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The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1916-01-13
ANIMAL 70 BE- LEF 0glE'


Perhaps you viii come to the con
clusion that this animal II more inter
esting to read about than 70 meet n
the woods, the Philadelphia North
American says But don't worry
there are not many 81 him LETT. n Az
were common he might become, alnng
with the rationale, the emblem Of
the apostles Of preparedness. for he
carries veritable arsenal around
with him on his back He Il called the
porcupine. NJ
The only American member Of the
family Is the Canadian porcupine,
which occasionally wanders southwark
into the mountains Of Pennsylvania.
Covering his body from head to foot
are sharp spines, or quilts, varying
from one to four inches in length.
When the rorcupine ID undisturbed
the quilts lie nat against the body like
hair. Approach him, and the spines
become erect, pointing outward Ike
thousand bayonets.
Ancient writer's handed down fanci-'
full stories about how the porcupine
could throw one Of these quilts from
the body. He doesn't possess this
power, however. He's wholly de-
fensive animal.
Sometimes dog, unacquainted with
this terror OF the forest, will pounce
upon him like he would on a rabbit.
Immediately there's howl Of pain
from the dog, not the porcupine. The
quilts are covered with barbs. and
once they are imbedded in another
animal they work their way farther in,
sometimes causing death.
The quilts Of the Canadian porcu-
pine are hidden by q covering Of hair.
He makes his home in hollow trees or
In caverns. and eats vegetables and
bark from trees.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1916-01-13
Artificial Pearls.

Large artificial pearls have been
made by filling thin glass bulbs with q
solution Of fish scale nacre and they
are very clever limitations. An easy
way to- detect them lie to note the
spot where the bulb was sealed. Liese-
gang has now made artificial pearls BY
another method. The glass bulb 10
coated on the inside with ten per cent
gelatin solution, allowed to dry only
partially and then q small amount OF
sodium phosphate added and the coat
ing dried. very slowly. The rides
cence Is an optical phenomenon caused
by minute wrinkles, parallel. formed
ON the gelatin. Scientific American.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1916-01-13
Scanned a Good Proposition.


Eyes," sighed the beautiful heiress,
"my romance has been shattered be-
yond all repair. And the cruel parent
was responsible for all my suffering. =
We sympathised and begged her to
60 on.
my sutton was young and hand
aome, clever. True, he had no money.
But he had everything else. and oh!
how he loved me. My father couldn't
see him. Father is business man,
and he could not understand that true
worth and poverty are not incompat-
ible. He demanded that dismiss my
lover: he fretted and fumed whenever
he called.
II told him all my father had said
against him. ! repeated to him my
eather's remark that he would give
5000 II would never sec him again. =
And what did he say to that?''
~He-he asked when father could
b found In his ofice."
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1916-01-13
SO q. s. Soldiers Enlist in Canada
for Service in War.

Detroit, Jan. S.-Fifty United
States soldiers who were mus
tered out of service on Jan. l,
went to Windsor, Ont, from Fort
Sam Houston, Tex, Wednesday
night, and enlisted with the
American Legion for service with
the British and her allies.
They were Immediately sent to
headquarters in Toronto. In the
party were q number of SER
geants. They will be given Can
adam commissions and placed in
charge Of companies Of this leg
ion.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1916-01-13
MINK HAS VARIED TALENTS
Web-Footed Animal Can Climb Trees
and Go a-Fishing; Also 10
Valuable Prey.

Very talented is the animal. He
can climb trees like squirrel, swim
like a fish, dig like mole and kill
chickens like a weasel. In addition
he is endowed with an unusually fine
fur, which makes him valuable prey
for the hunter. He's more or less com.
mon along woodland streams, and al.
together too common In the neighbor-
hood of the farmers poultry yards.
We call him the mink.
Although he can dig as good bur.
row as any other animal, the mink
sometimes chooses to steal musk
rats home rather than build one for
himself. writer in the Philadelphia
North American states. To avoid fu-
ture trouble, with the ousted muskrat.
the mink kills and eats him.
Usually he prefers to make his
home along the banks Of q stream or
ut the foot of waterfall. Sometimes,
when his taste for poultry becomes
cultivated: he will establish himself
under the farmers barn to be near his
food supply. He can track his prey
like hound. Besides poultry, he has
taste for rats, mice, fish and frogs
To aid him in his fishing, the mink
has partly webbed feet His sharp
claws help him in climbing trees, and
sometimes he will attack birds in their
nests. He is a little more than twelve
inches long, has dark brown fur and
q light spot on his throat. Before
sese kin became popular a single skin
Of the mink was worth from SO to $12.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1916-01-13
WHEN THE AMATEURS APPEAR
Another Good story Added TO the
Many That Are Told About Those
Enamored Of stage.

