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The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1903-06-18
Us in a Doll bease.

There Is a tale of two Peas In Pod,
(NOt green, but sweet, if you please),
Who lived in the country of Queen Golden Rod,
In the land of Plenty and Ease.
They both fell in love with the Queens sister
Urn,
A maiden with suitors galore,
And wooed her together-not each in his turn
With prospects that one was to score.
The Princess was beautiful-hair like spun gold
And eyes like the bright morning star,
mouth like a lotus from Egypt of old,
A voice like lark from afar.
Their suit surely prospered; the Princess would
smile,
For In love as In war all is fair,
Thus miss, she had heard, was as good as a
mile,
And her heart had been free as the air.
She favored them both-ah! there was the hitch,
One she would choose she was sure,
But she couldn't decide for herself which was
which,
And that was her answer demure.
So they went to the Queen with this gordian
knot,
And asked her to cut it apart.
Bus gno queen passed IL up TO tue Idlr ApflcOS,
Who had petrifed core for a heart.
The wise Apricot (the Princess said mean,
Tho admitting her just, for all that
Suggested contest by virtue of steam,
Amid cries for the twain to the bat.
The Peas took to water like ducks to pond,
Each wishing the other success,
For each, even now, of the other was fond,
And hoped this would clear up the mess,
But meantime-a Prince Of the Blood hove in
sight,
bold, handsome lover tits true,
| And while the two Peas in Pod had their fight,
/ The Princess became Mrs. Blue.
So thus, when the Peas came in (served on a
plate)
| And willing to try new coup.
And anxiously waiting to hear now their fate.
They found they were both in the soup.
Curtain:
If ever you hear someone spring that old gag:
alike as two peas in q pod,"
You can make up your mind he's only vag
From the land Of the Queen Golden Rod
1 ABA DAB.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1903-06-18
n niernins song.

She is white, she's fair as a jonquil, tall
As a bride for the high gods mete,
And a thousand slaves In her fathers hall
Are as rushes beneath her feet.
Last night 1 dreamt-was it only a dream?-
'Mong the laurels with moon-dew wet,
She stopped to the least of her prostrate deme
And her lips to his forehead set.
SO the world is new as when stars began
At Cybele's waking to sing,
For know she's woman as am man,
And by grace of her kiss Im king!
Marguerite Merington in Scribner's.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1903-06-18
Into the k00tenai
Country.

TIME following morning saw us
ready to make the start for the
Kootenai. With large, sorrow
full eyes our pack horse "Hun-
CRY" was gazing at hopeless looking
tsngle of tin pans and bacon, tent and
tent poles, drill, pick and numerous
other articles which comprised our out
fit. The average person would have
found difficulty in packing the articles
in furniture van, and it was with
great respect that I watched Charley
working swiftly and silently until the
tumble of odds and ends was reduced
to small, compact, evenly balanced
load, scientifically arranged with the
view of giving Hungry the minimum
of discomfort.
After our mounts were saddled we
were soon on the trail, the pack horse,
being trained to follow, bringing up the
rear. The trail being we'll travelled at
this point, riding was easy and we made
good time, up hill and down hill on the
way to the Columbia River which we
hoped to reach by noon. Soon that
grand stream was in sight, and after
hasty lunch Charley proposed that
we walk up to the school while the
horses were resting. The novelty of a
school in this thinly inhabited section
did not impress me, as surprises were
coming thick and fast since meeting
with Charley. The school proved to
be in tent and judging by the number
of hobbled horses grazing around there
were a dozen scholars. The brave
young woman "a native of Minnesota,
by the way who presided at this queer
school came out to welcome us and
| was soon followed by the scholars. The
presence of two stoicai Indian children
was evidence that the Indian willing
to s.chip in" his share of the expense
was accorded the privilege of educa.
ton for his children. We noticed that
the farther side of the tent was rolled
up and it was practically an open-ail
! school. Upon asking the teacher why
i it was not located on one Of thu
/ ranches or near one of the houses, VIZ
found that the petty jealousy which
follows the opening of q school any
where had reached the Columbia ant
one parent would not allow his neigh
bor's child the advantage of schoo
at home while his own child was obliged
to ride. AS compromise the tent wat
:. pitched on the river bank where all th'
s. pupils would be under the same diff
Guilty in reaching it. All the scholar
, and the teacher rode back and fortl
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1903-06-18
Anent the Night
School.

