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The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1914-04-16
Missouri News in Brief

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i The deceased was born in Fayette
County, Ohio, in 1884, and at the
time Of her death was 70 years and {
months old. She came to Bates
County with her husband in 1857 and
had lived here continuously except
two years when Bates County was
depopulated by General Ewing's or.
der No. II. She was devout Chris
tian, a good wife and mother, and the
world is better by her having lived in
it. Her husband died full genera
ton ago, but she remained widow.
Three children survive to grieve over
her departure Charles and James
Marstellar and Mrs. Harriet Daniels,
all residents of this county.
North New Home.
Mr.. Ahlfeld and Henry Chart took
some nice fat hogs to Butler Wednes-
day.
Milt Reeves and wife made bust
ness trip to Elkhart Saturday.
Ben Pickett and wife, Orval Pickett
and wife visited at Merritt Pickett's
Sunday.
Frank Miller and family, Cliff Ehart
wife and baby, and Warnie Keeton
spent Sunday at Henry Charts.
Homer Linendoll and wife spent
Sunday afternoon at George Franks.
Jack Skaggs and family spent Sum
day at the home of John Phelps.
Milt Reeves, Cliff Chart and Warnie
Keeton while at work in the timber
Tuesday found hawks nest and
Warnie climbed the tree to get it.
A limb broke and he fell about 80 feet
hurting his back and side, but is get
ing along very we'll at this writing.
j. H. Etter'of Butler, was in North
New Home, Saturday, surveying.
Several of the young folks attended
he pie supper at Cortland Friday
hight.
Mrs. Matte Richmond visited with
riends in Butler Thursday and Fri
lay.
Ruby and Grace Berry, Edith Mil
er and Thelma Richmond went to
Butler to take examinations Thursday
nd Friday.
Milt Reeves and wife visited with
Ter parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Stanfield
sunday.
Mr.. Ahlfeld was kicked by mule
tuesday, when he fell on rock and
'roke his hip bone. He is getting
long as we'll as could be expected.
lie is 70 years old.
Jim Morris and family visited at
'rick McCoy's Sunday. :
Mrs. Matte Richmond left Sunday
or Eldorado Springs to visit with '
elatives. T
Homer Linendoll and wife, Dick
;riglor and Will Ahlfeld visited at
fr. Ahlfeld's Sunday.
Ezra Mccormack was over to see I
ia parents Monday. /
There was good attendance at the (
chool meeting at Lost Corner Tues. !
ay. They voted on an eight months 9
chool and Bud Berry was elected for
irector and Claude Berry as clerk.
Charley Weiss has some hay for =
ale. COR. Il
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1914-04-16

If Jack Phoenix does not engage in
any more combats with the Collins
feudists he will have to serve a two
years. sentence to the Penitentiary,
imposed by Judge John T. Moore, in
Circuit Court afAva, for the part he
took in a battle between feudists at q
Fourth of July celebration at Big
Springs last year.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1914-04-16
Since work started on the new cap
itol building, two workers have been
killed and twelve injured.
The supreme court en- banc. denied
last Monday motion for rehearing to
the interinsurance companies.

Fifty-nine sheep, belonging to Ben
Aylor, a farmer near Carterville, were
attacked supposedly by wolves
Wednesday night. Nineteen of the
sheep were found dead, twenty-sev-
en- were in a dying condition, while
the remainder had completely dis
appeared.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1914-04-16

Not even an old tin can was found
in the Ehfd Fire District at Columbia
by the cleanup brigade which
began its weeks work in the. Athens
of Missouri Tuesday. The wagon re-
tuyned empty to headquarters.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1914-04-16

