VOL. XXXXIII. THE MODERN STORE- Big February Queen Muslin Underwear Sale Begins Next Monday. February sth. Do not fail to be here tot some of the big bargains that we will offer. It will pay you. Corset Covers, Ladies' and Children's Drawers at 10c and 15c. Corset Covers, Ladies' ana Children's Gowns, Short Skirts, Drawers and Chemise, 25c. Ladies' Skirts, Gowns, Corset Covers, Drawers, etc., 38c, 50c, 75c, SI.OO, $1.25 to $2.50—a1l at about J less than you generally pay for goods such as these. New Spring Dress Goods and Wash Goods now arriving. EISLER-MARDORF COHPANY, SOUTH KADI STREET 1 f\f%4 \ LL\ Samples sent on request. OPPOSITE HOTEL ARLINGTON. BUTLER. PA ij Brown & Cos, Remodeling Sale kl M of Fine Furniture and M M Carpets, Continued, W vj con AAA Worth of Reliable Furniture and C r<i Vw"""™ Carpets at Almost Factory Prices! J \ WE MUST HAVE ROOM, ] [I It's the Entire Stock—Net a few Pieces. \ j Carpets, Rugs, Mattings, 1 I Linoleums at Cost < * Every yard of Ingrain Carpets mnst be sold at loom prices. Now is yonr opportunity to make a great saving on your Spring { carpets. Every piece freah and new and best as to quality. ij Furniture Stock Complete ] < Hundreds of people have taken advantage of the sacrifice prices > > offered them daring this sale. We are still crowded with the i / choicest selections we have ever shown. y The sale will be continued only for a short time. If you wish * to make a great saving, COME NOW! . I* Limited space forbids our qnoting prices and discounts which A would count for nothing without seeing the goods so you can < fj jadg*. Come take your choice of the entire stock. > 1 fi BROWN &• CO. f| H No. 136 North Main St., Butler. W I Duffy's Store I Not one bit too early to think of that new Carpet, or I perhaps you would rather have a pretty Rug —carpet ■ size. Well, in either case, we can suit you as our Car- I pet stock is one of the largest and best assorted in But ■ ler county. Among which will be found the following: I EXTRA SUPER ALL WOOL INGRAIN CARPETS. H. Heavy two and three ply 85c per yd and up ■ HALF WOOL INGRAIN CARPETS. ■ Best cotton chain 50c p»r yd and up I BODY BRUSSELS. ' Simply no wear out to these $1.36 yd ■ TAPESTRY BRUSSELS, ■ Light made, but very Good 65c per yd up I STAIR CARPETS ■ Body and Tapestry Brussels, Half and All Wool Ingrains. I HARTFORD AXMINSTERS. ■ Prettiest Carpet made, as durable too |1.35 ■ RAG CARPETS. Genuine old-fashioned weave. H j ■ MATTING, Hemp and Straw. ■ RUGS-CARPET SIZES. Axminster Bugs, Beauties too 122 each and up H Brussels Bugs, Tapestry and Body #l2 each and up H Ingrain Drnggets, All and Half Wool $T> each and up ■ Linoleums, Inlaid and Common, all widths and grades H Oil Cloths, Floor, Table, Shelf and Stair. H Lace Curtains, Portiere, Window Shades, Curtain Poles; Small Hearth ■ Bags, all styles and sizes. I Duffy's Store. I MAIN STREET, BUTLER. 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 Cleft, per annum $312.00 Lights, Heat and incidentals . . . $194.00 Total $1286.00 I have no store and can save you this expense when you buy of me. I sell pianos for cash or easy monthly payments. I take pianos or organs in exchange and allow yon what they are worth to apply on the new instrument All pianos fully warranted as represented- MY PATRONS ARE MY REFERENCE. A few of the people I have sold pianos in Butler. Ask them. Dr. McCurdy Bricker Fred Porter Fraternal Order Eagles Ep worth League E. W. Bingham Geo. D. High W. J. Mates J. S. Thompson Joseph Woodg 8, M. McKee A. W Boot Misa Eleanor Barton Mrs. Mary L. Stroop W. C Curry F. J. Hauck Miss Emma Hughes A- W. Mates W. B. Williams Mrs. R. O. Rnmbangh Chaa, E. Herr PEOPLE'S PHONE 429 Subscribe for the CITIZEN Dr. W. P. McElroy Sterling Clab D F. Reed Woodmen of the World H. A. McPberson Miss Anna McCandless E. A. Black Samnel Woods Oliver Thompson John Johnson R. A. Longwell J. Hillgard J. E, Bowers C. F. Bteppl W. J. Armstrong Miles Hilliard Mrs. S. J. Green S, R. Douthett . R. Rickey L. S. Youoh THE BUTLER CITIZEN. ST" "bickels H li Great Bargain Sale, li kj An immense Stock of Seasonable Footwear to be i « closed out in order to reduce our extremely »J large stock fa £ Big Bargains in All Lines. N Ladies' Fnr Trimmed Felt Slippers, price #1.25 —reduced to . <sc Ladies' Warm Lined Shoes, price sl.so—reduced to SI.OO CO W. Ladies' Warm Lined Shoes, price $1 25—reduced to 85c k' One lot Ladies' 8.50 Hand-turn and Hand-welt Shoes reduced to 2.2.» WA m One lot Ladies' 300 Fine Patent Leather Shoes, button or lace, * S reduced to V One lot Ladies' $2.50 Fine Dongola Patent tip Shoes reduced to 1.60 y A » One lot Ladies'l.so Fine Dongola Patent tip Shoes reduced to 1.10 V. One lot Children's Fine Shoes, sizes 4to 8, reduced to 4ac " k One lot Infants's Fine Shoes, sizes oto 