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Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1904-03-17

son quietly shadowed Shorty when he
him TO the little church and stood be-
fore the uncurtained windows of the
vestry. Shorty entered and took a seat
well down In front, and even as they
watched hymn was started, in which
they could recognize Shorty's home
made bass. Dawson. who was the head
trainer, Casped.
about:' Delaney whispered. We'll.
I've found out that the girl was the
parsons daughter"
"Hunph," Dawson grunted, and they
started back.
When Shorty returned TO quarters
Delaney WAS waiting for him.
Now, about this prayer meeting
business. Shorty" Dawson began.
Shoriy's eyes flashed fire.
IF you fellows have been shadowing
ne there's likely 70 be rough house
here" he said. He stood glaring about
him for a moment. then turned on his
heel and went TO bed.
There have been many vague theories
advanced and many absurd stories cir
cula-ed as TO why the Mahan-Devine
fight never took place, Some will tell
yea Shorty Mahan was terror stricken
ut the last moment. Others affirm he
was paid liberal sum to forfeit the
fight TO Devine. The real reason. set
forth in a letter by Shorty himself, is in
the possession of Jim Delaney. 1t came
the morning of the fight
Dear limits all off. You know I have
DftsH said that IL l was ever defeated Ia
never fight again. Well. i lost this fight
before it began. Clean knockout-by q
woman too. We were married last night
beneath the tree where 1 caught the kit
ten I'm out of it for good, Jim,
Aud that Is why Shorty Mahan faded
from the eyes Of an admiring public
and also why Jefferson Douglass Jer-
rold is custodian of the family pride,
the silver and the ancestral portraits,
one of which is a Copley,
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1904-03-17

GET THE KITTEN
lar attraction in the lightweight class,
was finally forced upon his unwilling
family and their suspicious fear be-
came bitter truth his father swore
roundly, and his mother looked long
at the ancestral portraits, especially
the Copley, and wept
For three years Shorty Mahan en-
joyed a series of brilliant ring victories,
which made his name household word
in the sporting world and added very
materially to the foundation of his for
tune. Then it was announced that the
fight between Mahan and Billy Devino
of the Pacific coast for the lightweight
championship Of the world had finally
been arranged to be pulled off in a well
known sporting club in the east; that
the purse had been put up, the articles
of agreement signed by both men and
the forfeits posted.
Just two weeks after this announce
ment Shorty Mahan, with his trainers,
his sparriug partner, his rubbers and
his bull terrier. took up his abode in a
little cottage on the shore of Freshwa
ter lake, prepared for the monotonous
three months of training which was to
fit him for the fight of his life.
Freshwater like was a charming bit
Of water but half mile from Thorn
ton village and a scant ten miles from
the club where the fight would take
place. Shorty Mahan upon his arrival
looked the place over, grinned his de-
light and entered upon his training
with vengeance,
The trouble began one May evening
just at sunset as Mahan and Jim De-
laney, his sparrlng partner, were re-
turning from n ten mile run along the
country roads. They had reached the
village and were jogging easily along
the elm lined streets when Mahan no-
ticed a young woman standing beneath
cherry tree and calling I'm tones Of
coaxing anxiety TO an Angora kitten
which sulked among the branches at
the top of the tree. He stopped short
and turned into the yard.
IF you'll permit me-" he said, dofflng
his cap, 'lll get the kitten for you"
"Oh, If You would be so good" sold
the girl, flushing becomingly.
In another moment Shorty MahaE's
red head was among the topmost
branches, and then, with the kitten In
his arms, he slid deftly to the ground.
"Geew said Delaney when Shorty
Joined him outside the fence. Pretty
nifty. wasn't sheY"
Shorty wheeled on him suddenly.
"Jlm," he said shortly, that was
lady. Remember IT, II you please" And
then he cut out pace for the training
quarters which landed Delaney there
persprlng and well nigh blown,
Delaney remembered afterward that
1t was directly after the kitten affair
that Mahan began to behave rather
strangely. He insisted on taking his
daily run quite alone. He found or In
vented numerous errnnds which took
alone also. Every Sunday night pre-
cisely at he slipped of for u quiet
walk by himself, so he said.
The weeks went past, and the time of
the fight approached. Instead OF in
creaslng interest in his training
Shorty's zeal showed upmistakable
signs OF tagging. Delaney begged and
the trainer threatened. but Shorty Ma
ban could be neither wheedled nor
driven. The fight was to take place on
a Wednesday evening The Sunday
evening preceding 1t DELANEY and Daw-
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1904-03-17
wAer. M.er.chaum Come. From.

