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The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1908-04-02
The Prevailing Hat.

From the Philadelphia Ledger.
Therelwa q frown on the face OF
the man. "Is's no use talking he
said firmly; 81 will not have the 'front.'
door wldened.'
"But It's such a love Of a hat. she
replied, almost teariully.
"If you're bound TO have the TOOL
thing you can keep 1t in the garage"
he rejoined. but with the brutal
obstinscy OF his sex refused to make
farther concession.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1908-04-02
Calls PaImistry Absurd.
New YoY.; Times.

VNSW iW - AhhSes
"Pamistry is an absolute absurd
ity; the whole thing Is beneath con.
tempt" declared Prof. Stirling, dean
OF the medical faculty and professor
o, physiology at Victoria University,
Manchester, in the course OF a lecture
at the Royal Institution this week.
'"Look at your palms." he contin-
ued, "and you will find certain clas.
steal lines. These lines-the social.
ed lines OF life, heart, and head, and
the girdle OF Venus, and the brace
let's Of life around your wrists-what
do you suppose they really are?
They are nothing more nor less than
creases or folds produced qy the &C
tion OF the muscles. The line OF heart,
for instance, is the fixture OF the four
fingers. The line Of life is the result
OF the action OF the thumb. All these
lines that have been given sstrono.
mical names by pslmists are chsrac.
teristic flaxures. You will find the
same lines on the palm OF the bar
barry ape. Humanity is daily gulled
through it's extraordinary ignorance
OF the elemeutalfacts oiphysiology."
Prof Stirling placed finger prints
in a very different category. The
print OF the thumb alone, he said,
was sufficient to identify Q person for
all time.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1908-04-02

Is partly covered by insurance. The
construction OF the house was SO
substantial that the flames made
siow headway. A detective fiue csus.
ed the fire.
The residence was landmark of
pioneer days and had entertained
Thomas Fl. Benton, Washington
Irving and other famous men.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1908-04-02
Historic Homestead Burns.

Columbia, Missouri, Msrch.-"La
Grange" the old Rollins homestead,
occupied BY the Rollins family more
than seventy.one years, was entirely
destroyed by Ere last Wednesday. A
crowd Of 5000 gathered. Students
from the university, including atty
or more goods, assisted the family
In saving furniture, plate and heir
looms from the flames. The girls
carried ont curtains, hangings and
bric-a-brac.
The loss amounts TO $4,000 and
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1908-04-02
Pe-ru-na for Her Children.

Mrs. Alice Boyle, SOB Clinton St.,
Circleville, Ohio, writes:
"I want to inform you what Peruna
has done for me.
~ have been afflicted with catarrh
for several years. | have tried differ
ent medicines and none seemed to do
me any good until l used Peruna.
have taken six L.sttles and can praise it
very highly for the good it has done me.
~ also find it of great benefit to my
children"
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1908-04-02
|MRS.J.C.RUSSELL.
Acute Indigestion.

Mr.. John c. Russell, $40 County
Street, Portsmouth, Va, writes
regarding his wife's case as fol-
lows:
~ thought 1t would be doing
but justice to your great medicine
to tell you what it has done for
my wife.
"Two years ago the doctor called
at our house, on an average, three
times week, in attendance upon
my wife, who was suffering from
acute indigestion. Her suffering
was so great that nothing but
morphine would give her relief.
"While on a visit to some friends
in Norfolk she had an attack and
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1908-04-02
DekaIb Buys the Saloons Out.

X. C. Star.
+. W. Hagenstein, u merchant OF
Dekalk, Mo-, was talking at a hotel
about local option.
"My county-Buchanan county
.is almost sure to go wet" he said.
But We don't fear anything from
that. We have another plan. lu-
stead OF having preachers come in to
talk against the evils OF liqu0r. We
buy the saloons out and close them.
Eve bought four myself"
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1908-04-02
A Twenty Year Sentence.

II have just completed a twenty
year health sentence, imposed by
Bucklen's Arnica Salve, which cured
me Of bleeding piles just twenty
years ago." writes o. 8. Woolver, Of
LsRaysville, N. 7. Bucklen's Arnica
salve heals the worst sores, boils,
barns, wounds and cuts IN the short
est time. 25c at Frank T. Clay's
drug store.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1908-04-02
f0und-A Carrier Piqeon.

