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The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1910-08-04
Same Young Man

Eyes, | have few summer board
ers this season." answered the Long
Island farmer, "and the same young
man is one of them"
"Who do you mean by that?" was
asked.
"Oh, he's clerk in a music store.
He comes out for the romance of it.
He raves about sunrises, sunsets, the
clouds and so on. After supper,
when go out to milk, he plays dairy
maid. Wants to show off before the
girls. Talks about the beauties of
pastoral life, and he wants to milk
and brag of it,"
"And he milks a COW, does he?"
"He has pail and stool, and he sits
down to milk. have saved that COW
on purpose for him. don't say any
thing about his being on the wrong
side. The girls gather round. The.
young man begins to hum about
life on the meadows green, and starts
in. Then something happens.
1.-THE cow kicks, eh?"
Lifts foot and sets it agin him,
and away he rolls. Sometimes goes
10 feet-sometimes 20. | find him
beside the fence. i straighten him
out until he comes to. He is off for
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1910-08-04

home next morning, but another one
like him takes his place. | have
about six during the season, and
make from three days to weeks
extra board on each one"
But | should think some of them
could succeed in milking that cow. I"
Yes, you nacherally would, but
femme tell you she's been dry for
the last three years, and there hain't
any milk to be got!" Joe Kerr.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1910-08-04

is supremely important. Democracy
cannot challenge the enemy with
weak or colorless candidates. The
people want absolute assurance that
the men they vote for will stand four
square when the first real test comes
in organizing the next congress.
Democratic candidates must stand
on an equivocal platform of real
tariff revision.
The democratic party, through
bothn ational and local organizations,
must be prepared to shoulder full
responsibility for removing tariff
burdens from the people.
The democrats have a real issue to
carry them to victory, and can lose
only by failure to grasp the Signifi-
canoe.
Taft Won't Interfere.
The new railroad rate law will not
be used to keep down railroad rates.
Correspondents at the summer
capital at Beverly, Mass, recently
got this news. If means that the
strongest feature of the new railway
law is to be dead letter under the
Taft administration.
The section of law referred to is
that giving power to the interstate
commerce commission, on complaint
against an increase, to- suspend any
freight rate for eleven months pend
ing decision as to the justice of the
rate. This section was forced into
the law by the democrats and insur-
gents and was strongly opposed by
President Taft and the ALBRIGHT Can
non regulars.
Being hostile to this feature of the
new law, President Taft will not use
it to prevent the railroads from in
creasing their rates.
How 1t Looked.
The next day after Representative
Ravens (democrat changed 10000
Republican majority into 5000 DEM
ocratic majority, in the Rochester, N.
Y, Congressional district, a news
paper man asked a prominent Re-
publican standpatter if he did not
think the Democrats would carry the
next House, whereupon the disgust
ed and crestfallen Republican replied:
Garry the next House? He'll! If
the Republican members keep on dy-
ing, they'll carry the present House. ,"
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1910-08-04
Marks of a Good Steer.
Anb.rt, IN Missouri Rur.llst.

W. L. Schnb,rt, in Missouri Rursllst.
l The forehead should be full, broad
and high, indicating intelligence.
/ Ribs well covered with flesh indi-
Gates that the animal will fatten well.
\ The briSket should be deep, moder-
ately projecting and breast wide.
Ribs well sprung and arched to give
plenty of room to digestive organs.
The hind legs short and straight, to
give foundation for hind quarters.
The flanks full, low and thick, if
so, the thighs will generally be full
and well fleshed.
Strong, straight and wide-apart
fore legs, give good foundation for
the fore quarters.
Legs should be short-they are not
worth much-and short legs are
stronger than long ones.
The chest should be wide, deepand
thick through the heart to give plenty
of room to heart and lungs.
The eyes should be full, bright and
clear, indicating great vitality and
vigor, two very important qualities.
The shoulders should be compact
and well covered with flesh, which
gives smoothness of form and flesh
on fore quarters.
The mouth should be large and the
muscles of the jaws well developed,
which indicates good food grinding
apparatus.
Wide hips, which 90 with broad |
loin, the highest priced portion of the
beef, Loin should be full and thick
for the same reason.
The head should be short and small;
it does not contain any valuable flesh,
and short head invariably goes with
short, thick-set body.
The neck should be short, thick
and set firmly on the shoulders; this
indicates short, thick-set body and
a tendency to lay on flesh.
The rump, long, level and wide, to
give plenty of room for rump steak.
The thighs full and well fleshed, to
yield plenty of round steak.
The back short, straight and broad.
A short-backed animal is early matur-
ing, Broad, to give room for abund-
ant flesh. Straight to give good sup
port.
Girth should be large, which indi-
Gates good chest. The crop or the
portion just behind the withers,
should be full; this is one ofthe valu-
able meat portious.
A large, deep chest and capacious
stomach are indications that the ami
NAL has the capacity to utilize large
quantities. of food and make rapid
progress in fattening.
Tail should have smooth base,
fine bones and a fine hair switch.
Smooth base to avoid lumpy patches
Of fat there. This is very objection
able, because it spoils the looks of
the steer. Fine bone in the tail in
1icates that the animal is fine boned.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1910-08-04
Vital Washington News.
BY Clyde II Tavenner.