Meerschaum is n kind Of clay. 1t Is
composed OF magnesia and flint, with
sometimes traces Of iron and other miu-
erals. All OF 1t comes from the prov
ince OF Eskischia, in Asiatic Turkey.
1t has been dug out of the ground there
for centuries, and the manner OF pro-
curing It is to this day extremely prim-
tive. The material is found in Jumps
of all sorts OF shapes and sizes. The
mines extend underground to depth
Of thirty feet and are aired and kept
dry by windmills. There are ten diff
ferent qualities distinguished. The dis
covery Of the usefulness Of the process
of boiling In wax was made by acci-
dent. Imitation meerschaum is manu-
factured from chips left over from the
carving. They are ground into pulp.
treated chemically and finally pressed
into the shapes desired. Every one
knows that pipes made out Of the
counterfeit will not color
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1904-03-17
No. 10.
DON'T ALWAYS SEE SNAKES
Delirfum Tremens Patients Often
Have Pleasant Hallucinatfons.

Oelirfum Tremens Patients Often
Have Pleasant Hallucinations.
The generally accepted belief that
when a man IL suffering from delirium
tremens he sees snakes in his boots
was dispelled by a hospital superin-
tendent, who says he has observed
thousands of cases. He declares that
he never encountered one patient who
imagined that he saw serpents, but
that, on the contrary, the hallucina-
tions OF some OF them are very happy.
He said that 1t was customary in the
local hospitals treating such cases to
keep the men fresh from prolonged
sprees in a general room. where they
are allowed TO play cards or other
games and engage in conversation with
one another. For misery i.ases COM
pany. He relates as an illustration Of
the freaks OF men 10 deranged the case
Of bartender who was happily play
ing cards In this general room. SEEM
ingly at peace with all the world and
to the average person perfectly free
from liquor. The man suddenly began
to tell story. laughing heartily as he
did 30. He said that he had just served
two gentlemen with drinks of whisky
and that when he turned to restore the
bottle to the shelf his two guests dis
appeared as though by magic. He had
turned but an instant, but the empty
glasses were all that was left to indi-
cate that any one had been there. The
bartender said that he leaned over the
N~w A. hnA
to avoid payment and that be could not
see them, but that to satisfy himself
he had stepped around the bar to the
front
"Do you know" said he, relating the
story, "that those fellows had shrunk
10 little bits Of fellows not more than
six inches tall, and they were engaged
In a spirited argument over who should
pay? As walked up to them one of
those little fellows leaped into my right
pocket and the other jumped into my
left trousers pocket, and, do you believe
II, try as much as would could not
dislodgs them"
As the old habitues of the tremens
department OF the hospital listened to
this story, relates the superintendent,
they looked knowingly at one another
and quietly walked to a drainpipe
passing through the room and vigor-
ously raped on 1t. 1t was a signal for
the attendants below, who came In
with handouts and removed tine story
telling bartender to the "booby hatch
below, a name they have given to the
padded cell In which recalcitrant men
crazed from liquor are thrust for their
own protection and for that Of all con-
cerned. The hospital superintendent
told me that that fellow was raving
like a mad bull within half an hour
and that for three days they despaired
of his life. He said that in their raw
ing condition the victims believed that
some one was pursuing them and that
to all intents and purposes they were
maniacs, the only cure for which was
sleep, induced by more liquor. He said,
however, that the premonitory signs of
approaching madness were always
some queer speech, such as that Of the
artender.-Pittsburg Post.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1904-03-17

When scalding a hog put it In cask
or trough and throw three or foui
handfuls Of air slaked lime over 1t
then put in your boiling water. 1t viii
make the bristles fly, says an Orange
Judd Farmer correspondent.
Cannibals of Africa are said to pre-
fer pork to human meat. Savage prac
ilces have thus been checked by cul
tural methods, and the pig attracts at
tention as the greatest civilizer of the
age.
Fourteen ounces Of pins welded into
a solid mass were found In a cows
stomach at one Of the Chicago packing
houses. That cow must have been full
Of good points.
This going to a farm for living Is
serious business, with the chances
against any one who thinks that farm
Ing Is n soft Job or an easy business to
learn.
Farmers In sentiment occupy a mid
die ground between capital and labor,
with little sympathy for the method
sf either.
Pure food laws should not be objec-
honable to the honest citizen, while
the practices Of the dishonest clags
Should be chvsked by legislation.
Farmers who fail to read regularly
think In ruts.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1904-03-17
Admiral BxnR,s Fate.

