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Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1902-05-08
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Butler County National Bank,

Butler Penn,
Capital paid in f7oo, ,ooo.oo
Surplus and Profits $r75. .ooo.oo
Jos. Hartman, President; J. v. Ritts,
Vice President; John G. McMarlin,
Cashier, A. c. Krug, Asst Cashier.
A general banking business transacted.
Interest paid on time deposits.
Money loaned on approved security.
We Invite you to open an account with this
bank.
DIRECT0RS-Hcn Joseph Hartman. Hon
W. :. Wnldron. DR.. n. NJ. Hoover. H. Nc
Sweeney, q. 7. Collins !. G. smith, Leslie F.
Hazlert, NJ. Finegan, w. II. Larkin, T. p
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NO BETTER
TO N 1 G
ROBT. LEVIN G. co.

WHOLESALE DEALERS III
WINES AND LIQUORS,
How IA Smithfield Street, formerly
al Water Street. PITTsBURG, PA.
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Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1902-05-08
SUNDAY TRAINS-Leayo Allegheny city for Bu
ieF and principal intermediate stations at 7.l0
FOR TIE EAST.

pittsnif2 Limited, daily, iuf New York, Balti-
more and Washington Only............. 1000
Philad'a Mail, sundays on,y ....... $40 Am
For Atlantic city (via Delaware River Bridge, all
rail route) 800 am. daily and 900 pm. daily.
Buffalo and Allegheny Valley Division.
Trains leave KiskiminetaB Junction "a follows
For Buffalo, 95G q. m. and II IS y. m. daily with
through parlor and sleeping cars.
For oil City, TAG, 0-5G a m, 2}s G15 and lbs p.
IN weekdays. Sundays p56 a. M. 015 and ii-}5 IN.
For Red Bank 746 D.6G, llI7 n. m, . 80, 6I5 0.3i,
and II 30 r. weekdays. Sundays 9bG, 1919 a. m,
G15 and l.33 p.
For Kitannfng, TAG, o32, o5G, ii17 a. m e.Ss5 35,
GIG, 73, 0.3i, and tl.JJ D. week days. Sundays,
0.56, 1919 IA. m, q. 10, 1O.lJ, and II 35 r. m.
"f stops on signal 20 take passengers Tor TGren-
tum and points beyond.
For detailed information, apply 10 ticket agent
address Th0s y. Watt, PaH-. Agt Western District
nrner Fifh Avenue aud smithllold Street. Pittaburg
a,~rCuIaOE, J. n. WOOD,
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Butler Savings Bank

l5utler, E,I.
Capital S6o,ooo.oc
Surplus s1d PrcEJs sa4s .ooo.co
Jts> LPuHEis. ....... .............. .Fr.s,s.,-st
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LOUIS .. SGE.& -. ....................e siler
DIRECTORS -Josep1 l.. FurTfs - HeGJy
Ifortm4p, W y Br-Eco7 ~. 4. Stei... j. (.
E@mpbelI.
The Butler Savings Bank Is the Oldest
Banking Instituti0nln Butler County.
General banking business transacted.
We solicit accounts Of oil producers mer-
chants, farmers and others.
All hIsineSs entrusted to Us NIL receiya
prompt attention.
Interest Paid an tine eepos!ts
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WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA BIyIsG0N.
SoHEnrLE IN EFFECT Feb. 20, lg0l
,ts.-s..y a..

