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THE CITIZEM.
WILLIAM O. NEGLEY - - Publisher
THURSDAY, JULY 19, 1900
REPUBLICAN TTCKET.
For President.
WUJ.IAM MCK ISLET. of Ohio.
For Vice President.
THEODOBC BOO6EVEI.T. ot New York.
Electors-at-Largc.
CLAHMC* Wour, of Philadelphia.
KKA.VK 11. KCHL, of Mercer.
A. B. KOBBBTS, of Montgomery
W. C. Ah SOLD, of Clearfield.
DISTRICT ELECTOR? 1
Edwin S>. Stuart. W. W. Olbbj..
George F. Hoffman, George C. Blaoon,
Daniel F. Greenwood, William M. Hayes.
Oharlea W. Cresaman. Robert U. Payro,
L-JTlnk Keller. Rnsseil W. Davenport
-OiunosMotr. William J. llarvey.
Robert Allison, Jacob L Hauer.
John H. Brown. George Weymouth,
Cortes H Jennings. James O. Thompson.
T. Frank Small. Henry A. Grlpp,
Morris J. Lewis. Robert Pltcalm,
David Edgar Parke, Thomas S. ("rage,
George W7 Johnston. William Hardwlck,
Howard H. Ulayson. Harry R. Wilson.
Auditor General.
E. H. HARDENBERGH.
Congressmen-at-large,
GALUSHA A. GROW,
R. H. FOERDERER.
For Congress,
J. B, SHOWALTER.
For State Senate,
A. G. WILLIAMS.
For Assembly,
J. B. MATES,
N. H. THOMPSON.
For Jury Commissioner,
JOHN G. CHRISTY.
Campaign Note*.
President McKinley has given tiie
keynotes for the Republican campaign.
Tbe occasion was his official notifica
tion of remonination. It is understood
that the President is not going to make
speeches as he did four years ago. The
burden of government is too heavy to
permit him to receive several delega
tions a day and talk to them. Four
years ago he was a candidate without
official responsibility, now he is at the
head of a great Nation with very grave
matters demanding attention. He can
not neglect his duties to make address
es. His speech, therefore, to the Noti
fication Committee may be accepted as
his main deliyerance.
It was not a long speech, but it was
right to the point. The President gave
a history of the work accomplished
since the fourth day of March, 1897.
He told of the prosperity that had come
to us as a Nation, how the mills had
been opened and how the country had
settled down to a monetary standard.
Then he spoke of our duties to the is
lands that had come under our control.
He wasted no words and every sentence
was one of patriotism.
Let us take from that speech some of
the striking sentences, for each one is
terse and each one goes to" the very vi
tals of the campaign issues. Here are
some of these pointed paragraphs;
The American people hold the finan
ataf""honor of our government as sacred
as our flag.
Our industrial supremacy, our produc
tive capacity, our business and commer
cial prosperity, onr labor and its
rewards, our national credit and cur
rency, our proud financial honor, and
onr splendid free citizenship, the birth
right of every American, are all involv
ed in the pending compaign.
The national credit, which has thus
—{arJfprtnnately resisted every assault
upon it, nrUßt and will be upheld and
■trengthened.
The gold standard has been reaffirm
ed and strengthened. The endless
chain has been broken, and the drain
upon our gold reserve no longer frets
ns.
The credit of the country has been
"■ &u?anoed to the highest place Mnong all
nations.
We have lower interest and higher
wages, more money and fewer mort
opened to American products.
We have passed from a bond-issuing
to a bond-paying nation, from a nation
of borrowers to a nation of lenders.
The public faith has been upheld;
pnblic order has been maintained. We
nave prosperity at home and prestige
abroad.
The menace of I<s to I still hangs over
us with all its dire consequences to
credit and confidence to business and
industry
The people must once more unite and
overcome the advocates of repudiation,
and must not relax their energy until
the battle for public honor and honest
money shall again triumph.
Shall we go back to a tariff which
brings deficiency in our revenues and
destruction to onr industrial enterprises?
A just war has been waged for
humanity and with it have come new
problems and responsibilities.
The Philippines are ours and Ameri
can authority must be supreme through
out the archipelago There will be
amnesty, broad and liberal, but no
abatement of our rights, no abandon
ment of our duty.
We will fulfill in the Philippines the
obligations imposed by the triumphs of
our arms and Dy the treaty of peace; by
international law, by the Nation's sense
of honor, and, more than all, by the
rights, interests and conditions of the
Philippine people themselves.
The oMrnctionists are . here, not
elaewhere They may postpone, but
tbey cannot defeat the realization of the
high purpose of the Nation to restore
oitter to the islands and to establish a
just and generous government, in which
the inhabitants shall have the largest
participation of which they are capable.
We reassert the early principle of the
Republican party. sustained by
unbroken judicial precedents, that the
representatives of the people in Congress
assembled have full legislative power
over territory belonging to the Uuited
States, subject to the fundamental
safeguards or liberty, justice and person
al rights.
My best efforts shall be given to the
immediate purpose of protecting the
lives of our citizens who are in peril,
with the ultimate object of the peace
and welfare of safeguarding
of all our treaty rights, and the main
tenance of those principles of impartial
intercourse to which the civilized world
is pledged. — —
OtfK of our scientific papers had an
article, last week, favoring fire-proof
docks as the moral of the tragedy of
June 80th last; bnt a more apt moral, it
seems to us, is the presence of baled cot
ton or any other substance liablo to
spontaneous combustion, among the
cargo.
Ik China has a population of 100,000,-
000. there ought to be about 80,080,000
abie bodied males there; and if bnt a
small fraction of these are properly
drilled and armed with modern gnns
the civilized world will have a time
conquering them.
Hhilota Again.
About four inonbhs ago some of the
voting ladies of the Y P C. IT. of Shiloh
U. P. church an "India Bene
fit Society,'' the object of which was to
procure money for the relief of the
famine stricken sufferers of India.
The girls make and sell aprons, sun
lK>unets. handkerchiefs, etc., and they
have aim) given an oyster supper and
lawn-fete; and have received a card of
thanks from Miss Emma D. Anderson
of Sialkot, India, for fifteen dollars, the
first money they sent away And about
two weeks ago they sent away sixty dol
lars more. The girls say "it pays to
take the Lord into partnership."
Judging from their beaming counten
ances ana from their words of warm ap
preciation, I venture to thank in behalf
of the Society, the kind friends who
have patronized them so liberally in
their work of devotion.
\T 11
POLITICAL.
The Republicans of .York and Leb
anon counties nominated Anti-Qnay
men for the Legislature, la.-t Saturday
and at Washington, National C hairman
Hanna dropped s name from the
executive committee and put in Frank
lin Murphy of New Jersey
The defeat of the Quayitea in Lebai.
on county after trying to keep the
names of Dr Weiss an<i his associates off
their official ballot and summoning wit
nesses from all over the state to confirm
the position they had taken, was
particularly galling to them.
At the meeting of the Republican
return judges of Lel>anon county. Mon
day Dr Gerberich, the candidate
for State Senate gave notice that be
would contest Dr Weiss.nomination and
Dr Zerbe. Quay, gave notice that he
would contest Prof. Breman's nomina
tion: and both cases will probably get
into the i-ourts
The Democratic congressional confer
ence of the Venango, Warren, McKean
district, met at Oil City, last Thursday
and endorsed the nomination of ftewis
Emery, of Bradford, by the Independent
Republicans.
The notification committees finally
notified President McKinley and
Governor Rosevelt of the nomination by
the Republican National committee last
Thursday, and both men made notable
speeches
Hon. A. Ci. Wiiliams and Hon. Geo.
W. McNeese, the respective Butler and
Armstrong candidates for State Senate
recently met and agreed that the 41st
district's conference should be held dur
ing the present month. The delegates
from each county will then meet and
decide which county nominee shall re
present the district. Both men are ad
herents of M S. Quay. It is Butler
County's turn for the nomination and
Mr. Williams will no doubt be conced
ed the place by Mr McNeese. The
district was made in 1674. since which
time. Armstrong County men have filled
the office for 14 years and Butler men 12
years.
Practically complete returns from the
Lebanon county Republican primary
elections, held on Saturday evening, in
dicate that the ahti-Quayites captured
about everything in sight, including a
State Senator and two assemblymen, si
though by majorities much smaller than
that by which Dr. Samuel Weiss was
nominated for State Senator a year ago
last February.
The explanation for this probably is
that the Quay leaders traded about every
Quay candidate for a county office to
secure rotes for a Quay Senator and two
Quay Assemblymen, as it appears that
the anti-Qua. itea captured every county
office except one.
