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Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1890-11-21
Four Astonished Preac hers.

A good story is told of four Baptist
preachers who started to attend conven-
tion at Achor, o. Three of the number
were from Sharon and vicinity, while the
fourth hailed from New Castle. By a
strange misfortune they missed the train
at Wampum, and in hopes of catching it at
Darlington they hired team and were
driven across the country TO the latter
place. When they arrived there they
found that the train had departed some
minutes before. 1t was a wet day but be-
ing Baptists they didn't mind it, though
they seemed doomed to disappointment.
Then they sought and found hotel There
can be nothing vague about this for there
is only one hotel in that town. They en-
tered the office and registered. The good
preachers then retired to private room,
removed their overcoats, and seating them
selves around table called for the clerk.
"Well gentlemen, what can do for your
said the latter. give us the very best
you have in the house and just as soon as
possible" he clerk retired, and in few
moments returned with tray, four glasses
and picher of water and bottle of the
best in the house. The preachers looked
at each other, then at the clerk, after
which the room shook with the laughter
of the happy quartette. The clerk couldn't
catch on until one of thepreachers explain
I'd that it was big dinner they had order
cd, and not the whisky Here the curtain
falls; and whether the tempting liquor was
ordered back, summarily disposed of or
lett there to moralize over, deponent saith
not This is true story.-Beayer Falls
Journal
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1890-11-21
Watching the Clock.

As the Christian tHioa says, there IS O
deal OF common sense in this story lately
told of Edison, whether he said IT or not.
A gentleman went to the great electrician
with his young son, who was about to be
gin work as Office boy in well known
business house. The father asked Edison
for motto which the boy might take to
heart in his struggle for promotion and
success. After a moments pause, Edison
said laconically, Never look at the clockP'
Edison. meant, we take it, that the man
who is constantly afraid he is going to
work overtime or overhours doesn't stand
chance of competing with the man who
clears up his desk, no matter how long il
takes. The carpenter who drops his
hammer, upliited about his head, when the
whistle blows, is likely to remain n second
class workman all his life. The carpenter
who stays fifteen minutes to finish Job
is working toward shop of his own.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1890-11-21
A DOCTORS CONFESSION.
He Doesn't Take Much Med
icine and Advises the Report
er Not To.


"Humbugi OF course it is. The so. call
ed science OF medicine is a humbug and
has been from the time of Hippocrates to
the present Why the biggest crank in
the Indian tribes is the medicine map."
VERY frank was the admission, especial
ly SO when it came from one Of tho biggest
young physicians Of the city, one whose
practice is among the thousands, though
he has been graduated but. few years" /"
says the Buffalo Courier. VERY coy was
his office too, with its cheerful crate fire,
its Queen Anne furniture, and it's many
lounges and easy-chairs. He stirred the
on"
Take the prescriptions laid down in the
books and what do you tindf Poisons main
~, and nsuseating stuffs that would make
a healthy man an invalid. Why in the
world science should go to poisons for its
remedies cannot tell, nor can find any
one who can"
"How does doctor know the effect OF
scrbes, and goes away. The only way to
Judge would be to stand over the bed and
watch the patient. This cannot be done.
SO, really, don't know how he is TO tell
what good or hurt he does. Some time
ago, you remember, the Boston Globe sent
out reporter with stated set Of symptoms.
He went to eleven prominent physicians
and brought back eleven different pre-
scrptons. This just shows how much
science there is in medicine"
There are local diseases of various
positive remedies. They may not be in
Guided in the regular physicians list, per-
haps, because of their simplicity, but the
evidence Of their curative power is beyond
dispute Kidney disease is cured by
Warmers Safe Cure, strictly herbal
remedy. Thousands Of persons, every year,
write as does IL. J. Gardiner, of Pontiac,
Il. l., August z, 1890:
"A few years ago suffered more than
probably ever will be known outside OF
myself with kidney and liver complaint.
II is the old story-I visited doctor after
doctor, but 10 no avail. l was at Newport,
and DR.. Blackman recommended waruer's
| Safe Cure commenced the Use of it.and
found relief Immediately. Altogether
took three bottlos and | truthftilly state
ibat it cured me-"
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1890-11-21
Koch's Consumption Cure.

