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The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1910-07-14
Facts About Our Wild Birds.

From Judge.
Our wild birds are getting wilder
every year.
The man who gave us the English
sparrow died happy, knowing he had
avenged the Revolution.
The native bird to attain the great
est age is the spring chicken.
The police court vulture is protect
ed by the strictest game laws.
Night hawks are reported more
plentiful than ever.
Swallows of all kinds are plentiful
in the North, though forced to migrate
from several Southern states. The
barn swallow" still exists in prohi-
bition districts.
The three distinct species Of larks,
including the night lark, are increas-
ing under the protection of the new
laws. The meadow lark" is still
confined to the country districts and
is at its best during the vacation
period.
The King-bird and Jack-daw do not
pair up at all. They are always fight
ing. 1t takes three of these Jacks to
beat two Kings.
The canvasback duck flies the high
est of any OF the wild game birds on
the menu.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1910-07-14

AT meeting of Butler Lodge, No.
1870, |. o. o. F. Monday night, July IL,
the following newly elected officers
were installed: G. w. Dixon, N. G.;
v. L. johnson, V. g.; W. S. Arnold,
Sec'y; H. L. Clinkenbeard, Treas. |;
C. A. Allen, Ward; A. o. Woman,
Cond.; T. J. Cameron, R. S. N. G.;
C. H. Grubs, L. S. N. G.; B. G. Gull
yer, R. S. S.; G. A. Knight, L. S. s.;
N. E. Young, 0. S. G.; Chas. STAN
ley, l. S. g.; J. F. Crabtree, R. S. v.
G.; L. A. Steward, L. S. v. G.; w.
w. Ross, Chap.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1910-07-14

c. A. Allen
w. E. Walton
G. H. butcher
j. B. Walton
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1910-07-14
Now Who'll Discover Cook?

The provincial court, who is hear
ng the case of Rudolph Francke
against Commander Peary, has order
ed Francke to produce DR.. Fred.
efiek A. Cook as witness. Francke,
who was associated with Doctor Cook
in polar exploration, demands $40, 0OO
for a collection of furs, walrus and
narwhal teeth he alleges Peary re-
quired him to surrender in considera-
ton Of taking him home from Etah.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1910-07-14
$3.50 Recipe Cures Weak
Kidneys, Free.
Relieves Urinary and Kidney
Troubles, Backache Strain
ing. Swelling, Etc.
Stops Pain in the Bladder, Kidneys
and Back.

wouldn'tit be nice within week or 90 70 be-
gin TO cay goodbye forever to the scald'nt,
dribblng. straining, or too frequent passage Of
urine; the forehead and the back OF. the head
aches; the stitches and pains In the back; the
growing muscle Weakness; spots before the
a. 20; yellow akin; slug sish bowels; swollen
eyelids or ankles; leg cramps; unnatural short
breath; sleeplessness and the despondcncyf
haye recipe for these troubles that yeu
% depend on end II you want n make quick
recovery, you ought 70 write and get COPY Of
for writing this prescription, bat hsv. Il end
will Be gle0 70 oend is 70 sou entirely nee.
Just drop ne line like THE: Or A. T. Rnodn-
son Z l1ls Luck Building, Detroit. Mich aad
AZ yoa Will go vhsn you ct Il this redpe on.
tniDe only pure, harmleee iemodiess but IL hns
q eet halliee and pain-eonqueflng power.
u % I dial ysu M bs(ssr ssS wkss 1t is
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The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1910-07-14
The Walton Trust
Company,
Butler, nisSOuri
Butler, nissouri

Capital. Observation-Disclosures. SIS 10000
Surplus Fund and Und. Profits .S8z,o 90
Loans money on Farms at low interest rates.
Has complete Abstract OF title to all real estate
in Bates county. which we keep up with the
records daily. Furnish reliable abstracts on
short notice. Pays interest Time Deposits.
Always has good securities for sale.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1910-07-14
DIR ECTOR S

John E. Shut
T. G. Boulware
Max Weiner
A. B. Owen
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1910-07-14

Frank Allen
VIM. w. Trigg
John Deerwester
Frank M. Voris
Evening journal., 1910-01-05
Wednesday, January ). 1910
INTEREST IN LIVE QUESTIONS.

