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The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1903-11-19
Special Land Buyers Excursions

Special Land Buyers Excursions
Will run to the new lands OF Greer
county, Oklahoma, and other sec-
tions of the great Southwest in No
vember and December, via the Frisco
System.
Are you looking for rich and fertile
farming landsin the Southwest which
you can buy for from one fourth to
one-tenth the cost OF lands OF the
East and North? They produce as
much acre for acre. Here is a chance
to better your condition and add q
liberal amount to your pocket book.
For full particulars and special
railroad rates apply at once to r. s.
Lemon, Secretary Frisco System I'm
migration Bureau, st. Louis, Mo.
GIT
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1903-11-19
Here's a Kansas Corn Record.

Topeka, Kan, Nov. 14.-W. b.
Mitchell, OF Beloit, is authority for
one OF the biggest corn stories told
in Topeka in several years. Mr..
Mitchell was in Topeka this week and
told his friends he had ten acres OF
land which grew $40 bushels OF corn
this year, or an average Of eighty
two bushels to the acre. He says
this was proved by wager and that
the corn was picked and weighed by
disinterested persons.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1903-11-19

st. Johns, N. F., Nov. 16.-The
mail steamer which has just returned
here from Labrador brings no news
OF the expedition toexplore the interi-
or OF Labrador, headed by Leonidas
Hubbard, it,, Of New York, assistant
editor OF Outing. All the settlers be.
lieve the party persisted. A tribe OF
Moutsgnais Indians which had been
trapping in the interior visited the
coast recently. They say they saw
nothing OF the Hubbard expedition,
although the Indians went $50 miles
| inland,
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1903-11-19
Fell 80 Feet and Lives.

Falling from the eighth floor of a
building In course of erection at 20 West
Eighteenth street. in New York, dis
lance OF about 80 feet. and turning three
somersaults in his descent, Joseph
Heiser, an iron worker. has escaped
with a slight laceration of two fingers.
A score of workmen rushed to the eel
lar. expecting to find his mangled form.
Instead they found him calmly examin-
ing his cut fingers. To convince them
that he had escaped without injury he
danced a Jig. Then he went back to
work at the top of the building.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1903-11-19
CURTAINS STOPPED TRAINS.
Greensburg. Pa, WomHn's Hed WIN
dow shades Are Replaced WIN
Green Ones by Railroad.

Mrs. Hiram Seanor, of Greensburg'
Pa, won a notable victory over the
Pennsylvania railroad company recent
" when she compelled it to purchase
new curtains for the windows Of her
home.
The Seanor home fronts along the
Pennsylvania railroad. Red curtains
In the window proved constant an
noyance to trainmen, who mistook
them for danger signals; and trains
we're frequently brought to stop.
The railroad company insisted that
the curtains be removed. but Mrs
Seanor replied that the curtains could
only be replaced by the company fur
nishing green ones. This was done
and now the trains no longer stop be
fore the Seanor home.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1903-11-19
Best Liniment on Earth.

l. NJ. McHany, Greenville,
writes, Nov. I'd, 1900: II had r.
matism last winter, was down in
six weeks; tried everything, but
no relief, till a friend gave me pa:
q bottle of Billiards. Snow Linim
| used it, and got two more boi .
1t cured me and | haven't felt
rheumatism since. | can rec nm
Snow Eminent to be thu i,esl
ment on earth for rheumatism y :
rheumatic, sciatic or neuraig e.
rub in Billiards. Snow Lipim. I
will not suffer long. but will
fed with a speedy AMI H.
25c. SOC and $1.O0 al IL. l.
drug store.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1903-11-19
Beginning to "Fake.-

According to the Chicago reporters,
Lipton's appendicitis was caused by
eating green corn, which. 1t seems.
was not thoroughly ripe" says the
Philadelphia Inquirer. The Chicago
bran,.', of the school Of journalism
must be getting In Its work. 49,.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1903-11-19
A Kansan Shot By a Robber.

