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The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1909-04-01
HEN TALK.

For food consumed, no live stock
on the farm yield better return than
fowls.
The egg crop is one Of the very
large items Of American farms.
Don't buy diseases.
II the poultry house is damp 1t Is an
indication that more ventilation ID
needed. not that greater warmth Ia
necessary.
When the weather is warm, let the
fowls out in front Of the poultry house,
where they can obtain exercise in the
outdoor air.
When the fowls are shut in the
house they must be exercised by max
Ing them scratch in a deep litter Of
hay, straw, leaves or some such ma
terial.
Moldy food, moldy litter to scratch
In, in fact anything that carries mold
spores is likely to cause canker in the
flock, and therefore should be guarded
against with care.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1909-04-01
PoulTRYMAN'S ALPHABET.
Valuable Points from A to z of the
Business.

Advertising is the stepping stone to
success.
Be thankful to get any prize at all
without expecting anything.
Choose your variety and jump in.
Discard the narrow breasted, one.
legged ones. They are delusion and
snare.
Every neglect has Its cost in poul-
try raising,
Fatty meat should never be fed to
laying stock.
Gentleness is virtue in the poultry
yard.
Have an object in view and then
work strictly to the line.
Indifferent care will ruin the capaei.
ty of any breed,
Johnnycake is good feed, II you
want to become slave to your chicks.
Keep on advertising.
Let the comb act as your health
barometer
Mix common sense with a good dis.
infectant for the roosts and do not
neglect to use it.
Nothing else is better for growing
stock than dry bran.
Overcrowded quarters mean diseasd
death and disaster.
Profit in any kind of poultry breed
Ing comes from having the best.
Quite few dollars can be made In
poultry If you have enough sense.
Read all you can lay your hand on
regarding poultry breeding, and then
use your own common sense.
Scratching hens lay the eggs.
Trap-nests expose the fraudulent
hens.
Utility means more than symmetery
shape and feathers.
Vigor and vitality are the factors
that make the money.
Working hens, like working people
are the healthiest TO get along with.
Xanthous-legged fowls are market.
uppers.
You cannot expect to keep pills and
capture the cups.
Zetetic method will bring results
where blind following of custom fails
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1909-04-01
Teddy Needed at Home.

Dayton, Wash. March. -Mountsin
lions and Wildcats are more numer-
Gus and more ierocious In the Blue
Mountains this spring than ever be.
fore. Several range horses have been
reported killed, and 10 one or two In.
stances n en- have been attacked by
these animals.
Ben Magill returned a few days
ago from q trip to the Tukanon, and
reported the killing OF valuable
saddle horse belonging to R. W. Ma
gill. The lion sprang from a tree
under which the horse had sought
shelter from a snowstorm. Less
than q month ago Frank Lotzen, a
Tuksnon farmer was attacked by a
cat at the entrance Of bis cabin, and
saved bis life only by beating of his
assailant with an ak. It is not un.
common this spring to find cats and
even lions prowling about barnyards
and along the roads. More cat
bounties have been paid this spring
than for twenty years.
Trappers and hunters attribute
the boldness OF the animals to a
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1909-04-01
scarcity OF email game and the pro.
tracted winter, with an unusual
depth OF snow.


New York, March.-In the opinion
OF Dana Estes, the Boston publisher,
who arrived here on the st. Louis al.
ter q journey Of 25, 600 miles In En-.
rope, Asia and Africa, ex.President
Roosevelt will find hunting big game
In East Africa 'like shooting cows In
q back yard"
"The antelopes and animals OF
that kind as so tame" he said, "thst
they grace along the railroad track
and scarcely look up as the train
goes by. saw thousands Of zebras,
antelopes, ostriches and other ami.
mails. They were within q few hun.
bred yards OF the train and most Of
them never even lifted their heads as
we went by"
Mr.. Estes visited Uganda, circled
completely around Lake Victoria
Nyanza and went through Rhodesia
to Cape Colony. His travels In
Africa took him inland as far as the
Victoria falls on the Upper Zambesi.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1909-04-01
KING EDWARD

The above named jack will make the 1909
with Arabian Prince He is Is hands high
and comes from the celebrated Hermit o jacks.
TERMS:-S living upon conditions as
Arabian Prince.
FRANK HOLLAND,
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1909-04-01

not interfere with the light, and no
extra opening is required, II 1t is de.
sirable, says the Farm and Home, to
open the windows a frame can be
made for the sash to work In, and the
frame fastened with hinges at the bot
tom and the muslin attached to the
frame. A double sash can be used, as
In an ordinary window, and can be
opened In the usual way.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1909-04-01
vENTILATINe The HEN HOUSE.
Use Of Muslin on the Sash of the
Windows.

