VOL. XXXXIII.
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n perhaps you would rather have a pretty Rug—carpet g|
size. Well, in either case, we can suit you as our Car-Bj
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H EXTRA SUPER ALL WOOL INGRAIN CARPETS,
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9 HALF WOOL INGRAIN CARPETS,
i Best cotton chain 50c per yd and up B
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HTAPESTRY BRUSSELS.
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H STAIR CARPETS,
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M HARTFORD AXMINSTERS,
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« RAG CARPETS, GeDuiue old-fasbioned weav»».
19 MATTING, Straw.
RUGS-CARPET SIZES.
Axminater Ruga. Beauties too each and nji fjy
Brussels Rugs, Tapestry and Body fia each and up fell
Ingrain Drnggets, All and Half Wool $5 each and up
Linoleums. Inlaid and Common, all widths and grades
Oil Cloths, Fioor, Table, Shelf and Stair.
Lace Curtains, Portiers, Window Shades, Curtain Poles; Small Hearth fy
hugs, all styles and sues.
Duffy's Store, j j
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THE BUTLER CITIZEN.
Men's Suits
and
Young- Men's Suits
AT HALF PRICE.
We still have a small scattering of medium and heavy weight
garments which rather than put away in camphor we
are pleased to offer you at prices which will
induce you to buy.
: MEN'S AND YOUNG MEN'S SB.OO SUITS GO AT $4.00
I MEN'S AND YOUNG MEN'S SIO.OO SUITS GO AT SS.UO
j MEN'S AND YOUNG MEN'S $12.00 SUITS GO AT $6.00
j MEN'S AND YOUNG MEN'S *15.00 SUITS GO AT $7.50
MEN'S AND YOUNG MEN'S SIB.OO SUITS GO AT $9.00
SCHAUL& LEVY
137 South Main Street. Butler. Pa.
3 Bickers Footwear 1
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d A Grand Display of Fine
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pi I'M We are showing many
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9A and Oxfords at prices sure j*^
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M jj£ Large stock of Men's and
W m. Boys' Fine Shoes and Ox-
M | * orc * s in ' atest styles - m
C & I bargains in Men's
j Boys' working shoes.
I Repairing promptly done.
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'.28 S Main St., BUTLER, PA.
MEN ~ I :?■ ■
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correct in style and to demand of the yH ! ..y Js\ I s
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have just received a large stock of Spring js
and Summer suitings in the latest styles, ' ~j I
shades and colors. r—' 5
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BUTLER, PA., THURSDAY. .TUNE 14. 190G
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The snow had disappeared from the
valley, hedged upon three sides by
mountains, but far up in the slopes
there were still great white acres of it.
Grigsby worried a great ileal about
those snow patches. At night, when
the camp was still, he lay awake hour
after hour considering the matter.
The New York stockholders who had
sent the young mining engineer out to
explore and test the mine had given
him no information as to how, when
or where to protect his workingmen.
On Tuesday of the previous week a
great wedge of snow and ice had loos
ened from the peak, hail hurtled down
the mountain side, gathering speed and
size as it went, and had killed Jiin
Grady, the foreman, without eveu stop
ping to drop him after the deed was
done.
"The oldest inhabitant" told Grigsby
that such would probably oe the pro
gramme until spring had set in thor
oughly.
So for several nights Grigsby wor
ried. Then on a certain cold, drizzly
morning he called the men from the
mine and set them, one and all, at
work on his Idea. The Idea consisted
of a great "V," with its apex turned up
the valley, anil when completed the en
gine house over the mine was to set
snn.:ly In the angle of a great fence
of logs and bowlders. It took three
days to complete the idea, anil when it
was done Jack Grigsby squared his
handsome shoulders, set his teeth firm
ly on the amlter stem of his pipe and
said: "There, by gum! I'd like to see
a snowslide harm that!"
The oldest inhabitant, who stood by
Jack's side, grinned.
"You've put a lot of work on that
thing.'* he said.
