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Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1894-10-18
STORIES OF NAPOLEON.
With All His Opportunities He Left the
Throne a Pauper.

With All His Opportunities He Left the
Throne Pauper.
No man in the history of the world
ever had such vast and varied opportu-
mites for piling up a personal fortune
as those which fell to the lot of Napo-
leon Bonaparte. Yet, on the first alb
dication, when the allies robbed him of
his wife and child and sent him to Elba,
he left the throne of the most powerful
nation in Europe almost a pauper, says
the New York Recorder.
The imperial treasures had been
kept at Orleans. After the abdi-
cation the provisional government,
under the influence of Talleyrand,
the most notorious self-seeker in
France, was more concerned about
these treasures than about the future OF
the nation. A decree of practical con-
fscation was drawn up and a force OF
men under NJ. Dudon was sent from
Paris to Orleans to seize on everything
that could be found.
Napoleon's personal treasury had at
one time contained about ia, 200, 900
francs. OF this amount more than
I00,000,O00 francs had been used to
equip the army of France for it's final
struggle with monarchial Europe. The
remnant was seized as per programme
by Talleyrands minions. They took
10000, 900 francs in gold and silver coin,
1900, 900 francs in gold and silver plate,
perhaps 100000 francs worth of snuff
boxes and rings, good part of Napo-
Icons wardrobe, and even his embroid-
cred pocket handkerchiefs There
wasn't anything modest about NJ. Tai
leyrand. The Russian officers refused
to interfere with this pillage, although
appealed to.
The loss of this money only occa-
stoned moment of irritation to Napo-
leon. The loss of his wife and child
made him like a Gagged lion at Elba,
and, in his opinion, fully justified his
dramatic return to France.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1894-10-18
THE SAME OLD THING.

Twas Just little while ago we heard robin
sing
The very frst that came, you know. TO tell us
OF the spring;
Twas only just the other day we watched the
budding rose,
But now the fields are sere and gray and cold
the wind that blows
Yes, winters coming on again in Just the same
old way,
And water pipes will freeze and burst and
plumbers will be gay;
And furnaces win give us smoke while heat
goes up the flue
And otherwise conduct themselves the way
they always do
The snow from here and everywhere again will
gayly sweep
Upon our walks and pile itself in mountains
wide and deep;
And men who tightly close the door OF offce
In summer nm r. time. time will shortly strive to leave
them all ajar.
The very same old couples in the parlors pretty
soon,
In just the very same old way will bill and COO
and spoon,
And pa" who pays for gas and coal, will make
the air turn blue
In lust the very same old way that fathers al
ways do.
Once more upon the icy street we'll slip and
slide and fall,
And use the very same remarks such incidents
recall
And we, who howled in summer during every
sultry day,
Will lie and say we liked 1t. In the very same
old way.
Nixon Waterman, in Chicago Journal.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1894-10-18
ON A CHERRY STONE.
A Talented Convict Carves His Petitio
for Pardon.

Tor n PARDON.
Gesa Berger, the actor and news
paper man, has 4 picture in caligraphy
that has remarkable history. 1t is in
size thirty by forty-two inches, and is
the work of Joseph Loew, the most
noted counterfeiter that the Austrian
government ever knew.
When an application is made for a
pardon in Austria the red tape policy
of that country compels the applicant
to address the emperor with all his
titles Emperor Ferdinand had about
%orty titles. Loew engraved all of
these names, together with his petition
for pardon, on a cherry stone.
The letters were SO fine that it re-
quired the aid of a powerful micro
scope to decipher them. One day
when the emperor visited the prison
Loew in person presented a cherry
stone to the emperor and told him
what it contained. The emperor made
an examination and was so amazed at
the work that he gave him an uncon-
ditional pardon. Not only did he par
don him, but gave him a position as a
detective to trail down counterfeiters.
Loew was well-informed man in all
the arts and rascalities of counterfeit
ers, and in less than two years after
his pardon he ran to earth almost every
counterfeiter in Austria, and died a
few years ago covered with detective
honors. The picture, although made
fifty years ago, is in remarkable state
of preservation.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1894-10-18
KEPT AHEAD OF The TRAIN.
A Moose Able to Travel at the Rate of
Forty Miles an Hour.

