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The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1909-10-14
West Star Items.

There was preaching at Star last
Sunday night by Rev. Bradley, Of
Fort Scott.
A number of young folks visited
May Daniels last Sunday.
Miss Ethel Searfus says she is get
ting along nicely in school.
G. w. Daniels visited L. G. Thomas
last Sunday.
Altman Daniels and Rev. Bradley
spent Sunday with Mr.. Blough.
Miss Rena Thomas is working for
j. Cameron.
Mrs. Cameron is on the sick list.
Newton Wright has his house
moved now.
Miss Reece and Mr.. Silvers, of But.
ler; were at church Sunday night.
Frank Daniels and wife spent Sun
day with Mr.. and Mrs. Jack Frazee.
Wheat is most all up and looks
well. AUNT SALLY.
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West Deepwater.

Corn husking is the order of the
day.
Herbert Clark left Sunday morn
ing for Blue Jacket, Okla, to look for
place.
1t seems like real winter again the
men are wearing their Overcoats and
the women their heavy wraps.
Mrs. James Reynolds has returned
from Mound Valley, Kansas, where
she has been taking treatment and is
improving.
Carroll & Parent have been thresh-
ing clover and cane.
Mrs. Alice Hall, of near Peru, visit
ed Aunt Fanny Baty last Friday night.
Ed. Hubbard delivered hegs to But
Ter Monday.
Several from this vicinity are attend
ing the. revival meetings held at Sum-
init church.
Misses Ada Vansant and Ethel
Baker visited Miss Nella Ferrell last
Saturday night and attended church
at Double Branch Sunday.
Spruce is getting to be quite busy
little town. Capt. Price had his
house plastered, and the two hustling
merchants, o. j. Radford, has been
building an addition to his house, and
Ike Dickinson has put in stock of
hardware.
Gus Hermann has bought the
Ragan farm. FARMER BOY.
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From Southwest Texas.

Eldorado, Texas, Sept. 26, 1909.
Ed. Times:-Permit me the use of
your paper, the good old Times. |
left Butler on noon. train Sept. 10Th
and arrived at Eldorado, Texas, at 7
p. m. on Oath. | am in the midst of
a good farming district, fine produce
tive land, black, gray all level prairie
soil. Can see as far as the eye will
permit. Is 1900 feet above sea level,
very healthy, no malaria, as good
school as any State can boast, law
abiding, courteous people; poor
mans country.
Will write later and give more gen.
eral news respecting prices of stock,
land improved and unimproved, etc.
Our friend lib Williams lives at San
Angelo. lhave not met Mr.. Williams
yet.
| will answer all inquiries by return
stamp. lam feeling some improved.
Send Times to Eldorado, Tex.
Respectfully yours,
ED. LEWIS L. WIX.
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NEW HOME.

A new substitute for Glover and all
blunders must be overlooked.
DR.. Rhoades' family, of Foster,
visited Mrs. Clara Bennett Saturday.
Several of our neighbors were
shopping in Rich Hill Saturday.
Miss Alice Rous called at w. B.
Miller's Monday.
Fern Snu'fscer is sick with the la
grippe.
A large force of men and teams
were working the road east of the
Neptune farm Monday.
Alma Taylor visited at Mr.. Ben
nett's Sunday.
Considerably cooler the past few
days makes us think of warm clothes.
Erwin Tibbs is at home again. He
has been in Kansas the past season.
Frank Morse and family came home
from Omaha Sunday.
P. Y. Morse is very poorly Dr.
RhOades was called to see him Satur-
day.
Mr.. Bennett will commence shred
ding corn Tuesday.
Leslie Patton is on the sick list.
Miss Jessie Miller spent Saturday
and Sunday with home folks.
Mrs. Ruby Snuffer called on Mrs.
w. B. Miller Monday.
Frank Wheatley and Mr.. Ander-
son, of the Sprague neighborhood,
are hauling cane to the mill this
week. CLOVER'S SUB.
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VIRGINIA.
Fred Braden is having well drill
81

