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Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1888-08-17
OF Course 1t Was the Moonlight.

Rev. James E. Wray, well-known
in this section as young minister of
exceptional ability, recently gave to
the public through the medium :of the
Atlanta Constitution a poem, entitled
"The Ravens Secret" Not being
familiar with the subject we are una
BILE to judge of the merit of the poem
However. we excerpt the following
lines from it, which we pronounce
tip top.
Her lissome limbs in samite's shade,
And breast so warm and white.
Where oft my loving fingers played
With moonlight through the night,
And dumb and blind with joy so sweet
Our raptured hearts in music beat.
These lines are lurid but they "get
there" and show the author to be a
preacher of spirit. There is still doubt
however, owing to the architecture Of
the lines, as to whether it was the
moonlight or the girl he was mon
keyiDg" with. We trust is was the
moonlight.-Leary (Ga.) Courier.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1888-08-17
Only Ia Per Cent.

The Democratic argument for free
wool and free woolens proceeds upon
the assumption that the tariff COM
pels purchasers of woolens here to
pay the foreign price plus the duty.
To illustrate, they say the duty on o
suit of clothes which costs ten dollars
in this country is four dollars. there
fore the suit could be bought for six
dollars if there were no duty. The
falsity of this statement has been
clearly shown by the Cleveland sd-
ministration in the famous blanket
purchase referred to by Major Nc
Kinley in his speech upon the Mills
bill The government pays no duty
on what it imports, and Is at liberty
to patronizs foreigners just as indi
viduals would if we had free trade.
On the 9th of last March the admin
istration advertised for proposals for
1000 pairs of blankets OF q certain
weight and. quality, and instead of
following the Republicans and accept
ingthe lowest American bid. thus
furnishing employment to American
operatives and capitalists. it went
abroad nd bought of a foreigner, be-
cause it could huv cheaper there.
rb- American "ff--r wa- $356 each
Tor 9 900 pairs ot four pound blank
er- rn- foreign bid made by an
+ z ieuna. GA. 80 rs .cn and this
wa the pclc,' paid Tue d,ff-rence
tbeu la prlre o-t~etD pair of four
p3u..d bituk- IA free trade England
aud here II 81 cents or IA per cent
Now the duJ, on blankets Ia eigh
teen cents a pound and t0irty-6ve per
ceut 0d Udiorenl. or 81 so q pair on
blankets weighing four pounds and
worth 50 25. In other word the
tariff, instead OF enhancing the price
by the amount of duty, or $l.50. in
creases it only 81 cents, or about one
fifth of the duty, and the question is
not whether we can afford TO sacrifice
our wool growing and wool manufac-
turing interests to save 81 so on
every 1925 worth of woolens we buy.
but whether II will pay to do this aud
send abroad for what We want in
order to get q discount of IA per cent
on our purchases.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1888-08-17
Golden MOrSelS.


Dearth forseen never came.-Itali.
an Proverb.
A fool is always beginning French
Pruverb
One ass calls another .'long ears y
German Proverb
When two quarrel, both are Ia the
wrong -Dutch Proverb.
The liar is sooner caught than the
cripple Spanish Proverb.
When the head is sick the whole
body is sick Dutch Proverb.
A mans own business does not de.
file his fingers Italian Proverb
One hair Of woman draws more
than cart rope-German Proverb
The envious mans face grows
sharp and his eyes big.-Spanist
Proverb.
Change yourself, and fortune will
change with yOu.-Portuguese Pro.
yer.
He who throws himself under the
bench will be left to lie there. Dan.
ish Proverb.
For people to live happy together
the real secret is that they should
not live too much together.-Eng.
lish Proverb
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1888-08-17
A Wide-AWake Farmer.