On March IA, 1857, Admiral John
Byng, having been adjudged guilty OF
cowardice in not fighting the French
off Minorca, was shot to death. He was
a victim of party hatred really. The
British government found itself In bad
odor with the public because Of Its fail
ure to protect Minorca and took Byng
as scapegoat. He had done the best
he could with the bad ships and sup
plies he had. When he found the
French in force at Minorca he retired
instead of trying to fight their large
fleet with his own miserable squadron.
But he was shot just the same.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1904-03-17
he Got stout.

A Scotchman paid visit to London
to inspect the electric apparatus OF
that city, with view to its introduc-
ton I'm his native town. On his return
his wife exclaimed: Dear me, jamie!
That trip has dune We a power of guild.
Hoo stoot We hae gotten. ! hope ye did
as telt yc and put on ane O the diz-
gen clean shirts that I gied We every
day" "Oh, aye, Elizabeth" was the
reply, II did just as ye said-put on
q clean shirt every day, an hae them
a. on MOO"
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1904-03-17

AT an evangelistlc service at Glasgow
the other day the preacher at the end
of his address cried. Now. all you good
people who mean TO go to heaven with
me. stand up!" With a surge Of enthu-
siasm the audience sprang to their feet,
all but an old Scotchman in the front
row, who sat STILL The horriied evan
geIlst wrung his hands and, addressing
him. said. my good man, my good
man. don't you want 10 20 to heavenf'
Clear and deliberate came the answer,
AYE, AVN gangln. but no wi a pair
sonally conducted palrtyw-St. James
Gazette.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1904-03-17

A japanese banquet is especially try
ing for foreigner. Politeness demands
that you should make separate ex-
cuse for each dish that you cannot eat.
This is not the slightest use, for as you
get into your rlckshaw the nous
NEE who has waited on you hands you
a pile OF white wooden boxes In which
she has carefully packed everything
that You could not eat for you TO take
home TO your family. and etiquette de-
mands that you should take them,
though you give them to your rickshaw
boy as soon as you are out Of sight.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1904-03-17
A CheerfuI Custom.

In certain back country districts OF
England ON Jan. /, which is called
Childermas, every child is soundly
spanked before breakfast The date fs
supposed to be the anniversary OF the
actual day upon which Herod slew
the innocents. Therefore. to keep the
memory OF the slaughter fresh in the
minds OF the rising generation. sub
scrlbers to the ancient customs arc
hidden to whip their children before
shey rise on the morning of that day.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1904-03-17
rrinnnrenarations simply i

Drying preparations simply d. =
op dry eatarrh; they dry up the secre;-O-
which adhere 10 the membrane and deeyi
pose, causing far more serioqs trouble t.la;1
the ordinary form of cetarrh. Avoid a. ,'r.-
ing inhalants, fumes, smokes and snl-.s
and use that which cieanses, soothes aud
heals. Ely's Cream Balm is such remedy
and will cure catarrh Or cold in the head
easily and pleasantly. A trial size will be
mailed for 10 cents. All druggists sell the
soc. size. Ely Brothers Sc Warren St, y. T..
The Balm cures without pain, does not
irritate or cause snee1ng. Il spreads itself
over an irritated and angry surface, reiieT-
ing Immediately the painful inflammation.
With Ely's Cream Balm you aro armed
against Nasal Catarrh and Hay Fever.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1904-03-17

1t was habit OF the wise French
man Arago to look during his lectures
at the young man who appeared the
dullest of the students, and when he
perceived that this one understood he
knew all the others did.
Once In drawing room he had just
explained this habit of his to some
friends, when young man entered
and saluted him familiarly.
"But to whom have / the honor OF
speaking?" asked the scientist.
"Why. Professor Arago, you do not
know me? | always attend your lee
lures. and you never take your eyes of
Of me the whole time"
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1904-03-17

