VOL. XXXXIII THE MODERN STORE- g Summer Goods, White Goods, Dress Goods, New | Trimmings, New Button Covering Machine. Large Business In Millinery Department. WHITE GOODS. We bare an immfnae variety of New White Goods, both pHia and fancies Plain India Linens, He to 25c yda. Plain Persian and French Lawna, 25c. 85c. fOc Orijandies and Wash Batiste. '£> cto SI.OO yard Fat cy Cbecka and Stripes, Bc. 10c. 12lc. 15c yard Hundred of patterns :n dotted Swisses, fancy mercerized goods, fancy nainsooks, etc., 15c to 50c yard. Noiv flreec ftnnifc -* pleDty of the new KTeyr old roße an, .vw-, 7. each and np B B Linoleums, Inlaid and Common, all widths and grades. uX Oil Cloths, Floor, Table, Shelf and Htair. Lace Curtains, Portiers, Window Shades, Curtain Poles; Small Hearth B ■ Rags, all styles and sizes. 30 I Duffy's Store. I .... -arrtff^T,i—— — r ;««ooo»»ooooooooo<>oooooooo\j < c ' \'! || best possible results of the money expended. ;\: | . II Those who bay custom clothing have a [JiLI ( 1 ; Jjj right to demand a fit, to have their clothes 1 1| ; > nJ r| correct in style and to demand of the /t\ ' * > < seller to guarantee everything. Come to / *\ ! us and there will be nothing lacking. I v , 1 5 have just received a large stock of Spring jjj \\ »VliWi Ji a and Snmmer suitings in the latest styles, '\.4^A~'/i ,y !l| » shades and colors. " l \ /-jffii.is#7 V|J I 1 G. F. KECK, !V|'|l /WERCHANT TAIfeOR, 142 N. Main St.. 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 $12.50. SCHAUL& LEVY 137 South Main Street. Butler. Pa. i Spring and Summer Millinery-1 Everything in the line of Millinery can be found, f •j* the right thing at the right time at the right price at *|| | ROCKENSTEIN'S f Vr. 9 •g Phone 656. 148 S. Main St. Y alt aIT >ToT a>T i aai M aala 'fcT aiTlalaaTal i * t *TI *Tl*T' -▼ * 11? ?4? ?i" w "i" ?$? ?i? T47T4" ?4? Tt?tj7?4? ?i? WWV •4 • I J. G. & W. CAMPBELL, H BUTLER, PA. *| BUTLER 0/ ' r /T />? The following fraduat** of thn Butler lluslne&i* Colics© hav* ust or. ♦ ptea poftUiouii follows: J H. Alexander, bookkeeper, Wabusb K. H Co., I'Ktsburtf, lay Ttouipsuu, stenographer. U.S. Doveloptuent to.. 4th \VQ.. iMttshurg; hurr, si^noj(ranher, PlttHbursc Keau<*tlon jo.. N w Kensington, Pa; Pe*i»l &»nyder, ethnographer. The Arad ftp et Co. Pittsburg; It !'• fctenoarapber, Wubtuih U. K. Co . I*ltt«ihnri(; lioMenna Uf'Laughlin, >«eur>iiraphei, Machinery ( it., PlttHbura:; Anna litinday, Htl» r»ii« for 1 Its vradunteH. F, h' b«. ('iituloKuc uninltin'« Invito*!. VUltor* AI.WAYb w«)o»ine. Wl-v in pi»y us u »Uit. A. r. REGAL, Principal, Butler, Pa. BUTLER, PA., THURSDAY, APRIL 19, 1900 - I DOTS AND | SPACES < By SHERWOOD BOYD I Copyright, 190.1, by C. H. 1 Truesdell looked eagerly from the r 1 latform of the sleeper as the long train pulled into the station. There, by the baggage truck, stood his father, soldierly, gray haired and eager to welcome his son. Back in the crowd were a dozen familiar faces, but the one he most anxiously sought was not to be seen. "Where's Margie?" he asked when all greetings had been exchanged and at last he was free to fall into step with Ids father and go up the familiar street. He tried to si>eak carelessly, but his father caught the note of anx iety in his tones and sighed. "I think she did not know you were coming," he said gently. "She doesn't come over to the house as she used to. Perhaps the attraction was removed," he added, with a poor little attempt at a joke. But it was a jest of the voice, not the heart, and he wondered how he might break to this big boy, of whom he was so proud, the fact that his lit tle playmate had not only kept away from them, but that It was common re port that she was engaged to George Colson. "I should think," said Truesdeil, "that she might have at least answered my letters. I telegraphed my address just before we sailed, and I wrote by almost every steamer." "Marjorie has been away, Dick," said his father. "Perhaps she did not get your letters." "Nonsense. She must have had some of them," declared Dick. "There she is now." And before the father could lay a detaining band