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The Rich Hill tribune. (Rich Hill, Mo.) 1903-1911, 1907-05-30

Circuit court meets In Butler let
Monday in February. May and
October,
county court meets lat Monday IN
February. Aay, August and No
vember.
Probate court meets End Monday
en- February, May, August aud No
Vembor.
The Rich Hill tribune. (Rich Hill, Mo.) 1903-1911, 1907-05-30
LOCAL HAPPENINGS.

Saturday
Walter Vail Of ST. Louis arrived
here Thursday on a visit to home
folks.
Mrs. Watt Dawson and child
OF Butler spent Sunday with rel
~atives here.
DR.. Slater's dental office will
be closed hereafter on Monday
and Tuesday.
DR.. Claude Allen went to Kan
sas City Friday noon on a couple
of weeks visit.
C. f Wager of the Rees Coal
Co. was a passenger for Pitts
burg, Kansas Friday.
Miss ortha Gethings and
mother departed Saturday noon
for Corona, Kans. on a shoIt
visit.
Miss Juliet Harper, n of Ne
vada's bellies, was here last week
the guest Of Miss Kittie Fer
guson.
Last week the Rich Hill Bank
recovered judgement for over
five thousand dollars against the
Bates County Bank.
win Royce arrived here Thurs
day from southern Missouri and
other places where he has been
listing for some time.
Mrs. NJ. A. Condra called g few
days ago and had the TRIBUNE
sent to her daughter, Mrs. T. B.
Taylor, Columbus, Kans.
Henry Klumpp has purchased
the Huddleson property and will
now live IN not his own hired
house but his own purchased
house.
Prof. S, o. King was a pleasant
caller at this office last Friday.
He is principal of our south side
school and gives very general
satisfaction.
HarVe Johnson Of Butler came
down to mingle with old friends.
Harye has the smile that won't
wear off since his starting out
in double harness.
Everybody ought to read and
invariably digest the statement
of county finances as made by
County Clerk Weeks and pub
lished in the Bates County Demo
crat.
]. d. Moore, Vice-P President
and j. w. Jamison, Cashier OF
the Farmers and Manufacturer
Bank, attended the Bankers
Convention in Kansas City last
week.
The Warrensburg State Nor
mai doesn't forget the editor.
We are in receipt Of an invitation
to attend the commencement ex-
ercises that occur Wednesday,
June 5.
A call over the telephone last
Friday indicates that SlleriG
Beard has so far recovered from
his recent severe sickness that
he Is able to be about his OH vial
duties.
Gabe" Hedden, the Reviews
quaint and ioyial correspondent
from the Fairview neighborhood,
was in town Saturday, expector.
ating tobacco juice and Cdis) cus-
sing the crop prospects.
!. s. Short, a Rich Hill miner,
who was bad ~ hurt by falling
slate in the coal mines at Cornell,
kans. week before last, died on
Friday Of Ast week and his re.
mains brought 10 Rich Hill Tor
burial He leaves a wife and four
children.
Mrs; John w. Jamlsou and
The Rich Hill tribune. (Rich Hill, Mo.) 1903-1911, 1907-05-30

Meetings Of Township Board
FIRST Wednesday after nrst Tues
day 10 April
first Tuesday after nrst Monday
IN July.
Third Monday Of November Of
each year az ofice Of the township
-elerk.
New-York tribune., 1907-06-30
SOME STRANGE EsaUIMAU CUSTOMS,

