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Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1903-02-26
Scratching Sheds For Poultry.


Rural New Yorker has been taking
testimony from correspondents on the
advisability of scratching sheds for
poultry" and the way doctors dis
agree" doesn't compare to the discrep-
ancy of opinion brought out. To some
the scratching shed is invaluable; 9TH
ers wouldn't have it at any price. Four
for to six against is the record. Il am
in favor of scratching sheds. There is
no question. in my experience, that
they are beneficial" says one man.
I'VE have sheds attached to all our
houses and if we were farther south
would leave off the house." declares
another.
I'm my opinion a scratching shed is
one of the most necessary things for
successful poultry raiser to have" af-
firms third.
In the negative we are told: II have
no use for scratching sheds in this lati-
tude. My hens are none too warm in
their well built houses day or night
when the thermometer shows 10 to 15
below zero
Again: Il am unfavorable to scratch
ing sheds. After being cold for several
days it commenced to moderate, and
we think it is really warmer than it is.
We turn the birds into the scratching
sheds to get the sunlight, and before
we know it we have lot of frozen
combs
Il never thought enough of scratch
ing shed to build one; always consid-
cred it dirty, disease breeding con-
cern," emphatically remarks another
man.
And very much TO the point is, 1.-The
scratching shed never pays in dollars
and cents"
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1903-02-26
Agricultural Notes.

People are once more talking about
the old time "soapstone stove" for
burning rough and refuse wood.
Intensive rye culture" is outlined by
a Rural New Yorker correspondent.
The harvest is without machinery.
Hogs harvest the grain crop, and lambs
feed off the fall growth.
Grimes Golden is a favorite with
Ohio apple growers in general, and
Rome Beauty and York Imperial are
popular in the southern and central
parts of the state.
A good and little known vegetable is
satisfy, or oyster plant. 1t is very
hardy and easily grown. Sow early in
spring.
Where the land was we'll fitted In the
fall grass seed may be sown very early,
even in the last of the snow.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1903-02-26
Three Signs.

When L was young man, said an
old timer l was employed in an Ohio
town of some 1,S00 inhabitants. One
day the town was billed from roof to
foundation in flaming letters, They're
Comingr' One couldn't go amiss of the
big letters. They followed him every
where, and half the town would awak-
en- in the middle of the night with those
huge letters staring them in the face,
while they wondered what it all meant.
A. week or more passed, and one
morning every one of those signs was
covered with another equally flaming
''They Have Come; at Town Hall To-
night" And you may be sure the town
turned out in force. There wasn't stand
ing room, although liberal admittance
fee was charged Inside a big curtain
excluded the stage, and to this all eyes
were turned as the appointed hour drew
near. There was little delay, and it
was about half past when the curtain
of the big lettered signs, only the word
ing was different this time.
The sign read "They Have GoneY
And you can bet your last dollar it
wasn't long before the townspeople had
gone. Some clever fellows had worked
the game successfully and got away
with a snug little sum, leaving only
couple of townspeople to pull up the
curtain,
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1903-02-26

At the present day camels are used
for all sorts of domestic purposes in
Africa They may even be seen draw
Ing plows In the interior of the regency
OF Tunis. You may remark woman
and a camel harnessed to the same
plow, and you hesitate to decide
which is the greater outrage. They
are also used for drawing watea from
the strange, cumbersome, old fashioned
wells of north Africa. Their chief use,
however, is for caravans. You may be-
hold them bringing In huge cases OF
dates from the oases, or you may see
them with great tentlike structures OF
red silk upon their backs. These tents
are for the conveyance of Arab women
Of the upper classes, who seek to main
tain the privacy Of the harem when
on journey. Two women and some
children are often accommodated ON
one camel. They have cushions ON
which they can lie down and even
sleep. 1t is stuffy, and 1t is dark. but
they deem themselves well OF in escap-
ing from the searching rays Of the
burning sun.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1903-02-26
NAPOLEON'S AWFUL HAND.
One Theory of the Great Mans Fail
ure Mt Waterloo.

