VOL. XXXXIII.
THE MODERN STORE-
Just Arrived
DAINTY NEW SPRING SHIRT WAISTS.
• SPECIAL PRICES THIS WEEK.
Newest styles made in the best possible manner of nicest materials,
trimmed with pretty durable laces and embroideries. Perfect r ltting.
The C«*isha Waists, Special Prices this Week on These.
15 dozen nice*whit© lawn waists, nicely trimmed with lace or em
broideries, open back or front, five different styles to select from, a
sizes today 4yc each.
10 styles of fine lawn waists, beautifully trimmed with Val. lace or
insertions, open either front or back, waists well worth $1.50. ft 00 each.
Dozens of different styles, trimmed in every conceivable manner and
made of fine Persian lawns and wash batistes, open either front or back.
Ions; or elbow sleeves, all at special low prices, for finest waists, $1.50,
|B.OO, *2 60 to |4.00.
New Spring Skirts, all priced specially low. We sell the yneen
Skirts. fa 50. $5 00, $6.50 to $9.00. Plenty of the new greys among these.
Axents in Butler for Ladies' Home Journal Patterns.
EISLER-MARDORF COHPANY,
MOTS MAH STKZET 1 QQI
I " ■ Samples sent on request.
OPPOSITE HOTEL ARLINGTON, BUTLER. PA
[SPRING SUITS.]
i You see we are as usual, the early bird. Our line 7
?of Spring Suits for Men, Boys and Children is here and \
S open for your inspection. The handsomest styles and \
\ patterns you ever laid eyes on. You never saw their/
\ equal. The envy of all local merchant tailors. Heavy 7
v padded shoulders, hand-quilted breasts, hand-made button p
I holes, in fact so snappy and well built as to S
) We Defy Any Merchant Tailor to Equal Them! S
We are always first. You do the same by buying C
/ early. Prices considered, Hamburger make considered, r
J style, quality, make, wear and patterns considered, in fact
} everything considered, you'll find this the only place to buy. f
J The Famous Skolney Suits for Children are here and r
Sread> to be worn by the best dressed Children of Butler. ?
C SEE WINDOW DISPLAY. )
\ | Douthett & Graham. $
) INCORPORATED
IIeYTH BROS. 1
Do It, Now! 1
It Your Wall Papering. |
4f. - "'y
$ J We have just received a Car Load of Cheap andw
4 fMedium Priced Wall Paper that we intend to sell at Bar-?!?
t ?gain Prices. Just what you want for tenement housesn?
t tand rooms where a nice paper is required at a small coslS?
•? You Can't Afford to Miss This. il?
| Eyth Bros., ~f
11 NEAR COURT HOUSE. .....
I Duffy's Store 1
Not one bit too early to think of that, new Carpet, orß
perhaps you would rather have a pretty Rug—carpet■
size. Well, in either case, we can suit you as our Car-Mj
pet stock is one of the largest and best assorted in But-ra
ler county. Among which will be found the following: 11
EXTRA SUPER ALL WOOL INGRAIN CARPETS, §|
Heavy two and three ply. . 65c per yd and np H
HALF WOOL INGRAIN CARPETS, fl
Best cotton chein 50c per yd and np
BODY BRUSSELS. |§
Simply no wear ontto these $1.85 ydß
TAPESTRY BRUSSELS, g§
Light made, bnt very Good 65c per yd np
STAIR CARPETS ff
Body and Tapestry Brussels, Half and All Wool Ingrains. ht
HARTFORD AXMINSTERS, £§
Prettiest Carpet made, as durable too $1.35 H
RAG CARPETS, Genuine old-fashioned weave. Kg
MATTING, Hemp and Straw. |S
RUGS-CARPET SIZES. B
Axminster Rugs, Beauties too $23 each and up H
Brussels Rugs, Tapestry and Body sl2 each and up H
Ingrain Drnggets. All and Half Wool $5 each and np H
Linoleums, Inlaid and Common, all widths and grades h|
Oil Cloths, Tloor, Table, Shelf and Stair. bJ|
Lace Curtains, Portiers, Window Shades, Curtain Poles; Small Hearth H
Rngs, all styles and sizes. 19
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
Clerk per annum $312.00
Lights, Heat and incidentals . . . $ 194.00
Total $1286.00
I have no store and can save yon 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 you 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. MeCnrdy 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
G'eo. D. High Miss Anna McCandless
W. J. Mates E. A. Black
J. S. Thompson Samuel Woods
Joseph Woods Oliver Thompson
S. M. McKee John Johnson
A.-W Boot R. A. Long well
Miss Eleanor Burton J. Hillgard
Mrs. Mary L- Stroup J. E. Bowers
W. C Curry C. F. btepp i
F. J. Hauck W. J. Armstrong
Miss Emma Hughes Miles Hilliard
A. W. Mates Mrs. S. J. Green
W. R. Williams J, R. Douthett
Mrs. R. O. Rumbaugh E. K Richey
Chas. E. Herr L. S. Youcfc
PEOPLE'S PHONE 426.
THE BUTLER CITIZEN.
The Great $5 Clothing Sate
is on again this month. But that will end it —no more
after this month. Garments for which we would ask
full price under norma! conditions.
No matter how little the price, its a high standard
that rules here—annoyingly so to those of our com
petitors who even attempt to match the values
presented.
This SSOO Clothing Sale Is a
Mighty Strong Proposition.
