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Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1888-09-07
Prospects for Sugar on the Pa
cific.

I The whole of tine Pacific States
and Territories can, no doubt, pro-
duce six TO seven million tons, enough
to supply 30 per cent more than tie
present consumption of all civilized
countries. That consumption, though,
is increasing very rapidly, and it
doubles in the United States in about
twenty years. Thus in that time it
would absorb all possible production
production of the State The value
of 3, 10000 tons of sugar would, at
cents per pound, be close on three
hundred and fifty million dollars per
annum To obtain it one has to go
abroad. Besides the return to the
farmer, the industry gives steady
employment at the rate of about one
man to every $4,000 pounds OF sugar.
The total product of all the sugar
lands in California would, therefore.
give work to not less than $50 600
men, representing population of |,
60U, 900, including traders, manufac-
turers, wives, children, etc. II would.
besides. give support to d great and
varied industry. 1t would need 81,
100000 barrels to contain the sugar,
and thus give support to a vast COOP
erage industry and lumber interest.
The engines would consume 10 bar
rels of oil to each ton, or 53. 900 900
barrels to the total possible product
ion of the State This would. no
doubt, exhaust all the crude oil that
California can produce. The use of two
per cent slake lime would call for over
400, 900 barrels of lime q year The
machinery needed, too, in these mills
would cost S4S 100000, and would
require renewing say every fifteen
years, thus creating foundry busi-
ness of over 100000 year. An
immense quantity OF coal would be
consumed, so that it would give sup
port to great mining interest. And
we have not yet nigh exhausted the
the list of all the new industries that
this great one would support. We
have delineated its possibilities.
1t would, of course, take long
series of years to arrive at the results
here presented. That it is possible
under any circu instances may be
known from the fact that the last |
sugar made cost 4.S4 cents per |
pound, and that it is stated on good
authority it can be laid down in San
Francisco for 81 cents per pound, so
that California can easily hold her
own in beet sugar producti on.-San
Francisco journal.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1888-09-07
A HypnotiZed Man Turning
RObber.

May one who is free from vicious
tendencies be made to commit crime
while hvphotized. which he or she,
with full command of faculties, would
regard with adherence =? Expert
ments both here and abroad have
abundanty Illustrated the wonderful
power possessed by the operator over
his subject; the latter wholly subor-
dinating his will: acting, speaking,
and, to all appearance, even thinking
and seeing as directed A recent ia
yeetigator, NJ. w. A Croffut, would
seem to have gone step further on
the road to practical accomplishment
by inducing his subject to actually
rob house; a Encouragement, of
course, the agent, however, having
no knowledge of this. This agent,
whom Mr. Croffut described, in u re-
cent paper, as of known probity, set
out, while in hypnotic state, to rob
neighboring house, which, together
with the means of entrance, was fully
described to him; being told that
heap of gold was to be found in a
certain apartment The operators
assistant accompanying him declares
that, after gathering up the imaginary
treasures and putting it in the bag
provided him, the subject proceeded
to purloin other articles. so thorough
ly aroused was his cupidity, and get
ting safely out evinced an inclination
to fly with the treasure instead of re-
turning and dividing with the opera.
tor, as was agreed. Another subject,
under similar influence, took pistol,
supposed to be bat not really loaded,
and, aiming it at his heart, as direct
ed, pulled the trigger.
If from these and similar investiga-
tions it should become apparent that
oil manner of real crimes NAV be
committed by innocent persons while
in this hypnotic or mesmeric condi-
ton, and if the vicious, having power
as that evidently possessed by Mr..
Croffut and others, should actually
employ the unsuspecting and unsus-
pected as their agents, how would
society protect itself E? How could
the innocent agents be distinguished
from those not under such influence,
but setting up the claim when caught
only to avoid punishment? A really
honest clerk, with the keys of his en-
ployer;s Office and safe in his possess
sion, might be made, should he fall
under such influence, to commit
burglary; the heir to an estate might
be induced to kill HIMSELF q trust
worthy servant to commit murder or
arson.
These are interesting psychological
questions; questions, it may be said,
which are by no means beneath the
dignity of science to inquire into.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1888-09-07
Trespassing Prohibited.

