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The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1915-04-22

down ana $l.UU week.
w. M. Carson was in Wednesday
looking after business matters.
Its time to have the right time so
take your watch to Welton Jly. Co.
Prosecuting Attorney Chastain is
in Topeka, Kas., on a business trip.
Are your glasses right? If not let
us change them for you Welton Jly.
Co.
w. M. Oldham, of the Virginia
neighborhood, was in the city Wed
nesday.
Col. T. L. Harper is nursing very ..
sore hand as the result of fall upon
a sharp rock.
G. H. Evans of Spruce was in the
city Wednesday and made this office
pleasant call. e..
Ladies and childrens hats. The
best for the least money. We have
them, Thurman and Jingle.
Mrs. Sam w. Davis is spending a
few days in Kansas City visiting her
daughter, Mrs. Claude w. Cosgrove.
Walter Blair and Miss Pearl Burris
of Richards were married in Butler
Monday. Judge Hemstreet officiated.
H. Philbrick of Usage township
was in the county seat Wednesday
calling on old friends in the court
house.
Chas. Mcfarland left Wednesday
night for Kansas City where he will
join the Shriner's band on trip to
Moberly.
Mrs. A. o. Welton left Tuesday for
Kit Carson, Colo, where she will
spend few months with her hus-
band who is in the lumber business
at that place.
P. B. Price and Frank Jewett,
prominent young farmers of Summit
township, were in Wednesday and
made The Times most pleasant call.
Next week is Carnival week so
come in with that old watch to be
fixed and while you are in let us test
your eyes for those new glasses you
wanted, Welton Jly. Co.
Mrs. C. w. Ward, of east of town,
was operated on in Kansas City Mon
day morning for cancer. Her many
friends will be glad to know she stood
the operation we'll and is getting along
nicely.
1856 acres. over half very best Of
creek bottom land. Great bargain,
easy terms, might exchange for other
property.
James Harrison, Butler, Mo.
Rev. Claude S. Handy and family
took an automobile trip to Kansas
City Tuesday. Rev. Handy returned
in the evening. Mrs. Handy and the
children will visit friends there for a
few days.
That there is much good in the
worst of us was demonstrated in Sc
dalia this week when a young man
sentenced to the penitentiary for en-
bezzlement refused to allow his moth
err to sell her farm and use the pro-
ceeds in an effort to keep him out of
prison.
The Carnation Class of the NJ. E.
Church, South, Sunday School was
entertained last Thursday by Mrs. C.
C. Woods and Mrs. Watson at the
home Of the former on Ohio street.
1t is needless to say they had a good
time as they always do, and with two
such capable hostesses as Mrs. Woods
and Mrs. Watson a good time was
doubly insured.
j. H. Warderman and wife who
have been visiting Vic Riley and fam
lily left Wednesday for Kansas City,
St. Louis and points in Illinois from
where they will return to their home
in Jacksonville Fla. Mr.. Warderman
is treasurer of the Modern Harvester
Industrial Insurance Co., of Florida
and his many friends in this city will
be glad to know he is doing a fine
business.
The Coterie met "Wednesday with
Mrs. Robt. Deacon at her home on
Fl Scott street. Three interesting
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1915-02-11
Public Celebration anc
Congratulate One Another New


New York, January 25.-The com
n1etion of the long distance telephone
line between New York and san fran
cisco was celebrated today First, THIS
city had speech with her California
peighbor, 3,40O miles away Then the
wires that swing southwark from
New York brought Washington ana
San Francisco into telephone touch
IN down the coast to little Jekyl
Island opposite Georgia, they car
rfed the Golden Gates greeting 2
fhe North Boston, the birthplace OF
the telephone, talked across the con
tinent. ~,
At the White House President VIII
son smoke into the mouthpiece OF his
telephone and his voice was Whlrled
across thirteen States to the shore q
the Pacific.
President Wilson Talks.