4, reduced to 19c WA m Men's Fine Box-calf, Vici-kid and Patent Leather Shoes. [fi F, regular price $3. ">0 and f4.oo—reduced to 2.50 L/ Men's Working Shoes, regular price s2.oo—reduced to 140 WA \ One lot Boys' Fine Satin-calf Shoes, regular price 1 50-red dto 1.00 Is One lot Men's Fine Slippers reduced to _ -We Ladies 1 Lamb-wool Insolee, regular price 25c —reduced to l*>c WAI i Misses' and Children's Lamb-wool Insoles, regular price 20c—at 8c I W ► All Felt Boots and Overs, all Stockings and Ij Overs, Warm-lined Shoes and Slippers, also balance I<l i of our stock of Leggins and Over-Gaiters to be in- fcl eluded in this GREAT BARGAIN SALE i Sole Leather and Shoemakers' Supplies. pj > Repairing Piomptly Done. il JOHN BICKELtj i 128 S Main St., BUTLER, PA. SPw- BUTLER .^ ' yj' New buildmgs, new rooms, elegant new, equipment, excellent courses of study, best of teachers, expenses moderate, terms VERY LIBERAL! Over $3,000.()0 worth of new typewriters in use (allowing advanced students from 3 to 4 hours' practice per dayV other equipment in proportion! Winter Term, Jan. 2, lOOG. Spring Term, April 2,1006. Positions secured for onr worthy graduates. Visitors always welcome! Wheif in Butler, pay ns a visit. Catalogue and other literature mailed on ap plication. MAY ENTER ANY TIME. A. F. REGAL, Principal, Butler, Pa I Fall and Winter Millinery. | 4- Everything in the line of Millinery can be found, fjf jg the right thing at the right time at the right price at I ROCKENSTEIN'S « 9 31 ||| Pre-Inventory SALE. Preparatory to the ANNUAL STOCK-TAKING we will offer remarkable values at our PRE INVENTORY SALE OF MEN'S AND BOY'S CLOTHING. Owing to the extensive assort ment-it is impossible to give a detailed descrip tion of all articles. We have planned to make this sale of greater importance than ever, and will place on sale thoroughly reliable and stylish apparel at figures that are below all possible com petition. There is something worth investigat ing in every line of the magnetic bargains. SCHAUL& LEVY 137 South Main Street. Butler, Pa. ' - f 7VYEIN } '~x .'' *•)' 1 If Won t buy clolning tor the purpose of j jj spending money. They desire to get the V ;? best possible results of the money expended, i * 1 V 1 ' Those who buy enstom clothing have a I'_ ' }'■, right to demand a fit, to have their clothes M' j correct in style and to demand of the / J,,- . • seller to guarantee everything. Come to --4>' r 'J there will be nothing lacking. I i ' \ '3 x . i! have just *eeeived a large stock of Fall >- y S > . jand Winter suitings in the latest styles, r 1 \ \ t I shades and colors. \M4J G - F - KECK. H I-! WCd MERCHANT TAIfeOR, i- J** 142 N. Main St., Rutkr.Pa fflt ft | J. O. & W. CAMPBELL, | 8 BUTLE, PA. !g BUTLER, PA., THURSDAY, I HELD BY THE j GOVERNMENT "By Otho S. Scnga > x Copyright. 1900. by E. C. Parcclls > John Pearson was distinctly annoyed, lie would not have believed Engeuia could be so unreasonable. It was bad enough to lose Havens, who was the best stenographer lie ever had, but when he finally secured another who could do satisfactory work, to have Eu genia object because the girl was young and pretty was enough to make a man lose all patience. He strove to appease his fiancee's wrath by pointing out how inferior in beauty ami grace the new stenographer appeared to him in comparison with herself. He tried to appeal to her rea son. her pride, for faith in him, but to little purpose. "You need not trouble to call agaiu or to communicate with me until you have discharged that girl," was the ultimatum, and Pearson went away, angry and indignant, anathematizing all women and their silly, unreasonable jealousy. Miss Anthony was not often unrea sonable and had had little occasion for jealousy. She hardly could have ex plained it herself, but her annoyance about the girl and her resentment to ward her lover hail begun when she had asked the name of the new em ployee and John had replied, "Anna Darling." The tiny flames had been fanned and increased by every word of praise for Miss Darling that the unconscious Tearson had stupidly uttered until she could bear it no longer. She magnified his satisfaction with the girl's work into love for the girl herself, and she felt for the moment quite justified in demanding her discharge. But with the next day's light Miss Anthony's good sense and lovo of fair play reasserted Itself. "How silly I was." she thought. She resolved to send him a little note or a telephone message, but decided to wait until evening, lie was to take- her to the opera, and on the way she would confess her unreasonableness. The evening passed, and ijo John and uo message to explain his absence. Ten o'clock, 10:30! "I won't be foolish," she thought firmly. I'll call him up by phone and tell him I want to say good