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The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1902-12-04
Kansas City and return, January
II and IL, good returning 10th.
+. C. VANDERvooRT, Agt.

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E. VANDERvooRT, Agt.
Our old friend r. r. Earsom drop
ned in to tell us OF the new town they
are preparing to build at his place
on the new railroad being project
ed through our county. He says
they will move the county seat down
there and just wipe Butler Off the
map.
MT McFadden of Pittsburg, Pa,
and Mrs. M. A. Toombs, Los Angeles,
Cal, visited their brother Judged W.
McFadden last week. Mr.. McFadden
is accompanying his sister to her
home in California. The Judge and
his brother complimented The TIMES
sanctum very pleasantly on Satur-
day.
The Clinton Republican has bitter
ly assailed Congressman DeArmond
for years without ceasing. 1t is but
a natural consequence that Mr.. De
Almond should poll the largest vote
and the largest majority OF any can
didate, state or local on the Demo
cratic ticket in Henry county.-Clin'
ton Democrat.
Prof. W. r. Parker resigned al
teacher of the Dillon schoolto accep,
| a more lucrative position ia the pub
| lie schools at Skidmore, Nodaway
county, Mo. Prof. Parker is a sue
cessful young teacker and has give1
90 tisfaction wherever he has taught
We commend him to the good peopl
OF that town.
Sheriff Joe Smith and deput.
| Harve johnson went to. Jeffersol
City Monday with three prisonersfo
the penitentiary, sentenced this teri
Of court, as follows: Richard Going
burglary, two years; W. c. Brown
forgery, three years; Toney lowering
; larceny, two years.
Our esteemed friend J. B. Lotspeicf
, one Of Mound township prom
inent and successful farmers, was
pleasant caller on Wednesday an
, favored rs with renewal. He cam
, to Bates county from Saline. in 1888
and by intelligentlabor and frugalit
!. has cleared q tlne farm Of nearly 30
acres, we'll improved and stocke'
MIR. Lotspeich has demonstrate
: that intelligent farming in Bat
county pays.
a william II. Miller, driver OF Il
!. water tower OF the Kansas City 81
, department, was the lucky winner
: the conventionhall guessing conte
!. on the Kan. vote. BE guessed the e
= act vote, 2S7 1853, and. wins the t
. thousand dollar cash prize. Just aie
4 nights before the drawing he sold
hall interest in the 40 tickets be be
to Martin E. Gaffey, a fireman in 3
!. water tower, for $500. Thus Mill
' and Gaffey win get $1,000 each.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1902-12-04
TINES Telephone No. BY
Holiday Novelties at Cough & Hess

Holiday Novelties at Cough u Hess
Mrs. O. A. Moudn Of Harrisonvllle,
was the guest Of his sister, Mrs. ).
W. Choate, last week.
h (ne medalions at Cough 4 Hess's
drugstore, North Side Square
Nohn Miller, a staunch iarmer and
kzfd settler OF New Home, favored US
substantially on Monday.
More new holiday goods from
Cough & Hess. North Side Square.
Our old friend and long time pat
ron, Andrew Jackson, OF Rockville,
remembers US with renewal,
One young friend Emmett burk'
of Charlotte, was q pleasant caller
and favored US with renewal.
Cough & Hess have just opened a
large stock of new holiday goods.
See them before you buy.
Lowney's candies in beautifully
decorated boxes suitable for holiday
lNpresents. Cough 4 Hess; North Side
~ Prescription and family receipts
scHnpounded with utmost care al
G0hgh L Hess drug store, North Side
NO. John, Of Petersburg, Ills.
andIher highly esteemed Bates coun
u Soy, remembers us with arenewal
Judge and Mrs. g. G. Miller went
to Liberal, Mo-, to spend Thanks
giving with their niece, Mrs. D. =
Lane.
Our esteemed friend Green B. Park
er. an old and influential citizen o
Summit, was q pleasant caller ant
had bis dates set ahead.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ira N. Judy, OF Eas
Boone township, we're in the city O
business W Wednesday and compliment
ed The TIMES sanctum with a pleas
ant call.
A letter from ]. D. Black, at Lon
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1902-12-04
Christmas Holiday Rates.

