VOL. XXXXIII. THE MODERN STORE- New lace Curtains Just Opened. Better and Cheaper Than Ever. Nottingham Curtains. 35c, 42c -We, 68c, 75c yard. Special numbers at SI.OO and $1.50. Better ones |3.00 to f2.50. Brntnel net curtains, m filed and trimmed with lace and insertions. SI.OO, $1.25. $1.50 to $1.50 Irish Pointe curtains $3 50 to SB.OO. Curtain Swisses. Nets, Draperies, etc. Curtain Poles sc, 10c. 15c each. Brass sash curtains rods 5c and 10c each. ARE YOU GOING TO PAPER? If you are, use Sanitaa and Meritas for your kitchen or bathroom. It is the only sanitary washable oil cloth covering which will wear tor years is always clean. See the beautiful patterns here. Anniversary Sale Next Week. Watcli for Special Bargains. EISLER-MARDORF COMPANY, SOUTH MAUI STREET 1 QHj i" D ' f ■ Samples sent on request. OPPOSITE HOTEL ARLINGTON. BUTLER. PA [sPßiNG~suiirsl ( You see we are as usual, the early bird. Our line 7 /of Spring Suits for Men, Boys and Children is here and \ 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/ ( padded shoulders, hand-quilted breasts, hand-made button > j holes, in fact so snappy and well built as to S ) We Defy Any Merchant Tailor to Equal Them! S V We are always first. You do the same by buying C I early. Prices considered, Hamburger make considered, f 3 style, quality, make, wear and patterns considered, in fact f » everything considered, you'll find this the orfly place to buy. r ) The Famous Skolney Suits for Children are here and £ 1 ready to be worn by the best dressed Children of Butler. / I SEE WINDOW DISPLAY. > j Douthett & Graham. ) INCORPORATED. C .BROS. | tl Do It, Now! |j \\ Your Wall Papering. J IJ We have just received a Car Load of Cheap andw t -Medium Priced Wall Paper that we intend to sell at Bar-jg 4 fflaln Prices. Just what you want for tenement housesw i land rooms where a nice paper is required at a small cost.3? t • You Can't Afford to Miss This. | E£ytH Bros., | tl NEAR COURT HOUSE. 3s I Duffy's Store Not one bit too early to think of that new Carpet, or perhaps you would rather have a pretty Rug—carpdt 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: EXTRA SUPER ALL WOOL INGRAIN CARPETS, Heavy two and three ply Cr>c per yd and up HALF WOOL INGRAIN CARPETS, Best cotton chain 50c per yd and np BODY BRUSSELS, Simply no wear ont to these $1.35 yd TAPESTRY BRUSSELS, Light made, but very Good 65c per yd up STAIR CARPETS Body and Tapestry Brussels, Half and All Wool In«rftins. HARTFORD AXMINSTERS, Prettiest Carpet made, as durable too $1.35 RAG CARPETB, Qfedaine old-fashioned weave. MATTING, Hemp and Straw. RUGS-CARPET SIZES. Axminster Bugs. Beauties too $32 each and up Brussels Knits. Tapestry and Body sl2 each and up Ingrain Druggets. All and Half Wool $o each and np Linoleums, Inlaid and Common, all widths and grades Oil Cloths, Floor, Table, Shelf and Stair. Lace Curtains, Poitiers, Window Shades, Curtain Poles; Small Hearth Rugs, all styles and sizes. Duffy's Store. MAIN STREET, BUTLER. WHY You can save money by purchasing your piano o 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 you this expense when you buy of me. I sell pianoe for cash or easy monthly payments. I take pianos or organs i exchange and allow you what they are worth to apply on the new inntrumen All pianos fully warranted as represented. MY PATRONS ARE MY REFERENCE. A few of tho people I have sold pianos in Butler. Ask them. Dr. MoCnrdy Bricker. Dr. W. P. McElroy Fred Porter Sterling Club Fraternal Order Eagles D F Reed Epworth Leagne Woodmen of the World B W Bingham H. A. McPbereon G eo D High Mi* B Anna McCandless W. J. Mates E- A. Black 3. 