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
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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
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( 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
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| Acme Washers |
* Work, |i
| Belter Work, |
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* Than an; otber Wasberiff
is „ on the market, tp
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* 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—
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