The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1909-08-19
A DOG FINDS
HIS BOY MASTER.
The Newest of Dog Stories Puts
Canine Lovers to Guessing.

Canine Lovers to Guessing.
Jackson, Miss.-A dog storystrange
enough, but without single element
of fiction and with no doubt as to its
absolute truth, is developed through
correspondence between R. w.
Parks, a confectioner of this city, and
his wife, who is visiting relatives at
Creel Springs, III.
Mr.. Parks has a 5-year-old son and
the boy has a thoroughbred fox ter
rier dog named Joe. When the trip
was made to Illinois the boy insisted
upon taking Joe along. The dog was
placed in charge Of the baggageman
and the family took sleeper for
Paducah, where they changed cars
and laid over a few hours, having
still about one hundred miles to 90,
crossing the Ohio River, to reach
Creel Springs.
Upon reaching Paducah, however,
Mrs. Parks was told by the baggage
man that the dog had chewed the
rope with which he was tied and
escaped. He did not know just where
it happened; but thought he must
have left the car at Fulton, almost
another hundred miles back.
kilograms were sent from Paducah
to all the stations along the line and
the family went on to their destina-
ton. From there other kilograms
were sent, but no trace of Joe could
be found.
The dog had many friends in Jack
son besides the members of the fam
lily interested, and when Mrs. Parks
wrote her husband of the i'll luck in
losing the dog he told his friends and
there was much regret. Joe had
never been outside of Jackson during
the three and one-half years of his
life and might be considered a tender
foot as traveller. There was no
hope that he would ever be seen
again, as he was at least three hun
dred miles from Jackson aud be-
tween one hundred and two hundred
miles from Creel Springs.
Many letters were exchanged be-
tween the husband and wife, and the
dog was one of the important sub
jects discussed in each. In the last
of these, just received by Mr.. Parks,
his wife reioices in having met Joe in
the road a quarter of q mile from
the home Of her parents where she is
visiting, as she was going for stroll.
He was going directly toward the
house, and greeted her and the boy
with bark and a cordial wag of the
tail.
Mr.. Parks is spending much time
now figuring on how the dog found
his way there. He bad never been
there before. He had to cross the
Ohio River and he had been lost
more than three weeks: The home
where Mrs Parks is visiting is mile
from the town and off the railroad,
Extra Session Cost $5OO,00O.
Washington, Aug.-Further inves-
tigation Of the cost Of passing the
tariff law shows that before Uncle
Samuel gets through footing the bills
of the lawmakers incurred during the
special session he will have to pay out
close to $4,000.
The principal item of expense is
the mileage, because every member
of both houses is allowed mileage at
the rate Of 20 cents a mile from his
home to Washington for every ses-
sion which he attends. By the time
the Senators and Representatives
from the Pacific Coast put in their
bills this account is pretty big.
Members Of the House get just
1854, 600, while Senators took away
from the Treasury $4,000 for travel
ing expenses.
Extra pay for the employees Of the
Senate amounted to something more
than $40, 200, and as there are many
more clerks, messengers and other
workers on the House side, it is esti-
mated that the pay for extra services
of the employees was about 100000.
The urgent deficiency bill carried
an item Of $4,000 for general ex-
Ipenses, and it is said that most of this
was used for expeditinp the passage