The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, December 11, 1902, Page 2

ret Stiai ry PUL aAAiEd Hidden P'cte-cs 0 Rooseve.t m Cap.ol Building. McK aley and Discovery in Statuary Hall of the Skill of Artist Allison Who Paint- ed the Walls In Imitation Stone, Portraiis—of—President Roosevelt and ex-President McKinley were dis- covered the other day on’ the imita- tion walls @f statuary hall in the cap- itol.- They were not ordered by Uncle 6am and will not be paid for. They were painted into the walls by Mr. Allison, the artist who painted the big pillars in the pension office in {imitation of marble, and who deco- rated the shafts ‘with the now fa- mous shadow drawings. The two pic- tures of the present executive and his predecessor are similar shadow drawings. Both portraits are excel- lent, and, while it is difficult to dis-' cover them at first, so skillfully are they hidden, when once seen they loom up lifelike in size and can be ebserved from every portion of the chamber, now adorned by marble Monuments to the nation’s great men, The picture of McKinley is in pro- file and about 18 inches in length. It is in one of the four panels, im- mediately above the statue of Roger Williams, on the western side of the hall, It is a striking likene nd is said by the other artists engs ged on the work to be one of the best por- traits of McKinley ever painted. The portrait of President Roose- velt is on the south wall of the hall, to the right of the entrance, and just back of the statue of Gen, Allen, It is a full view, and shows the pres- {dent in his khaki uniform as a colo- nel in the volunteer cavalry of the United States, It is about nine inch in height, and a more complete piece | of work than the other, Every line an! shadow in both pictures is abso- | lutely essential to make the imitated marble perfect. The lines of the face ; are formed by eracks in the imitated ! etone, and every mark serves a double } pu yose When the pictures were discovered the other morning the hordes of capi- tol enides beeame happy. There will be two more interesting things to} show the public next winter when coneress convenes and the building swarms with visitors... The portraits were hailed with delight, and every guide immediately set about discov erine others. So far none has been found. Artist Allison declines to say whe str all or not, Meantime the guides expect to. find additions] ones, and they are busy in consequence. YOUNG VANDERBILT TO WED. Miss Neilson to Become the Bride of One of the Young Million- aire Trio, The marriage of Reginald Vander- bilt to Miss Neilson, which will take place soon, serves to attention again to one of the wealthiest young men in the country. Reginald Van- derbilt came of age last spring, and is now manager of his own fortune of $7,500,000, He figured prominently in a bi ambling scandal a year ago, but has since settled down. Alfred G, Van- derbilt, who received the bulk of the Vanderbilt fortune, is the least health- |- ful of the three brothers, and, al- though he appears to be robust in his pictures, is in reality rather frail. Cor- nelius Vanderbilt, Jr., the man who really should have inherited the major portion of the wealth and represeat- ed the family by right, estranged him- self on account of his marriage and was cut off with but a paltry few mil- lions. His brother Alfred generously handed over $3,000,000 to tide the young man over. Cornelius is an inventor and has done good work ircivil engineering and in mechanics. He worked fora time as a brakeman on the railway to get practical knowledge. The social »rivalry between the wives of the two elder boys has been bitter and long, ‘but Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt has been triumphing of late years, and when Prince Henry was her guest her victory was complete over her rival. PLANS FOR NEW CRUISERS. Are Changed So That the Speed Is Sacrificed to the Fighting Power, The naval board on construction Jbas finally decided on the features of the armored cruisers authorized by “the last congress. Speed has been ‘sacrified in a measure to power. By ‘a vote of four against one Engineer ‘din Chief Melville’s proposition to give ‘the big ships 25,000 horse-power and B speed of 23 knots at a minimum was rejected and the horse-power will stand at 23,000, which, he estimates, wit actually bring the speed down to about 21% knots Thé new boats, therefore, will be 3% knots slower than the four famous British ar- mored cruisers of the Drake class. To offset this lack of speed the Ten- nessee class will have a much more’ powerful battery, the protective deck at its thickest part being 414 inches, White the work was going on the } workmen exhumed nine bodies that | Wave the appearance of marble slabs and are as.solid-as_a_rock. — + with 16-inch side armor. The ships have been given so much power offense and defefse