'•Well, it's worth it," replied Jack.
"Huh," answered the old miner, "I
could 'a' told you something that
wouldn't 'a' been any work at all and
would 'a* been just as effective as
that!" f
"A nice time to be telling me that!"
exclaimed Jack. "Well, what is it?"
The old man pulled a dejected look
ing envelope out of his pocket, after a
long search found a stubby pencil and
made a few marks on the envelope
back, then walked over to a tree and
tacked the paper up on the trunk.
Grigsby followed him curiously. On
the envelope was written:
"Avalanches are requested not to
trespass here."
Jack roared. "Well, you're a great
joker."
The old man grinned, but shook his
head. "Just as good as your wedge,"
he answered. "You ain't seen a rear
slide yet. You want to move your
mine, that's what you want to do."
Grigsby looked a little troubled. "The
president of the company and his
daughter are due here this afternoon,
but the weather lias I>epn eo snappy
lately I guess we are safe."
Then to himself as he walked away,
"I'd give the world and all to see
Madge, but"— Theu lie looked at the V
shaped rampart. '"Gee, thai would
stand anything," he said.
The visitors were not expected until
late in the afternoon, but it was only 1
o'clock when the short, fat millionaire
anl his dainty, slender daughter dis
mounted from their horses and left
them at the group of shacks on the
mountain side. Then they descended
into the gulch, where the shaft opened.
"Xow, remember, Madge, no non
sense," the president was puffing.
"These young engineers are all right in
their places. But their places are not
as sons-in-law of mine. Seems to me
you've beeu showing rather a lively in
terest in young Grigsby."
Madge sniffed, but made no reply to
her father's admonitions. They were
an old tale, whose moral did not in the
least interest her. Iler father took the
chaperonage of his pretty daughter
very seriously.
Jack Grigsby ran toward them with
bared head and outstretched hand, but
the president had little time to waste
011 greetings.
"What in thunder is that mountain
of rubbish built around the plant for?"
he demanded.
Jack explained the mission of his
cherished idea, but the president shook
his head.
"Pooh, pooh!" he scoffed, "Fearful
looking mess. Better tear it out. Don't
need that to keej> off a little snow and
ice."
Madge Interposed tactfully. "Oh,
loine on," she cried. "I want to see
everything."
The three walked slowly over toward
the engine house, Jack explaining ea
gerly.
"Where are all the men?" asked
Madge.
"In the mine, even the engineer. We
are having some" —
The oldest inhabitant grasped Jack's
arm.
"For heaven's sake," he gasped, "ring
the bell. It's comin'."
The three followed \\i* g*zo. tar up
the mountain, at trie beginning of the
valley, a roar, and with the roar it
seemed as if the whole side of the
mountain was sliding down into the
valley—a great, gray mass, that gath
ered to itself all that barred its path,
huge trees, cabin-big atones, and al
ways with a roar, increasing in volume
to the din of a thousand trains.
"The men are safest in the mines,"
Jack cried.
He grasped Madge's arm, but the
oldest inhabitant thrust him one side.
"Manage the old man," he said; "I'll
take the girl."
Then with his arm about Madsre he
ran with all his strength up the moun
tain side. Grigsby seized the presi
dent's arm.
"Come"' he cried.
The president started out bravely,
but his weight told, and with the third
step he stumbled and fell. With each
heart throb the speed of tV, >uov,•slide
was lessening their chances. Jack
tugged at the heavy old man. Xow he
could see the bowlders that bridged the
front of the avalanche and now it had
taken the very- tree to which was
pinned the fluttering trespass warning.
With a superhuman effort Jack flung
the president out of harm's way. Then
he sprang himself, scarcely noticing a
heavy blow from a whizzing tree top.
In another moment the avalanche
was a thing of the past, and a great
swathe down the center of the valley
was polished smooth as a macadam
road. With a single glance to see that
Madge was safe, he called to the two
men and ran to the shaft opening, over
which the slide had passed. It was
choked with a mass of logs and ice.
