VOL. XXXXIII. ——THE MODERN STORE- Our Big January Clearance Sale Contiiued Another Week, UNTIL SATURDAY EVENING, JAN. 20 Bigger Bargains tban ever in Dress Goods, 3ilks, Table Linens, Crashes, Towels, Lace Curtains, Portiers, Muslins, Ginghams, Calicoes, Furs, Skirts, Underwear for Men, Women and Children. MILLINERY SACRIFICED AS NEVER BEFORE All Hats to be Closed Out Your choice of any in stock for $2.50, sold up to $7.50. Others at 50c, SI.OO and $1.50 EISLER-MARDORF COHPANY, SOUTH KAH run i QQI \ LLI Samples sent on request. OPPOSITE HOTEL ARLINGTON. BUTLER. PA ij Brown & Cos, Remodeling Sale kl M of Fine Furniture and N W • Carpets# Continued, Vd li COA AAA Worth of Reliable Furniture and *€ r#
NBTERF.
H Prettiest Carpet made, as dcrable too #1.35
■ RAG CARPETS, Oennine old-fasbioned weave. ■■
■ MATTING, Hemp and Straw.
■ RUGS-CARPET SIZES.
H Axminster Rugs, Beauties too |23 eacb and up
H Brussels Rugs, Tapestry and Body sl2 each and up
H Ingrain Druggets. All and Half Wool $5 eacb and up
H Linoleums, Inlaid and Common, all widths and grades
H Oil Cloths, Floor, Table, Shelf and Stair.
H Lace Curtains, Portiers, Window Shades, Curtain Poles; Small Hearth
■ Rugs, all styles and sizes.
I Duffy's Store.
WHY
You pan save money by purchasing your piano of
Wr • NEWTON, 4 The Piano Man,'?
The expense of running a Music Store is as follows:
Rent, per annum $780.00
Cleric, per annum $312.00
Lights, Heat and incidentals . . . $194.00
Total $ 1286.00
I have no store and can save you this expense when you buy of me.
I sell pianos for cash or easy monthly payments. 1 take pianos or organs in
exchange and allow you what they are worth to apply on the new instrument
All pianos fully warranted as represented.
MY PATRON§ £RE MY REFERENCE.
4 jipw qf the people I have gold pianoy jn But)er Ant* them.
Dr. MiiCnrdv Brleker
Fred Porter
Fratwrnal Order Eagles
Epworth League
E. W. Bingham
Geo. D. High
W. J Mates
J. 8 Thompson
Joseph Wood*
8 M McKee
A W Root
Miss Eleanor Burton
Mrs. Mary L Btrotip
WCJCnrrt- •«.
ftiM fctmJ UogbM
A W Mate*
W. H. William*
Mr*. R. O. Rambaugh
Chaa. E. Herr
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-THE BUTLER CITIZEN.
Dr. W. P. McElroy
Sterling Chib
D F. Reed
Woodmen of the World
H. A. MePhertton
Mi«« Anna McCandleas
E. A. Hla«-k
Samuel Woods
Oliver Thompson
John Johnson
R. A. Look veil
J. Hillgard
T. E. Bo worn
i>. P titer,p' '
W- J. Armstrong
Miles Hilllard
Mrs 8. J. Oreen
J. R Donthett
E. K Rlchey
L. 8. Yonck
BUTLER
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New buildings, new rooms, elegnnt new equipment, excellent course of
stndv, best of teachers, expenses moderate, terms \ h-Ri L ÜbKALi. . ,
Over $2,000.00 worth of nt»w typewriters in use (allowui ; advanced students
from 8 to 4 hours' practice per day), other equipment ;n proportion:
Winter Term, Jan 2, UMMi. Spring Term, April 2, lOOG.
Positions secured for our worthy graduates. Visitors always welcome
When in Butler, pav us a visit. Catalogue and other literature mailed on ap
plication. MAY ENTER ANY TIME
A. F. REGAL. Principal, Butler, Pa
| Fall and Winter PAWnery |
$ Everything in the line cf Millinery can be found, jjj
jg the right thing at the right time at the right price at !g
I ROCKENSTEIN'S §
jg Phone 656. 148 S. Main St.
Pre-Inventory
SALE.
Preparatory to the ANNUAL STOCK- : AKING
we will offer remarkable values at our PRE
INVENTORY SALE OF MEN'S AND BOY'S
CLOTHING. Owing to the extensive assort
ment it is impossible to give a detailed descrip
tion of all articles. We have planned to make
this sale of greater importance than ever, and
will place on sale thoroughly reliable and stylish
apparel at figures that are below all possible com
petition. There is something worth investigat
ing in every line of the magnetic bargains.