At this season of the year farmers
are greatly annoyed by the depreda-
tions of trespassers, some of whom
carry off fruit, let down fences SO that
cattle can get into fields and destroy
the growing grain, or commit other
unlawful acts either through thought
lessness or maliciousness. The own
ers of lands have legal remedy
against all who trsspass upon their
property. In March, 1860, q bill was
passed by the State Legislature, max
ing it misdemeanor for any person
TO carry off fruit, or to destroy fruit
on another mans premises. The act
was first passed for Huntingdon couu-
ty, but the same year was extended
to four or FIVE other counties. The
next year the law was made general
over the State 1t provides that the
person offending shall upon conyic-
tion be fined not less than S. nor
more than $50, one half to 60 to the
intormer and the other half to the
owner of the land; and in default of
payment the offender shall undergo
Imprisonment of one day for every
dollar Of fine imposed.
Forty tramps in Jail at Dover,
Del, refused work paying 81 per day.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1888-09-07
NO. Al
He Is Strong in England.
Pit, bnrg Chron. Telegraph. !

Pit, bnrg Chron. Telegraph
County Recorder w. III. Graham
arrived in the city this morning from
un extended tour of Europe looking
hale aud henry and in the best OF
health aod spirits lie was accompa-
MED by Thomas Ward. of Pittsburg.
The Recorder had about twenty canes
with him which he secured in differ
ent parts of Europe. and which he
will present to friends In speaking
of Europe as he found 1t, Mr. Grab
am said: II think If Mr.. Cleveland
was running for President in England
be would surely be elected. Had
not been Republican before / left
here would surely be one now. A
person does not need to investi-
gate to find out how the sentiment
in England is running. Why, actu-
ally. YOU could not go into n hotel, a
resta r ln'. or even store, but you
would find everybody for Cleveland.
| bad talk with number of Eng-
lishmen. and they told me they were
hoping for his re election, so that he
could carry out his free trade doc
trines They said that they hoped
then to have England restored to her
original place, a. the largest manu-
featuring country in the world. i ask
ed them if they really thought free
trade in the United States would
benefit them, at which they were
greatly amused aud said that after
tree trade was adopted in the United
States it would only be few months
until every workshop and mill i'm
England would be running full blast.
Il hope. however, that the day will
never come when the United States
will be like Eugiand / spent some
time 10 ascertaining the wages paid
workingm"u in Europe, aud 10 actu-
ally ast"unded me got on street
ear in London oce day. aud i'm a con-
versati0n With the conductor, asked
him what wages were paid him. He
told me twenty four cents q day, and
that be worked from six o'clock i'm the
morning until ten, eleven and twelve
o'clock at night. This il only one
example There are thousands just
like.it that i could enumerate Il
found that all through England, and,
in feet, the most of Europe, the wa
ges paid men were so to 60 per cent
lower than those paid American
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1888-09-07
A Sand Storm at Sea.


The British steamship Glenshiel,
from the East Indies, recently arrived
at New York, reports sand storm
which occurred on the evening of
July 10, while the vessel was max
ing for Suez. When half way up the
Red Sea most terrific sand storm, j.,
which lasted nearly ten hours, sud-
denly swept down. 1t was impossi-
bic to see anything a ships length
away. The wind blew a gale, and it
was found to be dangerous expert
ment to stay on deck for any length
of time. The sand was hot, and
when it came into contact with the
body, would sting like the point of a
knife.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1888-09-07
Population of Russia.

Government statistics recently pub
lished place the population of the
Russian empire at 10S,7S7, 235, OF
which Sl,725, ,lS5 are in Russia pro.
per, 10, ,136,725 are in the other pro-
vinces of Russia in Europe, and l6.-
925, 1926 in Asiatic Russia. st. Pc
tersburg is the most populous city,
with total of SCI, 1903. The popu-
lation of Moscow is 753, AGO, of War
saw asa, 1893, and of Odessa 100000.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1888-09-07
Journalistic Profits.