The natives OF the Yukon River region hold a
festival of the dead every year shortly before
Christmas and u greater festival at Intervals OF
several years At these seasons food drink ana
clothes provided for tho returning shosts III
the clubhouse OF the village. which Is illuminated
for tho occasion with oil lamps. Every man or
woman who wishes to honor dead friend sets uP
q lamp a stand IN front of the place when the
dead used TO occupy In the clubhouse lhesc
lamps filed with seal OIL kept burning day
and night until the festival IS They are De
lieved TO light the shades their return 20 ther
old home and back again to the land of the dead
II any fails to put up lamp in the clubhouse
and TO keep IL burning. the shade whom he or she
desires TO honor could find its way the place.
and so would miss the feast. When a person has
been much disliked his ghost Is sometimes pur-
posely ignored, and that is deemed the severest
punishment that could be inflicted upon him After
the songs of invitation to the dead have been sung
the gvers OF the feast take q small portion OF food
from every dish and cast II down Offering TO
the shades: then each pours a little water on the
floor. that IL runs through the cracks. In this
the food and water is conveyed TO the souls. With
songs and dances the feast comes to an end and
the ghosts dismissed to their place. The
dancers dance. not only In the clubhouse. but also
at the graves, and the ice IL the dead met their
deaths by drowning. On the or festival the
nearest male relative goes to the grave and sum
mons the ghost by planting there a small model of
a seal spear or of a wooden dish. according 3 the
dead a a woman. The totems of the
who have none to make offerings to them are be-
neved to suffer great destitutiOn. Hence the Es-
quimaus fear To die without leaving behind them
some one who will sacrifice 10 their spirit and
chtldless people generally adopt children lest their
shades DO forgotten at the festiyalA
New-York tribune., 1907-06-30
THE MARINE COWBOY.

Cattleboating 20 England Is rapidly becoming
the summer outing which nowadays finds favor
with the couegian. From early spring of the
present year shipping agents along the Atlantic
seaboaTd were deluged with applications from
the colleges for positions Cattlemen. Every
craft which in juno put out of Montreal. Bos-
ton. New York or Philadelphia with a shifty
cargo or steers for the British market carried
delegation OF highly educated youths to attend
10 the wants of the longhOrns Reservations in
the forecaste became almost as common as In
tho first cabin area. The romance In the idea
OF donntng corduroys and playing master to
wild Western buuocks may be cited as part of
the motive for the appearance OF numbers of
colegians in the cattle pens tween decks. Then.
too, for many 1t was the beef route alone which
made wanderings abroad possible.-The Travel
Magazine.
New-York tribune., 1907-06-30
THE NEW HUDSON RIVER BRIDGE

The magnitude of the projected Hudson River
Bridge does not at first strike the unthinking
person; but when IT does strike II comes with a
breathess. aerial significance. 1t Will be tho
eighth wonder of the world and the eyes of for
eign engineers are turned TO New York with
pectancy.
The plans of the new structure are practically
those of the original North River project II
was long step from a 1.7OO-foot span Ghen and
still the longest in the world to over three thou
sand feet the distance TO be covered between
the piers on either side Of the broad Hudson
To make a bridge almost double the length OF
the Brooklyn Bridge meant building the towers
nearly twice as high. and. in order 10 allow for
additional roadways and tracks the bridge of
double length must bo also twice as wide Thus
tho propos ition involved was really very much
moro than building a bridge with a double length
span-for three dimensions had 10 be Consid-
erod. making the entire structure nearly eight
times as large as the brooklyn Bridge
At first other engineers were Ioath to believe
that modern materials made possible 30 great a
bridge. But the entire profession is now agreed
that the bridge is possible and practicable; and
their estimates OF construction cost vary be-
tween $33,OUoOOO and $50.O0oO0. depending
upon the number Of tracks and the carrying ca
pacity designated. These figures do not include
the cost OF approaches or Of right OF way
1t IS an astonishing feat that IS contemplated
this OF suspend!ng between steel towers distant
more than half mile eight great railway tracks
and Your dr1VeWays AS n triumph OF engineer
ing tho work will have equal There Will be
four stupendous towers at tho piers. each sug-
gestng III appearance the celebrated Eifel
tower. These four towers will be about eight
hundred feet from foundation stones to top
They viii carry the eight mammoth steel cables
that will curve gracefully across tho noble Hud-
son and support the two-deck. steel truss bridge
one hundred and forty feet wide. capable OF
transporting a hundred thousand persons In one
hour, without undue crowding.-Charles H
Cochrane, in The Broadway Magazine
New-York tribune., 1907-06-30
L1NCOLN,s USUAL SWEAR WORD

