VOL. XXXXIII. THE MODERN STORE- _ ,f ■ • . - New Spring Goods for Season of 1906 Arriving Daily. N*w Percales, Dress Ginghams, Dress Goods, White Goods, Embroideries, Laces, Ribbons, Lace Collars, Belts, etc. Some Big Bargains left in Ladies' Undermuslins and a new lot to go ' on sale this week. The Ladies' Home Journal Style Book for March will be herewith something new. Don't fail to get one free. EISLER-MARDORF COHPANY, SOUTH Kill STREET | rtQf f LlI Samples sent on request. . OPPOSITE HOTBL ARLINGTON. BUTLER. PA resggggggssaggzg A The "Black Hand" H w At Brown & Co's. « M Not the kind you have been reading of in the [4 papers recently—iut the kind that hurts us and PJ Ii helps you. ft March Ist! March lst!--# H Our reduction sale on Furniture will positively ij close March Ist. Your opportunity is now, m j ""illll-Look at .These prices:*l||li«" J m Mahoeany Davenport, was |BB, now .$19.00 >1 Mahogany Library Case, wass24.so, n0w.... 16.50 M ' Birdseye Toilet Table, was sl2, now 7.00 4 Mahogany Toilet Table, was sl7, now 11.00 >3 . Oak Bed Room Suit, was $45, now j 35.00 £ ' Dressera that were sl2 and sl4, now 9.00 This is the way yon buy all over this store until March Ist, A ► only. Look at the saving—come take your choice of our immense C ( stock and give us the room at cnce. > 1 > Carpets! Carpets! Carpets! i| . We will oontlnne sale of Carpets as advertised, at COST. M ' Greatly reduced prices on all Brussels carpets and rugs of all < kinds. ► Bring the measure of your room and make the saving from our < W large stock of new patterns. W ( BROWN &• CO. | K " No. 136 North Main St., Butler. p I Duffy's Store 1 I Not one-bit too early to think of that new Carpet, or I I perhaps you would rather have a pretty Rug—carpet ■ H size. Well, in either case, we can suit you as our Car ■ 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 05c per yd and up ■ HALF WOOL INGRAIN CARPETS. ■ Beet cotton chain 50c per yd and up ■ BODY BRUSSELS, ■ Simply no wear ont to these $1.85 yd ■ TAPESTRY BRUSSELS, H Light made, but very Good 65c per yd up I STAIR CARPETS H Bpdy and Tapestry Brussels, Half and All Wool Ingrains. I HARTFORp AXMINSTERB, H Prettiest Carpet made, as durable too $1.35 ■ RAG CARPETS. Genuine old-fashioned weave. H > ■ MATTING, Hemp and Straw. ■ RUGS-CARPET SIZES. ■ Azminster Rugs, Beauties too $22 each and up H Brussels Rugs, Tapestry and Body sl2 each and np ■ Ingrain DrugKets. All and Half Wool $5 each and up H Linoleums, Inlaid and Common, all widths and grades H Oil Cloths, Floor, Table, Shelf and Stair. H Lace Curtains, Portiers, Window Shades, Curtain Poles; Small Hearth H Rugs, all styles and sizes. I Duffy's Stor^» ■ MAIN STREET, BUTLER. WHY You can save money by purchasing your piano of W. . NEWTON, "file Piano Ma«." 'fhe expense bi Funning a Music Store is as follows: Rent, per annum $780.00 Clerk, per annum $312.00 Lights, Heat and incidentals . . , $194.00 Total $1286.00 J have no store and can save you this expense when you buy of l^o. I sell pianos for cash or easy monthly payments. I taire pianos or organs in And allow yoa what they are worth to apply on- the new instrument All pianos fnl|y warranted as represented. MY PATRONS ARE MY REFERENCE. p)W of the people I have sold pianos in Butler Ask them Dr. McCurdy Bricker Dr. W. P. McElroy Fred Porter Sterling Club Fraternal Order Eagles D F. Reed Epworth League Woodmen of the World E. W. Bingham H. A. McPherson 'J Geo. D. High Miss Anna McCandless W. J. Mates E. A. Black J. S Thompson Samuel Woods" ' . osepfa Oliver Thompsoa 0 M. ' MfcKrt* John Johnson •* RoOt" R: A. Longwell Hi«s Eleapor Bortop J. Hillgard Mr». Vary L Stropp J E. Bowers W." C Carry C. F. Steppi SIIITFFIR' A. W. Mates Mrs. S. J. Green W. R. Williams J. R Douthett Mrs. R. O. Rumbaugh E. E. Richey Chas. E. Herr L S. Youch PEOPLE'S PHONE 426. Subscribe for the CITIZEN 1 THE BUTLER CITIZEN. J BICKEL'S | j Great Bargain Sale, ij •J An immense Stock of Seasonable Footwear to be k « closed out in order to reduce our extremely »J large stock Te M Bi§ Bargains in All Lines. Ladies" Fur Trimmed Felt Slippers, price *l.2s—reduced to.. 75c fi ll Ladies' Warm Lined Shoes, price |1.50-reduced to SI.OO L v M Ladies' Warm Lined Shoes, price f 1 25—reduced to ose 0 j One lot Ladies' 3.50 Hand turn and Hand-welt Shoes reduced to 2.2 ) B j One lot Ladies' 300 Fine Patent Leather Shoes, button or lace, k « tM reduced to ••••• ~2. ; LN| One lot Ladies' s2.fto Fine Donjrola Patent tip Shoes reduced to 1.6 > w A & 1 One lot Ladies'l.so Fine Dongola Patent tip Shoes reduced to 1.10 Iffl f A One lot Children's Fine Shoes, sizes 4to 