My plan. which is shown in the cut,
works very we'll The sash leans in
II inches at the top and the space at
the sides and top is covered with mus
lin. Sash works on hinges at bottom
and can be closed if desired. There is
no direct draft on the fowls, it does
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1909-04-01

Will be found during the 1909 mile
Summit Center school house,
ARABIAN PRINCE fine saddle driving many
tractive points He beautiful
1909 He stands 6 hands high weighs 1200 He
sired by the noted Arabian Stallion Ed Butler
noted horse Bashaw.
TERMS-S1o to insure a up ma
about be traded
vice OF horse becomes due payable responsibility
be assumed for accidents but
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1909-04-01
LABOR-SAVlNG PICKING BARREL.
Put the Feathers Right Into Bag Held
in Barrel.

Formerly when picking ducks or
geese We picked into a boiler or tub
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-10-17
SOME SORE SPOTS.

Editor Administrations allow ME
space TO make two or three sugges-
tions. While we of this Paradise OF
the Pacific are proud of our high state
of civilization, yet there are three
things that are lacking to put us on
a level with the mainland. The first
and most important thing to do is TO
establish a probate court, where all
probate business can be transacted,
without mixing up with civil and
criminal business. 1t would do away
with lots of useless expense in set
Ting up estates, and the handling of
estates in general would be on a more
substantial basis. There is hardly any
need of three circuit courts, but this
city does need probate court, and
that very bad.
The next thing is to get the next
legislature to pass a proper marriage
license law. The present law is moth
ing but farce Anybody can go and
get a license for himself or friend
or relative. The right to grant mar
rage licenses is peddled about like it
was of but little consequence, in fact
it is about on a level with the grant
ing of license to keep pigs. The right
to grant marriage licenses should be
with the county clerk, and every man
that desires license should be com
PEELED to appear in person before the
above-named official. Also every IL
cense issued should be published in
the daily papers.
The next thing is to get law or
ordinance passed to keep the newsboys
and all small boys, from jumping on
and off the electric cars. They are a
nuisance to the travelling public, and
at the same time are putting them
selves in danger of serious accident. The
is something the Humane Society
should take up.
Thanking you in advance for this
space, 1 remain, yours for the best
interest of Honolulu,
A YOUNG AMERICAN.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-10-17
Letters From
the People
APPROVES BYsTANDER's PLAN.

Editor Advertiser: - Your core
spondent P B. P. was a little too san
guine last Thursday N his ideas of sup
plying certificates Of employment fer
the employees in all branches, for, so
far as these islands are concerned
there IS no need for it. I think The
Bystander 5 certificate Is only design,
ed TO enable the intending employer
to communicate with the previous EN-.
ployers OF an applicant for a job when
the applicant is unable or unwilling
to state where he has worked before
A glance at the certificate will show
the prospective ''boss' to whom to
apply for the character of the ap-
plicant, and few moments at the
phone Will procure an opinion which
would settle the matter Of employ
ment, provided that the length of time
of previous jobs (as indicated in the
card) was not sufficient to enable the
''boss' to decide that the "boyn or
woman" applying was probably pref
ty decent.
1t is entirely unnecessary to extend
the system to the English speaking
classes. as there are so few compare
lively that nearly all are known; and
usually these are provided with refer
enees anyway. II can and should be
applied to Asiatics to begin with, not,
1t should be understood, because they are
Asiatlcs, but because their knowledge
# the English language IS generally
most rudimentary; and it might be
advantageous to the plantations to fall
in with the idea as one which would
cost them nothing and which would
probably be of great assistance in
wedding out undesirables.
As far as the enforcement of the
use of certificates is concerned, the
matter lies entirely in the hands of
the employers, who have but to agree
among themselves not to employ an
Asiatic without a certificate. and the
certificates will not be long lin appear
ing.
In Germany they have things better
arranged than we have here; there
the government regulates the employ
ment OF servants and provides book,
called the ''Dienst -buch' which has
record of the employers, and the
length and quality of the service rem
dered. The servants are given every
consideration by this system, for if
an unfortunate fall by the wayside and
steal the employer is forbidden to
record the same in the book.
The Pvsfandpr does mt asL- for q
Dienst bueh, but contents himself with
suggesting for his Certificate of En-
ployment,' a mere record of the en-
overs. which is simple enough, and
little enough to expect.
The cost of the card certificates
would be infnitesimal, and they could
probably be sold at about. ten cents
per dozen; if the housekeepers and 9th
er employers of Honelulu are prepared
to try the system, might not the vari-
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-10-17
NINETY DEGREES OR BETTER.