Tbe net result is a loss of two votes to
Quay in the next Legislature, as the two
Lebanon county Assemblymen in the
last Legislature voted steadily for him
from start to finish. The Lebanon anti-
Quayites have not much to brag of in
the matt«r of majorities, but they got
away with about everything they went
after, which justifies them in claiming
a wholesale anti-Quay victory. The
Lebanon result does not afford much
encouragement to Quay and his follow
ers.—Philadelphia Times.
A Dissertation on Threshing.
EKASTOWN, JCLY 16. 1800.
EDITOR OF THE CITIZEN*:
DEAR SIR —Will you kindly allow
me a small space in your paper, as I
want to say a few words to the farmers
of Butler county The harvest is here
and the hum of the steam thresher will
soon be heard.
There ie no time when a farmer is
more careful of his property than when
he is having his threshing done, any
amount may be wasted by the harvester
or in handling the grain, but let him
discover a few kernels going into the
straw through the machine and he at
once loses his reason and imagines
ruin stares him in the face. He will
show them to the operator with an
autocratic air of "do totter or unit"
In a bnsbel of oats, 32 pounds, there
are about 600,000 kernels; in a bushel of
wheat, 60 pounds, there are about
1,000,000 kernels. If he should hold his
hand where the grain is wasting the
fastest for half a minute and catch 10
kernels he would say it was half going
in the straw. Let us see, counting 26
days for a month and 10 hours for a
day it would take him over 3 months to
I catch a bushel of wheat.
Oh! He savs, he "only held his hand
nnder a small part of the falling chaff."
Well, suppose the machine is 52 inches
wide and nis hand only 2 inches, and
the grain wasting equally across the
entire machine it would then take 3
days, at the same rate, for enough
| kernels to pass to fill a bushel measure.
In order to waste 5 bushels in a day of
10 hours run there would have to be
188 kernels escape every second or 8,240
every minute. It is Very deciving when
the quantity of grain comes to be
I measured bv the kernel.
While most threshers have a heart as
large as a pumpkin and are willing to
do all in their j>ower to save the grain
for there customers, the farmer
should remember that absolute perfec
tion is impossible, and that the actual
waste is but very small as compared to
the amount threshed. It is difficult to
state what per cent, a machine will
waste and still be doing good work. I
have made several tests to determine
this, bnt the conditions varied so that
there are scarcely two alike. In
ordinary threshing when the conditions
are not unfavorable and the machine
not being over crowded it should nut
wwte more than jof 1 per cent. This
will be a little over 3 bushels i>er thous
and and calling 10 hours a day, thresh
ing 1000 bu. and wasting 8 bushels it
would necessitate losing what would
lay on the palm of the hand every 15
seconds, not a very long space of time,
only a quarter of a minute. This would
show very plain and the machine would
appear to be was ting very fast.
HARRY B. FLEMING.
Fairvicw Facts.
J. C. Bcott is at his old luiujo raying
-for the season
Less Gofford and his little family have
been putting in their vacation of one
month, with their mother. They de
| parted for their home in Homestead this
week.
Chas. Gibson has accepted » position
with Buckle &Co., at Saw Mill on Wm.
Storey, dee'd., farm.
Mrs. W. P. Jamison is somewhat im-
V roved after a long siege of sickness.
Vo hope for her recovery in the near
future
W. P. Graham was with us for a few
days from Homestead where he has l>een
engaged for over two years.
Mrs. S. McClure seems to hare con
stantly on band a very fine stock of
millinery goods.
Mrs. Thos. Hays and daughter M.tud
came up from Butler and is stopping
with Dr. V. F Thomas.
You can have a very commodious
entrance now into the new U. P. church
here since the new walks have been
devised.
The festival hold by the Reformed
Church i#i the Union hall on last Thurs
(lay was a grand success.
Ontcs for County Fairs.
Puuxsutawney, Aug. 21 24.
Kittanning, Aug. 28-81.
Butler. Sept 4-7.
Conneautville Sept. 1 0.
Clarion, Sept. 4-7.
Indiana, Sept. 11-14. '
Oil City. Sept. 11-14.
Greensburg, Sept. 18 21.
Dayton. Sept. 25-28.
Mercer, Sept. 25-27.
THE CHINESE WAR.
()n Friday last the destruction of all
the foreigners in Pekm was confirmed,
through Chines** sources. It was said
that Prince Chins and Gen Wang Wen.
attempted to protect the legations, but
that they and their forces were killed,
that the British 'and Russian legations
were the hist to hold ont and that they
were shot to fragments with artillery.
But two foreigners are said to have es
caped the city.
The Chinese army investing Tien
Tsin were bombarding the foreign
quarter of the city, and the accuracy of
their artillery aim was noted.
On Saturday all hope was abandoned
at Washington of the safety of our lega
tion at Pek ; n. The Czar of Russia re
ceived word of the torture and death ot'
his Ambassador. Mde -Geirs who was
said tri have been dragged through the
streets and th~u thrown into a cauldron
of boiling water while his wife wan
stabbed to death
At Tien Tsin the European troops
were being driven steadily back by the
Chinese.
The Viceroys of sonthern China were
ordered to send troops against the
Boxers.
Minister Wung, at Washington,
criticized the European governments for
attacking the forts at Taku, and inti
mated they had purposely sacrificed
their legations at Pekin.
Admiral Remey sent word of the dis
embarking of Japanese troops at Taku,
which would hurry forward to the re
lief of Tien Tsin. All the European
governments were preparing troops,
provisions, ainunition, guns etc. for
transportation to China
On Monday word was received in this
country of the repulse of the allies at
Tien Tain, while attempting to storm a
wall of the Chinese city. The allies
numbered 7,000, and withdrew with
great loss. Twenty-five percent of the
Ninth Infantry. U. S were hit. and Col.
Liscum was killed. War ships at all the
Chinese i>orts were asked for by the
Consuls: President McKinley and
Cabinet were discussing an extra session
of Congress.
On Tuesday the London "Daily Maii'
received a dispatch from Shanghai
statingl that:
"The troops of the allied powers in
Tien l'sin resumed the attack on the Chi
nese walled city on the morning of July
14. They succeeded in making a breach
in the walls and captured all the forts.
The Chinese were completely routed
the rillies taking possession of the native
city'and its defenses.
• The total losses among the allied
forces on Thursday, Friday and Satur
day were about 800 men. The heaviest
losses were among the Russians and
Japanese."
An earlier dispatch from Shanghai
read: "It is stated that the repulse of
the allies at Tiensin on July 13 was not
s< i bad as at first reported The alli"s
captured eight guns and occupied a
good position clone to the city walls,
where they expected to renew the as
sault the next dav."
On Tuesday, Minister Wn, at Wash"
ington, received a disptach from the
minister at London, authenticated by
Sheng, the imperal inspector of posts
and telegraphs ut Shanghai and by two
viceroys, declaring that the foreigners iu
Peking were safe on July it and were
receiving the protection of the govern
ment. This is two days after the re
ported massacre.
Besides presenting to Minister Hay the
contents of his dispatch, Minister Wu
also offically executed the direction con
tained in the message for an appeal to
the powers not to deetroy the walled
city of Tien-tisn. This part of the dis
patch says:
"The utmost efforts have been made
to protect foreign ministers, who were
well on the 13th (Chinese calender cor
responding to our Jul; #>. If Tien tsin
city shonid be destroyed it would be
difficult to restore the same in 100 yea: s.
Request the powers to preserve it, as the
consequences would affect Chinese and
foreigners commerce. Earl Li
Chang is transferred to North China as
viceroy to Chi-Li. Please transmit this
dispatch to the ministers of other
capitals."
This dispatch, which is dated July in,
was signed by Viceroys Lin Kung Yi
and Chang Chih Tung of Nanking a:ul
Wn Chang, respectively, and also by
Cheng, director of posts and telegraphs
at Shanghai. It was addressed to the
Chinese minister in Loudon, and by
him transmitted to Minister Wu under
to-day's date.
The minister expressed the most com
plete confidence in the accuracy of the
message showing that the foreign min
isters were well on the 'Jth inst. VVi.eu
a bystander expressed some doubt on this
subject. Mr Wu inquired with some
warmth
Why is it that you believe the exag
gerated reports coming from nnknown
sources, and yet you choose to doubt
this report, signed by our highest officials
and containing inherent evidence of
accuracy?"