The news Of the successful working o.
Prof kooh's consumption cure make every,
thing in relation to it interesting to the
public. A Berlin dispatch of Monday says;
The Professor expects to have a new
stock of the germ destroying lymph ready
/ in two TO -four weeks. After that several
/ physicians and surgeons will be in a
I position to attend all surgical cousumptives
in the order in which they are booked.
Foreigners arriving previous to this time
must wait their turn. They are reasonably
sure TO have trial of the cure within q
few weeks. The number of patients crowd
ing in is sure to be tremendous"
Lung tuberculosis is the most difficult to
cure. The lymph must be inoculated six
or eight weeks in succession. Minister
Gossler has invited Prof Koch to demon
strate to him the manufacturing process of
the lymph
DIR. Bergman is to lecture on Koch's
methods, The influx of physicians to at
tend the lectures will be very great 1t is
thought that a representative American
medical man will be sent. Consumption
is the most fatal and dreaded disease of
the United States
welcome feature of the new discovery
is the fact that Prof Koch il not mercenary
over it, but wishes it to be known for the
benefit of mankind; also, that the fear of
the great cost of treatment is groundless.
dispatch from Berlin, says:
In accordance with his statement that
he desires neither material advantage nor
pecuniary reward for his discovery of
method for the cure Of consumption, Prof.
Koch will in two or three days publish
a full account of his researches in con-
nection with the discovery. The Frank
fort Zeitung affrms that the lymph used
for inoculating the patients will be within
the reach of all, and that it will cost only
% marks for a small phial. The success
of treatment is certain in tubercular
affections of the skin, joints and bones,
and also in the early stages Of pulmonary
complaints. The lymph destroys the tuber-
cular baccili. Several authorities confirm
the report of the cure by DIR. Koch's
method of a case of lupus on the face and
arms within five days. The lymph throws
off the baecil by the necrotic process.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1890-11-21
Remains OF Great Mastodon

The skeleton Of a mastodon found at Hi
gate. forty miles west of St. Thomas, Can
ada, is on exhibition in that town. The
area Of the grave where the monsters
bones were found is 35 by 81 feet The
bones were scattered over it, one joint fit
ting into the other in a bed of gray mari
about six feet below the surface. Over the
mari is a thick layer of black, loamy soil
The length of the animal, guaged by the
measurements of the bones already found,
and allowing for those that have not yet
been discovered, is, from the point of the
the nostril to the root of the tail, about
twenty two feet. This is greater than that
of the celebrated Mastodon giganteus dis
covered near Nevburg, N. Y. in the sum
mer of lS45, and the skeleton, as whole
Is larger and more complete than any that
have been found in Kentucky, Ohio, Mis-
souri, California or Oregon.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1890-11-21

Hundreds Of tons of bones of bufrsloes
killed BY hunters merely for the skins are
piled up along the track of the Northern
Pacific awaiting shipment. says a letter in
the New York Times. This business has
been going on for three years and the sup.
ply is not yet exhausted. Two hundred
carloads, worth $50, 900, were shipped east
to Philadelphia and other points last year,
and 75 carloads up to date this year The
firm which is engaged in il has made q for
tune. The selected material is used icr
refining sugar, and The refuse for fer'iiiz
erS
"A man usually leads his bride to the
altar but after that she takes the lead.
The man that lives on "the lat Of The
and" may be as lean as any other.
The small boy doesn't begin his fall
ampagn until the ponds begin TO freeze.
"A dish of water placed in the oven
/ prevents pieS and custards from burning.
No matter how hard silence falls, IL
! does not break.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1890-11-21

Il have used DIR. Bulls Cough Syrup
and found it the best cough remedy ever
tried p. Clarke, 920 Walnut Street,
Philadelphia, Pa
II sells all tie years round md alwa' q
cures. Salvation Oil the great remedy for
pains. % cts.
Mechanics Of all kinds still have plen 2
of work.
"A dealer says there are millions in the
invention OF pocket umbrella.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1890-11-21

DIR. Fenner's Colleen Relief is warrant
I'd to relieve toothache, headache, neural
gia, or any other pam in 2 to 3 minutes
Also bruises, wounds, wire cuts, dwellings,
bites burns, summer complaints, collie,
talso in horses), diarrhGa, dysentery and
aux. If satisfaction not given money
returned.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1890-11-21

Time TO organize literary societies for
;se winter.
The seasons bonnets are ofi'''"a' 'n
.s extreme.
The weaving trade is generally loom
ag up.
Marguerite color is light but vivid
nnrple
-Kauses City pae.ed ,330, 300 hogs the
past year, and her population increased 10
per cent In spite Of IL.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1890-11-21
Why BREAD GROWS STALE.

