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The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1902-04-10
st, Louis Live stock.

ST. Louis, April S-Csttle-Rseeipts, q
100. Beef steers, s45cN Is; stockers and
feeders, s2S5a5,ooi Texas fed steers, s+.6o9
6S
Hogs-Receipts, 1909. Pigs and lights,
s6.sOq6 50: butchers, s60Q76.
Sheep Receipts, 100, Natives, A.sO0sD;
lambs 81 5nlaS 60
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1902-04-10
To Ship Mules to India.

Kansas City, Mo-, April s.-Twelve
Sepoys from the British army in In
dia are on their way to Kansas City
where they will superintend the ship
ment of 700 Missouri mules for use
by the British army in India.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1902-04-10

Sylvan Grove, Kan, April s.-The
mems ticket won in the election here
over one composed of women. w. w.
Dehler received 70 votes for mayor,
against 3s for Miss Mella Mutton.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1902-04-10
To he a Philippine Justice.

Santa Fe, N. NJ, April s.-William
H. Pope, of Atlanta, Ga, for the past
eight years a resident of Santa Fe,
has accepted judgeship of the court
Of the first instance in the Philippine
islands. He is a gold democrat, 81
years of ape-------------- -----------
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1902-04-10
Ballard Items.

Sam Keirsey has corn planted.
Wilson Davidson transacted bust
ness in Butler last week.
Charley Williams, of Butler, at
tended the party at Broomfeld's
Tuesday night.
Belisle took the M. W. A. forester
team through drill Monday night.
Elmer Hill traded horses last week.
Yes, Chess got that buggy; look
out, girls.
Prof Clements, Of Harmony, pass
ed through Ballard, Sunday.
Miss Mabel Bradley is visiting
friends in Kansas City.
Bloomfield and wife spent several
days of last week visiting friends
near Dayton.
Charley Ray, Of Butler, was the
guest Of Ray Griffith Sunday.
Rev. Vivian preached two excel
lent sermons at Bethel Sunday.
J.C. Noble and wife visited with
Milt, Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Broomfeld entertain.
ed their many young friends Tues.
day evening.
Miss Lizzie Dale returned Wednes.
day from an extended visit in Ills.
Wood Hill and V. Rice says its
"Good morning, Carrie" We are now
in the ring.
Ebb WsndletoD is the proud pos
SCISSOR Of q new buggy, and he dent
go by himself.
The many friends OF Miss Bessie
Smith gave her surprise party Sat
urday night in honor Of her (--)l
birthday.
Prof. Embree informs us that Fair
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1902-04-10
Pittsburg's Heaviest April Snow.

Pittsburg, Pa. April s.-Snow has
been falling steadily several hour
and there are over seven inches on tAe
level. 1t is the heaviest April sasw~
fall in ii years.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1902-04-10
st. LOuia Cash Grain.

St. Louis, April S.-Wheat-No. req
cash, elevator, 79%c; track, 7S1A@79c; No.
2 hard, 71lk@73hc. Corn-No. cash. 5Shcs
track. Coo. Oats-No. cash, 43c; track,
43l4G 431ac; No. 2 white, 45G45hc.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1902-04-10
MARKET REPORTS

Kansas City, April s-Cattle-Reeeipts'
6445; calves, I55. The market was gener-
ally steady and active. Representative
sales
SHIPPING AND DRESSED bEEF
Omaha daily bee., 1902-12-30
Personal NOTES.

