VOL. XXXXII. —»— THE MODERN STORE- New Spring Goods arriving Daily We Can Interest You as never Before. New-yard wide cambric finish percales, all new patterns, 12|c per yd. New Galatea Cloths for servicable shirt waist suits, girls dresses, boys' wants, etc., 15c per yard. x SPECIAL FOR THE WEEK 2000 yards new dress Ginghams, nice patterns for shirt waist suits, children's dresses, petticoats, etc., 8c per yard. Do not fail to see onr new embroideries and insertions from 8c up to 60c. Dainty new patterns in matched sets and edges, insertions and all-overs. This store is bidding for your trade as never before. Don't fall to take advantage of our early offerings. EiSLEK-MARDORF COHPANY, •OOTH lunmm » r%rv« , HmSriaKT* ' ) Send in Your Mail orders - OPPOSITE HOTEL ARLINGTON. BUTLER. PA. KECK ££ Merchant Tailor. Q Spring Suitings P JUST ARRIVED. (] 142 North Main St. KE C K j i i WHY ABE YOU SITTING UP ALL NIGHT FIRING COAL WHEN YOU CAN GET AN EVANS GAS ORGASOLINE ENGINE WITH REVERSIBLE CLUTCH PULLEY, TT'• MM FRO MM IT WILL PULL RODS I ■ I Jtlim ■ IT WILL PLLL TUBINQ IT WILL H wells MM UP THE OAS FIRE A -MI STARTINU WRITE FOR CATALOGUE. THE EVANS MFG. CO, LTD.. PUTLEB, PA, * i | nV * i > II $ it If I l» J. Q. &W. CAMPBELL, | {[ . AGENTS FOR -BUTLER. gi $ $ Cypher's Incubators and Brooders also Poultry i|i Supplies and International pood- 4i Sill, CALL FOR CATALOGUE. ' BUTLER, PA. MM"i' if . ■■ —. »i ' {Our discount sale still continues J C For the benefit of those who have been onable to attend onr eale in tbe S 1 past few greeks. " ■ / \ ' Beuidea ojfcr di«couuU on Men's, iipya' and tJhildren'n Suite and Over- ) W poftte of 10, «0, per cent and | off, we offer a few special#. \ j One lot of Ulster Overcoats, sizes 16 to 36. 5 \ Co«ta that sold from SIO.OO to slß.oo Sale price $5.00 / * 5.00 to 9.00 " 3.00 S / That sold at 00, |8.60, SIOO and SO.UQ, sale price fcI.UM / \ :: 3.0Q, 2.M. p V J » I! '• V2S. 1-50. j.7h " " 1.00 / \Smol(fng Jackets and fyath Kobcs. ) C all go at i off regalar price. 1 / All Men's and Boys' SWEATERS at 25 per cent less than regnlar price, f > 200 SHIRTS, were 50c. 75c, SI.OO, $1.25 and $1.50, sell at 35c, 3 for / / Lot of 25c and 50c CAPS K° af 15c. S \ BQCKB kind yon pay l(|c fqr nf\y fitter nmrw, t*o a« (JO a pair. r M Wft't fait to Avail yonraelf of this opportunity. I \ WATCH FOR WINDOW DISPLAY. | Douthett & Graham, j V I Fall and Winter Millinery. | Arrival of a large ling of Stceet Hats, Tailor-madeT 3j a a nd ready-to-wear Ha'ts. All the new Ideas and I* designs In Millinery Novelties. Trimmed and Un- 3* |. trimmed Hats for Ladies, Misses and Children. All 31 J * the new things in Wings, Pom pon§; Feathers, 31 | L Qftflgh Qoods, etc. etc. 3; ji Rockensteln's I Emporium,! «» Sooth Main Street, Butler, Pa. • • . «. 4 * -THE BUTLER CITIZEN. ROAD AND BRIDGE REPORTS Notice Is hereby given that the following mads and bridges have been confirmed nisi by the Court and will be presented on the first Saturday of March Court, 1605. lieing the 11th day of said month, and if no excep tions are Hied thev will be confirmed abso ".utely: B, I). No. 1, December Term 1904. In the matter of the petition of citizens of Clinton township to change a public road, beginning at !,ardln's Mill in Butler county and ending at Miller's Mill In Allegheny county. Septem ber 2ec. 10. 19U4. approved, and fix width of road at Si feet, notice to be given according to rules of court. Br THE COURT. K. D. No. 2. December Term, 19I>1. In the matter of the petition of citizens of Clinton township for a county bridge across Bull creek In Clinton township where said creek crosses the public road leading from Plt's burg to Kittanning. September 2i5. 1904. viewers appointed, who on October 21, 1904, filed their report In favor of proposed bridge Now. December 10,1904, approved, notice to tie given according to rule* of court and to be laid before the grand ju»y at next term, Br THE COURT. R. D. NO. 3, December Term. 1904. In the matter of the petition of citizens of Worth township for viewers to view and widen a road In said township from a point, on the Portersville and North LibertV road be tween the farms of Peter and John Wimer and running along said line to the Kll'ott Mill and l'ortersville road. September 26. 