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Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1901-10-17
TILLAGE FOR POTATOES.
The Cornell Scheme 1t Works
Among the Farmers.

Among the Farmers.
The Cornell On. W station has done
a good deal Of work in improving meth
DDS of potato culture.
The Cornell scheme is: early Tor
twice. plowing, thorough fitting, deep
planting, prolonged, frequent, level till
age and spraying with bordeaux mix
ture and Paris green"
One farmer who tried it reports con-
cisely: "Four rows 145 feet long, your
way, six bushels. Four rows 145 feet
long, my way, four bushels"
One point which may still have time
liness for some late crops Is the pro-
longed tillage versus laying by at the
third cultivation. On this Il is advised:
"Cultivate lightly about two inches),
working as close to the row as the tops
will permit. Cultivate after every rain
storm as soon as the soil Is fit. Con-
tinue these shallow civilizations as
long as it is possible to pass between
the rows, narrowing the cultivation at
each successive tillage to correspond
to the space left between the spread
ing rows. From seven to nine cultiva-
tions have been found most advanta-
geous for the crop, and it is well If the
tillage is continued into August. Level
tillage has given better results on the
station grounds than the 'hilling' meth
cd, the advantage being greater in dry
seasons"
Commenting upon these methods j..
l.. Stone Of the station staff says:
"Eighty-five per cent of the reports re-
ceived from farmers of tillage expert
ments with potatoes indicate profitable
returns from the methods recommend
ed. Some of the gains are extremely
profitably secured"
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1901-10-17
SCRAPS OF SCIENCE.

A scientist who has made a study Of
the planet declares that there is snow
on the moon.
There are % pounds of blood in the
body Of an average grown up person,
and at each pulsation the heart moves
10 pounds.
While cyclones and toTnadees are diff
ferent phenomena, the former appear
to give rise TO the latter. Tornadoes
almost always break out, if at all, on
the southeasterly outskirts of a cyclone.
4 period of ) seconds between Il fash
of lightning and thunder means that
the flash is a mile distant from the OBJ
server Thunder has never been heard
over 10 miles from the flash, though
artillery has been heard 120 miles.
Sir Robert Ball asserted that every
100 years the sun loses miles of its
diameter. To allay anxiety, however,
he mentioned that the diameter of the
sun is 100000 miles and that 10000
years hence the diameter would still
be S5S,000 miles.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1901-10-17
CAPITAL TEN PERCENTERS.
Government Clerks Who Lend to
Their Fellow WorISers.

Government Clerks Who Lend to
Their Fellow Workers.
81 reckon III sell my salary this
month";" remarked the young census
clerk.
"To whom?" asked his friend.
'Why. to one of the ten percenters,
of course" was the reply.
Dialogues such as this are Of fire.
uuent occurrence between government
clerks in Washington toward the end
of the month When a clerk sells his
salary to n ten percenter, he gives the
latter an I o U for the entire salary
due him on the following pay day and
receives in exchange 90 per cent of the
amount. The man who makes the loan
retains the remaining 10 per cent,
whence his name of ten percenter.
The ten percenter is said to exist
under one name or another in all of the
great federal department buildings in
Washington. He is invariably shrewd
government clerk who has a bit of
money of his own or has saved his sal
airy until its accumulation represents
n tidy little sum. This capital he is
to 500.
In Il majority of the Washington Of
fees the laws against usurers are so
vigorously enforced that the ten per-
center is unable to transact business
in safety as an individual; he exists
nevertheless under the protecting title
of a beneficial society. These fake So
cieties should not be confused with
the mutual beneficiary organizations
which have been established for a
number of years in many of the de-
partments, notably the government
printing office, for the purpose of aid
ing sick or disabled members and their
families and of burying the dead. The
ten percenters' society never includes
more than five or six members. They
have their charter and a carefully
drawn constitution and bylaws.
Each member contributes a certain
amount of money to the funds of the
concern, and the other employees of
the Office are quietly informed how
they can be accommodated with loan
for small bonus. On the first of every
month the pool divides its profits.
These organizations are usually short
lived. as they become unpopular when
the business begins to grow large. The
death of one fake association is rapidly
followed by the birth of successor,
differing from its predecessor in name
only, so that the ten percenters are en-
abled to ply their trade without much
interruption.-New York Sun.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1901-10-17
when a Man Can See zoo Miles.

