VOL. xxxxn. THE MODERN STORE- FALL DRESS GOODS. Ail The New Weaves and Colors. A Magnificent Showing of Fashionale Goods. 36 inch half wool Poplarcloth and Henriettas, all colore, 2. r »c yard 27 inch all wool Trecots, aU colors. 25c yard. 42 inch all wool Cheviot, an extra good valne. all colors 50c yard. 33 and 42 inch all wool Serge*, Batistes and Henriettas, all colors, yd. 50 inch Mohair, blue, black and brown, 500 yard 38 inch checks and fancy novelty weaves, a large variety, -iOc yard. 50 inch Panama cloth, 85c and SI.OO yard. Prunella. Poplins and Crepe Suitings, all colors. Kjc yard. 45 inch French Serges and silk finished Henrittas, f 1 00 yard. 52 inch Broadcloth, |I.OO and |1 50 yard. 56 inch Kersey and Covert Cloth, suitable for jackets and suits, fI.UU. $1.50 and $2 00 yard. 56 inch Rain proof cloths, excellent values. 25 yard. Onr black goods stock is complete. All the new and staple weaves ->Oe to $2.50 yard. New fall listings, large selection, 10c to 50c vard. Sol® Agents for Ladies' Home Journal Patterns. Thfe best made. Onr Milliners are now prepared to attend to your wants for fall head wear. Grand Millinery Opening, Thursday, Friday, Saturday. September 28th. 29th, 30th- Yon are cordially invited to attend. EISLEK-MARDORF COMPANY, SOOTH UAXM STREET | nsTomaffi?* 0 f Samples sent on request. OPPOSITE HOTEL ARLINGTON. BUTLER. PA I I Is Your Family Larger. Perhaps Your Dining Table Seems Tee Small Now! J There's no use in Inconveniencing yourself every < time you sit down to a meal, when such handsome > tables are here so cheap. They will accommodate < up to fourteen persons, and by removing leaves can ► be reduced to six, eight or ten at a time. < Tables in variety of styles—round and square > pillars —finely polished—well made ordinary tables < —that carry the leaves at all prices. ► Dining Chairs separately or in sets at lowest < prices—a large assortment to suit any taste or > fancy We're to show these things. Will you come to look? We've not asked you to buy and won't. w BROWN 3c CO. I; No. 136 North Main St., Butler. p WHY You can save money by purchasing your pi&no of W. R. NEWTON, "The Piano Man.* The expense of running a Music Store is as follows: Rent, per annum $780.00 Clerk, per annum $312.00 Lights, Heat ai?d Incidentals , $194.00 Total , $1286.00 1 have no store and can save yon this expense when yon bny of me. I sell pianon for cash or easy monthly payments. I take pianos or organs in exchange and allow you what Chey are worth to apjjjy on the new instrument. All pianos fnlly warranted as represented. MY PATRONS ARE MY REFERENCE. A few of the people 1 have sold pianos in Batler. Ask them. Dr. MaCurdy Brickev Dr W. P. McElroy Fred Porter Stejriing Club Fraternal Order Eagles D F. Reed Epworth League Woodmen of the World Ei. W. Bingham H. A McPherson Geo. D. High Miss Anna McCandtess W. J. Mates E. A Black J. S Thompson Samuel Woods Joseph Woods Oliver Thompson B. M McKoe John Johnson A. W Root ft A- Miss Eleanor Burton J Hillganl Mis. Mary L. Btroup J K. Bowers W. C Curry C. F. Stepp F. J. Hauck W. J. Armstrong Miss Emma Hughes Miles Billiard A. W. Mates Mrs. 8. J. Green W. R. WlHiains J. ft Douthett Mrs. R. O. Rnmbaugh E. K Richey ("has E. Herr L Yonch PEOPLE'S PHOOE 426 , ».. ' j'i i.j-jjui.-il. ■ ~i . i_ar. .I. ''■■■ l- • "■ f I I Huselton's s FO? I FALL WEAR. I THE FALL STYLES SHOWN At ■ OUR STORE EMBRACE LOOKS ■ FOR EVERY LIKING AND A I GRACEFUL, COMFORTABLE FIT P FOR EVERY FOOT. E EXPERT FITTERS TO SEE THAT ■ YOU ARE FITTED TO THE I SHOES MEANT FOR YOUR FEET. I THE FRICES RANGE FROM $1 ■ TO $4.00 AND EACH SHOWS A ■ WIDE CHOICE OF STYLES IN P THE LEATHERS THAT WILL | BE POPULAR THIS FALL AND | WINTEB, FJ IT WILL AFFORD US GREAT B PLEASURE TO HAVE YOU LOOK ■ OVER OUR FALL STYLES. I HUSELTON'S I 102 N. Main Str&et Subscribe for the CITIZEN THE BUTLER CITIZEN. MEN Won t bay clothing for the purpose of hi? r*Vl if spending money. They (leeire to get the JI) y !| J best possible results of the money expended. W : I// I X,* Mm . If Those who bay custom clothing hare a 9 J jwjj 1 W fir? | A right to demand a fit, to have their clothes !■ fj. P I J!i JTf correct in style and to demand of the A h.| seller to guarantee everything. Come to /< jr - us and there will be nithine lacking. I < i have just received a large stock of Fall 1 aT Vi||jßlr ii and Winter suitings in the latest styles, y^.AY > sjlw\. j| t shades and colors. 