VOL. XXXXII. THE MODERN STORE. FORMNTCR BLASTS. ' " Mmkets, LMtt. Medium and Heavy. A Big Rush for Winter Millinery. Blanket Htt> " is here for sure and here is the place to get them right. We bought all our blankets early last spring before the big advance in wool and cotton- ou Good rind cotton, grey and white **£ JHSJSSSj JJIS $1.25* $1.50 to $2.00 pair 10-4 size, all wool blankets, in grey, white, scarlet, also blue and iP and white, grey and white, red and black p1aid5. ....... .I worth 75 at! fSSo pair Better all wool blankets in white and colors famous Fine white all 'wooi ciiifoniia' blankets, extra large size, Fall siaed comforters, filled with good cotton ... eac - - Extra large uilkaline covered home-made comforters, filled with fine white Lamb'* wool comforters ♦ s o ° 68011 more Millinery turned out than ever before, and never at such reason able prices. All the newest shapes and colors. Don't fail to come here before buying ronr new hat. PriceTrSge $1.75, $2.00. $3.00. $5.00 up. Ladies' Home Journal Patterns and Style Books are now here. EISLER-MARDORF COriPANY, —"■fS.TPgl 001 J2sSria?»x M f Samples sent on request. OPPOSITE HOTEL ARLINGTON. BUTLBR. PA ■ Kelsey, Crown, Boomer I I FURNACES. I ■ Coal «ind Slack Heaters, Gas and Coal I ■ Ranges and Gas Stoves* 1904 Washers,! I Sowing /Machines, Needles for all mal(es of I E Sewing /Machines* Sewing /Machines repaired. I I Roofing and Spouting, and House Furnishing Goods. I I Henry Blehl, I I 133 N. Main St. *»eo. 'Pfton® 404. B WHY You can save money by purchasing your piano of W. . 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 t . . . . . . . . $ 1286.0Q I b*»e DO state sod can «*ve you this expense when you bay of nje. I eel) pianos 'or c&ab or easy monthly payments. I pianos or organs in exchange and allow yon what fhey are Worth to apply on the new instrument. All piaoos fully warranted as represented, MY PATRONS ARE MY REFERENCE. ▲ few of the people I have sold pianos in Butler. Ask them, Dr. MoCnrdy Bricker Or, W. P, McEJroy Fred Porter Sterling Clnb Fraternal Order Eagles D- F, Seed Epworth League Woodmen of the World E. W. Bingham H, A. McPheraon Geo. D. High Hiss Anna McCandless W. J. Mates E. A. Blaok J. 8. Thompson Samuel Woods Joseph Woods Oliver Thompson S. M. McKee John Johnson A. W Root B. A. Long well Miss Eleanor Barton J. Hillgard Mrs. Mary L. Stroup J. E. Bowers W. C Curry C. F. Stepp F. J. Hauck W. J. Armstrong Miss Emma Hughes Miles Hilliard A. W. Mates Mrs. S. J. Green W. B- Wipiiuns J. B. Douthett &*"• Ghaa ; ft, Herr ti- 0. Vouch PEOPLE'S PHONE *2§ I Huselton's s fS s 1 I FALL WEAR, I I THE F ALL STYLES SHOWN AT I I OUR STORE EMBRACE LOOKS I I FOR EVERT LIKING AND A I I GRACEFUL, COMFORTABLE FIT I I FOR EVERT FOOT. I ■ EXPERT FITTERS TO SEE THAT I I YOU ARE FITTED TO THE I I SHOES MEANT FOR YOUR FEET. I ■ THE PRICES RANGE FROM $1 I ■ TO $4.09 AN® EACH SHOWS A ■ ■ WIDE CHOICE OF STYLES IN I I THE LEATHERS THAT WILL I I BE POPULAR THIS FALL AND I ■ WINTER. I I IT WILL AFFORD US GREAT I ■ , PLEABURE TO HAVE YOU LOOK I I OVER OUR FALL STYLES. I I HUSRLTON'S I I 102 N. Main Street. I Subscribe for the CITIZEN THE BUTLER CITIZEN. Immense Clothing Purchase•"« 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 cf 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 SCEAUL & NAST, 137 South Main Street. Butler, Pa. tTVIEIN Won't buy clothing for the purpo6o of spending money. They desire to get the best possible results of the money expended. Those who buy custom clothing have a right to demand a fit, to have their clothes correct in style and to demand of the seller to guarantee everything. Come to us and there will be nathius: lucking. I have just received a large stock of Fall and Winter suitings in the latest stylet",' 1 shades and colors. G..F. KECK, f /MERCHANT TAIfcOR, 142 N. Main St., Butl?r, pa r " ~~ 7~ | When a Woman Needs Notions She usually wants them at once. Our notion counter is filled with the little things that go with dress mak ing and repairing. Buttons, tapes, seam bindings, pins, dress shields, hooks and eyes, needles—all the countless articles are here for immediate delivery. Some of these you ought to have at home in advance. If your stock has run low come in—see how quickly and willingly we'll meet your demands. UNDERWEAR. We've kept our eyes open for chances to obtain J the sort of.underwear that's going to fit well, feel well I 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 1 wear. It pays to visit us when you need notions, under i wear, hosiery, gloves, belts, ribbons, corsets, etc. L. Stein & Son, 108 N MAIN STREET. BUTLER, PA : Bickers Fall Footwear. \ J largest Stock and