President Wilson talked first to
President Moore of the Panama-Paclt-
ic exposition He said:
1T appeals to the imagination 10
sneak across the continent It Is
a fine omen for the exposition thar
the first thing it has done IS TO senc us
voice from sea to sea. congIdlulate ~"
on the fine prospects for a successful eN-
position I am confidently hoping TO take
part In it, after the adjournment of con
gress May / not send my greetings 70
the management and to all whose work
has made it possible ard has made it the
great event 1t promises to be. and to con-
Eey my personal congratulations 70 you
Clear as a bell came back President
Moore's reply:
I'VE are looking forward 10 your COM
ing here I think you will be pleased
with what We have done. ] asusre you
Mr. President that you will never receive
q welcome that will be more cordial and
more enthusiastic"
President Wilson then talked to Mr.
Thomas A. Watson, in San Francisco
with DR.. Alexander Graham Bell listen
ing in on the line at New York Presi
dent Wilson said:
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able to express my admiration for the
inventive genius and scientific knowledge
that has made this possible and my pride
that this vital cord should have been
stretched across America as q new sym
boil Of our unity and our enterprise. VIII
you rot convey my cordial congratula-
tons to Mr. Bell And | want TO convey
TO you my personal congrat ulauons. sir
The President then said to the in
ventor of the telephone, Doctor Bell,
at New York
May not congratulate you very
warmly on this notable consummauon Of
your long labors and remarkable achieve
ment? You are justified in feeling a great
pride in what has been done This is a
memorable day and ! convey 70 you
my warm congratu! atoms ST.
After talking with Doctor Bell, the
President was asked by Mr.. Kingsbury
if he cared to say a word TO Theodore
H. Vail president Of the American Tel
egraph and Telephone Company, who
is staying at Jakvl Island, of the coast
of Georgia ~ ny, yes, yes, certainly"
answered the President While the
circuit was being arranged the Presi-
dent chatted with Mr.. kingsbury, sew
eral times expressing his admiration Of
the achievements in which he was a
participant. Mr.. Vail was then an
nounced, and the President Immediate
ly placed the receiver to his ear, ask
ing Is this MIR Vail?" Mr. Walls
voice came over the wire so plainly
that the President held his receiver
lightly away from his ear, and then
said:
Mr. Vail, it is a great pleasure to hear
your voice. l want to send you my con-
gratulatons on the contamination of this
remarkable work. | am very sorry. also,
To know that you are unWel" y pause
ensued, the President listening to Mr..
Wallis reply. The President then said:
We'll envy you your ability to get of
Good-by. Mr.. Vail
But on a day when long distance
telephone records were smashing up
the country over, it was the talk be-
tween San Francisco and Jekyl Island
that had the honor of breaking every
worlds record for long distance trans
mission President Theodore n Vail
Of the American Telephone and Tele-
graph company is spending the win
ter on Jekyl Island, and when he
spoke to San Francisco, his voice had
TO travel 1000 miles up the Atlantic
seabord to New York before it started
on its transcontinental journey When
it sounded in the receiver at San Fran
cisco it had gone 4 400 miles in all.
Statement of Mr.. Vail.
Mr. Theodore N. Vail, speaking from
Jekyl Island, Georgia, said
stAt the centennial exhibition al Pil;la
delphia, the exhibit of the BEL Sysseir
consisted of two telephones capable o.
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of such titanic lungs. to travel to San
Francisco through the air On the
wires it takes less than one-fifteenth
of second Electricity was driving
DIR Bells ahoy' at he rate CT IS zoe
miles per second Sound unaDettea
iplps along in comparison making
only 1850 feet per second
Work Takes TWO Years.
