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Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1893-10-06
BURIED ENocH ARDEN ALIVE.

An Eeyptian Judge who Believed wit
nesses Rather Than His Own Senses.
A Swiss captain, at the end of a SAN
culinary and prolonged battle, caused
the dead and dying to be thrown alike
into pits and buried together. Some
one pointed out to him that many of
the bodies still show ed signs of anima-
ton. my good SIR" replied the
Swiss, "if man were to pay attention
to the signs they show there would not
be dead body among them" A SINH
lar power of preventing the mind being
turned aside by trifing considerations
appears to have characterized a certain
kazi in the city of Cairo, Mansur Bin
Musia by name. His decisions, accord
ing to the London Standard, were usu-
ally rather extraordinary, but every
now and then they were so remarka-
BILE as to attract attention from disin-
terested outsiders. On one occasion
the inhabitants of Cairo were shocked
to see living man borne through the
streets tied fast to a bier, and hurried
toward the cemetery to be buried alive.
His lamentable shrieks were entirely
disregarded by the bearers, who re-
morselessly carried out their duty to
its bitter end. 1t was soon ascertained
that the Kazi Mansur was response
BILE for this atrocity, and, although
Orientals are not easily shocked where
the administration of justice, so-called,
is concerned, yet in this case it was
felt that some inquiries should be
made. Accordingly, the kazi was in
terviewed and he was asked why it
I. LaI na,,ea1 ltxincr
to be buried alive. Like Mr.. Gilbert's
young lady in 1.-THE Mikado," it was
doubtless pointed out to him that bur
ial alive is too "stuffy" death to be
agreeable. They found the kazi quite
ready to satisfy their doubt. You
wish" he said, ito know why this
young man has been buried alive.
Well, his burial has been ordered by
me in due form because six months ago
his wife was married to another man
according to the decree of the law,
two witnesses of a very respectable
character having certified to his
death at Bagdad. The man, however,
came before the court one morning,
pleaded that he was not dead, and adj
vanced a claim to recover his wife. /
ordered the two witnesses to reappear,
and they proved beyond doubt by
fresh evidence that they had attended
his funeral at Bagdad, where he was
buried in their presence. From this
circumstance it is easy to conclude
that the man cannot be a real one, but
the ghost of a former, and must there
fore be laid in order to put an end to
all future disputes respecting the
woman" The bystanders thereupon,
as we are told, 'dissembled their mis-
givings, praised the kazi's justice and
retired"
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1893-10-06
NO A
1LrERs For cIsrERNs.
hose Made of Charcoal or Sofr Bricks
Are the Cheapest

Those Made of Charcoal or Soft Bricks
Are the Cheapest.
To make a charcoal cistern filter,
build a partition wall across the cis-
tern, dividing it into two compart-
ments, one occupying two-thirds of the
entire space and the other the remain
ing third. and leave a number of holes
near the bottom of this wall about four
inches sauAre- Then plaster Tie wall
on both sides with not less than two
coats of cement mortar. Fill the
smallest side of the partition wall
with charcoal; then in the other side
place about two feet in depth Of coarse
sand Let the water run in on the
charcoal. 1t will pass down through
this under the partition wall and up
through the sand. 1t will then be very
pure. For a brick filter, build wall
across the center of soft brick, cement
ed at the connections. Run the water
In on one side and pump out from the
other. Or build square chimney-like
flue for the pump to stand in. The
water percolates through the soft
bricks, which take out impurities
Where the cross partition is used
make it a little concave, say sixteen
inches in six feet The convex side of
this wall must be toward the side
which receives the water and the con-
cave toward the pump side. This gives
1t strength against sudden showers.
The end of the PARTITION wall must be
strongly worked into the side walls
and the whole carried up so high that
tho water will never overflow it.
1t is an excellent plan to have water
as it comes from the roof go through
screen before reaching the cistern.
Make box and place at the mouth of
the cistern, covering the bottom with
wire gauze. Have lid which will
easily permit cleaning the cistern.
Also arrange the conductor so as to
prevent the first water from the roof
going into the cistern, more especially
after q long dry spell. Judd
Earua,.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1893-10-06
A CAT WITH FALSE TEETH.
Feat of Young Dentist Who HAD .
Kind Heart.