SGHAUL<& LEVY
137 South Main Street. Butler. P».
AIEN
fi)' 1 -I ; lj Won't buy clothing "or the parpo&e of
J lj' ' , II Bpeodtng inon-iy. Th*y desire to Rot the
\ J ,■■ // I\! \r.~ j! bettpoaiibli roenlta of the money expended.
\) ] '("■ / ) !j Thoso Vvho buy cuitWu clothing have a
I ' I ' /( ' rig.it to demand a fit, to have their clothes
i-l:'! 'j - 1 oorrect in Btyl« anil to demand of the
/~) ■ ■' seller tc guarantee everything. Come to
JL/.\ , V ' j UB :ind there will be nothing lacking. 1
\ ■ \ /'<'> ■ have inat received a large Block of Fall
ill an "inter suitings }U the latest styles,
'ty'') '*' .j l shades and ix lorn.
IMJ E- P - KECK,
142 N. Main St., Butler, Pa
[Bickers Fall Footgear.
largest Stock and Most Handsome Styles of ki
Fine Footwear we Have Ever Shswn. ffl
Twenty Fall Styles—D< ngola, Patent WA
OWKWOIJ 3HWE3, kid Hn fr Fine Ci ;, f shotM nade in the 1%
latent np-todate Btvlea. Extremely larj;e stock of M'- ,es' and Chil- ■ J
dren's fine shoes in many new and pretty styles fof fail TA
MFN'f i >ck, under which there is a cavity
filled Willi water that has no outlet.
Suppose, moreover, that there Is a
crack extending from the surface of tliu
ground through tills mass of rock to
the water tilled cavity underneath. A,
ruck In this condition Is a common
thing In nature, the crack being caused
by some disturbance of the earlli or by
Its splitting In the imtinal order of
things. Now, when It ruins enough to
(111 that crack, thus increasing the depth
•if tlie water In the cavity, the pressure
wUI become so great that the rock will
be torn Into a hundred fragtueuts
PROPERTIES OF GLYCERIN.
l)rriini|ioiira If flrairtl iMtrnarly and
4 °r> atnlllcra It I-'roam.
One of the great advantages of glyc
erin In lis chemical employment Is the
fact that It neither freezes nor evap
orates under any ordinary temperature,
i So perceptible loy by evaporation
beeu detected at a temperature less
ih.la liOO degrees F„ but if heated In
tensely it decomposes with n smell
that few persons find themselves able
to endure. It burns with a pale flame,
similar to that from alcohol, if heated
to about 3QO degrees nud then ! gutted.
Its nonevaporntive qualities make the
compound of much use as a vehicle for
holding pigments and colors, ns in
Stamping and typewriter ribbons, car
bon papers and the like.
If the pure glycerin be exposed for a
long tTnie to a freezing temperature It
crystallizes with the appearance of
sugar candy, but these crystals being
once melted It Is almost an impossi
bility to get them again into the con
gealed state. If a little water be add
ed to the glycerin no crystallization
will take place, though under a suffi
cient degree of cold the water will
separate and form crystals, amid which
the glycerin will remain iu ltg natural
state of fluidity. If suddenly subject
ed to intense cold pure glycerin will
form a gummy mass which cannot be
entirely hardened or crystallized. Al
together it is quite a peculiar sub
stance.
HOW BIRDS SOAR.
The Kite a Master of the Art oC
Soaring.
"In the summer of 1872 I was visit
ing on the Warm Springs reservation
In eastern Oregon," says a writer.
"The residences of the government em
ployees were in a deep valley between
table lauds through which the water
courses had cut deep canyons. I climb
ed up on one of these tables, the edge
of which was in most places perpen
dicular for teu, twenty aud more feet,
and as I stood there In a strong breeze
blowing against the face of the slope
a small hawk came gliding along eight
i>r teu feet above the edge and follow
ing the course of the edge, and he kept
on until he was little more than a rod
away from me. He seemed to be mak
ing no effort except a little balancing
aud turning In order to steer himself.
The explanation seemed to me very
simple. Just there at the edge there
was a strong, sharply ascending cur
rent which enabled him to use wind
and gravity against each other.
"In the autumn of that year I went
to Fuchau, China, and there I found
the city frequented by a species of
large bird which we call a kite. It
seems to be half hawk, half buzzard.
In its build and habits. Its flight Is
heavy and awkward. Its wings being
too big for its pectoral muscles, aud
their tips are uot pointed like a hawk's,
but broad and square across. But It
Is a master of the art of soaring.
There are In Fuchau two hills which
lio square across the path of the after
noon sea breeze. Here toward the
close of a breezy autumu afternoon a
dozen or a score of these kites will
resort and have a genuine coastiug
game.