Fred Braden is having a well drill
ed.
Miss Rachel Park has been on the
sick list for few days.
Mrs. Geo. Pahlman will do her
washing this week with a new wash
ing machine.
w. w. Park, w. W., Rubel and
John Harper shipped cattle to Kansas
City Monday. .t
Vane Walker and wife and w. j.
Bard and wife attended the American
Royal Stock Show at Kansas City.
James Harding, Of near Passaic,
purchased a fine yearling Duroc
Jersey of Young Aaron Tues
day OF last week. Young Aaron has
more good yearling males, also young
ones from 80 to l25 lbs. and some
tried brood sows for sale.
Corn picking is the order of the
day.
Will McKibben is hauling his win
ter coal from across the river.
Andrew Simpson goes to Butler
twice a week to be treated by DR..
hampton. He is mending slowly.
Geo. Thompson tells us that Mrs.
Thompson, who was hurt in a wreck
en- route to visit her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Colburn, at Stockton, Kansas,
has recovered and expects to be
home this week.
Peter Denning and Geo. Crooks at
tended the State Fair last week.
Elsie Park who is teaching school
near Rich Hill spent Sabbath with
her parents, Mr., and MI. Wv,
Park.
Quite a number from Virginia at
tended the meeting at Amoret Sab.
bath night.
Christian Endeavor next Sunday
evening at seven O'Clock. Topic:
Pilgrims Progress Series x. Doubt.
ing Castle. Il Kings l9:l-l8.) Leader,
Miss Lutte Leonard. You are cordially
invited to attend.
There will be preaching at the
Christian church next Sabbath morn.
ing and night.
Grandma Kelley's sister Of Okla,
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Herrell Items.

Quite a number attended the State
Fair at Sedalia last week. Those
who attended the Fair were Mr.. Rich
ardson, VIM. Tyler, Mr.. and Mrs. j.
w. Barnhart, John Seelinger and
daughter Bertha, Mr.. and Mrs. Way
land and Mr.. and Mrs. Greenup.
Mark Hilliard left Wednesday to at.
ted the Royal Stock Show at Kansas
City.
Tom Newton and Frank Norton at.
tended the Priest Of Pallas at Kansas
City last week. -
John 0olladay is doing good job
of grading the roads in this neighbor.
hood. RED BIRD.
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came to visit her last week.
Bob Kelley and wife have
visit her parents in Illinois.

came to visit her last week.
Bob Kelley and wife have gone to
visit her parents in Illinois.
A number of young people spent a
very pleasant day at the Smizer home
Sabbath.
Miss Ida Smizer who has been in
Kansas City employed in the millinery
business for nearly three months re-
turned home Saturday night.
When Cook and Peary discovered
the North Pole they raised the flag,
but when the North Pole discovered
Parktown last Saturday it raised an
icy breeze.
There will be an S. S. convention
at the M. E. church the fifth Sunday
in this month.
Some of our Parktown and Virginia
people are planning on spending their
retired life in Butler.
Jake Jundy has bought the H. D..
Heyen place one and half miles east
of Virginia which used to be owned
by Jno. McElroy.
R. C. Darr is getting ready to de-
liver the corn off of leo acres which
he contracted sometime in June to
deliver at Amoret this fall at SOC per
bushel.
Our bachelor friend has finally Sc
lected his buggy and has already
found it to be the source Of Joy and
entertainment.
Virginia has gone dry. 1t could
not wait till 1910 Drinking water
now has to be hauled by several
families.
Mr.. Blevlin and wife have moved
in Andrew Simpsons tenant house
and will work for him this winter.
Elijah Ison's sale went well Mon
day of last week as sales always do
when that live auc. Charly Beard, OF
Butler, does the selling. Anyone
employing him will find he works
hard to bring buyers and make the
sale a success. YOUNG AARON.
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Tax Notice.

Twill open my office in the base
ment room, northeast corner Of court
house and begin the collection Of taxes
for Mt Pleasant township on Mon-
day, November 1st 1903.
w. j. McAninch,
61-tf Twp. Collector.
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For Sale.

A good roomy house with modern
conveniences, hot and cold water,
bath, steam furnace, good barn, small
orchard, two acres Of land. For fur.
ther particulars inquire Of Mrs. !. N.
Mains, 521 Fort Scott street, Butler,
Mo. 48-4t
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70. head good grade Shropshire
ewes for sale in lots to suit. One half
mile west Of Passaic. Enquire or
address, Chas. S. Conklin.
48-St No. 4, Butler, Mo-
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rs ? IS
O Old is Biddy?

