VOL. XXXXIII. THE MODERN STORE- Ladies Beautiful Easter Wear in Profusion. Everything to Make your Easter Outfit Complete 1 Tempting Prices for Everybody. CHARMING SPRING MILLINERY. Come early to select your new Easter hat. Our stock of snperbly trimmed hats is the largest we have ever shown and onr facilities for filling special orders nnsorpassed. We make a specialty of individual hats and are sure we can please von in style and price, "ion will be sur prised what we can do for yon in this department. A Magnificent Variety of Easter Gloves 1 and 2 CUsp Kid Gloves. Best in America for the price, *I.OO pr. 8 Button Length Long Snede Gloves in black, white, grey, and mauve, worth #2.00, #1.75 pr. _ _ 10 Button Length Snede Gloves, black, and white, worth y-.-jO. $2.00 pr.. 16 Button Length Glace Kid Glove#, black and white, worth $2.75 pr THESE ARE VERY SCARCE. New Easter Neckwear, Ribbons, Hosiery, Sliirt Waists, Belts, Jewelry, Fancy Black Couibs, Bags, Etc. IEISLER-MARDORF COfIPANY, SOUTH HADI STREET j f"I Samples sent on request OPPOSITE HOTEL ARLINGTON. BUTLER. PA 9 SPRING STybeS B SU/ftfltEß FOOTWEAR. B NOW COMING IN. j ■ Shoes for dr?ssjj occasions W Shoes for the mechanic I Shoes for the farmer w H Shoes for everybody I Each and even} pair in its b class the best that money) Rj Get jjour nk sifinocriiphtr, \\ jibsisli K. Co., Plltsuurp, KOS« i.u.i stenOKraoher Balrd Machinery Co., Plttsburß; Anna Hunday, stenographer, ° Cr You"ns KTOsi" I.T? TALK. Attend a that■ JOKB tions and GOOD ones for its graduates. SOME schools PHOMI>E—wc I EHI OKM. I times as many calls its we can fill. Come in and see the letters—we shall be pleased show them to you. Now is the time to enter. SPRING TERM, APRIL 2, 1906. May enter ANV tftne. Catalogue and circulars mailed on application. Correspondence invited. Visitors ALWAYS welcome. When in Ilutler, pay us a visit. A. F. REGAL, Principal, Butler, Pa. 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 of our com petitors who even attempt to match the values presented. This $5.00 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 South Main Street. Butler. Pa. ►?« »■< »|« »|« »|« | Spring and Summer Millinery. | Everything in the line of Millinery can be found, *** the right thing at the right time at the right price at !*? W I ROCKENSTEIN'S 9 v & Phone 656. 148 S. Main St. 7WEDIN j-,! h (f £ ! —Jy I I'V ill Won't buy clothing for the purpose of A , , % ■ -ii • i U spending money. Tlitcy . i" week days; 7.20 a. m. Sundays. BUFFALO AND ALLEGHEIfY VALLEY DIVISION. Trains leave via KISKIMIITETAS JOHCTIOU as follows: For Buffalo 8.40 a.m. week dnj>; 7.20 a, m. •'mi dftvs. K r Rod Bank .ml oil City, 6.1.1, 8.40 10.35 a. m. an.l 4.20 p. m. woek days; 7.20 ». m. and 5.05 p. m. Sunday*. ! For Kittauning and way stations, 6.16 and 10.35 n. in. aud 4.20 p. lu. week days; 7.20. a. m. and 5.06 p. m. Sunday*. Koi detailed information, apply to ticket ajjent or uddrMW Tho*. K. Watt, I'ann. Agt. Western District, ;i6O Fifth \TenuT\ Pltteburg, P». W. W. ATTEUBLUY, J R WOOD Uen'l Manager. IWr TraKi' Manager, j GEO W BOYD. Gjueral IWeuger Agotl. Ii It & P It It Time table in effect Nov. 10, 1905. Passenger trains leave and arrive at Bntler as follows: LEAVE FOR NORTH. 7:30 a. in., mixed for Pnnxautawney, Du Boia and intermediate stations. 10:3 a a. m. daily, vestibnled day ex press for Buffalo, connects at Ashford, week days, for Rochester. 5:50 p. in. local for Punx'y, Du Bois and intermediate stations. 11:81 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 Dußois. 4:50 p.m. daily, vestibuled day express from Buffalo. Has connection at Ash ford week days from Rochester. 8:07 p.m. week days, mixed train from Du Boia and Panwutawney. C Trains leave the B. & O. Station, Pittsburg, for Buffalo and Rochester at 9:00 a.m. and 10:00 p.m., and for local points as far as Dußois daily at 4:20 p. m. week days. Wiu'ield It It Co Time Table I In effect May 29th, 1903. WESTWARD. STATIONS. IAM P M Weat Winfield.. . 