Butler citizen. (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, October 19, 1905, Image 1
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.