The most startling news of yesterday
was the reported declaration of war by
China upon Russia. The Chinese seized
a Russian transport in the Amur river
and killed the crew and then attacked
and captured a Russian town on the
river and murdered the garrison
The Boxer movement was reported to
spreading all over Manchuria, and the
Boxers have ordered all Russians out of
the province, though the Russians are
said to have 50,000 men and 112 guns in
it
Li Hung Chang started on \Luxuiuy
from Shanghai for Pekin and to the
Americans who inquired about the act
l nal safety of the foreign ministers at
Peking, Li answered that he had
received no news from Peking within
the past week, bnt that. if they were
alive, he was almost certain matters
would be satisfactorily arranged with
the allied powers.
' If they are dead"—here lie shrugged
his shoulders signficantly and added
with lower voice "it is hard to tell
what may happen. lam going to Pek
king practically unarmed.except for my
body guard of 200 men, and that ought
to be evidence to the whole world that i
do not favor any fighting and of my
pacific intentions. lem old and in very
poor health and it is a personal sacrifice
to undertake such a journey in this
horrid weather
After a moments thought he .-aid: "If
your ministers are killed do you think
mv lifo may be taken in retaliation
while enronte?"
This question received a general
strong negative reply. He then asked
the consuls to wire to their respective
admirals to resect his own flag ami to
allow him a safe conduct tT Peking. He
was evidently exceedingly anxious about
the ministers, for. returning to the sub
jet. he said:
"My heart is sori about them I
know them all personally and I am on
the best of good ter:ns with them. '
He added that he rualized his govern
ment had done wrong and that it was to
show hi* grav. displeasure that he- sent
the cablegrams from Lonl Salisbury and
M Deleasst to theJEmpro-s word for
word as ho received them He conclud
ed by asking the co-operation of th ■
allied powers In furthering the succes
of his mission and said emphatically
that he depended upon th^-m
STORY OF THE MASSACRE.
The Shanghai correspondent of the
London Daily Mail" sent his paper the
following account of the butchery in
Pekin
At six o'clock in the evening of July
6. fire was opened with artillery upon
the British legation, where the
ers were concentrated. For two h 'urs
the wall.- were battered with ohm and
shell and huge breathe.- made in them.
Then a geser.d advance was ordered
and the Chinese infantry volleying con-
etantlv, moved toward the gap- The
fire of"the defenders, however, was so
accurate and steady that hordes of
Chinese soldiers and Boxers broke and
fled in the wildest confusion leaving
large numbers of dead and wounded
around the legation They could not bt
rallied until they were out of rifle range
of the foreigners.
Then Prince Titan, making a desper
ate appeal, induced them to stand and
return to the attack. Artillery fire was
.fhen resumed and at the uiiddlo watch
a second attack was attempted. But
before the attackers conld accomplish
their object they were met by Prince
Ching and Gen. Wang Wen Shao with
their troops, who were going to
the &id of the foreigners. A desperate
l>aitle ensued between the various fore, s
of Chinese and Manchns.
"Unfortunately, many of Prince
Citing's troops deserted to Prince Tnau.
Prince Ching fell and was supposed to
have been killed, but, as the search ior
his body was unsuccessful, it is now
believed that he was only wounded and
was carried off and secreted by his taith
ful retainers.
Gen. Wang Wen Shao, although gray
haired and 70 years old, valiantly led
his troops in person. He was killed and
his force, which was completely outnum
bered was routed. Throughout the
night repeated attacks were made on the
legation, but they were invariably re
pulsed with heavy lose. To word the end
of the third watch, about o a m.. the
allies had partically defeated the besieg
ers, who where wavering and gradually
with drawing. But just then Gen.
Tung Full Siang arrived from the
vicnity of Tien Tsin with a large force
of Kan-Su braves. By this time the
walls of the legation had been battered
down and most of the buildings were in
ruins. Most of the allies had fallen at
their posts, and the small band that was
left took refuge in the wrecked build
ings, which they endeavered hastily to
fortify. Upon them the fire of the
Chinese artillery was now directed.
Toward sunrise it was evident that the
ammunition of the allies were running
out and, at 7 o'clock, as the advances
of the Chinese in force failed to drew a
response, a rush was determined upon.
Thus, standing together, as sun
rose, the little remaning band, all Euro
peans. met death stubbornly. There
was a desperate hand to hand encounter.
The Chinese lost heav ily,but as one man
fell, others advanced, and finally, over
come by overwhelming odds, every one
of the Europeans remaining was put to
the sword in the most atrocious man
ner."
PKKIN'S MI'BDER SPOT
When the detachments of the various
nationalities reached Pekin at the
argent summons of their Ambassadors
<•11 the illfatcd Inue 1, they marched to
Legation street. This runs parallel with
the -wall separating the Tartar from the
Chinese City, and at a distance of about
Iwo hundred and fifty yards from it. it
lies inside the Tartar City, to the south
east of the Imperial City. Its buildings
are easily commanded by the towering
wall, which is fifty feet high and forty
feet broad at the top. The legations for
the most part consisted of small coru
ponnds each snrrounded by low brick
wall and containing a number of separ
ate buildings for the Minister, his staff
and "household.
Intersecting Legation street isacau:U.
On the north side of this stood the
Spanish, the Japanese, the French and
the Italian legations, and on the sonth
side the German legation. On the
other side of the canal was the United
States legation, almost facing the
Russian legation. A couple of yards
distant from Legation street, but open
ing on to the canal, were the British
legation. Among the legation com
pounds were interspersed Chinese tene
ments, European buildings, such as the
Hongkong and Shanghai Bank, the
Peking Club, tha European Hotel kept
bv a Frenchman, and one or two Europe
nil shops. At the back of the French
legation, adjoining tb<> new Austrian
legation, was the large compound of the
Imperial Maritime Customs, with Sir
Robert Hart's residence, and those of
the chief Europ- an employes of his
administration. The street runs for
about bftlf or two thirds of a mile.
On previous occasions, when it was
found necessary to introduce legation
guards into Peking for the protection of
the Ambassadors a scheme of common
defense was drawn up, so that the
different detachments sent up by the
Powers mightco-oporate. It was agreed
in case of necessity to make the British
compound, as the largest and most de
fensible the international stronghold.
When the British army entered Peking
victoriously in 1800 they occupied the
compound." which was formely the
palace of a Chines:.' Prince Its grounds
of an acre and a half were enclosed with
a fairly strong wall, and the canal along
one side formed a kind of moat. Since
1801. when it was leased to the British
by the Chinese, modern buildings have
been erected within the enclosure for
the large European staff, the members
of iho Consular service, as well as separ
ate outhouses for the Chinese attendants
uud servants The buildings included
the Minister* house, the chancellery,
an armory, a dispensary and a fire
station. This was the place chosen for
the place of refuge in the case of an up
rising in the citp.
Probably some extra stores were pro
vided but it was never anticipated that
the imperial authorities would instigate
or support with soldiers an organized
attack upon the foreign settlement, and
when the crisis came suddenly, with
Prince Tuan as chief assailant, the
means to repel an assault or sustain a
siege must nave been badly inadequate
Ammunition and artillery supplies
were scanty. The legation guards,
numbering in all had at the outside
150 rounds apiece and half a dozen quick
firing guns. No reserve stores at the
legation have beta mentioned, and the
desperate fighting wo.uld soon exhaust
the meager supply As for provisions,
the destruction of all the legations
escwpt two quickly drove into the Brit
ish compound the foreigners of all
nationalities. It is computed there
would be at least 1,900 mouths to feed
Behind the British compound lies the
Mongol market, an unsheltered spot,
where in ordinary times frozen sheep
arc sold, brought iu from Mongolia by
the ten thousand camels vhich enter
and leave Peking in the course of the 24
hours.
With the "Boxers." however, iu pos
session of the roads leading to the capital
on the north, oast and south, the rail
way destroyed and other means of traffic
stopped, the Ixjloagured garrisons
could have do chance of replacing the
trifling stocks accumulated within th
compounds. Starvation must have star
od them in the face, for submission was
not to be thought of. If the worst came
to the worst it was thought that the
Mongolian ponies, of which great num
bers are usually to be found in the
precincts of the comjMjuuds, might be
utilized for food, but this suggestion
affords but a faint hojie in view of the
desjK*rate situation in which the foreign
settlement quiokly found itself.
Huddled together in building that
would quickly take fire, stormed at with
shot and shell as the ruthless Tartars
brought up cannon and mounted them
at close quarters, the gallant inarrines
and no less brave civilians would have
little chance of any effective resistance.
Sir Robert Hart s knowledge of China,
his great services to the country, went
for nothing. All was lost when ho sent
out his uiHßsago of despair, 'Situation
iH desperate. Hasten," probably on June
l X The legation was then in flames and
the number of killed and wounded must
have crippled the heroric remnant
For days a horror of great darkness
brooded over the murder spot in Peking,
to spread thence over the civilized
world. Perhaps those to whom death
came early in the struggle are to IKI ac
counted fortunate, when one considers
the nameless cruelties to which th
Chinese have been addicted in previous
excesses In the Taeping rebellion, at
the taking of Nankin. 30,000 noi. com
batants were massacred Inhabitant
were boiled alive sawn asunder and
otherwise tortured.