A Moose Able to Travel at the Rate of
Forty Miles an Hour.
The morning express on the Bangor
g. Aroostook from Houlton had a race
with u moose one morning recently,
says the Boston Herald. Between
Island Falls and Crystal, about thirty
miles out of Houlton, the engineer saw
q huge moose on the track, watching
the approaching train and evidently.
undetermined whether to derail 1t or
jump off and let it go about its busi-
ness. The engineer blew succession
of sharp blasts with the whistle, and
this the moose evidently took for the
word go for a race between himself
and the train. At any rate, he turned,
and, with the train not more than q
dozen rods from him, he started down
the track. The train was moving at
the rate of forty miles an hour, but the
moose few like the wind and kept his
distance. The passengers heard the
warning blast of the whistle, and knew
that something was on the track, but
not until the train reached Crystal sta
ton did they learn that they had been
racing with moose.
For a quarter Of mile the big ami
NAL kept up the almost incredible pace
necessary to keep ahead of the train, |,
and then, as if satisfied that he had
convinced his competitor that there
wasn't anything in the steam engine
line that was coming into Aroostook
could outdo him in sprinting match,
he left the track and plunged into the
woods without so much as looking be-
hind him
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1894-10-18
FACTS FOR FARMERS.

GREAT as is the cattle industry, the
value of poultry and eggs prod uced in
the United States annually is but lit
tie less.
WHEN the farmer is compelled to pay
high prices for the foods brought on
the farm for his dairy cows he should
aim to produce high priced articles to
sell
UNTIL country storekeepers grade
the butter they buy and pay just what
they can afford to for each separate
lot, oleomargarine will find place
American Farmer.
WHEN chick ems are sent to market
they should be sorted about as care
fully as you would fruit. Have only
one size in a coop, and it is better
if they are one color also. A uniform
lot, of any product, brings the best
price.
FARMERS lose more by the use of in
ferior tools than may be supposed.
An hours delay each day amounts to
a long length of time during month.
Scrub stock does not inflict greater
damage than the use of scrub imple-
ments.
The white snowberry is an exceed
ingly pretty shrub in late fall Large,
marble-lilke, white berries are dis
played. which last a long while, and
which are much prettier than the
small, white flowers which always pre-
cede them.
HAY should be paying crop on rich
al of
acre it is one of the most profitable
crops that can be grown, and leaves a
large proportion of roots in the soil to
enrich it. If hay is selling at $50 per
ton, the value of the sod on the land,
for turning under, may safely be esti-
mated at IS more.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1894-10-18

record OF an honorable life, plunge
him forever into an abyss of hopeless
degradation, darker, far darker and
more bitter than the grave itself. For
at the brink of the grave man plants
the flower of hope. About this spiritual
tomb there was no soil to nourish the
root of such flower.
On the raised dais upon which the
massive safe was based, John Carver
stood, his head resting upon his hand,
his elbow leaned against the open
door. But a few hours now separated
him from the detection which he knew
to be inevitable. and which for many
weary, miserable weeks had held his
spirit in the darkness of its shadow.
Honest, upright, faithful TO his trust,
John Carver had marched through
forty years of rigid adherence to prin-
ciple and duty, and had fallen in the
forty-first with n shock so deep and
sudden that the force of it had we'll
nigh broken his honest heart.
We have here to do with the effect,
not with the cause of the sin. The
motive had been doubtless strong one,
for John Carver was a strong man,
morally and physically. Strong-but
the hollow eyes, the sunllen cheeks, the
trembling hand, told of the ravages
that ceaseless singing remorse had
already wrought, the nights of restless
tossing, the days of fruitless yearning,
to 60 back to that dread hour and undo
what had been done. AS yet the harm
of it was in his heart alone. When he
had taken from among its ninety nine
companions that bond of one thousand
dollars, his firm intention to restore it
to the package before counting-day
was no stronger than his belief in his
ability to effect such restoration. But
circumstances, those unstable factors
in earthly events, had otherwise or
dained. The money-pressure which
for many months had tossed on cy-
clonic pillows the whole community
had augmented rather than decreased,
and when John Carver asked redemp-
tion of promises given he found him
self face to face with black wall of
impossibility, in which the blackest
and most ponderous stone of all was
the impending counting-day.
"Mr. Carver!'
The wretched man started as if to
face an accuser. So absorbed had he
been in bitter introspection that he
was ulconseiQus of the entrance of his
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1894-10-18
THEY ARE MEN AT TEN.
The Boys Have But q short Childhood

