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Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1901-09-05

During warm suberndterial canvass
in Kentucky one OF the candidates
found himself In the mountain districts
n long way from town. very tired and
hungry. He stopped at little cabin
on the mountain side and. Introducing
himself as candidate for the govern
orship. asked for something to eat.
The woman gave him much better
meal than he had expected and wound
up the repast with Il pie of the most
delicious favor. The candidate quickly
cleared his plate and then said. with
his most engaging smile:
Madam. this Is 2 most delicious pie,
but declare that | do not know what
fruit this Ii. Certainly nothing like It
grows down where | come from. VIII
you have the kindness to tell me what
1t isw
The woman looked at him for a full
minute. her astonishment at last giving
way 10 supreme scorn.
Where did you come from?" she
finally found voice to ask You say
you're up for governor an don't know
huckleberriesl Pears to me you amt
fitten for office Don't know huckleber-
riesi''
1t was crisis in the candidates life.
and be fingered another hour, so the
story goes AZ all events. and made pro-
fuse explanations before he was satis-
fed that his opponent would not get
the vote OF that cabin.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1901-09-05
ArricuIturaI Notes.

Poultry houses on wheels please some
successful chicken raisers.
There are great fears Of the grain
moth In New Jersey this season. Early
thrashing, storing In bins and carbon
bisulphide fumigation Is the accepted
preventive treatment.
There are but few farms In New Eng
land which have not somewhere de-
posit of swamp muck, and often two
Jobs can be combined by taking 1t
from bitches, which will also serve to
drain the swamp or bog. The best time
for digging 1t Is when the season Is
very dry.
The cowpea plant has a slightly bit,
ter taste, but is readily eaten by stock.
Small fruits for market need to be
picked early in the morning, when they
have scarcely reached the point Of full
ripeness, and then marketed the same
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1901-09-05

Then he began talking with the tiger.
1t was not In the same tongue as he
tts&sed TO me. but yet / could under
stand most Of what he said, while the
tiger answered by whines for yes and
growls- for no.
at is not my brother said the man
to me- THE soul Of my brother is still
in the body of the jackal. 1t was
blacker than | thought for. The tiger
may go now. 1t was kind of him to
come
The tiger rose up and stalked of,
looking back Mt us once or twice, and
then we went to bed. When morning
came, felt clear headed, but weak in
limb, though my appetite was fair. An
hour after our meal RaJpoor Gyah said
to me:
you must help rue TO cleanse the
world of its wickedness. Go forth and
find n ryot and bring him here, and we
will burn the soles Of his feet and
make him confess his misdeeds."
went without hesitation. The high
road was only half mile distant, and
as struck il turned to the r.ght hop
Ing soon TO meet with so;Ht farmer on
his way to market - Z happened,
however. the mail coach va the first
to come along and I'll thp hox was 4
brother officer There was something
in my appearance q rreate surprise.
and as | answered IT random when
questioned | was taken Up and IN TO
the next t,'wu There | Lad 4 ncrvo;ls
chill and Y ~ on the sol; IL for = fe:t.
night. M"a"wA.ir 4 parry had gone
out to ind ;s9o0r Gyah aud bring
him TO book. but he had vanished
carried the memory or every s.ngle
incident clearly in my head for months
and months, but found that others. and
particularly net!ical mrn. disagreed
with me. They declared my adventures
with cobra and tiger TO hc hypnotic
dreams and that | had not left the
cabin at all hut when Il came to the
question Of how was found on the
highway no one could more than guess.
However. had tro,!lea on dangerous
ground. aud | resolutely turned from
the whole subject and put il behind me
beyond resurrection.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1901-09-05
work nj the Earthworm.

When we behold wide, turf covered
expanse. we should remember that Its
smoothness, on which so much of Its
beauty depends, is mainly due to all
the inequalities having been slowly
leveled by worms. 1t Is a marvellous
reflection that the whole Of the superb
cial mold over any such expanse has
passed and viii pass again every few
years through the bodies of worms. The
plow is one of the most ancient and
most valuable of mans inventions, but
long before he existed the land was, In
tact, regularly plowed by earthworms.
1t may be doubted whether there are
many other animals which have played
so important a part In the history or
the world as have these lowly organ
lied creatures. Some other animals,
however, still more lowly organized
namely, corals-haye done far more
conspicuous work in having construct
ed innumerable reefs and islands In the
great oceans, but these are almost con-
fined TO the tropical zones.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1901-09-05
Cold Curing Tnke. the chee.e.

