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The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1911-01-05
Orchard Grove.

Christmas has come and gone ano
seems to have been fully enjoyed
throughout our community. Sants
Claus made glad the hearts of the lit
tie ones, and has blown away to his
Arctic home.
The entertainment and Christmas
tree was a success. The program
was very appropriate, and the rendi.
ton of the various pieces were splen-
did. There were many expressions
of satisfaction by those present, which
was flattering to the talent of the
neighborhood and deserved com.
pliment to Miss Titus for the success
of the occasion.
Bro. Mayfield preached a few SER
mons at the school house last week.
Had two additions to the church by
confession.
William Kisner is hauling lumber
for his new barn.
One of Frank Feely's little boys
has the scarlet fever. 1t is thought
to be of a mild form.
Mrs. Fannie Smith has returned
from an extended visit with her son
and daughter, Charley and Mrs. Joe
Wix, of Lanark, Mont.
Jno. Woodfin and wife, M. Tharp
and wife, Mrs. Fannie Smith and A.
H. Moore spent Christmas with Peter
Tharp.
Mr.. and Mrs. B. F. Wix were out
to hear Bro. Mayfield's sermon Sum-
day.
Lafe Cassity and wife, A. w. Beach,
G. W. Rains, l. F. Ellington, with
their families, took Christmas dinner
with Mr.. and Mrs. j. A. Steele.
Chas. A. McComb and family have
recently moved to Butler. We are
sorry to lose these excellent people
from our midst.
Edward Winter has taken into him
self a wife, Miss Alice, daughter of
our old friend and neighbor, w. C.
Turpin: We extend congratulations
to these young people and wish long
life and much prosperity.
Miss Hazel Titus was the recipient
of a handsome Xmas present from
some of her admiring pupils.
The Orchard Grove Christian Bible
School was organized Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. A. Leeper were
in attendance at Orchard Grove meet
ing Sunday.
There was preaching at the Baptist
Church Saturday night and Sunday
morning. The Baptist also organized
a Sunday School. /
The worst blizzard of the season
came in with the new year and the
wind blowing like hurricane at the |
present writing. So it is a good time
10 sit by the fire and form those good
resolutions to leave off our bad habits
md turn over a new leaf. FLAG !
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Along the Miami.

The thermometer registered 6 be-
low zero Tuesday morning.
j. L. Fisher and family visited with
R. j. Sproul and family near Nyhart
last Thursday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Eiler were guests of
Mr.. and Mrs. R. D. Bond Wednesday
of last week.
Misses Rosa Theirbach and Dollie
Martin spent several days Of their
holiday vacation in Rockville. Last
Wednesday they came out to the
home of Miss Dollie's parents, where
they spent the week end visiting rel
atives and friends.
Miss May Morgan was a guest of
Miss Maude Hoyt Sunday.
j. L. Fisher and family visited at
the home of A. o. Yeoman and fami-
ly Sunday.
MIAMI.
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dinner last Tuesday for their chill
dren. The children were all glad Il
get to 60 home, for they knew tina
meant something good to eat. A. M
Carson says he thinks he can ge
along all right till next year.
w. A. Baker and family gave al
oyster supper Saturday night. There
were not many present outside Of thu
relations. They all report fine time
They say Miss Nellie Walters ane
Claude Baker got into the pickle jal
and ate all of the pickles.
There was social given by Mr.
and Mrs. Bently last Friday night
All report a good time.
Miss Irene Nafus and her brother
George, of Eldorado Springs, are Wis
iting in this community.
Miss Grace Jobe will make visi
at Eldorado Springs, and from there
to Kansas will be gone about three
months.
The stock water is still scarce in
this community. We think of those
that have to baul water these cold
days.
The thermometer registered 18 de.
grees below zero Tuesday morning.
RAINBOW.
Mulberry and Western Bates.
Frank Stilwell made a business
trip to Butler Friday.
Mrs. Clark Taylor and son, Dean,
are spending the week at DR.. j. C.
Sageser's.
Morton Crawford was a guest at
the Braden home Saturday night.