The Boys Have But q short Childhood In
In Corea the boys are called men as
soon as they reach the age Of ten. They
receive their final names at that age,
and assume the garments of full-growp
men, all except the horsehair hat, which
they cannot put on until they have
passed through period OF probation.
Permission to wear the horsehair hat Is
the final act of Transforming the small
boy into a real, sure-enough man
though he doesn't look it.
Such short childhood may, at first
thought, possesses a charm for boys In
our colder climate. But it will be
quickly understood that making boys
into men as soon as they are old enough
to feel that they would like to be men
is not wise idea. The Coreans, al
though possessing certain degree OF
a queer kind of civilization, are not a
people to be patterned after. In Corea,
If a young mans parents are not rich,
he can never hope to become so by his
own efforts And, If he is not member
of a noble family he can never hope to
reach an exalted position. AS for cour-
age the Coreans have never shown
much of that. The Corean men are
not in themselves a good argument for
n brief childhood.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1894-10-18
STOCK ON THE FARM.
Two Advantages to BE Gained by Keep
Ing Good Animals.

Two Advantages to BE Gained by Keep
Ing Good Animals.
There are two advantages to gained
BY keeping stock and feeding out to
them the various products of the farm.
One of these is saving of the fertility
that is in the food and applying 1t
back to the land. The other is that
the products are sold to better advan-
tage than would otherwise be possi-
BILE. Selling grain is not only selling
fertility, but in many cases more or
less waste product is left that cannot
be disposed of Straw, corn-fodder
and often hay, cannot be marketed
except by first feeding them to stock
By having n good variety of products
a better and more complete ration can
be made up for the stock and by hav-
ing variety of stock all the different
products can be used.
Outside of the work teams, the milch
cows and the animals needed for
breeding. all the stock kept and fed
should be young and growing. Feed
ing matured stock is nearly always
done at a lessening of the profits.
For this reason il will be q good
plan to push the feeding in order to
get all the stock into good marketable
condition; and whenever an animal in
ready for market the sooner the better.
In many cases it will be advisable to
buy wheat bran, middlings and oil
meal to use with the grain and rough
ness produced on the farm. One bene-
fit in this Is the better variety that
can be supplied, while much of the
roughness can be used to better sd-
vantage, and will, to a certain extent,
ut least, lessen the cost. With all
stock a good variety of feed will give
better results than any one material.
Then these materials increase the
value of the manure, and this is no
small item
The quarters for the stock must be
comfortable, good water must be
given and the feeding must be done
regularly. During growth the animals
should have enough to keep them in
good thrifty condition, but in fatten-
ing they should have all that they will
eat up clean. Corn is the best fatten-
ing food and can always be made the
principal part of the ration in finish
ing for marlket-St. Louis Republic.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1894-10-18
A Gnuara RusheI Meaaure

A bushel box is coming into use with
market men and by reason of being
square is very economical in the way
of packing 1t is made in three styles,
one all Slated, another with Slated
bottom and sides, with solid ends, and
the third with solid ends and close
bottom and sides, bound with galvan-
lied iron; in fact, it is a galvanized
bound box. These boxes are very con-
venient for handling potatoes, the
vegetables being picked up into the
boxes in the field and left in them un-
til sold. OF course, other crops can be
handled in this way, as cucumbers,
tomatoes and apples. The measure of
these boxes is AK by 165s by 1914, that
being a bushel without piling.
ware
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1894-10-18
Could Not BE Worse.