On one occasion Lincoln, when entering the
telegraph office. was heard to remark to Secre-
tary Seward, by jings! governor. we are hero
at last" Turning to him in a reproving manner.
Mr.. Seward said: Mr. President, where did you
learn that inelegant oxpresslon?" Without re-
plying 10 the Secretary Lincoln addressed the
operators. saying: Young gentlemen excuse
me for swearing before you '3v Jings' IS swear
ing. for my good old mother tau SHIT me that any
thing that had a by before It swearing"
The only time. however, that Lincoln was ever
heard really to on the occasion of his
receiving q telegram from Burnside, who had
been ordered q week before TO go to the relief
Of Rosecrans at Chattanooga, who was in great
danger of attack from Bragg. On that day
Burnside telegraphed from Jonesboro. further
away from Rosecrans than he when he re-
ceived the order TO hurry toward him. When
Burnside's telegram was placed in Lncoln's
New-York tribune., 1907-06-30
NOON AT PAESTUM.

On the Temple of Posefdon)
Lord OF the Sea, we sun-hlled creatures raise
Our hands among the clamorous weeds,-we
too,
Lord OF the Sun. and Of the upper blue.
OF all Tomorrow. and all yesterdays.
Here. where the thousand broken names and
ways
OF worship are but shards we wandered
through.
There IS gift to offer, undo;
There is no prayer left in US. only praise.
Only TO glory in this glory here.
Through the dead smoke OF myriad sacritlce;-
TO look through these blue spaces. blind and
clear
Even the seaward gaze of Homer's eyes:
And from high heart and cup. red wine to pour
Unto the Unknown God.-We ask no more.
Josephine Preston Peabody, in The Atlantic.
New-York tribune., 1907-06-30

right TO the remainder. If there are no children
and the man makes a deed of sale. 1t must be
publicly announced, and any one Of kin as near
as the seventh degree may stop the transaction
and purchase the land himself. One easily
understands why land remains in the same fam
flies for generations.
man dies. leaving personal property. IL Is
divided into many shares plus one as there
are children; the oldest son selects two shares,
and the other children choose one each In order
OF age-the original division. to insure fairness.
having been made by tho youngest who. per-
force, takes the share that IS finally left-Rob-
ert Shackleton, in Harper's.
New-York tribune., 1907-06-30
0be July Magazines.
Wonders OF the HunnanBrain-An In
sane Horse.

upon which the tenant pays interest at from 10
10 80 per cent from the time Of signing the con-
tract in November, although most of the sup
plies are not taken out until the next summer.
Besides this interest the planter also makes
large profit on all the groceries and other ne
cessties furnished by his supply store. Having
made his contract the negro goes to work with
his whole family and keeps at it until next fall
when the cotton is all picked and ginned. Then
he comes in for his settlement-a great time OF
year. The settlements were going forward While
I was in the black belt The negro Is credited
with the amount of cotton he brings in, and he
is charged with all the supplies he has had, and
interest, together with the rent Of his thirty
acres of land. If the season has been good and
he has been Industrious, he will often have a
rice profit in cash. but sometimes he not only
does not come out even but closes his year or
work actually in deeper debt to the landlord
Ray Stannard Baker, in T. American Maga-
zine
New-York tribune., 1907-06-30
DESERT LURE.

The hills are cleaning brass, and bronze tho
peaks,
The mesas are brazen, molten sea,
And cen the heavens blue ininity,
ITndimmed by kindly cloud through arid weeks,
Seems polished turquoise. Like a sphinx she
speaks,
The scornful Desert: What wouldst thou
from me?"
And in our hearts answer her: all three
Unlike, for each different treasure seeks.
One sought adventure. and the Desert gave;
His restless heart found rest beneath her
sands.
One sought but gold; he dug his soul grave
The Deserts gift worked evil In his hands.
One sought for beauty; him she made her slave
Turn back! No her witched gift with
stands.
Charles Lawrence Edholm. IN Ainslee's
New-York tribune., 1907-06-30
THE CRAZE FOR PEARL HUNTING.