Feat of a Young Dentist Who HAD .
Kind Heart.
The cat that owned the false teeth
had lost his own, and had his jaw
broken besides by drunken wretch
who beat him with q cobble stone.
With great care, the poor animal final
ly recovered, says Harper's Young Peo-
pie, but he had to be fed with little
milk in a spoon for a long time. When
able to pursue his ordinary business OF
catching rats and mice, he could not
eat them, because he had no teeth to
chew with. Something must be done
for him, for life supported on spoon
vittles" was burden, and young
dentist in the neighborhood, who had
become greatly interested in the un-
fortunate cat, resolved to try the ex-
preiment of making him set of false
teeth.
Taking the cast of the plate was
terrible piece of work, as Captain OBJ
jected to it with all his might, but it
was nothing to what followed when
the teeth were fairly in. If the ami
NAL had plunged and scratched while
the plate was being fitted, he acted
like mad thing when it was firmly
attached to his jaw-although it was
well made, and fitted perfectly. He
could not understand that it would en-
able him to continue the luxurious
feasts to which he had been accus-
toned, and for several days he was
furious over it. Every possible and
impossible scheme was tried to get the
uncomfortable thing out of his mouth;
be tore at it with his claws, he shook
his head violently to make it drop out,
he butted against heavy pieces of
furniture, and if anyone came near
him he growled and scratched at them.
There seemed to be danger of his
going mad, and his friends were sorely
puzzled to know what to do with him,
when, greatly to their relief, he
calmed down, and appeared to have
come to the conclusion that his new
possession was, after all, a blessing in
disguise. He was once more gentle
and affectionate, as he had been pre-
vious to his misfortune; and the plate
was now often taken out between
meals and put back again. In this
way it was worn comfortably for over
q wear.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1893-10-06
AT SUCCESSION.

[The MISUNDERSTANDING idiot has appeared
at the worlds fair-Daily Paperl
He was lad ambitious, and he painted much
for fame;
He wished the world to echo with his rather
homely name
Uriah Scaggs the name was, but that mattered
not lot;
He left it here, he left it there, on many IA
vored spot
he wrote it with flourish on the massive
white house door;
He traced it on the carpet on the red and blue
room floor;
He scratched it on the windows of the house,
He'd painted it on rocks from Maine as far
south as Peru.
He'd etched his monogram upon that Campan-
lie rare
AT Venice; and another one on Pisa's tower
fair;
And when he stood behind the prince at some
great racing track,
With chalk he traced his name upon that au-
gust PERSONS back
He carved it on the pyramids; he plastered
He tried IL on Alfonso's throne, but was COM
PEELED 10 fit
Before he'd penned the second G. which filed
him with despair,
Until he reached Chicago and began upon the
fair
And now we are informed that Scaggs is fully
occupied
In autographing every that's mentioned in
the Guide.
He's scribDling up the statues and the peristyle
and such
With his most wonderfully bold, strong chirog-
raphic touch
'Tis hoped the fair commission will get hold Of
r Mr.. S.
And clap him in dungeon cell ard keep him
in duress
Until, with ink indelible and sharply pointed
pen.
They've tattoed Scaggs from top to toe with
his own cognomen.
John Kendricll Bangs, in Harper's Weekly.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1893-10-06
Drugstore Humor.

Drug clerks often derive amusement
from the prescriptions that are left
with them. A prescription which
called for certain tablets, and which
was written by Chicago physician,
was put up in a downtown pharmacy
the other day. The directions were as
follows: zone tablet every two hours
for five days, skip four days and com
mence again" The pharmacist smiled
when he wrote the label, and profes-
sional etiquette alone prevented him
from asking the customer, who weighed
about $50 pounds, if he thought he
would survive after so much skipping.
Another prescription caused the pa
tient himself to laugh when he read
the doctors directions, which were:
"Take fifteen drops one hour after eat
ing in little water" 81 don't eat in
water" said the man, although l did
chew an apple once when was bath
ing at Long Branch" Strangely spelt
communications are often brought to
the druggist. A woman handed slip
to clerk recently, and said; Gimme
ten cents worth of that" The clerk
read, "Grocer's Supplement. 81 guess
you mean corrosive sublimate," he said,
"but that is poison, and we can't sell
it to you" The woman went away
after declaring that she wanted it to
"kill boogs with"
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1893-10-06
AN IMPROVED ROAD.