The anecdotes told at the expense
Of amateur players are innumerable.
and Of course Of varying degrees. both
Of truthfIIness and Of drollery. AM
other rs added to the list by some stu
dents, who ambitiously undertook to
play Hamlet" for the benefit Of q
charity. The man who was to act the
part OF Horatio was extremely timid,
and when the night Of the perform
ance came he was so overcome by
stage-fright that he could hardly re-
member the lines he had 80 carefully
studied. During the scene where Ho-
ratio and Marcellus tell Hamlet Of
the appearance of the spirit Of his
father. and the prince asks: Stayed
It long," while one with moderate
haste might tell hundred" Horatio
managed to stumble out, but SO con-
fusedly that Marcellus forgot his cue,
and instead of rejoining Longer, long
err" stood staring at Horatio. The
prompter. with view to helping out
Marcellus, began to whisper from the
wings. Longer. longer" Unfortunate.
ly Horatio, having lost all control Of
himself, was inspired with the idea
that the man playing Marcellus was
looking at him because he had made
an error. and that the words from the
wing were addressed to him. With a
great effort he Strengthened himself
up. cleared his burning throat, and
said, loudly: while one with moder.
ate haste might tell two hundred,
then"
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1916-01-13

A successful wolf hunt was
pulled off in Vernon County near
Metz one day last week Two
wolves were killed 49,
New Britain herald., 1916-09-12
TO RENr.

TO LET-Furnished room to middle age man, 8 Main. Top floor, west.
 9-12-d3x
New Britain herald., 1916-09-12
LOST.

LOST-Monday, between New Britain
 and Berlin Fair grounds. Sterling auto tire and tube. Finder please notify telephone 800. 9-12-3d
New Britain herald., 1916-09-12
FURNISHED ROOMS.
AGENTS WANTED.

sexes, utility instant
 ly appeals to housekeepers; sale every house; big profit; write for particulars Crescent company,
 Providence, R. l. 9-11-3d
New Britain herald., 1916-09-12

TO RENT-Apart1n ent of ten rooms, suitable for rooming. Also four room apartment, modern improve ments, electricity. A. B. Dickinson, 286 William St., Middletown
 9-11- Sd
New Britain herald., 1916-09-12

TO RENT-Separate rooms for three automobiles. C. H Olcott, 5O5
 Arch street 9-6-tf
New Britain herald., 1916-09-12

TO RENT-Flat, five rooms, 401
 Chestnut street, $11.OO. 9-7-6dx
New Britain herald., 1916-09-12

TO RENT-Large we'll furnished
 front room Suitable for two gentle
 men. Also table boarder wanted, 29 South High. 9-11-2dx
New Britain herald., 1916-09-12
PIANO TUNING.

PIANO TUNING-C. A. Humphrey, 97 South Burritt, Tel. 2O63.
New Britain herald., 1916-09-12

FOX RENTING five room tene-
 ments at 392 Stanley street on Oc-
 tober l, new house. Apply Arthur IN. Rutherford. 9-S-6dx
New Britain herald., 1916-09-12

TO RENT-The Coles house, monu- 1 ment carver. Twelve rooms. Large l yard, barn. Martin B. Hagen, East Berlin, Conn.,, Box z. 9-11-6dx
New Britain herald., 1916-09-12
DRESSMAKING.

HELEN T. QUINN-Now ready for fall and winter season. Coats a speciality 252 Main street. Holmes & Hoffman's block Tel. 1216-3
 1
New Britain herald., 1916-09-12

LOST-Commercial Trust Go. bank
 book. Finder return to M. Feigen-
 baum, 63 Oak street. 9-12-19-26x
New Britain herald., 1916-09-12

TO RENT-One five room flat, all modern conveniences. The Barnes," 13l Main street. l.. M. Barnes.
 9-8-6d
The Colorado statesman., 1916-05-20
A TOWN OF NEGROES ALONE.