The New Hampshire constitutional con-
vention took care to adjourn when the APP
preparation for the convention had been
used up.
E. s. Chapman Of Cincinnati, o., a nephew
OF Hans Van Wrinkle, who has been i'm
mortalized by Washington Irving in his
RIP Van Wrinkle" died Wednesday.
with Gentleman Jim" Corbett, John L..
Sullivan and Golden Rule" Jones at their
dinner. the Salvation Army OF Toledo may
claim to have attracted "de quality"
When Reed smoot of Utah and Levi An
heny OF Walla walla and a few others
of that graft get into the senate, the roll
call will be something extremely melliiu-
Gus.
Mayor Hayes Of Baltimore is in favor Of
reviving the Oriole, an annual fete, which
years ago was recognized as a fixture in
that city as much as the Mardi Gras is
at New Orleans.
Colonel Thomas Wentworth Higginson has
turned his s1st year and is still in fairly
good health, passing considerable time at
his writing table. Among New England
men OF letters only DR.. Edward Everett
Hale is his senior.
There is a dressmaking school in Brillon,
Wis, and the local paper speaks OF the en-
thusiastic young women who attend as II
they were making some sacrifice. All
women take enough interest in dress with
out the aid of a school.
The completion of the great Nile reservoir
recalls Lord Miners story OF what a wise
native told him twenty years ago. "Tf you
are going in for charlatanism," said the
Egyptian, relieve the land tax. II your
object is to give hospitality to Egypt create
a reservoir"
The National Woman's Christian Temper
ance union will not hold its next convention
in Milwaukee, because the only hall avail
able is owned by a brewer and is adjacent
to three saloons, and, in view of possible
strained relations, it has been suggested
thai they meet in some American city.
For the third time in the memory of this
generation a big block of Astor real estate
in New York City has been sold. Colonel
John Jacob Aston has disposed OF forty lots,
valued at about $3.50, 900. The two other
Aston sales were made in 1898 and 1900. For
about a century it has been the custom oil
the family to increase and retain real es-
tate holdings.
Governor Odell OF New York goes about
the PREPARATION Of state papers, such as an
nual messages, in cautious and methodical
fashion. First he digests one topic thor
oughly and writes it. Then he puts II
away and tackles another. When all have
been written he sits down with his secre-
tary and the pair go over the topics one
by one, changing and correcting until they
are satisfied II will stand any criticism that
may be brought against II.
Emperor william has informed the Prin-
cess salm Hostmar and several other Ia
dies of his court that they are not fitted to
fight vice or elevate the social conditions
OF the cities. The noblewomen had formed
an anti-vice society in Berlin, and the en-
peror, in discouraging the movement, wrote
to the princess that she should know
that such things are much better left to
the law and it's officers, and II 1t il true
that even they are frequently puzzled az
Omaha daily bee., 1902-12-30

to what course to pursue, how can you
women. residing In palaces or on estates
in prosperous surroundings, undertake to
successfully fight the evil?"
Major General Adna r. Chaffee, home
from China and the Philippines, has been
visiting the scenes OF his childhood in Ash
tabula county, Ohio. In response to some
question in regard to the war" In China
the general said: 1T was rotten. from a
fighting standpoint-no war at all, in fact.
The Chinese troops are very inferior SOL
diers.' The general has great admiration
for the empress OF China, whom he pro-
nounces to be a wonderful woman.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-12-30
PROPOSED EEGBT-BOUR LAW

AAOSAN IN "
The bill which passed the house of
representatives and is now in the senate,
proposing that eight hours shall con-
stitute a days work for all laborers and
mechanics employed upon work done for
the United States, is a very important
measure. If it shall become a law it
is believed by men engaged in the in
dustries that It will have a very decided
effect upon industrial conditions, not to
the advantage of either labor or capital.
Many manufacturers, particularly those
connected with the national association,
have expressed themselves In regard to
the proposed law and they are prac-
tically unanimous in the view that a re-
duction Of the hours Of labor to eight,
however desirable at some indefinite
time in the future, is too violent a propo-
sition for present adoption.
Washington correspondents say that
the hearings on this question which have
been in progress before the senate com
mittee on education Inc labor have been
OF a remarkable character and that a
sharp and fierce battle was waged be-
tween representatives of capital and the
representatives of labor, in which the
Inter appear to have gained the adj
vantage. They were able to convince
the senate committee that the proposed
law is desirable and accordingly it's
enactment is strongly and earnestly
urged in a report by the chairman OF the
committee, Senator McComas Of Mary
land. Cogent arguments are presented
in support of the bill and Il is held that
such a law would be constitutional.
The question OF an e%ight-hour labor
day is principally economic. The ad-
vOcates Of a shorter working day urge
that II would be a benefit to the workers,
in giving them more hours for mental
Improvement and recreation, while not
necessarily reducing production. theiI
view being that men can work more
energetically If they labor fewer hours
daily. Manufacturers and other employ
ers of labor very generally assert. on
the other hand, that the great majority
OF workers would be injured rather thar
benefited by reducing the hours OF work
that it would be impossible to maintain
the existing rate OF production, tina
prices OF all manufactured commodities
would inevitably be higher and that the
effect upon the industries would be revO
lutionary. 1t seems that the manu-
facturers who appeared before the sen
ate committee were unable to present
such substantial grounds for their rea
soning as to impress the committee, .,
Omaha daily bee., 1902-12-30
RAtLWIY DEVELOPMBNr.

