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The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1912-05-30
Only A Fire Hero

but the crowd cheered, as with burned
hands, he held up small round box.
"Fellows!' he shouted, "this Bunk
lens Arnica Salve | hold, has every
thing beat for burns Right! also
for boils, ulcers, sores, pimples, &C.
zema, cuts, sprains, bruises. Surest
pile cure. 1t subdues Inflammation,
kills pain. Only Is cents at F. I.
Claws
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1912-05-30

1t pays to grade eggs and throw out
the bad ones. Frof, SsCr II. L. Kemp
ster of the Poultry Department at the
University OF Missouri makes this
statement and gives market quota
tons to prove his assertion. al
though he does not usually realize It,"
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1912-05-30
The Very Good Man.

Towne|I don't see why Cooley
should be so unpopular with all Of
you. He never speaks Ill Of anyone.
Browne-No, but he's one Of these
aggravating fellows who can say, "Oh,
yes Jones looked very happy when I
saw him last" and say 1t in such q
way as to give the impression that
Jones was horribly drunk.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1912-05-30
1t Figs to Grade Eggs
A Few, Poor Eggs Lower the Price
:. ..-aaor n. /. kenpstcr Poultry
Department, University
OF Missouri.

we'll selected eggs all of the same col
or take better price in the market
And dirty eggs, or extra large ones
should be left out. When dirty egg
is washed there is big chance that
some of the dirt gets through the
porous she'll to the inside, and the
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1912-05-30

While there may be no greater nu'
triton in a certain feed added to O
dairy cows ration than in the food she
has been accustomed to, still, it is a
fact that new food adds to the pala-
liability of the ration, which is nearly
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1912-05-30

A girl kissel 10 mot always . Girl
won. The average man puts all past
kisses on the list headed "Hsartk {
Have Broken"
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1912-05-30

he says, "the farmer loses when he
LIS poor quality eggs slip into the
c2so for shipment. A few poor eggs
ever the price OF the whole lot"
4 case packed with eggs all, the
same color, by thu side of one packed
with mixed eggs, shows up we'll. The
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-06

ed its mind and made a rush for it's
tormentor. Hubert tried to keep
it away with the whip, but the bad
ger insisted on making the charge
and Hubert let no grass grow under
his feet to keep away from the en-
ragged animal. The badger after be-
ing on the aggressive side for a while
would give up and turn to go to its
den only to go a short distance and
again receive singing blows from the
whip in the hands of it's human
enemy, when it would make another
charge for Hubert These vice versa
tactics kept up for over a half hour
when the badger succeeded in reach
ing it's den. A badger is very hard
animal to kill and Hubert bears this
out and says all the blows he gave the
animal over the head had no effects
on it only to make it ill tempered. At
ter such hard chase as this the boys
were loath to let the badger get away
and as a last resort tried to drown
out the "critter,'' but all to no avail.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-06
HAD REAL BADGER FIGHT.
Infurfated Animal Turned on Man
With Whip.

Snow Hill, Kan, Nov. 6.-You have
all read in the newspapers about bad
ger rights, but Hubert Spohn tells
about a thrilling encounter with the
real article that he will rememb Der for
some time. While the boys were going
nome from the meeting at the school
mouse, they saw some animal cross
the road in front of them and HUI
5ert's curiosity got the best of him. He
jumped out of the buggy and took af-
ter the beast with a heavy rawhide
buggy whip. After sprinting some lit
tie distance he overlook the animal.
which he declares was one of the big
gest badgers he ever saw. After hit
ting the badger a few blows it chang
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-06
HIS COUNTRY CALLS HIM.
So Greek Leaves Wife and Son to Go
to War.