Lebanon, Kan, Nov. 14.-John
Anshutz, a pioneer farmer, who lives
in Logan township, ten miles north
OF here, who was shot by a "hold up
man yesterday, while driving in a
buggy on a country road. He was
stopped by the robber, whose sudden
appearance frightened Mr.. Anshutz's
horses. They started to run and the
robber fred and wounded him SC
badly that it is believed he will die
The robber took $25 and escaped.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-04-19

the sooner this charge on the treasury
will be met in whole or in part by the
earnings of the canal as productive In
veStment.
The Suez canal, after paying all charges
of operation, maintenance and improve
ment, regularly earns a net profit of about
$40 900, 900, or 10 per cent. on the amount in
vested in the enterprise, which is approx
provements that have been made In the me-
chanical methods for canal digging, and re-
sultant economies, 1t is quite possible that
the canal may be built for the Sl44,0oO,OOO
that was set down In the careful estimate
made by Admiral Walker and the engineers
of the isthmian canal commission.
1t is not unreasonable to believe that the
traffic through the canal would soon be-
come very large and that the canal tolls
would amount to enough not only to pay
the interest upon the bond issue, but also to
provide an ample sinking fund for the ulti-
mate redemption of the entire cost of the
ing, we may confidently predict that the
Panama canal will be brilliant success
for the government of the United States.
An further steps in the business must,
however. await tho actisn OF the Colombian
that there was no such body as congress
In existence in Colombia. But 1t was ar
ranged to 60 through the form OF holding a
congressional election, and some ostensible
parliamentary action will be taken at b.
gotta in the course of the present month. 1t
is reported that there Will be some bitter
opposition to the ratification OF the treaty,
although it must not be supposed that such
an attitude Is assumed In good faith upon
the public merits Of the project.
The treaty is favorable to Colombia be-
yond all reasonable antcipatons, and it
will, of course, be ratified. Our govern
ment is likely TO be notified Of such action
within the next few weeks. The treasury
will then pay to the French company its
1000 and to Colombia its Sl0,000.000.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-04-19

Country Life In America.

Any one who has had a fireplace built
knows from sad experience how difficult
1t is to have rough rock done well-in fact,
to have il done at all. The very idea of
using an uncut stone for anything inside
a house seems the hight of absurdty to
the mind of a country workman. When
i showed the mason my sketch of the fire.
place he remarked that 1t would require a
great deal of labor to cut the stones into
the shapes had drawn. A sort of plying
wonder came into his face as / told him |
found. The contractor, thinking to facili-
tate matters. had hauled up a huge pile of
stones gathered from all around the house
without the slightest regard TO their suita-
bleness; some were covered with old ce-
ment and all were badly bruised: the room
filled with a useless assortment of
material, which could only be used for
filing in back of the facing. since not one
had any lichen. We had to scour the
wanted, selecting those OF proper shape
and size and carrying them in by hand so
as to preserve the growth of lichen. 1t
was two days hard work. but well worth
while as we saw this center OF the home"
taking almost the shape We had hoped for.
When the stone can be procured without
much carriage, a stone fireplace of this sort
is not expensive, comparatively speaking.
Ours is nine feet wide at the base and nine
feet six inches high. lined with friedrich
and having a cheap brick hearth; the
ton. cost the labor OF a mason and NOR
tar-mixer for two and half days and the
cement and brick-twenty to twenty-five
dollars. This is of course, exclusive OF
my own time. spent in hunting for the
stones.
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formation to-day"
He must have noticed my establishment
mo, you mustn't use IL to-day. You see,
the three Cabinets OF Berlin, London and
Washington agreed that the information
was to come from Count Buelow first. and
he Will impart IL to-morrow-probably in
The Reichstag. It's too late II make ar
rangements for that to-day" The Reichs-
tag usually meets at II, and was In session
while he spoke.
But what" L ventured TO interrupt, has
all that got 20 do with me? My business is
to furnish the news as soon as have IL TO
the American press"
The official stared at me in blank amaze
ment. But don't you understand, SIR" he
replied, rather nettled. Count Buelow
doesn't wish premature publication of these
facts"
The upshot was that left the Foreign
Office. having. OF course. made no pledge
to hold this important piece OF news in
allegiance. Thirty minutes later the wires
flashed ii across the water, and the after
noon papers I'm the United States published
IL that day I'm full. The news was not ca
bed back TO Berlin In time TO spoil Count
Buelow's programme. That suave states
man promulgated the information next
noon in the Reichstag as though IL ha,4
reached him that very moment He made
an impressive scene OF IL.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-04-19

