VOL. XXXXII.
THE MODERN STORE.
' Time For Your New Dress.
Ite Best Selection we Have Ever Shown.
Great Activity hi Oar Millinery Department.
Henrietta »nd popl*r cloth, .11 colon >1
27 in. all wool Treoota .. • vii
8* in. all wool noTelty Baitings, worth 50c............ ??'
42 in. all wool cheviots, navjr. brown, cardinal and black ■ • ■ .»*- T a
30 in. Tenitians. granite cloths, serges. henriettaa, nnns. veilinga and
novelty W-"vd
00in. mohair—bUck. navy and brown -
Plaids, now ao popnlar, 32 in., 25c yd; 3* in. aix patterns to choose from,
*sg yd
40in. crepeanitinga and poplins, all colors. • • ••••■■ ki no vd
« in. French serges. silk finished Henriettas and Prunella cloths fIJW yd
50 in *ll wool suitings, all colors -- • •• • - •
53 ip. broadcloth, all colore •■■■■••; .! »? 1*
50 in. kersey and covert cloths, anitable for jackets and smts. .sl. $1 and IB yd
56 in rain proof cloths • • • • • •• #-"-'l, So w vd
Oar Wack gooda stock is complete with all the new weaves, fr»m. .50c to f2.M ya
Silks of Surpassing Values.
Jnat in. a new lot of plaid silka for waists ■■■ ' f{ 22 if.
New fancy aUka for waiata and snita 75c and $ .00 yd
New moire : v' *
Beautiful fancy crepe de chines and figured Jap silks for evening waists
and gowns, all colore ••••. •;• •; '
Special for this week. 36 in. black Pean de Soie silk, a beautiful lustrous
black and handaome qnality, a regular $1.35 grade •■■ -• ■ •••■• J** 0 J a
We have the beet selection of ready to-wear and trimmed hata for Ladies
and Children that we have erer shown and at auch pricee as will get your order.
Children*'from 98c to $4.50. .
Ladies' trimmed hata. $2,50, $3.00, $3.50, and a special aaaortment thia week
of chic and natty hats which yon would expect to coat $7..j0 for $5.00. Finer
ones up to SB, SIO.OO and sl3 <W
EISLER-MARDORF COHPANY,
toon uwsnm > QQI
{ ■ Samples gent en request.
OPPOSITE HOTBL ARIJNGTOU. BUTfc E S- PA
Kelsey, Crown, Boomer
■ Coal uad Slacl< Heaters, (aas and Coalß
■ Ranges and Gas Stoves* 1904 Washers,®
■ Sewing /Machines, Needles for all mal(es of I
B Sewing Machines. Sewing Machines repaired. I
■ Roofing and Spouting, and House Furnishing Goods. I
I Henry Biehl, I
I 122 N. Main St. Feo. 'Phone 404. ■
WHV
you nun save money by purchasing your piano of
W, . NEWTON, "The Piano JVWm,"
Thf ®*p e n s § °f running a Music Store is as fallows'
tfent, p«r annum ,* s'/BG.OG
Clerk, per annum $312.00
Lights, Heat and incidentals . . . $194.00
Total $1286.00
I have no store and can save you tbu expense when you bay of ine.
I sell pianos for cash or easy monthly payments. I take pianos or organs in
exchange and allow yon what they are worth to apply on the new instrument.
All pianos fol|y warranted as represented.
MY PATRONS AHE MY REFERENCE.
A it)w of the people I have sold pianos in Butler Ask them.
Dr. MoCardy Bricker Dr. W. P. McElroy
Fred Porter Sterling Clab
Fraternal Order Eagles D F. Reed
Epworth League Woodmen of the World
E. W Bingham H. A. McPherson
Geo. D. High Miss Anna McCandless
W. J. Mates E. A Black
J. S. Thompson Samuel Woods
Joseph Woods Oliver Thompson
8 M McKce Jffchn Vinson 17
A. W Boot B. A. Longwell
Hiss EManor Barton J. Hillgard
Mrs Mary J,. Stroup J, E. Bowers
W CCtfTzj C.F Stepp
V. J. mack W. J. Armstrong
Miss Emma Hughpe Miles Billiard
A. W"" Matec ' Mrs. h. J Qrfeen
W. fl. Wfflliui, J. ft Douthett
Mrs. %Q. Bgtntyngfe E If Richey
Oh as E. Herr L- S. Youoh
PEOPLE'S PHONE 426
I Huselton's
I FALL WEAR.
I THE FALL STYLES SHOWN AT
I OUR STORE EMBRACE LOOKS
■ IJXWG AHh A
■ GRACEFUL, COMFORTABLE FIT
I FOR EVERT FOOT.
■ EXPERT FITTERS TO SEE THAT
I TOU ARE FITTED TO THE
I SHOES MEANT FOR TOUR FEET.