FROM TAKF TO PEKING.
tThe following aocount of his trip
from Tr.ku to Peking was written
weeks ago by an Austrian naval officer
who Is supposed to have perished with
the other foreigners in the city )
The railroad to Poking starts at Tong-
Ku, which place I reached by a rheumat
ic tugboat from Taka after two hoars
sporadic steaming When goes th>-
next train to Tien Tsin ? 1 asked the
station master
Ah, my lord, replied the pig tailed
worthy iu his beat pigeon Englisu "in
an hour perhaps, oi in two. who knows I
We are waiting for the train from Tien
Tsin to arriye and start again
To kiii timt I walked into the railway
eating hous 1 , where the buffet offered
very good Chinese cake, ham eggs, bad
port and excellent tea. also a soup that
seemed to be composed of a thousand and
one tilings. As there was no train in
sight by the time I had dined, and as
the station master informed me that the
Tien-Tsin express shouldu't leave with
out me. I made a tour of the village,
which I found to be just as dirty and as
full of sick people and beggars as any
other Chinese settlement. But there
seemed to IK- a greater number and \ i
riety of opium mills—for the benefit of
the sailors. I was told. Half a dozen
women with tiny feet and clothed in
flowered silk dross-s squatted along the
walls of each s..ioon inviting paesersby
to step in.
When the Tien-Tsin train arrived and
hundreds of waiting passengers rushed
pell mell for the cars, the policemen,
without a word of warning, fell UJM>U
their countrymen dealing out strokes
right and left. The outraged people
howled, there was no end to their chat
tered protestations, but further resist
ance was not offered
The two hours ride from Tong-Ku to
Tien-Tsin took us through treeless flat
lands devastated by floods. There were
only a few villoges. with small, mud
covered houses, to be seen, bat miles
upon miles of round mound, indicating
graves. People outside of the Middle
kingdom think the Chinese especially
addicted to the worship of their ances
tors If r.hey are, they don't show it by
keeping their graves green; Among the
the thousands of graves I saw there
wasn t one indicating that anybody
cared for it. Frequently the naked
bones or parts of the coffins are visible
from without. So much for Chinese
sentimentality!
"Tien-Tsin' "Tien-Tsin I .' The train
stopped tiefore a long-streched, oof<-
story barn, a horde of coolies rushed up
on the carriages, four of them took hold
of my baggage and we were off for the
embankment of the P*i Ho. on the op
posite side of which the foreign settle
ments are situated. Arrived there a
buggy drawn by a galloping native soon
carried me within the confines of civil
ization Broad streets lined with stone
houses and shade trees, pure air and
perfect quietude —the difference between
this and the Chinese town I came from
is that between a well-ordered park and
a dung heap
I lodged at the Astor House, the roomy
apartments.quiet service and exquisite
cuisine of which reminded me of the
famous New York hotel. The English
settlement has the peaceful aspects of a
rich rural town in Great Britain. The
streets are well laid out. pretty villas
here, fine business blocks there. The
church is a graceful edifice, green bush
es and flowers are everywhere. 1 saw a
number of stylish ladies on horseback,
while groups of blonde children walked
about under the care of prim nurses.
The native town, which is surround
ed by walls and a moat, is said to con
tain a million inhabitants. There are
also large settlements outside of the
walls. I uidn't like the attitude of the
people toward us foreigners while we
were driving through the narrow, ill
smelling streets. They regarded us
with sullen looks ami bustled or delay
ed our riksas (buggies) according to
their sweet pleasure all along the road.
Wo hefird many stories of Europeans
that were maltreated in the Chinese
town. Some Europeans even vanished
from the face of the earth after visiting
the town of the natives. Maybe fana
tics did away with them. A large per
centage of the population are Manchns;
they are bigger and more energetic thau
the Chinese, and their hatred of foreign
ers is notorious.
The railroad to Peking was finished
three years ago. Until then traveling
to the capitol wont by boat up tho Pei
.Ho on horse back or by carriage. This
took two or throe days. Now the dis
tance can be covered in five hours. Tim
railway is government property and
pays well, f paid $3.50 for a first-class
ticket, no charge for baggage. This
latter privilege is very important to the
natives, who are in the habit of carting
all sorts of useful and useless things
aloug with them on their travels, cages
full of canary birds among other things.
Donkev and camel caravans were
traveling along the railway bed in great
numbers, followed by swarms of chil
dren bent on picking up occasional loss
e-. As I was gazing at the mountains
in th" distance the train stopped sud
deuly at a low building marked "Po-
king" in large letters There was no
town to be seen. I was informed that
the Sou of Heaven would never allow
the foreign devils to bring their sicri
ligious railways to Peking's very gates.
The firm of Siemens & Halske operates
an electric street car line between the
station and the city, but this wasn't
running owing to the riotous behavior
of the "Boxers", who are assembling
here in menacing numbers. As no car
riage was to be had I resolved to enter
Peking mounted on an ass It was a
terrible journey across marshes and
mud holes, over ditches and heaps of
stones and garbage. My eyes pained
uie owing to the clouds of dirt and dust
flying about; often I shut them to avoid
seeing the sick and beggars rolling in
the road crying for alms.
A full hour 1 trotted along, the road
becoming hilly as we came uearor to the
city. When at last we stood within
sight of the mighty walls we were ob
liged to stop, for the bridgo spanning
the moat is but a nnrrow affair, allow
ing but one wagon and one mounted
man to pass side by side at the same
time. The gate was defended by a
three story guard house, numerous can
non and soldiers. When we had passed
under it I expected to i nter right into
the whirl of the great metropolis, l>at
instead we had another half hours ride
before tis It led up over a narrow dam
between the walled parks of the Temple
of Agrioultnre aud of Heaven We
could catch no glimpses of the parks
and buildings themselves. The bare
forbidding walls were tco high
"Another series of walls 50 feet
high and 40 feet broad. In the center a
gate, well fortified with men and guns,
and no dummies of either kind. The
Chinese town was entered by th.' Gate
of Heaven. My first %-isit was to Lega
tion street, which in no way corresponds
to its proud title. The roadway a!l
hill and dale, the first consisting of gar
bage, ashes and disused building mater
ial , the latter of stagnant water where
naked children, hogs and dogs disport
themselves At last on the other side of
a bridge leading over an ill-smelling
poud the bridge had many holes in it.
but no balustrades -we encouuter the
legation buildings that have been so
often described
"As it military person, and in view oi'
tho fear lately expressed that the "Box
er' riots may develop into something
more serious, a menace to the foreign
population, which might make inter
vention by the Powers necessary, I took
a survey of Peking from a strategical
standpoint. I can't tell anything
definite with regard to the strength of
the walis, but, as already remarked, the
Irtter are no longer defended by wooden
cannons. They have real guns, guns of
tho latest pattern. Krupp must have
drawn hundreds of millions out of China
in the last five or six years
"A European or American strategist
would say that Peking consists of city,
meadow, viliago, park, acre, highway,
marsh, garden and desert all in abund
ance. Urass is everywhere in Peking,
and black pigs who eat it are everywhere
too. You ride through a seeming laby
rinth of streets and alleys and suddenly
come upon a large tract of land that is
not built on This th> neighboring
house owners have tnrned into gardens,
or else use it for growing corn or fruit.
Even between the principal streets there
are alleys where sheep ami cattle find
nourishing meadows. And this is not
aecideut. but a recognized institution
In proof of it we find a shepherd there
superintending the grazing.
I have ridden straight through ti.e
city in ail directions and found the
ocean of hous«-s coining to a stop miles
this side of th" great wall in south and
north east and west. Peasants tilling
the -Ml can be met in all localities, and
in the southwest especially or.e might
imngin ■ himself removal to some great
farm district Of the Chinese cityono
hali is park. lake, acre or cemetery
'The parks of the Temples of Heaven
and of Agriculture are enormous; there
seems to be laud enough to crow cereals
for the entire population ft is claimed
that the original founders of Peking
laid it m with a \ iew to jv.ssible long
sieges If that is true they showed
great wisdom- From the commisariat a
standpoint there isn't another city in the
world so weil fitted for a long siege than
Peking A , reat part of the population
is carrying on agriculture now. Every
rich man owns one or more parks
miles :n circumference, and the many
city squares and the numerous empty
lots afford even now meadow and gar
den land.
