Butler citizen. (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, September 28, 1905, Image 1
VOL. XXXXII. !!' Pleasant Dreams are More Apt to Come if the Surround- Ej tags be Pleasant! H The Sleeping Chamber should be as attractive as m possible. A third of your life is passed within its 4 confines. We have three-piece oak suits from $25 to $75. m There is not a common looking set in the lot. Or perhaps you would like a metal bed. Now M our assortment of metal beds, enameled and brass, >1 is just as complete as you'll need to seek. 4 From a simple, serviceable, neat looking white bed at $3.50, the styles go by easy stages to a 4 sumptuous brass bed at SSO to $75.00. BROWN 8c CO. | No. 136 North Main St., Butler. M THE MODERN STORE. Present Wants Filled at Minimum Prices. New Goods Just Opened. Millinery Opening Dates, ladles' Home Journal Patterns for October. Ladies' long sleeve corset cover, medium weight, ft"regularise grade, 25c. Ladies' medium weight bleached fleeced vests and pants. 3.1 c each. 10 doz. Ladies' fleeced vests, a regular 50c quality, 39c each Ladies' medium weight fine wool vests, long sleeves, 75c and SI.OO each Children's fall weight underwear, 13c, 19c. 23c up. lien's fall underwear. 89c, 30c, 91.00 each * Fall hosiery for women, children and men, 10c, 13c, 3ffc pair. New neckwear for ladies and men, specials, at 25c each. Just arrived and opened -Beautiful new 30 in. silk Chiffon cloth, plain and figured, colors, white, tight bine, red, reseda,only 50c per yard. 28 in. fancy novelty silk crepe, all colors, 50c per yard. Handsome for waists and evening dresses. See them. Pon't Fail to Come to Our Millinery Opening Next Thursday, Friday and Saturday, October 4th to 7th, EISLER-MARDORF COHPANY, SgftSOTTt 001 FotTOF7ic?Sox M j fcifcil Samples sent on request. OPPOSITE HOTEL ARLINGTON. BUTLER. PA t J._ ■J. ■. M . I.". . ...... . _. .. WHY You can save money by purchasing your piano 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 $317.00 Lights, Heat and incidentals . . . $194.00 Total $1286.00 I have no store and can save you this expense when yon buy of me. I sell pianos for cash or easy monthly payments I take pianos or organs in exchange and allow you what tbey are worth to apply on the new instrument. All pianos folly warranted a. represented MY PATRONS ARE MY REFERENCE. A few of the people I have sold pianos in Butler. A»k them. Dr. MoCurdy Bricker Fred Porter" Fraternal Order Eagles Epworth League E. W Bingham fieo. D. High W. 3. ItftUfi J. S Thompson Joseph Woods H M. McKee A. W Root Miss Eleanor Bnrton Mrs. Mary L. 81roup W. C Cnrrv F. J. Hanck Miss Era ma Hnghes AW Mate* W. R. Williams Mrs.. R. O. Rumbangh Chas. E. Herr PEOPLE'S PHOOE 426 I Huselton's s po? 1 I FALL WEAR. ■ I THE FALL STYLES SHOWN AT I ■ OUR STORE EMBRACE LOOKS I ■ FOR EVERT LIKING AND A I I GRACEFUL, COMFORTABLE FIT I ■ FOR EVERT FOOT, I ■ EXPERT FITTERS TO SEE THAT ■ I TOU ARE FITTED TO THE I I SHOES MEANT FOR TOUR FEET. I I THE PRICES RANOE FROM $1 I ■ TO $4.00 AND EACH SHOWS A I I WIDE CHOICE OF STYLES IN I K THE LEATHERS THAT WILL I I BE POPULAR THIS FALL AND B I WINTEB. I ■ IT WILL AFFORD US GREAT ■ [4 PLEASURE TO HAVE TOU LOOK I H OVER OUR FALL STYLES. I I HUSELTON'S I H 102 N. Main Street. I Subscribe for the CITIZEN THE BUTLER CITIZEN. Dr. W. P. McElroy Sterling Club D F. Reed Wobdmen of the World H. A McPberson Miss Anna McCandless E. 4. Black Samuel Woods Oliver Thompson John Johnson R. A. Long well J Hillgard J. E. Bowers C. F. Stepp W. J. Armstrong Miles Hilliard Mrs. to; J fireeii J. R. Dontbett E. K. Ricbey L. 8. Youch nl#l \Jfrf /VVEIN Jn} I Won't buy clothing for the purpo6e of 4 11' I spending money. They desire to get the W I j lf/ j\2 I best possible results of the money expended iji 1 ! Bur I i Those who bny custom clothing have a I fii I- /ttHt J right to demand a fit, to have their clothes I f. A\ correct in style and to demand of the /til Wjjjg opm seller to guarantee everything. Come to us and there will be nDthing lacking. I havejast received a large stock of Fall A X '■II ami Winter suitings iu the latest styles, y— A loTjay ifcjjJJl I shades and colors. j|H j G. F. KECK, ' iii 1 v MERCHANT TAIfcOR, UJi JHfX 142 N. Main St., Butler, Pa When a Woman Needs Notions She usually wants them at once. Our notion counter i.s 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 have 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 i and wear well—and yet be sold at prices you'll ap -1 prove. Now, if you'll come in you will see just how well we've succeeded in finding the very right things in these important 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 — r | Bickel's Fall Footwear, t [ Largest Stock and Most Handsome Styles of | > Fine Footwear we Have Ever Shown. < k &ADA&IS SHOFS. Twent y Fall Styles—Dongola, Patent- \ > PVKWMJ OnWWi kid and Fine Calf Shoes made in the < i latest up-to-date styles. Extremely large stock of Misses' and Chil- > I dren'a fine shoes in many new and pretty styles for fall. , <MEW'S SHOES. F n Shoe*' alHeither9! §!f un<l°ftf.