I'D REACHERS and school teachers make a
4 rather good combination DIR. Twitmyer
who is considerable Of philologist recently paid
his respects TO mossbacks in Wilmington and es-
tabished the word in good USE and now d.
Wells OF ST. Andrews observes that Delaware
is behind the times in considering social and in
dustral questions DR.. Wells intends to preach
a series of sermons on Christian Socialism and
St. Andrews should be filled every Sunday even
ing with persons seeking information about these
matters.
We are inclined to agree with DR. Wells in his
statements as to a lack of interest and a lack of
progress in Delaware in these matters So far
as the expressions of public bodies go the Grang-
ers and the Labor Unions have been in the adj
vance. but the criticism of the Dover Index that
the Grangers "resolute' and then go to sleep,
will doubtless be admitted to be true by many
of the Grangers themselves. The Labor Unions
never seem to have made an impression on the
= legislature simply because they cannot COM
msnf much of a political following among the
worAingmen
We have however. made some progress in Del
aware. and there is no reason why men like Dr.
Twtmyer and DR.. Wells should not be honeful
OF the future. The Anti-Tuberculosis Society is
alive and full of vigor 1t got results from the
Legislature. But that was perhaps, because no
special interests were involved and the work OF
the society is a work of humanity. Our Legisa-
ture is a strange and curious body. The rail-
road company seems to have paramount nfu-
cnce with our makers OF laws And in fact,
it is easy to control the Delaware Legis-
lature. A few men in the State Senate do the
Job. All reforms, social, industrial or otherwise,
have to pass muster of the State Senate of half
of tle members and we have never heard any
one accuse the Senate coterie of being particu-
lary brilliant well-informed in the discussion
OF these matters.
Evening journal., 1910-01-05
Personal and Pertinent

"IInce Joe Cannon is the most popular man on earth
with the people of his town." said Mr. ]. n Lowell
of Danville ILL., the Bevedere THE more the news
papers strike him the more the insurgents rage
against him the closer do his townsmen stick by the
sturdy OLD warrior doesn't ask give quarter in
his political battles secret of his popularity is his
Intensely human side. boy and girl in Danviue
Knows him and he knows large proportion OF the chill
rn y pame stopping the streets to shake hands and
chatting with them in the friendly and tamhar iashon
that has bee his habit always. In the warm summer
days the Speaker often not seen by his neigh
bors in his sleeves taking things as sereney as the
hu,nblest day laborer. unconventionay is af-
fcctation He simply plain. everyday American,
whose long established fame has been powerless to
alter."-Baltimore American.
Evening journal., 1910-01-05
AM IMAGINARY BLOW.

a HARD job the Democratic paper has in
\ trying to prove that the rejection of Mr.
Clark for reappointment as Collector of the
Port is due to the fact that the Republican State
Convention did not adopt resolutions in favor of
Taft for the Presidential nomination Some Re
publican politicians are still puzzled, according
TO the Democratic paper, by the Presidents re-
fusal to reappopt Mr. Clark, and they regard
it a blow to the Organization" of Delaware
It would be interesting to know how many Re
publican politicians are puzzled.
The Democratic paper has been wabbling all
over creation in an endeavor to twist the af-
fair into a crack at Senator dupont In its
news columns 1t gave correct story of the af-
fair, although the blow at the Republican or
ganization" was dragged in at the tailor it
would not do to tell political story correctly all
the way through-and on the editorial page il
had squb in conflict with the news story.
Our neighbor's antipathy to the Republican
Organization" whatever that may be is becom-
ing almost mania, although that antipathy ex-
tends only to one Republicans Senator dupont
Evening journal., 1910-01-05
HERE'S THE CHAMPION
FLAP-JACK EATER

PORTLAND, oregon, Jan. 5-Comes
now the champion hapjack eater of the
world, or one who lays claim to the
title, and he has bacl1er who issues
def to anyone on earth to outdo
him.
Valdimore Larsen. q ranch hand near
Antelope, Eastern Oregon. is the man
with the seemingly Unsuitable appe-
tite for the steaming hot cake. one
night after supper recently, conversa-
ton among the men at the Brogan
ranch, where Larsen is employed, turn
cd to what they would like for break
fast. Larsen declared for hot cakes,
and lots of them.
Mrs Brogan asked him how many
he would like, and he thought 20 would
be about right for a light breakfast.
Now Mrs. Brogan's hot cakes are fun
mans size and Tom Kenny knew that
20 of them would be as big as a large
saddle blanket. so he offered to bet
IS that Larsen couldn't do the stunt.
Larsen covered the money.
Next morning at breakfast Larsen
ate % and remarked that he could
easily eat more if he wanted TO show
off, but he did not care for a heavy
breakfast that morning.
Kenny observed the ease with which
the victor absorbed the hot cakes and
stated later ne believed Larsen could
eat 70 or 100 flapjacks any time they
were i'm sight. He stands ready to
back Larsen as the champion aapjack
eater of the world.
Evening journal., 1910-01-05
Editorial
Opinion
Reminaton,s Art and Life.