One Theory of the Great Mans Fall
ure Mt Waterloo.
Napoleon, according to Alexander
Dumas, lost such battles as he did lose
because he wrote such fiendish hand.
His generals could not read his notes
and letters, typewriting had not been
invented, and the trembling marshals,
afraid of disobeying and striving to In
terpret the indecipherable commands,
loitered, wandered and did not come up
to the scratch, or not to the right
scratch. Thus Waterloo was lost. Can
not you fancy Grouchy handing round
Napoleon's notes ON that sanguinary
Sunday? "I say" cries the marshal to
his aid-de-camp, "is that word Gem
bloux or Wavre? Is this Blucher or
Bulow?" So probably Grouchy tossed
up for it, and the real words may have
been none of these at which he offered
his conjectures. Meanwhile on the left
and center D'Erlon and Jerome and
Ney were equally puzzled and kept on
sending cavalry to places where 1t was
very uncomfortable Though our men
oCl0OlA W LII any Va bAS N0'
alters, firing too high and did no sort
of good. Napoleon may never have been
apprised of these circumstances. His
old writing master was not on the
scene of action. Nobody dared to say,
"Sire, what does this figure Of a cent?
ped mean, and how are we to construe
these two thick strokes flanked by
blots?" The imperial temper was pep
perry; the great man would have torn
Off his interrogator's epaulets and
danced upon them. Did he not once
draw his pistol to shoot little dog
that barked at his horse? And when
the pistol missed fire the great soldier
threw it at the dog and did not hit him.
The little dog retreated with the hon.
ors Of war.
Such was the temper Of Napoleon,
and we know what Marlborough
thought of the value of an equable
temper. Nobody could ask Bonaparte
to write legible hand, so his generals
lived a life of conjecture as to his
meaning, and Waterloo was not sue
cess, and the emperor never knew why.
OF all his seven or eight theories of his
failure at Waterloo, his handwriting
was not one. Yet If this explanation
had occurred to him Napoleon would
certainly have blamed his pens, ink
and paper. Those of Nelson at Copen-
hagen were very bad. "If your guns
are no better than your pens." said a
Danish officer who came in under a
flag of truce before the fgltiapdsMas
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1903-02-26
POULTRY POINTERS.

When chickens grow very fast, 1t
sometimes causes leg weakness.
Under usual conditions q variety or
food is better than any medicine that
can be given.
The only safe way Of disposing or
dead fowls that have died of any con-
tagious disease is to burn them.
Glover contains two elements that
are in demand by the hens-nitrogen
and lime. 1t is rich in the elements
required for the whites Of eggs.
When roup gets into flock. 1t inva-
riably leaves some ailment behind.
The fowl that has been subject to 1t is
seldom healthy again.
There is no cure for feather pulling
except by more labor and time than an
ordinary flock Is worth. The best plan
is to get rid Of the guilty fowls as soon
as possible.
A hen seldom begins to eat eggshells
until she finds one broken or until she
becomes accustomed to eating eggs
thrown out into the yard. The safest
plan is always to crumble them up fine
before feeding.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1903-02-26
SlCKROOM PHILOSOPHY.

Never confine a patient to one room
IL you can obtain the use OF two.
Never play the piano to a sick person
IL you can play on strings or sing.
Never stand and fidget when a sick
person is talking to you Sit down.
Never complain that you cannot get
a feeding cup II there is teapot to be
had instead.
Never read fast to a sick person.
The way to make a story seem short
is to tell 1t slowly.
Never judge the condition of your
patient from his appearance during n
conversation. See how he looks an
hour afterward.
Never put hot water bottle next to
the skin. It's efficiency and the pa
tents safety are both enhanced by
surrounding the bottle with flannel.
Never allow the patient to take the
temperature himself. Many patients
are more knowing than nurses where
there Is question Of temperature.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1903-02-26

