VOL. XXXXIII. THE MODERN STORE- Furs, Millinery and Dress Skirts Reduced. Hollder Remnants Closed Out. _______ This week yon may h tve choice of any Fur Scarf or Mnff iD our stock at 66c on the dollar. Many handsome ones left to select from. Cola weather is only coming:. This is a far opportunity. MILLINERY t-2 PRICE All Millinery at 50c on the dollar. Choice of any trimmed hat in stock, no matter what th»- price. All birds, wings, plumes and braids are included in this sale. SKIRTS 1-4 OFF Some lively doings in Jrees skirts. You may have your choice at 75c on the dollar for anything you want. These are staple goods but we want to move them. . Remnant? have accnnrulated all over the store daring the Holiday rush. You can have them cheap. You will be sure to find just what you want among them for shir c waists, skirts or child's dresses. Our January Clearance Sale begins next Monday* January Btlx. "Watch for Big Bargains. Home Journal Patten's now here for January. Call or send for 12 page Style Book free. EISLER-MARDORF COfIPANY, SOUTH MAia STKZKT » « r%4 LLASamples sent on request. ij Remodeling and Sacrifice Sale [ M CONTINUES. U H Great Opportunity to < M Save Money. « rJ Stock The Most Complete 4 Ll This store has ever shown d W The whole stock —nothing reserved—must be >j 1 sold at earliest moment possible. Goods from fac- M A tory at almost fractory prices. Come, take your 1 choice of the entire stock at astonishing discounts 4 < from regular price. n < Every Yard of Carpet to be sold j J The entire stock of Ingrain Carpets—Linoleums | \ —Mattings at COST. Thousands of yards of best J all-wool carpets at loom prices. They're going; . \ come quick, or you miss a bargain. } W Bring the measure of your room and we can . r tell just what it will take. * r WATCH OUR AD. NEXT WEEK. [ \ BROWN &• CO. I M No. 136 North Main St., Butler. h Nrs. J. E. ZIMMERMAN I 1 The Store That Dee* What it Advertises. < 1 > < > ' A Remarkable Coat Sale! > < > Just received one hundred beautiful mannish Coats, colors, tan. gray, Coverts, > black, green; lengths. All It 50 t0515.00 values at special sale price of 110.00. ) I > HANDSOME FURS < 1 ' Mink. Sable, blended squirrel, rich In coloring as Russian Sable, gray squirrel. ' ' I fox and martin; In flat effects; rovelty neck pieces and always stylish and com- , i ' fortable scarfs and boa effects, with muffs to match. Neck pieces 98c up to (30,00, ' ' , Muffsl7.Soto tes.oo. Match Sen of Furs|H.so, |lo 00,112.50, fla.oo up to|7s per set. j | > LINGERIE WAISTS < l i Another lot of those handsome Linegrie Waists and colored under slips to | } wear with them. Just what yoaaeed for evonlng wear. Waists «Bc, $1.50, £25 up )to 110.00. { I » RAIN COAT SPECIALS < » I Twenty-live handsome Rain Coats, Tan and Oxford. (15.00 values for 110,00. I I > HOLIDAY ANNOUNCEMENT * ' Every department has the holiday spirit and from the Grandest Christmas i ' I Stocks we've ever shown, come these practical and fanciful gift suggestions. Dolls. Handkerchiefs. Oloves, Hosiery, Bath Robes, Children's Books, Leather , Goods. Run. Jewelry, Bureau jarfs, Stamped Linens, White Goods, Notions, Lace i k Curtains, Silk Waists. Sofa PU'.'.ws. Art Embroideries. Baby Outfits, Golf Blouses " " | and VesU, Shawls, aprons. Toilet Articles, Umbrellas, Combs and Belts. 4 j > MIKADO JAPANESE GOODS ' < > ( Of course you're'lnterested la the tilg cities. Mikado Japanese goods are * > known and sought for by everv woman. They comprise such tempting articles as Mancy neckwear, hand-drawn Handkerchiefs, dainty collar and cuff sets, dollies j and center pieces. Mlkako me ins better but no higher. ijMrs. J. G. Zimmerman.; Sp««i>te*.Viion6.m. Butler, Pa. 1 >0000000000000000000000? ■/' , C / $7 New buildings, new rooms, elegant new equipment, excellent courses of study, beet of teachers, expenses moderate, terms \ EBi LlßfcttALi. Over $2 000.00 worth of new typewriters in use tallowing advanced students from 3 to 4 hours' practice per day), other equipment m proportion! Winter Term, Jan 2, 1i»0' ij j| | shades and colors. Will i G. F. KECK, ' ■ v IjtV MERCHANT TAItOR, ? L'J-J V' J Jnvw ' Fine Shoes, all leathers, $2 and *(i. WA J Complete Stock of 3oys', Youths' and Little Genti' Fine Shoes. * ! Bargains in School Shoes, [j High-cut copper-toe shots for Boys and good water proof School Ll i Shoes for Girls. 