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The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1915-06-03
Circuit Court Notes
The Spot

The petit jury reported for duty
Thursday, or part of them did, some
of them being delayed by the high
water.
Saturday afternoon the case of the
State VS.. George White was called.
The defendant was charged with as
sault and was found guilty and fined
so and sentenced to three months
in the county jail. White is the gen.
tleman Of color who some time ago
filled up with cheap whisky and tried
to use knife on Mr.. Green, one Of
the proprietors Of the Fraternal Inn.
Wednesday morning the case Of
the State VS.. T. A. McChesney,.
charged with attempted rape, was
called and is still on trial as we 90 to
nre1n
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MODERN FENCE BUILDING.
New Steel Wire Fence on Steel Posts
Will Enclose Missouri State
Fair Grounds,

Farmers who attend the Missouri
State Fair at Sedalia, September Is to
October 2, will see the most practical
demonstration of fence making that
Missouri has ever attempted, despite
the fact that the state had only the
unitarian features of the construction
in view when the new enclosure
around the Fair Grounds was devils
ed. 1t is not only horse high, bull
strong and pig proof, but it is boy
proof, too, for it was designed to be
unclilnbable. 1t means that several
hundred dollars in revenue is to be
added to the gate receipts because Of
its unclimbableness for there will be
no Crawling under the canvas" at the
State Fair Grounds this fall. The best
Of material, including steel posts, and
the most modern construction, were
used in this, the states model fence.
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The Vanderbilt Will is Filed

New York, May 29.-The will of
Alfred G. Vanderbilt the multimillion-
aire who lost his life in the Lusitania
disaster was filed for probate court
today.
Mr.. Vanderbilt's second wife is
bequeathed three million dollars, their
country home in the mountains and
property in England. The will was
drawn up in December 1918 and be-
queaths to the children of his second
wife the income from trust fund, Of
five million dollars and similar fund
is established for his elder son. His
first wife is not mentioned in the
will
His great art collection is left to
his elder son and the remainder of
the estate is divided between Alfred
G. Vanderbilt and George Wander
bilt. The value of the estate is not
given but it is estimated to be more
than thirty million dollars.
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could be seen body of water eleven
miles wide.
From the Burlington depot to the
bluffs of the Missouri at Wavery, on
the north, an area three-fourths of a
mile wide and a mile long in the city
was under water from one to ten feet.
More than two hundred dwellings
are in the flooded district. The loss
will reach $500, 600.
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DEVASTATING FLOODS
COVER MARAIS DIES.
CYGNES BOTTOMS
Property Loss Estimated at About $5OO.OOO-The
Inundated Area About Five Miles Wide and
Extending Northwest to Ottawa, Kansas.
LIFE AND PROPERTY LOSS IN OTHER STATES.

The Marias Des Cygnes and Miami
rivers, which had been filled by the
previous rains, overflowed their
banks after the tremendous down.
pour of last Wednesday, doing great
damage to the crops in the lowlands
along those streams.
The rainfall in the Marias Des
Cygnes basin which extends beyond
Ottawa, Kas., has been estimated to
be about ten inches.
The railroads were great sufferers,
all trains through Butler being an
nulled Wednesday night and passen-
ger service was not resumed until
Thursday night.
The tracks between Butler and
Rich Hill were covered for distance
of about 500 yards. Gravel trains
were kept running ballasting weak
spots and none of the track or bridges
was washed out on this line.
To the north, Grand River over
flowed its banks and traffic between
here and Kansas City was suspended.
No trains have been run on the
Interstate branch of the Missouri-Pa-
cific since last Wednesday, but it is
expected that service will be resumed
today.
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Sunday School Convention
Delegates.

