VOL. XXXXIIi. j THE MODERN STORE- ' j ! Goodbye to Hot Weather Goods. SDeep Price-cuts on Summer Fabrics. Just the time to wear them, p Lot of white ami colored organdies, Swisses, etc., former prices 2-V. yd, B now 121 c yd I Another lot 15c batistes and lawns now Sc yd. L Lot of ladies and tmsses' cloth skirts were $3.00 to $!■•), now sl. J->. gj All ladies'colored parasols at price. White linen parasols at ofi. ■ All white and colored shut waists and washable skirts at J oft Big bargains in ladies' lawn and silk shirt waists. a Lot of 50c belts reduced to 19c each. Lot of ladies' 25c lace host reduced to 18c pair. Ladies' snmmer vesta reduced to sc, 10c, 15c and 18c. Lot of men's 25c summer nnderweir reduced to 15c each. Plenty of remnants of all kinds at a fraction of for.uer prices, new ones H put ont daily. __ I f-, 00 embroidery and lace trimmed rob-»s ready to be made up now ?-. ••». ■ All sammer goods must bo closed out this month. Many bargains here now. R EISLEH-MARDORF COMPANY, I SOUTH MAI* STREET ) Afll BIT . VC . B ELL L. D. " // f =IC^ S I"■ Samples sent on request. | OPrOSITi. IIOTLL \ KI Ni ; ; ijN BUTLER^jA^i^^Jp f HUSELTON'S I I Great Cut Price Sale I S Of all Odd Lots iu Summer I Shoes and Oxfords. I I WILL OPEN I ■ Saturday at 9a. m.. July 14th. I I There will be great bargains to be had * : B all through this immense stock Don't fail b 1 to get some of these great bargains. |l M Remember the date. July 14th. p I B. C. Huselton, I K Opp. Hotel Lowry. 102 N. Main Street. __„ , . ' B^ TLEK RESULTS TALK. Wnoro some of our recent graduates are located: Sara lleatty, stenngrapher, Bessemer R. It. Co., Jltitler. K«l>ert Seaton, stenographer, American Bridge Co., Pittsburg. Jean Weiifel, stenographer, Butler F.agle, 3utler. May Thompson, stenographer. The Lloyd Co.. Butler. W. I*. Starr, clerk, Standard Steel Car Co.. Kutler. Charles McCWmonda, with the B. 4: O. K. It Co.. Butler. Marion Nicholas, stcnograbher, Standard Steel Car Co., Butler. liUtitia Bine, Stenographer, The Hosteller Co.. Pittsburg. M. li. McMillen, Registry Clerk, l'lttsburg Postoftice. Pittsburg. Pressley Mowrey, with Pittsburg News Co., Pittsburg. Juliet Wheeler, stenographer and bookkeeper, \V. 11. Dauglierty Son, Pelrolla. Ph.. Arthur Oesterllng. %?ith the Westlnghouse Electrical Mfg. Co.. Pittsburg. Bertha Coulter, stenographer. Pittsburg firm. Oliver Cashdollar. cashier and asst.. mannger, New Vork Lease «t Trust. Co., Pittsburg. KUcalieth Dlcbold. stenographer. Tic Brailstreet Co., Pittsburg. ' Winifred Shatter, stenographer, A. W. McClojr .S: Co.. Pittsburg, l'loreni-e NorTls, stenographer. Kemble Mills, Attys., Pittsburg. Bella ('ritclilow. publli- steuogranher. Bessemer Bldg.. Pittsburg. Harry K. Painter, Iwwkkeeper, Monks .'t Co.. Allegheny, Pa Bill tan l-orcht. stenographer, llapgoods. Park Bldg.. Pittsburg. VHletta'Xlggi'i, stenographer. Rodger. Flanagan Co., Pittsburg. Ethel (jreenn.ult, stenographer, Westlnghouse Electrical Mfg. Co.. Pittsburg. Margaret Graham, stenographer. Pittsburg Gage tc Supply Co.. Pittsburg Jerry Eberhart, with the Penna. R. R Co., Butler, Oliver Mi-Grady, Penna. R R. Co., But!, r. Ralph Miller, Penna, R. It. Ct>.. Butler. Lev Schenck, with the T. W. Phillips c per yd up JB B STAIR CARPETS R Body and Tapestry Brussels, Half and All Wool Ingrains. ■ HARTFORD AXMINSTERS, Bj Prettiest Carpet made, as durable too $1.35 B ■ RAG CARPETS, Genuine old-fashioned weave. pi' B MATTING, Hemp and Straw. B RUGS-CARPET SIZES. B B Axininstcr Rugs, Beauties too $22 each and up^B ■ Brussels Rugs. Tapestry and Body sl2 each and upß ■ Ingrain Druggets, All and Half Wool each and npK H Linolenms, Inlaid and Common, all widths and grades. !>k! „B Cloth*, L'loor, Tabie, Shelf and Stair. |S Lace Curtfiius, Portiers, Window Shades, Curtain Poles; Small Hearth B |*y lings, all styles and sizes. I Duffy's Store. 1 ■ MAIN STREET, BUTLER. |l - - THE BUTLER CITIZEN. (oXg)®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®® A WORD ABOUT PRICES. g /q-, n t < anse onr stock is full and complete-rich in furniture ot l>eaut.y/g\ excellence—yon mnst not think our prices inn9t be high, on the con-at © CAKI'KTS. Tables aiul Chairs. © (q) AM. GliAHI>. Mining room table, finely finished. (O) it hard wood, from ~' -o up /S fO) AXMIXSTVI:. Dining room chatis. alt kiii'l>. \Of X TAPESTBV BRI'SSELS. from the solid Mat. Imx scat. t<> [OJ CKOWX HUt -SELS. the leal her seat. SK/ jgf and INGBA.NS. Prices froin per set up. ® Ij[(;S Sideboards, liutlets and @ ofi <-hi,,a ClMet* W (oi si/* to the r«' m sizf s»z*' |QJ \cT of r«K>nj sized rugs any style, any finish you m:ty oe- X /g\ Prl SM '-P- yOJ I Patterson Bros, i @ FURNITURE OF QUALITY, ©Successors to "IOC Rl Mo in Cor. Main andg @l3ro\vn & Co. lOU malM Mifflin St.W DON T FAIL TO ATTEND The 30 Day Clearance