Muskogee, Ok, March 81 A laer.
chant at lnola, Ok has pet shat
he would Ike TO find the owrer ~.
1t is a carrier pigeon and has been
kept at his store for some time. It
arrivediat nightiall some time ago
very tired and apparently loss. 1t
has remained ever since, With f,t, ,iP-
parent disposition so leave. On one
OF the legs OF the pigeon Is a silver
band on which is engraved the ,ol-
lowing:
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1908-04-02
Gained Thirty
Pounds.

in half hour, and her pains passed
away. Since that time my wife has
gained thirty pounds.
"We are never out of Peruna. When the
children or l have a cold we take some of
mammals Peruna. / find it has cut my
doctor bills down to almost nothing"
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1908-04-02

pared to go for
the doctor, when
our friend proposed
Peruna. / gave her
a dose, repeating il
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1908-04-02
Pe-ru-nd Tablets.

For two years DR.. Hartman and his
assistants have necessarily labored to
create Peruna in tablet form, and their
strenuouslabors have just been crowned
with success. People @ho object to
liquid medicines can now secure Peruna
tablets. Each tablet is equivalent to one
average dose of peruna.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1908-04-02
Catarrh of Worst Form.

Mrs. Amanda Long, 1881 Seeley
Avenue, Chicago, H., writes:
IL believe that | am cured of catarrh
Of the worst form and of long standing.
81 was almost total wreck. l tried
almost everything and doctored with q
number of doctors, but they did me no
good.
~ tried Peruna as last resort, and by
the time had taken one bottle could
see that it was helping me, and so l con-
tinued taking it. l can say now that
have not felt the slightest symptoms for
three months, and / think there is
nothing like Peruna. j still keep it in
the house, and think there is no medi-
cine like it. cannot praise it too highly,
and bless the day that learned of it,"
Mrs. Judge j. F. Boyer, li21 Sherman
Avenue, Evanston, ILL.,, writes that sew
eral complications united in pulling her
down, and she thanks Peruna for new
life and strength.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1908-04-02

I. \. B., '02, II 500.
The Bossier banner., 1908-06-18

Ot FIFTEEN DAYS offer the of Benton
Parish saving which they will ememleran
worthy
that really backed
worlds
OF stock
The Bossier banner., 1908-06-18

be found exceedingly convenient for
cleaning bitches, says the Washington
Star Cleaning ditch with an Ordi
nary shovel entails almost as much
work as rolling peanut with tooth
pick.
shovel proper is rounded to correspond
with the contour of the ditch, provid
ing Il convenient means of reaching
dirt in the lower recesses of the ditch
The shovel is supported from the han
die by an adjustable angle lever, it be
ing possible to tilt the blade of the
shovel at any desired angle
The Bossier banner., 1908-06-18
Rural Delivery and Good Roads.

The annual report of the fourth as
sistant postmaster general states that
at the close of the fiscal year there
were 37,72S rural free delivery routes
served by 3T,5S2 carriers. During the
year 2,312 new routes were established
increase in operation of 1.96o- The re
port pays considerable attention to the
subject of road improvement. 1t Is
stated that. while ideal roads are not
asked for. they still need to be proper,
II drained and free from ruts and
washouts Adequate highway laws
properly enforced are suggested.
The Bossier banner., 1908-06-18
Wida Tire Law Note.

The good roads committee OF the
board of supervisors of Niagara coun-
ty. n. Y. has reported in favor of the
proposed wide tire law. which pro
viles that after June /. 1900. all wa-
sns CARRYING 1.5G0 pounds or more shaE
be equipped with tires at least three
inches in width The penalty for vio
lation of the law will be from s. to
S2J for each ogense.
The Bossier banner., 1908-06-18
DITCH CLEANING SHOVEL.

Iowa Mans Improved Implement Good
For Road Work.
bitches along the roadsdes should
be kept clean and free from dead
leaves, mud and refuse of all kinds
that may collect there. Otherwise the
water that runs off the roadbed will
stay in the bitches and gradually un-
dermine the foundation of the road
and cause much trouble
To prevent this an Iowa man has de-
signed and patented a shovel that will
The Bossier banner., 1908-06-18
SHELL ROAD WORK.
Maryland Engineer Tells How I.
Build One and What II Costs.