8. Thompson Samuel Woods Joseph Woods Oliver Thompson S. M McKee Johnson A. W Boot R A - Long well Miss Eleanor Burton J- Hillgard Mrs. Mary L. Stronp J E. Rowers W. C Curry C. F. Htepp F ,T. Hauck W. J. Armstrong Miss Emma Hughes Miles Billiard A W. Mates Mrs S. J. Green W. R. Williams J. R Douthett Mrs. R. O. Rnmbangh i E. K Richey Chas. B. Herr L. S. Youch PEOPLE'S PHONE 426- -THE BUTLER CITIZEN. The Great $5 Clothing Sale 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 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& LEVY 137 Sonth Main Street. Butler. Pa. & Ijj BICKEL'S W j Great Bargain Sale. U ►j An immense Stack of Seasonable Footwear to be *'s i closed out in order to reduce our extremely pj large stock ! Big Bargains in All Lines, h Ladies' Far Trimmed Felt Slippers, price $1.2o —reduced to . >oc WA > Ladies' Warm Lined Shoes, price $ I.so—reduced to ... .SI.OO I V Ladies' Warm Lined Shoes, price $1 25—reduced to 85c ft < One lot Ladies' 3.30 Hand-tnrn and Hand welt Shoes reduced to 2.25 WA > One lot Ladies' 300 Fine Patent Leather Shoes, button or lace, 1 1 C , reduced to 2.00 ft One lot Ladies' $2.50 Fine Dongola Patent tip Shoes reduced to 1.65 W A > One lot Ladies'l.so Fine Dongola Patent tip Shoes reduced to 1.10 . One lot Children's Fine Shoes, sizes 4to 8, reduced to 45c ftl One lot Infants's Fine Shoes, sizes oto 4, reduced to li'e WA > Men's Fine Box-calf, Vici-kid anil Patent Leather Shoes. _ I • , regular price $3.50 and $4.00 —reduced to 2.50 ftj Men's Working Shoes, regular price s2.oo—reduced to 1.40 WA \ One lot Boys' Fine Satin-calf Shoes, regular price I.so—red'dto 1.00 a» y One lot Men's Fine Slipiiers reduced to 40c ft 1 W Ladies' Lamb-wool Insoles, regular price 25c—reduced to 15c A T< Misses' and Children's Lamb-wool Insoles, regular price 20c—at 8c LI P All Felt Boots and Overs, all Stockings arid L Overs, Warm-lined Shoes and Slippers, also balance L? of our stock of Leggins and Over-Gaiters to be in- SM s eluded in this GREAT BARGAIN SALE. 1 8 Sole Leather and Shoemakers' Supplies. ft Repairing Piomptly Done. f J HJOHN BICKELf] F< 128 S Main St., BUTLER, PA. BUTLER . - 0 , A? sjJ ■ -/ [y New buildings, new rooms, elegant new equipment, excellent courses o( study, best of teachers, txpenses 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 Term, Jan. 2, 1000. Spring term, April 2, 1000. Positions secured for our worthy graduates. Visitors always welcome) When in Butler, pay ns a visit. Catalogue and other literature mailed on ap olication. MAY ENTER ANY TIME. A. F. REGAL, Principal, Butler, Pa I Spring and Summer Millinery. | Everything in the line of Millinery can be found, tit •F the right thing at the right time at the right price at I ROCKENSTEIN'S I § t # Phone 656. 148 S. Main St. - % •i? MEN ,• i i&f Won't buy clothing for the purpose of / , jlI spending money. They desire to get the i ; V"! I best possible results of the money expended. u; ! ; j • \ll Those who buy custom clothing have a I Jl right to demand a fit, to have their clothes /j; * : ej ft corrent in style and to demand of the / j 1 / A ij seller to guarantee everything. Come to / * it. us and there will be nothing lacking. I A • 'xf ' '• 2 have jast received a large stock of Spring fy/ J \ V 'i J , and Summer suitings in the latest styles, " • \j Hi , shades and colore. j { { / \j] jj J G. F. KECK, ! $-9] MERCHANT TAIbOR, 1 Wy 142 N. Main St., Pa ) If. '/ § ■ i Heme Waste j !TL L,KS ® OR ' I I * I JPSj&P' |i Than any other Washer* p 011 the market. jjj I J. G. & W. CAMPBELL, I j}{ BUI LE, PA. *; BUTLER, PA., THURSDAY, MARCH 22. 1900. R-RTIME-'T-ABLES iPennsylvania ; RAIfcKOAO WEST PENNSYLVANIA DIVISION. Schedule in effect Jan. 1, 100<» Trai » lffU BUTLER as follows: j For Allegheny arro way stations. ff!s an«l 10.'i5 a i is, and 4.2> p m. w k days: 7.30 h. m. a:i l 5. 0 I>. tu. Sandfly. t Far Pittsburg and wa>' stations 3.40 a. in. and 2.301 1 . . m. j For ira*rstille lut-rltctun, AltOMtia, Phila u m. Sundays, j BUFFALO AND ALLEGHENY VALLEY DrVTsIOK. Trains leave via KISKIMIITETAS JOHCTION as follows: — I* r Bnffilo 8.40 a. m. 7.20 a, m. S in- F<>r Red Eank and Oil Ciry. 6.15, 8.10.10.35 a. m. and 4.20 p. m. x" For Kittanning aita VM stations, 6.15 and 10.35 a. m. and 4JSO p. nt. p. m. Sundays. w Foi detailed inf'>rmat!