Sale of Clothing, Underwear, Shirts, Hats, Trunks, etc., Which is now Going on at Schaul Sc Levy, 137 South Main St., Butler Prices have never been so low as they are at this General Clearance Sale of all goods in the store. BE SURE YOU COME, Don't Miss it. It Will Pay You. SCHAUL& LEVY 137 Sonth Main Street, Bntler. Pa. | Our Dollar Saving Sale Is On.j \ Men's. Boys' and Children's Suits will he Sold at the ) \ Following Discounts. I j Moil's suits, all styles and colors, (no old ,er cent., ' and i off S ? regular price. £ / Kncr pant suits, all sizes at 1. ', -• off regular price. ( \ Now is your chance, come early and profit bv thisC Vgreat reduction sale. I ) SEE WINDOW'. \ | Douthett & Graham. I INCORPORATED. i Bickcl's Footwear 1 4 , ►' A A Grand Display of Fine k Footwear in all the fi jr| an d Oxfo>'ds at prices sure ¥ & Large stock ©f Men's and Mi «■ JPrilt /II Eoys' Fine Shoes and Ox- Fj F| fords in the latest styles. e bargains In Men's r ®°y s working shoes. Ml K Repairing promptly done, | JOHN BICKEL[j T4 128 S Main St., BUTLER, PA. W /WEN Wpn't bay clothing for the pnrpose of spending money. They desire to get the be.it possible results of the money t.vpendu'j. Those who bay c,nt>tom clothing have a right to deu.and a ht, to have their clothes corrout in style and to demand of the seller to guarantee everything. Come to us and there will be njthim; lacking. 1 have just received a large stock of Spring and Summer suitings in the latest styles, shades and colors. G. F. KECK, /VIERCHANT TAIfeOR, 142 W. Alain St., Qutl?r,Pd BUTLER, PA., THURSDAY. AUGUST D. 190b " ■ i Man or »• * Martha : j! Mouse? sr-| L Copyright, 1906, by P. C. Eastmcnt ! The water, laughing and lapping, In vited. The day was giddy May, and the invited young Lorena, moreover, owned all the folly normal to nineteen. So altogether it would have been a mir acle if things had gone exactly as they should. A proper young woman of course would have reckoned chances before baring her feet and dancing Joyously iu midstream, where the peb bles lay smoothly bedded in flue sand and gleaming jewel-wise wherever a suu ray struck through the ripples. Lorena did not let herself remember that the ford was but flfty yards higher up or that this special shallow reaA of the creek lay between the two lakes that gave the liuest fishing. They were not true lakes, of course—only water mirrors, still and deep, impounded by dams of the winter flood's building. Lorena did not love them. They were" so placid they reminded her somehow of Johnny—and whatever did that put her out of temper. She loved glitter, motion, excitement. It was ecstasy to her to dance all day long and half the night after, footing it as lightly, ns featly, as wind blown thistle seed. If only she could dance alone! But since that was out of thu question she naturally preferred part ners who kept step ami were nimble. Johnny was neither, yet all the time she had been engaged to him he had felt it his right to say, if she did not dance with him, she must dance with hardly anybxly else. And not at all with Granville (Jore, the very prluce of partners, who was handsome and slender and light heart ed. with money In both pockets and a trick of spending it with both hands. Johnny hated him, without reason so far as Lorena could see—at least he gave her 110 reason—only said, "If you are goln' ever to belong to me, I.olle, you must be barely civil to that fel low." Somehow the emphasis on the last word always made Lorena shiver when she recalled it. How could she help it, when Johnny was toward other folk the soul of kindly Justice? Still she had felt that he was unfair. If he really knew anything he might let her know It likewise. If Johnny could have brought himself to tell her the break might not have come. But he was too proud and mas terful for that. Ilis wife must believe 111 him enough to understand that he had reasons for any and everything. Besides he was afraid of seeming en vious and Jealous of a man so much richer and better looking. Moreover, he did not really know much that could be told categorically—it was Gore's general air and manner, con joined to words dropped here and there, that made Johnny certain lie had no real reverence for auything feminine. A girl, any girl, was fair game to him. If she hadn't sense enough to look 9ut for herself lie was not bound to look out for her. Yet Gore was not distinct ly vicious rather. Inordinately vain, lie did not mean worse by womankind and girlkind than to make iovo to them, then ride away. Marry! Not he! Not the finest girl alive! if Lorena had known that! Un knowing it, she had thought a great many times and a great many things of the fascinating Granville in the three months since the break. He had been away for two of them, and since he came home she had seoii him only in crowds. But life had used his eyes so eloquently as to set her heart wildly fluttering. But, oddly enough, It had fluttered even more whon by chance she had encountered Johnny, In his working clothe.