■ THE PRICES RANGE FROM $1
■ TO s4.oq AND EACH SHOWS A
I WIDE CHOICE OF STYLES IN
I THE LEATHERS THAT WILL
■ BE POPULAR THIS FALL AND
I WINTER.
I IT WILL AFFORD US GREAT
I PLEASURE TO HAVE TOU LOOK
■ OVER OUR FALL STYLES
I HUSELTON'S
B 102 N. Main Str<??t
THE BUTLER CITIZEN.
Immense Clothing Purchase and Sale
By one of the most remarkable and largest deals ever
known to the trade we can offer extraordinary Men'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 below 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 Wain Street. ----------- Bntler. Pa.
r 7 s || MEN
' i I li Won't bny clothing £or {he purpose of
i D sf/t > J V 4! I I gptindipg Vnone/! Tbt>/ ftesira tj gA the
iTf 1 J / // !j beat possible results of the money expended.
j}/ j \\f 1 | J Those who buy custom clothing have a
- /| h' \-/y* W 1 right + o demand a fit, t.< have their clothes
yMf.! V-O' 7£< 'i correct in 6tyle and to demand of the
/ll 4 teller to guaiantee everything. Come to
jtyj r ' ' 3 tie ana there will be nothing lacking. I
ft?*? ;K\ ,v ' have juet received a large stock of Fall
J l * iiil - and Winter suiting; in the latest styles,
- \ i a -hades and colon
iWi U G - F - keck,
\d MERCHANT TAIfeOR,
142 N. Main St., Butl?r, Pa
When a Woman Needs Notions
.She usually wants them .it once. Our notion counter
is tilled with the little tilings that go with dress mak
ing and repairing. Buttons, tapes, seam bindings,
pins, dress shields, hooks arid 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—ste how quickly
j uad willingly wp'll meet your demands.
UNDERWEAR.
We've kept our eyes oj>en for chances to obtain
the sort of underwear that's going to fit well, feel well
and wear well—and yet l>e sold at prices you'll ap
prove. Now, if you'll come in you will see j v i4 ]io%\
well we've in hndingihe 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
I Bickers Fall Footwear. 1]
| largest Stock and Most Handsome Styles of ki
> Fine Footwear we Have Ever Shown. T4
. (ADA(|Q <ttfOF<h Twenty Fall Styles—Dougola, Patent- f M
> aiivcps kj(l an 3 Fineul!fShW8 * ade iD the [i
i latest up-to-date styles. Extremely ltive stock "of Mines' and Chil- ■]
dren's fine shoes in many new and pretty styles for fall. f A
i MFN'<4 Showing all the latest stvles in Men's
| wen J jiiucos Fjne sb(jeH a]l leathers if 2 all() wl
Complete Slock ol Boys', Youths' and Uft|e Qeq(«' Hue Shoes. kl
1 Bargains In School Shoes, [j
High-cut copper-toe fhoes for Boys and good water proof School L'V
{ Shoes for Girls. Aj
. Large stock of Women's Heavy Shoes in and W
' Oil Grain for country wear L'
\ Rubber and Felt Goods. [
Wi Our stock of Rubber and Felt Goods Is extreuily large and W t
owing to the large orders which we placed we were able to get very L"
A close prices and are in a position to offer you the lowest prices for
best grades of Felts and Rubber Goods. W.
W An immense business enables us to name the very lowest L
M prices for reliable footwear.
When in need of anything iu our line give us a call
r Repairing Promptly Done,
[i JOHN BICKELL
l 4 128 S Main St., BUTLER. PA. k
4 LiQ q 0 More Work, jf
I Better Work,
| With Less Work |
Tlian a »J otber Washerg
|I ° B marke '' ;j
I J, Q. &W. CAMPBELL, 1
St BUTLE, PA. £
BUTLER, PA., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 10. 1905.
IN EL DORADO
COUNTY
"By Ina "Of right Hanson
Copyright, irOfi. by Ina Wright Hanson
D -O
Ilermioue jerked her fish pole impa
tiently.
"I'm sure it's better fishing over in
El Dorado county," she said plaintive
ly.
"There was once a man," I answer
ed, "who stood at the fork of a sandy,
stony country road, not knowing
whether be should turn to the left, or
go straight ahead. As he hestitated, a
farmer came along aud the man said,
'Which road leads to San Fernando?'
And the farmer answered, 'Both.'
And the man said, 'Which one shall I
take, then?' And the farmer answer
ed, 'No matter; whichever one you
take, you will wish you had taken the
other.' "
"I suppose you mean that if we
•v,ere in El Dorado county I should
think it would be better fishing here
iu Placer county?" ventured "Her
mione.
".Possibly I (lu,- 1 i saia, continuing
my* scribbling. though doggedly, for I
was not in story writing mood. Pres
ently I elianeed to look down just as
Ilermione looked up. Something there
was in her limpid eyes, her rose Hut
ed mouth, even the dash o( y-olpr iu
ppr smoettT phepH', ilvuipU made me
itu.vM wy notebook hastily into my
pocket. I told myself It was her re
semblance to her sister May.