This is the way a country editor
keeps his subscription book-he never
has bat one.
Tom Brown, settled.
Jack Smith, eggs.
Jim Jones, fish.
Pat Boke, butter.
John Finch, whisky.
II. Gray, whisky.
JEFF Pink, meat.
Bob Rud, on house rent.
Tom Paine, CASHi!ii
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1888-09-07

At Manistee, Mich, girls feed
the planers in the hoop and do
other light work. They also do the
sacking at the dairy salt works, and
make from 81 to $l.25sper day.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1888-09-07
Three Of a Kind.

Since Belva Lockwood got into
The President tussle
The paralyzing fact is learned:
She doesn't wear n hustle.
This ought not TO hurt her cause;
The simple trath is, neither
OF the other candidates
Wears hustle either.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1888-09-07

mems of noble manhood, complete i'm
health, strength and endurance. Their
wholesome remedies are reproduced
in this later age, in Wsrner's Log
Cabin Sarsaparilla and Warmers
"Tippecanoe."
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1888-09-07
Stewart & Patterson.

A. NJ. STEWART and S. A. PATTERSON, Con-
tractors and Builders, are both men OF years of
experience I'm fire house building and framing.
All persons thinking of building will do well
to see them and look over their designs.
Residence on Fairview Ave-, Springuale.
POStOffice, Butler Pa.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1888-09-07
Sure Death to Buffalo Moths.

A lady correspondent sends US the
following: Take strips of red or blue
flannel Gas these colors are particu-
larly attractive to them). dip in Ii
quid arsenic and lay around the edge
of carpets. or wherever the pests are
troublesome. They will soon eat
desired amount and collapse, to the
entire satisfaction of the housewife,
without the least injury to her car
pets.
Philadelphia hotel men calculate
they give away $4,000 worth of sta
tionery a year to letter writing friends
who don't pay the hotels q cent.
-RicharG Johnson, jailed at Lam
berton, North Carolina, for polygamy,
confesses that "to the best of his
knowledge" he has fifteen wives now
living.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1888-09-07
blue Juniata."

In the Youths Companion is 6
reprint of one of the prettiest of Penn
sylvania songs, with some explana
tory notes as follows:
Forty years ago every one knew
the song blue Juniata." 1t was a
simple song, but it took the popular
fancy, and children were named for
"Alfarata," the Indian girl, and 80
were boats; but the name was grad
ually changed to Alfaretta or Alfretta
The words ran:
Wild roved an Indian girl,
Bright Alfarata.
Where sweep the waters
OF the blue Juniata.
Swift as an antelope,
Through the forest going,
Loose were her jetty locks,
In waving tresses flowing.
Gay was the mountain song,
OF bright A lfarata,
Where sweep the waters
OF the blue Juniata.
Strong and true my arrows are
In my painted quiver,
Swift goes my light canoe
Adown the rapid river.
Bold is my warrior good,
The love of Alfarata;
Proud waves his snowy plume
Along the Juniata.
Soft and low he speaks to me,
And then his war cry sounding,
Rings his voice in thunder loud,
From height to height resounding.
So sang the Indian girl,
Bright Alfarata;
Where sweep the waters
Ofthe blue Juuiata.
Fleeting years have borne away
The voice of Alfarata;
Still sweeps the river on,
Blue Juniata.
The Juniata is a wild and beauti-
ful river formed by the union of three
smaller rivers that rise in the Allie
gheny Mountains and unite near
Huntingdon, Pa. The main stream
is $50 miles long, and it flows through
the picturesque Juniata Valley until
it loses itself in the broad Susque-
hanna River about mile from Dun
cannon. The Iriquois Indians used
to live in this valley, and Junlata is.
an Iriquois word. 1t was sometimes
written Choniata The song was
composed by Mrs. Marion Dix Sulli-
van, the wife of John W. Sullivan,
of Boston. Mrs. Sullivan was born
in 1902 in Boscawen, N. H, near the
beautiful Merrimac River. She was
TIE daughter of Colonel Timothy
Dix and the sister of General John A.
Dix, of New York. She died in 1860.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1888-09-07
HUSELTON1S

