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The San Francisco call., 1910-04-23
WASTE MADE BEAUTY SPOT

WASTE MADE BEAUTY SPOT
The park was a sand waste, COM
prising little less than two blocks,
lying along Lake street between
avenues in the south line and crowning
the bluffs overlooking the bay and
ocean on the north
There were thousands of cubic yards
of sand to be moved to create three
terraces. each overlooking the one i'm
mediately below it, and all looking
straight out over the finest landscape
in San Francisco, including the Pre-
sidio, the hills Of Marin county, the
Golden gate and the ocean. Then
there were streets to be laid out on
curves, to follow the contour of the
land. The terraces were elevated from
25 10 IS feet, each insuring views to
all builders. One street was run paral-
lei TO the Preside wall, to furnish TO
that portion of the park an unob-
structed view of the Presidio
The length of the park, east and
west, exclusive of the street in the
park. is $50 feet. North and south the
width ranges from $50 to 500 feet.
PERMANENT IMPROVEMENTS
Every street was paved with btu
men. Every foot OF sidewalk was
made of artificial stone, of which ce-
ment is the base. Every foot of the
main and side sewers and the connec-
tions Herewith were contructed Water
mains and gas mains were put in.
Electric light and telephone wires We're
placed underground so that there will
be no unsightly poles in the park.
There was no difficulty in getting
the telephone wires in at a reasonable
cost Concerning the electric light
wires Lyon does not care to talk. There
is a story that the electric light COM
pany charged s12. 900 to put its wires
in cOnduits underground Diplomacy
was employed to modify to some ex-
tent the size of this charge. When
everything that was to go under
ground was in, the paving and the
laying Of sidewalks progressed rapidly
In about year the park finally as
sumed shape
In addition to the paved streets. the
sidewalks, the underground wires. the
sewers and the gas and water mains
and connections, there were grass
plats. plantations of ornamental trees
and, to make the approaches ornament
al, two handsome gateways were con-
structed out Of white stone brought
from Utah Then the lots were ready
10 be offered for sale.
COST OF TRANSFORMATION
Within the park there are 400 feet
OF roadway. Lake street gives an ad-
ditional frontage for lots of $50 feet.
The sidewalks have a length of about
1000 feet in total. The land composing
the park is understood to have been
bought for about $4,000 from William
Bunker, who held the two blocks for
many years. The street work in tie
park has cost about $4,000. Interest
and other expenses have materially
swelled the investment represented. A
piece of property was created un-
paralleled in show features in San
Francisco to date.
This story may be repeated often
and in the hope that it will lies much
OF the reason for public interest in
picturesque and useful enterprise.
The San Francisco call., 1910-04-23
MELVILLE S. TOPLTTZ
REMOVES HIS OFFICE

Melville S. Toplitz has removed his
office to room 504 in the First National
Bank building, where he will continue
TO advise clients concerning real estate
and investments.
The San Francisco call., 1910-04-23
HOMELAND COMPANY TO
IMPROVE SUNNYSIDE LOTS

The Rogers & Stone company has
decided to the Homeland company 40
lots in Sunnyside The land will be
improved by the Homeland company.
The San Francisco call., 1910-04-23

improvement of this park is the firm
OF Lyon & Hoag, who have accom-
plished wonders in the way of enhanc-
ing the advantages of a place that is
splendidly endowed by nature.
George Z. Lyon of Lyon & Hoag de-
scribes the construction of West Clay
park entertainingly.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1910-06-16
Vandal Invades Review Office.

Some ignorant vandal invaded this
office last night, presumably during
the fire scare at the building just east
of it, and besides disfiguring some
material, carried off an unknown
quantity of type, leads, slugs, some
printed stationery, a pair Of gold
trimmed nose glasses and various
minor matters which could not posi-
bly, benefit him, but may prove a val
liable loss to the printers, says
the Rich Hill Beview. The sup
position is that some mischievous boy
did it, as it is impossible to believe
that a grown-up man in his sober
senses could be guilty of such
foolish act. The eye glasses belong,
ed to one Of our young lady compos-
itors and cost her s.; the printed
stationery entailed a loss of only a
few dollars on this office, but the loss
of material can not be estimated
some of it being entirely new, not
yet put in the cases, and if it shortens
fonts, may put us to considerable ex-
pense to replace it.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1910-06-16
May Seek to Gust Packers.