Tickets on sale Dec. "a, % and 81.
1902 and Jan. 1, 1908, all to bear
final return limit Of Jan. 2, 1903, at
rate OF one fare for round trip with
minimum selling rate OF soc.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-07-11
LUCKY KNOWLEDGE.
Because He Could Play Good Chess
He Got a Great Bargain.

Wi1kesbarre (Pa.) Correspondence
New York Herald: Because he O
two games of chess out of three, Harry
I.eim of this city paid 40 cents a ton for
40 tons of tanbark. Leim wanted the
bark for his garden, but couldn't get
it at any price. 1t was cornered and
held at a fancy figure on account of
the coal strike. the bark being used in
place of coal. The ashes alone are
worth $3.50 a ton, so Leim got a big
bargain.
Agents tried to get the bark and
failed, so Leim started off on his own
account to try his luck. At the end
of two days he reached the big mill Of
Mosser & Co. at Noxon, but Mr.. Mosser
said NO" He had tanbark in plenty,
but wouldn't sell any of it. Cash was
no inducement to him. Arguments
were of no avail, and Leim, after every
possible form of entreaty, decided there
was no chance to obtain his heert's
desire.
Leim, discouraged, remained in the
mill for a long time, occasionally maxi
ing another offer, only to be repulsed.
finally, in a corner he found a chess
board and men. He casually arranged
the figures, and while working on a
problem Mr.. Mosser caught sight OF
him. Rushing up to him, Mr.. Mosser
excitedly shouted:
Say! I've been waiting for years
to find a man in this region who could
play chess. Can you play?"
Can you sell tanbark?" was the
Yankee answer Leim gave him.
Look here" %rejoined Mr.. Mosser, as
he sat down, facing Jeim. "We1l play
three games. If you win two I'll lei
you have 40 tons of back at 40 cents q
ton. If you lose. you don't get a pound
at any price. How about it?"
"All right" remarked Leim, and the
game was on.
Leim won the two games, but it took
him four hours to do it. He nov has
40 tons of 'tanbark.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-07-11
ONCE OWNED MARTINIQUE.
Grandmother of a Georgia Woman
Traded Away Greater Part.

Athens, Ga, Banner: A most inter-
esting story was told a Banner report
er concerning the original possession
of the island of Martinique. The story
concerns Mrs. S. C. Reese, of this place,
whose grandmother once owned a
greater part of the volcanic isle.
Mrs. Reese's grandmother was Nine.
Gouvain, who was closely related in
marriage to Count de Trobriand, of
ance. She was an intimate friend OF
Josephine de Beauharnals, who after
ward became the wife of the great Ma
poleon, and she left France on the
night on which Napoleon married the
Austrian Princess Marie Louise, and
came to America.
Not satisfied with her possession in
the French West Indies after her COM
ing to America, she traded her land on
the island of Martinique to Count DIES
tang, the gallant French officer to
whom were given valuable lands in
America for his services to the colo
MES during the revolution. Most of
these lands were in the southern states,
and 20 900 acres were situated in Geor-
gia, some of which embraced the pres
ent site of Athens, and others Of which
Jay near Tallulah Falls.
Nine. Gouvain was advised by her
agent to sell her possessions in Mar
Unique on account Of the volcanic con-
dition of the country, and time has
proved the wisdom of her choice. She
was a very wealthy woman, and in
close confidence with the powers of
the monarchy of France.
Mrs. Reese had now in her posses
sion a most gorgeous dress of her
grandmother, which was worn at the
marriage of Napoleon to Josephine
Beauharnais and which is a priceless
relic.
The story of the division of the Gou-
vain estate, formerly belonging to
D'Estang, is n of piecemeal separa-
ton and division until it became pos
sessed by hundreds of relatives of the
noted Frenchwoman. Mrs. Reese pos
sesses much information in the shape
of papers, maps, etc, concerning the
island of Martinique, which descended
from its original n
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-07-11
The Color Cure.