For their Boots and Shoes They do it because he
has the largest stock to select fom because they
and do rely what he tells them about the goods.
No two or three prices-same to all. No tricky ad-
vertisng done such goods at As cts, 60 cts. etc.
No auction SAMPLE LOTS, put in as would make
believe at so cents on the dollar, but fresh
styles made to order by the best manufacturers in the
country to-day. You always want to keep an eye
open the fellow that says he is giving his goods
away at so cts the dollar. Either he or the
goods is considerably off colour.
Our selection is large in Ladies' Shoes of all
kinds at $780, $l25, $3.50, So 90 and up to 81 so
We don't say they worth twice the money ask
for them; to come quick, never get such chance
again; and at your price, and all such nonsense;
but do say that nowhere you find their equals,
especially $l.25, Sl.50 and $500 Kid Button
Boots They are genuine Kid and Dongola warrant
ed, and very handsome styles in all widths and
shapes and intend to try to supply all customers
that want these goods. if we can get them fast
enough from the factory. Have had some trouble
lately account of our rapidly increasing trade
these shoes to get them fast enough to meet tie de-
mand.
We intend to extend this opportunity to you of
getting these goods at any time as we intend to keep
full stock at all times (They not shop
sample shoes.) Hence, if it don't suit you to
this week, come next, we intend to get them in
quantities to meet the demand. Some say, "Strke
while the iron is hot You can strike any day or
hour at Huseltons and find the iron hot.
See our Ladies', Misses and Children's Slippers.
Lace Oxfords, Opera, very fine at so cts and up.
Wigwam, Lawn Tennis in Ladies, Gents, Misses and
Chldrens
Our sales are very large in Mems Fine Shoes, in
Button Balls and especially in Congress. We have all
styles, widths and prices from $lOO and up. You
should stop in and see our new lines in Boys and
Youths Shoes, the finest we have shown. They
are sellers. Why they sell themselves. Don't for
get to look at immense stock of Misses and
Childrens Spring Heel Shoes the finest and best fit
ting goods for the least money of any goods in this
country. We warrant every pair
Mems, Boys and Youths Brogans, Plow Shoes,
Box-toe Kip Shoes for oil country at low prices,
Please bear in mind that in buying at Huseltons you
protected in prices, styles and wear. Come and
B. G. HUSELTON,
No an. MAIN ST. BUTLER, PA.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1888-09-07

They say the light of the moon
is equal to $4,000, ,00O, ,000, , ,0O0r r00e
candles.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1888-09-07

Loo CABINS can hard
ly be considered hand
some or elegant, but
they were fit habitations
for the rugged pioneers
of America. Our ances-
tors were rurrpd snsrf-
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1888-09-07
SOME PEOPLE PREFER CHEAP, SH0DDI
BOOTS AND SHOES,

While the Great Majority of the People of Butler Go.
Want Solid, Good, Reliable Boots and Shoes
Worth the money they pay. The latter go to
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1888-01-12
yfiahssippi's ss, 900 Maidstone.

A day or two ago Mr.. b. L. Milan, an
old and respected citizen Of Waterford,
Miss, called at The Avalanche Office and
exhibited q maidstone that has a history.
II was brought to Alabama from China
In 1910 by DR.. William Barker, who
used il with success for several years. at
his death it was sold to Jarvis Milan,
the father of The Ayalanche's visitor,
and four others. Milan moved to Mis-
sissippi in 1885, and took the stone with
him. having bought out the interest of
his partners. He died in 1910 and left
the stone TO his son. The present pro-
prietor has used it in 1880 cases, for
bites Of rabid dogs, cows and horses, be-
sides spider and snake bites, and he
asserts that it did not fail to effect a cure
in a single instance when applied before
paroxysms had set in.
The stone is porous, Of a light cream
color, an inch and a quarter in diameter
and weighs n ounce. 1t has been
broken in five places, and is amended with
silver bands. When a person is bitten
the wound is first carefully washed with
warm water, a mop being used to guard
against danger to the operator from in
fected blood or pus. The stone is then
bound tightly upon the affected part and
left there from two to fifteen hours, ac-
cording to the freshness of the bite-the
older it is the longer the time necessary.
When removed it is found to have abb
sorbed a quantity Of blood or pus from
the wound. 1t is then washed clean in
warm water and Tried before a fire or
stove. Mr.. Milan , as been offered $1,000
foi his treasure, but refuses 10 sell. He
get a good revenue from it, charging
those patients who are able to pay, but its
virtues are more frequently called into
play to save the lives of unfortunates who
have nothing to give in return. 1t is to
Mr.. Milan S credit that these are lever
refused, and that he values the stone
most for the good it does to suffering hu-
mainly. He is greatly troubled lest at
his death his children should divide it up
md thus destroy its virtue Memphis
Avalanche.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1888-01-12
New Device for Catching NIckels.


