The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, May 27, 1909, Page 7

Letter-Heads «: unl bE must now go through life with | vice “Ask Me,” written across! heads by nature’s le hand, they possessed the courage to have it removed hair by hair by the | electric needle, or—ignoble resort— | shaved their heads frequently, like so many Chinamen. One-of their number—the wit—sud- | denly arose and left the room where The advertisement appeared but | they had gathered to discuss the situ-' ‘once in the “Male Help Wanted” col-, ation. A few minutes later it was re- umns of a morning paper. It read: - | called that he had boasted of having SEVEN SMALL, NEAT, BALD-HEAD-} in his possession a vial of the precious | ed men will be paid handsomely for a i " rief engagement. No soliciting. Burke, | hair restorative, and his six friends 427, Fox Bldg. | €rose and hurried after him. elevator boy at the Fox build! But the wit had aroused his strap- ing Ws a colored lad, and his stove-, Ping wife and boys to the exigencies lish grin gradually encroached upon °f the situation, and safely, behind (his ears as he lifted cage after cage-| barred doors, he coolly applied to his full of neat little bald-headed men to. 8¢alp a liberal quantity of the marvel- lthe fourth floor, They came in such | °US hair producing fluid. inumbers that it would seem that every! From his window he could see his \wife, mother or sister who had a neat ate companions-in-advertisement gath- little bald-headed man about the house &'ed on the sidewalk looking wistfully ‘had polished him up spick and span ®"d enviously at his door and he land sent him forth to answer the ad- Pitied them from the bottom of his vertisement, j heart. But there remained only suf- By noon of the following day the ficient restorative to grow one full number fell off to an occasional ap- head of hair, and if any one needed Iplicant who would descend from the air he did. fourth floor looking greatly disappoint-' He rubbed into his scalp the ed. The favored seven had been Precious drops of golden liquid and By Don Mark Lemon. (Copyright, by Shortstory Pub. Co.) , bination, Why, there isn't a problem in chosen and a notice to that effect post- ed on the door of room 427. | Two weeks later there appeared simultaneously in varlous sections of the city seven dapper little men, who no sooner removed their hats than there was disclosed to view a device more striking than the poet's classic “Excelsior.” On the shining crown of each little man's bald head, written in a new growth of silky hair, were the words: { ASK wiped his fingers on his chin, “Friends can always be had,” he meditated thoughtfully, “but hair once gone returns no more!" One by one his late companions dis- persed, as they realized the utter fu- tility of protest or appeal under the circumstances, and the wit remained locked in his room for a week, at the end of which period he sallied forth with a luxurious growth of silky red hair, such as he had not possessed even as a boy. ing the yak, which is a native of cen- ‘tractable beast of burden \ But he found his friends lighter hearted and more forgiving than he had expected, They had discovered that by letting the device “Ask Me” grow to a good length it could be skill- fully brushed and parted to represent a full head of hair, and this discovery had softened their hearts toward their more fortunate companion, r | The discoverer of the formula is at, the present time being tenderly , watched and guarded by a_ secret! ‘league of bald-headed men, for his in- j terest is also their interest, and in the , Words of the president of the league: “If memory should again re-light her extinguished torch in the mind of this genius, fame and fortune will find their way to his lodge, though it were in a trackless wilderness.” M4 ie public immediately became a milng interrogation point, and it was flearned from these human letter-heads hat sometime during the following nonth there would be placed upon the market a hair-restorer warranted to aay NOW HE HAS FOUND OUT. Solution of a Mystery That Bothered the Middie Aged Man in His Youth, ' “When I was a boy,” said the mid-, dle aged man, “we used to come across a pear tree occasionally that had pears | so hard you couldn't bite ‘em. Maybe , you've seen ‘em, Bs “They were a chunky built pear al- most spherical in shape, a very dark green, almost black, in color and of about the same specific gravity as ,cast iron. You threw one of those ‘years against a rock and it might! chip the rock but it would have no | ' feet on the pear. These pears never | got ripe; they always remained of | | just that same hardness, There were, no apples that we could not bite into, but those hard pears were proof even against the teeth of our youth. “T used to wonder sometimes why those pears grew, what they were for and what became of them. Now I know. I came across some yesterday preserved. “There they were in the dish, two pieces of one pear, two hemispheres of pear, looking strangely familiar when in my mind I had reconstructed them to make one pear; and when after barely escaping shooting the piece I tried out of the dish onto the table in my repeated endeavors to | penetrate it; when, I say, I had final- ly managed to shave a sliver off this ! piece I felt morally certain, and when I had