Ernest Burnham, of Kansas City,
was visiting old-time neighbors and
friends during holidays.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ira Beall were Wis
itors at D. w. Beall's Friday.
Fred Ewbank was on the sick list
last week, but is reported better at
this writing.
David R. Braden left Tuesday
morning for Sterling, Kansas, to con-
tinue his studies in Copper College.
MIR. and Mrs. j. H. Leiner were
guests at w. B. Johnson's Sunday.
Mrs. Henry Wiemers and children
left Sunday for their new home in
Washington county, Kansas.
Mr.. and Mrs. Berney Bohlken gave
New Years dinner Sunday, and
those that were present to help them
enjoy the day were R. Bohlken and
family, A. j. Meetse and family,
Henry Dykman and family and John
Dykman and family.
Geo. B. Bohlken and son, Will, de-
livered twenty-eight head of fat pork
ers in Amoret Tuesday.
Geo. Reid left Thursday for Olathe,
Kansas, to visit with his parents.
School commanced Mondav in tho
new school house. This is said to be
the finest rural building in in the eeun-
ty. There were four new pupils to
enroll Reke, Johnny, Will and Mag
gle Dykman. They had been attend
ing the German school which Rev. T.
teaches. It closed Dec. q.
Henry Gordon made business trip
to Butler Tuesday.
Rev. Mr.. McKelvey, late returned
missionary from India, is visiting at
the w. E. Caldwell home Mrs. Cald-
we'll, his sister. RAMBLER. |
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VIRGINIA..

Il NJ last week to spend New Years Day
with her father, Grandpa Oldham
and other kinfolks.
Prof. Maxwell Park, of the Foster
school, and his sister, Elsie, who is
teaching near Drexel, commenced
their schools again Monday aftel
spending the holidays at home.
Vince Cumiford and wife, of Okla
homa, visited Mrs. Cumiford's sister,
Mrs. Henry Gardner, and family last
week. They left for home the first
Of this week.
Mrs. G. w. Parks two daughters,
Mrs. 0. M. Drysdale, and husband,
!, Of Amoret, Mrs. D. C. Wolfe, hus.
band and family helped her eat New
Years turkey.
Willie Winery and sister, Mary,
of Amoret, helped Mr.. and Mrs. Will
Ayers eat New Years dinner.
Robert Stanley and family, of But
Ter, spent Saturday night and Sunday
with his daughter, Mrs. Frank Blough.
j. w. Stanley, of Lamonte, No.,
brother of Mr.. Stanley, was with
them.
James Porter, who has been work.
ing for Vane Walker for several
years, moved over in the edge of
Kansas last week.
J.I. Wolfe left Saturday for his
home at Burlington, Kan. His faith
er, C. w. Wolfe, went with him and
returned home Monday.
Oliver Standfield says there is
plenty of coal out on his farm for
sale.
The blizzard hit Parktown Sunday
about 8 o'clock.
Clark Draper was in Henry county,
NO., last week looking at a farm that
is for sale. s-
st4- 4, you~,want to buy, "a farm Of. 70
acres, house, small barn and plenty
of water on farm, school house across
the road from farm, write or call on
j. H. Park, Mo-, Route s.,
Henry Weimer has moved to Wash
ington county, Kan.
Ethelbert Hughes has gone to
Liberty, NO., to attend school to pre-
pare ministry.
Miss Thula Darr reports enjoying
splendid New Years dinner at Vane
Walkers. Mrs. Walker is chief of
cooks.
Mrs. w. j. Smith returned home
Saturday from the bedside Of her
daughter, Mrs. Dale, of Oklahoma.
She reports her some better but very
low.
Jasper Bowman died Saturday and
was buried Sabbath. Obituary will
be published next week.
A Glib boy arrived at the home of
Paul Englehardt the other night.
Claud Martin and his sister, Miss
Maud, entertained sixty of their
friends at their home last Friday
night. A grand good time was en-
joyed by all present.
Volna McFadden has returned to
Columbia to school.