A would-be poet handed two Of his
poems to an editor, asking him which
would be most suitable for publication.
The editor having glanced through one
effusion, replied:
The other one"
But you have not read line of it, +"
exclaimed the astonished poet.
"Never mind, it can't be worse than
the first" was the crushing reply
Truth.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1894-10-18
a ROYAL DEADBEAT,
How King Milan Filled His Depleted
Purse by shady Methods

Purse by Shady Methods
One hundred and sixty thousand dol
lars per annum is the income conceded
to ex-King Milan of Servia, by his son
and by the national treasury in con-
sideration of his quitting the country
and betaking himself once more to
Paris or some other distant capital. It
is now some months since he left the
French metropolis to all intents and
purposes penniless, numerous judg-
ments out against him and n quantity
of so-called debts of honor unpaid. His
credit was exhausted and he was,
financially speaking, on his beam ends.
1t may be remembered, says a writer
in the Philadelphia Press, that when
he first abdicated he stipulated for q
large annuity, which was granted to
him. On two occasions subsequently
he obtained large lump sums from the
Servian army TO defray pressing debts.
Then he commuted his annuity for
third lump sum of large dimensions,
sold his office and dignities in Servia
for q fourth sum, his Servian citizen
ship for fifth and finally obtained
from the car a gift of two million
rubles in return for a solemn under
standing never under any circumstances
to return to Servia. 1t was not very
long before he had squandered all his
money at the card table, upon the turf
and in the demi-monde.
Finding himself without resources,
he effected a reconciliation with his
wife in the hope of inducing her to come
- ~ 80, -l, tN.a.w ~tat.
Queen Natalie, however, knows her hUs
band too well and declined to do any
thing whatever for him until he had
eaten humble pie by himself demand
ing the annulment of that divorce
which he had taken so much trouble to
obtain, and even then she refused to
give him any of her own money, but
merely offered to use her influence
with her son to grant him a new al
lowance. Seeing that young Alexan-
der was somewhat slow about comply
ing with the request, and his position
at Paris without either money or credit
being absolutely untenable, he, in de-
fiance of all the promises which he had
made alike to the czar, to the Austrian
government and that of Servia, re-
turned to Belgrade, where his pres
ence brought about a couple Of minis
terial crises and led to no end of diff
Guilty And he has refused to bulge
from there until his financial exigen-
cies are complied with.
suppose that unless the tired Ser
vians depute some one to put him out
of the way by means of knife, pistol
or poison, we shall in course of time
see him once more going through the
same process. That is to say, he will
commute his present income for lump
sum, squander it and then return to
Belgrade and upset one or two more
ministries, disturbing things general.
" until again bought off.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1894-10-18
Bfs Heroic Wife,

Mr.. Henpeck-I believe I've got the
most heroic wife in the world.
Friend-What did she do?
Mr.. Henpeck-A burglar came into
the house during my absence My wife
didn't scare worth a cent. She received
him politely. saw him Just as 1
entered the house he jumped through
the window and escaped. He was a
young fellow and good looking.
Friend (who knows herl-No wonder
he was scared.-Alex Sweet, in Texas
Siftings.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1894-10-18
sxI tllSxss
FARksGsiGARDEk.
SHOCKING FIELD CORN.
why q Serviceable Corn Horse Is n Profit
able Investment