tasted it any lingering doubt I might have had was removed; it was tasteless. They were beyond all ques- tion the same old pears. grow hair on the stubbornest bald “Boiling and steaming had softened head in two weeks’ time. The words: |them a little on the surface, but not “Ask Me” were material proof of the much, and despite all treatment they hair restorer'’s claims. still remained as they had ever been, “Gentlemen, {t is not merely.an in- without taste. They were the pears, stance of ‘heir expectant,’ but an in-' all right—the petrified pears of our stance of ‘heir apparent to the crown,’”) youth, and while we couldn't eat them said one of the seven little men who we smiled as we thought we had had developed into a wit under the solved at last that long standing mys- exhilaration of a second growth of tery of what they did with them—they hair, can ’em.” Men who had been bald for 10, 20, some 30 years, and had long forgotten | Carrying Water in Bags. the price of a hairbrush, gazed into Water is a precious article in the one another's eyes with dawning hope upper Rio Grande region of Texas. The 4nd encoura;ement, and the seven Iit- Rio Grande itself contains an ample tle men went about publishing the supply for the Me cans and the few $00d news broadcast, wined and dined Americans who live in this remote by an interested pulic. j region, but it sometimes’is a difficult Ce: established manufacturers matter to transport and distribute a etary hair medicines circulat-' supply. In the villages and goat the report that the human letter-' ranches situated back from the river is were not, and had never ‘been,' the water problem is one of the most bald, but that their heads had been difficult that the people have to con- 'shayed, leaving only the device, “Ask, tend with. Many months may pass Me.” without rain. The country becomes The seven little men hotly denied dry and parched. The hardy desert this aspersion upon thelr honor and plants are the only species of vegeta- their baldness, and the wittlest of them, tion that are able to go through the Struck off a pamphlet entitled: “A! long droughts. Water frequently has to Crown Seven Years Without a Heir,”) be transported long distances from the which sold like a baseball extra. Rio Grande. Where the country is It was°now that something unfore-' r:ountainous and rough water carts occurred. erer and ovnnot be used, and the water is car- tole SS . hair-| ried in water bags which fit over the ' Hurried After Him. 4s rather drastic, even in a pioneer re- Let the Flag Alone. | The proposal to recast the pattern of the United States flag is a good one to send to limbo. The scheme as now laid before congress is to rearrange the in the union into a pattern resembling perhaps a wir cutus more than anything else on the earth, the heavens or the wa- ters beneath, says he New York Tribune. Here ig the prescription: The stars shall be arranged uniform in distance from one another, in five arcs in combination, the centers of the arcs to be the apices of a regular pen- tagon. The radius of the ares shall be equal to one side of the pentagon, and the radius of the stars shall be equal to one-fourth the distance from center to center. Isn't that lovely? Like- wise, isn't it clearer than mud? Every- body, from that lucid word-painting, can see exactly how it would look, and every schoolboy can instantly draw it upon his slate. It really is a wonder that we have been able to worry along for so many years without such a com- ged ¢ th Euclid that can touch it for simplicity. __ Canada has caught the idea of utiliz- tral Asia, and serves many useful! pur- poses, being a great producer of milk, with flesh furnishing most appetizing food and a long-haired coat from which | excellent rugs and other articles are) made. The milk is exceedingly rich and produces a superior grade of but- ter, and there are various other uses that can be served by the Among other things it Is a animal. highly Alaska has proposed to introduce the yak, and now Canada is to import a herd and test the merits of the creatures, There appears to be no reason why the ex- periment should not be a big success, The reindeer broneht into Alpska have proved a most valuable adjunct to lite | in that northern region, —_—_—_—_—_ Seattle plannin expos. set a good example in its of the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific which is to be held during 2 summer, Instead of tear: ing down the buildings after the big show is over, and undoing the costly topographical work, $600,000 worth of buildings will be turned over University of Washington, together with the water, lighting and sewerage , systems, which will be useful in fu-' ture development of the state's educa: | tional institution, It may therefore be— truthfully claimed that the Alaskn-Yu- | kon-Pacific exposition is educa'ional in a double sense, —— | They have a summary way of deal-! ing with abductors in New Mexico. Two men who kidnaped two young girls were overtaken by a posse of pur- | suers and at once shot to death. This to the gion. The law should be allowed to take its course in any event. But the | intense feeling aroused over recent kid- naping affairs has much justification and should result in prompt and ex- emplary legal punishment for the of- fenders whenever the case is