that taking the ground that the intent of» —eongress has been evaded andthe ere has been found, says t parapet actual battleships Tribune? Hang the villuin cruisers r there are more pictures in | Laports of B rand ( Ceniire be Last Year The exports of cce fx e Uni- for the ps Sears, aad amounted to only 27,203,154 pounds ; Valued at $2,745,597, agaimst 39,813,517 pounds, valued at $3,950,999, in the peric _previous year. Infect as faresvattey is concerned, the imports of this pro- duct are now almost equa? to the ex- ports, the imports of the foreign vari- eties in 1902 having amounted to 17,- 067,714 pounds, valued at $2,551,366, against imports of 15,329.099 pounds, valued at $2,120,293, in the previous year. To appreciate the decline in the export trade in this product, it is only necessary to recall that in 1880 the to- tal exports of cheese from the United States amounted to the large total of 33,907 pounds, with a value of $12,- 171,720, Exports of butter also continue to decline. In the fiscal year 1901-02 ex- ports of this product from the United States amounted to 16,002,1¢ valued at $2,885,609, against 2 pounds, valued at $4,014,905, in previous year. Twenty-two years ago the exports of this product also were at the maximum and amounted to 39. pounds, valued at $6,690, tituting an export trade that in value was worth about half the like trate in cheese, In 1895 exports of butter had declined to the low record mark of 5,598,812 pounds, with a value { of only $915,533, As early as 1897, ; however, they recovered to $1,345,224 xX pounds, worth $4,493,364; but since that date they have declined steadily, excepting for the slight recovery in | 1901, Exports of butter, as measured by values, exceeded exports of cheese in the last fiscal year by over $140, 000. RUSSIA’S FINANCES. A Large Increase Is Reported in the Receipts of That Country tor the Year, Finwace Minisier Witts bas arrived 1in Viadivostock from St. Petersburg in record time, having covered j miles in 16 days, including stops. This } speed cannot be ine t with safety until the great Sibe ounts the or- dinary receipts of t ussian govern- ment for the first months of the present year are 600,000, or more * than $20,000,009 above those in the same period last year, The extraordinary , receipts amount to $7,500,000, nent three times as much as last year, The ordinary expenditures were 5,000,- 000, an excess of $34,000,000 over last year, and the extraord expendi- ; tures were 32,000,001 of 1901, | has been in the government n »poly of the spirit trade, which now extends over the whole of Russia, This yield- ed $13,000,000 more than in 1901, and the Imperial railway gave $8,000,000 more. FRIVOLITY IN MARRIAGE. Rev, Newell Dwight Hillis Speaks on the Thoughtlessness of Young Men and Women, That most men were careless and most maidens frivolous before the j marriage altar, Rev, Newell Dwight | Hillis declared in a sermon in Plym- | outh church. He shocked some. He said in part: “Oh, the recklessness of young men|@ and the carelessness and frivolity of |S young women who go to the marriage | ¢ altar to-day! Why, young people have come to my study “to be mar-|§ ried, and when I have taken the|@ young woman aside and talked to her} @ about the seriousness and solemnity of the step she was taking she has] said: ‘Oh, well, when I get tired of/ him I can easily Have it all dis-| 2 solved.’” TEXAS OIL FOR CAPITOL. Farnaces in the Building at Wash- ington Remodeled So as to Use Be it Prodact, The officials in charge of the heating of the great capitol building are going to give up the use of coal, It ig an- nounced that Beaumont oil will be used The furnaces have been remodeled for the purpose of burning fuel oil, anda supply of the Beaumont product has »een contracted for. It is not improb- able that the superintendents of the departments will follow the example of Elliot Woods, superintendent of'the capitol building, in arranging for the use of oil for heating purposes. Petrificd Bones Unearthed, Nine petrified bodies have been found in the cemetery attached to the New York infant asylum atMount cently and it became necessary to re- move the bodies in the cemetery. j ag \e they can get at him, intemal ss by $8,500,000 than the extraordinary expenditures When sick you want the best physician, and the best physician requires the aid ofthe best. druggist. Pharmacy ia now a more exact- ing svience than it used to be. New diséov- ies, pew remevies and new ideas require t modern druggist to be up to date. This is a thoroughly modern store. It ex- emplifies all that is latest and best on the professional side of pharmacy. Those who are careful in their drug buying, who want to feel secure, can find good reasons for bringing us their prescriptions. We can fill them no matter by whom they were written. tH. L. TUCKER, Best Drug Store in Bates Co. Butler, Mos FOOOOOOGOOOOIONI ODIO IH WANTED. | All the produce you have. In exchange we will give you values better than cash, Great reduction of 10 per cent on queensware. We have a complete line of Holiday Goods. Come in and look over our stock and get our prices. We also have a complete line of GROGERIES, FLOUR AND FEED, that we are selling at the bottom prices. Get our prices on flour and feed in job lots. Alsojhave the best bread in Bates county, 8 loaves for 25 cents. Cheaper thn dirt these high times. NORFLETT & REAM. The largest increase in the receipts KISOOOWOL}OOOH}OHOOHOHOSOOOOO OOOO Sydney Shackelford Dead. Glaegow, Mo.,: Dec. 6.