VOL. XXXXII. The DininS Room J > In every home, It seems to us, should be attractive- < ly and comfortably furnished —surroundings have a J > mighty influence upon cheerfulness. < For this season the furniture designs have sur- 'A > passed themselves, and we have here the very pick <K 4of the market ready for your looking—dining chairs 1 > of most comfortable shape; entire suits just about as M i attractive as wood can be made. A ) Perhaps one piece will improve the whole ap- * i pearance of your dining room. To look, you 11 > think a privilege; we'll think it a privilege to welcome < < you. < ! ; i BROWN 8r CO. j J No. 136 North Main St., Butler. THE MODERN STORE. Winter Hosiery for Everybody. Everything for Women, Children and Men. Winter Millinery Has the Call. We ™- v - a specialty of Hosiery and curry a sttvk so complete in every de tt.il X»wXanX*t your •YWT depir*. It embraces every size, style and quality udln' fxtr. be.vy fUtoe linod how, • regoUr 25r Mockiog. I#c p.n, S palrn 50c. Ladies' fine silky fleeced hose in plain or r.bbed, 2oc pair. Lftdie.' cash mew and wool SIZES 6 ' 8 ' Winer ftppced and cashmere hose, 86c and 80c pair. h-v, wool bo.. I.UU. ud (..c, p... S.iCp'nnilwww for laen. woman and children is the moet com pleU in Batier, and at Ims pripas for good (quality. Fine Millinery Favorably Priced, Our milliners can please, if yon want something specially chojoe and e* elusive in a hat. and at snch a moderate cost that you will regret waiting so lon* EISLER-MARDORF COnPANY, 1 221 Samples sent on request. OPPOSITE HOTBL ARLINGTON. BOTLKH. 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: jei,t p*r mm Glerk, per annum : : : ; : : s3U.pu Lights, Heat and incidentals $19^.00 Total > - • $1286.00 I have 00 store and can «aye yon this expense when gou bay of me. I sel) pianos for cash or easy monthly payments. I tafce pianos or orgaps in exchange and allow yon what they are worth to apply on the new instrument All pianos fully warranted as represented. MY PATRONB ARE MY REFERENCE. A few Of the people I haye fold pianos in Batier. Ask them. Dr. MtfOardy Bricker Or W. P-McEjroy Fred Porter Sterling Club Fraternal Order Eagles I> F. Reed Enworth League Woodmen of the World E W. mJZhfn, H. A. McPherson Geo. D. High Miss Anna McCandless W. J. E. A. Black J. S. Thompson Samuel Woods Joseph Woods Oliver Thompson 8. M McKee John Johnson A. W Boot B. A. Long well fiias Eleanor J. Hjllgafd Mrs Mary L. Strotjp J. E. Bowers W C Ourry C. F. Stepp F. J. Haucif W. J. Armstrong Miss Emma Bnghes Miles Billiard hu.ar Mrs. R. O, Rnmbangh E, K. Richey Ohas. E. Herr * L S. Yonoh PEOPLE'S PHONE 426- I Huselton's I I FALL WEAR. I I THE FALL STYLES SHOWN AT I I OUR STORE EMBRACE LOOKS I I FOR EVERY LIKING AND A I ■ GRACEFUL, COMFORTABLE FIT I I FOR EVERY FOOT. I I EXPERT FITTERS TO SEE THAT I I YOU ARE FITTED TQ THE I I SHOES MEANT FOR YQUR FEET. B I THE PRICES RANGE FROM $1 B ■ TO $4.00 AND EACH SHOWS A B ■ WIDE CHOICE OF STYLES IN B I THE LEATHERS THAT WILL B B BE POPULAR THIS FALL AND FL B WINTER B | P AFFOJFFI US QREAS | B PLEASURE TQ HAVE YOU LOOS B B OVER OUR FALL STYLES. B I HUSELTON'S I B 102 N. Main Street ft THE BUTLER CITIZEN. Immense Clothing Purchase an<l Sale By one of the most remarkable and largest deals ever known to the trade we can offer extraordinary Men's suit valueSs 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. £IB.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 Main Street. Butler, Pa. rJ#Ui*pr MEN rii« i-23v ll Won't buy clothing for the purpose of jf I) I II spending money. Th*y desire to get the HI 1 kl // II beet possible results of the money expended. jli 1 I If]/ 1 WjK ] II Those who buy custom clothing have a / ffy r right to demand a fit, to have their clothes XL \ m JrM. correct in style and to demand of the • r jd? seller to guarantee everything. Come to ub and there will bo rothing lacking. I jijHk ij have just received a large stock of Fall lA 11 , and Winter suitings in the latest styles, 000 \ Hfl I s hadea and colors. WJJpf JG. F. KECK, r 11 i MERCHANT TAIfcOR, \JIJIJ 142 N. Main St., Butler, Pa When a Woman Needs Notions AHE usually wants them HI once, tmr 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, I Some of these you ought to hayp at home in advance, j | {f your stock has run low come in—see how quickly i and willingly we'll meet your demands. UNDERWEAR, Wu've kept oqr eye* open far chances to obtain j the sort of underwear that's going to fit well, feel well and wear well—and yet be sold at prices