Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1894-02-16

Much has been written of the old bar
barous custom of cock-fghirg, but it may
not be so generally known that Shruve
Tuesday (last Tuesday week. was the day
Oi days specially devoted TO this cruel pas
time. Cruelty to helpless animals is, To a
very great extent, innate TO every boys
nature, and when cOuntenanced, even en-
cou ragged by their elders, need we wonder
and condemn 7 The craving TO see fight
between professional pugilists and the
crowds which gathered so recently around
our newspaper Offices to hear particulars of
the same, are but the inherited traits OF
our grandfathers, who, in their school days
carried their cocks to fight in the cock pit
on Shrove Tuesday afternoon. The prac-
tice of cock fighting is now forbidden by
law, but, strange to say, long after the
practice had been abandoned in England,
except in a sub-rosa manner, it was recog-
nized and encouraged in Scotland-strict,
stern, puritanical Scotland, and at a time
too, when to read any book but the Bible,
take walk or the Sabbath day, were hei-
nous sins. Yet the Chartiss weavers Of
"Thru ms" must all have been cock fighters
in their boyish days, for the practice was
kept up in Scotland until the beginning of
the century, and present writers have
heard old men tell of their carrying peats
and cocks to school on this day as per-
qui5ites to the school master. The peats
were the chiid's share or contribution to
the fire, and after the cocks had fought
and were wounded they all fell to the
schoolmaster.
II see, said the Old Sport, ''that
novelty has been introduced in the Massa-
chussetts Legislature in the shape Of a bill
to prevent treating. 1t says that NJ hold
er of d liquor license shall take pay from
one person tor liquo4 to be furnished to
another. Say, that's dead right. If there
is any one thing more than another re-
sponsible for the drink habit it is treating
1 don'C deny that | occasionally intercept
the festive schooner as it sails over the
bar, and | don't like to appear selfish aud
drink alone, but am of the opinion that |
treating lies at tie root of the drink habit
Let me illustrate. | am thirsty aud want
a glass of beer. 20 into saloon and call |
for beer and as it is being drawn A enters
| ask him to ioin-he does so-he asks me /
to join him in another and do and just +
oh 70 Entf in
We ask him to get on board, which he does. /
Then b says it is his turn, and he sets 'em
up, and then, out OF courtesy, l close the
treat Invent to get one glass of beer, aud
l came out after Grinkng four feeling un-
| intended TO spend nickle |
and l spent twenty five cents. You can
see how easily treating fills you with beer
and empties your pockets. The Masss
chussetts legislator is dead right in trying
to pass an anti treating law. l wish we
had one in Pennsylvania"
An advance in the price OF real estate
is almost certain to follow the present
business depression, says an exchange.
The lack of confidence in banks and secur-
tiles and the low rate of interest will have
a tendency to place it in real estate, which
at present prices cannot fail to prove pay
ing investments.
Pipe smoking has become fashionable
and il largely indulged in on our streets.
We walked uptown the other evening a
square behind a man pufiiug pipe Old
enough tn vote, and the stencil Mas strong
enough to turn switch.