-, driving his wagon to mill. They hail barely nodded to each oth er, and slic hnd ridden fast afterward, but not fast enough to get away from a sense that Johnny, old Johnny, al though his face was irnimaatve, had turned to look after !»\r an long as she was in sight Today she was not thinking of him— hardly even of Granville. Wading was such pure Joy. The water came above her ankles. She lifted her skirts light ly in both hands and balanced to her shadow upon the rippling stream. Such a funny shadow—dancing grotesquely even when she stood still. ltapt in contemplation of It, she did not hear footsteps or anything until a throaty, chuckling voice cried: "Oh, ho! A mermaid! Gore, If the variety is indigenous, understand, I shall settle in your neighborhood Just as soon as I can buy a place." Lorena flushed scarlet. Sho let fall her skirts heedless of water—heedless, Indeed, of anything but escape. There were men or\ either bank, also one in wading approaching her midstream. Gore was the farthest of them—a (Jore she had never seen, lie looked her over as though she were a part, a curi ous part, of the landscape with which he had no sort of acquaintance. It was the man in wading who had spoken. Ho was striding 011 toward her, his rod over his shoulder, a broad grin upon his flat, rod face. Her sun bonnet, her faded print frock, above all her present case, had nearly made tim believe her some hoidenish milk maid rather than mermaid. "Didn't I tell you fellows the finest fish were here In the shallows?" he bel lowed at the- men on the bank. "Never yet made such a catch," he added, making to fling an arm about Lorena's waist. She evaded him, springing to ono side and trying to gain the hank, but the sportsmen there set up a laughing sliest which warned her not to trust them. Desperately she tied upstream, cutting her feet on sharp stones, but never faltering. It was not easy to tun uguinxt the current—the rock bot tom was slippery in places uud her wet skirt hampered her terribly. Still she kept out of reach until she was twenty yards oft the ford. The flat faced man, laughing and panting after her, caught her there and said as he gave her a resounding kiss: " 'l'on my soul, Undine, it was worth it. X haven't hat| such a lark since 1 was a boy," Lorena broke from him, crying wild ly : "Granville! Mr. Gore! Kill this creature!" At that the men laughed louder than ever. Granville had discreetly disap peared. He was sorry for Lorena; also angry with her, even angrier than with his friend of the flat, red face. There were millions back of the flat, red face millions that might mean much to Gore's future. Was he to risk their help, to Invite everlasting chaff, to make himself the butt of the grill rooms next time he was in town, by championship of a girl, a silly country girl, who should have known better than to put herself In such case? Mullen, lie of the flat, red face, was not a bad sort, only full of uncouth spirits. Lorena would come to no harm. And if she had sense enough 'o keep her mouth shut he (Gore would see to it that she was handsomely made up to for her present fright. Hut of course he could not acknowledge her as an acquaintance when she looked such a guy and had let herself get caught in such a plight. Lorena. noting his absence, stumbled blindly toward the bank and half fell upon it, covering her eyes with both hands. Mullen scrambled out beside her and tried to lift her to her feet, the rest jeering him, pretending to say things aside and singing in cracked chorus, "Where is my wandering boy?" They were laughing so loud, watching so intently. Johnny fell upon them like a thunderbolt from blue skies. Johnny was still in working clothes—he had. In fact, started to the blacksmith's shop in a mad hurry in hope of getting a dulled plow point sharpened. So ho had come to the ford in the very nick of time to see that a woman was in need of help and to rush to give It. "Gentlemen," Johnny's voice cut like ice. "you must show me your warrant for taking a prisoner. Fnless you do" — He stopped short there, his face white, his eyes two points of flame. Even yet he did not know, but a second later Lorena was beside him, clinging to him. burying her face In his rough sleeve, and sobbing out: "Johnny! Save me! Take mo away! Don't stop to fight them—only take me and go!" "Not yet," Johnny said, putting her geutly away. The events of the next live minutes are better left uuchronicled. Suffice it that Mr. Granville Gore and bis sports men friends from the city went away on the night train, at least two of the visitors carrying beautiful