"These hillsides are quite steep, and
of course there results a strong, sharp
upward current at the top. The kites
come to the top and, starting from the
eddy in the lee of the top, glide out
Into the uprushing current, wings bal
ancing up and down nnd head aud tall
turning and twisting till they are In
the heart of the upward current, and
then they turn broadside to it and are
borne upward and backward seventy
fire or a hundred feet. Then they de
scend again Into the eddy and again
steer themselves out Into the uprusbing
current. Throughout It all there Is very
little flapping of the wings."—Chicago
News.
ERRORS IN ILLUSTRATION.
How Easily They Are Mud* In Hurry
of Preparation.
"Perfection of detail," said the car
toonist, "Is very rare in the making of
pictures, whether they be painted on
canvas by the great masters or drawn
In line by men who Illustrate the daily
newspapers. It Is the general effect
that tells. There are few newspaper
pictures—and 1 don't except my own-
In which you can't pick some flaw from
the standpoint of realism.
"In the hurried effort of the news
paper artist, who counts the minutes
by the clock, there may be some excuse
for this, but when we sec a man carv
ing a turkey left handed on the cover
of a magazluc we must agree that the
artist Las either beeu careless or else
has employed a left handed model to
pose for him, and the latter solution Is
scarcely probable.
"A fisherman landing a trout on a
light rod with never a linger on the
reel Is quite a common mistake among
magazine Illustrations, and in the mat
ter of costumes of various periods the
Illustrators sre woefully lacking In In
formation.
"To Illustrate how apt we are to
make mistakes," continued the cartoon
Ist, "several years ago I drew a figure
representing Cuba, emaciated, starv
ing, a thing of skill aud bones. The
figure was half naked, and I tried to
bring out all the horrible details the
shrunken limbs, the gaunt face, the
ribs protruding through the skin aud,
above all, the hollow cavity where the
stomach should have been. A friend
of mine, a doctor, took me to task
about It. 'Persons who are starving to
death,' ho said, 'may be abnormally
emaelntod In every other part of the
body except the stomach. The abdo
men in the advanced stages Is expand
ed, giving the victim a grotesque ap
pearance.' To substantiate this state
ment be showed mo some photographs,
tnken In India during a famine, nnd I
was forced to admit that he was right."
.-Philadelphia ltecord.
WHERE HUXLEY FAILED.
One "Arl" In WhloU lie Was «or
paaard by * I'orler.
Kutlier u good story Is told about
Professor Huxley when ho was deliv
ering a lecture to the Uterary and
Philosophical society, Newcastle-on
Tyne. The subject was "The Geo
graphical lilstrlbutlon of Fossil lte
iiiaius of Animals;" consequently nil
incrous disgruius were required. Old
Alexander, the j»orter of the Institution
and quite u distinguished character
among the members of the society,
was assisting the profusxor to bang
tlie diagrams, 'i'lie screen on which
the diagrams were hung was not very
large, ami Huxley, do as he would,
could not prevent the blank corner of
one diagram overlapping the Illustra
tion of another one on which the pro
fessor placed gnut Importance.
W hat was to be done? The profess
or asked Alexander to bring a pair of
scissors. Lord Armstrong (then Hlr
William), l»r. Watson and several otli
ors wore present at the time. The
scissors were brought, but as the Joint
was somewhat loose the professor was
not able to cut the paper and threw tho
scissors down In disgust, adding that
they were useless.
"Vera guld shears, professor," said
Alexander.
"I tell you they won't cut," said Hux
ley.
"Try again," said Alexander. "They
Will cut."
The professor tried again and, not
succeeding, said soqjewhat angrily,
"Bring me another pair of achpors."
No. S.
Sir William Armstrong then stepped
forward .and ordered Alexander to go
and buy a new pair.
"Vera guid shears, Sir William," per
sisted Alexander, and, picking tip the
scissors from the table and placing his
thumb and forefinger Into the handles,
he stepped forward and asked Huxley
how ho wanted the paper cut.
"I tell you they won't cut," said the
professor.
"Bring me a new pair instantly," said
Sir William.
"A tell'ee ther'r vera guid shears,
only the professor canna cut wT them,"
replied Alexander.
"Well, then, cut it there," said Hux
ley somewhat tartly, at the same time
indicating tho place with his forefinger.
Alexander took hold of the paper and,
inserting the scissors, pressed the
blades together and cut eff tho required
portion as neatly as if he had used a
straightedge; then, turning to the pro
fessor, with a rather significant leer
and twinkle of the eye, said, "Seeance
an' airt dinna gang theglther, pro
fessor."
The professor and all present col
lapsed. nuxley put his hand into his
pocket and, taking out a sovereign, gave
it to Alexander, adding at the same
time, "Tou have done me." The :.ame
evening Alexander related the story
with great gusto to a friend. When
asked how he dared to make so free
with such a distinguished man, he re
plied with great emphasis, "Lord, mon,
ihey bits o' professor bodies ken ncath
ing at a' except their bulks."—West
minster Gazette.