Most Handsome Styles of > Pine Footwear we Have Ever Shown. R i J&ADACI& SMOFC Twenty Fall Styles—Dongola, Patent- f. > JHVMi bid and Fine Calf Shoes made in the V < latest up-to-date styles. Extremely large stock'of Misses' and Chil- B dren's fine shoes in many new and pretty styles for fall. f , < MFN'S &|f AF& Showing all the latest styles in Men's J men J onvw. Fine shoeß a]l i eat hers, $2 and *6. FA Complete Stock of Boys', Youths' and Little Gents' Fine S|ioes. ki I Bargains In School Shoes. * High-cat copper-toe ehoea for Boys and good water Droof School L i Shoes for Girls. p . Large stock of "Women's Heavy Shoes in Kangaroo-calf and W ' Oil Qraln for country wear. L' l l Rubber and Felt Goods, f WJ Onr stock of Rubber and Felt Goods is extremly large and F, k owing to the large orders which we placed we were able to get very L' V close prices and are in a position to offer yon the lowest prices for VA beet grades of Felts and Rubber Goods. Pi W An immense business enables ug name the very lowest L' li priced for reliable footwear- m When jn npe4 Ql any sing in °u r l ine ?ive us a ca}l. < Repairing Promptly Done, k j JOHN BICKELt > M i 128 S Main St., BUTLER. PA. I Acme Washers § * More Work, § f Better Work, § § With ess Work | * Than any other $ on tlie market. I i 1 I J, G, &W. CAMPBELL, $ BUTLE, PA. jg BUTLER, PA., THURSDAY. OCTOBER 26. - HO 3 , \ SOFT \ MAT i : TIME. \ { The soft hat is a luxury f \ of luxuries for fall. * S Soft hats are here in the £ * popular browns, pearls, 4 r fawn and black. Alpines £ J and the low crowns that £ J may be worn creased, J 2 dented or telescoped. S f We are showing the J £ new stiff hats. Have a £ « a dozen different styles. d \ New fall neckwear that f £ is just a little different £ £ from the others that you £ know. # Jno.S.Wickj W HATTER AND FURNISHER, » ? 345 S. Main St., j i (J. Stein Building.) £ 5 Two Doors North of Willard Hot«l. J Do You Buy Medicines? Certainly You Do. Then you want the best for the least money. 1 hat is our motto. Come and us when in need of i thing in the Drug Line and we are sure you will call again. We carry a full line of Drugs. Chemical* s , To ;, tt Articles, etc Purvis' Pharmacy 8. G. PURVIS, PH. G Both Phones. 213 S Main St. Butler Pa. FALL SUITS We can save you money on your fall suit and fit you as well as the best and highest-priced city tailors. New Fall Goods Just Received. Write us, C. P JOHNSTON & SON CUSTOM TAILORS, PROSPECT, PENN'A. Gibson's Livery (old May & Kennedy stand) First-class horses and rigs. Excellent boarding accom modations. Good and clean waiting room. Open day and night. BERT McCANDLESS, Manager, Holt's Greenhouses, E. M. HOLT & Co. PROP'S. Salesroom 247 S. Main Street. Floral designs for funerals, parties, etc., a specialty. POTTED PLANTS. Our carnations are now in their prime. luver Studio Has added a full line of amateur Photo Supplies, Cam eras, Films, Dry Plates, De velopers, Printing out and de veloping papers. Anti-Trust Goods At about one half what you have been paying. Quality Guaranteed As good if not better than the Trust goods. ZUVER STUDIO 215 S. Main St. Butler M. A. BERKIMER, Funeral Director, 245 S. MAIN ST., BUTLER, PA LAi XRT'S LINEAGE Dy E-pes VCf. Sargent C pyTigjJ fcy 11. U. McCluro i== «»s&&>' B Mollie f.ir liim In the hall. "Waat dii Sic say?" she whis pered eagerly. "What" the governor of North Caro lina said to the other fellow," began Preston Lambert. "Then I said I want ed to marry you. and he put the bottle back in the cellaret." "Then lie won't let you marry me?" she said wistfully. "Well, he didn't exactly say me nay," admitted Lambert, "but he made one prohibitive condition. I've got to get a family." "A family?" she echoed. "Just that I suggested that he was a trifle premature, but he explained that what he wanted was back num bers, not future issues." "Oh:" walled Mollie. "Why did he ever find out that he was a direct de scendant of William the Conqueror?" "Pure cussedness," suggested Lam bert. "Bill didn't hand down any money or titles that reached this far. It was Jabea Gordon who did most of that work." "Grandpa Gordon was awfully poor when he married grandma," she as sented. "It's funny they never thought about William the Conqueror before they got married." "When you're poor," declared Lam bert, "it doesn't matter much whether Adam or Bill Smith stands at the head of your family tree." "I hate family trees," breathed the girl vehemently. "I wish dad never had heard of his genealogy." "Oh. well," said Lambert cheerfully, "we can't chop the infernal tree down. I'll have to study forestry and learn how to grow one." "Did he say you could marry me if you