night." She had often done this when It had not been possible for John to come U) her. She smiled happily as she rang the bell and called for the Pearson resi dence John lived with Ji'* brother, and she knew the family had gono away. She recognized the housekeeper's voice iu reply to her call, but her face fell at the message. Mr. John had not been home, and Mrs. Barnes could get no re ply to frequent calls over the phone to the office. The next morning Miss Anthony called Mrs. Barnes agalfi, with similar results. Mf. John did not come home, and there was evidently no one at his office. Miss Anthony was essentially a wo man of action. She dressed herself in a most becoming street costume and a half hour later was entering the great office building on Congress a tree t. Pear son's office was closed, the door locked. "He wasn't there all day yesterday," volunteered the elevator boy. "But surely some one was," insisted Miss Anthony. "The young lady"— "She came in the but went aw.uy again Immediately," he answered. Miss Anthony was quick to resolve and equally quick to execute. She con sulted the directory and took a car for Arlington. At the door of a neat little cottage she paused. Ygs, was the , ( a|iit:, pai'titiK, on the doorplate. What could she say to the girl even if she found her? Did she really expect to be lieve that she and Johu— Then she lift ed her head proudly. Was she going to be silly again? Something liatl \iappen •.h! tq .|'-|lii(, aiis.H Hailing might be able to aid her iu learning what it was. When Miss Darling entered the room Miss Anthony hardly could restrain the impulse to take Jipp j 4 , Jic;- jis, such a pretty, timid looking little thing— hardly more than a child, llor eyes were visibly red with weeping, and when Miss Anthony asked lier if she had been at work the day before her face colored painfully. Miss Anthony of Ute situation rur Miss Darling to un derstand the reason for her visit, and then Miss Darling told her own story hurriedly. "I have been with Mr. Pearson nearly a month and supposed my work was entirely satisfactory. I went to work yesterday morning as usual, but I had hardly entered the office wheu the tele phone bell rang. On answering It I found it was Mr. Pearson speaking. He said that he should require my services /no longer and would mail me a check for two months' salary." She paused, choking back a sob. Miss Autiiouy ulusned with shame and re gret. "I left the office immediately, of course. I cannot understand it, for I was at work on some papers that Mr- Pearson was very anxious to have fiiir ished this week—work that another stenographer could not well take up. And"—she hesitated—"as yet I have not received the check." Miss Anthony spoke rapidly and with decision. "Miss Darling. I am con vinced that there N some mistake. I know Mr. Pearson was satisfied with yonr work'' "Do you think," a,<ked Miss Darling eagerly, "that it was not Mr. Pearson— that it was * hoax?" "I hardly know vrhat to think," re turned Miss Anthony evasively, ''hut I nm so sura that Mr Pearson Is pleased with your work and wishes to retain you In his employ that I am going to ask you to return to the office novf With inc. Perhaps in some way we may learn something of him," The two girls were standing before Pearson's door, and Miss Darling was searching in her handbag for her dupli cate key when a young man approach ed, saying courteously, "Were you look ing for Mr. Pearson?" "Yes," answered Miss Anthony quiet? ly. "Can you tell me if h« will be tu today?" "I think not. There are several im portant cases before the grand jury this term, and its sitting may last three or four days more." Miss Anthony recognized her inform ant as a young architect who lia<l au pflice in the same building, ''t do not understand," she said. "What has Mr. Pearson got to do with the grand jury V" "Mr. Pearson was seized yesterday by United States Marshal Brown to serve."' As Miss Anthony's face betok ened no eulightenment, he went on: "When the grand jury was polled yes terday tlierp were three absentees, ami in order to carry on the business it was necessary to fill those vacancies. The absent men are alc£, and It >vould greatly retard the work of the govern ment if the jury had to be adjourned until they recovered." Miss Anthony regained her poise. "Would Mr. Pearson have to go if he did not wish?" in stately surprise. "Yes. Any citizen is liable to such draft." "But—but his own business?" inter posed Miss Darling. "Quite a secondary matter in the eyes of the law," replied the young man. "And in such a case is no message sent to the citizen's friends?" ques tioned Miss Anthony. "Certainly. If Mr. Pearson had any clerk or secretary in his office the dep uty marshal would likely notify that j person, and Mr. Pearson could send