When They Cat Their Beard*.
In France Henry IV. was the last
monarch who wore a beard, and he had
a fine one. He "was succeeded by a
beardless minor, In compliment to
whom the courtiers shaved all their
beards except the mustaches. The suc
cession of another minor confirmed the
custom, and ultimately the mustaches
also disappeared. The Spaniards, more
tardily Influenced by French example,
kept their beards until the French and
English were beginning to relinquish
even mustaches. Perhaps they would
have kept the cherished appendage, bnt
a French prince, Fhilip V., succeeded
to the Spanish throne with a shared
«hin. The courtiers with heavy hearts
imitated the prince, and the people
with still heavier hearts imitated the
courtiers. The popular feeling on the
subject, however, remains recorded in
tho proverb, "Since wo have lost our
beards we have lost our souls."
Why Unities Sack Their Thumbs.
Sucking Is a natural stimulant for
babies. A very young baby tries to get
the whole hand In its mouth, but, tind
lng this fraught with danger, he grows
more cautious and finally falls on tho
thumb as the most enticing member of
the hand. Sucking tho thumb acts as a
safe pick me up to laggard organs.
The beneficial effect arising from tho
act of deglutition is ono of nature's
happiest stimulants. It is generally
melancholy and fretful children rather
than those who are strong and full of
life who develop decided tendencies in
this direction. The reason of this is ev
ident. In states of depression, whether
casual or chronic, less blood goes to
the brain; if, then, the thumb be put
Into the mouth and a sucking process
indulged in the heart will be stimulat
ed, new blood will be sent to the br<;ln
and contentment will take the place of
peevishness.
Art Critics and Art.
Some one was to be married, for they
were buying a wedding gift in a cer
tain east side store, bearing that man
ner of having money to spend, which
will Inevitably assure the attention of
the shopwoman. A certain painting,
rainbow lined and Inclosed in a large
gilt frame, had attracted their atten
tion. It was ?1.G9.
"What Is It?" asked one, peering
closely.
"It la bu oil painting," answered the
saleswoman.
"It has no name on it," announced
the first woman, with an air of paving
found out what was wrong with tho
work of art.
"The best artists never sign their
work, ma'am."
"Are you sure it is hand painted?"
"Certainly, ma'am."
It will hang on the wall of one bride's
home.-Brooklyn Eagle.
Tonshaeu of the Aat.
Ants are really very long lived, con
sidering their minuteness. Janet had
two queens under observation for ten
years, nnd ono of Sir John Lubbock's
ant pets lived into her fifteenth year.
Ants are very tenacious of life after
severe injury. Following loss of tho
entire abdomen, they sometimes live
two weeks, and In ouo case R headless
ant, carefully decapitated by asei-tlc
snrgvry, lived for forty-one days. A
carpenter ant after being submersed
right days iu distilled water came to
life upon being dried, so that ante are
practically proof against drowning.
They can Ifvo for long periods without
r«K*>. Iu one case the fast lasted near
ly nine months before tho ant starved
In death. Scientific American.
Dice Front Billiard Bail*.
"What becmnes of the wornout bll-
Hard balls?" said an Idler In a billiard
room.
"Well," the man at the desk replied,
"when a ball is only u little off ii is
se nt to the factory to be trued up. We
get our balls trued tip until they be
i-oino too small for use. Then we sell
them nt so much per ounce.
"After their saie they aro carved i'lto
various small trinkets, but In the m .In
they are made into dice. Of tho forty
or fifty balls rolling nnd clicking live
ly here this evening it is safe to any
that IK) per cent of them a few years
hence will be working Just bb hard in
tho form of dice."
< urluus Calculation.
A European astronomer has recently
made some remarkable calculations.
He figures that If nil the living reice
sentatives of the human race
strung out In space und separated fr -m
each other by Intervals of a mile tuo
line would only reach one-third of tho
I distance to the planet Neptune. If sep
arated by distances as groat as that oe
! tween London nnd Constantinople the
would only reach hnlfway to I'iO
nearest star.
Ilia rirat Intimation.
"How did you And out you could
draw?" Inquired the admirer of the
celebrated Illustrator.
Ify the marks 1 received lu school
for the excellence anff fidelity of fay
• work," replied the eminent one. "My
work was a caricature of my beloved
teacher on the blackboard, and the
' marks eapie from the teacher's cauo."
—Cleveland Plain Pealer.
In tlloaaom.
Clara Fred's mother called on uie
shortly after our engagement. She snys
! ho Is the flower of the family. Maud®
—I guess that's right. His Uncle Johu
j says h« Is n blooming Idiot.—Chicago
News