did?" she asked joyously. "He said that for the sake of the race he wanted his daughter to marry a man as nobly born as herself. He sort of Intimated that he jad an eye on an- English duke, with a pedigree as long as a snake's tail." "I won't be a duchess," Mollie pro tested. "I want to be Mrs. Preston Lambert." "And so you shall," he declared. "I'll have a family tree as" tall as a cocoa nut backed up here on a truck inside of three mouths." "It took pa three years anil a half to get liis together," she dissented. "That's all right," laughed Lambert, stooping to kiss her. "I'm a wonder when I get started." Mollie followed him to the door and watched him swing down the street. Then she went into the now deserted library and gained some consolation from making faces at the elaborate de sign whereby the Gordon ancestry was traced in a direct line to royal blood. More than one small fortune had been spent upon the tree, and it was the pride of liobert Gordon's life. The millions he derived from his father had been nothing to him until this an cestral line had been discovered. He had beeu merely Jabez Gordon's sou. Gordon the elder had beeu a "Forty niuer" and had left vast stores of min eral wealth to his son and a faint rec ollection of his grandfather. Robert Gordon's respect for ancestry amounted almost to a mania, and his first atteution upon becoming the heir to the fortune was given to work on his historical records. None of them had been successful until Gottfried Shaekmeister had picked up the scent, and In due course de livered to his client letters and other documents to prove that the Gordons were a branch of an old English line. It had not only taken him more than three years, but also involved travel ing far and wide. Gordon, however, had not grudged cither time or money. Jt was less than three months be fore Lambert sought a formal inter view with Gordon. "1 have that tree you .wanted," he announced lightly as he was ushered into Gordon's presence. "Tree?" was the puzzled exclama tion. "I don't remember any conver sation I have had with you on the mat ter of trees, Mr. Lambert. I leave those matters to the landscape gar dener." "Don't you remember," reminded Lambert, "that you said I could not marry Mollie until I had some man whose name has come thundering down the ages to blame my existence upon?" "I recall saying that it was a duty we Gordons owed our race to marry only into families as ancient ass our own," he corrected. "Well," continued Lambert flippant ly, "this is it'." He placed upon the labia a small handbag, from which he extracted old volumes, time stained parchments, papyrus and what not. "I find," he rattled on, "that I am ilirectly descended from the Tharaohs." Gordon rose angrily. "This is an in sult," he stormed, "to come here with this absurd collection of forgeries ■which you presume to tell me are rec ords dating back more than 2,000 years *nd collected by you within three months. Will you leave or shall I have to call the butler?" "Hadn't better call Peters," urged Lambert smoothly.. "I hate to do it, but I want to marry Mollie. Let me marry her and I'll ignore the fact that my family runs farther back than yours." "Never!" shouted Gordon. "I would see her dead first!" "On your own head be It then," said Lainbert Impersonally. "Here goes for a confession. I made these records myself." "I know you did," almost screamed Gordon, "and you come here and have the effrontery to compare them to my own authenticated documents." "I made some of those too," said Lambert quietly. There -was something in his manner that bore conviction. Gordon dropped Into a, chair. "How?" he gasped feebly. "Do you remember," he asked, "that some years ago I was suspended from college for a hazing scrape?" "Yes," whispered Gordon. *'Well, the pater shut down on the funds. I did not want to bother my sister (mother was dead, you know), and I earned some money writing for the papers. "I could not get a regular job, but 1 picked up a dollar or two from the Sunday editions. One day they put me on the track of a man who was sup posed to have forged a manuscript. He was not the culprit, but he was sorry for me, and gave me a good story on how it was done. "He let me make a fake script my self, and somehow I seemed to be more than usually clever at it. It isn't a part of my history I'm proud of, but I went iuto partnership. Itynember, I Lad been brought up to regard myself as the heir of my father's money and had not learned to work. For threw months I had starved more often than I had eaten. "This man—Shackmeister—was work ing on that selfsame tree nt the time, and I wrote that letter of William's