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The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1909-08-12
ELEVEN GOULD
LINES UNIFIED.
Greater Missouri Pacific Com.
pany to Issue $50, 100000
in Bonds.
STOCKHOLDERS MEET in ST
LOUIS.

st. Louis Times.
The reorganization of the Missouri
Pacific Railway and the other Gould
lines was effected at meeting of the
stockholders Friday at the company's
headquarters in st. Louis.
The new company will be known
as the Missouri Pacific Railway Com
pany. 1t will be Incorporated under
the laws of Missouri, Kansas and Ne
braska, George j. Gould will remain
president of the whole system, and
no change is anticipated in the per-
sonnet of the other officers and the
directorate.
The change involves the consolida-
ton of the Gould lines under Missouri
Pacific control, bond issue of at
least $3.50, 600, 900 and a capitalization
of $24O, 100000. A blanket mortgage
to cover all the properties will secure
the bond issue.
About $50, 600, 600, railroad officials
say, will be used to fund outstanding
indebtedness, while the remaining
$60,OO0,OOO will be available for
working capital.
Ready to Handle Bonds.
The adoption of the plan of unifica-
ton paves the way for the early an
nouncement of the scheme for gener-
al financial rehabilitation of the prop
critics. 1t is understood a banking
syndicate in New York, headed by
Kuhn, Loeb &C.,, as syndicate man.
ayers, have arranged with the rail-
way company to handle the $3.50, 600,
600 general mortgage per cent
bonds, which, from present indica-
tons, will be introduced to the in
vesting public in the fall. Not less
than $40, 100000 will be offered in
this first allotment.
The vote cast represented about IS
per cent of the outstanding stock, and
there was no dissent from the propo.
sitiOn.
Vice President C. S. Clarke pre-
sided. A. H. Calef, secretary and
treasurer of the Missouri Pacific,
came on from New York for the
meeting, at which more than 30 stock
holders, many Of whom held large
blocks of proxies, were present
Among St Louis stockholders pres
ent were 0. L. Garrison, former Gov
Lon v. Stephens, L. G. McNair, A
w. Sullivan, M. c. Markham, c. H
Middleton and Charles P. Stanley.
The officials say the 800 mile
which constitute the Missouri Pacifi
System, heretofore divided amoni
the various lines, needed unificatiol
into one compact system. The Irol
Mountain lines are not included.
Among the expected benefits ar
substantial economies in administrs
ton, greater efliciency in operation
more advaningo0uS arrangements 10
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The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1909-08-12

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The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1909-08-12
Without Honor in His Owl
Country.

From Judges Library.
'Do you know said the famous
man with reminiscent chuckle,
"that it used to be the height of my
ambition to get my name in the coun-
ty paper so old Tommy Jones would
see it. But, alas! "-and the great
man sighed-''now that / suppose old
Tommy has the fence rail | used to
white in the parlor as relic, do
not care at all for his praise"
do you know" said old Tommy
Jones in philosophical mood, as he
leaned on his pillow handles talking to
Bill Dodd, "that | used TO think them
feffers we read about in the papers
was great men. But they amt.
There's that Billings boy that used to
hoe corn for me. Now he's gittin'
his name in the paper as often as any
of EN-. And shucks! He amt nothin
but a common, ordinary runt."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-09
REV. BROOKS LAWRENCE

has such vulgar abuse been heaped upon the Judiciary of Alabama as that of the Rev. Brooks Lawrence. The old saving.
 Give 8 man rope enough and he will soon hang himself" The Rev. Brooks Lawrence presumed to take enough rome and, in his tirade against Chief Justice James R. Dowdell and Justices R. T. simpson, John c. Anderson, N. D. Dem son, Thomas c. Mcclellan, James M Mayheld and A D. Sayre, and doubtless he will find in the near future that he can hang not himself, for The Item be- heves not in self-destruction, but his harp upon the willow. because the strings will have been broken and the instrument no longer of service to him.
 I1s strange, passing strange, that such a man, coming. as he did, from A far away state. should presume not alone to criticise such men as the seven named. but dare say, We are going to clean out the lot.' speaking of them as he would of murderers. cut-throats and midnight assassins.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-09
AMERICAN GRAND OPERA

