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The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1907-10-17
TALKING AN ELECTRIC LINE.
Judge Strickland Heartily in Fa-
vor Of Connecting Butler, Ap-
plston City and 0sceoIa

While In town attending court last
week, Judge Strickland, says the St.
Clair County Democrat, stated that
the farmers along the route were be-
coming Interested In the proposed
electric line from Butler to Osceola
and he anticipated that enough stock
could be disposed Of to make II 60
provided 0sceola and Appleton City
gave their prorats.
The cost will be small, as Is IL she
intention 80 keep to the public road
all the way and after the line is CON-
pleted it is expected that power to
run as far us Appleton City can be-
furnished by the Osceola dam.
The Judge was informed that De.
ceola would do her full share, both in
the tskine OF stock and In furnishing
power.
Nls also expected that tne pro.
posed EDorado- Monegaw line would
connect with the Appleton uty-Os-
ceols line at point four miles north
OF Osceols and arrangements be
made TO run cars to Elnorsdo az
we'll as to Butler.
The building Of the line would be
OF inestimsble benefit to the farmers
as we'll as she towns. Ii would vir-
tually place Butler, Appleton City,
Osceoia, Monegaw aud EiDorado on
three trunk lines OF railway and give
farmers their choice Of hall a dc zen
markets.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1907-10-17
At The Hardware Store.
BULBS
CHINESE SACRED LINES,
Tor Joss Flower.

Very easy TO grow, place the bulb
In the dish In which it is to grow aud
put enough pebbles or shells around
them to keep them from falling over,
I'll tho dish with water and ses 10 in
a dark place for few days until the
roots start freely then bring them
to the light, they are very fragrant
and one plant will I'll the house With
it's agreeable perfume 10c each.
SINGLE HYACINrHS.
White, Blue, Rose, Red, Yellow.
TUL PS.
Single White, Yellow, Red.
CROCUs.
Large Yellow, Mixed White and
Mixed Purple aud Blue.
NARCISSUS.
Won Sion, Paper White, Grand
flora and Trumpet Msior.
LILIES.
Lilium Candidum.
Lilium Harrisii.
Lilium Longifiorum.
FREESIA.
RefFacta Alba.
DEACON BROS. 4 co,
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1907-10-17

Kan, took dinner wish c. W. Wolfe
Monday OF last week. He was on bis
way to Henry county, Mo-, to visit
q brother. He expects to be back to
C. W. ,Wolie's Friday Of this week.
He used to live two miles east Of Viz.
giDia. He took q claim in Okla.
homa and sowed wheat on 1t this
fall, and be will 90 there as soon as
be returns.
LastSaturdey twenty. FIVE Of Moth
or Crooks old neighbors and friends
gathered at her home northeast OF
Virginia with baskets yell filed with
good things to eat and spread them
on her table. They ate together
with her celebrating her seventy fifth
birthday. Mother burst was the
Oldest person present. She Il seven.
ty. nine years old. Il Is reported
Mother Crooks enjoyed the gather
Ing Of her neighbors and friends
She was taught BY this gathering
that she was not forgotten. Al
though the hand Of affection had
been on her for many years. OF
course, some that enjoyed the dinner
Win never enjoy another one at her
home.
Mr.. Bryan and iamhy, d near
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1907-10-17
Amsterdam, passed through Park

Amsterdam, passed through Park
Town Sunday.
Willie Winery went to Kansas
City Sunday to attend school.
We see Kirk Meadows In this coun-
try again. He worked here over q
year ago.
Walter Wolfe drove to Amsterdam
Sunday, then to Amorett and back
home to keep his ponies quiet.
Mr.. Reynolds, wife and child, Of
Illinois, were visiting Andrew Simp-
son Monday and Tuesday Of this
week. They are coueins Of Andrew.
We heard two men say in Butler
Monday Of this week that the gener-
al government ought not to Issue
license to any one that sells liquor,
unless the parties have 9 state
and county permit to sell liquor. Il
would save lots Of money that ie
spent on collections. Aaron believes
that the government has no right to
collect two duties Oh Of wbiskey.
The government has q duty oil sl10
Tor every gallon Of whskey made;
81 90 on . barrel Of beer, then they
charge another duty a. license Of
e25. 90 for the privilege Of selling the
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1907-10-17

