The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, May 27, 1909, Page 5

a A Thrilling Cae | of Somnambulism A number of years ago the com- munity of Liverpool, England, was much interested in a case of somnam- bulism, which occurred on a vessel bound to that place from India. It was reported, on the arrival of the vessel, and subsequently a communi- cation on the subject was made to one of the local papers. Its thrilling and peculiar character renders it well worthy of a place in print. As passengers on board of this vessel were Mr. Mills, wife and child. Mr. Mills had for a long time occupied a lucrative mercantile position in Cal- cutta, and was now returning to his native land to remain. The child was @ bright boy of 12 years. They made a merry party on board the ship, and were popular with passengers, officers and crew. John Mills, the boy, was an especial favorite, and had the liberty of every part of the vessel. One day the weather-beaten captain and Mr. Mills were on deck, looking at the boy as he ran about. “A noble lad,” said the captain. “Mr. Mills, you ought to be a proud father.” “Thank you, captain,” replied Mr. Mills with tears of honest pride and joy standing in his eyes. “I am proud, I can assure you. But do you know that at times I feel great dis- tress about him.” “Distress!” repeated the captain. “Why, what about, I should like to know? He ts In the best of health— he is intelligent—his prospects in life are good. What more do you want?” “I will tell you the trouble,” said Mr. Mills, with a serious face, “Ever since John was five years of age he has been a somnambulist. His moth- er and myseli are in constant appre- hension that in some of these spells harm may come to him.” The kind-hearted captain at once set to work to quiet the fears of the fa- ther. “He'll outgrow it—I am sure he will,” he said. “I don't think anything will happen. But,” he added as he yooked again upon the boy as he bounded by; “but I'd watch him, es- pecially on board ship, for he is too Doble a lad to be exposed to danger.” Days passed on. The weather was favorable and every one on board was consequently in good spirits. The deck and cabin were scenes of con- stant social interchanges and amuse- ment. In fact, the good old captain declared over and over again that ‘in all his experience at sea he had never had a more agreeable company, or more satisfactory weather. Matters were in this happy condi- tion one afternoon when there came a sudden exclamation from Mrs. Mills: “Where's John?” “John—John, where are you?” shouted Mr. Mills, springing to his feet and rushing through the main cabin. “He's safe on deck, undoubtedly,” sald one. “He's with the captain,” suggested another. By this time Mr. Mills was on deck, where he soon confronted the cap tain. “Great Heaven, captain, where's John?” exclaimed the father. “I do not know,” replied the cap- tain. “He is not on deck.” The faces of both men were blanched. In an instant the ship was in an uproar. No one had seen the boy. With frantic cries the father and mother searched in every possible place in the cabin, and the crew searched the decks. A dreadful appre- hension was settling upon all. This was that the boy had fallen over- board. At this particular time the captain looked aloft. Not with any idea of seeing the boy,~but as a matter of habit and duty. All the sails were wset, and it was not easy to see all parts of the rigging. To the captain's surprise and joy he discovered John perched on one of the upper cross- trees. “Look alofty look aloft!” he cried. “There's the lad on the crosstree.” The passengers and crew at once crowded near him. “My boy is asleep! oh, Heaven!” was the wailing exclamation of the father. Mrs. Mills fell to the deck uncon- scious at the terrible danger of her son. All were aghast with horror. The ship plowed on. Every sail was full of the fair and steady wind, and not a sound was nowyheard ex- cept the noise of the ropes in the blocks and the falling of the waves from the bow. There sat the boy on the crogstree, with one arm around the mast. He was evidently asleep, and at any instant, by suddenly awa- king, might fall to the deck or into the sea. No one uttered a word—not an or der was given—but in an instant the captain himself was seen ascending the rigging. He went up nimbly and quickly. Every eye was bent upon him, and then upon the boy. Hearts almost ceased to beat; and tears ran i i tint ri x, i | . he Tribune “there is a movement | Plan for the Construction of a Build | e Brand Shoes are Better | Mr. W. W. Astor? / {deas on the protestion of childrea, A Battle of Names. | According to a Washington dispatch | on foot in Washington to restore the use of the term ‘Executive Seta | instead of ‘White House,’ which has | | been the custom during the Roosevelt administration;” and many members of congress are said to prefer the longer and more pretentious name, says the New Yerk Sun. “White House” it is, in the mind and mouth of every American; so known across the water, too. The term, as re cent researches by correspondents of the Sun have shown, is of respect- able antiquity. It seems to have been traced as far back as Madison's sec- ond administration. It will soon be entitled to its centenary. It is a fa- miliar figure, of homely and cordial look. It is not to be put out by a long trained intruding trollop like “Ex- ecutive Mansion.” That may accom- modate itself well to the legal, formal and clerkly style, but the popular and the fittest name fs and will be “White House.” President Taft is no friend of pomp and swollen words. We have no doubt that he prefers to live in a “house.” As for those members of congress who from fondness for elo- quence or want of taste love high- sounding names, Mr. Taft may tell them a little jest by which Dr. William Everett used to teach simplicity: “At Yale ‘the president's lady retires;’ at Harvard ‘the presi- dent's wife goes to bed. When the St. G tunnel was opened it was predicted that even the birds would soon begin to use it as a more convenient way to reach Italy. The diligence service was, in fact, dis- continued 27 years ago, and for a year or two everybody was singing a doleful ditty about the last stage- driver's last trip. Before the railroad pushed its way through the mountain, no fewer than 60,000 persons annually crossed the Gotthard pass, Then came practical desolatian, But gradu- ally the tourist traffic revived again, and to-day the number of those who gross the pass is as great as ever. Two years ago automobiles were al- lowed to join the procession of car- riages and pedestrians, and now the Swiss postal department announces that the diligence service is to be re- sumed the coming summer, —SSSeEEa= . Contrary to expectation, the Birming- ham, the scout cruiser, won the record for coal consumption in the test at a speed of 15 knots with the turbine scout cruisers Salem and Chester. It was believed by many experts that the turbines would make a better rec- ord in this instance, and they are now looking forward with increased interest to the third and concluding test at a steady gait of 20 knots an hour. If the turbines do not beat the reciprocating engines in this test they will be discredited for naval service, except in combination with the older type. People who have the mistaken idea that Vermont farming is all so steep that the farmers hardly dare to plow for fear that they may start an ava- lanche may be surprised to learn that Vermont led the New England states last year in the production of corn, its crop amounting to 62,000 bushels Con- necticut was second with 58,000; Mass- achusetts third with 48,000, and New Hampshire fourth with 28,000 bushels. The department store has developed in a new spot—on a transatlantic liner —the Red Star steamer Lapland, run- ning out of New York. The captains of the fast steamers can say that their passengers are never ‘long enough away from the stores on either side of the sea to develop a longing for op- portunities to “shop.” A London newspaper announces that Dr. Anna Howard Shaw, who has just arrived there from America, and who is so well known in Michigan, is “the greatest woman orator in all the world.” Just see how one has to get away from home to be appre- ciated. Confidence men in Chicago were rudely interrupted by the police in the enterprise of selling a city park to a more or less moneyed visitor from Towa. Of course, they also are much put out over this governmental inter- ference with business prosperity. ES There is some mystery over the rea- son why a New York engineer re- signed his American citizenship and then went abroad. Would tt be unkind to suggest that he has got a job from The American Indian is dying at the rate of 1,000 a year. Civilization is held responsible for it, and civilising the American Indian is about as hard a job as taming a wild hyena. ;—— ee Mr. Wu disapproves of “Dixie” be- cause he thinks it a war tune; but we guess he has confused it with “A Hot Time in the Old Town.” A girl in Connectieut mocked down & pugilist who angered her. And