1t "a generally supposed that tho fact
That bread erowsstalo arises from the bread
ecoming actually dryer by the gradual
,oss Of water bu; this is not the case. Stale
Tread contains almost exactly the same
proportion Of water as new bread alter IL
AS became completely cold. The change
ia merely in the internal arrangement OF
the molecules OF the bread. A proof oil
this is that if we put stale LOAF into
closely covered tin, expose IL for half an
hour or hour to heat not exceeding that
of boiling water and then allow It to COOL
IL will be restored in appearance ana prop
critics to the state of new bread. Just taAen
,at OF the oven. Washington Star.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1890-11-21
Dry Goods
AT LOWEST PRICES
AT THE NEW STORE OF
D. d. JACKSON.

We are new comers, but have come
to stay. We buy our goods at lowest
cash prices and az we cell for cash
only. We are enabled to sell goods
ct the smallest possible margins. We
could quote prices on clean, nesc
goods, no trash, from all parts of our
store, especially on the following
goods. Drees Goods, White Goods,
Prints, Ginghams, ShirtiDgs, Mus
Inns, Lace Curtains and Curtain
Poles, C0rsets and Corset Waists,
Ladies', Chiidren's and Cents Under
wear, Hosiery, Gloves and Mits, Kid
Gloves, Ribbons, Silk and Velvet,
Black and Colored Silks, Cloth Capes,
Bead Wraps. Jerseys and Jersey
Jackets, Table Linens, Napkins,
Towels, &c., &C., but as new goods
are arriving all the time, we would
not likely have the goods now
quoted, but possibly have them at
still lower prices as the season ad-
vances. We are proud to say that
In this city and county our goods
and prices have met with approval
and commendation, although subject
ed to close scrutiny and comparison
with the goods offered by others.
We solicit your patronage, and will
do all in our power to make our bust
ness transactions pleasant and profit
able.
d. j.. JACKSON, Butler, Pa.
Next door to Heineman's.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1890-11-21
IRA McJENKIN,

Attorney at Law, Office at No. II. East Jener-
son st.. Butler. Pa.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1890-11-21

Ordinarily AZ bushels are counted equal
to a barrel of -four, but there is reason for
thinking that taking a seasons run in a
good mill with careful milling, on average
wheat, with a record of receipts and sales
Of -four accurately kept, the score will run
very close TO five bushels Of wheat for o
barrel of -four. Only last week we'll
hnown winter-wheat miller told me tnat
his record of wheat received and Hour
mndo, ON the grind of tho 1899 crop, call
ed for figure so close 10 five bushels that
be was content to let it go at that.-MsH-
m World
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CHAPITRE VII
L'OPINION DE WANDA.