upon his arm Dick Truesdell had dropped his bag and dashed across the narrow street. He paused dumbly ns the girl passed with a most chilling nod and then, with slow step, retraced his way. The elder man put out his hand, and Dick grasp ed it and wrung it with a grip that meant more than words. It was the way they had come away from his mother's grave, hand 111 hand, only now It was the old man who led his son, not the son consoling the father. Dick picked up his valise, and the two went up the street. They had al most reached the old hotne before the father spoke. "I wanted to wait until we got home, Dick," he said, with a touch of wist fulness In his tones. "I thought Mar jorie was still away and that I could tell you better in the house. Marjorie Is going about a great deal with George Colson. She never comes near me now. I have tried to find out what the trou ble Is, but she only says that I should know as well as she." "It will come out all right," said the boy, with a brave effort at cheerful ness. "At any rate, we slian't let it spoil tho homecoming, shall we?" 119 linked his nrm affectionately through his father's, and they turned In at the familiar gateway and went up the gravel walk to the house. That night as Dick stood before the mirror 111 his own little room the motto his mother had put over the glass when he had come home from college caught his eye. It was simply, "Look before you leap," one of those printed texts for frainiug, but now It seemed almost likM «' message 7T3G, dead, and ho put out the light and jumped into bed with a braver heart. "I shan't leap to the conclusion that I've lost Margie until I've looked into the thing," he said to himself, and the thought brpugbt sleep to eyes that jnight not have closed save for that promise. But It was easier to declare than to execute, and It was almost a week be fore Dick saw Marjorie. Letters had l>eeu returned unanswered, and on the few occasions he had seen her 011 tho street she had been with friends. At last one afternoon as he w:is coming down the street she fairly ran Into him in the growing dusk. She began to murmur an apology l>e,- fore she saw who it was, qqd by 1 time I>lck had her arm "1 want to know just what tho trou ble |s," he said eommandlngly. "If yau don't love me I'll not bother you again, but If it's something that can be ex plained let's have it over with. Per haps there Is an excuse." "Your affront was inexcusable,' sno coldly. "I desire no explanation." "I Insist upon one," he said quietly, but with a new note of mastery in his voice. She recognized the tone nnd shivered a little. "Of course," snid, "I can't TUQ I way from you if you insist upon hold ing 011 to mo th|s way, but"— "1 am glnd to you are convinced of that," he snid softly. "I am not go ing to let yo# run away from me now or ever. There is some mistake some where, and I'll have the truth." "There could bt> no mistake," she said. "Tho matter was entirely too rlenr to admit of explanation. I don't see why you should be so anxious tu bo friends with pit) when you have Marie." "I don't wnnt to be friends with you," he disclaimed. "I want to bo your husband, nml I don't remember any Marie that figures In this story." "Doubtless you forget your traveling companion," she retorted. "You mean Marie Gorman," no laughed ' i wondi 1 who told you that. Besides, she was Ben nett's friend. His sister used to go t«i school with her or something," "Very Ingenious," sneered Marjorie, ''but I fail to see that that explains anything. The fact that she was an ncqudiatance of Mr. Bennett does not excuse your going all over Europe with her." "Now you are wrong," he said even ly "We didn't go all over Europe getlier. Wo did anil tho Hiiiiit; tueu ihoy went to the south for ihe winter, and we went 011 to Den mark." "Who are 'they' and 'we?'" she de manded. "It Is a litt'e puzzling to keep track of your conversation." "'We,' Bennett and tnyaelf; 'they,' the Gnrmßfls .wid ino Crofts. We ran into them In London." "I am 110 child to be told tales," she said bitterly. "I did hopo that there might be some explanation I could ac cept, but you have made It Impossible After that telegram iu which you de v-laiv that you are going abroad with Miu.