you'll ap prove. Now, if you'll come in you will st e just how well we've succeeded in finding the very right things in these important items of woman's and children's wear. It pays to visit us when you need notions, under wear, hosiery, gloves, belts, ribbons, corsets, etc. L. Stein & Son, 108 N MAIN STREET, BUTLER, PA ; BickePs Fall Footwear, \ | Largest Stock and Most Handsome Styles of C > Fine Footwear we Have Ever Shown. Y< > SOROSIS SHOES, r< i lategt nn-to da£« stylos. |<ir«e of Misses qnd Chjl A I dren's rtne uUoes in many ntw arid proity styles for fall. { Showing all the latest styles in Men's BS£CL2—Fine Shoes, all lMther% 92 «n«l SO. ri i Complete Stock of Boys', Youths' and Little flents' Fine Shoes. kl 1 Bargains in School Shoes, kj Higb-cnt copper-toe shoes for Boys and good water proof School ( Shoes for Girls. ll . Large stock of Women's Heavy Shoes in Kangaroo-calf and Wjm ' Oil Grain for country wpar 1 L V ; Rubber and Felt Goods, 14 i Our stock of Huhber and Felt Uood« i< e*treiiiiy and FJ owipg to the large ordew which we plnced wo were abla to get very > close prices and are in a position to off"r yoit the loweut prices for Ml A best grades of Felts and Rubber Goodt-. f An immense business enables nn to name the very lowest L V { prices for reliable footwear. When in need of anything in our line give r.» z oa'u < Repairing Promptly Done. m i JOHN BICKELt i 128 S Main St., BUTLER. PA. k w w w w S) * I Acme Washers 1 \l Willi less Work Than any other Washer^ II »4 JJ; :' 4. ti. & W. CAMPBELL. || BUTLE, PA. $ BUTLER, PA., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1905. p~ — \ SOFT ] I HAT < 5 TIME. • £ The soft hat is a luxury # \ of luxuries for fall. * £ Soft hats are here in the £ d popular browns, pearls, 4 # fawn and black. Alpines # J and the low crowns that J 1 may be worn * creased, 5 2 dented or telescoped. 2 f We are showing the J £ new stiff hats. Have a £ * a dozen different styles. d j New fall neckwear that j 5 is just a little different £ £ from the others that you £ i know. # |jno. S.Wick. I J HATTER AND FURNISHER. R f 345 S Main St., } i (J. Stein Building.) t 5 Two Doors North of Willard Hotel. J Do You Buy Medicines? Certainly You Do. Then you want bist for the least rnopey. That is our motto. Come and see us when in need of anything in the Drug Line and we are qufe yc,y \yjU qgain. We carry a full line of Drugs. Chemicals, Toilet Articles, etc. Purvis' Pharmacy S. G. PURVIS, PH. O ttom fuouwK. 213 S Maic St. Bntler Pa. FALL SUITS We can save you money on ycy; {ail suit and fit you as well as the best and highest-priced city tailors. Ijeyy Fall gQQdfi just Heceived, Write us. C. P JOHNSTON & SQN CUSTOM TAILORS, PROSPECT, PENN'A Gibson's Livery (old May & «iand) rtrst-class horses and rigs. Excellent boarding accom modations. Good and clean waiting roorn : Open day and night. BERT McCANDLESS, Manager. Holt's Greenhouses, E. M. HOLT & Co. PROP'S. Salesroom 247 S. Main Street. Floral (IWUKUH fur funerals, partiefl, etc., a Bpecialty. POTTED PLANTS. Oar carnations are now in their prime. luver Studio Has added a full lir\e> of amateur PhQta buppiies, 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. ZUVEff STUDit) 513SS, Main St. Butler M. A. BERKIMER, Funeral Director, 245 S. MAIN ST., BUTLER, PA Citation Notice. BUTI.HU COUNTY, SS: ' The Coniraoowealth of Pennsylvania, to Martin L. Gibson, High Sheriff of Butler county, Pennsylvania, Greeting: WHEREAS, At an Orphan's Court held ai , Butler In and for -aid county on the tith day of September. In the year of our Lord one thousand niue hundred and live. l>efore the Honorable Judge thereof, the petition of ! Margaret Ward, widow of John S Ward, was j presented setting forth that John S. Ward died on or about the ilh day of February. ls*4. intestate without children or Issue and 1 leaving your petitioner a widow, anl brother j anil sisters and nieces to survive him as his ' heirs at iaw as follows: , Klien StillwaKon. a sister, widow of lsaac • PtlUwagon. dee'd., residing at Slippery Ko.