myself. I soaked the paper in acid, colored it with coffee and all that sort of thing. Here's one," producing a paper, "just like It. You can see for yourself." Gordon examined the paper, compar ing it with the one in the frame of which he had been so proud. When lie turned he had aged ten years. Lam bert was sorry for him. "It's too bad," he said as he stepped over to the bowed figure. I never would have told you, but I could not sec Mollie's happiness—and mine—spoiled by your pride In a lot of manufactured history." "It was my own fault," groaned the broken man. "I set up for myself an idol, placing it before my daughter's happiness, and upon my own shoulders my selfishness has recoiled." He pressed a button and the well trained butler presently entered noise lessly. "Ask Miss Gordon to come to the library," said Mollie's father. Then to Lambert, "You won't tell her. will you?" "Not unless you think I ought to." "I must brave it out," said Gordon with a wan smile. "Let it lie a secret between ourselves." Quietly Lambert moved to the fire place, and when Mollie came in only a white ash over the glowing coals told of the burning of a tree. "Mau I* Xatnre'a Enemy," "Man," said Professor Lankaster in his ltomanes lecture at Oxford, "is na ture's rebel." Natural selection hav ing, as supposed, lifted him from so low—the monad—to his present high es tate is now believed by many of its ad vocates to be a failure as regards rais ing him any higher. Having done so much in the past, it is thought to be incapable of doing "the little more" which is of such great importance. While in the case of other creatures their actions are supposed to play into the hands of natural selection, so that this beueficent force becomes the alma mater of new races, in the ease of man it has been otherwise. His own ac tions have defeated the aims of natu ral selection for his welfare. Darwin held siinilaily pessimistic views. "In one of my latest conversations with Darwin," writes Dr. A. It. Wallace, "he expressed himself very gloomily on the future of humanity." And this was on the grounds that under present condi tions the fittest did not survive.—Lon don Globe. A Tax Dodger. The income tax is an old institution in England, and a story which should amuse all taxpayers Is told of the way in which Kelly, former owner of the Hay market Opera House, evaded pay ing his tax. The commissioners called to protest at his having given his In come at £SOO. "Sir," said Mr. Kelly, "I confess I have erred in my return. In fact, I have not 500 pence." "Are you not stage manager at the opera house?" inquired one of the commis sioners. "I am," said Kelly, "but there is no salary attached. I do It to gratify my love of music." "Well, but you teach?" said another. "I do, but I have no pupils," was the ready answer. "I think you are a concert singer?" per sisted a third. "You are right, but I have no engagements." "At least you have a good salary at Drury Lane?" cried the last. "A very good one," said the imperturbable victim, "but it Is sever paid." He was let off. PerHla*a Anthem. Tersia is an ancient country, as the world goes. It has ancient monuments. It lias a literature in several ages* But one of its Institutions, its national nuthem, is comically modern. Several French bandmasters were in Fe'rsia less than half a century ago, organiz ing military bands. The shah was about to start for Europe and it oc curred to him that he ought to have a national anthem. Summoning M. Le tuiire, the French military music mas ter of Teheran, the afternoon before his departure, the monarch, with an instinct more imperial than musical, ordered him to have a "Fersian" na tional anthem composed and played before him by the imperial band next morning. There was night work for everybody concerned in Teheran that night, but next morning the "national anthem" was duly played and ,ap proved, and It Is the "national anthem" still. Rinc* at Weddings. There is a popular idea that a ring made of geld is the only one that can be legally used In a -wedding ceremony. That is, however, a fallacs - . Any and every kind of ring may be used, and, though gold ones are customary, tflere is no reason whatever why silver or any commoner metal should not be called into requisition. Numerous in stances are 011 record of runaway mar riages in which a brass ring has play ed the all important part, and the legal ity of the ceremony has never been questioned. In some cases a piece of hurriedly tied string has answered the same purpose, as have also circles cut out of card or paper. In not a few weddings where consternation has reigned on the discovery that the ring has been forgotten a door key has been used instead or severed link of a silver chain. It is only required that a ring be used, but of what nature it is not stipulated.