"Find ropes," Grigsby cried—"any
thing! The Lord knows how many
were in the shaft!"
It was an hour of terrible toil, but
somehow the tliivo accomplished the
task. With iiandi. »orn uud bleeding,
panting atjd half craaed .wltti fear for
those below, they toiled unceasingly—
the oldest Inhabitant with the strength
of a man twenty years his junior, his
white hair wet with perspiration; Grigs
by. with pale, drawn face, and the
president, peeled down to vest and
trousers, panting with the best of
them.
Grigsby called down through the
opening, and the answer came back
fai.;t, but cheerfully:
"All safe! What's the rip? Send us
down a rope."
When all were safe the president
climbed to Jack's cabin and sat down
heavily. Jack and Madge followed,
lie looked at Jack closely.
"Great smoke, man, look at your
arm!** he cried.
Jack glanced at the blood stained
sleeve from which the arm dangled
helplessly. "I know It," he answered
cheerfully. "A tree top slapped me as
the slide passed, but I don't care; ev
ery man is safe!"
The president stared at the white,
dirt stained face. "Madge," he said,
"T'd like to have you marry this sort
of man."
"That's what Jack and I hoped," an
swered Madge, smiling even as she
moaned over the wounded arm.
"That's settled, then," said the pres
ident briskly. "Now let's see what I
can do for that arm." And if he no
ticed that the well arm was encircling
Madge's waist he did not mention the
fact.
n>- the Full Bench.
A story which used to be related
years ago had to do with an incident
which happened in Sierra county, Cal.,
the principal actor in which was Judge
Searls of the district court.
The judge was on ills way from
Nevada to Plumas county. At Downle
villo there were two young lawyers
who had agreed to argue a motion
when the judge arrived. Then, as time
was pressing and both lawyers were
also g:iing to Plumas, it was decided to
ride along and carry on the argument
by the way.
Up the mule trail from Downievllle
to Monte Cristo, down to Oak Ranch
and so on to Eureka the argument pro
ceeded. At Eureka the case was exam
ined with the aid of refreshments, and
in duo time a decision was reached.
The loser consoled himself with the
thought that he had ascended the
mouutaiu without being conscious of
the grade.
"Possibly the mule felt it as usual,"
suggested the judge.
"I think from the result that he, too,
was absorbed in helping to make up
the opinion," said the lawyer.
The Juiianeae Way.
It is said that the Japanese are an
Ingenious race, but it appears to the
occidental mind that there are limits
to this boasted ingenuity. An ento
mologist in a New York college tells
the Reader Magazine of a case where a
trusted Japanese assistant failed him
in a moment where singular ingenuity
was required. The scientist had a tray
of carefully arranged ?.nd minute speci
mens and was carrying it from one
table to another, when he stumbled on
a protruding chair leg and partly fell,
scattering the specimens over the floor.
Many hours of work were in a second
<juite undone. Some serviceable and
hard worked expletive must have leap
ed to his lips and then proved Inade
quate to the occasion, for, after a preg
nant moment of silence, he turned to
the Japanese and said:
"Tell me, quick, what would you say
In Japanese if such a thing happened
to you? Give me the translation in
stantly."
"All," said the Japanese scientist,
with calm gravity, "we would ad
dress the chair and say, 'You are very
impolite.'"
Handle Work With Gloves.
"I hope," said the woman who was
ordering a pair of slippers made of
flowered satin, "that you will tell your
workman to wash his hands before he
begins to make these up."
"Wash his hands!" repeated the
clerk. "Why, madam, he never will
touch these with his bare hands."
Then the clerk explained that all work
men employed iu making slippers of
light colors worked with white gloves
on. "Try to keep them clean!" he con
tinued. "I should say they did. They
try so hard that they change their
white gloves three times a day."
Which is not so fantastic as it may
seem, for if a shoemaker soils material
of this kind the expense to him of re
placing tho material, to say nothing of
the loss of his time, makes it worth
his while to work in gloves and keep
them clean at that.—New York Press
Earring*.