black eyes. As to how the eyes had been achieved there was discreet silence. But when iu the fall Lorena and Johnny were married there came to the bride a chest of massive silver, along with an unsigned note which ran: "Please ac cept this ill token of forgiTeness. Re member, you owe me something—in that I gave you occasion to find out the difference there is between a man and a mouse." Lorena was for sending it back, but Johnny laughed and said: "Mullen is tight. He Is a man. You can drub a man into decency, but a mouse always runs away." "And I hate mice of every sort," Lo rena added with a pensive smile. They Ilnd Exenped Tlint. A young disciple of Blackstoue who bad worked his way through college and taken a full course in the study of law besides was making a trip through the southwest in search of an eligible location for the practice of his profes sion. A thrifty young city, with a considerable body of water on one side of It and a forest on the other, attract ed his attention, and he decided to make a few days' stay there and in vestigate "Putting up" at what seemed to be the best l.otel, lie ate his dinner, then strolled into the office and proceeded In a careless way to Interrogate the clerk. "There Is a good deal of business done In this town, isn't there?" ho asked. "YCH, sir," answered the young man. "In uue way and uuotlier there's a good Jag of business going on here." "Healthy place, Isn't it?" "Middling." "Is there much litigation here?" "No, I haven't heard of any case 9 of that, but there's a lot of chills an' fever and occasionally a pretty bad case of the grip." Dewey und the Powder Bo jr. Many stories have been written and lold about Admiral Dewey and his heroic deed at Manila bay, but none show the kindness of heart of which this modern hero Is capable as the fol lowing, which has just come to light: When the order was given to strip for action just before the battle of Manila Bay a powder boy on the flagship acci dentally dropped his coat overboard, lie asked permission to jump after it, but was refused. In spite of the re fusal he dropped overboard, recovered his coat, was caught and arrested for disobedience of orders, a serious of fense In the navy, especially under this commander. The boy was brought be fore the admiral, who kindly but firm ly demanded an explanation. Break ing into tears, the lad said the coat contained his mother's picture and he could not bear to see it lost. For once the admiral relaxed in his discipline. "Release him," he said "A boy who loves his mother enough to risk his life for her picture cannot be kept "fa der arrest In this fleet." HOT AND COLD WATER. How to Cue Thene Heniedle« to the Best Advantage. not or cold water is excellent as an application for inflammation, conges tions or abrasions, but how many peo ple know which to apply iu particular cases while awaiting the arrival of medical relief? Not many, and the mis takes made in some Instances arc lu dicrous. Take the barber, for example, who has cut his patron's face. n« generally washes the face with a towel soaked In warm water, often pressing it right' into the injury, and then wonders why the blood flows from the cut so freely. In ninety-nine cases out of a hundred If he had used cold water, and the colder the better, the blood would have ceased to flow from the injury al together, as the cold would have a ten dency to contract tlie openings iu the torn blood vessels. In all cases of such cuts or abrasions very cold water will at least reduce the amount of bleeding If it doesn't stop it altogether, and yet, singularly enough, boiling water will have the same effect. Water below the boiling point In creases the flow, but above that de gree decreases It. In surface inflamma tions or congestions cold water ought to be used, while if tile condition is sit uated below tlio surface hot water is necessary as an application because it draws the blood toward the surface and thus stimulates the circulation through the part where it is most needed. In cases of abscesses or pimples with pus forming Iu them, but which have not yet come to a head, tile secre tion of pus can bo rapidly increased and the duration of the annoyance thereby decreased by applying hot wa ter to them at frequent intervals. Where the eye is Inflamed or smarts, after a period of eye strain, such as night work often Induces, hot appli cations are the things for relief, but flie water used should be gradually uMowed to cool off toward the end. Tired eyes will invariably in' rejuve nated by adopting this method of treat ment. and many headaches r. .