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The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1913-05-22
Alumni Meeting

The Alumni of the Butler High
School met in regular annual meeting
in the Elks Club rooms Monday even
ing and inflated the class of 1918 into
full membership.
President B. G. Culver presided
over the meeting and Miss Jessie
Ray was appointed Secretary pre-
tenn.
A communication from Mrs. NAL
colin Ross was read and resolutions
of sympathy for the bereaved family
of Mr.. Ross were passed.
After the reports of the treasurer,
the auditing committee and the COM
mittee on memorials, the chairman of
the nominating committee presented
nominees for officers of the organi-
zation, who were elected as follows:
President, Miss Pearl Smith.
Vice-Pres., Mrs. Keasling.
Secretary, Mrs. Chester Sleeth.
Treasurer, Miss Mike McLeese.
Attorney, Miss Kate Tucker.
The new president was presented
with the gavel by the retiring presi-
and announced the program.
Music, Mandolin Club.
Piano Duet, Mrs. Walton Allen and
Mrs. Black.
Trio, Mrs. Pharis, Miss Snider,
Miss Pharis. \
Violin Solo, Bob Shelton. E
Music, Mandolin Club. &
Alumni Chorus, Misses Denton,
Ludwick, hampton, Pharis, Snider.ss
After a delightful luncheon the spa-.
cious hall was cleared Of furniture
and the remainder Of the evening
was spent in dancing.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1913-05-22
Trains on Pacific
Running on Time.

running ON line.
That the Missouri Pacific is making
a reputation for good train service is
shown by the record for April, made
public today by Chief Dispatcher
Ozee. It follows:
No. 2O1, Kansas City to Joplin, on
time % times, late /; train No. 2O5,
Kansas City to Nevada, on time 20
times, late 1. This is one Of the fast
est local trains west of the Mississippi
river. It is scheduled 80 miles an
hour, including stops.
Trains No. 4O7 and 4O8, between
Fl. Scott and Rich Hill were on time
80 times during the month Of April.
Train No. 2O7, Kansas City to Jop-
lin, was on time % times and late /;
train No. 2O8, Joplin to Kansas City,
on time 20 times, late /; train No. $40,
Coffeyville to Nevada, on time %
times, late l; trains No. 637 and 638,
on Interstate branch, on time 80
times; No. 253, Kansas City fast
freight into Carthage, % times ahead
Of time, late 2rtimes; train No. 21O,
Joplin to st. Louis, into Pleasant Hill
on time % times and late twice.
Nevada Post.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1913-05-22
Presbyterian Church

a. m.
Bible school will follow the Quiet
Hour meeting of the C. E. The first
service being held at ZOO.
Bible school, 9:45.
Public worship, 11:OO.
Young peoples talk. ''How the
Holy Spirit Works for Jesus
Sermon The Christian and His
Patrimony. ''Have you claimed
yours.
p. m.
Christian Endeavor Convention at
2:15.
c. E. convenes at Gas.
Public worship 500.
At this service The County Officers
will be publicly Installed. The adj
dress Of the evening on Fruit Bear
ing" will be given by Rev. C. E.
Prewitt.
Midweek service Wednesday even
ing 8p. m.
Sunday School workers meeting
600.
Everybody invited to attend these
services. c. H. Ticknor, Pastor.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1913-05-22
SEASO
GOODS
At Observation-Disclosures
The Quality Store
SUMMER WASH
GOODS

Colored striped crepes,
yard. ............. .SOc
Wash corduroys, yard. Csc
Scotch ginahams, yard. Csc
LaPorte Zephyr ginghams
yard ........... .l5c
Zephyr dinshams lOc. l21zc
Batistes. .. loo and l21zc
White voiles. ...... Csc
White India Linons 815c up
Jack and Gill cloth, yd. l5c
Linen colored linens for
coats, suits, dresses,
skirts yard. .2Oc to 81 .25
Linen colored coats s. so up
Wash skirts. go. .$1.48 up
MunsineWear SOC up
Other underwear =. 1Oc up
Mems e. e. w. shirts. Csc
Wayne Knit Hosiery l5c up
Packard shoes for men,.
$3.50 up
Walkers Specials for
ladies. $3.50 up
GOdman's, Budd's and
Jack and Gill shoes for
children.
A Great line of EmbrOid-
cries, Laces and Novel;
ty dress trimmings,
yard. DC up
Pongee silk, 36-in, yard. 81
Best shifting. lOc
New Trunks and Suit Cases
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1913-02-21
Writing for Posterity.

