Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1883-06-06
Lime-Kiln Club Philosophy.

around him.
ayes, sah," answered voice full o.
fsh-bones and shingle-nails shaken
up.
please ambulate dis way"
The Judge ambulated He came up
confident and smiling, expecting to re-
ceive gold medal for inventing a
mosquito oar, which also catches rats.
"Judge Smith," said the President,
in solemn voice, "dar am few little
things desiah to spoke to you about.
You war at de post-office de odder
day to rent box at $3.50 per quarter.
All de mail dat you receive in six
months wouldn't light a kerosene
lamp. Den why dis attempt to frow
on style ?"
IL didn't rent one, sab ?" replied
the culprit, in weak voice.
ga few days ago." continued the
President, 81 Overheard you trottin'
out Presidential candidate for 1854.
You had your biggest voice, an you
was ainging your arms about, an one
would have thought you knowed all
about it. Judge Smith, you will have
no mo- to do wild de maxim oh de next
President OBJ de United States dan
one grain OBJ sand will have in max
ing up de great Sahary Desert"
"No, sah-dat's so, sah."
"Let dis be warnin' to you, sah.-
From dis time on you have no candid
ate, doan' want one, an take no inter-
est in polytics, beyond what can be
'spected of ebry citizen. If any man
axes you to tell him who am to be
mex President doan' you do It, Keep
dat information locked tight in you
busum AM a day or two ago you
denounced yourself as an advocate of a
tariff Judge Smith, do you know
what tariff is ?"
"N-not 'zactly, sab. but l was
gwine to read up on it."
Exactly; an perhaps you'd better
read up on how to keep your mout
shet on what you doan' know an what
doan' affeck you! You am purity
lookin' advocate you am I! While your
wife needs shoes an de chil'en want
clothes, you walk aroun' de market
wild your old white obercoat on to tell
de world dat you doan' believe in dis
or dat, or dat you am welded to dis
theory or opposed to dat one ~
"I'ze sorry. sab. I'll drap de hull
bizness right off,"
"See dat you do. Theories am all
right onless man am two months be-
hind on his rent. Doctrines am all
right when family hain't shiberin'
wild cold. Individual opinions count
fur muffin when de individual can't
raise cash 'nuff to get patch on his
boot. Go an sot down, Judge Smith,
an doan' lose minute in startin' on
de road to reform.
Mr.. W. H. Midlam, GIG Boas
ST., Harrisburgh, Pa, says: Browns
Iron Bitters speedily cured me of ner-
vousness and stomach troubles"
The most noteworthy feature OF
this springs immigration, next to its
decline in numbers from last years,
is the relative gain of the portion
coming from Ireland.
The Charleston Is. CO. Ne,Us of
Friday, says that strawberries are now
so plentiful there that farmers are
giving them away to anybody who
will take the trouble to pick them.
LONE JACK, Mo, Sept, IA, 1879.
have been using Hop Bitters. and
have received great benefit from them
for liver complaints and malarial fever.
They are superior to all other medi-
cines. L. M. BARNES.
Some of our exchanges note the
fact that farmers are turning up while
blowing immense numbers of seven.
year locusts, and assert that the COM
ing summer will witness the periodi-
cal visitation of these insects.
The confession of the prisoner has
an application far beyond single in
stance. He said, Judge, l am half
fool when sober and all fool when
drunk" That is the kind of material
which keeps our courts so busy.
Ann Eliza Young. formerly nine
teeth wife of Brigham Young, and who
recently edited Butler audience with
her lecture on Polygamy, was married
at Lodi, Ohio, lately, the groom being
Mr.. Moses r. Deming, banker of
Manistee, Mich.
In these days when "lines of great
men all remind US that we might have
made our lines sublime" by a little
early practice, certain interest attach
es to the following verses, which we
are able to say from internal and ex-
ternal evidence were written by Edgar
A. Poe. The New York EUening
Mirror, edited by George P. Morris, of
the date February 2l, 1916, printed
number of valentines which had been
read at a valentine party in the salon
of lady who at that time gathered at
her reunions most of the poets and
wits of the city This one, undoubted-
ly contributed by Poe, is an ingenious
acrostic on the name of one of the
poetesses and most charming women
of that coterie The readers will have
no difficulty in spelling out her three
names if he hits upon the right clew.
1t is entitled:
TO HER WHOSE NAME IS WRITTEN BELOW.
For her these lines are penned, whose luminous
eyes,
Bright and expressive rs the stars of Leda.
Shall find her own sweet name that, nesting,
lies
Upon this page, enwrapped from every reader.
Search narrowly these words, which hold
treasure
Divine, n talisman, an amulet
That must be worn at heart. Search we'll the
measure,
The words, the letters themselves. DO not
forget
The smallest point, or you may lose your labor.
And yet there is in this no Gordian knot
Which one might not undo without sabre,
If one could merely comprehend the plot
Upon the open page on which are peering
1taz H.,