About 200 miles in every direction is
the distance a man can see when sta nd
ing, on a clear day, on the peak of the
highest mountain-say, at height of
26,66S feet, or q little over five miles
above the level of the sea. An observer
must be at height of 6,667 feet above
sea level to see objects at a distance of
100 miles. The distance in miles at
which an object upon the surface of
the earth is visible is equal to the
square root of one and half times the
height of the observer in feet above the
sea level.
Some allowance has to be made for
the effect of atmospheric refraction,
but as the refraction varies at differ
ent heights and is affected by the vari-
Gus states of the weather no precisely
accurate figures for general purposes
can be given. Probably one-fourteenth
to one-tenth of the distance given by
the formula would have to be deducted,
owing to the refraction of the atmos-
phere.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1901-10-17
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ELRaNp GARDEN
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THE OUNCE CURCULIO.
It's Life and Habits-The Best Rene
dv Vet Fnund For IT

It's Life and Habits-The Best Rene
dy Yet Found For 1t.
The ounce curculio belongs to the
largest and most important of the fam
ilies-the Curculionidn or popularity
curculios or weeviIs-of the snout bee
ties This family includes several of
our most destructive insects, such as
the acorn and nut weevils, the well
known plum curculio, the strawberry
weevil and that recent importation
from Mexico, the cotton boil weeyn.
As some of the grubs go into the soil
in August and the beetles which de-
velop from them may not appear above
ground before the middle of the next
July a ounce curculio may spend IL
months of its life in the soil in the or
chard. For q week or more after they
emerge from the ground in the spring
the curculios feed upon the growing
ounce fruits and possibly to a slight
extent upon the leaves. Then eggs are
laid in little pits made by the mother
beetles in the fruit.
In August, one season, eggs hatched
in from seven to ten days, and the lit
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1901-10-17
The Grain Moth.

We were troubled seriously with the
grain moth last year. As far as under
stood, our farmers will thrash during
August and sell at once or put in bags
and hold as may be advisable, as we
learned last year by experience wheat
thrashed about Sept. was not injured
by being kept in the bags, no matter
how long it remained In them. All
wheat either in stack or buildings
thrashed after October was seriously
injured. says a New Jersey farmer in
Rural New Yorker.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1901-10-17

vThe square peg in the round hole"
fpurative1v expresses the use OF means
r,fIsuited to the desired end. A great
MANY people who have been cured OF
dyspepsia and other diseases of the stom-
acf1 and its allied organs of digestion and
nutrition by the use of DIR. Pierce Golden
Medical Discovery say: WE tried many
medicines with only temporary benefit.
1t was not until we began the use OF
Golden Medical Discovery that we
found a complete and lasting cure"
1t is undoubtedly true that DIR. Pierce's
Golden Medical Discovery holds the rec
ord for the perfect and permanent cure
of Indigestion and other diseases OF the
stomach and associated organs OF diges-
ton and nutrition. It is not palliative.
1t cures the cause of disease and builds
up the body with solid healthy flesh, not
flabby fat.
ut is with pleasure that tell you what DR..
Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery and Pellets
have done for me, writes Mrs. T. NJ. Palmer, OF
Peede, kaufman Co, Texas. uTwo years ago
was taken with stomach and bowel trouble.
Everything ate would put me in distress.
lived two weeks on milk and even that gave me
pain felt as though would starve 10 death.
Three doctors attended me one said had dys-
persia two said catarrf of the stomach and
one year. 1 stopped taking sheir medicine and
tried other patent medicine; got no better, and
I grew so weak and nervous my. heart would
hutter. could not do any kind Of work. Now
can do my house work very well; gaining
IN flesh and strength, and can eat anything 1
WANT
Accept no substitute for DR.. Pierce's
Golden Medical Discovery.
DR.. Pierce's Common Sense Medical
Adviser is sent free on receipt of stamps
to pay expense of mailing only. Send
2I one cent stamps for the paper covered
book, or 81 stamps for the cloth bound
volume Address DIR. R. V. Pierce, Buff
fa1o, N. Y.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1901-10-17

During the burning of the Standard
Oil company's tanks at Bayonnc, n. j.,
in July, 1900, an immense column OF
smoke, shaped at the top like an UNI
brella, rose into the air. where very lit
tie wind was stirring. to an elevation,
measured by triangHlation. Of l3.411
feet, or more than two miles ana half.
Above the column white clouds formed
in an otherwise cloudess sky and re-
mained visible for two days, the fire
continuing to burn and the smoke to
rise. After the explosion Of an oil
tank flames shot up to a height of 5000
feet, and the heat radated from them
was felt at a distance of a mile and
three-quarters, where it was more no.
ticeable than close 20 the fire.-Youths
Companion.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1901-10-17
An Effort to Speak.