jefferson City, Mo-, June l3.-lt is
probable that Attorney General Ma
ior will file custer proceedings
against number of the big packing
companies, in which, under two
counts, they will be charged with
common-law conspiracy and viola
tons of the statutes prohibiting trusts
and combinations in restraint of
trade.
The original proceedings which he
filed, the same being in the nature of
information, named nine of the pack
ing companies. The evidence he
secured during the taking of teSti-
mony in this investigation convinced
him that the National Packing Com
pany of Chicago owned the st. Louis
Dressed Beef and Provision Company
and that the former should be includ-
ed when the suit was filed asking
custer and punishment for violations
of the antitrust laws.
Two of the Companies named in the
original proceedings, the Cudahy
Company and Schwarzchild & Sultz.
berger, may be omitted from the
custer proceedings.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1910-06-16
Pipes and Germs.

Sticklers for hygiene will be pleas
ed to hear of the latest dictum of
medical associations in eastern cities
as to the germ susceptibility of a
smokers pipe. The ''bit" Of a pipe
is every bit as much of a germ mag
net as a moistened cigar end or a
cigarette.
Doctors have warned smokers for
years against using public cigar clip
pers and against laying down a part
ly smoked cigar or cigarette on the
edge of a desk, table or window sill.
Recently the ban has also been placed
on pipes.
Don't lay a pipe down, either, say
the medical highbrows, particularly
if il has curved stem. A pipe will
not stay put, but will roll a little to
readjust itself unless it is laid down
with the greatest care. The saliva
moistened bit could pick up a few
odd million microbes just as easily as
not. Philadelphia Record.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1910-06-16
Beating the River.

Andy LipScomb, of north Vernon
county, was interviewed last week by
a Rich Hill Review reporter, and is
quoted as follows:
''Mr. Lipscomb also told of a scheme
he has hit upon to beat the ravages Of
the Overlooking Usage as applies to
the bottom grass, and others would
do well to follow the example. AS
early in the spring as possible, or
when the grass gets few inches
high, he turns every head of stock he
can get on to it and keeps it there,
By doing this up to the first of June,
which is about the time annually the
rivers get in their work, the grass is
kept nipped quite close to the aground,
then when the water spreads outover
"all creation it can do no harm on
that score. When the water recedes
the stock is kept off and the grass in
few weeks has grown as high as a
mans waist, then Mr.. Lipscomb gets
into it with men and teams and
secures full crop of bright, sweet
hay, clear of trash and mud. This
scheme is not patented-anyone can
try it, and succeed, too, if he keeps
his eyes open.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1910-06-16
Recorder of Deeds.

To the Butler Commercial Club, City.
Gentlemep-The farmers of our
neighborhood are watching the eff
forts of the citizens Of Butler to pro-
cure High School with much inter-
est. Many Of us would be able to
send our children to Butler High
School and educate them when we
would be unable to bear the expense
of sending them away. We are also
very much interested in your adding
an agricultural department to your
school. Trusting your citizens will
also consider the children living out
side your district, who want high
school education when they vote on
the proposition.
M. M. Carroll,
R. F. D. No. Z.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1910-06-16
A WOman's Great Idea

is how to make herself attractive.
But, without health, it is hard for her
to be lovely in face, form or temper.
A weak, sickly woman will be- ner-
vous and irritable. Constipation and
Kidney poisons show in pimples,
blotches, skin eruptions and a wretch
ed complexion. But Electric Bitters
always prove godsend to women
who want health, beauty and friends.
They regulate Stomach, Liver and
Kidneys, purify the blood; give strong
nerves, bright eyes, pure breath.
smooth, velvety skin, lovely complex
ion, good health. Try them Soc. Il
F. T. Gays.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1910-06-16
The Cows Lost Cud.