-i Gorman your explanation that you met them In London Is an affront to my Intelligence." "I should like to see thnt telegram," lie said. "It's the first I have heard of It." "I still have It." she snk' ' n you think to uet < u' f „f 11 by denying send jig it you are mistaken. I kept It." HI !c led the way Into tho house, and Ihe followed Into the parlor. It gave him a pang ns be remembered tho pleasant evenings spent there and 1 thought how close lie was to losing it nil, but be sprang up when she entered with a lamp nnd a sheet of yellow pa ; per. 1 She thrust the latter toward hiui. *'l ' don't suppose that you will deny send ing this?" she said coldly. "Not a bit," he admitted, "only I wrote: 'Am sailing for London with Marc tomorrow. Address American Exchange.' I cut out the Bennett to i make ten words. The operator got it I 'Marie.'" "I don't see how he could do that?" she said doubtiugly. l>ick went over to the bookcase and drew down a vol ume. "It's like this," he said, opening the book and laying it on the table. "Marc Bennett spells his name with a 'c' in stead of a 'k.' Xow, if you will look at this Morse code you will see that they telegraph two dots for 'i' and one for 'e.' 'C is two dots, p space and a dot. Now, if the space between those dots was a little longer than it should be, as it very often is when a beginner is at the key, the receiver would read It 'ie' instead of 'e.' If Mark had spelled his name with a 'k' you would have been saved all this trouble, or if you had had more faith in me"— •Don't scold," said Marjorie peni tently, stopping his words with her soft lips. "I've l>een n little fool. Can you forgive me?" Since Dick stayed to supper he pre sumably did. The I'nlvernHy Trenlilency. The unity and security of a univer sity can only be assured through ac countability to a central office. While every one is to have freedom to do in his own way the thing he is set to do, so long as his way proves to be a good way, the harmony of the whole de pends upon the parts fitting together and upon deflniteness of responsibility and frequency of accountability. No self respecting man Is going to admin ister a great office or 1111 office responsi ble for great results and have any doubt about possessing tiio powers necessary or Incident to the perform ance of his work. He will have enough to think of without having any doubt upon that subject. There need be no fear of his being too much inflated with power. There will be enough to take the conceit out of him and keep liim upon the earth. If he cannot exercise the powers of his great office and yet keep steady nnd sane there is no hopo for him, and ho will speedily come to official ruin. It Is not a matter of up lifting or of inflating a man, but of getting a man who can meet the de mands of a great situation.—Andrew 8. Draper in Atlantic. She Wan llenily For Him. He had come to break off the engage ment. His mother didn't approve of his choice. Besides, he felt that he was too timid to assume the responsibili ties of married life. It wasn't a pleasant tasH. "I have come," he said, "to say that —isn't there some one stirring at the side doflr?" "It Is nothing," she hastily answered. "You were about to say that"— '•I were about—l mean I was about to iay that I think that we have—l mean 1 have—made a mistake in—l'm sure I hear somebody shuffling at the keyhole!" She laughed in an unmirthful way. "Yes," she said, "my football brother, with his brindle bulldog, is out there waiting." He didn't ask whas they were wait ing for "I limo *>»iiie to say, dearest," he liriskly remarked, "that I think I have made a mistake in permitting you to put ,wur wedding day so far ahead."