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Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1888-01-13
Deaf, Dumb and Blind.

A Boston telegram says: Laura
Dewey Bridgmsn, who can neither
see, hear or speak, recently held re.
ception in commemoration of the 5Oth
anniversary of her entrance into the
Perkins Institution for the Blind, in
South Boston. Miss Bridgman en-.
tered the institution when she was
years old. DR.. Samuel G.. Howe,
now dead, the husband of Mrs Julia
Ward Howe. took charge OF the girl
when she came to Boston. She was
taught, after indomitable and pains
taking efforts, to write, read, spell,
knit and to converse with her teach
ers and with those who Knew the
mysterious language of the blind and
mute. The one sense left her, that
of touch, enabled her to do this Talk.
ing is carried on with the fingers.
She places her bands in those of Q
person acquainted with the language
and conversation is successfully car
ried on by means of a finger alphabet
As her studies progressed this child
of an unknowable world was taught
geography, arithmetic, algebra, geom.
etry, history and philosophy, until
now she ia as proficient in the ordn-
ary branches of learning as the aver
age person not handicapped by the
loss of natural powers. Mrs. julia
Ward Howe presided. and her re-
marks, as well as those of DR.. Ed
ward Everett Hale, Rev. DR.. A. A,
Miner, Rev. DIR. Phillip Brooks and
the aged Captain r B. Forbes, were
communicated to the blind, deaf and
dumb women in the same way as to
Miss Bridgman
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1888-01-13

In the town of Newport, Neb
men, women and children turned out
the other day to help arrest a salooI
keeper for selling liquor to a minor
The man produced gun and stood
off the crowd for q short time, but fl
nally surrendered his person ano
purse.
The are fully 80 centenarians
known to be living in New England
at the present time Of this number
ii live in Connecticut, in Rhode Is
land, 10 in Massachusetts, l6 in Me,
in New Hampshire, and in Yer
mont. The oldest of all is Giles Ben
son. of Castleton, Vt, lis years Of
age.
Drunkenness or the LiqOur
Habit Positively Cured by ad-
ministering DR.. Haines' Golden
Specific.
1t can be given in q cup OF coffee
Or tea without the knowledge
or the person taklDg IL, lr
absolutely harmless and will effect q
permanent and speedy cure.
whether the patient is q moderate
drinker or an alcoholic wreck.
Thousands of drunkards have been
made temperate men who have taken
the Golden Specific in their coffee with
ont their knowledge, and to-day be-
lieve they quit drinking of their own
free-will. IT NEVER FAILS. The
system once impregnated with the
Specific it becomes au utter Impossi-
bility for the liquor appetite to exist.
For full particulars, address GOLD
EN- SPECIFIC Co., 1S5 Race St,
Cincinnati, Ohio.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1888-01-13
What HPeculiarD Means

Applied to Hoods Sarsaparilla, the
word Peculiar is OF great Importance.
1t seems that Hoods Sarsaparilla is
different from other preparations in
many vital points, which make it u
thoroughly honest and reliable medi-
cine. 1t is Peculiar, in q strictly me-
dicinal sense; first, in the combIna-
tioD of remedial agents used; second.
in the proportion in which they are
prepared; hird, in the process by
which the active curative properties
Of the medicine are secured. Study
these points we'll They mean vol
nmes They make Hoods Sarsspa-
rlla Peculiar in i's curative powers,
as it accomplishes wonde ful cures
hitherto unknown. and which give to
Hoods Sarsaparilla q clear right to
title of "The greatest blood purifier
ever discovered"
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1888-01-13
The Dog T ak.