19W, viewers appointed, who on December I. 1904, filed theit report in favor of proposed change no damages assessed. Now. Dec. 10, 1904, approved, and fix width of road at 33 feet, notice to be given accoidlng to rules of court. Br TIIE CorRT. It. D. No. 4, Decc-rnber Term, 1!«J4. In the matter of the petition of citizens of Jefferson township for a county bridge over t horn cieek in said township. w1.,-r». the creek crosses the public road known as the Butler and Freeport road. September 5, 1904, viewers appointed, who on November 30, 1904. filed their report in favor of proposed bridge. Now, December 10. 1904, approved, notice to be glved according to rules of court and to be laid before the grand Jury at next term. BY THE COURT. 2. D No. 5, December Term. '904. In the matter oi ti.» pttitipn of citizens of Brnir. liorough for a cOurity bridge o,cr Bear creek in said borough where said creek chisSes* me Sublic road leading from Fairvlew to leiora on the farm of I). V. Kelly. October 31. 1904, viewers appointed, who on December 1. 1904, filed thoir report in favor of proposed bridge. Now. December 10, 1904. approved notice to be given according to rules of court and to be laid before the grand jury at next term. Br THE COURT. B. D. No. 6. December Term. 1904. In the matter of the petition of citizens of Adams township for a county bridge over Glade Run where said creek crosses the public road leading from the Three Degree road to the Evans City road. October 31, 1904, viewers appointed, who on Dpccrebor 3. 5901, fllcd their report In favor of proposed bridge, v'ow. December 10.1904, approved, notice to lie given according to rules of court and to be laid before grand Jury at next term. Br THE COURT. B. D No. 7, December Term. 1904. In the matter of the petition of citizens of Lancast er township for a county bridge over Yellow creek lu said township where said creek c.-u„»0s Uic public i-oc.fl from Whites town to Middle Lancaster, iieai i'blilp Klfriner's. November 1, 1904 vle#ers ap pointed, who oh December 3, 1904. filed thulr reports In favor of proposed bridge. Now, Decomtier 10, 1904. approved, notice to be according to rules of court and to be laid be fore the grand Jury at next term. Br TBE COURT. B. I). No. 13. June Term, 1904. In the mat ter of the petition of citizens of Butler town ship for a public road leading frqm r, point on the Pierce in fiontcf the uVoj Hotel to a point on the public road oil lands of 0. K". Waldron. about 30 rods east of the resi dence of said O. K. Waldron, September 10. 1804, viewers appointed, who on December 3, 1904, filed their report in favor of proposed road no dumagos assessed Now rjgppmfcor 10, 1904, approyod and fix width of ri,»d at 38 feel, notice to be given according to rules of court Bv THE COURT. Certified from tbe recor A 25c package contains 100 \ . feeds for 12 fowls. C C In 25c, 60c. sl. $3.50 Package# 7 / And all other Internati-ual \ j Stock Food Co s V Sold by / 5 Redick <& Grohmao j ? 109 North Mcin n., S Bujler, fri, B. & B. new petticoats Spring styles uiewieriie ed Satine Petticoats now in. Choice selection, $1.25, $1.50, $1.75 and $2.00. Special tme Black Merceri?- ed Satine Petticoats. $ 1.00 tailored bands. Special Blue, Green, Tan and Reseda Mercerized Petti Gtjats—sectional tlounce —five- inch accordion ruffle, $1.50. Special Black Mercerized Satine Petticoats—24-inch ae-- gorciiQn pleating—foot ruffle, $1.75. These are special and so ad vertised, inasmuch as thoy greater style and merit than usually goes with Petticoats at the prices—all lengths, 38 to 44 Inches. Boggs& Buhl ALLEGHENY. PA H- MILWSK FIRE and LIFE INSURANCE and REAL ESTATE. OFFICE— Room COB, Sutler CJounty Nation*! Bank building CATARRH € R j|§jf ELY'S CREAM BALM This Remedy is a Specific, Sure to Cive Satisfaction. CIVES RELIEF AT ONCE. It cleanses, soothes, heals, ai;d protects the diseased membrane. It cares Catarrh and drives away a Cold in the Head quickly. licstorcs the Senses of Taste and SmelL Easy to we. Contains no injuri< >ns drugs. Applied into tho nostrils and absorbed. Large Siz», CO cento at Druggists or by mail; Trial Size. 10 cents by mad. ELY BROTHERS, *o 'Warren St., New York. PROFESSIONAL CARUS. PHYSICIANS, JC. BOYLE, M. D. < EYE, EAR, NOSH and THROAT, SPECIALIST. 