A story about George Bernard Shaw
comes from London.
A prominent French critic, the story
runs, once said to the playwright:
"'You are putting on a new comedy
Monday night. Let me attend one of
the dress rehearsals, won't your
Impossible, said Mr. Shaw. My
dress rehearsals are always private.
! have to refuse even the most distin.
guished critics access to them
But said the other, I want to
write careful criticism. II have to
write It and telegraph 1t in few min.
utes on Monday night, 1t will be very
hurriedly done. and fear that 1t will
give a wrong impression of your
comedy In Paris the next day.
Have no anxiety on that score,
Mr.. Shaw replied. My comedies are
not written for the next day"
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1913-02-21
NOvELISTS AND CRIME
GREAT WRITERS HAVE INTEREST.
ED THEMSELVES IN SUBJECT.
At the Present Time Arthur Conan
Doyle Is to the Fore, Following
Course of Other Masters
Of Literature.

The creator of Sherlock Holmes GER
lainly ought to be himself a compe-
tent amateur detective, and his sue
cess in the famous Edalji case proves
that his powers in that direction are
Of no mean order. He has now un-
dertaken another difficult case-that
Of proving the innocence of Oscar Sla-
ter, who is at present undergoing a
life sentence for murder.
Quite number of novelists have In
terested themselves in crime and
criminals. Edgar Allan Poe used to
state that there was no problem
which man could set which another
man could not solve, and he applied
the rule to crime. His greatest tri-
umph in this method of unraveling ap-
parently inexplicable mystery gave
the world that famous story, "The
Murders in the Rue Morgue."
Dickens was strangely drawn to-
ward the alleviation of suffering Of
all kinds, and his novels did much to
bring about the more humane treat
ment Of prisoners. But Charles Reade
not only exposed harsh prison meth
DDS In his famous novel 1T Is Never
Too Late to Mend" but actually, like
Conan Doyle. took up the case Of
what was known as the Penge muir
der.
In spite Of magnificent and NOV
Ing speech for the defense by Sir Ed
ward Clarke. the Judge summed up
against the prisoners so decidedly that
the jury found them guilty. 1t was
then that the novelist entered the
lists, with such telling force and con-
vincing argument that the home sec
retary promptly commuted all the
sentences
Probably the earliest instance Of
the Intervention of a novelist to save
a man from the gallows was DR.. Sam
uel Johnson's herculean efforts to OBJ
tain mercy for the celebrated Doctor
Dodd. who was executed in spite Of
all that the sage of Fleet street could
do or say. Today, thanks to writer's
like Reade and Dickens, no such ad-
vocacy would be needed, for this ia
nous parsons crime was forgery, for
which death is no longer the penalty.
Boswell. in his Life of Johnson" de-
votes large amount of space to this
characteristic example of his hero's
kindness and humanity.
Many years later the famous French
playwright Balzac made an effort to
save the life of man named Peytel.
who had been convicted of the muir
der Of his wife and servant, but equal
ly without success
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1913-02-21
Volcanic Dust In Atmosphera.

From many points in America and
Europe come reports of an unusual
turbidity Of the atmosphere, which be-
gan early last summer and still con-
tinues. This is manifested in a
marked diminution of the intensity of
solar radiation, as measured with the
pyrheliometer, abnormal displace-
ment of the neutral points of atmos-
pheric polarization. hazy appear
ance Of the sky, and the presences Of
Bishops ring around the sun. From
Dublin Sir John Moore wrote last Au-
gust: "The sky is constantly covered
with a thin film Of uniform cloud in
which no halos develop, and through
which the sun, moon and stars shine
with a subdued, sickly brightness" !"
Observers in Russia. Switzerland,
Sweden and Germany, as we'll as
America, report an unusual lack Of
blueness in the sky. There seems to
be every reason to attribute these phe-
nomena to the presence in the upper
atmosphere of an immense pail of
dust arising from the explosive erup-
ton Of Katmai volcano in Alaska last
June. Similar effects were observed
after the eruptions of Kratatoa and
Mont Pele.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1913-02-21
Japan's Sudden Rise.