«tt, apply to ticket agent or add rem Thos. E. Watt, I'twsa. Agt. Western District, li6o 4 vsiik . Pitt»b?trg, P*. W. W. ATTKKBt*«Y, J B ' Manager. Fis.VTaut:c Manager. GEO W BOVL». G jacral Affect. !i k & p n n Time table in effect Nov. 19. 1905 Passenger trains leave and arrive at Butler as follows: LEAVE FOK NORTH. 7:30 a. m., mixed for Punssntawney, Du Cois and intermediate ' 10:33 a. m. daily, vestibuled day ex press for Buffalo, connects at Ashford, week days, for Rochester. 5:50 p. m. local for Puni'y, Du Bois and intermediate stations. 11:31 p. m. night erpress for Buffalo and Rochester. ARBIVE FROM NORTH. 6:10 a, in. daily, night express from Buffalo and Rochester. 9:30 a.m. week days, accomodation from Dußois. 4:50 p.m. daily, vestibuled day express from Buffalo. Has connection at Ash ford week days from Rochester. 8:0? p.m. week days, mixed train from Du Bois and Punxsntawney. u Trains leave the B. & O. Station, I ittsburg for Buffalo and Rochester p at Laae and Iron Bridge only on Flag to UL* on or leave off paiwengers, fbtintConnectß"tler Juaciki* l Trains Kafiward for Fraepcrt, Yandergrifl and Blairsville Intersection. Trains Westward for Natrona, Tarenturn Allegh&ny ibd I ittrtmrg. Tr> J 6 'il o loi l o: a 4M (iirarii 1 V* 1 41 * 83 0 -1 I v "7' hi»' .1 I'.) 'o .V* i ;* ;HJ' i»ii .\r..< •oiiiK-uut.'.l.v, 7 ooi- oi 5 lo 5 11(12 Ol! 7 00 Lv.,l :oinicunt -Ar 10 00.. . ..' H*ll2 4 • J-■ \ll>i'jli~...... Hc: i ...• M fo 10112 25f'J 10 1 Sliad eland 'fM lIT 2 lofc 01 607 12 321 9 07'.....Spring boro 1517'213 0 07 C 02 12 '27 II «• . I (illlloant\ illo.J S 22 2 IK (.12 07 12 45."» 2t Ar. MeodyllTeTl VrJ 30; i SK~I 69 4 r «ill 2H| 7 30Lv. Mi'advlllc. Ar '.I 201 3 12; JO7 6 1012 1* H 53 A .< ou't 1,aUe..1.v 7 Hi '2 23. 6 25 5 2VII 5. 7 -S'Lv.Con't IJtkt.Ari 8 RB 2 4.". 6 10 6 i" 10 fiOAr.XllifDViUe.J.I H 87 1 0 17 "s 4.112 101 B 43' .Meadvilio Jct..l B*«a 2 87 « 82 15 27 lil 55] H27 UartHtOWIL. f8 57 f2 4!< G4O 5 13111 41 1 a 12 (Ihkoo.l 9 12 f.3 03 700 6 05,11 3.V 803 (in envilte 9 2o| 3107 08 5 0011 2- 7OS ..Hlienanifo.... 0 2,'J 3lt 715 44i1112 7 a» Fredouiit 942:t32 7 33 4 2810 6H 723 Mercer 9 fta l 3487 48 4 02 10 35 7 00 ....Orove City.... 10 23 4 10 8 15 (3 47 flO 23 a.lll Ilarrhville flO 38 f4 22 p.m. 3 41:0 1" _ nranchton |lO 4.) 4 _2B il l aof. Ar...llllTiar(l...Lv| 7 o">j 210 ..." 2 10 705 I.V ..llilliartl AMI 30 017 3 1710 11 . .... Kelater... M 471 4 81L 32310 02 I. iaicH. Mr.KNKIN. I UA MCJUNKIN GEO. A. MITCHELL. b. S. /WcJUNKIN & CO., Insurance Sc Real Estate 117 E- Jefferson St. QUTkER, - - - - PA Eyes Examined Free of Charge Jeweler and Graduate Ooticiar> 1 Next Door to Court House, Butler, Pa I Pocketbooks and | Penitence 1 - 1 By MARY BOWMAN | jCopy right. 1U& lteado^ •It nin't any part of my duty to iearch people," defended the conductor, "aud the oflieer says lie won't." "Then I shall search these people my self," snapped the old lady. "Not ten minutes ago I paid my fare out of that purse and no one has left the car since. It must be here. I tell.you. I insist that yon find it." The policeman looked about the car hopelessly. Douglas spoke tip. "I think," he said quietly, "that the quickest way to get rid of this non seuse will be for the rest of us to per mit ourselves to be searched. 