Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1897-08-12

The spelling OF some or the names
on the Jury List is incorrect but we
print these lists just as they are writ
ten
We have received a well-written
string of items from Brownsville, but
our correspondent does not give his or
her name, and we cannot afford to vary
from our rule in this respect.
The Band Concert and fancy byci
Gle riding by Proctor, the new Butler
first baseman, collected an unusually
large crowd on the Diamond, Tuesday
evening.
If the CITIZEN pleases you, hand it
to a neighbor who does not take it, and
ask him to add his name to the long and
appr eciative list of patrons already on
our books Sample copies sent free.
Twenty years ago Karns City was
booming oil town with about 1000
population, now she has about 200 pop
ulation, and these ask that the charter
be annulled and the town again become
part of Fairview twp.
We have it on the authority of a
prominent lady of this town and one
who has had much experience, having
had corn on each toe, that corns should
never be pared during the increase of the
moon. But if the operation is perform
ed during the decrease of the moon the
corns will soon disappear. The same
rule applies to killing hogs.
The editor of juvenile publication
recently received the following:
''Mistur editur:
deer sur,
please stop yor papur.
sister Annie died on monday aftur
redeing yore last wekes number"
At last accounts the paper was
still going .through its subscription
list was shorter by one name.
Several localities in Western Penna
were visited by rain and hail storms,
Tuesday, and several fatalities were re-
ported, the oldest of which was the
death of Ella Alexander at Blairsville
while answering telephone call. She
and the hired man were at home, at the
time the latter in the cellar grinding an
ak When the phone rang the young
lady. aged 49, answered it, and the next
moment the lightning struck the tele-
phone, passing through her body, tear
ing her shoes off and passing through
the floor.
When you go to the telephone to
converse with somebody around the
corner or mile eaway, compose yourself
and talk quietly and naturally.
The more natural the voice. the clear
er transmission. Considering the difficult
ty and wear Of temper in trying to hold
conversation with people who cannot
make themselves Ineligible when ad-
dressing transmitter, we agree with
the Chicago Record that somebody
should start a school to instruct people
in the use of the telephone
There is the nervous man with the
high pitch voice. says the Record. who
roars into the telephone until the in
strunlent at the other end gives out only
series of noisy buzzes. There is the
misguided person who gets too close to
the telephone, and his twin brother who
stands too far from it, There is the fee
ble-voiced woman whose talk is about
as Ineligible as the murmur Of sea
shell, and there is the woman who
stands two feet away and shrieks in
coherently a ne ntence in which about
two out of every five words can be un-
derstood. The women in fact-probably
from their inexperience-are the worst
offenders. The man with the vigorous
lungs and the shouting accent is likely
to be quite as bad. Somebody evident
ly should set forth to give instructions
in the art of talking by telephone.
Lessons are needed in slow. distinct
enunciation, in voice not too high or too
noisy, and with the lips near the trans
mitter.
The National Hay Asso'n" met in
Pittsburg Tuesday, and discussed the
situation and had several pleasant out
ings Delegates from nearly all the
northern states, and some from Canada
were present Speaking of the outlook
for this season Willis Pollock, editor of
the Hay Trade Journal" said the pres
ent prospect is for the largest hay crop
ever grown in this country the largest
in tonnage and the greatest in value In
1895 the hay crop of the United States
was estimated to be SO, 900, 900, in round
numbers, and the crop this season is ex-
pected to reach between 80, 000, 900, and
10000, 900, tons at least. The National
Hay association through it's legislative
committee has brought about the plac-
ing of tariff of 81 ton on hay in the
present Dingley law instead of 81 per
ton as in the Wilson law The total
imports of hay during 1S95-1S96 under
the Wilson law amounted to 504, 900 tons
for which we paid "a, POI, 900. Under
the new tariff law the imports are
bound to be greatly reduced, thus add
ing large sum of mon ey annually to
the farmers. In 1895 the total average
value of the hay crop was estimated at
1893, 900, 900. The amount of hay re
ceived in Al of the leading cities of this
country last year was 1900, 900, tons,
which sold at an average price of $l6 per
ton. 1t would require double this
amount to supply other markets and
cost $29,oO0,0oo. The growers and
dealers in hay this season have great
reason to feel encouraged, and this fact
will account for very large attendance
at the present convention in Pittsburg.