1\ Bf \ll 1 G. F. KECK, Hf-I , MERCHANT TAIfeOR, L| jL 142 N. Main St., Pa UJU Jr. When a Woman Needs Notions She usually wants them at once. Our notion counter is filled with'the little things that go with dress mak ing and repairing. Buttons, tapes, seam bindings, pins, dress shields, hooks and eyes, needles—all the countless articles are here for immediate delivery. Some of these you ought to hare at home in advance, If your stock has run low come in—see how quickly and willingly we'll meet your demands. UNDERWEAR. We've kept our eyes open for chances to obtain | the sort of underwear that's going to fit well, feel well and wear well—and vet be sold at prices you'll ap prove. Now, if you'll come in you will see just how well we've succeeded in finding the very right things in these imj»ortant items of woman's and children's wear. It pays to visit us when you need notions, under wear, hosiery, gloves, belts, ribbons, corsets, etc. L. Stein & Son, 108 N MAIN STREET. BUTLER, PA mm mm %i i> y ( Bickel's Fall Footwear. H | Largest Stock and Most Handsome Styles of A ► Fine Footwear we Have Ever Shown* 4 ! SUAFV Twenty Fall Styles—Dongola, Patent 4 ' OVWOIO qnvtlgl kid and Fine Calf Shoes made in the % { latest np-to-date styles. Extremely large stock "of Misses' and Chil- M dren's fine shoes in many new and pretty styles for fall. 4 MFN'£ QHAFC Showing all the latest styles in Men's ollVtOi Fine Shoes, all leathers, $2 ami SO. A Complete Stock of Boys', Youth*' and Llt;le Genii' Floe Shoes. L j : Bargains In School Shoes. [] High-cut copper-tou shoes for Boys and good wateT proof School ( Shoes for Girls. ml Large stock of Women's Heavy Shoes in Kangaroo-calf and y ' Oil Grain for country wear. k l Rubber and Felt Goods. [ F. Oar stock of Rubber and Felt Goods is large and W. k flwing to the large orders whiph we placed wq were able to get very L V close prices and are in a position to ofter you the lowest prices for A Wd beet grades of Felts and Rubber Goods. W, W An immense business enables as to name the very lowest L < prices for reliable footwear. p When in need of anything in onr line give ns a call < Repairing Promptly Done. k iJOHN BICKELt I 128 S Main St., BUTLER. PA. b 'Wt/Kf ' M | Acme Washers | * Work, |i | Belter Work, | 1 Willi Less Work g * Than an; otber Wasberiff is „ on the market, tp 4* I S* * J. Q. &W. CAMPBELL, ¥ ? UTI-ER ' PAt Our Grand Clearance Sale last month was a big success. The clothing buying public of Butler saved themselves many dollars by this sale. To be candid with you, friends, it was the sale of all sales. It left us with some odd lots of goods, which we will sell at our August Grand Clearance Sale. SCHAUL& LEVY SUCCESSOR TO SCHAUL & NAST, 187 South Main Street. Butler, Pa. BUTLER, PA., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 21. 1905. |BLOTTED OUT! I By CAROL MURRAY 1 foprright. 1905, by R. B. McClure a Tbej .vere a rough lot of men under the shadow of Diamond hill—miners, teamsters, prospectors, traders and cat tlemen—but when old John Dyer, one ofr the mine bosses, broagbt his daugh ter Kate from civilization to live with bim there and keep his humble cabin he had faith In that chivalry that has always made the western man respect the other sex. He knew that she would have many admirers and that there would be quarrels on her account, but he was a widower and she motherless, and he hoped he was doing what was best. The cabin, like the rude and strag gling village, was backed by the grim mountain, while ajong its front as far as human eye could reach there glit tered the white sands of the Mojave desert. Here and there out on that dreary waste were patches of ugly cacti, and Intuition told the girl as her eyes searched the desert for the first time that out there under the blazing sun the rattlesnake basked and the lizard glided swiftly over the bones of men and animals. The desert was not always at peace, Its surface resembling a placid lake. Now and then a wind. born up in the gulches of the mountain, came down and went sweeping across the sands, and then the spectator saw great clouds of dust as the flinty particles were caught up and driven here and there to cut and gash and wound whatever lived. The sands never swept in from the desert, but always were driven the other way. Flad it not been sa piamond mine and the town aru"nd it could not have been. The coming of the girl among the thousand men was an event. There were a few old women there—cooks and laundresses—but here was a girl, a handsome young girl. Her influence was felt almost immediately. The mine manager said that more soap, pombs, handkerchiefs and looking glasses were called for from the com pany store in n week than were bought during the pre. eding three months. At |east 80Q of the thousand men determined on an introduction at once, but when it came to the point, and even after three months had passed, there were not a dozen callers at the cabin. A month an two later it was oaid that only two of the dozen stood a chance. By "chance" they meßnt marriage. It never oc curred to any of them that a girl might have come among them without fall, jug In lov« and marryiug one of their number. It was strange that among Kate's earliest and most persistent admirers was I'edro Diaz, a full blooded Mex ican. He had charge of the company's transportation, and