going on and then honestly and candidly tell ns "Yon Sell Ever so Much Cheaper we are simply standing up for our rights to pat it in print. We are offering the biggest bargains in tinder- muslins ever spreca De fore a discriminating public and are willing to leave the verdict to tne many shoppers who will be on hand this week. Corset Covers and Children's Drawers, 9c each. Ladies' 25c Corset Covers and Drawers, 19c each- Fine trimmed Cambric Corset Covers, Ladies' Drawers, Children s Gowns, 25c each Ladies' 50c Skirts. Gowns, Corset Covers and Drawers, 39c each- Ladies' 75c Skirts, Gowns, Corset Covers and Drawers, handsomely trimmed, 49c each. , , , Extra values at 69c, 98c, $1.25. Can tbe matched any where. OL7K BIG ASSORTMENT IS UNEQUALLED. EISLEK-MARDORF COfIPANY, SOUTH MAUI STREET | QHf SSSJ&K I"I send in Your Mail Orders. OPPOSITE HOTEL ARLINGTON. BUTLER. PA. ■—33^———M——fcwn*lMi February Prices BICKEL'S An immense Btock of Seasonable Footwear to be closed out in order to reduce our extremely large stock. Ladies' Fine Shoes. Ladies' $1.25 fur trimmed felt slippers # 75 Ladies' $1 50 line Dongola patent tip shoes 1 Ladies' 75c felt slippers Ladies' SI.OO fine Jersey leggins V). Ladies' 00c ten button fine Jersey over gaiters w Children s 75c fine Jersey leggins '*'» Children's 85c fine patent leather shoes Children's 75c fine Dongola shoes, spring heels Infants' 35c fine shoes, many styles to select from One lot Misses' fine shoes L'' One lot Ladies'fine slippers Ladies' Lamb-wool soles 10 Men's Fine Shoes. Men's $l5O fine satin-calf shoes Boy's $1.25 fine satin-calf shoes Little Gents'sl.oo fine satin calf shoes ' « Men's $2.50 fine Patent Leather shoes, latest styles 1 »»«» Men's 90c fine felt slippers Men's $1 50 heavy sole and tap working shoes J w One lot Men's high-cat box-toe shoes 1 All Winter Goods to be closedfout 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. {Our discount sale still continues) € For the benefit of those who have been unable to attend our sale in the ] past few weeks. „ .. , „ . _ > a Besides onr discounts on Men's, Boys' and Children s Suits and Over- / f coats of 10, 20, 33i per cent and i off, we offer a few specials. \ i One lot of Ulster Overcoats, sizes 16 to 36. 7 \ Coats that sold from SIO.OO to $13.00 Sale price $5.00 ) J " " •• " 5.00 to 9.00 " " 3.00 S C Fancy V Redick &Grohman ? f 109 North Main St., 7 \ Butler, Pa. i 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 ■ B. G. PURVIS, PH. G Both Phoneg 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. S. McJCNKIN. IKA McJUNKIN" OF.O. A. MITCHELL. h. S McJUNKIN & CO., Insurance & Real Estate 117 E- Jefferson St.. SOTbER, .... PA M. A. BERKIMER, Funeral Director, 245 S. MAIN ST., BUTLER, PA BUTLER, PA., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1905. Drying preparations simply devel op dry catarrh; they dry up the secretions, which adhere to tho membrane and decom pose, cansingafarmcre serious troublethan the ordinary form of catarrh. Avoid all dry ing inhalant*, fumes, smokes and snuffs and use that which cleanses, soothes and heals. Ely's Cream Palm is such a remedy and will cure catarrh or cold in the head easily and pleasantly. A trial size will be mailed for 10 cents. * All druggists sell the 50c. size. Ely Brother* 5G Warren St., N.Y. The Balm cures without pain, does not irritate or cause sneezing. It spreads itself over an irritated and angry surface, reliev ing immediately the painful inflammation. With Ely's Cream Balm you aro armed against Kasal Catarrh and Hay Fever. PROFESSIONAL CARUsT PHYSICIANS, T C. BOYLE, M. D. O • EYE, EAR, NOSE and THROAT, SPECIALIST. 121 East Cunningham Street. Office Hoars 11 to 12 a. m., 3 to 5 and 7 to 9 p. in. BOTH TELEPHONES. DK. JULIA 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. CLARA E. MORROW, D. 0., GRADUATE BOSTON COLLEGE OF OSTEOPATHY. Women's diseases a specialty. Con sultatian and examination free. Office Hours, 9 to 12 m., 2 to 3 p. m People's Phone 573. 116 S. Main street, Er.tler, Pa GM. ZIMMERMAN • PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON At 327 N. Main St. R* HAZLETT, M. Q., • 106 West Diamond, Dr. Graham's former offce. Special attention give.