The period Of great railroad construc-
ton in this country was between 1880
and 1895 and it was thought that never
again would records be made In a single
year that would compare with or ap-
proximately approach yearly records of
little over 5000 miles of railway have
been constructed, at an estimated cost
of about 5000, 900, 900, and the work of
development is still going on. Moreover
York correspondent Of the Philadelphia
Press that if the present industrial &C
tivity continues we may look next year
and the year after for the construction
of new railway lines, almost ali of
them being branches or feeders of eX-
listing systems, whose mileage will
equal the total mileage of the railroads
of the United States fifty years ago.
OF course nearly all the railroad con.
struction Of the present year has been
in the west and southwest and the fur.
ther railway development will be
mainly in those sections. 1t is said
that the region where the most promis.
ing results just now consequent upon a
new railway construction are foreseen
by capitalists is in Oklahoma and In.
dian Territory and the very rich neigh.
boring districts. Nearly 800 miles OF
railway have been constructed in Okla
homa this year and it is expected thai
next year as many miles will be built
while in the Indian Territory there IL
promise of much activity in railway con
struction. In Texas, also. railroad de
velopment is making good progress
Manifestly the railway interest is striv
ing to keep up with the industrial prog
ress of the country and the effort to dc
this is being well rewarded. According
to the report of the Interstate Commerce
commission the net earnings of the rail
roads Of the United States for the fisca'
year ending on June 80 last were oveI
$51, 100000 greater than for the previous
year and the dividends declared were
nearly 100000 900 more than those Of
the preceding year. The trouble IL
that the railroads are making the public
pay roundly for their development by
unduly increasing their charges,
Omaha daily bee., 1902-12-30


Yonkers Statesman: P~enman-You say
vow like my books?
Wrght-welL I'm stuck on two OF them.
(which two?'
THE two 1 bought"
Washington Star: What is a states
mann asked the youth.
"A statesman" answered the cynical Citi-
zen. is a man who can talk at length on a
subject without publicly disclosing his tg-
norance concerning it,
New York Timess Washington was asked
II he was pleased with the title of Father
IT'S great he replied, beaming. 81 GER
tainly wouldn't want to father the city
Hastily extricating himself from the sub
way and side-stepping from an automobile,
he fed to Mount Vernon.
Cleveland Plain Dealer; 'Mollie Brown
has a model husband"
whenever he doesn't eat anything she
asks hin II the cooking isn't as good as
And what does he say?"
II says he has no doubt 1t H.. but that
his indigestion has quite united him to be
a competent Judge"
Philadelphia Press: yes, he's given up
the political job he had"
The idea! why understood it was n
regular little sinecure."
$50 1t was. but after the last election it
became a little insecure
Philadelphia Press: Another thing about
these apples, the dealer Salu, opening the
barrel for his inspection, sis that II you
put them in a cool place they will keep all
winter"
81 am quite positive they won't" said the
on stomer, who happened to be the father of
a half grown boy, but I'll AXE them"
Brooklyn Life: Mrs. Newriche-New,
here's my latest portrait in oils, and l
must say I'm perfectly satisfied with It.
I'm sure 1t does me justice; don't you think
so?
Mrs. Cuttinge-Yes, indeed; justice tenn
pered with mercy.
Philadelphia Catholic Standard: 80 you
don't mind my. piano playing, Mr..
Skorcher?" remarked Miss NeXdoof. p Hft
Not at all" replied Skorcher. II like 1t
best when your coasting.'
"When I'm coasting?'
Yes. when you keep your feet off the
pedals"
New York Sun: Wagner had just dis
charged the cook when strange noises arr
rested his attention. .-
Eureka" he cried, "the very thing! IN
found a new school of music!"
Hastily scoring the effect of crashing pots,
smashing china and breaking furniture, he
forthwith became famous.
Chicago Post: "Didn' you tell me dat
dog you sold me were a huntin' dog?'
'Sho'."
"He don want to do nuhinu but look fob
a comf'able place to lie down H."
"Da,S right. Huntln' wahm spots is his
speciality"
Omaha daily bee., 1902-12-30