committee room. where 5000 was spent in
refurnishing. Uncle Joe" sits in a $50 chair,
at a SIG mahogany desk when he writes
letters to his constituents out in Illinois.
The fire screen which adorns the room cost
a mere bagatclle-$Zy-and when the care
taker of this room comes around in the
morning he brushes the dust from S26
water cooler. and, IL empty, he fills 1t up
with 81 worth of mineral water.
incidentally, the mural decorations in this
room are whales sporting In a blue ocean.
Some one asked "UnCle Joe" what they
were symbolical of. and he replied: oh,
the size of the appropriation bills, guess
Speaker Henderson has TO do the best he
can in his Office. which is shabby furnished
with silver wristbands. which made hole
about the size of Sll5 In the treasury; ma
hogany desks. Cordova leather chairs, sill
yer trays, ice spoons and ice tubs. Just
what "one can OF superior cream which
IL credited to the speakers room, was for
no one knows. 1t may be that the commit
tee on rivers and harbors has money to
burn. at any rate, 336 boxes OF matches
were furnished this committee room last
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-04-19

was advocating fish protection, and he said
humorously that fish should not be allowed
to die out. because they fed the brain. He
only meant that they were nutritious
food, and one readily TO be digested by the
sedentary; but there was something BIZ
zarre and strange in the statement that fish
was brain food, and the newspapers
spread the thing broadcast, emitting the
later speeches denied that he had meant
seriously that fish was an especial nour-
Usher of the brain, but no one printed his
they thought OF this proposition. Their
reply invariably has been that such a prop
osition was unsclentifc and absurd. Agas-
siZ was a great investigator: he brought
many truths to light; but IL is probable that
this nonsensical statement of his is more
widely known than many OF his serious
statements"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-04-19
GETTING NEWS In GERMANY.
How an American Correspondent beat
the Government.

Wolf Won Schierbrand, In Worlds Work
i had succeeded In getting from the Amer
lean ambassador exclusive and accurate in
formation about the tripartite agreement
between England. Germany and the United
States.
The hour being then about noon I'm Berlin
q. e., a. m. at New York;. 1 had time TO
verify the news and to secure additional
details. So i strolled into the Foreign Of
flee. My first question had an unexpected
effect. 1t changed the staid and solemn
official In jiffy. He grew pale.
What he almost screamed. You know
that?" / bowed in affirmation.
Why, 1 thought" he went on. breath
lessly, lit was understood in Washington
and London that the first Information to
the public about this settlement was to
come from Berlin. i don't see how il can
have leaked out. Who told your"
l said / couldn't think OF betraying my
informant.
Him. HMM a quandary-"and what did
you come here forg'
told him my object.
The puzzled expression was intensified.
Then he suddenly looked up. A ray OF hope
was glimmering In his fishy eye. Please.
would you mind waiting here a minute
while Inquire OF the chief?' he asked. and
left me standing there. He was back in a
trice. WELL" he remarked. and his smile
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-04-19

his pleasant moods, which, TO tell the truth.
are few and far between; when he is angry
or ill-disposed in body, things move in
storm, reverses the order of things and
begins with the petitions and documents
sure to arouse the Sultans ire. Abdul
Hamid grows uneasier with every report
and soon the word 'brak' (enough) rings
out fiercely. interrupting the kneeling
reader ere the document Is half finished.
As financial claims are regarded most in
convenient and disagreeable in Turkey,
such are most often disposed of in the sum-
mary manner described.
"For instance, Uncle Sam wants the mon
ey long overdue; the pasha and grand
vizier have no wish to see the debt liqui-
dated, for with us TO pay Peter means to
rob Paul. and IL there is any rcbbing to be
done, Turkish officials want to do it them
selves.
Suppose the American minister has been
promised a decision on a certain day. All
the secretary needs do to forestall him is
to refer to the matter at an inopportune
moment.
.Brak,' shouts the Sultan, and the Sec
rotary is welcome to interpret the remark
as he pleases. 1t may mean: L don't want
to hear any more of It, and again, 'deci-
sion postponed Only when his Majesty is
very particularly provoked he adds: ALBANY
seversen' (for the lords sake, shut up.)
after that, a secretary who knows his
business makes haste to withdraw. The
only known instance when the hint was not
taken is afforded by Isseb Pasha-it cost
him long months OF Punishment in the
desert. Isseb had dared enter into an argu-
ment for one of his pet measures, when the
Sultan drove him from the room crying,
Djanim brak soledim-brak-brak-
Cby my soul, you provoke me. Enough.
enough. enoughD
such are the reasons why business OF
state is in a hopeless muddle with u.s."
concluded the pasha, land why satisfactory
settlement Of foreign and internal questions
Is forever delayed" WE'RE CAREWE.
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All the Comforts of Home.
Washington Letter in Boston Heral,