Several months ago Herbert L. Bridg-
man, secretary of the Peary Attic Club,
tried an experiment. He visited a
clairvoyant and asked her to tell him
the exact latitude and longitude of
Commander Peary. She seemed some
what hazy on the longitude, but after
urgings declared with some positiveness
that his latitude at that moment was
$50 degrees or BETTER Mr.. Bridgman
laughed and explain that 80 degrees was
as far as latitude went. After the an
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-10-17

Gus local papers send out a sample
card TO each Of their subscribers INA
Ruahi' as a beginning? Numbers Of
people here have mentioned the mat
ter to me as being a longfelt want,
and | must certainly take exception
to the remarks Of Cvnieus last week
when he infers that it would be diff
cult 10 interest the Honolulu house
keepers.
Thanking you for your valuable
space, c. L. 5.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-10-17

nouncement that Doctor Cook had
reached the pole Mr.. Bridgman thought
he would visit the clairvoyant again,
just to see what she would say. Her
first exclamation when she recognized
the secretary of the Peary Arctic Club
was: "None of those Peary ques-
.tions!' And she absolutely refused to
project her astral body in the direction
of the North Pole.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-10-17
MONEY WE'LL SPENT.

Editor Advertiser:-In reply to
what was. said in yesterdays Ad-
vertiser regarding the general waste
of water, I wish to say that
according to the way the Artesian
Fountain outside the Y. NJ. G. A, is
being used by the soldiers and public
in general, there is no money better
spent in the Territory, for doing good,
to the greatest number at minimum
cost than that used by the aforesaid
fountain. J. M. MARTIN.
Honolulu, Oct. Is, 1909.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-10-17

"Seems this Seattle Exposition was
a success
eyes; it was a surprise to me all
around. I didn't suppose they could
think up new name for midway, but
they did. louisville Courier-J Journal
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-10-17

"Some men," said Uncle Eben, sis
like de weather. De mo- it amt fit
to talk about, de mo- it insis 'es on
bein' noticed -
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-01-31

Lincoln was never able to go to
school regularly. and had less than
a years schooling all together. He
was seventeen when he attended
his last school 1t was four and
half miles from the home cabin, and
no doubt the long daily walk back
and forth seemed a waste of time
to most of his relatives.
The lad was now put to steady
work; but he continued to be
student. Anything in the shape OF
a book was food for him He would
sit in the twilight and read die
tionary as long as he could see, and
he frequently went to the home
of the town constable to read the
Revised Statutes of Indiana, APP
parently as fascinated as if he was
perusing a novel Whenever he
had leisure his first impulse was
to use it in acquiring knowledge
or in some other form of intellectual
activity He would walk many
miles for the chance to argue at
debating clubs; and at his home.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-01-31
By A. R. Pinci