1 . Large stock of Women's Heavy Shoes in Kangaroo-calf and wjM ' Oil Grain for country wear, LI I Rubber and Felt Goods. . Our stock of Rubber and Felt Goods is extremly large and r, owing to the large orders which we placed we were able to get very k ► close prices and are in a position to offer you the lowest prices for B i best grades of Felts and Rubber Goods. Fi f An immense business enables us to name the very lowest k < prices for reliable footwear. W When in need of anything in our line give us a call. w 4 < Repairing Promptly Done. w j JOHN BICKELH j 128 S Main St., BUTLER. PA. j '''' j V J. Q. &W. CAMPBELL, }g BUTLE, PA. BUTLEB, PA V THURSDAY, JANUARY 4, 1900. PROFESSIONAL CARDS. PHYSICIANS, DR. L. R. HAZLETT. 100 W. Diamond St.. Butler. North side of Court House. Eye. Ear, Nose and Throat work, a j specialty. N M. ZIMMERMAN IT. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON At 327 N. jiin St. JA t \IES C. D. j PRACTICE LIMITED TO Eye, Ear Nose and Throat. OFFICE HOURS— 9 to 10 a. in., 1 to 8 p. m., 7toßp. m. Sunday by appoint ment. 121 E. Cunningham Street, Butler, Pa. BOTH PHONES. OSTEOPATHY. DR. JULIA E. FOSTER. OSTEOPATH. Consultation and examination free. Office hours—9 to 12 A. M., 2 to M., daily except Sunday. Evening appointment. Office —Stein Block, Rooms 9-10, But ler, Pa. People's Phone 478. DENTISTS. DR. S. A. JOHNSTON, PROSTHETIC DENTIST. I Teeth extracted absolutely painless. Take Vitalized Air or Nitrous Oxide. All work satisfactory. 127* S. Main St., BUTLER, PA. DR. FORD H. HAYES. DENTIST. Graduate of Dental Department, University of Pennsylvania. Office —215 S. Main Street, Butler, Pa. DR J. WILBERT MCKEE, SCRGEON DENTIST. Office over Leighner's Jewelry store, Butler, Pa Peoples Telephone 505. A specialty made of gold fillings, gold crown and bridge work. DR. H. A. MCCANDLESS, DENTIST. Office in Butler County National Bank Building, 2nd floor. DR. M. D. KOTTRABA, Successor to Dr. Johnston. DENTIST Office at No 114 E. JeSerson St., over G. W. Miller's grocery ATTORNEYS. RP. SCOTT • ATTORNEV-AT-LAW, Office in Butler County National Bank building. AT. SCOTT, . ATTORNEY AT LAW. Office at No. 8. West Diamond St. But ler, Pa. COULTER & BAKER, ATTORNEYS AT LAW. Office in Butler County National Bank building. TOHN W. COULTER, TL ATTORNEY-AT-LAW. Office on Diamond, Butler, Pa. Special attention given to collections and business matters. HH. GOUCHER, . ATTORNEY AT LAW. Office in Wise building. D. McJUNKIN, . ATTORNEY-AT-LAW. Office in Reiber building, cornei Main and E. Cunningham Sts, Entrance on Main street. JB. BREDIN, • ATTORNEY AT LAW. Office on Main St. near Court Honst WC. FINDLEY, • ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, AND PENSION ATTORNEY. Office on South side of Diamond, Butler, Pa p F. L. McQUISTION, V. CIVIL ENGINEER AND SURVEYOR Office near Court House EH. NEGLEY • ATTORNEY AT LAW. Office in the Negley Building, West Diamoud WM. WALKER. CHAS. A. MCELVAIN WALKER & McELVAIN, 307 Butler County National Bank Bld'g REAL ESTATE. INSUUANCK, OIL PROPERTIES. LOANS. BOTH PHONES S INTERNATIONAL S / Stock and Poultry Food } C 25c, 50c, SIOU and $3 50 > r packages. 