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The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1914-09-03
Many People Follow Agricultural
Occupations in Missouri

Washington, D. c., Aug. &c. There
are 1888, 1856 persons in Missouri tina,
work for a living and 457, 685 of them
are employed upon the farm, accord.
ing to report which has just been
issued by the United States Census
Bureau. Of the persons engaged in
agricultural pursuits, the bulk of them
are farm operators and farm laborers.
The farm operators number 265, 555,
and 257, 243 are men and 1912 are
women. There are 1902 farm
laborers in the"State and 166, 949 are
males and 6, 143 females.
There are 829 dairy farmers in the
State and they employ us laborers
and % foremen. There are also L.
339 persons in the State whose prin-
cipal source of income is from stock
raising. The number of cowboys
and sheep herders in this State is $40.
In the entire United States there
are II, $50, 27O persons over 10 years
of age and 80, 1877, 1886, or SO per cent
of this number are engaged in gainful
occupations. OF the gainfully occu-
pied. 1858, 203. or SO per cent are
engaged in agriculture. There are
{. 1865. 600 farm operators in the nation
and they employ 5,975, 900 laborers.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1914-09-03
WAR
Prize winning definition of war by James Logan
Mosby in 'Life's' recent contest.

| Prize winning DE- hnitl0n of war by James Logan
Mosby in "Life's" recent contest.
i was conceived in passion, hatred,
envy, and greed, born in the morning
of antiquity, and have a genealogy
whose every page drips with the red
blood of murdered innocence. l re-
spect neither the feebleness of gray
hairs, the helplessness of infancy, nor
the sacredness of virtue, and walk,
iron-shod, ruthlessly and impartially
over the form of the weakling or the
form of the giant.
Ipaint the midnight skies a lurid
glow from the burning homes l have
ravaged, and turn peaceful scenes
of rural beauty, where Gods own
creatures dwell together in amity, in
to raging hell. l set neighbor
against neighbor in deadly combat,
and incite the brother to STAY his
brother.
make puppets OF kings, princes
OF paupers, courtiers of courtesans,
and thieves of respected subjects, and
empires melt before my breath as
does mist before the morning sun
light.
| make of religion fanaticism; the
heather make fiend incarnate; and
of all men make playthings devoid
of reason and justice. Through in
trigue make the intelligent power
full, the INSCRIPTIONS wax fat on the
spoils of blood-won victories gained
by others, and the less learned suffer
for their own ignorance.
Famine, want and misery follow in
my path; lay waste green fields and
still the hand Of industry. l pillage
the land of its resources but contribute
nothing to the benefit of mankind,
leaving pestilence to stalk ghostlike
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1914-09-03
Obituary of Thomas Cuddeback.

Thomas Benton Cuddeback was
born in Orange county, New York,
May 80, l845. His early boyhood
days were spent on a farm. At the
age of eighteen years he enlisted in
Company |, l03d regiment of New
York Volunteers. He was wounded
and taken prisoner at the Battle of
Antietam. After about 8 months he
: was discharged and sent home. After
ne recovered from his wound he re-
enlisted and served until the end of
the war when he was mustered out
as Sergeant, and given his honor
able discharge at City Point, Va,
Nov. 20, 1865.
After the war he answered the call
OF the west, going to Henderson
county, Illinois, where he farmed for
three years. He soon tired of the
lonely life of the farm, returning to
his former home he was united in
marriage to Martha R. Stryker Sept.
IA, 1859, at Elmira, New York.
With his bride he Immediately re-
turned to Illinois, staying there one
year. He then sold out, and with
mule team and wagon, himself and
wife, came overland to Bates county,
Missouri. They lived there fifteen
years. Again selling out, they then
moved to a farm adjoining Spring
Hill, where he has since resided.
To them was born one son, j. D.
Cuddeback, who now lives on the
old home place.
Thomas Cuddeback was a man of
true, noble character, honest, upright
and fair in all his dealings. He had
by industry and careful management
surrounded himself with a goodly
portion of this worlds goods. He
was man whose word no one dis
puted, and was held in the highest
esteem by friends and neighbors.
AT the time Of his death he was
vice president of the Spring Hill
Banking company member of the
board of directors of the Spring Hill
Cooperative association, was mem
Der Of the Grange and of General
Curtis Post G. A. R. 1O4.
Besides his widow, the son and his
family he leaves one brother, Frank
Cuddeback, who lives east of Spring
Hill and two sisters, Mrs. Frank Far
rell of Albany, Oregon, and Mrs.
Perry Doyle of Greenfield, Ill.,, to
mourn his loss.
He died at his home August 10,
1871, after a lingering illness of three
months at the age Of SO years, 2
months and 20 days.
The funeral services were held
from the Presbyterian church Friday
afternoon, at 2 o'clock, conducted by
Rev. F. C. Moser of Ottawa. Burial
was in Spring Hill cemetery.-The
Spring Hill (Kansas) New Era.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1914-09-03
Coming Events.