May was in Paris, selecting her
trousseau. W'lien she returned at
some indefinite time—she repllj- a u«iu ;
ed to be In nc \«uiv to get back
lima t was to have her come—we were
to be married. We were not senti
mentalists, but were looking forward
to a successful comradeship undisturb
ed by disquieting elements of love. A
working union in which she would Il
lustrate what her husband wrote. W«
sad been engaged for Uirpt years with
out £ ipiucrt-1 This, w« argued. boded
WrM for a pleasant future, Htili t' "«
was no hurry. .
liut ""Nothing had enteral in
to my placid life which was setting me
all awry. The mischief of It ws's t"' v
that the disturbance: »vas not tangibly.
If it bad been a debt, I could have paid
It; if a tale rejected, I could have re
vised it or laid it upon the flames; if
poor health had been the disquieting
cause, I could have sought a remedy,
but it was none of these. It was an
omnipresent ghost which walked with
me, unseen, unheard/ I had a
idea of its birth. Cu ihe day of May's
departure for Europe we had been dis
cussing Ilerzuione.
"She must live with us," I said.
"Ob, yes," answered May, "until shu
It) married- 1 fancy slje will parry
youug. Hlit) is goiug to make a very
attractive -woman."
Before that day I had been a con
tented man; since that day I lived in a
misty world except when I resolutely
forgot my absurd, unreasonable feel
ing.
!Vime xu. chicken," I called gayly to
Hernilone, "we'll go into El Dorado
county."
Over the rocks we clambered, laugh
ing—it is so easy for a child to be
happy and for a grownup child to catch
the spirit if he will—over tliu racks,
across the bridge spanning
American river, and we had gone
from Placer county into El Dorado.
"There! This is lots nicer," she said
when we were again seated to her sat
isfaction.
How sweet bee voice was, and really
flic child was fgolng to be handsomer
titan her sister, though May was con
sidered a beauty. Ilermione was
chiyiged lately, somehow. Ah, it must
be her hair, which used to bang down
her back iu a frowzy braid. Touay
why—a golden coronal, cleft here and
there with a turquoise blye studded
comb and topped oflf with a black bow.
Why--
■'What are you staring at me so for?"
she asked, putting on her bat and
blushing.
Fancy Ilermione blushing!
"There was once a man," I answered
hypocritically, "who was a—a—well,
Cicero, for example, who was at work
on a difficult mental problem, and at
the time he was gazing hard at the—
the family cat, for but ho
had no conception 0/ the cat,"
Ilermione pouted, "If you call your-
Midf Cicero, you might be a little more
complimentary to me."
I laughed. Ilermione always laugh
ed if she had the faintest reason, so in
a moment her dimples were In sight
again. Strange I h«d never before
noticed what a wealth of them there
was.
"How old are you, child?" I asked
suddenly.
"Eighteen," sho answered, pulling
her fish hook gently away from a snag.
I mused over her answer, the tangle
In my head trying hard to straighten
itself. May was thirty-one—my own
age— though she didn't look it. Eight
een—ah!
"If the trouble is in your story," sug
gested Ilermione, "maybe X oan help
you " lUx haaei eyes looked innocent
ly hito mine. May's eyes were blue.
"If only you might!" I groaned, but
I wasn't thinking of the half finished
tile in my notebook. Suddenly all
things had become plain to me. The
ghost was laid, but what profit was it
to me to gain understanding when it
catno three years too late?
'•'Well, who are tho characters?" she
HBked precisely.
"A queen of beauty and wisdom and
one little mttld. It has three chapters.
Thti first deals with a colossal mistake,
the second with a fool's lethargy and
the third with an awakening which
came too late."
"Ol\, yot too late!" protested Her
jtilou*. "You really must change that.
It ought to end well."
"Some stories can't end well, little
girl," I answered with conviction.
"We'll make it end well," site wuttu
ued decidedly "Aitd the king?"
The king?"
"Yes; if a story has a queen, doesn't
it have to have a king too?"
"This story hasn't. There's no king
—only the king's fool," I answered bit
terly.
"Is the king's fool in love with the
queen V" liermlone's eyes followed the
gentle eddying of iter HHl> Hue.
"|Io- that's the approved predlca
incut, I suppose."
"And the little maid loves the fool,"
she supplemented, "but he doesn't
know it. By and by something hap
pens"—
Just UU'il something did happeu.
Ueiuilotie's pole went frolicking down
the river, and like lightning out of a
clear sky Ilermione, Joyous hearted
Ilermione, was sobbing tempestuously.
In my moment <»f astonishment I took
her Into my arms. Shouldn't one com
fort one's golden haired little sister?
I opined that oue should.
'There! There, UtUe gijrll" I •heyj.cd,
"\Vliat is it?"