$5.00 buys choice of several hundred rattling good
suits and.overcoats that cannot be matched in any
other Butler store in season or out of season for less
than $lO to $12.50.
SCHAUL& LEVV
137 South Main Street. Butler. Pa.
BICKELS g
fj Great Bargain Sale. U
•J An immense Stock of Seasonable Footwear to be » |
closed out in order to reduce our extremely
large stock f
[j Big Bargains in AH Lines. N
Ladies' Fur Trimmed Felt Slippers, price *1.25--reduced to . 75c tr J
p J Ladies' Warm Lined Shoes, price $1.50 —reduced to .. .SI.OO L ®
Wm Ladies' Warm Lined Shoes, price 25- reduced to 85c iv i
One lot Ladies' 3.50 Hand turn and Hand-welt Shoes reduced to 2.25 £
ij One lot Ladies' 3.00 Fine Patent Leather Shoes, button or lace, a
One lot Ladies' $2.50 Fine Dongola Patent tip Shoes reduced to 1.65 b j
One lot Ladies'l.so Fine Dongola Patent tip Shoes reduced to 1.10
WM One lot Children's Fine Shoes, sizes 4to 8, reduced to 45c
One lot Infanta's Fine Shoes, sizes oto 4, reduced to 19c y J
■ 1 Men's Fine Bos-calf, Viei-kid and Patent Leather Shoes.
f M regular price $3.50 and |4.00 —reduced to 2.50 J
Men's Working Shoes, regular price $2.00 reduced to. ....... 1.40 y A
One lot Boys' Fine Satin-calf Shoes, regular price I.so—red'dto 1.00 i u
One lot Men's Fine Slippers reduced to 40c *
W A Ladies' Lamb-wool Insoles, regular price 25c —reduced to 15c yjg
r'm Misses' and Children's L:unb-wool Insoles, regular price 20c—at 8c 18
pj All Felt Boots and Overs, all Stockings and
VA Overs, Warm-lined Shoes and Slippers, also balance
k« of our stock of Leggins and ov6r-Gaiters to be in- fe l l
Ij eluded in this GREAT BARGAIN SALE.
Sole Leather and Shoemakers' Supplies. ;
kl Repairing Piomptly Done. f
[j JOHN BICKELO
M 128 S Main St., BUTLER. PA.
m, butler
o 7
is
New buildings, new rooms, elegant new equipment, excellent courses of
study, best of teachers, expenses moderate, terms VERY LIBERAL!
Over $2,000 00 worth of.new typewriters in use (allowing advanced student*
from 8 to 4 hours' practice per day), other equipment in proportion!
Winter Term, Jan. ti, Spring Term, April U, U)0<».
Positions secured for our worthy graduate?. Visitors always welcome!
When in Butler, pay us a visit. Catalogue and other literature mailed on ap
plication. MAY ENTER ANY TIME.
A. F. REGAL, rincipal, Butler, Pa
| Spring and Summer |
Everything in the line of Millinery can be found, f|t
•p the right thing at the right time at the right price at j*!
I ROCKENSTEIN'S I
Phone 656. 148 S. Main St.
MEN |!l f
Won't buy clothing for the purpose of [} ■ , C. Y
spending money. Th»y desire to get the J!' ' . X i
best possible results of the money expended. irj I
Those who buy custom clothing have a -v 1 , l i
right to demand a fit, to have their clothes /!{',; ». / f:•
correct in style and to demand of the AIM '-■■■• Jyivt
seller to guarantee everything. Come to / ,'j
na and there will be nothing lacking. I yrTv -
have just received a large slock of Spring || t"v\ "vC, ■, \;!
and Summer suitings in the latest styles, .—i!A • ./V ,j ji ,
shades and colon. » j \ *'J' 'I ?£'/'■ V fjij t
G. F. KECK, nwPij
/MERCHANT TAIIsOR, VVA
142 N. Main St., Sutler, Pa M s
I I |gfj? |
I Washers |
1 * w "Tizd * #l# * or *' tl
| fQpSJ With Less Work |
H I Than any other Washer*
** on tie market. £
in Spi :V.
® &
I iy>
f J. Q. & W. CAMPBELL,
| BU I LE, PA.
1
BUTLER, PA., THURSDAY, .MARCH 1 r», 1906.
R-R i i ME-TABLES
Pennsylvania
WEST PENNSYLVANIA DIVISION.
Schedule in ellect Jan. 1, lOOtt
Trai s lea- c BUTLER as follows:
For AlToßhni.v Mid :15 Mi l 10.33 »
• .mn.l 4 !»!> m. ».-k ■'»%-; 7.9) a ai. a ! i. 0
I'. m. Snii.l»3 .
1 -..r rin-lmre and wny 3.10 a. m. an,! 2.30 f.
m. wn-k d»js.
For B arsville Intersection, A 1 toon a,
PliKailv*{'2<ia a»»«3 th«.- tVt.6.ls»iid 1035 a m. and
BUFFALO AND ALLEGHTST VALLEY
BIVIdIOII.
Trains leave via
as follows:
For Buffalo ..#) a.m. w k 7.20 a. m. &nn
F'>r Red Pank and Oil < "icy. 6.15, 8.40,10.35 a. m.
and 4.30 p. in. w* k Jm y ; 7.Z »a. m. aud 5.<»5 i». ra.
K«r'Kittauuing md wav ,tatK»UB 6.15 and 10.35 a.
m. an l 4.20 p. rn. w .lays; 7.2 » h. m. and 506
p. m. funiliy.-
F»t detailed i f.--rnatioD,apply to ticket a<ont or
aUrotuiThoa. E. Watt, I SWP. .*. t. Western District.