Following is list of those regis
tered as delegates to the Sunday
School Convention held at the Ohio
Street M. E. church last week:
Rich Hill-Mrs. Josephine Mickey
nolds, Mrs. R.,T. Watson, w. D. Muck.
OILS, leila Nuckols, Mr.. and Mrs. Jesse
Wilson and Mrs. Cal Beshore.
Rockville-Leonard S. Hegnauer,
Arthur Hammer, w. L. Hammer,
Elda Bartz, Lizzie Hegnauer, Mr.. and
Mrs. j. S. Sunny, Mrs. j. Hirni,
Mrs. John Bradley, Christian Heg-
nauer, Carl Bartz, Mark Henri and
Pearle Kemp.
Appleton City-Martha Gench and
John F. Mock.
Foster-Mrs. Fred Laughlin, Mrs.
M. F. Wilson.
Hume-Mrs. George Mack, Mrs. w.
w. Hoffsess, Mrs. Ada Martin, and
Mrs. j. ". BOttS.
'Spruce-Thomas E. Bourland.
Adrian-Mrs. G. T. Wolfe, E. E.
Otto and Miss Emma Hyatt.
.Amoret-Orla Sergent and Terry
L. Hayes. :
Mt. Olivet C hurch-Roberta Clarke,
Mabel E. Hovey, Mr.. and Mrs. T. E.
Wisherd, May Martz, E. E. Martz.
Altona-J. B. Whitehead and Jason
Dearborn.
Mt. Carmel-Mrs. Lee M. Harding
err.
Elizabeth Chapel-Mrs. j. w.
Voris and Mrs. Beulah Bowers.
Root Branch-Mrs. E. L. Burton.
Black Church-Katie Wheaton.
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Prominent Society Leader Dies.

PROMINENT society Leader DleS.
Garrison, N. Y, May 26. Mrs.
Stuyvesant Fish, the we'll known
social leader and wife of the former
president of the Illinois Central Rail-
way, died at her country home here
early today of hemorrhage of the
brain.
Mrs. Fish had been for many years
a leader in American society, but at
the same time great deal of her
attention was devoted to charity and
philanthrophy.
Mrs. Fish's death came unexpect-
eddy. She had not been in good
health recently; but until this MORN
ing, when she was stricken with the
hemorrhage which resulted in her
death, her condition was not regard
ed as grave. Net until shortly before
her death were the members Of the
family alarmed.
Mrs. Fish was about 60 years old.
She was born in New York. Her
maiden name was Marion Graves
Anthem. June /, 1875, she was mar
ried to Stuyvesant Fish, well known
railroad man and financier and a son
. rY.-sal.- HSs~l ~~~~>a.... - - A..
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the Aver ranch about 300 acres of
wheat is covered by. water, and with
other crops damaged. it is estimated
his loss will be upwards of $50, 900.
On the north side of the big ditch is
the Duvall ranch, and the loss there
will be enormous. Mr.. Aver says
the water Hooded the low lands this
side of the ditch after the heavy down.
pour of Wednesday, and this morning
covered the district. The stock was
gotten out before the water SUBJ
merged the fields.
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For. Sale.

Eight head Of pure bred Jersey
cows, 2, 8 and 4 years old; A with
heifer calves by side. E. H. Roster,
phone 3 on II. 33-1t
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Larned, Kas., May 27.-Near Lar
ned, the storm yesterday struck a
moving Santa Fe train, tearing the
top from the baggage car. Larned
was swept by heavy wind, which
twisted up trees, smashed houses and
tore down smokestacks and wind
mills.
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Six deaths were reported in storms
and floods in various parts Of Nebras-
ka. At Spenser, four were killed.
A tornado struck Liman, Colo, and
two persons were killed Wednesday.
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and coming up to within mile and
half of Rich Hill. Some stock are re-
ported lost in this locality.
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Photo by Fox.

in the terrific hurricane that swept up
the South Carolina coast late last
night.
Eight fishing boats were lost, so far
as is known. The storm was grad
ually subsiding today.
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Charleston, S. c., May 20. Reports
received here today indicate that
probably Is fishermen lost their lives
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Real Estate Transfers.

C j Sells to Ira Rockhold Eft al pt
blk IA William add Butler $780,
w H Schoeber to A G White lot
pit lot 6 Standish add Hume $500.
Tom Brown to j L Dunkle 32a A
Sec "a Deer Greek $l625.
il Dunkle to Tom Brown Is A
Sec "a Deer Creek $3.50.
WE Compton to Clarence Raybourn
20a A Sec SO Deepwater $1,000.
Mary r. Davis to S M Davis lots
s 9 10 block 1853, 2 add Rich Hill $500.
David Thompson to E Hern lot
8 block Reese's add Hume 500.
EA Kmble to A L Gilmore trac,
sec l6 Deepwater $500.
Clifford Anderson to j j Mudd 81
q sec 80 Deer Greek. $1,000.
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Six Texans Killed
AS Auto Hits Ditch.

