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The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1902-10-30
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We are the people to see for over
coats. American Clothing House,
C.G. Hunt and wife, Of Hudson
township, were in the city Friday,
the guests Of Mr.. and Mrs. j, Il. Ien-
kins.
Get your tickets for Convention
Hall guessing contest ut American
Clio, hing House this week, or you are
too late. 52.2t
Judge John H. Sulens, OF New
Home township, was in to hear his
old friend Senator Cockrell, on Fri
-day-antl made Us Il pleasant eal. --
We were complimented by n pleas.
ant call from Mrs. Emma Belt, OF
Usage, Kan, daughter OF the late
VIM. Walls, Mrs. Thos. Walls, OF
Kansas City, and Mrs. George Dud-
ley.
f. D. kipp, secretary and W. +.
Keyser, assistant secretary OF the
Missouri Bankers Association, lett
on Monday for Hannibal to atteni
a group meeting of the association.
On Thursday uhey go to Chillicothe.
They will probably not be home be-
fore Saturday.
P. L. Pierpoint and P. W. Pier
point, OF the firm OF Pierpoint
Bros, left Monday. morning for
Omaha, Neb., on business. P. l..
Pierpoint has closed out their branch
store he had been conducting at
Ottowa, Kan, end will hereafter be
located at Butler.
A prominent Republican told a
friend confidentally on our streets
the first OF the week, to look out for
the Republican papers this week, that
they intended springing a political
sensation, too late for the Demo-
cratic papers to answer. We warn
all voters against such disreputable
methods. You are safe in disbeliev-
ing anything sprung on the eve of
the election.
1t comes to us that Atkesoh and
his gang intend to "hang our hide
on the back fence" in this weeks Re-
PUBLICAN papers, after THE TIMES is
out, and too late to answer them be-
fore the election. We never engage
in the disreputable practice OF spring
ing sensations on the eve OF elections,
and we warn our people against all
such, no matter from what source
they may eminate.,
We are in receipt OF letter from
Lawton, Okla, enclosing one dollar,
which we have placed to the credit OF
C. II. Morrison, as it was written on
his letter head, antsshows him to be
in thewholesale and retail -four and
feed business. The letter is written
in Choctaw, Chinese, Hebrew or some
other outlandish or dead language.
We know it is good, because Charley
wrote it, but life is too short for us
to try to figure it out.
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pleasant caller and renewed for J.
W. Hughes, at Weston, Okla.
For SALE Yet own 81 400 stock
in Butler Cash Department Store,
which | oher for sale at a discount.
soft W: Il. WELLS.
Jacob keeser, |. W. Keeser and
wife have returned to their home at
Sandyvill', Iowa, after o two weeks
visit with A. R. Keeser and other
relatives.
Mrs. S. e. Wheeler, ofnear Ballard,
passed through Butler on Wednes-
day bound for Weston, Okla, where
she expect TO make her future home
with her son, J. ". Hughes.
County Clerk Broaddus desires us
to say that he will keep his office
open until l o'clock onelection night
to receive the returns. As the returns
come in they will be tabuated.
The. Rev. Bertha j. Bowers, one Of
the national lecturers, and W. c. T.
, u. organizers, will lecture at the
church at Passaic, Thursday, Nov.
, 9th, at Z .. N. Come everyone, and
hear a fine lecture from q talented
lady.
DR.. and Mrs. Huh are in receipt of
the wedding cards of Ensign Charles
p. Huff, L. S. n. and Miss Viola
Kleineberg, on Oct. Doth, at San
Francisco. Charley was born and
raised in this city and was appointed
to the Naval Academy from Butler.
Robert L. Braden was candidate
for County Clerk before the last pri.
mary, and desires us to say, in an-
swer to the repeated insinuations by
the Republican papers, that defeated
candidates before that primary are
disgruntled, that he was never in his
life more enthusiastic for the whole
Democratic ticket, from top to bot
tom, and he appeals to his friends to
vote the ticket straight. The other
defeated candidates are doing the
same thing.
The New Voice, the official organ Of
the Prohibition party, devUtes u
page to the new Allied Peoples Party
with headquarters at Louisville, Ky.