-.lilting from such a condition may thereby be prevented or cured. —St. Louis Globe- Deinocrat. Extreme views are never just. Some thing always turns up which disturbs the calculations founded on their data. —Tancnd. ORIGIN OF NEW YORK NAMES Nrn I)orp Replueed n Tunn Thrice Destroyed by Fire. There are some names of places iu Greater New York common enough on tin- modern tongue, l>ut the origin of which is not so geuerally luiown. New Dorp, on Staten Islam!, was so named by the I mt< Ti to distinguish It from Otule I>orp (Old Dorp). the first Dutch settlement on the island, which was thrice destroyed by the Indians. Old L)nrji stood to the northwest of Fort Wadsworth, about where Arrochar now stands. Two miles to the west of the ruins of Old Dorp the persistent Dutch built their New Dorp. The northeast section of Staten Is land. which until the formation of Greater Xew York was known as Cas tleton, and is still generally so called, takes its name from the fact that it once formed Governor Dongan's "man or of Castleton." Dongan-the Dongan bills are named from him was of the family of the Earl of Limerick, and the seat of the earl in Ireland was Castle town. in the County Kildare. Many of (lovernor Dongan's descendants still live on Staten Island, some of them oc cupying and owning houses on the lnml of the oid manor. At first Governor Dongan merely bad a hunting lwlge on Staten Island, find it is significant of tile state of that portion of New York city at the end of the seventeenth cen tury that at a meeting of the colonial council the governor was entered on the minutes as "absent, being engaged at his hunting lodge on Staten Inland killing bears." Bedlow'g island, on which the statue of Liberty stands, was purchased in lTltl by an Englishman named Bedlow, who had amassed a large fortune in the East India trade and was an acquaint ance of the then governor, the notori ous Lord Cornbury. Bed low received from Cornbury the privilege of victual ing the Hritish fleets which frequented New York. It was a most profitable monopoly, having in it great possibili ties of graft. Cornbury is supposed to have "stood in" with Bedlow. When Bedlow died suddenly Cornbury seized all his papers, collected all the out standing debts due the contractor, and kept everything of Bedlow's ho could lay his hands on, leaving Bedlow's wid ow and children in poverty. Bedlow's Island was bought and used by the con tractor while ho victualed the fleets as a depot for his stores. Corlear's Hook tukes its name from Jacob Corlear, the city trumpeter in the old Dutch days. Governor Beek man bought it from him. The governor also bought a country estate, the site of which is commemorated by Book man street. The truo meaning of the word Man hattan, originally spelled variously as Muna-lia-ta, Manhattoes and Manhat tan, is hid iu mystery It is not oven certain whether it was the naqje of the place or of the tribe wLleh inhabited it or of both. Th> '" a that the word meant Place of i»ru»kenness has been satisfactorily confuted, but what does the word meau?—New York Press. Speneer and Color*. Herbert Spencer's notions of art jvere very crude. His favorite color was what ho called "impure purple." He wore "impure purple" gloves and, find ing that the furniture was a littje som ber, had a binding of "impure purple" pasted round it by a seamstress, cut the first strip himself and showed her how to stick it on with paste. He hud his vases filled with artificial flow ers. lie wished to have everything bright about him and consequently en joyed color. When it was suggested ho could get that in real llowers he re plied: "Booh! They would want con stant replenishing!" He wanted to know why the people should object to artificial flowers in a room any more than to an artificial landscape.—"Home Life With Herbert Spencer." I'iKN In China. A Peking correspondent says: "It is 110 uncommon sight to see twelve or thirteen euofmous fat pigs, with their legs tied, huddled close together having a ride iu a Chinese cart with some sort of light cargo ou top of them and a man sittiug on the cargo. The pigs are silent, and consequently one would think they should not be objects for the action of the Society For the Pre vention of Cruelty to Animals. The fact Is that the animals are too fat and lazy to make any noise until disturbed at their journey's end, when bagpipes are as Italian opera to the terrific squealing heard." The Drnd Seu. The Dead sea Is 1,300 feet below sea level. There can, of course, be no out let for the Dead sea, and the volume of from t5.000.000 to 10,000,000 tons of wa ter that the Jordan throws Into it every twenty-four hours must be car ried away by evaporation. Not a soli tary dwelling Is on its coasts, and there is no living thing in its waters. As we stand on the north shore the sea stretches out some forty-two miles to ward the south and is, on an average, eight miles wide. The water is of a greenish blue und as clear as crystal. Thoae Fool Qnextionn. "Hello," says the man, seeing his friend sallying forth with pole and net »nd bait basket. "Going fishing'/" "No," replies the friend, turning on 'him solemnly. "No; I'm going to stand on my head and keep my hair from fallin« out. What made you think I was going fishing?"