Pittab:ir«,
W. W. ATTEBBI HY, J R W«X,D
G<?p'l Manager. Pa»Traffic Manager.
GEO W HOYD. G meral Pas- ioger Ajeer. t.
ij it & V li IJ
Time tnble in effect Nov. 19. 1905
Passenger trains leave and arrive at
Butler as follows:
LEAVE FOK NORTH.
7:30 a. m., mixed for Punxsntawney,
Du Cois and intermediate stations.
10:33 a. m. daily, vestibuled day ex
press for Buffalo, connects at Askford,
week days, for Rochester.
S:3O p. m. local for Punx'y, Du Bois
and intermediate stations.
11:31 p. m. night express for Buffalo
and Rochester.
ARRIVE FROM NORTH.
6:10 a, m. daily, night express from
Buffalo and Rochester.
9:30 a.m. week days, accomodation
from Dnßois.
4:50 p.ui. daily, vestibuled day express
from Burial i. Has connection at Ash
ford week days from Rochester.
8:0? x>.in. wpek days, mixed train
from IJu Bois and Punxsutawney.
j Trains leave the B. & O. Station.
I ittsburg for Buffalo and Rochester
at 9:00 a.m. and 10:00 p m.. and for loc«l
points as far as Dr.Bois daily at 4:20 p.
m. week days.
Wintield it it Co 'time Table
In effect May 29th, 1903.
WESTWARD.
STATIONS. All P M
Leaves West Win field. ... 7 30 2 45
" .. 7 45 3 00
11 Iron Drid £•» 755 310
Winfleld Junctlii 8 10 32-^
" Tjane 8 3,i 5
11 Butler Junction . .. 8 2- r » 340
Arrive fJ utler 10 33 5 05
Arrive Allegheny. 5 C)
Arrive Pittsburg !0 25
pm
Arrive Rlairsville 1 05 5 42
EA*TWAI.!>. "
STATIONS. " A M P M
Leave
Leave C!airsville 7 50 2 15
44 Allegheny 8 25 230
44 Butler 840 U.i 0
44 Butler Junction 10 00 440
" Lane 10 (Ui 443
44 Wiufleld Junction 10 15 45Z
44 Iron Briilge 10 25 505
41 Boggsville i 0
Arrive Wi-st WiniiciJ 10 s<> 5 «
Traiixa Pt«.p at Lane and Iron Bridge only on Flag to
take on or leave vtf patwt-tigers.
Trains Connect at Butler Junction vrith:
TraJr." Eaiitward for F r tr lW ' 3 * - r ■'■■■ ar*!
BlaTrmrre inTersc ctfou.
Trains Westward for Natrona,Tarenturn Allrgbtny
and Httsbnrg.
Trains Northward tor Saxonburg.Marwood aud Lot
ler
B. G. BEALOB,
General IViacager.
BESSEMER &, LAKE ERIE RAILROAD
COMPANY,
TIME TABLE in effect September 17th, J905.
EASTERN STANDARD TIME
NORTHWARD SOUTHWARD
(Readi:p) Dally Except Sunday (Read down)
TiT Ph I U | fIT , n»" Vn i iT
p. m.'p. m. p.m.! di.hiviao. b. pi. a 111. p.m.
l 0:i WBiifTalo(TitLS.M.B.) 4ol'J tm, iOO ■
]x in. I'.iii.u.m.i CaS m. p. in.
7 i: II 10 25' Erie.. 1 7 lt"> lO- < 57
C 51 I'o 0l" Fairview 7 29: r> 21
ti I 1 0 0 4 tiirar.l ( 7 4i< 141 583
_C 21 11) 27l | 8 0(1. I 5 49
(S ;V>) 1 oill'J Oil Ar..»:(muuiit;l..i.\ 7 U<'l2 01 5 id
B 10|12 oli 7 Co.Lr..Connea»t ..Av'lO <X> I f. .55
8 2H2 i3j 9 2-.j Albion | 8 o; L 56 .. U
K 10 (12 35f9 Id Shad eland (8 111-' 1»ffl 01
607 I'j ;ti 9 07 1 Springboro |517213 (i 07
G 12 27 :> 0- .< <>iii:ea\itviHi .J S 2.' 2lbii 12
1 0712 45, 9 a 'Ar."McaUvillc.Xv| » 30; 1 55 4 53
45# II 2S; 750 Lv..Me-nl vil'.c. Ar] 92 • 312 707
C4O 12 l- js r, v..Con't Lake-.Lvi 7 f5 2 2:; 525
525 11 50; 7 85 Lv.Cou't Lake.Ar 8 6:l' 245 C4O
5 4o 10 50 Ar..LiliesviHe..l.v 8 27 6 17
il 45 8 27 I.V.Xiiiesville..ArlO Bo! 4 »<
15 :il 55 s 27 Hartstown._. TS 57 f J 4:* C 46
5 ill 41, s i'J Osgood 012 fa 0:- 7 ixi
8 O>U a.", H u.; Crrenville 9 2" 3 10 7 cS
5( ii 2- 7 or.| shenango 11 j.V 3n7 15
4i;II12 7ay i'redonia. .. 942 .• 783
4 -SKI !»i 7 2. alercer. .1... 06- 3 4s 7 48
HO 5S 7 U _. Houston Jct...:10 02 7 5:1
402 10 351 7CO Grove City 10 2,410 815
fj 17 flO Zi a.m. Harrisville ftO 33 f4 22 p.m.