Earrings have always been among
the most favorite ornaments of nearly
all the nations of the world, certainly
with those which are called civilized.
Indeed among the Persians. Babyloni
ans and Carthaginians tliey were worn
by men as well as women. They were
always worn by Greek women from
Hera in the "Iliad" down to the Venus
do Medici, whose ears were pierced for
the reception of earrings. Pliny tells
us that there was no part of dress upon
which greater expense was lavished
among the Romans, Many Egyptian
earrings of very beautiful design have
b.t-ii preserved, and these antique de
signs have been imitated in modern
times.
Match War Erected a Fountain.
Probably tho price of no other article
in common use has undergone such a
revolution as the match. The first fric
tion matches in IS3o—the "Congreves"
—were iJaeed on the Loudon market
in tin boxes of fifties at half a crown
a box. with a piece of glass paper for
•striking purposes thrown in. Messrs.
Bryant and May took a leading part in
defeating Mr. Lowe's proposed tax on
lucifers, as they were then called, and
iu recognition of their services a pub
lic drinking fountain was erected at
Bow.—London Mail.
Xot Well Enough For Hospital.
House physicians, when they will to
empty a bed of a chronic case, will wel
come the new and original excuse con
tained m the following letter: "Dear
Sister—When next the doctor attends
mother, will you please aslt him to dis
miss mother, as she does not feel well,
and oblige, yours truly, —London
Hospital Gazette.
NeceMaity.
•Terkins has separated from his wife
and gone to live in bachelor apart
ments."
"What did he do that for?"
"He said he couldn't live without
some of the comforts of home."- Life.
PoliteueM*.
Politeness is a kind of anaesthetic
which envelops the asperities of our
character, so that other people be no*
wounded by them. We should never tie
without it, even when we contend with
the rude.—Joubert.
AlmoMt t.
M. D.—This Is queer. Have you iakea
anything that disagreed with you? The
Patient—Nothing but your advice of
yesterday.
TELESCOPES.
The Hetwcm ncflfcllnir
and Refracting Kindt.
A very pretty little experiment which
i illustrates the two methods of forming
an optical image and by way of cor
ollary illustrates the essential differ
ence between refracting and reflecting
telescopes may be performed by any
one who possesses a reading glass and
a magnifying hand mirror. In a room
j that is not too brightly illuminated pin
! a sheet of white paper on the wall op
posite to a window that by preference
should face the north or away from the
posiilon of the sun. Taking first the
reading glass, hold it between the win
dow and the wall parallel to the sheet
of paper and a foot or more distant
from the latter. By moving it to and
fro a little you will be able to find a
distance corresponding to the focal
length of the lens, at which a picture
of the window is formed on the paper.
This picture, or image, will be upside
down because the rays of light cross
at the focus. By moving the glass a
little closer to the wall you will ean.se
the picture of the window to become
indistiuct, while a beautiful image of
the houses, trees or other o'>jects of the
outdoor world beyond will be formed
upon the paper. We thus learn that the
distance of the image from the lens va
ries with the distance of the object
whose image is formed. In precisely a
similar manner an image is formed at
the focus of the object glass of a re
fracting telescope.
Take next your magnifying or con
cave mirror, and, detaching the sheet
of paper from the wall, hold it nearly
in front of the mirror between the lat
ter and the window. When you have
adjusted the distance to the focal
length of the mirror, you will see an
image of the window projected on the
paper. By varying the distance as be
fore you will be able to produce at will
pictures of nearer or more remote ob
jects. It is In this way that images are
formed at the focus of the mirror of a
reflecting telescope.
AN ECHO.
How to Mrntnrr the Distance From
Whlcli It la Reflected.