121 East Cunningham Street. Office Hoars 11 to 12 a. m.. 3 to 5 and 7 to 9 p. m. BOTH TELEPHONE*. DR. JULIA E. FOSTER, OSTEOPATH. Consultation and examination free. Office hoars —9 to 12 A M., 2 to M., daily except Stmday Evening appointment. Office —Stein Block, Rooms 9-10, But ler, Pa. People's Pbone 478. F L LAR.A E. MORROW, D. 0., V GRADUATE BOSTON COLLEGE OF OSTEOPATHY. Women's diseases a specialty. Con sultatian and examination free. Office Hours, 9to 12 ni., J to 3 p. m People's Phone 573. S. iiiaiu ilreii, Kutici, Pa MTZIMMERMAN • PHYSICIAN A ND SruosoN At 327 N. Main St. T R. HAZLETT, fif. D., ijt 10* W?st Dr. Graham's fofmtr o< ?, cs. Special attention give»- to Eye, v "o-_c and Throat I'eoole's Hit ne 274. OAMUBLM. BIPI'US. O pJiieSiCtAK aoo V-Jcal C n St. DENTISTS. J\K. FORD H. JJAYEIT. JU - OISNTIST. XiradnaVe ot Dental Department, University of Pennsylvania OHsce-21.*i S. iMaiu Stfstiti Butler, Pa. DR. S. A. JOHNSTON, SURGEON DENTIST. Formerly of Butler, Has located opposite Lowry Hou«e, Main St, Butler, P» Tbe woTk a&eni&il/. painlos-i extractor df teeth by his new method, no medi cine ased or jabbing a needle into the gams; also gas and ether used. Com munications by mail receive prompt at tention. DU J. WILBERT McKEE, SURGEON DENTIST. Office over Leighner's Jewelry store, Bntler, Pa Peoples Telephone 505. A specially made of gOI.JI fillings, gold crown ami bridge wprlj. OR J. HINDMAN, . DENTIST. 12,' L South Main street, (ov Metzer'c shoe store.) RR. 11. A. McCAUQLHaa, • ' ' 'o#N'flST. Omoein Hutler County National Bank Building, 2nd floor. DT*. M D. KOTTRA 3A, o 114 E. Jeiterson St., over C, W. Miller's grocery ATTORNEYS. RP. SCOTT, . A^rc ) 3v*»-*J;-.EAW, Giuce in bntler County National Bank bnilding. AT. SCOTT, • ATTORNEY AT Law. Office at No, 8. Weat l]tewo«ara> oould it be thnt the«-« was a point when one tiegau to be thirty-two—for instance, when becomlngness demand ed that one should lay aside "Miss" just as it required that one should stop wearing pink"/ ' She fac-id her flight with a stiff up yfcr Op, realising that she had no one but herself to blame. There had been n number of men—tho mischievous dim ple at the corner of her mouth danced into sight for a second at tl(j thought of how ma"j- who nad done their best to stop her in what she now recognized for the first time her mad career. She had decflued their offers kindly, but with a oertair, royal carelessness thai recked not of possible dark hours tq come. \Vhen did any W'J'lUUt born to the Vfl'ef ill the divine right of queens ever foresee dethronement? She had inadvertently "lived over," as she had once heard it quaintly phrased. There was no ubout *(, she was an yamui In atl its brutal truth, scorning such euphemisms as "spinster" and "bachelor woman." "You're an old maid—Just a plain old niaid!" she said audibly. But it tjouwV ed like n Iqk« iiky. y.u« oi those things 100 bad fi l>e trufi. She would proba bly wake up after a hit to find (hat she had been married since her eighteenth year and had a son ready to enter col lege and a daughter about to make h.f' r debut. No such happy cnpie. howpyei, arid with desperate philoso phy. she decided that since she was an old maid she would enter Into the role for all it was worth. At least she would avoid the error of kittenish. J.lttlc by littif her plainest gowns were brought tutu requlnltlou. Certain little graces and frivolities of the toilet were one by one abandoned. She timid ly asked Alice, her closest frigid, j\*. teach the children to call ha' Untie," a thing which >jho had hitherto forbid den under the. penalty of a sudden death to the cherub that should first Ye guilty of It. "What Is the matter with you?" gasp ed Alice, with a stare of amazement. "Aud what have you been doing with your hair, and why are you wearing that ugly old dress, with all the hand some things that you have?" 