The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, December 29, 1886, Page 1

| The Butler Weekly Times, DL 1X. BUTLER, MISSOURI, WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 29 , 1886 No ee Prevention of Accidents. The whole t pnecy of modern in- | priateness. | vrei progress is in the direction of | a ae tea | — mies abolishing manual labor in manufac- : fanny names Lae eae ' tures, and substituting for it machinery, | John W. Cromwe dildren, anyhow, adi ro pe! i which is being constantly improved, | ist in Puiladelp Not the high-soun¢ hee i ie 11 and which in the not distant future may | hibit of the bus qeromantic comige bani : ites be expected to reach still higher stages | Tace in Americ: i, although they iileg acuadl : of pertection. The result of this change | The Carolir red hair and freckles sometimes. | in the methods of production, of course, number of well eal good, sensible names, even | necessitates the use of considerable | Carolina has i) et iron I stables sent power, and the rapid movements of belt- | boys wi! SARCASM OF NAMES. The Value of Foods. = ie - ANCIENT WIGGINSES. i It has come tot EE ee that the simplest sow r : rt Leeann de le They Foretold Hurricanes and Bad __ If the crows make a great deai . articles of diet are the safest, and that is, Weather—The Rising of the Sun and noise and fly round and round, e se in my opinion, another argument in Moon as Indicators. rain. y ree pose = = living. Yes, the simplest Se gas If water fowl scream more than usual are the safest, and, let me add, the best and plunge into th pec are the cheapest. The butcher, for ex- rain = aioli os age | ample, or the egg merchant can not If bi i h birds ene ic! 2 adulterate his wares, but he may have wash cusinselees e vs pay dyes | several qualities; and there is a stage at it will rain SG ones which ail animal foods arrive, when c 3 irbi || Loneailatigraiwiliehtrendérgthemricts If cranes place their bills under wings, ! | WEALTHY NEGROES. | —_— | ' e peamples of Anything but Appro- | Colored Citizens Long before a national weather bu- reau telegraphed all over the country its predictions as to whether to-morrow would be stormy, showery, cloudy, or fine, or a Wiggins began to announce— never to come—earthquakes which were to shake a continent, or cyclones and | compiled an ex- | s condition of his | | Newton, Isaac Newton. His and mathematics were gel founded. I shall never Bx his amazemient when the teacher Pjbim that two and two made ” He stuck out for seven for a long snd at length agreed to leave it dass, and when we unanimously jin favor of four he said it was fgstin’est thing ever happened to Theday he learned that an apple, | from the tree, would fall down dotup, he sat without speaking d jay, dumb under the over- | ring burden of this revelation that upon bim like the world-renowned of thunder out of a clear sky. And day, overhearing the teacher de- , the sun was more than twice lneve a8 the earth he gathered up his sandsaid he couldn’t stand any | ofthis nonsense. He never came is toschool. He got a place as clerk scoal-yard, where his immovable in the doctrine that two and two seven, and the attraction of gravi- makes things fall up, so that the : ing weighs the heavier it ed his way to a partnership and wealth He kept on knowing and less every day, until now he is eminently respectable citizen. there was young Solomon Wise- He stood at the foot of the same five years; that was the lowest in I. He never got out of it. the teacher: ‘Can fish live on the Wiseman?” And Solomon thought ; and said: “Yes’m."? Then midno, and explained why they n't, and then asked, ‘Could they. in the air?” and he said, cheerfully, 'm.” But she said no, and explain- hy, and then asked, ‘But they could ‘Pin the water, couldn’t they?” And Wiseman said, very confidently, ” She said they could, and this d him. He never came so answering a question correctly He staid in school five years, fing which time he drove two teachers ide. He isa rich man now and ber of a local board of civil-ser- reform. When he left school he jsplace down at the gas works, and failing capacity for making every- mean exactly what it didn’t say tothe invention of the gas-meter, #0 he sped on to fortune. do you know, I couid give a instances of these misnomers. was Jerry Blackhart, not Jere- but Jeroboam. He was a half- Indian, son of old Col. Blackhart, Buiwrable old thief of an Indian ed ae = boy Jeroboam to chaplain of the post. That bo: loved his worthless old father, ont ldn’t have his name changed for pring, though everybody shortened a But he was the whitest boy list school. He never used a word a ion that he couldn’t have in Sunday-school. He was the soul fos id was religious clear § got up a noon prayer- in school and it led to a savte. he is a missionary to-day work- ong his brethren in the Far