New York Press.
The art of Frederic Remington. who has
died, sprang more directly from his life
than is the case with most artists. What
a contrast he Is with a man like Cezanne.
for Instance! cezanne, who pensively
dreamed and painted and formed and
stood contemplatively in the sunshine all
his life and did not even try to sell his
pictures and was not known until he was
very old-whose whole life was his art
Remington was morQsof the type OF
Cellini-an active, adventurous man. with
an artistic gift. But Cellini did not use
his adventures as subjects and Remington
did. His fun and genuine life on the plains
the American artist transferred to his
canvasses. To be sure, he transferred il in
tho way rather of the illustrator than of
the deeper interpreter. in plastic form.
Cezanne brooded over a figure or land
scape until It became an integral part OF
his mood, OF his deeper spiritual nature,
and then he put this mood OH his canvas
rather than the object. lie interpreted
everything he touched. His whole artistic
nature was embedded, so to speak, in his
models as they appeared in his pictures
Remington did not so thoroughly give
the whole man to his work lie dashed off
sketches brilliantly, as If from horseback.
fun Of picturesQueness and suggestive
ness 1t IS probable, however, that as an
artist he would not have attained so much
prominence had it not been for his un-
usual and picturesque life. which he in
dicated. rather than interpreted. on his
canvases.
Evening journal., 1910-01-05
With the Paragraphers

The Danish stin believe in DR. Cook and they
know lust as much about the North Pole Admiral
Chester or anybody else who has never been there
Charleston News and Courier
The motto the National Highways Protective Society
appears TO be. guilty chauffeur escape! More
mower to its elbow-New York Tribune
The Mayor-elect OF New York, Judge Gaynor- is la
roonting that he cannot find good for department
heads Il looks like modern political version of the
deficit i'm big city population OF ten just men-Balu-
more American.
Two subjects which should occupy attention the COM
ing wear are the railway wrecks and the mine disasters
There is much which prevenabe in latter-day dis
asters; that proportion should be brought to light
Baltimore American.
And Yet it does if a managed investiga-
tion Sugar Trust by Congress need not necessar
uv result in immunity for anybody.Indianapolic News
Evening journal., 1910-01-05
MORE MEMBERS
FOR THE HIBERNIANS

Preparations are now being made
for class initiation of seventy-five
men by the united divisions of the
A. O. IT, The united degree teams
Of Divisions Nos. z and viii do the
nooor work. The majority of the
class will be given the second, third
and fourth degrees while the remain
der will receive the fifth degree.
AT the meeting OF the state and
County Boards which will be held in st.
Thomas hall on January 30, prepara-
tions will be made for the work.
Division No. 3 at its meeting on sun
day initiated three members and re-
ceived twelve propositions
Division No. initiated two members
and has a number Of cards on the
table.
The Rev, John Connolly has present.
ed TO the retrin. officers of Division
No. o handsome smoking sets.
Evening journal., 1910-01-05
NEW NEWS OF YESTERDAY
Why TWeed'S Sentence Was
IL Years
BY "HolIand."


Following his conviction by a jury
Of his peers, William NJ. Tweed, who,
as every schoolboy knows. holds the
unenviable place in American history
as the republics star CRATER, was SEN
tenved by Judge More Davis, before
whom ne was tried, for 10 years in all.
Tweed was convicted on II counts of
an indictment, the maximum punish
ment upon each count being five
years. Judge Davis sentenced him to
a year on each count. intending that
the sentence should be 70 years i'm
prisonment in all. But the highest
court in the state decided that the SEN
tences were contemporaneous, so that,
while Tweed was serving one year, he
was really serving II.
At the time that sentence was i'm
posed many persons wondered why the
judge had given Tweed so light a SEN
tence, and not so very long ago a we'll
known student of American graft his
tory expressed similar curiosity on this
head. ] count myself fortunate in now
being able to throw the proper light
on this point-light which l received
from Judge Davis himself, when, a
year OF two before his death, asked
him how he came to sentence Tweed
for a year upon each of the counts, or
l2 years in all, when he might have
sentenced him to five years upon each
count, or so years in all. Judge Davis
said:
That question has been asked me
many times, but l have never given
to anyone an explanation of the rea-
sons which led me to fix upon this SEN
tence. I'll do so now
After Tweed's conviction I went to
my hOme-for he was not to be SEN
fenced until the next day-determined
to spend the evening in considering
what would be a proper punishment
for the offenses of which Tweed had
been convicted. The offenses were
misdemeanors, not felonies, and there.
fore he could be imprisoned, not in
states prison, but in the penitentiary
While l was meditating, late that
night, upon the proper sentence, I sud
denly recollected the testimony which
had been prepared by Samuel J. Til
den, afterwards governor of the state
and Democratic candidate for presi
dent. That was a wonderful piece OF
analytic work done by Gov. Tilden. He
had few scraps Of paper, some mutt
lated stubs of checks, and a few other
documents, and with these he demon
strated, as accurately as any teacher
could demonstrate a mathematical
problem, not only what the total steal
ings of the Tweed conspirators were
but what share each one of the con
spirators received. His demonstration
showed that Tweed received 20 pei
cent, so | said to myself: AS Tweed
got 20 per cent. of the total stealings
why not sentence him to 20 per cent
of the total number of years which
the statutes set forth as the maximum
penalty? I could give him FIVE years
on each count of the Indictment
Twenty per cent. of that would be on,
year Therefore, determined to sen
tence him for one year upon eacl
count, or 10 years in all, and wa
sure that he would serve IL years. Blu
our highest court decided that tn,
various sentences were contempor
aneous."
Copyright, 1909, by E. 7. Edvards.l
Evening journal., 1910-01-05
MID WEEK PRAYER
MEETING AT WEST