a 1 message to his family if he has one." Miss Anthony and Miss Darling ex i changed glances. Tliey knew that Mr. ! Pearson had no family and at the time j of his unwelcome seizure he had no I elork, and Miss Anthony knew why no message had been sent to her. "And Mr. Pearson cannot come away. He is—he is held there?" "Held by the government," he replied smilingly. Miss Anthony thanked him courteous ly. and he passed on. Miss Darling unlocked the door, and the two girls entered the office. "Is the work Mr. Pearson wanted done all stenographic work?" Miss An thony asked. "Not all. There are some abstracts to be copied and"— "I shall help you," with gentle deci sion. When the grand jury adjourned Unit ed States Marshal Brown handed a note to Juryman Pearson. "Miss Darling and I have your work nearly done," read the astonished Tear son. "Please come to me as soon as you are released. I think we had better arrange matters so that if you are held by the government again you will have some one to whom a message must he sent." Removing the Shatter*. An uptown man who may be desig nated us Mr. Blank was asked by his wife the other day to aid In removing inside shutters from windows through out the house so that they could be washed. Being in a hurry, he aSked his better half to defer the matter un til his return from the office. "I'll do it myself." was her retort. "Don't," • was Mr. IJ.'s pounsel as he departed; "women don't understand such work." This of course only more firmly decid ed Mrs. Blank to go ahead, and when Blank returned that night he found the shutters down. His wife was nurs ing several fingers, but she wore a triumphant air. "The screw driver slipped once or twice," she ex plained in response to his inquiring glance at her bandaged digits, ••Screw driver slipped!" repeated Mr. B. in a daeed tone. "Great snakes, woman! You don't mean to say you unscrewed all the shutter hinges?" "Of course," said his wife complacently. "What other way couhl I get the shutter* For answer Rhwik lifted a shutter and puiled the pin out of one oif the hinges, showiug that the taking down of each shutter only involved the removal of two pins. When he fitfurwd that there wprg ten pairs or shutters (t&d -nen pair required tlio of sixteen screws to put them up he swore while his wife wept—Phi(ndf-l phia Record When Modjeaka Played Farce. Count Boyenta, Mme. Modjeska's husband, was arranging with Senator Tabor for Modjesfia's first appearance in Denver, aqd tUe founder of dramatic 4vt in Denver asked what parts she played. "Well," said the count, "there is 'Ma ry Stuart.'" "Who wrote it?" asked Tubals "Schiller,"- ensd the count. "is he a first class dramatist?" asked Tabor. "Surely, surely," said the count. "He Is most illustrious." "Humph! Never heard of him, 1 " eoui mented Tabor. ''What else does she " 'As You Like It,' 'Antony and Cle opatra,' 'Macbeth'"— "Who wrote them?" "Shakespearn "• VHow's he? Good writer?" "Excellent; excellent." "Well," said Tabor ruminatively, "those fellows may be all right as au thors. but they ain't well known to suit the people out here. What we want is something popular, something that everybody's heard of. I tell you what you do—you get her to give us something of Hoyt's!"—Harper's Week ly. Carlylf'j Olaatiivaa, Thomas Carlyle once took Lord Houghton (Richard Milnes) to task In regard to the proposed pension for Lord Tennyson. "Richard Milnes," said Carlyle, taking his pipe out of his mouth, "when are ye gaun to get that pension for Alfred Tennyson?" Milnea tried to explain that tUerv wero diffi culties ii} the way und that possibly his constituents, who knew nothing about Tennyson, would accuse him of being concerned in a job were he to succeed in getting the desired pension for the poet. "Richard Milnes," replied the sago, "mt the day of judgment, when the Lord asks ye why ye didna get that pension for Alfred Tennyson, it'll no do to lay the blame on your constituents. It's you that'll be damned." A CsrefuJ fatten t. A woman whose throat had troubled her for a long time, says a writer in the Philadelphia Ledger, grew Impa tient at the slow progress she was making and made complaint to her doctor, who said: "Madam. I can never cure you of this throat trouble unless you stop talk ing and give your throat a complete rest." "But, doctor," objected his patient, ' I'm very careful what I say. 1 never use harsh lauguage or anything of that kind," What Noah Did. The story is told of a congressman that he once declared in an address to the house, "As Daniel Webster says In his dictionary." "It was Noab who wrote the dic tionary." whispered a colleague who »at at the next desk. "Noah nothing," replied the speaker, "Noah built the ark." Ponble, '•Apparently you don't admire Mlsa Ukreech." "No. I don't like her »lrs," '•What airs?" "Those uhe sings and those she wears." Exchange. Catting. Gaggs—l don't see why everybody calls Miss Keen clever. 