Dallas, Tex, May 31.-Six persons
were killed, several seriously hurt
and more than a dozen slightly in
jured last night when a motor truck
load of members Of the Mozart Choral
club returning to Dallas went into a
twenty-foot ditch about four miles
from the city. Several were drown
ed in the water of the creek into
which the machine plunged. The
dead are:
Faith Culp, IA; Frances Payne, q;
Phoebe Ballinger, Z; Robert Corpen-
ing, II; Roscoe Hamilton, %; Alex
Mckay, q. D. F. Parker, one of the
injured, is not expected to live.
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Four Drowned Near Joplin.

Joplin, May 31.-The swollen wa.
tiers of Shoal Creek claimed four vic
tins when James Scheurich, wife and
four children attempted to cross the
stream three miles south of this city.
The boat caught a snag and capsized.
Mrs. Scheurich and three children
were drowned. The father rescued
his Oldest daughter and reached the
bank with her. None of the bodies
of the victims had been found teday.
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Mr.. Duvall informs us that the wa
ter that overlooked his land was back
water from the Miami river and that
the drainage ditch carried it off so
quickly that only small amount Of
damage was done. Wednesday they
were cutting alfalfa from the land
that had been under water.
II is reported that Is head Of cattle
were lost on the Hall ranch, east Of
Rich Hill.
The bottom lands east Of Rich Hill
were covered with vast expanse Of
water estimated to be five miles wide
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Two Dead in Storm at Clinton.

