The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, December 14, 1905, Page 13

The VOL. XXVIII. MAGAZINESECTION. LEE REGEN EOE MONET ES REL EE AA REE ARN a eo utler Weekly Times. | BUTLER, MISSOURI, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1905. at bis to Sing Old Negro Songs to King and Queen, Has Declined Stage Career, Preferring to Sing the Na- tive Songs of the Southland. | Another charming American girl | has set the fashionable world of Lon- don by the ears. She has sung her way into their hearts and taught them the beauty of old plantation melodies | over, until the English capital is fairly ring- ing with the sound of her praises, This fortunate young woman Is Miss Clara Alexander of Memphis, Tenn., and as pretty and attractive a ' girl as ever crossed the water to Old ingland. She is just now anticipat- ing her appearance before the King land, his well-made of the iron work was loose. car, and the Hon, Augustus at once sat down upon the blocks in a shocking manner, the Hon. Augustus ers, and presenting a picture of unu ual distress and consternation, Wh: posed to be — disrespectful. ment he was receiving, though, MISS CLARA ALEXANDER. this is accomplished, she will indeed feel that her success is complete. A little more than a year ago some interested friend of Miss Alexander sent her on her journey to London, armed with letters to prominent mem- bers of the social world there. One of these was to the famous Mrs. John Mackay, who became her social spon- gor, and practically made the clever little girl from Tennessee the toast of / London drawingrooms. Miss Alexander has never been on the stage, but from her old mammy in the south, and a score of servants who had once beert in her family, she learned the real plantation melodies, learned to sing them as only a girl ‘who spent her'early life in the real south could sing them. She learned to imitate the old darky in all his quaint characteristics and her triumph was declared complete when she moved & fashionable audience to tears by her » touching recital of a little negro poem. _ W. 8. Gilbert, author of “Pinafore,” advised her strongly to go in for emotional acting, and Lady Bancroft, one of the shining lights of the Lon- ' don social world, and herself @ talent- | ed actress, offered to coach the young | can girl tin the role of Juliet if ‘would study for the stage. Ludlow recentl; tepid mansion in Portland Place | and otherwise. recital by this talented American| On the whole it is a_ question fon ad th Mrs. Mackay and other in-| cent owner of the car line. Sect ‘women to s.and sponsor for Hi and , this little girl from Tennessee is paiag fresh murele to her crown. Japan’s Grand Old Man. Marquis Ito, ing fares ,and did not hear him, way with a mighty snap, and from the lower step. Naturally, the Hon. he had narrowly escaped cycles, ther shoes, a boutonneire, the id and illustrious legs in any land. is undoubtedly witness, that there ought to whole lot in a silk hat, And now she is to appear before the ahd Queen! The “command” has been ecnt to Miss Alex- Uae Breathes HHETine vs) an the south in all her work and stage career. tor. & drawing rooms aaa ‘an atmos-|said to be eRe | ve hours day rentas ou! Pwned hh pers and magazines. fs said to be the fn this work’ busiest hour of the day and at one of the most crowded localities in Cleve- trousers caught on the lower step—it seems that some Simul- taneously, the conductor started the Browne Belgian More- kept right along with the vehicle, towed by the left leg of his expensive trous- made it worse was the fact that the spectators on the sidewalk were ~ Air, Browne expostulated against the beer ol and Queen of England, and when’ course, in a perfectly dignified way, but the conductor was inside aaa last, Mr. Browne’s suspenders gave their owner was left sitting in the street, with the car vanishing into the dis- tance, and the trousers flying wildly Augustus Browne couldn't sit there in the mid- dle of the street indefinitely. Already a garbage | eart and two short-haired ladies on bi- So he arose and took a look around. Excepting the loss of a pair of beautifully-creased trousers and a large assortment of abrasions, which would perhaps cause him to take his meals at the mantelpiece for a week .or so, Mr. Browne was in pretty fair shape. He wore a very shiny silk hat, a perfectly-cut frock coat, patent lea- finest garters in the market, and a suit of union underwear fit for the most limp- a sad thing to be dl- vested of one’s trousers in broad day- light, but it was ventured, by on eye- a frock coat, boutonniere, patent leather shoes, and improved garters. The frock coat must have concealed any ravages caused by the gentleman’s rapid transit over the lent her} Belgian blocks in a sitting posture, in for which the social world of} Cleveland whether Mr. Browne should nm cheerfully paid $5 a _ticket.