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The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1911-06-22
Items of Interest.

The envelope was invented by a
Frenchman 1853.
Chill has eight hundred miles OF
telephone worked by an English
company.
Great Britain imported in the last
five years wheat and wheat flour
worth 81, O79, 739, 955.
The beech is less often struck by
lightning than any other tree, fifty
four oaks are struck to one beech.
Forty persons are employed on one
English farm in the picking and prep
aration of watercress for the market.
The Freiburg silver mines of Sax
ony have been closed after having
been worked for several hundred
years.
Pincers that lock when closed and
which require considerable force to
open have been patented by a Cali
fornia inventor.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1911-06-22
Fight the Drought.

The Experiment Station is receiving
so many inquiries in regard to the
proper methods of cultivating corn
during dry weather that it is deemed
advisable to call attention to some
means of saving soil moisture and of
fighting the drought that is threaten
ing the entire state this summer.
Very little can be done to save the
uncultivated crops like oats and grass
but so far as corn or any other cult
waited crop is concerned drought
may be effectively fought by contin-
ued and persistent cultivation of the
right sort. If a mulch of loose dry
soil is kept on the ground a great
amount of water will be saved that
would otherwise come to the surface
of the soil and evaporate and be lost.
The mosteffective mulch is one about
three inches deep made by small
shoveled shallow running implement
that will leave the ground practically
level. A spring tooth cultivator with
six or eight shovels on each gang is
one of the best implements for dry
weather or one horse garden pillow
after the corn is too large to work
with the ordinary cultivator. If other
implements are used they should be
run shallow so as not to disturb the
corn roots at a time when they are so
badly needed. These small toothed
implements leave loose dry layer of
soil on top for a mulch which acts
like blanket thrown over the ground
and keeps the water from being lost
by evaporation.
The drier the weather the oftener
man should cultivate in order to
keep good mulch and cultivation
should be done at least once week
in drought. 1t is a good plan to
continue the cultivation even after the
corn is too large to plow with the or
binary cultivator. A one horse gar
den pillow or even an old mower
wheel weighted down and dragged
between the rows will give good re-
suits and in such dry weather as the
present will add considerable to the
yield of the crop.
Some people have the idea that it
does no good to cultivate corn during
dry weather when it is clean and the
ground loose. but this is mistaken
idea. The oftener one cultivates the
more water he will save, for if the
ground is left unstirred very long the
particles settle together again and
water can get through the mulch to
the ground and hence be wasted. =,
The only way to fight a drought in
the corn field is by continued and
persistent, shallow and level cultiva-
ton, and the man who follows this
plan will win out when he goes to
harvest his crop.
c. B. Hutchinson
Department of Agronomy, Univers-
ity of Missouri, Columbia, Mo.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1911-06-22
Double Branch.

Homer jenkins is building an addi-
ton on his house.
Ed Requa is building new hay
shed.
We had fine shower of rain Fri
day night. 1t is making the corn just
jump. Corn certainly looks fine in
this part Of the country.
Miss Grace lobe is on the sick list
at this writing.
Waiter Nafus has built a new hay
shed and has it full of hay.
Preaching was we'll attended Sum
day and Sunday night.
Mrs. Robert Scifers is on the sick
list at present.
j. w. Terrell and wife and Miss
Matte Gander and brother, Grant,
Sundayed with H. G. Requa and fam
lily.
G. W.. Baker marketed load OF
hogs at Butler Monday.
What are we people going to do for
fruit? If it would rain there would
be good many peaches and some
apples.
The Highway Engineer and County
Surveyor were out the first of the
week surveying a road for W. A.
Baker and j. W. Hall.
w. G.. and C. A. Thomas will start
their threshing machine at W. L.
Bakers Wednesday, June 81. Isn't
this early threshing.
Hay is short in this part of the
country.
The lightning killed two head of
cattle for Ben and Lee Kisner last
Friday night. Italso struck the corner
of Walter Little's smoke house and
tore out one corner post.
Mrs. Monroe Laskey and children
visited with her brother, John Hedge
and family Monday.
Alice Baker spent Saturday night
with Jennie Walters.
Our Sunday school is surely be-
coming interesting for our little ones.
One of our little boys was told to
come and pick up his marbles last
Sunday. He said, ooh, | don't care
so much for my marbles. l want to
get to Sunday school," Another one
of our little 6 year old girls cried be-
cause her papa and mamma went
visiting. She wanted to 90 to Sunday
school. Another one of our 4 year
old girls wanted to come. Her
mamma told her she could not 90 on
account of her feet being sore. She
told her mamma to ask that Mr.. Man
that runs the Sunday school if she
couldn't come the next Sunday. Now
whip up young folks and come in line.
W. A. and G. w. Baker and fami-
lies visited with C. Z. Baker and
family
LOST KID and RAINBOW
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1911-06-22
Masonic Picnic and Fish Fry.