-k, I Butler county. Pa. , Nancy Stillwagon. a sister widow of Adam Stillwagon. dee'd.. residing at Slippery Bock. Butler county. Pa. Amanda lfoover a sister, a widow of Samuel Hoover, dee'd., residing at North Hope, Butler county. Pa. Harvey Ward, a brother residing at Kaylor. Butler county. Pa. John, Samuel, Laura and William Ward, children of f'urtis Ward, dee'd., and Daisy Ward and Lizzie Ward, children jt George Ward, a dee'd., brother, whose residence are unknown, the wife of said George Ward, be ing also dee d., and who are the only parties interested in the estate of said John S. Ward, dee'd. That said John S. Ward, died seized of a certain messuage tenement and tract of land situate in Parker township. Butler county, and state of Pennsylvania, bounded and de »< rit>ed as follows: Beginning at a stone, thence north eighty-nine degrees east ninety-sl.x perches to a stone by lands of Thomas Shrvock formerly, now John Daub eus peck, Jr.; thence southeast forty-four perches to a stone, by lana* of \\ Ullarn Uaubenspeck; thence south eighty-nine de grees west ninety-si* perches to a hickory by lands of John U. Shryock; and thence north one degree west forty-four perches to the place of beginning; containing twenty six acres and sixty-four perches. A LSU—A certain other messuage tenement and tract of land situate In the township, county and state, aforesaid and bounded and described as follows: Commencing at a maple tree on Shryock line; thence north one degree east along said line 51 ti-10 perches to a post; thence north eleven and one-half degrees eastparches to a post on road ad joining lands of John Ward; thence north bue three-fourth degrees east i; perches to a post on road to lands of Amanda Hoover; thence south eighty-six and one half degrees east Jtj 7j-100 perches to a post by binds of Amanda Ucover; thence south one degree west 73 tf-10 perches by lands of William Da u ben speck to a white oak tree; thence south seventy-one degrees west 13 75-10U perches to a post by lands of Wllllain Daubenspeck; thence south sixty-two de grees west K perches to a maple tree, the place of beginuing by lands of William Daubenspeck. The present gr aQ t or utecv ot parcel of land to COuruth twenty a, 1 res and forty threp befches, strict measure. That in and by virtue of a decree of your Honorable Court the first mentioned aOOVC described tract w;usset apart to your petition er as the widow of the said decedent under the exemption laws, of this Commonwealth and that the remaining above described twenty acres and forty-three or land descended to :iptl lit'<?aif\e Vested under the intestate lavS af V''ls Commonwealth, In your petitioner as tne widow and the above named parties us heirs at iaw of said des oeudent between whom no partition has been made and which remains sul>dlvlded. Your petitioner therefore prays the Court to award an imiuest to make partition of said real estate to and among the parties afore said according to their respective rtgh,!^. <>BQES Of VMLUI* \pdnp.i. September fith, IHOfl. the within ptfttlob presented anil citation awarded and the Sheriff Is directed to make personal ser vice on all parties resident In the county and all others by publication according to rule, returnable at next term. BY THE COUR" These are therefore to command yo'u the said Ellen Btlllwatjoc, ' Ptiflwagon, A martin Uv>UW, Harvey Ward, John. : „u,Ubl.-Laura atd William Ward, Daisy Ward and Lizzie Ward to be and appear be fore the said Judge at an Orphans' Court, to be held at Butler for the said comity of Butler on the 4th day of December, ;.MS, at in o'clock In the foreyops J »»td'day to show cause tjhy t aia partition as prayed for .t..JJid fiot be granted, and to submit to such other orders and decrees as the said Court shall make touching the premises. Witness the Honorable James M. fjal hreath. President Judge o.f uuj uaiti Co.urt, the 22nd day ot SppiuniLec, A T). 19». w >' t. F? CHBISTLEV. Clerk of Courts. Legal Notice. frit COMMONWEALTH or PENN'A, I BUTLEA COUNTY, ( • To the Sheriff of said county, Greeting: Whereas, Edwin D. Adams and C. C. Zlnn, Kxecutors of the last will and testament Qf M. 8. Adams, late of Parker Pennsyl vania, on tho 'B JuV a{ tjfep'tembcr, A. D. ''«j, I. v iitp:e4 ttteu petition to the Court of iloihrtifin Vleas of s,ald county, at MS. D. No. 3 4 of September tcriu of said Court, setting orth: "That on the 13th day of July. A. D. ISM. the said M. S. Adams, made, executed and delivered to Henry Graff, his certalu mort gage In the sum of ten thousand do!iais. conditioned for tho dellv<»re(;copsvvVttUud red tons of nly Cl6>u\ Graf, in Pltti-biirc. la, i*w. it*) yovi;"ADnl (5, which -"111 mortgage was H'C'Oraed In the ottto>> for recording of deeds, &c.. in Huiler county. In Mortgage Book, No. '2, puge 113, on ths 11) day of October, IS'-', and by the terms thereof become a ijen upon. Inter alia, all that rertiin tract of land -ilti', ate In Allegheny township. Butlp; M hty, Pennsylvania, commonly paiiea wie Maple l-'urnance