Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1882-01-25


jury his views upon Judge Porter, and
to instruct them as to how much
weight they should attach to his utter
| ances and as the best means of coun-
teracting the influence of his oratory.
Porter, he said, was prostituting his
| fine attainments in an effort to hang
| an insane man.
Immediately after recess, and be-
fore Scoville had resumed his speech,
Guiteau, with an air of apparent sim
cerity, announced that he was in luck.
He had just signed his name to a
check for $25, 1000 on the First Nation
al Bank of New York; that he had re-
ceived another for S., 900, and another
for $3.50, and believed they were all
genuine.
ScovilIe then reviewed the prisoners
life, and said: when he left the
Oneida Community he sought out
Beecher's Church, the Young Mems
Christian Association and the society
Of Christian people His tendencies
at this time were not immoral, nor had
he shown any indication of that awful
with sarcasm) crime of not paying
his board bills for which this prosecu-
tion are trying to hang him.
Corkhill-Oh, no if he is hung at
all it will be for murder, not owing
board bills
COOL FIEND
Guiteau called out, Il guess there
amt much chance of my being hung
anyway
Scoville continued up to the hour Of
adjournment his review of the life of
the prisoner, explaining his acts in the
light of counsel's (Scoville's) theory
upon the case. Guiteau occasionally
commented, but never seriously dis
turbed the course of argument. Sco-
vile spoke of the monumental assur-
ance of the prisoner in naming himself
in connection with Grant, Conkling
and Arthur.
L should say pretty fine quartette,
said the prisoner.
Later on Scoville read from Gui-
teau's speech, when Guiteau again
called out, You better not read any
more, Scoville. 1t will 60 dead against
your fool theory
The Jack-Rabbit Of Texas.
The iack-rabbit is an inhabitant of
Texas and of some other western
States. He is often called the mule
cared rabbit, and, by the cowboy, is
familiarly spoken of as the 'muley.'
He is not rabbit at ALL A rabbit is
an unobtrusive little animal, who is
found by school-boys in hole in the
ground at the end of long track in
the snow The so-called jack rabbit is
quite different kind of soup-meat. He
is identical to the British hare, except
that he is larger, his color lighter, and
his ears much longer. His avoirdu-
poise is about twelve pounds and his
ears measure, from tip to tip, about
sixteen inches. He does not burrow
in the ground. He lies under cover
of bunch of prairie grass, but is very
seldom found at home, his Office hours
being between sunset and sunrise. He
is to be found during the day on the
open prairie, where he feeds on the
tender shoots of the mesquite or sage
grass. He is not ferocious animal,
as stranger might be led to suppose
from an examination of what purports
to be his picture under the alias Of
The Texan Hare in Governor Rob-
ert's book The jack-rabbit has several
enemies, among them the cowboy,
who shoots him with his rife; the
coyote and the dog, that try to run him
down, and the Governor of Texas
above alluded to, who libels him in his
book. He has two ways of protecting
himself againg his enemies. One is to
squat when be suspects danger and
fold his ears along his sides. BY doing
this he often escapes observation. as
ouly his back is exposed, the color Of
which harmonizes with the brown of
the withered grass The other plan,
which he uses when discovered and
pursued, is to increase remoteness be-
tween himself and his pursuer. In
giving his whole attention to this mat.
ter, when necessary, he is astupendous
success and earnest to fault. When
disturbed he unlimbers his long legs,
unfurls his ears and goes off with a
bound He generally stops after run
ming a hundred yards and looks back
to see if his pursuer is enjoying the
chase as much as he thought he would,
and then he leaves for parts unknown.
There are many fast things, from an
ice boat to note maturing in the
bank, but nothing to equal the jack
rabbit. An unfounded rumor gets
around pretty lively, but could not
keep up with him for two blocks.
When an ordinary, cur dog tries to
expedite jack-rabbit route he makes
humiliating failure of it. He only
gives the rabbit gentle exercise. The
T, latter merely throws up his ears, and,
under easy sail, skins leisurely along,
tacking occasionally to give the funeral
procession time to catch up. But if
you want velocity, urgent speed and
precipitate haste you have only to
turn loose greyhound iu the wake of
jack-rabbit Pursued oy a grey
hound he will 'let himself OUT in a
manner that would astonisb prepaid
half-rate message If he is rabbit
that has never had any experience
with a greyhound before he will start
off at an easy pace, but as he turns to
wink derisively at what he supposes
to be an ordinary yellow dog he real
ICES that there is force in nature
hitherto unknown to him, and his look
of astonishment, alarm and disgust,
as he furls his ears and promptly de-
clines the nomination, is amusing.
Under such circumstances he goes too
fast for the eye to follow his move
ments, and presents the optical illusion
of streak of jack-rabbit mile and q
half long.
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