"Meet with an accident?" asked a
policeman of farmer on the mark.
ct yesterday with one of his eyes in
deep mourning,
Ies, sorter"
Fall out of tree?"
Not exactly"
Stick of wood 1y up?"
Hardly. A couple of days ago
two chaps came along in buggy and
wanted to sell me leo feet of wire
clothes line for seventy cents.
bought it and then they wanted me
to sign a paper recommending its
use. When l got ready to sign !
found it was a note for $lOO.
And then?"
You didn't feel the ground trem.
bic 10 town that day, did you?"
IL don't remember"
at was probably to fur / waded
into 'em. They waded back. In the
scirmmage | got this"
"And they got off scot free, sup.
pose?"
DO you? Well, there's town
doctor riding out to see 'em every
day. and my naybur has drawed up
wills for 'em. Mebbe an old f4.rmel
with sled stake hain't of any &C
count in spring riot, and mebbe
people nine miles away heard hin
whoop as be went in fur blood! Want
bag o. taters this morning?"
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1888-08-17
TRY 1T YOURSELF.

1T is of no use to argue the question,
| am neither stubborn nor opinIonated, L
haye simply had lesson that will last life
time"
Look here, Jack! you are like some old
bachelor who has been Tilted by one ~o-
man, and goes about declaring all women are
false"
Not at all my brother Charles died of
Brlght's disease brought on by using one of
these so.caIIed blood purifiers the kind
you see attractively advertised in every nook
and corner. 1t contained iOdide of potassium.
q drug useful in extreme cases when eau
tiously given under a doctors supervision,
but death dealing to all VINO take 1t In guam
tity. If your brother had died under such
circumstances, you would hate patent medl-
cines as do"
81 do dislike the name of that miscalled
blood purifier for | have heard first class
physicians say il is the cause of half the cas-
es of Bright's disease in the country, and IL Is
strange the prOprietors have not been prose-
cuted for selling it. But was recommend
ing Vinegar Bitters and that does not con-
tain any mineral, narcotic or other hurttul
drug"
"Oh, nobody supposes that old woman's
remedy will hurt any body; the question Is
will 1t cure anything? I'd as soon think OF
taking some of my grandmothers herD tea
"You would be better of, Jack, II you had
some of that tea to tone up your system now,
instead of taking glass of brandy TO make
you sleep one night, and perhaps bottle OF
beer the next"
lis this temperance lecture, Phil"
"No 1t is Vinegar Bitters lecture. I've
TAX en the medicine more or less for fifteen
years, and look the world over, you will not
lind healthier man than | am.
what is all this nonsense about old style
and lew style Vinegar Bitters; are they d1I-
ferent?"
"Yes, the old style looks like coffee with
milk IN 1t, the new style like coffee without
milk. The man who made the old style tor
twenty years-a practical chemist-made a
milder, pleasanter, preparation, adding To II
here, aud taking from ii there, until he pro-
duced, my wife says, the finest medicine ever
made Ii cured her OF constipation, and 1t
cures the children OF hives and ali The little
ailments they ever have. .f my wife thinks
they have worms, she doses them with old
style We always have both kinds In the
house, and together they keep the doctor
away"
"And you insist that the proof of the pud-
ding"
lis the eating-precisely. Jack, get a
bottle of the old style Vinegar Bltters-men
1 think, prefer old style usually--try 1t, and
YOU will then be like an old bachelor who,
alter railing against women tor years, falls
in love with a good woman at last You will
say there are good and bad patent medicines,
but Vinegar Bittcrs is the best of the lot
"Ali right, Phil. to please You, I'll try it
and report RESULTS.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1888-08-17
Spelling His Name.

Here is story that makes one
think of Ahe old conundrum: How dc
you pronounce b, a. c.k, a, c-b, g 7"
The late Mr.. Ottiwell Wood was
once summoned as a witness in court
When he was called aud sworn the
judge, not catching his name, asked
MIN 10 -pell it.
%, double I. double u double
J. Il ,uhla u 4 uhle -. Il said Mr.
Wood.
VI Ju- lr- Du-eonury, al keel
lent judge. bu, not nimbl-- ~ilt"d.
after one or two futile struggles. laid
down his pen Ia despair. sn, ing:
Most .xtraordlnary name | ever
heard. Eav Iroubl. you rr write
it for me, Mr. .-er. Witness p
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1888-08-17
The Picket Guard.