"As th-re are also many natural and
artificial lakts it would be well nigh
impossible to starve out Peking, particu
larly as it is out of the .juestion that the
Powers will send an army big enough
to completely surround Peking, as Paris
was surrounded by the Germans in 1871
Peking I reckon, can be taken onir by
storm, after part of the wall has been
laid low but this demolishing process
requires enormous guns. If the district
between Tieu-Tsin and Peking were in
undated—and it's possible to flood it —
how will you bring up the siege guns v
THEIR POINT OF VIEW.
A New Yorker who lately ate dinner
in a Chines< restaurant in that city,
talked to the waiter, and quotes him a«
follows
W< are pretty fairly well iinformed
here about what is going on at home,
said he. in reply to my suggestion.
"While our people are are not great cor
respondents as a class, we are in close
touch all the time through various
channels. The news is spread through
all Chinatown every day. We read your
papers, but we know how much to
believe and what not to believe in them.
Every mail brings us direct news from
home, and this is spread bv word of
mouth and bulletin.
"China is all same as United States.
You don t want the foreigner here; we
don t want him there. Foreigner comes
just the same "We have as much right
to say you shan't come to our country
as you have to say we shan't come here.
We have mobs in China same as von
have tbern here. The ignorant and
prejudiced people have risen against the
foreigner here. We kill; you kill. Both
make big row."
"But the 'Boxers are ail organize'! po
litical and military party."
"So was your knownothing party. It
was against the foreigner. Its war cry
was all same a« the 'Boxers.' America
for Americans —China for Chinese.'
And your knownothings persecuted and
murdered people who didn't believe as
they did. Lots of your peopl" are as bad
HS the 'Boxers,' and would murder if
they dared—worse than the 'Boxers,, be
cause we attend to our business and
don t harm anybody.
"We are not trying to destroy your
religion; *e are not grabbuig land and
running new kind of roads through vonr
graveyards and seizing all sorts of con
cessions through corrupt governmental
officials. Wo" are not trying to turn
your country upside down and make it
like our country.
"Go among my people here and see
how they live. They work hard and
live poorly and mind their own business
and hart nobody. Chinatown to day is
more orderly and gives the police less
trouble than any other quarter of the
city. You know that There are bad
Chinese as there are bad Americans and
bad people in any couutrv But the
trouble among lis is not made by Chin
ese. The Chinese are a quiet and order
ly people who love to keep to them
selves.
. "The only reason we are not wanted
here is because we work aud live cheap
ly, and you are afraid of ns because we
work. In my country we are afraid of
yon because you steal. The foreigner
in my country is a robber —he robs us of
our highways, of our nationality, of our
gods We are culled heathen here; we
there consider you the heathen. But
we are an older civilization than you
than all the rest of the world."
•The missionary dosen't usually hurt
anvoody," I put in
'"'The missionary is really at the bot
| torn of all the trouble between China
and the foreigner. Yon say he dosen t
hurt —h wounds at every step. Ho
hurts more than gnns and swonls. for
he treads upon our sacred religion, up
on the most cherished institutions in
stitutions under which our people lived,
thrived and were happy unit multiplied
exceedingly beyond the rest of the world
before your Josus was ever heard of and
while your so-called Christians were
burning each other alive and slaying
and torturing each other wherever their
Bible was known.
"We are no longer helpless in our for
mer blind security. An army of 100,000
men may be landed and marched into
China, may take Peking; but wherever
they are they will be prisoners, the same
as were the English and French who in
terfered in the former rebellion. They
will make no more impression on the
Chinese people than you make by stick
ing your finger into a pail of water and
drawing it out again. The attempt to
conquer <.*hina will solidify the nation
and make more difficult the conversion
of the Empire to Western ideas. The
habits and customs and modes of
thought that have prevailed for count
less ages are n< >t to be changed iu a day,
and there is where the foreign party in
my country' have madfl a mistake. It is
the common fault of the intellectual
elatss anywhere and in all times to thus
precipitate changes.
" The science of government among
intellectuals is a mere fad and does not
take into full account the inert masses
of mankind, with whom to be success
ful they must deal. Eveu when their
theories are correct and beneficial to
these same elements precipitation ruins
all.
"Now, thero are undoubtedly many
thing's here which might be introduced
in China to our benefit, but this process
must, as I say, be a long and unobtrus
ive one You can't unmake and make
over again a population of 100,000,000
people in a breath. It will require
centuries "
Family Reunion.
The fifth annual reunion of the Sny
der family was held, June l?lth, at the
home of J N. Thompson, in Brady twp
This meeting was of double signifi
cance it being a century since Conrad
Snyder. Sr. settled here and also the an
nual reunion.
During the forenoon a goodly number
of relatives and friends assembled on
the grove, which had been tastily ar
ranged by Mr. Thompson.
About i'J o'clock dinner was announc
ed, and from the appearance of the ta
ble one could easily see that the
ladies had spared no pains in preparing
this part of the celebration, which was
heartily cn joyed by all.
A beautiful cake baked by Mrs. W.
B. Currie, qaon which was inscribed
the date of the reunion, was presented
to Mrs. Thompson.
A short time was then spent socially,
when the crowd was called to order by
the president, and as the socretary was
absent one was appointed.
Addresses wore made by Rev. Oliver,
M. 13. Thompson and J. M. Thompson
and a recitat ion was given by Hoyt
Painter.
The officers elected for the next year
were as follows; Pres. J. C. Snyder,
Bec'y R. E. Allen. Committee on ar
rangements Mr. and Mr#. John Snyder
The first Tuesday of .Tune 1901 is the
date of the next reunion and it is to be
held at the residence of John Snyder in
Brady twp.
Again a shirt time was spent in social
enjoyment when all departed for their
homes feeling they had spent an enjoy
able day. SEC'V.
<)n Thursday last Lord Roberts sent
word of a disanter to a Scotch regiment
stationed on a hill, eighteen miles from
Pretoria. The Boers attacked and
captured them
LUANTi D -Honest manor woman to true
"* for law house; salary {*!■*> monthly ami |
e.xjn uses with Increase; position perman- I
cut :Inclo*c setf-addreMM stamped envelope ?
MAN At, hi;. JoOCuxiou CJnIGUKo- i
Mars.
Mr- Ritchie of Einlenton. visited
friends in Mars last week.
Mrs Otis Fisk has lieon on the sick
C A. Jamison was called to Butler on
Tuesday to a meeting of the Forest Oil
Co. officials
Mrs Margaret Gillespie was in town
on Friday on business the first time
*inee last fall. Her grand-daughter,
Mrs. Clint Bowles, writes her from
tjuee.netown. Ireland that they had a
very pleasant trip across the ocean.
S. M Redic and wife and J. I Pat
tor sou and wife attended preaching
services at Olcde Mills on Sunday
Miss Nannie Marshall is visiting
friends in Butler.
Miss Frances Jamison is recovering
very slowly from a very severe illness.
Sirs. Crutnin and Miaws Treda" and
Nellie Toomcy and brother spent Tuis
day at Highland Park
Mrs. J. E Forsythe and family and
Sadie Renins visited Wm Kearns on
Sunday.
Wm. Tlieiker has gone to West Va.
on a business trip.
II B Patterson attended the funeral
of Comrade Miller on Wednesday
H. B. Masters has gone to house
keeping in Downicville.
J S. Clark is recovering from a very
severe illness.
Archie Marshall, of Portersville is in
town on business.
The Mars bauk will be ready for
business in a few days.
S H Roberts had a horse die on
Tuesday.
Mrs J. D. Marshall ha.- moved into
the house she purchased of Ed. Zeigler.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Ferguson were
Pittsburg visitors on Wednesday
Mrs. Sam Hamilton, of Pittsburg, is
visiting at Jas. Hamiltons.
Miss Young, of Pittsburg is visiting
her sister. Mrs. Lewis.
Mr. Buzzard was a visitor to Pitts
burgeon Wednesday.
DEATHS.
PORTER—At his home in Allegheny,
July 13, 1900, Hugh T. Porter aged
01 years.
HARRINGTON- At his home in But
ler. July 14,1900, Thomas Harrington,
aged 74 years
His wife, two sons and four daughters
survive him He was the father of the
Misses Harrington of the Bell Telephone
office.
CASSIDY At his home in Pittsburg
July 15, 1900. Louis P.. infant son of
W. A. and M. E. Cassidy (nee Irwin).
MILLER—Samuel Miller died at his
home in the West End, Butler. Sun
day night. July 15,1900, aged 04 years.