An Idea Of how Japan has leaped
into the forefront of nations since her
victory over Russia was furnished the
other day by a man who had travelled
extensively in Java and other parts
Of the Far East.
The Dutch in Java" he said, make
point of treating people of all the
eastern nations well, but there is al
ways a certain difference between
how an Oriental and how a European
Is treated. Europeans are always
looked upon as belonging to the dom.
inant races in the Far East, and are
treated accordingly in commercial
and other dealings. On the other
hand, the Chinese, for instance,
though they may be the richest and
most influential citizens in a COM
munity, are always made to feel that
they are not quite on par with
Europeans.
But it is otherwise with the Jap
anese. In Java and elsewhere they
are treated exactly as If they were
Europeans. 1t was not SO before the
Russian-Japanese war, either, but II
certainly is now, and it makes the
Chinese and other Orientals mighty
jealous"
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1913-02-21
Keeping Eqqs Fresh.

In Germany eggs are kept fresh
for any length Of time by simply i'm
mersing them in a ten per cent. solu-
ton Of silicate Of soda, commonly
called liquid glass" This produces
the formation Of coating which rem
ders the eggs perfectly air-tight. The
eggs so treated retain their fresh
taste for many months. The best
proof of the efficacy of this treatment
has been furnished by the fact that
such eggs. after having been kept for
whole year, were hatched and the
chickens were strong and healthy. The
preserving solution Is best prepared
by dissolving one pound Of liquid glass
in four quarts of cold water. The eggs
are then immersed in this solution,
which should be kept in a glazed
earthenware vessel, and the eggs are
kept in the solution for a short time.
If one of these preserved eggs is to
be boiled, the shell must be first per
forated to prevent cracking.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1913-02-21
HARM IN CROWDING THE HEN
Results Given Of Interesting Expert
ments Made at Maine Station
Must Have Room.

The Maine experiment station re
Gently finished test to ascertain the
number Of hens most profitable tc
keep in pens. All the pens were 10 by
16 feet, giving 100 square feet. The
hens were Brahmas and Plymouth
Rocks, and these tests continued sil
months.
The hens were fifteen. twenty,
twenty-five and thirty to a pen. The
conditions and hens were as much
alike as possible to make the test
conclusive one.
The pen with fifteen hens made q
profit Of so cents per hen, and the
eggs laid numbered 976.
The pen with twenty hens made a
showing Of 1.208 eggs for the pen and
a profit Of II cents per hen.
The pen with twenty-five hens made
laying record Of 1928 eggs and
profit OF 35 cents. per hen.
The pen with thirty hens had an egg
production Of 1900 and a profit of 30
cents for ecah hen.
The experiment shows distinctly
that hens can be so crowded as to re.
duce the profit of an egg farm. The
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1913-02-21
Capable Of Wider Application,

A clever scheme for checking the
discreditable practice of "joy-riding"
is credited by the Boston Herald to
Commissioner Rourke of the public
works department
According to officials Of the depart.
ment a certain chauffeur went out Joy.
riding with his chiefs machine, and
had a collision. His chief then sus-
pended him for month.
When Commissioner Rourke was in.
formed Of the accident and the eus.
pension. he said that If the young man
wished to be reinstated in the city's
employ at the end of the month, he
must start as a laborer with pick and
shovel.
He can't go joy-riding with those"
the commissioner dryly added.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1913-02-21
SEES CHINA A GREAT NATION
Their Wonderful Physique, Aided by
Modern Sanitary Methods, Must
Have Its Effect.

The vitality and endurance of the
average Chinaman are remarkable.
l doubt II there exists nation any
where better qualified to illustrate the
survival of the fittest" From a
physical point of view the body of the
Chinese coolie is a perfect specimen
OF human anatomy. / have seen this
class of natives work like pack horses
carrying heavy loads upon their
shoulders, and like horses pulling
heavy loads along the thoroughfares
OF the city and countryside. They
even take the place of horses at the
piow. Among no class of people have
ever observed an exhibition Of more
wonderful powers Of endurance, writes
clyde Wilmer in the Kansas City
Journal.
The native can live in the torrid
zone, In the temperate zone or in
frigid northern Manchu-ia. He can
bear hunger, thirst or exhaustion.
Yet there seems to be a cold-blooded
paradox about the Chinese who are
sick and ailing. Little can be learned
In a statistical way regarding this
phase of Chinese health. The medi-
cal dispensaries and hospitals which
visited revealed the widest range of
diseases. both medical and surgical
cases, which had been turned over in
despair to the medical skill of the
foreign devils"
Infant mortality is enormously high
and while the average native birth
rate Is unknown, yet the Chinese
women are very prolific. In many In
stances the Chinaman possesses sew
eral wives. Frequently have OBJ
served old people engaged in heavy
labor either in the fields or trans
porting freight and baggage in the
Chinese cities. Eventually, with such
strong and vigorous heredity back
OF the present generation Of Mongol-
ians, and with the advanced sanitary
methods of modern science pushing in
among the native people, the Chinese
race viii become an increasingly won
derful. strong and vigorous nation.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1913-02-21

