VOL. XXXXII. THE MODERN STORE- The Best We Ever Had. 6rand Millinery Opening. Thursday, Friday and Saturday, October sth, 6th and 7th. This store is proud of its record in the Millinery Department. We have made many friends every year and we are sure that with onr present equipment, we will not only retain our present patronage, but increase onr usefulness by serving many more the coming season. Our preparations have been made on a lavish scale and everything that fashion could suggest and modern ideas could present are here for your inspection. We will give you the best values you have ever bad, ayoidinK extravagant methods in the conduct of this department. We - await your visit with pleasure and trust we can interest yon with our new Fall showing. EISLEK-MARDORF COHPANY, south Mtn mm | aaj I" I Samples sent on request. OPPOSITE HOTEL ARLINGTON. BUTLER. PA t] Pleasant Dreams are More Apt >1 to Come if the Surround- 4 2 ings be Pleasant! 1 | The Sleeping Chamber should be as attractive as ►1 possible. A third of your life is passed within its A A confines. >1 ►l We have three-piece oak suits from $25 to $75. A A There is not a common looking set in the lot. 1 Or perhaps you would like a metal bed. Now 4 < our assortment of metal beds, enameled and brass, >1 ► is just as complete as you'll need to seek. A < From a simple, serviceable, neat looking white >1 ► bed at $3.50, the styles go by easy stages to a A < sumptuous brass bed at SSO to $75.00. i BROWN &■ CO. f| K No. 136 North Main St., Butler. BU 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 $312.00 Lights, Heat and incidentals . . . $194.00 Total $1286.00 I have no store and can save you this expense when you buy of me. I sell pianos for cash or easy monthly payments. I take pianos or organs in exchange and allow you what they are worth to apply on the new instrument. All pianos fully warranted as represented. MY PATRONS ARE MY REFERENCE. A few of the people I have sold pianos in Butler. Ask them. * Dr. MeCurdy Bricker Fred Porter Fraternal Order Eagles Epworth League E. W. Bingham Geo. D. High W. J. Mates J. S. Thompson Joseph Woods S. M. McKee A. W Root Miss Eleanor Barton Mrs. Mary L. Stronp W. C Curry F. J. Hanck Miss Emma Hnghee ▲. TOt Mates W. R. Williams Mra.*B..O. Rumbaugh CHIs>E? Herr PEOPLE'S PHONE 426- I Huselton's s fJ e r s I * FALL WEAR. I f r THE FALL STYLES SHOWN^T I OUR STORE EMBRACE LOOKS ■ FOR EVERY LIKING I GRACEFUL, COMFORT ABLE>fIT I FOR EVERY FOOT. * ■ EXPERT FITTERS TO SEE THAT I YOU ARE FITTED >TO THE % I SHOES MRAIfT FOR FEET. ■ PRICES* RANGE FROM Hi I T0 (%00 ATHD EACH SHOWfe A \ I v WIDE CHOICE Of STYLES IN THE LEATHERS. THAT WILL R BE POPULAR THIS FALL AND , t WINTER. v 8 IT WILL AFFORD US GREAT ■ PLEASURE TO HAVE YQU LOOS I dVER OUR FALL STYLES. I HUSELTON'S || 102 N. Main Street. Subscribe for the CITIZEN * THE BUTLER CITIZEN. Dr. W. P. McElroy Sterling Club D F. Reed Woodmen of the World H. A McPherson Mies Anna McCandtess E. A, 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. S. J. Green J, R. Douthett E, K. Richey L. 9; Youoh Immense Clothing Purchase and Sale By one of the most remarkable and largest deals ever known to the trade we can offer extraordinary Wen's suit values. A prominent Eastern manufacturer, who had been favor ably known as the producer of dependable and stylish Clothing, found that owing to the backward season, he had entirely two large a stock of Suitings on hand. SIB.OO New Fall Suits will be sold during this sale at sl4. $15.00 New Fall Suits will be sold during this sale at sll. $12.00 New Fall Suits will be sold during this sale at SB. This purchase Is phenomenal indeed. These suits are in the latest color effects and are absolutely the thing. We are offering these ultra modish suits far belo.v what you would ex pect to pay. The coats are the very newest sack effects, cut to conform to fashion's ideas and in a way which insures a correct fit. If the positive saving of $4 to $8 in getting a Fall Suit is any object to you—do not miss this sale. SCHAUL& LEVY SUCCESSOR TO SCHAUL & NAST, 137 South Main Street, Butler, Pa. ZTj# i men rVi' it Wont buy clothing for the purpose f 41) 1 •'//7 '1 /I spending money. Thc> desire to got the \IT 1 il// / I] possible reenita of the money expended }Jj J AvJ/ 1 Sff/jlrpljj Those