— Cleveland Plain Dealer. I •ffnluraii fit a \Vn|rli. "If a business man did not require a watch in getting to and from the offioo every day," said a busy merchant, "he would peed t!iie to keep hiiuself from bolug deluded and hurried or retarded by the hundred and one clocks he Is sure to glance at en route. Have you ever noticed." he continued, smiling, "how few clocks are required to fill their original purpose of keeping the correct time? Not one In twenty twenty-five is really exact, ami fr«- QUently two clocks wjlhia half a block ut each othur will differ all the way from fifteen minutes to half an hour. The clocks In many stores regulate the time to suit their own sweet will. Pub lic clocks and church clocks are fre quently run y thing on duty in nl| timekeeping creation is the business man's pocket timepiece."— New Yo*k Press. He W «in In Kucli n Hurry. A man who has reside*} \i\ Caiixt told tills tale as an illustration of the dil atory ways of Arabian trades people; "A certain gent leant 11 ordered a swing to l>v oreete'i In his garden for the use of Ms little boy, aged six. 110 waited and waited, but the swing nev er arrived. In due course of that l/oy grew tip to rrai ( ' u estate and l>e cnmc \:iiuselt the father of a Utile l>oy. When lils son was six years old he remembered how his own father liud ordered a swing to lw uni'l" roi» him. Bo ho called un the tradesman, who llted at his gate, and asked him to seud up the swing that had been order ed twenty years before. The man agreed to do so. The little boy lie coming impatient aft<-r three weeks, his father called again and remon strated with the Arabian as t'l his . offer prac tical assistance. '•'Walt a minute there," ho said. "Let me show you how easy It is when you use a little brain with your muscle." And he grabbed a hook, Bti:ck it Into Ihe case, gave a yank and went sprawl ing into the gutter under tlio dray. He got up, lookvd tit the hook and said, ('Confound It, the handle comes off!'' "Yes, sir," said the drayman respect fully. "My brain told me that, and I didn't use it." A Lurk)' Clfrini*«»i»nrr. In tlic hauso of commons no Incident is greeted with moro hearty laughter than that of a member who, after an eloquent oration, plumps down on his silk hat on the bench behind him. A young member who had Just made his maiden speech sat upon his nctv .ilk hat. There were roars laughter. An Irish gravely said, "Mr. Speaker, per mlt me to congratulate the honorable gentleman upon the happy circum stance that when he sat on his hat Ids head was not In it I" This remark up set the dignity of tho house, and the speaker called "Order, order," amid roars of laughter. Tlx* l.nrgrit Nrmptptr, The largest newspaper ever publish ed In tills or any other country was the Illuminated Quadruple Constella tion, which was issued iu New York city 011 July 4, 1850. It was a 25,000 edition and was sold at 50 cents per copy. The size of tho page of this sheet was 70 by 100 inches, or almost forty-nine square feet. It was an eight page paper, thirteen columns to the page, or a total of 104 columns, each forty-eiglit inches in length. It was Illustrated with good i>ortraits of Pres ident Buchanan, Edward Everett, Hen ry Ward Beeelier, N. P. Banks, E. 11. Chapin, Horace Greeley, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Alexander von Humboldt, James G. Bennett and sev eral others. The paper contained thir ty-six different poems entire, one of them having as many as sixty-four eight line verses. Among other articles of special note was the celebrated "Moon Hoax," published in 1835. It required the \york of forty persons ten hours per day for eight weeks to "get out" this mammoth paper. Orlftin of "Stationer." According to Pierre de Blois, the ti tle "stationer" was applied to one class of bookseller long before the seven teenth century, though that may have been the period when it came to refer to any seller of liooks. lie distin guishes between the librarii and the stationarii, who had both become so numerous ir. Paris in 1259 that cer tain regulations had to be made for their control. The former were agents for the sale and loan of manuscripts, a large sum of money being deposited when a manuscript was lent, while the latter, allowed to have stations or stalls in the markets, were sellers and cop iers of manuscripts. At tho time he wrote there were twenty-nine brokers and stationers in Paris, not a very dan gerous number, one would think, con sidering that Paris from the twelfth to the fifteenth century v.