Below is law passed at the last
session of the Legislature that may
interest some of our borough read
erS:
Be it enacted, &c, That, from and
after the passage of this act, all taxes
on dogs, levied and collected under
existing laws for borough purposes
within this Commonwealth, may be
appropriated for the support and
maintenance of public libraries now
organized, or that may hereafter be
organized,i in said boroughs respective
~: Provided, That such library
companies shall provide and maintain
free reading room for the use of all
inhabitants of said boroughs: Provid-
ed further, That this act shall not ap-
ply to any borough until such public
library has been established
Approved the 23d day of May, A
ID. 1887,
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1888-01-13

We have never been abls to un-
dsrstand why every newspaper and
everybody else denounces the "saw
dust" swindlers as men who deserve
hanging yet never have a word OF
condemnation for the men who get
swindled in attempting to patrcnlze
them. What is the difference be-
tween the man who sells $4,000 in
counterfeit money to another who
Knows exactly what he is buying, and
he man who dupes hundred per-
sons by passing off single bill on
every one Of them! Isn't the last
named man the biggest rascal of the
two, many times over ? No attempt
is ever made to punish the rascal who
tries to buy the counterfeit stuff, al
though the seller is denounced beyond
measure. Between the two we gee
DO difference; the methods are some
dissimilar but the scoundrelism is
identical
Thousands Of children who die
annually of those diseases incident
to early childhood, could have been
saved by DR.. Bulls Baby Syrup.
The painful consequences of impru-
dencc 10 eating is speedily removed
aud the depression is quickly Danish
ed by the use of Laxador, % cents.
This is an advertising and adver-
tised age II you do not keep your
business constantly before the public
some one more enterprising will step
in front Of you and crowd you back
into obscurity.
My boy (three years old) was
recently taken with cold in the head.
1t seemed finally to settle in his nose,
which was stopped up for days and
nights 80 that it was difficult for him
to breathe and sleep. l called a
physician who prescribed, but did
him no good. Finally | went to the
drug store and got bottle of EIy's
Cream Balm 1t seemed to work
like magic. The boys nose was clear
in two days, ord he has been all right
ever since. j Hazard, n. Y.
Don't lick postage stamps, ,girlies.
A young lady at Etna had her tongue
poisoned doing it, Make the hired
girl do it if your beau isn't about.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1888-01-13
WONDERFUL CHANGES.
The Far Seeing Take Advant-
age of Them in Time.

Is this country unconsciously un-
dergoing a wonderful change,to take
place before we are aware of the fact,
and when it has taken place will we
wonder why we did not see it before
it was too late?
Those that see the changes early
avail themselves early, and thereby
receive benefit.
The shrewd iron man sees the iron
interest transferred from PittsburS
and Pennsylvania to Birmingham,
A Alabama, and in his farsightedness
sees the furnaces in Pennsylvania torn
down and deserted for this new and
prolific field
We have seen the grain growing
centers of this country shifted to the
West. We have seen the pork.pack-
ing industry fit from Cincinnati 10
Chicago, and from thence to Kansas
City and Omaha. Southern cotton
mills undersell New England and
American markets, and challenge the
world.
We have seen and are seeing all
this take place before our eyes, and
know that other changes are taking
place equally as prominent, and we
wonder as we behold them. Ten
years ago the insurance companies
required an analysis of the fluids On
ly when they were taking insurance
tor very large amounts. To-day no
6rst.class company will insure any
amount unless rigid analysis is had
of the fluids passed, and if any traces
of certain disorders are apparent, the
application is rejected. In their re-
ports they show that the death OF
sixty of every loo people in this
country. is due either directly or indi-
rectly to such disorders. The Bromp
ton Hospital for Consumptives, Lon
don, England, reports that sixty OF
every 100 victims of consumption
also have serious disorders of the kid
neys.
Among scientists for the treatment
of this dread malady the question Is
being discussed
"Is not this disorder the real cause
of consumption Z"
Ten years ago the microscope was
something seldom found in physlc-
ian's Office; now every ply siclan OF
standing has one and seldom visits
his patients without calling for sam
pie of fluids for examination.
| Why is all this !? Is it possible
that we of the present generation are
to die of diseases caused by kidney
disorder ? or shall we master the
cause by WarDer's safe cure, the only
recognized specific, and thus remove
the effects !? 1t is established beyond
doubt that very large percentage
of deaths in this country are traceable
to diseased kidneys For years the
proprietors of Warmers safe cure
have been insisting that there is no
sound health when the kidneys are
diseased, and they enthusiastically
press their specific for this. terrible
disorder upon public attention.
This means wonders
| Cannot the proprietors of this great
remedy, who have been warning us
of the danger, tell US how to avoid a
disease that at first is so unimportant.
and is so fatal in it's termination
Are we to hope against hope, and
wait without reward
1t was formerly thought that the
kidneys were of very small Importance
to-day, we believe, it is generally ad
mitted that there can be no such
thing as sound health in any organ
| if they are in the least degree derapg
ed
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1888-01-13
Effect of Drinks on the Throat.