Vernon County Fair-Sept. IA.
Adrian Street Fair--Sept. "a.
Bates County Fair-Sept. 8-l1.
Hume Stock Show-Sept II.
Pleasanton Stock Show-Septem-
Der 1924.
State Fair-Sept 26 to-Oct. 2.
General Election-Nov. 3.
Buff Orphington, April hatched,
pullets and cockerels for sale, 81
each. Duroc Jersey gifts, one year
old October 3Oth.
Mrs. Chas. S. Concklin,
43-4t Butler, Mo.
Yazoo City herald. [volume] (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1878-1976, 1914-11-13
SUFFRAGE DAY AT
THE STATE FAIR
jackson Daily News


"Votes for Women" advocates in
Mississippi, headed by the president
of the Mississippi State Woman Suf-
frage Association, Mrs. Annie K. Dent,
of Yazoo City, held interesting ex-
ercises in the suffrage booth at the
State Fair grounds yesterday after
noon, MK. Dent, Miss Kate Gordon,
Of New Orleans and Miss Pauline v.
Orr, of Columbus, making brilliant
addresses to the large number of PEG
pie who assembled.
C. F. Rhodes, prominent attorney
of Yazoo City, also made an address
that was listened to with absorbing
interest.
Mrs. Dent was applauded when in
making Introductory remarks as she
stood on bale of cotton she declared:
"Cotton is the south's greatest prob
lem, and we women must take deep
err interest in solving it. Cotton is the
best platform on which We can take
our stand"
All Of the speakers used the bale Of
cotton as stand from which to de-
liver their speeches. The bale recently
was bought by the National Woman
Suffrage Association, and it promises
to become historic, having been shown
on a float in the "cotton clothes" pa
rade that opened the State Fair last
Monday, and now in use as speak
ers' platform in the suffrage booth.
Mrs. Dents remarks were brief, but
she spoke in a most enthusiastic and
convincing manner, dwelling on the
cotton problem as much as on the suf-
frage question. She said that cotton
was king, and on account Of the great
European war, though it may be some
what in eclipse for a short while,
would after that conflict be restored
to its proper place and again enthron-
ed. She spoke of the resourcefulness
of women, saying if they were not
anything else they were resourseful,
in this connection bringing the atten-
ton of the audience to the Tact that
the bale of cotton was used as a plat
form.
Vocal solo, "Buy-a-Bale of Cotton
was delightfully."- rendered by Mrs. H.
A. Carlton.
Miss Gordon pleaded that the wo-
men had right to vote, and eloquent
ly presented their claims to suffrage,
" Miss Orr also pleaded eloquently
the cause of "votes for women"
Mrs. Nellie Nugent Sommerville, OF
Greenwood, introduced Miss Gordon,
Mrs. J. w. Tucker, of Jackson, grace
fully presented Mr.. Rhodes and Miss
Yazoo City herald. [volume] (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1878-1976, 1914-11-13
SONS OF PLATO.
Taking of Testimony Begun at Laurel
and Meridian.

Attorney General Ross Collins began
taking Of testimony in the now cele-
brated "Sons Of Plato" cases at Laurel
last Monday, As soon as he is through
at Laurel he will begin at Mcu-.
Sensational testimony is expected in
the dispositions, for the attorney gem
cral claims he has the goods" on
those who were members Of the Sc
cret order, "Sons Of Plato" Armed
with hundreds Of letters gathered
from files in cotton seed oil mill Of
fices the attorney general is going
to Laurel. He will frame his ques-
tons from these documents, and as
sisted by Mr.. Easterling, expects to
secure some damaging admissions
from witnesses.
The state officials will attempt to
show that a secret order, "Sons Of Pla-
to- did exist, that prices Of seed were
fixed by n committee or the "Plato,"
or president, and that members would
not pay above the fixed prices for
seed. In other words, the attorney
general says he will prove a combine
to throttle competition has existed
in Mississippi since 1904, and even
prior to that time.
II is said that efforts will be made
to show that Proctor and Gamble, Of
Cincinnati, the American Cotton Seed
Oil Company and the Southern Cotton
Seed Oil company demanded tribute
from the small mills in the nature Of
cotton seed at dictated prices, the lit
tie mills acceding to terms rather
than to be ruined.
Yazoo City herald. [volume] (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1878-1976, 1914-11-13