Experiments In cheese curing which
have been conducted for two years at
the Geneva (N. " experiment station
have results of the highest Importance
from the commercial standpoint.
Cheeses have been cured ut tempera-
lures varying from 55 degrees f. to SO
degrees T., the higher temperatures
representing the common factory con-
ditions.
OF the cheeses made In 1899 those
cured at GO degrees f. and below
scored on the average almost five
points higher on flavor and % points
higher on texture than those cured at
65 degrees #. and above. In 1900 the
average difference in favor of the
lower temperature was 81 points on
flavor and 81 points on texture.
This is n matter we'll worth the at
tention of all cheese factory managers,
because these differences in commercial
quality are sufficient to cause i'm
portant differences in the selling price.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1901-09-05
FILLING THE SlLO.
when to Cut the Corn, How to Put 1t
In and the "Whys" of Doth.

In and the 'sWhys" of Doth.
My time for cutting the corn for the
silo is as near as may be when the ears
are just thinking about glazing. When
1t is too old for me TO eat, 1t Is old
enough for my silo. / do not intend to
run counter to the scientific fellows by
saying | am not robbing my silage Of
-. properties 1t might have acquired
II had not interfered, but / have i'm
prisoned for my cows the sweet Juices
and fravors so much relished In the
managers. writes Pennsylvania to
The National Stockman.
If the corn lacks moisture in the lat
ter part of its season, the lower blades
will dry and drop before the hardening
process is operative at the ears. Then
that corn should be cut, for what 1t
may gain In dry matter above 1t is los
ing in dry matter below.
IL one has small silo and a few
acres and the filling is small matter
of two or three days, then he can bide
his time and cut when everything ap-
pears to be just right.
We have 10 acres growing for the
silos, and as we like to fill slowly our
cutting will extend over period Of
possibly three weeks. By filling slowly
we consider we get about 20 per cent
more In our silos than by simply filing
them and passing on.
Silage does not begin to do Its bust
ness settling for about week, and 1t
is our rule to cut quite rapidly for two
or three days, then proceed more slow
ly by stopping day and cutting day
alternately.
We use low wagons and corn har-
vester, sometimes, but when an acre
turns off 90 tons or more the harvester
we have doesn't succeed In getting 1t
in very far. We have man in the silo
and instruct him to keep the outsides
somewhat higher than the center. This
man is supposed, as Bob Seeds would
say. to keep a-goin, keep a-goin."
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1901-09-05
ONION HARVEST.
when 90 Pull Them-Hovv to Build @
Pile and VentIlntc Ii.


The thorough farmer has no weeds In
his onions when harvest time comeA
a clean field adds greatly to the pleas
ure and economy of harvesting the
crop. White onions should be pulled
AZ soon as fungous spots begin to show
on the outer leaves. Pull three rows at
a time and lay together straight, with
the tops all one way. Let them lie "a
hours, If good weather. before pilins.
Two forms of piles are used here. the
small round pile and the long pile.
For the small pile make a square bot
tom of barrel slaves or boards nailed
to cleats. 1t will be the square of the
length Of a barrel stave. Pile three
windrows or nine onion rows into one
row of piles. Grasp q large handful Of
onions by the tops and set them on the
barrel staye platform with tops out
side and so on around, leaving a six
inch airshaft and drawing in near the
top. Keep the onions In and tops out.
Bring the tops together and point up
IN a conical or old fashioned beehive
shape. Some weeds or fertilizer sack
OLi Win SbpiANo iiLAA94A0S liz pm.
Such pile will cut out from one to
two bushels.
The long pile is made 10y mailing four
or five four inch fence Stats upon cross
cleatS. On these the onions are piled,
with bulbs In and tops out, drawn In
al the top. making pile two and half
feet high. One of our ncighbors goes
further than this and puts a slat rack
through the middle. so that the air can
have free circulation endwise through
the pile. Another plan where one has
barn room enough is to cart in in bar
rcls the day after pulling and leave
the onions In barrel dump piles in rows
on the floog These rows of piles give
an opportunity for the circulation Of
air between. After a few days these
piles are turned over into new piles Or
ridges
Red and yellow onions require less
care than the whites, and some grow
ers pull them into IL row windrows
and let them lie there for n month. rak-
Ing them over for day or two. II good
weather before carting. But bright
er onion can be made by pillng into
small piles preventing sunburn and
weathering. Thus advises Rural New
Yorker correspondent.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1901-09-05