who buy custom clothing hare a 1 Xty . yA, 1 correct iu style and to demand of th /J j" •. sell<-r to enHrantee everything. Come JLA rs and therp will lw nothing lacking. I ".j i have ;jnsf received a Inrtre stock of Fall \ tfcy jj t shades and colors. Ifff'l J G- F. KECK, ' li II IV* MERCHANT TAIfcOR, I jgjlij Jy r's 142 N. Main St., Butler, Pa When a Woman Needs Notions • She usually wants them at once. Our notion counter I is filled with the little things that go with dress niak | ing antl repairing. Buttons, tapes, seam bindings, j pins, dress shields, hooks and eyes, needles—all the ! articles are here for immediate delivery. ; Some of these you ought to have at home in advance, j 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 j 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 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 . _ j Bickel's Fall Footwear. H j Largest Stock and Most Handsome Styles of 11 ] - Hlte Wowrir" f« } SOROSIS SHOES. N i latest n*j'i-to-date styles. Extremely large- Misses' and Chil- ■ 1 dren's f}pe shoes in'many new and pretty, styles for fal). f A < —-' *" FA { QpmpUte Stack <*l Boys'. Youths' and Little dents' Fine Shoes. kl 1 Bargains ilf School Shoes, L ji i Slfirts for Girls. - •• «* ! •. M . Women's .Heavy Shoos 1 ftf'K&ngCTSd-txU and f, ' o®t Grain for c'bttitry we&ivf }1 . k' i Rubber And Felt Goods. r Onr stock of HnW^i^atnd Goods .iV extreftlv large and W, k owing to the large vve placedvwe were ftblg to get very ' V close prices and art in a position to ciffer the lowest prices for ► Wji best grades of Feits aprt Habbtip Gooda^' . W Au: immensa. holiness { prices for reliable footft-tjfiC- " , „ *'■. ► When fh* nwff'oT Hnytllteflrtn'tthr'lTne give Watttt ' ( < Repalrln§ Pttftnpt*y Done. i ] JOHN' BICKEL ! < j 128 S Main Sti-BUTLER. PA. jr Han anjf pllier Washer® fL on ik market. § | ( p | J. O. & W-r.©M#BELL, I __ f BUTLER, PA., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1903. IMVWVWWVAAA " Wvvwa I Her \ 5 Sandalt&ood \ I \ By FANNIE HEASLIP LEA S S Copyright, IM, by FViiinie BtaAip Lea < H yvVWWWWVA\WWW^/VVS "This is the first one he wrote me iftcr—after"— "After he asked you to marry him," taid Wilmot grimly. "1 know." Elizabeth faltered a little. "If you would rather not"'— "If you would rather not?" said the man, so they read on. There was no heading to the boyish scrawl, no date, and the paper was yellow with much handling: "How did we do it. little girl? I'm lord o' the earth tonight. Is it only five hours since I left you? I'd swear it was five centuries. I'm in my room, working, but at what I don't know. V'our face comes between me and the n-hlte paper—between me and the fool ish, pounding keys—between me and all the world else. Ah. dearly beloved, your eyes when I kissed you. and the maddening tiit of yonr chin: Pen and ink's but a poor thing, after all. I write down words that mean the world and all, and they come out black, bug gish things on a shiny white sheet. I'd like to write to you in forked light uiug on a giant rose leaf. Good night, my piece o" the world'"' "What was his work?" asked Wil mot. with husky irreverence. "Stories and verses. He wrote." Eliz abeth laid the letter gently on the coais and drew out the next. "There are not many," she explained. ••It was only a month, and we—we saw each other so often- and I kept only the letters from that one month." Wilmot nodded in silence. "i'ou are the funniest child," said the next letter. "When 1 think of the way I love you—it seems absurd. One ought to give you a doll or a picture book. Well, I have given you my life for the one and my heart for the other, haven't I? I'm not laughing, littlest—at least I'm only laughing that you may not know what a powerful pull you have on my heartstrings. I got a check this morning for a story I'd almost for gotten about. That's why I'm sending you a rose. It's the first thing I've bought with the money. I'm working hard on the play. It's going to be a great thing some day, and you—no, I mean we—are going to be proud of it. We'll go to the theater tonight, littlest, and burn up some of the new check." "How old were you then?" asked Wilmot. "I was eighteen," Elizabeth answered dreamily. "I'm twenty-five now, you know." The letter burned slowly, and they read the next