'Tui Just wearing the things suit able to my age before the dear friends have a chance to point them out to me," was the answer, and that uight her friend confided to her husband, with thoughtful regret, that Elinor was becoming a regular old maid. Another of her friends and comrades, Max Anderson, also noticed the subtle change. Theirs had been a sort of brother and sister friendship of long standing. " For years lie had scolded and criticised and bullied her. The one thing that he hadn't done was to make love, and Elinor had long since given up trying to make him. "Haven't you ever been In love, Max?" she had asked him once, with genuine curiosity in the gray eyes that had been more than one man's un doing. \ dull flush came up Into his face, and he looked at her strangely. "Yes," he answered shortly, "I have." "Beautiful nlglit. Isn't ItV" he weld on after a moment, aml there was a touch of (UOCkery In his voice that made 'ho questioner wince. After that she asked him no more. "What's up?" he demanded, survey ing her cynically as she came do a.: to receive him one evening, with re nunclatlon speaking fnuu every line of her plain gown and her smooth, parted hair. "Is It some sort of lay sackcloth and ashes? What particular slu are you mourning?" "The great sin of omission!" she an swered demurely as they Hat down op posite each other. But he lookiil In credulous. He had not known her lif ted! years for nothing. "Commission, you mean," he said dryly, with an air of remembering things. "No; omission! I'd tell you about It, only you're never any comfort to a person. You're Just like a stone, Max. I don't know how I've endured you so long ITe turned his eyes lazily upon her with a look long, steady. Inscrutable. Neither spoke, but after a moment Eli nor, with a beautifully assumed air of perfect ease, sought refnge in a study of the pattern of the carpet, j "Possibly I may tell you some time,"' he said, with n nonchalant laugh, "but go on; let me hear what's the trouble. You always tell me eventually." And so, in fact she did. It was the beauty of Max that he made you like and hate him simultaneously. But no matter what you felt you wanted him, and you usually confided in him. That at least had been Elinor's experience, and it was being repeated for the hun dredth time now. She wanted to tell him; she always wanted to tell liim ev erything. She leaned forward sudden ly, with a childish bid for sympathy in her eyes. "You see. Max, I've omitted to get married. And now I'm thirty-one"— "Plus," he corrected gravely. "Thirty-oue," she continued firmly, "and, though it's been great fun—well, all at once I realized that I'm an old maid. It's so unexpected. Why haven't I married? That's what 1 don't under stand." There was a pause in which it seem ed to her that she suddenly heard the beating of her own heart. Before she fully realized what had happened her hands were held close and Max was Saying; "Look at me, Elinor, and see if you can't find out I've waited years for you to finish sowing your wild oats." tnnataral. Small Nancy, ageU I eould see that I was not more than deuce high with her on account of—well, no matter what. I was full up of a new theory a mat) had Imparting to me, and as» i always be lieve in a luau-a regarding his wife as 411s intellectual equal I told her about it. The man told me that It is the brain that really nourishes the hair. He even went so far as to say that if you pull a hair out you Riy»l out a bit of brain with U. H lntotested me ex vvediugiy. My wife just sniffed. " 'That's not new,' she said. 'I found that out long ago. dwean't matter either v\'',iptber. the hair is pulled out or ftills out naturally.' "That's >vh«T I Ret for trying to be gooij to that woman. Stung by my wife." Here he raised his hat. He was as bald as a newly plucked Va»h ington Post. Ttnilnir Hananaa. It Is generally known that bananas are shipped while yet green and un ripe, but few persons are awftry of the careful and elabovftto M"" 4 calculations requiring totting *>ut tho plants and wuiiing oif the fruit In order to Insure the arrival of the bananas In nroper condition at their destination. W'hea u plantation Is begun tUp yo,'»ng plants are set out at cwrta'U Intervals, so that they wUA produce at regular prefixed during the ywir. A certain num ber of days before the arrival of a steamer the green fruit is cut, and a close calculation of the time that will be consumed fn the voya({9 must al ways be made, elsu thw bananas will be spoiled, uteaiuers carry steam Utuning apparatus to Insure a uniform temperature throughout the voyage. The ripening is calculated to occur only after the fruit has reached tbe retail dealer. DINING IN JAPAN. * It'» Your Flral Jupnnciic Meal Yon -Will Have n TryliiK Tliur. If It's your first Japanese dinner you're having a dreadfully hard time, In the first place you must stt ou tho floor, for they don't have any chairs In Japan. Y«>n