Dogs in u native or wild state never
bark. They a.2:r-~ whine. howl and
growl. The noise which we can bark
Ing Is foard only among those that are
domcsilcatcd. Columbus found that to
be the case with the dogs he first
brought to America and left ut large
for on his return "e tells US that they
had lost their propensity to bark. Sci
entifc men say that barking is really
an effort on the part Of the dog to
speak.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1901-10-17
GenernILee,s Answer.

After the surrender of Appomattox,
General Wise came riding down the
road furiousfy to where General Lee
and his staff were grouped He was
splashed with mud from head to heels,
and there were great splotches of mud
dried and ed upon his face. Ad-
dressing Cc-eral Lee, he asked in q
theatrical voice, rs it true. General
Lee, that you have surrendered"
eyes, General Wise, it is true"
81 wish, then, to ask you one ques-
gon, What is going to become of my
brigade, General Lee, and what is go
ing to become OF me?"
General Lee looked at the splashed
warrior for a full minute and then
said calmly and in low tone. Gen
eral Wise, go and wash your face"
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1901-10-17
Winfield X X Co Time Table
In effect January 1st, 1901.
EASTWARD

Trains stop at Lane and Iron Bridge only Flag to
take on leave of passengers.
Trains Connect at Butler Junction with:
Trains Eastward for Freeport, NandergTift and
Bairsville Intersection.
Trains Westward for NatrOna, rarentum and Ale
gheny.
Trains Northwari !or Saxonburg, Delano and Butler.
b. q. BEAL0R,
General Manager
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1901-10-17
Experience Convinces.

Prove its value by investing 10 cents in
trial size of Ely's Cream Balm. Druggists
supply il and we mail it. Full size so cents.
ELY BROS, Sc Warren St., New York.
Clifton, Arizona, Jan. 20, 1893.
Messrs. ELY Bros: Please send me so
cent bottle of Cream Balm. find your
remedy the quickest and most permanent
cure for catarrh and cold in the head.
DELL NJ POTTER, Gen. Mgr. Ariz. Gold M. Co.
Messrs. ELY BRos.:-I have been afflicted
with catarrh for twenty years. 1t made me
so weak thought / had consumption. |
got one bottle Of Ely's Cream Balm and IN
three days the discharge stopped. 1t is the
best medicine have used for catarrh.
Proberta, Cal. FRANK Z. KNDLEsPIRE.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1901-10-17

YOUNG OUNCE INJURED BY CURCULlO.
tie grubs at once began eating their
way into the fruit. The grubs continue
feeding in the fleshy part of the fruit
for about a month, forming therein a
large worm eaten" cavity. When full
grown, the grubs eat their way to the
surface of the fruit, forming the famil-
lar worm hole" leading into the black
ish, disgusting looking cavity in the
flesh.
1t is the testimony of growers who
have thoroughly tested the arsenical
sprays thatthey are Of little or no ben
eft
Like the plum curculio, this ounce
curculio quickly drops to the ground
when the tree is Jared, not shaken.
Those who practice the jarring method
successfully jar the trees every day il
possible from the time the beetles ap-
pear until their numbers decrease be-
yond the danger point, or only few
are captured each time.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1901-10-17
Handling Jannnese P1ums.

In regard to the time for picking Jap
anese plums, Mr.. Skillman, New Jer-
sey grower Of note, says: My idea is to
pick them as they begin to color. They
are like pear. They will color up
better afterward, and the flavor will be
better.
In regard to the size of packages.
have used ten pound crates and also
peach baskets. When | came to size it
up, l found | could get just as much
money, if not a little bit more, out Of
the peach basket. | don't sort them.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1901-10-17
DOmeatic Difference.

Mrs. Enpeck-James, you are good oD
language. What is the difference be
tween exported and transported?
Mr.. Enpeck-Why, my dear, II you
should go to England. you would be
exported, and I-well, | would be trans
ported.-Sunny South.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1901-10-17

She-How beautifully Miss Heavy
weight dances! Shc doesn't seem TO
touch the ioor sometimes.
He (whose feet are still suffering
from the last polka with her)-She
coesn'tLPnn"h.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1901-10-17

The Kongo is one of the widest water
ways on the globe, if not the finest. In
some parts it is so wide that vessels
may pass one another and yet be out Of
sight.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1901-10-17
In n Grent IIurry.