Commissioners Office, Butler Pa,
80 Feb. 30. 1904
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-03-29

the carriage rolled away turned to look
back at me. Her face wore the defiant ex-
preston l had seen there more than once.
Could she be connected with the affair.".
The thought came upon me with "a violence
that seemed almost conviction. Yet l had
no reason for it-nOne.
To find Henry Joachim Silva was now
my principal thought. Advertisements were
widely circulated. My staff had instruc-
lions to make every possible inquiry, with
large money rewai DIS as indictments. The
collateral branches of other agencies
throughout Brazil were communicated with
by cable and all the Scotland Yard chan
nels were used. Still there was no result.
The newspapers took up the case; there
were paragraphs in most of them with re-
gard to the missing stepbrother and the
mysterious death of Edith Dallas. Then
some one got hold of the story of the VIII,
and this was retailed with many additions
for the benefit of the public. At the inquest
tn. jury returned the following veTdict:
I'VE find that Miss Edith Dallas died
from taking poison of unknown name, but
by whom or how administered there is no
evidence to say"
This unsatisfactory state of things was
destined to change quite suddenly. On the
Ctr of August as was seated in my ONCE,
a note was brought me by private mes
senger. 1t ran as follows:
Norfolk Hotel, Strand.
ssDear Sir-I have just arrived In LONDON
from Brazil and have seen your advertlse.
ments. was about to insert one myseii
IN order to find the whereabouts OF my
sisters am a great invalid and unable
to leave my room. Can you come 70 see
me at tie earliest possible moment? Yours,
nay - .sf4ENRY- JOACHIM SILVA
ITO be continued tomorrow
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-03-29
STEEL TRUST DIVIDENDS.
Pool May Be Disrupted at Meeting
Next Week-Earnings.

In Wall street attention is now being di-
rected to the affairs of the United States
Steel Corporation. The directors OF that
corporation will meet on Tuesday next In
New York to take action on the preferred
stock dividend. The question whether II
shall be reduced or maintained has not as
yet been decided.
1t is learned that there Is not the same
unaninity of opinion in the directorate as
to the course to be pursued, as Wall street
has recently been led to believe The ques-
ton of the size of the company's earnings
for the quarter ending March 81 will, OF
course, be the determining factor in de-
Gliding the dividend question. 1t is stated
that they will not be as large as the earn
ings of the quarter ending December 81
last. In that quarter the preferred divi-
dend was not wholly earned.
The finance committee will consider the
question of the preferred stock dividend
prior to the directors meeting.
Steel authorities declare that there is
now little likelihood of the ore associa-
ton agreeing upon a seasons price for
1904, and that the Bessamer Ore Associa-
ton will be disrupted. The meeting, which
was adjourned until April /, has been fur
ther postponed until April Z. The confer
ences which have taken place since the last
meeting in New York, several weeks ago
have pretty clearly established the fact
that no agreement will be reached at the
next meeting on April Z, and that the ere
season Will be an open one.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-03-29
JOINED THE MAJORITY.
william NJ. Fliess, Prominent in New
York Affairs-Noted Banker.

william M Fless for many years tdenti-
fed with prominent business interests IN
New York, died there yesterday He was
in his seventy-third year. Perhaps the most
striking feature OF his long semi-puDlic
career was the breakfast he gave at the
old New York Hotel to Gen. Grant and
Horace Greeley at the time they were rival
candidates for the presidency. Mr.. Fliess
was born in London, England. For over
thirty years the newsboys of New York
looked to him for an annual Christmas din
ner at their home In Duane street. He
was prominent In many other charities.
Col. Hiram, Henry Carpenter. an inventor
of electrical devices. died in New York OF
Rights disease Col Carpenter was one
of the survivors of the famous Iron Brigade
of the Union army In the civil war. He
served In 1t as a captain and afterward
was promoted to the rank of colonel COM
manding during the later years OF the re-
bellion the Goth New York Cavalry.
Morton McMichael, prominent banker
of Philadelphfa died suddenly of heart dis
ease. Mr. McMichael was sixty-eight years
81 age and leaves two children, Morton Nc
Michael third. Journalist. now IN Europe.
and Mrs. Henry NJ Hoyt vile OF the So
iicitor general OF the United States. De-
ceased Was brother Of Postmaster Clayton
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-03-29
SETTLED WITH WIFE FOR s1oo. 600
B. L. Duke Secures a Hurried Divorce
at Durham. N. c.