- to Eye, v -ose and Throat Peoole's Phone 274. O AMU EL M. BIPPTJS, 0 PHYSICIAN ANI> SURGEON 200 West St. DENTISTS. DN. FORD H. HAYES. DENTIST Graduate of Dental Department, University of Pennsylvania Office—2ls S. Main Street, Butler, Pa DR. S A- JOHNSTON, SURUEON DENTIST. Formerly of Bntler, 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 used or jabbing a needle into the gams; also gas and ether used. Com mnnicatiobs by mail receive prompt at tention. R~ J. WILBERT McKEE, SURGFON DEWTIST. Office over Leighner's Jewelry store, Butler, Pa Peoples Telephone 505. A specialty made 01 gold fillings, gold crown anu bridge work. WJ. HINDMAN, , DENTIST. 12 H South Main street, (ov Metzer's shoe store.) DR. H. A. iacCANDLESS, DENTIST. Office in Butler County National Bank Building, 2nd floor. DR. M. D. KOTTRABA, Successor to Dr. Johnston. DENTIST Office at No 114 3. Jeflerson St., over G. W. Miller's grocerv ATTORNEYS. RP. SCOTT, , A'»TGRNEV-AT-LAW, Office in Bntler County National Bank building. AT. SCOTT, • ATTORNEY AT LAW. Office at No. 8. West Diamond St. But ler, Pa. POV'LTER & BAKHR, V ATTORNEYS AT LAW. Office in Bntler County National Bank bnilding. JOHN W. COULTER, A TTOR NE Y-AT-L A W. f'ffice on Diamond, Butler, Pa. Special attention given to collections and business matte??. T D. McJUNKIN, J • ATTORNEY-AT-LAW. Office in Reiber building, cornei Main and E. Cunningham Sts, Entrance on Main street. JB. BKKDIN, • ATTORNEY AT LAW. Office on Main St. near Court Hous< HH. GOU2HER, • ATTORNEY AT LAW. Office in Wise building. EH. NEGLEY, • ATTORNEY AT LAW. Office in the Negley Building, West Diamond. WC. FINDLEI, • ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, AND PENSION ATTORNEY. Office on South side of Diamond, Butler, Pa. MISCELLANEOUS. p F. L. McQUISTION, V. Civil, ENGINEER AND SURVEYOR" Office near Court House LP. WALKER, • NOTARY PUBLIC, BUTI.ER, Office with Berkmer, next door to P. O BF. HILLIARD, • GENERAL SURVEYING. Mines and Land County Surveyor. R. F D. 49, West Sunbury, Pa. Aftermath. You didn't get all you need ed. We didn't sell all our pretty things. To help us both we are offer ing our fancy goods at half price. Pictures, games, dolls and toys at 1-3 off. China at 20 per cent. off. Call now and get the bar gains, This is our clearance sale and your opportunity at Douglass' 241 S. Main St. The Simple Life Translated From the FrencK by Mary Louise Hendee Copyrisht. 1001. by McClure. Phillips f> Co. —— CHAPTER XIII. THE EDFCATION FOR SIMPLICITY. THE simple life being above all else the product of a direction of mind. It Is natural that edu cation should have much to do with it. In general, but two methods of rearing children are practiced. The first is to bring them up for ourselves, the second to bring them up for them selves. In the first case the child Is looked upon as a complement of the parents; ho is part of their property, occupies a place among their possessions. Some times this place Is the highest, espe cially when the parents value the life of the affections. Again, where ma terial interests rule, the child holds second, third or even the last place. In any case he Is a nobody. While he is young he gravitates round his par ents, not only by obedience, which Is right, but by the subordination of all his originality, all hi 3 being. As he grov,-3 older this subordination be comes a veritable confiscation, extend ing to his ideas, his feelings, every thing. His minority becomes perpet ual. Instead of slowly evolving Into Independence the man advances into slavery. He is what he is permitted to be, what his father's business, re ligious beliefs, political opinions or aesthetic tastes require him to be. He W'H think, speak, act and marry ac cording to the understanding and lim its of the paternal absolutism. This family tyranny may be exercised by people with no strength of character. It is only necessary for them to be eouvlnced that good order requires tho child to be the property of the parents. In default of mental force, they pos sess themselves of him by other means —by sighs, supplications or base se ductions. If they cannot fetter they snare his fcot iu maps. But that he should live in them, through them, for them, Is the only thing admissible. Education of this sort is not the practice of families only, but also of great social organizations whose chief educational function consists In putting a strong hand on every newcomer, iu order to fit him, in the most iron bound fashion, into existing forms. It is the attenuation, pulverization and assimilation of the individual In a so cial body, be it theocratic, communis tic or simply bureaucratic and routi nary. I.ooked at from without, a like system