kneel down, and then you turn your toes In till one hips over the other, and then you sit back between your heels. At lirst you are quite proud to llnd how well you do It, and you don't think it's so very uncomfort able. Hut pretty soon you get cramp ed, and your legs ache as If you had a toothache in them. You don't say any thing, because you think that If the Japanese can sit this way all day long you ought to be able to stand It a few minutes. Finally both your feet go to sleep, "anil then you can't bear It a moment longer, and you have to get up and stamp around the room to drive the prickles out of your feet, and all the little dancing girls giggle at you. This isn't your only trouble ei ther. All you have to eat with Is a pair of chopsticks, and you're In terror lest you spill soniettilug on the dainty white matting tloor. Now the lloor of a Japanese house isn't Just the floor; It's the chairs and sofas and tables and beds as well. At home it would be mortifying enough to go out to din ner and tiplll Momethlng on the floor, but In Japan, where people sit and sleep 011 the floor, It seeins even worse. So you are unhappy till your little ne san (who Is the waitress and almost as prettily dressed as the dancing girls, but not quite) cornea laughing to your aid and shows yon how to hold your ebopsttcks. After that you manage nicely the rice and the omelet, but the flsli and the ehicken you can't contrive to shred apart without dropping your chopsth-ks all the time. So between dances the malko—the little girls about twelve years old -kneel down beside you and help you. They can't keep from giggling at your awkwardness, but you don't uilnd; you Just giggle, too, and everybody giggles and has a lovely time.—St. N'leholiis. A Wretch. Justice -What's the charge sgnlnst this prisoner? Olth-er Yer honor, he's a public nuisance. He's been goln' speaking of her lover. ''Your roses came just as I was start ing," she continued. "I wore the Wuv dress, the one you used to Uk.e ».«*> to"— "Child," he interrupted, "you In the nonsense. It was such a relief from talking to the women, and I can't help being silly, you know, Bob." Ills heart felt old and musty and failed, and her every word was giving it a fresh blow. She bad made a little pyr amid of the rose petals and was nerv ously tearing it to pieces to reconstruct »t. "He was very nice," she continued. "We went back to sit on the stairs to listen to the music. That was the be ginning. He came next day for me to drive with him and told me that be loved me." "The Impudent young"— He forgot that it was of her lover he was speak ing. "Ho said he couldn't help It," she apologized for him In world weary accents. "But they all say that." There was no trace of vanity in the remark. The red of the roses found brilliant rivals in her cheeks. "Then—then one night," she hesitated, "It was moon light—down on the beach—he kissed me"— "He kissed you?" the man exclalm *d. "How dare he—how dare you?" "Don't be too hard on him," she pleaded. "lie said something about qjeu not despising a thief if he steal to satisfy his soul when he Is hungry." Bob had risen angrily. A determined little hand pulled him back. "Kemaniber," a cold voice reminded, '•you desired me to tell you." "Judith!" he reproved sharply. "And that wasn't all," and she flash ed defiant eyes at him. She remember ed how Jealous he had been. Once she laughed and asked him If lie thought the enamored air went sighing after her too. But that was when he bad really cared for her. Now he was try ing to get rid of her. "I had numerous other lovers at the Springs, Bob. It may be"—she tapped a gay little tune with her fan—"that you might find thein diverting. There was Dave Cary" —she assigned her little finger to him— "and Fred I.anglcs," the next finger to him, "both of whom proposed to me at the picnic on the fourth day of July. Then there was Mr. Greyner, who pro posed to me at the dance at Judge Blr row's sou's birthday—the son also pro posed for that matter. I>r. Spauldlng set my wrist when I sprained It, and when lie dismissed me he asked me to be his wife. That's all the proposals I had at the springs. There were five more when 1 stopped to visit Lucy Kll dare on my way home." The man made a gesture of entreaty. Truly, he had not dreamed of It being this bad. His heart felt like a