Maryland Engineer Tells How 10
Build One and What It Costs.
w. w. Crosby, chief engineer of the
logical survey, writes as follows to the
editor of the Good Roads Magazine
concerning the cost Of shell road work
in Maryland: We occasionally build
roads out of oyster shells where the
soil is very sandy and the traffic com
paratively light, as frequently occurs
on the Eastern Shore of Maryland
Formerly oyster shells were very gen,
orally used, but recently the increased
price of them has brought crushed
stone into competition.
The old method of building a shell
road was, as you probably know, sim
ply to dump the shells on an unpre-
pared roadbed and allow the traffic to
pack them down, which it did in the
course of varying periods. With the
Increased cost of shells and the de-
mand for better and more permanent
results we have developed more eco
nomical use of the material and at the
more satisfactory results. We shape
the road exactly as we would do for
stone surface and then apply the oys-
ter shells in two layers. rolling each
thoroughly and binding the top one
with sand and water. The Bayside
road in Talbot county was built two
years ago under this method The
II.
last winter Below is a statement of
the cost Of the latter road The road
Is about mile long, and there were
about $500 square yards of macadam
laid:
Forty-one thousand one hundred
bushels Of oyster shells were used
at cost of. ........................$1. 81. 13S &C
Freight on same. Observation-Disclosures. So4 90
Unloading shells and wharfage
charges SU1
Forty-eight feet of "a inch terra
Gotta pipe 47o4
Freight on same 800
Seventy-two feet of Ii inch cast
iron pipe. Observation-Disclosures. n4a5
Freight on same. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 129o
Twenty-three bags of cement. 1725
Sixty-nine bricks. 69GO
Rent of roller. Observation-Disclosures. 1S1O0
Freight on same. Observation-Disclosures. 400
Repairs of roller. 1l.9J
Coal. oil, etc. 1856
Labor ON road including teams. LOSSES
Total cost of road. $4.3l557
Prices for labor and teams were as
follows:
Cents
-.s. per hour
Foreman ,,...,.......... 80
LABOR l.fc
Single teams with boy driver. 10
Double teams with drivers. ............. 2o
The Bossier banner., 1908-06-18

Our preliminary estimate Of the total
rise in the price of snells after the
work was started accounts for excess
Of the cost
The Elbert County tribune., 1908-03-05
City
or
Country
Which?
By PATRICIA PEMBLET0N.

great nervous strain life in
city, and much about the healthy whoomenes country life
The natural of settling the question of superiority would
parison of the product of the two environments.
Take age and
them with farmers of the number
mentally physically They
look five than the farmers their
conclusion inevitable Despite the dreadful the
city people thought and feeling, looks
alive to the worlds interests
Granted that the country life the life tranquility and epose
That the trouble with lacks
dull qietud round of on few
and lacking outside stimulation is little of the
friction of mind mind that produces flashes intellectual bril-
ancy the mental by the ideas
The principal thing the farmer of his fresh air
incidentally he rheumatism lumbago Joints Hvpn
ca supposed to live under the conditions Peon
the for health Those who live somehow
that blessing Who patrons of the patent d
men? Who buys the pank the Whose wives and
daughters fill up the insane asyms?
The excellent refuge fog business abI;
living off the successful farmer
who rule makes his lines outside agriculture cod
money and do it quicker and in town
The apostles of e simple life who prae the peace and calm
country life glad hae back after month
maddening monoony and routine They get beo
positively necessary to have something doing"
The Elbert County tribune., 1908-03-05
Poison of Loco Weed.

After three years of experimental
work, an explanation of the secret
poison of the loco weed has at last
been advanced. Government experts
have been working on the subject, rep
resenting the bureau of plant and ami
NAL industry at Washington. A spe-
cial station was set up at Hugo, Colo
RADIO. and as a result bulletin has now
been issued describing the weed.
The following is a description of the
weed and its action. as published in
the Record-Stockman:
''It was the pharmacologist in the
laboratory at Washington. however,
who finally discovered the cause of the
trouble. From the large amounts of
the weed sent him he finally discov-
cred that there existed in the plant
the mineral known as 'barlum,' a
poison found in alkali soil. The symp-
toms of barium poisoning and loco
poisoning are the same. 1t is only in
the loco weed grown on alkali soil
that the poison is found, which ac-
counts for the fact that cattle have
been known to eat loco without ill eff
fects. The discovery of the nature of
the poison has made it possible for the
experts to suggest remedies.
DIR. Marsh, who had charge of the
field work at Hugo, last summer ex-
perimented with remedies. He found
that most cases could be cured in cat
tie by course of treatment with
strychnine, and locoed horses will
usually be cured with treatment of
Fowler's solution. Barium is danger
Gus only in solution. The administra-
tion of sulphates. especially EPSON
salts, changes the form of the mineral
into an insoluble sulphate which is not
dangerous.
''Of course the wholesale treatment
of locoed animals on the range would
not be practicable, but it is possible
with small numbers to effect a cure.
Animals under treatment must not be
allowed to eat the loco weed and
should be given food that is nutritious
and laxative. Magnesium sulphate
with the food is valuable aid.
THE result of this investigation has
been a complete success. There are
still some practical points to be deter
mined, but the future work in regard
to this plant will be simple. There is
no doubt but that plans will be deter
mined whereby the range of cattlemen
will be able to rescue his stock when
they become locoed. This practical
side of the subject should be taken up
by the state experiment station"
The Elbert County tribune., 1908-03-05
DENVER MARKETS