in silence. "Sweetest," it said, "I've been ill the last two days or I'd have seen you. I've been seeing you anyhow in the shadows of the room and the window curtains and a lot of other silly places. I was out of my head, they tell me. Feel sort of crazy now." The letter was blotted, and the writing a mere scrawl. "That big blot is where *1 dropped my head Just now, because I was too tired to hold it up any longer. I must get back to the play tomorrow: losing' too much time. Lord, how my head aches! Oh, littlest girl, I want you!" "He was only a boj'," said Elizabeth, "just a year older than I" "Go on," said Wilmot tensely. Elizabeth turned over the next letter, and a withered rose fell into her lap from the infolding leaf of a toru pro gramme. "We went to the theater," she ex plained, touching the flower with gen tle fingers, "and I wore the rose on my gown. It was red." "You like red roses best," said Wil mot jealously. "Was it always so, or did you begin then?" "I—l suppose it was then," she ad mitted gently. "He always sent them to me." Wilmot started up suddenly. "I can't stand much more of this," he said. "Did you ever care for me at all?" 1 , "l")iii0 be angry"— Elizabeth laid a hand on his arm anil drew; him back. "There Isn't much more, and—l think If I didn't lone you I couldn't show the letters to you at all. Wait till the end—you will understand." She laid the dead rose 011 the lire 1 with the ; torn'■programme. The next : was only a .fine or two on a narrow ca'rd. : "Flowers he sent me," Elizabeth said/ "because he wanted to come that night. And this"—she glanced over a half sheet of rough paper closely cov ered—"ho wrote to thank me for a book I .sent him." She looked up at Wilmot. His eyes were dark and in scrutable, but he was'.white to the lips, ind she hurried ou._ "There's only one , more to read— these -are Just cards that came with flowers or books." She laid them on the fire and smooth; jed out the paper that had lain clinched ; in her hand so long. t "Is that the last?" asked Wilmot, . with dry lips. She >u6dded, and "he bent to readmit." "You are right," It said, "quite right to break witheared; that Is, .as you • can care—as you will care somo day for the man who is to como to you. lie need not bj> Jealous of mi, sweet, : ( wheu he does Your love fori I ;me was a cbiidwlove that hejwill not want, and that lou will not give him. 'i have had myTivine day, and it is Jpver, bfit no mster who cbrues—ln ■ Hpite of the man \«io is to win where ' have* N lost—you \will ren*mber—l ; t'laim that, littlest, V r my right—you - \Vill remember when yon love him that I taught you how.. I should not write so, perhaps, but there are times when a man must speak what he knows. Keep the few things I have i given you. Don't send them back to j jne. I'ut them in the sandalwood ! box and shut their memories In witift i them. I shaJKJieep. your letters. Hod" knows ffv, -uvl cold enough. "Oh, littlest girl, I'd* never let you"* go in this world—if"-—i Elizabeth's hand sllpifc'd softly Intd wijr.fs, where It rcajSfl on the urtfl of Iter chulr. They satjLsileuce while,- ; |he last letter i!nrcdmC4|en sank anjf i tumbled. \ Jr"l thin':," at ■ said softly, i."that he a a., right need not be I T Jealous of him. I VjS® ciiild then. I I j am another self now. Jyhen you came |in I-had been letters, and somehow in the quiet I had sliced yuf of bask iltfo ' little girl he used to love. My mind was full of him and of that little girl, and I couldn't readjust things at once, j Then when you used his very words— it was—it was like a ghost. You see. j don't you. dear? I'm not disloyal to j you. it was just that I remembered, ! as he said I would." •"I understand," said Wilmot. holding ! her close. "I was a jealous fool, but j you must admit that It was disconcert- j lug to come in and ftud you reading over another man's letters the night before our wedding." ••It was silly, I suppose," Elizabeth ■ admitted, "but I couldn't help it—and j you understand." "Where is he now?" asked Wilmot, kissing the soft wave of her hair. "You ; won't grow to care for him again, will j you?" "Oh. Will, hush!" the girl, whispered, I her cheek against his coat sleeve. "He's dead, dear. He died that year. Didn't I tell you at first? I thought yon miderstood." The sleet