proved! against them. pi” Though Count Zepp fas accom- plished wonders with the airship since Santos-Dumont astonished the world with his tentative feats, other wonders are still to be performed before the conviction of practical sky pilots can be overcome that the airship is only a toy. The Wrights seem much nearer the solution of aerial navigation, But the world moves while we live and learn. interested in equal suffrage will pre- pare a bill granting municipal suf- frage to women and will work all sum- mer on this line. They have deter- mined that to gain their point they will have to go into politics. Which shows that lively times are ahead for politics. e Boston, through its official head, has given the country—incidentally, the world —an official recipe for baked beans and brown bread. Any other recipe is spurious, and cannot be ex- pected to develop the Boston brand of real bean-fed intellect. The Engl glish colonies are inclined to show their loyalty by shaking down the taxpayers for a few Dreadnoughts to help brace the backbone of the mother country. Military osteopathy, as it were. ———__——SX_ Several exchanges are asking what is a wife's most valuable accomplish- ment? One of her rarest accomplish- ments {s to defer until to-morrow what can possibly be said to-day. Those dinky little Central American states have as hard a time to keep geod as does a school boy when the teacher absents herself from the room &@ moment. = If those antarctic explorers had reached the south pole they probably would have found a picture show there ahead of them. eel They are having lively times in San Francisco over the graft cases, but we think right and justice will win out. in the days of its infancy to negotiate | Whenever ,on the | the action neces: ; More aggravated « EIVED x MENACES CATTLE AND SHEEP Larkspur Poisoning One of Problems Western Rancher Has to Face. Larkspur in my neighborhood here on the Laramie plains does not seem to be disastrous to either sheep or horse raising interests but proves a serious menace to cattle interests every spring until all the plants have | finished flowering. Cattle seem par- ticularly fond of the weed as it is al- most the first new green forage of the season and while the loss from this cause in native cattle is frequently negligible it is apt to lead to the death of entire herds that are shipped in from other r s where the weed is not abundant rs R. E. Cox, in Denver Field and Farm. Larkspur seems to flourish best in sandy soil or on flats in prefe le keep the cattle and away from sandy pastures until after the weed has blos- somed., Cattle polsoned by larkspur bloat rapidly, become unable to re- main on their feet and unless attended to promptly are soon beyond ald, In mild cases clipping an ear so that the blood flows freely is frequently all for a cure, In raise the ani mal's tail and cut the vein on the un derside near its roots. ent a small handful of baking soda or saleratus thrown into the animal's throat and a halt pint) of vinegar poured in while holding the head up causes enough fermentation to relieve the gaseous pressure upon the stom- ach, In extreme cases the trocar and ca nula seems to be the only remedy but it should be used only as a last re sort save in the hands of an experi enced person. A well vouched for pre seription for either larkspur or death camas cases is the following: Thirty grains of potassium permanganate and 30 grains of aluminum sulphate dis solved ina quart of water, It is a mis- take to presume that alkali water is the cause of death in cases of this kind, The reason for this presump tion is due in large degree to the fac that whenever anim: are poisoned from various weeds they immediately strike out for water and are found after death lying adjacent to water holes, springs and accessible streams The danger however was done with the eating of the poison plants and the journey to water is only the nat- {ural impulse of the afflicted animals when they feel their temperature ris ing. YOUNG EWES DISOWN LAMBS. | Where Maternal Instinct Is Not Fully Developed Mothers Disavow Their Offspring. It sometimes happens, especially with young ewes, that the maternal instinct is not developed, and they not only refuse to own their lamb but often manifest repugnance toward it Lamb Disowned. Then is the time for the shepherd tc cultivate the virtue of patience. The ewe and lamb should be shut up together in a small pen, out of sight of the flock. She will at first have to be held for the lamb to suck but as the little fellow grows stronger he will usually help himself, if the ewe is driven into a corner. Sometimes when there is trouble at birth and the lamb has to be taken away the ewe will walk off and pay no attention to it, but confinement with it a few days usually solves the difficulty. About the most hopeless case is where one of a pair of twins is disowned. A remedy is to shut the ewe up with her disowned lamb and only let the favorite in long enough to get the necessary nourishment. Bog Spavin and Thoroughpin. The combination of bog spavin and thoroughpin in a horse is a serious defect. It seldom causes permanent lameness, but the blemish, which ir difficult if not impossible to remove is unsightly and a great damage tc the value of the animal. The actua cautery (firing and blistering) and