West. there was Nick Doolittle; he was roa be school. He read by plight until he was bald at 17, studied into brain-fever at 18; then he acivil engineer; laid out rail- faster than the Gould family could them up, and every time i gets ly busy he discharges two or because, he says, they get his way and retard his work. Fact is, can't tell much about a boy by his “xcept in the old-time Sunday- where the goo boys are named John and Charles and tad ones are called Bob and Bill. _— oo Undertakers’ Mistakes. Undertakers are not infallible. They jest to make a mistake as } who officiates at the other & citizen's career. ‘Then our re so embarrassing,” said a t undertaker recently. “I had Tecently to the home of. & wealthy : though I could locate his Besence just as surely us I can locate own home. I was mistaken. 1 took of crape anda slab and launched lofind the house of death. There sounds of hushed and burried con- within when I knocked at y oped block and a halt ? tesidence of the famil ‘ay deceased customer. Windows Sa posite side of the street flew open *magic, and the gossips of the vicin- 3 dhke magpies and wonder- we Was dead at the house of their peavor. I felt disgusted when the Was corrected. Then an occa- eis made by parties giving Wrong number, for instance 230 ot 330, as the number of the @ usually tuke the precaution ~, Bre to go before entering. fe superstitious about under- if the party who has engaged | at the house where we are | Many | | Futile efforts } ing and gearing expose workmen to | dangers to which in earlier times they were not liable. In this country the legislatures have fora long time shown | that they considered employers of labor to have duties to perform in seeing that those in their pay should run no unne- cessary risks. attempt was mode to deal with this matter until 187, when inspectors were appointed with j};ower to order changes in factories, wit: a view to the protec- tion of children. This, he could prove that they were due to carelessness on the part of the work- man. for that class of risk which may be de- scribed as inseparable from the trade, compulsory insurance has to be effected, | one-half of the premium for which has to be paid by the employer and the re- mainder by the workman. A further proposal is now made to improve the sanitary arrangements of workshops, as well as to bring about increased safety. In Germany and Austria similar enact- ments are in force. In France, how- ever, a useful initative has been taken by certain unions, in which are repre- sentatives of all kinds of industry, who have inspectors of their own, and who form a kind of council, at which full consideration ean be given to the best means of preventing accidents. Thus, the engineers of one association have taken, one by one, all machinery of a dangerous character and entered min- utely into the best means to be adopted for rendering them safe as far as _possi- ble. ‘These proceedings have proved very beneficial, and have not only had a local effect, but the recommendations have been adopted in surrounding dis- tricts. The idea is one worthy of no- tice, as tending to prevent overiegisla- tion, which not infrequently has a harassing influence upon business.— Scientific American. — Stonewall Jackson at Manassas. I never was close to him on the field of battle but once—that was on the hill not far from the Henry house, at the first battle of Manassas. He was ex- tremely pale, but his eyes glared with an unnatural brilliancy. It was on that occasion that Col. Baylor of Aug- usta county rode hurriedly up to him and said: ‘General, my men are arm- ed with the old flint-lock musket, and not half of them will fire.” He replied: “If you will examine it you will find that old musket has the best bayonet in the world. Use the bayonet, colonel.” In a short while the federal troops be- gan to give way, and it is possible that this circumstance turned the tide of bat- tle. Ihave seen the statement some- where that Gen. Bee said to him, ‘‘Gen- eral, they are beating us_ back,” and Jackson's reply was: ‘We will give them the bayonet, sir.” This may be true, but it is probable that the remark made to Col. Baylor was afterward claimed to have been made to Gen. Bee. Iwill never forget the terrific fighting that evening about 3 o’clock— the roar of artillery, the screaming, bursting shells, the rattle of small arms. The smoke blinded me; I stoo ed low to see how to lead my men. We were almost exhausted, and burning with thirst. Beauregard galloped by; thia gave us some hope, and we cheer- ed him and pressedon. The federals fought desperately. At last I saw Jack- son, and | felt safe, for his presence al- ways inspired his men with confidence. That evening he was shot through the bridle-hand. Gen. Imboden approach- ed, called his attention to the fact, and suggested surgical aid. Jackson said: “It is a mere scratch, sir.” His hand was bound up with a sash, he continu- ing on the field until the engagement ceased. He then repaired to the place where the wounded had been collected. The surgeons were busy, of course. One of them, seeing Gen. Jackson, ap- proached and offered him assistance. The general insisted that the surgeon actuelito those who were more seriously hurt than himself, saying he preferred waiting until the private soldiers were relieved. — Southern Bivouac. ———= Italy has twenty-one universities— one more than Germany. They are divided into two classes, those which receive state support and those which do not. The first class includes Turin, Genoa, Pavia, Padua, Pisa, Bologna, Rome, Naples. Palermo and Messina. Naples has the largest number of students (3,900), while the smallest number (thirty-nine) is found at Fer- rara, which was once for Italy what Weimar was to Germany, the seat of the greatest minds of the age, and which, therefore, desperately clings to the privilege of being a university town. Turin has 2,100, Rome 1,200, Bologna 1,160 students the others except- ing Pavis than 1,000. made to reduce th jn France, however, no | however, was | found insufficient, and in 1884 a law | was passed making the employer respon- | . sible for accidents, except in cases where | In addition to this, to provide | thin mestic affairs. The judgment of most | true wives and mothers is often remark- | abi: | that of their husbands. ‘ t wife,” should be the husband’s motto. teen men rep R. Smalis is worth posit. One m: recently b« half a mil Several are worth $10v,000 each. E groes of } York own from million dolixrs’ worth of real P. A. White, a wholesale drug- | | gist, is worth a quarter of 1 and has an annual b Catherine Black is wor in New Jersey t 000,000 worth of re has more negro home other large city. worth a total John Thomas, the wealthiest, is worth about $150,000. Less than 100 negroes in Washington are worth a total of $1,- 000,000. In Louisiana the negroes pay taxes on $15,000,000 in New Orleans, and $30,000,000 in the State. Ionie Lafon, a French quadroon, is worth $1,100,- 000. ‘The Morcer Bros., clothiers, carry a stock of $300,000. Missouri has twenty-seven citizens worth $1,000,000 in amounts ranging from $20,000 to $250,000. The richest colored woman of the South, Amanda Eubanks, made so by the will of her white father, is worth $400,000, and lives near Augusta, Ga, Chicago, the home of 18,000 colored people, has three colored firms in busi- ness whose proprietors represent $20,- 000 each, one $15,000, and nine $10,- 000. The Eastlake Furniture Company is worth $20,000. A. J. Scott has $35,- 000 invested in the livery business and is worth $100,000, including a well- stocked farm in Michigan. rs. John Jones and Richard Grant are worth $70,000 each. A. G. White, of St Louis, formerly purveyor to the Anchor Line of steamers, after financial re- verses, has, since the age of 45, re- trieved his fortunes and accumulated $30,000. Mrs. M. Carpenter, a San Francisco colored woman, has a bank account of $50,000, and Mrs. Mary Pleasants has an income from eight houses in San Francisco, a ranch near San Mateo, and $100,000 in govern- ment bonds. In Marysville, Cal., twelve individuals are the owners of ranches valued in the aggregate at from $150,000 to $180,000. One of them, Mrs. Peggy Bredan, has besides a bank account of $40,000. These statistics show that the brother in black is making some headway in the world. He is learning to “tote his own skillet.”,— Atlanta Constitution. — i oo They Did Not Understand the Capers. men I was chatting with the captain of an Allan liner at sea a couple of years ago when there approached a deputation of north of Ireland emigrants. They came to complain of an “extraordinary mess” which that day had been served in the steerage for dinner. The spokesman was a voluble person, who interlarded the narrative of his grievance with easy familiar allusions to the powers and ter- rors of the board of trade when these were exercised in the cause of the “poor emi t.” “Bring up the dish,” said the captain to the steerage steward. A large kit of boiled leg of mutton, with caper sauce, still hot and appetiz- ing, was produced. “What's the matter with this?” asked the commander. “Shure, need ye ask?’ replied the head of the deputation, pointing, with an expression of horror, to the little mm berries in the succulent sauce. “Do ye think emigrant passengers are hathens and bastes that ye should give us mutton stewed with sour pase?” It took some time to explain to the deputation that sour peas really formed a much-esteemed complement of boiled leg of mutton; but the spokesman, though evidently conscious that he and his friends had incontinently come to cut a “‘square caper” of their own, re- tired with dignity from the conflict. “A caper ye call it,” he said; “be jabers, captain, ye can kape it for the saloon. ell have our mutton clane in the future.”"