years crop is probably as big as last
years, and the disturbed conditions
abroad viii necessarily curtail largely
exports. This is true particularly of
Germany, which took over two and a
half million bales and France, which
had about million and a half bales,
to say nothing Of Great Britain, whose
takings were more than three million
bales.
while plans Cor permanent relief
are being worked OUT says Mr.. Love
JOY, "and until the cotton markets
are readjusted and the price offered
approXimates its real value, it seems
to me it would be the part of wisdom
for all concerned to agree for the
farmers, in lieu Of accepting ridicu-
lousy low prices, to store the cotton
in warehouses and deliver over to their
creditors the cotton receipts in sufi-
cient amount to protect their indebted
ness, under and with the agreement
that the cotton is to be held until
il can be sold for at least ten cents
per pound. This course would enable
the merchant and the interior banks
to properly secure an extension Of
their obligations with the eastern and
northern jobber, manufacturer and
bank"
Mr.. Lovejoy has faith in the ability
and in the patriotism of the South 70
do this, to work out its own salvation.
but eh urges concerted action in the
eleven cotton states as necessary to
achieve success. Cooperation for
the common good means a successful
solution" he says, "and the brave and
resourceful people of the South can
be depended upon to work out and
solve the problem that now confronts
them, Montgomery Advertiser.
Yazoo City herald. [volume] (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1878-1976, 1914-11-13
LovEoYS PLAN
To Relieve the Present Situation in
Cotton.


What is probably one of the most
stupendous, and is regarded by many
as one Of the most feasible plans yet
conceived for the relief Of the cotton
situation for all times has been pro
mulgated by T. f. Lovejoy, former
Montgomery financier and now pres
ident of the Manhattan Life Insur-
ance Company and resides in New
York City.
According to the plan presented by
Mr.. Lovejoy to the Southern Cotton
Association at its convention early
this week in New Orleans, he suggests
the immediate organization Of the
Southern Cotton Bureau with a cap
italization of S15O,O0O,OOo to be pro
vided ana subscribed by the growers,
merchants, bankers ard all interested
in cotton in each and every cotton
county in the eleven co.tjr s;ates, ea ,
county to furnish prorata, according
to the production of cotton in that
county in 1918, the subscriptions to be
paid in cotton of this years crop on
a basis of ten cents per pound. The
purpose of the organization will be to
take the distress cotton from the mar
ket, and to thereby assure a better
and more substantial price for the
remaining cotton. He declares that
the governoring board of the bureau
should name minimum price and
maximum price annually for cotton.
"In this way" he says, "the South
would then name the price of its pro-
duct, influence the amount of produc-
ton and the very fact Of tremen-
dous organization with one hundred
and fifty millions of dollars available
to take over and acquire cotton at the
minimum price for which buyers
would have to pay the maximum price
would cause it never to have to buy
very many bales except in extraordi-
nary times such as exists at the pres
ent time. In addition to this it would
Go away with violent fluctuations in
price and accomplish what the grow
ers have been planning for a long
time, the elimination Of pure specula-
ton upon the cotton exchanges of the
country. The fluctuations would be
held between the minimum prices fix
ed by the governoring board"
Mr.. Lovajog declares that the esti-
mate Of the nhnlber Of bales that must
be withdrawn from Immediate sale is
not excessive judging from the fig
urep and disposition Of the cotton cror
Of the yea jqAt closed. In round mum.
bers the crop was fourteen million
six hundred thousand bales, of which
approximately nine million bales was
exported Mole than two million bales
Of last year crop still remains. This
Yazoo City herald. [volume] (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1878-1976, 1914-11-13
A Texas Wonder.

The Texas Wonder cures kidney
and bladder troubles, dissolvec gravel,
cures diabetes, weak and lame backs,
rheumatism and III irregularities Of
the kidneys and bladder in both men
and women. Regulates bladder trou-
bles in children. II not sold by your
druggist, will be sent by mail on re-
ceipt Of S1,00. One small bottle Is
two months treatment and seldom
fails to perfect a cure. Send for
testimonials from this and other
States. DR.. e. W. Hall, 1926 Olive
street, st. Louis, Mo. Sold by drug
gists.--Adv.
Yazoo City herald. [volume] (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1878-1976, 1914-11-13
Socket, of New York, introduced
Miss Orr.
Part of Mr.. Rhodes Speech.