he managed through the tq fureu au introduction. He was kindly received by the girl, but no more. He was tolerated by the father, but there was 110 welcome for him. I'edro was a #wagjf«njr, He was an egotist. He thought he was In love, and once having made up his mind to this he was ready to maintain what he called his right by fair means or foul. The thousand men said rlvaj was 'lommy Brltt, the keeper of the company's store. He was an Amer ican, young, fair looking, nnd dowu on the books to be promoted feu - his en* orgy, ambition and Integrity. Perhaps he admired, as all others did, but he had never asked himself if be was in love. Ho found both father and daugh ter congenial company, and that would have been his excuse aqy on P asked (ilm why Le paid two visits a week to the cabin. There came a day when Pedro Diaz made up Lis mind to know bis fate. He chose an hour when be knew the. girl would l»e alciijo, aad he dressed iu his bent and knocked on the cabin door. He believed himself Irresist ible, and he smiled and smirked and offered his love. There was a moment of astonishment, and he found himself rejected, The girl her re fusal ah iniieli aa possible. It was her first offer, but womanly Instinct told her to soften the blow even though the man was obnoxious to her. "Wliat! You refuse I'edro Diaz!" ex claimed the man in reply. "You re fuse me—me, wiio ;nu worth $5,000 pt.d cuuld marry any senorlta In my uwu country! Do you (julte understand me?" "I have no love for you," replied tt\e (flrl. '■Hut that makes no difference. You shall love me later on. I am Pedro Diaz. It Is the first time I ever did a woman the honor of asking her t<» marry me." The girl's reply wnfj 3 fltni mh», and p.ftlr.o Hung himself out of the cabin with anger raging In his heart. He had been snubbed, humiliated, made a fool of. There was a man in the oaso, qf course, and It could bo none other than the storekeeper. Whoever oppos ed Pedro Diaz in any of his cherished schemes must die. He was not five minutes deciding on the death of Britt. That morning the young muu had ridden away across ft|e dpaert, u stretch 4 twenty long, hot lulles, to strike the railroad ou the other side and order further supplies by telegraph. The ride was twenty miles o\;er and twenty miles back. He would cover the dis tance In a day, but it would be late In the evening when he returned. "I will meet and kil| Uloi as he re turns," (leclded pedro, and when.dark fell he eluded observation as much as possible and rodo out on the desert There was no trail across the sands, lie who would hold a straight course nust depend upon the compass, and he 4ju*t consult it often. There wus fair starlight light enough to see his rival many rods away. The sky was clear of those scudding clouds which might be taken as warnings that the whirl winds were being born In the cold air of the gulch**, and no noise cume from the mountain except the whispers of the pines to the cedars. When Pedro tiuU made live miles ntf-ulght out from the base he pulled lu his. horse and sat 'and waited, his face to the west and his cars alert for the slightest sound, l'or an hour he waited, and then of a sudden u cold chill struck the back of his neck. He whirled his horse about with an oath on his lips. "It is the sand storm!" he muttered as he Jumped to the ground. He had a blanket for himself and oho for |ils horse. The animal lay down at the word and suffered his head to be wrapped, and Just as the first sharp grains began to tiy the man snuggled down beside the animal and muffled his head and swore. He had seen n hundred sand storms 011 that desert. They came with a puff and went the same way. In five min utes he would bo up aud watching wtjgu flje bftfl passed the gusts were stronger. At the end of ten they began circling and running across the sands like wraiths. They also dug deep into the sands, and when they met with an obstruc tion they covered it in. Man and horse were soon in danger of suffocation and had to struggle up to throw off the weight. They were just in time to be caught by a circling breeze and spun around as if they were straws, and when the man was flung on his face at last and covered a foot deep in an instant the horse uttered a neigh of terror and galloped heavily away. "It will pass, it will pass, and I will have my revenge'." muttered Pedro as he stood up with his back to the blast, but it did not pass. He was flung this way and that, car ried along or left half senseless on the sands, and not for a full hour did the wind scream out its goodby to the desert and return to Its sleep. Then the surface of the desert was smooth again, and the man who came riding from the west could not tell that under bis horse's feet lay a human body buried two feet deep. There had been a Pedro Diaz. The sands of the Mojave had blotted him out. Tlie Rlfcbt Boner. Before Millard