Two Dead in Storm at Clinton.
Clinton, May 27.-Alex Straurch
was drowned in the high waters here
this afternoon. Ben Peterson was
killed by lightning south of Clinton
yesterday in storm, when nearly
five inches of-water fell.
In Carroll county the Wakenda Riv-
err and Moss Creek flooded the entire
Wakenda bottom, the greatest flood
since 1888. Looking from the tower
of the Carrolton county courthouse
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The Rich Hill Review says that "On
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unique character and especially con- corning the worship instituted in his honor by Hadrian.
 At Antinoe there was a revival of the religion of earlier days" says Professor Gayet. Greeks and Ro- mans thirsting for the Unknown grasped at all foreign mysteries, es- pecially at those of Isis, of Mithra, of the Black Stone, and the One Life. hadrian decreed that his favorite. who sacrificed his life to cheat des- tiny, should receive the honors re- served for the supreme god of the Egyptians, Osiris, the god of the neither world. who had himself been slain by his brother, the Prince of Evil.
 Tn this mortuary city, larger and more luxurious than Alexandria un- der the Ptolemies, everything turned upon the worship of Osiris-Antinous. Beautiful priestesses wept for him perpetually. Female musicians, sing CTS and dancers played important parts"
 The most amazing ceremony was that in which the people of Antinoe constantly mourned the death of Osiris-Antinous.
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death. A wagon, shaped Nike a boat, drawn by eight oxen. bears a cata- falque, made of panels of painted wood, representing the.regions of the Invisible world, the guardian genii of the labyrinths leading thereto: the reception by the protecting gods.
 Two priests walk near him, burning incense and making liba- tions. Then comes another boat on which Is a platform like an altar. with the Weepers on it; some of them are standing. others crouching with dishevelled hair their hands on their heads. lamenting and calling upon the departed aloud. Then. at the entrance to the metropolis. is the Great Weeper and her acolyte, who place themselves just behind the catafalque."
 The conclusion of this wild. fans ,tastic, yet splendid scene. is de- 'scribed in these words:
 "The chanting of verses swells ever higher. Lamps are lighted all around, illuming the night with fun ereal glare the vengeful divinlties, guardians of the tomb appear, for iiiudDiCs idltiulf NlbH NtdDOHS ID. their hands, ready to strike: men covered with armor, wearing on their heads masks of hawks and jackals: women with lions heads, clad in flowing robes, armed with knives and darts. They come forward. led by the Great Weeper, and the play con- tinues until the third hour. in the contest against the troops of the army of evil. Seth, the murderer, commands them in person. He has taken on the garb of the Red Hip popotamus. A number of his sol- diSrs fall to earth wounded; the oth- CTS flee, shouting in terror. And now the averaging goddesses have already abandoned the pursuit, and group themselves around the ssarcophagus beneath the catafalque, then open and empty, into which the red rays of the lamp shine. so as to form the image of the red disk of the sun within.
 Then Isis, escorted by the small Weeper, approaches the funeral bed and the averaging deities are grouped around her. She rests on the sar- cophagus and calls: Osiris of the West! Osiris of the West! Osiris of the Vest Just as the goddess called in ancient times to bring him back to life. And so. too. tears flow upon the sarcophagus again, while the avenging deities raise the mys- tic Eye, symbol of creative tears, triumphers over death.'
 Thus was the memory of the most beautiful man, honored for centuriee after his death.
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scription, but only on the wrappings, embroidered three times, the name Isidora. Unwrapping the bands, l found that the first veil was passed about the dead woman's head, in the style of an Isis veil. Beneath this l found the matted hair. brought over the face, and nothing more than this arrangement was needed to point to her having been one of the Weepers, as they are found in the antique pictures, which show us the procession accompanying a body.
 "The book states that when they heard of the death of Osiris-the good god, slain by his brother, Seth, the Genius of Evil-Isis, their sister, covered her face with her hair, pressed both hands on her forehead, and raised her voice to heaven simple expression which can mean nothing save that she wept. And this the gods had done, and men, too, whenever this dolorous anniversary occurred.
 "In the passage of time the opin- ion prevailed that every one who wished to attain the felicity of the future life should receive the same funeral honors which Osiris re- ceived from Isis in ancient times. Whenever any one died. some wom- an called the Great Weeper' off ciated, initiating in every detail the xL~ '
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other womeni She was made to
 kneel at the threshold of the sane. tuary; they painted the name Isis on her shoulders, and SO the personal. 1ty of the queen of heaven was dele. gated to her"
 The entire scene as 1t must have passed in ancient times is described by Professor Gayet and has been il. frustrated from his description.
 At the base are ideal mountains white, pearly, rosy, standing out from huge masses, cut by violet shadows, where the facades of the funeral chapels rise above the dark ness with their gilded pyramids. It is at the end of the Triumphal Way, which bounds the City of Antinoe, of the Arch of Triumph, erected on the bank of the Nile. at the gate way of the Way of Tombs, opening upon the metropolis, by the side of the Temple of Isis. A procession comes on, following a corpse to it's eternal resting place, with the, same ceremonies as of old, in the time of the Pharaohs.
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Archeologists have now given their support to new version of the mystery, which goes deeper into hu- nan nature and is more philoso- phical than any of the others. This is that Antinous ended his life be- cause he realized that he had reached the height of his beauty, and that in few years it must begin to leave him.
 He had been valued for his beauty alone. Without it the poor fellow reflected that he could be nothing. If he died when his body was in the full bloom of it's perfection he would leave the memory of supremely beautiful man. If he died a with cred, wrinkled, gray, toothless old man, he could leave no such memory. His youth then would have been forgotten.
 He reasoned well, for his death enshrined him in the worlds memory and caused the Emperor to build city where his beauty was wor- shipped.
 Hitherto we have had only a linn. ited knowledge of the physical ap- uearance of Antinous. This was ob- tained partly from the colossal
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Conception Beauty of AnHnou.
H ECENT labors of archaeologists, TX both in Italy and Egypt, have

