Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1900-02-01

a cOllecIlOH ItlIt5s Lndt Oh54iA ~ ~
on exhibition at the Centennial.
VIII Miller came over from New
| Castle Wednesday, for a short visit with
his parents VIM Miller and wife OF \.
Washington street.
Andy Carnegie saws that poverty Is a
young mans best capital But don
Won believe it. Save little money
That's what he did.
o. Y. Cooper of Slpperyrock twp |
was in town Friday with his arm IN a !
sling on account of blood poisoning the |
result of a Scratch on his hand
Arthur Black Of Pittsburg visited his
cousin. Frank Badger this week. Ar
thur has been working in the steel mill |
at McKee's Rocks, and has just recover |
ed from siege of typhoid.
Walter Galbreath Of Mexican st. is |
rejoicing over the arrival Of a daughter
at his house Mrs. VIM. Galbreath and |
Mrs. Alex Beers of Evans City have |
been guests at his house for some days. |
Rev. Sheldon. author OF In His Steps
criticized the newspapers at churcn con
ven.ions, and afterwards accepted the
proposition Of a western paper to be |
try it next month. and his experience |
will be interesting.
J. d. Smith of Centre twp. came % |
town Tuesday with a big pig. Heltnat |
is the Pig dressed 63j pounds, was three |
wears old at the time of his death, ana |
was Of the Improved Chester variety. |
Professor Victor Bayonet of the South |
Side bought the pig.
Bertha daughter Of Ferdinand Wei |
gand of the West End. and Virgil ID |
Gibson. one Of Post Master Browns |
Irost efficient assistants, were married |
Wednesday morning at the bride home |
by Rev w E Oller They left on a i
wedding trip to Niagara falls.
Miss Amanda Montgomery. sister of |
Ada and Maud Of the West End, was |
taken to the Butler Hospital last Satur-
day and Is lying very low with typhoid |
fever Friends Of Miss Montgomery |
hope that her illness which has been |
thus far severe may be of short dura- |
ton.
New students at the Butler Busi- |
nes College: Millie Miller, Albert |
Schaupp, Katie Guckel, Robert Wilson,
Mr. Pearce ana MI. w lch' All VI DuUiSA'
Another proposed feature OF our
Centennial is log cabin on the Dia-
rnond furnished as it would have been
hundred years ago. and with old pa
pers and relics on exhibition.
The Workingmens b. & l.. associa- |
tion started new series of stock at the
first of the year and 274 people subscrib-
ed for $500 shares This is just twice
the usual number subscribed for and it |
is said that 2000 shares more could have
been disposed Of.
Seventy dollars and some cents
is the amount Of "A bill we lately receIv-
ed for a ton Of paper-the largest we
have ever had to pay-and the newspa-
per men Of this country are beginning |
to believe with Havemeyer that the |
tariff il the mother Of trusts, ana
therefore not an unmixed blessing.
They are telling good one on one
Of our attorneys who wants to be a sto- |
ry teller but can't make it. He was
trying 10 tell of the man who secured a
bottle of whisky, drank part of it and
then held the rest up and apostrophized
Il need thee every hour, but he got 1t
wrong as usual and quoted the man as
saying Nearer my god, to thee.
Two hunters in the eastern part Of
the state lately treed big bear-cub,
cut him down and cldhbed him into in
| sensibility, and tied his feet with rope.
| They wanted to capture him alive, and
| had done SO, and one Of them went for
| team and wagon, while the other sat
| down for a smoke, but foolishly tied
| the end of the rope to his leg The
bear came to, jerked his feet loose and
started off, dragging his man through
the bushes by one leg and it would
have gone very hard with him had not
the other fellow arrived and again done
the clubbing act.
Edgar Mels, former editor of a
johannesburg paper says that there are
| Vi DIteuH vi bOlOItu
people in South Africa, of which the
Kafirs and Zulus Of the east coast are
the highest type and the Hottentots of
the west coast the lowest AS for the
morality Of the Kafir he says that diff
fees according to the tribe and its prox
unity to civilization The Zulu il emf
nently virtuous Infraction Of the
law of morality is punished. by
death. The culprits are placed on the
ground with their respective heads rest
ing upon fat stone. Then their
heads are crushed with another stone.
On the other hand, the Hottentot, hav
ing been close companion Of the white
man. is the most immoral and deprav-
ed human beings perhaps in existence,
The Matabeles are moral. 50 are the Ba-
sutos and the Mashonas. The Bechua-
mas are less so, and the Bushmen rank
next to the despiscd Hottentots. That
the latter are IA bad az stated is evident
when the Zulus will not work in the
same mine with one nor sleep in the
same room or kraal.
Closing out sale at The Peoples Store
commencing Tuesday, Feb. &; (evcry-
thing will be sold J; including dry goods,
blankets, underwear, hosiery, corsets,
/ | umb elias &c &c