* I** 1 ** M < Complete Stack of Beys', Youth*' sad Utile Qcatt' Pise S(|oe». ( i Bargains In School Shoes. ! w High-cut copper-toe shoes for Boys and good water proof School r { Shoes for Girls. ) Large stock of Women's Heavy Shoes in Kangaroo-calf and W Oil Grain for country wear. ' ■ Rubber and Felt Goods. ' > > . Our stock of Rubber and Felt Goods ts extremly large and . owing to the large orders which we placed we were able to get very ' > close prices and are in a position to offer you the lowest prices for > A best grades of Felts and Rubber Goods. " . Y An immense business enables us to name the very lowest { prices for reliable footwear. \ When in need of anything in our line give us a call < Repairing Promptly Done. ► JOHN BICKEL i ► i ( 128 S Main St., BUTLER. PA. 3? _ ii !*! ■■■ | Acme Washers ii a! Thau other Washer? j 1 ° D tlie market ' ]] ■ * v J. Q. &W. CAMPBELL, f butlrr, PA, I* a:- si! m :i: ir.::: n ■ :i; ;i ■tn rii iii a' as -i?g-a? 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 28, 1905. I A STHOfifGl MA.fi „ I 5 By Martha < S McCulloch-Williams | < Cutf/right, ISKjo. bu Martha McCullocK- > S William* < "Humph! I'd as lieve marry a fu neral arjpVilton Roy," Granny Bunch said, her short nose in air. Sunshine laughed aloud. Suushine was otherwise Anue Trevor, heiress of Way's End, and Granny Bunch was Mrs. Richard Lee. Sunshine was tall and twenty. Granny Bunch was short and stout, with a fresh, rosy face. The two were cronies despite the forty years between them, also despite the fact that Granny Bunch was bent on matching Sunshine to her mind. They lived half a mile apart, and Sunshine did the visiting for the most part. She was not yet mistress at Way's Bud. Her stepmother, Mme. Trevor, bad a life estate there and was as austerely tnt*c(Hal as Granny Bunch wa» bo.pit.ble. She had also a grudge against Granny in that she, too. had views as to Anne's proper be stowal. Granny was all for marrying Sunablne to her grandson, Richard Lee 3d, whereas Mme. Trevor held it little short of her stepdaughter's Christian duty to take Wilton Roy, her nephew. He had come with her to Way's End and lived there. He was dignified, sober and sensible, ex actly the husband for such a piece of quicksilver as Anne. The match would be in every way ideal. Wilton had only a modest competence, along with a capacity for handling a fine fortune. "flius >lnie, Trevor to her Inmost self, thus also obscurely, with much wrapping about of fine phrases, to Sunshine. She hated bitterly Richard 8d and did not scruple to .ay out right that he and hi. fat old grand (pother were rank fortune hunterf, lay ing traps and pitfalls for Anne's un wary feet. Anne's usual answer wa« to mount her horse and gallop away to her dear Granny Bunch. If Rich ard 3d happened to be there when she arrived, why, .o much the better. He was younger than Sunshine U>' a whole month and fancied himself madly In love wlfh her. He had been pourtlng her since they were fifteen, with the usual Interludes— college esca pades and summer flirtations. Sun. ahine knew all about them, for Granny Bunch waa Richard Sd's confidant. "you mustn't mind, honey," she had Mid to Sunshine. "Indeed, you ought to be obliged to these other girls—they are taking out auch a lot of the fool ishness. By the time Dicky Is through college he will hare come to know him self In a measure. Then he'll find over again what knew In the be ginning—that there is nobody in all the like Sunshine." }t was Dicky's |tory—the talp Qf his latest pnthrallpient-that had led to @r«qny Bunch', revliemeot of Wilton Roy. Sunshine had .aid demurely .he did not underatand how men could be so different. Wilton Roy bad told her he should never make love to any girl but the one he meant to marry. Avfi then Granny Bunch had pipliadea. She hated tb? superfine Wilton. ''.One couldn't very well marry a funeral—marrying a minister Is about the nearest thing tq it," Sunshine said reflectively. Granny Bunch eyed her narrowly, then broke into a laugh, say ing: "Honey, you nearly fooled me then. Honest now—don't you find him mighty wearing?" "No{ ntyftyij he has his uses," Sun shine bald. "He says an undisputed thing in such a solemn way and after I have beard him awhile almost any body else Is refreshingly brilliant— even Dicky dear." "Dicky is no