7 \ ALSO { 3 Heave Cure J v Worm Powder v * Colic Cure i t Silver Pin 6 Healing Oil \ J Pheno Chlor f r Louse Killer j \ Harness Soap J f Honey—Tar Foo? remedy S 3 Gall C'Hre C Hoof ix-*- I f _*ment * J Redick & Grohman> i 109 North Main St, 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 | Tom's Wife By A. M. DAVIES OGDEN I Copj-right, 19Q3. by E. C. Parcells I l ' Down in the street a sudden bursting j of bombs announced an ''extra,*' and : the sick man lying 011 the bed in the > little hotel room stirred wearily and { opened his eyes. A touch of "chuehu" 1 bad taken strength and vitality, and an intense depression weighed like a stone on body and soul. There could be no news in this South American repub lic that interested him. The president had probably made a speech; the weekly steamship from England liad arrived. At the thought a sob surged up into his «liroat. England, his coun try, how far away and how dear: Resting there, motionless, passive, picture after picture began to flit through his brain—the trim little coun try houses, covered with vines and with trees where the rook* cawed eter nally; the narrow, honeysuckle hedged lanes. And Tom—dear old Tom. The man's face softened. And Alice, lie moved restlessly and strove to think of other tilings, of his life In the ten years since he had watched the white cliffs of the Xeedles fading Into the dis tance. Sheep raising, farming, mining, he had tried his hand at them all. And now, ill and forlorn, he lay alone in this room iu Buenos Ay res. It. was time for his medicine. The doctor had bidden him be particular about tt, but Rockhill frowned. What was the use of getting well ?he mused listlessly. No body cared; there was nobody to care. The thoughts of England came throng ing back, strong, insistent, refusiug to be suppressed. Rockhill, weak physioal- Iy and mentally, let himself drift on the tide. What had become of Tom- Tom, with his brave blue eyes, his glorious voice? He could not remem ber the time when he and Tom had not been sworn companions, robbing the orchards, whipping the pools to gether. To Rockhill, a lonely boy liv ing with a stern old uncle, .the com -1 pauionship of the other lad had been the brilliant web woven against the dull woof of home life. And the golden thread worked into the pattern, giving it the final touch of beauty and pre clousuess—ah, that had been Alice! Closing ills eyes, the mau saw again the sweet, girlish face surrounded by Its tangle of gold brown hair. How Joyously they all bad lived and frolick ed together until the time when Itock hlll, eager and ambitious, had departed for college. The man 011 the bod shivered, the memory of that return from college was yet so poignant. In one night the hope of a life had b«eu undone. It was then that be had left England. And from that day he had heard no word of those behind. Were they hap py, those two? That Alice and Tom were long since married he never doubted. Did they ever speak of him, wonder about hi 3 abrupt disappear ance? He brooded over it wistfully Had they cared? Still drowsing in the grip of old memories, Rockhill lay, as the daylight faded, half dreaming, half awake, when suddenly the sound of a voice In the next room brought him up with a start. A man was singing softly below his breath, but still ijuite distinguish ably. Rockhill, clutching the bed clothes with shaking hands, tried to reason with himself. It was a dream, an Illusion conjured up by fancy and fever. But the voice kept steadily on. There was 110 mistaking those clear, mellow tones. It was Tom's voice. Tom himself wua singing in the next room. Rockliill's dry Hps tried to form a word. "Tom," he breathed, "Tom." But no sound came. A suddeu unrea soning despair seized him. Tom was there, close to him, and he could not call him, could not attract his atten tion. He would go and Rockhill would be left alone again, this time forever, lie must make Tom hear, he must. And then slowly, carefully, his voice breaking on the feeble notes, the man on the bed began tu ' tug. Weak, bare ly audible, in phrasing and intonation the notes were yet a recognizable imi tation of Tom singing liia favorite song as he had sung it so