Miss Lulu Owens was married to
j. E. Blomberg of st. Paul, Mimi,
at Monet, Me-, last week. Their
courtship began six years ago when
MIR. Bioomberg found the young
woman s name and address in box
Of Strawberries shipped from MOneffo.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1914-04-16


professor of botany of the University
of Missouri, to become a member OF
the Quo Vadis Club were dampened
considerably when he lost two
toes under the wheels of bag.
gage car on the Wabash tracks near
the Union depot while trying to steal
ride. Reed, who is sophomore at
the university, lives in Cambridge,
Mass. He is an aspiring candidate
for admission to the Quo Vadis Club,
said to be an institution peculiar to
the University of Missouri, and one
of the main requirements of member
ship of which are that the applicant
has beaten his way over 1000 miles
of railroad.
For week or more the office OF
the public service commission has
been fairly deluged with letters bear
ing protests and complaints that the
various railroads operating in the
state propose to put in force, May l,
an increase in passenger rates. The
bulk Of these letters have been COM
ing from points in Missouri Pacific &
Iron Mountain territory. There is to
be no increase in passenger rates and
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1914-04-16

The total valuation of taxable prop
erty in St. Louis has been fixed by
by the board of equalization at $577,
496, 571. Of this the real estate is
valued at $483, 26O, $40 and personal
property at $94, 235, 73l. Franchises
of public service corporations, never
taxed before, were assessed by the
boarc at 81, 1876, 900. The city tax on
these will amount to approximately
$64, 800.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1914-12-10
Papa. Sermons Rare.

Strange are the restrictions wnlcn
hedge about pope. and one OF the
str;,n.est is that he should not be al.
lowed to preach Only once IN 3N
years has pope delivered sermon
and that was under exceptional cirrum
stances In 1916. On the Octave OF the
Epiphany a celebrated preacher. Padre
Ventura. was to have occupied the pui
pit in St Peters. but was suddenly
taken i'll To prevent disappointment
to the vast crowd which bad assem-
bled Plus TX broke through the Gus
tom of ages and. ascending the pulpit
delivered simple. homely sermon tina
perhaps impressed its hearers mor'
than the finest eioqueHce might have
done. because of its uniqueness. Lon
don Chronicle.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1914-12-10

" little air which nonplused the stupid
officer. whom Faulkner's obvious pleas
ure, and his still more obvious respect
ability, had convicted of particularly
heinous blunder The policeman swung
back into the crowd. and Faulkner felt
himself transferred from world OF
self distrust. of black doubt. to firm.
solid earth, all radiance and sunshine
and youth.
Dorothy Lannard clung to his arm.
talking excitedly. She plunged into
the depths of her own problem with
the frank egoism Of petted girlhood
and equally frank confidence in her
companions ability to understand and
help her
"You see. gElrdy. mother hates it
she says shan't have one penny If !
do it-but just will! And you know
hetter than any one how hard Jack
works what solemn. judicial, cork.
| Ing brain he has-for all his hair cnr's
| like baby's. and he looks SO dread
fully young. II was yon who started
| him In life-he could never have
| studied law il you hadn't taken him
| i'm the office. but he has made good
you know he has: Please say mas
/ marry him soon-without waiting unit
he is rich and gray headed and fossil
| ised and fat, and one Of those lean
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1914-12-10

traffic just as the policeman blew his
whistle His knowledge of danger
came only with the persistent footing
of strident horn: then. as he drew
back to escape the plunging of q
frightened horse. a great touring car
bore down upon him with the reient:
less brutality of fate
He was dragged upon the ground.
the tearing rending sensations as Of
some horrible rack should have
brought him merciful oblivion But
consciousness persisted. and above the
clamOr of mems voices he heard q
woman's sharp scream He felt him
self torn from the clutch of the jug
gernaut and half dragged. half carried
to the sidewalk Presently he was
lying upon the asphalt and a woman
kneeling beside him. woman with !,
deathly face and great burning eyes
1t was certainly Mary Hart-but she
might be merely frightened-the look
in her eyes pity! Then i'll. wounded
suffering though he was. joy burned
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1914-12-10
ireland Called Many Names.

In the time of f'toieMs ireland was
known as Scotia DiodOrus Sicnliis
calls the island lrs or triSi: in the "De
Mnndo." credited By some scholars 70
Aristotle. 1t Is called irenne. IN the
'Argonautica OF Orpneus 1t appears
as irinus: Strabo calls II Irene: Caesar.
Tacitns and Pliny mention 1t as til
bernia: Meta called it Juverna The
native names In Celtic are tr. Eri and
Erin Plmtarch mentions nnde, the
nailie Of Ogygia The name ireland II
no doubt derived from the native of
ir or Err. but when 1t came into gen
eral use ia Il question concerning which
scholars are much at variance.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1914-12-10
ARTILLERY GUNS.
What the Terms "Cuick Firer." "lnchr
Guns and "Pounders" Mean.