The work of constructing the trans
continental line took two years, but
the history of the work of making the
poles and wires. set and strung by the
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engineer could not speed up drna no.
or start more engines running to pet
what he was after Far tie. aph0ry'e
motive power is the fceblest thine
i'm GinaUle It is a mere bree I'll. Ard
the engineer must preserve and hurry
to their Hesitation orr ctically irstan
taneously the thousands of minute
waves made IN til ar by The vo.ce
with all their sera tie shapes ana IN
div.dualities preserved IN sDeak:ag
Of his engineers problems. President
Vail said
The solution was found only in the
cumulative effect OF improvements.
great arc small in tclerhone trans
mi ter. line, cable. switchboard and
every other piece OF apparatus or plant
REQUIRED in he transmission Of
speech
Nine Million Telephones
But proud is telephone encineers
are of what they have ACCOMPLISHED
they will te.. you chat this trans
continental lire is by no means
the last word il the telephones de
velopmert in this country The new
line IS the backbone Of a network of
coo coo niles If wire woven round
100000 telephone stations of the
Bell System The completion of this
line is mighty step forward toward
that IDEA # IN f~e"sal services Drnc nhpd
by President Vail and his associates
back il the Seventies as tuey inter
preted universal service, it meant that
anyone anywhere could speak to any
one anywhere in this country by tax.
ing his telephone receiver off the hook.
The line is still! IN the hands CT the
engineers There is al amount Of field
work 10 be Gore ocfcra it is opened to
the pubic for commercial use, but
when it is opened it will mean that
New York business man can talk to
his San Francisco associate without
leaving his desk
The telephone in the United States
has always set the pace for the rest of
the world It has made in the u. S. A
stamped on its very soul
Here are some figures in connection
win The New York-San Francisco line
for the lovers of statistics:
Length of line 3,400 miles. Route:
From San Francisco to Salt Lake City,
no miles; from Salt Lake City to
Denver $50 miles. from Denver to
Omaha, $50 miles; from Omaha to Chi
cago, 500 miles At Chicago the line
DidHCH0o, OHG -oIdHCH SOlnS 10 FlILS-
buTgh. 545 miles, and then to New
York. 800 miles from Pittsburgh. The
other branch goes from Chicago TO
buffalo, 603 miles, and then down TO
New York. $50 miles There is a con-
tinuation of the line from Buffalo to
Boston. as miles long From Pitts
burgh there is a continuation extend
ing to Baltimore $50 miles away on to
Washington, 265 miles Philadelphia
s reached by a branch from the line
exteL ding from Pittsburgh to New
York connecting at Newtown Square.
The diameter Of the hard-drawn cop
per wire Of number B. w. G. gauge
used in the line is los inch. The total
weight of one circuit consisting of two
such wires is .4S0 tons.
There are 10000 poles ii the line.
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construction crews who do their duty,
runs back over the space of many
| years 1t brings you into expert
! ment stations and testing rooms
and laboratories 1t covers innumer-
able experiments and improvements
| Every step forward in the develop
ment of telephony has been over a
gigantic scrap heap Bells original
transmitter has seventy-three de-
scendants. Fifty-three types and styles
Of transmitters have been introduced
since 1877 Within ten years the Bell
System spent for construction and re-
construction an amount more than
equal TO the present book value of the
entire plant.
And what is true of transmitters and
receivers is even truer Of all that lies
between the terminals of the trans
continental line for it is in this field
that the engineers had their real prop
lens To fill in the gap between Den
yer and the Coast with wires and poles
was Onparatively simple The task
they confronted was to begin at New
York and working all along the line,
make the multitudinous improvements
necessary for 3,400 mile talk Trans
mitters switchboards, metallic circuits,
naEu-CFaWn copper wire and loading
coils all had to be attuned to the trans
continental keynote. There's a hint of
the real achievement in what the engi-
neers did with the loading coil When
the loading coil left the hands of it's
inventor it was as large as a keg. and
the fine iron wires inside it cost a mint
to make To-day the loading coil is a
few inches in size, and in the New
York-San Francisco line there are 49,
900 miles of that wire whose cost of
manufacture is comparatively low
Big Problems Solved.
