The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, December 12, 1907, Page 5

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Why not give her feet a “Me Christmas” with a pair of “Queen Quality?” $3.00, $3.50, $4.00. Poffenbarger & Douglass, TI The Most Christmasy A} People in the Town, We have wagon loads of candy and bushels of.oranges, apples and bu PD: nuts. jut we are too to to you about all of our good op ha too busy however, to Sait pom about Com see ‘us about prices. Will make good and give you a square deal. + = Cheerfully yours, t | GEN. STOESSEL ON TRIAL. Russian Commander at Port Arthur Pleads Not Guilty to a Seri- i ous Charge. | St. Petersburg, Dec. 10.—RBefore a | brilliant assemblage of his old com- | rades in arms, Lieut. Gen. Stoessel was Tuesday placed on trial to an- swer with his life and reputation for | the loss of Port Arthur on the first. of January, 1905, and in firm tones }and with confident manner the gen- | eral pleaded not guilty to the charge | ;of needlessly surrendering the fort- | ress and thereby humiliating the Rus- sian army. The trial took place in the audito- | rium of the Army and Navy club. The | | room resembled more a social gather- ing of officers of high rank than the | scene of a court-martial. Among the judges, spectators and witnesses were | Gen. Kuropatkin, Gen. Linevitch, Gen. Rennenkampf, Vice Admiral Wiren | and scores of other promiment leaders in the Russo-Japanese war. There were also present 200 officers and sol- diers who had been at Port Arthur } and who Tuesday were clad in their full dress uniforms blazing with stars and decorations, Gen. Stoessel was alone in civil at- tire and this made him conspicuous. | He wore proudly around his neck the |cordon of the military order of St. George, which was conferred upon | him by the emperor during the siege, and on his breast was pinned the cross of George III, awarded for con- spicuous bravery in frontier fighting. This same coveted decoration was worn by many of the witnesses anil spectators, Empty sleeves” and cru‘ches, especially among the men who had een at Port Arthur showed that many of them had seen hard service during the war. The other accused officers, Generals Fock, Reiss and Smirp came to the court clad in their wniforms, Gon Smirnoff, who is a bitt hemy 0 Gen. Stoessel, ostentatiously seate himself as far away as possible fro: the central figure of the proceedin | | St. Joseph May Fall in Line. = Joseph, Mo., Dec. 10.—At the or | ganization of the Philadelphia club of the Third Street Presbyterian church Monday night, the pastor of | the church, the Rev. A. L. Hall-Quest, proposed closing all the theaters in | St. Joseph next Sunday. No attempt | has heretofore been made to interfere | with theater performances on Sun- day. W. K. James, president of the board of police commissioners, was one 6f the principal speakers at the | meeting; and took a strong stand in favor of the Sunday closing question. 8 Rallroad Officer on Trial. New York, Dec. 10—Alfred H. Smith, vice-president and general {manager of the New York Central railroad, was placed on trial Monday before Justice Kellogg, in the su- |preme court on a charge of man- | slaughter in the second degree, grow- | ing out of the wreck of the Brew- | ster express at Woodlawn last Febru- ary, in which 24 persons lost their lives and 67 were injured. Gross | negligence was charged In the indict- ment. Attorney Kellogg Improved, | New York, Dec. 10.—Frank Kellogg jof St. Paul, Minn., prosecutor in the | case of the government against the Standard Oil company, who became / ill Monday in the course of his speech ‘before the Minnesota Society, was |much improved Tuesday. Mr. Kel- |logg’s indisposition was the tempor- lary result of an acute attack of | indigestion. He was so much better | that he planned to leave for Washing- |ton Wednesday with further evidence ‘taken on the Standard Oil litigation. Cotton Crop Estimate. .| Washington, Dec. 10.—The crop re- | porting board of the bureau of statis- | ties of the department of agriculture | from the reports of the correspondents and agents Tuesday issued a report | estimating that the total production of cotton in the United States for the | years 1907-08 will amount to 5,581,- 968,000 pounds (not including linters), equivalent to 11,678,000 bales of 500 pounds gross weight. | Recelver for Lumber Company. Kansas City, Mo., Dec. 10.—A tele- gram received here by the R. G. Run | “Mercantile company announces that | W. R. Bradford of Shreveport, La., was Tuesday appointed receiver for the Vernon Lumber company, capital $100,000, which has a plant at Hart, Ia., and offices at Shreeveport and Kan- sas City. At the local offices of the | |company no facts regarding the re- | ceivership could be learned. | To Spend Holidays at Home. Washington, Dec. 10.—Only two members of the Kansas delegation will return home for the holidays— Senator Long and Congressman An- thony. Long has a senatorial contest | on tap and he wants to go out and | see about his fences. Anthony is to | be given a big reception by his home people at Leavenworth on Decem- br 27. _ , Formatly Elected Senators. Guthrie, Ok., Dec. 10.