b. l.. Duke, a very wealthy member of
the widely known family of that name who
lives at Durham and who is brother of
]. B. Duke Of New York the president Of
the American Tobacco Company, has OBJ
tanned divorce from his wife upon the
ground of abandonment. The suit was
tried and decided in a few minutes, though
1t was expected that there would be a fight.
which Mrs. Duke had come from California
to lead.
The suit, as brought in the court at Dur
ham, N. c., was to remove Mrs. Dukes in
terest In real estate owned by her hus-
band, who alleged that she had abandoned
him, and that any interests she had In the
property was cloud upon its title.
Mr.. Duke instituted supplementary pro-
ceedings for absolute divorce, alleging that
his wife left their home in February three
years ago. persistently refusing to return
TO him, though repeatedly urged to do so.
in the suit to remove Mrs Dukes interests
were quickly read. and then the supple
mentary proceedings for divorce COM
menced. Both sides had counsel. With the
evidence given by her husband the issues
were submitted to the jury, with instruc-
lions by the judge that IL the testimony by
Duke was believed the divorce should be
granted. In five minutes the jury returned
a verdict for absolute divorce, and the case
ended.
There is a settlement upon Mrs. Duke.
This, 1t is said amounts TO 100000.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-03-29

McMichael. for many years publisher OF
the Philadelphia North American
Mrs Carolina Robinson, a sister of Gen.
NJ. NJ. Croker commander of the famous
Croker Brigade. is dead at the Soldiers
Home in Marshaltown, Iowa. She is the
only woman ever admitted to a soldiers
home. Action in her case was through
special legislation in 1898. The reason was
her relationship to the general
John Dalett one of the owners of the
Red d Line of steamers, died at his resi-
dence in East Orange. N. j.
Maj. James B HoSsford, for twenty years
connected with the office of the supervis-
ing architect of the Treasury Department,
and for two years superintendent of con-
struction of tn Helena federal building.
died suddenly in Helena, Mont. of Brights
disease, aged fifty-seven years.
Allison B. Stone, for twenty years con-
nected with the Chicago Daily News, died
in Chicago. During his newspaper career
Mr.. Stone invented many devices for saw
ing time and labor in a newspaper plant.
Mrs. Timothy L. Woodruff, wife of former
Lieut.. Gov Woodruff died at her residence
in New York She had been ill from Bright's
disease for long time
Octavius Durham Baldwin. at one time
a conspicuous figure in the financial world
in connection with the presidency of the
Fourth National Bank of New York, died
suddenly at his home In that city. Mr..
Baldwin had for five years been subject to
heart trouble He was born in Montrose.
Pa, seventy years ago. He was educated
in the New York common schools and be-
gan business life as boy. After serving
an apprenticeship as errand boy for two
years in wholesale drug house he be-
came a clerk in the Broadway Bank. He
went as receiving teller to the Fourth
National Bank. and by close application
to business rose to the presidency Ii was
said of him al one time that he worked
twenty-four hours day. In the bank, SO
interested was he in the success Of the
institution
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-03-29
THE SULLY FAILURE.
Court Order Forces Hawley and Ray to
Take Stand.

Edwin Hawley, president of the Mar
chants Trust Company, and Frank Ray
vice president of the Continental Tobacco
Company, will be placed on the witness
stand in New York before the end of the
week in an examination Of their relations
with Daniel j. Sully, the former leader OF
the cotton bulls
First steps were taken in an exposure of
the cotton market speculations of these
men whom Mr. Sully accuses Of having
failed him at critical moment, thus pre-
cipitating his bankruptcy. The Sully re-
ceivers applied to the United States district
court and obtained an order compelling
Edwin Hawley and Frank Ray to testify
to their relations with the Sully firm,
This order was obtained under the pro-
visions OF the bankruptcy laws and is re-
turnable on Friday next, when it is be-
lieved that thorough Investigation of the
alleged cotton pool operations of Messrs.
Hawley and Ray will take place. The in
vestigation will take the lines of deyelon-
ing the liability of the men whom Mr..
Sully and Receiver Taft assert were mart.
ners with Mr.. Sully in joint pooling ac-
count
Those who will conduct the investipa
ton expect that sensational DEVELOPMENTS
will be brought out at the examination.