\y considered the chief seat of learning. London Standard, tVinliril It Wna SulnrJny Mtcht. One of our best known manufactur ers, whose business for years has IR'CII done by traveling salesmen, made up his mind to call personally upon his New York city trade as an excuse to get to New York, a place he had not visited in twenty years. The g irgeous ness of the hotels made a great im pression upon Idm, The best was none too good, as he has plenty of money, and he is not afraid to spend it when away from home, so ho put up at one of the palatial liostelrles and had a suit of . K>uis. When he returned he told his friends of the magnificence of the place, the fine furniture, the beauti ful decorations and the finely appoint ed bathroom. "Why," be said, "the lloor was tiled, the wnila >vere tiled away up to tii« celling, the tub was porcelain, there were plenty of towels, hot and cold running water, nnd—and —by gosh, I only wished it was Satur day nightßoston llerald, The Tlu.el Maker of Delhi. Here Is an artist's pretty description of a tinsel maker In Delhi. India: "The silken thread from a ball under the worker's feet as he squats on the ground runs over the hook and Is at tached to the spindle. One rapid sweep of the latter along the worker's thigh sets it g.iing and both slv'ider, sup tile hands aip Vie", t'i'w for the thread, one for ilu iwl (if tinsel, which In a flash snoots upward to arm's length colled like a snake about the spinning thread. The sunlight and the gold tinsel together Hash up the silken thread, seeming iu set it on fire?." ('onKlilna. "There Is nothitK Ft IrvMubk to a cotf.-h as n cough," Constant coughing* Is precisely |iko scratching a wound on tho outsldo of the body. So long ns It is contlnu - l the wound will not heal. Let a person when tempted to cough draw n long breath and hold It until It warms an I soothes every air cell, and benefit "ill soo:i b.- re"ivc I from tills process. The expla atlon 1 >V,» I* that the nitrogen wUhi, n tlei* it»Ji.i<*d acts aft an to the mticoiw incm hrauo. ullayin.t the tledr - f<» c.unii nnd giving thi> tliroat nnd Inn ,s a chance to heal. Miiffnrn A Scotchman wis uu Amer lean frlt'iui in visit Muirtm falls. Al rv..1 MT. "George, diil you know that I "was going to marry your sister?" "Well. I heard hey say si*, l>ut she's had thnt Idea about w many other fel lows that I didn't, feel sure about It till you lold me." I'lrnnnnt All Aronnd. Mr Facetious (having his portrait pnlntodk- 1 suppose! you want me to '.ook pleasant? Artist Yes, nnd pay In advance. Mr. facetious—What's that for? Artist Oh, so that I can look pleasant too. A man's deportment Is a mirror In which each ouo displays his Image.— Goethe. Hlraylnsr to Other Field*. Poor returns on fruits nnd vegeta hies shipped out of south Texas last season operated to discourage thou sands of Inexperienced growers so that membership In many local truck grow ers' associations has greatly decreased, says Farm and Ranch. These amateur truckers are drawn to tho light shining from that will o'-the wisp, fifteen cent Cotton, and nre willing to throw away the vnlunble experience of last year In an effort to make a "ten strike" on cotton. They have forgotten the boll weevil and other uncertainties that doth hedge tills king nhout. Knfc For n Short Y)l*fntice. A young man who Is blc«-eus t<» pro pitiate'. "I should call It a vera harmless amusement," said Mr. Donaldson dry ly after a comprehensive survey of the young man's fatuous face and gay UtlJjv, "if not carried too fur." f <\ An Angel By MARTHA McCULLOCH-WILLIAMS Copyright, 19UG, by P. Margaret came from the orchard whistling cheerily, a heaped basket of Jewel red apples poised carefully upon her bare brown head. Miss Prudence Heathcote, her aunt aud guardian, frowned at the whistling, hut had to smile a bit when Margaret broke out: "Now, Prudeuce, precious, come nt me with the saying about whistling girls aud crowing bens! . I know you hate