why q Serviceable Corn Horse Is n Profit
able Investment
The superiority of the shocks built
with the assistance of the corn horse
over those set around standing corn l
have repeatedly tested by building the
two kinds in the same field; and an
other advantage of the former method
is that 1t leaves no uncut corn to dis
tract the men at husking time, There
is with many farmers q frmly-rooted
belief that corn shocks must be made
small to secure ventilation and drying
for the corn. 1t is true that corn will
dry quicker in a small shock il the
weather is good, inasmuch as the corn
is nearly all on the outside But in
September and October there are apt
to be some heavy rains, and with these
the small shocks are bea ten through
and through. the fodder is ruined and
the corn is greatly damaged. On the
other hand the shocks, If large and
compactly built, mat their leaves to-
gether on the outside, and, while per-
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1894-10-18
Food for Growing Animals.

Oil meal has 2s per cent. of protein
or muscle-forming food and is excel
lent for young growing animals. An
excellent ration for shoats is found in
half pound of oil meal, two pounds
of wheat bran, one and one-halt
pounds corn meal in four gallons OF
sweet whey or skinned milk. For
young growing hogs the oil meal may
be added to the ground wheat OF
wheat screenings with bran. The
amount must always depend on the
size or weight of the pigs or shoats.
The feeder can judge this by noting
results in careful feeding.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1894-10-18

old-fashioned racks were very incon-
venient when feeding grain or roots to
the sheep, as their heads were either
in the dish, or continually in its way,
while those which first received their
grain or root ration finished it soon
after the last one was given hers,
which gave the strong animals a chance
to eat their own and then to fight for
the ration of the weaker. The device
shown herewith consists of narrow
little doors, one for each sheep in the
pen, through which only their heads
can protrude. The doors are all opened
and shut with one movement of the
hand, and when shut can be fastened
with a single movement Each feed
can be placed in position before the
doors are opened, SO that all can begin
to eat at the same time, while no heads
have been in the way of the feeder.
The doors may be closed between
meals. Orange Judd Farmer.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1894-10-18
A Mean Trick.

Clara-Why in the world did you en-
gage yourself to that Mr.. Hardhead?
Dora-He took me at such disad-
vantage that l had to.
Nonsense.
"Oh, but you don't know. He pro-
posed to me in an ice-cream saloon, and
l knew perfectly well that IL didn't
accept him he wouldn't ask me if I'd
have another plate."-N. Y. Weekly.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1894-10-18
Frog. Are Wonderful.

The toad is a higher animal than the
frog, because it gives birth to little air.
breathing toads, whereas the frog lays
eggs that produce fish-like tadpoles.
But the frog in certain respects is the
most wonderful creature in the world.
Think Of a vegetable-eating fish with
gills that turns into an air-breathing
land animal, developing teeth and be-
coming carnivorous quadruped. That
Is the life history of the frog.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1894-10-18
Chance to Prove Devotion.

Wife-If you can't support me as
ought to be supported, you might at
least go to the races.
Husband-Whatl Do you want me
to gamble on horse races to encourage
your extravaganza?
Wife-Of course not. You needn't bet
at all. But society is always willing
to make allowances for a woman if
they think her husband is going to the
dogs.-N. Y. Weekly.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1894-10-18
Why He Went.

Jones-What makes you look so blue?
Smith-My only brother is going to
marry Miss White
II don't wonder you feel bad about
your brother marrying that heartless
fiirt."
30, it isn't that; want to marry her
myself. Alex Sweet, in Texas Sift-
ipgs.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1894-10-18
SHEEP FEEDING RACKS.

An Arrangement Which Has Been Tested
with Success.
The old-fashioned sheep pens gave
the lambs free access to the feeding
racks, and generally from thence to
the barn floor, in both of which situa-
tions they managed to soil good deal
of feed, and to afford no little incon-
venience to the owner. Moreover, the
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1894-10-18
or Course.

He was handsome as youthful Apollo.
Yet modest as modest could be;
He stayed not out late In the night time,
He never was seen on spree.
He never complained OF his income,
Though elegant clothing he wore
Don't wonder; this gem OF perfection
Was a dummy at Rosenthafs store
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