The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1906-08-02
Washington Gossip.

COWS, pianos, and other Ike objects,
have bean sent through the mails by
the use of government franks. A
new postal regulation looking to the
adjustment OF the evil lie likely to
be she outcome OF the abuse OF q
Privilege which the government has
generously given to certain OF its
officers.
The pension Office has inst been
examining the application for a pen
sion Of the youngest veteran" OF
the Civil War. There have been
numbers Of youngest veterans" but
II there Is any veteran who is young
er than Lyston d. Rowe, Of Strsat.
or. H., now 10 the time to speak up.
afr. Howe enlisted June 8, 1861, and
he was just ten years, nine months,
and eight days old at the time.
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IL is seldom that one refuses q SUM
OF $4,000 which could be had for
the asking, but that is what Mrs.
Mary Larabee has done. She Is a
missionary at Urumia, Persia. Her
husband. Rev. Benz ,min W. Lara.
bee, was killed by religious fanatics,
and the United States Government
dem snded an indemnity Of $4,000
Of the Persian Government, which
the latter was about to pay. Mrs
Larsbee, however, feared that when
the people in her district heard OF It,
they would make life a burden for
the missionaries, and render her ei.
forts as missionary iruitless. So
she decided to ask the Department.
OF State to Withdraw It's demand. ).
The War Department has given
orders to the authorities at Manila
to keep the department informed
daily Of the spread and development
OF the Cholera in the Philippines
The disease Is OF the most virulent
type. Men who are In the best OF
hea 18th and walking the streets one
hour, are in the death sgonies the
next. The ignorant natives pay no
attention to the warnings not to
eat uncooked fruit and vegetables,
although they are almost panic
stricken over the ravages Of the dis.
ease.
Miss Ethel Roosevelt, daughter Of
the President, had narrow escape
from injury on her sixteenth birth.
day. She was out horseback riding
near Sycamore Hill, when suddenly
an automobile, which had been hid.
den by q dump Of trees, dashed by.
A part Of the machine grazing the
horses head caught the brible and
In an instant had ripped It off the
h cad OF the frightened animal. Miss
Roosevelt held tightly to the neck OF
the galloping horse, and succeeded
In bringing It to a walk. Miss Roose-
welt does not know who the occu.
pants OF the auto were.
The employment by the War De.
p artment Of Mr.. Winter, the crack
English tailor, to revise and modify
the uniforms in the army, has raised
a protest from many who think that
in a country OF 80, 100000 people, a
a tailor ought to be- found who could
do the workas well as any foreigner.
Last year the Department of Agri.
culture sent out 85, 49, 400 packets
OF flower and vegetable seeds. The
amount Of seed required to fill these
packets would I'LL twenty.eight cars
OF 10000 pounds each. The work
OF packetiDg the seeds Is done by
co ntracr. The contractor is paid at
a fat rate for 80 many thousand
packets. Most OF the work is done
by machines and about seventy.five
men and women are employed.
The business Of the government
ha d to wait the other day when the
Presidents private secretary, Mr..
Loeb, came over to Sycamore Hill
with Q big bundle Of documents, pre-
paratory to discussing them with
I he President. He found NJ. Roose-
welt in the hay field with the hired
man, working Ike mad to get the
hay In before the rain, which was