A man has COW, says Farmer
and Stockman, that he thinks has lost
her cud and asks advice. He says:
my COW has eaten moss and slough
grass all the spring until she has pull
ed out all her upper front teeth and
now she gives buttermilk with a
green scum on it. Is it the moss that
colors the buttermilk?" He also
wants to know if it is true that a COW
has four stomachs and sometimes
loses her cud in one of them? Alas;
it is too true. When a cow loses her
cud it generally lodges in the first,
second or third stomach, where she
can regain it by humping up her back
and saying "gawhoomp" once or
twice, but if it passes into the fourth
one it is goner unless you send
diver after il mighty quick.
The real trouble is, your cow has
atmosphere in the omasum and it
causes the cud to evaporate.
The stomach of a cow is corrugat-
ed like a dashboard with warts on it,
and is built more for keeping things
down than for lifting them up, Give
her some more moss, and tighten il
up for balanced ration with a ton of
bran and a load of tame hay. When
the bran begins to chase the hay
around inside of her it will doubtless
find and restore her cud if her inSides
are not warped too much.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1910-06-16
Selecting Alfalfa Seed.

The farmer who has brought HIM
self to the point of introducing alfalfa
upon his land should be extremely
careful in the selection of seed. In
the first place it is important that he
should sow seed produced in about
the same latitude as his farm and
from a region of about the same rain
fall, thus keeping in a line OF accl-
nation, and with the habits and habi-
tat, as il were, of what he is seeking
to raise. Next he should not SOW
seed raised under irrigation if he is in
a non-irrigating region. A Michigan
farmer, for example, should SOW
seed grown as near to his latitude as
possible, say, from Wisconsin, Min
nesota or the Dakotas, or not south
of Nebraska or Kansas. II is ques-
tionable at present whether it is wise
or profitable to attempt raising alfalfa
seed in the more humid districts of
the eastern and southern parts of the
United States. 1t may be economy
to leave the raising Of seed to those
regions with the least summer rain
fall, keeping always in mind the Sc
curing of seed grown under condi-
tons nearly like those to which the
seed is TO be introduced, From
burns ''The Book of Alfalfa"
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1910-06-16
A Missouri subscriber writes:

A Missouri subscriber writes:
'Can you give me any information
concerning the mule-footed hog,
especially as to their practical value
on the farm"
The mule-footed hog seems to diff
fer from other breeds mainly in the
fact that it has a solid hoof instead Of
a cleft hoof. There are a number Of
herds in the south and southwest,
and It Is said that there are some in
Mexico We have no evidence that
they have any especial merit or claim
for precedence over the other sshb-
lished breeds In southern Missouri
they are called Ozark hogs. WAL
laces Farmer.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1910-06-16
To Democrats.

II is generally believed that the
next House of Representatives at
Washington will be Democratic if
%here is united and harmonious effort
bn the partof Democrats everywhere.
The National Democratic Congress
sional Committee is charged with
much responsibility in furnishing
campaign book and other literature,
directing speakers and doing the gen.
eral work of organization. We need
your active support especially in a
financial way. Please send to the
National Democratic Congressional
Committee, Washington, D. c., a
check at once as we are greatly in
need Of funds to push our work, and
must depend upon Democrats to fur
nish them. Our committee is sus-
tanned by voluntary contributions.
We are reliably informed that the
Republican Committee is already gen.
erously supplied with money. Will
you not aid us at once?
JAMES T. LLOYD,
Chairman.
JOSEPH E. RANSDELL,
Chairman Finance Committee.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1910-06-16
Market Letter.