"Oh. it's May: How could she treat
you so, and you so good and kiud. and
—and—oh. it will break your loving
heart! It will make you an outcast
fugitive from justice!"
I smiled at her extravagance- of ex
pression; but, no matter what was the
calamity. 1 was in no hurry to give
up the warm little bundle iu my arms.
This was a new sensation, and alto
gether delightful, but quite to© sorou
she drew herself gently away and
began the explanation.
She had just received a letter from
May. May had met a man in Taris,
one "so dear and so handsome." Her
mione quoted her sister's words with
ineffable scorn—he "came of good fam
ily, he was rich, and, and, aud—
Was ever sweet deliverance so op
portune?
"Hermione," I said joyfully, lifting
her tearful little face up to mine.
"Hermione, you said the little maid
loved the fool?"
' But that was in tbe story," She
was blushing again,
"And so Is this," I declared, bending
my head.
'•There was once a man," I observed
contentedly, as we loitered along the
homeward way, "who believed that
somewhere between the Amazon and'
Orinoco rivers tyy land uiarveloußly
vich ift gold and precious gems. He
called this fabulous country El Do
rado but he never found it. I am
more fortunate than Sir Walter Ra
leigh. I have found my El Dorado, a
'golden region,' Indeed, littlp
And smuggling her small
hand into initio, fiskcd naively;
"Then it was better fishing over in
EI Dorndo county, wasn't It?"
Kind Word*.
As the breath of the dew oi\ voi
der plant thcj tall "upon the
dfoopuig Deai't, refreshing Its withered
Jendrlls and soothing its burning woes.
Bright oases they are in life's
desert. Who can « < -tijjai« the pangs
thev hr.Vu alleviated or the good works
tney have accomplished? Long after
they are uttered do they reverberate
in the soul's jpnov v-hambtrs and sing
low, sweet, liquid strains that quell all
iiie raging storms that niay have be
fore existed. And, oil, when the heart
Is sad and, like a broken harp, the
chords of pleasure cease to
vibrate, who can tell the power ol one
kind word? One Jittla w">id tender
ness m ypon t(ie soul Vi'ii
sweep (he long nc»!ected chords and
awaken the most pleasant strains.
Kind words are like jewels in the
heart, never to be forgotten, but per
haps to cheer up their memory a long,
sad life, while words of cruelly are
like darts in the boson}, wounding and
leaving scars thftt rt'ill be borne to the
£rav« by their victims. Saturday
Evening Tost.
Cornl Cliurch on nn Eaatern I»lnnd.
The church built of coral is one of
the curiosities of the isle of Mahe,
ono of the Scysebelies islands, in the
Indian ocean. The Scyschelles Is
lands, which are supposed by many
to be the site of the Eden of
the Old Testament, form an archi
pelago of eleven islands and aw sit
uated abqvjt 1.4W0 miles east of Aden
null 1,000 miles from Zanzibar. They
rise steeply out oX the sea, culminat
ing iu Ihe isle of Mahe, which is about
.1,000 feet above the level of the ocean
and is nearly the center of the group.
All these islands are ftf woral growth.
The holies are built of a species of
UtUb&ivo eoral hewn into square blocks,
which glisten like white marble and
show themselves to the utmost advan
tage in the various tinted green of the
thick tropical palms, whose immense
fernlike leaves give pleasant and much
needed shade. These palms grow as
high as 100 feet and more, overtop
ping both the houses and the coral
built church. They line the seashore
and cover the mountains, forming in
many places extensive forests.
Thr Truth U«nutlfully Told.
A uiiulature painter had been em
ployed to paint a portrait of Mrs. Glad
stone in her old age. it was intended
that it should be a present for Mr.
Gladstone on one of his birthdays.
Mrs. Gladstone was particularly well
pleased with the portrait, but some of
the grandchildren had opinions of their
own about it. One of the youuger
grandsons drew Mr. Gladstone aside
and asked him if he did not think that
the portrait was somewhat flattering.
"It Isn't much like grandmother, is it?'
he asked. "My boy," replied Mr. Glad-
Htone In liis beautiful voice, "It is the
truth beautifully told; that's all.—Dun
dee Advertiser.
In thr Tluie of
Then not only all the learned, but all
the educated, were familiar with Latin.
Whoever read, indeed, must read Lat
in, for there was little else to read.
Theology, history, philosophy, all were
iu Latin. The national literatures were
only In their cradles. Nearly a cen
tury after the time of Erasmus, Bacon
deliberately buried his greater works In
Latin In the hope of securing his fame,
and even Milton chose Latin as the
vehicle of some of the best of his early
poetry and did not abandon It without
hesitation.
To Erasmus it was everything—the
language of his tongue as well as of
his pen. He traveled everywhere, in
Italy, France, England, Germany, but
he certainly knew no English or Ger
man and apparently made ills Latin
carry him through wherever he went.