BY Clyde II Tsvenner.
Washington, Aug. Protection
makes politics a business PROPOSE
ton.
In the last congressional election
for instance, the tariff trusts spent
large sums of money to bring about
the election of candidates who had
secretly or otherwise pledged them
selves to revision upward.
These contributions to the Republi-
can campaign fund were investments
in every sense of the word. The
trusts figured that if Republicans
were elected the tariff on the particu-
lar commodities in which they dealt
would be kept sufficiently high to bar
out competition and assure them
monopolies on American markets.
With this end in view the tariff
trusts and combinations of manufac-
turers contributed literally to Repub-
lican campaign funds.
The expenditure of this tainted
money enabled the Republicans to
acknowledgements! The tariff was re-
vised upward! The manufacturers
were given their monopolies! Prices
were boosted!
The result it is that the people are
now repaying to the tariff trusts, in
Increased prices, not only the amounts
invested as contributions to the Re-
publican campaign fund, but they are
also paying profit varying from 100
to 1000 per cent. beside.
And in the meantime the big cor
porate interests have taken the reins
Of government out of the hands of the
people, into their own, for safe keep
ing. Such is the milk in the protec-
ton cocoanut
Government by Money.
1t cost Joseph C. Sibley $40, sos. SO
to win the Republican nomination for
Congress in the Twenty-eighth Dis
trict of Pennsylvania. Mr.. Sibley re-
ceived 10, 446 votes at the primaries,
and each vote represented an ex-
penditure of nearly 81. AS his plur-
ality was only $50 it is fair to say that
his nomination was brought about by
the sheer power of money.
AT the primaries in the Thirteenth
District OF Pennsylvania John DalzelI
spent SO, 200, most of which was con-
tributed by protected manufacturers.
The combined expenditures of Sibley
and Dalzell in these two districts were
nearly 5000 Their combined sal
aries as Representatives in Congress
for two years will be only $50, 900.
Their nominations, therefore, cost
almost $4,000 more than the emolu-
ments of their office, exclusive of
mileage and stationary allowances.
Contributions to the party of re-
vision upward is paying business
investment, particularly to the tariff
trusts.
Men will always pay thousands to
politicians or to party funds in the
hope of getting back millions. Make
the tariff one for revenue only, and
you cut off leading cause of polit-
ical dishonesty and corruption.
The Democratic Campaign.
The democrats need gain but twen-
ty-two seats in the next house of
representatives to obtain a numerical
majority.
The present republican majority is
forty-three. AT least eighteen repub-
licans hold their seats by margin
less than 1000 votes.
Twenty-nine republican seats in the
present house Of representatives are
held by less than 1000 votes.
Every local democratic committee
hasa heavy responsibility. The char
acter Of the nominee in every district
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1910-08-04
Didn't Want Suicide After All

X. c. Star
Because of the heat and domestic
troubles Howard H. Hobbs, a car
penter, % years old, of Jamesport,
Mo-, attempted suicide with arsenic
in rooming house at 81 Walnut
street. The poison caused him to
forget about the heat. He ran to a
telephone and called the police am
bulance, which took him to the en-
Urgency hospital where DR.. F. C. La
Mar treated him.
'My wife and | quarreled and it
was so hot that | decided to kill my
SELF" Hobbs told Doctor Lamar. 81
left my wife Monday morning and
came to Kansas City. 1t has been so
hot and brooded over my trouble so
much that | didn't care what happen
ed to me. But that poison made me
change my mind"
The San Francisco call., 1910-03-15
WILL MAKE FIGHT FOR THE
CITY WITH THE CALLS MAP