Wichita, Kan, Nov. 6.-"He could
not stay when he countree needs him., -
Mrs. Alexander Stanapolis, a Grecian,
said between sobs, to a waiting passen-
ger at the Rock Island station. Both
Mrs. StanapOlis and her 10-year-old
son were crying. They had said good
by to husband and father.
Stanapolis, a Rock Island track
laborer, came here from Greensburg,
Kansas, to say farewell to his family.
He went to Hutchinson to join twenty
five other Greeks on their way to Kan
sas City where several Greek regi-
ments will be assembled and sent by
trains to ships. There is not a Greek
lift at the Greensburg Rock Island
camp.
mo, we not want him to stay Mrs.
Stanapolis denied, when bystanders
offered sympathy, my boy. he go too
if was more old. Those Turks, they
are-what you call him ?-barbarous,'
and her eyes flashed. ''They would
butcher my old fadder and my mudder
at Olympia. My husban', he got to
go back. He was teach it when he
was baby. He go protect my ladder
and my mudder. My broder, he al
ready gone. We glad they can help,
are we not Aleek?" she asked her son
and the boy nodded earnestly.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-06
CATCHING EUROPEAN TRAINS.

The chief lesson which we can learn
from Europe in the operation of our
great terminals lies in the constant
effort to separate traffic along its log
zeal lines, even at an increased ex-
pense of operation, as against the
tendency in this country to mass all
of the people together; for instance,
those who are checking their luggage
at one moment, quite irrespective OF
their destination, while. at another
moment the same set Of people bound
for different sections are again
brought together for the purchase of
tickets, etc Contrast this with the
case with which a passenger can leave
Charing Cross, London, for the con-
tinent on a crowded SatuI day after
noon.
Arriving perhaps less than ten
minutes before the time of the de-
parture of the Continental express,
with a cab full of luggage, the system
of porterage permits of that which is
intended for the luggage van to be
placed on one truck and that for the
railway carriage on another. The
truck for registered luggage will be
wheeled over a weighing platform
almost directly in front of the ticket
office, weight ascertained, charges
paid, and tickets bought, while the
small luggage for the carriages pro-
ceeds on its way to the platform
There is no duplication of movement.
no time lost, and the great crowd
moves on without friction, unhinder-
ed. like a steady stream
The amount which is thus accom-
plished in a limited time, apparently
without effort, and without conscious
ness except to the acute observer, is
really marvellous Consider our
Grand Central station, for instance,
on a hot afternoon in Augustine
hurry, the confusion, the tensely
drawn faces, the imprecation, the fail
ure of luggage to reach its train, and,
even in the case of those who are
foreshighted and plan hours or days
in advance, the absolute impersonal
nature of the transaction by which
luggage and passengers are so widely
separated, that it is only by miracle
of management that they usually
come together at the appointed time
and place--W. Symmes Richardson,
In Scrtbner's Magazine.
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PAY FOR QUALITY
Farmers Should Be Paid Pre-
MUM for Better Grain.
Failings in Kansas Grain In
spectiOn Damaging.

Manhattan, Kan, Nov. 6-"The
farmers of Kansas should be able to
sell their grain on its merits. A pre-
MUM should be placed on the pro-
duction of high grade wheat free
from all foreign material" said Pro-
lessor L. A. Fitz of the Kansas Agri-
cultural college in an address before
the Agricultural association.
kansas law provides for a grain
inspection bureau, the officers to con-
sist of chief grain inspector and as
many deputies as he may need to do
the work. One branch of the bureau
is The grain grading commission, hay
ing three members, one of whom is 4
miller, another a grain dealer; the
third may be a farmer. The duty of
the commission is to meet once year,
on or before August 1, to form lew
rules or revise old ones, when neces-
sary, for the grading of grain. Wheat
is graded into four groups. The com
mission determines the weight, quality
and approximate amount of foreign
material in each. These rules must
for an immense amount of grain is
sold in the state every year.
The Dockage System.
Under the existing laws, when
wheat contains an appreciable
amount of foreign material, such as
weed seed and stems, the wheat is
graded down one. grade below the
This grade is based on the judgment
of an inspector. In Minnesota they
have what is known as the dockage
system of grading wheat. In brief
this is accomplished by taking rep
resentative sample Of the wheat and
cleaning it. Then the wheat is graded
and sold on the basis of the clean
wheat, subject to as many pounds
dockage as the sample showed it to
contain. BY this method the farmer
gets paid for as many bushels of wheat
as he has to sell and it eliminates
one personal factor in the grading OF
wheat.
Ordinarily Kansas hard wheat does
not contain much dockage, but at
times. due to winter killing, weeds
will come into the fields. If the wheat
is threshed when damp, not only the
weed seed but also pieces of weed
stem will remain in the wheat. 1t is
usually possible for the threshes to
take out more of these impurities than
they do, but it would require more
work and, as the men say. they get as
much for threShing weeds as they do
for threshng wheat. In the small
country town having three or four
elevators there is usually sharp com
petition To keep his trade the grain
dealer must, when load of poor, dirty
wheat comes in, pay nearly as much
for it as for the previous load that
was of average quality and cleanliness;
When another farmer brings in load
of extra good perfectly clean wheat he
receives a very little increase in price.
The difference in the prices paid for
the three loads does not begin to in
dictate the difference in value. This is
almost like putting a premium on poor
farming.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-06
LINCOLN is BUSY
Sunday School Contest VIII
Cause Hot Competition.
Many New Features Planned
for Fine Town.