The Masonic lodge at.-Papinville
will hold public installation of officers,
picnic and fish fry on St. John s
day, Saturday, June oath. Every
Mason in the county is invited to be
present. DR.. Kuhn of Kansas City
has been invited to be present and
will deliver an address.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1911-06-22
Good Coal.
Europe.

Plenty of good coal at John RAN
dall's coal bank, IL miles east 1-2
mile north of Esenborth or 5 miles
northeast of Spruce, Mo-, open now.
Call over Dell line. Address Martin
Esenborth, No. IS, Montrose, Mo.
36-8t.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1911-06-22
NATIONAL COMMITTEE Sc.
LECTION LATER, STATE
BODY SAYS.
Democrats Postpone Choice of Sue
cessor to Wetmore Until An.
other Meeting.

Jefferson City, NO., June 20-Tne
six names picked by the Democratic
State Committee for Election Com
missioners Of St. Louis were taken to
Governor Hadley's office Immediate
ly after the adjournment Of the COM
mittee. The vote follows:
The Columbus journal., 1911-06-28
HAVE you TRIED PAxTlNE

JWO GREAT U0oU0S 00eWoeo0oy
You don't have to pay Soc or 500
. pint for nsterian antiseptics or Per.
oxide. You can make Is pints q q
more cleaning. gesmicidal. healing
and deodorizing antiseptic solution
With one 3sc box Of Paxtine.-a col.
uble antissptic powder, obtainable at
any drug store.
Paxtine destroys germs that cause
diseaee. decay and odors.-that n Why
Il q the best mouth wash and gA5gle.
and Why Il purifes the breath.
cleanses and preserves the teeth bet
ter than ordinary dentifrices, and In
sponge bathing II completely eeadi-
Gates Precipitation and other disagree.
able body odors. Every dainty WON
IN appreciates this and its many other
toilet and hygienic uses.
Paxttne II splendid for sore throat,
inhamed eyes and to purify mouth
and breath after smoking. You can
get Paxtine Toilet Antiseptic ut any
drug store. price sc and Soc, or By
mail postpaid from The Paxton TOT
let Co.. Boston. Masa. Who vim send
you . free sample II you would uho
to try 1t before buying. 1
The Columbus journal., 1911-06-28
COST OF RAISING cURRANTs
On Outlay Of SIS Per Acre Man 10
Able to Clear Not More Than
$200-keeps Full Record.

The cost last year for labor and
teams to cultivate our orchard was
about SIS an acre. 1t cost us more
the first year to cultivate our currants
because they were planted on a piece
Of land which was full of quack. says
= writer in the American Agricultural.
We cultivated that field so times dur
ing six months. On those 13 acres Of
currants In the spring We find 1t
necessary to keep one man on the
field all the time. We can work 1t
with only one horse now since the
bushes are large. We keep an exact
record of all work done on each field.
Each man has his time sheet. and his
time and that of his team are charged
up to each field each night. So far We
have not been able to secure more
than $500 an acre. gross. on our bear
ing orchards. We hope to get more.
We hear such stories about some of
the orchards Of the west yielding from
$500 to $500 an acre that one il led
to wonder whether their acres are Az
erage acres or not. was in four.
acre block Of Twenty Ounce and Alex
ander apples this year at Hilton. N.
Y. and the fruit from II was sold two
years ago for $500. or $500 an acre.
and I judge 1t would make about the
same money this year. This repre-
sents what is obtainable.
The Columbus journal., 1911-06-28
Plant OverQrosths.