SUNDAY TRAfNS.-Leave Butler fOr Allegheny
City and principal intermediate stations at 7:3o N.
and 300 y. N.
NORTH WEEK DAYS.
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-11-08

lery in their homes, and St. Etienne turns
out something like 1000 knives every week.
II makes quantities of guns in the same
way. and in addition there is here the gov
eminent arms factory. which sometimes en-
pIOyS 10000 men at one time. They are
now making guns that use liquid gas in
place Of powder.
In the Ribbon Factories.
The tendency is now to make ribbons in
factories The house industry is gradually
declining and new factories go up every
year. 1 visited one of the largest this af
terEOOn going through room after room in
which different kinds of ribbons are made.
Both steam and electricity used. ard the
factory is not unlike the silk mills l de-
scribed in my letter from Lyons. In one
room scores OF girls were Keeling silk for
the warp and in others men and women
were weaving. The looms were small.
though some made many ribbons at one
time. | was surprised at the work II takes
to make ribbon. The raw silk is produced
In France and elsewhere. The cocOons are
spun and the threads reeied before the real
work begins Then the pattern must be de-
signed and the loom arranged for II; so that
an army tolls to make the ribbons which
Inclrcle the necks of our maIdens
Many OF the ribbons are Of velvet. Some
are of satin. and some have flowers and
birds raised in satin on soft silken ground.
st. Etienne makes gold ribbons and silver
ribbons and ribbons as wonderful In their
decoration as a peacock's tall You can
have your portrait thus woven in silk if
you can afford to pay the bill.
There are ribbons of cotton covered with
silk. and ribbons which are half velvet and
half cotton. On one loom I saw thirty
shuttles working at once. They were max
Ing ribbons one-fourth of an inch wide COW
cred with embroidery. The ribbons were
woven over glass rods and the shuttres flew
sck and forth like things of life. In one
pattern was told there were 2 100 threads
and that the design alone cost Sf0eo.
In other places they were printing ribbons
and IN others they were weaving them of
fancy gauze for trimmings. The factors
tell me that America Is one of their best
markets. and that times are good or bad
according 20 the American demand.
This town IL in the heart Of the coal
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HARD TIMES IN AUSTRALIA.
Drouth Has Plunged Almost the En-
tire Country Into Bankruptcy.

Melbourne Corr. New York Times.
Not since the collapse of the land boom,
which wrecked so many banks and other
financial institutions and reduced SO many
people from opulence to poverty, have times
been so hard as they now are. Seven or
eight seasons Of successive drouth in the
arid regions of Australia have led to an
enormous loss of stock, which will seriously
affect this years export of wool and frozen
mutton. Locally, the immediate effect has
been to increase the price of beef and NUT
ton enormously, and so many people are
out of work that both articles OF cOnsump-
ton have got beyond their reach The I'M
employed can be counted by hundreds In
all the cities and towns of the continent,
especially in Victoria. South Australia. New
South Wales and Queensland. The cities
of Adelaide. Melbourne, Sydney and 'Bris-
bane are full of able-bodied men who can
find no work to do, and the whole outlook
is most dishearteDing. Australia Is literally
groa ming under its enormous load of debt,
and state governments have difficult
problem to solve in the financial position
which confronts them.
They have borrowed to such an extent
that the fiotation of further loans in Lon
don is anything but an easy thing to do,
and in most of the states large deficits are
shown on the years transactions. Rigid
retrenchment and economy, as well as fur
Their taxation. are the only means by which
the states can extricate themselves from
the financial straits they have got them
selves into by piing up the public debt and
reckless expenditure upon unproductive
works. In Victoria a crisis has taken place
within the past few days, and parliament
has been dissolved. The government pro-
posed to make percentage reductions in the
salaries and wages of public servants, start
ing with salaries of 1925 a year upward.
The house declared against beginning so
low down the scale as 1925 and thereupon
the government asked for a dissolution and
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Refining Beet Sugar.
from the Brook lyn Citizen.