~ NE paragraph of E. E. E.'s
paper of a fortnight ago re-
~ calls to my mind the prov
erb: "You can lead horse
to water, but you cannot make him
drink"
History proves that it is beyond the
powers of government, municipal or
national, bylaws or penalties to make
a religious or sober people against their
inclination. Neither can you force
education upon them. 1t is just and
right to enact compulsory education
laws for children, because if there were
no such laws many parents, either
through greed or indifference, would
neglect the education of their children,
thus depriying them of their rights.
But such law applied to adults would
be a total failure; especially in the in
stance under consideration.
For tuition to be successful, two fac
tors are necessary ability to teach
on the part of the tutor, and willing
ness to learn on the part of the pupil
When you force the pupil, you nullify
all your efforts, for he becomes not
only Indifferent, but antagonistic to
all your endeavors.
But. is a compulsory education law
necessary here? think not. Ishould
judge that Is per cent of the inmates
know their three RS, and have yet to
learn that so-called higher education
win prepare a man here for his life's
work. doubt if working a problem
in trigonometry, or translating page
or two of Cicero, or becoming an expert
botanist will make any man more hon.
orable and more resolutely determined
to live an upright life in the future.
A great mistake in England and
America is too much education. Thou
sands of young people are being edu-
Gated into a state of discomfort, with
their position and surroundings; edu-
Gated into despising honorable work
They want to be so-called ladies and
gentlemen. Take any of our large
cities, they are full to repletion with
lawyers, doctors, stenographers, type.
writer's, ETC., while there is dearth OF
domestic help and scarcity of men
for honest labor. Look at our farming
district; what nearly impossible task
it is to- obtain help! Why? Because
every farmers son is studying either
law or medicine and their daughters
are studying all the isms and ology'
there are to learn. Few of them know
how to boil water without burning it
or to make q shirt for their husband i
they had one. All this is due to tn,
mistaken cry of education.
There is one truth which we woult
do we'll to learn, and that is this
That one dollar earned by honest worl
will better us more and purchase NOR
peace and happiness than one hundre
obtained by any chicanery, cuteness o
double dealing. The old proverb is true
aWhat's got over the devils back, wi
20 under his belly"
To know and realize that there
such q thing as q retributive Prov
dence, that every deviation from trut
and right is sowing seed which sooner Q
later will demand harvesting, weallnee
teaching. The doctrine Of the gres
apostle Of work, "That work is homo
able, that it has the stamp and sign'
Of the Creator upon it, in the prosec,
ZION of oarr task We shat he bIoat: bleI
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1903-06-18
Eet Something Good be Said.


When DER the fair fame of friend or foe
The shadow of disgrace shall fall, instead
Words of blame, or proof of thus and so,
Let something good be said.
Forget not shat no fellow-being yet
May fall so 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 vainly turn aside
In ways of sympathy; no soul SO dead
But may awaken strong and glorified,
II something good be said.
And SO I charge thee by the thorny crown;
And by the cross on which the Savior bled,
And by your souls hope of a fair renown,
Let something good be said.
James Whitcomb Riley.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1903-04-23
NERVOUS HEADACHE
BREEDS INSANITY

Many n persons whole pleasure in life
Ii ruined by the fear Of nervous head.
aches Any little excitement, no matter
what, business or social, brings them on
The feet and hands grow cold. the head
IL hot, the eyes stiff. the temples throb
and only in the quiet OF a darkened
room II relief obtained. This condition
rnnst be checked or il means complete
mental ruin. To those people DR.. a. w
Chase's Nerve Pills come as blessing
They do not stop. they cure the head
aches. They do not blanket, they build
up They put tho nervous system In n
strong, vigorous. sturdy condition u
condition that gives one reeistive power
and enables them TO again enjoy lifc's
pleasures.
Mrs. A. B McGec Of l24 Elm ST., Bmlsr.
Pa says: "Dr. A. w. Chase's Nerve Pills
are grand medicine suffered most
all the time from hard nervous sick
headache and felt generally miserable
as consequence. 1 wae told Of the
Nerve PILLS and got box at ID II. Wul-
lers Drug Store, liz South Main St.,
and they have cured me. have no
more headaches and feel otherwise fine.
5Oc box ut dealers or DIR A. w.
Chase Medicine Co., Buffalo. N. Y. See
that portrait and signature Of A w
Chase, NJ. d., are on every package.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1903-04-23
The First Clear Night.