learned a lesson from his little friend,
and he, too. found comfort and happi-
ness as the boy had.
Now. the man naturally did not
want to be lonely and unbapu- and
bitter again, for he found the better
part, so he thought out Il plan. He
would take the boy down south to his
mother, who is almost well. but not
quite so well as she will be when the
man brings to her her youngest boy"
There was a queer gurgling sob
that was half laugh and half cry
and altogether Il mixture of home
sickness and coming delight, and Dunn
my Dee shot himself bodily into the
bishops arms, cuddled against his
shoulder and lay there smiling hap
PLY. He groped vainly for his hand
kerchief that could not be found, and
his fingers closed gratefully over the
bishops fine lawn that he found within
his grasp.
Guessed" said the bishop, laughing,
with shake in his voice THE first
part of my puzzle story guessed with
out a mistake. Now for the second.
Then he took the little sick girl TO Il
white, bright room that he knows of in
the children's hospital, where. sur
rounded by birds. books and flowers
and loving care. she can get we'll and
perhaps come to live in the lonely house
of the lonely man to brighten it."
Another little cry from the bed, and
Nora's slender, cropping fingers sought
the bishops hand. Me- she said.
'Me-Nora? Would my aunt
Il think So" said the bishop. I'VE
will find a way But what fine pair
of guessers these two are! Never to
make a mistaken
When the kind hearted woman on
that floor came in to look after Nora,
her aunt being away serving time for
drunkenness, they went away and left
the happy child, already better, with
hope and joy working miracles with
her.
You make up your mind the best
and quickest of any one 1 ever knew.
How did you think of such beautiful
things:" asked Dummy Dee as they
felt their way down the rickety stairs.
Its thank offering, Dummy Dee"
said the bishop, with return of his
curious smile, ''for burning the pa
Ders"
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1903-02-26

In its early days, when, 1t IL to be
hoped, it was more toothsome than 1t
is now, the hot cross bun played some
part In converting the people Of these
islands to Christianity. Pagan England
was in the habit of eating cakes In
honor of the goddess of spring. and
Christian missionaries found that
though they could alter the views of
the people in reference to religious
matters they could not induce them to
withhold from the consumption Of con-
fectionery. So they put the sign Of the
cross upon the bun of the Saxon era
and launched It upon missionary enter
prise which has extended through the
intervening centuries and survived Till
uow.-London Tit-Bits.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1903-02-26
Story of . Trip From Portsneuth {
I,oudou I'm 1Y9O.

Story of . Trip From Portsneuth to
London In 1850.
There are men and wonderland they
are not always the old-who deplore
the breathless pace Of the age. In
stagecoach days, they tell US, life was
a different thing. People journeyed
through the years leisurely then; ex-
istence had q flavor. A century ago
journey meant fellowship and merry
adventures and comfortable enjoy
ment of the beauties Of the landscape.
All this may be so, but traveller
who made the journey from Ports
mouth to London in 1850 shows that
even stagecoach days had their shad-
ows.
'aThe getting up on the coach alone
was at the risk of ones life," he wrote,
"and when 1 was up had nothing to
hold on to except little handle at the
side. The moment we set or / thought
I saw certain death before me. The
machine rolled with tremendous rapid
ity over the stones and every minute
seemed to fly in the afr, so that 1t ap-
peared to me a complete miracle that
we stuck to the coach at all.
'This continual fear Of death Mt last
became insupportable to me, and
carefully crept along the top OF the
coach and ensconced myself In the
basket behind.
"On a sudden the coach proceeded at
a rapid rate down hill. All the boxes,
iron nailed and copper fastened, began
to dance around me, and every moment
I received such violent blows that 1
thought my last hour had come. Shak-
en- to pieces, bleeding and sore, crept
back to my former position. And IL
rained necessarily, and as before we
were covered with dust so now we
were soaked with rain.
my neighbor every now ana tnen
fell asleep and when in this state per-
petually rolled and jolted against me
with the whole weight Of his BODY,
more than once nearly pushing me
from the seat to which I chung with
the last strength of despair. looked
and certainly felt like a crazy TOOL
when 1 arrived In London"
The letter is realistic. 1t is possible
that twentieth century travelling. al
though unromantic, has its compensa-
tions after all.-Youth's Companion
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1903-02-26

and manager for himself at sixteen
years of age on 200 acres, and it is
among the many substantial improve
ments which he has effected in a few
years in addition to managing his farm
successfully.
When the picture was taken, the
tanxroom was not completed. The
main house is 16 by SO feet, II feet
high, with sirup and packing room in
front, u by 16 feet, with room for sap
pals directly above. These rooms are
ceiled with a tight partition between
the evaporator room, except doors, and
therefore exclude all steam from the
tins stored in them.
The house is built on side hill, so
that sap can be drawn from gathering
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1903-02-26
POTATO GROWING.
How a Maine Specialist Makes Two
Good Crops on the Same Ground.