1 am sure none of ns will object. There is merely a mistake somewhere. Here oflieer, do your duty." He stepped forward and with rapid movements the policeman emptied his pockets. The other four men in the car followed his example. Then an expect ant hush fell over the passengers. There remained only the five women, who, with the excited complainant, comprised the passengers. Four of them stepped forward. "I'll let any woman in the crowd search me," she said. The woman who had lost her purse pounced upon her and with eager fingers pawed over her gown, emptied her purse upon the seat and jumbled the things out of her hand satchel. "Next!" she called as she left her vic tim to replace her belongings as best sho might. Three other women came forward in turn, submitting with no good grace to the examination, but the last one sat quietly In her seat. "I do not propose to 1M? searched," she said quietly. "You have no right lo do so, and it is absurd to suppose that I could have taken your purse. I have sat In this corner ever since I en tered the car, and I have not been near you. I refuse to permit you to touch me." "You see," exclaimed the complain ant triumphantly, "I knew it would not be difficult to locate the guilty one." "I never saw your purse!" cried the girl in the corner. "I have 110 need to steal purses. Officer, here Is my card. Y'ou must know my father by reputation." "I can't help it. luum," said the offi cer. "All the others have been search ed, and if you refuse to submit"— He stopped short. Tho girl had burst into tears. "Look here!" cried Douglas. "Stop this tiling. I took the purse." The others turned with one accord toward him. "I took it," he repeated defiantly. "Oflieer, do your duty." The policeman laid his hnnd upon his arm, but the owner of the purse burst out In protest. "Give me back my purse!" she cried. "I will not let you take him away un lii I get my purse." "Have to keep It to use as evidence," was the short explanation. "Come around to the I'ifty-nlnth street sta tion to make complaint. I can't wait here any longer. Come on." Ho re newed his hold upon Douglas, but his way was blocked by the woman. "At least I Insist that you count tho money in my presence," she demanded. "I have that right." "All right." said the policeman in a tired voice. "Give It up, young fel low.' "I haven't got It," stammered Doug las, to whom this was a very unexpect ed turn. "I—l dropped It." "Where did you drop it?" asked the officer. "In your pocket?" "Where the window drops down," ex plained Douglas more glibly. "You can find It when the car gets to the stables." "I want It now," persisted tho vic tim. "I Insist that it be given ine at once," One of Ihe men leaned ovc: the leilge 0t the back of :N> eat. There was a space of about i\v.> in 'hen between the window sill ::ii btfljho purge toyou.lnjhii, excU^ment. They do that sometimes." "Dan Douglas." she demanded, com- > ing to n stop and facing him, "do you | mean to tell reo that was why yon took the Mame?" "Yes," he said quietly. "After the horrid way I treated you?" "That made no difference." ' But I told you I would never speak to you again." "I know It. I was afraid you meant it too." "Do you know," she said, fumbling , with the cateh of her shopping bag, "I ! think I will show yon why I did not want to be searched." The bag was open now, and she drew from it a leather case. He caught it from her hands. "My picture!" he cried. "You have carried it right along? Even after you said you no longer loved me?" "That was because I was jealous," she explained. "But I would have gone to Jail then rather than have let you see that I still cared. I knew you would sec It if she searched me." "I am glad I didn't," he smiled. "I should have been tempted to kiss yoa right then and there." "We are almost home," she said am biguously. Tlie Tlsrcr nail the Goat. A tiger once invited a goat to dinner. The goat was tickled to death at the noUce of the noblo beast and wore his spike tailed coat and link sleeve Ifut tons in token of his appreciation. "Can I help you to some of this venison steak?" the tiger asked the goat very cordially. The goat did not eat venison steak, but he dissembled very cleverly and preserved a smiling