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Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1891-03-20
D. E. JACKSON.

203 s. Main st. Butler, Pa.
Eyerybcf Delighted.
Who are in ? of Sessonable
Goods.
Having bougL- large Stock Of
Fall and Winter Goods, and owing to
bad weather and worse roads, they
have not been going out as fast as
ihey ought to
We have
CUT PRICES AWAY. DOWN,
as we must on account Of scarcity of
room close them out to make room
for Spring Goods.
If you want q Cloak, Jacket or
Shawl
now IS YOUR CHANCE.
Orif gcu want Blankets, Comforts
UndeTwear. Ladies' or Gents, Elan
Del4. Ceutcn Flar nel or anything in
that iilc.
COME NOW
before the Stock is broken, but
DON'T FORGET
70 examine car large stock of Drees
Coos, which ere included In this
CUT,
Also Fancy and Dress Pushes,
Black Suiah and Gros Grain Silks,
all Marked Down.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1891-03-20
A Mere Caricnturs

sympathizing Friend--weii, old man.
what sized dose OF whisky did the
doctor prescribe?
Disgusted Invalid-Humphi Only half
a wine-glassful day.
sympathizing Friend-Too bad, too
bad; rather q homeopathic dose, Isn't
it7
Disgustcd lnvalid-Humphi More
like the faith cure: LIS
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1891-03-20
AN APPLIANCE OF SAFETY.

Officer (at a. m.)-what's goin' on
here?
Clubman-My wifc's In the habit OK
throwing things out OF the window at
me II come home late. 80 ! had this
telescope key made, sos 70 know
when the coast Is clcar.-Once week.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1891-03-20
H. H. GoUCHER.

Attorney-at-iaw. once on second moor oi
Anderson building, near Court House. Butler.
Pa
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1891-03-20

us there any money In your bnsi.
ness?"
ave paid fifty per cent last year"
"Phewl How did you manage it?"
''Our creditors saw that was oil they
could get, and they took it"-Pucb.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1891-03-20
j. +. BRITAIN.

Airy It L&w-Ofice ut q. H. Cor. Main u, and
Diamond. Butler. Pa.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1891-03-20

NEWTON BLACK.
Atty It Law-onncs on South side Of Diamond
Butler. PA.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1891-03-20
SENSIBLE POULTRY HOUSE.

II You Study the Picture Yoa WIN Know
How to Build II.
The poultry house illustrated in this
issue may be of any size. but as shown,
the house is 1ox13 feet. intended for IS
fowls The front is feet, slanting to
Q feet at the rear, the shed being 3xi0
feet (main part 1Ox1o feet). The shed
Is intended as dust room, and for
scratching in rough weather. The
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-23
LINCOLN as HE WAS.

Whatever mans conception of Lincoln
may be, it will profit him to read what
John Russell Young has set down for our
readers in THE DISPATCH to-day. The
picture of the great President is not the
one commonly shown. 1t is not the pic
ture of god; it is not framed in fine
writing; but it brings before us in strong,
fair light the man, the human, fallible,
grand man who brought the Union through
its fieriest dangers and died martyr for
it in the hour of triumph. Lincoln cannot
suffer by having the truth told about him.
We can believe with Mr.. Young that
Lincoln himself would prefer the pure air
of facts to the mists of adulation and hero
worship. Such a man can stand the blast
of veracious biography; the wind may
blow the fantastic fringe of cloud from
the mountains brow, but the heaven-kiss-
ing rocks stand revealed in grandeur. The
service Mr.. Young is doing for history, for
the nation whose heroes his subjects are,
is eminently valuable There is SYM
metry about his work, a scrupulous con-
sideration for the small but nevertheless
important details, the sidelights and rela-
tions of man to man, that the reader can
not but observe. To-day's contribution,
dealing not only with Lincoln, but many
lesser figures on the canvas of that tenn
pestuous time, is perhaps the most inter-
esting of the series so far as they have
been printed.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-23
WHITE HOUSE EMBELLISHMENTS.
Some of the Beautiful Work That Is Being
Done This Season.