3 II 10 li<' Branchton -10 43 4 2-.
2 lu 7 0": i.v ..Hilliunl... Ar 11 3:' (i 17 ...
3 37 10 14' |........Keister To 4<i 4 81
_3 2310 02 1 ... j,, 4 4:,
7 231 -ILv Kaylor— Ai 620 p.m.
2 soj 9 :is| _| Butler ill an 51 «4 00
1 15| 8 15 iLv.Allegheny.Ar| I 01. c 36
p. in. 'V. m.l J |i. m-p. m. p. m.
Train No.I leaving Greenville at 0:1/ a. m.;
Slienango G:. r ii;Fredoiiia 7:1:;. M r. .; r 7:27: Grove
City 7:50; Keister &:17; liutler U:00. arrives in
Allegheny ai J1..2H a. m.; connects ai Queen
Junction with trains to and from Kavlor, and
at Hranehtoii from llilliai l anil Annaiidale.
Train No. 2 leaving Allegheny at3:oop. m.;
Butler 1:15; Keistor 5:: .': Grove Cltv 5:.V; Mercer
6:41; Fredonia Slienango 6:?6, arrives in
Greenville at 7:00 p. m.: connects at Queen
Junction with trains t. ■ and fr.,m Kaylor, and
at llranchton for Hilliard.
E. H. TTTLEY, E. D. COMSTOCK.
General Slauaser. Geu'l l»as- Aaeut.
Zuver Studio
Has added a full line of
amateur Photo Supplies, Cam
eras, Films, Dry Plates, De
velopers, Printing out and de
veloping papers.
Anti-Trust Goods
At about one half what
you have been paying.
Quality
Guaranteed
As good if not better than
the Trust goods.
ZUVER STUDIO
215 S. Main St. Butler
so YEARS'
..Vf '■ ' ■"
£* TRADE MARKS
rypA DESIGNS
' COPYRIGHTS AC.
Anyone se :*llng a sketch nnd description may
quickly ascertain oui opinion free whether
Invention probably putcntaMe. Communic«-
tious tricily« « nartenttal. II indbooken
ecut free. Oldest agency for iecortuy patenu.
Patmits taken t»»r *h >ll.lll. 4 c<_.
sfi€< *JI I. ' -'C, Without
Scumble Hmcrkaa.
! A hand3omcly IDJStnited weekly. Larvest elr
eulatiou of any scientific journal. Terms. $8 a
| year: 1 our months,4L bold by all newsdealers.
! MUNN & Co. 3G,8 oadway New York
Branch OOoa. tas ¥ Bt_ WathLagtou. D. &
I AT THE
i 1 PLAY By Martha j
jl u i OT V McCulloch- j;
! £AK 1 I Williams j;
; Copvri<;/it, b'j liuby Douglas i!
M iry-Ciudy swung down the line,
waving anil weaving, her hands as
b; JJ:U as her head, all the while ehant
ng with the rest:
•Whirl 'it nnd wheel about. Rose
Botsy I.ina!
\Vh, .1 ;iLout anil twirl about, lto-sa Bet
sy I.i-na!
T-.virl about, whirl about. Ro-sa Bet-sy
1.1-na!
I want you for my d-a-r-l-i-n-gl"
llor chanting was thin and sweet, a
fine thread of raelotly through the
ramping, romping chorus, which the
rhythmic footfalls, heavy or light, ac
eented into something weird, almost
barbaric. The motion, too, had a touch
i f primitive savagery—it was so free,
ro unrestrained, so vividly vital.
The row of players ran all the big
room's length, men one side, women
the other, with the topmost couple ever
changing as those who had stood head
swung down the middle together, then
separated, meeting aud parting and
swinging as they met up the sides
again. The play was no more than a
reel, lacking only the piping or the
fiddling. Bat good Sirs. Dowdell, who
held dancing a deadly siu, stood by
looking on happily and laughing heart
ily at the antics and shufflings of the
more vigor >us players.
Mary-Cindy's foot was as light as
thisli 'o-.vn. Her mother thought proud
ly how clumsy she made the oilier girls
look, unintentionally, of course. Mary-
Cindy would not think of willfully out
shining theiu thus in her own house at
her very lirst party.
Mrs. Dowdell had been doubtful over
the party. Now she was very glad she
had let Mary-Cindy have her way. The
trouble had been nothing to speak of,
and an fir the expense--well, she reck
oned she could call in the neighborhood
young folk to feast and frolic this one
night without asking anybody's leave.
What if she had not quite paid back all
the money she had to borrow when her
husband died? She owed it to her
brother, a bachelor, and as fond as he
eould be of Mary-Cindy. Certainly he
wouldn't make her trouble. As for
other folks, let them say what they
pleased.
Thus the good dame satel to herself
openly in her upper mind. Down be
neath she felt that the party was worth
r,-Lile because it had brought young El
lerton again within range of Mary-Cin
dy's eyes. He had seemed struck with
her at the big meeting, now six weeks
back, but had somehow not come to
call, as she had confidently expected he
would. But nobody could say she had
run a (Her him. II!-, uonitug was, after
a sort, accidental. She had but said to
Jack Edwards that he might fetch
whatever young men he chose, and
Jack had chosen to bring Ellerton.