—The legisla- ture voted for United States senators | Tyesday afternoon with the following result: Gore and Owens, (dem.) 39; Jones and Douglas (rep.) 4. House, Gore and Owens, 89; Jones HIS MUTE} PLEADERS | By DORA HASTINGS (Copyright) | The time was morning, the scene a! farm-house kitchen; the actors, two} people, man and woman. The woman, | Amy by name, was small in stature, | ight in frame and quick in motion; | her face was plain, its white, healthy | color marred by freckles, its mouth | over-generous, Her eyes, too, were large, with such honesty and sincer- ity in their depths of gray, they fur- nished the owner a certificate of char- | acter wherever she carried them. She| had come into the kitchen, holding in one hand a cake, at which she glanced with something of the same fondness which an artist shows for a master- piece. As she had entered the kitch- en, she had stopped suddenly by the door, her large, bright eyes taking in quickly the details of the scene be- fore her, while her face assumed an expression of such dismay, as brought a broad smile upon her companion's merry face. She hurriedly placed her cake upon the table, then shrank back at her first glimpse of its grease spots and kettle crock; her eyes roved to the floor and = mopboard, where they seemed to transfix the dust with their steely glance, There | was an unwashed frying pan on the hearth. She looked at it with eyes of pity; then turned, with the same} expre: n, toward her companion, She | made a quick, restive motion with her hand. “Wouldn't you,” she said, fal- teringly, “like to have me—have me! sweep a little for you, now I'n. here? I like to sweep and clean, just as another woman likes to sing and piay the piano.” “No,” he said, laughing; “I it is enough for one woman to ¢ think an out the cracks in her own floor with a hair-pin. I couldn't think of con- senting to such waste of strength in my behalf.” She turned, with just a touch of vexation in her cheek. “Good morning,” she said abruptly, as she started across the piazza to- ward her own home. She hurried on, | as if some important duty waited her coming. As she clicked the latch of the gate, she turned toward the house which she had just left. He was still standing there by the door; his face, which had been but a minute be- fore, mirth-illumined, had become sud- denly grave. She saw it, and its re- flection fell upon her own. Yes, she knew it was lonely over there. She went on slowly into the house. The room which she entered partook of her own character; it was small, dull in color, and spotlessly kept. Her mother, diminutive like herself, sat by the fire busily knitting, the lines of her withered, sharply-chisedel face showing clear above the white ker- chief at her throat. She had the same gray eyes and the same grave earnestness. “Well, what did he say to the cake, Am) asked the mother, looking over her spectacles at her daughter as she entered. “He said he was obliged,” replied Amy, drawing a chair up to the fire. “You ought to see the kitchen,” she went on; “dirt and dust in heaps everywhere. You can’t hardly see the table for the grease and crock,” look- ing piteously at her mother; “and all the rest is just as bad. There is a frying-pan there that I shall remem- | ber as long as I live.” “What can we do?” asked the moth- er earnestly, laying aside her knit- ting, as if that impeded the course of thought; “what's to be done?” “I don’t know.” said Amy, despair- ingly. “He wouldn't let me clean. I asked him again.” “I've thought sometimes,” remark- ed the older woman, “that perhaps he don’t like it—your not wanting to) marry him; sort o’ resents it, may- be.” “There'd be no sense in that,” said Amy, with a show of energy and} surprise. “You might as well blame | me for Ifking pickles. My mind is set naturally on living single. I can't help it.” | “He hasn't asked you lately, has he?” said the mother, when they were launched safely on the steady | stream of work. Amy shook her) head. “Maybe he's getting tired of it,” re marked the mother. “I don’t know,” said Amy, a little | crossly. “He says he asks me once| a year; but that’s his way joking | about things that are no joke. It’s but a half dozen times.” | “It's too bad,” said the mother, sum-| ming up the situation; “but what's to. be done?” | That question presented itself often | to the two women, as they sat around their own well-kept hearth, and thought of the kitchen in the house | opposite. From time to time Amy ven- tured over with a cake and took note of the increase of dust. | “It's piling up on the mopboard,” | she said to her mother, who was ever an eager and sympathetic listen- er. “He scratches around with a broom sometimes; but he never hits the mopboard.” The frying-pan, too, appeared occa- sionally in its unwasked, unkempt con- dition; it had the forlorn air of one who had’ seen better days. The winter wore away at last. When ' from church together. goods. back combs, etc. Repairing and Engraving Promptly done, 1 prices from 50c to $100.00 9 Watch Inspector Missouri Pacific Railway. offered suggestions about the sowing | of seeds and the preparation of the soil, One morning, when John had} gone away, she and Amy with an air) of stealth such as would be natural to a soldier reconnoftering the enemy, went oiselessly to their neighbor's house, crossed the plazza, and took one long look at the begrimmed and dust-weighted kitchen, A deeper | shade of gravity rested on the moth- er's face when she came away. They | were silent, returning, but as soon as | they reached thelr own home they, chattered like magples over the de- tails of that unfortunate kitchen. “I wish,” said the mother, pathet- ically; “that I had never seen it, for) I shali carry the memory of it with me all my days.” Yet the place had a kindof fascina- | tion, They stole over again and again | to get a glimpse of It. It was a fine moonlight winter even: | ing. John and Amy had come home She had step- | ped a little beyond him, and had gone into her own little yard and closed the gate. How he hated the click of | that gate! He was talking on, with the manifest purpose of keeping her | there a’minute. “Yes,” he said, “it's | been an open winter. I like snow, myself, plenty of