Tr-cV Uusndeu on tlie north by 1"n U <>v W.C.'Aaams; east by lands of Pierce Jc'lflack; south by lands of Allsworth heirs; and on the west bv lands of Andrew Camp bell, containing vt)7 acres, together with all the machinery, engines, Implements, tc&lg, &r., of and belonging to Vumie'e thereon erected That tha talJ V ° Attanis, having com. ulii-d 180 Condition »if i,;ild mortgage ■in? {lmvefoa tile pig UlCtal therein men tioned to l>e delivered to the said Graff, tlie following entry was made on the margin of ttie record of said mortgage, by John Gra ham, attorney of said Graff, to-wlt: "1 here by enter satisfaction of this mortgage written authority from the Graham, att'y, DO pnc.. ItfA. 1 But nu legal savisfacUrtij «f said mortgage ivas er'er the recwd oj Indices of W.a tiloftßaae, that both Mortgagor, M. S. AJAnis, ami Mu*t*atft<t>, lie Dry Graff, ute "■That llio said described lands are now In the hands of the petitioners for the purpose of raising money with which to pay the costs of administration and the Indebteijne 4 j of M. 8. Adams, deceased, In which are meeting with difficulty by uf the above stated legally wrtsaan. Wherefore- VH' 'petitioners pray the said Ooti.k to tO.ikv Ofder directing the Sheriff of 3Uj<l county, to serve notice accoralng to law, tbe Act of June 11, 1<71), upon the legal representatives of llenrv Graff, deceased, the mortgagoe, requiring them to aopear and show cause why said mortgage (thauld not be satlslled of record, iinu ilfto\t tueir failure so to da u»a up&, tjfrihf being made ''i ir> .tfjp witu vW comlltWs (Tjetvof M above stated, that thf Cvurt de cree and direct' that thereof be I r nK' ' * mortgage as '' ' ' ED. ADAMS, C. C, ZINN, Executors, *o. Whereupon the said Court made the fol lowing order. to-wlt: And now, September Z', llufci, the within petition presented In open Court, and U\ %ocQrdanco with the prayer thereof ll IN ordered and directed that the ilkerlff of Butler county, serve notice, wtat li.g the facts set forth In the within petition, upon the legul representative of Henry Graff, If to be found within thu said county of Butler, and In case said parties cannot be found within said county, then to give notice as aforesaid In one or wore news papers published within said county, once a week for four weeks successively prior to the uext term of said Court requiring the said parties to appear at the next term of said Court, December till. r.mj. and answer said petition and show cause, If any they hare, why the said mortgage should not DC satlslled as provided by law, and Tuesday, Decembers, at 10 o'clock a. m., Is fixed for a hearing hereon. BY TIIK COURT- Certified from the record, this duy of September, A. I). 18U5. JOHN »-'• CLARK, I'rothonotary. To tUu representatives of Henry deceased. \<>u are, bv vlrtao of the above stated order of Court, hereby notified and required to appear a( the next term of said Court, December 4, 180S, and answer tlie said |H*tltlon and show cause If any yciu have why said mortgage slioulil rui; lw> satisfied. In default whereof tl\e '.a'td Court will make mi order and d«vreo directum satisfaction thereof us iirovlded by law. TSIARTIN L. (JIBBON. Sheriff. Application for Charter of Corporation. Notice in hereby given that an appli cation will bo made to the Court of Common Fleas of liutlor comity, I'a., on Thuvsdaj, the Vth (lay of November, |y,U>, at 1:80 o'clock, P. M., under the provision* of th« Corporation Act of April 'JIUh; lw?4, and its supplements, for h charter for an intended corpora tion to be called "The Italian Fraternal and Beneficial Society of Butler," tli<j character and object of which are i«>r the part>oHe of supporting v,u<\ Main taining a society for fr',\Wu*l and bene ficial purposes »t« member*, froiu funds colluUeJ vherein by membership uuitoriu monthly due#, flues and upon itu members, ax Hhall be necessary from time to time, and in uuch wanner an the by-laws may pro vide, for the payment of its current ex penses and monthly benefits to its sick and disabled members; and to promote friendship, unity, christian brotherhoul and charity anionic its members, anil for these purposes to haya. and cnioy nil the righ'js, U-m-tits and privi lege* confeirt'J by the said act and the sunplementa thereto Frank H. Mciu'Hy, Solicitor. At the Old Horse Sale By Sara Beaumont Kennedy Copt/right, 14u5, by Sara Beaumont Kennedy "You must not go In there. It is no place for you." There was more than protest iu his voice. There was posi tive command, which, j>erhaps, was the reason