London Globe: The part played by
color in the treatment of disease is
Just now attracting fresh attention. The
success of the Italian doctors in their
employment of red in the sick DON
has set some people talking about this
subject as though it were a modern dis
covery that color affected the nerves
and through the nerves the general
health of the body was made many
years ago; we know that Edward II,
for instance, when he was Prince Ed
ward, was cured of smallpox-if we are
to believe the court physician-solefy
by the brilliant scarlets employed in
the decoration of his bed and the room
in which the bed stood. But to say that
color, per Sc, can cure a person of small
poX, or any other malady, Is to state
what science must absolutely deny.
Nevertheless 1t cannot be too widely
known that success in sick nursing
may depend in a greater or less degree
on the scheme of coloring that obtains
in the patients room. Whether scar
let or the other various shades of red
is tho universal panacea we know not,
but it is quite safe to say that anything
in the shade of mournful and dyspeptic
yellows and greens should not be util"
fzed in ministering to a mind diseased.
Color, in this sense, after all is only
another word for environment, and N
is quite certain that brightness and
c~heerfufuess, whatever their tints are
useful factors in the treatment of sick-
ness,
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-07-11
AN ALASKA LIFE-SAVER.
How Duncan McCabe's Wife Fell in
Water and Made Tidal Wave.

Alaska P~rospector: Sergeant Josef
Froelich had an exciting adventure last
week, in which he played the role of a
lifesaver. No doubt he learned to save
lives in Germany. This unfortunate
event happened while Josef was out
boatriding in company with Mrs. Dun
can McCabe, the wife of Dune McCabe,
the best blacksmith on the bay.
Mrs. Meade is not a light m by
any means, and during some feminine
movement lost her balance and upset
the boat, causing both of its occupants
to be precipitated into the icy waters
Of the bay. Other boats were near, but
the parties We're SO confused by the
mover sight that they did not know
what to do. Josef, with great GOODNESS
and presence of mind, saved Mrs. Nc
Cabe from a watery grave by grasping
her and taking her ashore. She did not
look much the worse for her trying ex-
p%erience. The forts new wireless iele-
graphy system vas brought into use
and a message hastily sent to Dune for
warm clothes. Our friend Josef had on
his best suit and it was utterly ruined.
Mrs Duncan McCabe. being a some
what heavy woman, displayed a con-
siderable amount OF water as she fell
in the bay, At about the same time
Sergeant McHugh, our provo, was
walking along the beach nearly a mile
from the scene Of the accident, In COM
pany with Sergeant Daggett. He was
nearly drowned by the tidal wave that
suddenly appeared but as rescued by
the timely action Of his companion.
The affair was treated as a joke at
the fort, and Josef was numerically
guyed by his comrades. II was a good
thing that it as not a young lady or
perhaps there would have been a we'd
ding at the fort In the near future. 1t
is much regretted by the members of
Company G that Sergeant McHugh was
obliged to go On sick report after his
eXperience.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-07-11
TRY an Oak Steak.

Wood is the newest food, says Helm
rich Reh, a professor of chemistry in
Berlin. He has secured a patent upon a
form of animal fodder which has saw
dust as its chief ingredient.
He argues that animals have a de-
cided liking for young shoots, roots of
shrubs, tree bark and other heavy food
of the same nature, and, since expert
ments have proved that the nutriment
contained in such growth remains in it
even after it has become wood, he OBJ
serves that with a little salt and water
added to it the sawdust will prove to
be a highly nourishing diet.
He has statistics to prove it. Pine,
birch, poplar alder, acacia, beech and
walnut woods and straws have been
analysed chemically by him, and he
finds that the wood has vastly al
bumen, nitrogen and fatty substance
than the straw.
The inventor claims that . a very
cheap cattle food can be prepared in
this manner, to which may be added
potato Feelings, cornhusks and shells
of grain and the residue from the sugar
beet after the sugar has been extracted.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-07-11
The Borer the Worst Pest.

Our almost daily experience with a
large apple orchard leads us to the
conclusion that of all the pests which
beset the apple tree none is so much
to be feared as the work Of the borer.
The trouble is that unless a most vigi-
liant and expert watch is kept upon the
trees the damage is all done before it
is in any way manifest to the casual
observer. The insidious work of this
pest is charged up to the climate, cold,
heat, sunscald, blight, when all the
while nothing is the matter save that
a white grub half an inch long is CIR
ding the tree under the bark Just
above the roots and surely killing it.
If a young tree blossoms full and sets
a heavy crop of fruit, you may be al
most certain that there is a borer
working on it.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-07-11
Sorghum as Forage.