Don't imagine that dozen sAlwAy4}
means Il things. In the. Staff6fde dehirea
lotteries and In the earthenwaye tradej
dozen to this day represents that
number of any special article which
.an be offered at any fixed price. se,sA
For instance, the pitchers, which are
called jugs In the trade, are sold as 2,
), 4, 6, 8, Il, 1S, "a, 80 and. SO pieces to,
each dozen, the price for dozen being
bnstant.
The ordinary pitcher holding q quart
represents II to the dozen, while pint
pitcher Is "a to the dozen and Is so call
I'd when dealing with that size.
Few of the articles of the trade are
sold in dozens of u, plates being al
most the only ones and some Of them
being sold 60, 70 and even so to the
aozen.
Besides these curiosities In figures
the potters have peculiar names, such
as cockspurt, twifiers, ETC., that make
up O trade language of itself.
The bakers dozen Of 13 is n recog-
nized figure In their trade. ~
A publishers dozen is usually IL
copies.
Among fishermen In Cornwall long
iozen consists Of 26.-London Answers.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1901-09-05
E66 TIDE.

Il God should craw Hes yelling food away,
What sights the human beach could show the dnyi
What doubts, what creeping sins what dreams
long drowued;
What hopes, ike fallel stAra, would there lie
found
What wreckage where the surface calmly sleeps!
What shadows where We most had looked for
deeps.
Str..ase r-cks ot cruelty that lie concealed,
Clad in pale weeds Of vice, might rise revealed
Who're monster habits in their Shiny pride
Through falsehood's clinsing brine securely glide
God pity all! An, may his own grace hide
And save our secret souls from such ebb tide!
Martha Gilbert Dickinson
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1901-09-05
pue1i,t. Who Did Not KIN.

The two most famous duelists who
never killed their men known to his
tory are the Cheyalier de Saint Georges,
q mulatto, who was reputed TO be the
finest fencer In France. and in more
recent time n. Georges de Labruyere.
who constituted himself the champion
of Nine. SeberIne. editress of the Girls
du Peuple. Both these champions Of
the sword fought scores OF duels in
which severe wounds were given and
taken. but both were humans and chiy-
alrous and never took life. az their akill
would have enabled them t do.
In his duel with Lieutenant de Nell
Vile NJ. Labruyere was run through
the right lung and almost Immediately
afterward pierced his opponents left
lung. Both had to be carried off the
field. but they ultimately recovered. In
this connection II may be noted that
the ridicule In which certain English
papers Indulge in with regard TO French
and Italian dueling Is generally quite
beside the point Every duellst takes
his life In his hand and can practically
kill his adversary when he chooses. but
IL the stroke Is not made according to
the laws OF fence he Is certain to be
killed himself In doing it. This is why
the drawing OF blood Is considered to
be q satisfaction for Injured honor.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1901-09-05
WASHDAY WISDOM.
A very hot iron should never be used

A very hot iron should never be used
for flannels or woolens.
Calicoes, ginghams and chintzes
should be ironed on the wrong side.
Clotheslines are made much more
durable by boiling for ten minutes be-
fore they are used.
Table linen should be ironed when
quite damp and ironed with very hot
and very heavy iron.
Irons should not be allowed to be-
come redhot, as they will never retain
the heat properly afterward.
Embroideries should be ironed on O
thin, smooth surface over thick flannel
and only on the wrong side.
Linen may be made beautifully white
by the use Of little refined borax In
the water instead of using q washing
fluid
Wash fabrics that are inclined to
fade should be soaked and rinsed In
very salt water, to set the color, before
washing in the suds.
Silken fabrics, especially white silk
handkerchiefs, should not be damp
ened, but ironed with moderately
warm iron when taken from the line.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1901-09-05
HIa Tesf.