going things this Hech Hetchy campaign
president of civil service commission and
the building trades and labor councils
"The thing will
do be dam
Yosemite spreading all of false
difficulty identifying Mr. Spring
Valley companies going be which
their of Misrepresentation
Washington central labor
organization sending published
today's which shows just what the city is about
map they get 1t tells better than words
Hetchy valley plateau and different
its enemies.
newspapers them
Hetch Hechy proposition through thick and
it will stand by it
fight virtually of education First
will every building councils
morning The letter accompanied by the issued by the
This getting in touch with upward
influence Each of these will take
the city's with their individual members.
their for San Francisco
appeal members here write back
aid in the
Washington selection shall have
taking this thing lose going through
the which has been dedicated its
in Hetch Hechy, and she is going to have it,
The San Francisco call., 1910-03-15
$SOO,o0o DAMAGE
DONE BY FIRES
jamestown, N. Y, Business
Blocks Destroyed, Fireman
Killed and 3 Injured

JAMESTOWN, N. Y, March 14.-Be-
tween Saturday night and this morning
Jamestown was visited by the most
costly fires it has ever had resulting
in total loss of $500, 900, the death of
one man and the serious injury of three
others.
The buildings destroyed include the
Gokey factory building, the Gokey
business block, the new Sherman house.
the Erie hall block and the ]. F. Briggs
block.
The fire first broke out Saturday
night in the Gokey factory and was
thought to have been extinguished. At
o'clock this morning the flames broke
out afresh and spread to the Gokey
business block, the Sherman hotel and
the other two blocks.
John Hanson, captain of the fire
police, was instantly killed by a falling
wall. Alfred Shoesmith suffered a
fractured skull. The falling of tele-
graph poles caught number of per-
sons in a network of wires. Both legs
of George King. fireman, were broken.
Joel Obert was seriously injured.
The San Francisco call., 1910-03-15
BUDGET WILL BE
TAKEN UP SHORTLY
Premier Asquith Announces the
Measure Will Be Disposed
OF Before Spring Recess

LONDON. March 14.-An interesting
phase Of the political situation today
was Premier Asquith's announcement
in the house of commons that the
budget would be reintroduced and dis
posed Of before the house rises for the
spring recess. This announcement re-
vived political speculation in the lob
bies. It is generally believed that the
nationalists viii abstain from voting,
in which case the budget will be
passed.
If the budget is defeated, there is
no doubt the government will resign
and go TO the country again on the
questions Of the budget and the reform
OF the house Of lords.
The debate on the naval estimates in
the house of commons was only note
worthy for the clash between Lord
Charles Beresford and Reginald Mo-
VIENNA, first lord Of the admiralty, the
latter fatty accusing Lord Charles of
making a misstatement.
Sir Edward Grey, the foreign secre-
rN in strong speech at a liberal
banquet IN London tonight, declared
t.,dt Il was not sufficient to limit the
eto power Of the lords, but that the
upper house must be radically reformed.
The San Francisco call., 1910-03-15
Has Powerful Enemies