7 3" 2 45 " lioggfiviUe 745 300 " Ir«»n Bridge 756 310 •• Wlnfield Junction 8 10 3 2ft 41 Lane 820 335 11 • Butler Junction 8 25 3 40 Arrive Butler 10 33 5 of> Arrive Allegheny 6 00 Arrive Pltteburg 10 26 I pm Arrive Blairavule 1 06 6 42 KAiSTWAIia STATIONS. JAM I'M Leave Pittsburg 3 06 Leave B!alr>ville 7 50 2 15 " Allegheny 8 26 220 " Butler 8 40 230 ** Butler Junction 10 00 440 44 Lime 10 03 443 44 Winfield Junction 110 15 455 44 Iron Bridge 1 10 25 506 44 Boirgevillo ,10 35 515 Arrive Wet WinfieU >lO 50 5 30 Traim »t*»p at Lane and Iron Bridge only on Flag to take on or leave off paaaengerß. Train* Connect at Butler Junction with: Trains Eautwafd for Freepcrt, Vandergrift and Blairsville luteraection. Trains Westward for Natrona,Tarenturn Allegheny and Fitubnrg. Train* Northward for Baxonburg, Marwo«»d aud But ler. w B. O. BIALOB, ft«neral Manager. L. S. McJCNKIN. IRA McJUNKIN GEO. A. MITCHELL. Is S McJCNKIN & CO, Insurance 8c Real Estate 117 E- Jefferson St. SUTfcER, - - - - PA ! BESSEMER & LAKE ERIE RAILROAD COMPANY. TIME TABLE In effect September 17th. 1905. EASTERN STANDARD TIME NORTHWARD SOUTHWARD (Read up) Daily Except Sunday (Read down) 10 )L" 14 I STATIONS LI 9 " I 13 p. m. p. m. p. in.! »iAiiur>s. la.m a.m. p.m. 10 0»i 4 o<| 3 00BufIalo(Ti»LS.M5.) 3 4510 00 2 00 p. in. p. iii. it. m.| a. ui. p. m.p. m. 7 131 1 IS 10 25' Erie 7 05 1 Of 4 57 6 51 ilO 02 FairvieW 7 2?> 5 21 6 101 1 or » 45 (..iranl 7 4(» 1 41 5 3:i 6 24 I Craliesvilh: H do!., ..... It 111 'ti 1 -xliy 00 Ar.' ciiiiivut:t..L\ 7 On 12 01' 5 I" 5 10)13 01!_7_00 Lv loii :i ea 111 -Arj 10 (Iff .J 655 6 21 12 iv 9 sa. Albion i « to "|"te"Dß fC 10fl2 3519 H> sliudeland f8 It fl 1»16 01 8o;1232 9 07 Springboro i81721a 6 07 6 0212 271 9 02i..Ooinieaiitville...l 822 2 !»' fi 12 7 0712 4i>| 'J 2i Ar..Meadville.Xv| 7~30i 1 65 4 58 4 Wll 2V 7 SO Lv..Mead vllle. Ar 9 20 3 12! 7 07 6 1012 Is 8 G3|A..<-oii't Lilke. Lv! 7 55' 2 23 5 25 5 25:11 bC 7 fift Lv.Con't Lake.Ail 8 53! 2 45 6 40 5 4*' 10 6o|.Vr..Linesvllle„Lv! 8 27 ! 6 17 5 43 12 10, tt 43 .Mi'iVlville~Jet.: 8 43| Y~37 B 32 15 27jf1l 55 8 27 1 Hartstowu f8 57 f2 49 C 46 5 13fll 41 8 12 Osgood 9 12 f 3 03 7 00 5 0". II 3- 8 (•:; Greenville 9 20) 310 7 (•« D 0011 2- 755 ..Shenango 9253 It 715 4 43 11 12j 7 38 Fredonia 9 42 3 32 7 33 4 28|10 5Sj 7 23 Mercer. 0 58 1 3 48j 7 48 ilO oij 7 18 .. Houston Jet... 10 02 T 53 4021035 7 00 Grove City >lO 23 4IWB 15 f3 47H0 23 a.m Ilarrisville ,'flO 38 f4 22 i>.m. 341 10 18l ...„BrailchtOU 10 43 4J> r _'ll 3Ut Ar...Uilliard...Lv| 7 051 210 Z. 2 |o> 7 05l 'Lv. Hllllnrd. Aril 30 6 17 3 37 10 14 1 Kclster 10 47, 4 31 . J2310 02 1 Euclid IJJm! 445 _2 55) 9 35f ...n7.|. Sutler- ill auj 5 10) 400 I 7 00 |."North Bessemer. 1 e 20 1 15{ 8 15 ILv.Allegheny. AH 1 00 6 38 p. m. a. in.! I 'p. mJp. m.|p. m. Train No.l leaving Greenville at 6:17 a. m.; I Shenango fl:sl;Fredonla 7:13; Mercer 7:27; Grove 1 City 7:50; Kelster 8:17; Butler 9:00, arrives in Allegheny at 10:25 a. m.; connects al Queen Junction with trains to and from Kaylor, and at Branehton from Ililliard and Annandale. Train No. 2 leaving Allegheny atß:oop.m.; Butler 4:45; Keister 5:32; (.rove City 5:55; Meroer 6:21; Fredonia 6:38; Shenango 6:55, arrives in Greenville at 7:00 p. m.; connects at Queen Junction with trains to and from Kaylor, and at Branehton lor Ililliard. E. H. UTLEY, E. D. COMSTQCK, General Manager. Gen'l l'ass. Asent. 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 j you have been paying. Quality Guaranteed As good if not better than the Trust goods. ZUVER STUDIO 215 S. Main St. Butler Do You Buy Medicines? Certainly You Do. Then you want the best for the least money. That is our motto. Come and sec us when in need of anything in the Drug Line and we are sure you will call again. We carry a full line of Drugs, Chemicals, Toiltt Articles, etc. Purvis' Pharmacy 9. C*. Purvis, Ph. <1 Both Phones. 213 S Main St. Batler Pa. i ITTHE GHOST OF I A CHANCE ( By Martha McCulloeh-Willi&ms J "Everybody else is going." Selin.i Raid, with a sigb. "Oh, dear! I won der why we have to skip all the good times." "It is in punishment for our uncom mitted sins," Bess answered, with a toss of the head. "All our sins must bo uncommitted. I'm sure we've been brought up more strictly than ever nuns were. Sometimes when 1 think over it ail I get fairly afraid for us two. We've been so proper from our cradles —we must break out after awhile." "Hush! Aunt Wilton would have a fit if she heard you," Selina said. "Do you think she was ever young. Bess? I can't fancy her less than sixty and severe, yet I do believe she means only to lie kind and really wants us to be happy." "Yes, in her way. which