A dealer in pictures who makes 1t his
business to find as many new painters
as possible, both in this country and
abroad, was asked in regard to his
methods of selecting pictures to buy.
He was very frank In his talk, and one
thing which he said Is shrewd enough
to be worth quoting.
"Of course" he said, with my expe-
rience 1 am able to Judge whether
there Is promise In painters work.
but never buy with any idea OF put
ting the painter on my list until have
seen the man and talked with him my
self. / always watch him closely, and
I never buy his pictures unless his eye
lights up when talk to him about bis
work and about his profession"
The artist whose heart was really In
his work could not discuss 1t without
kindling, and the man who did not
paint from the heart was not the one
whose pictures the dealer wanted.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1901-09-05
POOR AND BIG HEARTED.
Specimens of the Hospitality of the
Southern Mountaineer.

Southern Mountaineer.
The latchstring hangs outside every
cabin door If the men folk are at home,
but you must shout Hello" always
outside the fence.
I'VE uns is PORE" you will be told,
"but y'u're welcome ef y'u kin put up
with what we have"
After a stay OF week at mountain
cabin a young 'furriner" asked what
his bill was. The old mountaineer
waved his hand. "Nothin," he said,
"cept come ag'n,"
A belated traveller asked to stay all
night at a cabin. The mountaineer an
swersd that his wife was sick, and
they were "sorter out of fixin's to eat,
but he reckoned he mought step over
to q neighbor's an,borrow some" He
did step over, and he was gone three
hours. He brought back n little bag
of meal, and they had corn bread and
potatoes for supper and for breakfast,
cooked by the mountaineer. The
stranger asked how far away his next
neighbor lived. az leetle the rise Of
six miles, reckon" was the answer.
(Which way"
ooh, jes' over the mountain thar"
He had stepped six miles over the
mountain and back for that little bag
of meal, and he would allow his guest
to pay nothing next morning.
have slept with nine others in sim
gle room. The host gave up his bed to
two of our party, and he and his wife
slept with the rest of US on the floor.
He gave US supper, kept us all night,
sent us away next morning with n
parting draft OF moonshine applejack,
of his own brewing, by the way, and
would suffer no one to pay n cent for
his entertainment. That man was a
desperate, an outlaw, n moonshiner
and was running from the sheriff at
that very time.
Two outlaw sons were supposed to
have been killed by officers. 1 offered
aid to the father TO have them decently
clothed and buried, but the old man,
who was as bad as his sons, declined 1t,
left for that. and IL not, why, he had
"The Southern Mountaineer," by John
Fox, Jr., in Scribner's.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1901-09-05
No 40.

mole is the result Of degeneration Of
tie optic nerve. the consequence OF,
which is that images formed In the eye
Itself are not transmitted to the AMI
mails consciousness. Occasionally q
mole can see n little cut of one eye,
which has retained its communication
with the brain.
1t is not that the mole is born blind,
but that il inherits tendency to afro,
ply of the visual organs just rs peo-'
pie derive from their parents an incli7s
nation 70 consumption or other dis
eases. Some day in the future there,
may be no such thing as mole that is,
not entirely and hopelessly blind.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1901-09-05
THE APPLE AND THE SHEEP.
kock the Orchard Heavily, Feed
Generously nnd Note RcsultM-

I am very sure l am right in advis-.
Ing the pasturing OF apple orchards
with hogs and sheep. II people Will
only read what l write carefully and
follow my advice to the letter, | am
sure they will find how to raise high
colored, fine grained and well favored
fruit, freest from insects, that will
keep longest and in best condition, and
TO raise 1t ut least expense. But they
musts not misunderstood me, says J.
s. Woodward in Rural New Yorker.
DO not advise seeding IN orchard nor
keeping. 1t in sod.
Simply stop cultivating, put In the
sheep, feed them and let the grass
come in naturally, If it comes at all.
Don't think that 10 sheep are enough
for ten acre orchard, but put 10 or Is
sheep to the acre, overstock so heay-
lly as to compel you to feed and then
seed enough TO keep the sheep thriving
and feed with view of feeding the ar
chard through the sheep.
TO convince himself that l am right
let any man fence off an acre of or
chard and put II sheep into it, provid-
ing plenty of fresh, clean water for
them at all times, and feed them Is
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1901-09-05
Hcnda NIuch Alike.