—London News. Teli Your Wife About It. I think it is safe for a man to tell his wife all he knows. And it is unsafe for him to keep her in ignorance of his financial aftairs, or in ignorance of any- bearing directly upon her do- good; better, in many cases, than “Teil your | boiled. flesh meats ofall kinds, and I will not | ) houses. j prepared to have this little sentence | pooh-poohed by the robust and healthy. ate | Ce and never feel tired, that the eating large extent poisonous, and this is as | bad if not worse than adulterated. We often hear it said that shop eggs, | as they are called, are good enough for | frying, with bacon for example. ‘This | isa positive mistake; an egg that has | even 2 suspicion of staleness about it is deleterious to health, not to say danger- | ous, no matter whether it be fried or And the same may be said of except a hare or venison. I am quite I only add that I adhere to it; that I have the courage of my convictions and furthermore, that I have invalids and | dyspeptics, and those with delicate di- | | gestions, in my thoughts as I write. I grant you, my healthful athlete, | | who can tramp over the moors with gun | and bag frommorning dawn till dewy of long-kept game may not seem to | injure you; but the bare fact that | piquant sauces and stimulants are need- ed to aid its digestion is exceedingly suspicious. There are two animals in particular that like their food high and | tender; one is the crocodile, the other our friend the dog. Both have wonder- fully strong digestive powers; little in- ferior, in poiat of fact, to that of the os- trich, about which bird so many fanci- ful stories hare been written and told. It may be said, without much fear of contradiction, that any kind of food or any mixed det or meal which requires the aid of stimulant, either of the nature of condimentor wines, is not salutary. Such diet as this is a tax upon the whole system, and causes heat and dis- comfort, and a feverish state of the blood, which can only end in debility of the nervous system and more or less of prostration. But those who would obtain the reatest amount of health and comfort rom the food they eat must be most careful in its selection. Leaving idio- syneresy cut of count for the present, although everyone ought to know what agrees with him and what does not, there are many things connected with the value and digestibility of food ob- tamed from various sources that Ido well to remind the reader of.—Casseli’s Magazine. The Artist Hunt's Earlier Career. Hunt worked for fifteen years in Bos- ton, painting some of his best portraits | and figure pieces, without receiving any recognition from the press, save now and then a short notice. Tom Robin- | son thought this ought not to be, so he undertook to find out why it was and to try to get a more hearty appreciation of Hunt's merits through the columns of the newspapers. ¢ He went to ali the newspaper editors of Boston and talked and expatiated at length on the unusual merits of Hunt’s pictures, the credit he was to Boston and the country, and the necessity that newspaper men were under to pay proper attention to him, as well as to artin general, and more especially as it behooved them to look after great men for their own interests. In all the offices he was treated with respect, kindly received, and his arguments ac- ea as just and reasonable, except in that of Mr. Blank, who told him loudly and boldly that he cared ‘nothing for art, had no respect for artists, and especially none for Hunt” “I know him to be a Beacon-street aristocrat,” he continued, “and if there is any oue thing that I hate more than another it is the people who live on that street, and I wish you a day.”” And he added: “This paper is publish- ed for the people, the aristocracy do not support it,and I will have nothing to do with that class of useless members of the community. “Hold on! Wait a minute,” said the friend of Hunt, ‘just listen to me a moment, and I will prove to you that Mr. Hunt is the greatest representative of the people that you ever heard of, and the very man of all others that you will iike when you know about him.” . And the determined and enthusiastic Hunt's nature as aman and artist; his re- ition of Millet, the French painter, ees anyone knew him: and how he saved his money to buy Millet’s pict- ures, led others to buy them also, and so helped the poor French artist along. How Hunt was quick and ready to assist younger artists, how he worked for small prices when he was interested in the portrait of a person he liked; how | he painted his great portrait of Chef Justice Shaw for almost nothing, and of what value such things were to the } State. | “Ig that the kind of a man Hunt is?” said Blank. “Ifso,1 am sorry 1 was mistaken. I'll print anything you will | bring. He is the kind of a man we {want to take care of And tell him | ““j¢ | Blank says so.""