seems me ideal of simplicity in education. - Its processes, in fact, are absolutely simplistic, and if a man were not somebody, if he were only a sample of the race, this would be the perfect education. As all wild peasts, all fish and bisects of the same genus and species have the same mark ings, so we should all be identical, having the same tastes, the same lan guage, the same beliefs, tiie same tend encies. But man Is not simply a specimen of the race, and for that rea son this sort of education Is far from J>elng simple in Its results. Men so vary from one another that number less methods have to be invented to suppress, stupefy and extinguish In dividual thought. And one never ar rives at It then but in part, a fact which Is continually deraiißlnK everything. At each moment, by some fissure, # :JO interior force of Initiative is laaking a violent way to the light, pro ducing explosions, upheavals, all sorts of grave disorders. And where there are no outward manifestations the evil lies dormant; beneath apparent order arc hidden dumb revolt, Haws made by an abnormal existence, apathy, death. The system Is evil which produces such fruit, and, however simple it may appear, iu reality It brings forth all possible complications. The other system is the extreme op posite, that of bringing up children for themselves. The roles are reversed; the parents are there tb«t child. No jtooner is he borii than he becomes the center. White headed grandfather and stalwart father bow before these curls. His lisping is their law. A sign from him suffices. If he cries in the night no fatigue is of account; the whole household must be roused, The new comer Is not long In discovering his omnipotence, and before he can walk he Is drunken with it. As he grows older all this deepens and broadens. Parents, grandparents, servants, teach ers, everybody Is at his command. 110 accepts the homage aud even the im molation of his neighbor; he treats like a rebellious subject any one who does not step out of his path. There is only himself. He Is the unique, the perfect, the Infallible. Too late it Is perceived that all this lias been evolving a mas ter, and what a master! Forgetful of sacrifices, without respect, even pity. He no longer has any regard for those to whom he owes everything, and he goes through life without law or check. This education, too, has Its social counterpart. It flourishes wherever the past does not count, where history be gins with the living, where there Is no tradition, no discipline, no reverence; where those who know tho least make the most noiso; where those who stand for public order are alarmed by every chance comer whose power lies lu his making a great outcry and respecting nothing. It insures the reign of transi tory passion, the triumph of the Infe rior will. I compare these two educa tions—one the exaltation of the envi ronment, the other the tyranny of tho new—and I find them equally baneful. But the most disastrous of all is the combination of the two, which pro duces human beings half automatons, half despots, forever vacillating be tween the spirit of a sheep and the spirit of revolt or domination. Children should be educated neither for themselves nor for their parents, for man Is no more designed to be a personage than a specimen. They should be educated for life. The aim of their education Is to aid them to be come active members of humanity, brotherly forces, free servants of the civil organization. To follow a method Of education inspired by any other principle Is to complicate life, deform It, sow the seeds of all disorders. When we would sum up In a phrase the destiny of the child the word "fu ture" springs to our lips. The child Is the future. This word says all—the Bufferings of the past, the stress of to day, hope. But when the education of the child begins he Is incapable of es timating the reach of this word, for he is held by Impressions of the pres ent. Who, then, shall give him the first enlightenment and put him In the way he should go? The parents, the teachers. Aug witii very little rellec- tlon they perceive that their work does not interest simply themselves and the child, but that they represent and ad minister impersonal powers and Inter ests. The child should continually ap pear to them as a future citizen. With this ruling Idea they will take thought for two things that complement each other for the initial and personal force which is germinating