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The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1917-02-01
List Of Letters.

Remaining uncalled for y in the
post office at Butler, Mo-, for the
week ending January %, 1917:
G. p. Catron, Hon. d. w. Hill
Mr.. c. f. Lafever, G. D. Lynn, c
p. Melton, Herman Neighmor
Mr.. Alva ROLAND, Mrs. Laura
Shcddrick, Laura Sheets.
These letters will be sent to the
dead letter office February 6,
1917 if not delivered before. In
calling for the above, please say
Advertised" giving date of list.
j. F.. Williams, Postmaster.
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Card of Thanks.

We wish to thank, through tn,
columns of this paper. our neigh
bors and friends who were so kline
during the illness and death OF
our beloved mother. Also thu
Royal Neighbors of Butler lodge
for the beautiful flowers,
Mrs. l.. d. Stoncr,
Mrs. Thos. Dunlap,
Henry Sellers,
Sylvester Sellers,
Rufus Sellers.
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British Cruiser is Sunk.

London, Jan. 2S.--Thc British
auxiliary cruiser Laurentic Of
1892 tons gross, has been sunk
by a submarine or as a result Of
striking Il mine, according to an
official statement issued tonight
by the British admiralty. Twelve
officers and 100 men were saved.
The admiralty statement adds
that the vessel went down off the
Irish coast last Thursday.
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Two New Merchant Submarines
to II. S.

New York. Jan. 29.-Passcn-
gers arriving here from Germany
OH the Norwegian steamer Bcr-
gensfjord declared today that two
new merchant submarines. the
KOenigsbcrg and the Hamburg.
will start for the United States on
Wednesday. The undersca boats
will start their maiden trips from
Bremerhaven, with New London
as their goal. Both vessels. it was
stated, will carry valuable ear
goes of dyes and drugs.
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Now is the time to have YOU
harness oiled at WcMott & Ma
jors. 1872
Lee Shelton, Of Foster, was 6
business visitor to the county sea-
Tuesday.
Have your harness oiled and re
paired before the rush at WeMott
& Majors. 1872
James White and Edgar F
Henri, of Appleton City, were
Butler visitors Saturday.
Mrs. Edna Smith, Of Rich Hill
spent a few days in this city last
week visiting friends and rela.
tives.
Circuit Clerk II. o. Maxey de.
livcred an address to the pupils
of the Freeman High School Fri.
day night.
Mrs. Ina Tiffany, who has been
visiting at the home of Mr.. and
Mrs. Ed Culver, returned to her
home in Kansas City Saturday.
Mrs. Lete Sackett arrived in the
city Saturday from Kansas City,
being called here by the illness
of her mother, Mrs. w. w. Ross.
DR.. f. G. ley and DR.. T. +.
Lockwood attended a banquet in
Kansas City Saturday night CIV
en- by the Kansas City Medical So
cicty.
Cal Fisk, a former Butler bust
ness man, but now of Eldorado,
Kansas, was called to this city
Friday by the death of his BROTH
cr, II. l.. Fisk.
1t is only 80 days before you be-
gin farming. Take your harness
to WeMott e. Majors and have
them repaired and oiled before
you get busy. lo-2t
:; The basket ball game that was
to have been played between the
Butler and Pleasant Hill teams
last Friday night was postponed
until later date.
Fl. H. Council is installing a
new boiler in his laundry this
week. The old boiler besides be-
ing too small was worn out land
the increased business demanded
a new one.
The Parish Players will be the
next number at the Opera House
and will appear tonight, Febru-
airy LIST. Program 8:15 prompt.
Prices adults soc, students Zoe,
in balcony. Get seats at Wei
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Big. Hog Sale.