After investigating. the cause of
plant overgrowths. or gals. as they
are more commonly called. the depart
ment of agriculture has arrived at the
conclusion that the gall is due to bac-
terra and is infectious, being readily
transmitted not only from plant to
plant of the same kind. but also to
many plants of widely different fami-
lies. A bulletin on the subject shows
that the growth is not only Of itself
Injurious to the plant, but also may
form an open wound through which
other parasites are likely to enter.
such as the fungus of root rot. and the
bacteria. which cause blight OF apples
and pears.
The Columbus journal., 1911-06-28
Personal.


The will of Mrs. Eddy, founder of
the Christian Science church, was ad.
mitted to probate.
Among lumber dealers secretaries
indicted by the federal grand Jury
were two Nebraskans.
Edgar s. Cooke denied that a cent
had been stolen from the Big Four
railroad by either himself or War.
riner.
Woodmen of the World selected
Jacksonville, Fla, for the 1913 con-
vention.
Kainkaid was the only member of
the Nebraska house delegation to
vote against the wool bill.
Horace Havemeyer. son of the dead
sugar king. testified at the hearing
before the house committee.
Cyrus Mccormick. of the Interna.
tional Harvester company, gave tes.
timcny in the Lorimer Investigation.
Two aviators were killed near Vim.
cennes. France. and several others
were injured
Former President Diaz of Mexico
may decide tc reside in Spain.
President Hadly delivered the bac.
calaureate sermon before the gradu-
ating class at Yale.
Madero vas again acclaimed on his
return to Mexico City.
Chairman Penrose OF the senate a.
nance committee says he can mus.
ter sixty votes for the reciprocity bin.
Secretary Knox has been sum.
moned by the house committee to ex.
plain an expenditure Of $1,000.
The Columbus journal., 1911-06-28

Wherever pluns hang in clusters
touching one another. brown rot devel.
opment is favored, in susceptible varie.
ties. The spores are washed down by
rains and any which came to lodge
between two plums that touch are apt
to be held there, and to find conditions
favorable to growth. II one plum Of a
cluster is seen to be diseased II should
be removed and destroyed at once, as
others in the cluster are almost sure
to 20 if the rotting ones hang long in
contact with them.
The Columbus journal., 1911-06-28
Care of Orchard Trees.

II your favorite cherry tree is badly
decayed. clean out everything in the
cavity as carefully as your dentist
would prepare a tooth for filing; then
spray thoroughly with a 2 per cent.
solution of formalin. NIL the cavity
solid with cement and paint over all
Go over the young apple trees and
cut OF every water .sprout with .
sharp knife close to the trunk. Do II
early AID they will heal this season.
The Columbus journal., 1911-06-28
FROM MANY POINTS
EVENTS OF THE DAY HELD 70 4
FEW LINES.
DAYS EVENTS BOILED DOWN
Personal, PoiItie.I, Foreign and othss
intelligence interesting - The
General Reader.
Washington.

James Kelley. general manager Of
the Chicago Tribune, swore out war
rant for the arrest of George o. CLAW
Is, of Chicago. charging him with
stealing books, documents and papers
the Tribune's property, said to con
Germ evidence of moral turptitude OF
a United States senator and other
government officers"
Senator La Toilette of Wisconsin
made protest to the senate commit
tee on the judiciary against the con-
firmation of Guy ID. Golf as district
attorney for the eastern district OF
that state. Mr.. La Toilette complained
that he had not been consulted on Mr..
COTS appointment, and that he sup
posed this slight had been due to his
opposition to the Payne-Aldrich tariff
bill.
Investigation of Chronic titleitis,"
described as a disease of rich, trust
made women is urged in a resolu-
ton introduced in the house by Rep
resentative SABBATH of Illinois, who
would have the state department in
quire why only two dozen American
peeresses have been permitted to
take part in the coronation ceremo-
mics in London and to ascertain the
amount this country is sending across
the Atlantic annually to maintain the
titles.
Chief Moore, of the government
weather bureau, has filed with the
house committee on expenditures in
the department of agriculture, a num-
Der of a voluntary commentator of
the weather service which were sent
him by western fruit growers. The
concentrations were based on the
statement given out through Chair
man Moss of the house committee
that western fruit growers had filed
with the committee charges that the
service was of no value to them.
The Columbus journal., 1911-06-28
Mexican Women Want Votes.