Mr. Miller familiarly known as "War
Horse was an old soldier, having eu
listed in Co. D lltli Pa. Reserves in
1801 and served a full three years. Lat
er he enlisted in the 4th Pa. Cavalry
and continued in it until the close of
the war. He was a Democrat until in
1888 a special peusion act passed for
him was vetoed by Pres. Cleveland,
then he turned an ardent Republican.
He was a member of A. G. Reed Post,
105 G. A R. and was buried with mili
tary hohors in Calvary cemetery Wed
nesday morning.
WALLACE-At her home in Zelieno
ple, Sunday, July 15, 1900, Mrs. Ad
alinc Wallace, aged 87 years.
Mrs. Wallace was the widow of Fran
cis Wallace, who died twenty years
ago. She leaves five children. James
Wallace, Mrs. Dr. A. V. Cunningham,
and Mrs. Kate Wilson, all of Zelienople,
Mrs. Francis Clark of Prosj>ect and Mrs.
Rev. (ties of Jonestown. Lebanon Co.
She was buried Tuesday afternoon.
BRICKER— At her home in Buffalo
twp. July 14, 1900, Mrs. Nancy Brick
er, nee Hesselgesser, and widow of
John Bricker, aged 75 years.
She was the mother of Dr. McCurdy,
Perry. William and Curtis Bricker and
Mrs. Jennie Miller, of Butler; John and
Ella who are on the old farm; M. L-, of
Pittsburg and Mrs. Frantz of Home
stead. She was buried at Fisk chapel.
McKINNEY- At Mt. Clemens. Michi
gan, July 10. 1900. Newton McKin
noy of Harmony, aged about 50 years.
SNYDER July 10. 1900 at hie home in
Middlesex township. William Snyder,
aged 79 years.
MORRIS - At her home on Mercer St.,
Butler. Sunday, July 15, 1900, Char
lotte Morris, wife of Wm. S Morris,
in the 75th year of her age.
Mrs. Morris had been an invalid for
years, and had suffered very much, but
always without murmuring or com
plaining and was always pleasant and
good company. She was a kind.generous
and noble womau and will be greatly
missed by a large circle of friends. She
is survived by her husband, four sons
and two daughters as follows: M r s C.
W. Talbitzer, Monroe, Neb ; Wm H.
Morris, of Sioux City. lowa, formerly of
Butler, John D Morris, of Butler; Frank
Morris, of Mt. Chestnut B. H. Morris,
of Wellsville, Ohio, and Mrs John H.
Reiber. of Butler, with whom she made
her home.
The funeral services were conducted
by Rev. W E. Oiler, of the Ist Presby
terian church, and her remains were
laid to rest in the South cemetery,
yesterday afternoon.
PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
I? H. NEGLKY,
Ci . ATTORNEY AT LAW.
Office in the "CITIZEN" building.
1 D. McJUNKIN,
r) . ATTORNEY- AT-LAW.
Office in Reiber building, corner Main
and E. Cunningham Sts, Entrance on
E. Cunningham.
fOHN VV. COULTER,
0 ATTORNEY-AT-LAW.
Wise building, N. Diamond St., Butlct
Special attention given to collections
and business matters.
Reference; Butler Savings Batik, or
Butler County National Bank
A. T. BLACK. IHA SWJOK
I)LACK & McJUNKIN,
1) Attorneys-at-law,
Armory Building, Butler, Pa.
Nil. GOUJHF.R,
• ATTORNEY AT LAW.
Office in Wise building.
1 lOULTER &. BAKHR,
IV. ATTORNEYS AT LAW.
Room 8., Armory buildin & .
A T. SCOTT,
A. ATTORNEY AT LAW.
Office at No. 8. West Diamond St. But
ler, Pa.
1 B. BREDIN,
r) • ATTORNEY AT LAW.
Office on Main St. near Court House.
H\V. WICK,
• DENTIST.
Has located in the new Stein building,
with all the latest devices for Dental
work.
] J. DONALDSON,
R) . DENTI3T.
Artificial Teeth inserted on the latest
improved plan. Gold killings a soc
ially. Office next to postoffice.
it M. ZIMMERMAN
LJ • PHYSICIAN AND SURGUON
Office No. 45, S. Main street, over City
Pharmacy.
R. W. I>. McILROY,
DKNTIST.
Formerly known as the "Peerless
Painless Extractor of Teeth." Located
peimanently at ill East Jefferson St.,
Opposite Hotel Lowrv, Butler. Will do
dential operations of all kinds by the
latest devices ami up-to-date methods
T BLACK.
I J . PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON
New Troutman Building, Bntler Pa.
R. M D KOTTRABA,
Successor to I)r. Johnston.
DKNTIST
Office at No 114 E. Jefterson St., over
G. W. Miller's grocery.
' KOEB MMJUAT VIOTOBIES.
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1 lino nnii Vork rnnnllra I* Rrokrn.
l'hx liatr> ooil Foo'l UdiiMlnwnt
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Cleotlun.
(From Oor Own Oori>«;iuoduo* >
Harrlistiurg July 17. —The machtne
bna eß 0 5 Capitol Mil! r«cotv«xl a ahooX
cn Saturday last when they read In a
tsiegreur. from CuntxXi. 0.. the au-
Bouacoßsaut of Senator Hu.i>n»'e isele©-
ul m«tui>or« of Lbu com
c.Ktao who will aaaJ#t him as a cam-
committee to run Uw M» I?lulfc'
tad Iwowovolt laupaJga tLLi ywr. £*-
Qoa> e rArne xa* not on th*
list. Ranaa and tbe adajUtfeuattoc
btdLifcrowo Quay down. II wn tho
Koret t»luv> that the machine and Quay
tli had r«* <jivc-d since the letter's
riM ;c»toi. by the C»Jved «?UJ«6 etin&te.
But tho had no reason to e*pect
that Mr. Quay would ho given a plao?
e« ooolWea'tati adviser in the natlo&al
They Kaw full well that
Senator Honua had M. 8. Qoay edaad up
eomSleiely, and io baseball langoago
r-'iip "ooia bte curvea" TV< mactuu«
hoafffls here ami ki Philadelphia •tartud
out right after the national conventioa
in Philadelphia had iidjonrned with
the story that Quay had asked Hanna
not U> aw>olot him on the campaign
committee thin year- -that he \»anted
to yivtt a»ere time to Pennsylvania pol
itic*
ONLV A PU'FF.
"ttkte wtva only a bluff It woe In
tended to break the foroe a 4 the blow
when the aoaounooment came that
Kao&ft would not have Quay on tho
a&MUftifn committee. It fooled no
tary, becaviae tul the time the bosses
ajtt J MU'-iaera of the machine were cir
culating: this story they were d9Qo>'.r.c
-lag KuinaandProeld«ntMoKlnle}- vUh
all taa acid vltupwailou tiiey
coflld mutter.
Anathv Interesting faptttre of ffco
dropprar Of Quay ta the tmml#takable
evidence Wat Hsnna and overy other
adcftl&tstnUoo man tized up tho ova-
Uoa that !Br. Quay got In tho national
convention. Everybody on the Inside
knew that the checr» and shouts were
maaufMatured; that the convention had
Veen paeteri with Quay f«boaters, em
ploys*. pcUoonK-n doorkeepers and
hundreds of people from the outside,
who were admitted without the formal
ity of pnseontlnjr tickets. At flret It
looSed like a spontaneous tribute.
Whee it *M examined R proved to be
a hollow tpoe.Xery. Senator Hanna,
BoeretaVy Dick and every administra
tion mtn tumbJod to tho raoket In flvo
mi unites. Then they got angry to
think of thle Cheap John" method of
tryl*i? to tool them and the delegates
from oirer the United fltatee. Then
Mr. Quay vu paid back In bis own
coin for his actions towards McKlnley
flurtfij the paM foui years.
A.XTI-QUAY N-ICTO»IAA
The snil-Qjay forces in tho state
are iAlug jlgbt ahead winning bat-
Uea. 'Hio Quay machine it now loft to
the dreary work of claiming every
thiag In sight, but it will not do. On
Saturday laet the ftntl-Quay forces
swept Lebanon county, nominating a
and two members of the legls
lativre. Dr. Samuel Weiee, the anti-
Quay leader of Lebanon county, was
cho&en senator to hlinaelf by
ft pood majority.
The meat deeperot© eflorta wore
made by the mcchine follorrlng to aar
ry Lebanon county. Large sums of
tao»ey wore put into the campaign,
and promlsei' of i>atror»ge wore froely
made, but the peoplo of Lobaron have
grown tlrod of the mochlna and its
msthoda Tho little coterie of office
holders that has boeeed that county
hftß, by the <rtoctk>n of Satnrday, been
discredited and tha Independence of
the wtera has been fully established.