The Foster Missouri Graded Sun
day School Union was saddened to
hear OF the death Of our sweet spirit
ed, self ,sscrifcing co-worker, Mrs. W.
B. Gather, at Shawnee, Okla, Oct. 6,
1907. Mrs. Gather has been a life
long Sunday School worker, a mem.
Der and president Of the Graded Un.
ion since 1t was organized eight years
ago. This is the first time the Angel
of Death has called one OF our men,
bers. Last June she was one of the
eleven graduates In our teachers
training class.
Whereas, God seeing fit to take
from US our president, we fully real.
lie our loss of one we 80 much loved
as al efficient, spiritual worker,
whose place we cannot fill.
Resolved, LIST: That we among
the host Of her friends, extend our
tenderest sympathy to her bereaved
husband and family.
Resolved, End: That we shall ever
holdiher dear In our memory as one
who did not only her part, but all
she could for the advancement Of
Christ's Kingdom.
Resolved, 3rd: That a copy OF
these resolutions be placed in our
secretary's book, also q copy be sent
to Shawnee paper for publication.
(MRs. W. M. CAMPBELL,
Com MRS j. L. BELL,
MRS. E. E. LAUGHLIN.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1907-10-17
Foster Notes.

Mrs. hiram Bassets and son, Rollie,
have returned home. Mrs. b. has
been visiting her son, Eddie, In
Hutchinson, Kan. Rollie has been at
work in Mineral. Kan.
Mrs. Isstt, Of Worlsnd, came over
last week to see her sick father, DR.,
Newkirk. She took him to Worlsnd
Thursday. The doctor Is very low
at this writing.
How ard Arbogsst and son, Joe,
went to Pleasant Hill Monday on
business.
Lillian Shelton was In Rich Hill
Tuesday trading,
Uncle Ben Gather returned Satur,
day from Shawnee, Okla. He wss
called sometime ago on account o.
the death Of bis wife. Mr.. Gather
talks Of going to Oklahoma about
January 1st. He is well pleased with
the country.
Rally Day Exercise Sunday at the
NJ. E. Church, North, was very good
and well attended.
Grandma Briscoe is able to be al
home. Her granddaughter, Lelie
Morris, OF ElDorado Springs, will
stay with her this winter
Rev. Inniier preached at the Chris
tian Church Sunday.
Bush Collins and Walter Brisco
have returned from the summer trip
Pearl Badgett and Mrs. Fred Loyt
were shopping In Rich Hill Tuesday
Miss Belle Webb, daughter Of Mrs
d. E. Webb, WAS married a shor
time ago TO Clyde Gle, OF Milton
Kan. They will live on farm nea
Milton.
Mr.. Lyle and wife went to Ksnsa
City Saturday. Jim Boron too
his place at depot during his absence
Rev. Mathews filled his appoint
ment Sunday. ToPsY,
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1907-10-17