1 think she Js very dull. Waggs That is very strange, for I heard she cut you yes terday in the street. Fortune -j seen accompanying J^astry.-GoJftimith. I A THOUSAND l A YEAR. "By franK H. Stvetl > I > Copi/riuW, JfIGJ, by Huby DOUQIM ) i A fiasli across an open space so quick : between cover and cover as to leave only an impression of bush tail and j pointed nose and then a wild chorus of discovering yelps, accompanied by u dozen forms plunging frantically across the open space and into the chinquapin bushes beyond. But fifty feet farther on was an out cropping hedge broken by crevices and tunnels into a natural and safe hiding place for the hunted. From the time the fox had been started, an hour be fore, its winding and doubling course had been tending gradually toward this asylum, as if idea that after playing wi'h the dogs until weary of the sport or perhaps feeling the need of rest it could whisk into safety. For the last few minutes the fox had tan talizingly checked its speed until the open jaws of the pack almost closed upon the bushy tall; then, with a sud den Jaunty tilt, the brush rose into the air as if In parting salute and with its owner dropped into one of the narrow crevices, leaving the pack yelping its disappointment without. A few min utes later two horses with their riders crossed the space and came to a stop among the dogs. "I am glad he escaped, even if it isn't sportsmanlike," laughed one of them. "I felt sure the dogs would get him at the open back there, they were so close. It was a narrow escape." "I'm not so sure of that, Miss Brls tow," the other answered. "The fox struck me as looking too fresh for such dangerous propinquity to be natural. I've an idea his plans were all laid re garding this ledge and that he was merely amusing himself with the dogs. Shall I call them off and start them in search of a new scent? Nothing can draw this fox from his stronghold now." "No; wait until papa comes. His falling behind meant that his horse went lame, and he probably has gone back to the stable for another. lie will Join us before long." She touched her horse lightly, urging him to the top of the ledge, from which they could iook down into the valley. Allan followed closely. "It Is one of the most beautiful spots I ever saw," he said as his gaze swept over the broad, fertile acres of the farm to the lofty ridges that inclosed It on every side. "You have the gran der of wild, untouched nature joined to the charm of peaceful rural life —'a rare combination." His eyes left the valley and came back to her. with an expression in them that made her turn away with a half smile. Allau had been here two months now and In that time had learned thiug* that had not hitherto entered into his plans for a livelihood. His hand trembled slightly as it check ■?d the restiveuess of bia hone. "Yes; It Is beautiful here, and we are feappy," iiie answered, but there was trouble in her voice. Then with sud den raillery: "You ought to be happy, too, Mr. Tisdale, if, as they say, it is prosperity that make# happiness. We had a Jettvr from Emmet yesterday, liud he writes glowingly of your mine. He thinks there is a lot of money in It. And," looking at him inqnirlugly, "he writes as though ho might pur :hase an iutervit iu the mine." Allan's faco became grave. "I hope not," he answered. "I like your brother Emmet too well to wish Lim such bad luck. He broached the •übject to me once, and I put him off. I thought perUapa his management of the mine for awhile would disenchant fcim. Emmet's great fault Is being too tanguine, though," with a grimace. "I was somewhat that way myself, I sup pose." "The n4»e didn't pay?" (, lt has cost me a thousand a year ibove my income so far, and"— He stopped suddenly, for she was laughing, irresistibly, it seemed. "I beg your pardon," she gasped, checking Jieraelf with an effort. "I— something struck me as very funny. But please go on. I will not laugh any more. A thousand a year, you said?" "Yes," looking at her curiously, "above the income I receive from Eng land. I wouldn't like Emmet to incur the same loss. As soon as I get back | shall try to sell. The machinery will be worth a small sum. And," his face kindling and his eyes again sweeping over the valley and back to her face, "I have found it. I always liked agri< culture, but never realized It could show up to such advantage as it does here. My idea was that farmers had to keep hold of plow handles and Klings, but your father doesn't do any thing except go fox .hunting and read magazines and listen to his foreman's report, and only this morning he told me that he had no other resources than the farm. I—l