rattled angrily against the window pane, jarring the quiet of the shadowy room, and the fire sank and darkened. " "You will remember when you love him."" quoted Wilmot softly. " 'that I taught you how'—poor beggar!" It Wm Hard oa the Family. Modern methods of dealing with con tagious diseases are a severe trial to many an old fashioned person who in childhood 11 veil through epidemics of various kinds. "I thought your grandson was look ing pretty peart again after his ill ness," said one of the residents of Cauby to Zeuas Sprawle, "but It struck me the rest of you looked kind of wore out. I s'pose he was pretty sick for one spell there." "No, he wa'n't, said Mr. Sprawle stoutly. "There never was a thing tbe matter of him exceptin' a sore throat 'bout same as I've had dozens o' times, toweled my neck up for a night or two an' come out all right. But my son's wife she had that city doctor to him. an" be made out 'twas one o' them itises an' had him an' his ma quar antined off from the rest of us. "He had the full use of his legs, an' the way he run over that floor above our heads was enough to wear out a hen. An' when he was able to be moved they had that part o' the house fumigated. It laid the foundations for a stomach trouble with both Mar thv an' me, that fumigation did, an' I don't know us the smell will get out o' my clothes enough for me to go to church this whole winter. Get me in a middlin' warm place and that fu migatin' essence begins to try out o' my overcoat same as if 'twas karo seuse. 1 guess there's reason enough for Mar thy an' me to look wore out."— Youth's Companion. The Lionn and the Lamb. Some 300 years ago King James I. of England visited the Hons then kept in Loudon Tower, the show from which is derived "the lions" in the sense of the sights of a place. The king had had an arena built 011 to their cages for fights with bear 9, dogs and bulls, but the two lions that entered it on this day simply stood blinking. Two "racks of mutton" and "a lusty live cock" were succes sively thrown to them and devoured. "After this the king caused a live lamb to be easily let down unto them by a rope, and being come to the ground the lamb lay upon his knees, and both the lions stood in their former places and only behold the lamb, but presently the lamb rose up and went unto the lions, which very gently looked upon him and smelled on him -without sign of any further hurt." However, a lion iml mastiff fight that followed was hotter "sport." The Ice of Greenland. The In rnest mass of iee In the world is probably the one which fills up near ly the whole of the interior of Green land, where it has accumulated since before the dawn of history. It is be lieved to now form a block about GOO,- 000 square miles in area and averag ing a mile and a half In thickness. According to these statistics, the lump of ice is larger in volume than the whole body of water In the Mediter ranean. and there is enough of it to cover the " Whelo of the L'uited King dom of Great Britain and Ireland with a layer about seven miles thick. If it were cut into two convenient slabs and built up equally upon the entire surface of "gallant little Wales" It would form a pile more than 120 miles | high. There is ice enough in" Green land to bury the entire area of . the tJnited "States a quarter of a- mile f "the surgeon for the night. Such was a sample day's routine. Happy,was the medical man when on , reaching port after a busy week he was able to land every person on' the ship. Two went to the hospital, but bqfh were of the woods" before the vessel again turned her prow home ward. A" very general misconception seems .to exist,amoug the medical profession * und Indeed many of tbe laity also as regards the professional attain ments of surgeons on the transatlantic > steamships. There is a widespread no .tion that to be*a ship's iloctor one need only have a srhatterliffcr of medicine, to gether with, the vaguest ideas of sur 'geryr.md that, possessing these, a man i ls^amply.qualifled.to watch over the health of several hundred people among the passangers and crew of his vessel. In-polut of:facf, the average steain shTf> is at least as well quali fied as the average physician on shore. .Many of them indeed are men of the hi'giiest scientific attainments. ' The number of