Birmingham, Ala, May AFTER
several years struggle against heavy
odds, including local unsympathetic
sentiment and gloomy predictions of
failure by white people of neighbor-
ing towns, Hobson City, the only mu-
nicipality in the United States, with
one exception, which is wholly popu-
lated and conducted by Negroes, has
won its battle by demonstrating that
it is II pronounced success
When the plan to found an exclu-
sively Negro town in the South was
proposed scarcely any white people in
the Admission district, where it is To-
Gated. dreamed it would work out
But the Negroes were not discouraged
and went ahead. Now Hobson City
| is firmly established as progressive
town and governs itself successfully
both in a financial way and in law
enforcement and observance.
Back in 1900 this exclusively Negro
town was started by a band of Ne
groes who obtained charter and in
corporated. The population shows a
gain of $50 per cent. No man with
out employment is allowed to stay in
the town. Either job is found for
him or he is required to move away.
The town has four churches with a
combined membership of 700, a good
I public school with $50 pupils, dozen
progressive stores, waterworks, cleo
trio lights, police and sanitary de-
partments. a well built Jail, and a
governing board elected every two
years. 1t is the only town in the
state that is out of debt and has
money in the treasury. More than
half the citizens own their own homes.
Some of its residents produce within
stones throw of the town limits
from $500 to S1,5O0 worth of cotton
and other farm products besides large
quantities of vegetables and fruits.
Hobson City's governing board con-
sists of seven councilmen, a mayor
and four other municipal officers, in
cluding a chief of police. Every resi-
dent of the town is Negro.
The Colorado statesman., 1916-05-20

Industrial Institute are inseparably
connected.
Write of Meharry Medical College
and you will mention in one breath
the name OF the Meharry brothers
and the name of DR.. G. W. Hubbard.
The student of history as ne reviews
the existence of American slavery win
be reminded of the firlnness, the in
flexible conscience for the right, of
the gentleness as tender as that of a
woman, of the moderation of spirit
which the heat of party could not in
flame nor the disturbances of his
country shake, of Abraham Lincoln
who wrote the Emancipation Proc.
lamation, unloosed the chains of 4,00O,-
eco slaves, relit the flames of national
glory and made the welkin ring with
the shouts of freedom. One of the
wisest maxims of Pythagoras to his
pupil was that he should reverence
himself" Self-respect is the best gar
ment ta&ith which you may clothe your
self. Sustained by this high ideal, you
will not defile your bodies by sensual
ity nor pollute your minds by servile
thoughts.
Garry this sentiment into daily life
and it will be found at the foundation
of honor, integrity, cleanliness, So
briefly, chastity, morality and religion.
Success treads on the heels of every
right effort. 1t lies along the highway
of steadfast well doing and if you will
achieve it, you must very largely rely
upon yourselves, your own indepen-
dent energies, habits of industry and
attention to business details"
The Colorado statesman., 1916-05-20
Handicap In Busi-
ness We Our
selves Make
(From Philadelphia Tribune0

(From Philadelphia Tribune)
A great many people have an idea
that it is easy to succeed in any sort
of business that much money can be
made out of, rather than in the kind
of business about which they know
most. Those people have the great
est success in any business who
know most about the branch of it
that they engage in and master as to
all of its details. The rule holds good
in all kinds of business ventures,
both great and small, but most peo-
pie do not know it and fail oftener
than they succeeded because of their
ignorance.
For instance, it is said that more
people fail in trying to raise poultry
for the market than in any other
kind of business, simply because poul-
try raising looks easy, while really
being very difficult. City folks who
go to the country to raise poultry as
a side business are said to have more
failures than success for comfort.
Do Afro-Americans who venture
into business enterprises have more
sorts of troubles and diff rlties than
other sorts of people? Many think
that they have. The Newport News
(va) Star has the following to say
about some phases of the matter con
cerning which the Tribune has often
The Colorado statesman., 1916-05-20