There is scarcely anything in nature
that exerts the fascination over every
one alike than does an echo, and com
mon as It may become there is always
u feeling of mystery about It that holds
us as with a charm. Of course we all
know that it is merely the reflection
of a sound from some object, as the
side of a house or a rock or a hill, but
often we cannot tell how far away the
object is that causes It. Here is a way
to tell every time:
Holding a watch in your hand, shout
a single syllable, as "Ho!" or "Ha!"
and count the number of seconds from
the time you shout till the sound comes
back to you. Now, sound travels at
the rate of 1,125 feet a second, so the
numlKjr of seconds that elapse multi
plied by 1,125 will give the distance in
feet traveled by the voice in going to
the object and back to you again, and
one-half of that number will be the
number of feet away tlia.t abiect is.
Of course the object may be only a
few hundred feet away, in which case
the sound will come back in less than
a second, but you may determine the
distance, nevertheless, by calling a
single syllable—"Ha!"—and calling it
again as you hear the echo, not before
or after it. but just with it.
With a little practice you can do this.
Repeat the call ten or twelve times,
counting the seconds between the lirst
call and the last echo. Suppose, for
example, that the time is seven sec
onds and that you called the syllable
ten times. Then each echo took seven
tenths of a second, and the distance,
found in the same way as before, is
about 31)4 feet.—Exchange.
WATCHING THE BUILDERS.
Fire Insurance Folks Keep tin Eye
on Construction Methods.
A builder sjieakiug of the watchful
ness of tire insurance companies in
New York city in the erection of build
ings in that city says:
"Insurance companies in placing poli
cies upon so called fireproof buildings
do not accept the word of the builders
and contractors, nor rest content with
the evidence submitted by the city
building department. Their own ex
perts make an examination, Such an
'•xamlnation Is made not at Ihe behest
of politicians or in the interest of a
group of men, but by technical experts
whose reports must be exact, detailed
and exhaustive in the interests of
shrewd business men. The insurance
underwriters have their own corps of
expert engineers and fireproof agents
in the field nil of the time. When a
largo building is in course of con
struction in New York these experts of
the underwriters watch every stage of
the development. They have no power
to stop work on the building as city
building inspectors have when the
building laws are not complied with,
but they possess another sort of check
which is fully as effectual. The build
ers, contractors or owners, or all three,
are notified that further insurance poli
cies will not lie made on the building
until certain remedies are made."—
Pittsburg I'ress.
(.host or IlliiMionf
A minister of the gospel, according
to this tale, was walking to and fro in
a long passage that ran through the
house and meditating upon his next
sermon. There brushed by him a
housemaid. He watched her pass and
enter his study. Fearing that she
would disarrange his papers, he hurried
after her, went into his study—and no
one was there. No means of egress
wf.s possible but by the one door
through which he had seen the girl en
ter. Ho rang the bell and—the house
maid came down from the top of the
house, where she had been performing
her duties. And the unusual part of
the story is that nothing happened—
no one sickened and died. The young
woman married happily. And yet that
minister of the gospel is sure that he
saw that housemaid pass him. Nor to
this day does his stout and happy ma
tron know that she was ever in two
places at once.
A tipent Stamp Forgery.
The most colossal stamp forgery on
record entailed the successful swin
dling of collectors throughout Europe
in 1885). One day the French papers
announced that King Marie I. of Se
dang, an island in the vicinity of Chi
na, was coming to Paris. As it hap
pened, this self created monarch was
au ex-oflieer of the French navy, out}
his appearance iu Paris cvouied con
siderable seusatiou, As soon as his
majesty had been duly "advertised"
sets of seven different postage stamps
marked "Sedang" and bearing three
half moons appeared, and so great was
the demand for them that iu less than
a month they realized 1,000 francs
each. Not until the king and Ills min
isters had reaped fat fortunes in this
manner was it discovered that the
whole thing was a hoax and the stamps
consequently worthless.