Astronomers have recently discovered
that several of the brightest stars have
companions revolving about them. This
had long been believed TO be the case.
These stars. then, Sirius for example,
are suns This week we must begin to
look upon our sun as star, for so 1t
would appear to be if viewed from
Sirius. In fact il would be very incOn
spicuous; the planets, on account OF
their small size would be invisible at
that great distance
Imagine the Sun, an immense globe
of fire; rotating on an axis, with north
pole, south pole and equator, like our
earth: his volume million and a
quarter times that of the earth. and six
hundred times that Of all the planets
taken together; his weight $50, 600 times
the weight of the earth. In round
numbers the suns weight is 2,154, 100,
$50, 900, 000 000, 900, 600, 600 tons.
On account of the great attractive
Lower of this immense mass a body on
the suns surface weighs twenty-seven
times as much as on the earth. The
Suns light, on which all earthly life
depends, travels to the earth in eight
minutes, over a distance of 93, 600, 900
miles. This makes him eight minutes
away" The North Star, You remem-
Der, is forty eight years away. Astron-
omers say that the latter is forty eight
light years distant"
In imagination let us look at the sun.
Out there he hangs suspended, incon-
ceivably far from any other body, in
conceivably large and heavy, intensely
hot, suspended-from what? About
him revolve. each in a path of its own,
eight planets besides countless asteroids,
comets and meteors The order OF
these planets going ont from the center
is: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars,
(Asteroids), Jupiter, Saturn. Uranus
and Neptune They all revolve about
the sun in orbits or paths that are near
ly circular, and nearly in the same
plane. Five of them have secondary
planets or satellites revolving around
them.
Mercury, nearest the sun, is also the
smallest of the system and with Venus,
the next in order, has no satellites
After Venus, now evening star, comes
| Earth, the only inhabited planet, VIII
its one satellite. the moon. Then Mars
now in our midnight sky, red planet
without satellites. Next Jupiter the
| largest of the planets, 1900 times the
| size Of the earth, with four moons oi
satellites Then Saturn with eigh
moons and in addition three frey rlng'
encircling it. Next Uranus with si1
and lastly Neptune with one moon
| Read the story Of Solar System by e
f. Chambers, d. Appleton and Co. n
Y, price forty cents. The last planet
Neptune, is twenty nine times as la
from the sun as the earth and takei
one hundred and sixty five times as lont
as we to complete its year" or revolu
ton All the planets are bound to th'
sun by the unseen but Almighty powe
Of Gravtation, and they follow paths 81
| undertaking that their courses can b.
mapped out for centuries in advance
PROSPECT STAR CLUB.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1903-04-23
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CHURCH NOTES.


The African Baptist church has been
having trouble. Many new members
have come into the church during the
past year, and the old members charge
that the new members have been want
ing TO run things, without paying their
share Of the debts incurred in erecting
the church buildings. The troubles
were the subject Of discussion at con
gregational meeting last Thursday
evening and while Rev. Pleasant Thicker
who has returned to Butler was ad-
dressing the chair, Rev. Crittenden who
has been pastor for year past. laid his
hand on his arm and told Tucker to
ring of. In the fight that followed be
tween the Crittendenites and Tuckerites
the furniture was smashed. stove over
turned and a few heads broken and
when the smoke cleared away Brother
Tucker was monarch of all he surveyed
IL was noisy and the neighbors sent for
the police. Now there are a few eases
for the next Quarter Sessions.
At the close Of service Sunday morn
ing, Rev Samuel NJ Mountz. pastor Of
the First English Lutheran church,
read to the congregation his resignation
10 take effect in three months. A. II
Reiber then arose and presented the
resignation OF Rev. DIR. T. ID. Roth
The two ministers have acted as
pastors jointly during the past three
years.
Rev. Park Of Valencia preached in
United Presbyterian church, Sunday.
The regular monthly all day meeting
r
will be held in the Gospel Tabernacle
Mercer st. Friday April "a Hours Of
seryjce 1890 q. IN. and 200 and 700 p.
m. Good speakers will be present All
are invited.
The Butler presbytery, Presbyterian
church met At Zelienople Monday, Rev.
Miller Of Bruin was elected Moderator
and Rev. Timblin clerk, Rev. u. K
Worrell and Elder Elliott Robb com
missioners 10 General Assembly Rev.
w. $. McNees resigned Mt Glade Mills
and was transferred 10 North Washing
ton and New Salem Rev. Robinson
was called to the Parker church, Rev.
Gray 10 Clintonville and Amity and
Rev. Bittinger TO Muddycreek and
Unionville, and Rev. Sloan was trans
ferred from Prospect 10 Concord and
North Butler The Presbyfery voted in
favor Of revising the confession Of
Faith.
The Methodists held farewell services
in their church building at the corner
Of North and Mexican SITS, which they
have occupied for the past 20 years
Sunday DIR Crawford OF Allegheny
College preached Next Monday the
work Of tearing down will commence
and within a year the congregation
hopes to worship IN wEat will be the
largest church building in Butler.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1903-04-23
CHARTER NOTICE!