course over the country at great speed
and capture their prey by sudden
darts, seizing their victims while In
full flight.
Cooper's hawk, which occurs
throughout the United States, is pre-.
eminently Chicken hawk" and is
by far the most destructive species we
have to contend with, not because 1t
Is individually worse than the COS.
hawk. but because it is so much more
numerous than the aggregate damage
done far exceeds that of all other
birds of prey.
1t is strong enough to carry away
good-sized chicken, grouse, or cot.
tontail rabbit. 1t is especially fond Of
domesticated doves and when it finds
cote easy of approach. it usually
takes toll of one or two day. Prac.
tically every stomach of Cooper's hawk
examined in experiments have con.
tanned remains of wild birds or poul.
try.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1913-02-21
PQDRRYMN1S

Hens will not lay when permitted
to run about the farm in the wet and
cold.
A large part Of the food for poul-
try should be grains because they are
natural grain eaters.
Green food of some kind is neces-
sary to make hens do their best in the
line of egg production.
All laying and growing chickens
must have some kind Of meat food in
order to do their best.
Get in plenty of litter for the winter
scratching.
Careful breeding, proper feeding
and the right kind of care will pro-
duce heavy laying in any breed.
Sudden fright and excitement at
once tells on the egg crop Never al.
low strange dogs about where the
hens are.
Light framed birds that mature
quickly, such as Leghorns and Minor.
cas-, should not be kept with those OF
the heavier fowls.
Visit the chicken house at night.
Note the quality Of the air, and the
breathing of the birds. II the house is
sitting, It needs more air.
A laying flock of hens will drink
about seven quarts Of water a day.
White Of the egg is recommended
in cases of fracture in chickens, for
soaking the bandages, thus binding
them together and stiffening.
Exercise produces warmth, provides
pleasure and promotes health, there.
fore 1t is well to let hens hunt in
deep litter of straw for all their
grains.
There is little doubt that the incu.
bator has not always been given the
credit it deserves for having brought
the poultry industry up to its nres.
ent enviable position.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1913-02-21
UNCLE 81, DIPL0MATIST
GOOD MANS METHOD OF DEAL
ING WITH HARD SITUATION.
Unusual Dolngs in Meeting House Yard
Turned to Financial Account by
Elder Who Was Not Super
stltlous.

WALL" said Uncle 81, as he took
his accustomed place on the pickle
barrel, I'VE had high-falutin, lawn
party up tew the meetin' house at
Lapham's Corners last night There
was sure heap Of folk thar, and the
way they carried on seemed to me
wasn't exactly in place in the meetin
house yard" said Uncle 81. looking
pious and thoughtful.
Tell us about It," said Hiram, help
ing himself to another cracker from
the open barrel near by.
wall, 1t was Jest this away. In
the fust place a party Of city folks
come down from up the hill-we could
see at once that they was goin' to
run things to suit themselves. II they
hadn't a-bought a lot Of peanuts, Ice
cream and lemonade, we'd have broke
up the jamboree right thar and let 'em
go home. The fust thing they done
was to start Virginia reelin', which
l reckon is an imitation of how per-
son acts when he has got full OF Vir-
ginia corn juice. Us country folks, we
gathered around In the corners OF the
lawn and says nothin'-at least. not 30
as the city folks could hear. We
thought they'd gone far enough with
the virginy trapsing, but we found we
was plum mistaken.
Some female says, says she, Let's
chase the turkey around this lawn.
Wall, there wasn't any turkey. but
there was some of the worst doin's
that was ever seen in Lapham's Cor
ners. l bein' the elder, the members
Of the meetin' house riz up unanimous
and told me I'd got to stop them fire.
works. After knocking nearby table,
in order to bring silence, spoke some
thing like this: Brethren and sistern,
this yer Is in the meetin' house yard.
Such COINS on as has happened here
tonight has disgraced us all, and to
make our consciences easy l shall
take all the money we've rize here
tonight and raise the insurance on the
meetin' house. amt superstitious.
but l don't believe no building could
stand to see what's went on here to-
night without either burnin' up or get
tin struck by lightnin' or havin' coffee
split on the vestry carpet. / hope you
will now all go home and come again
to the next lawn party we have and be
enthusiastic as ye was at this one.'
WALL" said 81, "the crowd they
went home, and guess they was
ashamed Of themselves"
WALL" said Lem Beacher, who oc-
cupied the only chair in the grocery
store, 81 never did believe in them ex-
citin' ways to make money for the
meetin' house. It's much better to
take up collections now and then, get
along with the old meetin' house."
To that all the bysitters answered:
You're right, Lem!" and Uncle 81
bought his groceries. consisting of a
package of tobacco, and went home to
do the chores.-Judge.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1913-02-21
One Dry In the Ward,