— Puck. \o t'hnnce to Forifet. Benham -I don't like your actions; you should remember that you are my wife. Mrs. Benham—l am not likely to forget It when everybody tells me how: fhey pity me.-- New York Press. The people In the flat above seldom rait the baby what the fond pareuts do.—Somervllle Journal. Ilicrnneh nl Dinner. Many persons are debarred l'rom din ing out owing to their liability to con tract hiccough during a meal. As a rule when caused by food it comes ou at once, and equally as a rule the food causing it is hot. Soups are more like ly to provoke hiccough than solids are. It is a good plan to forego soup, which <•1111 be done without causing remark, says Home Notes, or one may eat u little bread before taking it. A third plan is to drink a little cold water and to take the soup in very small sips. The Ilent of the Poem. "I don't see anything in that poefs new poem." "of course you don't," replied the editor in chief, "i>ecauso I opened it first and took a live dollar bill out of it. Give it a good place—top column, next reading matter!"— Atlanta Con stitution. Ylndletive. Naggus— What are you troiug to do with the hero and heroine of that mag azine story you're running now? Marry them? Ilorus Certainly. They will be married in the last chapter. Naggus— I'm gUd of it. it will serve them right.—Tit-Bits. | TAKEN AT ! j HER WORD | BTJ JOANNA SINGLE :i i I ; Copyright, by E. C. Parcella ! ' ... ... i i i » John Mason did not slam the gate simply l>ecause he knew that this mani festation of rage would surely delight Rosalie. She was watching his depar-. fire from the window, and he was nn- ( rily conscious that she knew he would, as usual, return In a few days, although she had said she hoped she would be rhl of him for awhile. She was so young aud so beautiful—and so provoking! At the entrance to the little park, al ready growing green In the April sun, he met her sister. He did not know Anne very well—bo had been too busy with Rosalie. He wished now that he had made friends with her; her blue eyes were so like and still so unlike ltosalie's. Aune stepped iu trout of him and stopped him unceremoniously. "Been trampled upon again!" she ob served. "John Mason, for so clever a man generally you're sometimes an awful —fool!" She submitted this thoughfully. In a voice too gentle to bo Insulting. "Then you and Rosalie are agreed, and I suppose you are expert testi mony. May I turn and walk with you?" She nodded and then asked a matter of fact question. "How many times has she refused yon?" "I had not thought to keep count. Rosalie just now Informed me that this was the last time. I didn't know I had been the same sort of a—fool so often. But don't you think she ought to give me credit for my persistence? Not ev ery man proposes so many times—to the same girl." Anne laughed dryly as he continued: "I would have given up long ago if I were not unexpialnably sure that she does—care for me. In fact, she never has said directly that she does not. Kie simply says she won't marry me. What's the matter with me? Am I too rich? I can give away the stuff If she likes. Am I too successful? I might losa a case to please her. Should I be as ugly as Satan? Tcrhaps she would like a Beauty and the Beast effect! What does she want? I've said and done everything under heaven, and she walks on me—she trails me!" "Precisely! That's why I called you —what I did. A girl likes to trail a man, but hate 3 the man that will be trailed. Not logical, Is It? To use her own words, you are always around underfoot. You give her no time to want you or miss you or think about you. She's too sure of you. She knows just where you'll be. You never let lior want anytblne tvl enough to appreciate it when i. • uaMMi »he lias always had her own way. She needs to be a bit afraid of you. She needs to be bulliedl" He frowned. "I am not a brute. That is not my way." "No? Well, what has your way ac complished?" He tried to laugh. "Oh, I'll take your advice. I'll do anything you 6ay. It can't be worse than it Is now." "Well, 1 hate the responsibility. If you get her you'll light; if you don't, you'll both be miserable anyhow. You must get her—and then work out your own salvation. In the first place, you must give her u shock. Write her a note and accept your dismissal. Tell her you begin to see that she Is right and that you wish to be friendly with her and the family. Then call some times—on the father or on me. Don't stay away. Absences of that sort are flattering; you must be quite unaffect ed by her presence." "You know that is