ge^l\ja—h# 1 1l never set $ t>ut he is a man—an athlete, strong as a mule, gentle as a lamb," Oranny Bunch retorted. Hunshlne laughed. "Tell him in your letter I send him a kiss- f(»r his grand' mother's spke," she said. "Tell him, iqo, I have named the pup he sent me for him, and ask him If he does not think his namesake deserves a new collar." "I know he thinks yes. I shall write him to bring tho collar, nqt send It," Orangy Ruuch said, eying Sunshine lovingly. Sunshine held up her hands, crying: "What! Take him from his studies for a whole weekl You mustn't think of It, Granny! Dicky dear hasn't any too much scholarship certainly none tq Jqift,'' "A hang for books and lecture, and all that fiddle faddle," Grunny said stoutly. "Tho boy Is not there to cram his head with such stuff. I only want the place to mold him aq |t helped to mold hi. (ath«r and grandfather. If I thought it could make a prig of him like—well, somebody I might name—he should leave tomorrow." "I see you are au oh.tluate pemou— likewise qplulonuted, my dear Mrs. Lee," Sunshine mocked in Mme. Tre vor's own manner. The two were laughing so heartily they did not hear Wilton Roy ride up to the open ball door and kept chat ting madly of things they would not lave had htm hear for a kingdom. Whether or no he heard, he gave no slgu when he camo In ten minute, later. But on the way home and all through that evening he be*et Sun .hine to marry him, pressing her until riie was almost driven in sheer weari ness to accept, Wilton waa a good strategist; be did «0t fall into the two elderly women's mistake of running down all possible rivals. Indeed, he Ignored rivalry and talked of hU love and long deyotlan. He had hover talked sq well, and tffiM was U ring in hta voice that Impressed tier, As If Fato were on his side, the morning was rainy. The day weurlng on brought a deluge tbut shut in Way's End and utterly forbade stirring abroad. The rain held three duys—a regular autumn freshet. How Anne got through them she never under stood. Wilton pleaded manfully and Mme. Trevor deliberately left her alone whenever she ventured Into the big parlor, the llbrury, the long halls or the Inclosed back pinr.za. Anne did not know It, but Wilton had said to his aunt: "I have got to clinch things at once. Mrs. Lee Is teaching Anne to laugh at me. If I let that happen I am lost. Aa for tho boy, he don't count." All through the last day Sunshine felt a numb fear of herself. She seemed to be losing volition, to move and speak automatically. It was only by a supreme effort of will she kept to the shelter of her solitude. Wilton did not call her audibly, but she felt invisible, Inaudible forces drawing her to him. To escape them she hung out of the oi>en wludow, heedless of the pouring rain. In the dash of it, the 000 l splashing, she found •tr«Bgs to etffr Bir gftd Iff. when the Influences began to tug hard er than ever, she ran away from them, rushed downstairs, caught up her hat and mackintosh and stole out to the stables. They were deserted; groom and coachman were dozing In the hayloft. With trembling fingers she flung the saddle upon Beauty, her pet mare, loosed Dick from hi. kennel, then clambered up and dashed away, the puppy barking madly at Beauty', heels. The rain still poured, but Sun shine was bent upon seeking refuge with Granny Bunch. She rode head long, bending low over Beauty', neck and singing. The was roaring, but she bad no fear of it, nor of the water when she came to the brook. She saw it running bank full, turbid and crested with drift. But Beauty knew the ford by the landmark trees on the other side. It should not be more than breast deep anywhere, al though the current was swift and strong. Beauty snorted and pawed as they went in, but after the third step made way beautifully. Halfway across Sun shine flung up her bead, laughing aloud, saying: "I'm safe, safe! Maybe I've been bewitched. Indeed, I think so. But witchcraft and witches can't cross running water. I'm so happy! Hsppy as a freed bird." She heard above the tumbling water a hoarse shout. In spite of herself she checked Beauty and listened intently. It came again. Wilton was crying to her: "Come back! Back! Come! You belong to me! Come!" She sat quivering all through for the space of a breath, then turned her horse half about, moving a little up stream. Beauty was contrary. She plunged willfully forward, lost her foot ing, scrambled wildly, then went down, head over ears, in swimming water. The ford had a gravel bottom, and the treacherous current had swept out great boles in it, leaving a quicksand in between. They came up together ten feet off, the mare snorting and swimming gal lantly. She had struck