Ellerton had insisted upon bomg Ala
ry-Cindy's partner in all tho piuys. He
bad said. too. he was going to make
ner take him in to supper, so as to be
sure of getting a full share of the good
things. All night he had been laugh
ing and as full of pranks as a boy just
out of school. He had even been auda
cious enough to drag Mrs. Dowdell her
self into one play—for a single rouud,
of cours ■ -and he had fallen into the
way of calling her Mammy Dowdell,
ps did all the other boys, whom she
bail about balf brought up.
"Ain't lie a tray one? I wonder liow
his wife'd like ii cf slie knowed his
carryin'.s on!" Pamela Ricks said in
Mrs. Djwilcll's ear, nodding as she
spoke toward Ellerton.
Pauiela. tall and twenty, Jr.id l>eeu
very pretty. X<»v, at thirty, thinning,
fading, with !:<T soul on edge, she was
spiteful withal, a >ssip of the first wa
ter. But Mr; . Dowdell was a inateli
for her.
"•XofccdyV v, .fe ha sot any call to
mind her liusliiii- IV belli* at i; y h iuse,
party or no >li - ...j, v >th her
Easiest "iUtt ' believe in bein'
Tliat's why 1 t >!d l*r. iii» El
ierton he'd L'.ve l> put up i.. t!y with
Mary-Cindy tonight. I won!; n't liave
hiin beauln" around the oilier rils. i
knowed Mary-Cindy *d !ic< p liim out o'
miselii. f."
Pamela's . v». dropped. '"La, 1
uiought you didn't know—no niore'n
the rest!" she ejaculate.l.
Just then the rush to supper swept
her away—supper which mount Lot
roast turkey, barbc<iiipd iitg, nine kinds
of cake and live of custard, not to
name hot coffee and brandy fruit. Mrs.
Dowdell had stinted nothing, but some
how as she glanced up and down the
ling table she had set with such house
wifely pride it seemed to her suddenly
to b Id naught but dust and ashes,
glie had lied bravely to Puniula. It
was the thiiij; to do if she would
save her child from Pamela's acid
tongue. Her heart went down, down
as she looked to the farther end of the
room and saw Mary-Cindy with cheeks
like damask roses and starry eyes
laughing at something young Kilerton
had said, ther, suddenly darting away
from him to greet a late arrival.
"You don't deserve a howdy nor a
crumb of supper, you horrid Belly
Slowpoke," sho said to the newcomer,
with a smile that took all sting from
the words. "You tried your best to
slight my party, but you couldn't," eha
went on. "Don't try tcs make excuses.
I know."
"M - excuse made itself. It's waitin'
for us outside," Billy Acton said very
low as he spoke, stepping between
Mary-Cindy and the rest. "I wish
you'd come and see It," he went OQ. "I
found it in the road, and what to do
with it beats me plumb and clean."
' What? Who is it?" Mary-Cindy
whispered as Billy half dragged her
toward a seated ligure. In the d. serted
big room. "You ask," Billy whispered
back. "AH I know is it's somebody
huniin' up Frank Ellerton—somebody
that had got stuck in the mud down
this side the creek. The buggy axle
broke, and we had a time splicin' it" —
"You said we should find my hus
band. Where is lie?" the figure de
manded, rising up and turning to face
the pair. "Mr. Ellerton, I mean. Tell
him to come al uiieiv'
"Call him!" Marv-Cindy said, wheel
ing upon Billy. She was white and
trembling, but Uer voice rang clear.
The stranger girl looked at her curi
ously with eyes full of dancing lights
lights that matched well the wavery
color in her cheeks. But she said noth
ing until Billy came back with youug
Ellerton. who started at sight of her,
\ -I evidently not in dismay. He caught
both her hands and looked down at
her with a working face, his eyes ask
ing questions bis lips could nut frame.
"Frank! Oh, Frank! It's ail right—
we're friends again—and free!" the
stranger cried joyously, flinging her
opus about his neck and hugging him
jjkhl, tfti B? tflad I ftUuvst
i you." she vent on. "They wanted to
! -jemJ for you -:i'u? I :>ugiii to wait until
; yon came, but y->u kiiu.v I bate wait
| ing. I simply had to come and tell you
| the good news."
"Ton darling Edith," Frank sai'l af
fectionately, patting her cheek. Then
he turned tn the wondering pair binide
him and explained, still keeping hold of
Edith's band. "We've bad fearful trou
• ble, all for nothing. You see. we got
married in ft joke—not in the least
I meaning to do it—two years back.
When we found out we were tied hard
. and fast our people, who were delight-
I od to have us tied, tried hard to per
; suade us into accepting the situation,
j All we would agree to was to wait
| awhile, a year or such matter, before
i undertaking to set ourselves free. But
the loug'T wo thought of the tie the
less we liked being bound, although wo
kept on being the best possible friends.
And then there came a time when we
both found out things—things about
ourselves and other people. We didn't
want a divorce. Indeed, we couldn't
well get it. Annulment was hardly
practicable, so we were at our wits'
end. An 1 then a blessed lawyer dug
out the chance of jactitation of mar
riage, and somehow he has carried It
through, an 1 we're consequently ready
to dance at each other's wedding."
"Yes," Edith said, nodding and blush
ing, then holding out her hand to Mary-
Cindv. "Mine is next week. You must
be sure to come. Will you do it?"
"Certainly she will," Ellerton an
swered before Mary-Cindy could speak.
"She'll come ami be your matron of
honor. You know I'm going to be Joe
Dent's best man."
"I'm glad you have it all settled,"
Mary-Cindy said, running away, but
with a blush that promised all the most
eager lover could ask.