We notice our old friend WB. Bridg-
l'ford is business manager. The object
is to furnish the members of the new
party supplies direct from headquar-
tiers. Mr.. Bridgeford in his announce
ment says he is sending out samples
of whiskey, which he is Offering to his
brothers at greatly reduced price.
He was formerly leading reformer
in this county.
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.Iav l.. Owrn fayors us with re-
newu, ri lis subscription.
Il. l.. SiferS, n prominent farmer
OF Pleasant Gap, is II new sabscribir
GIRL " ANTEn-t0 do general house
work. Good wages paid Apply to
Joe Meyer, East Side Square.
|. y. Mains was called to Gold
Water, Mich, on Tuesday EVENING" 10y
the serious illness of his sister.
Dan Embree, chrirman of Demo-
cratic Central Committee. was a
pleasant caller and renewed for J.
W. Hughes, at Weston, Okla.
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Best tailored suits. American
Clothing House. 52-2t
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1902-10-30

FoG SAlE-A choice list 81 farms.
Call or write for prices and terms.
A, ). MlLLHORN,
iO.tf Real Estate Art, Butler, Mo.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1902-05-02
MAKING FARM HoTBED.
Il You Have Neglected to Construct
One This Year Save This Advice
for Next Season.

The site for a bed should be on q
slope facing south, and if sheltered
on the north and west by buildings
or grove so much the better. Mark
space on the ground at least one
foot larger each way than the sash
TO be used. Throw out earth to the
depth of two feet, which should be
done in the fall. Fill this with horse
manure having plenty of litter in it.
Tramp it down firmly Make a frame
the size of the sash, set it over the
pit, and put the sash on; if the
frame is built so the sash fits inside,
and cleats are nailed on the inside
inch from the top to hold it, the sash
rannot blow off or slip out OF place.
The north end sash should be from
four to six inches higher than the
south end. Bank round the outside
of frame with horse manure. The
heat at first will be too intense, but
when it has subsidized to about so de-
grees put on five or six inches OF
the best soil obtainable, and sow
the seed. Keep the temperature at
from 70 to rs degrees in the day
time, and do not let it get below So
at night. At night it may have to
be covered with blankets or mats if
very cold. Do not remove sashes to
give air Immediately after removing
covering or the plants will damp Off
Make the hotbed about April and
sow in it tomatoes and peppers.
Sometimes it is best to start plants
in boxes in the house, then about
April 20 make a hotbed and trans
plant into it, giving each plant from
four to six inches space each way.
In this way tomatoes will be in bios
som when it is warm enough to set
them in the open air, which will
generally be from June 1 to 10.
Nothing is gained by putting them
out as long as it is cold and frost
may destroy them. Be sure to
give plenty of air on warm sunny
days. / lost fine lot of plants one
spring by neglecting to raise the
sash one morning, says the writer;
at noon when I went to look at them
they were all dead, scalded as if by
hot water. AS the weather becomes
warmer remove the sashes alto
gether in the day time, replacing at
night. A couple of days before set
ting in the open ground, water very
sparingly. Then take up carefully
with as much soil as possible and
transplant.-Farm, Stock and Home.
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ORCHARD AND GARDEN.

Do not any longer put off getting
your garden seeds.
Cut away old and dead portions of
the raspberry, blackberry, currant
and gooseberry bushes.
The average cost of growing an acre
of sugar beets in Colorado, exclusive
of rent of land, is about $50.
Sunlight let into gooseberry bushes
will reduce the number of those that
produce mildewed berries.
Make up list of plants and bushes
needed this spring to keep up the as
sortment in your berry patch and to
replace the dead and dying,
Under proper culture and protection
from fire Norway spruce can in 25 or
80 years be grown of sufficient size to
furnish crop of wood for paper pulp.
The berry patch can be cleaned out
now with less work than at any time
between now and this time next year.
Don't forget this till the bushes are all
leaved out
A strawberry grower found that by
removing one-third of the berries from
the vines, allowing only the best to
grow, he got one-third more berries
by the measure, and that when sold in
market they not only paid for the
labor, but increased the profit.-Far1n-
ers' Voice.