exterior. "My physician," he protested, "positively forbids venison steak." There was nothing else ou the table, and the poor goat was compelled to sit idly by while the tiger devoured a hearty repast. But the goat was not disposed to de prive himself of the sweets of revenge. He accordingly pressed the tiger to dine with him the following evening. "Can I help you," sweetly Inquired the host, "to some of this stewed tomato cans, with brown paper sauce?" "No, thank you," rejoined tho tiger, "my doctor forbids." "So sorry," murmured the goat in secret glee. "I fear you will have only an unsatisfactory meal." "Oh, I shall do very well," protested tho tiger. Whereat he fell upou and de voured the goat himself. "Alas," ex claimed the latter with his dying breath, "I was too funny!" This fable teaches that it is perfectly proper to take an Insult from some people with out resenting It It Is all a matter of judgment. Fully Armed. A good story is told of a young re cruit who enlisted in a regiment sta tioned at Aldershot. One day he was on guard duty and was slowly stepping up and down when an officer approach ed. After the usual salute the officer said: "Let me see your rifle." The raw recruit handed over his rifle, and a pleased expression stole over his face. As the officer received the weap on he said in a tone of deepest disgust: "You're a fine soldier! You've given up your rifle, and now what are you go!iig to do?" The young fellow turned pale and putting his hand in his pocket drew out a big knife and, preparing for busi ness, said in a voice that could not be misunderstood: "Gl' me that rifle or I'll bore a hole through you in a minute." The officer instantly decided not to piny any further with the raw recruit ami the rifle was promptly surrender ed.—Pearson's Weekly. M. P.*« nt Sixteen. It does not seem very clear at what period the legal age for members of parliament was fixed at twenty-one. It Is, however, certain that in the reigns of Elizabeth and James I. boys of sixteen and seventeen occupied seats In the house of commons. The poet Waller took his seat as an M. P. before he was seventeen. Charles James Fox took his scat at eighteen and Chester field before lie came of age. This, how ever, was clearly Irregular, because It is recorded that Chesterfield was threatened with a penalty of £SOO for sitting and voting hi parliament while under the legal age if he did not cease his attacks upon the government. Lord John Kusscll also sat before he was twenty-one, and he seems to have been the last of tho parliamentary minors. All act of William 111., passed In 1690, made the election of a person under twenty-one void, but tho act was not very stringently enforced. London Standard. CONNECTS THE BRAIN. The Oreait That linn hiftte Hftul xplH-rvH to Art In Harmony. Near the base of every well organ ized human brain there is situated a curious little spongy body called the corpus callosum. This all important little organ consists of a double chain of white nerve fibers, and it is through these that the two portions (hemi spheres; of tho brain are enabled to act In harmony by being continually brought Into anatomical and physiolog ical relations with each other. Several years ago a well known Phil adelphia physician aud surgeon, Dr. A. 11. Stcveus, made tho announcement that, in his belief, the corpus callosum was llie seat of the soul. His peculiar ideas were given quite an airing through 1 lie press at that time, but the whole theory fell pretty fiat when Dr. A. F. Sawyer of San Francisco proved that a certain west coast worthy had survived twenty years after having tho entire corpus callosum shot out of his thought tank and that another had lived eleven years after sustaining a similar injury. The psychologists were pretty well agreed that u man's life would terminate the moment his soul made Its