The use of sorghum as a forage crop
is becoming more and more general
each year. Men who have tried it like
it and say that no forage raised on the
farm is so eagerly eaten by stock OF
all kinds, and it seems to make no diff
ference If it does become a little mil
dewed and dusty; the stock will eat it
unclean. The best success with this
crop is had by sowing the last of May,
drilled or broadcast, and sowing thick
ly, cutting it just as late as possible in
the fall, so that the hard frosts will
not spoil it, then punching it into cocks
in the field of 500 or 600 pounds each
and letting it remain there until want
ed in the winter. In this way it does
not cure as does hay, but retains its
juices and succulent qualities. 1t is
greatly esteemed as a substitute for
Silage.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-07-11

The London Chronicle says:As the
Boer wal broke out in October, 1899,
the year 1900 is the first complete year
of war, and for that reason its vital
statistics have a special interest. The
net result may be stated briefly. The
marriage rate fell from 1874 in the pre-
vious year to 16 per l 900. the birth rate
fell from POI to 28.7, and the death rate
rose from 17.5 in 1898 to 1872 in the
two years of war. Here we have a
lutte rerceptible, though by no means,
alarming evidence of the influence of
the war. Trade depression may, Of
course, have something to do with the
decline in marriages and births. The
price of wheat in 1900 was 26s. lid. per
quarter, as against 25s. Sd. in 1899, but
the table given by the registrar general
fails to prove IN absolute correspond
ence between our trade and vital statis-
tics. Thus, in 1898, the price of wheat
was higher than in any year since 1891,
and so was the marriage rate. In the
year 1900 the influence Of the war on
the death rate jumped from 10.5 to 27.6
per 900. Nevertheless fighting seems
a moderately healthy profession.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-07-11
The Black Squash Bug.

A gentleman from Pennsylvania
writes wishing to know how to deal
with the large black squash bug hich
for the first time last year destroyed
the squash vines in his locality. We
had the same pest last year to contend
with in the west also. These beetles
attack the vines after a growth of two
or three feet is made and make short
work of them. The pests feed on the
underside of the leaves, and this fact
makes it difficult to reach them by any
ordinary method of spraying. We shall
try three things O. them this season If
they make their appearance-hellebore
powder, london purple and paris green
and will report later which OF these
remedies is the most effective.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-07-11

We are asked about planting small
potatoes-will such seed produce small
potatoes? While it is true that contin-
uous selection of the smallest potatoes
for seed would surely have a tendency
to run the variety out and give nothing
but small potatoes, the use of such
seed, the culls of a good crop, would
not probably for the first crop show any
marked difference in product as com
pared with that raised from the larg-
est potatoes. We have this year plant
ed n piece of potatoes with small
seed, from the size of a walnut to a
hens egg, and alongside have planted
seed from the best selected potatoes.
lney are or the same variety, and we
will report results.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-07-11

ical treatment of male animals of all
sorts, cruelty to dumb animals and
come at you with the argument that il
these several processes and operations
are right then the Lord made a mis-
take when he created these animals.
1t is very tiresome to come across this
sort of humanitarian Man was placed
on earth to subdue it. In this work of
subJugation he may do much by kind
ness and should so do wherever posi-
BILE, but some things must be subdued
by force and the use of unseemingly
harsh methods, and it is utter folly to
ignore this fact. Not even the ways of
the Almighty are all gentle, nearly all
the sanitary, renovating and rebuilding
processes of nature being to a greater
or lesser extent harsh and seemingly
cruel.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-07-11
HOW'S THIS p

We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward
for any case of Catarrh that cannot be
sured by Halls Catarrh Cure.
F. ] CHENEY & CO., Toledo, o.
We the undersigned, have known F.. J.
Cheney for the last 10 years, and believe
him perfectly honorable in all business
transactions and financially able to carry
out any obligations made by their firm.
WEST & TRUAX, Wholesale Druggists,
Toledo, O..
WALDING, KTNNAN & MARVIN,
Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, o.
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken internally,
acting directly upon the blood and mu-
cous surfaces of the system. Testimonials
6ent free. Price Toe. per bottle. Sold by all
Druggists.
Halls Family Pills are the best.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-07-11
Store Expenses.

MT. Downtown-We've got to econo-
mize, and that's all there is about it.
Mrs. Downtown-Well, you have two
men and a boy in your office. A boy
should be enough.
Mr.. Downtown-That shows all you
know about business. l can't possibly
get along without the boy, can II?
Mrs. Downtown-Certainly not.
Mr.. Downtown-Of course not. Ev-
erybody knows that. Must have a boy
to sweep out, run errands, and do all
sorts of odd jobs
Mrs. Downtown-Very true. But the
men?
Mr.. Downtown-I've got to have the
men to watch the boy.-New York
Weekly.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-07-11
A Tiresome Sentiment.

