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
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Ghaa ; ft, Herr ti- 0. Vouch
PEOPLE'S PHONE *2§
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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- . ......