Boston Transcript
The ground floors in the building are be-
ing beautifully done up. The East Room is
always very much in the condition that Door
Charles Lamb declared himself to be-he
never could afford a whole new outfit at the
same time. He would buy himself a new
coat and hat, and meanwhile he would have
to continue wearing his seedy trousers, and
when new trousers were attainable the hat
and coat had lost their pristine freshness.
So it is with the East Room. One year-like
the last, for example-it gets a new carpet
As it is 80 feet long by 30 broad it will be
seen that it is no trif1e to carpet it with the
superb carpets, that are really the cheapest,
in the end in the White House.
Then the next year the chairs and sofas
get new covering and the year after the
windows get treated to new set of curtains
This year 1t is the turn of the chairs and
sofas, and they are being covered with a
deIicate golden brown satin, fowered in
white. The state dining room, which always
was a commonplace room, entirely lacking
in true elegance, Is to be completely
changed. over the old-fashioned windows
are placed screens of Moorish fretwork,
which will wonderfully improve them. The
traditions which make the oval room in the
middle the blue room with the red room on
one side and the green room on the other,
prescribe that these colors shall be followed
in the furnishings. But the delicate artistic
tints in green's and blues and reds which now
prevail, are tremendous improvement on
those of the fathers. The picture of Mr.
Cleveland by Mr.. Eastman Johnson has
been hung in the grand Corridor along with
sensible, and had only half length painted
President Arthur, who was q tall and re-
markably elegant looking man, had full
length. When Mr.. Harrison goes out, he
too, will have u half length--that is If the
sound good sense which he possesses con-
tinues to govern him.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-23
DISEASE IN THE CARS

IN these days, it is pleasant to learn
that travelling in railway cars is not so
dangerous as some physicians would have
the public believe. Some time ago it was
announced that pulmonary diseases were
spread by means of the-baccilli from con
sumptive passengers, which lodged in the
dust Of the cars. A German physician
comes to the front now and states that he
has experimental with dust gathered in
trains, which had carried consumptives
from Berlin to Italy.
As usual, the experiments were made
with animals, none of which gave any
signs Of pulmonary disease. The deduc-
ton drawn IL chat so far as subjecting one S
self to tuberculosis is concerned there is
no danger in occupying a seat in a railway
car. 1t is advised, however, that when
ears have been in service for an extended
period they should be carefully fumi-
gated and cleaned frequently TO prevent
the spread of contagious diseases. Statis-
ties point TO the fact that the railway car
is one of the worst agents for communi-
eating disease. The street car especially
should be avoided during an epidemic of
any kind.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-23
THE FARMER.s FORTUNE.

The wheat crop of the present year, it
is now certain, is the largest this country
has ever known. Not yet can it be ascer-
tanned exactly what the total yield will be,
but trustworthy statisticians estimate it in
the neighborhood of OO,OOO,0 900 bushels
1t is sure to be over 800, ,OO0, 900 bushels
One authority, by careful calculation,
probably strikes fair figure in 5S5, 900, 900
bushels, which is 1900, 900 more than the
largest previous yield, that of 1884. Of
this it is probable that the country will
need for home consumption $4,000, 900
bushels at the most and there will be,
therefore, something like 25O, 900, 900 bush
els left for export
The whole world has played into the
hands of the American farmer this year.
The crops of the Old World are as poor
and scanty as our own have been good and
bounteous. Ordinarily the immense wheat
harvest would involve a considerable
slump in prices-as in 1884, for instance,
when wheat sold at 65 cents a busheI.
But the Old World comes to the American
farmers rescue, and takes his surplus
grain at prices which will be fairly re-
munerative. The only danger is that by
speculative corners and combines the price
of wheat might be elevated to a point
where exporting would become impossi-
BILE This peril is real, and it is the only
serious cloud on the farmers horizon. If
he escapes this he will enjoy this fall not
only good crops but good prices and a
ready market for them,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-23
BaLMACEDA,s ENGLISH ALLY.