men would like to go to se4*as surge.l l,l-. is sp>:'f.it lluit.st«*ui .sl'iip companies. uiay«l>ick nh ob tain a regular berth aboard a transat lantic litter. To secure a place as physician ou Of the ships it Is Cfesential to liTve had amplehc exjjerlemv. As a rule, the management "-gives preference to men who have been in private practice after completing their hospital work. All steamships sailing under the Eng -1 lisli flag are required to carry as reg ular surgeons men who have been trained in England, Scotland or Ire land. The ship surgeon, however he may devote some_of his time to the ameni ties of civilized life, cannot be the so cial butterfly be is sometimes repre sented as being. Indeed, most germs •sec the passengers only at the [table over they preside (fiSfeioually ou'the promenad* dec^Tlae ship surgeon leads. In fact, practically the same kind of life as liis confrere asliore. He is a busy man. The larger vessels seldom carry fewer than 500 people on each trip, and in the summer months 1,500 would be nearer an av erage number. Each one of these persons, In what ever class. Is privileged to call on the surgeon at any time, day or night And the average passenger feels free to ex ercise his privilege. Ilis ailments are the same at sea as ashore, augmented by the troubles peculiar to the sea. and if anything he is more particular when on the water than when ashore. Prob ably the ship's doctor listens to more tales of woe iu one trip than lie would hear in six months ashore. It will be seen that the surgeon of the big transatlantic liner is no drone. His working hours are long, and much of his leisure time Is taken up In the study and the perusal of the medical literature, of which he usually has a generous supply. The surgeon's library is ample and up to date and his med ical and surgical equipment of the best He therefore who supposes that the doctor at sea is not the peer of the doc tor ashore should at once disabuse his mind of that impression. The medical profession Las no more high minded, earnest and hardworking representa tives than the ones who go down to the sea in ships— Xew York Times. GREAT SUN SPOTS. The Fnrlonn Solar TeupeiU That Murk Their Appearance. Rack iu 1843, when the Millerites were looking for the end of the world, there was a great sun spot that to many seemed to lend weight to the Millerites' arguments from the time prophecies in the Bible. For a week in that year there was a sun spot that was visible to the naked eye. It meas ured 74.810 miles across. On the day of the eclipse in 1858 a spot 107,000 miles in extent was clearly seen. These spots are considered to be storms in the glowing gases that correspond to the atmosphere of this earth. If there were ships on the sun as large as this earth they would be tossed about like autumn leaves in an ocean storm. These solar spots are most abundant on the two sides of the sun's equator, where they mark something akin to a terrestrial cyclone belt. The center of a cyclone is rarefied and therefore colder. Cold on the sun is darkness. An astronomer says that these cyclones carry down into the depths of the solar mass the cooler materials of the upper layers, formed principally of hy drogen. and thus produce in their cen ter a decided extinction of light and heat as long as the gyratory movement lasts. Finally the hydrogen, set free at the base of the whirlpool,"becomes re heated at this great depth and rises up tumultuously, forming Irregular jets, ■which appear above the chromosphere. Sun spots often break out or disap pear under the eye of the observer. They divide like a piece of Ice dropped on the surface of a frozen pond, the pieces sliding off in every direction, or they combine like separate floes driven together into a pack.' Sometimes a spot will last for more than 200 days, through six or eight revolutions of the sun. Sometimes a spot will last only half an hour. "The velocities indicated by these movements," writes Henry White Warren, D. D., "are incredible. An up cusli or downrush at the sides has been measured of twenty miles n second, a Biderusli or whirl of 120 miles a second. These tempests are over regions so wide that our own Indian ocean is too small to be used for comparison. As they cease the advancing sides of the spots approach each other at the rate »f 20,000 miles an hour. They strike together, and the rising spray leaps thousands of miles into space."