have been thinking of it all the morning. I will buy a valley Just like this somewhere in the neigh borhood and be a farmer, and with what I have we—l can soon build a nice house," H* paused, looking em barra&sed, then went on hurriedly, "If t can make a living of it—enough for two, I mean—will you—will you help me, Lois?" She had thrown up her hand, as though to stop him. "Wait a minute, Mr. Tisdale," sh« cried impetuously. "I had not intended to tell you, but I must now. You must not try farming—for a livelihood, I mean. Our farm looks prosperous, and I love the vall«y here better than any place in the world, but—but we hare been running behind a thousand a year ever since we bought the place. That was what made me laugh when you said you were losing a thousand. It seemed so funny. You must not try farming for a living. As to the rest, I I," her face flushing rosily, "am willing to help you, Allan." She looked at him shyly, but his face had suddenly grown stern. He shook his head hopelessly. "I must take it all back, Lois," he groaned. "I cannot make a living for one. But here comes your father." Mr. Bristow reined in beside them, his face inquiring. "Hello, what are you waiting here for?" he exclaimed. "If one fox has outwitted you, why don't you start an other? What's the matter? You look like a funeral." "I—l have been telling Allan—Mr. Tisdale—about our falling behind," stammered Lois. "You see, he spoke of buying a farm and following our ex ample, and I couldn't let him go on thinking the valley was as prosperous n<! it looked on the surface." Mr. Bristow's face fell. "Might have waited until a rainy day," he grumbled, "and not spoil a good chase with such news. But long's it's out, it's out, and I suppose you couldn't do anything less, Lois. We couldn't stand by ogd aljow a guest to ruu tbe chance of losing money, of course. Yes. Mr. Tlsdale," Lis faee becoming as overcast as their own. "It's all true. We'll have to sell the valley—the finest property I ever owned. A man can't stand It to fall behind a thousand dollars every year with nothing In the background." Allan stared, half rose in his saddle, his face becoming transfigured. "A thousaud dollars!" he cried Joy. ously. "Is that what you mean? Can you run a place like this and only run behind a thousand dollars?" "That's what I said," rather testily, "and enough for a man to lose every year, the I.ord knows." Allan whirled to Lois. "I'll take all that back once more," he cried, "what I said last. I can make a living, and I want you to help me." Then to his puzzled host: "Don't you sell the farm, sir. There won't be any ueed. I thought Lois—she's promised to be my wife, you know—meant pounds. That's what I've been losing. But yours aro dollars—dollars. Don't you see the difference will be nearly four thousand—dollars? That will be a nice profit for us. with what the farm yields. I will buy part of tlie valley, or the whole of it if you like, or we will live on it together." Mr. Bristow was choking. "You and Lois may fix that up be tween you." he gasped at last. "The problem is too complicated for me. But I'm glad the valley Isn't to be sold. Now let us get the dogs on a new scent. The foxes will be getting old and fat if we leave them like this." A Buttered Book. How the Rev. Mr. Johnston, a Scot tish minister and the author of numer ous books, succeeded in getting one of liis works reviewed bjr Alexander Rus sel, the distinguished editor of the Scotsman, is told by the writer of "Fa mous Editors." A member of Mr. Johnston's congre gation was an old and valued servant in Mr. Russel's family. When, the preacher published his new book he asked this member to bring it under the notice of her master, with the re quest to review It in the columns of the Scotsman. Glad to be of service to her master, the good woman lost no" time in making her wish known to the celebrated editor and uext morning placed "The Gospel Roll" beside his breakfast cup. When at breakfast, Mr. Russel took up the book and remarked, with a mer ry twinkle in his eye, "Helen, this 1s an awful dry roll which you have given me this morning." "Perhaps It Is, sir," the servant quick ly replied, "but you can butter It weel on both sides." Next morning an excellent review ap peared. The Dance. In his "Die Anfaenge der Kunst" ("The Beginnings of Art") Dr. E. Grosse investigates primitive art and its sociological aspects. He shows how in the dance there was social evolution. The da%ce was among savages a sig nificance and value which civilized races do not appreciate. The dance originally might not have been for the pleasure it gave. That came later. At first the dance may have been one of tue preparatives ror -war or a propitia tory act. Anyhow it brought men to gether and became n social factor. It