EVER heard of sulphuric rains! Ever By A.
II read about the finding of pieces of
bleeding bread after Roman gladiator
concluded an entertainment in the Coliseum? Well,
neither that sulphur that bread is either
the other. The rain is a sort of pollen, yellow
powder of the finest kind, carried by the wind in
great quantities and to great distances. The bleeding
bread is microscopic alga, which for many years
has held the interest of scientists.
Another phenomenon is the called snow flower.
1t was in 100 that Horace Benedicte de Saussure,
the celebrated geoogist who first assembled Mount
Blanc saw from attitudes in the mountains
SAVOY snow covered fields of brilliant red color.
Straightwav he named it red snow Later, this
snow was found in the Swiss and Tyrolean Alps, in
the Pvrenees the Carpathian mountains, in the
northernmost ridges of the Urals, in the arctic
gions of Scandinavia and also the Sierra Nevadas
in this country
The best observations of this phenomenon were
made in 1913 in Greenland Captain John Ross,
after having passed Cape York, perceived the snow
covered fields the valleys and the clefts in the
rocks all of brilliant red hue. He struck
with the scene that he named the coast Crimson
Cliffs. Not very many years afterward red snow
north of Spitzbergen, in Russian Lapland,
and in oriental Siberia.
In the 'oo's Professor karkuss, then president of
the Archaeological Society of San Francisco, held
conference red which had fallen recently
before in the mountains of Vaigach at about ten
thousand feet above the level Of the The crest
of that chain of mountains seemed to have been
covered with mantle of reddish
After a series of careful investigations. Professor
karkuss, by means Of microscope that magnlfied
twenty-five hundred times, reached the conclusion
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was due to the presence of SphderelE
Halu,dococeus) n1dlis, which reproduces itself in
the snow with phenomenal rapdity
The rains of blood are not due to vegetable causes.
but to animal useS,-buttertles. They belong to
a group named FdneSSg, covering many species, all
we'll known for their beautiful, clear colors When
they leave their chrySaides, reddish liquid falls
out 1t happens that many thousands of butterflies
pass that stage of growth at the same time; hence
the presence of the rain of blood" These rains,
moreover, have had terrible effects where they
Cured in regions, inhabited by ignorant and
superstitious people.
In Tulv 1908 one of these phenomena occurred in
the suburbs of AK and covered the surrounding
country for about mile. A number of persons,
either mistaken or DESTROYS of preying upon the
creduty of the people, at once declared the rain
to have been due to internal powers A scientist OF
that period named Plirex, demonstrated that the
alleged drops of blood nothing but the liquid
deposited by butterflies. Nevertheless, the popu-
lace remained afraid of the phenomenon.
Plirex attributed to this same cause the rains
mentioned by historians, which always occurred
about the same months during regular periods
Such a rain fell in the reign of Childebert l. at
Paris and at Sens in the Disc. An identical one
was noted about the end of June during the reign
of Robert II.
The lake of Morat presented several occasions
but especially in 1905 singular phenomenon. Its
waters became suddenly red. The supersttious de-
along its shores June 22 I446; but the true cause
the presence of an aquatic growth peculiar to
that region, known the O1illdtorid RnbeScenS.
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he pulled up some TUFTS OF
Grass and threw at him, but
this only made the Young
ster laugh.
Well. well, said the old
Man. if neither words nor
grass will do. must try
what virtue there is in
Stones so the old Man
pelted him heartily with
stones, which soon made the
young Chap hasten down
from the tree and beg the
old Mans pardon
How Lincoln must
have enjoyed that narra-
tive, And very likely
it exerted an influence to
make him the notable
storyteller that he be-
came in manhood. Ger
tainly no other American
statesman has used this
form of humorous tale
so effectively to illustrate
and enforce the argu-
ments and principles he
advocated.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-01-31