—Chi cago News. The Xote the Pl* Squeaked. Among the musical gifts possessed by Sir Herbert Oakeley, the famous composer, organist and teacher, was an ability to tell offhand the exact pitch and key of any sound he happened t» hear. As a boy of four years of age he could, without seeing the keys, name any note or combination of notes play ed on the piano. An anecdote which illustrates the musician's perfect perception of "pitch' ia told. Sir Herbert was staying with his old friend, the bishop of Colchester, at High Wych and one day heard a pi* squeak. "G sharp!" at once cried Sir Her bert - ~ . Some one ran to the piano, "and G sharp It was! LIFE ON A WARSHIP. Wbr the Man Are Allowed to IndtilC* In Athletlo Sport*." To see a thirteen inch gun loaded and fired is-a sight not to be forgotten. The projectile is thirteen inches in diameter, about three feet in length and weighs 1,100 pounds. The powder charge for target practice is 230 pounds. The cost for each shot is about S3OO. When all is ready on the range the signal siren sounds, there is a blinding flash, a roar like thunder and a Jarring'shock. Then you hear the whining screech of. shell,^for, all the world like a fast cxpTess'round 's ng a sharp curve. The projectile is ▼isibje almost from the time it leaves* the gun. You . see It rlp*through"'.the target and "strike the wate?* beyond, throwing up a column "of liquid many feet high. The shell skips, much like the flat stone "skipper" of our boy hood,' and again a column of water shoots up two miles or more farther out, "to be repeated time and again. The shell in Its flight can be watched without the aid of glasses for eight miles'or more in clear weather. While'the life of a sailor, from, cap tain down to apprentice, is an aln»st continual round of work, some time Is found for athletic sports, •*■ boat racing, football juad baseball."The object jpf.this is to give the men rec reation and at the same time to foster the "spirit of competition. Besides, It makes the men easier to The ship with a'strong football or ti^setflni; team or "^the"'fastest race boat almost invariably _ a happy and 'manaWcrey-'a crewjhatjvilljswear t&t its'.ofticers-arejie finest^inen In 1 the world, and likewise the officers swQftr by such n crew. Some ships have training tables for their athletic teams, the e\j>ense usually being de frayed _by officers., The to^nvgr rua , " petted by the oncers .and idolized by and for some time before a hard contest the men are excused from various duties In orijer that they may give more time to training. Every battleship and cruiser hasyjts race boat, purchased by from officers and men. The prices. for these boats Is, as vcsitlugeiin upon their ginning race <. lltej>ui!dvT«s are ftilllfffc tcflpfce a eh kW&vI tßeWW^'iHuJ its b<«t tu>UE.' I^or-a^ffiin-r boit price is ofteifas niulh jsJI.OOO, while for a l>ont that* builder will accept SSOO or less. __ result vf a fleet boa J r»ce"as mush as No. 39. has been known to change hands, and large lomi are also wa gored on baseball and football games. This is, of course, contrary to ; the letter of the regulations; but the sporting instinct is as strong in the navy as elsewhere — and it is not Always possible to hold down the lid.—Leslie's | Weekly. The Gad of the World. That the earth will eventually dry tip and all living things will die of thirst is the theory of a scientific writer. He says that in both Africa and Asia, and indeed in all the great levels of the world, the water beds are drying op. Many lakes well known during tbe his torical period have entirely disappear ed. while others are shrinking rapidly, j "Explorations in central Asia have proved that for centuries a aone stretch ing from the east to the southeast of this part of the czar's dominion has been drying up. Deserts are gradually i spreading, and reports show that it is J only in the neighborhood of mountains, round whose brows vapors condense and fall, that Irrigation can be carried on or life itself can be preserved." Jast What Be Heut. An American in London once attend ed a dinner where Henry Arthur Jones told a story about Beerbohm Tree. "Mr. Tree," said the playwright, "met a friend of his one afternoon in Begent street. "The two stood and conversed a little while, and then Mr. Tree said: " 'Have you been down to see me act lately, my boy?' " "No; too poor,' said the other. " 'Too poor,' Mr. Tree exclaimed. 