THE CONSTITUTION AND THE TRUSTS.
The record Of the New Hampshire
constitutional convention with reference
to unlawful trusts and combinations in
restraint of trade forcefully marks out
the line of efficient dealing with that
subject, and it is especially significant
in bearing on the necessity Of a national
constitutional convention. When the
question arose in the New Hampshire
convention on the adoption of n pro
vision requiring publicity and providing
other rigorous restraints for such COM
binations the convention was found to
be practically unanimous, only two menu
bers out of a total OF 315 going IN record
in the negative on the decisive vote.
Yet in the legislatures of that state for
a long period it has been found impos-
sible to secure substantial safeguards
against the aggressions Of great corpora
lions and m%onopolizing combinations,
and they have been able by their
familiar methods to prevent the sub
mission Of the necessary constitutional
amendments to popular vote. But the
calling Of a constitutional convention at
last gave the people a chance to enforce
their will and opened up freely the sub
jects on which they distinctly demand
reform.
1t need hardly be pointed out that the
same considerations apply with equal
II not greater force to change of the
federal constitution with regard to the
trust question and many others. The
machinery for amendment is such as
to place serious obstacles in the way Of
any attempt to secure genuine reform on
these subjects. While the people of the
nation, like those of New Hampshire, are
overwhelmingly in favor of thorough and
enforcible remedies for the evils of
wrongful corporation combinations, there
is little prospect that a satisfactory con-
stitutional amendment could be got
through congress. The method Of
amendment is so hedged about that cor
porate influence could too easily block
the way. Whether present federal legis-
lation exhausts the powers of the consti-
tuition or not, many thoughtful men be-
lieve that nothing less than the in.
corporation in the national constitution
Of a mandatory provision requiring con-
gress to act and clothing it and the
executive with ample powers can ac-
complish the reform that the American
people require.
If this view be correct the motive
power must come direct from the people
acting upon the several state legis-
~latures, as it did in the case of the New
Hampshire convention, and it must take
the form Of a demand for a national
constitutional convention. This would
take the question OF change in the
organic law out Of the hands of con-
gress and place it where the corpora
ton combinations and trusts would be
at a comparative disadvantage for de-
feating the will of the people.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-12-30
THE VANISHED LUNCH.
St. Louis Globe-pemocrat.

st. Louis Globe-Democrat
1t happened at a boarding house
Where married couples stay,
And where the men folks wiser seXO
For luncheon do not stay.
But Jenkins he was Ill one day,
And tarrted in his room,
The women asked him down to lunch
The Fates' inviting doom.
With linen white the board was spread
And decked with shining glass.
There was a glass of milk for each,
A dish OF apple sass.
Some crackers, too. and exc some cheese,
And cen d loaf Of bread.
And Jenkins filled his vacant plate
And casually he fed.
He finished up the apple sass
And started on the cheese,
And softly said he did not care
For little things like these.
He gobbled up a loaf of bread
The women looked ~dismayed-
And then he laid aside his fork,
His knife aside he laid.
He said he was not hungry and
He smiled upon that bunch,
And meekly he inquired why
They did not bring the, lunch.
And then the women they riz up;
They riz up grim and tall
n shrieked at Jenkins: oh, you wretch
You've gone and ct II ALL"
Omaha daily bee., 1902-12-30
"EvERYBoDY WAS RIGHT"
Charles Francis Adams view OF our
only Great war.