Kansas City Stock Yards, June IS,
l9l0-Rather light receipts of cattle
for the past month or more have pre-
vented packers from storing up much
dressed meat in coolers, and when
the demand from consumers began
to increase two weeks ago, the re-
serve supply was soon exhausted,
and killers have been forced to eX-
hibit anxiety for supplies recently.
Receipts from Native and Western
territory continue moderate, and the
fluX of cattle from quarantine terri
tory now coming to market is not
large enough, previous to today, to
relieve the strain. The market has,
therefore, made fairly good gains
each of the past two weeks, the adj
vance last week % cents on best fed
steers, and 25 to so cents on butcher
grades. Stockers and feeders re-
manned about steady, as present
prices are one dollar higher than
year ago, and buyers hold some
skepticism about cattle paying out at
prevailing prices, The supply today
was above expectations, $4,000 head
here, half of which are in the quaran-
tine division. Best steers are steady
to a shade lower, account of scarcity,
top sales today at SS.45, So. 30 and
So. 20, Medium cattle are off 10 to Is
cents today, bulk of steers at S.. 40 to
$3.50, plain light steers downwardS
to $3.50, COWS at $3.50 to $3.50, heif-
erS $500 to S760, bulls 1878 to
$3.50, calves $3.50 to $S.25, stockers
$500 to $3.50, feeders $500 to 1925,
Fed Colorado steers 1928 to $500.
After considerable fluctuating hogs
closed last week in the same notch as
close Of previous week, Heavy
weights lost some prestige during the
week, and lights seem to be slated to
take the lead in the near future. The
run is 5000 here today, liberal else
where, and packers seized the chance
to enforce a decline, ranging from 10
to 10 cents, top hogs atSS9.32 ~
which is only II l-2 cents under Chi
cago top today, bulk of sales here
50. 20 to $3.50. Shipping demand is
good, as many small plants, hereto
fore closed for a season, are opening
up, having decided that no money
can be made by not running. Com
petition is therefore better, and pack
ers who talked of putting up their
droves shortly at nine dollars have
revised their ideas during the last
week.
Sheep and lambs made big gains
last week, and closed strong, sheep
and goats adding rs cents to Sl,00 to
their value, and lambs gaining so to
70 cents, Packers bought goats free
~, the first they have purchased for
several weeks. Run is 5000 today,
market a shade lower, although
spring lambs reached $3.50 today, a
new high figure recently for them.
Shorn lambs are worth $50 to $3.50,
yearlings up to S7.75, wethers $3.50
So 40, ewes $500 to 1913, Texas
muttons today at $500 to IS. rs, goats
to killers today at S4 40, brushers
worth around $3.50.
}. A RICKART,
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1910-06-16
Kept The King At Home.
j. A RICKART,
L. S Correspondent

"Forthe pastyear we have kept the
King of all laxatives-Dr. Kings New
Life Pills-in our home and they have
proved a blessing to all our family"
writes Paul Mathulka, of Buffalo,
N. Y. Easy, but sure remedy for all
Stomach, Liver and Kidney troubles.
Only 25c. at F. T. Clay's.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1910-06-16
A Regular Tom Boy

was climbing trees and fences,
jumping bitches, whiting, always
getting scratches, cuts, sprains, bruis.
es, bumps, burns or scalds. But
laws! her mother just applied Buck.
lens Arnica Salve and cured hel
quick. Heals everything healable-
Boils, Ulcers, Eczema, Old Sores,
Corns or Piles. Try it. 25c at F,
T. Clay's.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1910-06-16
The Sowing of COwpeas in the
Corn.
Corn.

Corn.
The use of cOwpeaS as a crop TO be
sown in the corn is destined to be-
come more and more common in Mis-
souri,. Corn alone is very wearing
on the land as everyone knows, and
with the increasing value of farm
lands a way must be found to keep
up the fertility at the same time that
the farmer is making money return
per acre. Crop rotation is naturally
a first essential in this building up
and maintaining of the fertility, but to
improve the land most rapidly use
must be made of extra legume crops
thrown in between the regular crops
TO add nitrogen and humus. Cow
peas can be used in this way the most
readily of any crop grown in Missouri
and with very great profit.
A knowledge of handling cowpeaS
in the corn is necessary to success,
Many men have attempted this prac-
tice and have failed because of i'm
proper methods of handling. The
common practice is to sow them
broadcast in the corn at the last cul-
tivatiOn at the rate of two to three
peckS per acre, and while this is sat
isfactory on central and northern Mis-
souri, lands. This practice is particu-
larly adapted to the lowlands of south
east Missouri lands. On the up
lands, however, one frequently fails
to get stand when putting them in
this way. A better practice is to use
one-horse drill, putting them in at
the time of the last blowing. On
some lands this drilling will give suf-
ficient cultivation to take the place of
the last plowlng of the corn, In any
case the corn should be laid by little
earlier than usual to be sure of get
ting good stand, The variety to
use in this case is the New Era as a
first choice and Whippoorwills as a
second choice, CowpeaS may be
SOM m, the row with the corn quite
satisfactorily and this is becoming
quite common. They are either mix
ed in the planter box, using about
| - times as many peas as corn, or
they may be put in with a special
cowpea attachment to the corn plant
er. The latter method is much to be
preferred as it will give a more even
stand of both corn and peas. One
difficulty in handling peas in this way
is due to the fact that the cowpeas
are badly stunted should cold spell
of weather come after they are up.
As a matter of fact it is usually better
TO postpone corn planting until the
last half of May in central Missouri
when cowpeas are to be put in the
row. The best variety for this pur-
pose depends upon the use that is to
ha made Of them If thav are tO he
pastured with hogs, the Whippoor-
wills or the Black should be used. If
they are to be cut up with corn
binder, use climbing variety like
the Clay which will climb the stalks.
NJ. F. MILLER,
Agricultural Experiment Station,
University of Missouri, Column
bia, Mo.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1910-06-16
Rice Thrown at Wedding Fatal.
From the New York Tribune.