G. E. Garner, on Route No. 8, viii
have q sale on Tuesday, Oct. 22nd,
1907. See his advertisement in an.
other column.
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SoPyIIsHt, 1907 Dy II. II. mcclure e 70. lIustr
excel in they had us beat miles They were TIL
gr-reatest liars in TIL wurruld an formerly
friends iv tn Prisidint.
:" ALI these here things / heerd firm Hogan
an see in TIL pa-apers. l invied this wondher-
full nation. ! wisht, sometimes, tn Lord hadn't
given me two blue an sometimes red eyes an
this alkiline nose, but nose like an ear an
couple iv shoe-buttons f'r eyes. / wanted to be
Jap an belong to tn higher civvylization. Ho-
gan had Jap frind that used to come in here
with him. Hogan thought he was Prince, but
he was cook an student in theological sim
inry. They'd talk be tn hour about tn beauties
" what Hogan called tn Flowery Kingdom.
oh, wonderful land says Hogan, Land iv
chrysanthymums an cherry blossoms an gayshee
girls says he. Japan is beautiful land' says
Prince Okoko. Nippon, CHATS tn name it goes
by at home0 Nippon, l salute ye,' says Hogan.
May yicthry perch upon yeer banners, an may
ye hammer our old frinds an allies firm Nook
den to Moscow. Banza,' says he. An they en-
braced. That night, in ordher to help on TIL
cause, Hogan bought blue flower pot firm tn
Princes collection IF eighteen dollars. He took
it home indher his arm in tn rain an tn next
mornil most " tn flower pot was on his new
oveIcoat an til rest was meltin' all over thu
flure.
That was the beginnin' w TIL end " tn
frindship between tn two gr-reat nations that
owe thimsilves so much. About TIL time Hogan
got tn flower pot, th' fire sale ads an TIL
Rooshyan outrage news both stopped in tn news
pa-apers. A well-known fi-nanceer who thrav-
elled to Tokeeo with a letter iv naturalization to
tn Mickydoo firm tn Prisdint beginnin', Dear
Nick got brick put through his hat as he
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IflEeSHaaEt they both agreed we're sure to
have war with TIL Japs inside iv
two years They can see it comm. Befure very
long thin little brown hands acrost tn sea will
hand us crack in TIL eye an thin yell see
throuble"
What's it all about?" asked Mr. Hennessy
Diyyle a thing can I make out iv it." said
Mr.. Dooley. Hogan says we've got to fight fr
tn supremacy iy ih' Passyfic. Much fightin' I'd
do f'r an ocean, but havin' taken tn Philippians,
which ar-rc blamed nuisance an TIL Sandwich
Islands, thatre about as VALUABLE as toy bal
loon to horseshoer, we've got to grab lot iv
tn surroundin' dampness to protect thin. That's
wan reason why we're sure to have war. Another
reason is that tn Japs want to sind their little
forty-five-year-old childher to be iddycated in
tn San Francisco public schools. A third reason
why it looks like war TO Hogan an tn Alderman
is that they'd been dhrinkin' together.
/" Wud We iver have thought twas possible
that amy wan in this country cud even talk iy
war with thin delightful, cunning little Dry
entails? Why, It's less thin two years since Ho-
gan was comm home firm tn bankit iy tn
Union iv Usurers with his arms around tn top
iy Jap's head while th' Jap clutched Hogan
affectionately about tn waist an they sung
Gawd Save tn Mickydoo.' Dye raymimber how
we hoHcfed WIN JOY Wnln a fooshyan Admiral
put his foot through til bottom iv man-iv-war
an sunk it. An how We cheered in tn theaytre
to see tn, cute little sojers iv tn Mickydoo now
in down th' brutal Rooshyan moojiks with
masheen guns. An fin'lly whin TIL Japs had
gone thousand miles into Rooshyan territory
an were about busted an ayether had to stop
fightin' or not have car fare home our worthy
President, We know who ! mean, jumped to tn
front an cried: Boys, stop it, It's gone far
enough to satisfy tn both " ye' An tn angeliv
peace brooded over tn earth an crowed Justify
Day afther day til pa-apers come out an
declared, in tn column next to tn half-page ad
" tn Koppenheimer bargain sale that tn defeat
" Rooshya was a judgment iv tn Lord on tn
Car. If We saw Jap anywhere We asked him
to take a drink
Hogan talked about nawthin' else They
were wonderful little people. How they had
divilopedl Nawthin' in tn histhry " tn wurrud
was akel to tn way they'd come up. They cud
shoot straighter an oftener thin amy other ma
ton. Jap cud march three hundred miles
day f'r eight days with nawthin' to eat but a
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-01-06
Bread Winning Romance
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ride ON the new turnpike between Toledo and Fort
WAYNE between four-forty and four-forty- five?"
Tomorrow she sighed rapturousy.
Silently he puffed away in the gathering dusk
1t ls the next afternoon, and Harold Is scooting
along the turnpike Columbus Ohio. Suddenly
his heart leaps Ahead of him he espies the familiar
figure of Elizabeth clad in coonskin mantle as she
throbs along gracefully He joins her, and they
side by side along the road They reach Indianap-
oils. Suddenly Harold pauses as a tall, dark man
crosses in front of him.
There goes" he cried. +" the blacklist villain who
darkened this earth. Before get through with
him he'll be in Paris lodging extradtion He robbed
my father. He sold him sixty-year gold bond en-
dowment annuity. Three times have had him in
court. Three times the Attorney General has served
an injunction on me to him. But l will have
him yet
Just then Elizabeth looked up Good heavens"
she exclaimed. My father!"
" Then we must part he said
:" But love you uadly" she replied.
" Be mine. Elizabeth" he cried. poor, but
as long as there are mining prospectuses in Nevada
that need charters you will never suffer. We will
buy little mansion in Poughkeepsie whence can
come to New York every day to my daily graft. We
will watch the orchids climb and hear the paradise
birds singing in the trees
:. Happiness she exclaimed, as he casped her In
his manly embrace.
Thus they rode in the gathering dusk.
The next day they eoped in their trusty cars. Her
father pursued them holly in his two-hundred power
Hardpan but they eluded him near Montreal and
married tho sank beneath the Rocky
Mountains After the insurance investigation Har-
old gathered his extra profits from his fathers
dowment policy, and they lived happily ever after.
TO BE WRITTEN IN 1917
In the coming version of this romance now In the
course of preparation Harold meets Elizabeth some
what the Palisades-two thousand feet above
them. in fact. lie finds her drifting helpessy the
empyrean for want of an anchor rope and few
sandbags. These our young hero supplies. and he
and his lady love float the Fort Lee tunnel to
the roof of the parental mansion BY this time her
father has become advanced Socialist and Is still
the superlatvey saturnine villain of his day ard
generation He Is. however. foiled usual. Harold
and Elizabeth elope in their $4,000 cubic foot capac-
ity drigble airship ana are pursued by the old
in his acceptance. They elude him Labrador,
and welded the following afternoon near the
wireless telegraph station Greenland. Harold
buys New York suburban cottage in Tennessee.
Journeys to and fro daily in the pneumatic air tube
connecting these localities and the young coupla
again manage to live happily thereafter.
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wint to visit tn foorth assistant to tn manicure
WITH eighth assistant to tn plumber " TIL brick
layer iv tn Mickydoo, which is tn nearest to his
Majesty that foreign eyes ar-re permitted to
look upon. A little later number iv Americans
in private life who whit over to rayceve in per-
son tn thanks iy tn Impror f'r what they'd done
IF him talkin' ar-round tn bar at tn Union
League Club, were FORCED be tn warmth iv
their raycption to take refuge in tn house iv tn
Rooshyan counsel, TIL next month some iv tn
subjects iv our lifelong frind an ally were shot
while hookn' seals firm our side " tn Passyfic.
Next week a prominent Jap'nese statesman was
discovered payin' socyal visit to tn Philip
poems. He had with him at tn time two cam
eras, couple " line men, surveyin' tools, thou
sand feet iv tape line an bag " dinnymite
bombs. Last month tn Jap'nese Governmint
wrote to tn Prisdint: Most gracious an Devil
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he made such faces that his opponent dhropped
his soord an thin he uttered blood curdin' cry.
waved his soord four hundred an fifty times
over th' head iv tn victim OF in tn case iv
Samuri eight hundred an ninety-six, give a
whoop resimblin' our English wurrud tag an
Glove him to tn feet. AS with us on'y tn lower
classes engaged in business. Th' old arrystocracy
distained to thrade but started banks an got all
tn money. TIL poor man had splendid chance.
He cud devote his life to paintin' wan rib iv
fan Fl which he got two dollars, or he cud
become cab horse. An even in tn wan branch
iv art that Westhren civvyization is supposed to
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childher, an that It's no pleasant sight to see
Jap'nese pupil conbin' set iv grey whiskers an
larnin': Mary had q little lamb and if tn
Prisldint wants thin to enther tn schools he'll
nave to load thin in cannon an shoot thin in.
We'd bate thin IN fight" said Mr.. Hen
messy. They cudden't stand up befure a
gr-reat, sthrong nation like ours"
~ We think were great an sthrong," said
Mr.. Dooley. But maybe we only look fat to
thin. Annyhow, we might roll on thin. Wud-
dent it be th' grand thing though if they licked
us an we signed threaty " peace with thin an
with tears iv humiliation in our eyes handed
thin TIL Ph'lippeens!"
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'ns Copyright, 1907, by The New York Times.
derin' Majesty, Impror iv tn Sun, austere an
patient Father iv tn Stars, it has come to our
benign attintion that in wan lv ye'er populous
domains our little prattlin' childher who ARE
over forty years " age ar-re not admitted to tn
first reader classes in tn public schools Oh,
brother beloved we adore ye. Had ye not butted
in with ye'er hivenly binivolence we wudve
shook Rooshya down f'r much iv her hateful
money Now we must prove our affection with
acts. 1t is our intintion to sind fleet to visit
ye'er shores, partickly San Francisco, where we
understand tn echool system is well worth
studYn'.'
AM there ye ar-re, Hinnissy. Th' frindship
ceninted two years ago with blood an beers is
busted. I don't know whether anything will
happen. Hogan thinks so, but I amt sure. TIL
Prisidint has announced that rather thin see
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est man in Japan cud sind his daughter
to tea house, which is tn same as our
female Summaries, where she remained till
she graduated as tn wife iv some proud noble iv
thu old Samuri push. Their art had ours
thrimmed to FRAGILE. TIL Jap artist OCaseys
pitcher iv lady leanin' on river while COW
walked up her back, was tn loyeliest thing in tn
wurruld. They were tn greatest athletes liver
known. A japanese child with ricketts, cud throw
Jiffries over church. They had secret iv
rasslin' be which a Jap rassler cud blow on his
opponents eyeball an break his ankle. They
were tn finest soordsmen that iver'd been seen.
Win a japanese soordsman whit into a combat
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-01-06
BY Warwick James Price.