Lincoln, Kan, Nov. 6.-The Presby-
terrain Sabbath school of this place
has been challenged by the Wilson
Presbyterian school for a contest IL
enrolment and attendance. The con-
test began November 3, and will close
at the end of the year. The wilson
Sabbath school is the third Iargesl
Pres byterian school in this part OF the
state. The Lincoln school will have 10
hustle to keep up with so strong
competitor.
In the death of Mrs. Willis Anderson
Lincoln Center lost one of her early
uiopeers. She was an active member
of the Methodist church. The pail
bearers were six members of the Wo-
mems Relief corps, dressed in white.
She had been an active member OF
that order and the beautiful rituals
tic service of the w. R c. was used
at the funeral.
The Methodist church of this city
has recently cosed a four weeks re-
vival 1t was conducted by the Rev.
w. D. Hamilton, of Sabetha, noted
socialist. He was assisted by Prof.
Arnold, of Pennsylvania, who had
charge of the singing. The revival re-
suited in 25 conversions.
One of the most novel church enter
tainments ever held in Lincoln, was
one conducted by the Queen Esther
class of the NJ. E. Sunday school. 1t
a four course affair. Each course was
served at a different house. The first
course was given at the home of Judge
Artman, the second at the NJ. E. par
sonage, the third at G. Colden's resi-
dence, and the fourth at the home OF
J. @. Cuddy. About 100 tickets were
sold for the supper. Music was rem
dered at each place. The members OF
this Sunday school class are all young
women of the age of 16 to II years,
and their teacher is Mrs. CIV. Stew
ems, wife of the pastor. The Nj. E.
Sunday school, to which this class be-
longs, Is probably the largest in this
part of the state, having an enroll
ment of 425. The superintendent is W.
H. Anderson, who was recently elected
president of the Lincoln County asso-
citation.
Lincoln has her Mems Booster club
as well as her Women's Civic club.
The women are doing as much for the
town as the Women's Commercial
club of Beloit is doing for that town.
At a recent meeting of the two clubs
a banquet was served and this was
the means of drawing together most
of the members of both organizations.
The Ladies' Civic league furnished the
eatables. Business Of Importance was
also discussed by the two organiza-
tons, among which was good roads, i'm
provemeEt of the electric lighting of
the city, city hall, public library,
and a sidewalk from the center of
town to the depot, distance of half
a mile. The meeting decided to act
at once on the Carnegie library and
the depot sidewalk plans.
The Women's Civic club elected
officers for the new year as follows:
President, Mrs. V. G. Dyer; vice pres
fdents, Mrs. H. Kuch and Mrs. L. V.
Mink; secretary, Mrs. w. H. Anderson;
treasurer, Mrs. Frank Lyon.
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auto Goes limo DitcI,.

Great Bend, Kan, Nov. 6.-Sheriff
Mike Daley is suffering from three
broken ribs, a broken collarbone and
severe bruises received in an auto ac-
cident near Clafiin, one of the smaller
Barton county towns. The car was
driven by his son, James, who was
blinded by the headlight of a Missouri
Pacific engine which the party was ap-
preaching as they entered town. The
machine went into a deep ditch,
wrecking it almost completely and
throwing Sheriff Daley about 25 feet.
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Note to Her Mother.
Dodee Girl wins Prize.