8, reduced to 45c N One lot Infanta's Fine Shoes, sizes 0 to 4, reduced to lJc y £ |] Men's Fine Box-calf, Vici-kid and Patent Leather Shoes, a TO YA regular price $3.50 and $4.00 —reduced to 2.50 kl Men's Working Shoes, regular price s2.oo—reduced to. ••••••• J-40 One lot Boys' Fine Satin-calf Shoes, regular price I.so—reddto 1.00 » One lot Men's Fine Slippers reduced to 40c 1 W A Ladies' Lamb-wool Indoles, regular price 25c —reduced to 15c W A L • Misses' and Children's Lamb-wool Insoles, regular price 20c--at be M All Felt Boots and Overs, all Stockings and Overs, Warm-lined Shoes and Slippers, also balance T4 of our stock of Leggins and Over-Gaiters to be in eluded in this GREAT BARGAIN SALE. t,« Sole Leather and Shoemakers' Supplies. pj Repairing Piomptly Done. [1 JOHN BICKELH - BWLER // New buildings, new rooms, elegant new equipment, excellent courses of stadv, best of teachers, expenses moderate, terms VERY LIBERAL! Over $2,000.00 worth of new typewriters in use (allowing advanced students from 3 to 4 hours' practice per day), other equipment in proportion Winter Tenu, Jau. ii, lDO«. Spring Term, April 2, 190 Trairs lea", e BUTLER as follows: F«ir Allegheny and way tftaiionn, 6:15 and » m, stii'l 4.2) p m. week davs: 7.30 a ra. an I 5. 0 l». ro. Suimaj . For TitUburg ami w:ty etitioua 8.10 a. m. ami 2.30 i>. nj. wet k 'lavs. For i; *ir*TfUt* lutereectidii, Altoooa, Harris!»org, Philadelphia out 1 the Eaftt.ti. la and 10.35 a in. and 2J30 \k in k day*; 7.20 a. m. Sunday*. BUFFALO AND ALLEGHENY VALLEY DIVISION. Trains leave via KISKIMINETAS JUNCTION as follows:- F-r Buffalo 8.40 a.m. *.v. t-k s 1.'&) a, nt. Sun ■lajrw. F.r Hod Bank and oil City. 8.4*. 10.35 a. m. ;ind 4.30 p. m. we# k days 7.2-> a. m. and 5.05 p. n». Sundays. For Kittanning and way stations 6.15 10.33 a. ia. aud 4.20 p. ni. week day.*: 7.20 a. ra. and 505 p. m. Sundays Foi detailed ixiXonnatioL*, apply to ticket a/ent or adurt-se Tho*. K. Watt, i'ast. Apt. Western District, :»60 fifth Av#»nn<\ Pittsburg, Pn W. W. ATTERfcI'RY. J P. WOoD Gen'l Manager. Pas /r Trsffc Mannger. GEO W Bo VD. CJ ;neral PwseDKer Asett. Ii K & P It K Time table in effect Nov. 19, 1905 Passenger trains leave and arrive at Bntler as follows: LEAVE FOR NORTH. 7:30 a. in., mixed for Punxsutawney, Dn Bois and intermediate stations. 10:3:1 a. m. daily, vestibnled day ex press for Buffalo, connects at Aflhford, week days, for Rochester. 5:50 p. in. local for Punx'y, Du Bois and intermediate stations. 11:31 p. m. night express for Buffalo and Rochester. ARRIVE FROM NORTH. 0:10 a, m. daily, night express from Buffalo and Rochester. 9:30 a.m. week days, accomodation from Dußois. 4:50 p.m. daily, vestibnled day express from Buffalo. Has connection at Ash ford week days from Rochester. 8:07 p.m. week days, mixed train from Du Bois and Punxsntawney. D Trains leave the B. & O. Station, Httsburg for Buffalo and Rochester at 9:00 a.in. and 10:00 p.m.. and for local points as far as Dußois daily at 4:20 p. m. week days. BESSEMER & LAKE ERIE RAILROAD COMPANY. TIME TABLE In eltect September 17th, 1905. EASTERN STANDARD TIME NORTHWARD SOUTHWARD (Readrp) Daily Except Sunday (Read down) 10 114 I 12 | RTATIO ~ I »111 I 13 t p. m. p.m.'p.m.! ni.\nurvs. !a.m.a. 111. p.ra. 10 OS; 4 OOj 3 00BulTalo(TUL.S.11.S.) 3 4510 00 100 P. in. p. m. a. iu.i a. m. p. m. p. ni. 7 13 1 4SIO 2 Erie 7 1 Oh i 57 6 ol |!0 0? Kiurvitiw 7 29 5 21 6 41* 1 0; 9 45' Ciirard 7 401 1 41 5 83 6 24: | 9 871 Cranesville 8 001 "< 49 6 551 PsujiO OUjAr-Conneiiut..liV; 7 00 12 01 5 10 5 10|12 ol| 7 00,Lv..Conneaut_Aril0 00 ' G 55 6 21 12 4S. 9 2.3 Albion- I 8 03 1 59 5 53 f6 10 fl2 35 f9 10 1 Shad eland f8 14 fi 10 f6 01 5 0719 32; 9 07' Kpringboru „... 617213 CO7 J! 02 12 27i 9 02;..<:onncautville... 8 22 2 IX f. 12 7 0712 45| 9 'A Ar..Mt>advole..LY 7 30i 1 55 4 58 4 5811 2HI 7 301.V.XIeadYillfc Ar 920 312 707 6 4012 18 8 53 .V.'.'on't Lake.Xv 7 55 2 23' 5 25 5 2511 «: 7 55Lv.Con't Lake.Ar 8 531 2456 40 5 48 10 50 Ar.XiiiesYille.Xv 8 27! I 6 17 "5 13 12 101 8 43'...Moadville Jet . ("8 43! 2 37 0 32 f5 27ni 55 8 27' Uartstowil f8 57 f2 40 G46 5 13111 41 8 12 Osgood 9 12 f3 03 7 00 6 0511 35 8 03 Greenville 9 201 3 10 7 08 5 (Hill 28 755 . Shenango. ... 3 3 If. 715 4 4311 12 7 38 Fredonia 9 «l 3 32 7 33 4 28 10 58 7 23 Mcrccr 9 Bs 3 48 7 48 4 0210 35 7CO Grove City 10 23 4108 15 f3 47]f10 23< a.m Harrlsville 'flO 38 f4 22 p.m. 3 1110 18 Uranchton jio 43 42* II 30t Ar Milliard...Ly| 7 05i 2 10 2 lo 7 05...1.v11i!1:ur! . Aril_3,' 6 17 .. . 3 3710 14 I Keister„. 10 47i 4 31 3 2310 02' |...Euclid U 04' 4 45.... _ I 7 28 'Lv.._.Kaylor ... Arl IG 20 p.m. 2 551 9 35[ _1..... 