For more than two years the infiu-
ences that have led to the refusal on
the part of the senate Judiciary COM
mittee to recommend the confirmation
OF Devlin's reappointment to the office
or United States attorney for the dis
trict of northern California have
been working at Washington against
the official. Wealth and political power
both have been thrown into the strug-
gle against Devlin, and opposed to him
have been some of the most influential
senators in congress-
Senator Borah, who himself was
charged with land frauds. has led the
battle against Devlin's confirmation.
President Taft March 49, 1909, sent
Devlin's nominat ton to the senate, but,
such was the pressure brought to bear,
the session of congress then in prog
ress took no action on it. The present
session delayed the matter, and Dew
ms impatient letter to Washington a
few days ago drove them to action.
While the most powerful and strong
iy intrenched forces in the country
have been arrayed against Devlin,
those who aroused the antagonism are
two men the United States attorney
prosecuted in San Francisco-Dr. E. B.
Perrin, whom Devlin convicted of con-
sp1racy to defraud the government in
land deals, and Joseph E. Gardner, son
of a well known Kentucky family who
was acquitted of murder after two
trials and bitter contest.
CONVICTED OF LAND FRAUDS
Perrin was convicted with John A.
Benson before Judge John J. de Haven
United States district judge for north
ern California. The case was appealed
to the United States circuit court of
appeals and the Judgment against
Perrin reversed and a new trial or
dered. Attorney General Wickersham
dismissed the case against Perrin,
however, before the second trial be-
gan. Benson. who had exhausted his
hnances, is now serving his sentence of
one year in prison.
Joseph E. Gardner, a Kentucky youth
who shipped for a cruise in the arctic
on the whaler Bowhead and killed a
negro while on the trip. was acquitted
on the plea of self-defense. Devlin
made charges of jury tampering in this
trial, duplicating Jack Chinn, a well
known Kentucky horseman in the
matter, and Chinn and Gardner's rela-
tives and friends became sworn enc
mics of the official.
Gardeners father is Judge D. w
Gardner Of Kentucky, one of his uncles
is Chief Justice Edward c. ORear OF
the appellate court of Kentucky and
another is John Gardner, solicitor OF
the treasury at Washington. They
were arrayed against Devlin, for they
claimed that young Gardner was justi-
fed in killing the negro, and that Dew
lin had prosecuted the young man.
DEVLIN'S SCALP SOUGHT
Mrs. Perrin, who comes of a promi-
nent southern family, joined her hus-
band in the effort to have Devlin re-
moved, for the family was furious at
the prosecution. Perrin is credited
with having said repeatedly that he
had $10O 900 with which he would "eet'
Devlin.
Robert T. Devlin is member of the
law firm of Devlin & DevIin of Sacra-
mento He has served as United States
district attorney for five years and was
for several years a member of the
state prison commission and of the
state legislature. He is a man OF
means.
The San Francisco call., 1910-03-15

Great aviation meet at beautiful
Hotel Del Monte Saturday and Sunday,
March 18th and goth. Saturday to
Monday railroad rate, $500 round
trip. Don't miss it.
The San Francisco call., 1910-03-15
To Cure a Cold I'm One Day

Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets.
Druggists refund money if il fails z.
". Groves signature on box. 25c.
The San Francisco call., 1910-03-15
EXPERT TESTIMONY
GIVEN TO SENATE
H. SonnehiII, Baltimore Grocer,
Shows Steady Increase in
Cost of Living
Tariff Blamed for Higher Prices
on Lemons and Other
Commodities

WASHINGTON, March l4-H. SON.
afternoon read to the senate commit
tee on the cost Of living a statement
giving number of comparisons of the
cost Of commodities for several years
back
Among the articles mentioned as
having increased in price were butter,
eggs, cheese, flour. beans and rice. He
declared that during the last 10 years
the price of potatoes had decreased Is
per cent and chocolate and cocoa 10
per cent.
The witness estimated that the price
Of -four had increased 12A per cent
during the last u years, but his figures
for five years back showed II had in
creased about 25 per cent.
When the witness declared the price
Of lemons had increased 81 a case in
the last year and attributed the ad-
vance TO the increase in the tariff SEN
ator SmoOt took him to task and asked
him if he did not know that in July,
1909, before the new tariff law went
into effect, lemons sold for IS a case,
whereas now they could be bought for
$3.50 per case. The witness replied
that he did recall that lemons were
pretty high at the time to which the
senator referred.
Sonnehill also attributed the in
crease In the price of brooms Of 60
cents a dozen since 1908 to the tariff
and TO the short broom corn crop. He
said that in the face Of a short broom
crop Somebody had the tariff raised"
Chairman Lodge today received from
Secretary Wilson of the department of
agriculture a statement covering the
total number of animals slaughtered
and the total receipts at establish
ments under federal inspection during
the year 1909. It shows that the ag-
gregate kill was 55.672,075. OF the
animals killed. 7.325.S37 were cattle,
2,046.71l calves. 1O,8O2, ,903 sheep SO, 1913
goats and 35.427, 1871 swine.
Receipts of meats at the packing
houses were given as 2,S03, ,97l
pounds. divided as follows:
Beef, 1.017, ,240.SSS; veal, 27,762, ,63e;
mutton, 43,6S7.107; goats meat, 54,609,
and pork, 1.715,035.04S
Independent meat packers have been
subpenaed TO appear before the COM
mittee Thursday and Friday.
The San Francisco call., 1910-03-15
SOLDIERS DEATH
MYSTERY UNSOlVFD
Belief Strong That Janney In
tended Demonstration, Not
Contemplating Suicide