my sole musical accomplishment, but this day is enough to set a graven image whistling, even dancing, If it was of anything softer than granite. You ought to Iks out In It. Tho orchard Is a place enchanted. I didn't know until now things so prosaic as apple gatheriug and cider making could set themselves to music." "H-ml" Miss Prudence said. "H-ni! May I ask if Jimmy Blair Is out there, as he promised to be?" "Of course! A gentleman keeps his promises, doesn't he?" Margaret an swered, tossing her head, but flushing in spite of herself. Again Miss Prudence said "H-m!" There appeared to be nothing else to say. Rut after two breaths she got up and moved toward the kitchen, sigh ing out: "And of course he'll be here to dinner. That means cooking things. Men do have such atrocious appetites." "I'm glad they do," Margaret retort ed shamelessly. "I've got one to match anybody. Oh, Aunty Prue, do make a potato pudding: Make it very rich and have lots of thick, sweet, real lemon sauce." "Go 'way, you baggage!" Miss Pru dence said over her shoulder. "Who told you what Jimmy likes best? I'vo the greatest mind to make dried apple pies. Just to see if he would know the difference," smiling at Margaret as Bhe spoke the last sentence. Margaret blushed very red aud be gan to pout. "You mean Jimmy is so gone on me he's not in his right mind," she said. "But you're all wrong. Aunty rrue. I—l don't believe lie—he cares for mo a bit—hardly. Not that way, at least. All this week he's been as kind as could be, but distant—as if he was afraid I wouldn't understand." "Then there's mischief afoot, what sort I've gut to find out," Miss Pru dence said vigorously, her hand on the door knob, "for if ever any lad was clean out of his head, clean idiotic about a chit of a thing, It was Jimmy about you, all last week and all the weeks before it, since you came to stay with me." "Mischief afoot, but where?" she kept meutally repeating to herself as sho whisked about the trim kitchen, hor brows puckered, her eyes Intro spective. On the surface sho could see nothing. Nobody had openly any right or reason bo interfering between the pair. Jimmy was an orphan the same as her IVggy. Moreover, he had never had tho least shadow of an entangle ment. True, various and sundry young women had been setting their caps at Uitr.—pretty caps, modestly set—but he had overlooked them all unless it were—Miss Prue gave a great start There was the root of the trouble; its name, Vidella Bane. Jimmy had rath er made up to her in the weeks Just before Peggy came. Now that she thought of It, he had squired Delia to church two Sundays running, besides buying uiauy things for her at the strawberry supper aud fair. Aud Del la, it was well known, wanted to mar ry and settle herself. Sho had three younger sisters crowding her in the home nest. S'aturaHy aiic would do what she could to hold Jimmy, tho best chance In all Easton town. But how she had dono it Miss Pru dence could not fathom, although she studUnl tho problem almost to tho det riment her dinner. She sat down to It still puzzled. Jimmy greeted hor and the dinner rapturously and talked a great deal of his appetlto aud of many other tblugs, but somehow did not (»ut with his usual rest, although ho made a fair meal. Nolwdy with a palate could help doing that with such things as Miss Prudonce set before him. Jliumy assured Margaret more than once that if such cooking ran In the family her future husband was tho lucklcot fellow alive. "I think so too. That's why it's so provoking not to have him coine along," Margaret said nt last. "Only think, Jimmy, I'm almost twenty-one and have never had n real btisluoss beau! Isn't it shameful when Aunty Prue is going to will me all her pretty dishes and tho Itoathcoto silver? Fancy nn heiress without n sweetheart!" "Such destitution Is painful -so pain ful I hardly believe It exists," Jimmy said, turning away his head, then breaking lucousoqueutly Into talk of something else. Miss Prudence, watching him, saw that his teeth had set before he could speak. Of tho seeing came enlighten ment In part. Sho meant