isn't mine nor anybody else's," Bess broke out passionately. "Iler way is to have everything just so 3>is days in the year. We have all sorts of material good things— *ve eat well, sleep well, dress well—but no liberty to get the good of tlieiu. How many times did we wear our best frocks last summer? Not once! And it's going to be the same this season. People never ask us to things any more because they know we won't come." "I don't mind that so much as the flowers. Shouldn't you like, just once, to run riot in the garden, pulling what ever you liked?" "You heretic! Aunt Wilton would have serious doubts as to your sanity If she heard that. I think she loves flowers, not because they are flowers and beautiful, but because they are her own"— "The same as her nieces," a deeper voice said from au ambush of lilae hedge. Next minute the hedge shook violently. It was old and gnarly, be ing a party hedge and therefore beyond Wilton control. The enil of the shak iitjrs was a young man, slim and mer ry eyed, who bowed very low to the two young women, then said dcprecat- Ingly: "I»on't freeze uie because I eavesdropped. I know how bad it Is, but really this time the end justifies it. I'm a committee of one. self ap pointed, to Und out just why the nicest girls in town stay out of everything." "Will you listen?" Bess adjured Se lina, whose eyes were dancing, though her face was preternaturally grave as she answered, "Everybody overlooks Joe Hartweli's fibs because he tibs so nicely," Hartwell laughed. Ilis father being Aunt Wilton's lawyer, he knew the Ford girls, Aunt Wilton's nieces, better than anybody In Caswell town. It was a knowledge that ran lHick to the tnud pie period, although the Fords know no more of mud pies and their making than could be gathered from watching him enviously through cratiuies of the hedge. Now, for two years he had been won dering how they had escaped their bringing up. Selina, he was sure, was full of mad longings for life and free dom. About Bess he was not so sure. She sang and laughed like a human sunbeam—sang and laughed herself Into the deepest depths of his heart. Therefore he resented bitterly her iso lation. The sisters would some day Inherit Aunt Wilton's more than com fortable fortune. It galled him to think that people would say Bess had mar ried him ti)rough lack of other lovers; mayl>e also that his father had encour aged his client to keep her heiresses so secluded out of regard for the Inter ests of his son. Byyond all that, though, was the rebellion against thus winning by default. How could Bess be sure she really loved him when she had had t:o chance of measuring him against other lovers? It was with a hope of giving her that chance he had asked hi., chum, Dennl son, for a month's visit. Dennison was handsome, witty and winning. Ilis coming, duly advertised, had set social Caswell all a-flutter. Tlieru were al ready things planned f;>r ail the first fortnight. Selina and Bess had been discussing the most spectacular of them, the lawn party at the old Ver non place. It was to come off by moon light, aided aud abetted by Japanese lanterns. There would be dancing, of course, and supper in the big hail of the deserted mansion. Everybody was to go In costume and masked. Except for that, Selina and Bess might have had faint hopes. But Aunt Wilton's face was flint toward masking. It savored to her so much of acting and the theater. If Hartwell had known that —but speculation is idle. He looked blank indeed when Selina let him see how the land lay. "And I got It up mostly so you might dance your fill," he said sorrowfully. "How I wish I could wash the slute clean and begin all over! Such a great lark I hoped we might have, and now to think"— "Such a great lark we will have!" cried Bess, springing up and whirling about in front of the garden bench. Hartwell stared at her. Selina looked puzzled. Bess stopiied short in her dancing to put her finger on her lip and say, nodding sagely between tho words: "Promise not to faint when you see us, Joe. I think we're coming, though we have just the ghost of a chance." The lawn party had to take its full 1110011 on trust. So many clouds sailed lu the sky the lantern lights shone all undimmed. The thick, low cry night kept the crowd close about the house. It was big and substantial, and, if