Benham-Why did that woman keep
you standing at the door for half IN
hour?
Mrs. Benham-She said she hadn't
time to come in.-Brooklyn Life.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1901-10-17

Additional train leaves Clearfeld at los p. M, Falls
Creek at 909 Dubois 915, arriving at PunIsutawney
at 1000 pm. Daily except Sunday
*Daily. Daily except Sunday.
a-Train will stop at Dayton. Echo and
Craigsville to let of passengers from
Bradford and points north of Bradford and
on signal to take on passengers for Allegheny
or points vest on the p. & W. Ry.
Train will stop at Craigsyille, Echo and
Dayton to let Off passengers from Allegheny
and on signal to take on passengers for
Bradford and points north of Bradford.
Trains and are vestibuled with hand
some day coaches, cafe and reclining chair
cars.
Trains and Z have Pullman sleepers be-
tween Buffalo and Pitusburg and Rochester
and Pittsburg
EDWARD c. LAPEY.
Gen1 Pass Agent
Rochester N Y.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1901-10-17
R-R-TIME-TABLES
y & w IL R


Trains leave Butler for Allegheny,
local time. at 6:25. sos, geo. and 11:20
n. m. and 400, 5:45, p. IN The 9:20
and IL 90 a. m. trains make the run in
an hour and quarter. The sos a. m.
400 and 5:45 p IN. trains, daily, connect
at Gallery for the West.
Trains leave Butler in the Northern
Division or Narrow Gauge at $50 a. m.
5:15 p m, local time, the morning
train for Kane and evening train for
w. Clarion
Trains arrive in Butler from Ale
gheny 9:03, 9:17 a. m. and 1910, 500.
1903 and 7:45; and from the North at
9;05 and $50 p. IN.
On Tuesday Thursday and Saturday
nights, the Theatre train leaves Ale
gheny at 80 p. m. arrives in Butler at
1:10 a. m.
pESSEMER & LAKE ERIE R. co.
ID Time table in effect June 80, 1901.
CENTRAL TIME
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1901-10-17
FOR TIRE EAST,

Philadelphia Express, 450 Z"
Mail and Express daily For New York only
Through buffet sleeper; no coacl es 49, TOO
Eastern Express, ITO
Fast Line, 900
Pittsburg Limited, daily, for New York, Balti-
more and Washington only. 1000
fhilad'a Mail, Sundays only . ..... $40 IN
For Atlantic City (va Delaware River Bridge. all
rail route) 500 am. daily and 900 pm. daily
Buffalo and Allegheny Valley Division.
Trains leave Kiskminetas Junction follows
For Buffalo, $50 a. and 1l50 p. nj. daily, with
through parlor and sleeping cars.
For Oil City, TAG, 9.56 Il. m, 2s, 6l5 and ll50 p
H. weekdays. Sundays, 956 a. m, 615 and IL 50p M
For Red Bank, 746 $780, 1117 a. m, IS, SIS, 234
and ii so p week days. Sundays, 956, 10.49 o. M
6I5 and 1150 p. m.
For Kittanning, TAG, 90, 956, 1l17 a. m, 23s5 35
6.l5, 73, 9.3i, and 11.50 p m. weekdays. Sundays
$50, 1919 a. m, 6 rs, 1045, and IL so p. m.
"g" stops signal To take passengers for Taren-
tum and points beyond.
For detailed information apply to ticket agent or
address Thos. 4. Watt, Pass. Agt Western District
Corner Fifth Avenus aud Smithneld Street. Pittsburg
Pa
B. HUTCHls4E, I.B. NpOR.
Genera Manager. Genr PAsw. Agsn
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1901-10-17


Train No. l, leaving Greenville 6:G2 a. m.
Mercer $40, Grove City 7:03. Butler $40, ar
riyes at Allegheny $40 a. m.
Train 15, leaving Erie 9:05 D. m. Albion
1905, Conneautville 1925 Exposition Park
'10:54, arrives at Greepyille 1880 p. M, con-
Meeting at Erie with L. :. 4 Nj. 5, train leav-
ing Buffalo at 500 pm.
Train L. leaving Grove City 435 a. M,
Mercer 4:56. Greenville 5:S2, Conneautville
connecting with [. S. & Nj. s. train due in
Buffalo at 1890 am,
E. d. COMSTOCK,
e. II. UTLEY, Gen. Pass. Agt,
Gen. Manager. Pittsburg, Pa
BUFFALO, ROCHESTER Il PITTS
ID BURG RY., Time table i'll effect
Sept. 1, 1901.
NORTH BOUND.
EASTERN TIME +22 &C rs IA -
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1901-10-17

