Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1904-04-28


after Sunday, May 18th. there will
two each way.
The Standard Steel Car Worl
shipped twenty-five cars TO the Lehig
Valley Monday-its frst shipmer
since resuming work
l A Kansas editor remarks that the re,
son none of the prayers offered by tt
Russians have been answered is due
the fact that the Lord doesn't unde
stand Russian
The fire alarm of last Saturda
evening was caused by burning couc
at 227 s. Mexican street. a young ma
struck a match to look for stray dim
under the couch, and the trimmir
caught.
1t is said that Butler lady wrot
. to one of our paperhangers and decors
tors asking how much he would charg
her to ''desecrate" her parlor. We hav
as yet been unable to learn the pric
the artist demanded.
The who Who's new organiza
ton propose substituting Peace, Plsn
lty, Liberty, Justice and Law" for mill
tarism; and do not want to be mistakel
/ for the hobo order of Hoohoos. no
greeted with ha-ha.
i Owing to the spread of smallpox i
Chicora Board of Health has been or
ganized, with DR.. Thomas at its heat
and smallpox hospital is being built
Tom Price, the first victim, has recover
ed Mrs. Clark is the latest victim.
Before the season opened the cir
cus g adopted a virtuous resolution tC
give no street psrades this year. They
haye had TO break it already. Ever
circus, than which there is nothing
more generally talked about, cannot gel
along without advertising.
| In the Spingler barber shop under
Berg's bank, is a colored youth, weigh
! ing perhaps 1876 pounds, who has lifted
two men clinging to his hair, can. by
expanding. break chains fastened
around his chest, and to whom 200-lb
dumb bells are toys His name is VIM.
Howard
There are within three million of
as many persons enrolled in the Sunday
Schools of this country as in the public
schools, there being thirteen million in
the former and sixteen million in the
latter. The total Sunday School mem
bership throughout the world is twenty
i've million.
Don't grnmble too much at an error
in the local paper Every newspaper
has its troubles because OF type errors,
An exchange notes the damage mis-
take of single letter will do when it
tells of the irate husband who called at
the Office to find out why his wife's tea
party had been called ''swill affair :"
Here's hint for you, boys Judge
Pollard, of st. Louis, says that eleven
o'clock at night is long enough for any
beau to stay with his sweetheart. The
courts ruling was the outcome of a
complaint against her father by Miss
Agusta Mason. who objected to her
suitor being summarily dismissed in a
forcible manner.
The County Commissioners and
viewers were at the site of the Allen
bridge, below ZelienopIe, Tuesday; and
agreed upon bridge with 150-foot
span, strong abutments and macadamiz-
ed roadway, which the state will build
under the old hw, at cost OF about
$50, 900. The state will also rebuild the
Buhl bridge at an estimated cost Of
$4,000.
Little Harriet Cough, the eight
months old child whose mother. Mrs,
Luke Cough, cut off her right hand
while in religious frenzy, is getting
along nicely at the hospital. The
mother is still at the Warren Hospital
for insane, and the two brothers of tie
mutiIated girl have been sent to their
grandmother at North East.-Oil City
Derrick.
The Louisiana Purchase Exposition
will have many red letter days, but
there will be only one red apple day,
September 81, when one million apples
will be distributed at the department
of pomology, along with pamphlets set
| ting forth the virtues of the rosy
checked fruit which began its career on
earth at the same time as man, and has
travelled down the ages with him.
Our Consul at Marseilles Robert P.
Skinner, once of Massillon, o. has made
the request Of Congress, as compelled
| by the Constitution. to be permitted to
accept the decoration of the Star of
Ethiopia, which was conferred upon
him by Menelik the Negus of Abyssinia.
1t is explained that refusal to submit to
the decoration at Abbis Abeba would
have been an insult which might have
imperiled the exhibit at the St. .Lonis
Pair, that seems to have been the pur.
pose Of his trip to the court Of the un-
vanquished king
According to western exchange
every town has liar, a sponger, a smart
aleck, girl who CYCLES. a weather
prophet, a woman who tattles, man
who-knows-it-all, JacksoniaI
Democrat, more loafers than it needs, 6
boy who cuts up in church, few
neddlesome old women thing" that
stares at women, a widower who is tot
gay for his age, some men who make
remarks about women, few who know
how to run the affairs of the country, 6
grown young man who laughs every
time he says anything. girl who goe
to the postoffice every time the mai
comes in, and scores os men with tn,
caboose of their trousers worn al
smooth as glass.
"A writer in "Macmillian's Maga
zine" describes new use Of piety il
the home:I had cook, he says, "whc
could not read, or even tell the hour b,
the clock, but she boiled the eggs will
perfect accuracy. When asked on
day: But how do You know when the.
are ready, ChuchaY she answered wit