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 n<jxt pair at
I HUSELTON'S I
I Opp. Hotel Lowry. 102 N. Main Street.
1 Patterson Bros. I
@ (Successors to Brown & Co.) Jgj
1 Furniture and Carpets. |
© We respectfully solicit a share of your @
® patronage.
@ New goods arriving daily, inviting (g)
your inspection.
136 N. Main Street, Butler, Pa. jg
•Ji
rg Do It, Now! w
« Your Wall Papering. g
We have just received a Car Load of Cheap and?i?
Priced Wall Paper that we intend to sell at Bar-H?
i fgain Prices. Just what you want for tenement houses?!?
i Sand rooms where a nice paper Is required at a small cost.S?
t? You Can't Afford to Miss This. &
Eyth Bros., §
• • NEAR COURT HOUSE.
I Duffy's Store 1
■ Not one bit too early to think of that new Carpet, orH
■ perhaps, you would rather have a pretty Rug—carpet ß
■ size. Well, In either case, we can suit you as our Car-B
■ pet stock is one of the largest and best assorted in But-J
■ ler county. Among which will be found the following: ■
I EXTRA SUPER ALL WOOL INGRAIN CARPETS,
■ Heavy two and three ply 65c per yd and up
I HALF WOOL INGRAIN CARPETS, f|
Best cotton chain 50c per yd and np H*
■ BODY BRUSSELS, W
■ Simply no wear ont to these sl.:is yd M
P TAPESTRY BRUSSELS.
p*j Light made, bat very Good 65c per yd np
Kg STAIR CARPETS
Si Body and Tapestry Brussels, Half and All Wool Ingrains.
M HARTFORD AXMINSTERS.
K| Prettiest Carpet made, as dnrable too $1.35 H
■ RAG CARPETS. Genuine old-fashioned weave. g
■ MATTING. Hemp and Straw. H
E RUGS-CARPET SIZES. B
■ Axminster Rugs, Beauties too $22 each and up B
■ Brussels Rugs, Tapestry and Body sl2 each and up B
■ Ingrain Druggets, All and Half Wool $5 each and np ■
H Linoleums, Inlaid and Common, all widths and grades. „
H Oil Cloths, Floor, Table, Bhelf and Stair.
M Lace Curtains, Portiere, Window Shades, Curtain Poles; Small Hearth Kj
Rugs, all styles and sizes.
I Duffy's Store. |
I MAIN STREET, BUTLER.
THE BUTLER CITIZEN.
[[Bickers Footwear |
TA A Grand Display of Fine
M Footwear in all the F«
y A/$m are showin g. ma °y 14
M _ fazW iM styles in Ladies' Fine Shoes pj
r and oxforc!s at P rices sure fc]
L t0 interest you.
p h 'jf Large stock of Men s and
Boys' Fine Shoes and Ox
fords in the latest styles.
Dar ß ains in en s W
F and Boys' working shoes.
< Repairing promptly done.
i JOHN BICKELtj
| 128 S Main St., BUTLER. PA.
BUTLER yyy*
' Cpi - /
The following craduaU* of the Butler Business Colleße liavc just accepted iwstttonsas
l Alexander bookkeeper, Waiiash K. li. Co.. Pittsburg: l ay rhompson,
stenographer. V. Sk SSrefepment OoL 4th Ave.. Pittsburg: Emma Burr «^DO K rttpher,
Plttsbu?R lledu. tion Co.. New Kensington, Pa.; Pearl SnySer. Jhe
~. i- A PutKhnrL'* if p Freflerl<>k 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 <leHire to get the I . . v v
best possible results of the money expended. ir I ' ' f
Those who buy custom clothing have a [jK-l /'»*'/ l'v ~i/ '
right to demand a fit, to have their clothes ;T : \ ; . u - '
correct in style and to demand of the M • - \■
seller to guarantee everj-thing. Come to / ]\
ns and there will be nathint? lacking. I '
have just received a large stock of Spring 'i \ {'■<' , •ii
and Summer suitings in the latest style?, \ J'■ ii fl «
shades and colors. * v "fjf. 1 1-. ' !i| || <
S. F. KECK, ilt-ijf
iWERCHANT TAIbOR, v l H
142 N./Wain St., Butler, Pa Ltd--- If.
i Mers |
Do More Work,
i Tiiaß aDj ° t,ier was i
% J. Q. & W. CAMPBELL, I
BU I LER, PA. g
BUTLER, PA., THURSDAY, APRIL 12. 190G
WHY
You can save money by purchasing your piano of
W. R. 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 sive yon this expense when you buy of me.
I sell pianos for cash or easy monthly payments. 1 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 Bntler. Ask them.
Dr. McCurdy Bricker [ Dr. W. P. McElroy
Fred Porter i Sterling Club
Fraternal Order Eagles I D F. Reed
Epworth League | Woodmen of the World
E W Bingham [ H. A. McPherson
G eo. D. High I Miss Anna McCandless
W. J. Mates j E. A. Black
.T. S Thompson # j Samuel Woods
Joseph Woods j Oliver Thompson
S. M. McKee I John Johnson
A. W Root I R. A. Long well
Miss Eleanor Burton • j .T. Hillgard
Mrs. Mary L. "troup J. E. Bowers
W. C Curry C. F. Stepp
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. Vouch
I Just received the largest assortment of sewing machines we ever hadß
in stock. We have an expert sewing machine repair man at reasonable™
prices. if®
Henry Biehl, I
122 N. Main St. Peo. 'Phone 4G4. B
R-R-TIME-TABLES
Pennsylvania
RAIbROAD
WEST PENNSYLVANIA DIVISION.
Schedule 111 effect Jan. 1, 1000
Traits leave BUTLER as follows:
For Allegheny mid way »tstion«, 6,15 and 10 35 a
ra.HTi.l 4.2) i» in. wwk deys; 7.30 a. m. aud 5.05
j». in. Snn<laj .
For Fittaburg and way stations 8.40 a. m. and 8.30 p.
ai. *"C'< k days.
For irairsvilli- Intersection, Altoona, Harri.-bujg,
Philadelphia aud the East.fi. 15 end 1035 a m. and
2.30 l>. 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
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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<Sr a low price
complained of it, and a few returned it
as unfit for use."
Affection.
Talk not of wasted affection! Af
fection never was wasted. If It en
rich not the lioart of another, its wa
ters, returning back to their springs
like the rain, shall fill them full of re
freshing; that which the fountain sends
forth returns again to the fouotaln.—<
Longfellow.
Ilia Ancestors.
Jones —So you bave succeeded in
tracing back my ancestors? What is
your fee? Genealogist—One thousand
pounds, for keeping quiet about them,
—London Tit-Bits.
It Ilnrt. «;!
"Pa wbaled me with a board.., (Then St
he said it hurt him wowo'n it hurt i
"And do you tbiuk"lt il|jJ?"
"I expect so." lie got a big
in his tJnftnb-." - - ■*