Twenty years ago n pearl craze started in
Wisconsin. Every one dug clans Mills stopped
and tho water was drawn from the mill ponds
that the people might get mussels more easily.
report, 100000 worth OF pearls found in
Wisconsin, Sugar River alone yielding $4,000
worth before becoming exhausted. Al that time
river pearls were not valued highly rs "Ori-
entails but they eagerly bought by
jewellers. Several years ago button factories
were established at various points the Mis-
sissippi River. Men collected CLAIMS and sold tho
shells TO these factories TO be mado into pearl
buttons. Some pearls found. and another
started. Men hocked the river from
all walks of life. White mon. red men, black
men. brown and women, all came, though
after a month Of sun. wind and riycr-watcr cof-
fee, racial characteristics were not conspicuous.
In the summer OF 1902 it was said that 10000
men We're claiming the Mississippi and It's
tributaries In the spring of the next year tho
rush was even greater but this did not last long.
Owing to the everlasting of the previous season
the market was already overstocked and tho
price OF shells had dropped low that by July
comparatively few boats at work. Many
enormous beds that were thought inexhaustIbIo
had given out, the shell buyers rejected 80 many
shells (only about quarter Of those caught
salabe even at tho low prices then pre-
vailing) that in the latter part OF the the
river almost desertcd.-T. 2. Giddings In
Outing
New-York tribune., 1907-06-30

hands he said. Damn Jonesboro." He then
telegraphed Burnside as follows
September q. 1863
"If you are to do any good to Rosecrans it will
not do 10 waste time at Jonesboro.
"A LINCOLN"
David Homer Bates. In The Century.
New-York tribune., 1907-06-30
HIS TROUBLE SONG.

Graveyard rabbit. in de dark de moon;
One-string banjer playin' OF a chune;
An ef 1 gifts ter glory I'll halter go dar soon
Chiun de wOrl wuz bon fer trouble!
Blacksnake runnin' de lizard fer a race:
Sun IN 90 rain-cloud. washin' of his face;
And ef I gifts to glory does you think I'll know
de place?
Chlun de worl wuz bon fer trouble?
Prank l. Stanton. In Uncle Remus's Magazine.
New-York tribune., 1907-06-30
THE LURE OF THE MOUNTAINS.

THE LURE OF THE MOON1A1-NFo-
over the cable from the other side of the world
recently came the news that the Workmans had
at last succeeded in ascending the Himalayas
to a height of over twenty thousand feet above
the sea For years husband and wife have eX-
plored and studied these the earths hghest
peaks To mount TO the very tops has been thelr
life ambition, and 1t has remained for woman
to exclaim "Excelslorl" for Mrs. Hunter Work
man has performed the greatest achievement
in mountain climbing. ascending $50 feet higher
than her husband. But while these intrepid
American mountaineeI5 were in the Aslatc up
per world the Duo d'Abruzzi, the Italian con-
oueror of st. Elias, had succeeded In penetrating
the almost unknown regions about the mountains
of the Moon. At last this mystery TO the AFRICAN
amber has been cleared away, and man has
stood on the highest summit OF Ruwenzorf a1ter
overcoming difficulties which seemed wellnigh
impossible, since these peaks are SO far removed
from the nearest human habitation. The next
message was that DR.. Cook has finally succeeded
in his endeavor to ascend Mckinley. whlch low
ers above st. Elias. In Alaska
But these men and women who risk life ana
spend time and fortune in the effort TO surIIlount
one OF the great points OF the world 90 not
strive merely for the knowledge they may add
to the fund we possess Interest IN the ologles
is not all Ask one Of them. rs It worth while;
does IT pay?" and he will give the same answer
as the novice who stands Tacoma for the first
4ir,e-'oYes O. thousan,fold" They know the ex-
hilaration that comes % the one VINO stalus
where only the heavens above. the earth at
his feet unfoded IN a sCNlime panorama PAIN
hunger exhaustion are ror the time forgotten in
the feeling Of exultation that IS his
To the Lure of the Mountains do we owe many
of the most important additions In geography,
geology and natural histc-y, but TO II we also
owe much of the increasing love for the out
doors. for adventure which Is harmless and
healthful for the life that makes man look up
not down-Day Allan Wiley. in Putnams.
New-York tribune., 1907-06-30
WELLMAN's AIRsHIP AMERICA.