BY Warwick James Price.
Tho old years dead!
And whether It stool friend or foe,
And whether chime or knell 1t heard.
Whate'er It held of veal or Woe
To-day it rests a-sepuchred,-
To-day its requiem is said.
The old years dead.
The old Years dead,
And as in retrospect we look
Across Its fading, travelled ways,
We read, as from an omen book.
or much to blame, OF less to praise.
We lived Enough. Those hours are sped. 3
The old years dead,
Tho new year comes!
lit comes With offerings masked and blind:
With days of SUM- with weeks of shade
Sweet kernels in It's stubborn rind
For him who meets it unafraid;
With cake as Well as crusts and crumbs
The new Year comes.
The new year comes.
And he who rides into It's lists,
Strong in the schooling OF tho past
Will hear down all antagonists.
And faro forth conqueror AT last
IT'S cheerful work that solves all sumsl
The new year comes!
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wan octoginaryan Jap pre-
vented firm learnin' his
a-bee-abs he will divas-
tate San Francisco with
fire, flood, dynamite, an
personalities. But San
Francisco had had a pref
ty good bump lately an
wud hardly turn over
in its sleep f'r an in
vasion.. Out there they're
beginnin' to talk about
what n C 9 people TIL
Chinese ar-re compared
with our old frin d $
an alleys. They say
that TIL Jap'nese grow
up too fast f'r tneir
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)GAN waa in here just now" said
Mr.. Dooley, "an' he tells me he
was talkin' with th' Alderman an
they both agreed we're sure to
have war with TIL Japs inside iy
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gumdrop. They we're
highly civvylized. 1t was
an old civvylization, but
not tainted be age. Mill
yons iv years befure TIL
first white man set fut
in Milwaukee TIL Japs
undershtud tn nanny
facther iv patent wiring
gers, SEWN macheens,
reapers, telephones, au-
tymobills, ice cream
fre e zers, an all TIL
other Wonders iv our
boasted Westhren di-
'IiOpeiiicilt.
" Their custom showed
how highly they'd been
ciyvylizcd. Whin a Jap
soldier was defeated
rather thin surrender
an be stint home to have
his head cut off he wud
stab himself in tn STUN
mick. Their treatment
iv women put thin on a
higher plane thin ours.
Cinchries ago befure tn
higher iddycation " wo-
men was dhreamed iv in
his country, tn poor
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The Fruitage of The Years