Fillmore was elected to the vice presidency of the United States he was head of the law firm of Fillmore, Hall & Havens of Buffalo. It was one of the leading law firms of the state. Ho was the defendant's at torney in a oertaln action in Buffalo. At the opening of the trial of the case the plaintiff's attorney stated to the Jury that he would have to depend en tirely upon the justice of his client's case, as the defendant had sought and obtained the aid a nd counsel of one of the ablest firms of lawyers in western New York, and he might say he had •pposed to him the right bower of the legal profession. "What does he meau by that?" said Mr. Fillmore. Mr. Ha vens replied, "He means you." "Yes, I know," replied Mr. Fillmore, "but what does he mean by that particular expression?" "Did you never play eu chre?" said Havens. "Xo," said Mr. Fillmore. "Well," said Havens, "in the game of euchre the right bower is the biggest knave in the pack." Table Manners of Ye Olden Days. Can any one still prate of the good old times after reading the fallowing extract from a sixteenth century book eutttled "The Accomplished Lady's Rich Closet; or. Ingenious Gentleman's Delightful Companion?" "A gentlewoman, being at table, must observe to keep her body straight and not lean U> any means with her elbows, nor by ravenous gesture dis cover a voracious appetite. Talk not when you have meat In your mouth, and do not smack like a pig nor ven ture ta oat spoon meat »o hot that the tears stand In your eyes, which is as unseemly as the gentlewoman who pretended to have as little a stomach as she had a mouth, and therefore would not swallow her peas by spoon ful, but took them one by one and cut them in {wq before she would eat them. It Is very unseemly to drink so large a draft that your breath Is almost gone and you are forced to blow strongly |o recover yourself." Antiquity of Wire. The manufacture of wire is of very ancient origin. It has been traced back to the earliest Egyptian history. Speci mens are In existence vhlch can be proved to dftto to 1700 B. C. The Ken sington museum has a specimen which was made in Minora 800 years B. C. Ancient literature contains many refer ences to wire. From the ruins of Her culaneum metal heads have been ex humed on which the hair Is represented by wire. There Is no question that this ancient wire was made by hammering out tho metal, which was always bronze or of the precious group. This held true of all made previous to the fourteenth century, during which the process of forming wire by drawing or elongating the metal by forcing it through a conical orifice, made In some substance harder than the metal treat ed, was invented.—Cassier's Magazine. Different Ways of I'uttlns It. This .is a scientific way: "If a man falls asleep in" the sitting posture with month open his Jaw drops. The tongue not being in contact with the hard palate, the succotorial space is obliterated, the soft palate no longer adheres to the of the tongue, and If respiration be carried on through the mouth the muscular curtain begins lo vibrate." And this Is the popular form: "If a man doesn't keep his mouth sliut when asleep he will snore." NATIONS AND DRINKS A VAST DIFFERENCE IN THE USE OF CERTAIN BEVERAGES. America and Russia Are Widely 4part U (lie Consumption of Cof fee—How Italy and Knglnnd Differ In tbe I se of Tea, Ileer and Wine, Nations differ in what they drink far more than in their dress or speech, the size of their armies or the amount of their natloual debt. In their use of coffee, for example, the American and the Russian offer as great a contrast as an octogenarian and a year-old babe. On an average, the American driuks as much coffee In one day us does tho Muscovite in eighty days. In the consumption of tea, beer and wine the English and the Italians differ to a still more startling degree. In one day tho average Brltislaer sips au much tea as eighteen hundred Italians, and In the samv length of time he swallows enough beer to keep the average Italian supplied for six months. Yet, in wine drinking the Italian shows that he can equal eighty-four John Bulls. According to the latest statistics of the department of commerce at Wash ington, It appears that the American Is fairly temperate when compared with some of his European brothers. He driuks less beer than the Englishman, the German or the Austrian. In the use of spirituous liquors he falls still further behind and finds himself out classed by the Austrian, tho Hungarian, the German and the Frenchman. He also ranks fifth among the nations as a wine drinker. Tho Frenchman, the Italian, the Austrian and tho German go ahead of him. The American, far more than many Europeans, seeks refreshment and re newed energy in the "cup which Invlg orates, but does not intoxicate." Coffee and tea are his favorite beverages. On an average ho driuks more coffee thau the