From the New York World
 Sydney Smiths sheer, Who reads an American book7' has long ago been an- swered. Even Europe has been compelled to take note of American books.
 A similar query as to grand opera, how ever, had any one ever even thought 1t worth while to make 1t, would have to remain as challenge to American com- posers.
 There are reasons for this, just as there were for the sheer of the Edinburgh re- viewer, but happily, if signs are signifi- cant, American music, like American lit- erature, is about to erHer as a competi- tor in the international lists. Berlin is to hear the coming winter an American grand opera on an Indian theme, and the versatile MT. Hammerstein is to add to his laurels the coming January by the production of an opera with both words and music composed by Americans
 It is too early yet to predict what suc- cess will attend this entrance, practically at the same time in Berlin and New York. of American composers in what can be made the highest manifestation of the musical art. One caAnot help but wonder, though. that the possibilities of American themes have not tempted Amer ican musical genius earlier into this in- viting field.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-09
AFTER OCEAN GAMBLERS.

From the Washington Herald
 The ocean steamship companies are re- beating this season their previous ef- forts to protect passengers with well-flled purses from other prosperous passengers, who are gamblers. Experience indicates that the innocent voyagers really need to be protected from themselves. In this instance, as in the familiar bunko games on land, it Is the greed of the prospective victim that opens the way to his undoing. A ship just arrived in New York carried all the way across tho At lantic in It's smoking room the warning prominently displayed: Three card sharps on board-beware!" Another pre- caution to be taken is the gathering by the pursuers of a rogues gallery of pho- tographs. These will be compared with the countenances of any suspected pas sengers. Identification will be followed promptly by warning to be good. There is sometimes reason to be thankful that even aboard floating hotel the captain of ship is still its king. The crooks know that at nod of his head they can be put in irons, even if they have the best quarters in the first cabin. They know when to be cautious as we'll as bold. To decrease their numbers 1t is chiefly necessary to make their voyages unprofitable.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-09
Children In Flats

Upon July 1 the McNichols law be- came operative in Illinois, and a fine is now imposed on landlords who ex- clude children from flats. Some St. Louis investors have also adopted a plan that promises to be even better than the Illinois law These investors pEppose to build flats among other flats from which children are banished, and in these new flats extra inducements will be offered to attract the parents of children. A new birth in them will mean a months rent free, and each is to have a nursery and playgrounds at tached. It is believed that the St. Louis flats will become popular and will. therefore, prove good invest ments.
 The trouble with the Illinois statute is it's impairment of an owners rights. It is to be contested in the courts, and in the end nothing may come from the McNichols law. The St. Louis method is the surer and quicker of the two, and 1t may lead to the building in all cities of flats in which children are welcomed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-09
WHEN YOU AND l WERE YOUNG,
 MAGGIE,

I wandered today to the hill, Maggie, To watch the scenes below; The creek and the creaking old mill, Mag
 gie.
 As we used to long ago. The green grove is gone from the hill.
 Maggie.
 Where first the daisies sprung; The creaking old mill is still, Maggie, Since you and were young.
 Chorus: And now We are aged and gray, Maggie, And the trials of life nearly done; Let us sing of the days that are gone,
 Maggie,
 When you and were young A city so silent and lone. Maggie, Where the young and the gay and the
 best In polished white mansions of stone Mag
 Eie,
 Have each found place of rest, Is built where the birds used to play,
 Maggie,
 And join in the songs that were sung. For we sang as gayly as they, Maggie, When you and I were young. They say am feeble with age, Maggie, My steps are less sprightly than then, My face is tell-written page, Maggie, But time alone was the pen. They say we are aged and gray Maggie. As sprays by the white breakers flung: But to me you're as fair as you wore
 Maggie, When you and I were youns.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-09
Trouble being gone, comfort should re main.
 Much Ado About Nothing.
Mlchigan's Critical Bishop