Dodge City, Kan, Nov. 6.-Word
received here from Topeka states Miss
Marian Mcintyre of Bucklin, a few
miles south of this place, has been
chosen as prize winner in the state
wide contest for the best essay on why
women should vote. The judges of the
contest were State superintendent E.
T. Fairchild, Mrs. Margaret Hill Nc
Carter and DR.. E. S. Pettyjohn, presi-
dent of the Mems Equal Suffrage
league. Miss Bertha Clark, a school
girl of Downs, took second place.
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Choral Union Is Formed.

Dodge City, Kan, Nov. Ga choral
union has been organized here by rep
resentatives of the Christian, Metho-
dist, Presbyterian and St. Cornelius
churches. w. A. Incl was chosen
president; Mrs. J. w. Gilbert, vice
president; Harry Fash, secretary; DR..
Edward Adams. treasurer, and Albert
Watkins director. The organization
is the product of several months agi-
tation among the churches here. The
first work chosen was 1.-The ProdigaI
Son" which will be rendered about
December 10.
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PROGRESSIVE is ATTACKED.
Men Said to Be Socialists Assault Kan
SaS City, Kan, Doctor.

Kansas City, Nov. 6.-Dr. c. c.
Clarke, a Progressive worker, while
visiting the factory district of Kansas
City, Kan, in company with his wife.
was attacked by two men who said
they were Socialists. Clarke was
struck on the head with a revolver,
receiving a severe scalp wound. Mrs.
Clarke, suffrage worker, chairman
of the financial committee of the
Kansas State Suffrage association. was
not mOlested. Clarke's injuries were
not believed to be serious. Bystand
ers said the attack was unprovoked
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PIainviIIe swamps Coden.

Plainville, Kan, Nov. 6.-P1ainviIle
High school football team after scor-
ing in each period ended it's game with
the Codell Giants here with a score of
10 to 0. The Codell' Giants were 20
pounds heavier but they lacked speed
and the locals with their line bucks
and end runs scored eleven touch
downs and two field goals.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-06
DID sLAvERs GET GIRL?
Friends Fear 16-Year-OId Ethel Mat
teson Was Lured Into Resort.

Wichita, Kan, Nov. 6.-Friends of
Ethel Matteson, 16-year-old daughter of
Mrs Ella Matteson, who disappeared
from a farm house ten miles from Clear
water week ago Saturday believe she
has been enticed to Wichita and is in
the hands of white slavers here. ]. L.
Jones' Conway Springs, and William
Grier Viola, came to this city today to
look for her.
Bessie White, 16-year-old chum of the
lost girl at Viola received letter from
Ethel Matteson last week saying she had
gone to Phil Gleason, % years old, with
whom she had been corresponding. Glea-
son formerly worked near the girls nome
at viola and is believed to be in Wichita.
Note to Her Mother.
Tell mama not to worry, but 1 can't
tell her where 1 am or where I'm going.
Goodbye forever" was a part of the let
ter.
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POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
rFrom the Chicago News.1

TFrOm the Chicago NeWS.I
The wedding ring is an exclusive circle
There is little doubt that the young die
good.
Most people would rather take advice
from strangers.
A fool and her money frequently marry
into the nobility.
The straight and narrow path doesn' t
look good to the rounder.
Blessings often come disguised, but the
wolf at your door never does.
The more justice some people get the
less they are inclined to boast of it,
Suspicion continues to snoop around
until it finds what it is looking for.
man will never reach the top who is
too lazy to move until he is pushed.
When Dame Fortune knocks at mans
door he always ''rubbers'' to see if the
neighbors are looking
A high priced box at the opera seems
less expensive to some people than the
cheapest church pew
And it might be well to take a course
in physical training before you start out
to show a man the error of his way.
Every mother is firmly convinced that
she is capable of picking a better hus-
band for her daughter than she did for
herself.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-11
EVENING CHIT
q RVTN CANNRON.