H ECENT labors of archaeologists
 TX both in Italy and Egypt. have
 - thrown new light on the life and appearance of Antinous, reputed to have been the most beautiful man that ever lived.
 These researches have a peculiar interest for Americans, an interest much more than scholastic, for they take us back to an age when manly beauty was actually worshipped, and a supremely beautiful man was raised to the rank of god.
 It is worth while to learn what was the state of mind of people who entertained such sentiments, and what there was of value in them. To study such subject makes us realize that in America to-day we almost entirely neglect the cultiva- tion of mans beauty.
 Is it not strange that we should think only of the beauty of one-half of humanity? In a country that is given over to girl adulation to remarkable extent, one rarely speaks of the charm of beautiful youth.
 We have hitherto known but little of the life of Antinous, partly be- cause the great romance and mys-, tery of his life were buried in the sands of ancient Egypt. He was born in Bithynia, Asia Minor, where he became shepherd boy. His beauty and grace attracted the at- tention of the Emperor Hadrian, that philosopher and artist who ruled over the Roman world from IF to 13S A. D., and he became his at- tendant and companion.
 Wherever tue Emperor went he took .Antinous with him. During one of these journeys the beautiful youth drowned himself in the River Nile, about the year 132 A. D. It was on this spot that the sorrowing Emperor built the city which he called Antinoe or Antinopolis, where his favorite was worshipped as an incarnation oe the ancient Egyptian God Osiris.
 Why Antinous killed himself has always been great mystery, and while no positive evidence has been discovered upon this point, it has to a certain extent been elucidated by scholarly research. Antinous, it is estimated. was twenty-five years old at the time. and in the prime of life and beauty. As the favorite of the master of the whole civilized world he had every possible luxury, every known form of wealth and enjoy ment within his reach. And he had been a shepherd boy few years be- fore. Why should such man con- init suicide?
 Two views have been advanced on this subject. One is that he had been told by seer that he would bring death to the Emperor Hadrian and that to avert this possibility he killed himself. This has the sup port of Suetonius, but he is very unreliable historian, who has to tell interesting anecdotes even though 1t is necessary to invent them. There is no other authority for the story.
 Another explanation is that Antin- ous had grown weary of the inex- haustible luxury that he enjoyed, @ condition that has certainly been reached by some men. In view of the youth of Antinous, his health and strength, it is plainly unreason- able.
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How Fashion Plates Deceive Women

N H OST women, measured by an ideal standard of MI beauty, too tall too thin, too short or too AvA stout they do not stand well; they walk badly; they have spoiled their compexions by hook or by crook-something is wrong. The dressmakers art is to these defects far possible to draw at tention away from defects toward the good points of the figure.
 The ideally beautiful woman wear anything from a Greek gown to peasant costume, and look divine, says Belle Armstrong Wright in Good Health But with very few exceptions allowed for the perfect
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can be adopted to advantage.

can be adopted to advantage.
 Fashion plates drawn upon beautifully tall and fair show the proper proportions to be ob- served in the designs themselves, according to the mind of the designing artist
 Some designs are hopelessly bad at the beginning and others good only for certain types of Designs. however good in themselves. are not meant to be savishly copied
 woman six feet tall may dress skirt eight ten yards wide at the bottom. but the dumpy little woman who is broad she is long will be ridicu lous figure in the same enormous sweep of skirt
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we found the cave of Isidora the Weeper, and in it was fixed one of the great scenes of the religious his tory of Egypt" reports Professor Gayet. "A little cave, modest in its proportions, built of unbaked bricks, and beneath the vault a mummy, we'll wrapped in shroud and bands:
 a branch of persea flowers; some baked clay figurines; some lamps. and fagons sealed with the mystic eye, the ancient outyA; not an in-
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Most remarkable of all is a statue showing him in the form of Osiris, as he was worshipped at Antinoe. This indicates like the marble re- lief that he was man of remark ably etalwart and majestic phy- sique, as we'll as strikingly fine and intelligent features.
 On the site of ancient Antinoe, in Egypt, many new details have been unearthed by Professor Albert Gayet of Paris, concerning the life of this
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scenario of the honors rendered to the god by the goddess. The one selected for this purpose was picked
 out from the company of recluses of Isis, the texts state, woman more beautiful in every respect than all
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"At the head marches an officer wearing surpiice, carrying a vase holding the lustral water of the tears Of Isis, and long roll of papyrus. He reads the formulae granting. to the dead entrance into the region of
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statue In the Vatican, representing him in the character of Bac- chus, ivy-crowned and holding a staff or sceptre. The head, strong and square with full face, is somewhat stern in expression, and not what we would ex- pect in one who lived for beauty.
 Another statue, in the Capitoline Mu- scum, at R o m e. shows him as a shep- herd boy. His droop- ing head and mel ancholy expression have been regarded as foreshadowing his early death.
 A newer portrait of Antinous is in the form of a marble sculptured relief, re- covered from the ex- cavations of Ha- drian's villa. This shows the favorite as a splendidly formed young man, with powerful chest, regu- lar, full intelligent features and the ex- pression of one rho enjoys all life's lux uries. He has a wreath of flowers around his head and holds a bouquet of them in one hand. We feel instinctively that this is more like the real Antinous than other portraits.
 Most remarkable oi showing him in the
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