| attempt to collect excessive damages are constantly in demand | from Hon, Thomas Johnson, the inno- who was recently whi stoned by a Japanese mob, is of eom- . a is the same as that which goes| paratively humble birth. His father, to eyery artist whom King Edward) Juzo Ito, was a rustic gardener. Mar- and ‘Queen Alexandra wish. to hear./quis Ito first went to Europe, stow- It is in reality an invitation, but is|ing himself away in a bale of silk on called @ “command” for the reason}board a ship bound for Liverpool. He t an invitation from thie King or/was concealed in this bale for 36 “brooks no declination and {s/ hours, until he was discovered by one of the ee officers. an sernatines escape the We.was that he desire her|servative party of that country, "wit: She| resented his more advanced views and attempts to adopt Western manners ‘of His|and customs in Japan. He is now Japanese Training Apparent in bordination and Disciptine.—Mauser Rifles Used, but Cavairy Service is laferior. Evidence that China is shedding vatism and is prepa ¢ with other Or nations, is evidenced by her first re; my manoeuvers, just ended stun the principal nations of the we were present as guests of the vice Yuan Shi Kal, by whom they lavishly entertained. ‘To those remember the troops five years ago this raising an army of forty men to its present efficiency is velous, ‘There were some unfavor criticisms, to be sure; but all gave stinted praise for the complete cou of the troops and their steadiness discipline, the latter Wearing comy teat The scheme of the manoeuvers southern force from Shantung, w advance was opposed by the nort army. The infantry were armed Mauser magazine rifles, with dagger bayonets, Oflicers sword, revolver and field glass. private’s kit weighed pounds, knapsacks being of Japa pattern, The pioneers carried p! shovels and saws. Mongolian hor carbines, sabres and revolvers. is regarded by the military observers being the weakest branch of arniy, pots, fire works, gods on poles, or Hance. Hand of Japan Discovered. This wonderful transformation few years, from an unorganized of fanatics to a well equipped, i due largely to Ja ese among the troops. Many of the non are of Japanese type, and knapsacks are Japanese The fine hand of Japan every turn. of various types, and Japan tain guns carried on mule ba guns were served excellently, and ing apparatus, and no r Each regimental commi vluded thirty-two wagons, German in pattern, but poorly constructed, 6 ounces, and meat 6 ounces, im Japanese haversacks, All things considered, the prog of China in her military organiza appears to be wonderful. With a more years of effort, aided by men to draw upon for raw mate’ China will be a formidable enemy a powerful ally in the developmen the East. emnatccesilpnianemaisas Texas Sulphur Deposits. Texas, a State which claimed the at- tention of the whole coun ry as a tle State, and as a petroleum State, will probably soon become remarkable In the trans-Pecos country in El Paso county, north of the Texas Pacific Railroad, geologists com- pute that tuere are ten million tons of @s a sulphur State. 40 per cent. native sulphur ore a able and almost in sight. area which has been explored and ness of nine and one-half feet. It been recently reported that this A number of diplomatic representing the military of were condition of Chinese thousand | mats | y son with that of Luropean veterans. Acmed With Modern Equipment. the assumed invasion of Chilel by a short | carr’ lifty-four The cavalry were mounted on small, and carried Mauser There were no tom-toms, no stink- cous masks, in which the Chinese sol- dier of the past placed his whole re ligent army of defense, is said to be influences, One attache remarked that he had no- ticed at least twenty Japanese oflicera in design. is seen at The artillery consisted of fleld guns branch of the army appeared to be rations consisted of rice, 1 1-2 pounds;} from one to three months, cabbage, 6 ounces; salted vegetables carried Japa- hese influence, with her inexhaustible natural resources and her multitude of The sulphur veyed covers about ten thousand acres and the deposit has an average thick- i y ’ A NEW EASTER LILY. hundreds of thousands of acres of > AMERICAN GIRL IN LONDON,| #7248 70pxessavsrrie. | (CHINA'S ARMY OF 40,000. . PUBLIC TIMBER GRABBING. |r ot teeta ihe forest se Stirring Adventure of the Hon.Augus- Crossing the Bermuda Flower witha] pRESIDENT’S COMMISSION ANN: pretoyergenos f er oboe Saye 3 , SINGER OF SOUTHERN PLANTA- tus Browne, in Cleveland, Ohio. FOREIGN ATTACHES WITNESSED Philippine Species !s Successiul. JOUS THAT CONGRESS SAVE seb bisges Tui taht ek Parkin Pe TION MELODIES BECOMES Things went very hard the other] RECENT FIELD MANOEUVERS— | . if the expectations of the Depurt- AMERICAN FORESTS, *°+ ** |a dott iin acto, Here thus pukchased " FAMOUS IN ENGLAND. day with the Hon. Augustus Browne, AMAZED AT RESULTS. ment of Agriculture are realized with by corporations ‘aud exchanged on an $ of Cleveland, Gaio, As Mr, Browne experiments now going on, the price even basis for the finest government _ stepped off a street car during the of Easter Lilies will be much lower] Second Instalment of Commissions | tj,)0¢ lands of the northwest, Sev- q neat year, This will enable persons who have been obliged tu deny