what should have been bottom, but was in truth holding sand. As she floundered her self free Sunshine became suddenly cold. Wilton, she knew, could not swim a stroke, and before he could fetch help the water, still rising, would have made an end of Beauty and her rider. The mare could swim unUl .he struck shoal water, but there the quicksand would hold her. Quickly the girl slipped out of her oumberlng rain cloak, flung uway hat and gloves and resolved to try her slight strength against the raging stream. Just as she was slipping down from the saddle Dicky cried to her from the other bank: "Down! Go down! I'll meet you— on the big bending sycamore!" "Stay where you are!" Wilton shout ed behind her. "I—l am going for help!" But before hi* ery had fairly died flway Beauty's head was down stream, with Sunshine holding it easily yet strongly above the racing waves. It was a hundred yards tQ the big syca more, leaning far over the wuter, with a great horny branch almost parallel with its face. Dicky scrambled out on the branch, locked bis legs about it and hung, head down, to grasp Sun.hine and raise her high enough to grljp th« big bough. "Hold tight) I'll have—you—up—ln -j-a minute!" he panted, writhing up himself. Once she was safe be kissed her over aud over, aaylng: "Sunshine! iiuushlue! Suppose Granny had not sent for me! I never should have known real sunshine again." "Suppose, rather, you had not been a strong man," Sunshine Mid, hiding her eyes In ftls breast. Then, with a guloh revulsion: "Did you bring Dicky roe collar? If you did you can have anything you please In return for it." "Thank you. I have all I want Just now," Dicky said masterfully, helping her toward the tree trunk. An Amrrloan l.«*rna Engllik. There Is an American In London who Is rapidly learning English. He used to ring the bell and call curtly for "mucilage." Aaalduous and willing at tendants brought him everything you can think of froni the "peerage" to paekets of cigarettes, but oerer the ex act thing he wanted. At Inst the most Intelligent of the young men put the right question and got the answer. "Oh, yes." he said and brought gum. In America when you want to stick things together yon ask for mucilage, and when you want something to chew you demand gum; so called, by lim itation, we presume, because It (a "stickjaw."—London Chronicle. GOOD RED BLOOD. I Generates Good Manner*, Good Morals and Good Moraine, Every morning is a good uiorning to one who Is feellug well. There Is no such thing as bad weather. There aro ho blue Mondays or gloomy Sundays to any one who Is living tho right sort of life. The good cheer of health, combined with a pure life, serves to turn every warning Into a good morning and every evening Into a good evening. The best way to wish uny one good morning or good evening is to set be fore hlui the example of right living, for It Is through right living thut good morning and good evening come. It Is of no use to say grace over a badly cooked meal. The grace will not make it agroe with the stomach. There is no use to say good morning or good eveulug unless we do the things that will make good inornlug and good evening. It is, Indeed, a good morning for any one who has done an honest day's labor at some useful employment aud has found eight hours of sound and refreshing sleep. Of course, It Is a good morning when one does that. There is one thing that is needed, and that Is to get right or to become adjusted to na ture. Wo like the weather when we aro ad justed to the conditions about us. There is nothing wrong with the weather. The blame is with ourselves. Tho anaemic, nervous woman shudders at the touch of the spring zephyrs which would be refreshing and grateful to the healthy person. The constant fear of drafts, repeated dread of exposure to cold or heat are symptoms of bad health. If we would behave ourselves as well as the weather does there would be no cause for complaint. It is re freshing to come Into the presence of the man or woman who can honestly say good morning, good afternoon, good evening—who can say It In such a way that you feel that they mean It. Good feelings are contagious. An ex cess of vitality is catching. Good hu mor that bubbles over, that cannot be restrained even in the presence of un congenial company, Is wholesome and healthful. Lots of good red blood Is conducive to good manners, good morals and good morning. Any person who can honest ly say good morning has hsd a fairly decent sleep the night before. A hearty good morning is a certificate of self re straint and a clear conscience. The devotee of sensuous pleasure has rarely the boueat right to say good morfttflf. There K| no good BftTftlflif 1 ! for him. Dissipation has soured the at mosphere and poisoned the sunrise for him. If he says good morning at all he lies. It is merely a perfunctory remark. His languid manner and icy touch ex pose the falsehood covered by the words "good morning." Good morning is the sequel of good behavior. The price one pays for a real good morning is a good day's work. Good sleep, early to bed, up early in the morning, then indeed it is a good morning. Every morning is a good morning to such persons. They have paid the price for it and are entitled to it.