still people go on calling it the “weaker” sex. : ;_—_—_—____ _—_—__j England may be a bit foolish on Dreadnoughts, but it has some correst _ — A GOOD TYPE OF HOGHOUSE. | ing Suitable for Shelter- ing Swine, } Instructions for erecting a oe) tial, yet cheap and durable hoghouse is given by a writer in the Breeders’ | Gazette, as follows: | Make them six feet square on the | ground, both doors to be hinged s0/ they will open and close readily; 13 | foot boards make the side and roof. 1} use good soft pine flooring, as it is| lighter and much easier to move when | necessary than heavier lumber; four A Good Hoghouse. | pleces 2 inches by 4 inches and 6} feet long are for ‘sills; 2 pleces 2 inches by four inches and 6 feet long | are for ridge and plate. | If this plan is used it will be found | much more satisfactory than a plain| A-shaped house, The door in the roof | can be opened when the sun shines. | Sunshine is the best tonic known for | little pigs in early spring, and the) door is essential when the sow needs attention at pigging time as a means of entrance and as is sometimes the case a very hasty exit. We lose a very small per cent. of pigs far-| rowed in these houses, | TO COMBAT HOG CHOLERA. | Discovery of a Serum That Will Pro tect Swine from the Dread Disease, The discovery of the bureau of ani-| mal industry of the department of ag- riculture of a serum that will protect hogs from cholera has been taken ad- | vantage of by several state agricult: | ural departments and appropriations | have been asked for from their legis- | latures for the purpose of providing farmers with the preventive, With but few exceptions no welldefined or or- ganized plan of operation has been adopted by any of them to secure to the farmers within their borders the benefit of the government's discovery. If the greatest good is to be accom- plished, the farmer should not be con- tent simply to reduce the losses from hog cholera, but should undertake sys- tematic efforts to eradicate the dis ease, Most farmers and stockmen are fa- miliar with the course which hog chol- era usually takes when it appears tn a neighborhood. A herd develops the disease, which may not be recognized as hog cholera for several weeks after it has made its appearance, Following | this the neighbor’s hogs will become infected, and then rapid progress ts made until finally the losses in a sin- gle county may be enormous. It is evident that in order to con- trol the disease there must be some means of confining it-to the original infestions. 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FISK. = — |Good Roads Problem Solved, comvect wish ttand while New Mex- Denver, May 23 —While other | iY plans a network of roads to be MISSOURIANS LAY CLAIM TO MINES States are begging Congress to ap: | bails by convicts, Colorado and | WORTH MILLIONS, | propriate vass sums for good roads Wyoming plan to extend the road throughout the country, Colorado across both states to the Yellow- and New Mexico are solving the stone Nasfonal Park, all the work to Butler Relatives of Early Pros-| problem of getting the best high- de done by convicts and the states . 3 ways at the minimum cost. helping sparsely settled counties. pector Revive Old Liti- New Mexico began the work by as aonenemmae gation. using convicte to build a scente high- Bridegroom 86, Bride 76. way from Santa Fe northward San Francisco, Cal., May.—The| ghrough the picturesque mountaine| Springtield, Mo., May 21—Fellx lure of millions which, they aseert,| which surrounded the ancient city. |’ Banion, 86 years old, and Mrs. should be theirs has drawn to San! ag jg approached the Colorado | Mary L. McKinley, 86 years old, were Francisco Mrs. J. H. Frizelle, of But-| poundary progressive men of Trini. | married bere. ©’ Banton {sa carpen- ler, Mo., and her daughter, Mrs. H./ gad saw the possibilities and offered ter and lives tn Springfield. The H. Piggot, of Helena, Mont. They! ¢o board convicts if the state would bride comed of an old and wealthy lay claim to valuable mining inter- put them on the road work. Lawrence county family and lives at este in the Comstock lode in Nevada,| The convicts were furnished and Aurora. A few minutes preceding left years ago by Lloyd N. Frizelle,/ nave almost completed a magnifi helr marriage they filed tn the office brother of Mrs. Frizelle’s late hus-)oont highway across Las Animas of the county recorder an ante- band. county. nuptial contract, in which walves In the early ’seventies Lloyd Friz-| The New Mexico road will soon any right to