In the days when Gear" Reed was
speaker of the House the members used to
grumble quite a bit about the simplicity of
the furnishings of their committee rooms
and other accommodations as compared
with those in the Senate, 'the most ex-
elusive club in the United States" But
those days are gone now. and one of the
things which has made this a $1,000, 600 900
Congress is the new furnishings which were
installed in the south wing of the Capitol.
Representatives have their shoes shined
while sitting on solid mahogany, leather
upholstered chairs that cost $50 each.
Uncle joe Cannon did not allow this kind
Of thing I'm the days when he first earned.
as chairman of the appropriations COM
mittee, the sobriQuet of watch dog OF the
treasury" Luxury has invaded his own
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-04-19
I'm Revolutionary Times.
PHILADELPHIA Record.

lone change wrought by the revolution
airy war;" said the antiQuary, has never
received the attention IL deserves Before
the war servants wore a servitors' dress
always and could be distinguished on the
street by II. But the war ended that.
Servants after the republican victory be-
gan TO dress like their masters and mis-
tresses. A to-do followed. but the servants
won In their little revolution just as their
masters had done. Prerevolutionary maid
servants had 20 wear at all times short
gowns and linsey-woolsey pettcoats. and
their hair had 10 be arranged In a certain
plain manner. The men also wore linsey-
woolsey and their shoes Were OF coarse
meats leather. But they initiated their
masters and mistresses' dress after the
war. They became. indeed, a little too In
dependent. The wealthy had hard time
with their servants for the FIRST two or
three years following the revolution. These
employees were apt 10 insist on absolute
equality. and this didn't work"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-04-19
The First Canard.
London Express.

A canard means in French a duck; in
English il has come TO mean a hoax or fab
ricaled newspaper story. Its origin is
amusing About fifty years ago a French
Journalist contributed to the French press
an experiment of which he declared himself
TO have been the author. Twenty ducks
were placed together. and one OF them,
having been cut up into very small pieces.
WAS gluttonously gobbled up by the other
nineteen. Another bird was then sacrificed
for the remainder. and so on, until one
duck was left. which then contained in its
inside the other nineteen. This the Journal
list ate The story caught on, and was
copied into all the newspapers of Europe.
And thus the 'canard' became immortal
fxaI
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-04-19

The sea hath many thousand sands,
The sun hath notes as many:
The sky rs full OF stars. ana Love
AS full OF woes as any:
Believe me, that do know tho elf.
And make no trial by myself.
II Is In truth a pretty toy
For babes TO play vithal:
But o the honsys OF our yopsh
Are oft our ages gall.
Self-prcof fn time Will MAXI thee know
He was n prophet told thee so.
prophet that. Cassandra-like,
Tells truth without belief:
For headstrong youth Will run his race,
Although his eoal be grief:
Loves martyr. when hi5 heat Is past,
Proves Cares confessort at the last.
-tRobert Jones Qslo)
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Panama Undertaking Likely to De n
Brilliant Success Financially.
American Monthly Review of Reviews.

This superior borrowing power is what
makes il feasible for our government to go
ahead and dig an interocean canal where
the private French company had TO give up
for lack of ability to get the necessary cap
ital. and the American Nicaragua Company
had to abandon operations for like rea-
son. The Panama canal will cost the United
States nothing more than an annual inter-
est charge of possibly 100000 The more
quickly the work is pushed to completion
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-04-19

Philadelphia Record.