English authorities hold that there
is no certain test Of age in fowls.
But they admit that, in general, the
spurs both of hens and cocks will dis
tinguish a ~two-year-old bird.
There are exceptions, however, in
which really young birds develop old
looking spurs, while really second
year birds preserve the short, rounded
spurs Of a cockerel.
The texture of the legs is a guide,
to some extent, and 80 are the deli
cacy and freshness of the skin Of the
face and comb, but still an occasional
hen will preserve her youthful ap-
pearance to a startling degree.
The skin of the body Is a better
test, as it becomes coarser and dry
er-looking with age.
Formerly the wing feathers were
considered an absolute test as be-
tween a pullet and a hen. even after
the long practice Of early, breeding
had made the moulting of early pull
lets quite common.
AL AuSIllou duIuOllLy ooyo ludI q
pullet will show r~ose-colored veins
on the surface of the skin, under the
wings.
There will also be long silky hairs
growing there. After a year old
these hairs disappear, as also do the
veins, and the skin grows white and
veinless.
1t is more difficult to Judge the age
Of water fowls than Of other poultry,
partly from the absence Of spurs,
partly from greater longevity, and
partly because the water keeps their
legs soft and fresh.
Ducks waddle more heavily as they
grow older, and after two or three
years they acquire a depression down
the breast.
An abdominal pouch Of consider
able size indicates great age in geese.
Turkeys up to a year old are said
to have black feet, which grow pink
up to three years Of age, when they
gradually turn. gray and dull.
Age in pigeons is often told by the
color of the breast. In squads, the
flesh looks whitish as seen through
the skin, but becomes more and more
purplish as the bird grows older.
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4~duIterated Drugs.

The adulteration Of crude drugs Is
q grave matter, rendering, as 1t does,
the physicians prescription inefrect-
i've, with serious, perhaps fatal, re-
suits In a crisis. Fof example, digi-
tails is adulterated with stramonium,
the addition of any amount of which
would endanger the life of the pa
tient when the remedy is depended
on for prompt action in the case OF
heart failure; the strophanthus seed,
! which is also used in such cases, has
been widely replaced by another va
riety of the same seed which has no
effect whatever, but costs only about
one-ffth as much. B%elladonna Is or.
ten adulterated with pokeroot, which
has an antagonistic effect, and ground
olive pits have been used to the ex-
tent of hundreds of tons in such i'm
portant remedies as ipecac and aeon
tte.-National Magazine.
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Color on Handkerchief.

Paris leads the colored handker"
chief fad. The bright and gaudy kerr
chief is never a success except with
outdoor sporting clothes or for small
children who delight in it.
But the tender shades that Paris
puts upon her list of favorites for the
season are reproduced in the daln-
test spots of coloring mingled with
the embroidery on fine handker-
chiefs. The color appears in the pc
tai or leaf, surrounded by an embroid-
cred edge. A band Of color on the
edge is employed as another style OF
decoration, with embroidery upon
the color.
Colors are wove into some OF the
fine linens by the use of a tined
thread forming the crossbars. Ma
deria eyelet work is the seasons IA
vorite among the finest white hand
kerchiefs.-Boston Post.
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Disappointing I'ouse.

The owner of a newl. built home
of stately dimensions complains Bit
terly of the different way. it looks as
it is, as against its appearance in the
architects's drawings. The proper
tions of the house are superb, but it
requires immense forest trees to give
it dignity. Without them it has the
bald, hard look of a huge institution,
a suggestion which is intensified by
the red brick of which it is built and
the rows of shutterless windows. The
drawings included dropping elms and
spreading oaks, which would take a
century to grow, and the land at
present provides only sparsely some
struggling white beecnes and dog
wood. The owner will have to wait
for years before his place will resem-
BILE the glorious picture as drawn by
the generous minded architect.-New
York Tribune.
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Pocket Money.

Throughout the season a young
woman in society makes a goodly sum
for pocket money by taking photo
graphs of the really. idyllic scenery
on her country place and disposing
of them to the various magazines for
illustrations. AS she is gifted in the
line of short-story writing, she con-
tributes stories as we'll, when the
mood seizes her, and usually makes
them fit with the picturesque bits she
sends with them. She also makes the
most charming calendars, getting
great variety for each month, and ac-
cordingly sends to her publishers sew
eral hundred, no two of which are
alike.-New York Tribune.
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Much a Lady.