—Medical Talk. Reform That Waa Too Thorossh. . Old Lady Colburn was giving her granddaughter some good advice the week before her wedding. "Now it's all very flne for you to have these plans for making John over—if he needs it," said the old lady. "He may have some ideas about reforming a few little habits of your 3, my dear— but you don't want to go too far, either of you. "When I was a girl somebody told me the story of a young woman who made the young man she married promise her he would have nothing to do with smoking. Well, that was all right enough, but he'd never been an intemperate smoker, and be missed the little soothing he'd been accustomed to get from his pipe once in awhile. "But if ever she saw him looking at it she'd remind him, "You promised me never to have anything to do with pipes or smoking when we were mar ried.' "Then one day the kitchen .tove act ed like all possessed—filled the room full of smoke. She said she thought the stovepipe needed cleaning, but he he was kind of stubborn, same as most men are at times—he just sat there and said, 'I promised you when we were married never to have any thing to do with pipes or smoking, and this comes under both heads.' "And she had to go for the stove man herself, though he was a real con siderate man, most ways, her husband was. You just bear in mind that little circumstance when you're making John over." Vnappreciated Courage. In the Tennessee mountains lived a little hunter named Hiram Gates. Al though small In .ise, Hiram was noted for his bravery for miles around in that iectlon of the country, where courage was a common asset. Once while hunt ing he tracked a bear to a small cave. Now, a man hasn't one chance In a million fighting a bear in close quar ters, but this fact didn't deter Hiram for a minute. Throwing down his gun, he put his knife between bis teeth and crawled into the dark hole after the animal. By the greatest of good fortune ho succeeded In killing It, for the reason «hat the cave was so small that the b«ar couldn't turn around to defend himself. Otherwise there probably would have been a different story. Hiram skinned the bear and then went home, where he explained the manner of the killing to his father. The old man listened quietly until the tale came to an end and then, In a high pitched, quavering voice, said: "Well, Illram, I like a brave man as well as anybody, but you're anMnfernal fool!" BATTLEFIELD ORATIONS. A Ureal DMI of Fietton Aboot tha Recorded Martial Speeches. Somebody once asked the Duke of Wellington if speeches ou the battle field were really made as reported and what was their effect. The duke .aid, "What effect on the whole army can be made by a speech since you cannot conveniently make it heard by more than a thousand men standing about you?" Then the duke was asked if it were not the fact that Napoleon de livered some rather notable oraUons on the field. The duke would not have it. "The proclamations you read of In the French army were much moro seen in the papers than by the soldiers—they were meant for Paris." It was all right, the duke agreed, to address a regiment upon presenting tt with col or. and that mxt of thing. On the whole, French troops might be more Impressed by a speech than the Eng lish, who In the duke's Waterloo army were, ho declared, "tho scum of the earth, who had ail enlisted for drink." The French, with their system of con scription, had a fair sprinkling «f all classes. "No," comments a writer, "all theso martial obiter dicta which our histories treasure up for us were for the most part never spoken at all. Tho 'last words' of dying men and tho speeches made on the battlefield or the deck of an admiral's flagship are not to be re garded as having been actually ut tered. Hie famous 'Up, guards, qod at 'em!' accredited to Welllngtpn at Wa terloo, was never spoken. Wellington himself denied It." SELLING GOODS. The Methods That Lead to Naeeeaa la Bvalneii l.ife. When a customer comes in. don't, whatever you do, drag yourself out of the chair a. though you were disturbed from a rest, but Jump up and greet her or hjm as though you were really glad to wait