native of any country of tho old world, and when classed with Euro peans he Is surpassed only by the Eng lish in his use of tea. The comparative temperance of the American, furthermore, would seem to bo little endangered by the great immi gration liltbor at the present time of Russians and Italians. Iu tho use of spirits tho Italian is ot the very bottom of the list of Europeans. Ho also drinks less beer than any of his neighbors. Ho drinks considerable wine, but it is a wine than contains littlo alcohol, and even iu.tU") c?tt¥K9J7. bo teJllJiomj an tance behind the French. The Russian ranks sixth in the consumption of spir its, and he drinks one-thirtieth ns much beer as the Englishman. lie also uses so little wine that not even an estimate : is obtainable of how much he does ' drink. Should an American, an Englishman, j a Frenchman, an Austrian, a German, an Italian and a Russian sit down to a table together and order drinks in a | quantity that would show the relative 1 consumption of these beverages by j their respective peoples, some would ] get enough for a bath, while others J would obtain only a few swallows. If thej- should take tea, for instance, the Englishman would find himself con fronted with 1,800 cups, the American with 400. the Russian with 273, the German with 30, the Austrian with 20, the Frenchman with 18 and the Italian only 1. j If the tea should prove unsatisfac tory and the party order beer, the Eug- I lishman again would prove himself the heaviest drinker. He would be found to rank considerably ahead of the German, who is generally supposed ; to swallow most of this beverage. He J wonid get 175 glasses, while the Ger : man would take 1.10, the Austrian 100, 1 the American 90, the Frenchman 67, the Russian 5 and the Italian ouly 1. In case the weather should turn sud denly cold and the little assemblage de cided that "something hot" would be better and every one order spirits, the Austrian would then outclass all the others. Nevertheless he would not distance his rivals to any great extent. It would be found that liquor suits the i taste of the various drinkers far more evenly than any of tho other beverages ordered. The Austrian would, for ex ample, take 0 glasses, the German C, the Frenchman 5, the American, the Englishman and the Russian 4 (though the American's glasses would contain a trifle more thau the English man's, and the Englishman's "a bit'' more than the Russian's), while the Italian would satisfy himself with 1. Should the liquor prove too hot with out a weaker drink afterward and all Ogree on wine for their farewell toasts the Frenchman would then "outswal low" his companions. His order would call for 100 glasses, while the Italian would content himself with 84, the Austrian with 17, the German with 6, the American with glasses and the Englishman with 1. If at the end of this convivial scene the party should think some coffee would steady their nerves, the Amer ican wouid at last be found in the lead. He would ask for GO cups, while tho German would order 82, the Frenchman 21, the Austrian 10, the Italian 0, the Englishman 3 and the Russian only I.—New York Tribune. Notblnir Wrong on Hla Side. The man had been grumbling steadily for half an hour to his seat mate, whom he had never seen before. He had grumbled about business, politics, war, peace, vacations, church, children, rail roads, schools, farms, newspapers and that unfailing scapegoat—the weather. The man b«side him had borne all that seemed necessary and at last be thought him of a way to silence the grumbler, if such a thing was possible. "Are your domestic relations agree able?" he asked suddenly, turning an Inquisitive gaze on hli companion. 'Teg, they are!" snapped the grum bler, "It's my wife's relations that make ail the trouble." The First Friction Matrhca. The first really practicable friction watchos were made by an English apothecary named Walker In 1827. lie couted splints of cardboard with sul phur and tipped them with a mixture of sulphate of antimony, chlorate of potash and gum. Each box, holding eighty-four matches and sold for a shilling, contained also a folded piece of glass paper, which was to be pressed together while the match was drawn through it. Three years later another Ingenious person named Jones in Lon don patented the idea of making a small roll of paper, soaked with chlo rute of potash and sugar at one end, with a thin glass globule filled with strong sulphuric acid attached at the same point. When the sulphuric acid was liberated by pinching the globulo It acted upon the chlorate of potash and sugar so as to produce fire. The Cicada Fable. Beveral species of Insects have ap paratus for producing sounds similar to that of the grasshopper or modifica tions of it. Of a different type Is that with which the cicadas are endowed. Only tho males of this family are sinn ers, for which the Greek poets called them happy because their females were dumb. With the ancients a cicada sit ting on a harp was the Symbol of mu sic. A pretty fable tolls of the con test between two elthara players, in which the curious event happened that when one of the contestants broke a string a singing cicada sprang on his harp and helped him out so that ha gained the ttrize. There's music in all things, If men had ears.