7yutler - |II 3(H iTlOj 4~00 1 15 8 15 )Lv. Allegheny.Arj 1 Otv G 85 p. ma. m.l .J 'p. m. p. m.:p. in. Train No.l leaving Greenville at G:47 a. m.; Shenango 6:s4:l"redouia 7:13: Mercer 7:27: Grove City 7:50; Keister 8:17; Butler 9:00, arrives in Allegheny at 10:25 a. m.; connects at Queen Junction with trains to and from Kaylor, and at Branehton from Billiard and Annandale. Train No. 2 leaving Allegheny at3:oop.m.; Butler 4:45; Keister 5:32: Grove City 5:55; Mercer 6:21; Fredonia 6:38; Shenango 6:55, arrive? in Greenville at 7:00 p. m.; connects oi tjneen Junction with trains to and from Kaylof, ttnd at Branchion for HHKaH. " : E. H. tITI.Ey, £. I). COMSTOCE, General ilaiiager. Gen'l Pass. Agent. WiiHlelrt K It Co Time Table In effect May 29th, 1903. WESTWARD. STATION* |AM PSI Leavci West Wtufleld 7 30 2 45 " Boggsville 745 300 " Irun Bridge 755 3io Winfield junction 8 10 3 25 " Lane 820 335 " Butler Juuctioii 825 340 Arrive Cutler 10 23 5 05 Arrive Allegheny . .. 500 Arrive pm Arrive BlairevUie 1 05 6 42 " KASTWAUS ~ STATIONS. ; > U V M Leave Leave h'airtvilU 7 SO 2 15 " Allegheny 8 25 2 20 " Butler 8 40 2 30 " Butler Junction 10 00 440 " Laue 10 03 443 " Winfiehl Junction 10 15 455 " Iron Bri.lge ,H0 2" 505 " Boggnrille :i5 515 Arrive Went Win"-,' j 110 50 530 Trai;,3 stop at uane ana Iron Bridge only on Flag to take on or leave off passengers, Traius Connect at Butler JuncUon with: Trains Eastward for Frcepcrt, Vaafiarjpift and Blairsville Intersection. Trains Westward f, r v\ and Pitt.-bur. Northward tor iuuQblirs.M&t wood and But ler. B. G. BEALOR, •lenerai Manager. Kcport of the ..Mutual Farmer's lire Insurance Company of 11 annalist own and ViclnHy. RECEIPTS Cash oil liands V'.ee. 3f, i'JO4 .;sj,uG2 U Bacelrett f(om now policies during i9US 43« Tl- i2.tSe st BXI'ENWTUKi:B. I'ald i>t.vid Leech. Summit township i 409 00 Paid L. C. Ehrmaii, Bufl'alo township 1,159 00 Paid George Harbison, Buf falo township 9 S2 Pal Jacob Frederick. Sum mit township.. . inliu Paid for'n Fccto,' faes 1r.197 . u.u lu.- apvfaiser rees 5 00 niM i"v salary for manager and directors 549 00 Paid for rent, stationery and advertising 17 75 52.i13 04 Amount of cash In treasurer's of fice, December 31, "(0£ TR i«)«.umt>er, jj. KHM 1,500.901 (Hi U'ritfen ;.nd renewed during 1905.. 112,J0n00 Total amount fi,679,101 po Expired and withdrawn within VJ~' ii.Uito 06 In force in Def.ewtior3i, luos. (1.037.110 00 Total amount of cash received by assess ments since organization of the company Mooch 23, iB6O, $88,710.49. Total amount paid for losses during 40 years, 586,112.59. Average expenses per year (luring 48years 54» I> T »T» i» »P «i» T S -g Hn Ocean Hccjuaintance By Claude pamarea Copyright. lUuj, by Homer Sprajjr.e 0 o The great steamer plowed its way on ward. each tlirob of the engines bring ing her nearer to the destined haven. I'ar up in the bow stood a man and a woman watching through the darkness. Plymouth would be reached early next morning. In silence the two stood gaz ing at ihe distant lights now beginning to flash out. This meant the close of the voyage, the end of a week of rare companionship. At first the man had paid but scaut heed to the slender, dark eyed woman who faced him at the long table. lie was off for a rest and did not care to meet people. But something in the quiet, restrained glance attracted blin, and later, when he saw her on deck struggling with steamer rugs, it seemed only civil to offer his assistance. Henceforth they fell into the way of being together. They read and criti cised each other's books and maga zines. they spent much time pacing the deck, and now had come the last night of it all. She was leaving the ship at Plymouth; he was going on to Cher bourg. The man was the first to speak. "And am I never to see you again?" he asked. She shook her head. "It is very unlikely." "You mean" — he demanded. "I mean that it is best not." was the quiet answer, but he bent rebelliously closer. "Listen," he said determinedly. "I know that It is far too soon to speak, that you»have known me barely a week, yet when you talk in this way say that we shall not meet again"— "You know nothing of me either," broke in the woman hurriedly—"who 1 am or whence I come." "I know you are the loveliest and sweetest woman in the world," he said, with a stubborn frown, "and that I" "No, no," cried she sharply. Then she lifted her head. "I have not told you the whole truth," she said, a quiet dignity in her bearing. "I am indeed Mrs. Raymond, and my husband Is dead, but—l am also Russell Ban croft's sister." "Bancroft's sister." He repeated the words