—London Answers. Tlie I.aiit EnglUh Decapitation. The last occasion of decapitation for high treason in England was, I fancy, that of Thistlewood and his four com panions for the Cato street conspiracy. I take the following from Thornbury's "Old Stories Ketold:" "Exactly a quarter of an hour after the last man was hung the order was given to cut the bodies down. The heads were than haggled off with bru tal clumsiness with a surgeon's knife. The mob expressed loudly their horror and disgust, more especially when the turnkey who exhibited the heads drop ped that of Brunt. 'llello, butter fin gel's: - shouted a rougli voice from the rolling crowd below. The day had gone by for such useless brutality." This horrible scene was enacted on May 1, 1820.—Notes and Queries. A Wooden Actor. When Morris Lad the Haymarket theater Jerrold had occasion one day <0 find fault with the strength, or, rather, the want of strength, of the company. Morris expostulated and said: "Why, there is V. He was bred on these boards!" "He looks as though he had been cut out of them," replied Jerrold. I'rrpnrlnK For the WeddlnK. "I suppose," said the facetious stran ger, watching a workman spread a nri>et from the church door to the curb, "that's the highroad to heaven you're fixing there." "No," replied the man; "this Is mere ly a bridal path."—Philadelphia Press. OLD TIME MYSTERIES SOME RIDDLES IN LIFE THAT HAVE NEVER BEEN SOLVED. t Lands and Peoples That Are Suppos ed to Have Disappeared—'The Lea cud of the Lost Atlantis—The Aa cleat Premies of Tennessee. The public appetite craves nothing so much as a riddle, a secret to guess, but nowadays every man's life is so fiarc, so exploited, and we live so much out of doors from the cradle to the grave that very few facts or fancies can be kept hidden. There were, how ever, certain mysteries which during the last century the American public pandered and worried over which are yet unsolved and, except by a 'ew old people, are almost forgotten. Oue of these, perhaps the oldest. Is the question whether beneath the At lantic not far from the Bahamas there Is a sunken continent known to the Greeks as the lost Atlantis. It was still talked of familiarly in the first half of the last century. Seafaring men declared that when the water was calm and clear they had caught glimpses of ancient cities beneath, with their glittering roofs and spires, and that in certain conditions of the atmos phere tbe tolling of the bells could be distinctly heard. Treatises were writ ten by learned professors to prove the probability of the legend, and other treatises, as learned and vehement, to flout and jeer at it as an idle fable. Certain flotsam and jetsam, which was washed ashore after heavy storms ou the coasts of Georgia and Florida logs of strange woods unkuown to this generation, coins, bits of carved marble and beaten brass—was ascribed to the long dead workmen of Atlantis. The lost colony Is now known only as the subject of an ancient fable, but years ago it was by most educated people believed to be an actual fact. Another much 'discussed mystery then was what had become of the col ouy of civilized people who at tbe time of the settlement of the country lived on the western coast of Greenland. That country is, as you will see by a glance at the map, shaped something like the half of an egg, cut lejigthwlse, the flat side upon the earth, the point to the south. The rounded center is a heap of impenetrable ice mountains. As the centuries go by enormous bodies of ice slip from It into tbe sea and, breaking off, drift slowly down along our cwnsts. These are the ice bergs of tbe Atlantic ocean. Now, along the narrow slip of habitable land which edges Greenland on this side, tradition says, once dwelt a civilized people who, both in knowledge and the habits of life, were far In advance of the Laplanders. They were well known to the early Danish navigators, who made frequent mention of them in their logs and re ports. The question yet unanswered is, Where are they now? Tradition among the Laplanders reports that the whole colony two centuries ago emigrated in a body to tbe eastern coast of Green land, attempting to cross the hitherto impenetrable masses of ice iu the cen ter. ffo tidings ever have come back from them. Some of the scientific men who accompanied the Hayes expedi tion made this question a matter of special study. They reported that a doubt could hardly exist that these people did once Inhabit that part of the coast and that they now had utterly