to make It whole before she was older. So as soon us dinner was over she sent Margaret upon an errand and herself drew Jimmy on to tho barn with a pro text of wanting his advice as to tho new hayloft and stalls. Hho was n straight speaking porson, womanly, withal courageous. So as soon as they were ln*lde tho stall space she wheeled upon Jimmy, nsklng plutnply, "What cock nnd bull story has Delia Bane told you?" "Who said sho had told mo any thing ?" Jimmy retorted. "Besides, she didn't need to. My eyes are fairly trustworthy." "Sure of It?" Miss Prudence asked. "If you are, please to tell me what they have told you about my Peggy. I know you think you've got a griev ance no, not exactly a grievance, but a hurt." "It Is a hurt, but I don't blame her for It. I can't she,—she must havo met tho other fellow first," Jimmy said, turning away his head. Mins Trudence stamped her foot. "What other fel low?" she demanded. Jimmy answered miserably: "Tho one I saw her kissing and hug ging Satnnlay out under the chest nut trees. She was all dressed up, In white and low necked, and tlioy were carrying on like mad, cluo I shouldn't have seen them. I 1 started to go tip when I heard her talking, but after 1 caught a word or two sneaked away, like n whipped hound." "No doubt," Miss l'rudence said angrily, "but tell me this—where did you sneak to? Went straight home, I reckon, and after supper over to the Baneses. That right?" Jimmy nodded. "Now tell mo straight what Miss Del la told you and how she came to do It." "1 won't!" Jimmy said stoutly. "I'm no telltale. I'd seen enough, und Delia saw It had luado me mighty miserable. Ail sho did was to set me right—let me know Margaret was"— "Pla/lnfc play a£tlj>g jiUb iiVT No. 16. Miss Prudence broke in. "Did she tell .vou that—tell yon how the girls hare been practicing against the church sociable? Delia was dressed tip In man's clothes and my Peggy playing . sweetheart to her. I know. I war — there, np on the big dead trunk, hold ing the play book and laughing fit to kill. Now, don't you wish you had sneaked the other way?" "You—you don't mean there isn't any other fellow?" Jimmy cried Incredu lously. Miss Trudence sniffed. "Of course I don't mean any such thing. There are twenty other fellows—bound to be with a girl like Margaret—but I don't believe she likes any of them best un less It is the very chuckleliead I'm talk ing to right now." "Miss Prudencel" Jimmy ejaculated, then caught her tight in his arms. He was shaking like a leaf, as near to laughing as to crying. Thus Margaret came upon them and called out roguishly: "Is It to bo real ly Uncle Jimmy? Well, I don't mind 60 long as we have you in the family." "It's to be anything in the world you say," Jiriiray said, darting to her. Then as he caught both her bands and laid them against his. breast he turned a beaming face upon Miss Prudonce, saying: 'Teggy Is sweet enough, pret ty enough, for anything, but when It comes to looking like an angel to a man in trouble, why, she'll never be In It with our Aunty True." The Canae of It. "In a village which Is a suburb of New Bedford," said Mark Twain, "a friend of mine took me to the dedica tion of a town hall and pointed out to me a bronzed, weather beaten old man over ninety years old. 'Do you see any passion In that old man?' said he to me. 'You don't? Well, but I can make him a perfect volcano to you. I'll Jußt men tion to him something very casually.' And he did. Well, that old man sud denly gave vent to an outburst such aB I had never heard in my life before. I listeued to him with that delight with which one listens to an artist. The cause of It was this: When that old man was a young sailor he came back from a three year cruise and found the whole town had taken the pledge. He hadn't, so he was ostracised, finally he made up his mind he couldn't stand ostracism any longer, and he went to tho secretary and said, 'Put my name down for that temperance society of yours.' Next day ho left on another three year cruise. It was torture to him to watch his men drinking and he pledged not to. Finally he got home, lie got a Jug of liquor, ran to tho socie ty and said, 'Take my name right off.' *lt isn't necessary," said the secretary. 