A new device for catching nickels Is
just out, which as a novelty eclipses ito
competitors in weighing machines, minia-
ture steamboats, and locomotives seen
occasis nally in hotel lobbies and public
places where people congregate. This
machine is automatic like the others, and
consists of a stand of iron three feet high,
supporting a square box made Of wood,
two sides being panels Of glass TO admit
light and enable people to see the thing
work. Inside is a sort Of miniature
metal w~heelbarrow, tipped at an angle OF
about forty-five degrees. At the top Of
the box, directly over the ~wheelbarrow,
Is a square cut hole about an inch and a
half wide by three inches long, large
enough TO enable one TO drop a five cent
piece through into a slot below, which Is
between the two handles Of the barrow
and about q quarter Of an inch in width,
II the money is poised carefully over the
hole at the top and dropped SO as to fall
into the slot. the wner will see 1t roll
Into a little receptacle on the outside OF
the box opposite the end Of the barrow,
closely followed by another five cent
piece, which is his prize, besides getting
his first one back. Should ii again be
tried and the nickel strike the edges Of
the opening, which is about three or four
times its thickness, OF course il goes into
the lower part Of the inside Of the box,
thus adding 10 the treasury Of the owner
of the machine. = New York Evening
Sun.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1888-01-12

THE Butte papers will never let up
On Judge McLeary until they force
him to q point blank refusal to serve
that district or to a resignation. From
no fault Of his W the Texas Judge Ii
being subjected to persecution. Our
Judge Bach is left severely alone but
there may such a contingency arise
that in effecting q compromise he will
60 20 Butte and DeWolf-if con
frnIed-may reconsider his expressed
determination not to leave that city.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1888-01-12
Bill Nye and His Work.

A literary character who has come to
us from the west is making his way in
popularity. Edgar William Nye, as his
parents called him before he gave him
self the simpler name of Bill Nye, has in
all probability the largest daily mail Of
any newspaper man in New York. His let
ters are mainly from humorist cranks, q
newly developed fraternity of fools who
send him long pieces in as close imitation
Of his own writings as they are abb to
produce. These are sent neither for p.,b-
LEGATION nor, as he saws, 'as an evidence
of good faith" but simply, as it appears,
TO let the funny man know that others
can be as funny as himself, oil at least eau
try to be.
Bill Nye looks exactly like the pictures
that are made as caricatures of him. He
has enough hair at each side of his head
for an affidavit hat he is not bald, but
the whole top Of his head and his face
are hairless. He is tall and heavy, but
as ~ungraceful as Mark Twain. He is in
the neighborhood of Al or AZ, has a wife
and boy, and lives in more than mere
comfort i'm an uptown brown stone house.
His salary is 500 a week, and he has
contracted to write only for one journal.
He produces two articles-always one for
Sunday and a shorter n for the middle
of the week-and this he considers en-
joying a vacation. Before he came to
New York he wrote something almost
every day. He makes acquaintance
slowly, but is exceedingly liked by all
who know him, mainly because he is
thoroughly democratic and plain in his
manners New York Cor. C icago Her
aid.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1888-01-12
GOVERNOR SwIxEFoRp. of Alaska

GovERNoR SwISEFoRD. of Alaska,
has come again from the frozen north,
and Is now somewhere in the east.
The novel, 'See-Ssw," which wa.
written about him b, u niece OF Presi.
dent Cleveland, whom he jilted, has
made him many friends In this coun
Try, - 1t would have been q horrible
fate for any nan 10 marry a woman
who would write such q mess Of sorry
rot. "See-Ssw" 10 the great l~iterar,
monstrosity Of this generation, aud no
one who reads IL can censure Cover.
nor Swineford for giving Miss Cleve
land the cold shake and going h.
Alaska to escape her opportunities.
Besides, she has been engaged thre,
times before. There seems to be some.
thing wrong with the whole Cleve.
land family Inter Mountain.