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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-01-06
By Nellie Best-Seller, Author of
!" Editors Who Haze Rejected Me /"
and "Judicious' Fzirtations With
Chunks of Atn1osDhere. -
AS WRITTEN IN 1897.

AS WRITTEN IN 1851.
LIzABETH DE HAUTvILLE.- loved
Harold Higgins. Her father was
millionaire politician and Harold was
young. poor lawyer They met near
the top OF the Palisades one Summer
afternoon whiIo tha,, usr. .rIa,,;n,
Los Angeles herald., 1907-11-08
FORGOTTEN ORDERS
CAUSE TWO DEATHS
JoIted from Cab When Engine Strikes
Dead Rail and Both the
Men Are Instantly
Killed
By Associated Press.

BY Associated Press.
SAN BERNARDINO, Nov. 7.-Conduc-
tor J. G. McGregor ano Brakeman j. j..
Stauffer of Santa Fes Cotton switching
crew lost their lives tonight mile north
of Cotton.
They were jolted from the running
board on the head end of their engine,
which had plunged onto a dead end of
an zee house track used during the past
few days while the main line was under
going repairs.
The repairs were completed late this
afternoon and orders were given the Col
ton switching crew to use the main line.
These orders were overlooked and the
crew took the. ice house track, which
at the junction with the main line had
been cut out.
The men had no warning, the engine
plunging into the ditcn. jolting McGregor
and Stauffer from their positions. Both
fell to the roadbed and were instantly
killed beneath the engine tender.
McGregor leaves a wife and family
Stauffer had been employed on this Sec
ton about six weeks, coming here from
Winnemucca, New.