Next Wednesday W. II. Char
ters will hold his big bred SOW
sale at his fine farm just north
west of the city limits. The sale
has been extensively advertised
and a large crowd of buyers are
expected to be on hand, as the
Charters hogs have the reputation
of being as good as grow.
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Renew your subscription for
the Kansas City Post with Chris
Black, Agent. Terms: 45c per
month; 6 months $3.50; one year
$3.50. 1927
The Bates County Medical So
cicty held it's first meeting Of the
year 1917 in this city last week.
The subject for discussion was
Rheumatism" There was some
fine talks on the treatment of
this disease by the different men,
bcrs of the association.
Miss Mary Bradcn, who is Il
teacher in the Kcnsington public
school in Kansas City visited at
the home Of her parents, Mr.. and
/ Mrs. Robert Bradcn Saturday and
with her sister, Miss Helen, who
left Monday for Warrensburg,
where she has accepted Il position
as private secretary to Dean
Phillips Of the Warrensburg State
Normal School.
Prof. Charles "A. Burke, Cass
county's popular, efficient and ac-
commodating superintendent Of
public schools, has been confined
to his home and bed, East Me-
chanic Street, this city, since last
Saturday, suffering with pneu-
monia in serious form, says the
Cass County Democrat. Prof.
Burke was formerly superintend-
ent of the Butler public schools.
Relatives in this city received a
telegram Monday announcing the
death of Mrs. Otis Berryhill,
which occurred at one o'clock on
that day at her home at Cushing,
oklahoma. Mrs. Frank and Mrs.
Tom Vance and their mother,
Mrs. r. j. Berryhill, left on Tues
days train for Topeka, where the
funeral service will take place.
Mrs. Berryhill has visited in this
city where she has many friends.
The Double Branch w. c. T. U.
have up a lively contest: They
are making a red and white quilt
and the member securing the most
names at Zoe Il name to place on
the Aleelss, gets the quilt. The
ladies are doing some hustling for
the prize is something any OF
them would be proud to possess.
The money goes into the local
treasury. We will report more
later. The contest closes March
1st.. y y.
One of the iollicst affairs Of the
season took place Friday even
ing at the hall Of the Knights and
Ladies of Security, on the south !
side. 1t was the Knights and
Ladies ann,,al.-.masancrade and
dance. There were about one
hundred maskcrs on the floor and
they were CARRIED in all sorts OF
strangs and unique costumes and
it was a very hard matter to tell
who any Of them might be, and
some very amusing mistakes were
made by those who thought that
they could pick them out.
j. w. Mcclure. who has been
for several years miller at the
Butler Roller Mills, will leave the
last of the week for Lebanon,
Kansas, where he has accepted a
position as head miller in a large
mill. Mrs. Mcclure and
daughter. Miss Gcncvicve, will
visit for short time with rela-
tives in st. Joseph and Chillicothc
before joining Mr.. Mcclure. Mr..
Mcclure has sold his home on
Mechanic street to a. IL. Black.
Cannon Brothers proprietors OF
the mill, have secured j. a.
Cranke. of Lancaster. Missouri, to
take the place made vacant by
Mr.. Mcclure. Mr.. Cranke is a
miller of wide experience and will
keep the grade of flour turned
put by the mill up to the high
n anaal khnf Il has nSfQ hliahad
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Frank Yarrick and Miss Sarah
NJ. Earnest, both of Rich Hill,
were united in marriage Tuesday
afternoon at the NJ. e. church,
South, parsonage. Rev. f. X
Wolfe officiating.
Mr.. Joe NJ. Nolan, noted
breeder and importer of draft
horses and Col. H: Nj. Justice,
both Of Paola, Kansas, visited at
the home of Col. G. E. Robbins
Monday.
l.. A. Wheatlcy, who held sale
recently, was in town the other
day and ordered the address on
his paper changed to Parma,
Idaho, where he expects to make
his future home. He reports cv-
crything as selling well at his
sale.
Major A. V. Adams, of the ad-
jutant generals department and
Captain Raymond Sheldon, of the
United States army, were in town
Monday inspecting Company B.
This is Major Adams old home
and he spent good part Of the
day shaking hands with old
friends.
The Butler members of the En-
campmcnt, |. o. 0. F., have re-
ccived an invitation to visit the
Adrian lodge next Friday night
and sec that lodge cXcmplify the
different degrees of the order. 1t
is expected that several of the
boys will take advantage of the
invitation.
Judge j. W. McFaddcn, who
has for many years conducted the
general store at Virginia, has sold
out to Mr.. Wade Cochran, Of
Shelbina, Missouri, who took
charge Friday evening. Mr..
Cochran is a clever gentleman and
will keep the store at Virginia up
to the high mark set by Judge Nc
Faddcn.
Among the new readers of The
Times this week is w. A. Carpen-
ter on route six. Mr.. Carpenter
il Aexeomer TO Bates county,
having moved here from Kansas
City short time ago, and want
ing to start right he and Mrs.
Carpenter called at this office Fri
day and subscribed for the best
paper in the county.
Wendell Atkcson left Sunday
for Columbia, where he has ac-
cepted a position as private sec
rotary to Dean Jones, of the arts
and science department OF the
University. His duties will al
low him some time which he will
devote to University course.
lie expects to take course in the
School of Journalism.
Governor Gardner last week
John Halpin and John
l:. Ransom police commissioners
of Kansas City, with orders to
take the police force out OF poll
ties and clean up the city. Mr.
IIalpin, who is II big contractor,
was for six years chief OF detect
ives of that city, SO that police
business will not be entirely new
to him.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. &. COberly
have returned from business
and pleasure "trip to Kansas City,
Mo. Mr.: Coberly tells us that
while in the city he spent several
lays at the paint and varnish fac.
tories studying the making and
applying of the Logan-M0ore
paints and varnishcs. Mr.. Cober-
" has devoted a great deal OF
lime and study to the paint bust
ness SO as to be able to assist his
customers in the selecting OF the
most economical and yet the most
harmonious color schemes and ef-
'ects in paints, stains, and var
,ishes.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1917-02-01
Hedge Posts for Sale.