Baltimore sun.
Mr.. Charles Francis Adams Of Boston.
in his address Monday evening in Charles
ton, S. C., at the banquet Of the New Eng
land society Of that city, asserted that
the civil war was a necessity from the
very nature Of the Constitution OF the
United States. Mr.. Adams has long en-
tertained liberal views on this subject.
Last June, in a speech in Chicago, he
paid an eloquent tribute to General Robert
+. Lee, to whom, he said, the nation owes
a debt OF gratitude for his decision not
to prolong the strife through guerrilla
warfare. In his Charleston address Mr..
Adams frankly asserted that his study Of
the questions which led up to the civil
war had convinced him that everybody
was right; nobody was wrong" 80 far
as | can ascertain" said Mr.. Adams, every
state in the federation became a member
Of the union with mental reservations.
The one thing our ancestry united in most
apprehending was a centralized government.
From New Hampshire to Georgia such a
government was associated with the idea
Of a foreign regime. The people chung to
the local au~tonomy-the sovereignty Of the
state"
The civil war was, in Mr.. Adams opinion,
III AAAtplNSolblt' lutNlldUlt COuHlCl ONtT ING
question Of sovereignty, and, in his view,
when II came to be decided "either side
could offer good ground. historical and
legal, for any attitude taken in regard to
IT," 1t is refreshing to find so distinguished
. representative OF Massachusetts, opinion
as Mr.. Adams conceding that the south
had ample constitutional warrant for max
ing war in defense Of state sovereignty.
Mr.. Adams makes the interesting suggestion
that IL the southern states had withdrawn
from the union before 1851 they would
never have failed Of success" They were
conquered, in his opinion, not by military
skill, or wealth or courage but by steam
and electricity. Before 1861" he observed,
steam and electricity, neither on land
nor water, had been rendered so subservient
to man as to make him equal to the prodi-
gious, the unprecedented task then UNDER
taken and finally accomplished" Mr.. Adams
Charleston address will enhance his repu-
tstion as a diligent student Of American
history and an able and fair-minded ex-
FOUNDER Of the Constitution.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-12-30
MRS. GRANTS WISHES.
Interior of the Grant Monument Ar
ranEed as the widow Desired.
New York Sun

The letter which follows was written
nearly eleven years ago by the widow Of
General Grant to the late General Charles
II. 7. Coils, and, Of course, has never be.
fore been published:
mo. 3 East s~ixty-sixth Street. Jan. 8,
1ss2,-General ColIis-Dear Sir: l wish to
communicate through you to the Grant
Monument association Some weeks ago
Mr.. Duncan, the architect, who is to build
the monument for my husband, General
Grant. suggested. whilst showing me the
plans Of said monument, that my remains
should be placed in the same sarcophagus
with those Of General Grant, this, he said
would ave space. l wish now to most
earnestly protest against this plan. Cen
erel Grant must have his own sarcophagus,
and / my casket beside him.
General Grants identity must remain
distinct. Hereafter when persons visit this
spot. they must be able to say, Here rests
General Grant Yours most sincerely,
JULIA d. GRANT"
Mrs. Grants wishes, thus directly and
simply expressed. were respected in the
arrangement Of the final plan Of the monu-
ment. Most people, We think, will be
touched by her manifestation Of a conscien-
tious solicitude for the historic prophecies
and a definite purpose perhaps at variance
with the natural impulse Of the wife.
This is why the chamber in which Gen.
eral Grant rests by the Hudson differs In
one particular, so conspicuous that no Wis
itor fails 10 observe Il, from that Other
impressive tomb near the bank Of the
Seine.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-12-30

1t is probably true, from a strict legal
standpoint, that the election of a Judge
on the bench to congress is a violation
Of the Iowa constitution, whether the
term OF the judge expires or not before
the beginning Of the congressional term.
The words of the constitution are plain
and the distinct purpose was to separate
judicial officers from political compiled,
lions. But the house Of representative
is the sole judge OF the qualifications OF
its members and 1t has refused in sew.
eral cases to act on state restriction,
like that OF Iowa.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-12-30

ThiidueipHld TteCOEu'
A decision Just delivered by the supreme
court of the United States shows that there
is ample power in the several states to ef-
fectively punish authorizations of foods. A
person named Layton, in st. Louis, under
took to contest the constitutionality of a
law Of Missouri on this subject. Layton
was convicted in the local courts for using
alum in the manufacture OF baking powder,
and was nned 500 ;or the offense. The
supreme court afirms this action, and the
fine must be paid. But apart from the con-
stitutional aspects Of this case, a much
greater punishment is in the notoriety
which It has given to the manufacturer who
mixes alum In his powder for baking bread,
II the same publicity could be given in re-
gard to all the fraudulent authorizations oil
food and drink there would be little need
Of any other penalty.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-12-30
How Times Have Changed.

1t is torty-eight years since the first
transatlantic cable was laid. How we have
progressed since then! The beginning OF
the work Of stretching the new Pacific
cables excites little more than local COM
ment, and although Mar6oni has tele-
graphed across the Atlantic without arti-
fetal conductors, the news is received in a
matter-of-course way. Half a century ago
the country went wild over the first faulty
successes of Cyrus w. Field. Mass meet
ings Of celebration were held and small
sections Of the cable furnished much-prized
ornaments.