Additional train leaves Punxsutawey for Dubois,
Falls Creek Curwensyille and Clearfeld at Sis
Daily except Sunday.
SOUTH BOUND.
EASTERN TIME +1s 20 g IS -
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1901-10-17
PENNSYLVANIA RAIL sa,n
NrSrERN PENNSYLVANIA DIVISION.
SoHSnr;t - tv,Ec1 Oct. 1 1891


SUNDAY TRAINS-Leaye Butler Tor Allegher
City and PRINCIPAL intermediate stations at 730 a n
md 5O0 p m.
NORTH
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1901-05-02
needed by man, except tea and coffee

needed by man, except tea and coHee
and a few minor products.
This is what has given us so much
employment, such high wages and such
an unparalleled home market.
In spite of all this, however, the Tree
traders Of to-day are again urging that
we open our ports to the cheaper
products of other countries and devote
ourselves to gaining other markets, oy
centering our energies on few nat
ural" productions. In other WORDS
we are urged to abandon sure Market
of many times the value of any thae
we could have if we were to gain an
there is to be gained
But for the sake of argument, let US
suDpose the free trader to be right, TOT
the further one examines free traue
theory the more absurd it appears. Let
us cease producing some things ana
huy them abroad, paying for them with
increased productions Of other Things.
The questions now confronts us: mere
shall we begin? What sh&ll we give
un9 Surely not any of the staple agrl-
cultural products. If our farmers
should abandon their land and go to the
factory and make plows, for instance
who would use the ploWs? We raise
and shall sell more grain and provisions
than any other people, so perhaps II
would be better to close the factory ana
for all to go on the farm. But there IS
q surplus of farm products now, anu
whore could we sell double or treble
the pIesent production? This again IS
absurd. Shall our miners leave the
mines and make picks and showers
with which the market is already fully
supplied? Could a million iron ana steer
workers turn to making boots ana
shoes? No; it is all ridiculous, turn
which way we will.
Fully 95 per cent. of our products are
sold at home. Are we to believe that
half of this or any part Of it can be car
ried thousands of miles and sold at
greater net profit than when sold within
a few miles distant from the place Of
production? The whole free trade con-
tention is one natural, physical, eco
nomical impossibility.
The C0bdenite obscures his theory
somewhat by saying that we should
admit the raw material free and in
crease our production and sales of the
finished product. The raw material
fallacy has been laid bare so often that
it is useless to argue it at the beginning
of the twentieth century. But suppose
we were to import the partly finished
material that, perfected and combined,
makes the last finished product, what
would be the result? It will be found
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1901-05-02
No Cause for Alarm.

The reports recently prepared by Sta
tistician Hitchcock, of the Foreign
Commerce Of the United States, make a
most satisfactory exhibit. For the year
1900 the exports were forty times as
large as those of 1900. while the i'm
ports We're only ten times as great. OF
the grand total of 81, $40, 763, 81 exports
during the year about 40 per cent were
agricultural products, marked change
from the rule Of few years ago. The
excess of exports over imports, $780,
100000, gives the country a large re-
turn in securities or a tremendous cred
it balance. for there have been no i'm
ports of gold to settle accounts of such
magnitude. Since more than One-half
of our total exports is other than agri-
culture the nation need not be alarmed
at the threat of Germany to put higher
tariff barriers between the American
farmer and the German market.-Mas-
sillon Ohio Independent.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1901-05-02

mediate results of great Importance
are hoped for; even in the small ordin-
airy circuits great economy is predicted,
as the invention makes it possible to
use smaller Wires-and the cost of wire
is large item. The inventor, Prof.
Michael Idorysky Pupin, Phi. D., is an
Austrian by birth, now about fOrty-twO
years of age. He ran away from school,
came to America, worked in shops,
then, pushed by his desire for knOwl-
edge, he entered Columbia University,
where he is now an instructor. Later he
studied at Cambridge England, where
he was the first American to take the
John Tyndall Fellowship, and at Ber-
lin, where he studied physical science
under HelmholtZ and took his PHI. d.
degree. Returning to America, he en-
gagged in special investigation of the vi
brations of cords and electrical cur
rents. The result was the practical in
yention named above. The incident Is
a striking refutation of the popular fal-
lacy that all great inventions are found
by accident-MOntreal Star.