FROM the brooklyn tltlZen-
Before beet sugar is fit for consumption
it must be refined. The flavor of raw or
brown beet sugar is so objectionable that
the only buyer Of it would be a sugar re-
finer. For this reason a small home mill,
such as is sometimes used for cane or
sorghum, Is entirely unsuitable for the pro-
duction of beet sugar.
The grinding process both for cane and
the beet root is very intricate. Some people
have an idea that the beet sugar is made
from the ordinary red beet. 1t Is the yell
low beet that produces the sugar. After
going through the grinding process and In
being filtered the impurities are extracted
from the juice. which Is boiled in cans to q
grain. It Is then turned into raw sugar
1t is melted into hogsheads. bags and bas-
ketS and sent to the refinery. There the
sugar is placed In a melting pan and
pumped to the top of the refinery, where 1t
is clarified with the aid of phosphate of
lime. filtering process follows and the
sugar is run over bone black. The mechan-
ical impurities are extracted by another
fltering process and all organic impurities
are removed, too
The sugar is then again boiled to a grain
and separated in grades, after which 1t is
transferred to tanks, called coolers, and
thence through centrifugal fumes which
spills all of the liquor and leaves as a
residue the refined sugar, which is driven
into bins and is ready for packing.
There are about sixteen grades of sugar
the principal being granula ted, cut loaf the
crystal domino and the powdered sugar.
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Smashed Bottle on Cougars Head.

From the Seattle Post-Inteligencer.
Four children of Mr.. Rodenberg. whose
home is at Big Skookum. go to school at
public school house a long way off One
Wednesday during the last of June these
children, being on the road homeward
were struggling along at some distance
from one another, when a cougar sprang
out of an ambush and seized the little boy
who brought up the rear. This little fell
low was the youngest of the party being
only six years old, and least likely to re-
sist the beast, that watchful creature
seems to have known when it saw the
school children going by, single file. The
cougar seized the lad by the head and sat
upon him, Snarling at the other boy of the
party, an eight-year-oid youngster, who
came running with might and main to save
his brother. The brave boy had in his
right hand a milk bottle of heavy glass
He took hold of one of the cougars ears
and with the bottle began to beat the
snarling beast over the head. At the third
or fourth blow the bottle broke and a hun
dred fragments of glass were scattered
about. 1t is possible that some of the frag-
ments entered the cougars blazing eyes
for soon as the bottle broke he let go
his hold and ran off, plunging into the
bushes, from which he did not again
emerge.
Meanwhile, the unhurt children took the
wounded boy into a neighboring farm
house. The wounds were all flesh wounds
and when they had been dressed the little
fellow grew quite animated in his account
of the adventure, which was soon the talk
of the neighborhood.
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vided into compartments or little rooms
about six feet wide. running across the
cars, with a passageway at one side. Both
seats and backs are upholstered. They
run across the compartments and face each
other. four people being supposed to sit on
each side. The seats next to the windows
are the best. and the first arrivals reserve
them by putting their baggage there. The
conductor punches the tickets before the
train starts, and they are also punched as
you come out of the cars.
The tracks are not fenced. Indeed, there
are few fences anywhere and their absence
adds to the beauty of the landscape In
coming to Lyons rode for miles through a
patchwork carpet of many colored crops in
terspersed with pasture and cut by white
roads bordered with tall poplars and other
green trees. Along the railroad was a fringe
OF the most brilliant red peoples and the
yellow wheat fields showed thousands of
these peoples set as 1t were in a gold
ground. / saw cattle here and there In the
fields. but every animal was tied to stake
and ate circle out of the green. At each
road crossing there was a flag woman to
warn the people to keep back while the
train passed and now and then we rode
through sections where the road was be-
ing repaired.
What Railroad Men Get
/ asked some questions as to wages. They
are lower than In the United States. En-
gineers earn about $50 a month and IN ad-
dition have commission on the amount Of
coal they can save over a certain fixed
quantity by which a man can raise hia
wages to $50 a month Stokers get SIS
month, foremen In the shop SIS month
and ordinary workmen about $40 per month
Station agents have proportionately low
wages and the scale Oh the whole Is far am
der that of our country More than one.
tenth of all the men In the service get less
than SIT month: little more than one
third receive from SIT to 80, and more than
half get less than SIS per month. The men
work from seven to twelve hours per day
and on the average about twenty-eigft and
a half days per month. The women at the
crossings usually get from ten to twenty
cents per day. They live close to the road
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and have to be on duty only at the times
of the trains.
American Locomotives in France.