Eight foot corner posts from
six to ten inches in diameter at
twenty-five, fifty, seventy-five
cents and one dollar each. See
ond grade fence posts at ten cents
each.
1927 j. Ii. Allison.
Two miles west and one mile
south of Butler, Phone I on %.
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Miss Mabel Rockhold spent
Sunday in Kansas City visiting
friends.
Ofred Jackson came down from
Kansas City and spent Sunday
with home folks.
Miss Mike McCleese spent Sun
day in Rich Hill with her friend,
Mrs. Lethia Delameter.
W. f. Welton, the east side
jcwelcr, was q business visitor to
Kansas City Tuesday.
At a recent meeting of the Rich
Hill city council ten years telc-
phone franchise was granted to F.
NJ. Campbell.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence Morris
were called to Urich last week by
the death of Mr.. Morris grand
mother, Mrs. Mary E. Moberly.
j. NJ. Kash of Deepwater town
ship returned home Monday from
a weeks visit with his brother,
j. F.. Kash, at Ell Dorado Springs.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. F. Isley mo-
tored up from Rich Hill Sunday
and spent the day with their
daughter, Mrs. Otis Baker, and
Mr.. Baker.
The building occupied by the
postoffice and drug store at Metz
was damaged about $500 by fire
Sunday morning, says the Rich
Hill Review.
Mrs. 0. p. Wilson who has been
visiting at the home OF Mr.. and
Mrs. J. s. Walker, returned the
last of the week to her home in
HARDWOOD, Missouri. .....
Miss Mary j. Vanclcvc, ~
years Of age, died Sunday morn
ing January %, at the home OF
her sister, Mrs. Edward White,
one mile east Of Rich Hill, says
the Review.
Mrs. Rcub Marshall made
brief visit to old friends in this
city Friday. She was en- route
from Kansas City to Joplin and
stopped off for visit to Old time
friends.
Mrs. Ray Pricstly, who has
been visiting in this city at the
home of Mr. Pricstly's parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Priestly, left
the last of the week for her home
in Plcasanton, Kansas.
b. X. Wager, of kingfisher, OK
lahoma, last week purchased the
W. +. Mckibbcn farm west of this
city. The Bowman real estate
company made the trade. Mr.. Me-
Kibben and his family cOnteln-
plate locating in Amsterdam.
Hayden Ray returned the last
of the week from Kansas City
where he underwent an operation
for the removal Of cataract
from one of his eyes. He is get
ting along as well as could be ex-
pccted and will probably regain
the use of the eye.
Mrs. Daisy Clark. of Amster-
dam. left the last of the week for
Iowa where she will visit rela-
lives. Mrs. Clark came to But |
Ter about ten days ago to start !
to Iowa, and was stopped here by
the news of the death of her
.ousin. Mrs. Oles Stofcr.
Among the visitors at this Of
flee Saturday was Mr.. P. l. Tur-
ner, who recently moved to Bates
county from Modesto, Illinois.
md purchased the Jerry Callahan
farm, south of town. Mr.. Turner
wanted to keep abreast of the
lines in Bates county, so of course
&c Subscribed for The Times. We
Welcome Mr.. Turner and his esti-
nahle family to the Kingdom OF
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Christian Science Services.