tho worst came In tho shape of rain, danc ing could go on insldei True, a few nervous persons said that would hard ly do. Of course it was all idle talk. None the less there had been talk of a Vernon ghost. Two ghosts indeed—those of tlie Ver non twin sisters, who had loved the same sweetheart and had refused to marry him out of regard for the other. They had lived to a great age, fading and falling at last like withered roaea there in the family mansion. They had been dead twenty years, with none but good words to follow them. If they did not sleep peacefully In their sunny graves, then were pure lives and good deeds vain. Notwithstanding there was the talk, now one, now another, glimpsed them walking hand in hand up the hroad stairway or flitting at dusk through the overgrown rose gar den. Pennlsou heard all this avidly. He liki'ii whatever was old world and un usual. Perhaps that was why, when the rain at last sent everybody scurry ln« within, he drew a little apart from the merrymakers and stood staring up Uio dim vista of the great stairway, thya hy was the ilrst to gee twin wraiths, slim and girlish. floating rath er than walking, glide out of the upper dusk and. linking arms, fall into the swine «t a waltz. They were all In vaporous white swirls of it covered them from head to foot. They kept perfect time and moved so in unison it was like the rhythm of one soul rather than two. Dennison felt bis heart beat faster. All the rest had accepted the veiled dancers as but new come maskers. lie nodded toward them, saying in Hart well's ear: "Don't you hate monopoly? Let's break that one up." Then In hurried whispers he told what he bad seen. Hartwell suppressed a whistle, then said with a quick breath: "I'll go you. Take the taller one"— "No; I'm going to dance with the other. Ghostlike masqueraders don't demand formal presentation." Denni son whispered back as ho shot out to Intercept the whirling visions. In a wink he had his chosen one fast, and Hartwell perforce took the other. To gether they made the round of the long hall—not once, but many times, the ghost dancers moving so lightly they did not even breathe more quickly, al though their mortal partners at last were panting. "How did you think of it? How dared you do it?" Hartwell asked as he whirled anil wheeled. The wraith in his arms answered evenly: "We've beeu doing it this long time. It was a sort of outlet. Selina first thought of it after we had found the lost key to the bijr gate, but she never would have had the courage to do It if I had not egged her on. She wouldn't dare be here tonight if I had let her think. We have always gone home before 9 o'clock and climbed In by the library window. This time we shall have to be ghosts until morning. Wo can get in on the heels of the milkman, and of course we shall run away before un masking time. What would Aunt Wil ton say if anybody told her we had been here?" "Probably disinherit you. 1 should like that," Hartwell returned. "Then you wouldn't think, you couldn't, I am fortune hunting when I say I love you"'— What more he might have said no body knows. Just then there came wild cries of fire and after them gen eral panic. Despite the pouring rain, helped by the raging wind, the old house burned like tinder. Hartwell had for a moment left Bess. When he looked for her he saw two vapory creatures fleeing up the stairway. Bess and Selina, madly bent on avoid ing discovery, meant to vanish that way and escape up the back stairs by which they had come. A wall of flame blocked them. As they ran back from it they heard a shout: "Stand still! We are coming!" Then, up the long main stair, came Hartwell and Dennl son, to rush down half a minute later through licking flames, each with a girl's inanimate figure crushed against his breast. Right there was settled the question of a double wedding. Even Aunt Wil ton insisted on it. Her nieces, she said, needed stronger guardians. Both matches have turned out to be Ideal, so much so that Hartwell and Dcnnison say they shudder to think they gained such happiness by barely the ghost of a chance. Shopping In Shanghai. It must be lots of fun to go shopping in China, nere is the Shanghai Times, for example, with a dry goods adver tisement that is well calculated to make any frequenter of the bargain counter wild to rush