and nave TO De on UuLy only at the Times
of the trains.
American Locomotives in France.
There are now a number of American
locomotives employed on the French rail-
roads. They are very successful and some
of them on their trial trips have maintained
an average speed of seventy miles an hour.
The locomotives were somewhat changed
after they were received here, because the
French engineers did not think the weight
was equally distributed over the wheels.
The French have some fine looking loco
motives Of their own, and 1t seems to me
that their engines are somewhat better fin
ished than ours. Their cars are very light
and neither freight nor passenger cars will
carry as much as those of the United
States.
France has now A.O00 miles of railroads
and a little over ten thousand locomotives.
The average engine travels %, 600 miles dur
ing the year and the speed of the express
trains range from seventeen to sixty miles
an hour. Freight trains run from four to
seventeen miles an hour, and they carry
much less than similar trains In the United
states. AS a~whole Il seems to me that we
are far In advance OF the French as to all
matters relating to railroads.
About the Stations.
The French railroad stations, however,
are better managed than ours. The res
the Paris depot before I left for Lyons.
The meal included soup, an excellent fish,
and also meat, potatoes, cheese and straw
berries. with a half bottle of Chabiis. The
charge was 20 cents You can get good
dinner without wine at almost any station
for 30 cents, and the trains stop long
enough for you to eat your meals. There
are but few dining cars, and only the fast
express trains carry sleepers.
Newspapers and magazines are not sold
on the cars. The newsboy brings them to
you at the stations, holding his rack of
papers outside the car windows. In the
towns the newspapers are sold by women
In booths on the streets. Some OF the
booths have advertisements about their
tops. and among these are often cards adj
vertising American goods.
Indeed, the Americans are better adver-
tisers than the French. / see signs describ-
ing the virtues of American sewing ma
chimes and typewrters everywhere, and a
common advertisement in France Is that of
American mint, OF ''menthe Americaine-"
AS n whole, however, st. Etienne does not
buy much American goods. There are some
California fruits and Philadelphia pickles
sold in the stores. and there is the usual
exhibition of typcwriters. cameras and sew
ing machines. The Mutual and Equitable
life insurance companies have offices here,
but as to American shoes, matches and
cereals, they are conspicuous by their alb
sence FRANK. G. CARPENTER.
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Study of African Man.

Henry NJ. Stanley in Success.
The sociological character of African man
is of great interest. 1t has not yet been
treated scientifically. Travellers have con-
fined themselves mainly to such novelties
as they happened to meet. Anthropophagy
is extensively practiced by some of the
tribes near the equator and it would be
well to know why the practice is more
general there than elsewhere. Another
curious thing to know is whether stature
Is influenced by environment, climate or
diet. The tallest men found lived In high
a,titudes-from 5000 feet above sea level
upward; the sturdiest from 5000 to 5000
feet; the shortest, excepting the pygmies
from sea level to an elevation of 1890 feet
1t deserves study as well as to what effect
the different diets of tribes have on their
physical systems. Some live on wild ber-
ries and fungi, and ground vermin; others
on fish, others wholly on milk or on meat
or grain. or solely on vegetables. 1 was
often tempted to pursue the question as to
whether such specific foods affected the
strength or intelligence of tribes who thus
limited themselves to one kind of food
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-11-08