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jCHUMS
By FANNIE HEASLIP LEA
| Copyright, 180®, bj Homer Spragne
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j "The only feeling that ever lasts be
tween .1 man and a woman is friend
ship. Make your friend your lover, yon
lose him when the flirtation has reach
ed Its climax, and the artistic ending
is a final separation. Make your friend
your husband, you are bound to him by
a rope of fading illusions and inevita
ble discord—when 'Life has changed to
doggerel, what love began, a tender
rhyme.' Keep your friend your friend
—no more, no less—he is yours for
ever."
i Thus said Donald Randolph, twenty-
I four and didactic, to Helen Ward, nine
! teen and afflicted with -world sorrow of
| her years.
| (In these tenets was their friendship
j established, and though in treacherous
j moments, months apart, it sometimes
occurred to Helen to wonder how Don
ald's voice, unusually rhythmic of ca
dence, might sound in pronouncing
words intentionally emotional, she al
ways dismissed the thought as maud
lin.
They had been friends—"chums,"
they called it in their wnrmer moments
—for four years, when Lilia Gardner's
wedding, with its demands for best
man and maid of honor service, con
fronted them.
"If only Lilia had asked some other
girl or Martin had asked some other
man." said Helen uncomfortably, "I
shouldn't in the least mind being maid
of honor to Lance Folsom's best man,
or Torn or even Dan Harris—but -with
you it's different. One has to flirt .with
the best man. It's part of the ceremo
ny." She glanced across the moonlit
space between them. "We're friends,
and I won't flirt with you."
"Of course not," said Randolph with
unnecessary firmness. "Are you going
up tomorrow?"
"Evening train," she responded
briefly.
"No need for me to wait over, is
there?" he inquired. "I thought of go
ing in the morning."
"How absurd," protested Helen.
"Why should you wait? I'd much
rather you didn't. It would look s<*
significant."
' "Very well, see you tomorrow then,"
he said, and left her with a handshake,
cool and friendly.
She did not see him till 8 o'clock the
next night, when, after a late train
and a later dinner, she descended to
the library in search of the other mem
bers of the bridal party. In a nook by
an open window she found LiMa and
Martin absorbed in certain arrange
ments for their departure the next day.
With them was Randolph, and Helen
fell at once into the discussion of evad
ing the rice and old shoes by means of
the side door and a hired vehicle.
Once the question was settled, how
ever, the conversation languished, and
at the interception of a third telepathic
communication between the lovers
Helen sprang up in desperation.
"It's too waru. In here," she com
plained. "Let's go find the others,
Jjonald."
"They went out there somewhere,"
Lilia suggested cordially.
"I dare say we can find them," said
Helen wftli a smile.
She stepped through the window on to
the wide porch and Randolph followed
yrithout delay.
"Xow this is what I object to," she
broke out, turning when they were out
of hearing of the two inside, "one
doesn't want an enforced tete-a-tete.
Do you know where the others are?"
"Dancing in the schoolroom," said
Randolph, without Interest.
"Dancing," cried Helen. "That settles
it. I simply cannot dance tonight. I'm
tired to death. It's a good thing jve're
chums and don't have to talk, Isn't it?
I know; I'm not at all interesting to
night." She sat down in a hammock
ewung behind her and motioned to a
big wicker chair. "Smoke if you like
and don't bother to talk unless you
■jvant to.'^
Randolph produced a stubby pipe
from his coat pocket. When he had
puffed a few moments in silence he
crossed his legs and clasped his hands
behind his head.
-"You make a man adorably comfort
able, Helen," he said slowly, then add
ed more decisively: "You're the finest
kind of a chum."
"Always a chum—always," she an
esverod, .with a queer difference of in
tonation in the repetition that Ran- <
flolph interpreted as a warning.
' "Martin got his passes today for the
Frisco trip," he said hastily, in a busi
' hesslike tone.
♦'Did he? Then they go direct?""
"Not quite. Lilia wants to see Salt
Lake City, and Martin knows a fellow
.who has a ranch in Colorado. They're
going there for a week or ten days.
Jove, that's a trip!"