exit 011 the lead of a pistol cartridge. It was these well attested cases of men living afler losing tin; cor pus callosum that caused Dr. Stevens' "soul theory" to relapse into obscurity. What Liaiil Will lee Benrt The army rules art- that two Inch Ice will sustain a man or properly placed Infantry; four Inch ice will carry a man on horseback or cavalry or light guns; six Inch ice, heavy field guns, such as eighty pounders; eight Inch Ice, n bat tery of artillery, with carriages anil horses, but not over 1,000 pounds per square foot on sledges, and ten inch Ice sustains an army or an Innumerable multitude. On fifteen Inch ice rail road tracks are often laid and operated for mouths, and Ice two feet thick withstood the Impact of a loaded pas senger car after a sixty fx>t fall (or perhaps 1,600 tons), but broke under that of the locomotive and tender (or perhaps 3,000 foot tons). riioes this sat isfy you, Mr. Impertinence? Please re mote your foot from beneath my lug gage and carry it Into the bouse. Ba bies, you know, must have attention and attendanee." Mr. Lloyd extracted his foot with alacrity, though be did not ot>ey tbo command. He had fought aud won many bard legal battles, but here was a golden opportunity to prove that there aro times svhea discretion U tUe_b&t&r No. 12. i part of vaior. He fled, or, to be truth ful, be limped abruptly down the little path toward the Tillage. As he collect ed his thoughts, being a good lawyer and a wise jurist, he decided to revise and to overrule his previous judgment as to babies. "Girl babies eighteen years of age and upward, with rosy checks, laugh ing eyes and fluffy hair and saucy dim ples,'' mused Mr. Lloyd, a smile play ing round the corners of bis mouth, "do not come within the purview of the precedents you have heretofore cited to support your case. Judgment Is ac cordingly rendered for the infant de fendant. with costs to the belligerent plaintiff. Case dismissed." Mr. Lloyd returned to the Melton household to dinner as placidly as usual. As time progressed he learned whether his decision as to one girl baby In par ticular was to be affirmed by a higher court, from which there is no appeal. Winter Fishing. Winter fishing has one merit, which all true sportsmen will recognize as such—namely, considerable uncertain ty. One day you may fish certain wa ters—whether deep or shallow, whether weedy or free—and well nigh draw a blank, while the very next day the same waters will give rich finny re turns. What is more strange is that not seldom on the same day there will be good luck in different depths and varying waters of the same lake or pond, and observation through the clear black Ice of early winter or late au tumn has convinced the writer that these mystic fishy moods of biting In winter are almost or quite independent of the movements of-the schools Of - "bait" fish. About all that can be Bald ou such points in the way of general suggestion is that winter fish bite usu ally better on a mild day than a cold one, best of all during a gentle thaw; that they take the bait more freely under thin ice—that is, in early winter —than after the ice has thickened, and that they jippear to be quite unaffected by noise, such as the rumble of skates or the gentle thunder of the "settling" ice. It is certain that some of the best strings of n lifetime have been taken when the fun of skating could be join ed with that of watching the lines.