often In those old days. There was a stir in the next room, then the sound of the hasty opening and shutting of a door. The next mo ment Rockhili's own door Hew open and on tho threshold stood a uian, tall, eager faced, with clear blue eyes. "Tom!" cried Rockhill. "Torn!" And he fainted. When he recovered con sciousness Tom, Ills eyes suspiciously bright, was kneeling by tue bedside. Jle held ltockliill's two wasted hands tightly clasped in his own. "Gilbert, old fellow," lie was saying, "Gilbert, where have you kept yourself all these years?" he pursued, and his Voice was tenderly reproachful. "How could you run off that way?" Gilbert smiled in pure content at hearing the well known voice. "I—oh, never mind me," ho answered. "I was all right {ll} i was taken ill in this ccntuuntled hole. But you, Tom— vou," as If famished for news—"how /lid you come here and your wife"— his voice faltering on the word. But Tom did not notice. "Yes, my wife H with me," »>*. Ha ld cheerily. "But how d* - you kno ';. thnt 1 WUM , oil, guessed," as the „„.jer nodded. "You must know, too, then, that 1 am now a celebrity," with mock seriousness. "No? You hadn't guessed that? Well, at least you were aware that I had taken up singing as aiy profession. Therefore I let myself De persuaded into coming to South America for a series of concerts. And so here 1 am," shrugging an amused shoulder. "But now you must tell me about yourself," he went on, his tone suddenly changing. "Why did you slip off so, Gilbert? Was it kind to leave us all these years without a word?" The sick man hesitated. What he had done suddenly seemed to him small and foolish. But at twenty-one heroics are sometimes strong in their appeal. And he had tried to do his best. It was all over now, though. The truth could do no harm now. He looked up into Tom's face. "Do you remember the night after my return from college," he began slowly—"how we sat In your room and talked? I had come home feeling that at last I had accomplished something; that I was nearing the goal on which my eyes hail been set since 1 could re member seeing anything. And then he paused again— "that night you told me of your love for Alice," he said quietly. "And in that moment 1 re nounced my dream. Oh, d >n't mind, he added hastily as the other started. | "It is all ended long ago. I should not tell were it not," lying manfully. "I have long since left that love behind. But, then, 1 felt that there was nothing for WE but flight. And BO" ''Ajid you sacrisced yourself foe me?" cried Tom, deeply moved. "Oh, Gilbert!"' But Gilbert stretched out a remonstrant hand. "Dear old boy," he said tenderly, "was there ever anything that I could not have done for you? You loved her"— "Yes," said Tom musingly, "I loved her. But now—you are sure that you have quite, Quite forgotten"—with a sudden eagerness. "Sure," returned the other, with loyal lips. "I can meet her without a pang. And—and anyway I am going to die." he added faintly. "Die!" shouted Tom. "Die: Not much. We will see what Mabel has to say about that." "Mabel?" questioned Rockhill. "Why, yes,-my wife," laughed Tom. "Oh, of course, I forgot she was only a child when you went away. She is Alice's little sister." "Alice's sister!" gasped Rockhill. Tom's face altered suddenly. "Why—you didn't think—did you be lieve that I had married Alice?" he de manded. "You did?" He stopped. "Al ice refused me," he went on a moment later. "She has never married. I think she never has cared but for one man," he said with slow significance. "Yet— if you have forgotten"— The sick man, stirred by a sudden energy, sat up in bed. "Give mo my medicine, please," he said concisely. "I am going to get well. Where is Mabel?" TIIP Clianicr In Dlsrarli'ii Xante. In the year 1572 the prlntir.g plant and effects of the late John Grundy (a successor in the business of Vine Hall, author of "The Sinner's Friend" and father