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<l
new uresb uuuuo / hin>, .vw-, 7.<w» fi oo and ti.so.
NEW TRIMMING BRAIDS JUST IN
Buttons lo Order!
UUilvilU iU VlUul ) i nc i a ain)jsilk andmohair.all sizes. 15cdoz.
The Nectest, Nicest, Nattiest Millinery in Butler.
Onr millinery has the call. We don't believe it is alone the price
that brings ns the business, but it is the quality as well. We have com
bined both these essentials in such a way as to captivate the trade.
EISLER-MARDORF COfIPANY,
totrra nan STSETT | 001
' ( Li-1 Samples sent on request.
OPPOSITE HOTEL ARLINGTON. BUTLER. PA !
I SPRING STyb6S
I AND IN
I FOOTWEAR.
■ NOW COMING IN.
■ Shoes for dressy occasions |
I Shoes for the mechanic I
I Shoes for the farmer
I Shoes for everybody |
I Each and every pair in its h
I class the best that money
I will buy.
■ Get your pair at
I HUSELTON'S f
I Opp. Hotel Lowry. 102 N. Main Street.
IgXgXg)®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®©
Patterson Bros. I
(Successors to Brown & Co.). @
Furniture and Carpets. |
We respectfully solicit a share of your ©
patronage. ©
New goods arriving daily, inviting ®
your inspection. @
136 N. Main Street, Butler, Pa. ©
I Duffy's Store 1
■ Not one bit too early to think of that new Carpet, orH
H perhaps you would rather have a pretty Rug —carpetK
I 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-R
■ ler county. Among which will be found the following: H|
■ EXTRA SUPER ALL WOOL INGRAIN CARPETS. B
■ Heavy two and three ply 05c per yd and np H
■ HALF WOOL INGRAIN CARPETS, |J
Best cotton chain 50c per yd and up Hj
■ BODY BRUSSELS.
■ Hluiply no wear out to these f l.:r» yd K
■ TAPESTRY BRUSSELS. M
B Light made, bat very Good 05c per yd up |S
■ STAIR CARPETS
H Body and Tapestry Brussels, Half and All Wool Ingrains. jߧ
■ HARTFORD AXMINSTERS.
H Prettiest made, as dnrable too $1.35 B
■ RAG CARPETS. Genuine old-fashioned weave. : *
B MATTING, Hemp and Straw.
B RUGS-CARPET SIZES. B
B Azminster ltngs. Beauties too each and up B
B Brussels Rqfes. and Body ft 3 each and up H
H Ingrain Druggets, All and Half Wool ? P> 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
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\ Try A Gallon of |
Our old at
'» per Crallor\.
IHUGH L,. CONNELLY S
J ? SLfCCBHSOK TO JOHN LIMEGROVER, JR. J f
I C 107 West Ohio Street, (Opposite Post Office.) <
7 BOTH PHONES ALLEGHENY, PA. Y
THE BUTLER CITIZEN.
j ßickcFs Footwear »|
J Qv A Grand Display of Fine kj
n ' " Footwear in all the Tl
Latest Styles. M
► yjm We are showing many
U _ Jfl styles in Ladies' Fine Shoes FJ
7 and Oxfords at prices sure Ll
r 1 Large stock of Men's and N
' --;|i Boys' Fine Shoes and Ox-
V fords in the latest styles.
i f PPw . __ , f<
I !», j@r Big oargains in Men s m
anc * ®°y s ' wor ' c ' n 8 shoes. r<
W lH' v lll' Repairing promptly done, k
| JOHN BICKELt
W 128 S Main St., BUTLER. PA. J
MEN
Won't bay clothing for the purpose of )'■ , -~i y ! f
spending money. They desire to get the 4 , J-j >\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, Ht<moKrapli<-r.
Ralvag«' Htrurlty Co., ftli Av«? ; Winifred Shaffer, t/«*tt«*r position, sten<ißrapli« r.
Oermanla P..ink Bldg.. Pittsburg.
Young men and wotm n. KKwriTH TALK. Attend a s'iifK;l that IJOFH seeure p..nl-
Uons Jiml iiO<>l» r»ii« for 1 Its vradunteH. F, h' b<H»IH PKOMISK wo I'KBIOItM, l our
times a» many calls a* we can nil (.'one* in and see the letters —we shall b« pleased lo
show them to you. Now i» the time to enter.
SPRING TERM, APRIL 2, 1906.
Miiy unl«-r ANV Mn>«. ('iituloKuc un<l i-lrcnlara mailed on • ppl'.i h./ju w)ir«w>inltin'«
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
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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 <lown or out of order, uu<J
it really seems as If t\|u m»>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 <lll
atorlness. Tlje ludi&aaut tradesman
replied (tan lie youlil not really under
take to serve any one who wftj in
such a fearful hurry."
How to I'm* llrnlna.
A head man in a manufactory was
watching a drayman tuning at 11
heavy case one day. The drayman's
face was red, and the muscles of his
neck were bulging. The overseer, says
n writer In the Baltimore Pun, thought
It was the right moment t>. 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..<ly tiis fenHiJifs as a patriot had been
a little frosted by the per.dsfent blow
ing of his conductor on the greatness
of things American. "Did yatl ever
behold anything so wonderful as that?"
asked tho guldo. "Aye. uisii, at Pce-
VIIIK. i saw a peacock wl" a wudden
leg," was the unexpected reply.
An liiiprolmhle fitory,
Diogenes, lantern In baud, entered
the village drug stor^..
"Say, liftvfc you anything that will
CUto « eoiitr he asked.
"No, sir. I have not," answered the
pill compiler.
"Give 1110 your hand," exclaimed Di
ogenes, dropping his lantern. "I havo
«t last found an honest man."
Comfort! >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«-e<l with n
Scotch kinsman need never fear that
be will be allowed to hold too high nn
opinion of himself.
"What Co you think of my project to*
study law?" asked young Wltherby of
his great-uncle, Hobert Donaldson, a
person vvhuin tie was de a >us 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.