Au commencement, Erik, tout
entier la fervenr du sacrifice, Sc
jeta a corps perdu dams la vie de
p6cheur, en- essayant de bGnne fol
d'oublier quill en- eht connu une
autre. Toujours 'lev6 le premier, il
etait lie premier aussi a parer la
barque de son pere adoptif, a tout
preparer pour que master Herse-
BON n'eht plus qua empoigner la
barre ct partir. La brise man
quait.elle, Erik prenait les lourds
avirons, ramait avec emportement,
semblait chercher les besognes les
Plus rudes ct les plas fatigantes.
Rien ne lie rebntait, nj les tongues
stations dams lie tOnneau a double
fond. OH lie r6cheur de morue attend
que lie poisson mOrde sa igne, nj
les preparations variees par les.
quelles dot passer sa capture, lni
6tant d'abord la langue, qui est un
moroccan des plus defeats. puis la
tete, pnis les Os, avant de la jeter
dams le reservoir. on ellie subit sa
premiere salaison. Quel que fdt
son travail, Erik lie faisait non
settlement Ell conscience, mais avec
une sorte de passion. II 6tonnait
la placidite dOtto par son applica-
ton aux moindres details du
meter.
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forcee! repliqua lie docteur, qni
relisait la lettre en- silence CONNIE
pour y chercher de nouveaux argu.
ments a Pappui de sa these.
Comment, pas forcee ? s'ecria
Pavocat. Je vous prouve que le
navire etait amerlcain, quill peri
a la hauteur des lies Feroe, c'est-
a dire tout pres de la cote norvf-
gienne, precisement a lepoQue qui
repond a l'arriv6e de Penfant, ct
vous n'etes pas convaincu de yotre
erreur?
Pas moins du monde! Notez,
mon cher ami, que je ne conteste
nnllement la tres graude valeur de
vOtre document. Vous avez trouve
ce que j'ai etc impuissant a decuu-
vrir, lie yeritable Cynthia, qui est
venu Sc perdre a peu de distance
de nos c6tes a repoque vonlue!.
Mals permetteZ moi de vous faire
remarGuer que cette tronvaille
confirme precis6ment ma theorie.
Car enfin le navire etait canadieD,
c'est'a dire anglaiS, ct, relement
irlandais etant fort considerable au
Canada, Jai desormais une raison
de plus d'etre sur que renfant est
d'origine irlandaise!
All! VOLTA ce que vous tronvez
dams ma lettre! s'ecria NJ. Bre6e-
jord, plus vexe quill ne voulait lie
para1tre. Et sans doute vous per
sistez a croire aussi que vous n'avez
pas perdu votre Pine?
-Assurement.
-Pent-etre meme pensez-vous
avoir quelques droits a mon Quin-
tilien?
-Jespere, en- tout cas-, arriver a
eta blir ces droits, grace a votre
decouverte meme, 81 vous vonlez
settlement men donner lie temps ct
renouveler notre pari!
Soft! je le veux ben! Com.
bien de temps vous faut.ils
-Prenons deux ans encore, ct
ajournons nous q la seconde f6te de
Noel qui suivra celle ci!
-C'est convenu! repOndit NJ.
Bredejord. Mais je vous assure,
mon cher docteur, que vous ferlez
aussi bien de m'envoyer tout de
suite votre Pine!
Ma fol, non! II fera trop belle
figure dams ma bibliotheque a cote
de votre Quintilienw p
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garcon. tn ne parais te trouver
dams ton element qu'une fois sorti
ford ct arrive Ell p!elne merw
Presque toujours, quand la eau
serie prenait ce chemin, Erik restait
silencleux. D'autres fois, au con-
trairr, il abordait lui meme lie sujet,
essayait de prouver Otto, ou.
ponr mieux dire, lie SO prouver Il
'ui meme quill ny await pas d'exis-
tence plus belle que la leur.
''Cest bien ainsl que je Pen,
tends p disait rautre avec son
sourire calme.
Et lie pauvre Erik Sc detournait
ponr etoutfer un soupir.
La verite, c'est quill sonffrait
cruellement davoir renonce a ses
etudes, de SO voir condamn6 a un
travail pnrement manuel. Quand
ces pensees Iui venaient, il Sc
raidissait pour les ecarter ct Sc
battait pour ainsi dire corps corps
avec elles. MaiS, ell dept de tout,
il Sc sentait envahi par i'amertume
ct les regrets. Pour Tien au monde.
il n'eHt voula laisser deviner ce
Encouragement. II lie renfermait
done en- dedans de lui meme ct men
soutfrait que plus vivement. Une
catastrophe, qui Sc produlsit au
commencement du printemps, vint
donner a ces ennuis un caractere
encore plus aigu.
Ce jour Ia, il y await beaucoup
d'ouvrage au hangar pour enpiler
les morues salees. Master Herse,
BON, apres avoir confi6 ce travail a
Erik ct a Otto, elait parti seul pour
la peche. ii faisait IN temps girls
ct accablant, assez pea en- rapport
avec la saisOn. Les deux jeunes
gems, tout en- poussant leur besogne
avec activlte, ne ponvaient s'emr6
cher de remarguer combien ellie
leur etait exceptionnellement peni
BILE. On aurait dit que toutes
chooses autour d'eux pesaient plus
qua Fordinaire, compris Fair
atmospherique.
"C'est singulier, remarqua Erik,
TAI des bourdonnements dams les
oreilles CONNIE 81 le me trouvais en-
ballon a une hautenr de guatre GU
cinq mile metres !"
Et presque aussit6t il Sc nit a
saigner du nez. Otto eprouvait
aussi des symphonies analogues,
quoiqu'il sht moins excitement les
defnir.
"J'lmagine que lie barometre doit
6tre slngulierement bas! reprit
Erik. 81 j'avals le temps de courir
chez NJ. Mala1us, j'irais Pobserver.
To as tout lie temps, repondit
Otto. Vols done, notre ouvrage
est presque achieve, ct, meme si tn
t'attardais, je pourrais aisement lie
terminer seul!
Eth bien, ie pars, repliqua Erik.
Je ne sails pourauoi retat de
Patmosphere m'inquiete J.. . .Je vou-
drais bien savoir lie pere rentr6m
Comme il Sc dirigeait vers l'ecole,
il Sc trouva en- route NJ. Malarius.
''Te VOLTA, Erik. lui dit lfinstitu
teur. Je suis content de te voir ct
detre sur que tu mes pas en- mer..
Jallais precisement men enaue-
rir :. lie barometre baisse avec
une telIe rapidfte depais une demi.
henre /. ..Je mai iamais WI chose
pareille. Ii est actuellement a IT'S
millimetres. Nous alIons rilrement
avoir un enlargement de temps !"
N. Malarins n'avalt pas acneve
qu'un grondement lointain, suivi
dune sorte de piaulement lugubre,
dechira les airs. LIE ciel, qui
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-L'EPAVE-
Des CyasthiM,
[Suite.I |
PAR