In st. Louis there is one ward that
is full of breweries and Germans. In
a recent election local option ques.
ton came up. After the election com
Germans were counting the votes
One German was calling Off and an
other taking down the option vote.
The first German, running rapidly
through the ballots, said:
wet, vet. vet. :" Suddenly
he stopped. "Mein Gott!" he cried
Dry"
Then he went on-"Vet, vet, vet
vet" Presently he stopped again "A
mopped his brow. "Himmel!" he said
Der son of gun repeated"
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1913-02-21
Word Properly Condemned.

George Meredith, according to the
London Chronicle. employs that
abominable contraction alright 1t
can't be printers error, for it occurs
more than once. And he uses it as
early as 1868. 80 that the abusers OF
our language may now claim Meredith
of all men, as their prophet This is
one Of those things that battle explain
alton, particularly from writer
whose use Of words was meticulous
and who always refused to delete the
first e. in Judgment always spelling
1t judgement in his novels. Some Of
us, however, will fight alright to the
bitter end"
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1913-02-21
"Wlse-Acre.n

"Wise-ecre" has its origin in Ben
Jonson's retort to a countryman who
boasted interminably of his acres, till
Ben said: What signify to us your
dirt and your clods? Where you have
an acre of land / have ten acres of
wit" The countryman retorted by
calling Ben Good Mr.. Wiseacre."
This is good story. but perhaps the
term wiseacre comes from the corrup-
ton Of the German, weissager, q wise.
sayer
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1913-02-21

Put the windows in the poultry
houses low down to the floor, 80 that
the hens will get the benefit of the
light and sunshine when scratching
for their feed. The trouble with win
dows set high up is that they let the
sunshine in on the perches when the
hens are on the floor scratching, and
when they are on the roost the
sun doesn't shine, SO there is no equi-
librium In such plans.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1913-02-21
Had an AIibI.

While the talesmen were being ex-
amined for a murder trial in the west
one was asked II he knew what an
alibi was.
"I think do; yes, SIR"
+ What do you understand by it?"
The talesman reflected for a mo.
ment and then. with hesitancy in.
dicative Of graveness, replied: "An
alibi is when the fellow who did It
wasn't there"
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1913-02-21
Nest for the Hen,

Everything from nail keg to
grocery box may take a hens nest.
The hen Is not sentimental bird,
and does not care for fancy frills and
contraptions. Give her a box or a bar.
rel, filed with the right nesting ma
terial, soft bruised straw, and the
whole properly darkened. and she will
do her share in trying to keep it sup
piled with eggs.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1913-02-21
Barred Plymouth Rocks.

difference Of twenty-five eggs per
hen for six months is great. On the
basis of fifteen to the pen the profits
of the total ninety hens were $72: on
basis of thirty to the pen the profits
were $36. In each case the actual cost
of feed was deducted.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1913-02-21
pIscardlnq the MonareIs.

Mongrel fowls should not be kept
for egg production because the eggs
will be uniform In neither color nor
size. This factor Of itself is of enough
importance to induce one to select a
pure breed, even though the mongrels
might possibly lay as we'll as the pure
bred fowls, but this is very doubtful.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1913-02-21
Women and conuress.

The question as to woman's eligibil.
ity to congress has never been raised
and. of course, not decided. but II the
people of district in state where
woman suffrage existed and where
women were eligible to any office
should elect woman to congress she
would probably be admitted.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1913-02-21
On the Contrary.

people in very cold climates need
a heavy diet" mo, they don't-they
have light diet. Don't the Eskimo
eat candles ?"-Baltimore American.