church on a week day. How could he have ever been fool enough to expect Judith to love him against all these young mea? "If you marry Travers"— It was a cowardly subterfuge to get her away from the others. His voice stuck. She sat alert, with brilliant eyes. "If I marry Travers, what?" she ask ed. "I don't know," miserably. "I haven't exactly decided which one I shall marry." She leaned back lan guidly. She was pushing her hair back and trying to pin it in place. "It's real ly very hard to make up one's mind. Bob. It's the number of them that con fuses me." She laughed dellclously. His hand tightened around his glass. "Bob," the girl suddenly demanded, "what's that you told me once about love lying deep?" Could he release her? "The hunger of a man's soul" kept running through his head. Could he do it? Wasn't she in crying need of a protector to shield her from this very hunger? "Bob"—she tossed him a rose—"have you forgotten the lines?" " 'Love lieth deep,'" he began. " 'Love dwells not In lip depths. Love wraps his wings on either side the heart.'" There was a long silence. Somehow the silences of Bob were more eloquent than al? the lip talk of the others. She was beginning to un derstand. She thought vaguely of •hips cut loose from their moorings. She hated young men. She remembered the first time she ever saw him. She waa doing a skirt dance before the long gilt mirror in the back parlor. She turned; to get a aldewtse view of herself, and there in the door he was calmly watching her. The others were at the table. The oc casion was a dinner party, and be had committed the unpardonable offense of being late. That waa the beginning. He very much preferred staying with her, I\e declared, if she didn't mind. Vhat was the night she started loving him. Hadn't he spent weary hours over the intricacies of toe dancing to coach her? Didn't Bob always under stand? The thought that he was just across the table and not engaged to h«r any more almost suffocated her. She couldn't stand It "Bob," she said, with all that peril ous youth shining in her eyes, "have you forgotten that toe dance you taught me years ago?" No, with weary resignation, he had not forgotten it. "Bob," with cruel persistence, "when you told me that night that you had rather stay with me than to go with the old ladles, did you mean it, truly?" Yes, he was sure he meant it truly. The cafe was deserted. Only Francois, the waiter, lurked in the background, and he couldn't speak English. "Bob," moving nearer and laying a confiding band ou his arm; "Bob, does your Jove He too deep for words?" There was a pleading quality in her tones not to be resisted. "Child!" He was holding her chin in his most comforting hand and examin ing her eytw. ''Jack Travers didn't kiss me, truly," she comforted, patting Bob's old gray hairs tenderly. Francois had discreet ly withdrawn, fully remunerated. "He said that before I told him about— about bow I loved you—l—l told him all about us, Bob" But she didn't finish. He understood. Bob always understood. "Child," bo whispered, with eyes in which youth had come home to live, "you mtist be the oldest person on earth. Ton arc straight from the gar den of Eden, with youth that is fresh and genuine and eternal. Yes, you are, child!" Orateri With or Without. ''Sitting opposite me in a downtown syster bouse the other day," said a clubman, "was one of ihose fastidious men who undertake to transmit in structions to the cook through the wait er. He wanted a twenty-five cent stew. As nearly as I can remember, these were his instructions: " 'Now, waiter, kindly tell the cook I don't want the oysters and milk mere ly mixed aud heated. I want the milk carefully boiled first. The oysters should then be added without the liquor. The liquor should not be put In until the seasoning Is added. Be very particular to get good rich milk and nothing but the best gilt edged butter. As for the oysters, I want Oape Cod ■alts. No ordinary stock oysters for me. Do you understand?" " 'I think so, sir,' replied the waiter. 