Stockett, OF New YORK, introduced
Miss Orr.
Part of Mr.. Rhodes Speech.
Mr.. Rhodes speech was an able eff
fort. worthy to be published, but
space forbids. In closing, however, he
said:
"And now, ladies, realizing that the
sacred literature Of all the centuries,
and the secular that is worth the
while, is essentially the same-the half
ars;culate voice of the world crying
for light, the frantic effort of man to
learn from whence he came and
whittier he goes to see and KNOW
gather them together-the Old Tesla
ment and the New, the Koran and the
Sacred Vedas, the Northern Sagas and
the Southern Mythologies, the heather
Homer and the Christian Dante, the
industrial Shakespeare and the Uni
versal Goethe - l searched them
through, not to scott, but to gather
with reverent soul, every CLEAN of
light that since the birth Of time has
been vouchsafed to man.
81 read the Revelations and ponder
the prophecies; listen once again to
the voice in the burning bush, and the
mystic whisperings of the Dodona
Oak; l descend into the Delphic Cave,
or stand with uncovered head to hear
the voice of Memnon answer to the
rosy finger Of the morn. / sit with
Siddartha beneath the Bedhi tree. and
follow the prophet of Islam in all his
pilgrimings; stand with Moses on
Sinai's flaming crest, and listen to the
prayer of Christ in the Garden of
Gethesamane-then go forth beneath
the eternal stars, each pouring out its
stream Of sideral fire into the great
ACdlii VI udLhhSooj as IhCy ocCAn Inc
the eyes of plying angels watching
man work out little by little, through
the long ages, the mystery of this
life, and gradually approaching the
heaven on earth in the here and now,
and through these institutions, these
instrumentalities in these environs,
and by these presents l gather
strength and courage to acknowledge
before men the deep and solemn OBJ
legation / owe to my mother, to my
wife, and to the mothers and wives
and daughters of men, for all that is
good in this life, and for the hope of a
measure of peace and happiness in
the life to come. And, because of wo-
mans demonstrated fitness, here and
.now I pledge my support to the good
women in this fair land in their eff
fort to secure the right to the ballot
and to, in this wise, in some measure
redeem us from vice and raise our
children and children's children, in the
remotest generations to come in sim
cere respect for and healthy prac-
tice of those virtues which make fol
Yazoo City herald. [volume] (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1878-1976, 1914-11-13
BOUND FOR AMERICA.
Ninety Ships Coming WIN Carry Com
modities TO Europe.

Flying the flags of nearly all ma
rine nations except Germany, 90
steamships are bound for Baltimore to
carry commodities to Europe, accord
ing to the local maritime exchange list
published today Most of them will
take out grain, others horses, and still
others barbed wire for use as entangle-
ments upon battlefields.
AT least half Of the steamships are
British.
Yazoo City herald. [volume] (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1878-1976, 1914-11-13
Po-Do-Lax Banishes Pimp,es.

Bad Blood, Pimples, Headaches,
Biliousness, Torpid Liver, Constipa-
ton, ETC., come from Indigestion.
Take Po-Do-Lax the pleasant and alb
solutely sure Laxative, and you won't
suffer from a deranged Stomach or
other troubles. 1t will tone up the
Liver and purify the blood. Use it
regularly and you VII stay well, have
clear complexion and steady nerves.
Get SOC bottle today. Money back
if not satisfied. All Druggists.
Yazoo City herald. [volume] (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1878-1976, 1914-11-13