According; to the Letter.
There are some literal minded per
sons who are never satisfied with the
spirit of the law, but who consider it
necessary to enter into compromises
with the letter. Of such was an old
citizen of Hopkinton, N. 11., a good
many years ago, and his juggling with
his conscience is recorded by Mr.
Lord in the records of the town.
The old man .used to boast that he
never went back on his exact word,
hue liail no compunctions iu going
round It. Once he wished to buy a cer
tain tract of land, and when the owner
named the-price he exclaimed:
"I won't give it! I tell you I will
never give it!"
The owner did not yield nevertheless,
A few days afterward the old man
called again. lie said nothing about
tlio land, but stepped into the owner's
barn and picked up a flail.
"What's that?" he asked.
"That? Oh, that's a flail."
"So you call that a flail, do you?
Well, what would you take for It?"
The owner named a very small sum.
"Now, I'll tell you what I'll do," con
tinued the old man. "I'll give you the
price you mentioned for your land and
this flail. And you mustn't forget the
flail. It ljiust be included In the degd."
So the 1 'gal Instrument was duly
made out. signed and delivered, record
ing the purchase of a certain tract of
land situated thus and oo and bounded
as follows, iind also a certain flail."
Evolntlonnry Shopping;.
Mrs. Compton looked at her patient
but bewildered husband with an ex
pression of good natureil superiority,
"Dear me, George," she said cheerfully,
"I don't see the use of my trying to ex
plain to you, but I'm perfectly willing
to do it, of course.
"1 did intend, as you say, to buy a
kitchen table, and I cauie home with a
hall mirror. But it was an absolutely
natural change.
"First I looked at kitchen tables.
Then the clerk called my attention to
the kitchen cabinets, with drawers and
everything. Then I said how much
they looked like bureaus, except that
they had no glass. Then he showed me
one with a glass, and then he said he
had such a pretty bureau if 1 cared to
look at it.
"So I looked at that, and it was preti
ty, but the glass was rather small. So
then he showed me a dressing case
wi«l» •> g<*od sized mirror, and I said
what nice glass it was. And then he
said, "If you <vant to sec a fine piece of
glass, let me show you one cf our new
hall mirrors.'
"And of course, George, you can un
derstand that when I saw that beauti
ful mirror 1 had to have it; and you
Urow you don't like me to run up bills
in new places, and I hadn't enough to
buy a kitchen table, too, so—now isn't
it clear?"— Youth's Companion.
EG Y PTI AN Civil IZAT ION.
IM Oriprln One of the I nxoivcd Enlf
llKlh of the World.
The origin of Egyptian civilization
has been the enigma of the world for
the past twenty-five centuries. Pre
senting no historic or even mythic in
fancy, it appears before the world at
(mice as u highly civilized and organic
community centuries before Moses was
a boy. Upon this subject Kenan says,
"Egypt has no archaic epoch, but sud
denly takes its place in the world in all
its matchless magnificence, without fa
ther and without mother and as clean
apart from till evolution as if it had
dropped from the unknown heavens."
Would not an explanation at least feasi
ble be found in the hypothesis that it
received Its civilization from some
source no longer existing? Menes, the
first historic figure in its long line of
dynasties, the outlines of whose per
sonality loom up waveringly indefinite
but grandly impressive against the deep
mythic background of prehistoric story
at least 4500 15. C., conceived and ex
ecuted enterprises extorting the warm
est f.diiiiration from the best engineers
of the twentieth century. Did he not
alter the course of the Nile by vast
embankments to gain stable founda
tions other than in shifting sands for
his sacred city of Memphis anil con
struct the artificial lake of Moeris, -150
miles iu circumference and oSU feet
deep, as a reservoir for the waters of
the Nile?
Look, too, at the colossal achieve
ments of his successors in architecture,
sculpture, engineering, astronomical,
political, medical, social and military
science, to say nothing of navigation
and theology. Witness the ruins of
the Labyrinth recorded by Herodotus,
which had 3,000 chambers, half of them
above ground and half below, a com
bination of courts, chambers, colon
nades, statues and pyramids. Witness
the wonders of the magnificent temple
of Karnak, which still awakens our ad
miration, a temple, as Denon says,
wherein the Cathedral of Notre Dame
iu Tarls could be set Inside one of its
halls and yet not touch the walls. Wit
ness the sublime pyramids originally
built iu honor of the. sun god Ra and
for use as astronomical observatories,
the splendors of Memphis, Thebes and
Ileliopolis, of the sphinx and the obe
lisks, iho statuary and the numerous
tem.-ic. »ith the ru '.. ut which the
land is still filled.— Lx ! n: .
Ability dotii hit rue mars wss« to f fz
iiUinption overshootcth and diffidence
falleth short.—Cuaa.
: The Romance of |j
a Slipper
By Virginia. Lailt Went*
i !•'
1 | Copyright, ;>.•£. by E. C. rarteHs •
When Miss Graham bail finished her
; letter siul laid her pen down, she sauo
t tered indolently to the small window
Bud looked across at the pine woods.
It was one of those country windows
to open which demands strength which
is as the strength of ten and which,
when opeued, refuse to be closed again
save with the archaic force of a bat
tering rani.
'■Even though I do lire In a Harlem
flat." pondered Graham, "I've
been accustomed to windows that re
mained up without any visible means
of support. Since I've come to the
Borkshires I've learned better. Seems
to me that one volume of Thackeray
doesn't keep the window up high
enough." She gazed searchlugly about
the room. "I reckon one of my high
heeled slippers will about do It," and
she inserted that bit of personal prop
erty with no mean skill, so that the
hee! raised the sash two or three inches
higher.