why she walke<l directly under the auctioneer's red flag into the ex press office, already thronged with idle, curious buyers. "I never was at anything more ex-' citing than a dry goods bargain sale. This will be positively like Monte Carlo." "Our uncle will disapprove"— "Of course he will. lie disapproves of most things I do since you took up the role of social mentor for the fam ily. That year abroad spoiled you, Adolphus. You have never been en durable since you took to patent up pers and a monocle. Now, Nick would have brought me in here without a word of remonstrance and lent me every penny out of his pocket if I ueeded it to bid with —lent me even his car fare and walked home uncom plainingly and carried my parcels." "If he had not happened to see an old woman or a lame cat to help over the crossing. In which case, very likelj', he would have laid the parcels down and quite forgotten to pick them up," "Perhaps, for Nick is a hit absent minded. but he is perfectly adorable when It cflWfrf to giving a girl her own wsy. u "My brother is happy in winning your good opinion. It "is my misfor tune"— "No, it's your fault; you are so frightfully conventional. Dear me, Whut c-urioua people!" "They are tho drift from the street None of our set ever"— "There, the auctioneer is beginning again. It will be perfectly to buy something sud Rot have the least idea wlyit U >R—so weird an' 1 mysten<Mia?* 'Nellie, surely you are not going to bid out loud in this crowd!" "I certainly am. There is no harm In It, and I am sick to death of the right anglo rules by which you and uncle measure piy life. Wonder what that woman found In her parcels? There goes up a bandbox. I shall bid on that." "Nfllie, don't!" h.O first commanded, then entreated vehemently, but she was as a deaf adder that stoppeth her ears. "Fifty cents," she called, tn answer to the auctioneer's challenge, at the time stepping upon an empty box by the wall, so that she was In plain view of tho whole crowd. "Seventy-five cents!" screamed a feminine voice across the hall. "One dollar," flashed back Nellie, her color rising, her eyes shining, far her cousin's voice came pp to her In agi tated whisper*. "OR* fifty," came from her opponent. '•Two dollars," cried Nellie, pushing Adolphus' hand from her sleeve. "Three dollars," shrieked the other woman, nervously counting the change in her purse. No Ofle else was bid ding, the crowd having centered UH Pi (ration on the nervous woman «nd the "swell" girl, and there were cheers and counter cheers as the bids rose dollar by dollar until at last the coveted box was knocked down to Nel lie. still laughing and flushed with her triumph when they emerged from the door over which flew tho red flag, but Adolphus felt miserable and compromised, and this feeling was not abated when he saw the astonishment Mt til® eyes of Miss Curtis, whose lan dau happened ut that moment to pass, for Miss Curtis was the personifica tion of rigiil conventionality. Ue count ed tho meeting as ono more misfortune in an unlucky day, Nellie** excitement waned as they walked, and by the time they entered her uncle's gate she was strangely si lent. Adolphus evidently took thla for a hopeful sign, for presently he cleared his throat, adjusted his monocle and began: "Nellie, we must talk seriously. The Itm© IKm come"— "No, It hasn't conio," she said, In terrupting him good naturedly, "so stop right there. I don't know whether this is a lecture «r a proposal of mar riage—your private talks with uie vi brate between these two subjects— but I am In no mood for either. For heaven's sake, Adolphus, throw that glass away. I hate to be spied at like that!" With a repronehful sigh he removed the offending glnss and said: "Nick not only lectured you yesterday; ho posi tively scolded yon, and"— "And I deserved It, but I answered him back spitefully, like the little beast I am, and l»e—li« hasn't even noticed me since." She turned her head so that ho did not seo the quiver of her rod lips, the pnsslonato protest of her eyes. All their set knew that her dicta torial old uncle Intended she should marry Adolphus, who satisfied his so clnl ambitions, while Nick, who cared lothlng for society, smoked a pipe and forgot to have his trousers creased, was a thorn In the old man's side. Between these two were constant dis agreements, which Nellie had hitherto managed to make up, but yesterday there had been n quarrel of uuusual violence, and there was even some talk af Nick's leaving the house. It was of this she had beeu thinking