1t will be strange indeed if England
does not get into trouble with the Chilean
belligerents. The captain of a British
man-of-war, it appears, actually aided
President Balmaceda in raid upon trust
funds in the Treasury at Santiago. The
English vessel in fact was used to carry
away the stolen treasure. The story is
not very clear in its present shape, but if
it is true that the English officer was Bal
naceda' S accOmplice in the robbery, COM
plications of a most serious sort must
rise.
II is not a breach of the neutrality laws.
merely, such as the Itata's escape con-
s-iuted No excuse can be found for the
English officers acts, and they will be
resented by the so-called rebels or Con-
gressional party as partnership, as well as
criminal conspiracy, against them. The
incident once more puts Balmaceda in a
queer light He does not improve upon
acquaintance, and the less the United
States has to do with bolstering up his
cause the better
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-23
THE DOG AND THE CHURN.
A Canine Who Was Sharp. but He Had to
Perform His Task.
Forest and Stream.l

Forest and Stream.l
"Churn-dog" stories are always in order
A city man who used to live on a farm as so
many city men did when theywere boys sends
us this: "At home on tho farm we had n num-
Der of COWS, so many that churning was too
heavy a task for even the men folks, so Mr..
L. rigged up q dog churn, an inclined wheel,
a sort of canine treadmill. 1t became the
duty of Ponto, large white mastiff, to tread
that monotonous cycle and notwithstand-
ing the tootnsome bit of meat that was fast
ened on iath within four inches of his nose
he was not at all proud of his position and
responsibility. He made several attempts
to Shirl his task, and twice succeeded. He
got to know when churnng day came around
as we'll as any one in the house.
On the morning of that dav he would loiter
about the kitchen door until he was fed and
as soon ae he heard the note of preparation
the bringing of the cream jugs, preparing
the churn, etc.-he would put for the woods
and would not be seen again until night.
The day of churning was changed, and next
morning more crestfallen and astonished
dog was never seen when he was collared
and narnessed to the beam which set the
dash IN motion: he looked positively foolish.
He did his work, but with lowered head, and
in cogitation evidently. On another occa-
sion he tried another dodge. When they
were about to put him on the wheel he ran
up to his mistress, holding up one paw, al
dog, and was inclined to let him off that day
The next instant he was seen charging over
a high fence after a neighbor's cat. Well"
said the old lady, If he can go after a cat like
that he is able to churn.' And he did, and
never tried to shirk his work again.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-23
BOOKS RETURN UNsoLD.
A Peculiar Crisis Which Is Now Startling
French Dealers.

French Dealers.
Pail Mall Budget.l
Paris is experiencing just now curious
crisis in the book trade. These arise from
time to time, for the publishing trade is no
more FREQ from over production or "glut'
than any other branch OF commerce. There
are about u dozen authors who command
the French market, and some four or five
whose popularity seems inexhaustible. But
the number of novelists is to be counted not
by dozens, but Dy hundreds. And still the
publishers go on issuing few days ago
the publisher of one of these popular authors
had $4,000 copies of his last venture returned
to him. They were the volumes that had
been sent to the different railway stations;
there had been scarcely any sale; they all
came back. And yet this author wns very
popular.
The explanation is the prevalent plan Of
sending works first through the press as
feuilletons. The novel had lost it's fresh
ness it was discounted before it was issued.
The system is found to tell on the more eX-
pensive volumes. Lately an art publication,
and edition de luxe, magnidcently brought
out. illustrated with original engravings,
literally announced and generously criti-
cised, came back to the publisher with only
one copy sold; a second venture, published
at guinea, obtained a sale of six examples.
and then the edition was sold ont at one and
q half francs a copy. At present 1t is under
stood thatthere ares 00), 900 volumes ofnovels
on the hands of Paris publishers which can
not be got rid of. And this number grows
from day to day. 1t was even proposed that
these unsaleable volumes should be distri-
buted at country fairs as prizes TOR children
the Perfect of Police interferred and stopped
the practice.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-23
NAMES FREQUENTLY SEEN.