One of those very kind reader friends
who do me the compliment of thinking 1
know about ten times much as L really
do, asks me to express my opinion and
prescribe cure for seven or eight kinds
of erring husbands.
The last kind mentioned is "a husband
who speaks sharply to his wife without
occasion and ridicules her opinions"
My dear friend, if you think L am a
sane and sensible woman, you must al
ready know my opinion of that kind of a
man And as to the matter of cure for
secret 1 am afraid I should be tempted
to make my everlasting fortune by form
ing a corporation to sell it.
If census could be taken of husbands
who think they love their wives and yet
never hesitate to humiliate and wound
them by speaking sharply to them OF
town would yield its hundreds and every
city its thousands and tens of thousands.
Now there are undoubtedly very few OF
these men who would not be Mortified at
the thought Of being capable of inflicking
physical pain On their wives.
They would probably knock a man
down If he suggested to them that such
a thing was possible.
And yet I know that the heart of every
woman who has a husband like this Will
give me speedy affirmative when I ask
II the mental pain and humiliation which
she suffers from being constantly re-
buked and ridiculed is not quite as keen
as physical pain
A woman cannot help wanting to have
her opinion received with some respect
ana neF IOO1Sh little mistakes over
looked, even if she is a wife. And mind
you, when speak of ridicule don't
mean the tender raillery that is half
kindly Jest and half pride. I mean the
unsympathetic ridicule that brings a
lump to the throat and makes the heart
sore.
Now know that some of the men 1 am
accusing would defend themselves by say
ing, but If you could only hear the ut
terly foolish things my wife says
That Will be some justification prisoner
at the bar, on one condition. Would these
same things arouse your derision if some
pretty young stranger said them? or
would you listen as deferentially as II
the pretty young thing were dropping
pearls and diamonds of wisdom from her
lovely lips?
No, prisoner at the bar, that won't let
you off: Your wife said just as foolish
things before you married her and you
didn't find it necessary to be rude and
disagreeable to her then.
Please consider yourself, insofar as the
district attorney can accomplish it,
proven guilty of a cruelty that is Just as
cruel and just as hard to bear as physi-
cal cruelty.
What is the penalty? That you go at
once and tell your wife that you are
thoroughly penitent for being so thought
less and that you are going to turn over
new leaf.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-11
AYHAWKER JOTS

ANY one can float rumor, remarks
the Liberal News, but it takes NAH
dozen to sink it.
Men and women are much alike in
some respects, says the Herington
Sun. Men will lie about their salary
and women about their age.
AS the Munden's Peoples Advocate
observes: A cook stove and cradle
may be a world in themselves, bu-
that world is too small to live in.
Among those entitled to stand at
Armageddon, thinks the Cimarron
Jacksonian, the Pennsylvania man
with IS children should not be over
looked.
Related by the Colby Tribune:
Your father is heartIess! told him |
couldn't live without you. AND
what did he say?'' He offered TO pay
my funeral expenses
Another miraculous thing happened
in Florence Sunday evening, accord
ing to the Florence Bulletin. There
was a church packed brimful of people
to hear the gospel preached.
Figured out by the Marshall County
News: William Allen White will not
be as big a man after November 9Th,
as he is now He controls two politi-
cal parties now. After the election
he will control only one, and it will
be a crippled one.
There are certainly some Bryan or
Democratic enthusiasts at ClyQ6. Inc
Clyde Republican reports: There were
about fifty people at the Union Paci-
fic station the other morning to greet
William J. Bryan, who passed through
the city on a special train at the rate
of 35 miles an hour.
Editor Bcokwalter, of the Halstead
independent is one of the frank news
paper men in this state. An announce
ment that he runs at the top of the
front page of each issue of his paper
reads: Devoted to the Interests OF
Harvey County in General and the
Publisher in Particular"
Helpful hints from the Ottawa
County Democrat: AS soon as the
weather will permit of long cooking,
peas and beans are excellent subst1-
tutes for meats. Beans do not agree
with all digestions, but an ordinary
good digestion has but little trouble
with them, if properly cooked.
A bid for new subscribers is made
by the Wakeeney News in the fol-
lowing language: The frost is on the
chigger and the kids are gettin' big
ger and we must begin to figger' how
to keep en- all in shoes; with the
horses all a dyin' and the politicians
lynn, and the stacks of books we re
buyin' it gives the man the blues; well,
it amt no use to holler so git into the
collar, and hustle for the dollar and
read the Daily News.-Y.