Mrs. D. C. Wolfe is afflicted with
sore throat.
Mrs. G. w. Park received card
from Mrs. Geo. Pilgrim, of Califor-
nia, stating that they were all well
and The weather had BEEN fine except
q little snow. "A
! Hazel and Mildred Burk, who have
been quite sick, are 81 bwly improv-
ing.
Harry and Florence Badgley, of
Kansas City, spent the holidays with
their parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Edward
Badeley, and family.
4r. and Mrs. Everett Drysdale,
~ Anna Bassett, Mrs. Elsie Eqgle-
- md son, Norman, hive been on ,
hH1ick list. |;
Harley Werderman hap been visit
- relatives in Shelby, Mebraska.> !
Nrs R. w. Ford, Of B4tler. visited I
|le first Of the week With w. M.
Iaazyiinger and family. Z
Misses May and Clar& Riley, Of /,
9us3sr, visited last week with their Ii
lpnt Mrs. Effie Wardermin. It
II. Bull. Of Shelby, Nel{ l{asla, Wis
= - a IL IL
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WOOuS, lnIdnt OF UeO. -
Hamilton, infant of Ervie Jan. -
Claypool, Mrs. Jan. -
Swarens, -
Speace, Mrs. Lizzie Feb. 8 6e
Kaiser, infant of j. R. -
Jennings, infant of Otis March 4 -
Livengood, infant of Fred March -
Robb, infant of Harry March % -
Jones, Montgomery, March % -
Shetrone, Abe G. April 21 SO
Steele, Mrs. D. w. Maya 81
Briscoe, infant of Robt. -
Swarens, infant of F. r. June -
Holland, Mrs. J. M. June 9 49
Kaiser, James R. June 6 Is
Crooks, Caroline July 8 78
Hereford, Carl Aug. -
Cronk, Lethan Aug. - IS
Sackett, Alice Henry Sept. 20 As
Foster, Martha Luellan Nov. l 2
Haynes, DR.. j. N. Dec. II go
Bassett, Hiram Aug. 81 81
Miller, Henderson July II 81
1909.
Yealy, Rosa Jan. IA 21
Laughlin, Will Jan. 16 IS
Briscoe, Alpha A. Jan. % 81
HartshOrn, Bert -
Woods, infant of Wiley Feb. - -
Price, Mrs. Geo. Feb. "a -
Smalley, James R March S 66
Schrivner, Anna =
Landon, infant of Jim April 7 -
Rhoades, Jennetta w. April 6 81
Plymel, Flowerence, April 1S l
Putnam, infant of Fred - -
Grant, Ellis Wayne May 19 3
Craig, j. w. June 5 81
Hobbs, Nora June "a SO
Crittendon, infant of Ed. -- =
Many times we have seen relatives
and friends planting flowers on the
grave of those whose names appear
above. Some standing in silent medi-
tation while others kneel weeping bit
terly over the grave, of those they
hold in memory dear. While we
pay tribute of respect to those who
have gone, let us not forget we are
fastening to Our long home. Pa
And at the close of 1911 many more
familiar names may be added to the
list above.
And lie sleeping beneath the pines
in the little church yard at Salem that
mas sheltered many a loved one from
ife's stormy blasts. DINAH.
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FOSTER.

w. R. Bell and wife came down
from Butler Monday of last week in
their automobile, returning home in
the evenino
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1911-10-06
SYNOPSIS.

Philip Cayley, accused of crime OF
which he is not guilty. resigns from the
army in disgrace and MS anect,Ur trr,s i0o to
hatred Cayley seeks solitude, where ne
perfects dying machine. While soaring
over the Arctic regions. h ne p,SKs san IN up The
assassn's hand. Mounting again, ne us us
covers II yacht anchored in the bay. De
scending near the steamer. he meets ,,a q
girls name is Jeanne Fielding ana that
the yacht has come north to seek sl6ns
of her father Captain tie,ding, IA, an 10 arGu,c ma
king search ashore. After Cayley departs
Jeanne finds that he had dropped a Gu,
the surviving crew of his wrecked whalesr
are in hiding on the coast A giant run,
fan named Roscoe. had murdered tleld
ing and his two companions, after the ex-
porer had revealed the location of an
enormous ledge of pure gold. Roscoe then
took command of the party. 1t develops
der witnessed by Cayley; Roscoe plans
20 capture the yacht and escape with
big load Of gold. Jeanne tellA Fanshaw,
sliy-man and shows him the stick left by
Cayley. Fanshaw declares that 1t is an
Eskimo throwing-stic used to shoot
searching party with a sprained ankle.