impossible. You know how the sight of her"— "You've got to do it! And you must take another girl out occasionally. Be ing naturally modest, I dislike to sug gest that you send me flowers some times and come for a walk with me. That will bring things home to her. A girl hates to have an admirer transfer himself bodily to any one, but espe- | daily to her sister." When they had planned their cam paign and he left Anne at the gate she had him laughing. Rosalie saw them and shrugged her shoulders. While removing her hat In the hall Anne remarked to her sister: "Well, dear, John tells me that you have dismissed him for good. You know I never would have Interfered If you had wauted him, but I am glad you do not. Now you may find time for your music. Your talent Is too marked to be neglected. It will be a relief for you to have him out of the way awhile. You're too young to leave father and me, and, after all, 1 think you're right about his not being the right man for you." Rosalie shrugged her shoulders. The next day Rosalie, without com ment, handed Anne this note: Dear Miss Carleton—l want to thank you for your frankness of yesterday, and I assure you that I shall not annoy you again as I have In the past. Can you for give me for having troubled you BO much and so long? You are probably rlsht In deciding that I could not make you 'hap py, as I hoped to bo able to do. ifay I hope to continue my present friendly rela tions with you and the rest of the family? If I may. I will not attain trespass on your kindness. It will be. as you said, the last time you shall have the pain of refusing. Yours sincerely. JOHN MABON. "Well, I like a man to know when he's hud enough," remarked Anne. Again Rosalie shrugged her shoulders and made a wry little face. For a week Rosalie was blithe and busy with her music. The second week Anne observed that the gayety was u bit forced and that during the third iho moped n little. John had somehow kept the other men of her set away from her, and flowers and drives and theaters were less frequent. She had no time to miss him. In the fourth week he called—while she was out. Of course she could not know that Anne had phoned him to come. He was leaving just us Rosalie entered and shook liuuds with her cor diully. He did not look broken heart ed, and he seemed to be on very good terms with Aune, to whom next morn ing he sent some violets. Rosalie saw him out walking with Mary Dye. Then lie took Aune driving. She begun to realize that Anne was very pretty if she was u year or two older thun John. Rosalie's Irritation reached its climax one morning at the breakfast table when her younger brother Ted remark ed In a teasing drawl: • John seems to be taking his medi cine like a man, Rosy! He's all right, and I am glad Aune seems Inclined to keep him in the family. He probably appreciates l>olug treuted like a human being after the way you always walk ed on him. The fellows say he's the best young lawyer In town. But I should think you'd hate to have him lake his punishment so cheerfully. Rosy!" By this tune Rotalio LU>d reached tie limit of endurance. SHE sprang up No. 30. aud. before auy one eonld Interfere, had boxed Ted's ears soundly and fled. to her room. No one made comment on the scene save that Mr. Carleton amasedl.v met the laughter in Anne's eyes and told Ted that he would have no uiore of his teasing. Rosalie's ca pricious treatment of John had long been disapproved of by her family, and, while they were all sorry for her. they thought It time she should come to her senses. Time had been slow and torturing to John, lie wanted to tell ltosalie that he loved her aud her only. lie wauted to send her flowers, to give her every desire of her heart, and he found It a misery to see her or not to see hor. Meantime he was very attentive t\ Anne, who was becoming vastly bored with his raptures aud sorrows and wus longing for him to win his ltosalie and let her go Imck to her old peaceful ways. At last one night Anne waked and heard ltosalie sobbing to herself. In the morning she pleaded headache and stayed in her room till nearly evening. Anne had a long conference by tele phone with John and took pains to have her father and Ted spend the evening elsewhere. After dinner she went to Rosalie's room and pleaded being tired. She coaxed llosalle to arrange her pretty hair and dun a pretty gowu so she could go down If any one should come. While Rosalie was sulkily doing as her sister wished, Anne hoard the bell and slipped down to answer It. She came back saying it was some one for her father and asked Rosalie If she would mind going to the library and bringing the book she had left on the table. Rosalie, in her trailing blue dress, went downstairs and through the hall into the library. She had half crossed the room before she saw John