— Outing Magazine. Old Mirror Superstitions. The mistrust of the ghostly mirror la so old and so far spread that we meet with it in the folklore of every land. An old tradition warns us that the new moon, which brings us such good for tune when we look at it in the calm evening sky, carries a message of evil to those who see it first reflected in a looking glass. For such unlucky mor tals It is said that the lunar virus dis tills slow poison and corroding care. And, again, it is declared that the friends who glance at their reflections standing side by side are doomed to quick dissension. In Scandinavia the Swedish girl who looks into her glass by candlelight is told that sbo risks the loss of her lover. One superstition in this connection that seems to be al most universal is that it Is very un lucky for a bride to see herself In a mirror after her toilet Is completed. If she be discreet she will turn away, from that fair picture which pleases her so well and then draw on her glove or have some tiny ribbon, flower or jewel fastened to her gown that the sour fates may be appeased and evil turned away from tbo threshold. Getting ■ Mexican Patent. To procure a patent in Mexico the party making application, unless pres ent in person, must furnish bis repre sentative with a letter of authority— carta do poder in Spanish—signed by tlmsclf or herself In the presence of two witnesses. Ordinarily legalisation by a Mexican consul is not required. It must be borne in mind that one car ta do poder will not answer for several applications, as each application for either patent or trademark must be ac companied by a separate carta de poder. This must be accompanied by a full and complete description and claims of and for the Invention. If they are sent in Spanish ready for filing they must be In triplicate on clear white paper 330 by 215 millimeters, ap proximately 13 by 18Va English inches, written with typewriter on one side only of the paper, leaving on each sheet a left hand margin of one-fourth the width of the paper. Of course if they are not sent In Spanish the local repre sentative attends to all the details, which Is by far the better way. He should be furnished with full names, profession, citizenship and resident of DDnllcant. SPEED OF ANIMALS. The Greyhound Lends, followed by . the Horse and the Hed Deer. The following interesting letter con cerning the relative speed of animals appeared In the London Field: The fastest animal we have is the greyhound. The next are the race horse, the red deer and the hare, and thou comes the good, big, bold dog fox. which is a fine galloper on good going. In comparison with any of the above the fastest foxhound on sound flat turf is as slow as a man mowing grass for haymaking. But if you radically alter the trial ground the above does not hold good. For instance, on rough clods, whether melted or not, a hare cannot run at all; hence she gen erally takes caro not to go there, and where greyhouuds are kept sho habitu ally lies in her form near the fringe of a rough fallow that when coursed she may quickly be on good going. "Mth such long, powerful hind logs a hare can beat anything up a steep hill. A foxhound can easily beat any horse over deep clay plow, because the horse weighs as much as twelve hounds and therefore sinks deeply. In stag bunt ing the rod deer tires earlier than the blood hunter, though the horse may not be faster, but great consideration must be made for the discretion of a good horseman, who avoids exhausting deep ground which the deer plods through. A run of eight miles within the hour in either of tho three wet wintry, months would leave tho body of the field behind, but it would be easy to a riding man on n galloping horse when the March winds have dried the coun try and the obstacles aro only ordinary. Horseless Carrlastes In 1045. In one of the letters of Grui Fatin. written in 1015, 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 frern Paris to Fontalne 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." Jfot So Terrible. Physician—You He awake in bed three or four hours every night? That Is bad, I shall have to treat you for chronic insomnia. Caller (whoso salary Is sl4 a week)—Er—no, doctor I don't think it's as bad as that I simply can't sleep. „