Scene on new county road CTelford) between
Elizabeth and Plainficld, n. ]. An immense
wagon traflc is carried on over this road since
its completion two years ago, and one team can
easily haul load of four tons over fits surface
From photograph
values.
Here are some of the instances in
proof:
In 1883 the property on the road from
Elizabeth to Plaintield, commonly
known as Westfeld avenue, was Of
fered for sale at $40 per front foot.
some of it within the city limits, sew
cred, curbed and improved. AS soon
as this county road was finished it
went up to $50, and is rapidly being
built up.
Senator John R. Mcpherson pur-
chased about one hundred and twenty
five acres just outside the city line, and
contemplates opening new streets,
paving and improving them and build
ing on them a large number of fine
houses at once.
Between the senator's property and
Lorraine are two farms. One was
bought for 90, 900 just before the roads
were built; no improvements have been
since put upon it, and the owner de-
clines $50, 900 for it. 1t contains twenty
acres. The owner of the second farm
has been offered over 81, 900 an acre for
it but declines to sell at that price.
Next comes Lorraine, the first of the
new railroad stations In August,
1891, tract of thirty-six acres was
bought by syndicate for $4,000. 1t
has been divided up into building
lots and sold for about 5000, and
about twenty-five cottages, some of
them very pretty, now stand on these
lots. Three acres adjoining this tract
were sold for 81, coo after property be-
gan to feel the effects of the roads. and
have since been sold again at an ad-
vance of 800 per cent.
On the south side of the railroad
track another tract of thirty-six acres
was opened up last year. 1t was bought
for s21, ,O00 1t is divided into lots sell
ing at $3.50 to 5000 each, and will proba-
bly, net the owners $50, ,ooo
The second station was built to ac-
commodate property owners of Aldene,
just west of Roselle. This tract was a
farm of about sixty acres, and was
bought for $3.50 an acre after the roads
were built; and the price was then con-
sidered big. 1t has since been sold off
in building lots, realizing about 1,500
per acre, and the capitalists have pur-
chased two hundred more acres in the
same locality, and are realizing on it
at about the same ratio Houses are
being built on both tracts, and the pros
poets favor the rapid improvement OF
all the lots.-Good Roads.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1893-10-06
LABOR IN THE VINEYARDS.
A Grower Explains Why the Chinese Are
Employed mt White Mems Wages.

A Grower Explains why the Chinese Are
Employed mt White Mems Wages
A California raisin grower, in dis
cussing the dispatches recently pub
lished regarding the driving out by
white laborers of the Chinese en-
ployed in picking, drying and packing
raisins in the raisin district, said to
New York Sun man:
Il should be sorry if these dispatches
created the impression in the east that
we are opposed to white labor coming
into our district 1t is upon white la
Dor we must finally depend for our
permanent resident labor, and instead
of opposing it we have made repeated
efforts to induce a class of white peo-
pie to come and settle there, upon
whom we could draw for labor during
the packing season. 1t is probably not
generally known that we now have to
pay Chinese full farm laborers wages,
SO that there is no economy in hiring
them.
''The reason we have had to employ
Chinese is that the class of white labor
there is unreliable. The Chinese are
hired in gangs through one boss, who
attends to their transportation, lodg-
ing, feeding and pay. They work
steadily through the season and give
us no trouble. The white laborers we
can obtain demand weekly payments
of wages and many of them take their
wages on Saturday, go into town and
stay there two or three days, or until
their wages are spent, and only then
return. That won't do for the raisin
business. We dry in the sun and when
the raisins are in condition to go to
the sweat houses or from there to the
packing houses, they must go on that
day or they are ruined.
''The raisin-growers are all largely
interested in Fresno real estate, in
the citys banks, gas and waterworks
and in the material interests of the
city, which would, of course, be bene.
fited by an increase of the resident
white population and they have tried
many ways to induce reliable white
labor class to settle thereabouts. We
have offered them small holdings OF
irrigated lands at low terms, for if q
white man is once settled on piece o1
land the orchard or vines of which he
can easily attend to we are assured oi
his work during our busy season and,
perhaps, the labor of his wife and chill
dren in the packing houses.
eve do not want the Chinese, but in
the present state of the country. with
practically no agricultural laborine
class, we are compelled to take them
The whites who are driving out the
Chinese by force are not the substitute
we want. We must have whites who
will drive out the Chinese by settling
on the land about u.s."
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1893-10-06
Roads as a Social Factor.