What the Terms "Cuick Firer." "lneh'
Guns and "Pounders" Mean.
To the average man such phrases
as three Founders and six inch
guns are familiar. Uut he nearly ~
ways reads them without fully onder.
standing their meanings
a pound gun is cannon which re-
ceives its name from the weight VI
The shell it fires Thus gun known
as u three FOUNDER is SO called De-
cause it fires shell which weighs
three pounds. and gun firing hve
pound shell would be called tive
FOUNDER The size Ut most small
guns Is still described by the pound.
but the majority of large guns made
today are inch weapons In this
case the size Of the gun Is obtaineti
from the size of its bore. ten lncp
gun having a bore of ten inches IN
diameter and twelve inch weapon q
twelve inch bore
The largest British naval guns 10 use
| at present are the fifteen inch weap.
0ns They fire u proJectile weighing
| almost ton. Next 10 these comes the
l3.5 gun and then the most popular
4 weapon or ali-the twelve inch. which
tires an $50 pound shell
There are several smaller kinds OF
guns now In mostly of the quick
firing type. These weapons are linen
guns. The six inch. the Al inch anC
the four inch are all quick tirers ano
throw shells weighing 100 pounds. for
| ty-tive pounds and thirty Lone pound:
respectively.
/ Quite lot of people misunderstant
the term quick frer.' They in'agin'
4 quick firing gun to be weapon
which pours out stream OF shot witt
enormous speed after the style of
Maxim instead. however, 1t is jus
an ordinary DreechIOading gun. Whlcl
il fitted with such vastly improves
methods OF ioading and aiming that
can he tired far more rapidly than
weapon without those fittings gu
that fires number Of shots autl
maticaily in rapid succession. as tn
Maxim. is not called a quick tirer. In
paine given to 1t Is 'machlne gun.
There are large range Of thes
: weapons or all sizes and firing froi
l.2On right down to forty rounds
ammunition II minute
The gun which generally accomp'
uies column into the field on actiS
service fires shell OF sixty pounC
and is known as the 'hve men. Or.
use the old term. sixty pounder.
J pearsons Weekly
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1914-12-10
Faulkner'S
Insomnia :
Quickly Cured When Love
Became the Physician
By ELIZABETH NEWPORT HEPBURN

