Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1890-05-09

o why will you worry friend with your
Though sorrow is lighter that any one
shares'
Right Yourself; don't admit
Yon're discouraged and hit.
He has burdens enough of his own that he
bears.
Tho dor next door who has grudge
AGAINST the moon. would never be missed.
Messrs l.. stein Il Son have received
their spring stock of dress goods, white
goods, embroidery, lace curtains. tides,
drapery, etc. Read their new locals in
this paper.
There are "A 900 public school teachers
and S, 1000 males. During the past year
547 new school houses were erected and
over s266. 600 in excess of ls9s Were spent
on school property.
The epitaph which Henri Watterson
prepared for IA friend in Il moment ot en-
thusiasm the other day would fit men here
aud there all over this country; Here
lies Tom Ochiltree. lie never did any
thing else.
An eminent physician says: Il have
never known dyspeptic to recover vigor-
Gus health who undertook to live after
strictly regulated diet, and | have never
known an instance of healthy person liv
ing according to a dietetic system who did
not become dyspeptc
The inside dimensions of the vault for
the new bank are 6xl0 feet. 1t will con
tain fifty safe deposit boxes, burglar
proof safe and shelving for books. The
walls are thirteen and nine inches, with an
omen space of four inches between them,
which connects with the fue from the
furnace.
Now that the roads are good do not
forget that when wet weather comes they
will be bad, impossible, preventing your
reaching market. Now is the time to put
them in condition to resist the disintegra'
ting power of Jupiter Pluvius. Don't
adopt the policy Of the Arkansas Farmer
who wouldn't roof his house when it didn't
rain and couldn't roof it when il did.
internal Reyenue Commissioner Mil
le, has decided. that Oh all butter, cOlored
artifcially, an internal revenue tax of two
cents a pound must be paid, the same as
on oleomargarine. The commissioners de-
cides that the use of annato or other color
ing matter is a fraud because it makes the
butter appear TO be of a better quality than
it really is. The question isj Will the
courts sustain the commissioner decl-
sion.
Inside the borough lines there are
several dangerous pieces of road at pres
ent. On the old Mercer road, in the
northwestern part of the town, just at the
line between the borough and township,
there was land slide few days ago, the
mud in the centre Of the road is about four
feet deep and there is wagon stuck in it.
The road up the Boyd hill in the south
eastern part of town is not much better,
and there are several other mud holes that
need draining and stoning Immediately.
ALI stamped envelopes which are
spoiled by mistakes committed in super
scribing, will be redeemed By the postoffice
department at their stamp value. Postage
stamps damaged by sticking together IN
warm or damp weather, or Tor other causes
before using, may be returned to the de-
partment and their value repaid to the pur
chaser or exchange for new stamps. All
redeemed envelopes and stamps are sent
by postmasters who redeem them to the
department and records of the same are
kept. These regulations are, we think, not
generally known at large and their publ
ton may be beneficial to a large number OF
people.
"A burglar won't stand any. chance at
all after while. 1t taxes all q burglar S
ingenuity now to get into houses and get
away with the plumber in safety, and the
constantly increasing devices to thwart
him keep him continually OH the alert.
The latest is the idea of a Toledo, Ohio,
genius who conceived the idea of setting Il
Photographic camera in his Office with
flash light attachment, and SO arranged
that on the office door being opened an
electric circuit was completed, the light
flashed and the intruder photographed. 1t
worked we'll. The first fellow he aught
was a colored janitor he had discharged,
and who, with his knowledge of the office
had determined to rob it. His camera had
a picture OF the janitor just as he entered
the door with his hand on the key, and
there was no denying such evidence.