incredulously. "Bancroft's sister." His voice betrayed only an amazed bewilderment, but the wom an, sensitively alivo to every intona tion, heard or fancied a certain hidden repugnance beneath the surprise. Her breath fluttered; then she pulled her self together. » "So I am sure you will agree with me that any further friendship be tween us is impossible," she said clear ly. "Good night and goodby." Before he could divine her intention she had stepped toward the compan ion way. The next moment She wn« gone. The man turned bac'j to the rail. "Baiu-roft'o sister," he said again, his eyes resting vaguely, unseemlngly upon the tumbling waters. "Bancroft's sister." Below in the narrow liaie cabin Mrs. Raymond threw herself upon the bunk. The heavy tears hung upon her lashes. He hated her then. She wondered at it in a dull sort of way. Yet who really could wonder that the very name of Bancroft should be distasteful lu his cars? She knew the whole wretched story. The two men had been chums at school, roommates at college. She recollected the tall lad whom Russell had brought home for an occasional visit. Then had come Cortwright's en gagement. The cards were out, the wedding drees Unished. Bancroft was to be best man Yud then two before the day set Bancroft, the tru*t* ed, the belovtxl friend, had fled with his chum's bride, leaving a wild, incoher ent note in which they pleaded their unconquerable affection. Child as she had been, Mrs, J»ay iiioinl well tim tremendous u und stirred, her passion ate sympathy for the half stunned Cortwright. But the affair slid Into history, like everything else. After that Russell and his wife lived ab-road. She herself had grown up, married and be come a widow. Her marriage had not proved exactly a success, yet she had mourned her husband deeply and sin cerely, never considering the possibil ity of her yiarrying again. Then had «:ome this steamer acquaintance with a uinu Singularly congenial In tastes and Ideas. Iler learning of his identity had been a shock. Sho felt that in hones+y she must reveal herself. Y/ r ± «very day she let pass me task more dltti euU. And now what she had most feared had come to pass—he shrank from the sister of his faithlesq tii^ud The woman ou the Mink started up ju sudden fierceness. It was not fair. ■\Vhat part uad »he in that old deed? t»ht> must see him again—explain. She did not know exactly what to say, but the impulse carried her o.ut into the cor ridor. It was not late. Perhaps he would join her again on deck. Hut as she turned Into tha paas&gfe way which led ;c h's door and lifted her £and to knock a swift realization v>t what she was about to «lo swept over her with iUI intolerable rush of sh:unt>. What! Appeal to the pity of any man? For had he truly loved her he would not have let her go. Dominated by this reasoning, she turned and fairly ran bayk tu her cabin. Tliero, buwed head, mo save 'for soft, catching breaths, lJhe waited until the steward came to call her. It looked very cheerless in the big room. A few persons were flustered about one end of & lung table. She C-ist n .jtfh k glance about, hardly know log for what she hoped, but he was not there. The steward brought ','ggs and coffee, and she managed a cup. Then Went on deck. The rain was dripping dismally. Here and there a light glimmered faintly through the thick mist. So that was Plymouth. The gang n'niiL leading to the tende; ,>aa steep and slippery, people moved through the dusk like disembodied spirits. It was all very gloomy and very forlorn, antj herself she shivered, The gaii* plank was pulled in. The oand, huddled into a damp group oil the steamer's deck, broke forth with » lively air. A man studding near by laugh Pl\, "If one has to lie awake at such an hour it is a comfort to know that no one else can sleep either," he observed grimly. ••It would be hard to sleep through that racket," assented his companion At the voice she started viotaiUy. Was it—con!'*, it bv—Uurtwrlgbt? For a mo ment lit- scarcely breathed, thrilled be tween ecstasy and fear. Then a dark figure detached Itself from the fog and came to her. "It is you," said the voice, and this, time unmistakably it waq CWtwright's. "I tture "But you!" gasped the woman. ! "Your ship—Cherbourg?