—Boston Post. 2 — i | | and turkey: hurricanes which were to blow away cities, households were governed by a set of rules in the battles of the ele- ments. These rules are to be found in hand-books published as late as half a century ago, and some of them are very curious. They the appearance of the sun and moon, and others to the actions of various ani- | mals, including insects and birds, and by them the ancient Wiggins foretold | When a storm was at hand. Some house- | wives still adhere to the ancient sayings as infallible, and they look to the sun in the morning and to the moon at night for indications of the weather on the morrow. The motion, rapid or slow, of the clouds was regarded as one of the methods for foretelling the ap- proach of rain or snow. When there was a mist before the rise of the full moon, if clouds were seen in the west before the sun rose, or there was a mist | in the fields before sunrise, wet weather was expected. When the mists vanish- ed rapidly and the moon seemed to rise faster than usual tine weather was sure to gladden the hearts of merry-makers on the succeeding day. If clouds sud- denly appeared in the south and there was a north wind in April the farmers predicted a storm. When the winds changed and the clouds flew along in “tail,” then the rules prescribed rain. Some other of the curious rules, many of which are still referred to in the con- versation of everyday life, were as fol- lows: If spiders, in spinning their webs, make the terminating filaments long, we may, in proportion to their Tongtl, conclude that the weather will be serene and continue so for ten or twelve days. there are no falling stars to be seen on a bright summer's evening you may look for fine weather. Spiders generally alter their web once in twenty-four hours; if they do this between 6 and7in the evening there wiil be a fine night; if they alter their web in the morning, expect a tine day; if they work during rain, expect fine weather; and the more active and busy the spider is the finer will be the weather. If many gnats are seen in spring, ex- pect a fine autumn; if gnats fly in com- pact bodies in the beams of the setting sun there will be fine weather. If spiders’ webs fly in the autumn with a south wind, expect an east wind with fine weather. If bats flutter and beetles fly about there will be a fine morrow. If owls scream during foul weather it will change to fair. If storks and cranes fly high and steadily there will be fine weather. Ifthe garden spiders break and de- stroy their webs and creep away, expect rainy or showery weather. If there be many falling stars on a clear evening in the summer there will be thunder. If the stars above foree degrees, especially the north star, flicker strong] and appear closer than usual, there will be rain. A rainbow in the morning is the shepherd’s warning. If old and rheumatic people complain of their corns and joints and limbs once broken at the place of their union there wiil be foul or wet weather. If the smoke from chimneys blows down, or if soot takes fire more readily than usual, or falis down the chimney into the grate, expect rain. if ditches and drains smell stronger than usual, expect rain; and when tobacco smoke seems denser and more powerful, expect bad weather. If the marigold continues shut after 7 o'clock in the evening, expect rain. If the convolvulus and chickweed close, there will be rain. If sheep, rams and in the meadows an usual, expect rain. If asses shake fight more than rain. if cattle 1 ff feeding and chase friend of the painter went on to tell of eer ay ee eir past it. will in. If cats lick their bodies and wast their faces it will rain. If foxes and dogs howl and bark more than usual; if dogs grow sleepy and dull, If swine be restless and grunt loudly; ey 34 erneir beads, From this tule sprang the proverb: “Pigs can see if they squeak and jerk u there will be much sea i much wind.” 3 ; If moles cast up hills, rain. If rats and mice be restless it will } rain. number nearly two hundred, some relating to the move- ments of clouds and winds, others to | ts spring about their ears, bray and rub against walls and trees, expect If horses stretch out their necks and sniff the air and assemble in the corner of a field with their heads to leeward, peacocks and guinea fowls scream s gobble, and if quails make | more noise than usual, there will be rain. If bees remain in their hives or fly _ but a short distance from them, rain. If fish bite more readily, and gambol | near the surface of streams and ponds, rain. If enats, flies, ete., bite sharper than | usual, expect rain. If worms creep out of the ground in great numbers, expect rain. If frogs and toads