vanished. If they had been swept away by a pestilence their household belongings at least would be left to tell of them, but not a shard of pottery, not a single grave, remains to show that they ever lived. It was supposed by the Danish missionaries that they bad perished in the ranges of ice mountains, but among the Laplanders there were traditions that they had safely reached tbe western coast and settled there, now forming a civilized community, wholly isolated from the rest of the world. One of Nansen's voyages was, in fact, directed to that coast in the hope of finding this col ony. He was not able to reach the northern part of tbe coast, and the mystery is therefore yet unsolved. Another problem which perplexed the last generation was the long extinct pygmy race which centuries ago un doubtedly inhabited the Tennessee mountains. Legends among the In dians told of such a tribe of dwarfs, who were supposed to be of more In telligence than the red men. But these legends were very hazy. A burying ground, however, actually was discov ered in the early part of the last cen tury iu which all of tbe skeletons were of pygmy proportions. Some of them were carried away to college museums. But as far as I know no scientific in quiry has ever beeu directed to this question. Another curious matter which caused much speculation in the early part of Ihe last century was the fate of the colony of French emigres who fled to this country iu the eighteenth century and took refuge iu the northern part of Alabama. Like those Frenchmen who found safety in Delaware, they were for the most part of noble blood. Marquises and counts earned tbeir liv ing in Wilmington as dancing masters gud even chefs, and their descendants iive there still. But the poor gentlefolk who went penniless to Alabama to escape tlie guillotine penetrated the wilderness and made up a colony of vine growers, farmers, etc. They worked helplessly awhile, starved and then melted away mysteriously. Whether they returned to ungrateful France or died in their exile nobody knows. It was a ro mautic, tragical question which much interested the last generation and Is now forgotten. But it l.i still un answered.—New York Herald. THEONEWHOCAN DO THINGS There la Always at Demand For the ■exceptional Man. Progressive employers are always looking for tlic exceptional man or woman, the one who cau step out from the crowd nnd do things iu an original way, who can economize in processes, wlio can facilitate business. They are always looking for the earmarks of leadership, of superior ability. They are looking for the progressive em ployee with new ideas who can help thoiu to be more of a success. They know very well that they can get any number of automatons multitudes who will do a thing just well enough to keep their places—but they are look ing for originality, individuality, for up to date methods. They want em ployees who can put things through with vigor and determination, without lagging, whining, apologizing or ask ing questions. Nothing can bar the ad vancement of employees of this kind. Nobody can keep them down. If by chance some one above you is actually trying to prevent your promotion for selfish reasons, it ought to be very flattering to you to know that he is trying to_ keep you back and should make you all the more determined to % No. 42. get ahead. It Is a pretty good indica tion that there is some reason (or Ma fear and that you bare material in yon for a lwtter place. This should en courage you to redouble your efforts to do your work so well, to stamp such superiority upon everything you touch, to acquit yourself so much better tlian the man who is trying to keep you down—to be so much pleasanter. so much more of a man—that it will be only a question of time wheu you will | get the position you are striving for. or perhaps a better one.—Orison Sv>ctt Marden in Success Magazine. BITS FROM THE AUTHORS. The generosity and forbearance of the poor are to me astouishiDg.— Mrs. Craigie. I can conceive of no more degrading profession for a woman than the pro fession of husband hunting.—Jerome K. Jerome. If only we could emancipate our selves from the perpetual fear of the opinion of others how splendidly free life would become.—Robert Hichens. There is no power without clothes. It Is the power that governs the human race. A policeman in plain clothes Is one man; In his uniform he is ten- Mark Twain. No one Is ever bored unless he Is comfortable. That's the great princi ple. There isn't time for It You can not be bored and something else at the same time.