** ; "Ilang Cherbourg,'* said he cheerful ; ly. Then his voice dropped. "Do you think that you were very kind to me awhile back?" he asked gravely. "Wasn't it rather mean to spring a surprise of that sort on a man and then run before he could re cover?" "Oh!" expostulated she weakly. This was n new view of the matter. "1 thought It was because you didn't i care," he went on. "You know, you I wouldn't wait, wouldn't give me a chance to speak. I thought—perhaps— anyway, I felt mighty blue when I went below. Then I found— this." She could just glimpse the tiny square of lawn that he showed her. "It lay on the carpet near my door, and it told me—it told me— Ah. sweetheart," he cried, a sudden subdued exultation ringing through his tone, "that gave me the courage to come. It tokl me that perhaps you felt sorry for me; that perhaps you, too. cared— Just a little bit —that you might listen to me. Was I wrong, dear? Will you marry me?" The mist was drifting out to sea. The clouds had broken, and in the east appeared a glow of crimson and gold. The sun was rising In all its splen dor and majesty. The rain was over. For a moment the woman gazed with wide, glad eyes at tho newborn day; then she turned to meet the man's eager entreaty. "I will marry you whenever you like." she said, Sol * Tracedy. They had walked halfway through the park, and suddenly she sat down on a bench. He sat beside her. They were entirely alone save for an old man at one end of their seat Im mersed in a book, Their agitated con versaUon continued: "Oh, it is too dreadful!" she shudder ed as she covered her face with her hands as if to shut out some unbear able sight. "Fearful." he agreed, deeply moved and mopping the perspiration from his brow. "Horrible," she added. "I cannot bear to think of it. Tho loss of hope, happiness, perhaps even life Itself." "Hush!" he interrupted gently. "Let us no longer think of it or it may grow to prey on our minds." "Pardon me," said the old man on the end of the seat, his watery eyes distended in lively apprehension, "has there been some awful disaster? Have you been forced to look upon some aw ful tragedy?'* The young people regarded each oth er in some confusion. Hesitatingly tho youth answered: "Xo, sir. You see, wo have just be come engaged, and wo were talking of what a calamity it would have been had we never met." Derivation of Fad. The derivation of the word "fad" is possibly traceable in the Welsh lan guage. By the law of mutation of Ini tial consonants peculiar to that tongue the root w-ords ffedd and medd are convertible terms. Their essential meaning is possession; transitive or transitive, possession of something or the act of being possessed or engrossed by scuiu usccupatiou or vice. Welsh ihedd and Irish, Sanskrit and EugUsb mad have similar meanings and are probably kindred words. The word mad is not common in Teutonic idioms, so that the Anglo-Saxons probably bor rowed it from the Welsh. Fad is therefore equally derivable from flfedd. Proximately, of course, it comes from the midland dialects and ultimately from some root word common to many members of the Aryan family speech. It would be strange if the two word? u rnrtd and fad, having a similar Vueaning, should be traceable to the same root.—Notes Queries. The Shrike, or Dutclicr Bird. There is a strange little bird, about as big as a robin, which nearly every winter brings us, Ho is generally alone, like a tluy black and gray hawk & many of his ways, but related truly to the gentle vireos and waxwings. He is the nor r hern shrike, or butcher bird k and he gets a cruel living by catching mice and little birds, which he hangs on locust thorn*, sharp twigs or the points of a wire fence, as his little feet, unlike the hawk's, are not strong enough to hold his prey. But he is a handsome fellow, and rarely one may hear u very sweet little song as he sits on the top of some leafless bush, par ticularly late in the winter. But gen erally he is silent, like the true Wrda of prey, or at best gives only * rasping squeal.—St. Nicholas, The of a Familiar Sarins. When Aurellus Paulus, the Roman consul, desired a divorce from hla wife some friends reasoning with him asked: "Is she not beautiful and virtuous and Of noble family and great wealth? | What fault, then, can you find with her?" And the consul stooped down, unfas tened his shoe andT" showing it to. them, answered: "Is it not of fine material if Is It not well made? Does it not ap pear to fit excellently» Yet none of you Inows wliervi it pinches me." In Now Holland soars, made carefully With sheila, form elaborate patterns on the ladies' faces. DUAL PURPOSE COW. Her Natural Home la on tb* ?a»all M Average Farm. We do not hoheve there is a domestic aruivuii today, as conditions now exist, 1 in more universal demand the world over than the dual purpose cow. No farm east or west but is benefited by her most useful combination unless we except the exclusive, special purpose dairy firm. The strength of her claim