re peated blistering, with one part of the binfodide of mercury mixed with eight parts of vaseline, are popular reme dies for the treatment of the disease If, however, the patient is not lame let well enough alone. The uncer cae Serious and let us show you the latest styles in Women’s Regal Shoes. You won't find any footwear in town to compare rence to the hills, | with them in style, quality and comfort. You won't find more fashionable shoes anywhere. REGAL SHOES For Women Every one of the new Regal hw is an exact reproduction of an expensive custom model, You cantell at aglance that these Regal Shoes at $3.50, $4.00 and $5.00 possess the distinctive smartness and exclusive style of custom shoes. Come and see them. We give you an exact fit, because Regal Shoes are made in quarter-sizes. Hiram Nichol Shoe Co. When conveni- | Taft Swats War Budget. Washington, May 24 —President! (aft sent back to the War Depart | ment the estimates submitted to lm for the suppor’ of the military sstablishment for the fiscal year! 1911, and Indicated his desire that shey should be cut approximately | 236,000,000 Tho estimates were prepared dur ing Secretary Dickinson's visit to Panama and carefully scrutinized by Acting Secretary Ollver, who reduced vhem to $171,650,000—$18,000,000 | ess than she estimates for 1910, but, sbouts $16,000,000 more than the! sppropriations for that year, When Mr. Tafs saw the tizures he xpreesed his wish that they betwen y million less than the appropria- ions for 1910, Assistant Secretary Oliver has suc ceeded in reducing the figures by $18 000,000—half the amount asked f rby the President—and they have iow been submitted to Secretary Dickinson for final consideration, If he reduces them to the extent she President wants them cut, it will | involve a still further cut of about) $18,090,000. | The totals do nos include expenses | mm account of the Panama Canal, | aor the permanent anoual appro- priations. | Army officers say the reduction in | estimates, if persisted in by the Pres- ident, means practically noconstruc: | tion work for the army during 1911. | American Women Lead World. New York, May.—The American woman {fs the most chummable wo- man in the world,” says Alfred East, “ergo she is the moss charming.” Mr. East ts president of the Royal} Society of British Artists, and was) appointed the British member of the | international jury which made | awards for pictures in the Interna. sional exhibition held recently at} Carnegie Inatisute in Pittsburg. “IT believe the American women make altogether, the best and most interesting companions for men,” was Mr. East’s frank declaration “They are the most chummable, if I must use the word, and go, ofcourse, the most charming. “Uaoderstand, I do not for one mo- ment wish to seem to disparage En- glish women, my country women. They are adorable. But the women | of this country have a certain splen- | did self-reliance, an independence of | body and mind that can be found nowhere else in the world.” | i Amputated Leg Hurts Victim. New York, May 23 —Complaloing that pains in tho toes of his right foot, which {sin @ grave, with the remain Jer of his ley, will prevent bis complete recovery until relleved, Ernest Frye, of No, 256 West Fitty- sixth street, isspending much time arguing with his physician. He wus {njured in an automobile erash in Central Park, on April 15, when two of his compantons were killed. Frye’s right lex was cut off close tothe hip afew duys after he was taken to Flower Hospital, His con- dition was {mproving steadily up to two weeks ugo when he fels severe pains, which, be {nsisted, were {n the toes he had lost. Since that time he has been tortured by what he says fs the cramping of the toes. Phyeictans say {6 1s notuncommon to have a patient complain of patne {nan ampututed member, but the extremely depressing effect the phe- nomenon exerts on Frye {s unusual, they assert, The agony Frye suffers at times has reduced his vitality, {t fs sald, and {s retarding his recovery. Real Estate Transfers. WARKANTY DEEDS, F W A Ephland & wife to Thos Scott tot 12 blk 38 Town of Walnut $25. Ed Crabb & wife to Daniel Crabb part 12 sec 12 Osage $23500.00. GA Bright & wife to T B Scott lots 5 & 6 blk 90 and all block 200 Walnut $250 00. Francis Smith et al to CS Beasley part sec 27 Prairie township $750. W G Miller & wife to Jennie Sayre lote 7 & 8 blk 38 Amoret $500.00. W G Sayr & wile to W G Miller lote 7 &8 blk 38 Amoret $500.00. Chas E LaFrance et al to W T Wolfe pt sec 30 Deer Creek $300.00. Frank Hayes & wife to Samuel Queen part sec 4 Walnut township 31400 00. * JC & Sarah E Fabor to Angeline Sutllens lote — & — block & Crescent Hill $115.00. J W & Rose ti Packer to G H Hand 123 acres sec 31 Mound township $750.00. BH & Allle Moulton to R C Tabor jlots 1-2-3-45 & — blk 11 Crescent Hill $700.00, Marriage Licenses. Calvin Moxley, Iudiow, Mo. Geneva Purmaton, Rockville, Mo. a a WANT to increase the fertility of your soil ; WANT to raise more grain per 1? crop while you are improv- yo acre? WANT a good hay or forage You Say “*Yes’”—then sow Cow Peas ‘They are cheap now, only $2.00 per bushel. You can afford to ‘try them if you have never raised any. TIME—from now till in July. One-half to one bushel per acre. PEOPLES ELEVATOR CO. ur ground? ENE ie ROD RIE ace ete RR creme we RE TE