Denver Union Stock Yards, March 2.
Offerings of cattle were liberal here
last week and under good demand
trade was active. Beef steers closed
about steady with the week before
while cows and feeders are strong to
a dime higher. A load of fancy pulp
fed steers brought $500 early in the
week but most of the later offerings
we're just fair in quality and sold at
$4.35@$4.75. Some new tops were
made in the COW market load OF
fancy pulp-fed cows sold at $40, the
highest price paid here this year,
while other cows went at s4.05 also
higher than any sale of pulp-fed COWS
previous to this week. Several sales
were made during the week at $4.00
and bulk of the good killers went at
$3700$3.95. Medium to fair cows sold
at $3.30@$ 1886. Bulls were strong at
$3.004$350 for bulk. Veal calves in
good demand and fully steady with
tops at s6.25. Feeder and stocker sup
ply was very good during the week.
There was a good demand from all
sources and the market closed in fine
shape. Bulk of the good to choice
steers sold at $4.15MS450 with the fair
to good at s365@$4.10.
Hog supply was over 5000 head last
week. Despite the liberal run there
was a good demand and all sold to
good advantage. Prices now range
from $4.30@$440 though it takes good
ones to bring the latter price. The
market is about quarter higher than
a week ago.
Sheep supply was fairly good and
nearly everything offered found sale.
Prices are slightly lower owing to de-
clines east but prices paid here are
still relatively higher than those
quoted at eastern points. Ewes sold
at $4.50@$4.60. lambs at $625 fiat and
$3.50 freight paid; wethers at S5.25.
and yearlings at S5.75.
The Elbert County tribune., 1908-03-05
Growing Crops for Seed.

The Eaton, Weld county. correspon.
dent of the Denver Republican SAYS:
Lee Harbour of Eaton, who has made a
reputation for growing crops for seed.
and who introduced the growing of
barley for seed in the Eaton district,
has purchased 440 pounds of six-row
seed barley from Wisconsin, which has
boon tested and approved by the Agri-
cultural College there and declared the
best out of sixty-four varieties. He
will plant fifteen acres and 1t is in
tended to use his harvest for seed the
following year in the Eaton district.
He has found 1t is as important to re-
new grain seed as potatoes.
The first barley planted by Harbour
nine years ago gave sixty bushels an
acre, the following year eighty-five
bushels and has since increased to
ninety and ninety-five bushels. His oat
crop last year was large and TODAY
Harbour has refused $4,000 for his
farm of eighty acres.
The Elbert County tribune., 1908-03-05
Ebert County Tribune
). E. Pope. Editor and Publisher.
hilbert. COLORADO.
UntIdy Women.

n a man fs asked what kind Of .
woman It is that he most dislikes, he
viii probably answer that 1t is the
slovenly woman. Unfortunately. many
women who would be Mortified IL their
husbands came down to breakfast in
an unshaved, unwashed and collarless
condition. think nothing of appearing
at that meal with their hair in curl
papers and clad In an .unsightly tea
gown. More often than not. laziness
is at the root Of woman's neglect to
arrange her hair and put on a short
and tidy skirt and clean shirt-waist.
Five minutes less of sleep is surely all
that is necessary to enable her to
make herself neat for the morning
meal. Her husband would then carry
Ing picture OF a dainty woman. In
stead of a sIovenly, tousIed creature.
who. by her own carelessness and iazi-
ness. must inevitably weaken, even
IL she does not altogether destroy. the
affection and respect of her husband.
Many women think they must be dirty
and untidy when doing housework-a
very foolish mistake. A woman, II
she has any innate refinement, says
the New York Weekly, will do her
work and look as neat as new pin
throughout. She will coil her hair
neatly and cover it from dust with
mop-cap made OF any cheap washing
material. Her short skirt and neat
shirt-waist will be businesslike and
allow freedom and quickness of move.
ment. Then for doing dirty work. a
garment of dark print should be
slipped on. to be changed for light
one when cooking. In such a dress
she will look as neat and dainty as
anyone could wish, and her work will
be better done. too. than if she wore
soiled clothes
The Elbert County tribune., 1908-03-05
AarisuIture and the Euture.