croxk more than | usual, expect rain. __ If the crickets sing louder than usual, it will rain, If the owls screech, death is near and | there will be rain. If the sea-anemone shut, and accord- | ing to the extent it open, so will the weather be fine or less so. If porpoises ang whales sport about ships, expect a hurricane. If the trefoil contract its leaves, expect thunder and heavy rain. If the mole digs his hole two feet and a half deep, expect a very severe winter; if two feet deep, not so severe; one foot deep, a mild winter. If robins approach nearer houses than usual, expect frost; if the ice crack much the frost will continue. If the leaves of the trees move without any a wind, rain may be ex- ted. % These rules are evidently made to do service for all parts of the world.— Brooklyn Citizen. A The Hoosier Maintained His Rights. A few years ago the habit of convey- ing food to the mouth with a knife was voted a grave offence by Germans at Heidelberg, anc during the year sev- eral duels were fought on the strength of it. On one occasion a young man mortally offended a number of his best friends by inadvertently placing his knife to his lips while eating at his own table. His guests all withdrew, and the next day he was surprised to receive a challenge from each one. He was in honor ‘beanie to accept them, as they were in proper form. After ‘oe three or four of them to the bloody int, the authorities arrested the whole ot, and imprisoned them until they promised to drop it. An American, hailing from Indiana, stepped into a restaurant in Vienna one day to get his dinner. Seated at the other table were a number of German bloods, some of whom were noisy and, tothe American, quite vulgar in their manners. He paid little attention to this, thinking it was the way they were raised. He had no sooner begun his after the Indiana fashion, using bie knife and fork as he had done at home, than a big spectacled and titled Ger- man arose aud declared that be had been ly insulted by this man eating with his knife. ‘Then the whole crowd gathered around him and threatened all sorts of damage to bis person. Kinally the big chap who had been the first in- sulted slapped the Hoosier in the face. The next instant the offended gentle man was going down the back stairway head first, and in less than two min- utes the American was monarch of the cafe, and proceeded to eat his dinner as any Indiana gentleman would.— Pittsburg Dispatch. —_——2 oe Wanted to Change His “Booking.” meal, “I was in New York one day last. week,” said a railroad agent, who looks after the immigration business for a trunk line, ‘‘and while at Castle Gar- den saw a very ludicrous incident Hanging on the wall there was a map- of the United States containing on the — the advertisement of a Eon and land and immigration agents. in on the map, ots location of several western cities, was a red flag, to draw attention to the various points at which the firm’s branch offices were located. Chicago was thus marked, and so was Kansas City, Omaha, St Paul and Denver. While { was stand- ing there an Englishman came up,. looked at es ce immediately be- came greatly exci! yale ee oe he eet out his railroad ticket. ‘Hi'm for Homa’s, and on the theer Hi see it is a Hanarchist town. Hi'll never go to a Hanarchist place. Hi’ll go back to Hingland first, so theer! won't J change me booking, y'know?” “And that wild Englishman took on. at a creat rate, and rushed around ask- ing everybody he saw ifthe Hanarchists’ had complete possession of Omaha and if it was safe for a traveler to set foot in the town, and if he would have tc. pass through Chicago to get to Omaha, and if there wasn’t some way in which. he could have his ‘booking’ ch and soon. When at last he was ed sufficiently to teil the officers the cause of his excitement, it was that he had taken the red flag on the map to mean that the cities so marked were in the power of the Anarchists Wasn't it funny?” —Chicago Herald. ! ——<« he and when such a istake fave described occurs think that} high sche Member of the family at the house | at any [\ mistake will be called away ! on c "— Albany Journal. ! time: H association ' rain. ‘ : has been formed in St. Louis. Nothing | Hf sea birds fly less than a man’s entire bag wiil | dirds toward the | No need to ask wives to tell their hus- | bands all they know. They do it any- > | how. And this is no slur on them, for ~ | they have a right to.—Zenas Dane, in | Good Housekeeping. A sleeping-car porters’ toward land and land \ “Well, Thomas, you say you havea sea there will be rain. | oommend?” “Waal, yes, sab; I i ‘ hereafter be received as a t New | Iftbe cock crows more than usual and | brought my fadah Sh to outer | Haven News. ' earlier, expect rain. | me; he’s knowed me all my life, - { ne il If swallows fly lower than usual, ex- | Harver’s Weekly. i