Another fight for local control on
fiatuMay last was fca York county.
This county la hopelessly Democratic,
but (S Republican polltlce have been
oonftolled by a small squad of rlng
et«rs who did whatevor the boseee here
In HarrUWurg wanted. On Saturday
last this outfit was put to flight, and
the oounty organiaation was captured
by tho anti-Quay forv.cn under the load
erehlp of Fish Commissioner James A.
t»a)a Tha oonnty committee from this
qpft xrtn 1)« dlHtlnotiy anti-Quay, with
an uncompromising nntkmaehine man,
Robert C Balr. af county chairman.
The activity, of the Pure Butter
League In Philadelphia baa at kist
frightened the dairy and pure food de-
P'irtmont into oommenclng some suite
ayatadt oleomargarine dealers. The
reluctance of tho officials In the agri
cultural flopnrtmeot here to push casee
tgalr.pt the aollers of bogus butter has
been noiorione and tho exposures and
disgtUrt? of omrtala have anparently,
until recently, h»ul very liuie to ao
with ocfsttlrg those name offiriala to ae-
Uvlty Indeed, the agricultural depart
ment. by Ite worthk»sn officiaJe and Its
peotoetfon of liogus butter hrva done
more to harm the farm era of the state
than any
Uirf.
BOM S RNVFTEH AGAIN.
Bot the depirtmont haa bean fright
ened into actk>h Ao organixatlon In
Philadelphia composed of pure butlar
dealers and manufacturers has been
gathering evidence and prosecuting
oleomargarine men BO succo«efull»' that
the agriouttuml department evidently
began to few the result. And «o last
week It brought as many ae six or
«lght suite In Philadelphia among tho
hundred* of mon who are engaged In
selling bogus buttw
Of course this forced activity will be
rnndo ute of in the campaign. The ma
chine basses will try to hoodwink the
farmers and dairymen by ehowtng bow
many BUlte h»*o be©» brought and bow
many Doreous punished. But the far
mers are emaft enough to know that
these eulte are not a drop lb the
to the nimrtior of suits that ought to
bo brought, and could bo brought. U
the agrioulturßl department waa at
tending to buelnesa for the farmers In
stead of for tho oleomargarine mon.
The maehtne expects to carry o good
many of lta candidates through this
fall with the natkmal ticket. They fig
ure that thousands of farmers and
others will voto tho straight tlokot,
particularly in fusion counties, and by
this means they will get a number of
senators and members of tho bouse.
The farmers want to look out for thla.
If they would protect their own intor
eate tbey will !earn how to mirtt their
election tickets properly. They will
defeat the boafiee and the olwunargar
rlno ring
R. C. ATWKLL,
Office 106 W. Diamond St., [l>
Graham's old office. ]
Ilotus 7t09 a. m. and I to 3 and 7 to
8 p. m.
\\J H. BROWN,
TT ■ IIoMOIiOPATIIIC PUYSICIAX A NI»
SURGKON
Office 236 S. Main St., opp. P. O.
Night CAIIS at office.
OAMUHLM. BIPPUS,
u PHYSICIAN AND SUROHON
200 West Cuuningbam St.
DR. N. M. HOOVER.
137 K. Wayne St., office noun, ID to
12 a. m. 1 and to 3 p. in.
/"< V. L. McQUISTION,
V • CLVII, liNCINHKK AND SCRVEYOR,
Office near Court House.
| Wesl Winfield Hotel,
0 W.G. LUSK, Prop'r.
Y*) first Class Table and Lodgings.
fjfo t>«s and Sprini; Water all through
house.
Good Stabling
The Keystone Orchestra,
Is now ready for engagements for Par
ties. Picnics an 1 Dances, and Guarantee
tlie best of music at reasonable rates.
Address,
Prof. GUB Wickenhagen,
22S Ziegler Ave., Butler, Pa
RAILROAD TIME TABLES.
pITTSHUUG & WRSTKKN
iiailwuf. Schedule of Pas
senger Trains in eflect May 28,
1899. BUTLER TIME.
Artfte.
eluvticny ACOHIIUO«I«UL>!i .. t i."i A U t n in
All»jrh»uy Expr«a* 6 ty> •• »li "
Ni kIIC Acct>mmoilaU>»c. . b 0?> U 'J | j "
\kr<>n Mill .. * <V> a * 7 <c» r ■
•Ul*(jh«iT r»t 9 58 •• 12 1H -
Ukjihuir Eipma S (W T.M 4 45 fin
• 'Ulcaifo Kxprm 3 40 |m> 12 le am
Ul*f[ti»r.jr Mail ; 5 M " '7 4:. |m
Vll»v h ">7 *nd Sew I'utlr Acci'Oi 5 50 " I 7 IB "
* Limitnl ft 50 " 912 A ■
Kanr »n.t llmUunl M«I! 5.55 A M 2 SO F.M
'"iari a AcoominoJ«u-.n. . 4 51 M 945 A.m
<"!, v,.Uu I and Chicago Eiikhi . 625 am
SVNIUY TRAISj.
Allagkaay R*p«»«« 8 05 A ■ 9 I'iA.M
Ail«l(tic&> AccummotWkMi 500 r.M 5 (i'l r M
N>» Outle AccuiumoJaUok 8 iVi A.M 7ib "
•lilcaeu Exjirow 3 4.1 RM 5 am
AU.yjUertj ArcumnK>Utln<i 7 03 pm
On Satuiilaj-s a tnUn, few*n no th« tLoatrr train'
will learo Bntlot at »,*) p.'«„ at Allcghna;
U 7.2 ii; rotun.tng " at ll.flo j. m
Pullman can . iflHm. . Uxfrt-v I- t«<«n
ntulium and Chicago. W
1". i :;,r 'o«h tick. t» to *:i In the «.«t, nnrtti
*. At or s-iuluwoft ami r. r. <Ar.!i:.x n-otc«.
Lac of truinA, etc. apply to S
W. R. Tl BSjy. Ticket A««ta,
B. B. U£VXoLI>S, Sup't, S l»Wi llutlsr, !•».
Duller, Pa. . BA-SsKTT,
aqt A.. Allojtbery, Pa
H O DL'NKLK,
Sup't W. £ L K i.rlil !a.
THK PITTSBURG", BESSE
MER & LAKE ERIE R.
R. COMPANY.
Time table in effect May 27, 1000.
CENTRAL TIME.
Northward. Dull; except Suti<i«) Southward
up) {tk>wn)
* 14 12 STATIONS 1 H £T
P N ' P M A M A M A M 1 M
12 SO 8 30 Eric 9 30 4 10
924 C 37 I*. CbDßMat. lv U 24, 409
11 2» 7 u- i\.nio*utrlllc ■ 10 61 5/9
11 10 e 3- M.'advlll,. Janet. 11 10 (i 09
,11 6h' 720 ar.. MuadvUle.. ar" 11 5- s j G53
1U 12 555 lv Mcadvillc IT In 12l 5 15
11 2S 0 50,ar. .Con. I.ak«. ar .11 «<• fi 25
10 0 is;lv. Con. Lako .lv 10 42 5 44
11 18 6 44 nr..Expo. Park.a: 11 IS' 0 03
10 s.*' 44 lv.. Exjio. Park.lv lu 55 tf 03
10 64 C 24 Hartstowu II 21 0 2i
10 4c .1 09|0agDod 'll 37 635
> 10 10 33 « UB OrMnvUle « So'll 45; « 45
C 1.4,10 £0 5 .Vi.Shenango 0 4 M 5*2; 6 55
530u so 5 23' Mercer 712 1 '• 72H
506 t2H 5 00;GroraCitr 7 4u 12 4 - 755
4 53 n 16 HAJTIXVIII. 17 5.' 2 .*. •
4 45 9 08 Brancbton '• 8 111 ; »■.
5 36' 155 >r... Hlllianl... ar 8 s*> 1
3 Ss| fi 46 lv...Milliard. h K 45 1; . .
4 40 9 OB Kclotor 8 06 1 1 12'
4 25, 8 4s EnclM. I 8 30i 1 25
3 56' 8 18 Bntlor 1 8 S) 1 85
215 7HI 'Allegheny ... , 10 20' 3 25'
|A.M , I ; IP.MI
Train 9 leaving Erie at 0.80 am. ar
rives at Shenango at 9:05.
Train 10 leaving Shenango at 4:lo p.
m. arrives at Erie at 0:55.
J. S. MATSON, E. H. UTLEY,
Sup't Transp. Gen. Pass. Agt.
Greenville. Pa. Pittslmrjr. Pa.
D .
WESTERN PHNaNSYLVANJA DiVISiON.