is the universality of her sphere. Per haps her most natural home is on the small farm or the average farm. Her annual credit account Is a good supply of milk and butter for the family and a lusty, vigorous calf that matures in to a high clr.ss carcass of beef. In this capacity she- turns to the very beat ac count. When JiG* best working days are and she is dried off she readi ly and quickly fattens into a fine car cass, and th* last account of her on the block is no mean consideration. Tl*v» scrub tho Only Enemy. We are far from being at war witti any improved breed. The scrub breed is onr only enemy. Against it we will combine fwces with any recognized brood, We envy not the special pur pose breed. It also has Its sphere, and 'certain conditions call for it. But there is a special purpose breed, and there is a dual purpose breed. Each will adapt itself to conditions that suit. The dual purpose is for the many,, to* the masses. The snecial purpose is for the few. for ihe classes. *t is all right to develop the exclusive beef type. But this is not the class that furnishes milk for the family and butter for the board. It is not the cow for the small farm. It is not the cow for the thousands of large families of moderate means and small estates.— W. P. Uarned Before Missouri Dairy Association. i THE LIFE OF BALZAC i PEN SKETCH OF THE GREAT FRENCH LITERARY GENIUS. Er»rUutln(lr la Debt, Ha Cuaouotvi the Wildest Schraca For Mtklag Money— I The Traced? of Hla Wooing and Weddln* Una*. Haaaka. The life story of llonore de Balzac is Infinitely more fascinating than any of the tales that rippled from bis facile pen, and the wonder is that scores of needy authors have uot seized upon such rich material and turned it into gold. Baizac was not only a Frenchman, but a genius, truly a wild combination. At first he thought be wanted to be a lawyer, then a millionaire, then some thing else, his desires all through life fairly tumbling over each other. At one time be had "two immense and sole desires—to be famous and to be loved." "I had determined from my childhood that I would be a great man. I said with Andre Chenler as I struck my forehead, 'There is something be neath thatT I felt, I believed, the thought within me that I must ex press." In his early youth Balsac did not succeed to bis liking in impressing wo man with his importance. "With tears of mortification I bowed before the de cision of the world, but my distress was not barren. I determined to re venge myself on society. I would dom inate the feminine intellect and so have the feminine soul at my mercy. All eyes should be fixed upon me when the servant at the door announced my name." "What he has begun with the sword," he said of Napoleon, "I shall finish with the pen." There was much of the child in him to the end of bis days. He was ever lastingly in debt; the artist's life, he said, must be a splendid one. Some times when be was surrounded by the costliest bric-a-brac he had not enough money to buy food. He took coffee to keep himself awake, and be wrote and wrote till he was exhausted, all the time being In the condition of a "track ed bare," harassed and pursued by his creditors and knowing that all his gains must go to them. He made elaborate secret plans to attend the rehearsals of his playe. As the place of Balzac's abode was kept strictly secret for fear of his cred itors, the time of the rehearsal each day was to be communicated to him by a messenger from the theater, who was told to walk in the Champs Blysees to ward the Arc de I'Etolle. At the twen tieth tree on the left past the circle, he would find a man who would appear to be looking for a bird in the branches. The messenger was to say to him. "I hare it," and the man would answer, "As you have it, what are you waiting for?" On receiving this reply the emis sary from the Odeon would hand over the paper and depart without looking behind him. The only comment that Ureux, who appears to have been a practical man, made on these curious arrangements was that if tfce twenti eth tree had been struck by lightning during the night he supposed that the servant must stop at the twenty-first and Balzac assented gravely to this proposition. Balzac concocted the wildest schemes for making money, Buch as the cover ing of his garden with glass houses for the production of pineapples, by which he was to make 400,000 francs a year, and the transplantation of 00,000 oaks from Russia to France, by which be was persuaded 1,200,000 francs could be earned. But when these schemes failed—and he usually got tired of them when the excitement of working them out