For those in the Dey Street Offices
there was striking proof that the Prob.
lem Of transmitting speech is not
solved by any loud-speaking trans.
mitter in the replica of Bells invention
that lay before them They realized
as they looked at that instrument.
crude in the light Of al that has hap
pened to transmitters since, what the
engineers had accomplished to make it
sreak across the whole United States
They saw that it was not a question of
more horse power, that the telephone
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ATLANTIC AND PACIFIC OCEANS
JOINED BY BELL TELEPHONE LINE
President VaTPs Engineers Make 1t Possible For President
, Wilson to Send His Voice Across the
tiflq Continent instantly

BELL, VAIL WATSON. CREATORS OF TELEPHONE
GREETINGS OVER 4.4oohatLE CIRCUIT
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-06-03
HIS TALE OF WOE

Bow Merchant - Yus, kind Idly,
there's SEWN ov us at 'ome, orl starry
in. Muvver takes in washin', she do,
but she's took ILL Farver, e wos too
kind-'earted, e wos. E sed e would
not see US starve, so e run away and
left us.-Tit Bits.
1870
There are 1859 Austrians and.
Hungarians, 1,O27 Germans and 592
turks III the French army.
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cago that al the world would sit up
and take notice and go and do like
wise.-Geo. V. Wells. .

from it's mental and physical estate,
except through war. You can do a
great many things by force of arms
and fear, but nothing permanent re-
suits except restitution.
War does not destroy the bad men,
it destroys the good men, the flower
of the nation, leaving the puny, slov-
emily, understood, unfit, to be fathers
of the next generation. War kills the
best and leaves the worst. There is
no other agency that can create so
many horrors and evils as war.
War creates and breeds criminals,
prostitution, disease, poverty, igno-
rance, brutality, agony and untold
suffering among widows and orphans,
in short, misery and hell.
Sitting in the church offering
prayers to God and at the same time
supplying the warning nations with
ammunition will not end the war. In
doing this how can. one expect peace,
harmony and happiness? Is it really
God who is responsible for what we
are doing? Did God build battle
SllDS. DOOS NOu manufacture dill
munition and slaughtering machin-
cry? Don't go to church in search
Of peace. Church has not done a
thing to prevent war for 1915 years.
Church is to the rulers what the yell
low rags are to the capitalists, so quit
it and come out in the open field and
protest against war and its horrors,
since you know that God does not
approve of it.
In going to war 1 must work like
horse, be as poor as mouse, must be
as humble as a toad, as meek as a
wolf for $40 or SIS month. l must
fight like tiger, be as cruel as a
shark, bear burdens like mule, and
eat stale bread like a half-starved
wolf for $40 or 81 5a month. l must
turn against my own working class
and thus make an ass and catspaw
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-06-03

WHY BALL COMES DOWN AGHINs
when | throw a ball in the air why
doesn't it keep on going? Why does
it drop back to earth again?-Fourth
Grade Boy.
To understand why the ball you
toss in the air returns to the earth
you must understand something of
Newton's great law, the law of uni
versal gravitation, moving thing
must keep on moving unless some
thing stops it.
Now, when you toss ball in the
air you give it force or motion and
it keeps on moving until something
stops it. 1t is stopped by two things
first, the resistance of the air
against which it pushes, but the more
important thing that stops it is the
earth's gravitation against which it
has to fight until its force is exhaust
ed. When the force you gave to it is
used up pushing against the air and
pulling against the earth's gravity it
drops back to the earth.
You will find it very interesting and
well worth your while to read the
story of Sir Isaac Newton, the famous
scientist, who began studying the
laws of gravitation when he was only
u years old and made many Won
derful discoveries.
1870
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despiser and snubbed as a sucker
and a cur by these same distin-
guished rulers who wheedled me to
war and afterward gave me the horse
laugh. Thus l should feel like a mon
key and look like plucked goose in
January. Indeed, l am glad to see it
all clearly.-H. M. SIoVenec.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1915-08-14
THE CASE OF THE DOCTORS.