Scamrui i> Errvor June irx>»
SOI TH. WKEK. DATS ,
A.M A.M. A.BI. T. M. P. M.
RL'TLKK l<Mvv | C 110 $ 06 10 ho '£. ."Wi f> 05
Bcxoiiburx Arrive ft 64 #3O 11 15 3 o»i 5 28
butler Juuctlou.. 44 , 7 *27 3MS 11 4«» .J fi 63
Butler Juncttoti...Leasej 731 8 11 3 2." 653
NaLruua Arrive 7 4<i D 01 12 01 3 34 r, o*2
Tari-t.turn. . . 744 S» 07 12 OH' 34J fi 07
Spriugdnk ] 7 52. 'i 16,12 19 J62
Cloremoi.t i fj 30 12 3» 4 <N>
SliarpKburg Mil 9 3 4 2
All<vli«*p.y . . ... 8 24 'J 4f? 1 02 4£> « 43
A. M. A. 31. P. M P. M. I» M.
SUNDAY Tit A INS.—ljOttve Butler iiir
Citv and iiitermuliaU* station at 7:3% i a *ju,
%ud 6:00 p. m.
KOHTII. WKEK lUVS
A.M. A. M. A.M. !». M P. M
Alle>chcuy City. . .lo*v». 7 <*>? 8 50 10 46 t 3 l<i fi 10
Ciarfinout I .... 11
Springdale ' 11 18 .... I, .$7
Tureutuui ! 7 37! U 31 11 28 9 4>< f» 48
Natnina. 7 411 0 38 11 34 J 6<i fi 61
Butler JuuvtluD.. .arrive 7 48! U 47 11 43 3 tV, 7 00
Butler Junction leave 748 947 12 IS; 4 o*»j 700
SaxoDbuTf 8 15 10 09 12 41' 4 36 7 24
BUTLKK... . aniv;- 84610 32 1 101 6 OT.j 7ro
A. M.JA. M P. W.jlV x»?.j i'. M
SI'NPAY TK A INS.— Leave Allegheny ("Ity for But
i«T aud prinoija' iiiteriiMHliate KtatiunM at 7:15 a m. ncd
j>*3o p. tti .■
rOB THE KAST.
Wettki Aura. Sun<layt
A. M.iA. M P. M.;|A. M. P M
BITILLR. lv ii 25 10 On 135 730 5 <)0
Butlar J'et ar 7 27|1l 40 3 25 i 8 2o 6 CO
Butler Jvt lv 7 48'll 43' 3 58, 8 '2l 805
F-voport ar 7 61 11 4C 4 02; H 35 8 117
Kirfkiuiinotiu. J't " 765 11 50 407 . 820 811
Leechtarg " 80712 02 419 8 41, 823
Paultuu (A|>jllo). . " 82612 22 440 868 842
Bttltaknrs " 851 12 4'Ji 5 08, 921 909
niiiiraville.. „ 9 22} 1 20' r> 41 .'J 52 940
lilaireville lut. . . 9 30 1 3:1 /. 60 .10 <KI
Altouna - 11 85 slf 8 60' 5 45'. ..
llanixburg * 4 3 lo'lO (H»' ! o>J ( ;M o*>
Philadelphia 44 , C 23 4 *2 r . 4 25: j4 25
P. M.I.V. M.jA.M.i A.M. P. M
Through traiui f«*r the immji l<are Pittehur* (Trjina
Station), a» followii'—
Atlautio daily 2.:'*, \.M
Poiitwylvaniii LiuiitM 44 7:15 44
Day Kxprea, 44 7::U» * 4
Blairi Line Kxpretv, 44 . 44
HarrisUirg Mail, 44 12*45 KM
PhiUJrlnUia KxpreM, .... .. .4:50 14
Mail urn! Rxpren* daily. Fur Now Yoik
Through buiTet flleeper, no roacLefl 7:(MI 44
Ezpreas, * 710 14
Fast Lin*. 4 ... H tit 44
PitUiburc Limited, daily, with tlirough cm h.-s
to N«'W Y<»rk, and sleeping cam t«> Rew York,
Baltim«>re and WaHhingtoa only. No extra
tare on this train .10:00 44
Phihfl'a Mail, 9unda>« oniy h.4<» A.M
For Allantk City (via Delaware ltiver Bridge, all
rail nrntc), A.M, and 8:30 I'.M, d.iily: 7 10 l'.M-,
daily with through Pullman sleeping « ar.
Fc-i detailed information, attires T!i«»«. E. V.'utt, I*a*a.
Agt. Western Ooruei Fifth .\veuae au«l Smitli>
field Street, Pittaburg, P».
J B. HUTCHISON, I. K. WOOD
4ciii>ril Manager. *«^n M "w A(i i.t
BUFFALO, TOCHKSTKR &
PITTSBURG KY.
TIME TABLE.
In effect May 2«. KHJO.
NORTH 801 ND.
EASTKUN TIME. I +l2 j '<> I +lO j+l4 |*2 '
Plttaburic ) I'-nv »ui I u.ui l«.ui p.nij p.m
AlloKlii'tiy I P. A W Sta « 00 4 10 10 (10
Butkr 10 12 |5 22 11 28
Fenelton j 51
Cralgaville . 10 43 18 02, IS 01
Ouwanfville { > 1«1
Montgomery ville »j 1^
West M««grove
Bcbo 11 22 «• 4«M2 43
Dayton II 31 i>B 12 53
North Point 7 15
Hamilton 7 22
Iloratio »7 32
PunxKntawney ar 12
" lv ti 3«» 12 06 2307 jO 1 30
Big Hun 0 45 12 18 2 43 *7 56
turwensvilfc at 820 +3 :i 4H 0 O^i
Clt-arDeM ar 8 .S-2 + 4 Ot) 400 4 .» 15
ihuTiT" 7 20 12 15 3 !•'« 30 217
ftrilaCm*. 7 28 12 52 3 30pm 224
BiXK kwavvilli. .. 742 105 3 48 ; 240
Ridirnu> . 8 18 1 45 4 28 :i 15
Ji'lniAiiihurit 8 48 1 57 4 5 s .1 28
Mi Ji wi-tt 9 31 2 4'.>; 5 40 4 14
Illailtonl ar 10 30 325 'i 4.",, |5 00
Salauiancu ar urn +4 01 pJU
Huftiln ur 5 40 i 7 10
Koi-l»iM<>r ar 6 30 8 20
__ p-ni I I a.ni
SOUTH BUI'S D.
""KASTKHS - T'IMK |+l3 +» *3 *ll *7
lwivi'l a.ni *.lll n.tn I'm I'.ui
Kocli«t. r »00 ;8 45
Iluft.l., lv j »45 10 00
Hnlaii.anra lv' 11+25
nra.lf.ml lv 7 4.". 12 10 I 30'12 20
Mr .l. w.-tt, 84212 5« 27 105
Juliii«mt>iirtc ... 9 27 1 43 C 12' I 51
'■> 5K 2 '«i'. 41 2 n7
IWkuavvlU. 10 37 2 32 7 2:1 2 4<i
Fulll <'iv..k 7 13H0 54 241 7 11 254
I>„ P i. 7 20111 0" 2 .V» : 7 60 305
a.-arfi.-lil IV 8 08' 1 I*tJS.O 58!
CurwriiKvillci lv. 0 1« 11+39,7 08
IllK Itun 7 Sojll 31 3 20 h »'•
PulixmitaaiifV ur >■ reiltl 15 3 441: 3 48
lv 8 06| a.lll 335 p.iti! 350
11. initio *l2'
Hamilton ... 'BSI |
N.»rth Piaut M 2''i
llavt.,n s 47! » 09 4 23
K, 1... 8 ,V I 2ii 4 33
W.-t MIWKtVIV,. ; 9 18
M"iit|ioini-rvvill(. ..... 928
CnwatiKVillo. ! 9 34
*'iai>f.v lll'v i 9 45 4 57 5 13
K. ii. lti.ii i 9 .V.
Butl r 10 25 5 ;(4 5 50
Alligliciiy ( P -t W :ii « 45) 7 20
Pitt.liuri; ) arrivi-' a.tii p.m I HI"
* Daily, f Daily except Samliiy.
. Trains 3 uml 0 are solid vestiluiled,
equipped with handsome day coaehes,
cafe and reclining chair cars.
Trains 2 and 7 have Pullman Sleepers
between Buffalo and Pittsburg.
EDWARD C. LAPEY.
Gen'l Pass. Agent,
Rochester, N. Y.
" M.~A7 BERKIMER, "
Funeral Director.
245 S. Main St. Butler. PA