♦•lsn't it? But I think the coming
back will be almost as good. Have you
seen the house? in town, you know,
on Boliver street, I went over it this
week with Lilia. It's almost perfect.
Jsot too large, and yet large enough.
A dear little reception hall-dining room
in Flemish oak and tapestry paper;
drawing room in dull light green. But
the library! I think I could improve on
the library." 6he clasped both hands
ebout one knee and stopped swinging.
"What's it Uke?*' asked Randolph,
with interest.
"Very good papering," said Helen
earnestly, "dark red and stained floor,
svltb Gomo. xery good rugs. But the
bookcases!' 4
"Separate, I suppose V
"Yes, and they ought to be low, along
.'ho grails, all around in one stvood, In*
etead of vrhJch he has one mahogany,
one cherry. You can imagine the dis
jointed effect. Then, Instead of a big
leather chair at the fireplace, there is a
rocker.'' She broke off with a little
sigh. "I can imagine how that library
would look on a winter evening, with
a wood tire and the light coming
through those leaded window panes and
the chair piled with cushions and the
hooks one likes best to read"—
"Lilla has red hair," said Randolph
thoughtfully, "and she wears pink
gowns. She'd jar on the color scheme."
"Ob, you arc nice," sighed
Helen mirthfully. "You see what one
thinks so well, and that's my idea of
a friend," she concluded, with sudden
fervor,
' A library like that would fit a wom
an with dark hair," said Randolph, his
eyei on the dusky head beside him—
"a woman who woro a pale yellow
gown and had shadows in her eyes.
She would be slttiug there in the big
cbatr with a book when a fellow came
home In the evening, and she wouldn't
talk to him if he was tired, and she'd
let him smoke, and she'd play for
him"—
"Would they have a piano in the li
brary objected Ilelen nervously.
"A violin," said Randolph "Shfc'd
No. 24,
j play Chopin for him, as you play it,
s.nd Schumann"—
j "Dear me," interrupted Helen light
: ly. "you're infected by the sentimental
I environments. Isn't it lucky we're
chums, so that I understand your mood
and don't repay it In kind?"
She walked to the railing and stood
looking out across the shadowy lawn.
"What cliunis we've been, haven't
we?" There was a pathetic note in her
voice. "We've never spoiled it by flirt
ing. Do you remember what you used
to say—'Make your friend your lover
and you lose him?' We'll never do
that. 'Ke"p your friend your friend
he is yours forever.' It's true, quite
true, isn't it?"
Helen groped desperately for the
easy, commonplace tone he had taught
her lest in losing it she lase him too.
"I think we've proved your theory,
you and I—fr'o'-dslilp is the only thing
that lasts between a man and woman.
Ours has lasted, will last"—
"Will not last," said Randolph miser
ably. "After this"—he drew her to Q
him and kissed her—"l suppose I've
lost you for Rood and all now," he said
desperately, "but I love you. I couldn't
pretend any longer. I've got to care
more than a chum or not at all."
Helen leaned limply against his
shoulder in the peace that follows a
great strain.
"I thought you wanted to be friends,"
she said, with a pathetic little laugh,
"sa I pretended too. And now we've
spoiled your theory, for It seems that
friendship doesn't last either."
"Xo, thank the Lord," said Randolpb
fervently, "not for us."
Too Lasy to Live.
Tim Wooden was literally "too lazy
to live," as the anecdotes of him told
in an old "History of Milwaukee" go
to prove. It may be that the doctors
of today would pronounce him a victim
of the insidious germ which works to
uncontrollable languor, but the diag
nosis of the good old times of Tim's
career reads simply, "plumb laziness."
A party of Indians, kuowing Tim's
peculiarities, once captured him for
fun and made him believe that they
were going to burn him at the stake.
They took him to some distance from
the village, tied him to a tree and
heaped wood about him. Just as the
pile was ready to light the chief ap
proached and whispered In Tim's ear
that if he would never tell who had
Captured him he would release him and
let him return to Milwaukee.