The National Review for February
contains reproduction in the main of
an address delivered at the Minnesota
State Fair by President James ]. Hill
of the Great Northern railway on the
relation of agriculture to the future of
this country
Mr.. Hill presents certain estimates
respecting the future growth in popu-
lation OF the United States, Indicating
that in 1850 this country will have
200 ,000, 900 inhabitants. He also repre-
sents that the rapid consumption of
certain resources will force the people
to rely more and more upon agricul-
ture, and by showing what is done in
other countries under intensive culti-
vation, he endeavors to prove that by
employing similar methods 1t will be
practicable for the United States to
support many times the estimated
number of people. But to achieve this
result, it will be necessary to recog-
nize the high place which agriculture
occupies in the economic life OF the
world. In the following quotation from
his address he urges serious considera-
tion of this question:
IL we are 10 Walk Sdlely III tuS way
of wisdom. there is much to be done.
1t is time to begin. There must be,
first, return to conservative and
economic methods, a readjustment of
national ideas such as to place agri-
culture and its claims to the best in
telligence and the highest skill that
the country affords in the very fore
front. There must be a national revolt
against the worship of manufacture
and trade as the only forms of pro-
gressive activity. and the false notion
that wealth built upon these at the
sacrifice OF the fundamental form of
wealth production can endure. A
clear recognition on the part of the
whole people. from the highest down to
the lowest that the tillage of the soil
is the natural and most desirable oc-
cupation for man, to which every other
is subsidiary and to which all else
must in the end yield is the first re-
quisite. With public interest
firmly fixed upon the future, the coun-
try, in mere self-preservation, must
give serious attention to the practical
occupation Of restoring agriculture to
its due position in the nation"
In this connection Mr.. Hill recon-
mends that the federal government es-
tablish stations in every congressional
district in order to demonstrate in
practical ways what may be done by
improved methods in agriculture. OBJ
ject lessons of this kind would stim-
ulate farmers to adopt similar meth.
DDS to preserve the fertility of the soil
and to secure by careful tillage the
greatest practicable results per acre.
The Elbert County tribune., 1908-03-05

Of earning living without training school,
factory SYSTEM without training
apprentice system provided Their knowledge limited to what
they pick up place which they drift They usually become
machine without individual initiative, doing of
things we'll hope advancing the higher positions
require of technical knowledge only to be obtained
from books.
goes saying knows the useful
becomes knowledge experience of the crsta
in books The who have advanced the modern world which is
dsncvey world industry those who have supplemented native
of things by wide reading Formerly
The boy Lincoln reading night the coveted
the the printers apprentice Franklin
might possess books these types of the hard
which, the old days the influence of the printed book
operated to enlarge the individual life.
to-day public library practically everywhere supplies freely
all these indispensable aids Its attendants ready counsel and d
help selecting the best books No need hesitate
for such help The modern library is above all things democratic
welcomes those who
Besides the books of general information useful every industrial
the library supplies the special books relating the
building working the textile processes
agriculture industrial chemistry the Developments eectr
Others These enable workman obtain broad
his trade of the sciences which affect it, he seldom gets
mechanics adapted the comprehension of the ordinary wokngmn
that presuppose college education
books especially those treating the fine side industry
that the cannot himself buy hem disposed
These the weeippd public library supplies and displays
and adver its that those who would benefit by may
know where and how they be used.
The larger libraries industrial
and the standard of skill among Su example,
the three lectures printing arranged cooperation with
ton society of printers and the free lecture
the Boston public library.
Eventually the important plans charging opportunities for
industrial education in Massachusetts public
will be found important adjuns supplying the essential liter
ary material required, Just they al 1< -
ready cooperate with the existing /1/V7N<l3WaNIN
public schools J