THE poet Whittier has three pet dogs.
PATTI was born February 49, 1s47. says
her family Bible.
PRINCESS CLEN1ENTINE, daughter of the
King of the Belgians, is about to become a
nun.
NJ D'ENNERY, the French dramatic au-
thor, has written 200 plays. He is now q
cheerful old man of go.
JUSTICE GANzHoRN, of Kansas City,
sold his whiskers at auction the other day.
The highest bid was s45.
EX-CoNGRESSMAN ROSWELL G. HoRR,
the Michigan humorist, will stump Iowa
this fall in behalf of the Republican party.
ONE of the Kaiser's arms is so perfectly
withered and helpless that he has to eat
with one hand, using a combination knife
and fork.
A DAUGHTER of General Neal Dow, Mrs.
Louise Dow Benton, is so accomplished in
volapuk that she translates works into that
language for publication.
THE death of Marie Gordon, the once
beautiful wife of John T. Raymond, recalls
the fact that she was David Neals model
for his celebrated picture of "Mary, Queen of
Scots"
AT the ripe old age of 81 Senator Morrill,,
of Vermont, plays skittles and, gun in hand,
roams the hills for small game. There was
no need in the elder day, evidently, for a
professor of physical culture in the Senate
chamber.
For presents to distribute in England,
Emperor William carried a large iron safe
filled with snuff boxes, cigarette cases, pins
and rings; but, as large as his stock was, he
had to buy several thousand pounds worth
in addition in London.
EX-SENATOR REAGAN, of Texas, hard
bearded, practical man of the world, got it
from an old darkey that it would bring him
i'll fortune to put on his left shoe first, and
never once in all the years that have sped
has he failed to give the right foot prefer
ence.
QUEEN NATALIE, of Servia, is said to be
a most beautiful and fascinating woman,
with brilliant dark eyes, an elegant figure,
graceful movements and the gracious dig
nifty becoming n sovereign. She is particu-
larly courteous to women and seems fond of
their sncietN.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-23
MEDICAL TRAINING FOR GIRLS.

The suggestion that our girls would be
greatly improved by giving them short
course in hospital training-school for
nurses at the end of their stay in school
or college, has been made by H0rper's
BGzGr, and it is worth considering. 1t is
not proposed that young women should
give up any large part of the joyous hours
of youth in this study of the great art of
nursing the sick; three or six months stay
in hospital ward would be enough for
the purpose. How great the need of such
knowledge she has the average woman is
sure to find out, and probably before she
says goodby to youth.
As our cotempOrary points out, what
suffering would be saved to themselves as
well as to those they love in that by-and-
by if, for instance, they knew enough, at
sight of the swift-pulsing jet from a
severed artery, to tie the bandage between
the heart and cut; if they knew that hot
water shuts up the blood vessels and pre-
vents congestion and the black-and-blue
mark of bruise where the little toddler
has bumped his head; if they knew that
the wasting and fatiguing night sweat of
consumption could be lessened, if not
hindered, by a sponge bath with salt
water just before sleep, or that the dis
gusting after flavor of cod liver oil could
be turned into the taste of q delicate little
Blue Point oyster by quickly drunk glass
of water in which bit of iron has rusted,
and if they knew many another little
secret that such stay in hospital ward
as suggested would reveal to them. The
multiplication of hospitals, and training
schools for nurses, puts this plan within
the reach of a good many, and it is worth
considering.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-23

the excellent harbor at the principal sea-
port was an important naval station, and
at the present time il is a favorite stop
ping place fer many of the ships that trade
among the West Indies. OF the 3S1
square miles nearly one-hah has been
placed in cultivation, the favorite products
being sugar cane and coffee. Several
factories for indigo and sugar have been
in active operation for some years, but
they have been destroyed. Such a catas-
trophe as has occurred cannot help but
prove disastrous to the trade of the
country, and it may be years before the
confidence of the natives can be restored
even to its original superstitious COM
piacency.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-23
BUsINEss-LIKE BURGLARs

1t behooves the city police to catch some
of the burglars and highwaymen who are
displaying such boldness and systematic
energy in despoiling the East End. Hardly
day, or, rather, night, passes but some
house is looted or some belated pedestrian
assaulted and robbed in that part of town.
Not only are the burglars industrious, but
seem to be equipped for thorough work,
having carts to remove their plunder, and
some convenient central warehouse for its
storage. The East Ender who goes to the
seaShore and leaves his house alone be-
hind is lucky to find it there when he re-
turns. As yet the burglars have con-
tented themselves with stripping the in
terror; but If impunity feeds their audacity
they may fall to carrying off the roof,
brick walls and stone foundations of the
houses they visit.
The police have professional criminals
doubtless to deal with in this epidemic of
burglary, but they ought to lodge the artists
behind the bars before the summer is gone
There is no reason why even business-like
burglars should outwit such an efficient
police force as ours.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-23
CHINESE POsToFFICEs.
They Have Complete System Independ
ent of the Government.