ou them. Act so tbey will ask for you the next time they come to the store. The salesman who Is constantly being asked for by cus tomers never hfts to worry übout a Job. Don't he stiff and act or feel as though you were far the mental su porlor of tho customer. If you du, no sale will result. •Tnet for the sake of argument, let us take all Uio successes In your city, no matter what lino they are In. Do they advertise? The public, somehow or other, seem to be able to read between the Hoes. If your a<l. 1* not truthful they will not respond. It takes more than n mere cut to at tract the eye to make your ad. pay. There must be solid, honest store flews of good values behind It. Never underrate the Intelligence of your customer. lie may know more about the article you are showing than you do. Post yourself on every article you are expected to sell, so you can talk convincingly and knowingly. That Is what sells goods -convincing talks. Never mind the price; that will take care of itself.—Hralns. Vennllfnl CompnrlsoM. The horse shares with woman the gift of the greatest animate physical beauty, and the classification does the lady no discredit. As for man, his pnrtuer lu pulchritude Is away down {he line, probably a mule and maybe i burro.— Ban Francisco Call. Thi ■'*•! Word. "Does your wife Insist 011 having the last word?" said the man who asks Im pertinent <|uesttons. "(Jertalnly not," answered Mr. Meek -Bn. "Bbo "doesn't havtf" \At High I Water MarKA S By C. B. LEWIS $ S CopiriloM. 1905, by li. H. McClurc $ The two center piers of the great railroad bridge over the Goomtree river had boeu tinished. and there was much rejoicing. They had been sunk in the muddy bed of the stream a dis tance of sixty feet, and they towered almost as high above the surface. It had taken thousands of tons of stone and thousands of bags of cement and hundreds of days' work to complete these piers. They had had the labor of a thousand men aud fifty elephants. When they were finished a holiday was given to all the workmen, and the chief engineer gazed proudly at his work and said: "They are done at last. Floods may roll down—earthquakes may topple down forests—come what may, and my piers will stand here when a thou sand years have passed away." "It is so. sahib—it h so," answered the voice of a thousand natives, and then they cheered him and his \vork. When a thousand native Indian workmen are employed together on one job there are three or fotir castes. There are masons, carpenters, elephant drivers, shovelers, boatmen and what not. There is enmity between the castes, there is jealousy between the different trades, there is chance every hour in the day for a general riot, and the men must be under A strict dis cipline. The superintendent's worn must be law from which there Is no appeal. A culprit is not told to go hence, because be has bound himself and the company has bound Itself. He Is punished by fine. Imprisonment or the lash. Because of this <taatom this news ran through camp one morning: "At the hour of high noon today the flag of punishment will be raised on the staff, and Kim Nasslk will be tied to the post and dogged. Three times has his overseer warned bim, and three times has he muttered and cursed be low his breath and failed to amend his conduct. Kim Nasslk is lacy, and he has made Bundara, his elephant, the same. When both driver and elephant are lazy, the work flags. One man and his beast can binder a hundred others. It is right that Kim Nasslk should be well flogged." When the elephant driver, after sev eral warnings, had been sentenced to punishment, be replied to the superin tendent : "Your words are true, sahib, and I would not have 70a take tb«m back. I have been lacking In diligence, and Bundara has agreed with me, but we have a reason. A few Sundays ago be got loose and ran away to tbe Jungle. We hunted for bim for hours. When we finally came upon blm he was talk ing with a wild elephant, lie came to me at my bidding, but that night, wben all the camp was asleep, he whispered lu my ear tliat we were fretting the river; that the waters were growling and complaining; that some evil would surely full upon us if wo dammed them back. For a million years the Goomtroe has had freo flow to the sea. Could it be otherwise than that she should be angry and that some disas ter should befall us?" "llow Is It with the trees—with the grass—with all else that man uses?" asked the official. "If the river Is a million years old men have used her for n million years. Thousands of boats und rafts have floated down her current and she has not complained. Men must travel, aod they must have bridges on which to cross streams. Wo havo not dammed the