Tea, coffee and cocoa are three ad
missible drinks, but none in excess.
For the voice cocoa is the most DeDe'
fetal. 1t should never be made too
strong, and those cocoas are the best
that have been deprived of their oil
A cup of thin cocoa just warm is more
to be recommended between the ex
ertions of singing than any alcoholic
beverage. Tea Gust not be taken too
strong nor when it had drawn toe
long, for tea then becomes acid enc
has has q bad influence upon the
mucous membrane of the throat.
There is always a dry sensation
after having taken emp of tea that
has been allowed to draw too loug
A vocalist had better do without
sugar in tea aud only take mil witt
it. American Druggist.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1888-01-13
Don't

let that cold of yours run on. You
think it is a light thing. But it may
run into catarrh. Or into pneumonia.
Or consumption.
Cats.rrh is disgusting. Pneumon-
ia is dangerous. Consumption is
death itself.
The breathing apparatus must be
kept healthy and clear of all obstruc
tions and offensive matter. Other.
wise there is trouble ahead.
All the diseases of the parts, head,
nose, throat, BRONCHIAL tubes and
lungs, can be delightfully."- and entire.
ly cured by the use of Boschee's Ger
man Syrup. you don't know this
already, thousands aud thousands ol
people can tell you. They have cur
ed by it, and know how 1t Is, them
selves" Bottle only Is cents. Ash
any druggist.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1888-01-13
THE CITIZEN.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The Panama Canal.


The Panama Canal, or rather "The
Inter will be. when COM
pleted about 55 miles long. So far
about Is miles haye been dredged
out on the Chagres, and portion OF
the mountain at Culebra has been
blasted out. This is all the work OF
contractors, not of the French. The
American Dredging Co. have done
their work nobly, while the French
dredges have lain idle and rusted
along the shores of the Chagres The
chief aim of French employe seems
to be to drink absinthe. cognac and
claret, and wear a cork hat and top
boots. They are extremely clannlsh,
and view Americans as an Inferior
race of animals. The canal company
purpose building dam across be-
tween two mountains near Gamboa
This they calculate will give them
lake of some marvellous capacity, so
if the Atlantic and Pacific oceans
ever dry up they can turn on faucet
and fill the canal without soiling their
kid gloves. This is all very fine in
theory Ode Lesseps), but the Cha
gres river rises sometimes 27 feet In
| "a hours, and should it take q notion
to do 80 after this mythical lake is
| completed, it would soon show that
Gamboa was not worth a dam. No
profanity intended. NJ. de Lesseps
| is an imaginative man; he is man
of great ideas, but he did not "look
before he leaped." Judging by pres
ent prospects the canal may be COM
pleted by the year 1875, when the
second centennial of this grand re-
| public will be celebrated Supposing,
for example only, that the canal
could be completed by the French
company in ten years, an investor In
it's bonds would be centenarlan be-
fore he received a decent return on
bis investment, provided he was 2l
years of age to-day. By cooking up
| favorable reports on q gas stoye the
French manage ment have baggeo
millions of dollars, but the game Is
nearly played out.
M. de Lesseps has built town on
a negro graveyard at Colon, which
he calls Cristoval Colon. He has
taken possession of the bronze statue
of Christopher Columbus, which was
presented by Empress Eugene, OF
France, to Colon itself as being one
of the first places visited in the ne"
world by the great discoverer. This
he has erected in front Of his palace
facing seaward, so as to welcome hin
when he sees fit to cross the waters
Here at Christoval Colon, are collect
ed his faithful satellites. Most o
them are like the lilies as they grow
"they neither toll. nor do they spin,
vet they use up lots of brandy, yer
mouth and gin. As an old residen
on the Isthmus of Panama, and I
locker on at all the doings of the 81
called canal. 1 do not hesitate to stig
matize the thing itself, 30 far, as de
ceit and snare. Doubtless the com
pany hope to complete the canal a
some future day by aid of the "rain,
seasons but that will take some cen
turies. What is required is coo
American brains, American energy
American capital and the thing will
be success, thing of to-day, not q
it promises now, to be regarded il
years to come as failure and fossl
enterprise.-Colon Cor. New Oriean
Times Democrat.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1888-01-13
Leap Year.