And whatever difficulties of language
lio found with Innkeepers and servants
and officers of customs he found none
among the clergy or the nobles, at
whose houses his introductions made
him everywhere welcome. London
Times.
11 umilii Horn*,
in the anatomical museum of the
Edinburtf university four horns are
preserved which had grown upon hu
man heads. One of these Is about
seven Inches long, as thick as the little
linger and crooked in shape. A label
attached to it bears tills inscription:
"This horn was cut '.o' Arthur Temple,
ehlrurgenß, out of the head of Eliza
beth Low, being three Inches above
the right ear, before witnesses, the
,>tli of May, 1071. It was a-growing
seven yea res, ller age Is fifty yeares."
The three? other human horns also
graced the heads of ladies.
In Hlr Robert Blbbald's "History of
Fife," a curious book published about
the beginning of tiie eighteenth cen
tury, we read: "A person of quality,
a lady of great age in fliis shire, liad
a horn growing out of her toe and put
her from walking. It was cut off by
Dr. 11., and she was freed of pain and
walked."
Saved Tbi-ui.
Epli Ilow'd you git along rldln' in
them there sleepln' cars when you took
your trip? Simp Got along all right,
but I caught a colored feller trylu' to
sneak away with my boots an' made
'lm bring 'em back. Indianapolis Star.
Make your failure tragical by cour
age; It will not differ from success.—
Thoreau.
NATURAL MEASURES.
SOME PERSONAL SUBSTITUTES FOR
THE FOOT RULE
Accurately Compile Your On n Table,
Memorize It aud Then Obaerve
How Fmintutly It Will Prove of
\alual»le Service to You.
When the dressmaker wishes to es
timate the number of yards in the
piece of cloth furnished she will, four
times out of five, measure it swiftly
between her chin and her outstretched
hand, or if it is a matter of inches,
she will fold the bended upper Joint
of her thumb ulong the cloth.
She calls the one measure a yard
aud the other an inch, aud the estimate
is usually close euough to serve her
purpose, although there ure inches of
difference iu the leugth of arms, and a
slight turn of the head will eause still
greater error.
Since these methods have proved
themselves so useful in spite of their
inaccuracy, it is easy to see how valu
able some similar measures which
can be depended c\i\ \\-uiiM become.
Th\s i{idivHt«p(l must necessarily be
tue nrst consideration. It is hardly
within the bouuds of possibility to find
two peraons identical in those dimen
sions of which use can be made.
each must establish his own \abie of
measures.
fuiunrui —from potnt of elbow
Vi tip of middle linger—is one of the
most practicable of the natural meas
ures. This is the cubit of Scripture.
Set the point of the bent elbow hi Ik*
corner of the wall. Holding U HauiTy
there, straighten f»rearni and fin
gers y.iiU-W »lie point reached by the
ffiiddle digit and measure carefully the
distance to the wall. A man ii*e»y
to find this about twenty
Inches, s Viuuiuu about sixteen.
*cir making, a quick measurement
the side of a room, the \eftgth of a
wood pile, and i this idea has
some very- useful qualities.
Take the foot rule now and spread,
or rather span, tbo hand to its utmost
up«n it, There is sure to bo a differ
ence between the right and left, so
use always the same hand, or have a
separate measure for each.
If extended rigidly to «u utmost each
time the IftCUca -Vpanned" will ho a
practically fix til quantity. Note the
iiicastirement carefully, as before. It
is most likely to be for an adult front
seven and one-half to nine inches.
This is an even rnovo vouvenlent
measure than that of the forearm, since
it can W conveniently applied either
horUoutally or vertically and at any
point where the hand can reach.
The "band" of four inches used in
the measurement of horses is of course
derived from the breadth of the palm.
But this has become so firmly fixed In
its ono uso that It may as well be omit
ted here. The measure of thumb and
palm is, however, worth consideration.
The measurement from the opposite
edge of the palm to the end of the e\t
tended thumb is very nearly six Inches
and is therefore r convenient unit.
These measures need, of course, to be
supplemented by a shorter one, and
here is the opportunity of our old
friend the thumb joint. Beud tips
thumb sharply and mcasurw on the
back from tin; point *»? the knuckle,
over the nail, to the end of the fleshy
ball of the thumb.
The resulting "unit" is likely to vary
from seven-eighths of an Inch to one
and one-half Inches. If the measure
ment does not "come out" In even
quarter Inches use a finger second Joint
Instead. It will be as reliable and al
most as convenient.
Everybody knows, or should know,
his own height with sufficient exact
ness, but a still more useful piece of
knowledge Is the height of the eyes.
This is, as a rule, about four and one
quarter inches less than the total
height. But do not accept this sub
traction for the new table; measure.
When Vme is standing erect, with U»»
face close to the wall, It W easy to
mark the exact polut in front of one's
eyes wlieu they are looking straight
ithead. Tills measure will vary to a
trifling extent with the changing thlok
ness of boot soles, and so forth, but
such an error rarely rWa above one
sixteenth of an iucb In the foot.