quite likely to go to the cupboard, get a piece OF
cornbread, take up book and then seat himself
with his feet high his head to eat and read
at the time.
The Standard Textbooks
nNE of the books he studied at this period
~ kirkhams English Grammar, treatise that
was both very dry and very voluminous We do not
know Just what books he used in school; but there
can be little doubt that of them the famous
speller compiled by Noah Webster In those
frontier schools other book studied uni
versally. and in some schools it the only text
book At the height of its popularity sales were
million copies a year. The first edition ap
peared just after the close of the Revolutionary
War. BY the advice of the president of Yale Col
lege, Webster called his speler THE First Part of
Grammatical Institute of the English Language.
Strangely enough, it not killed by this ee-
phantine title, and a of years passed before
the author finally renamed it The American Spelling
Book"
The book as Lincoln knew it had back of leather
and sides of thin oaken boards pasted over with
dull blue paper. The print varied from muddy
blackness to a faint ELIGIBILITY. 1t primer
and spelling book combined, and the columns Of
practice words frequently interrupted by
reading matter. This reading whole pom
derously sober but relief afforded by
series of eight short fables each with illustration
One of the fables in particular made profound
impression, and child ever forgot it or its pic
turesque telling. This story follows:
An old Man found a rude Boy upon of his trees
stealing Apples and desired him down but the
Young Saucebox told him plainly he would not Won't
YOU said the old Man, then will fetch You down; so
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into the school sports and was quick
to defend himself with might and main
if abused 1t was the frontier habit
among both men and boys to settle
personal disputes by round of tisti
cuffs and wrestling, perhaps reinforced
by teeth and nails. AS for wrestling,
that was to the frontiersmen what the
tournaments were to the knights of old,
and trials of strength between rival
contestants were frequent. To be a
good wrestler was one of the aspira-
tons of every hardy youth. and Lincoln
was no exception to the rule. He even
won fame in the art, and seldom met
his equal In most other muscular
contests also he was very expert, and
while he was still in his teens he could
outrun, outfit, chop faster, and split
more rails than anyone else in the
vicinity.
But none of these forms of activity
nor all of them put together interested
him as did his studies. In the evening
he would pile sticks of dry wood into
the fireplace to make the fire blaze up
brightly and shed a strong light out
into the room, and then he would lie
down flat on the floor before the hearth
I,c hoo1- front of him II he VA
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studying arithmetic. he would do the sums on the
smooth surface of a large flat bladed, home made
wooden shovel that used about the fireplace and
oven A piece of charcoal served instead of pencil
and after covering the shovel with examples he whit
tied and scraped clean with his ackkne ready for
more ciphering. Paper was expensive, and he could
not afford even slate. Sometimes when the shove!
not at hand he did his figuring on the logs OF
the house walls and the doorposts and other wood
work that afforded surface he could mark on with
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ACQUIRED an admirably clear and serviceabe hand
writing and often asked by illiterate ne ghbors
to write their letters for them When some one
with this end in view inquired if he could write:
he replied Yes. | can make few rabbit tracks.
He is not reputed to have been quick student;
but he stood high in the school through his industry
he specially shone. One incident has been pre-
served showing how he ingeniously helped a girl
who about to fail in word the master had
given out. The word was - dehed, and two OF the
came to this girl Def" she began, and after
hesitating a moment about to say ", when
she glanced toward Lincoln. He was watching her
with broad grin on his face, and noting her glance
guessed his meaning and spelled the word correctly
His Boyhood Doeserel
IN common with most school children of his time,
of his textbooks. The following is bit OF doggere
he wrote in of his books in his fourteenth year:
Abraham Lincoln
his hand and pen,
he will be good but
god knows When
Young Lincoln never good looking He was
angular and awkward. his face was irregular and
his ears protrudng. Nevertheless, he not with
orally liked by his fellow students, he was SO good
natured intelligent. and companionable Yet his
ways were often not their ways For instance all
his boy comrades were confirmed sportsmen; but
he never took any pleasure in hunting. There was
a genteness in his nature that made him shrink
from infictng pain and stories are told by his boy
hood friends of his bursts of righteous wrath when
some turtle other creature was tortured or killed
by them. Because he hated and talked against
cruelty to animals, they thought him eccentric:
Evidently he of finer clay than his fellows; and
his stepmother in her later life used to say of him
that he was the best and most obedient boy she
ever knew.
There was, however, nothing effeminate about
him. He did not lack vgor, and he entered heartily
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when he came in from work for lunch, he
quite likely to go to the cupboard, get piece of
cornbread take up a book and then seat himself
with his feet high as his head to eat and read
at the time.
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RED SNOW AND COLORED RAIN

which was concurred in by other botanists.
that the cause of that strange coloration