Bishop Williams of the Episcopal diocese of Michigan recently, in the course of a sermon on the Fourth of July. denounced the Sons and Daugh- ters of the Revolution, the colonial so- cieties. the Colonial Danes and other similar organizations, because they foster and promote a spirit of caste rather than of patriotism. The good bishop went out of his way to attack good people filled with high and worthy motives. The societies he de- nounced certainly do cultivate an Americanism that may be needed in a great emergency.
 The societies are but eddies of in cidents in the life of great country-a country that will soon hold 100,000,000 of people. If thousand or so desire to recall their fighting ancestors, no harm can befall the country. The time of the Sons and Daughters could pes- haps be more usefully employed, but it is equally certain that it would not be. There are always few people in millions who are looking for something ornamental and distinguishing, and there is really no harm in 1t. It will not establish caste to any considerable extent in this land where all were born free and equal.
 Bishop Williams draws the line too tightly. He does not leave room for individual eccentricities. He is too utilitarian. He wants all to pull in his boat. This is not feasible, and the organizations he has denounced will probably gain members instead of los ing them because of the opposition that lie has expressed. The cannon cracker is not a more firmly estab- lished American institution than are the various Sons and Daughters, and neither can be abolished by the bishop of Michigan.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-09
kIPLING'S LATEST.

From the New York Sun.
 We swear by the Jungle Books" Ter renee Mulvaney and his friends can never lose us. But did MT. Kipling ever write any poetry? The "Recessional' is the cheapest semi-religious patriotic common place. The "Barrack Room Ballads'' and Departmental Ditties' are mighty fine in their way, but they are only excellent good music hall warbles. As for the so much admired celebrations of machinery, they are mighty clever; but they lack the passion, the beauty. the supreme form of poetry fit so to be called. In vain does that quivering mound of para doxes and of sentimentalities. Mir Gilbert Keith Chesterton, invite us to consider the poetry of letter boxes and fire alarms. and tell us, as MT. Charles Eliot Norton told us years before, that Mr. Kipling has seen and sung the beauty and ths tragedy of things common and despised. Let it go at this for this time; MT. Kipling's poetry at its best is a tour de force; at It's worst. as in the City of Brass" falling on us in these days of molten brass, 1t Is an international out rage against which the state department or the health department should pre- test
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-09
VISUAL SIZE OF THE MOON.

Sir E. Ray Lankester in London Tele-
 graph.
 The artist has to choose between scien- tific truth and convention" when he sets out to paint the moon. A three penny piece fixed at a distance of six feet from the eye (say at the end of 8 horizontal .six-foot pole, the other end of which is made to press the lower edge of the eye-sockeD will just cover the disk of either the sun or the moon hang Ing in the sky It is an absolute fact that this Is true. whether the moon Cor the sun) be high in the sky or low down near the horizon. The real visual size" of the moons disk is no greater when it is low than when 1t Is high. No one who reads what I have just written will believe me. Every one thinks that he Knows" that the disk of the harvest moon or of the setting sun occupies a. larger space in the sky when Tow" than when high" This is due to a judg ment or mental process. and is an er- roneous one. The eye is not at fault, but the curiously untrustworthy mind is. What. then, is the painter to do? He yields to prejudice, and often paints the low moon or low sun of a size which compared with scientific fact is ridiculously exaggerated.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-09
SWIMMER AND CRAMPS.