'But do you wish the oysters with or without?' " 'With or without what?' asked the customer. " 'l'earls, sir.' "—New York Press. THE STORY OF SUGAR CHINA SEEMS TO HAVE BEEN THE FIRST CANE CULTIVATOR. OrlclMllr the Product Waa Employ ed Only Medicinally—The Art of He lming Waa Invented by n Fifteenth Century Venetlnn. Few other commodities possess a lar ger bibliography than sugar. Never theless the early history of sugar is wrapped in obscurity. Formerly chem ist* called everything a "sugar" which bad a sweet taste, but the term in Its scientific sense soon caine to be re stricted to the sweet principles lu vege table and animal Juices. Only one of these, cane sugar, was known as a pure substance until 161 A, when an Italian chemist isolated the sugar of milk aud proved Its individuality. The original habitat of the sugar cane is not known, but it seems to have been first culti vated lu China aud to have extended tbence to India aud Arabia at a com paratively late date. Sugar Is not men tioned by cither Grecian or Roman writers until the time of Nero, and sug ar candy was the first and only species known to the European ancients. It was the original manufacture of the cast, particularly China, and found its way Into Europe :is raw sugars did in after ages by way of India, Arabia aud the Red sea. Sugar when first In troduced Into every country was used only medicinally. Almost all physi cians, commencing with the Arab leeches, employed It originally to ren der unpleasant aud nauscatlug medi cines grateful to the sick and recom mended it lu complaiuts of the chest and lungs. That which preservcth apples and plums Will also preserve liver und lungs Is an old adage. But the use of sugar in sirups aud preserves cauie later, while barely three centuries have elapsed sluce it became an Ingredient In the popular diet of Europe. The Venetians were the fathers of the IJuropean sugar trade. Anterior to the year 1148 they both Imported considerable quantities of sugar from Intliu and planted the cane in the Island of Sicily. With the produce of this Is land aud the Indian imi>ortß the Venfr tlaus carried on a great trade aud sup plied all the markets of Europe with ibis cvmu>o<|ity. However, the exact No. 9. date when sugar was first Introduced Into England is difficult to ascertain. One of the earliest references to sugar In England is that of 100,000 pounds of sugar being shipped to London In 1319 by one Loredanao, a merchant of Venice, to be exchanged for wool. In the same year there appears In the ac counts of the chamberlain of Scotland a payment at the rate of Is. %d. per pound for sugar. Writing in 1380, Chaucer mentions the sweetness of sugar allegorlcally. The art of refining sugar and making what is called loaf sugar was invented by a Venetian citizen toward the end of the fifteenth century. This same art was first practiced in England in 1544, the adventurers being Thomas Gardiner and Sir William Chester, as sisted by three Venetians. They were proprietors of the only two sugar bouses in England, but the profits aris ing from this concern were at first small, as the sugar refiners at Ant werp could supply the London market cheaper. Eventually war stopped the intercourse between London and Ant werp, and these two houses supplied all England for a space of twenty years and greatly enriched the proprietors, whose success induced many others to embark in the same trade. In 1506 Sir Thomas Mildmay tried to create a sugar trust On tbe pretext that frauds were practiced in refining sugar he pe titioned Elizabeth to grant him a li cense for the exclusive right of refin ing sugar for a term of years, but tbe queen refused the request. ( Meanwhile the Spaniards had become i in their turn the great disseminators of : the sugar cultivation. The cane was ! planted by them in Madeira in 1420; it was carried to the West Indies in 1506, and it spread over the occupied por tions of South America during the six teenth century. Yet sugar continued to be a costly luxury, an article sub ject to the control of the physician and confined to the apothecary's shop, till the increasing use of tea and coffee in the eighteenth century brought it into the list of principal food staples. Sugar was believed to be an antidote to alcohol. Bacon warmly supports the theory of the power of sugar not only to render wine less Intoxicating, being mixed therewith at the time of drinking it, but also when eaten after ward to remove the ill effects of too ropious libations of unmlngled wine. Fnlstaff, it may be remembered, al ways took "sack and sugar." A cu tfous echo of this theory cropped up at the Lamson murder