current back. There is plenty of room for it to flow onward. Bundara is a big, strong beast, but be Is lazy. He has told you this story that he may have less work to do. You shall have twen ty lushes at the poet before all men, and Bundara shall also look on as a warning to tell no more lies." •"As you will, sahib." At noon the whipping took place, but the punishment was not severe. It was because of the moral effect that It was Inflicted. Kim Nasslk's ele phant wtis there, ond he dropped his head and tears ran from bis eyes. They suid he felt pity for bis master and that his conscience troubled him. To spare the feelings of man and beast, the superintendent gave them half n day off tbe works—half a day In which to repent and decide to do better In the future. At sundown all labor ceased, and it was reported that Nasslk and his beast had gone to the Jungles. That waa a serious offense. The elephant was gov ernment property ond was hired to the railroad company at so much per day. Nasslk had been his mahout for ten years, but he was no more. He had Incurred n serious penalty by flee ing, and a party was made to bring him bock, but they hunted In vain. In four weeks the Incident was almost forgotten. In time the great Iron beams were stretched from pier to pier, and cross beams ond girders wero put In place, and from sunup to sundown the hot air quivered under the strokes of the scores of hammers. The approaches were filled lu and spans laid to the flora, and the chief onglneer looked over his work with a smile of satisfac tion. "All Is going well," he said to him self. "In another sixty days the Iron horse will be snorting across this struc ture. The Ooomtree Is on the rise, and a flood will come, but we need not fear It. Wo cleared Ha banks of driftwood for tlfty miles lout year. Nothing here can dam Its waters back and Imperil the Urlis*-" An heur after Kasslk bad been pun hh<!d be had clasped his arms aronml the tmnk of bis elephant and said: "Ilundara, I have been disgraced be fore n thousand men because you told me 'what the wild elephunt said. Ido not believe you lied, but let us go to the Jungles and be by ourselves. If the Goointreo Is fretted and harassed, then Hhe will tako revenge. We should not be puulshed for what the sahibs are doing." The pair fled afar. Sometimes they were alone and sometimes In the com pany of wild elephants. The untamed beasts had no fear of Nasal k. For weeks they hid In the jungle or roamed through the forests. "Light of my soul," began Nasslk one day, "the time for the flood In the tJoomtreo draws near. Whisper It to all your friends, that we may seek Its banks and be ready for work. Whis per It to twenty—thirty—fifty. We cannot have too much help. I will rest here for three days, aud do you go uinoUK your kind and spreud tho news." At the end of the third day Bundara returned, and with him were seventy elephants. lie had told his story well. Three days later aJI were at work ou the banks of the flcty miles ( 4&J.9 Ulfi bridye. ftg XAfcM JffJEt No. 88. rising, but Nasslk knew to an inch fajw high they would come before Branding still for a day and then be ginning to recede. Under his direc tions the elephants began work. Such trees as they could uproot and such logs as they coula roll, together with thousands of cartloads of smaller stuff, were deposited Just bcipw high water mark. They piled banks high for five miles. For half a mile back the forest was stripped of limbs and vines and logs, and the labor was flnlsEftd two days in advance. "It is well, my children," said Nassik. "The waters wyi take everything at their flood, aud then down at the bridgu they will see what they will see. I-et us now rest from our labors." Down at the bridge there wfts no fear as the flood crept up. The Goom tree was not bringing down enough driftwood to tear a faft from its moor ings. So it T\as for a week. One morning when high Water mark was reached tho chief engineer sneered at the turgid flood. Two hours later there was a wild alarm. The face of the waters was hidden by drift. Never had mon seen so much of It. It came rushing down like a wall. Some passed between the piers at first and went crashing along, but presently tffere was a swirling about and a wedging of mighty trees, and five minutes later there was a block. In half an hour It extended back a mile, and the fore? of a million horses was pressing against It For a quarter of an hour the handi work of man withstood the strain of the elements. Then there was a crash npd a roar, and the current of the Goomtree flowed on as if man had never been.