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Faulkner was walking doggedly up
town. The doctor had said four miles
day-possibly OH the theory that
man thoroughly tired in body is less
apt to work his brain in the small hours
Of the night. when all wise men pre-
pare themselves for the coming day
by the blessed business of sleep.
For several months Faulkner had
been behaving in this absurd fashion.
working all day and staying awake all
night.
AS he swung now into Broadway the
question which for months had stung
and tortured him stung and tortured
him anew.
When a man has once made fail
ure Of his life. Faulkner asked himself.
how is he to know that he will not
repeat the performance! Faulkner
knew himself to be in love with Mary
Hart-he wanted to marry Mary Hart
But how In high heaven was he to
know whether Mary loved him?
Obviously be might ask her to marry
him. and she might accept But how
was he to be sure that she cared. as he
cared. as he had believed that Heller
cared long ago: After all. was he mo-
| the most gullihle man on earth where
women were concerned?
Moreover. he was successful. emf
nently eligible and too deeply commit
ted to middle age to be marrying {
charming young woman-except fo
this very eligibility.
/ There was no use conjuring up Mar,
/ Hart's honest smile. her clear, kint
eyes. her reputation for sincerity. Lon!
ago he had been made fool Of by OH
woman. woman who had marrie
him und lived with him. and tinalI,
died under his roof without ever hav
ing loved him He had been cheate
once. and he had no faith in his ow
acumen. his own rusted instincts
At this stage of his reminiscence b
found suddenly that he bad bee
caught in the tide of young girls jus
emerging from the theaters, wher
they had been reveling in various ma
inee performances. He was brougf
back to the immediate present by
pressure upon his arm and a laughing
breathless voice which proclaimed di
tinctly:
After racing nearly three block
I've cauvht Won at laSt-and there's
policeman just behind Us who
morally certain that he ought to ru
me in.'
He turned to face the radiant, tt
umphant young person. who now clur
to his arm with possessive. daughte
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IL HE GOING TO DEP SHE ASKED THF
DOCTOR
through him. For this Mary was no
longer gentle. kind. impersonal. She
was Il woman torn with terror. which
only comes to those who face danger
to the we'll beloved Faulkner knew
the dizzying surprise of her kiss on
his lips. and then at last he tainted.
Mary Hart heard newsboy's shrili
explanation to the tall policeman who
lowered above the two prone figures.
He's her man. orf'cer. seed him
chasin' her acrost the street just as the
other cop blew his whistle And she
turned and saw him and ran back after
him and most got hit by the devil
wagon herself"
Half an hour later a big. competent
young surgeon was looking curiously
at Mary Hart. She was certainly hand
some, although in no obvious or con-
spicuous fashion. but what interested
him much more than her beauty was
the fact that she had entirely forgot
ten herself. She would be quite capable
Of going home through the streets with
that smear of dust and blood across
her face.
lis he going to die?"
The young doctors voice was full OF
cheerful scorn.
well, Miss Hart, if couldn't pull a
patient through few tribes like dis
located shoulder and a cut forehead ]
would resign my job! On the contrary,
instead of dying he is quite conscious.
4 and he sends you message"
Miss Hart blushed divinely-she re-
melnbered that impetuous kiss. but she
| did not repent
1.-The message. doctor?" she demand
ed cooliy. and the inferno waited for
the explosion of his bomb with IN imp
ish. small boy delight.
HE wants to know just when yo,
will marry him?"
| This time Mary did not flush al
all. The doctor. nonplnsed. wonderet
whether she often received proposals o1
marriage by proxy. But he decided
that his patient had most discriminat
ing taste.
Mary Hart deliberately wiped off he
cheek with handkerchief and iooket
at the doctor with flicker OF laughte
in her eyes
KINDLY tell him. doctor. that shall
marry him the day after he leaves tn
hospital And please say to him that
detest waitingH'
And when the house surgeon con
veyed this message to Faulkner tha
battered and bandaged gentlenla
smiled. turned his head Oh his pilloN
and straightway went to sleep an
slept the whole night through for To
first time in three months.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1914-12-10
Gather and Mother.

Mary Stewart Cutting. writing q
story of family entitled '.The Turn
ing Point" in the Woman's Home Com
panion. comments as follows ON two OF
her characters:
.sThey had. as they walked. that pc
culiar air of some elderly couples-as
noticeable in his large bulk as In her
fragility-of dependence on each other
that comes sometimes after participat.
Ing in a great sorrow There WAS that
in the attitude Of each that seemed tO
say pathetically, 1 have you left
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1914-12-10
THE GOLDEN FLEECE.
An Ancient Method Of Collecting the
Precious Yellow Dust.

An Ancient Method of Collecting the
Precious Yellow Dust.
In the legend of the golden heece
Hes hidden the record Of an ancient
method of the Tibareni. the sons OF
Tubal. for the collection of gold The
north coast OF Asia Minor produced
large quantities Of the precious metals
as well az copper and iron Gold was
found in the gravel. as often happens
still in streams draining from copper
regions the gold in copper ores. orig
inally containing insignificant amounts
OF the precious metal. accunulates In
the course Of ages and sometimes forms
placers of astonishing richness.
The ancient Tibareni washed the
gold bearing gravel first by booming.
which concentrated the gold into rela-
tively small amounts of sand This
was then collected and washed through
slnices having the BOTTOMS lined with
sheepskins The gold would sink tnte
the wool. while the sand would be
washed away In the swift current
writes Courtenay de Kalb In the Min
ing Age,
The skins were removed from tho
sluices. the coarser gold shaken out
and the fieeces. still glittering with the
yellow metal. were hung upon bough
to dry so that the rest Of the gole
might be beaten from them and saved
| The early Greek mariners, Witnessing
| this process, carried home tales OF the
wonderful riches Of land where .
| warlike race OF miners hung colder
fleeces upon the trees in the grove .:
| Ares
The natives OF the country Of Tuba
| Cain still Gull the high grade coppe
ore and break 1t into smalls. which
they cover with wood and roast IT,
matte: they still work the matte In
| forgelike furnaces to black copper
which they ship to Alexandrettn an
to Euxine ports They still make the
/ famous carbonized iron that was ceie
brated as Damascus steel because =
was distributed through this mart T..
the rest Of the world after receiving e
finish BY LOCAL Damascene workmen.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1914-12-10
His Re;oinder.