They Have a Complete System Independ-
ent of the Government.
| Cornhill Magazine.l
1t is not to be imagined that O veritable
| nation of shopkeepers like the Chinese,
would remain owing to the refusal of their
government to convey their correspond
ence, destitute of postal service. They
have, indeed, q very complete system of
their own entirely independent of the State.
In every town of any size may be seen ten
or a dozen shops with the sign, "Hsin Chit, I"
letter offices, or postal establishment, sus-
pended outside. Their business is to carry
not letters only, but small parcels, packets
of silver and the like usually to other towns
in the same province, but also on occasion
to other provinces. They are, in fact, gen.
eral carriers; or, perhaps it would be fairer
to say, they occupy much the same position
in China now as did the agents" at Har-
wich or Dover of the Postmaster General
at the beginning of the eighteenth century,
so miscellaneous are the packages commit
ted to their charge.
They have no fixed tariff varying accord
ing to weight, and there appears to be no
limit, within reason, to the size of letters or
parcels they will carry The charge for let
tiers is fairly constant, but in estimating the
cost of conveyance of parcels the size and
shape alone seem to be taken into account
A rough calculation is then made, which the
sender is at liberty-if he can-to abate. In
Idct Tue JldnSullSSlOn OF parcels is regarded
as being quite as much matter of bargain
ing as the purchase of a pig. AS there Is no
monopoly, each postofiice tries to underbidits
rivals, and competition sometimes verges on
the ludicrous. Since the institution OF female
postoflice clerks in England, how many COM
plants doubtless quite groundless) have
there not been from would-be purchasers of
stamps who have been kept waiting at the
counter while the postmistress and her
assistant compared notes on last Sundays
fashions? In China this deplorable state of
things is reversed There each postofllce has
its touts, who go rounds ut very short inter-
walls to each place of business to beg for the
privilege of forwarding their letters. The
bankers are the best customers, and as post
time draws near, (post time is fixed at the
open ports by the departure of the local
steamer), you will see tout enter bank
and interrupt the clerks with an entreaty to
be allowed to convey the letters they have
not yet copied He is dismissed for half an
hour, and meanwhile two or three rivals
will appear with the same request. The
lucky man is he who happens to come in
as the letters are sealed.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-23
PITTsBURG, SUNDAY, AUGUST %, 1881
GOOD DOCTRINE WELL PUT.

The speech of Major Mckinley yester-
day at Niles, opening the campaign, was
entirely worthy of the occasion. 1t was a
long speeah, but lucid and directly to the
point He considered and treated at
length every question at issue between
the Republicans and Democrats of Ohio
this fall, and they are bound to be what
the nation will vote upon next year when
a President is elected. He showed why
thinking men of all parties should favor
an honest dollar, and what the inevitable
and calamitous result of free coinage
would be- Incidentally Major Mckinley
scored a clever point by borrowing ammu-
milton from the letters and speeches of ex-
President Cleveland and other notable
Democrats.
The simplicity of his illustrations, and
the homely but close-knit wording of his
arguments upon this much mixed finan-
cial problem, make this part of his speech
especially telling. No one who honestly
desires to grasp the truth of this matter,
and it is the concern of all, should fail to
read it. No less mastery is his exposi-
ton Of the faisity of last years free trade
outcry against the tariff. The fictions of
the free traders will be short-lived in such
strong sunshine, the light of truth and ex-
perience If there is anything left of the
current arguments against protection after
the sledge hammer blows Major Mckinley
has dealt them, it will take a fine meshed
net to collect it,
By such perspicuous, direct talk the
battle will be won in Ohio, and Major
Mckinley is to be congratulated upon
making such a good start upon his ardu-
ouS course. The speech in full will be
found in another column.