as she followod her purchase home. "Adolphus." she said as they mount ed the-steps, "can't you do something— anything—to patch up this new quar rel between Nick nnd uncleV It Isn't Nick's fault that he Is- that he wan —was born different from you and un cled "I quite agree with ray uncle about this slumming business. A man In Nick's position owes something to—to appearances." "Stuff!" she scoffed and ran by him Into the house. In the library, to stem the tide of Adolphus' wooing, she hastily opened Uer box and lifted out the contents, a quaint and curious bonnet of a decade ago, a bonnet with a scooped brim plied high with flowers and nodding plumes. As she put It on her head, shrieking with laughter, her uncle and Nick entered the room, both of them showing In their manner strong excite ment. The girl paused In her pirouet ting and paled at the sight of the stern faces. Her uncle saw her strange head gear sml angrily demanded Its origin. Adolphus explained very carefully, not forgetting Ills own expostulations against the caprice. The old man turn ed wrathfully upon the girl. "You and Nick are of a piece lu your attempts to humiliate and make a laughingstock of me. My niece, til# female head of jpy family, bidding At a common auction against a washer woman: Take that hideous thing out of iny sight:" But the spoiled girl only made him a daring little courtesy which set all tlie bonnet's varlhued plumes a-nadding. Nick crossed the room to her side. "Nellie," he said wistfully, "I am go ing away for good; my uncle and I have agreed it is best He has for bidden me to speak to you of marriage (and that is the cause of our quarrel), but I love you with all my heart. You know what I hare to offer you, dear, but will you come with me as my wife?" It was as if a bomb had exploded at the old man's feet. The words of in terruption he would have uttered were only splutterlngs of anger. By the table the girl paused, trembling and going from white to red. Then her uncle found his voice. "Out of my sight, sir! Your disobe dience shall cost you dearly. I dis own you—l cut you off without a penny for your impudence! Your In heritance shall be"—he glanced about for the most worthless thing in sight, and his eye lit on tire empty box on the table—"that trash, sir! Take your inheritance and go:" He was pointing to the door, but Nick's eyes were on Nellie and Into them there flashed a radiant joy as at a sign from her he approached the table. "You give me this box and its con tents as my fortune, sir?" "Yes." "Then I am content, for you have given me that which I most desire in all the whole world." The old man looked sharply at the two smiling faces. "What mummery Is this?" he demanded. Then he, too, approached the table and peered into the box where Nick's eyes were fas tened. "What is that?" be cried, ad justing his glasses. "If you please, sir. it is Nick's heri tage," answered Nellie shyly. For in the side of the pasteboard box was a hole through which the rogue of a girl had thrust her dimpled hand. And that was how Nellie obtained her uncle's consent and how Nick won Uls heart's desire as the aftermath of the old horse sale. Dlfllealtr *ai Btw. There Is not that conflicting an tagonism between difficulty and ease that is commonly imagined. Many par sons count the former as the bane of existence, to be avoided as far as pos sible, and the latter an agreeable friend, whose presence la always to be courted. On the contrary, however, they are both elements of human life Intended to work In harmony with each other, and thus to produce a beneficial effect upon us that neither one could effect alone. Every difficulty rightly treated leads by a direct road to ease, How hard and perplexing were the first trembling steps of the infant as he tot tered to his mother's knee! A year or two later and the very easiest thing the healthy child can do is to leap, to run, to bound. Now he Is slowly learn ing the forms of the letters and pain fully endeavoring to trace them with the pen, but In a short tlma he will read and write without an effort. So with everything ha undertakes to do through life. Its difficulty when cour ageously accepted and coped with gradually yields to its easy and smooth performance. Hia Braid of Blrda. Nearly every man, woman or child who goes to Jefferson City pays a visit to the penitentiary, for, though a gloomy, forbidding place, it has a strong interest. While acting as as sistant city counselor Jacques Harvey was at the capital on some legal busi ness and wandered