—E. F. Benson. Very few girls in the present day re quire books with imagination. I wrote books for them which would have de lighted me at their age, but nowadays the majority of girls read boys' books. —Katharine Tynan. A POOR FILTER. Why One Central American Tawa Had Bad Drlnltinv Water. Here is an incident that illustrates the unexpected difficulties which en terprise has sometimes to face in cer tain regions of Central America: From a certain large lake an Important towa drew its supply of water. By means of powerful steam driven pumps the water was drawn from the lake through a strong iron pipe, which, aft er running some eighty or ninety yards Into the lake from the shore, ended In an upward turn, a short arm bent at right angles to the pipe and rising to within a few feet of the surface. Sud denly an epidemic visited the town In question. The company's reputation being threatened, It was decided to straightway pull up the streets and ex pose the main pipes and conduits. The entire system was laid bare, from the outskirts of the town to the very shores of the lake, but the minut est examination failed to reveal any, suspicious feature. Then, almost at their wits' end, for the epidemic waa raging as badly as ever, the officials entered upon the last lap and turned their attention to the submerged por tions of the conduit, and here it was they found the cause. A huge alli gator had been drawn toward the mouth of the main by the very strong Influx, and, being unable to release Itself from the suction, had remained there until it died, and thus, for good ness knows how long, all the water consumed in the town had first filtered through the decomposed carcass of the alligator. HUMANITY'S HUNGERS. What They Are and the Asrea st Which They First Appear. Professor Earl Barnes is authority, for the following list of "human hun gers" and the ages at which they can first be noticed: Hunger for food and drink—infancy. Hunger for action—infancy. , Hunger for knowledge—infancy. Hunger for companionship six weeks. Hunger for property—two years. Hunger for self aggrandizement—five years. Hunger for beauty—two years. Hunger for reasoning—seven years. Hunger for worship—thirteen years. Hunger for righteousness fifteen years. The natural desire for food and drink is strongest, said the professor, at birth. After twenty the appetite should, if not misused, become less and less till at seventy a man or wofhffti ought to require only one small meal a day. The "hunger" for property Is very strong at about fifteen—the "collect ing" age, when boys will amuss any thing, from stamps to beetles. When all other "hungers" fail tbe "property, hunger" still exists, and a man is most likely to be a miser when he is nearest his grave. The "hunger" for beauty—that is, the real "beauty hunger," which means the admiration of art for art's sake—is the most uncommon of all.—London Ex press. The Defects of Memory. With the mass of men it is unques tionable that one fact drives out an other, and it is doubtful if the most learned person carries in his mind more details of knowledge when fifty years old than he carried at twenty. It is only that he carries different things. The great lawyer, for instance, obliged to retain In his memory all the minu tiae of the most complex case, with the liability of hopeless defeat should one fact drop out of place in the chart of his mental voyage, may very likely have to enter on another case by whol ly forgetting the first one. He can no more carry it all with him than he can carry the knowledge by which he per haps graduated suiuma cum laude from college ten years before—as, for in stance, chemistry or the differential calculus.—Atlantic. • Drawn In. Hanson—How did you come to mar ry the widow Boncoeur instead of her daughter? I thought it was the daugh ter you were after. Janson —Well, so I was, to tell the truth, but when I asked Marie to marry me one day slie said, "Ask mamma," and when I start ed to do it I stammered so with nerv ousness that mamma said "Yes" be fore I had the question out. The Doctor Prescribes. Jlmson—Doctor, I'm getting too stout for comfort, and I want your advice. doctor— Nothing reduces flesh like worry. Spend two hours a day think ing of the unpaid bill you owe me. Still Worse. He—l know lots of women who haven't any sense of humor. She— Well, what of It? I know lots of men who haven't any sense at all! Detroit Free Tress. Contentment gives a crown where fortune hath denied it.—Ford. A Real English Joke. Leopards, it is stated, are becoming unpleasantly numerous in the neigh borhood of Siuila. Two of them re cently lay in wait for the mail cart, but fortunately they were spotted.— London Punvb- . ......
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