One of the most touching poems
we give below. When first printed
il brought tears to manv eyes, and
few will read it unmoved even after
the lapse of quarter of century.
All quiet along the Potomac, they say,
Except now and then a stray picket
Is shot, as he walks on his beat to and fro,
By a rlfleman hid in the thicket.
'Tis nOthing-a private or two, now and then
Will not count in the news of the battle;
Not an officer lost-only one of the men
Moaning out, all alone, the death rattle.
All quiet along the Potomac tonight,
Where the soldiers lie peacefully dream
ing;
Their tents in the rays of the clear autumn
moon,
Or the light of the watch fire cleaning.
A tremulous sigh as the gentle night wind
Through the forest leayes softly creeping;
While stars up above, with their glittering
eyes,
Keep guard-for the army is sleeping.
There's only the sound of the lone sentry q
tread,
As he tramps from the rocks to the fount.
ain,
And he thinks of two, in the low trundle
bed,
Far away iu the cot on the mountain.
His musket falls slack-his face, dark and
grim,
Grown gentle, with tender memories.
AS he mutters prayer for the children
asleep
For their mother-may heaven defend her
The moon seems to shine just as brightly al
That night when the love yet unspoken
Leaped up to her lips, when low murmurec
VOWS
Were pledged, to be ever unbroken.
Then drawing his sleeve across his eyes
He dashes off tears that are yelling;
And gathers his gun closer up his place,
As if to keep down the heart swelling.
He passes the fountain, the blasted pine tree
The footstep is tagging and weary;
Yet onward he gJes, through the broad belt
of light,
Toward the shade of the forest so dreary.
HaK was it the night wind that rustled the
leaves?
Was it moonlight so wondrously fl ishing
1t looked like rIfe-Ah Mary, good-by p
And the life blood is ebbing and plashiug
All quiet along the Potomac tonight!
No sound save the rush of the river;
While soft falls the dew on the face of the
dead
The picket's off duty forever.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1888-08-17
NO. Al
The Ball in 1893.

The celebrated ball Of 1910 has
been rebnilt for this campaign. at
Cumberland. Marvispd. where the
original one of 1910 was constructed.
1t WAS taken 10 New York and an
pearrd in the grand procession there
last week in honor Of James Il.
Blaine, % his arrival home.
On il are written tue following
lines:
American wool is good enough
To make our coa's and pants.
We do not banker after wool
From England or France
Ben fought to keep the starry flag,
Proud poised the Union over,
With dauntless heart he did his part,
But where oh. where was GroverI
Our laboring men have naught to gain,
But much to lose. aud ought complain
When European merchandise
Throttles American enterprise.
Old Allegany in ls40
Started the ball for Harrison;
In 'ss, as they did then,
We roll it on for gallant Ben,
o Cleveland. you must face defeat,
Put up your old bandanal
You cannot beat q candidate
Who halls from Indiana.
Roll along. roll away,
Keep the ball in motion.
The spirit of our men il up
From rocky hills to ocean.
Cleveland with his free-trade notion,
Has SET the country in commotion,
The people will at next electioni
Vote for Harrison and protection
With heart and soul
This ball we roll.
May times improve
AS on we move.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1888-08-17
Destruction Wrought by Insects
in America.

The annual loss to productive in
dustries in the United States caused
by insects is estimated it $3.50. 900.
900. Here Is fair battle between
man and another sort of earth occupi-
ers. They are smaller, but il they
can whip us, have undoubtedly rs
good a right to the world as
we have As civilization advances,
new insects make their appear
ance, marching sometimes eastward.
but generally westward. There are
few, if any, forms of vegetation that
have no parasites that devour either
foliage or fruit The loss to the cot
ton crop is estimated at SIS, 900, 900
a year, while that to the apple crop
is not much less, and that to the po-
tato crop at least one-half as much.
But the estimate is not fair one IN.
Til into the loss ia counted the time
spent in fighting to secure the propor-
titn that is saved.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1888-08-17
Tariff Argument.