up to look over the "pen." He joined a party making the rounds, one member of which was a little girl. She became interested in the convict who bandies the revolving cage that lets visitors In and out, and stopped to talk to him: " 'Do you find It dull here, sir?' she said. " 'lndeed I do, miss,' the convict an- Svered. " 'Still,' said the child, 'the singing of the birds helps to relieve the monot ony. doesn't it?' " 'Singing of the birds?' said the con vict In a puszled voice. " 'Yes,' said the little girl. " 'What birds?' asked the man. "The wall meaning but Ignorant chlkl with a hopeful smile replied: | " "The little Jail birds. Asy must be n great comfort to you.' Kansas City Independent. AN OLD TIME OUTING. One With Which Samuel Pepym Wu Very M«b Pleaaed. Samuel Pepys describes a seven teenth century Sunday outing, and the tale has a very modern ring to it. "Lord's day," be writes, "up, and my wife, a little before 4, to make us ready." And here he records his an noyance that "she was so long about it." Pepys then goes on: "She ready nnd taking some bottles of ,wlne and beer and cold fowle with us." Coach and four horses from London to Ep son), where they arrived ut 8 o'clock, drank the waters, ordered dinner, ate it. "A good dinner and were merry." After dinner, "the day being wonderful hot, to sleep." Then followed a coach to "take the ayro," a shepherd with a little boy rcadir*? the Bible "with the forced tone that children do usually read that was mighty pretty." The shepherd "did bless (Sod" for that boy. In Epsom town n "poor woman with her milk pall" and "did drink our bellyfulls of milk." Then to the coach, it being about 7 at night. Ho pleased was Pepys with his day's results that he records his resolution, "Never to keep n country house, but to keep n coach and with my wife on a Saturday to go sometimes for a day to tills place aud then cpilt to another place, and there is more variety and as little charge aud no trouble as there Is In a country house." FLAG ETIQUETTE. Hnlfß Thill Govern the Dliplaf of the Rational Emblem. The government regulations provide that on ttie death of a president in of fice Its dug shall be displayed at half mast only one day. lit memory of the soldiers who lost their lives during the civil war, on May 30, Memorial day, each year the United Slates displays Its flag at half staff at all army posts, stations and national cemeteries from sunrise until midday. Immediately before noon a dirge Is played by the baud or field music, aud the national salute of twen ty-ono guns Is flrcd. At the conclusion of this memorial tribute at noon the Hag Is hoisted to the top of the staff and remains there until sunset. The idea is that the national ensign is too sacred ar. object to be loug in mourn ing for any man or number of men, no matter how exalted their rank. The flag reversed, with the union down. Indicates djptrew. The flag on " V" No. 48. anything but a fort actually besieged should never be displayed between sun set and sunrise. When the flag is to be displayed at half mast it is lowered to that position from the top of the staff. It is hoisted to the top before it Is finally lowered.— Washington Post. THE FIRST CIGARS. Haraaaa Were Smoked la Pmrla aa Loa* Ago as 1812. When were cigars first smoked? Ac cording to a French authority, the weed ' In this shape was not introduced Into France till the return of the French army from Spain in 1823. This fact is on the authority of Hippolyte Auger, the dramatic author, who writes thus in his memoirs: "Our return from Paris was by way of Orleans. On the route we met quite frequently officers returning from Spain. They had generally cigars in their mouths—a new habit, since be come general. From this point of view the campaign of 1823 had the good financial result of establishing a new branch of Import trade." Another document, however, carries back the use of the cigar to a slightly earlier period. The "Hermit of the Chassee d'Antln," 1813, going to see his nephew, a young officer at Paris, finds him at his hotel in morning cos tume and smoking a Havana cigar. The taste for cigars seems at this time to have been sufficiently extended to make them a common article in the stock of every grocer who was careful to cater to the wants of his customer!. A Deetded Oplaloa. "I was in a railroad accident once," said a bishop, and I was helping an elderly lady from our wrecked car. Be hind us came a noble looking English lady with her husband by her side. "She was scolding him well for start ing on their journey on Friday. 