Phlladefphia ftecOru--
ITO say that fish is brain food Is to
talk nonsense" said the antiquary with
unwonted heat 81 have made an investi-
CATION OF this rank superstition. OF this
fallacy-for II Is nothing more-and have
found where II originated Professor Agas-
siz was addressing a. certain committee on
fish' ef the Massachusetts, Legislature. He
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-07-15

to any other purpose than the payment
of insurance and the necessary expense
incurred to maintain the order in a
flourishing condition. We fail to see
by what reasoning the head camp can
be given authority to use surplus
money for miscellaneous charity when
head officials have given the locals to
understand that their funds we're raised
exclusively for insurance.
We have thus wandered into tech
meal discussion of another mans bust
ness which we realize is dangerous
ground to tread upon, but the lesson We
want to teach Is that there is altogether
management of fraternal insurance to-
day to give the system the dignity ii
deserves. If delegates to head camps
would understand that their society is
an insurance order working for single
purpose and under contract. implied If
not written, with every member to de-
vote his money exclusively to the in
surance department under conservative
management, there would be less scan
dial connected with fraternal insurance.
fewer policy holders left stranded in
their old age without insurance and
far less opportunity for old line agents
to arraign all fraternal insurance with
the often well-founded charge of In
competent management.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-07-15
wooDmeN AND CHARITY.

Recent editorial criticism in these
columns of the action of the head
camp Of Modern Woodmen in voting
$4,000 to Kansas flood sufferers has
ELECTED the following reply from Ar
thur w. Davis. lawyer and Wcodman
ut Fonda, Iowa:
Editor Times Republican: An edi-
torial published in your paper under
tne caption, Unauthorized Charity APP
pears to me to be little misleading to
those whom it is undoubtedly intended
to influence. 1t is a criticism of the
action taken by the head camp of the
Modern Woodmen of America, recently
held in indianapolis, Ind. in voting a
fund. not to exceed $4,000, to the re-
lief of suffering Woodmen in Kansas
and other states from recent floods and
cioudbursts.
LAS delegate to the head camp from
Iowa, and voting for the appropriations,
1 can not accept the statements of the
editorial as true. nor can believe that
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-07-15
BIG FARM WAGES.


81 was reading in the Register and
Leader the other morning about the
farmers of Kansas taking men off the
trains and paying them big wages to
work in the harvest fields" said John
Ulrich, night Tailor at the county bas-
tile. why, in 1894 wages three times
as big as they are now We're paid to
harvest hands. In the first part of Au-
gust of IA and friend left Wiscon-
sin to go into Minnesota. AT Eyota, in
Olmstead county, two farmers took us
off the train and asked us If we were
farm hands. We said yes. and asked
what the wages We're. When that man
said S12 per day nearly fell over back
wards. Some one told us to hold out
for SIS, and suppose we could have
got it, but we thought So was enough.
Wheat at that time was selling for 80
cents per bushel. and there was big
crop. The man / worked for was John
Wilson, who ran a grocery store in
Eyota. About the second week in Au-
gust the scale dropped down to $40, the
third week it was IS and so on as the
need of help became less.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-07-15
STILL ANOTHER LIAR"
ICsdar Rapids Republican, ]

And now comes the little Herald OF
Clinton and adds it's miserable mite to
the general fund of falsehood. 1t says
that Congressman Cousins convention
speech was rounded out in elegant En-
glish, but why not? Cousins delivers
but a speech year on the average and
should certainly be able to prepare one
address annually"
When the editor of the Herold wrote
the words Cousins delivers but a
speech a year on the average he knew
that he was lying and the papers that
have recently copied that statement
knew they were copying falsehood.
The files -of all those papers themselves
prove that the Herald editor lies. Not
mentioning the thirty or forty cam
paign speeches that Mr. Cousins has
made every year in Iowa and elsewhere
for more than decade, the files of this
paper show that during the last ten
wears Mr. Cousins has made and pub
lished on an average more than four
speeches a year, many of which have
attracted national attention and some
of which have been published in nearly
every paper of America.