The piMbsure of one's outstretched
arms—beginning and ending with the
tip of the middle Angers—is another
valuable thing to know. The familiar
theory that this "span" is the same as
the height is not correct enough to be
depended upon for purpriSM of meas
urement.
A much used natural measure is the
yaee. Probably everybody who has
much to do with land is accustomed to
employ it. The usual way is to stride
off, taking as long steps as possible
and "calling" each pace a yard. A far
better -way is to measure the natural
step and continue to walk with it.
Take twenty or thirty ordinary walk
ing steps on level ground, measure the
distance and secure the average length.
When the table of natural measures
Is fully compiled it will bo somewhat
like this:
Thumb Joint I*4 inches
Thumb and palm fi Inches
Kami span 0 Inches
Forearm "...20 Indies
Stretch of arms ii feet 1 inch
Height 6 feet 'A Inch
Height of eyes 5 feet 8 Inches
Pace 30 Inches
When one has constructed Ids table,
>ibstituting his own measures for
those given, let him not merely write
It in a notebook, but memorize it. It
will be used with surprising frequency.
—I. It. Kent lit" Youth's Companion.
Man nnil III" Ftllrnr llelnira.
Man is one of some two million
•pedes of plants and animals existing
on this planet, but in the extinct life
of the world it is probable that there
were twenty million species.—London
Post.
TRICKS OF BIG WAVEB.
IlongL *Csperlen«*«» on the Stormy
Count of the Softly Isles.
There are plenty of adventures to
be found in photographing the great
waves of the sea. F. J. Mortimer, an
Englishman, tells of some rough ex
periences In getting pictures of this
kind on the stormy coast of the Scllly
Islands, lie says: "One can never trust
the sea for a moment. Once 1 was
standing with my back to a cliff on
the top of which was a friend, whoso
outstretched hands I could Just reach.
After watching the sea for some time
breaking at a safe distance, I turned
my back on It for one moment to reach
up to my friend for a fresh dark slide.
Fatal movement as fatal as taking
one's eyes from a crouching tiger for
no sooner bad I turned my head than
u wave darted in and crashed with ter
riiic force on to my back I was abso
lutely flattened against the rock, all
breath and feeling were knocked from
my body, while my camera was smash
ed to smithereens. Hrulscd and gasp
ing, I could only totter home to bed,
and two days were passed liefore I
was tit to venture out again.
"Then there was another adven
ture," says Mr. Mortimer agait., "cans-
Ed by a rope man who was too care
less. He bad lowered me down a nar
row crevice, a 'chimney,' as it is called,
and having seen me safely come to
ground at the bottom he calmly threw
the rope down to me and went off.
never thinking that he might be re
quired to haul me up again. One
glance at the sea told me that I was in
a most dangerous position. The tide
was coming in and would soou l>e
welling up the chimney, and only by
way of the chimney could I escape.
All intentions of taking photographs I
threw to the wind, and, after shouting
till I was hoarse. I began the upward
climb unaided elbow work of the
stiflfest kind. The chimney was lOu feet
Ligh. and I spent the rest of the day
in getting to the top.
"Another time the promptitude of a
friend in trying to save my life cost
me a valuable outfit. I was photo
graphing from the base of a cliff, on
the top of which stood my frieud hold
ing the rope to which 1 was attached.
Along came a fine wave that would
have made a magnificent study. While
It was yet far distant, a sudden dis
trust of it entered my friend's soul,
and while I was stooping over my
things on the ground, without a word
of warning, he gave * ailghty Jerk to
the rope and hautwl me into the air.
Danglimfc nwlplessly, unable to cry out,
1 was forced to watch that fine wave
roll quietly in, break with a great ef
fect of foam, and as quietly go off
with all my apparatus.
"I once had au awful full when de
scending « steep bit of cliff on St.
AS l **" I was clambering down, very
much incumbered by my camera,
which allowed me to cling on with one
hand only, supported by toes, knees
and elbows, when suddenly a rat
leaped from a bole in the rock, brushed
against my face and landed on my
hand. Now, I didn't know that rats
lithabited the rock, and my surprise
at this unexpected discovery in natural
history, combined with the start I gave
when the rat touched my hand, caused
me to let go my hold and to fall a
distance of thirty feet. 1 landed on
my camera case, breaking up my out
fit as conu\l<ftely as the sea Itself
could fere desired."
The X»w England Cook.
The typical cook of the average New
England town lives, moves and has
her being intreuched behind one axiom
of precedeut— the thing which, in her
existence, has been done can be done
again. After this, the deluge.
It may be, for instance, that the do
mestic goddess in question served her
first apprenticeship in a family of ten.