peace, happiness and eontentment on
earth, and strengthen our hope for
the best in the future"
Bouquet for Behrman.
"Thou almost persuadest me to be-
come a suffragist," was the remark
of Mayor Martin Behrman, of New
Orleans, Monday afternoon, when he
was presented with a beautiful bou-
quet of bridal design, made entirely of
cotton.
The bouquet was made by Mrs. An
ME Kincaid Dent, of Yazoo City, pres
ident of the Mississippi Suffrage As
ISOLATION, who manifested a very keen
and enthusiastic interest in the Cot
ton Day program. 1t was presented
to Mayor Behrman by Frederick Sui
lens, editor of the Daily News, md
his honor was so delighted with the
gift that he carried it in the parade,
where it ELECTED much admiration.
Mrs. Annie Dents.
Another Tupelo mills dress was
worn by Mrs. Annie X. Dent, State
President of the Southern Suffrage As
ISOLATION, blue with bands Of solid
color and she carried with it a hand
bag of the same and wore strikingly
stylish hat, even her parasol being
covered with the cheviot bordered with
the solid blue.
An Ermine Hat.
Mrs. Margaret Thompson, sister Of
Mrs. Dent, wore perhaps the most
beautiful hat in all of the parade, this
having been made entirely of the
small rolls of cotton used for calking
boats and like purposes, and the max
er used it as if it had been a round
braid. The entire hats pretty, close
fitting shape, was covered with it,
and faced similarly, wreath Of green
stems with an occasional cotton boil
finishing it beautifully and "stick-
up" of open hollis made it quite per-
feet.
At slight distance the hat looked
as if fashioned of ermine and was
admired by all who saw it.
Yazoo City herald. [volume] (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1878-1976, 1914-11-13

We are strong competitors Of the
winters chill. $500 and $500 Coal
will cure your ills.
YAZOO ICE & COAL co.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-29
MARIE CORELLI
IS 'ECL|PSED BY
MODERN GENIUS
Noted Auhtoress, In Letter, Gives
Vent to Bitter Sarcasm Re-
gardlug Best Sellers
Special cable to me American.

Especial Gable 10 The American.
LONDON, March 2s.-Miss Marie
Corellt in a remarkable outburst, has
given the world a satirlcai estimate
of her rivals In literature. and at the
same time has expressed her inde-
pendence OF the reading public, In a
letter TO The Birmingham Daily Mail
which had published a paragraph
asking Where Is Miss Marie Corel-
Ny'
After stating that she Is very much
alive and in possession OF all her fac
ulties, she writes:
Il have certainly withdrawn for a
time into retired literary corner,
overpowered by the crowd OF stupen-
dous genluses according to publish
ers' advertisements who occupy 1t,
considering 1t but Just and decent to
stand aside out Of the glittering array
of these many marvels of the age who
(if publishers advertisements and
newspaper booms mean anything)
have arrived into their own-gifted
beings who can be nothing less than
Shakespeare and the classics re-em
bodied, even eclipsing those over
rated, well-nigh mythical personages.
to say nothing of such out-of the
way authors as Scott, Dickens,
Thackeray and Bronte.
Il am not waiting till clouds roll
by, but only till the dazzling process
sion of publishers planets sweep on
ward in their brilliant course, leaving
trails of Bernard Shaw, Joseph Con-
rad, Chesterton, DeMorgan fire be-
hind them.
"Then perhaps l may venture hum
bly, forth with little book in a linn
ifnH adftfnn ne uhiph RfFr1o IN crIln m
may perhaps generously purchase a
copy l put it at this modest figure
because from my very first begin
nings / have never suited the literary
taste of Birmingham, though this dis
tressing state of things has not yet
moved me to tears"
Miss Corelli goes on to say: What
readers want, they will have; and =
they do not want me, do not want
them, and there need be no strained
relations between us"
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-29
DANDRUFF ON HEAD
HAIR FELL OUT
Could Hardly Sleep for Scratching.
Hair Thin, Dry and LlfeIess. A
FewAppIications Of Cuticura Soap
and Ointment Cured,

Olin, Ky" / was bothered several years
with scalp disease. There first came a
pimple with hard scab on it. would
scratch 1t of and then it would make a sore.
At times 1 could hardly sleep at night for
scratching. My hair gradually fell out.
1t was thin, dry and lifeless and dandruff
was in my hair.
II tried several remedies but none OF
them did me any good only for short time.
At last saw the Cuticura Soap and ONT
ment advertisement. wrote for sample
and after using it once or twice ! found out
that II was just what had been wanting.
SO | secured larger amount of Cuticura
Soap and Ointment from my druggist.
first put Cuticura Ointment on my scalp
and then l would wash my head with Cuti-
cura Soap. with just few applications
Of the Cutlcura Soap and Ointment was
cured" Cslgned) r. L. Pope. June 2, 1913.
"why should use Cuticura soap2
There is nothing the matter with my skin.
and thought Cuticura Soap was only for
skin troubles" True, IL is for skin troubles,
but It's great mission is TO prevent skin
troubles. For more than generation its
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ties have rendered It the standard for this
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mailed free, with 32-p. Skin Book. Address
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Esy-Men who shave and shampoo with Gu
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