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country by way of Burma, to reach
which he was obliged to penetrate sec
tions which perhaps never before had
been visited by white man. He was
enabled to make valuable additions to
the knowledge of the geography of the
country, which, however well known
to the natives, is but little known in
the west. These additions were chief
ly made in the valleys of the Yalung
river, the upper Yangtse and the trib-
utaries of the Mekong. He passed
through the countries of the Lolo,
Sifan, Tibetan, Shan and Kachin races,
but says that owing to the attitude of
his Chinese following he had to travel
among them very much as a deaf and
dumb man might, having little inter
course with them.
But one thing was made apparent by
the trip from western China through
Burma, and that was that within a
few years the question of railroad COM
munication between the two sections
must become acute, and if the British
fail to build road the French will do
so, and throw open to the world a Sec
ton of the Chinese empire now almost
inaccessible. Thus again will the rail-
road become an advance agent of civili-
cation, and western enlightenment
will begin its Transforming work in
these far-away regions.
WILLIS s. EDISON.
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rural Free pe1iverv Dox,.

Bavarian military authorities are
employing specially trained St. Ber-
nard dogs to carry letters and pro-
visions to the snowed-up garrisons
among the Bavarian Alps. The noun
tain garrisons are often showed in
three or four weeks at time, cut off
from all communication with the out
side world. A bi-weekly post has been
established, ten dogs travelling togeth-
Rr. All provisions of heavy kind are
in store in the garrisons, but lighter
delicacies are often lacking, and these,
together with letters, are carried
around the dogs necks. When the
snow is frozen hard enough six dogs
are hitched to a small car piled with
things. Occasionally the dogs are
tempted to pursue hare, in which
case the mail is slow and imperfect.
But this seldom happens, and the au-
thorities on the whole are satisfied
with the northumberland Free
Press.
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row money at 80 per cent to cultivate
it. The secret Of its fertility is irri-
CATION. The engineer Ii Ping, who de-
vised the scheme of irrigation 1000
years ago, has very properly been as
signed place in the Chinese pantheon,
a magnificent temple having been
erected in his honor at Kwan Hsien."
Here is a suggestive thought for our
western farmers and a hint to con-
gress.
An English capitalist who had OBJ
tanned mining concessions in the prov
ince of Sechuan, of which Cheng-tu is
the capital, several years ago en-
ployed the geologist and traveller, Mr..
r. Logan Jack LII. D., F. G. S., and 9TH
ers to explore this almost unknown
section of China. Extensive coal de-
posts exist in the province. Copper
and iron mines, brine wells and alluvia1
gold workings in the rivers are among
the other natural resources. The gold
mine famous throughout China is To-
Gated at Ma-ha, $50 miles from
Cheng-tu.
DIR. Jack, in his report before the
Royal Geographical society at London
recently, grew enthusiastic over the
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sistible magnet which drew the at
tention of the progressive nations of
the earth years ago, and the ultimate
result was that, by mighty effort, it
was pushed ajar, and now after years
of repeated lessons, the exclusive ma
ton has been thrown open to the
world, and we speak of China's open
door with the confidence which knows
it will never again be closed.
And with China's door wide open
how eager the enlightened people of
the world are to get a glimpse of the
interior and learn of it's natural re-
sources and it's people. There are parts
of the interior of this vast country
which are still almost unknown to the
white man. And while it is true, as
DR.. R. Logan Jack, the celebrated Brit
ish traveller, says, that travelling in
China is not exploring, because there
is probably no portion of that great
country which is not well known to
some kindergarten, hunter or medi-
cine collector" still there are sections
which are sealed books to the outside
world.
At Shanghai British commercialism
and progressiveness have transformed
the city, and no longer does the white
man enter the place with the same GU
riosity he felt when first entrance was
gained to it, We take the Poi-yang,
or any other one of the magnificent
river steamers running between Shang-
hal and Hankau, 600 miles up the Yang
tse river, and spend several delightful
days in travel, but find nothing which
has not been already fully written
about and published in books on the
subject of China.