When Mr.. and Mrs. Asa Cummings
of Binghampton, N. Y, were married
ten years ago their friends showered
them with rice.
One kernel lodged in the bride S
ear. For ten years it defied the eff
forts of physicians and surgeons to
dislodge it. Three fruitless opera
tons were perforped, and a short
time ago she entered the Post Gradu-
ate Hospital here for treatment.
Brain fever developed and she died
Thursday.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1910-06-16
Open Letters on the PROPOSED
New High School.

To the Butler Commercial Club, City.
Gentlemen have given the prop
osition for a new High School build
ing considerable consideration and
think now that if the proposition
carries, when my term of office ex-
pires, that will remain in Butler and
educate my children.
|. M. SMITH,
Recorder of Deeds.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1910-06-16

To Butler Commercial Club-I hope
yourschool proposition will carry. We
would like to educate our children at
the Butler High school, and not be
compelled to send them away from
home. Frank Holland.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1910-06-16

Land very cheap, good climate,
good water, good health. Drop me q
postal card for a booklet on Missouri
lands then 90 and see the country.
E. G. Vandervoort.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1910-06-16
Mule-FOOted Hogs.

Chairman Finance Committee.
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1910-10-27
CAPTAIN PERIsHES WITH SHIP
Refused to Leave Sinking Schooner
When Crew Were Rescued.


Perth Amboy. ~ j.. Oct 25.-The
Norwegian steamer Harall arrived at
this port with seven members Of the
crew Of the schooner Hollis Wood, OF
New York. who were rescued By the
crew Of the Harald at great risk dur
ing a heavy blow in the Gulf Of Mex
leo on oct. Il.
The captain Of the schooner. who
was +. r Walls. refused to leave his
vessel when Captain Berg, Of the Har-
aid. discovered 1t in trouble in the mid
die of the Gulf OF Mexico
Upon seeing the plight OF the
schooner Captain Berg altered his
course and quickly covered the few
niles between the two vessels. Nate
Paul Mangold pleaded with his super
Tor to leave the wrecked ship but the
captain declined and scrubbed the fol
lowing note. Captain. please report
schooner Hollis Wood totally dismast-
ed. full OF wafer Pendleton Brothers,
1870 Pearl street. New York city Good.
by"
Although the mate begged him to
save himself with the men. Captain
Walls stuck to his ship after ordering
the seven members OF the crew to
board the lifeboat sent by the steamer.
lie declared that he would stay by
his vessel as long as il was above wa
ter. But It's chances were considered
slim. because IL was then nearly full
of water and the sides were smashed
In
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1910-10-27
pseIins Of the Mustaehe.

Permission 10 wear mustache wa,
eagerly sought after in the middle Of
the last century But now the virile
decoration Is discarded. Why? In
those old days the Bank Of England
would not allow It's employees to wear
II aud issued an order which might
have come more appropriately from a
bank Of Ireland. II was to the effect
that the mustache was not to be worn
in business hours, A large drapery
hrm 10 London objected not only to
pe mustache but to hair parted down
he middle. There Is more tolerance
how. Men look younger when clean
shaved. They are also more readable
without the protection given by the
mustache to The upper lip IL hearts
can be worn on sleeves thoughts can
be read on upper lips. But IS 1t always
wise to leave the legend unhidden;
Men seldom like to be OWNED, as La
Rochefoucauld remarked once and for
all time.-London Express.