In seeking the North Pole in an airship II is no
toy that We are playing with. The America is no
plaything, no fragile, short-iived balloon built
to run for few hours as the wind llsteth. and
then succumb-but machine, big and stout,
steel muscled full lunged. strong hearted. built
for war; for work, for endurance able to fight
the winds that sentry the Pole. and perhaps 10
defeat them It is no flight of rhetoric to say
that this airship is huge. 1t is gigantic. Its
length is 1873 feet and its greatest diameter 52.5
feet. The steel car underneath It is 115 feet
long, and from the bottom of this car TO the top
of the gas reservoir the distance is So feet, the
height OF four story house. The surface OF the
gas reservoir or balloon Is 24.000 square feet or
more than half acre. and the weight of the
envelope Of cotton. silk and rubber is two tons
When the ship sets out upon its voyage it will
embrace. all told. moro than twenty thousand
pounds--ten tons-of material and cargo.-Wal-
ter Welrnan, IN McClures.
New-York tribune., 1907-06-30
BEFORE THE PARTY.

Host-why did you write all guests that this
be q very informal AFFAIR."
Hostess-So Ia be SURE 10 be tho best dressed
here.-Iife.
New-York tribune., 1907-06-30
HONEST ICELAND.

The people OF Iceland honest that t, -
are neither prisons police IN the country, !.
said that there have been only Two tns1ls ~ w.
thousand years.-Tit-Bits -
New-York tribune., 1907-06-30
OUR WONDERFUL BRAIN.

The discovery of a special speech region in
the brain furnished a key for unlocking one
chamber after another of this mysterious physi-
cal organ OF the mind. Even as regards the fac
ulty of speech itself, il was soon revealed that
IL had three separate anatomical seats in the
brain-one for hearing words, another for seeing
and third for speaking them.
How separate and distinct from this uttering
centre the brain place for reading is, Illus
trated by a lady patient of mine, who
astonished one morning at finding that she could
got read word In anything whether newspaper
or book. She thought something must be wrong
with her eyes but she everything about the
room as well as ever and could sew and knit.
l tested her speech carefully. and found that she
could hear every word addressed TO her and
could talk remarkably we'll. Her reading brain
centre, however, had been destroyed in the night
without her waking, by plug in the little ar
tery which supplies that place. and she forth
with became as illiterate as a Papuan savage,
nor did she learn to read again, succumbing to
epopleXy two years afterwerd.
Generally more than one speech centre is in
jured by an epoplectic hemorrhage in the brain,
as was the case with patient Of mine a gen.
tleman who one morning lost not only all power
of utterance, but also all ability to read. He
could however, hear words perfectly, and
strange to tell, he proved that the place for
erithmetical figures Is II a different brain 10
cality from that for words, because he could
read and write figures and calculate every kind
Of sum in large business transactions which he
successfully conducted for seven years after
ward, without once being able 10 speak word
or even TO read his own sgnature-Dr William
Hanna Thomson, in Everybodys.
New-York tribune., 1907-06-30
LONDON CHILD

LONDON CHILDREN AS WAGE FARMERS.
In London there are $4,000 school children,
4SOooO Of them over seven years old, and OF
these 3O,So0 are half-time wage earners About
half Of them spend during each week twenty
seven hours in school and more than twenty
hours in work In district such children
work from fourteen to fifty hours q week and
are paid at the rate OF one to two cents an
hour In small laundries the helpers are en-
ployed for two or three nights week until 10
o'clock and all day on Saturdays. working IN a
steam laden atmosphere and amid surroundings
that distinctly undesirable. Lather boys in
barber shops have hours that are much too long,
never less than forty a week. They are usually
busy from TO 10 every evening, all day and
until midnight Saturday. and on Sunday from
TO 9 In the morning. and from l to = in the
afternoon. Grocers' boys average twenty hours
a week for wages equal TO from 70 cents TO 81
a week. when money IS paid, but 1t is the GUS
tom Of the trade 10 give food in payment. Mes
senger boys and girls employed by miliners.
dressmakers and IN small shops oftentrnes work
from fifty to hfty-nine hours week. Half
timers who undertal1ers' boys are engaged
in the cheerful business of measuring Corpses
for a shilling week.-The Craftsman.