of the late Rev. Newman llall> of Bank street, Maidstone, were sold by auction, and after the sale, as an apprentice to John Grundy, I was em ployed in the clearing up process, dur ing which I came across file and other copies of Conservative literature print ed at that establishment in connection with the election by which Disraeli was returned one of the two members of parliament for Maidstone. Some of It had the name spelled Disraeli, but a roll of from a dozen to a score of cop ies of an election address bore the printed signature IVlsraeli. I asked the overseer (Highstead, who was then elderly and had been continuously in employment in that establishment since boyhood days) for an explanation, and he said that when Disraeli came to ex amine a proof of his election address somebody suggested (the overseer's be lief being that It came from Vine Hall) that the name would look more Eng lish-like* if the apostrophe were taken out. Disraeli assented, and it came out, and in further printing work a like omission was observed.—John H. Burrows in Athenaeum. Tlie Man Wltli the Toothache. A man with the toothache doesn't care about anything else. The glories of the world j>ail on his taste, the won ders of creation seem as naught. The tooth becomes a volcano of belching fury and the rest of life hid den in a cloud of its billowing smoke. You can't borrow anything from a man with the toothache. You cau't In struct and improve him, You tell him that the world travels at tlu; rate of J.OO) miles a minute and it doesn't startlo him In the least. He simply groans. You say to him, "My friend, there are stars so far off that their light has not yet reached this world," but he doesn't mind it. He only howls. Yo« toll hiry that some of the sun spots are 100,000 miles in diameter, and that one of Uiem would take a Jupiter at one mouthful, but it is noth ing to him. The toothaclio is neglect ful of scientific truths.—London Tit- Bits. A Cane of Pronoona. Tommy Mulligan of the seventh grade was absent from the class room ti-'r one entire day. It would appear Ui.",t he had played truant, for, un known to Tommy, his teacher had spied hiui trudging homeward with pockets bulging suspiciously when she, too, was homeward bound that afternoon. But Tommy brought a noto of excuse iic next morning, whtch, of course, would prove that he had been detained at home legitimately. The writing was hardly that of a feminitio hand, and the note appeared to have been written laboriously aud with much blotting. Furthermore, the penmanship seemed io be strangely familiar to his teacher, Tlie note read as follows: "Dear teacher—l'leaao oxcus Tomy for not comeing to shool yestiddy. he ludnot outue I tore my pants.—Mrs. Mulligan."—Philadelphia Inquirer. A Queer Festival. A queer festival is celebrated In Ma lacca every ten or twelve years. The opening of the festival is signalized by ?, grand procession, In which huge piles of eatables take a large share. At the end of the third day the viands are burned. On the last occasion the piles of food were pluced in a specially con structed boat which was towed out to aea and there consumed by Are, togeth er with all the contents. A large sum of money, amounting to several thou sands of dollars, was subscribed, large ly in Singapore, for the proper observ ance of the festival. Tht Point of Viefr. "Henry, if I were a young man like you and eipeeted to have to make my own way in the world some day I should try to make my expenses come within my income." "Father, if I were as rich as you are .nd had only one son I'd try to bring Ids income up to his expenses."—Chi cago Tribune. A Saco (Me.) florist lias been raising pond lilies for the market. His pond is 300 by 60 feet and yields thousands of blooms in a season. During the height of the teason the daily yield went above 500 blossoms. The usual price was $4 per hundred. Ingenious CipcdUnt Devi«c