Have you ever thought how painful
it is to an unexpected visitor to be
entreated to overlook this, that and
the other domestic shortcomings?
please excuse the %tablecloth. Es-
Their has just upset the f1owers-so
tiresome of her! Pray, don't notice
the dish-John insists On having hot
pot served this way! Excuse the
pudding, won't you? It's very plain,
but the children do love these little
currant dumplings!"
If Johns wife were much OF a
LADY, she would find an easier way
out of her little embarrassments and
recommend the currant dumplings
with a simple enthusiasm that would
make the unexpected guest feel that
they were the identical sweet which
he would have repeated on his own
dinner table.-Indianapolis News.
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Wonderful. if True.

r. II. Gregory, of Ashland, VT, has
demonstrated that the theory of a
fros living without food and water
is beyond a doubt the truth. Greg
Dry made an experiment after reading
4 magazine statement that frogs had
been known to live hundreds of years
while sealed in a brick wall. Secur.
ing a frog, Gregory placed it in a
hollow of a tree and sealed it with
cement. Years passed and the man
forgot the frog. Gregory was a mere
boy when the creature was shut out
from liberty. A few days ago the
tree was broken. Gregory had hia
attention called to the hollow, the
cement breaking with the fall Of the
tree. Removing the cement, the frog
leaped out as live and hearty as whe.
t had been sealed up.
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Tremendous Transportation
By BISHOP H. w. WARREN.

At Waterloo, Iowa, there is a stone
church built almost entirely from n
great granite boulder located three
miles north of the town, with stone
enough left to build a parsonage.
This great rock was brought there
how many ~hundredssof miles nobody
knows, worn smooth and plowed with
long striae by being pushed over the
rocky bed Of It's passage.
Near Manhasset on Long Island
there is a boulder ffty-four feet long
by forty feet wide and sixteen feet
high that has been brought across
Long Island Sound and how many
hundreds of miles further no n
knows. Indeed, most of Long Island
itself, 12O miles long, consisting OF
ten or more kinds of rock, has been
brought there by forces that dwarf
steam shovels, lifting seven tons at a
shovelful, into mere children's toys.
But this is little compared to what
is going on to-day. Off the coast of
Newfoundland is a submarine island
600 miles long and 200 wide, all
brought there by the same force.
What is this force? 1t is called
glacial action. The feathery crystals
of snow, brought from distant seas,
fall ON lofty mountain peaks. They
may freeze by night and thaw by
day, and every freeze makes a slight
expansion which tends to force the
great mass down the mountain side.
This is a river of ice, or what Cole
ridge calls "motionless cataracts." l
have seer one twelve miles wide, sou
feet deep and 100 miles long. Difer-
emit streams may come from different
mountain sides and combine into n
mighty river in a valley. They move
from n foot a day, as the Mer de
Glaze, above Chamouni, to seventy
five feet a day, as the Muir Glacier IN
Alaska. This irresistible force tears
boulders and earth from mountain
sides and bears them on its broad
back to the valleys below.
The accumulations of glaciers are
called moraines; when on the side OF
a glacier they are lateral m%oraines;
when two or more meet in n gen.
eral stream medal moraines; when
the glacier is thawed at the end in
the low valley, terminal moraines.
In this tremendous crowd and
pressure the rocks are being trans
ported, and the bed Of rocks over
which the stream flows is crushed to
sand and ground to dust. The Aar
Glacier discharges by the rushing
river at its foot 2S0 tons OF sand
daily.
But what has this to do with Iowa.
scattered over with erratic blocks and
holders. in the Northwest so deeply
covered with quatenary drift that the
original surface is unrecognizaoie;
and Long Island, far, far from noun
tains?
Things on this old world are not as
they once we're. Times were When
the north end of it was covered with
Ice. in what Is called the ice age, that
left it's terminal moraines as far
south as Washington and Pittsburg,
and wrote its history in these broad
pages with such punctuation marks
and exclamation points as have been
alluded to in this article.-EpWortn
Herald.
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Connecticut Mans Pet Fawn.

C. NJ. Pinney is probably the only
man in the State who has a pet doe.
The doe is two days old. Mr.. Pin
ney's man was returning from South
Manchester Tuesday when he no
ticed a small creature in a ditch.
Upon investigation he found it to be
a baby doe not more than a day old.
The little doe was nearly dead.
He took it home and Mrs. Pinney
cared for it. The doe was doing nice
ly to-day and will be brought up as a
pet, the game warden having given
his permission. The doe is of a red
dish color with white spots and is
about the size of a cat.-Bolton Cor
respondence Hartford Courant.
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Good Taste.