the other’s property. elle discovered one of the most en- couragiog prospects on the Com- stock. The Martin White Mining Company was formed and Frizelle held the controlling interest of the atock. Capital was eager for Invest- za Care evr slaughter of all infected animals, but these measures have not always been entirely effective. Im this country | such methods would not be suitable for, aside from the enormous expense involved, it would be impracticable to | disinfect against such carriers of dis- ease as dogs, crows, buzzards and the | like. Spring Horse Buying. The spring horse-buying rush has | struck us again this year. Everybody seems to want a new team of horses or mules at this time of the year. The man who has any to sell does not | have to go out to make a sale. Horse | buyers make a beaten path to his door. The man who {fs compelled to! buy at this season of the year must pay the highest price in order to get what he wants. «It is an undisputed fact that the| growing of young horses and mules as a side line to general farming is prof- itable business. Colts have come to be as good as cash at any time after weaning. Every farmer ought to keep at least a team of mares and breed them every year. With careful han- dling they will make a full team and grow two good colts with very little extra care and cost. Young horses are not all profit. They cannot be grown for nothing; yet every pound of young horse or mule flesh repre- sents probably more clear gain for the amount of food consumed than that of any other animal grown on the farm. Watering Hard-Working Horses. Relative to the watering of horses while doing hard work a Colorado vet- erinarian says: After long, continuous exertion the system is greatly depleted of fluid. Nature calls for its replacement, and this is the cause of a thirst which is 80 intense that if the animal is not restrained at this time he may drink much more than he needs. The general custom almost univer- sally followed of giving the morning| meal before water is not very objec- tionable, elther theoretically or prao- tically. At this time there fs no de pletion of fiuld; consequently the horse is not very thirsty and does not drink rapidly or excessively, and ap- i : E 2 i : |death came suddenly to Frizelle and | night, and soon after he had gone to ‘upon bis bed, dead. His friend was | stricken in the street. ment, and soon funds were available tor the development of the mine. About this time Friz:lle’s asso- clates are sald to have furmed a con- spiracy to deprive him of bis inter- est. Others {n the company were loyal to Frizelle, and a lawsuit was begun in the Federal courts in this elty. While the case was progressing, Gold Medal Flour Se one of the other stockholders, friend- ly to him {n the litigation. Frizello dined with some mining men one Washbourn-Crosby’s cele- brated Gold Medal, the best flour on earth without a doubt to-day, and we can sell it cheaper than you can buy a cheaper quality. We also have the sale here of the Lowa Soap Co. On their output we have a fine White Vegetable Soap at 2 for Sc. 10 bars for 25c, Laundry Queen. 6 bars Pinyon Soap 25c. 7 bars Paloma Soap 25c. 6 bars Our Country Soap 25c. Toilet Soap Put up by the Lowa Soap Co. Morning Glory Glycerine Soap 10c, 3 for 25c. Lemon Glycerine Soap 10c, 3 for 25c. Queen Castile Soap 5c, 6 for 25c. Cochin Oil Soap 5c, 6 for 25c. If you want a good Toilet or Laundry Soap try some of these----the best to be had to-day. Yours, Norfleet é Ream Phone 144 TheOnly Independent Grocery and Hardware Store, Won Ge BUTLER, MO. West Side Square his room in the Palace Hotel he fell Doctor J. H. Frizelle came from Missour! to San Francisco to tn- vestigate the affairs of his brother, and left matters in the hands of an attorney. Doctor Frizelle was offer- ed $50,000 to give up his brother's interestin the mine, but theattorney assured him he should get a million, at least. The death of Doctor Frizelle caus- ed a relaxation of interest in the claim. Besides, the heirs were well to do, and not overeager to come to California at that time to press the matter. rn “We are in San Francisco now,” said Mrs. Frizelle, ‘and we are going to see whether we were dealt with fairly. If we can establish ourequity in the property, and we shall do so and demand an accounting fn fall.” RICHARD’S Is the place to buy sewing machines SINGER, WHITE and DOMESTIC $3.00 to $60.00 And wilksell you as good a ma- chine for the money as Sears and Roebuck or any other buck. South side square, . ie) AR Nea Ho RR IRE Oe