into action. It tells how various kinds of goods are going to be sold at sacrifice prices. Von can understand In a minute that this particular store must have been swamped with custom when the Chi nese'bargain hunters read about the things that were marked way down. .Unong the shirtings we notice the following varieties of attractive goods: Gold sun, Sing Sing soldier man, five sister, nine old man, eighteen student, painted three ladies, Chin Chin New Year, red emperor's birthday, bravo soldier, blue four sister. Two squir rels Jeans were going at an awful sac rifice. As for white goods, look as this list: Painted Buddha, painted grand father, red double lighthouse, green three student. Black goods were of fered at prices that would simply com pel you to buy some of these: Three rabbit, joss birthday. Tin Chan's mar ringo, two war hammer, stag and mon key, teacher son, autumn festival, flow er basket. It just shows what bargains may be picked up if one will only keep one's eyes open.—Minneapolis Journal. A Good Eicrnir. After the Duke of Wellington's vic torious campaigns the University of Oxford complimented the duke him self and his principal officers by con ferring upon them the honorary and pot very appropriate degree of doctor of civil laws. At that time the fees were heavy, and one of the distinguish ed soldiers, who had gathered more honor than profit in the wars, declined the proffered degree In the following verse: Oxford, I know you wish me well, Hut prithee let me be. I can't, alas, be D. C. L. For want of £ s. d. Tradition, What an enormous "camera obscura" magnifier is tradition. llow a thing grows in the human memory, In the human imagination, when love, wor ship and all that lies In the human heart are there to encourage It, and In the darkness, In the entire ignorance, without date or document, no book, no Arundel marble, only here and there some dull monumental cairn.—Carlyle. Violence. Violence ever defeats Its own ends. Where you cannot drive you can al ways persuade. A gentle word, a kind look, a good uatured smile, can work wonders and accomplish miracles. There is a secret pride in every liumun heart that revolts at tyranny. You may order and drive an Individual, but you cannot make him respect you.— Hazlitt. J oat a Din. Proud Mother-Professor Octave call ed at our liouso today, and my daugh ter played ihe piano for him. He just raved over her playing. Her Neighbor —How rude! Why couldn't he conceal his feelings Just as the rest of us do? Hopeless. "Tom has proposed, nnd asks me to give him his answer In a letter." "Shall you do It?" "No. I will be tnoro liberal and give him his answer In two letters." Or Cook Willi Tltem On. There never was an angel who wouldn't take off her wings nnd cook for the man she loved.—New Orleans Picayune. Principle of the Hinare. The principle of the hinge Is seen In almost every joint In the animal king dom. No animal Is without a binge jolut somewhere or other la its apat -oU!}\ No. 15. PLANETARY VITALITY. rarllicinnkra Can Take Place Only on l.lring Vlokri. A moonquake is now unthinkable, because (ho moon is as (lead as a door nail. Our satellite Is '"ever foreshad owing our own ultimate doom, like the mummy at Egyptian banquets," but in the meantime, if the Edinburgh Review has correctly conceived the teachings of seismology, the inhabitants of earth may console themselves for the havoc wrought through earthquakes by re timing that they demonstrate the vi tality of our planet. Iu that distant past when the moon actually quaked there may some scientists declare there must—have been forms of anima tion upon Its surface. "Though the moon, by reason of its smaller size, was bound to lose its atmosphere, it must have taken millions of years to do so, and there may have been time for the cycle of life, from the primeval germ up to sentient beings and down again to the hardiest lingering plant cells, to run its full circle." The writer in the Edinburgh Review continues to develop his line of thought: "Earthquakes are a sign of planetary vitality. They would seem to be char acteristic of the terrestrial phase of de velopment. Effete globes like the moon can scarcely be subject to the stress to which they are due, nor can they be very suitably constituted for the prop agation-of elastic waves. Inchoate worlds, such