them- selves the luxury of au Easter Lily, to purchase this beautiful dower with- Su- Land Law. out laying themselves open to the} TWo pieces of public lind legisla. | dismay of the timber her | charge of being extravagant, The | Hon which engaged the attention of | this mode of robbing ring | high price of this spring tower is| Constess last winter were the 610 » government stopped, caused through the long growing} ere, of square-mile homestead bill} A bill was also introduced repealing season of the bulb before it bursts in-|#md the lieu land timber — bill, | the timber and stone act and’ provid- at}tg bloom, From the time the bulb | The former was defeated the latter | ing for the disposal of timber in the of the Bermuda Lily is planted until} Was passed, both properly. Under | naanner recommended by the Publie , | it is in full bloum is a perivd of tive weld, roy, to seven months. Florists usually plant the bulbs in September in order that they may be ready for the com- lug Easter. They have always veen studylug the Hower with a hope of shortening the time of growing, for, rechhouses, time and space are at smitm, and any shortening there- f represents a decided gain. The Bureau of Vlunt Industry of the Department of Agriculture early last year took up this problem and imported from the Philippines a lily resemblng the commou Easter lly in size and color, though it bears usually acres of lund in South Dakota an who of | acres, and that (0 acres would be bl proper unit. A similar bill was able un- atrol of | MID entire state of Montana, These measures were one, but at times two towers to} 8 exclusively, and also on the was}the plant. Its chief virtue, however, ground that the cultural eapabili lies in the fact that its growing sea-| es of this, or in fact, any part of hose | son is but two to thive months, This; the west are not thoroughly under hern stood and that lind which may -to-da lily the department has crossed with with | the coumon Easter lily, and the re- sult has been a hybrid, bearing as } mv iny dlowers as the old Bermuda Cl with no difference in appearance from this phint, except that the hybrid will develop in fowr or five months, rep- = D culture and the = introduction drouth-resisting plants, be found morrow to be entirely suitable farming purposes, nese icks This the hid- ina mob utel- can- the this AS THE NEW QUICK FLOWERING MYBRID LILY APPEARS, The} resenting a experiments of the ed so far w new hybrid ster Lily can be pro- | duced vastly cheaper than the old variety. — Starting in Early. One year the gardener told me that the rose bugs threatened to work de- struction among my choice roses. So I hit upon the idea of hiring my two youngsters to pick them off and de- stroy them ten cents a hundred bugs. This worked beautifully for a short time, until suddenly there came a devastating horde of the pests, Dick grasped the situation at once and sal- lying forth invited his friends to as- sist, at five cents per hundred, sub- contracting, as it were, while be did the bossing and pocketed the profits. Tess tion few he ver acre and Colorado's t lands have, unde 4 ing’ of and highly protitable crops. bills, in question, however, rial, and t of sioner of the General Land printed report. Timber Lieu Lands. cat- provided that where forest vail- sur- has sul- phur field has been bought by Illinois capitalists, who have associated with them in the enterprise a numbe r of European capitalists. At present n0 railroad is near the deposits, the near- est station being Toyah, twenty miles to the northwest. The way of railroad construction, grades being low. 0 intervening country presents no obstacles in the the It is calculated that the United States annually consumes 600,000 tons of phur. sul- Much of the sulphur used in the United States is imported from Italy, the tonnage brought in from that country varying from 100,000 to 250,000 tons a year. The American State which in the production of sulphu Louisiana, but a vast amount of phur is: obtained from the pyrites mines in Louisa county, Virginia. is said that the visible supply of r is sul- Deforested Lan@ it in Minnesobas sul- phur is sufficient for the requirements of-trade for the next twenty years. The sulphur trade of the world is prac- tically monopolized by the Anglo-Sicil- ian Sulphur Company, Limited, of Lon- eeerrenetpeseimee An Enfeebled Giant. It looks as if Europe had another “sick man” on its hands, the mighty although it may Turkey, or entdniw t's. the case with Spain. Nations, like men, go down iii Empire of Russia, the march of time. Russia fs young, perhaps, to go to pleces power of earth, and too virile Spain did, which at the tl Charlies V was the world’s fo military power. , Turkey, which in the days of the English Tudors was the first military Timber Scene on Government Lands in Oregon Doo, weht I had a bill of $3 from Poor tired too red Arthur, and nearly $14 Ww lice Ho nix. enterprising and _business- co tie ies Mapreengaire as ges ger hopeful. So I reduced select in lieu thereat, to ten cents th rH wherenpon re per! OU ie next day 1 iiund them hard at work