Mexico City-A suffrage movement
which promises to become a factor in
Mexican politics was launched here
by a woman's club. numbering in its
membership many Of the more promi.
nent women OF the capital. under the
new regime. In the petition directed
to Emile Vasquez Comes. minister
of the interior, more than 500 women
who style themselves friends Of the
people," demand the right to vote
and hold ONCE. They announce their
choice for president and vice presi-
dent.
The Columbus journal., 1911-06-28
Restriction on Cherry Culture.

Cherries are expensive to gather
and are not adapted to a distant mar
ket. that is q market that IL several
days away. Perhaps this II the reason
why they are not raised more ex.
tensively on the Pacific coast. where
they grow in certain limited areas
with most gratifying success. Cherries
do not thrive well beyond q certain
limit Of latitude. either north or south.
New York. New Jersey, Pennsylvania.
Ohio, Indiana. Michigan. Nebraska and
Kansas are notably well located in
this respect.
The Columbus journal., 1911-06-28
ROOTS AMENDMENT
WILL UNDOUBTEDLY be De
FEATED IN THE SENATE.
INSURGENTS WILL CONE OUT
Sparrin0 for Proper Sort Of Opening
and Look to Ia Toilette -
Leader.

WaShingtOn.-The Root amendmen
to the wood pulp and paper schedule
Of the Canadian reciprocity bill
which the administration has beef
fighting as fatal to the agreement
undoubtedly will be defeated befor,
the senate adjourns.
The wool tariff and the free lis
bills as the house passed them d.
not exactly meet the approval of thu
democratic force in the senate mol
that of the republican insurgents. but
they form the basis for the fight that
is to bring Canadian reciprocity and
the whole tariff question into the
open for a protracted debate.
The extent to which the insurgent
republican senators will be inclined
to 90 is expected to be made clear
during the tariff discussion this
week. So far only indefinitely out.
lining their course they have indi.
Gated that they favor all the valu.
able tariff reductions that they can
squeeze out of the situation.
Some of them have asserted their
readiness to put on to the recip.
rocity bill any amendments they
think susceptible of successfully
threading the executive and legisla.
tive channels, even in the face of the
presidents veto threat.
There is a decided lack of demo
cratic support, however. for the pro-
pOsals that the insurgents have hint
ed at. Senator Bailey will fight for
an amending of the Canadian agree
ment to exempt from free trade the
products of the farm, but while he
will have some democratic and much
insurgent support for this plan. it is
not expected to prevail.
Senator La Toilette is working on
general amendments that he will Of
fer to the reciprocity measure and to
the wool and free list bills. He is de-
termined to lead a hard fight for q
general plan of revision of the more
important schedules on the tariff
law.
His action and his amendments
and arguments are being awaited by
many Of the insurgents who do not
care to open up a fight until they
have had the opportunity of seeing
what he proposes and the effect his
have. Meantime they are
for the fight which prom
ises to be confined principally to in
SurgentS and a few democrats
The direct election of senators will
come up again early in the week.
The house has voted down the Bris-
tow amendment, attached to the bill
in the senate. and has asked for q
on the measure The con-
ference committee of the two houses
IS expected to be named within a
lay or two.
The senate will also receive the |
bill. passed by the house |
Early in the week. The territories
committee approved the bill as pas
led by the house, admitting Arizona
ind New Mexico without the ap-
'roval of their constitutions.
Awaiting a clearing up of the po-
itical situation in the senate and
more definite knowledge as to wheth-
r tariff legislation which the lower
ranch may originate will have any
nance of passage by the senate. the
louse this week practically will mark
ime.
The Columbus journal., 1911-06-28

the faucet. Thus the sediment is kept
away from this part. and there Is al
ways a steady stream. The liquid II
poured in at the top. A. A hose may
be attached at the faucet. Should
any solution remain with the sediment
t may be saved by pouring boiling
water upon 1t and using this water in
making the next batch Of spray solu-
ion.
The Columbus journal., 1911-06-28
THE MAINE EXPLOSION.
Secret Of Destruction Of Ship Will
Never Be Known.