There is a type of ultra tender heart
edness and sympathy for dumb animals
exhibited by some people which be-
comes a good deal of q nuisance. They
seem to entirely overlook the fact that
in order that they may have meat to
eat somebody must take the life of the
animal. They go daft over dogs and
are utterly Indifferent to the horrors OF
hydrophobia and all the long list OF
meannesses Of which dogs are capable.
They call the dehorning OF cattle, the
cutting off of the lambs tail, the surg
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-07-11

The II. F. Brammer Manufacturing
company of Davenport, Iowa, have a
unique puzzle souvenir, which they are
sending free to persons writing for
same. The Brammer company are
manufacturers of the o. X. Washing
Machine, one of the best machines ever
placed on the market. Any goods bear
Ing this company's stamp may be relied
upon as being what the trade mark i'm
plies, 20. K"
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-07-11

We occasionally pass through a wood
pasture lot the entrance to which is
closed by a pair of bars-old fence rails
and these rails are of the straightest
and choicest black walnut, cut over
fifty years ago, when walnut timber
sold for SIS per thousand feet and was
made into fence rails because it was
the most easily split into shape. Since
then the old stumps of those splendid
trees have been dug out and sold for
more than the tree would bring when
it was slaughtered.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-07-11
Home

The question of home improvement
is always a live one, and now that the
mortgage is paid off and there is a lit
tie money in the bank some thought
should be given to this subject. We
hate to see a twenty thousand dollar
man trying to live in a two hundred
and fifty dollar home, for he ought Ill
justice to his family to live in
thing better. Be the house what it
may, there is still a chance for all to
improve the home surroundings. So
much may be accomplished with paint,
Strengthening and cleaning up, tree
planting and ~lawnmaking that even the
comparatively cheap and poor house
can be made the nucleus of a pretty
and attractive view. American women
are rated as the most attractive of any
women, and largely because of the
taste they exhibit in attire and man
ner. In the same way the American
home should be made equally pleasing.
1t looks like foolishness to put $4,000
in a fine house and then pile firewood
and old harness on the front porch,
while the poultry befoul the walks and
make busting places of the flower beds.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-07-11

The condition of the public school
grounds whether in country or town is
very likely to reflect the home sur
roundings of the people of such COM
munity. Where the schoolhouse is
made every way pretty and attractive
inside and outside there will be found
nice homes.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-07-11
a farmhouse cellar {

Many a farmhouse cellar could be
much improved in cleanliness and
comfort by plastering the walls, CO.
menting the floor and putting more
light in it. The cellar when properly
arranged is one of the most useful
rooms in the house, but too often it is
little save a deathtrap.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-07-11

Where there is no hay barn to store
the crop and where forty tons of hay
are produced it will be found that a
stack cover will soon pay for itself.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-07-11

We would not put unoured clover
hay into the now Of a big barn unless
we wished to tempt Providence and
have an insurance loss to settle.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-07-11

When free from ice the Yukon river
is nayigable for large steamers 1858
miles. a distance more than twice as
great as that from Chicago to New Or.
leans.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-07-11

The male grosbeak shares with tn,
female the labor of incubation, a fam
lily duty not usually assumed by tn
head of the bird house.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-07-11

The white fowls seem to take thu
lead in popularity-White Leghorns
White Plymouth Rocks, White Wyan
dottes and Light Brahmas.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-07-11

The man who can't rest until he has
got some sort of a job for the hired
man to do on a rainy summer after
noon is not built right to enjoy life.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-07-11

The only good thing which we can
say for the wild mustard is that it
makes about as good a dish of green's
when young as there is to be found.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-07-11

The hardness, early maturity and
rustling qualities of the Angus cattle
commend them specially to any stock
raiser OF the north country.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-07-11

A Minnesota farmer told us recently
that while he could raise pretty good
corn he did mot like the crop, for it
never gave a fellow any chance to rest.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-07-11

DR.. David L. Kiehle Of the depart
ment of pedagogy of the Minnesota
State university is about to retire from
that position, after a continuous pub
lie service of 27 years in the work Of
public education in Minnesota.