Christian Science Services and
Sunday school will be held each
Sunday in the church, corner Of
Fl. Scott and Delaware streets.
. Subject Love"
All are cordially invited to at
tend.
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member of the Serbian Department of
State, a man from land where sanitation
is unknown, land of deadly smells and
deadlier plaques. "To us, the mental idea
is the whole thing. To you Americans the
material thing, the hard object which you
can feel, is all you know or understand. !"
l told him frankly that, if we were short
on ideals, we were also short on bad smells.
That man didn't love us.
To the Austro-Hungarians we seem
to appear so remote geographically, and
so recent in point of time, that they
take little notice of us. was, unwillingly,
drawn into giving geography lesson to
Hungarian lieutenant one dull evening
in the barracks at Przemysl.
Gan American he said. "From North
or South American"
NORTH"
"Ah! Let me see In North America
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W7Earea eatpeopie for. jooling
w ourselves, We americans. We
Hketo see facts the nay zoe like to see
them. But there is no use in trying
to fool ourselves about the feelings
Of the other peoples of the world
about us, as the Great Var draps
to close. Mr.. Shepherd states the
plain facts very directly here: and
they are facts that every business
man, small or great, ought to enter
in his calculations. As correspon-
dent of the United Press in Europe
Mr.. Shepherd had excellent oppor-
tunity of meeting the molders of
public opinion in every country. Ne
shall hare other articles from him.
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MAGAZINE SECTION for January ss, 1917

there is Newfoundland and Alaska and
Canada. Do you come from any of those
places?"
al come from the United States" ex-
planned. at is strip of country that
runs across the middle of North America. +"
ayes! Yes remember. l could
show it to you on map. l remember,
now, just how it looks"
He wasn't sarcastic; he simply was
weak on far-away geography. But the
point is that he, like millions of other
Austro-Hungarians, knows so little about
us that a good, active anti-American hate
verein started in Austria-Hungary would
gather members rapidly.
The Bulgarians take their cue from the
Germans; but their interest in the United
States is remote. 1t is fact that Bull
garian officer, who spoke English and said
he had once been deputy sheriff in
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diamonds is aware of the number of
classes into which the stones have to be
sorted for sale). Barnato threatened to
place these stones on the market at once
unless his terms were agreed to. The
placing of these stones before Rhodes
negotiations were completed would have
been ruinous, and had to be prevented at
any cost.
A meeting was arranged; and the
scene must have been picturesque-with
Barney sitting with complacent smile,
master of the situation; Rhodes with the
impotence he never could conceal, stamp
ing in abortive rage; and Alfred Belt
nervously twitching with the sway of the
pendulum: while, in parcels on sheets Of
white paper on a side-table, lay the care
fully sorted stones, unconscious cause of
all the turmoil.
In the midst of discussion Rhodes
rose, and, taking Barnato by the arm,
walked him up and down the room, and
then to the side-table where the stones
lay, and said:
Barney, have you ever seen bucket
full of diamonds? never have. I'll tell
you what I'll do. If those diamonds will
fill bucket, I'll take them over from you
at your own price,
Then, hardly giving him time to an
swer, Rhodes swept the stones into a
bucket standing near. (How the bucket
came to be there so opportunity, history
does not relate) The stones did not fill
it, however; and Rhodes, with glance
around, strobe from the room.
The amalgamation was accomplished,
for he had got the delay that he wanted;
and, as Barnato turned to face the aston
ished gaze of those seated there, he only
then realized that he was no longer
factor in the negotiations, as the re-
sorting OF his diamonds for the market
meant matter of weeks.
Whether the story is true or not, after
an all-night sitting terms were arrived at,
and the interests of the Central Diamond
Mining Company were bought for De
Beers for f5,33S, 650-more than twenty
five million dollars.
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making. Gardner Williams said of him
in "South Africa" that zone could scarcely
have cast him in any society or any place
on earth where his nimble wits would not
have won him living"
AS preliminary to amalgamation,
Rhodes had formed small combination
of interests in 1880 called the De Beers
Diamond Mining Company, and Gardner
Williams records an interesting fact that
one of his checks was for f5, drawn by
Rhodes as an advance against his saiary
as secretary.
Rhodes and Barnato soon came to
loggerheads; for Barney was supposed to
represent the illicit diamond-buyers in
the community. He was, of course, rep
resenting various interests, and had
formed the Central Diamond Mining
Company, and had to be considered in the
amalgamation, albeit Rhodes had bought
large interests in the companies Barnato
represented.
The actual facts of the negotiation with
Barney are not of supreme Importance,
but the following curious story has been
very widely accepted as true:
Rhodes and his people were for long
time unable to come to terms with Barney
and his faction. The former had for some
time been negotiating with the Roth
schilds, with view to the consolidation
of the mines, which he knew to be vital
to the existence of the diamond trade.
He knew that if individual diggers could
sell their diamonds as they pleased, it
meant death-blow to the diamond in
dustry, and that it's salvation lay in con-
troll of the output being obtained; and,
to this end, Brazilian properties were
later on acquired by De Beers and closed
down. The peculiar market for stones
necessitated regulation of the supply, and
an amalgamation of the various interests
only could prevent the unrestricted sale
of diamonds.
Rhodes required some weeks to COM
plete his arrangements for the formation
of his great trust, but Barnato had large
stock Of diamonds ready sorted for the
market (any one who knows anything Of
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When Rhodes Got the Diamond Mines