—Sydney| Washington, Dec. 6.—The Presi- Shackelford, one of the best-known | dent has denied the application for a Citizens of Howard county, dropped | pardén made on behalf of J. M. dead at his home near this place. He | Knight, who was convicted ofembez-| world-wide notoriety at the time of|.. to heat the big home of the lawmakers} had been afflicted with heart disease | sling the funds of the German Na- ¢ Y 3 during the coming session of congress. | for gome time. 7 Vernon. The asylum was closed re- . A way to circumvent the Texas ly nch-| ¢ OUR GREATEST NEED in a financial way just now isa larger demand for loans. We havea large surplus, which is steadily growing larger. The situation, therefore, compels us to again aunounce that we are in need of desirableloans. The terms and conditions of our loaning are such as to make them acceptable to all good borrowers, - MISSOURI STATE BANK. ty. For several years previous | whatever for pardon.” to the Civil War he was a member of | TALS the firm of Shackelford, Finney &Co. of St. Louis. He leaves a widow and five children. “ i A ae in vAini raUUUCic. AYS ‘ Work of New Warships Is Seriously <> Show a 8 » mas DRUGGIST’S HELP. No Pardon For McKnight, Ha had been a resident of Howard ite president. The President indore- éounty since 1847 and for many ed the years was considered one of the lead- ;.“Denied; and etock raisers in this | clear case of guilt with no excuse} on a8 follows: sooms an absoli Frightened Horse, like mad the ILDING NAVY. Mampered by Nondelsvery of Structural, Steel. Nontelivery of structural steel, strikes anu dearth of skilled labor bave ceiayed the construcuion of new naya) vesscis during*the last year, ac- cording to the report of Rear Admiral _Bowles, chief of the bureau of con- “struction. The battleship Ohio was 29 months behind her contract on the first of July. The battleship Missourt is over 20 months behind, the majority of the battleships and cruisers. are ‘over ten months behind, and some of the torpedo craft are more than 40 months behind. However, Attmiral Bowles says the extensive délays on the torpede boats are being terminated by the newly modified conditions for their delivery. The contractors’ de- lay in beginning the construction of the vessels of the Virginia, Pennsyl- , vania and St. Louis class gave his bu- reau an opportunity to revise the gen- eral plans, which will result in a con- siderable improvement in their wili- tary value and in their habitability, The ships added to the navy during the , year were the battleship Illinois and the torpedo craft Decatur, Perry, Preble, Biddle, Thornton and Wilkes, Admiral Bowles says there continues to be an urgent necessity for an in- , crease in the number of officers of the construction corps, and renews his ree- ommendation for an increase from 40 , to 60 members, An interesting portion of the re- | port is in regard to the work of the ex- perimental model basin, in which min- jature warships are tried, Through its use an increase of seven per cent. in the size of battleships and of over | Six per cent, in the size of armored cruisers has been accomplished with an actual reduction of horse power neces- sary to drive them at a given speed, FOG HAMPERS ARTISTS. Jalian Story Mak mparison Bee tween the British and French Capitals, Julian Story, the artist, wha, has been in London several days, thinks Paris is much preferable to London for artists. In conversation the other day he said in answer to a question: “TI don't think I should care to live in London, it-may be all right when the weather is clear, but when they have those fogs of the pea-soup vari- ety I should imagine it would inter- fere with good work, Fancy getting your inspiration under such weather conditions, I should think the pea- soup fog would be likely to make itself felt in the painting. This, I think, THE SUCTHERN Oli: BIGLDB, Exhaustive Report After Thorough Stady by the Geological Survey ef the Government. The Texas-Louisiana oil field is die- cus: ed exhaustively in a report of the Lnited States geological survey. The existence of petroleum’ in the gut costal plain, extending inland for from 50 to 100 miles, has been ds far back as 1860. Ther the extreme porosity of the. Top oil