From the New York Press.
 There is a public horror of cramps Not one case of cramps in 1000 Is dan gerous if the victim knows what to do and does 1t. Every long-distance swim mer entering a race expects to get cramps yet he doesn't drown and he doesn't stop swimming either. He keeps going until his legs are in knots; still, he doesn't go down. Instead of that he rolls over on his back and waits for the boat to pick him up. It may be a minute or it may be an hour, but until the boat comes the expert will be floating around like a chip.
 When you catch cramp in your arms or legs don't get excited. You may yell, but keep yourself under control. Don't exert yourself. for it takes little or no effort to keep afloat. Crush down tho feeling of panic. Stretch out your arm or leg. as the case may be. until you are straining to the utmost. Then strain a bit harder. and watch the Jumped mus ole go down.
 The dangerous cramp is in the stom- ach. When that takes you your breath goes, and you're not able to shout for help or even to articulate a sound. When you get that kind of cramp you may as well say your prayers, but you won't get 1t if you don't eat for two hours before going into the water. Professional swimmers go hungry half day before entering a race, and they never know such a thing as stomach cramp.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-09
Returned From the East.

". O. Chenoweth, who has been in North Carolina with his family for sev- eral weeks past, returned to Birmingham a day or two ago.
 During my absence from home I made a trip east" said MT. Chenoweth, and everywhere I went I found business im- proving. In New York business condi- tions are good.
 'I stopped in Richmond and was greatly pleased with that city. The old Confed- crate capital is growing Fast. It Is one of the wealthiest and most prosperous cities in the country
 "The railroads of the east and west are back to normal thrift. Traffic is quite heavy again and the bright outlook far the fall earnings is causing the railroads to buy steel rails and new equipment on a large scale. The southern roads are yet slow in placing orders, but they will soon be in the market for rails and roll ing stock"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-09
UNFOLDING THE COURTS.

From the Charleston News and Courier.
 Alabama is happy. The state su- preme court has decided that liquor is property and should be protected as such. The Birmingham Age-Herald thinks that this sounds the dealth knell of prohibition. in Alabama, and that hereafter the liquor interests can get the protection which they desire from the courts. No doubt the prohibitions ists will cry out against this decision, as did the north in the Dred Scott case. and with as little reason. It is re- markable how the reformers protest against graft and violations of the law. and yet abuse the courts whenever they refuse to yield to a popular ciamor One of the most promising things in American political life today Is the independence and fairness of our higher courts.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-09
NebraSka'S Statewide CurfeW

In seeking some manner for regulat- ing saloon traffic Nebraska adopted a law that closes all saloons at o'clock p. m. Curfew, in other words, rings at that hour. and then every saloon must be closed The law became effective July last, and already the cities are beginning to feel its effects. Omaha finds it will have to forego it's ambi- tion of entertaining the American saengerbund, and the saengerfesters will not go where curfew rings at 8 o'clock and all places that deal in wet goods must be closed.
 Nebraska is not sure her new law Is desirable, but she proposes to give 1t fair trial. At present curfew rings every night at o'clock, and the sa- looms at once put up shutters. or, at any rate, lock doors. Instead of prohi- bition it Is an attempt to regulate the liquor traffic, and a good many men prefer regulation to prohibition, simply because the former is feasible and en. forceable, and the latter is not.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-09

the chances are that any such plea, being without foundation. will be ig- nored. Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware are maehine-ruled states, and the machine in each is tied to spe- cial interests. These interests may declare that an income tax would be the opening wedge to the destruction of the protective tariff system, but so long as protection run mad does not yield sufficient revenue it Is plain that the money needed by the government must come from somewhere If the proposition is defeated in the three states it will have to be done by the machines.
 But can the machines afford to disre- gard the wishes of new administra- tion? President Taft is clearly and unqualifedly in favor of the ratifica- tion of the income tax resolution, and the machine will hesitate to whoop up the voters against it in even rotten put content Pennsylvania.
 The truth is, not a single state can be trusted to vote against the propo- sition. It Is gaining strength daily, and the indications are that ratifica- tion will, like the vote in the Senate, be unanimous.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-09
Income Tax Before the States