trial. The pris oner pleaded that the sugar brought Into the room to serve as a suitable vehicle for the aconltlne which he in tended to administer to his victim was really Introduced to counteract the In fluence of some strong sherry they were drinking. The great Duke of Beaufort, who was a heavy drinker, for forty years before his death used a pound of sugar dally in his wine. The Increased use of sugar was cred ited with having extinguished the plague In Europe; it certainly contrib uted to suppress the native malady of England, the scurvy. There used to be n custom In Wales on Ascension day for children to form parties to take sugar and water at a neighboring well. Eaoli child was provided with sugar and a cup. The day was usually desig nated "sugar and water" day. The ■up®rstitlon was that all who drank Of the mixture there on that day would bo proof against Illness and protected frets evil spirits for twelve months. Hone mentions a similar custom being prevalent In Derbyshire on Easter Sun day under the name of "sugar cup ping." Sugar tongs at meals came In during the reign of Queen Anne, and the use of them was long confined to British households. Dr. Johnson is commonly supposed not to have been overnlce about his table manners, but he pro nounced the French "an Indelicate peo ple" because they knew not the article when he visited Paris in 1775. The In cident that excited his disgust occur red at a party at Mme. Du Bocaze's. The footman took the sugar in his fin gers and threw it Into the doctor's cof fee. "I was going to put It aside," sold the doctor; "but, hearing it was rnude on purpose for me, I e'en tasted Tom's fingers." A famous parliamen tary anecdote hinges ou sugar. Pitt (Lord Chatham) when speaking, prob ably on the West Indian slave ques tion, began bis speech, "Sugar, Mr. Speaker," the peculiarity of its com mencement eliciting a roar of laughter from the house. Nothing daunted, Pitt began, "Sugar, Mr. Speaker." The laughter was renewed, but not so ve hemently. A third time the great or ator reiterated the same formula in a voice of thunder, turning round about with a look which effectively stopped any further display of risibility and amid perfect silence continued bis speech. All other sugars besides cane sugar and sugur of milk were unknown until the yenr 1747, when a German chemist named Margraff first produced sugar from white beet root. No practical use was made of the discovery during his lifetime. However, in 1709 his pupil and successor, Achard, established a beet sugar factory in Silesia, soon aft er which tbe chemists of France, at the Instance of Napoleon, largely ex trocted sugar from the beet root. It was not, however, till after 1830 that the Industry secured a firm footing, but from 1840 onward It advanced with giant strides.—London Globe. NOBILITY OF TREES. A Tribute to the Majesty of the Mighty Oak. Diroctly In my path stood an ancient swamp white oak, the greatest tree, I think, that I have ever seen. It was not the highest nor the largest round, per haps, but Individually, spiritually, the greatest. Hoary, hollow and broken limbed, his huge bole seemed encircled with the centuries, and In this green and grizzled top all the winds of heav en had some flmc come. One could worship In the presence of such a tree as euslly as in the shadow of a vast cathedral. Indeed, what is there built with hands that has the dig nity, the majesty, tbe dignity, of life? And what life was here! Life whose beginnings lay so far back that I could no more reckon the years than I could count the atoms It had builded Into this majestic form. Looking down upon him from twice his height Itemed a tulip poplar, clean, boiled for thirty feet and In the top all greou and gold with blossoms. It was a resplendent thing beside the oak, yet , how unmistakably the gnarled old mon arch wore the crowu! His girth more than balanced the poplar's great height, and, as for blossoms, nature knows the beauty of strength and Inward majesty and has pinned no boutonnlere upon the oak—Dallas Lore Sharp In Nation al Magazine. How She Won Out. Gladys—Papa snys you're a loafer. Jack. Jack—What reason has he for entertaining such an opinion of me as that? Gladys—He says you spend three or four evenings hero every week with out having any apparent purpose In coming.-Chicago Tribune.