For the consumption of such a family
she was in the daily habit of preparing
twenty potatoes iu one or another
rorni. When during her subsequent
peregrinations she condescends to
minister to my modest home circle of
three persons I sometimes assure my
self that if to a knowledge of elemen
tary arithmetic she could add a thor
ough understanding of higher algebra,
geometry and trigonometry and then
superadd some slight acquaintance
with differential and Integral calculus
she might in time be able to discover
that, if teu j*ersons require twenty po
tatoes, by the same ratio of allotment
three persons might be satisfied with
six.
I suggest six potatoes, a modest and
satisfying half dozen. Tbe arbiter of
fate replies, "You see, ma'am, I've al
ways been accustomed to cookln'
twenty." And twenty It Is!— Martha
Baker Dunn In Atlantic.
Kicked the King's Horse.
On the buttlefield, as everywhere else,
Bismarck looked after the Interests of
his Imperial master. During the bat
tlo of Koeniggratz the old emperor,
then king of Prussia, had exposed him
self and his Btaff to the enemy's tire
and would not hear of retreating to a
safe distance. At last Bismarck rode
up to hi in, saying: "As resiionslblc min
ister of the crown I must insist upon
your majesty's retreat to a safe dis
tance. If your majesty were to be
killed the victory would be of no use
to us.," The king saw the force of this
MBd slowly retreated, but In his zeal
eturned ngain and again to the front.
"When I noticed it," said Bismarck,
telling the story, "I only rase Iu my
saddle and looked at him. He under
stood perfectly and called out, rather
angrily, 'Yes, I am coming." But we
did not got on fast enough, and at last
I rode up close to the king, took my
foot out of the right stirrup and seefet
ly gave his horse an energetic kick.
Such a thing had never happened to
the fat mare, but the move was suc
cessful, for she *et off in a fine canter.' r
COMPOSITIONS IN PRISON.
ConSnemont Did Not Apparently
Disturb These Men of Letters.
Imprisonment of th« learned, wheth
er legal or Illegal, does not seem to
have disturbed tin- man of letters In
the progress of his studies.
It was in prison that Boethius com
posed his excellent book on the "Con
solations of Philosophy," And Grotius
wrote his "Commentary on St. Mat
thew" during his confinement.
While in the dungeon of a monastery
in Portugal Buchanan composed his
excellent "Paraphrases on the Psalms
of David."
"Fleta," a well kuowu and excellent
law production, was written by a man
confined In an English prison for life.
Ills name, however, was not preserved.
During his confinement for five years
on account of some state troubles Pe
llssoti pursued with ardor his studies
In the Greek language and produced
several good compositions.
The best uud most agreeable book in
the Spanish language WRS composed by
Michael Cervantos during his captivity
in Barbary.
When Louis XII. was duke of Or
leans lie was taken prisoner at the bat
tle of St. Aubin and conflued In the
towor of Bourges. While there he ap
plied himself to his negelcted studies,
with the result that he subsequently
becauie an able and enlightened mon
arch.
Margaret, queen of Ilenry IV., king
of France, while confined In the I,ou
vre warmly pursued the studies of ele
gant literature and composed a very
skillful apology for the Irregularities
of her conduct.
During his confinement Sir Walter
Hnlelgli produced his "History of the
World."
Queen Elizabeth while Imprisoned by
her sister Mary wrote some very
charming poems, and Mary, queen of
Scots, during her long confinement by
Elizabeth produced a number of pleas
ing compositions.
It was while he was cruelly conflued
at Ilolmsby that Charles I. wrote that
excellent book entitled "The Portrait
of a King," which be addressed to bis
son and in which tbe political reflec
linns are said to be worthy of Tacitus.
By some this work lias been attributed
to a Dr. Gander, a blatant radical of
that period, but who was Incapable of
writing a single paragraph of It.
Orlitln of Some of the Dust.
Dust is to a large extent a product of
human activity. In houses and work
shops, ou the highways and in tbe
No. 41.
streets— everywhere there la wear and
tear of things, and the product is al
ways dust. The wearing and cleansing
of our clothing are continually break
ing up its fibers into minute particles,
and the friction of clothing on the akin
carries away the scales of the epider
mis, which are constantly being shed
and renewed.
Every contact of human feet, horses'
hoofs and the wheels of vehicles with
paving and road materials wears away
particles of Iron and stone. H»e effects
of the weather and the alternations of
cold and heat disintegrate all exposed
surfaces. To these particles, which
form the dust invariably present in
dwellings and in the streets, there must
be added the -innumerable minute cells
of vegetable origin Incessantly floating
in the air, and on a complete Yiew the
dust produced by the disintegration of
meteors by contact with our atmos
phere must also be mentioned.
Dust accordingly consists of portions
of all substances, organic and Inorgan
ic, which decay by natural processes
and arc reduced to powder by any
means whatever. Few of its constitu
ents can be recognized by the naked
eye. The microscope alone can detect
the nature of many and especially those
of the greatest Importance.
An Impulsive Duchess.