Most expert craniologists insist that
II is extremely difficult to determine,
sex from tie skull. but admit there are,
a few distinctions which taken togeth-,
er indicate sex. Perhaps the most
marked distinction Is the prominence,
of the hony projection over the nose
The skull in man Is thicker and stron-'
ger. and the mastoid processes beneath
the ear are larger. Broca Is authority,
for the opinion that If the skull rests
on the mastoid processes II is almost
certainly 4 mans. In woman the top
Of the head appears fiatter, while in
man the curve from before backward
Is more smooth and even. Greek sculp-
tors always recognize this.-Health
Culture
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1901-09-05
eANTALoUpE AND PICKLE WORMS

linas, Georgia and Florida, cucurblt
fields are rarely free from 1t during
late summer and fall.
The pickle worm feeds on most vari-
cites of cucurbits, but it has decided
preference for the squash; therefore
trap plants of summer squash are used
as q protection, and as the trap crop
must be kept growing as long as pro-
lection is necessary seed 10 planted ev-
cry two weeks or SO.
The Georgia station in their advising
In regard to this worm says:
AS with most other insects, clean cul-
ture will here be of value. Collect md
burn the old cucurbit vines. Trash in
fence corners should be carefully raked
out and burned during the winter.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1901-09-05
A Kick From Mexico.

Tourists come here and shout to wait
ers, hotel clerks, shopkeepers, etc, be-
lleving that If you only yell forth your
English it instantly becomes compre-,
hensible And common error In breed
ing and one not confined to tourist for
eigners is to make unpleasant remarks
about men, women and things In tone
of voice which conveys at once to the
natives that something disagreeable is
being said. So we acquire not without
reason the reputation Of being muy gro
seros, or very rude, and too often we
are-Mexican Herald.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1901-09-05
Seeing Around Corners.

There are many insects which have O.
very much larger field Of vision than
we have. This is due to the greater con-
cavity of their eyes. enabling them to
see around the corner. so to speak. be-
hind and at the sides. This develop
ment in man would have Its objectiona-
bic points. but also Its good ones, not
the least of which might be the detec-
ton of pickpockets.-Cham Jour
nal
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1901-09-05

And where, may ask. do you gen.
orally reside" the young man said aft
er all other subjects had been exhaust
ed.
"Oh, / have no fixed abode" Miss
Mobile replied, ''but I usually pass the
greater Part Of the winter In Reading.
In Lent I find myself attracted to st.
Paul. After Easter 60 down to West
Virginia and spend the summer and
part of the autumn In Wheeling"
"And them
"Then, Mr.. Heavy, find myself ad-
mirably prepared for q month or two
OF Aiken. New York Herald.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1901-09-05

DIR. w. G. Grace was once giving
brilliant batting display at the oval,
and one of the spectators observed to
his friend: "Did You ever see anything
like it? Why, he puts 'em wherever he
likes" "Well,' said the other, 'fts all
practice-he's always at 1.-THE doesn't
waste any Of his time over family
prayers."-C. w. Alcock's Cricket Sto-
Brief Interview.
The late Rev. r. S. Storrs was q very,
hard man to interview, for he resented
the inquisitiveness OF the press and was
icy to its agents.
One evening a reporter attended a
reception at his house and In the
course OF the evening touched his arm
and whispered: Doctor, I'm from the
-. I want the names Of guests and
all the particulars"
"Yes," DR.. Storrs whispered in return,
this way, this way" And, taking the
young mans arm, he escorted him to
the front door and put him out
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1901-09-05
Let's Him Ont.

Mrs. Nagger-Oh, James, how awk-
ward. Mr.. Smith has come, and now.
we shall be 13 at table.
Mr.. Nagger-What thenf
Mrs. Nagger with a shriek) Why,
one of US will die before the year Is
out!
Mr.. Nagger Cbrutally)-Neve mind.
I'm tough.-Pick-Me-Up
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1901-09-05
inst I'm Time.

An Irish gentleman getting upon a
street car found one place vacant,
which he proceeded to occupy.
Sure" said he, with twinkle In his
eye. II came just In the nick Of time"
"How Is thatT"
"Arrah! IL I was to come now, I
shouldn't find seat in the carr-Ex-
change.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1901-09-05

Preston Is hard wheat, cross Of
Ladoga Russian VARIETY and Red Fife,
and stands at the head Of all the varie-
ties of wheat tested at the experimental
farms for the whole Dominion of Can
ada. 1t has given heavier crops than
Red Fife or any other variety.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1901-09-05

The creatures which dwelt in the
darkness of the depths naturally lost
their powers Of vision after awhile. 1t
Is the same way with the mole, which
Is doubtless descended from progeni-
tors which could see. Blindness in the