The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, September 30, 1909, Page 3

TRIALS -OF “OLGA For a quiet little girl Olga Gilgours- ki caused the officers of her school a good deal of thought) She was good and obedient and seemedinterested in her studies, but the teacher sald she was very slow to learn. As she seemed to try and was not stupid, this wae surprising. Still, Olga was out of school a good deal, so perhaps she lost the thread of the lessons. When the teacher asked the mean- ing of so many absences Olga would only say that she “had to stay home.” The teacher reported the matter to the principal, who, after some warn- ings- and notes, sent the truant offi- cer to investigate. The truant officer entered Mrs. Gil- gourski’s home with a flerceness that was meant to be jocose. However, Mrs. Gilgourski did not care for that kind of humor and threatened him with a carving knife. “You go quick,” she commanded. “My Olga stay home when I say 80.” The truant officer retired and told the principal that he would ‘bring the family into court at once. But the principal asked for delay. Being much puzzled, he suggested that the teach- er herself call. Olga smiled faintly at the teacher when she appeared and Mrs. Gilgour- ski regarded her with an impassive though not unfriendly countenance. “Teacher” had secured a “yob” for Olga's brother some months before. “I want to know why Olga stays at home so much,” said the teacher. “She does not learn as fast as she ought.” “Oh, she not like go all time,” ex- plained Mrs. Gilgourski, “She say she feel sillee, foolish.” “But, Mrs. Gilgourski, why does she feel that way? girl. She does not act silly. Besides, if she stays away too much, unless the doctor says so, the judge may “S02” Said Mrs. Gilgourskl. send for you and her father to come to court.” “Olga, she say,” explained Mrs. Gil- gourski, “that oder girls call her sil- lee because she not always see things right. You put three on the—what you call it?—yes, board, but she say eight. ‘Then girls laugh.” “Oh!” said the teacher. “Perhaps we can help that. To-morrow I shall ask the nurse to come to see you. She is a nice little | ROMAN NUSE IN THE HORSE. Generally indicates Individuality and Ie Often Accompanied with Much Intelligence. A Roman nose in a horse, like the corresponding aquiline shape in a man, generally indicates strong individual- ity, often accompanied with great in- telligence. A straight facial line is quite as often found with a high degree of intel- ligence, but a dish-faced horse is rarely anything but a nonetity in char- acter or a fool. I have seen a few exceptions to this rule, but they only prove it. A fine muzzle usually denotes a high nervous organization, while a coarse and large muzzle, with small and non- expansive nostrils and pendulous low- er lip, means stupidity. A sensitive and trumpet-shaped nos- tril means courage and intelligence, even when, as it does sometimes, it also means heaves. A broad and full forehead and length from eye to ear are good gen- eral indications of intelligence, but the eye and ear are the speaking fea- tures of a horse's face. The ear is more intelligible even than the eye, and a person accustomed to the horse can tell all that he thinks or means. When a horse lays his ears flat back on his neck, he most assur- edly is meditating mischief, and the bystander should beware of his heels or teeth. In play the ears will be laid back, but not so decidedly nor 80 long. A quick change in their po- sition, and more particularly the ex- pression of the eye at the time, will distinguish between playfulness and vice. All experts agree that the ear of the horse is one of the most beau- tiful parts about him, and by this is the temper more surely indicated than by its motion. QUALITY NEGLECTED FOR SIZE In Breeding the Former Has Been Sacrificed to the Latter by Many Farmers and Hog Ruilsers. Of late years it has become quite a fad with farmers and hog raisers to let our finances run away with us and breed our stock of almost every kind more for quality than for size, It is a matter of fact that wher we ship live stock to market they sel! together by weight, and as a matter of course the animal or carcass that weighs the greatest number of pounds will com- mand the most money, aud I think the habit of breeding more for qual- ity than for size lies in the fault of the judges in making their decisions in the show rings, as I think they award more prizes to the little, fine- spun animals, especially swine, than they do the larger type, declares Mr. Hart, in Kimball's Dairyman. If they would reverse their decisions