TN 1870, the year that Cecil Rhodes
went out to Natal, the first diamond
rush to Kimberley occurred; and
Herbert Rhodes, inspired by the reports
of the great diamond finds and tired of
farming, made his way to the fields, and
from there he wrote to his brother to join
him. Cecil did so in 1872.
The brothers worked claim together
at Colesberg Kop until 1874, and it was
there, while still much under thirty, that
Cecil Rhodes gained control of the great
est diamond mines in the world. Rhodes
former secretary, Gordon LIE Sueur, in
his new biography, published by Nc
Bride, Mast & Company, tells the story.
1t was undoubtedly from his brother
Herbert, says LIE Sueur, that Rhodes
became first imbued with his great
idea of acquiring the hinterland of the
southern colonies for the British Empire.
Herbert was strongly inspired by the idea
of expansion northward that afterward
induced his brother to pass his hand
over the map of Africa and say, africa
all red; that is my dream"
Cecil Rhodes experiences as a digger
were much the same as those of others,
but he often referred to the luck that fol-
lowed him on the fields. He used to tell
story Of his giving picnic on the Val
River to number of friends. The cost of
the picnic was f40, and after luncheon he
walked down to the river, where, among
the pebbles, he picked up diamond
which in Kimberley he sold for just f40.
AT Kimberley the first great event of
his life evolved-the amalgamation of the
diamond diggings, and the formation in
1888 of the De Beers Consolidated Mines,
Ltd, one of the greatest and wealthiest
private corporations the world has ever
known, the powers granted under its
articles of association being practically
unlimited. Rhodes had become asso-
ciated with the late Barnett Isaacs, who
called himself Barnato Isaacs Barnato
and was familiarly known as Barney"
This man, Jewish digger,-half prize
fighter and half music-hall artist,-had
peculiar faculty in one direction: money
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"My Own Country First"


THERE'S no blind loving going on
between the nations in Europe. The
Allies, on both sides, have been thrown to-
gether by exigencies of world politics; but
underneath all the formal expressions of
friendship there lies the purpose of every
man in every nation to make such sacri-
fees as he must, for his own country.
"My own country first: this is the
motto of every man in Europe. And,
coming from Europe to the United States,
the first thought that forces itself to the
fore in my mind is this: We can expect
nothing in the way of consideration from
any nation in Europe. Nobody loves us
there.
1t is time for us to begin being Ameri-
cans. By doing this we can make our
selves respected, even if we are not loved.
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Kansas, pulled an American flag from an
American Red Cross storehouse in Mon
astir, and said, throwing it to the ground:
"Why, this is only good to scare Mexicans
with" But he was the only man in
Europe that met or heard of who, having
once been in America, proved traitor to
the United States. Scores Of men met,
in every army, who had, at one time or
another, lived in the United States and
made their living there; and always happy
smiles came to their faces and pleasant
words to their lips when they told me
how kindly the United States had received
them and given them of her bounty.
except these when l make the general
assertion that nobody in Europe loves us.
Just to get down to bedrock in this
matter of international love, it will become
more important, as time goes on, for
Americans to realize that there is little
international love, from the viewpoint of
the man on the street, between any of the
countries in Europe, even between Allies.