* Kim Nassik had been whipped, and he bad revenged himself. How Hamti Groir Up. We have become so accustomed to rolling the proper names In our geogra phies over our tongues as glibly as we do our own that few of us ever stop to think how much of history, political, natural and religious, is wrapped up In a few syllables. How many towns do you know that end In "berg," "burg," "burgh" or "borough?" Take for the first one Edinburgh, for instance. How came it by that name instead of Stumptown or Hardscrab ble? Lot us take the "burgh" out of the name first. "Burgh" means In England aud Scot land a corporate town. All the English towns that end in "berry," "burrow," "bnry," "borrow," etc., have that end ing from "burgh." In the German It means a castle or fortified town. So much for our "burgh." Then, In Edin burgh, it means tho castle or town of— whom or what? Here "Edln" is only "Edwin" shortened, and Edinburgh the town of Edwin. Taking this one as a model, the study becomes easy and Interesting.—London Globe. His Medicines and Hla Death. A reader at the Paris Blbllotbeque Natlonale has dug up the prescriptions for medicines which were ordered to Prince Conde In bis last illness. A consultation of three physicians pre scribed "a syrop made of rice, marsh mallow roots and sugar candles" and a blister to be applied night and morn ing. The distinguished patient failed to improve, and a fourth doctor ,was called in, who ordered "tws .jnees of a preparation of hyacinths to fortify, the heart and repair the exhausted forces," followed by "poppy water," "syrop of stag horns," "ipecachuana," "liquorice" and "mistletoe roots." The prince lived through this treatment for six mouths, when be died, according to tho death certificate, "of the malady, from which be was suffering." It doesn't make any difference now, but it Is natural {o hope he didn't die of anything worse. An Odd Reclment. In the fifties of tho last century Mr. Leveson-Gower resided lu St. Peters burg. He told this story: "Opposite to our house was drawn up a regiment called Paulovskl, formed by the Em peror Paul, all the men having turned up noses and therefore resembling htm. It seems it was the fashion here p compose regiments of men who have ttie same sort of features. The emper or had recruits sent to him and told them off according to their looks. What childishness! Thero is one regiment of men ull marked with the smallpox. This Paulovski regiment did one thing which amused me. Just before the cor tege came up they all blew tbelr nose* with their fingers at the word of Com mand, and this was in order that noaa ft them might sneesc when tho enlpet or passed, as their doing so would bring him bad luck!" Be extraordinary In yo»r excellence tf you like, but lx> ordinary in your dis play of it.—Balthnsnr Graclan. Doe* Family "Count f" "I go a great deal on family," re marked tho Ward McAllister of the community. "I tell yon there's lots in blood; family counts." Ah, does it? Abraham Lincoln's father was so poor that the negroes called blm po' white trash, and Abe himself was born in a log hut with cracks In the walls so wkle that you could throw a dog through them, and his mother's name was Nancy Hanks. The father of John Adams ran a cor ner grocery. John Qulncy Adams, how ever, had "family" back of him, for his father, John, had been president of the United States. James K. Polk grubbed roots out of a new farm in North Carolina until he got too strong to work for his father; then lie managed to secure a job in a country store. Andrew Johnson married "family," for his wife knew enough td teach blm bow to read. John Keats was tho son of a hostler and was born in a livery stable. Hare Ben Jonson laid brick while be was learning Latin. Napoleon Bonaparte once remarked, "I am my own ancestors." I>ld you ever happen to hear who was the father of Homer or of Shakespearo or of Gladstone or of Socrates or of Walt Whitman?— Portland Oregonian. Strange Siamese Custom. They have a novel method in Slam of getting rid of the bottles of paupers nnd criminals. In one of the temples Is kept a flock of a hundred vultures, and the bodies, Instead of being buried or burned, are given to them as food. As soon as they catch sight of a body the rapacious creatures gather around it, and It only takes them a minute or two to pick nil the flesh off It. A repugnant sight It is, but, accord ing to Siamese physicians, It is an ex cellent saultary measure. The soil of Slam, they point out, is generally moist, and hence It is much better that bodies should be treated lu this way than re placed in the ground, for, if burled, they would surely prove more or less of a menace to the public health. After the vultures have finished their feast the skeletons are placed In .wooden boxes and burned. , . *-•