Perry Hunter is found murdered and
Cayley is accused of the crime but Jeanne
believes him innocent. A relief party goes
to lind the searchers Tom processes his
love for Jeanne. She rows ashore and
enters an abandoned hut, and there finds
her fathers diary, which discloses the ex-
plorer's suspicion of Roscoe. The ruff
fan returns to the hut and sees Jeanne.
He Is intent on murder. when the sky
man swoops down and the ruffian fees.
Jeanne gives Cayley her fathers diary
to read. The yacht disappears and Ros-
GOES plans to capture 1t are revealed.
Jeanne's only hope Is in Cayley. The
seriousness of their situation becomes ap-
parent to Jeanne and the sky-man. Cay
ley Kills polar bear. Next he finds a
clue to the hiding place of the stores.
Roscoe Is about to attack the girl when
he Is sent fleeing in terror by the sight
OF the sky-man swooping down. Measures
are taken to fortify the hut. Cayley kills
wounded polar bear and receives the
first intimation that Roscoe possesses
firearms. A flssure In the ice yields up
Hunters body and Roscoe, finding 1t. re-
moves the dead mans rifle. He discovers
that Cayley is human being and not n
spirit The rufflan is, baffled in his plan
to murder Cayley when the latter and
Jeanne take refuge in the cave where Il
furious storm keeps them imprisoned.
They confess their love for each other.
Cayley, resolving to seek the ruffian and
kill him. finds Roscoe's cave, but the
enemy Is not there. He picks up n IA
miliar-looldng locket and departs. Ros-
coe has taken advantage of Cayley's alb
sence to force his way into where Jeanne
Ia. Cayley returns, and fight ensues. In
which Roscoe is killed.
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PLANTATION wonderful great, soft calm
seemed to envelop her. She slept
there like a child beside him, his hand
still half-clasped in hers.
1t was Philips voice that wakened
her. How long afterwards she did
not know. He was sitting erect on the
great bear-skin, and all she could see
of him was the dim silhouette of his
back against the sky.
What is it?" she asked, drowsily
"Is anything the matter?"
He could hardly command his voice
to answer
IT'S that aurora, over there" he
said NO, it's gone now. 1t may
come back. It's right over there in
the south-straight in front of you"
But, my dear-ny dear" she per-
sisted, why should an aurora +. 4.
Is it because of the one We saw the
night you killed Roscoe? Is 1t that
old nightmare that 1t brings back?"
She was speaking quietly, her voice
caressing him just as her hands were.
She was like mother trying to reas.
sure frightened child.
mo, it's not that" he said, uneasily.
| don't know-I think may be 60
ing mad, perhaps. l know wasn't
dreaming. l thought SO at first, but
| know I'm not now" Then she felt
his body stiffen, he dropped her hand
and pointed out to the southern ho;
rlkon.
There" he said. look there!" What
she saw was simply a pencil Of white
light, pointing straight from the ho
, rizon to the zenith, and reaching an al
titude of perhaps 20 degrees. Com
pared with the stupendous electrical
displays that they were used to seeing
in that winter sky, 1t was utterly In
significant, and from it she turned to
search his face, in sudden alarm.
mo, no-look-look!" he command
ed, his excitement mounting higher
with each word.