as Jupiter and Saturn, are still less likely to be the scenes of reverberating concussions. Their ma terials have not yet acquired the neces sary cohesion. They are pasty or fluid, if not partially vaporous. On the earth the seismic epoch presumably opened when, exterior solidification having commenced, the geological ages began to run. It will last so long as peaks crumble and rivers carry sediment, so long as the areal distribution of loads fluctuates and strains evoke forces ade quate for their catastrophic relief. "Our globe Is by its elasticity kept habitable. The separation of sea from dry land is thus and not otherwise maintained. The alternations of eleva tion and subsidance manifest the con tinual activity of this reserve of en ergy. The dimensions of the globe we inhabit depend upon the balance of pressure and cxpanslveness. Relaxa tion or enhancement of either instant ly occasions a bending inward or an arching outward of the crust. Just by these sensitive reactions the planet It self shows itself to be alive, and seis mic thrillings are the breaths It draws."—Current Literature. Savages mid Snuff. The habit of snuff taking has been confirmed among savage tribes for ages past. In South Africa it is used among Swazis, Basutos and Matai>eles. Every Zulu today, even in towns, car (ries a little square box suspended around his neck by a piece of string or gut, and the snuff spoon (for they do not Indulge in the homely "pinch"), carved out of sheep's bone, often or namented with intricate geometrical designs and for convenience carried hanging downward through a slit in the lobe of the ear. The Zulu regards the lobe of his ear as a useful recep table for various small articles he meets with. The umfaan, or bouse boy, . universally met with in Natal, has a penchant for safety pins, which have to be carefully hidden from his f&arp , eyes. Even then he is usually to be seen, after going, through the rooms, with a string of these pins suspended from each ear until they reach his Shoulders. Neckties as Railway Signals. "Red neckties are always worn by, foreign bijikemen and conductors. Ev er notice it?" said a railroader. "No. Why is it?" "As a safety device," was the reply. "These red neckties that flash upon your gaze on the railroads of Italy, France, Germany and England are not n sign that the people bave a gay taste, but that they are cautions and prudent. "The neckties are supplied free by the railroad companies for use as dan ger signals in emergency. Thus, no matter when or where an accident may happen, there is no need to search or scramble for a red flag, but the brake man whips off his red necktie and waves it frantically aloft."—Minneap olis Journal. Kentucky's \nmes. Kentucky Is known as the Corn Cracker State from a bird en- Joying the same name which was for merly found In great abundance In most parts of the state. It is also called the Blue Grass State, from the belt of land running through the cen ter, in which this variety of grass grows to great perfection. In the early days of'our history it \yas known as the Dark and Bloody Ground, being so termed by the Indians. It then a debatable laud between the Indians living north of the Ohio and those living in the mouutains of Tennessee and Georgia, u sort of battleground for tlieso tribes, which fact gave It the name long before It was settled by; the whites. Planets With Three Sana* The people inhabiting the planets in the solar system of Gamma llftVQ no need of electricity, gas, oil OP Other kind of artificial light. In those fa vored worlds they have continuous daylight and probably have no Idea of a laud like ours which is alternately bathed In sunlight and plungtd into darkness. The Gaminanean planets are so situated that as soon as one of their three suns begius to decline another appears in sight Each of these three suus Is of a different color » —red, yellow and bltle. Price and Imagination. Housewives are apt to judge the quality of groceries by the pride paid for them. As an illustration of this a grocer tells the following story: "I had two qualities of flour—one Jlne and the other poor. One day I accidentally sold one for the other. My customers, who paid a high price for the poor quality, said that It had given entire satisfaction, while those vrbb had re ceived tho fine flour r