The common roads of country are
at once the means and measure OF its
civilization. writes John Gilmer Speed
in an exchange Without means of
communicating easily and quickly from
one part of country to all other parts
there can be no very widespread civil
ization in that country. Neighbor-
hoods and states separated from each
other by natural barriers or bad roads
stagnate in loneliness and are seldom
awakened by common impulses of sym.
pathy. 1T is doubtful indeed" says
Prof Shaler, of Harvard, whether q
sound democracy, depending as it does
on close and constant interaction of the
local life, can well be maintained i'll a
country where the roadways put a
heavy tax on human intercourse"
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1893-10-06
PripclpIe. of Road Making.

The true principles of economic road
making may be summed up in the fol-
lowing lines: A firm, dry foundation.
sound materials laid on scientific prin-
ciples, proper and ample drainage OF
both road bed and surface, easy gradi-
ents, easy and natural curveo, hard
and compact surface, free froiL all ruts
and depressions, with surface neither
too fat to prevent the flow Of surface
water, nor too convexi to be inconven-
lent to traffic.-Seymour Qnd) Repub-
1ioap
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1893-10-06

AFTER launching him we held on until
we had thrust inside his collar. at
the back of his neck, stout staff
from which f1oated above his head
a little British flag, upside down
as a signal of distress, with a FOOLS
cap. gaudily painted, fastened above it.
The last thing we did to him was TAX
ing the gag from his mouth. His hands
were left tied. Then, with long,
strong pull, all together, we shot away
from him and darted to the shore. But
even after we got there we could still
hear him, afar off in the darkness,
bowling Help and 'Murderr as he
bcbbed slowly along with the tide.
Knowing he was safe enough to float
to his ship and that the current was
sure to carry him within hailing dis
tance of her. if he was not rescued
sooner, as he most likely would be, we
felt no anxiety about him. He was
picked up before he had gone half a
mile, wild with terror, for the hope of
life had come back strong to him and
he had imagined the bored keg was
sinking lower and lower every
minute. But when the men who
picked him up found the keg
sound and saw that flag, with the
fools cap all awry, like himself, they
knew him as the victim of a well-de-
served Yankee trick and nothing more.
When the joke came to be known, as
it was all over the town the next day,
not only did the country grow too hot
for the noble lieutenant but he was
glad to exchange into another ship to
get away from the jibes of his brother
officers.
Il never had occasion to look after
Mary again, on account of any Brit
isher. l married her, and good wife
she has been to me, only now and then
her jaw works little too timber, as the
best women's jaws sometimes will, and
when that happens l can generally
settle her by saying: Lord Fitz
Eustace'
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1893-10-06
Water for washing Butter.

There is no absolutely best tempera-
ture for the water used in washing but
ter any more than there is an absolute
ly best temperature for the cream when
put into the churn. 1t varies with the
season. Creamery men should bear this
in mind when tempering the water. A
temperature of SO degrees is good one
TO take as guide, going below it in
summer and above in winter for the
final washing. The proper tempering
of the butter is secured by suiting tenn
perature to the conditions, and the
conditions vary with the season, the
feed OF the cows, and the length of time
since the calf was dropped.-Orange
Iudd Ea rmer.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1893-10-06