There are women whose PRESSING Is
renowned for it's exquisite harmony,
in whose house you could not find an
ornament out of keeping or a color
that Jared, yet who are devoid OF
good taste in the real sense.
Good taste in its truest sense is an
innate sense of fitness. Possessed of
it we need not fear proprieties being
outraged, though social training may
be slight.
The woman who has really good
taste never jars. Instinctively she
q Y the right thing and could not be
guilty Of thoughtless rudeness.
Good taste never boasts, avoids
Haunting, never parades superior ad-
vantages, is reticent even to a fault
about happenings and honors in her
life that others have not shared.
Good taste frowns on lavish dis
play, even when money is not an OBJ
ject; it forbids personalities in pub
lie places, loud talking or laughing at
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Weed Cutting by Motor Boat.

In Egypt an enormous amount OF
trouble and expense has been caused
by the weeds and other vegetable
growths which spread so rapidly as
to choke canals and other waterways
in a few days.
Clearing by hand has been found
impossible in one district, SO a motor
boat has been equipped with a unique
weed cutter and placed in service.
The cutting attachment consists of a
pair of V shaped knives with sharp
and powerful blades, worked by belt
from the propeller shaft. They trail
along the bottom of the waterway,
cutting the growth off at the roots.
1t is said that the little boat will clear
as much as five acres an hour.-Lon-
don Globe.
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AAP-7hmgs-
@>D~We'r

Many long coats are seen in white
serge.
Net is to play a leading part this
season.
The latest agony is the tasselled
silk stocking.
One h%airdresser dries her hair over
a tissue paper roll.
The newest skirts are made with a
few gathers at the top.
Jet bracelets seemingly cannot be
too wide nor too heavy.
For run-around frocks nothing is
more popular than serge.
It is an unusual notion to combine
very heavy trimming with sheer ma
terial.
So far no hustle, but the dress
makers seem to be leading us along
that road.
Charming for women with fresh
faces and fair skins are the new anne
thyst hats.
The unlined transparent coat is
one of the most pronounced fads of
the season.
White grounds sprinkled with COL
ored dots are to be found among the
new embroideries.
Stockings of Isle with s~elf-colored
clocks" are generally the most sat
is%factory for every day.
Among the half precious stones so
much in vogue there is none more
popular than the lapis lazuii.
Bangles and beads and friGses of
silk and leather were never so popu-
lar as at the present moment among
/ the leathern girdles and shopping
bags.
Brocades in extremely large pat
terms and ~gorgeously lowered designs
will be de riguer for the matron.
They come stiff enough to stand
! alone. and the price is not weak
kneed.
While shoes colored to- match the
/ costume are rampant even 10 Dold-
ness, all shades of brown and tan may
be worn with mixtures or colored Co.'S
tunes; in fact, everything except
black.
Strings, usually not serving any
prsctical purpose, but caught up ard
knetted in some graceful fashion, al
pear upon a number of the most pic
t~uresque broad brimmed hats this
season.
Dutch necks are in evidence among
the blouses, just as they are among
| the gowns, and the stock that fastens
at the back is shown without even a
suggestion of a jabot, or with a mar
row. black velvet cravat.
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Numbering the People in China.

China is preparing to take a census
of her 4OO,OOO,O 900 people. The CEN
sus is to be a thorough one, and al
ter 1t is done the facts and figures are
to be kept pretty we'll up to date.
One provision of the regulations
for officials reads: After the COM
Dletion of this ems all births,
deaths, marriages and adoptions must
be reported by the head of the family
to t,s local census office or police sta
tiot; the records of families must he
revised every two months and records
of individuals every six months, and
reports must be made annually to the
Board of the Interior by the directors
general of the census from the va
rious provinces London Globe.
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any time; it puts the ban on being
conspicuous.
Good taste is never argumentative,
unduly aggressive or ruthless of 9th.
er's feelings. Sycophancy is as i'm.
possible to it as is the blatant democ.
racy that is worked overtime.
To needlessly wound, to %patronize,
even to be gushingly kind are impos'
sible to one who has an inner sense
of propriety. There are people whose
favors we scorn merely because q
lack of delicacy in offering them hurts
our self-respect.
Good taste frowns on malicious
scandal and hesitates to repeat ever
a witticism if it carries a personal
sting. Nor does it smile on SNOWY
talk and a monopoly of conversation
New Haven Register.