picking rosebugs for a confiding neighbor, at the original price, while my bushes were left to thelr fate. + aud Report-Protests Against 640 Acre Homestead Scheme--Kepeal of Lieu the Gi0-acre bill it was sought to in verease the 160-acre homestead entry, covering some twenty million or more | Lan d Colorado, to G40 acres, the chiims be ing that the land was not sufficiently productive to support a family en 160 a also introduced to include the kinds of the vigorous]; opposed on the ground that 610 acres were either tuo much for a farm or else not large enough for stock graz- be considered of little use for agricul- ture, will, under improved methods of of to- for As a matter of shortening in time of;fact the Department of Agriculture While the| has within the past year, grown mac- Department are} aroni wheat to the extreme western not yet completed, the results atti | boundary of South Dakota in crops tnt the belief that the | ranging from fifteen to twenty u- semi- “Ury-farm- methods, yielded up undreamed The were re- ported upon adversely by the Secre- tary of the Interior and the Commis- Otlice and also by the Publie Lands Com- mission, as is shown by the following One of the most detrimental of the land laws bas been what was known as the lieu land selection law, which | reserves | © liortgage the future by an: are created by the goverument, set- | jn, tlers or private corporations owning ae right AQLBIS. "The result war that phon sold their lieu land rights and these were purchased by giant timber syn- dicates and lumber corporations for Speculative purposes. Tue title to Pant TWO. ; "Ors ee NQ. 7 jeral bills were Introduced to amend th this iw, but finally, after much con- act was repealed, Lands in ission, but this bill slume In uitly died in the Publie uittee of the Louse of ¢ CDs wneestee GIFFORD PINCHOT U. 8, Forester and Member of the Public Lands Commission, Representatives, the opinion of the majority of the member's of that com- mittee being, apparently, that the timber grabbing should be allowed ta The strictures of the Prest- ; dents Public Lands Comunission, i quoted below, on the coils of the law. ( a Sutticient condemnation of its ‘lent provisions, The second instahuent of the Com- mission's report follows? The agricultural possibilitie maiuing public lands fi kuown, 1 a dec are now pr of the re almost une ution or even » vulueless ther with le or without thon. 1his has been brough aes by the introduction of new and other plants and new dd in part by denser ed systems of trans is obvious that the first es ting the remaining publie lands to their best use Is to ascertain what that best use is by a preliminary study and e ficatlon of them, and to determine ir probable future and development by an be definitely ascertained that iven area of the public lands is ang all probability forever will remain ane suited to agricultural development, the th tle to that land sould remain tn the Gene | Government in trust for the future ample: ‘The p: (June 17, tlon to ae ge of the recias My made certain al settlers of to that time Other areas, h ren to have notable value even for grazing, are now known to have importance in ‘he future development of the country through them acity to produce forest growth. The making of wells will gi an added value to vast tracts of range lands for which f supply is now scanty. Jn short, of possible de’ pinent, through tion, through the introduction of new plants) and new methods of farming, through forest pr rvation, and grazing control, the ning public jands have | too high and erto but dimly forseen, facts it is of the first ance to save the remaining publi¢e domain for actual home builders to the ut- most limit of future possibilities and not disposition public lands under which home mak- will not keep step with disposal. To that end your Commission recommends (see p 12) a method of range control under which present resources may be used to the J without endangering future settle ment. After the agricultural possibilities of the public lands have been ascertained with asonable certainty, provision should be le for dividing them into areas suffl- clently large to support a family, and no li r, and to permit settlement on such . It Is obvious that any attempt to iplish this end without a careful clas- sification of the public lands must neces sarily fall, Attempts of this kind are be lug made from time to time, and legisla. tion of this character 1s now pending, modeled on the Nebraska 640-acre home stead law, which was passed as an expert . ment to meet a certain restricted local con- A dition. This act (33 Stat., 647) rmite the entry of 640-acre homesteads in the sand-hill region of that State. Whether in er practice the operation of this law will re- ' sult In putting any considerable number of Settlers on the land Is not yet determined. Your commisston 1s of opinion, after care- ful consideration, that general provisions : © fthis kind should not be extended until a after thorough study of the public lands ry (Centinued on next page.) 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