are fiery and life is. by no means safe.
Wages are comparatively low. One Of the
largest companies pays its miners LAO
day, its timber men 80 cents and it's COM
mon laborers from so cents to 80 cents.
Work begins at o'clock in the morning
and continues until IL, when there is a stop
for lunch. The men go to work again at II
and stop a $3.50. This gives them a day
of about eight and one-half hours. All re-
pairs are done at night. In these mines the
men are working at a depth of 1900 feet
from the surface. The mines are worked
in steps, generally three to each seam. The
seam averages from - to 10 feet thick and
1t is so worked on account of the gases,
which, 1t is said, are better avoided by this
method of operation. Picks only are used,
as explosives are very dangerous Other
mines have much thicker seams. One which
produces a million tons of coal a year has
a seam over ninety feet thick. The seam
of this mine dips about forty degrees; 1t
is mined upward in horizontal strips.
The French government buys coal for its
railroads by the thousands of tons The
fuel Is both in the lump and in briquettes
There are piles of black bricks put up like
the bricks in a brick yard at all the chief
stations and you such piled behind the
locomotives. There is no waste in using
them and they are more easily handled
than the coal itself.
French Railroads.
1 like the French railroads They are
well built and the cars make fairly good
the second class is good enough for any
one. The rates of fare are about the same
as those of the American railroads, but
the charges for baggage are higher. Only
sixty-six pounds are allowed free, all over
weight costing about half a cent per pound
per mile
The French cars are long. They are d.
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Let Something Good Be Said.

When over the fair fame NJ friend or foe
TIE shadow Of disgrace shall fall, instead
OF words OF blame. or proof Of thus and so,
Let somethfng good be said.
Forget not that fellow being yet
May fall 30 low but love may lift his head;
Even the cheek OF shame with tears Is wet
II something good be said.
No generous heart may yainly turn aside
In ways OF sympathy: no soui SO dead
But msy awaken strong and giorifed
II something good he said.
And 80 charge ye, By the thorny crown,
And bv the esoss on which the Savior b,ed
And by your own sonrs hope Of fair reaowu
let something good be said.
GAMES wHTTCoMB RILEY
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| impossible to meet the requirements of the
| national organization as they apply to the
use of the label.
1t Is reported that a dual organization of
| iron workers was recently formed an
assembly of the Knights of Labor, and has
become affiliated with District Assembly,
GO. 1t is stated by the trades unienists that
! the assembly was formed in opposition to
the local Bridge and Structural Iron Work
eres Union, which is affiliated with the
local trade unions, and which is composed
of 95 per cent of the iron workers in the
city.
The union iron workers express them
selves as not apprehensive that they will be
seriously injured by the new organization
as it is stated by prominent member Of
the union that the work of the assembly
will be confined wholly to those jobs on
which non-union iron workers and carpen-
tiers have been employed in the erection of
iron.
1t is likely that the formation of this
dual organization will intensity the un-
friendly feeling which has existed between
| the trades unionists and Knights of Labor,
which had existed for several years, and
has been the cause of much local dissen-
ton.
Musicians Protective Union, No 161 re-
ports that the conditions of the union musi-
clans are much better in this city than
ever before. They state that all the or
chestras in the theaters are composed ex-
clusively of union musicians, and that
every proficient civilian musician in the
District is a member of the union. This Is
the result, 1t Is stated, of the persistent
effort of the organization to eliminate so
far as possible the competition of enlisted
musicians, who in the past have largely
composed the orchestras of the local thea
tiers and filled many other engagements to
the serious injury of the civilian musicians.
A prominent member of the union in re-
ferrfng to the changed local conditions,
stated that in the past the monopolization
of all desirable positions and engagements
by enlisted musicians retarded, to a great
extent any local effort to elevate the status
of the profession so that 1t might favora-
bly, compare with other localities where
the civilian musician was not discouraged
and Handicapped by the active competition
of army and navy bands.
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More Wireless Telegraphy.

from Inc JhmhIch UItdHer.
Guadalupe and Martinique are to be con-
nected by wireless teiegraphy. Recent
events have shown the French government
the wisdom of the step. Would 1t not be
wise to connect the British windward Is
lands with one another in the same way?
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Among the French Miners.

There are about $4,000 men employed in
the coal mines of the basin of the Loire
and Saone and of these $4,000 work. under
ground. There are in all about 10000 coal
miners in France. the greatest number be-
ing in the north The coal is not very
clean and a number Of hands have to be
used for sorting and picking. The mines