In the child and for the social destination of this force. At no moment of their direction over him can they forget that this.l it tie being confided to their care must become himself and a brother. These two conditions, far from excluding each other, never exist apart. It Is im possible to be brotherly, to love, to give oneself, unless one Is master of him self; and, reciprocally, none can possess himself, comprehend his own individ ual being, until he has first made his way through the outward accidents of his existence down to the profound springs of life where man feels himself one with other men In all that is most intimately his own. To aid a child to become himself and a brother It is necessary to protect him against the violent and destructive action of the forces of disorder. These forces are exterior and Interior. Every child is menaced from without not only by material dangers, but by the meddlesomeness of alien wills, and from within by an exaggerated idea of his own personality and all the fan cies it breeds. There is a great out ward danger which may come from the abuse of power in educators. The right of might finds itself a place In ed ucation with extreme facility. To ed ucate another one must have renounced this right—that is to say, made abne gation of the inferior sentiment of peiv sonal importance, which transforms us into tho enemies of others, even of our own children. Our authority Is benefi cent only when it is inspired by one higher than our own. In this case it Is not only salutary, but also Indis pensable, and becomes in Its turn the best guarantee against the greater per il which threatens the child from with in—that of exaggerating his own Im portance. At the beginning of life the vividness of personal Impressions is so great that to establish an equilibrium they must be submitted to the gentle influence of a calm and superior will. The true quality of the office of edu cator 1s to represent this will to the child in a manner as continuous and as disinterested as possible. Educators, then, stand for all that Is to be re spected in tho world. They give to the child impressions of that which pre cedes it, outruns It, envelops it, but they do not crush it. On the contrary flieir will and all the influence tbey transmit become elements nutritive of its native energy. Such use qf au thority as this cultivates thai fruitful obedience out of which free souls are born. The purely personal authority Of parents, masters and institutions is to the child like the brushwood be neath which the young plant withers and dies. Impersonal authority, the authority of a man whq has rtrst sub mitted himself to the time honored realities before which he wishes the individual fancy of the child to bend, resembles pure and luminous air. True, it has an activity and influences in Its manner, bat It nourlshwi our Indi viduality and glvts it firmness and sta bility. Without this authority there is no education. To watch, to guide, to keep a firm hand—such Is the function of the educator. lie should appear to the child not like a barrier of whims, which, if need be, one may clear, pro vided the leap be proportioned to the height of the obstacle, but like a trans parent wall through which may bo seen unchanging realities, laws, limits and truths against which no action is possible. Thus arises respect, which Is the faculty of conceiving something greater than ourselves—respect, which broadens us and frees us by making us more modest. This Is the law of edu cation for simplicity, It may be sum med up In theso words: To make free and reverential men, who shall be In dividual and fraternal. Let us draw from this principle souio practical applications 1 . From the very fact that tlie child is tbe future he must be linked to the past by piety. We owe it to him to clothe tradition in the forms most prac tical and most fit to create a doep Uu pression; whence the exceptional place that should bo given in education to the ancients, to the cult of remembrance of the past and by extension to the history of the domestic rooftree. Above all do we fulfill a duty toward our chil dren when we give the place of honor to the grandparents. Nothing speaks to a child with so much force or so well develops his modesty as to see his father and mother on all occasions pre serve toward an old grandfather, often infirm, an attitude of respect. It is a perpetual object lesson that is irresist ible. That it may