An extended Chicago Tribune headed
asnons the Case the sensational book
entitled Medical Chaos present code OF hcs
OF tho medical incompetency in medical schools osp
ana clhos and urges breakup
nshness work has ataca vide
radical utenoe. an an ola b,ec ,h., h.
the medical profession professions puus but
Inc lnteigencer admits
ships In probably and suppressed the am
oons Of some worthy lowering the
RENTING
value to the public veal
The nergencer its admiration but its pro
found respect for the orthodoxy
the field Of discovery science OF medicine and
surgery and Joins with the advancement
OF medical efficiency No other contributed
much the alienation largely the sum
the Of typhoid which bullets has carried
Its soothing touch to the appalling bchery
tsngence "
IN contemplating the marvel wrought by Goas the
In making the unhababe hababe
ana Vanqushed the former unconquerabe
methods the the
ana breathe Its bshtng breath the southern
United States But
he pestience
a the ethical code The physician conforms 70 an
memorable line conduct much from
as choice He not only the mere healer the family
conhdant the which are
held as sacred those eonhded Frequently
administers TO the diseased soul as we'll the afflicted
In public physician an important factor
In every community in the land In the social
ue SANITARY His intelligence and his trained mind always
and in the high places
where executive ability is demanded his talents pndenty
any attain 70 great eulnehce Is through ubuation and sacrifice
IL gains
age Tar behind In the largest the
Deneoce whose sraues are dispensed from motives
puniary reward This
is the physician Integence acquainted
with the kind DR. Earnestly describes although
that description exist
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HUGGING DELUSIONS.

The New York World in comment.
ing on the efforts OF the Progressives
TO hang together asserts that none
Of the leaders OF that moribund or.
ganizatiOn presents an issue that
could by any possibility keep a poll
tical organization alive. That Is true.
with the exception that It discredits
among Its policies the tariff issue as
an impelllng question. OF course the
protective tarif sympathies OF Ihe
Bull Moose were carried over from
the Republican party. where they
were originally evoked The World
refers to the tariff issue as follows.
That question can be- revived only by
a change iu economic conditions. The
country has been taught to measure tar
iffs not hv principles but bv prosperity
So long as there is prosperity the stand
pat Republicans can taul higher tariff
until they are all black in the face With
out stirring the emotions % a single
voter.
The World is talking foolishly. 70
IL sD0utlng as recklessly az Senator
Chiffon. and that f. saving a great
deal In the way n odious eompari.
son. The World. however. Is too
Intelligent 10 seriously consider the
present balance Of trade az a mark
OF the prosperity 70 refers 10. 70
knows. or ought 20 know. that 81 was
not built on any economic policy N
The Democratic party. and that d
only superhciaily covers tho destruc.
ton wrought by the Underwood BIN
n O. doesn't know these things there
IL large and effective majority of
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the American people who are &C
quainted with the facts. the greater
part Of them through bitter expert.
ence.
After ignoring the relevancy OF the
tariff as an issue in the next cam.
paign it is not surprising that the
World should add. that at present
the opposition TO Mr.. Wilson Is sadly
destitute OF issues" and emphasizes
the alleged poverty" OF the Repub-
lican party in this respect What a
hugging OF decisions the Democracy
is given TO. The Republican party
has an embarrassment OF issues: II IL
opulent in this respect n Is the
Democratic party that IL wretched IN
this poverty as Il will find out
when the issues shall have been
joined In November. 1915.
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identifying intellectually the city
OF his adoption. He was an active
spirit in all those enterprises. indus
trial and financial. which have given
Wheeling a commanding position as
the most prosperous workshop in the
Ohio valley. The withdrawal OF such
a character from its former &C
tivities cannot help but impress
upon the community a definite sense
OF its loss
There was a little known side 10
Mr.. schmulbach's character. the help
fulness he extended to many young
business men in Wheeling and to
sons OF friends struggling for an
education. that speaks for itself but
which Mr.. Schmulbach never paraded
while living.