'"That isn't much," she concluded, a
trifle warm with the exertion, "but ifa
something. And how delicious that
pine fragrance is!" She bent her pret
ty head so that her little nose drew in
long breaths of the sweet air. Then,
picking up her letter, she went down
stairs.
"Mrs. Barnes," came Miss Graham's
silvery voice from the hall, "shall I
leave my letter here on the table? Or
is it too late for the butcher?"
"Sakes alive! Yes. Ho was here
'fore you was up," returned Mrs.
Barnes cheerfully from her rocking
chair on the front piazza. "But maybe
there'll be somebody along presently
on the way to North Adams. Tou
might stick it in the railing in case
anybody does come," she added.
Kitty sauntered to the fence and
leaned over the railing. But no one
was in sight.
"Suppose I walk over to North Ad
ams myself," suggested she. "Is It
far?" She tapped the belated envelope
against her small white teeth.
"Land, yes, child! It's"—
The gate of the "other house" creak
ed as it was pulled open. They could
always hear that gate croak. Mrs.
Barnes stopped rocking and looked up
the road.
"Here comes Professor Thornton,"
she said placidly. "But, of course, we
couldn't ask him."
"II'iu!" murmured Kitty absently.
"Why not?"
The professor was a tall, aristocrat
ic looking man of middle age. As he
approached, followed by a handsome
collie, Kittle went to the gate and held
out her letter with a frank, winning
smile.
"If you're going to the village would
you mind mailing tWs for me?" said
sbe prraveiv "T should be very much
oTiTTged."
Mrs. Barnes from the rocker on the
piazza looked at the girl with mild
reproach, but met no glance of apology.
Kitty's wide gray eyes were following
Professor Thornton's aristocratic fig
ure down the road and evolving some
questions. She turned abruptly.
"Who Is he? Why did you hesitate
about asking him? Don't you think
he'll mail it all right? It's to mother,
and it's very important, and you don't
think he'll drop it, do you?"
And wliat Mrs. Barnes thereupon
told her was in substance if not in
words something like this:
He was Professor Hamilton Thornton
of New York city, serving as his mis
tress star eyed science. But of Wom
an (with a capital W) and her Ways
(another capital W) he was totally ig
norant. the iciest of iced water was
warm, so rumor had it, to the look he
bestowed upon women.
"And how ever you braced up spunk
enough to ask him to mail that letter,"
concluded Mrs. Barnes, rocking way
back, "I don't know."
"Ho! Hum!" yawned Kitty. "Well,
the woods for mine." And with a nod
of farewell she passed out of the gate.
Over tlie slippery needles she -went
till she reached a tall tree whose shaft
went straight up, not bothering Itself
t ith branches for thirty feet. Here
she threw herself down and leaned
back in the embracing roots, pitying
the people in towns and heaving n
sigh of satisfaction.
"If only dear mother could be with
me, though," said she mentally, "but of
'course it's impossible. Oh, this pover
ty stricken workaday world!'' She
touldn't help thinking of the pretty lit
( tie estate in Virginia which yielded
nothing and of the subsequent hard
ship which she and her frail, delicate
mother were enduring.
"Well, the doctor said if I'd stop fret
ting and would try to enjoy every mo
ment of my month here in these fra
grant hills I'd be all right for my win
ter work, so I'm only going to think of
pleasure and—and bracing things."
And while the resinous bark gave forth
its spicy smell, reclining against the
roots of the pine tree, she lazily watch
, ed the small and active insects which
' went pottering about the needles and
; moss of soft earth.
"Oh, it's delicious and restful—so
' restful!" sighed she, stretching her
arms above her head.
That night, instead of lighting her
bedroom candlo, she went to the win
dow through whose uncurtained frame
the moonlight poured in. It was still
upheld by the volume of Thackeray and
by the high heeled Blipper. The Octo
ber night air was quite chilly; there
was too much of it. Kitty thought.
While she was getting ready for bed,
she'd close it from below and profit
afterward.
So, staying the sash with ber right
shoulder, she tried to extricate the slip
per and the book, but, alas, the slipper
eluded her and tumbled heel first luto
the path below.
Kitty's first thought was to run and
fetch it back, but she was utterly
sleepy. "Oh, pshaw!" yawned she.
"What's the use? I'll get it In the
morning. It Isn't going to rain; the
sky's cram full of stars."
The next morning, very early, Prince,
the big collie, came running in to his
master, waving his tail excitedly, and
dropped something at his feet. Then,
flopping his tawny length upon the
heartli rug, he eyed him expectantly.
Professor Thornton looked at the
thing which Prince had deposited at
his feet without touching it.
It was a slipper, he saw now, but
how incredibly tiny It looked oil his
1 expanse of floor, how helpless and lost!
j lit: picked it up a bit gingerly. Why,
! tt was absurdly tiny. What queer lit
tle feet women must have! He set the
slipper upright on his big brown hand
—an airy suede bridge across his broad
palm.
He'd seen things like this—hadn't be?
No. 11.
—on blocks in shop windows. No, not
precisely like this, either, for this had
little curves—a dozen of them—of indi
viduality. Tretty little thing, but what
nonsense for a shoe!
lie hesitated a second, then softly
opened the top right hand drawer of
his desk. "Maybe some one will call
for It," thought he. "Then I'll be sure
to know where it Is."