"What, walk twenty miles!" ex
claimed Tim. "If you'll lend me a
horse I'll agree to it."
One time when Tim was lumbering
a loose log made a perilous descent
down the side of the hill. The Bhoutß
of the other men warned him that the
danger was coming his way, but rather
, than expend vital force In jumping he
let the log strike him and break bis leg.
l'ulled the Coart'a Lev.
The following remarkable judgment
was delivered some years ago by a
magistrate in one of the English colo
nies:
"I'achua is hereby charged with hav
ing on the 11th of January followed
the court on its rising and while said
court was in the act of mounting into
its buggy «ttii)« Iwhind and, site-
ing the court s dangling leg, the other
foot being on the step, forcibly pulled
back the court, frightened the norse
and nearly caused an accident. The
reason alleged for this by accused Is
that he wanted to hear the result of an
application of his. The practice by pe
titioners of pulling the courts by the
legs is one that should be discouraged.
Accused only says he is a poor man,
rdmittiug the truth of the complaint.
He is sentenced to one month's rigor
ous imprisonment."
Strange to relate, the lieutenant gov
ernor of the province on reading this
sentence felt it necessary to intimate
to the magistrate that neither the sen
tence itself nor the peculiar phraseolo*
py in which it was couched was calcu
lated to meet with approval from minds
running in legal grooves.
A Cob.
Infant lions and bears are now gen
erally spoken of as "cubs," but In for
mer times the word "whelps" would
have been used. Every edition of the
English Bible from Wyclifß time t<J
ICII gives "whelp" for the young of
the lion or bear. A "cub" meant orig
inally in English only a young for. But
by Shakespeare's time It was possible
to talk of the "young suckling cubs"
of a she bear, and Waller even applied
"cub" to a young whale, now known
as a "calf." The origin of "cub" Is not
really known, though the conjectore
connecting It with the old Irish "cnlb,"
a dog, would make it akin to the Latin
*'canls" and English "hound."
Dandles of Piju,
Even the natives of Papua have their
line gentlemen, their dandies, To rank
in this class the young man is com
pelled to lace his waist and to have a
nose ornament of polished shelL But,
as an explorer says, "very few young
blades can afford to possess one, and
accordingly it may be lent either for a
consideration or as a very special fa
vor. The possessor of one Of these or
naments could easily buy a wife for it,
nnd sometimes It is paid as a tribal
tribute by one should he have to pay
blood money or be unable to give the
statutory pig as atonement for a mur
der." Papuan husbands, too, have a
primitive way of dealing with their re
calcitrant wives. A man named Gedon
had a shrewish helpmate whom he at
tempted to tame according to this
method: "He would pick up a billet of
wood when she was halfway through a
tremendous scolding and give her a
terrific blow over the back. Thereupon
ensued pandemonium. The other men
and women would gather round, Jab
bering, but they would make no at
tempt to stop the beating once it bad
begun."
The Faahlonable Dinner.
Eight men exclusive of the butler are
required to serve a dinner of twenty
' four covers, one being allowed for ev
ery three diners. Another Is stationed
in the pantry to "run in" the courses.
Absolute order and silence reign
among these men, who perfectly under
stand the butler's cabalistic signs.
Electric signals pass constantly be
tween chef and butler. Prom the seat
lug of guests until the ladies leave not
more than eighty-five minutes should
elapse, for long dinners are considered
bad form. Upon these occasions
scarcely a member of the domestic
corps escapes some special duty. The
housemaids assist the pantry maid.
After each course twenty-four silver
plates and countless small silver must
be carefully cleansed, wiped very dry
and then polished with chamois before
being put away. Nearly 200 pieces of
engraved crystal ware must be washed
nnd polished, and it is too costly and
brittle to be hastily handled.—Every
body's Magazine.
Those are wise who through error
pass on to truth; those are fools who
lioid fast to error.—Ruckert.
Disgrace Is immortal and living even
when one thinks it dead.—Plautus.