'I told you, James,' she said, 'something would happen if we should start on Friday.' " 'Madam,' said I, 'do you know that Columbus set sail to discover America.' on Friday?' "She looked at me with indignation and said, 'Sir, in my opinion it la a great pity America was ever discovered at all.'" FRIVOLITY IN ENGLAND. A Claim That It la What ImOt, Keepa the Nation Sane. Which is worse—to be too serious or . too frivolous? I have no doubt about the matter myself, so far as individuals art concerned, though all extremists are bores. The perpetually lively, feather brained, pleasure erased crea ture is almost, if not quite, as irritating as the deadly serious individual. But; apropos of the accusation recently, lodged against us that as a nation we are becoming too frivolous, one cannot help saying that we are a great deal livelier than we were a few years agct and for this relief assuredly we hare cause to be thankful. In consequence we are accused of having become too frivolous. It seems to me that we have just got matters nicely balanced. This is an age when we are prepared to be cranks on tha slightest provocation. People crave for missions, they wallow in philanthropy, they pounce with avidity on new re ligions, tbey will plunge into politics or write attacks on women, society, the degeneracy of the age, or anything else that gives them an opportunity of airing what they call their views. So surely, if deslpere in loco were not oc casionally to be permitted to us, It Is fearful to think what we should be come. Our frivolity is the antidote to the twentieth century disposition to ward crankiness. It really keeps us sane.—London World. THE HOODED COBRA. It la Veaerated la India aa the Ona Snored Serpent. Of all the snakes of India the naga, nag or hooded serpent, commonly, known as the cobra, alone is sacred. It is called the good snake, and is con sidered a protector and harbinger of success. The veneration of the cobra is Intimately connected with the wor ship of the sun, and is thus closely re lated to the orthodox Hindoo religion. According to the Mahabbarata, the heaven over which India ruled was mainly tenanted by Devas and Nagas, the former being deified heroes of the Aryas and the latter those of the Naga people on earth. Although wars continued for a long time to be frequent between rival chiefs of the Invaders (Aryas) and the invaded (Nagas), a gradual fusion be tween the two peoples took place, and heaven was shared equally by Devas and Nagas. The serpent gods are wor shiped now, as they were then, not as dangerous reptiles, nor as mere sym bols, but as the deified rulers of an ancient people, whose tribal, or, rather, perhaps, racial, emblem was the naga, or hooded serpent, and whose chief deity was the sun; hence the Naga temples are not dedicated to the ser pent, but to the Naga rajahs, the an cient rulers of the race. SOCIAL SPONGING. Tha Extant to Which It la Carried In London. There is probably no city in the world where there Is so much social sponging done as in London. At their big functions hosts and hostesses have frequently not the remotest acquaint ance with many of the people who at tend them and whose cheek Is only ex ceeded by their voracity. "I have one particular case in memory," says a writer in the Boston Herald, "where a woman brought fifty of her friends. It was at the house of a millionaire, the Hon. Glln Vivian, in Eaton square. On the same occasion nearly every one else brought herself, her family and all her friends. It was a never to be forgotten gathering. Many people nev er succeeded in getting beyond the hall door. An excellent supper had been provided for about three or four hun dred, but there must have been a thou sand present. About 1 a. m. people were sitting about in the bedrooms eat ing ssndwiches and drinking claret or champagne —in fact, anything they could grab from the supper table—and the story went that they got so hungry, and riotous that they invaded the wine cellar and the larder." A Carefnl Wife. Hubby (desperately)— Give me your clothesline. I'm going to hang myself. Wlfey (sweetly)—Oh, George, I'm so sorry. This clothesline is so rotten it won't hold you. You'll have to buy one, dear!— Cleveland Leader. Snd Reault of Kxperlmaat. Aunt Ann—You think John no longer loves you? New Wife (sobbing)—l—l know It, auntie! I p-put on an ug-ugly, old bat tills moruiug unci he never no ticed the dif-dlf-dlfferegce!—Chicago Tribune. i
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