'Iout beau, mon cher Hochstedt,
ne vous hatez pas tant de conccre !!
.Schwaryencroua. dites-vonS,
n'ayant pas Suffisamment etabli un
fait qni vous parait d'ailleurs pro-
bable, vous ne sauriez prononcer
quill a gagne s...Que repondriez-
vous done, 81 je vous pouvais lei, 4
Fheure meme, que lie Cynthia n'etait
pas du tout un navire auglais
-Ce que je repondrais dit lie
professeur, quelque pen trouble par
cette attaque soudaine. Ma fol, je
men sails rien I. ..Je verrais, j'exa-
minerals la question sous ses divers
aspects.
-Examinez, Ia done tout a votre
aise! repliqua Favocat en- plon.
geant sa main drolte dams la poche
lnterleure de sd redingote pour Y
prendre un pOrtefeuille on il choisit
une lettre, contenue dams une de
ces envelopes jaune serin qui
indiquent au premier coup d'eil
une origine americalne. Voici un
document que vous ne recuserez
pas, ajouta.til en- plaeant cette
lettre sous les yeux du docteur qui
lut a haute voix:
"a monsieur, Farocat Brede-
jord, Stockholm.
New-York, q octobre.
Monsieur, Ell reponse q votre
honoree du 5 courant, je m'empresse
de vous informer des fats ci-des-
sous:
"1o Un navire denomme Cynthia,
capitaine Barton, propriete de la
Compagnie generate des Transports
canadiens, a peri corps ct biens, il
y tout juste qnatorze ans, a la
hauteur des lies Feroe.
900 Ce navire etait assure a la
General Steam narigation insurance
Company, de New York, pour la
somme de trois millions huit cent
mile dollars.
80 La disparition du Cynthia etant
restee lnexpliquee ct les causes du
sinistre n'ayant pas paru suffisam.
ment claires a la Compagnie d'as-
surances, un process s'est engage,
ct ce process a etc perdu par les
proprietaires dn dit navire.
40 La perte de ce process
entraine la dissolution de la Soci6t6
des Transports canadiens, laquelle
n'existe plus depuis onze ans, a la
suite de liquidation.
"Dans Fattente de nouveaux
ordres. je vous prie d'agreer, Mon.
sieur, nos sinceres salutations.
"JEREMIE SMITH, WALKER EFT Co,
agents maritimes.'
"Eh bien! que dites-vous de
cette piece demanda NJ. Brede-
jord, quand lie docteur cut achieve
sa lecture. VOLTA un document qui
a sa valenr, vous Ell conviendrez ?
-Jen conviens volontiers, repon.
dit lie doc,eur. Comment diable
vous r6tes-vous procure
lie plus supplement dn monde.
LIE jour on vous m'avez parle du
Gynthid CONNIE dun navire neceS-
sairement anglais, Tai pense tout
de suite que vous limitiez trop lie
champ de vos recherches ct que lie
uavire pouvait fort bien etre anne
ricain. Voyant que lie temps pas
salt ct que vouS n'arriviez d rien,
car vous nous l'auriez dit, Tai Ell
tidee d'ecrire d New York. A la
trOisieme letlre, j'ai obtenu lie result
tat que VOLTA! Ce nest pas pins
complique :. Ne pensez-vous pas
Quill eat fait pour m'assurer sans
conteste Ia possession de yotre
Plines