At Hankau we wait for a smaller
steamer, the Sha-si, and go 400 miles
farther up to I-chang. Still travel is
conf ortable, the scenes are familiar
to hosts of other white travellers, and
the natives you meet are used to the
sight and ways of their fairer broth
ers.
From I-chang to Chung-king, 392
miles farther up the great Yangtse,
one can voyage in houseboat, hired
for the purpose. The boat is dragged
up the river by what are called track
ers, and a month is consumed in maxi
ing the journey. This is novel, and the
not too rapid means of travel permits
a careful and detailed study of the
scenes and places en- route. Still the
knowledge that ahead of us there lies
a section almost unknown and uneX-
plored by the white man whets our
curiosity and makes us eager to push
forward
Horses and sedan chairs now become
the means of travel, and with Cheng-
tn, the capital of the Sechuan province,
200 miles from Chung-king as the next
point to be gained before striking out
into unknown regions, the traveller
pushes forward. About 13 days brings
Cheng-tu into view. It is city of about
quarters of a million inhabitants
and an important center of silk and
other industries, which, curiously
enough, are for the most part carried
on in the streets. Cheng-tu plain, it
is said, is probably the most intensely
cultivated portion of the earth's sur
face. It is about 70 by 40 miles in ex-
tent. and supports population of
1000 600. Two facts are mentioned by
DR.. Jack in showing the remarkable
qualities of the soil: sit often grows
seven crops year, and it pays to Dor
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scenery which he encountered along
the Flu river in his journey from Cheng-
tn to Sung-pan. He declared that the
valley of the Flu was gem of beauty,
to which artists will surely make pill
grimages when they have exhausted
Switzerland, Italy and Norway. One
of our Illustrations gives a glimpse of
the wildness and beauty of the scenery
along this stream, which is almost one
continuous rapid its entire course of
300 miles or more.
Sung-pan is the furthest outpost of
Chinese civilization-the last strong
hold or edge of the wedge driven into
the heart of Mantzu barbarism. The
Mantzu natives are declared to be
more pleasing in features and manners
than the Chinese and are of a shy dis
position. Their dwellings, built fer
protection, are exceedingly pictur-
esque.
1t was while travelling through this
portion of China that the Boxer out
breaks forced DR.. Jack to leave the
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and regularly narrowed. Spraying
(for the slug which attacks the
leaves) has been attended to; and,
early in August, the ground has been
seeded down" to oats or rye or Grim
son clover.
The result is exceedingly satisfac-
tory. The cherry trees have made n
splendid growth, and are shapely and
thrifty and promising I bought these
so trees for about Sc four years ago;
to-day 1 would not take 500 for the
orchard. Indeed, if l am not greatly
mistaken, and if live long enough,
expect to see seasons when l can
market 500 worth of cherries from
these so trees. That is not an eX-
traordinary expectation, either. It's
fully within the bounds of reason,
judging from the yield and net profit
derived from occasional door yard
cherry trees in this neighborhood.
But, of course, to attain such sue
cess with cherries-o any other
fruit-the location must be right, the
soil and climate congenial, and the
details of cultivation must all be at
tended to. And, in my opinion, prun-
ing is one of the essential details. 1t
is true, however, that cherry trees
require much less pruning than do
other fruit trees. A very little suf-
fees. The accompanying photo en-
craving shows the amount of "brush"
removed from an average Mont
morency tree last spring. AS you
will notice there were no "big limbs"
removed; nothing but small and oc-
casional twigs and branches that
threatened to cross or grow inward.
By pruning little every year. no ne
cessity for removing large limbs has
existed; nor should it exist.
My aim has been merely to remove
surplus branches, which either hung
so low as to interfere with horse Gull
tivation, or which promised to make
the center of the tree too dense, or
which interfered with other branch
es. l have never "headed back" the
limbs (as is customary with peach or
pear trees) and 1 have always been
careful not to shock the trees by
over-pruning in any one year. No
case of bark-burst or injury has ever
resulted from this pruning. The
sweet varieties of cherries, find, re-
quire less pruning than the sour va
rieties; and the Montmorency needs
less trimming than does the Rich
mond. Each variety has it's own PEI
culiar habit of growth, and should be
treated accordingly.-Walter Z. An
lrews, in Ohio Farmer.