Leap till the last armed male expires;
Leap for your husbands and for sires;
Leap for chance to build the fires,
Fair ones throughout the land.
Part Of the keel of the first ship
ever built at Duluth was laid on Moo
day. She will be ls0 feet long, built
entirely of steel.
"A Nevada ranchman, to protect
his cattle from tie effects OF blizzards,
has painted them all with mixture
of tar, red clay aud linseed oil.
"A negro thief was found lying
dead. near Wilmington, N. c., by the
body of hog be had stolen and kill
ed. 1t was enident that while trying
to carry the hog away he bad strain
ed himself and apparently died in
stantly Of heart disease.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1888-01-13
These long evenings should be

These long evenings should be
employed in laying up stores of use
fui knowledge. Yet, how mourntul
the spectacle;many Of our young boys
and girls are on the streets until late
at night. This is not as it should be.
Over 5000 acres of good timber
land near Hawkinsville. Ga, sold at
auction recently for S58. Some OF
the land went for less than } d cent
an acre.
"A party Of SO Russians, Firms,
Italians, Swedes and Greeks became
inmates of the poor house at Bangor,
Me-, last week. They walked there
from the line of the Canadian Pacific
Railway.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1888-01-13
II is Well to Rem ber

That economy is great revenue.
That not every one who dances is
glad.
That it is as natural to die as to be
born.
That the road is never long to a
friends house.
That we have oil forgotten more
than we remember,
That busy lives, like busy waters,
are generally pure.
That labor disgraces no man, while
man disgraces labor.
That the strongest men are often
the most tender hearted.
That life is too short to be spent in
minding other peoples business.
That he who buys hath need of a
hundred eyes, and he who sells hath
enough of one.
That inclination never wants an
excuse, and if one won't do, there are
dozen others ready at hand.-Good
Housekeeping.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1888-01-13

n IN Ils II Rewarded are those who read Ii Is
VII Ill VaDd then act; they will find ho n
HIl \ orable employment that VIII r OF
VI = take them from their homes and
FAMILIES. The pronts are large and sure for
every industrious person. many have made and
are low making several hundred dollars a
month. IL Us easy for any one to make s. and
upwards per day, who Is willing to work. Either
sex. young or old; capital not needed; We Hart
you. Everything new. No special ahflity re-
gniieu' you, reader can do It as well AZ any one
Wri,s 10 us at once for full particulars, which we
mall free. Address stinson & Co., Portland. Me.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1888-01-13

Mitchell Stone, who was arrested
at White Plains the other day for
stealing horses in Massachusetts,, +, may
very properly be called the king OF
horse thieves. By his own confession
he has stolen more than thousand
horses in New England and in East.
ern New York during the past 20
years.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1888-01-13

AT Parkersburg, Pa, two houses
are being erected which will have pa.
per walls, paper partit ions and paper
roofs.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1888-01-13

The gum surface Of postage
stamp should never be placed on the
tongue. Moisten the other side OF
the stamp and the corner of the ep-
velope, or the latter only, and the
stamp will stick for all its worth.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1888-01-13
Important Questions.