Cape May. May 9.-Standpatters
were surprised when the complete re-
turns for delegates from the Second
New Jersey congressional district in
the Republican primaries showed that
William F. Cozart, colored, waiter
in hotel of Atlantic City, with the
declaration as a supporter of Theodore
Roosevelt after his name, won in the
primary as one of the two delegates
over Richard NJ. More, glass manufac-
turer of Bridgeton.
Cozart has defeated More by more
than 300 votes. The other delegate
chosen is Harry C. Knight, of Burling-
ton county. Cozart was the only man
whose declaration for Roosevelt was
printed on the ticket Christopher s.
Hand and Alfred B. Miller, a Roose-
welt man. are alternates.
The Colorado statesman., 1916-05-20
Unusual Condi-
tons Call For A
Man OF Blood
And Iron

eration-in such circumstances it is
reasonable to believe that the Amer
ican people would find in Mr.. Root
a most attractive subject as standard
bearer for Republicanism in the con-
test that is now fast. approaching.
Unhappily the conditions that have
been suggested do not prevail. Neither
at home or abroad is there the faint
est approach to condition that in
any sense may be considered normal.
The United States, standing alone
among the great powers, finds itself
in a position to be of use to all and
by the same token to be abused by all
The. hand that directs the course OF
the ship of state during the next four
years must be firm and reflect the will
of mind whose grasp of the intri
cate world problems and their influ-
ence upon American privileges and
prospects is as true and steady as
the needle to the pole.
1t won't do to allow personal spites
and preiudices to dominate or dictate
choice at a time when clouds are
dark and complications are seriously
threatening.
The times and conditions call for
an undiluted Americanism: a patriot
ism that cannot be- questioned and a
courage that is unfaltering.
However closely we scrutinize the
field of possibilities under this ap-
praisement; with whatever degree of
partiality we may view the equipment
of particular choice or minimize
the shortcomings of an especial favo,
rite, it seems inevitable that there
looms before us the superior talents
and indomitable courage of one, who
IhouSH lfleu ana tested by the fierce
white heat of partisan strife and
malice, must still be acclaimed the
dominant moral and political force OF
the age and nation.
He, the fearless champion of inter
national Justice; veritable stone wall
for the protection of Americans wher-
ever they may be domiciled and the
insistent advocate of righteous i'm
partiality in the distribution of citizen
privileges among all the races and
classes of all our people.
If we think of Mexico and her pro-
tracted era of murderous misrule and
violence; if we think of the hundreds
of Americans who have gone down to
death in the sea through submarine
activity, and if we think of the per-
sistent outrages upon our Negro citi-
zens and his callous abandonment in
The Colorado statesman., 1916-05-20
Jonathan Cover"

The latest reports from centers of
large political interest and influence
all over the country seem to indicate
that the probable nominee as the Re-
publican candidate for the presidency
will be either Justice Hughes or ex-
President Roosevelt.
A strenuous effort has been made
and is still being made to stimulate
the Fairbanks boom, while the follow
ers of Weeks, Root and Burton are
working overtime and all the time to
convince the politicians that their
man is the logical candidate and that
ii he is named there will be nothing
more to it but hurrah and a shout.
Neither the people or the politicians,
however, are to be fooled by this favo-
rite son twaddle. They know that this
sort of stuff has got to come through
as a kind of tribute, either to the
personality, the achievements, the
ability, the patriotism or what-not of
the eminent citizens OF certain states
and they know, too, that when the
time comes, these make-believe booms
will be content to take their perma-
rent place in history among the many
who are known to fame as having had
strong backing, at one time or another
in their career, for the highest posi-
ton in the gift of the American people.
OF course such fame as even this is
the highest kind of reward for some
of those who have had the honor,
while in the case of others, such
tribute but indifferently recognizes
their devotion, ability and splendid
service to the state and nation.
Such is the case of Mr.. Root, than
whom few men are more widely or
fayora0ly known and whose record
for public service and achievement is
so conspicuous or so distinguished.
AS Secretary of War, Secretary OF
state. as Senator from the great state
of New York, as founder and pro
moter of the Federation of American
REPUBLICS, the work of Mr.. Root has
placed him in the very forefront of
constructive American statesmen.
In different conditions, with the
trend of domestic and international
affairs in safely normal state; with
the wheels of governmental inter-
course turning smoothly and regu-
larly on the well creased axles of
diplomacy; with no necessity for a
time limit on the processes of delib-
The Colorado statesman., 1916-05-20