must have gone, too, band in hand, or, rather, foot by foot, with music. At first such music was simply rhythmical. Possibly all the early hunting folks danced. We may not today deem danc ing an art, but it was a motive power. It must have helped to bring about per sonal decoration, and then came the first faint glimmer of an aesthetic con ception. The Woes of a Beekeeper. A German beekeeper undertook to carry some of his choicest bees to a bee show. He took a train in Hanover with his bees In a basket at his feet. The bees escaped from the basket and crawled up his trousers legs. His ac tions soon aroused suspicions In the hearts of two women who occupied the same compartment with him. They pulled the bell cord and stopped the train. When the bee fancier explained the situation he was placed in an emp ty compartment to have it out with the bees all by himself. Here be re moved his trousers and began shaking them out of the window to free them of the swarm. Unfortunately they caught a telegraph pole and were swept away, bees, money and all. At the next station the irate station master brought forth the reluctant bee fancier in a rug, and he pawned his watch to acquire decent raiment to walk back along the line In search of his bees and trovreers. CLIMATE AND SPEECH. Soft L»H(M(e and Tropical Weather Seem to Go Together* Gutturals predominate in Norway and Russia, whereas far to the south ward In sunny Italy there is a profu sion of such euphonious names as Pa lermo, Verona, Campobello, etc. Even in the British Isles, covering so few de grees of latitude, there Is a marked difference between the "bur" of the highlander and the soft speech of tbe native of southern England. A theory which may partly account for these climatic effects is based upon the contrast of the stillness which usually pervades southern lands with the stormy inquietude of northern countries. Cloudless skies for months at a time characterize the climates of Italy, while a firmament entirely free from clouds is rare in Norway. It requires, of course, greater effort to be the regions which are swept by winds and sforms than In still southern latitudes, and to be heard distinctly amid the noise and confusion of the elements words must be used which contain many conso nants. Among the inhabitants of more trop ical ciimes the tendency is toward soft and musical cadence, and travel ers relate that In regious in South America, such as Peru and Venezuela, where atmospheric disturbances are rare, the natives almost chant the phrases of salutation.—London Satur day Review. BABIES IN HOLES, Where I'ganda Infants Heat While Their Mothers Hoc. I have gone into a field In Uganda and there found one of our women at work with a hoe, writes a missionary sister in Donahoe's. I asked her where her baby Maria was, and she pointed to a spot at some distance where the banana trees were thick. I walked under the slmde, and in vain I sought the infant. The mother was greatly amused and urged me to search fur ther, assuring me that the little one was not far away and was fast asleep. I had to "give up," so the mother took me by the hand and led me to a bit of bark cloth on the ground. Under this rag was the crown of the baby's head, while the body was in a hole deep enough for the feet to rest ou the ground. To my surprise and expostu lations she said In her own language: No. 5. "Tliis is a good custom. When a Uganda woman goes to hoe it is not good for her baby to lie asleep on the ground, as It might injure Itself by rolling, or, if it awoke, It might crawl away. Therefore we make a hole like this and line it with soft, clean leaves and put our baby safely Into it so that it can neither crawl out nor roll away, and we know exactly where to find it when we come from the fields." She said it was perfectly safe from wild beasts, because it was midday. In the High Sierra*. Coming down from the high Sierras into the Yosemlte valley one passes from almost arctic cold to the warmth of the late spring, and the difference in temperature is easily traceable by the character of the foliage. On the high peaks no green thing flourishes. Grad ually stunted pines and tamaracks ap pear, and still lower the maple and laurel are just beginning to unfold their leaves, and then in a half a day's journey the wild flowers come. Hun dreds and hundreds of them of all shapes and colors are found here, and as you approach the rim of the wonder ful Yosemlte the air is heavy laden with the scent of the azaleas, and the trail is lined with wild lilac, wild cher ry and dogwood—a perfect riot of flow ering shrubbery^—Recreation. THE DANDELION. It Adopt* Itself to All Soils and Cli mates of the Earth. The dandelion belongs to tbe largest oldest and most widely diffused order of plants. 