Notice is hereby given that an appli-
cation will be made to the Governor OF
Pennsylvania on April 25th, 1903 by
w. j. Kennedy, j. l.. Craig, w. l..
Beal and w J Craig, Under the Act of
Assembly entitled an act to provide for
the incorporation and regulation of
certain corporations approved April
goth, 1874, and the supplements thereto
for the charter OF nm intended corpora
tion to be called Craig Kennedy Hard
ware Company" the character and OBJ
ject of which is TO engage in general
hardware business, including builders
supplies, buying and selling the same
and for that purpose to have, possess and
enjoy all the rights, benefits, and privi
leges of said Act Of Assembly and sup
plements thereto.
A. NJ. CHRISTLEY,
April lst, 1908. Solicitor.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1903-04-23
Butler Mans Proposal Inter-
ruptcd by Police.

What happened TO Frederick Hum
nell was this: He said the maiden
'honld be his'n; instead OF which he
vent to prison. Frederick, who lives
10 Butler, went to see the girl he loved
IN the boarding house Of Joseph Miller
"a McKeesport He proposed 10 the
maiden, was accepted. and was lust
about to clasp her in his arms. when
the police burst In the door and placed
him under arrest.
And whyf Somebody In the neighbor-
hood had fired a sbot. The police be
lieyed Il was Frederick and persisted In
ibe belief when Hummell came np for q
barring before the Mayor Friday
morning. He had revolver In his
pocket; the door Of the room was locked
hs had refused 10 open the door. These
things looked suspicious Bnt Hum
nell snid that he carried the gun and
locked the door because there were
mon In the house who were jealous OF
his good fortune; and he refused 10 open
tho door beoanae hc thought the Jealous
ones were there. And all he said the
ptr corroboratcd. Hummel was fined
30 and costs, presumably for proposing
70 the girl He says he and the girl
VIII marry at once aud leave Nc
keesport. Pittsburg Dispatch.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1903-04-23
teachers I1xaminati ms.


Examinations will be held in Butler
county this year as follows:
Butter. May 8.
Milerstown, May II.
Petersville, May l3
Saxonburg, May IA.
Butler. May l6.
North Washington, June ..
Eau Claire, June 3.
Slipperyrock, June A
West Sunbury, June 5.
Prospect, June &
Butler. August -.
The examination on May 8, is for pro
fessional certificates No one need
apply for this grade certificate, unless
they have taught for three or more
years successfully and received good
PROFESSIONALS during that time.
All professionals granted previous TO
June /, 1902, will not be valid after
June / 1903 Those holding such certi-
ficates and wanting them renewed must
also attend this same examination May
81 and be examined in Algebra and
Civil Government. Examinations Will
bsgin promptly at 0o'clock Applicants,
be on time. Come prepared with paper,
pen and ink, and stamped envelope
containing your last certificate. DO not
ask for special examinations
Directors parents and friends OF our
school. we cordially request you TO be
present at one or all of these examina
tions. Come out and inspect our work.
You,s very truly,
HOWARD /. PAINTER,
Supt, Butler county.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1903-04-23
ADMINISTRATORS NOTICE

ESTATE or PAUL TRoUTMAN, DECD.
Notice is hereby given that letters Of
administration on the estate Of Paul
Troutinan. deceased, late Of the borough
of Butler, Butler county, Pa, have been
granted TO Henry N Troutman OF But
Ter, Pa, TO whom all persons indebted
20 said estate are requested 10 make
payments. and those having claims or
demands against said estate are request
TO make the same known without delay.
HENRY N. TRoUTMAN,
Administrator.
A. L. BLACK, Attorney. Butler. Pa.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1903-04-23
ACCIDENTS.