How a Maine Specialist Makes Two
Good Crops on the Same Ground.
New England Homestead tells of
Kennebec county (Me.) farmer, one Of
whose specialties is raising potatoes,
who has been very successful in pro-
ducing the earliest to be found in the
market The past season he succeeded
in raising two good crops on the same
piece. The ground was thoroughly
plowed the previous fall. In the spring
it was narrowed until the earth was
fine and light, and when ready for
planting phosphate was dropped in the
hills TO the amount of one ton to the
acre.
The potatoes for seed were brought
up from the cellar the last of February
or 1st Of March and placed in light,
cool room, so that when they were
planted they had large green sprouts
and we'll developed leaves. AS soon as
the soil was warm enough these were
placed in the ground. His care did not
diminish any now that the potatoes
were plan j, and very soon the leaves
began te dsh up toward the light and
air. They were kept free from weeds
and bugs until the middle of July; then
he began marketing them, largely at
$Iper bushel.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1903-02-26
r,r.t Eurone.n Railway.

The first carriages that ran on rails
In Europe were those Of horse rail-
way between Linz and Budweis. In
Austria. This was in working order
in 1927. Locomotive railways were
much longer coming. The first line, In
a modern sense. was opened from Paris
to st. Germain in 1885. but railway
development was greatly hindered Dy
terrible accident on the Paris-Ver-
sailles line in 1912. The next was the
Brussels Malines line In Belgium. Bel
gium was also the first country to be-
gin, in 1880, systematic plans for a ma
tional network Of railways. Prussia
followed in 1895 and Austria Hungary
in 1898 The first great trunk line In
Europe was from Paris to Rouen,
opened In May, 1643.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1903-02-26
yalne of the Le.sons.

Mrs. Bilkins-Do you think It is
worth while for my daughter to 60 on
taking singing lessons? She has been
at It for five years and cannot sing
yet.
Professor Won Note-Dit you expecd
her to learn to zing? She will neffer
zing in zee vide world.
''Then why didn't you say 30 long
agoY
'T thought you merely wanted to
strengthen her lungs"
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1903-02-26

Meanwhile a second lot of potatoes
had been sprouted the same as the 9TH
ers and planted the LIST of July between
the rows. so that when the first crop
was dug they hoed the second lot. which
was already above the ground. In Sep
tember the second crop was harvested.
From the first planting Mr.. Jacobs
raised at the rate of 800 bushels per
acre: from the second, 100 bushels. The
variety used was the New Queen, and
the only fertilizer was phosphate.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1903-02-26
The ST. Louis Exposition.

1t is generally known that the Louisi-
ana Purchase exposition at st. Louis
will not be held until 1904, and when it
Is learned that there will be a formal
opening next May some confusion in
the minds of many people may ensue.
The facts, though, are these: The SUBJ
scriptions for the fair were taken with
the understanding that it would open
in 1908. Consequently an opening is
being arranged which will provide
against invalidating these subscrip-
tions. The great fair will really swing
its gates wide open a year later.-Na-
tional Stockman.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1903-02-26
No. 8.

mission by starving him and keeping
him awake. His head is made to faco
the village street. and for nm hour at
a time several times a day his keepers
make pretended rushes at him and
wave cloths. slaves and other articles
I'm his face. He is talked to continually.
and women's tongues are believed to
be the most effective antisoporifics. No
created being could resist the effects oe
hunger, want of sleep and feminine
scolding. and the poor cheetah becomes
piteously, abjectly tame.-"Beast and
Man In India"
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1903-02-26
A Wat U~hreIIa

Never leave an umbrella standing on
the point in the ordinary way when
wet. The water trickles down. spelling
the silk and making the wires rusty. It
is also mistake to open it and leave 1t
standing, as this stretches the silk.
making it baggy SO that 1t Is impossi-
BILE to fold it smoothly. The proper
way is to shake out as much Of the
water as possible, then stand the um-
brella on its handle to drain.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1903-02-26
A Lost Art.