it. I'd like to tunnel through the drifts once more I'm growing old, I guess; nothing seems so good as it used to, not even the snow; that’s colder and not so white. Everything is different but you, Amy; you never change.” “I think I grow old, too,” said Amy. | “No you don't; you're just the same girl you were 15 years ago. It takes something besides time to make peo- ple grow old. I'm getting gray my- self.” He laughed. without apparent cause and pushed away the snow with | his foot. “Amy,” he said, merrily, as if he was about to tell an amusing story, “I haven't bothered you with that old annual question of mine this’ year, have I? I suppose it wouldn't be of any use, anyhow, would it?” He was looking at her wistfully.) They say that sometimes the mind works rapidly in the emergencies of life. There came to Amy a vision of that kitchen. A frying-pan, mute yet | pleading, was on the hearth; a kettle, | with rusty countenance, was asking for help; the dust on the mopboard flashed on her sight; she felt that it was making an appeal. At that min- ute it was borne in upon her that she had been appointed to a mission; she was to be an apostle of cleansing to that neglected board. She looked up, her eyes meeting his fairly, without a a “| Suppose It Wouldn’t Be Any Use, Anyhow, Would it?” shadow of hesitation or doubt. “I don’t know,” she said, simply. “I think perhaps there might.” “Are you sure?” he said. You should not fall to call and examine our large stock of holiday Diamonds Watches Clocks and Jewelry The largest and most complete line of rings in the city, varying in A complete line of watches in all grades and sizes. Tn clocks we have all styles, both mantel and cabinet. The largest line of cut glase we have ever offered before; also a com plete line of Bohemian glass, the latest fad. A nice Ine of silver and silver-plated ware, ladies’ and gents’ toilet sete, brushes, combs, shaving sets, chafing dishes; perculatore. also hand-mitrrors, triplicate mirrora, jewel boxes, all style fancy We are making a special sale on ladies’ and gents’ umbrellas, pearl and natural wood handles; also on a nice line of perfumery which we are closing out at 50c on the dollar N. B. JETER, West Side Jeweler. across to his house, There was @ new light in his face, and a smile on his lips, and his home did not seem | half so lonely, for he could already see, in fancy, a morsel of gray-gowned womanhood, flitting about those rooms, He sat till late that night, trying to realize bis fortune, wonder ing how Amy had come to know her own heart, for he felt sure that, un- awares, she had been fond of him all these years. He never knew how the dust on the mopboard had pleaded his cause, nor how his kettle had been sifted with a more persuasive voice | than his, nor felt for them the affec- tion that otherwise he regarded as their due, It was not many months before the dust ted water; the frying-pan once more learned the use of scouring sand; the table was freed from its burden of earth, and the whole kitchen wag washed and ‘rewashed, till it shone and shone again. The only hindrance might have to the good work was the frequent presence of a masculine giant, who picked up the small housewife, and held her up till her eyes were on a level with his own, “mussed” her hair, took, as he said, “the starchy look out of her mouth,” and otherwise con- ducted himself “like a boy.” Still, she bore it with a better than one might have expected from such a prim little woman, and in after years, When she and her mother sit about their spotless hearth in the house once across the way, she has almost forgotten the influence of the | dust, and fancies that it was solely a heart impulse that brought her to her new home. To Sew with Double Thread. Here is a simple way to straighten out knots when sewing with double thread. Cut a length of thr om the spool, double it, twist the two eut ends together and thread them through the eye of the needl». Pass the needle point first through the loop of the doubled thread, forming a tiny knot at the eye of the needle This serves to keep the thread straight and is flat enough to pass easily through the finest fabric. With this arrangement one can work button holes and do any work requiring a doubled thread with never a knotty problem. Dampening Clothes. Use hot wate to dampen the clothes that are to be ironed and you will find it a great deal more satisfactory than cold. It dampens the clothes more evenly and makes them easier to iron. If the water is too hot to put the hands in use a whisk broom to sprinkle it with. Many laundresses prefer the whisk broom, as they claim that It is ; less likely to make the clothes too wet. The clothes may be ironed two hours later with good results. Rubber for the Umbrella Jar. Cut a piece of your old rubber mat, and place it in the bottom of the um- brella jar. Umbrellas and canes are frequently the means of breaking these receptacles when dropped into them without proper care, and the rubber will help to prevent this. If you have not a piece of an old rubber mat to use, procure a piece of soft sheet rubber, such as is used for pack- ing by steam fitters and plumbers. Sweet Potatoes, Mexican Style, Boil them until tender, peel and cut fm halves longwise. Put one table spoonful of butter and two of minced onion into a saucepan and brown. Add one heaping tablespoonful ‘each of green and red peppers, minced, two tablespoonfuls of tomato catsup, one of vinegar, and a teaspoonful of brown sugar. Stir well and pour over the potatoes.—Vogue. ; Sauce for Duck. Extract the juice from a quantity of sorrel leaves, add a glass of sherry, some mashed gooseberries, a Segar. Two tablespoons butter. €p once and serve.