had subsided—he always had a play or a novel in his pocket by which the pressure of bis creditors could feb at least temporarily reduced, But the tragedy of Balsac's life was his long wooing of Mme. Hanska. The acquaintance began with a letter from the lady, who deprecated Balsac's views of women as expressed in bis "La Peau do Chagrin." Balzac was strongly influenced by the letter. He replied to it, and, notwithstanding the fact that she waa a married lady, he was soon hopelessly In love with hla unknown correspondent. Soon he la writing, "I love you, unknown, and this strange thing is the natural effect of an empty and unhappy life only filled with Ideas." "You are In all my thoughts, in all the lines that I shall trace, in all the moments of my life, in ftU uay being, in my hair which grows for you." Eventually they met secret ly, exchanged their first kisa under the shade of a great oak at Neufchatel and promised to wait for each other. In 1841 Mme. Hanska's husband died, and then began for Balzac a period of hope deferred that lasted for nine fears and broke his health, so that when at last the great lady consented to become Mme. Honor* de Balzac he bad no longer tb* strength to enjoy his long deferred happiness. Five month* after the wedding he was In bia. grave. There seems to be little doubt that all the love was on one side and that Mme. Hanska had outlived the romance of her early Interest in the great novelist. "Three days ago," wrote Balzac, "I married the only wo man I ever loved, whom I love more than ever and whom I shall love till death. This union Is, I think, the rec ompense which God has had In reserve for me after so much adversity, so many years of work, so much gone through and overcome. I am nearly mad with happiness." , His happiness, alas, was of short du ration. Endless instructions had Bal zac sent home to his manservant and to his relatives as to the preparations for the reception of his bride, but the home coming was a tragic occurrence. The house was brilliantly lighted, but there was no response to the master's continued knocking, for poor Francois, the manservant overwrought by the strain of the situation, had gone mad, and the travelers had to wait in their carriage till the door could be forced— a sad ending of a miserable Journey! From Balzac's idealization of the wo man he bad wooed so long be gradual ly awoke. T_"tter moral collapse and vertigo wore his portion. He was only fifty-one when he died at Paris in 1850, and the death of Mme. de Balzac oc curred in the same year. Balsac's treasures were left to Mme. de Balsac's married daughter. The very day of her funeral Mme. Georges Minizech's creditors pushed her and her maid into the street and rifled the bouse in the Rue Fortunee. The booty was transported to the auc tion room known as l'Hotel Drouot, and there u sale was held by order of justice of Balsac's library,hla buhl cabi nets and some of his manuscripts, in cluding that of "Eugenie Grandet." which had been given to Mme. Hanska on Dec. 23,1833. During the shameless pillage of the bouse the vultures who ransacked It found evidence of the most reckless, the most Imbecile, ex travagance. One room waa filled with boxes containing bats, and In another pile# of coativ aUks wwe leaned •>» No. 8. touched since their arrival from the fashionable haberdasher or *Uk mercer. Balzac's treasures, the cariosities be bad amassed with so "inch trouble, AM ' pictures of which he bad been so proud, were ruthlessly seised, while precious manuscripts and lettem which would, perhaps have brought In 100,000 franc* if they bad been put up for tale were thrown out of tfce window by the ex asperated throng.—Kansas CMty Inde pendent. CURIOUB PLEASURES. Ther Were CMOT as Well, llmoc the Price Was Death. The late King Ludwig of Bavaria frequently ordered performances of opera for his private delectation, but an Englishman, Curtis Donnythorpe, maintained for his personal entertain ment a troupe of dancers, at one time one of the moat noted organisations of the English music hall stage. Mr. IJonny thorpe was an Invalid and, being unable to gratify hi* paaalon for dancing In bis own person, engaged the Kelby troupe. He had a stag* built in his home, whereon they per formed dally. It was his habit to sug gest new steps, and white encouraging them to fresh endeavor one day be brought on the attack of heart disease which ended his life. He was not the only one killed by bis pleasures,' for Theodore Botley, an other Englishman, devoted his whole life to his stomach. He had agents throughout the world in search of new dishes, and, that he