The Canaan Reporter puts the
case neatly when it saws in reply to
the Democratic assertion that after
the passage of the Mills bill the aver
age duty will be 40 per cent:
Give US a tariff of AZ percent on
sugar instead Of 68; of AZ percent on
rice instead of 100; of AZ per cent on
potatoes and wool instead OF making
them free and you will have some
show Of argument.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1888-08-17
Protect the Useful

From the Independent.
"Spare tie birds" is II good motto
for every farmer aud gardener; and
their nests should be protected from
marauders at this season. Let it be
remen bered that without birds sue
cessful agriculture would be impossi-
ble," says Baron Won Tschadi, the
eminent Swiss naturalist. They will
annihilate in few months a greater
humber of destructive insects than
human hands can accomplish in the
same number of years Among the
most useful birds for this purpose may
be classed the swallow. the wren, the
robin redbreast, finch blue bird and
several others that are at home in
most parts Of the country.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1888-08-17
Wnere ; III, 'rotsction.

rD- ID ~ .cra,ic press plac. great
-tr->- up,r NJ f,rt mat ,h. Mills
6lil atfIrds A nericau INDUSTRIES q
protection ot AZ per cent We cant
dispute il; here are the figures: Rice,
100 per Cent; sugar, So; WOO. 0; po
tatoes, o: total l6S. Divide by four
and we have AZ per cent as an aver
age But by the way. where does
the New England farmer come 30 for
the AZ per cent protection2-Canaan
Reporter.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1888-08-17
To Tan and Color SheepSklnS
with Wool on.

Tan in alum dissolved in water.
Proportion: pound alum to | gallon
water. Then wash wool clean with
plain soap. To color. use aniline OF
any shade you desire. Dissolve |
pound aniIine in 2 gallons water;
strain before using; then float skin in
a dye box, wool down See that
they lie fiat, aud let remain till color
or shade you desire comes; then take
out and run through clear cold water,
and hang up in hot room to dry.
For plain white, wash the skins well,
after tanning as described above. II
not white enough, hang up in a small
room and bleach with powdered sui.
phur Set in a psi in center OF room
burning. Be careful to have no es-
cape of the sulphur fumes, and have
the room air tight Shoe and Leath :
er Reporter.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1888-08-17
Let go william.

Now. Henry. il you don't let me
go III scream. I'm going ir the
house You have no business put
ting your arm around my waist"
"What will you screaml"
"I'll scream 'unhand me william"
"No, you don't want to do any
thing like that. 1t wouldn't be pro-
per-"
81 think it would be eminently pro-
per-"
"No,y you should scream 'disarm ma
william"
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1888-08-17
English Government own.

The English Government owns
Trinidad and it's asphalt beds The
United States imports $4,000 pounds
per year. 1t costs it's owner S. q
ton, and they sell it for $25.
York, Pa, is said TO have the
greatest rag-carpet works in the Uni
ted States. Six hundred women and
girls make carpet rags. and there are
l60 weavers and spoilers.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1888-08-17

The bootblacks of st. Joseph,
Mo, have union The members
wear a badge. and charge ten cents a
shine. The dues are ten cents per
week.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1888-08-17

The Rev. Watson j. Young,
formerly of Butler, Expounds
the Hidden Meaning Of Dark
Sayings.-- Cog Stands for
Russia and Conner for Ger
many.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1888-08-17

About six men control the ship
ping of oranges from Florida. One
Of them clears $40, 900 a year.
The compositors on the Toronto
World have struck because full rates
were not paid for halfpage "ad''
that lad only the date to change.
Compositors in Toronto average SIS
per week.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1888-08-17

the prey, to turn their hand against
the waste places that are now inbabit-
ed, and against the people that are
gathered out of the nations, which
have gotten cattle and goods that
dwell in the middle of the earth
Sheba and Dedan and the merchants
of Tarshish, with all the young lions
thereof. shall say unto thee: Art thou
come to take the spoil ? Hast thou
assembled the company to take the
prey to carry away silver and gold?
to take away cattle and goods !? to
take great spoil ?"
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1888-08-17
EZEKIEL FORETOLD 1T.

The picket's off duty forever!
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1888-08-08
Facts For Workingmen.

