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 > 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 . 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 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,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