He thought of this drawer several
times during the day, but did not open
it. It was queer no one missed it.
That night, however, he set the tiny
thing up on his big blue blotter. It
shone under the student lamp in shim
mering daintiness, so soft, so smooth,
with such curves! Why, it looked al
most warm.
The professor leaned back in his re
volving chair and looked around his
room, dim save for the desk's circling
light. The room seemed empty in spite
of its furnishings—great cases of books,
rugs, antlers, a favorite gun and a
generous pipe rack, and in the midst
of a circle of light a lonely man and a
suede slipper.
Yes, the professor felt lonely. He
picked up the slipper, turning it OTer
and over. Suddenly he cried:
"Why, there's K. G. just as plain,
right on the lining, in silver letters!"
Prince sniffed at this illuminating dis
covery.
Next day as the professor was pass
ing Mrs. Barnes* place he saw a dainty
HttJo figure In white at the gate. She
raised her lovely tired eyes in recogni
tion.
"Would you mind inquiring for my
mail?" she asked. Both her manner
and her words were of a disarming
simplicity. "Miss Graham is my name
—Kitty Graham."
"Miss Graham—Kitty Graham," re
peated he gravely, with a courtly bow.
Then he stopped short and regarded
the girl with absorption, a wonder
growing in his eyes. "Miss Graham,"
said he, "do you ever wear slippers?"
"What a question to ask a girl!"
laughed Kitty some weeks later. "And
what an amusing way to begin a court
ship!"
Burma and Buddhism.
Burma is a country dominated by an
idea, or, rather, a set of Ideas, which
owe their origin to the influence of
Buddhism. The Burman holds the view
that this life is a sorry thing at the
best and that the wisest course is,
therefore, to get through it with as
little care, worry and anxiety as possi
ble. The world Is nevertheless at the
same time full of good things, which
all can enjoy. Therefore why toil for
wealth, which brings only a burden of
care in its train? Why strain every
nerve when possession means the anx
iety to hold and preserve. The bounte
ous earth supplies rice for the needs of
all her children, and while there are
love and laughter and gayety to solace
us, while leisure can be secured and
peace maintained, let us enjoy and be
happy. Here we strike the keynote of
the life of the Burmans. Strangers
call them lazy, but they are not idle
except on principle. They can work
splendidly when they choose, but they
have long ago decided that to turn the
world into a workshop, to toll inces
santly for a mere subsistence ov In
order to gather up riches, is folly, as
doing so destroys the pleasure of ex
istence. As soon as a farmer has made
a little money by selling his crop he
gives a play, or pwec, to his town or
village—Cornhlll Magazine.
A Spanish Custom.
No one exactly knows the origin of
the time honored prerogative enjoyed
by the natives of the Spanish village of
Espinosa, who for centuries have pos
sessed the curious monopoly of watch
ing over the slumbers of the ruler of
Spain. Every night at 11 o'clock the
gates of the royal palace at Madrid are
eeremoniously closed by a gorgeously
appareled functionary armed with an
ancient lantern and a huge bundle of
keys and escorted by servants, officers
and soldiers, and from that time forth
until G o'clock in the morning, when
the gates are opened again with sim
ilar ceremony, the guardianship of the
interior of the royal dwelling is con
fided to what are known as the mon- ■
teros de Espinosa. Each one of them
Is a pensioned lieutenant or captain of
the army, and while two are stationed
In the antechamber of the sleeping
apartment of each member of the roy
al family, remaining throughout the
night, not sitting, but standing, lean
ing on their halberds, the others patrol
the corridors of the palace, two by
two, until the morning, crossing each
other at every point, never sitting
down and never uttering a Single
word.
Horseless Carriages In 1645.
In one of the letters of Grul Patln,
written in 1G45, the learned bibliophile
lays: "It is true that there is here „
an Englishman, the son of a French
man, who proposes to make carriages
that will roll from Paris to Fontaine
bleu without horses in a day. The new
machine is preparing in the Temple.
If it should succeed there will be a
great saving of hay and oats, which are
at present extremely costly."
STot So Terrible.
Physician—You lie awake in bed
three or four hours every night? That
is bad. I shall have to treat you for
chronic insomnia. Caller (whose salary
is sl4 a week)—Er—no, doctor I don't
think It's as bad as that I simply can't
sleep.
Taking Ont SUase.
Silage should always be taken from
the top, and care should be exercised
to keep the surface as nearly level as
possible. The more nearly level the
surface of the silage is kept, the less it
will freeze in winter and the less It will
mold in warm weather. While these
principles have been repeated over and
over again In silo literature, they have
. been unheeded by many silo users, sug
gests an eschange.
HERE AND THERE |
The economy or profit to the south
ern planter of feeding cotton seed or
cottonseed meal to hogs is a subject
worthy of more extensive investigation
than it has yet received, remarks It.
Dinwiddle of Arkansas.
According to report of the state bank
commissioner of Kansas, so many
banks have been started that "today
every hamlet In the state where any
considerable business Is done has a
bank." It is "an era of small banks in
Isolated communities."
An exchange thinks seed prospects
are good and that, with tho exception
of wax beans and onions, the seed crop
is the best for years.
Turkestan alfalfa tried at the Wis
consin experiment station was found
to be inferior to the native alfalfa
grown beside It.
The department of agriculture re
ports that experiments have proved a
temperature of a few degrees below
zero to be the best for the cold Storage
of butter.