herself says /, but how do you come
to know | wasn't with her last night"
oh! If you were she wouldn't
have been where | saw her.
land where was that?' asked, as
careless-like as | could.
Talking an evening stroll with a
smart-looking British naval officer
=" 1T was somebody else you saw, and
not Mary. She doesn't know any Brit
ish officers
. It's little I'm acquainted with who
she knows-or maybe you either, for
that matter she answered me, with
an ugly little laugh, but can rely on
my own eyes
Il guess I'll go west says /, and
turned around and went my way, bid
ding her short good evening and hear
ing her laugh over the quick start she
gave me. / don't suppose l was more
jealous tnan another, but Pm free TO
say l didn't like it.
There was peace with the old coun-
try then and British ships used TO come
into the harbor every little while, send
ing their officers ashore TO strut around
as il they owned the earth but civil
enough as a general thing. And just
then sloop of war, the 'Avenger,' was
lying off the Battery. That much
knew and it would not be strange il
some of her gold-laced idlers had wan
dered up to Greenwich village, which
was pretty enough place then, not at
all what you see it now. But that one
of them should foregather with my
Mary / thought queer, and / went
straight to see about it, hoping it
wasn't SO, but far from easy in my
mind. But it was true. When l asked
Mary she tossed her head at first and
was as independent as you pl ease; as
good as told me it was none of my
business.
Well says l, if you think it isn't
I'll never try to make it SO but the
once and | got up TO take my leave.
That startled her bit, for she saw /
was serious and in her heart she
thought as much of me as | did Of her,
and, forbye, she knew she was wrong,
SO, womanlike, she commenced to cry.
But that didn't fetch me then. Says /,
with my hand on the door latch:
Give me your Brithiser's address and
I'll send him word TO come and dry
your tears.
"'Oh! Joe, she snuffled, you're
wicked TO talk SO. He isn't my Brit
isher He's nothing to me and you
ought TO have sense enough 10 know it.
He met me on the street and asked his
way and, he being a stranger, what
could l do but set him right? And then
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1893-10-06
Cows Have Cranky Notions.

Every COW has her own individuality,
that is, her own tastes. whims or cranky
notions about her feed. Some of these
can be safely indulged-others not.
Some cows have taste for weeds that
spoil their milk, and that is one of the
chances incurred in pasturage. When
cows are soiled their food can be con-
trolled much better than when in the
pasture lot, woods or swamps. The
growth of ragweed that follows crop
OF rye invariably Injuries the milk for a
week or two.-Colman's Rural World.
Runs In the Family.
Tom-Your best girls father is
bank cashier, isn't he?
Dick-Yes. Her small brother is
teller.-Truth.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1893-10-06
An Unjust Suspicion.

a Texas gentleman went out fishing
one day He had n nice lunch fixed
up, but upon arriving at the fishing
place he discovered that he had lost it,
so he retraced his steps until he met a
large satished-lool1ing negro, who was
seated by the roadside under tree
picking his teeth.
did you pick up anything in the
road?" asked the fisherman.
mo, sab, didn't pick up muffin
couldn't dog hab found it and ate it
up?"-Texas Siftipgs.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1893-10-06
WON FIRST PRIZE.
Miss Pretty. Queen vIctoria's Far
Aberdeen-A Angus Cow.

Miss Pretty. Queen victoria's Famous
Aberdeen-Angus Cow.
The list of officers and members of
the Royal Agricultural society of Eng
land is always headed by one name,
THE Queen" Whatever changes may
occur from year to year in the society,
Victoria remains its gracious patroness.
Nor is it a merely nominal patronage,
for she manifests constant and active
interest in everything that pertains to
agriculture. Her dairy at Windsor is a
model one She is very successful ex-
hibitor of pure-bred animals in the
leading agricultural fairs of the United
Kingdom, her shorthorns being especial
ly conspicuous as prize-winners. The
later triumphs in these classes were
won by shorthorns of Scottish origin.
The queens taste for North British
stock is still more emphasized by her
herd of Aberdeen-Angus cattle. This
sturdy and peculiarly Scottish race has
obtained much favor south of the
Tweed, and the intelligent interest
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1893-10-06
ADIsrrnce TO Civilization.

There could be no wiser, no moro
economical use of public money than
spending it in the making of good,
permanent public roads There is no
man who would fail to be benefited by
good, solid roads far more than the
construction of such roads would cost
him The old road system of Georgia
is penurious, slovenly, expensive and
discreditable. 1t il a disgrace to the
civilization of the age.-Sparta (Ga.)
Ishmaelite.'
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1893-10-06
A Philosopher Born.

An Indiana maiden, years old, was
driving along prairie road with her
father and a 6-year-old brother The
brother, who is of an anxious
turn of mind, was in great
distress at the sight of an OK that was
calmly devouring large pile Of seed
potatoes in the corner of a field. 80,
papa, STOP" he said. Eve ought to tell
the people in the house" do sit
still, Buddy" put in his philosophic
sister. 1T 'sn't we OK, nor we pota-
toes "-Chicago Tribune.