—Byron. Historic Relic. The Chesapeake, famous for her en counter with the Rritlsh ship Shan non in the war of 1812, is still In ex istence. When she was captured by the British she was taken to England by her captor, Sir Philip llroke, and some years later her timbers were sold. The purchaser was a miller in Wlskliam, and when lie pulled down his old mill he built a new one from the timbers of the Chesapeake. Many of these timbers still have the marks of the Shannon's grapesliot, and In some places the shots arc still to be seen deeply Imbedded in the pitch pln<j. If the builder who made this ship knew that its timbers were t>elng used In a mill which is making money for a subject of Great Britain there Is no doubt that he would at least try to riso from his grave to right the wrong. The Mosnle F1oo*I»k of thr Desert. The northern portion of the Colorado desert Is paved with the most wonder ful pebbles in the world, In many parts so exquisitely laid as to defy success ful Imitation by the most skilled worker in mosaic flooring. These pebble* are made of porphyry, agates, carnelian, quartz, crystal, garnets, chrysolite and other such beautiful materials. They are packed together so that the surface composed of them Is like a floor, and they look as If pressed into it with a roller. As a rule, they are of nearly uniform size, and each one Is polished brilliantly, as If oiled and rub bed. Most of them ar<- perfect spheres, and the reflection from them of the sun's rays is gorgeous beyond descrip tion. Each convex surface gives back a ray of light, ami the ground for miles seems as If literally paved with gems. Thus the whole surface of the plain 1b a combination of myriads of reflectors, each pebble being so highly potished that It Is like a mirror, and It Is believed that the lakes of the desert mlrnge arc produced by this means. The pebbles are polished by the loose ■mid ,wUl<-'h is blown lilther and thither. | Little Dorothy's I | Courtship | By VIRQLNIA LEILA WENTZ jj I>orothy knew that it was about time I for Joan anil the rest of them to be re j turning from their sail on the lake. It would never do for Joan to find the I "big fish" of the house party—that was the uanie she had given the young Eng lish earl—talking to her alone. She. alas, was only poor little Cousin Doro thy and acting in this particular house hold as Joan's mother's paid compan ion: So she pretended to be bored with his lordship's society. "La-la, la-la, la-la-la," she hummed, sinking back into the depths of the easy chair and stretching her white irms lazily. "I say," said the earl, "am I tiring you. Miss Dorothy?" Dorothy stopped humming. "No," she drawled, with mock mischief, "not exactly. But"—here she smiled her sweetest smile upon him—"you won't be vexed, will you, if I tell you that I'm a bit sleepy and that I must sleep in the sun? Will you draw this chair over for me, please?" Rising slowly, she adjusted the fleur-de-lis at her waist while his lordship drew the chair to the sunny corner of the big veranda. "How'll that do?" asked he. "Splendidly. Now for cushions." "How many?" "Hundreds," said she. He collected as many as he could carry and fetched them to her. "Here arc thousands," he announced. "Delicious!"murmured Dorothy, ("ink ing back into them with a sigh of con tent. "This Is quite perfect." "It will be when I fetch you a sun shade," he amended. "Sunshade!" cried she. "Go away, rou Goth! J want the sun." '"You'll be pickled!" warned he. "So," corrected she, dimpling, "pre served." Her long black lashes lay mo tionless on the wild rose flush of her checks. The earl chuckled and, pretending that ho fancied her already asleep, crept elaborately away on tiptoe. Joan and the rest of them were in sight, and he advanced to meet them. Joan •Shannon was unquestionably a beauty. She had been photographed in every variety of pose; she bad been painted by several of the most cele brated artists on two continents, but In spite of this fact she had passed through the whirl of three seasons and was still unwed. "She must be waiting for a title," people said, as other girls far less beautiful came out, danced through a season or two, and were led to the altar by men of their choice. However that may be, included among the guests at this particular house party at the Shannon's big coun try place on the sound was the young Earl of Stowbrldge, and It was common property that Miss Shannon already had found him very attractive. "So