Star Boarder tafter reacllins vainiy
for the butter,-You can see the high
cost of living has struck this place.
Landlady lbeaming,-How's that!
Star Roartler- Why. every blamed
thing Is beyond your reach Judge
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1914-12-10
The Poor Beneficiary.

Some nations were lighting fercely
why are you fighting so! inquired
the bystanders. moved at length to
curiosity
'sTo save civilization" replied the ma.
lions severally
Here draggled figure rose from the
mire under the feet OF the combatAnts
and limped lameiy away.
And who are yan!" asked the ny'
ISLANDERS. with disposition to get tc
the bottom OF the matter
Don't speak to me. I'm C1vtlfza'
tton." the figure made answer. some
what pettishiy.-New York Post
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1914-12-10
A Wet slanket.

Hokus--l never knew such . wet
bianket ms Flnbduh poKns-fhats
right II that fellow should jump from
the frying pan into the tire ne would
put the fire out Life
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1914-12-10
Mak;no Connection,

Knicker-- Life is hard Booker Yes:
by the time your mother stops forbid
ding you to eat jam the doctor begins.
New York Sun
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1914-12-10
= ,.ranee Recipe For Acting.

Perhaps the most striking instance
Of voluntary hallucination is that re-
corded by an intimate friend OF the
actor Talma. Langlois states that the
great tragedian told him that when
ever he entered ON the stage he was
accustomed by force Of will to make
his brilliant audience disappear and to
substitute for them house full OF
skeletons. The emotion which these
ghastly creatures Of his own imagina.
ton excited served. he declared, to
give additional force to his own i'm
presentations.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1914-12-10
Wasted Effort.

Peter Thompson went to visit his SOD
In Montreal 1t was his first cisit to
the city. and the young man showed
him all the sights. concluding with an
ascent of Mount Royal In burst OF
enthusiasm young Thompson said
See. father. isn't II wonderful down
there?"
Well said his father. ''if it's 90
wonderful down there what did You
drag me up here for?" Every ybody's
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1914-12-10
Ea.y Work.

He bitterly, suppose you consider
It quite triumph to make fool of
man? She oh. dear. no. triumph
is something done that was ditiicn't Of
achievement
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1914-12-10
Salute Of the Sword.

The sword salute OF military officers
has two meanings The first position.
with the hilt opposite the hips is sur
vival Of the crusaders action OF kiss
ing the cross hilt Of his sword iD token
Of faith. and the towering of the point
is a token of friendship. Implying that
1t is not necessary to be on guard
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1914-12-10

Intaking and ontgiving getting good
and giving good that Is our main bnsi
ness. &. G. Aines.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1914-09-22

Mona Lisa.
The wOuld-be attractive girl OF
today cultfvates a franker smile
than the one in the de Vince mas
terpiece. II you would have a cap
tivating smile you must be very
careful of the shape of your
mouth. You can change the
shape of your mouth and in a
short time curve your lips up
ward or downward as you will.
Never go to sleep with your
lips shut tightly. Try to always
think pleasant thoughts-at least
try to smile-the mere act of
smiling will change the trend of
your mind. OF course. you Will
take very good care of your teeth,
go to the dentist twice year and
have them looked over, especially
cleaned. and any cavities filled.
Do not have your front teeth
filled with gold. A mouth filled
with gold is as vulgar as dia-
monds set in the teeth. Above
all keep smiles on tap whatever
may be the state of your mind
or how near your heart is break
ing.