sitting In a great chair In the dim firelight. She wanted to tlee from him, but some how lier fed would not move, nor did she find a word to say. Then to her dismay she knew that a slow tear was falling down her cheek. John came quickly toward her. It seemed very comfortable to be leaning against him. After awhile lie held her off and looked at her. She tried to smile. -Well," he questioned, "how shall It beV You know you said you hoped you would never have to refuse me again. I hope you will not. Just for saxU»ts; — suppose you—take me." After the little minutes had cunning ly slipped away and It was time that he should leave her, Rosalie exclaimed in dismay: "Oh, Anne's book! She will be wait ing for it." "I hardly think so," John asserted dryly. "Your sister Anne is wise. She knew better than to expect yon in a moment when she sent yon down to me!" • Sent me to you!" Rosalie echoed. "Yes, my lady! Do you iiragine your sister has been trailing me about for hor pleiwurol She Is more glad to be rid of me than—ever you were!"*""^ - * "Then—ft—was not—Anne—ever?" John laughed and bade her good night. "If you were not perfectly sure that it was 'not—Anne—ever,' you would never, never have asked me!" which both of them knew to be true. And Anne went to bed and slept the sleep of one who has successfully per formed an arduous duty. Separations. Why do we grieve at separations? Why do everlasting farewells chill our hearts, and the fading away of lost joys fill us with bitterness? "Re not the slave of words," says Cnrlylc. "Is not the distant, the dead, while 1 love It and long for It and mourn for it, here In the genuine sense, as truly as the floor I stand on?" And are not all good experiences thus forever a part of our lives? Can we therefore i-egret or mourn any past Joy, any lost friend? Nothing is lost or gone from us that we have the spirit and capacity to appropriate and make our own forever. It Is not the touch of body that makes presence. Have we not all known times when presence In the flesh brought no nearness, and again when the absent one seemed un speakably near In spirit? So not to be I within the actual physical sense, but to be able to artJreclate and love the spirit of another. Is the true association and communion. Hence our friends need never die, nor need we ever be parted from them. Further, lu order to realize them truly we need to be separated from them In the flesh at times. Else we shall grow to think them all body and forget that diviner. Intangible, un namable essence—the living spirit, the real self.—Exchange. _ i BLEAK SHETLAND. Ita Swnrm* of Sen Unlla >■! Its LOBS Tree. Up a Httle lane off Ijerwlck's one street there Is a garden. At least, it is an Inclosed space. In the middle of this space there is a tree. It is not a very tall tree; you could, In fact, toss a biscuit over Its branches, but still it Is a tree—the only tree in Shetland. And Shetland is proud of It Children who are brought for the first time to see the wonders of one streeted Ler wick are shown this tree. This is not fiction. It is the only tree In Shetland. As there are no trees in Shetland, there are no birds, except, of course, the sea gulls, which you can number by the thousand. The sea gulls are the sparrows of Lerwick, and, as such, they have a greater share in the town's life than have the sparrows of London. In the morning time you will note that a sea gull sits on every chimney pot. Sea gulls swoop and hover over every roof In the town. The air is full of their strange, high, plaintive, haunting cries. Their sad, shrill, long drawn cries aro to Lerwick as the chattering of sparrows or the cawing of rooks are to us In England. Every house lias Its own familiar sea gulls and every street its own band Of sea gulls. They never mix. The chil dren In each houso have a pet name for their own particular sea gulls, and, having called them to them by those names, they feed them every day. And each sea gull knows what Is meant for hlui. No sea gull attached to one house ever seeks to'vat the food scattered from the house next door. He does not dare; the other gulls would kill him. H<> all (lay long the sea gulls hover and call over the roofs of Lerwick. The people of the town. If they come across a little pilo of rice laid upon the road way, step over It with care. They know that it Is placed there for some sen gull. And at night the set gulls leave their own appointed chimney pots and fly gracefully away to their resting places on the rocks of the Isle of Noss.—London Express. The Retort lonrteoua. Miss Oldwuu— I've refused many, many offers of marriage. Gayboy (ab sentmludedly)—Very thoughtful and considerate of yoti, I'm sure.—Meggen dorfer Blatter. Every age has Its protflem, M •OH- Ing which humanity is helped forward. •t-Uelae. ... _ /*■