awfully sorry you couldn't Joia us in our sail this morning," she began in her sweet, suave voice, with an ac cent which was the result of much travel. "Is your headache better now?" " 'Pon my honor, t*ve not given it a thought for the last half hour. I found Miss Dorothy reading on the veranda, and she took pity on me and put down her book, and—well, somehow she must have cured my headache! She's got Jol ly pretty dimples, and she's a cousin of yours, didn't some one say?" "Yes—distant. Mamma never liked me to associate much with her family when we were little, and now, as you can imagine, we aren't very—er—con genial." "Such fun," observed the earl lacon ically. Ilis fair companion turned and looked at him reproachfully. "And who would wish to bo 'fun?' " said she. "Oh, I don't know," said his lordship gallantly. Miss Shannon found herself wonder ing for a moment as they walked on whether the earl might not prove testy after all. Would he be uneasy under the crushing and ordering about to which her father and mother submit ted. If there was one thing she dislik ed it was abstucular people. She had been brought up to erpect people to agree with her. "Of course," she sighed, shrugging her beautiful Bhoulders discreetly, "I feel sorry for poor little Dorothy. Moth er won't need her after the autumn, and I'm sure I don't know what's going to bocome of her then. Besides, hbe hasn't any practical sense. Just look at her uow lying asleep In all that sun. She'll be simply black with freckles!" That afternoon when everybody was Vesting for a dinner dance In the even ing the Earl of Stowbrldge wandered Into the library, a cool, dim apartment banked with books and made comfort able with couches. ITc bad Just discovered one of his fnvorite authors and settled down to rcud when the sound of feminine voices In the adjoining room disturbed Ills attention. Six seconds bud not elapsed when be becamo aware that It was no ordinary Interview and that be should make a step forward to an nee bis presence. It was not In his character or traditions to be an eaves dropper; nevertheless be found him self curiously tumble to move or utter R sound. "Angling for him—l?" It was Dor othy's voice, low and impassioned, but with a (juicfe little gasp or two, auch as would come from one who had sud denly received an unexpected douche nf cold water. "Thoie can be no doubt of that," lame Mrs. Shannon's icy tones. "Only yesterday Joan WAS telling me of her own misgivings"— "Misgivings!" Thoro was still that tremulous catch In the breath. "Oh, of course young men will be jroung men," continued Mrs. Shannon, with a pnr In her well bred tones. "They will pursue the girl who holds out the angling Iron. You are clever— I don't dispute the face; you are clever and calculating—but one thing I have to tell you: If you wish to remain In this household you must assume n dif ferent pose. And, remember, not an other conversation alone with the Karl of Stowbrldge while he Is under this roof. You may go now." There was silence just for an ap preciable fraction of a second; then little Dorothy seemed to be drawing herself up to her full height ns she flung u defiant, passionate answer Into her aunt's fnee: "I thought at least yon were a lady, but you're not. You're cowardly and cruel and vulgar. Oh, how can you be so?" l>orotliy, sobbing miserably in her hot anger and Insulted girlhood, was obliged to leave the room. Mrs. Shannon, cool and collected, as always, touched a bell Hud sent the cook some orders, a bout the salad. After dlpuer, whlly they wy» dime- No. S5. . iug. the earl sought Dorothy out In the star hprinkled night, where she bad wandered to a hammock under the trees, far from the chattering groups on the veranda. "I've been wondering who hind that lighted cigar," she said light ly as he joined her, and then, more seriously, drawing in bet breath deep ly: "Isn't It splendid out here tonight? I like to catch that strong brine from the sea. It gives one courage." "Is that what you want—courage?" • asked the earl, looking at her tenderly in the starlight and feeling his big, honest heart a-throb. He sat down on a stump of a tree close by. "You're plucky enough, I fancy." "I shall need it all, all the courage I have. I" She faltered, and under the sweet, sudden spell of sympathy her lips trembled piteously. The earl leaned forward Impulsively and gently imprisoned one of her hands. "I know," was all that he said. Sh® measured him, not understanding. "You see," he started to explain In his straightforward fashion, "I was in the next room this afternoon when your aunt"— She drew away from him with terror in her eyes. cried bitter ly, "you overheard all that cruelty, and—and it's made you pity me!" "It's made me lore you, little one," he corrected solemnly. "I liked yon from the first moment I saw you, but now I know that I love you. Of