Tampa. Fla.-"The secret of the
destruction of the battleship Maine
will never be known" said General
w. H. Bixby, chief of engineers in
charge of the work of raising the
Maine, upon his arrival here from
Havana. The destruction to the YES
sci was such, says General Bixby,
and the deterioration has been so
great that it will be impossible to tell
whether the ship was blown up from
a force within or without. The great
est force. however. was from the in
side. indicating that the forward
magazine had exploded. Whether
this was from a sympathetic explo-
sion caused by a torpedo from the
outside may forever remain a mys-
terry.
The Columbus journal., 1911-06-28

or later a clogging Of the sieve II
placed at the bottom or the end Of the
receptacle. With the strainer per-
tected by Prot. J. p. Stewart of Penn
sylvania state college no such trouble
can occur. The illustrations show
that the liquid must pass upward to
The Columbus journal., 1911-06-28
General.

President Taft discussed currency
reform at a meeting of New York
bankers.
A tax on automobiles to make
goood roads is the plan of Senator
Simmons.
Bruno Oscar Klein. composer. con-
ductOr and teacher of music, is dead
at his home in New York.
Old and dreary Westminster abbey
was transformed into a scene of light
and beauty at the coronation.
Or Noble B. Mckee, superintendent
OF the Missouri school for the deaf,
GIed of heart disease, aged fifty
eight.
senator Gallinger said Canadian
reciprocity was the opening wedge
that would pry loose the protection
system.
Sarah Bernhard sailed for France
after a tour of America. She said
that she probably will return for an
other tour in 1915.
Sylvester Smith. former general
manager of the Union Pacific railway
and of the Denver Rio Grande, died
in Chicago. aged e. +
approximately 100000 gallons of
liquors are shipped by express,
principally from mail order houses d.
rect to consumers in prohibition
states.
Habeas corpus proceedings looking
to the release of Charles W. Morse,
the New York banker. from the FED
eral prison at Atlanta, will be begun
in the United States court.
Dr.. David Jayne Hill. who recent
ly resigned his post as American am
hassGdor to Germany, left for Kiel to
present his letters of recall to En-
peror William.
1t was held by the interstate COM
merce commission that privilege
savoring of gratuity can not be Or
dered continued by the commission
unless the original granting of the
privilege restes N some legal obli-
cation.
William l. Sunne, former American
newspaper man imprisoned at Mont
Grey. Mexico. for participation in an
alleged Jlot to kill Francisco /. Ma,
dero, and freed of the charge. arrived
at Gan Antonio. Tex. bearing tales of
horrible atrocities perpetrated upon
Vim while in JAIL
Advices from Fee. Morocco, under
date Of June IL, state that George C.
Reed Of Weeping Water. Neb., the
secretary of Moroccan mission of the
Gospel union, is safe, but still a pris.
oner of the rebellion tribesmen In the
mountains near Sefroo.
President Taft nominated Robert
W. Kemp as receiver of public mon
eys at Missoula, Mont.
Philip Bracken Fleming of Nebras.
ka. was the honor man of the gradu.
ating class at the West Point mill
tary school,
A committee said to represent the
Gould interests have purchased the
International & Great Northern rail-
road at receiyership sale.
At Cincinnati Edgar S. Cooke was |
declared not guilty of embezzling $24.-
COO from the Big Four railroad The |
jury was out about three minutes |
less than two hours
Every common railway carrier will |
be required. after July 1. 1911, to re-
port to the Interstate Commerce COM
mission by telegraph ANY collision,
derailment or other accident" result
ing in the death of one or more per-
sons.
Reports from thirty-two counties in
Iowa. eastern South Da-
kota and northeastern Nebraska indi-
cate that the prospects for bumper
crop never was better. In those Sec
tons where wheat is raised on q
large scale the reports show that q
good crop Is in sight. Only in q few
will the harvest be light.
The Columbus journal., 1911-06-28
Wait Gets Bio Estate.

Los Angeles. Cal.-The 7-year-old
waif of unknown parents gets the
bulk of the big estate left by William
c. Hess. retired farmer of Charter
Oak. Ia. according to a decision of
the court settling the contest brought
by Hess son.