She obeyed reluctantly, but at what
she saw her body became sudden
ly rigid and she stared as one
might stare who sees spirit. Fol
the faint pencil of white light swung
on pivot, dipped clear to the hori
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ated now by longer and longer pauses,
but still Jeanne waited.-"Very sure
of the correctness of my own
attitude then. Correct is, perhaps, the
exact word for 1t. wouldn't turn a
hand to save mana man who had
been my friend, too-from living out
the rest of his life in hell" He shud-
dered little at that and she quickly
laid her hand upon his lips.
THAT was long ago" she said. You
can see now what God, perhaps,
would have seen and done then. And
If you did wrong, then it's you who
have suffered for it--you who have
paid the penalty You have paid for
the thing you left undone as we'll as
for the thing he did. But we must
not talk about 1t any more, now.
You're not strong enough. | ought
not to have spoken of 1t at alb but.
somehow, couldn't wait any longer"
Just this much more, Jeanne, and
then We will let 1t go: You see now,
don't you, dear, why / said / never
could go back to the world. never clear
myself of the old charge at Hunters
expense = Perry Hunters expense
now that he is dead; and don't you see
that that's as impossible now as 1t was
when | first said it?"
1t was with a half laugh and half
sob that she kissed him.
"Oh, my dear" she said. what does
the world matter? This is the world
here. You and |. The space of this
great bear-skin we are lying on. The
past can't come between US. and what
else Is there that matters? Come. It's
time for you to take another nap. Are
you warm enough out here. or shall VIC
go back to the hut?"
I'm warm, soul and body, thanks
TO you." he said.
But II was Jeanne who went Il
sleep. Somehow. since that last sx
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II suppose that's true" he said at
last. Il suppose 1 might have saved
him then, just as I might have saved
him later, from Roscoe's dart. can
think of a hundred ways that II might
AVE happened-the accusation against
me, l mean-without his having any
part in It," Then he said rather abb
ruptly: "Fanshaw told you the story,
didn't hep"
She assented. Most of 1t, that is.
Perhaps not quite all he knew"
II don't know It all myself" he told
her, that is, have filled 1t in with
guesses. knew about the girl. Hunt
er was half mad about her, and she,
suppose, was in love with him. Any
way, he came to me one night-the
last time l ever talked with him-rag-
ing with excitement The girls father
had found out about him and meant,
she said, TO kill him, and perhaps, her,
too. Anyhow, she had forbidden Hunt
er seeing her again. We took drink
or two, together, before started, and
suppose he must, have drunk
himself half mad after that; for he
started right on my trail and did what
you know. l have always supposed,
until just now, that ne had used my
name as his own with her, to screen
himself from possible trouble. But
that may not have been the case. He
may simply have spoken of me as his
friend.
The girl was in love with him
and it would be natural for her to
give her father my name instead of
Hunters, and make the accusation
against me. l suppose he thought
that / could, probably, clear myself
easily enough. without involving him
and that the whole row might blow
over without doing any irreparable
damage to either Of us. And then
when it didn't blow over-wheg it got
worse and meant ruin for somebody
the fact that he hadn't spoken at first
would have made it ten times harder
to speak at last I might have help
ed him. He sent word to me once
when l was under arrset, to ask If
would see him, and l refused. l was
very =" His speech was punctu
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but made no other answer. He turned
to Philip.
"I'll have to confess" he said, ito
the rudest sort of inquisitive curiosity
about the strange-looling bundle you
brought aboard with you from the
Aurora. 1t looks like some primitive
Eskimo's attempt to build a fiying-ma
chine"
ut is something like that" said
Philip. IF you'll have 1t brought up
here on deck I'll open 1t out to you.''
The young fellows pleasure was al
most boyish. "Tll have 1t brought at
once" he said.
The breeze was straight behind
them and just about strong enough to
compensate for the speed Of the yes-
sci. and the air on deck was quite still.
With the boys puzzled assists
ance Philip spread his wings for
the first time since that night
when he had dived off the cliff
head to go in pursuit of Roscoe. The
recollection was almost painfully
vivid and as he looked into Jeanne's
face he saw the same memory mir
Toreu tnere.