Harry Brenneman of W. Cunning
ham street, was caught in the shaft Of a
drill machine, whirled around twice,
his clothes torn completely of, arm
broken, thigh torn. and head, neck and
breast cut. He is in the Hospital and is
getting along nicely.
In Allegheny last Sunday afternoon a
crowded street car dashed down Federal
street. and wrecked a freight car. The
brake refused to work. A dozen people
were hurt.
Harry Campbell, Jr., of Venango
township. had his neck broken, last Fri
day. by some logs falling upon him, and
he died almost instantly. He was haul
ing logs to the saw mill on his father 5
farm. at the time, and the wagon and
load upset
jos. Barry of the Car Works had a
shoulder dislocated, Friday.
VIM. Campbell, Jr, aged years, fell
and broke an arm, Thursday.
Forward township had couple Of
accidents, last week. While come boys
were serenading, somebody touched
the trigger of revolver too hard. and
the bullet hit Warren Grove in the
heel and penetrated his foot. Miss
Willie Fehl swept the floor and put the
debris in the stove, not noticing that a
dynamite cap was amoung il. The
cap exploded and flew out, and ripped
WilIie's arm open from elbow to
shoulder.
A big negro-six feet four, and weigh
1a6 -1ynla 10 nor
ience at the new Flick building on f.
Wayne ST.. yesterday.
He is hod- carrier there, and had just
reached the top with a load OF mortar
when his feet slipped, and he fell down
the ladder hole through the Sd and I'd
floors, through the joists of the 1st
floor (which are but Is inches apart and
| lit in a puddle of water in the cellar.
The men hurried down expecting to
| find a dead man. but the negro got up.
scratched his shoulder, told the men
| that they wanted to look out as he
might fall on them next time, and weni
back to work.
Thomas Yates of the 3rd ward fell
| headlong into one of the pits in the
| Car Works, Monday, and fractured his
| skull. He was taken TO the Hospital
He died yesterday. See death notice.
Sam Vanderlin had hand split oper
| by one Of the bull" machines, Tuesday
/ E. G. Counsnan, fireman on the
Pittsburg and Western railroad, was
killed near Bakerstown Monday morn
| ing. On account Of weak couplinf
the engine parted from it's tender and
Counsnan, who was firing the locomo
| tive at the time, fell between the two
and was crushed under the wheels oi
| the tender.
Eight persons were killed and 10 in
iured, three seriously. in collision be
tween passenger train and freigh
train on the Erie railroad Monday neal
Red House ". Y. or The dead only on'
Robert II. Hotchkiss of Meadville hal
been identified Seven bodies. appar
emily those of three men. three womer
and a child, were burned beyond recog
milton in the fire which followed th'
wreck. The women are said to have
boarded the train at Youngst' wn ant
| to have come from Pittsburg over th'
| Pittsburg and Lake Erie. r. u. Nc
| Cready, a mail weigher, of Meadyille
Pa, and Frank Barhite, of jamestown
a travelling salesman. are missing and
it ia likely two ct the unidentified
bodies are those Of the two men.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1903-04-23
ADMINISTRATORS NOTICE.

Letters Of administration on the estate
Of John Kellerman. decd, late Of But
Ter, Butler Co., Pa, having been grant
cd The undersigned, all persons known
ing themselves indebted 10 said estate
will please make immediate payment.
and any having claims against said
estate will present them duly nuthenti-
Gated for settlement TO
Mrs. ADA KELLERMAN. Adm'x.
N. Washington ST., Butler. Pa.
=. CUMMINGS, Attorney. 3.10-03
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1903-04-23
THURCDAY MAY 7. 1908

At O'Clock D. m. the following real estate:
Sixty six acres of land. more or less. situ-
ate in Nenango township. said county.
bounded on the north by lands of David
Kellcrman, east by lands of A. c. Wilson.
south by lands of Thos. Blair's heirs and on
the west by lands of Thos. Merron; two story
frame house Of six rooms, frame bank barn
and outbuildings, with good orchard there
balance in good state of cultivation and all
underlaid with coal.
TERMS-One-half cash on confirmation OF
sale by the Court, balance in one year from
date of said confirmation with interest. De
ferred payment to be secured by bond and
mortgage ON the premises.
J. A. WILSON. Admir-.
OF Il. c. Wilson. decd,
Claire pa