Are you troubled with Dyspepsia
or diseases Of the Blood. Liver, Kid
neys or Bladder? II so, Dr. TUFTS
Pills will surely cure you. AS blood
purifier they have no equal. Sold
every where,
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1888-01-13


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The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1888-07-05

The department of state at Washing
ton having received the twelfth install
ment Of Mexican indemnity, announces
that it is now prepared to distribute the
same among the parties interested.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1888-07-05
THE GREAT STRIKE IS ON.
ovsR 100000 IRON WORKERS OUT
or EMPLOYMENT.
ALL TIE WESTERN MILLS CON-
PELtND TO SHUT DOWN.

The Conference Between the Ama1ga-
mated Association and the Iron Manu-
facturers Only Serves to Hasten the
Inevitable.--Both Sides Firm and the
Chances Good for q Prolonged Fight.
PIrTsBURG, June 30.-The iron work
ers' strike is now ON, and by noon the
mills will be idle. The conference of the
wage committees of the Amalgamated
and the iron manufacturers
was short and decisive. The workers
stated that the lodges
had voted upon the question
of reduction and decided
unanimously to reject it. The
manufacturers then stated that they
would not pay the present wages. There
was but little discussion, and The confer
ence adjourned. The member of the as
sociation went into consultation at once
at their headquarters, and will have
their scale presented to the ynanufactur
ers to sign or reject as they see proper.
Should all mills close down fully 100,
600 men will be affected.
Ia al interview NJ. n. Werner, Of the
pittsburg Forge ami Iron company, said
the shutdown would be complete.
The statement that the mills
were closing for repairs is untrue.
They are closing because the manu-
facturers will not pay the present
wages. He said further that it was i'm
possible to predict the outcome, but one
thing was certain-the manufacturers
would not sign the scale unless there
was an advance in the price Of iron.
They will not consent to arbitration,
and the wages must be 50 per ton or
nothing. The workmeIl are equally de-
termined to stand out for the scale, and
from the present indications the struggle
will be protracted and bitter. In this
city %, 500 will be thrown out of en-
ployment by the strike, and in the
West it is estimated that not less
than $4,000 men will be affected.
Among other interests affected by the
strike will be the railroad freight bust
ness and coke trade. Suspension of
work in the mills means the banking up
of blast furnaces, and as consequence
the shutting down generally of coke
ovens in the Connellsville region.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1888-07-05
Whistles of All SortA,

The primary idea of whistle lies in
the making of column of air to vibrate,
in whatever condition AS there is no
lack of means or methods for doing this,
the infinite diversity of the forms Of the
apparatus for producing the vibrations
and the resultant sounds Is q matter Of
course. The most general form Is the
human whistle, which one can make
sound-after a fashion-without much
preliminary training; but many musicians
have made themselves masters Of its In
donations to such degree that, instead
of the usual inharmonious and unmethod-
ical discords, they can render with 1t the
most difficult passages Of elaborate mu-
steal notes. I shall not dwell upon the
means that may be employed to make the
sounds sharper and to modulate their
tones. Every one knows what effects are
produced by inserting the fore and second
fingers SO as to turn the tongue slightly
back as the column Of air passes over it..
or by sending the blast over the outside
Of the bent fingers.
If we seek other primitive whistles, we
have them in the hollow barreled key, the
terror of authors and comedians; the fam
Gus willow whistle, cut when the twig is
most sappy; the green dandelion stem,
split along it's length; the nut shell be-
tween the fingers; the cherry stone, which
school boys grind down SO patiently on
the soles of the shoes and bore with hole;
the buckhorn, and all the other things
which we are fond Of contriving, In our
early youth, with which to split the ears
of our parents and teachers.-M. L. Gu
tode in Popular Science Monthly.