The FIRST mid5week prayer meeting of
the New Year viii be held in West Pres
byterian Church this evening at o'clock.
It promises to be an unusual and interest
Ing. one. The pastor. the Rev. Alexander
Alison, Jr., has arranged to have repre-
sentative Of each organization in the
church tell of the plans and hopes Of that
society for the New Year. Such meet
ing will afford the people Of the church
an opportunity OF learning what is being
accomplished through the many activities
in which they are directly or indirectly
engaged.
Evening journal., 1910-01-05
- Haun colnniaI Renentinn.

The y of ST. Paurs NJ. L. Church
met on Monday evening at the home
Of the Misses Skellenger, No. COZ West
Ninth street. After regular business
had been transacted plans were dis
cussed for the annual colonial re-
ception TO be held in February, and a
composed of Miss Cora Ed
wards, Leila II. Jones, Lou Skellenger
and Sadie Coursen was appointed TO
arrange for the affair.
Evening journal., 1910-01-05
STEAMER DOROTHY SAFE.

The steamer Dorothy, of the Della
ware Transportation Company which
It was feared. had been lost during
the Christmas hurricane. arrived at
Savannah. Ca. on December 30. Cap
tain W. c. White and Chief Engineer
j. X. Tompkins, of this city. were
given an ovation. The boat for a time
piled between this city and New York
1t was overhauled at the Harlan and
Hollingsworth yards last August as
the result of an accident in Southern
waters.
Evening journal., 1910-01-05
Fate Cannot Conquer Men Like This,
New York World.

Fate Cannot Conquer Men Like This.
New York World.
Seldom has there been seen a more in
spring example OF indomltable energy
trlumphing over fate than that which the
engraver Florian is now giving to the
world
Six years ago while at work upon the
designs for the new French bank-notes he
was suddenly stricken by paralysis. His
right side became as if dead: he was
bereft of speech; the hand whose skill had
made him famous was useless forever
Did he complain? Did he resign himself
to the inevitable? Did he sit down in de-
spair and allow his young wife and daugh-
ters to support him? Not for a moment
lie let the women work. It is true. but
only while he learned to engrave with his
left hand
Hour after hour, day after day, month
after month he passed struggling with
that awkward, unframed left hand draw
ing at first crudey like little child, then
with evor-increasing precision. Gradually
he educated the refractory member to
obey his will Drawing. water-color paint
ing designing for typographers succeed
ed one another, until to-day he has again
attained absolute mastery over the gray
ors TOOLS Arsene Alexandra the famous
art critic. saw him at work a few weeks
ago. his wooden blck screwed to a table,
his left hand plying the tools with an the
deftness his now dead right hand former
! ly possessed, his speechless lips smiling
and his face radiant with happiness.
To man like F'lorian fate has no ter
rors. Such men cannot be conquered. And
! II ever Labor should erect its Pantheon,
/ Florian is worthy OF a high niche among
] the heroes of work.
Evening journal., 1910-01-05