Il civil way by those who are charged
with the duty of his protection-then
indeed it is that we recognize how
serious is our condition; how desper-
ate is our need for the blood and iron
of a Roosevelt to invigorate the sol
idarity of our nation life and to tone
and strengthen the impulse for equal
justice and square deal for all
Americans.
The Colorado statesman., 1916-05-20
spoken:

spoken:
Say what you will or may, the
Negro who attempts to do any sort of
business which makes him entirely
dependent upon his own people, has
terrible handicap to carry.
Where ignorance is bliss, it's fol-
ly to be WISE" is an axiom as old as
time, and a great many people at
tribute the tendency of the Negro to
help everybody but his own, to his
ignorance. This assertion might go
unchallenged, if it could be shown
that all of the Negroes are ignorant,
but when it is known that, so many
Negroes lay just claim to intelligence
| and take commendable pride in con-
sidering themselves smart, the
| charge that ignorance is the cause of
If the truth is known the race suf-
fers more now at the hand and
| through the scheming and cunning
of those, who are really intelligent,
than those to who are woefully ig-
norant
| Opposition is the life of trade, and
however much the white man may
feel peeved at the man who outruns
him in business, it does not produce
the effect of driving him to build up
another race of people to the exclu-
sion of his OWL.
That is to say, Afro-Americans do
not care to buy and sell of each
other, if they can find some other
race to buy and sell of, and they do
not care to work for each other if
they can find any other race to em-
ply them. This is very generally and
lamentably so now in all parts of the
country, but it is far from being as
much so as it has been in the past.
| Circumstances have worked the
whole matter in the direction of self
| help, that is, help ye one another,
making it so that if others would not
hire us or buy and sell OF us we
should have to do it of ourselves
Our professional men and women, es
pecially doctors and druggists and
lawyers and preachers and school
teachers and stage folks are making
some success, as our tradesmen are,
soley on this account, that they have
to employ and buy and sell of each
other because others will not and are
not doing it generally, and show a
disposition to do it less.
Apparently we are developing more
and more the race conditions so VIVID
ly described by Rev Sutton L.
Griggs, in his novel "Imperia ad I'm
perfo," that is, an empire in an en-
pire, n race within race, in which
we must cleave to each other if we
would survive and not perish. We
seem powerless to resist the tend
ency among the mixed white races of
the United States and of the world to
throw the black, red and yellow races
back upon themselves in all intel
lectual and social matters, and to
leave them to work out their saliva
tion or perish in the effort.
We do not imagine that those of us
in the United States were brought
here to perish, but it does not appear
as yet to the most intelligent mind
The Colorado statesman., 1916-05-20
Unforoettable.

Man forgets much in this world, but
ask any OF the old ones if he has for
gotten the lessons he learned at moth
er's and across fathers lmee.-Elous-
ton Post.
The Colorado statesman., 1916-05-20
Work of President
Hubbard at Maharry

Nashville, Tenu.-There were 1872
graduates in medicine, dentistry, phar
macy and nurse training at the Me
harry Medical College to receive di-
plomas at the hands of President
George w. Hubbard at the fortieth
commencement of that institution held
here Thursday night. In all the Me
harry school has turned out 1859 pro-
fessional men and women of the race,
ninety-five per cent of who have re-
manned in the professions and are
highly successful, as has been shown
by. an investigation recently made
public by President Hubbard. These
graduates have incomes ranging from
$500 to $4,000 yearly, and very large
proportion of them own their own
homes and have well equipped Of
fices and libraries. Bishop C. H. Phil
lips of the C. M. e. church delivered
the commencement address. He is a
medical graduate of the school and
has two sons who finished their med
ical courses at the institution.
Credit for the success of the Me-
harry College is due to DR.. George
Whipple Hubbard, who has spent
forty years in the work. He came
South just after the war and began
teaching the slaves and their children
how to read and write. He studied
work, in the Vanderbilt University at
Nashville and at the University of
Tennessee. He had already finished
his literary education in the East
After graduating from both of the
medical schools he took up the work
of establishing the Meharry College
He has always been relied upon by
the colored citizens of Nashville as
being with them in any and all mat
ters pertaining to racial conditions
here and has proven a wise counsellor,
true friend to them, and is often
spoken of here as "The sainted
Hubbard"
Among the graduates were two from
New York. G. w. Johnson and R. S.
Smith. The British West Indies, Ii
keria, Africa, South America, Pan
anna and almost every state in the
Union, were represented.
The address of Bishop Phillips was
strong one and was heard by more
than 5000 interested spectators. In
part he said:
Write of Booker T. Washington
and we will tell of his wonderful work
at Tusllegee. Or make Tuskegee the
subject and you will write the history
of Washington, for Booker T. Wash
jngton and the Tuskegee Normal and
The Colorado statesman., 1916-05-20
NO 40

what we were brought here for and
how we shall work out our salvation
in the new and better covenant" :"
which the average Christian is yet
looking for to come but is already
upon them.