rock favors the storage of s very large volume of oil and a rapid yield when the reservoir tapped. But it also favors the exhaustion of the oil in the pool Gey its rapid replacement by the underly- ing salt water. Beds of sulphur bearing sand are reported from some of the wells on Spindle Top, and beds of gypsum and of salt from others. The conclusion is reached with te gard to the Spindle Top field that the Spindle Top oil rock sbout one-fourth of its volume of Even if the estimate is one barrel’Ob- * tained for every 26 cubic feet qa? Spindle Top, and a little less ‘ other fields, there should be a yield equal to the Baku field in Russia, and a much greater output than that of any of the other American fields, The yield of the Baku field has been @e- timated to equal about one-fourth of the volume. of the rock. The pe troleum stored in the Trenton lime- stone, one of the best producing lime stopes in America, has been esti mated at about ten percent. of the rock, and the statement is made that smaller portions of the best ‘Pen vania fields have yielded 900,000 bare rels per square mile. The report says that the apparent consensus of opinion among chem- ists who have examined the field is “that the gulf coast petroleum is um suited for’ the production of illumf- nating oil, and that it is doubtful if it can be made to yield a good lubri- cating oil on a commercial basis, Ite value as a source of asphalt and as @ gas oil are, as yet, undetermined. The experiments seem to establish both its availability and its economy as @ generator of steam, Whether the Beaumont petroleum may be success- fully used in metallurgical processes is not yet settled. AMERICAN SHIPPING, Report of Commissioner of PA tion Shows Documented Tonnage In Largest in History of Country, The annual report of the commis- sioner of navigation shows that on June 30, 1902, the documented tonnage of the United States was the largest despite the fact that | spent eight years! jn our history, comprising 24,273 ves- at school here, “No, Paris, in my mind, is superior. There one can get into a genuine art: istie atmosphere. There great skies and sunshine, too, make a difference, I think one can work much better in Paris than in London.” Mr. Story will accompany his wife, Mme. Emma Eames Story, to America early in November. He has several com- missionsto execute, particularly in Phil- sadelphia, where he hasastudio. Mme, Eames will sing in “La Tosca” for the first time this season in New York. KAISER TO QUIT SMOKING. Emperor of Germany Trying to Break Himself of the Use of Tobacco, Emperor William has been suffering acutely of late froma painful chronic affection of the ear, and, having been advised by his doctors to stop smok- ing strong cigars, he has begun to break himself of the smoking habit al- together. When shooting he smokes a pipe, and his cigars are of the mild- est sort. He-rarely drinks wine now, but when he is with the reginiental messes he absorbs an immense quan- tity of beer. __When he goes to visit King Edward next month at Sandringham he prob- ably will be accompanied by the crown prince, whose tendency to flirt will be kept in check by his father’s presence, « HISTORIC INN FOR SALE. During Revolutionary War Now . Seeking a Purchaser. beorehing Place in London Which Was Famous The old Raven inn at the Hook, near} | Basingstoke, London, is advertised for sale. It was built in 1653, It atteined| sels of 5,797,002 gross tons. The im crease over last year is almost wholly in large steel steamers. In ten years the number of American, British and German square-rigged vessels has de- creased 50 per cent. American vessels carried 8.8 per cent. of our exports and imports, compared with 8.2 percent.in 1901, The outlook for steel shipbuildt in the United States for the current fiscal yeamts not so promising as was last year’s. On July 1, 1902, there were building or uncer centract in the United States 347.500 tons of steel mer- chant vessels, Receipts from tonnage taxes amounted to $868,784, of which only —— $68,173 were paid by American ves- sels, The report shows that the world's foreign-going steamers in 1901 were jvalued at about $1,000,000,000. and that gross receipts were about $850,000.00, out of which $50,000,000 in dividends and $9,000,000 interest on bonds were paid. Wages to crews amounted to about $62,000,000. GOES TO CHURCH ALONE. Quakeress at Woodstown, N. J., Wor- ships in Solit te Keep Pos- _ sei nm of Building. The little orthodox Friends’ meet- ing-house at Woodstown, N. J., “has ealy one surviving worshiper, Miss , Priscilla Lippincott, an old woman, _ who, twice a week, carefully arrayed: j- in the garb of that sect, goes Or to the building and frequently sits as hour on “First day” in-the Fase: have to figure out lities | ing is'a training fc York] er football is # seems} ing. It is the old that he] Chicago Chronicle,