But young Caldwell, soon brought
them back to. the present. He was no
longer embarrassed or shy, deferen-
tial. Aerial navigation was. appar-
emily. a subject he knew all about.
He criticised the shape of the planes,
the material they were made Of, the
curve of this, the dip Of that--.all in
the tone of an expert - and by
way of summing up, he said:
ITS rather pitiful, isn't i! In
way any primitive thing always af-'
fects me-like old locomotives they
have in museums. Somebody, prob.
ably, believed once that that would
fly / hope he didn't believe 1t seri
ously enough to give It real trial"
You don't think it would work,
them" asked Philip.
The young man laughed. Dear me.
no." he said 1T couldn't work.
"At any rate" said Philip, 'it's an
amusing curiosity"
oh yes; indeed, yes" the young
man assented cordially. II wish It
were mine Only wouldn't try to fly
with It,"
His duties called him away then
rather suddenly. and Philip was left
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zon, rose aagin and completed its cir
cult to the other side.
She sat there beside him, breath
less, almost lifeless with suspense
while that pencil traced its course
back and forth from horizon to hori-
zon, stopped sometimes on the zenith,
to turn back upon itself-sometimes
continuing through unchecked. At
last her breath burst forth from her
In a great sob. She turned and clung
to him wildly.
Philip" she said, 1T can't be that
it can't-it can't!"
"Tell me-tell me what 1t looks like
what you think you see?"
She stayed just where she was, cling
ing to him, covering to him, as If some
thing terrified her, her face pressed
down against his shoulder.
Signals she gasped out. From q
light-from search-light"
He drew long deep breath or two,
and his good arm tightened about
her.
We'll" he said, his voice breaking
In shaky laugh, IF we are mad. we
are mad together. Jeanne, dear, and
with the same madness; and II we are
dreaming, we are living In the same
dream. Did you read what 1t said?
oh. no. of course you couldn't-but !
did. It's the old army wig-wag, and
1t has been saying all sorts of things.
Spelling out your name most of the
time, What 1t just said was. 'Cour-
age. They are coming"
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CHAPTER XIII.
Signals.

Signals.
There were a good many days after
that-not days at all, really, but an in
terminable period of night-which
were broken for Jeanne by no ray of
hope whatever. She kept Philip and
herself alive, from day to day, and this
occupation left her hardly time enough
to think whether there was anything
to hope for or not.
Much of the time Philip was deliri-
GUS; sometimes violently so, and yet
she often had to leave him. When she
did so, it was with no certainty at all
that she would find him alive upon her
return.
At last the conviction was forced
upon her that Philip was actually on
the road to recovery. His delirium be-
came less violent and occurred at long
er intervals. The frightful condition
of his wounds began visibly to i'm
prove. Instinctively she resisted this
conviction as long as she could, refus-
ing almost passionately to begin to
hope-for the return of hope brought
an almost intolerable pain with 1t.
Without hope there had been no fear,
no apprehension-jus as in a frozen
limb there is no pain. But, as the pos
slbility of his recovery became plain
or, the slenderness of the thread by
which his life was hanging became
palmer, too. A thousand chances
which she could not guard against
might cut the thread and destroy the
hope newborn.
He was able, at last. after long
sleep and a really hearty meal of sus
tanning food-which she hardly dared
give him--to get up and walk out OF
their shelter to the star-yaulted beach
Fifty PAGES or so was all he was equal
to: but at the end of the little prom
enade he expressed disinclination to
had been the scene of his long Illness
The clean, wide, boundless air was
bringing back the zest for life to
him. So Jeanne brought out from
the hut great bundle of furs ani
made nest of them on the beach
and there he lay back and she sal
down beside him.
DO you remember. Jeanne" h,
said. the first time we sat out lik,
this. there on the ice-foe beside the
Aurora. and / told you how hat
learned to fy?"
She locked her hand into his before
she answered.
Il couldn't believe that night that
wasn't dreaming" she said softly.
Nor !, either" he told her; "and
somehow. ! can't believe 1t now-no
fully;-not this part of 1t, anyway"
He had lifted the hand that wa