course," be added, seeing that she still shrunk from him a little, "a thing like thirfs easily enough said, but just give me a little hope, and I'll make it my life's business to prove It to you, dear." He held out his band to her like a knight of old. Dorothy tried to speak, but ber lips would not respond. Then she did a curious thing. She took his outstretch**! hand In her own and pressed it close against her eyes, and they were wet. Vlrtne Which Commands Lore. Should some women need encourage ment they may learn with Interest that men are rather apt to be vain and that it Is enough sometimes to be a good listener in order to be a motft successful hostess. The following typical anecdote proves this. Gomber ville, the old courtier, somewhat of a poet, too, was known to be paying a deal of attention to a certain lady of tho hotel de Ramboulllet. One day. some one had this conversation wtth him: "You are the 'cavalier servant' of Madam ?" "Yes, certainly." "Do you leve her?" "With the most devoted respect in my heart." "Why? She is not beautiful." "No." "She is not young." '/No." "She is not graceful." "Not very." "She is not witty." "No, not particularly." "Well, then, what Is it?" "She can listen admirably."—Profes sor Albert Schinz in Llpplncott's Maga zine. Anecdotes of Qnlnn. James Quinn, a noted actor of Gar rlck's time, loved to dine, and was often fuddled in consequence when he went on the stage. Once while playing with Peg Wofflngton, who was acting Sylvia, bis daughter, in "The Recruit ing Officer," Instead of asking ber, "Sylvia, how old were you when your mother died?" ho said "married." SylTla laughed, and being out of her cue, could only stammer, "What, ■lr?" "Pshaw," cried the more confused Qulnn, "I mean, how old were you when your mother was born?" The body of Duke Humphrey waa" returned from Egypt, embalmed In the rarest \rlne and the richest spices. Upon seeing this Qulnn soliloquised as follows: Oh, plague on Egypt's arts, I sayl ' Embalm tho dead! On senseless clay Rich wines and spices waste! Like sturgeon or like brawn shall I Bound In a precious pickle lie. Which I can never taste? Let me embalm this flesh of mine With turtle fat and Bordeaux win* V>d spoil the Egyptian trade! Humphrey's duke more happy X. Embalmed alive, old Qulnn shall die, A mummy ready made. The Spoiled Child. "No," wailed Tommy, "I don't want that big pink necktie on." "It doesn't matter what you want," replied his mother. "You most have It on." "Well, if you put It on me I'll cry all over It an' that'll spoil It."—Phlladel* pbia Press. IN THE BASQUE COUNTRY. The Peculiar l.«i nie untie and Odd Ci»- toin■ of the People. Of the strange scenes and customs of the Basque country a traveler writes: "1 was struck by the way the women walked and carried themselves. A fnt old woman with a huge tray on her head walked along at a swinging pace, shouting her wares meanwhile at tho top or her voice. I saw a woman car rying on her head first of all a large tray of fruit (its size can be Imagined when I tell you that It was afterward . her stall). On the top of this were a basket of washing and a big umbrella to be used to cover the stall. Then in her left hand she carried a supple mentary stall, and by the other she led a little child which could just reach the mother's hund by holding its own up as high as it could stretch. "I was waiting once at a little way side inn in the village of Ascain when I saw an old lady, followed by two great fat white pigs. They all throe waddled over to the village pump, and then, procuring some water in a pall, tho old lady proceeded to .wash her charges. She cleaned them most as siduously—eyes, cars, tall, back, hind quarters and feet. "There is a dignity of carriage about all the women in this country. I fan cied it might be due to the fact that formerly, before the 'Code Napoleon* came into operation, the law obliged the firstborn, whether boy or girl, to inherit (he patrimony and continue the head of the family, the husband taking the wife's name when the Inheritor was a woman, thus giving the woman a perfect equality from her birth. The matrous are not less beautiful than the younger women. "Quite unlike any other language la that of the Basques. Although when hearing the people talk a Spanish sound seems to be occasionally emitted, it la not really at all like Spanish. I was ainuscd to fliul that 'no' is 'ess'ftln Basijue, and when I asked what 'yes" was I thought at first tho answer was 'na,' which would have been very curi ous, hut it turned out to bo 'ba,' with the 'b' softly pronounced." The Tnblc« Turned. Tho Editor (gloomily) -1 must say you don't seem to realize how terrible it is to lose you. The Authoress (sweet ly)-You mustn't take It too.mucb to lieart, my friend. Rejection does not necessarily imply lack of merit— - t r- **
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