have its full force It is necessary for a tacit understanding to obtain among all the grownup mem bers of the family. To the child's eyes they must all bo in league, held to mu tual respect and understanding, under penalty of compromising their educa tional authority, and in their number must be counted the servants. Serv ants are big people, and the same sen timent of respect is injured in the child's disregard of them as in his dis regard Of hi# father or grandfather. The moment he addresses an impolite or arrogant word to a person older than himself he strays from the i>aih that a child ought never to quit, and if only occasionally the parents neglect to point this out they will soon perceive by his conduct toward themselves that the enemy has found entrance to Uls heart. We mistake if we think that a child is naturally alien to respect, basing this opinion 011 the very numerous examples of Irreverence which lie offers us. Re spect Is for the child a fundamental need. Ills moral being feeds on it. The child aspires confusedly to revere and admire something, but when advan tage is not taken of this aspiration It gets corrupted or lost. By our lack of cohesion and mutual deference we, the grownups, discredit dally in the child's eyes our own cause and that of every thing worthy of respect. We Inoculate In him a bad spirit whose effects then turn against us. This pitiful truth nowhere appears with more force than In the relations between musters and servants as we have made them. Our social errors, our want of simplicity and kindness, all full back upon the heads of our chll dren. There are certainly few people of the middle classes who understand that it is better to part with many thousands of dollars than to lead their children to lose respect for servants, who represent In our households the humble, yet nothing Is truer. Main tain as strictly as you will conventions and distances, that demarcation of so cial frontiers which permits each one to remain In his place and to observe the law of differences—that Is a good thing, I am persuaded—but on condi tion of never forgetting that those who serve us are men and women like our selves. You require of your domestics certain formulas of speech and certain attitudes, outward evidence of the re spect they owe you. Do you also teach your children and use yourselves man ners toward your servants which show them that you respect their dignity as Individuals as you desire them to re spect you? Here we have continually In our homes an excellent ground for experiment In the practice of that mu tual respect which Is one of the essen tial conditions of social sanity. I fear we profit by It too little. We do not fail to exact respect, but we fail to give It. So It is most frequently the ease that we get only hypocrisy and this supplementary result, all unexpected— the cultivation of pride In our children. These two factors combined heap up great difficulties for that future which we ought to be safeguarding. I am right, then. In saying that the day when by your own practices you have brought about the lessening of respect In your children you have suffered a sensible loss. Why should I not say it? It seems to me that the greater part of us labor for this loss. On all sides. In almost every social rank, I notice that a pretty bad spirit is fostered In children, a spir it of reciprocal contempt. Here those who have calloused hands and working clothes are disdained; there It Is all who do not wear blue Jeans. Children educated In this spirit make sad fellow citizens. There Is In all this the want o? that simplicity which makes It pos- I ale for nieu of good intentions, of lowever diverse social standing, to col laborate without any friction arising from the conventional distance that separates them. If the spirit of caste causes the loss of respect, partisanship, of whatever sort, is quite as productive of It. In certain quarters children are brought Up in such fashion that they respect but one country-their own; one sys tem of government—that of their par ents and masters; one religion—that which they have been laught. Does ony one suppose that in this way men pan bnke your children think themselves more or better than others. Though your wealth would permit you to dress them richly, remember the evil you might do in exciting their vanity. Preserve them from the evil of be lieving that to be olegantly dressed suffices for distinction, and, above all,