'Why, you spend enough on wine and cigars'— "But the other, nettled, interrupted. "'I don't mean I'm too poor. I mean you're too poor,' he said." Cramp In the Less. Feoplu who are subject to cramp in the legs should always be provided with a good strong piece of cord, espe cially in their bedrooms. When the cramp comes on take the cord, wind it round the leg over the place where it Is cramped, take an end in each hand and give it a sharp pull, one that will hurt a little, and the cramp will cease instantly. People much subject to cramp in bed have found great relief from wearing on each leg a garter of wide tape which hag several thin slices of cork stitched on to it DON'T BOLT YOUR FOOD. There Is Pleasure as WeiHealth la Deliberate Kattagr. Fast eating is sure to be iniurtomk because to properly prepare tne food for digestion it must be thoroughly masticated. Rapid eating is still .Worse .when it, is caused by the hurry of buaipeas oTpy anxiety or nervous Irritability or Mr the common habit of ''bolting" jhe,}cod. Such eating is sure to prodded indiges tion or dyspepsia. Tbe teeth, as yrell as the stomach, are made for labor, ana neither j&ti have their proper work to do it only paps and broths and puddings Ujd hashes and other soft and artlflcteffir prepared foods are cjowded Into v th» stomach as though the coek in tie kitchen could masticate aoa dtfMt-flft food better than the natural pprtotpra and tbe chemical action-ana assimiM ing power of the stomach. Those people who shovel great vulgar mouthfuls of food into their XQ&K&f and bolt it down as though they j) ad but ten minutes for a meal are gor mandizers Instead of polite people They know little of the pleasure deliberate eating luxury of sat isfying hunger, and i;erti2ijly ,ts«gTare laying the foundation of disease. Dry, hard food, vigorously chewed, stimulates the flow of sallya, strength ens the teeth and keepb them healthy and Invigorates the digestion. HE TOOK LONG CHANCES. Bat the Tailor's Anxiety |ad BUI Were Both Flnallr The doctor of an English rpg\fDsnt Stationed in India received a letter from his tailor Inclosing a loaf account and eonchidlng wtth a p&S inquiry after the debtor's state 3 *#f J&eattb. tu»rartWiftW." t "I have received your hypocritical letter hoping that I am in a good stgte _ of health. Hear, then, what >orr chances of my living long enough to be able to pay r your bill "are. I itteud assiduously everj cholera case In the camp, and I am making smallpox a special'study. I swim every morning In a lake smarming with alligators. At a recent ittack on a rn hOpd and w— ego of tbe thg£e who returned unwounded. Tomorrow morning I shall go ugpe companied and on foot Into the jungle and wait for the man gating tigress as she returns at % . and If I survive that I shall Cool myself aft"r Its heat by joining a party to ascend the peak of JJhaWalnglri, whose snow slopes and glaciers art as stiff as your prices." , jwy ¥ The doctor returned hpmb in safety, antfyie_thirof*3 'artHety and bis bill were both settled. WOMEN IN- PARLIAMENT . Down to Time ft Edward 111. TbUr Had Rlsht of Voting. The ladles ,ofTlrth and qufjlty sat In council with the Saxon Witas. The Hilda presided'ln an ecclesl&s ticaTsjTiod 5 *tniVi|b*fred'B great council at Becon- A.* D. OW, the abbesses sat and 'deliberated, and five of them Signed the decrees»of>that council along With "the king, bishops and nobles. King Edgar's charter to tbe abbey of Crowland, A. D. 061, was with the con sent of the nobles and abbesses, who subscribed toe charter. lit Henry 111. and Edward I.'s time fotfr'abbesses were summoned to par- i yaftient—viz, of Shaftesbury, Borklng, M St>Mary of Winchester, and of Wilton. * ■ In (the thirty-fifth of Edward IIL were summoned by writ to parliament, . 'to appear by their proxies, Marjj, cOunffiSs of Norfolk; Alienor, countess of Ormo&d; Anna Dispenser, Phlllippa, countess of March; Johanna Fit* Water, Agneta, countess of Pembroke; Mary de St. Paul, countess^ the peerage, to anjjjsA by sleep and E&ath. t *An* nn(Kin] deprived »of sleep dies jmflire §