MANILA, March 1.-THE mysterious
circumstances attending the killing of
Second Lieutenant Clarence NJ. Janney
of the Twelfth infantry, which occurred
Saturday at Fort William Mckinley,
have. not yet been cleared up. 1t is
generally believed Janney killed HIM
self. but it is uncertain whether by ac-
cident or design.
Lieutenant Colonel Ames and Mrs.
Janney, the only witnesses, agree that
Janney rushed into the house flourish
ing a pistol which was suddenly dis
charged. Many believe that Janney
planned a demonstration and that he
had no intention Of committing suicide
special board is investigating the
affair. The body will be sent home by
a transport sailing March %. Janney
vas native of Virginia.
The San Francisco call., 1910-03-15
BATTLE IS WAGFD
AGAINST DfVLIN
Powerful Interests Garry on Bit
ter Fight Against Fed
eral Attorney
Judiciary Committee May Re-
consider Failure to Indorse
Nomination
Continued From Page L

Attorney General Bonaparte in all i'm
portant steps taken.
Some Of Devlin's friends here think
there is desire to make Devlin the
scapegoat for the course of former At
torney General Bonaparte and for
Burns alleged part in the case. They
are demanding a personal hearing for
Devlin and will probably obtain 1t. At
torney General Wickersham is embar-
rassed, 1t is said, because it was upon
the report of Assistant Attorney Gen.
eral Parr that the indictment against
Perrin was dismissed.
Devlin. in his letter, repeats his opin-
ion that Perrin was guilty, while a
majority of the committee accept the
dismissal of the indictment as proof
that the department of justice regards
him as an innocent man.
The San Francisco call., 1910-03-15
HOW THE EGYPTIANS
DISPOSED OF GHOUL s
Mean Thieves Turned Over to
Wise Men for Nivisection

Breaking into houses where funerals
have Just taken place and plundering
them is spoken of by the Berliner
Tageblatt as the latest trick of the
thieves in that city.
While this may be a new form of
criminality in Berlin, says the writer.
IL is really only an imitation of an in
cident described in Dfo Cassius as hav
ing taken place $500 years before
Christ
The historian says that when the
consort of the emperor was laid awsy
in the mausoleum at Memphis a band
of Greek marauders entered the desert
ed palace of the Pharaoh and took all
the precious stones and metals and the
women slaves, and reached the banks
of the Red sea with their plunder.
Only two OF the band were captured.
and they were turned over by the
ruler to the wise men. by whom they
were vivisected in the interest of
science
The San Francisco call., 1910-03-15
THREE CAUSES FOUND TO
EXPLAIN CANNIBALISM
Necessity, Pleasure or Fashion
Rule Men Eating Tribes

According to a writer in a French
review, there are three causes for can
nibalism. It is due either to neces-
sity, pleasure or fashion. Twenty per
cent of the cannibals, we learn, eat
their dead to honor them. The ancient
Tibetans belonged to this class. says the
London Globe. This is sentimental an.
thropophagy. Nineteen per cent eat
their great warriors to obtain their
courage. This is designated egostistic
anthropophagy. Twenty mine per cent
eat human flesh to punish their enc
mics, and 80 per cent because 1t is the
fashion. or because they consider the
flesh savory.
The San Francisco call., 1910-03-15
BISHOP TELLS OF BOY
WHO LIKED COACHMAN
Preferred Company of Driver to
Prelate at Dinner

The bishop of st. Asaph, recently at
a. prize distribution, began with an
anecdote of Bishop Short, whom he
remembered visiting his fathers house
at Llangollen. As a youngster, he was
asked In after dinner to see the dio-
cesar of that day. He had seen the
coachman who had driven the bishop.
and the coachman was an extremely
fine man. When he entered the dining
room his father said: This Is the
bishop and he Immediately said, "Oh,
there is a much finer bishop in the
kitchen"
The San Francisco call., 1910-03-15
UNIVERSITY OF PEKING
HONORS NIPPON SAVANT
Confers Degree of Doctor of
Chinese Literature

Another piece of startling news
comes from the Celestial empire, and
this is that the University of Peking
has conferred the doctorate in Chinese
literature upon a foreigner, says the
London Globe. This is a degree hith-
erto conferred only upon Chinese after
severe examination, foreigners not be-
ing considered equal to facing the or
deal. The savant who now holds this
distinction is a Japanese named Hat
tori, at the present time one of the
professors in the University of Tokyo.
Professor Hattori was for long time
a student in the University of Tokyo.