might eat more frequently than nature demanded, it was bis practice to engage in manual labor for the purpose of getting up an appetite. He had the largest library on the subject of eating that has ever been gathered together. In the end he died of starvation because bis stomach was unable to assimilate ordinary nourishing foods. He had his complement In Charles P. Cashel, in whom the sense of smell was ss keenly developed as It la In a bunting dog. He reveled in the richest perfumes and In the end lost his sense of smell completely through overin dulgence in the perfume of a South American flower. Ttiis left him unable to detect the odor of escaping gas, and he was asphyxiated. The Russian Count Ivanovltch of the time of the first Emperor Nicholas died of frlgbt at the announcement that the emperor had declared his Intention of visiting blm and sending him to labor in the salt mines If he did not leave his bed to welcome him. For years ha had never left his bed and indulged In liquid foods as being the more easy to eat.—New Tork Herald. Hot a Weddln*. It was just one of the sights we see in a great city—see, pass by and for get An Italian boy not more than twenty years old, washed clean and dressed in his stiff Sunday suit, waa seated in an open carriage which had coat him a week's pay for the after noon. His arm was laid tenderly about the shoulders of the sweet faced girl who sat beside him, decked in her pure white bridal array. They did not speak. Their eyes were fixed sadly on l the little white thing that rested o* [ their knees. The day was cold, but they did not heed it They heeded nothing but the little white thing across their knees. "Hello, Bill!" a man on- a coal wagon greeted the driver of the carriage. "Weddln', eh?" Bill shook his head. That was aIL Then the man on the coal wagon looked again and saw the little white cofflh, ''Excuse me, Bill," said he, and took •ff hi a cap.—Brooklyn Eagle. The Better Part «t Tatar. Nobody ever called in question the courage of the early Spanish settlers of California, but there seems to have been at least one man among their descendants who held discretion to be the better part of valor. Hla fellow countrymen still preserve the memory, with a keen appreciation of its point A certain Don Andreas was interview ed by his superior officer on the eve of an engagement with the enemy and was warned that the American waa a very different foe from the Indian or the Mexican and that courage should not be pushed to rashness In an en counter with him. "Have no fear, general," was the re sponse of the Intrepid caballero. "I would far rather that history should record from where I fled than where I felL" The general's mind was probably re lieved of anxiety concerning the fata of at least one Individual in his com mand by this reply. COB CHARCOAL, Eaallr Prcvared For Bpae CM at Little ExytaN. If farmers would use more charcoal in their hogpens there would be leas disease and the animals would be kept in a better condition in every way, growing more steadily and taking On fat more readily. Charcoal may be provided for home use at little or no expense, whether T TOX. rrrirfr 'a 1 CHABOOAIi PIT. made from wood or cobs, although cobs are the cheaper material from which to make the charcoal, and they serve the purpose fully as well. This cob charcoal may be easily made by burning dry, well matured corncobs in a smothered fire. One of the simplest and most easily provided equipments for burning charcoal Is to make a hole In the ground of such a size aa may be required for the amount of stock to be fed. Have the pit funnel shaped, as shown in the drawing. Start a fire in the bottom, and to this add cobs until the pit is full, being careful to feed in the cobs carefully to permit a drawing of the fire from the bottom to the top of the pit. When filled, immediately cover over with heavy sheet iron or other noncombusti ble covering, sealing the edges with earth to prevent an escape of heat or the possibility of draft which would allow the cobs to burn to ashes Instead of charring. Leave overnight and shov el out the next morning, spreading thin to prevent complete combustion. This will be found an excellent grade of charcoal that will readily pulverise and mix with such feeds as it may be desired to use in connection with It such as bran, middlings, cornmeal, etc. A tablespoon ful may be given each animal at every feed. If mixed With ashes and placed in a separate trough the animals will consume such an amount of It as they need with no dan ger of their getting too much, says B- M. Wlreans in Farm, Field and Fire aid*.