'You never were a member; yofl were blackballed.'" Coaoerntng Orange*. An eminent Japanese bacteriologist has shown that the acids of lemons, ap ples and other fruits—citric acid, malic acid—are capable of destroying all kinds of disease germs. Cholera germs are killed In fifteen minutes by lemon Juice or apple Juice, and typhoid fever germs aro killed In half an hour by these acids, even when considerably diluted. If you squeeze a lemon Into a glass of water containing cholera germs and let it stand fifteen of twenty minutes you may drink the water with Impunity, as the germs will be dead. These Juices will kill other disease germs. Instead of telling a man to have his stomach washed out we can now toll him to drink orange Juice, which will cleanse the sto&ach as thoroughly as a stomach tube, provided It be not a case of gastric catarrh. If we havo to deal with gastric catarrh, In which thero Is a large amount of tenacious mucus adhering to the waits of the stomach, n stomach tube to dis lodge It Is required, but in ordinary cases of biliousness, foul tongue, bad breath, sick headache and nervous headache n fruit diet Is a wonderful purifier. Mshtnlntr Conductors. The efficiency of lightning conductors Is fairly well attested by the freedom of tho groat cathedrals and tall-iflied churches from Injury. St. Faul's and Westminster abbey, for example, are well protected and servo to safeguard a large area surrounding them. Experi ence in the navy is to the saino effect. In former days, before conductors were employed, thero was an annual charge for damage to his majesty's ships by lightning. Between 1810 and 1815, ac cording to Sir W. Snow Harris, thirty five sails of tho line and thirty-flve frig ates and smaller vessels were complete ly disabled. That item has now vanlsh cd from the votes.—London Telegraph. Slnginc For Nolkln( • Year. Writing of the trials and tribulations of American singer* who go to Europe to gain recognition, Mildred Aldrlch in the Theater Magazine says: "To most singers who have sought recognition abroad there Is but one drawback to the European career. It Is not love of home that lures them back to the United States. It Is money. It looks fine to put "de l'opera' or 'de I'Opera Coinlque' on one's visiting card, iih I*; the liablt In Europe, but thero Is another side to It. Many a debutante has sung at the Opera Co inlque for nothing, some have paid, and some have had the magulttcent salary of 200 francs a month (Just shy of S4O). One of the most prominent debutantes at the opera saw r>,ooo fraucs paid over for her debut, and one woman who was there two years as a regular mem ber of tho troupe earned 0,000 francs a year a week), aud she was con sidered favored. Cities liko Bordeaux often get debutantes at 300 franca ($00) a month, and In theaters of that sort singers provide their own cos tumes, so It Is small wonder that, hav ing got one's education, one wants to earn money In the United States." lloueatr. Let honesty be as the lireath of thy soul and never forget to have a penny when all thy expenses are enumerated and paid; then shall thou reach the point of happiness, and Independence ■ball be thy shield and buckler, thy helmet and crown; then shall thy sotil walk upright, nor stoop to the silken wretch because he hath riches, nor pocket an nbuso because the hand which offers it wears a ring set with diamonds.—Franklin. Unrrr Juatlce. Prison Visitor—My friend, you ought not to complain. You are here to sat isfy the demands of Justice. Prisoner —Not much I am. For months my creditors kept urging mo to raise mon ey and then when I raised a check they put mo In Jail. I'm blamed If 1 can see bow rou call that Justice. The Original Lobbyist. The lobbyist was a cousplcuous part of tho first government established by Adam und Eve In the garden of Eden, lie was a serpeut.—Washington C. H. Record. Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn at no other and scarce ly at that.—Franklin.