The Hartford Courdnt is doing some
excellent tariff talking, in which all
wage earners ought to be interested.
Here is a sample:
"The chief difference to day between
American aud European manufactur.
ing is in the wages. General Dwight's s
amazing figures show that. Here they
are for exactly the same work in Eu.
rope and in his Windsor Locks mills !:
European workman per diem.......S 40
Windsor Locks workman per diem. 90
European foreman per month......., Is 90
windsor Locks foreman per month 100 90
"Whittle down your self respecting,
industrious and hopeful American
workman to the European scale aud
you can run factories here under free
trade. But think what it means 1t
takes hope and promise out of the ele.
ments of American progress, and they
are the essence of it.
"And what is all this for, or said to
be for? 1t is to enable our American
wooden manufacturers to compete in
the markets Of the world with their
woolen goods. But where are those
markets? The fact is that we our.
selves are the best wooden market in
the world, and, while nominally fit.
ting ourselves to export, we should be
really letting down the bars to admit
foreign competitors to our market
that they so much covet.
"Our mills would have to shut
down or cut down, our whole indus.
trial system would be upset, and the
workman would have
what?-the opportunity to buy his
clothes little cheaper, and at the
same time nothing to buy them with.
The free traders tell us that if the
mill is closed The workman will "do
else" They don't say |
what, and they seem to forget that in
great industrial crisises "do something
else" means, too often, turn tramp, go
begging, give up the struggle and |
lapse into crime or the poorbouse.
at is a very simple matter for the
theorists to tell the workman what to
do, but let the theorist turn working
man and see then how he would look |
at things"
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1888-08-08
. MAN OR WOMAN

who will work faithfully, can secure Cif
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w. BLAIR'S (Seuator from New Hamp-
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CONFLICT BETWEEN MAN AND
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perience, references, Sc.
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22-l0t. 1918 Arch st Phila., Pa.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1888-08-08
Republican County Committee
Meeting.

There will be meeting of the Re-
publican County Committee at the
Office of the Chairman, Tionesta Boro.,
on Thursday, August 16, 1888, at 1
o'clock P. NJ, to make arrangements
for reception of Banner to be present.
ed by the Republican State Commit.
tee, on September IL, 1888, and the
transaction Of other business. A full
attendance is requested.
Following is list of the members
of the Committee with their assistants !:
Tionesta Boro.--J. G. Scowden !;
Assistant, J. II. Fenes.
Tionesta TYPO. w. Clark Assts,
@. Jameson, P. G. Blocher.
Green-Frank Walker; Assts, Ed.
Kiser, Johnny Thompson.
Kingsley, Newtown-John R. o.
good.
KiDgsley, Whig Hill-R. q. Gil.
lespie.
Kingsley, Star-W. B. Heath.
Harmony, Allender-Capt. j. Zah.
niser.
Harmony, Fagundus A. Peter.
son.
Harmony, West Hickory-F. A.
Wheeler; Asst, W. G. Allen.
Howe, Brookston-Chas. Lindsey !;
Assts, A. P. Anderson, Frank Nash.
Howe, Gusher-Capt. j. j. Haight.
Howe, Balltown-J. w. Solley.
Barnett. Clarington-Fra Will
liams; Asst, Eli Kuhns.
Barnett, Redclytfe-Joseph Hall.
jerks, Marienville-J. w. Morri.
son; Assts, Daniel Moriarty, P. v.
Mereilliott.
jerks, Byrom-Ed. Klabbatz.
jerks, Gilfoyle-W. S. Davis. d.
Hickory-H. w. Ledebur; Asst,
Jonathan Albaugh.
GEO. w. SAWYER, Chairman.
G. M. AGNEw, Secretary.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1888-08-08

The Democratic organs have now a
new trouble on hand. They have
failed to get Chairman Quay to agree
with them that General Harrison
ought not to make any more speeches,
and so they have concluded to be
dreadfully afraid that the proposed
demonstration in honor of Mr.. Blaine's
return home is going to cause General
Harrison to be forgotten, 1t would
be such a great hardship to the Dem.
ocratic papers to have General Harri.
son forgotten that they couldn't put
up with it, Of course. But they should
not worry themselves unnecessarily.
There is no more danger that General
Harrison will be forgotten than there
was probability that Chairman Quay,
in response to the anxiety of the Dem.
ocratic organs, would try to prevent
the Republican candidate from max.
ing any more speeches. Mr.. Blaine
will be quite certain to do a good deal
TO assure our Democratic friends that
General Harrison is not forgotten, and
the whole country will turn in a few
months later to fix him as a pretty
steady figure in the public mind for
the next four or five years at least.