Standard Box for Apples.
A standard apple box has been
adopted by the Inland Empire Horti-
cultural association, of Washington.
The box is to contain 2241 cubic inches
of space and will be made in two shapes
In order to conform to the different
varieties of apples. One size will be
10X11x12H inches inside measure and
t. other will be 10hx11X1S 9-16inches
inside measurement. The official
standard adopted by the association is
slightly over a bushel. Each box of
apples is to be branded zone bushel."
The next legislature will be urged to
adopt a standard by law, coupling
Herewith a penalty for using any
thar
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PRUNING CHERRY TREES.
Until the Bearing Age Is Reached
This Operation Is One of Para
mount Importance.

Authorities on the subject have
fallen into the habit of saying that
cherry trees need practically no
pruning whatever" OF course this is
a general statement, which, like most
general statements, does not contain
all the truth or all the facts. 1t is
somewhat misleading also, to the in
naturally, is inclined to apply such
rule to every cherry trD on his
farm, regardless of variety, age or
condition. My own observation and
experience convince me that most
cherry trees need regular and sys-
tematic pruning until the bearing
age is reached. After that, if the
first five or six years trimming has
been properly attended to, very little
if any pruning is required.
Commercial cherry orchards are
rarely seen in Michigan or Ohio, but
in New York state, California, Idaho,
etc, cherry culture has received
much attention. Personally I take
great pride and pleasure in a little
block of so trees which l set with my
own hands four years ago. The vari-
cites are mostly Montmorency and
Early Richmond, with few sweet
varieties such as Gov. Wood, Windsor,
Black Tartarian and Yellow Spanish.
For four years this little cherry or
chard has received the same care and
attention that MY peach and pear or
chards have. Each spring the trees
have been pruned; each winter mod
crate amounts of stable manure and
wood ashes have been applied; each
year the orchard has been plowed
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standard Box for Apples.
Hard to satisfy.

"Life insurance people are queer,
observed the man with the incandes-
cent beard.
"Are they?" asked the man who is
introduced at this point for the pur-
pose of leading up to the next line.
Eyes. First they convince you that
you may die within week, in order
to get you to apply for policy, and
then they must convince themselves
that you will live hundred years be-
fore they will issue baltimore
American.
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Club Root of Cabbage.

The treatment of this disease by
fungicides has not proved successful
up to the present time, and until some
better means of combating this pestis
found, the best plan will be to starve
it out of the soil by growing other
crops upon which it cannot thrive. The
same land should not be used for cab
bage and allied species oftener than
once in three or four years. All mate
rails, such as stumps of cabbage and
root trimmings of turnips, which are
capable of spreading the disease,
should be destroyed Midland Farmer,
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ditions demand. The inner wire may
be much higher than the other, thus
being out of the way. The cloth will
thus be nearly at the same angle of
the slope over the bench as the glass
roof. Each bench in the greenhouse
can be thus provided with covers at a
trifing expense of time or money
Farm and Home
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E7V0IJ
regard to Gen. Sir Ian Hamilton's
spectacles. 1t appears that the gall
liant officer, then subaltern, lost a
pair of spectacles in the battle of
Majuba Hill. They were apparently
picked up by Boer whom they suited
and who kept them for 20 years. In
the early part of the present year the
spectacles were found on the body of a
dead Boer There could be no doubt
as to their identity, for the case had
Gen. Hamilton's name on it, and they
were in due course returned to their
original Bradford Observer.
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SHADE IN GREENHOUSES.
Simple Device Which Prevents All
Danger from Injury to Tender
Plants by the Hot Sun.

Shade in greenhouses to protect
plants against the hot sun becomes
more necessary as spring advances.
A simple device to obviate such ill
effects is shown in the sketch here
with. Two wires are stretched above
the bench, and on these is hung, with
brass rings, length of cotton cloth,
to be pulled over the plant or showed
aside to one end of the house, as con-
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We have large stock of ruled goods
on hand and are prepared to do all
kinds of letter press work at short
notice