The speculations over the ratifica- tion of the income tax proposition are centered in a search for 12 negative states. The search Is leading to many silly predictions. For example, a spe- cial Washington correspondent Of the Chicago Record-Herald says:
 Alabama and Florida are reckoned as states where there will be a hard fight, owing to the New York capitalist infiu- ence, which is becoming stronger and stronger there through its interest in investments. The same condition applies to Louisiana, where, aside from possible outside influences, the influence of Sen ator McEnery and his followers would naturally be exerted. Senator McEnery is assumed to be possible opponent of tiie amendment, because he has so con- sistently followed the big republican leader who directs the greatest dellber- ative body in the world.
 This is simply nonsense. Not one of the three states mentioned will vote against the proposed amendment, and Alabama will soon make It's position plain.
 The truth is, no state is sure to vote against ratification. Possibly the six New England states can be made to believe that 1t would be a tax upon the east for the benefit of the west, but
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-09
STATUS OF THE DEAD-BEAT.

From the Atchison Globe.
 No man is wholly free from sin, but so many lesser evils arc tolerated that man should hesitate long before be- coming a dead-beat. Criminals are despised and abhorred, but to the dead beat all that is coming, as well as the contempt of his fellow men. There is something at once so mean and so little in taking advantage of the confidence which comes with friendship that the hand Of every man is turned against dead beat as soon as his reputation Is well established. The dead-beat may fondly imagine he is living easy and making money without work. and of course he takes no account of the confidence he violates and the hardships he iniicts on others. But. that aside, he really has a harder time than the man who is honest and fair. He is compelled to move a good deal and peace of mind he knows not. Like other types of crooks, he doesnt { prosper. and his finish is more unpleasant than the beginning.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-09
Business Impetus.


 Congress will not be in session much longer, and when it does adjourn the business of the country will receive a fresh impetus" said J. F. Whlttet of Philadelphia. At least that Is the view of the situation which manufacturers, jobbers and capitalists seem to be taking.
 Last spring it was generally said that there would be no substantial improve ment in business until the tariff matter was settled. But if the industrial world was disposed to wait 1t got tired of wait ing and mills and factories were started up regardless of Congress. The wheels of industries in every manufacturing cen- ter are now turning and In many places mills are running at full capacity.
 '"rhe panic has been forgot, and the country is again prosperous. With good crops this summer, next fall will witness a high degree of prosperity, and many new high records
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-09
Food Composition In Question

An assault all along the line is going on against the pure food law. Ever since Secretary Wilson and President Roosevelt conspired to override pr. Wiley in the matter of benzoate of soda. strong interests have been assid- uously at work to put back into human fooo poisons that Dr. Wiley had driven out
 The boric acid crowd have gone into court to restis ain by injunction Dr. Wiley's pure fool commission from in terfering with their use of boric acid By the favor of Secretary Wilson the beef trust is now permitted to use boric acid in preserving meats, and the entire boric acid brigade do not, therefore, see why they should be or dered to use no boric acid while the beef trust is permitted to use this poi son freely. A suit has been begun by a concern that desires to preserve canned eggs H boric acid, aud this suit in the federal courts will have, it is said, all the support that skil)ful state- ments and unlimited money can give 1t.
 In a like direction the manufacturers of baking powders are contending that baking powders are not flood" within the scope of the pure food law. all though people eat the powders. The point at issue is the use of alum and aluminium salts in pickles and by bak- ing powder manufacturers.
 All these attempts to refill the food of the people with poisons are due to that unfortunate Remsen board which declared that benzoate of soda Is good enough when used in commercial quan- titles. All these poisons are chiefly used In preserving the scraps and ref use or canning houses. Inese scraps, when so preserved, are sold at low rates to the poor in the larger cities. The responsibility for these things rests on the secretaries of the depart ments of thei treasury, agriculture, and commerce and labor. It would be un- fortunate indeed if the provisions of the pure food law are broken down just when the people are getting con fidence in pickles and canned prod ucts. The good work accomplished by pr. Wiley may be lost even before he returns from Europe. He fought brave ly for the people against millions of capital, and the administration can i'll afford to refill the food of the people with poisons even in commercial quantities.