'While other orders of plants have died out and become mere fossil remains in the rocks, this order has survived the geological changes of many different periods on account of its power of adapting itself to those changes. And these changes in their turn have only made it better suited for all the varied soils and climates of the earth at the present day. We find members of this order in every part of the globe, in places as far apart from each other as they can be. It Is the prevailing and dom inant order of vegetable life, the most highly finished and the most success ful family of plants. And the dande lion is one of the most perfect forms belonging to it. It is the head and crown of the vege table kingdom, as man is the head and crown of the animal creation, and it is curious how this highest type of plant is always found only where man, the highest type of animal life, is fouild and where he dwells and cultivates the soil. It is never found apart from him. It follows him wherever he goes —to America, Australia and New Zea land—and there In the new home it be comes a silent but eloquent reminder of the dear old land he may never See again.—Exchange. THE TWO NEPHEWS. A Fable That Points a Moral With a Large Grain of Truth. There was once a Rich and Stingy JB old Bachelor who bad Two And one, being a Hypocrite, said in lleilrt: "All men are Mortal, and One must Die some time, although | for Ornately his Doctor understands his j| Case. So I will Protend to Lore my Uncle and Bear with him and Tend * him with Great Care and fender As siduity." But the Other Nephew, who was blunt and Honest In his Feelings, said to All Whom it Did not Concern: "Why should I pretend to Care for My Uncle when I Don't and Play the Hypo crite? He cannot but Respect my In dependence the More then than if i Fawned upon him." One day the Uncle died when it Sud denly occurred to him that he was Spending too much Breath. To the Nephew who Was a Hypocrite he left ills Fortune, and to the One who Did not Conceal his Real feeling he Left his Regards. Moral.—Most people like to be Flat tered, because Human Nature is Built that Wa/, and the People who give Real Money to Folks who say Right out what they Think about them are only to be Found in Highly Moral Story Books.—Baltimore American. Most Coatly Carriage. Originally costing something more than $5,000, the lord mayor's coach, still used in the annual procession, has probably had more money expended upon It than any horse drawn vehicle in the world. It is something like 150 years old, and in that time more than SIOO,OOO has been spent In refurnishing it for the sole occasion when it Is made uso of each year. A more modern coach could had for the sum of five years' repairs, but a new coach would never seem the same to the London public who line the Strand on the occa-, slon of the November parade. It is probable that the lord mayor of a cen tury hence will ride in the same equi page, though, like the Irishman's knife, it has been repaired so often ihat prac tically nothing of the original 'ftoach re mains. Jnstlce to Come. Lord Cockburn, though a successful defender of prisoners, failed on one oc casion to get an acquittal for a mur derer. "The culprit," Mr. Croak James tells us in his "Curiosities of Law and Lawyers," "after the sentence fixing his execution for the 20th day of the month had not been removed from the dock when his counsel passed him and was then seized by the gown. The prisoner said, 'I have not fcot Justice, Mr. Cockburn,' to which the counsel gravely replied, "Perhaps not, but you'll get It on the 20th.' " To Cure Scan. Scars are often very ugly things and disagreeable marks when they exist in a prominent place on the skin. Prob ably nothing can remove a big scar the tissue of which has become fibrous and unyielding, but the fallowing * recipe, to be applied on lint and allow ed to remain on the part for a little time daily, will effect an improvement in small scars and blemishes: Borax, one and a half ounces; salicylic rcid, twelve grains: glycerin, three drams; rosewater, six "ounces. Mix. Dissembling. "That man in there is a hypocrite," said Jackson as he left the drug store. "You mean the druggist?" "Yes. When I went in I interrupted him in the midst of compounding a prescription. I told him I wanted a two cent stamp, and he smiled as sweet ly as if he was glad to see me."—Phila delphia Ledger. A Girl and Her Money. "Do you believe In marrying a girl for her money?" "Not as a general thing, but some ilnics that's the only way you can get It away from her."—Cleveland Leader. * She Knew 111* Secret. "Tell me honestly, now, Clara, did Harold confess bis love last night?" "Confess! What do you think I am, t chief of police':"—Milwaukee Journal.
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