n LOST Art.
Graceful bowing," remarked the
statuesque young lady at the head of
the tea table, sis fast becoming one of
the lost arts. Few are proficient in 1t,
and, indeed, the difficulties are many.
1 am referring of course to men. Wo-
men are still mistresses of. the art, but
not all of them, either.
But / have seen men who were fat,
not to say tubby, and they find that a
mere inclination of the head is bur-
den, for it induces disagreeable rushes
of blood to the head, and that is bad
for men who wear twenty inch collars.
And there are men who are tall, lean
and scraggy, and when they bow, be-
ing sensitive plants, they think and
make the spectator think, of stringed
marionettes, and they dread the smile
of the man in the street.
"And have seen men whom the crit
ical moment found unprepared, with
hands in pockets. And 1 have seen
them when they were wearing caps
and clutched vainly and instinctively
at hat brims, and 1 blushed at their
grotesque poses and involuntary carica-
lures of the line of beauty."-New
York Times.
They Were Mere Paper, but They
Subdued the Artist Turner.
Turner, the great landscape painter,
was a curious mixture of parsimony
and generosity, determined money
grubbing and unreckoning devotion to
his art. He would drive hard bar
gain one day and the next refuse to
sell at any price. Intending purchas-
ers were sometimes excluded from his
gallery, and the refusal of admission
was communicated in anything but a
polite manner.
Mr.. elliott, the wealthy pen manu-
facturer of Birmingham, once proved
himself equal to the task Of storming
the castle in the teeth of the gruff art
list and his doorkeeper and achieving a
bargain. A book on Turner gives the
story.
Mr.. elliott was met at the door of
Turner's house by an old woman, who
opened the door and asked the gentle
mans business.
Cant let 'e inn she snapped out,
when he told her, and tried to slam the
door.
But Mr.. elliott had put his foot In
side the door and without waiting for
permission pushed past the enraged
janitress and hurried upstairs to the
gallery. Turner met him like spider
whose web has been invaded. The in
-truder introduced himself and said
that he had come to buy.
Don't want to sellv' was the an
swer
"Have you seen our Birmingham pic
lures, Mr.. Turner?" inquired the visit
or, as calmly as if he had been received
as q gentleman should be.
"Neyer heard Of 'em," said Turner.
Mr.. elliott took from his pocket some
Birmingham bank notes.
"Mere paper" remarked Turner, who
evidently enjoyed the joke.
ITO be bartered for mere canvas"
said the visitor, waving his hand to In
dicate the paintings on the wall. His
tone-perhaps also the sight Of the
''mere paper Turner, and
when the visitor departed he had bar
gained for several valuable pictures.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1903-02-26

THAT man." remarked Emithers,
makes hundred speeches from the
platform every day"
"Some great political leaderY asked
Smithers.
"No," replied Smithers. "street car
conductor. He says, Move up forward.
pleaser every time any one gets on his
caro- Cincinnati Commercial Tribune.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1903-02-26
Tunnel piseomfortr.

The prairie dog that had started out
to see the world was taking in the
sights In a neighboring village inEab-
ited by his own species. Aa
WELL" he said as he backed hastily
out Of subterranean dwelling that q
rattlesnake had pre-empted. II see they
have the same tunnel problem to solve
here that they have In other cities."--
Chicago Tribune
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1903-02-26
Compari.ona Are Odiou.

Perkins, Jr.-Why don't ye buy that
horse of Seth's. pop? He's got a fine
pedigree.
Perkins, Sr.-Pedigree! The question
is, is he wuth anything? Why. boy.
them sassiety folks what comes here
in the summer has pedigrees.-Brook-
lyn Life
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1903-02-26
A Barrier.

what have ysu In the way Of beef
steak today?" asked the cheerful Gus
toner who hadn't paid his bill.
"Well," replied the frank butcher. II
reckon about the only thing In the way
is its price."-Baltimor News.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1903-02-26
Potted Plants.

The reason some people never have
any luck with plants" is sometimes
because the drainage is defective. A
plant will not live in heavy, sour,
soggy soil, such as fills a pot when
the drainage Is not complete. This Is
especially true Of palms, to which the
stagnant moisture is sure death, but It
holds true of any pot grown plant
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1903-02-26

Her Father-But, my boy, surely you
are too young to marry Aurelia. How
old are you?
Her Suitor-One and twenty, sir.
Her Father-And she is twenty.
seven-too great a disparity. Why not
wait half dozen years? Then you'll
be twenty-seven and she'll probably
be just about the same age as you
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1903-02-26
sI,IDING DOOR no HAYMow.

rent on cold days. The trouble may be
overcome by making a sliding door at
the lower edge Of the jofsts. Before
going up into the NOW one reaches up
with a fork and slides the door open
and after throwing down what hay is
needed closes it as he comes down
again.