RanZcd.
Thomas f. Ryan was formerly ruling factor
in the Morton Trust Company, but it appears that
Ryan has not only been dethroned as the street
railway king of New York, but he is to be
ecpsed in other financial matters Morgan has
secured the Ryan holdings in the traction, COM
panies. Morgan has gone considerably ahead
OF the Hartman record.
The list of banking houses and trust compan-
les and insurance companies that he controls or
owns outright is almost without limit and the
same may be said OF the railroad companies and
the industrial concerns
New Workers estimate that the resources OF
the companies owned by Morgan amount to ten
billions of dollars, and he is in position to do
about as he pleases with the finances of the
country no matter what monetary legislation
may be enacted by Congress.
1t seems that Mr.. Morgan is merely carrying
out plan he has had in mind since the panic
of 1907. At that time he urged close control of
banks and restrictions in connection with their
management as the remedy for panic. Person
ally he has proceeded TO apply the remedy
If all these stories about the control OF Nor
gan are correct, we have an uncrowned king in
this country more powerful than the old worlds
nonarchs an uncrowned king that can make or
break business men, bring on panics at will ana
hold the business industry and prosperity of the
country in the hollow Of his hand.
1t will be recalled that about the time the
panic started the cities of the West laughed dt
have her troubles, but we in the West, in Chi
cago and ST. Louis, are going ahead regardless
of trouble in the East. We are independent, they
boasted. But the boast was short-lved.
Gradually the slump began TO hit the West
ST. Louis and Chicago business houses began 10
pull in" men were laid off, business became
duller, and the Western centers of business
felt the effects of the depression as much as
the East did
1t merely shows the fine net '7rlI of finance,
the cord that reaches all through the nation.
How the problem of having to deal with one
man or one set of financial men will be solved,
will keep the wise men guessing. If Mr.. Nor
gan, for example, doesn't like a President, what
is to prevent him from starting slump in busi-
ness? The New York financiers did that with
Roosevelt They punished the country for lik-
ing Roosevelt.
Suppose the Democrats should name candi-
date for President that had not the approval of
Mr.. Morgan. would there be any chance OF
prosperity continuing under Democratic rule?
And if things go on as they have gone, the
death of Mr.. Morgan would not be likely to
bring relief Some other fnancier would take
the reins.
t The march to Capitalization of industry and
finance proceeds as Marx predicted years ago.
Evening journal., 1910-01-05

Really those Democrats who are making des-
perate efforts to dscredit the Republican organ
-had better think twice. Suppose the Demo-
Gratis should control the next Legislature and
be in position to elect a United States Senator /?
Is it not probable that the choice of the Demo-
Gratis would be almost as distastefu to a GER
tain group of local Democrats as the present
Senator is If the Democrats should hapnen to
control does any one imagine that the Hon. Will
lard Salisbury would be "off the iob?"
Evening journal., 1910-01-05
THE UNcROWNED KING.

TAT fTH the advent of the New Year the on
w ward march Of j.. Pierpont Morgan and
his coterie of inanciers is resumed with in
creased vigor. Only short time since it was
announced that Mr. Morgan had completed sew
eral gigantic deals which would make him the
most powerful fnancier Of the nation. But
these seem to have been only beginning. Mr..
Morgan yesterday captured several banking
companies including the Morton Trust Com
pany. of New York, of which former Vice Pres-
dent Morton has been the head. and along with
il were taken several other companies. They all
will be merged into ono big company TO be or
Evening journal., 1910-01-05

Il must jar the six railroad presidents who
conferred with President Taft about proposed
legislation to read that instead Of influencing
him to their way of thinking the President made
his message a little stronger after hearing the
story Of the railroad men They would not
have been treated in that manner if they had Wis
tied a Delaware Legislature.
Evening journal., 1910-01-05
Stories OF the Day

Willie years old in his fathers Office after
noon waiting TO go home with him. Mr. $. very
much occupiedin fact much that he had quite for
gotten that young sitting behind him. At
length the telephone rang and Mr. s. told that
there long distance call for him. He called Hello
a number times and jut when his patience had about
given central vigorously while the receiver
stil his AT this Mr.. S. uttered terrible and
forbidden word.
rhe words sooner ont Of his mouth than he
membered that his but few feet him.
Wheeling about I'm his chair, he said with humility:
"The. very Of father TO say those naughty
words Willie. 1 hope" he added that my little boy
win such dreadful language"
IL won't say it, papa" replied the child with
a mschievous twinkle in his eye learned II all
the samei"-Earpers Magazine
Two Irishmen, bent robbery, held up a passing
Scotchnan. After a long. herce fight in which the
Scochnan almost had the better OF it, they succeeded
in conQuering him thorough search OF his clothes
disclosed one lone 5-cent piece
froth Pat" said diseilstedly III he'd tin cnts
instead OF nickel have mlrtherod the two OF tst
Ever bodvs