In 1684 Anne Mnrle d'Orleans, the
daughter of Philip of France and Hen
rietta of England, was married to Vic*
tor Amadeus 11., and thus brought
about an alliance between the houses
of Stuart aud Savoy. The duchess
was an impulsive creature and not sel
dom was the occasion of surprise and
dismay. After the marriage in Paris
by deputy she traveled to Les Echelles,
where for the first time In her life she
saw her husband. The sequel is amus
ing.
The duchess had arrived only a few
hours previously and was Just finish
ing her breakfast as the duke entered
the village. On hearing the approach
ing sound of fifes and timbrels and the
cacophony produced by cheers, voices
and a general hubbub of excitement,
she quickly rose from the table and
looked out of the window to ascertain
the cause of all this stir and commo
tion, when she saw the pageant, at tho
head of which marched a fair young .
man of distinguished and martial bear
ing, who she was told was Victor Ama
deus. Without a moment's hesitation,
casting to the winds all the tedious
instructions of etiquette with which lat
terly she had been surfeited, she flew
down the stairs Into the street and
threw herself into the duke's arms.—
"Romance of Savoy."
Tke Spider.
One problem fitted for the zeal of
the folklorist would be the tracking
back of the spider. There is that nice
story about liobejt Bruce and his hay
ing learned patience from the spider.
The Islamites use the web of the spider
j the flight of the prophet. Probably
the Arabs had It direct from the Jews.
There is a Talraudlc tradition of David v
flying before Saul arid of David hiding
in a cave, and how he might have been
discovered had not a spider woven its
web across the entrance. This is pre
cisely the same incident as is used In
the hegira. The arachnida spins but
a flimsy web, but her filaments have
been stronger than cables, for they
■till hold fast to the legends of the
past.
A CREEPY PLACE.
Some of the Pests and Discomforts
of Life In Butawayo. |
"Life In Bulawayo during the wet
season is certainly not all pleasure,"
writes a resident of that African town.
"The rain descends as If a river, hay- ,
ing lost Its way among the clouds, was
hurriedly trying to return to earth once
more. The streets are transformed in
to lakes, and the damp, moist heat
makes everything inside the house un
pleasantly moist and clammy. But,
disagreeable as the rainy season may
be, the cold that precedes It in Septem
ber Is almost worse. Dust storms are
frequent. Trees aud shrubs become
brown and shriveled, and the wind
blows with cutting force across the
veldt. It Is then, too, that the snakes
are more in evidence than at any other
time of the year. Half torpid, stupid
with the cold, you come upon them
colled up In unexpected places, as once,
when entering my room, I found one
wound round the leg of my dressing ta
ble. Another evening we were dis
turbed by a persistent tapping agalust
the window, as if some one were try
ing to attract our attention. On rising
to Investigate we found it was a sneke
that, attracted by the light and warmth,
was endeavoring to make Its way in
through the glass.
"White ants are another terrible pest,
or, rather, they would be did they not
ontcr so literally Into every clrcum
stanco of everyday life that they end
by being taken as a matter of course.
For Instance, after an absence of a few
hours you return to find half the mat
ting on the floor devoured, or, your •
boy, having incautiously left your coat
hanging in the sun, the lining affords a
speedy meal to these voracious little
Insects. In fact, you never know what
damage may not be revealed at any
moment, and this uncertainty extends
even to the garden, where your rose
trees have to be grown In tubs half
filled with broken glass and perched on
bricks soaked in paraffin. ,
"I found that tbe tarantulas and
scorpions were everyday evils, to be
endured with what philosophy one
could muster. A tarantula the slxe of
a small crab walking across the floor
is not a pleasant object. Our house
boy delighted In catching them to make
them flgilt with the scorpions, and we
had ocular demonstration of the fact,
long believed to be only a traveler's
tale, that on being worsted a scorpion
will commit suicide by bending Its tall
over Its back and stinging Itself behind
the neck rather than be eaten by Its
opponent."
Old Ensrllsb Houses.
Many old houses throughout England
have long been famous for the quaint
uud humorous Inscriptions painted or
carved on one of their exterior walls.
On the portico of Arley Hall, the seat
of the Warburton family, there Is in
scribed this welcome:
This gate Is free to all men good and
true;
Right welcome thou. If worthy to pass
through.
And at Loseley House, Surrey,-then
is a Latin Inscription over the doorway
to this effect, ' I am shut to an enemy,
but am always open to a friend."
Above the door of a house at Saljing
ton, Sussex, In which Selden was born,
there is a Latin couplet much to the
same Import, and Montacute House,
Somerset, has these two lines carved: I
Through this wide opening gate
None come too early, none return too late.
Under a variety of forms we find the
name maxim ou different houses, and
at Ferray Hall, in the parish of Al
mondbury, over one of the doorways
are the words, "Au honest man may
enter," aud on the reverse side facing
the spectator when leaving the prem
ises, "A cheat may be off,"—London
Standard.