it would let us all know where we are, and we re were a be| nighted heathen,” | said the girl whe) likes to talk, “I) know where I'd) burn conciliatory | incense. I would not scatter it about | —ld bunch it) pounds of it, and) have a regular) bonfire before the | god of malign, fate. Oh! there) must be one, you) know! | “Now, there was! the other night when we were to meet Genevieve | downtown for din-| ner, Genevieve is| our dearest friend from out of town and is visit. ing in a north shore suburb. Her trip to Chicago was main-| ly to shop. From her first waking | foment to the instant when she closed her eyes at night she was going to do) nothing but tear madly about from) store to store, buying, matching, com: paring, ordering, charging and send-| ing home. She was to have no thought | of anything else. This she had beat: | en {n upon our brains through letters | and telephone messages. Even taking | time to dine with us downtown was| for her a great concession. “I found my sister the afternoon of | the dinner, regretfully putting aside | jer new hand-embroidered shantung | frock that I knew she was absolutely | dying to wear somewhere. Also she | replaced her hat with the willow| plumes amid its tussue paper wrap: | pings end resolutely kept her eyes) away from the fluffy evening wrap. “We can’t wear ‘em,’ she told me. dolefully, though firmly. How she knew I hed been holding similar rites | over my pink broadcloth and rose hat I don't know. ‘We can’t wear ‘em! | Genevieve will have been shopping all day of course, and be in her street | clothes and we don't want to make her | feel uncomfortable. It wouldn't do!') “‘No!’ I agreed, sadly, ‘it wouldn't. | Isn't it'a shame? I suppose it means taflor suits!’ “*Yes,' said my sister with the light even lace waists. No human being Genevieve probably will have on just a tailored one. and of course we'll wear our street hats.’ - “So we robed ourselves for the sac- of martrydom in her eyes. ‘And not| can wear a lace waist to shop in, so/ I shall wear my plain- | est wash waist and you do the same, wouold breed more for sige than for quality. When we make discrimination in favor of quality against size in select- ing out breeding stock, we also dis- criminate against prolificacy, as my experience has been the finer the qual- ity the less prolific, and the weaker the constitution of the animal. Also @ great deal of this defect !s brought about by too close in-breeding; so therefore, I contend that if we would select our breeding stock of both sexes of larger type with good, strong, heavy bone, with sufficient frame to build on and capable of carrying flesh, our hogs would be of stronger consti- tution and more prolific. I am not opposed to breeding and raising pure bred stock of any kind. I want them with pedigrees, but I want them large enough and with a strong constitution to back the pedigree up. It matters not how large or how fancy. a hog is bred—ultimately the pork barrel is. the end of it, as it is a matter of natural consequence, all things being equa], as they selhby You know the nurse?” “Oh, yaas,” assented Mrs. Gilgour- ski. “She nice lady, but she like too much ‘fresh air, fresh air.’” The teacher smiled, for she remem- bered the nurse's ineffectual strug: gles with Mrs. Gilgourski on the sub- ject of proper ventilation. “She will come to-morrow and take Olga to see a kind gentleman who knows all about the eyes of little girls. Perhaps he can help her to see . better. Then, if Olga does just as he tells her she can read as well as the other little girls and they won't laugh any more.” “So?” sald Mrs. Gilgourski. . The teacher withdrew, not knowing what sort of impression she had made. Later she telephoned the nurse. The nurse appeared the next day and took Olga to the oculist's. He “carefully inspected the child’s eyes and then told Olga if she would wear giasses like those he showed her. she could see as well as any one. To his she joyfully assented. dark \ a would she say why she was not wear- ing them. She only sobbed when weight in all the markets, that the hog that weighs the greatest number of pounds will bring the most money, Therefore, brother breeders, let us breed more for size rather than let our fancies for quality overrule our better judgment, and not raise the lit- tle fancy ones that are only fit to look at. Goat Stock for Angora Crosses. A few years ago Mexican does were, used extensively as foundation stock for a flock of Angoras, using bucks of the latter breed. However wise the practice may have been at that time that method of building up a flock of fleece-bearing goats is now in vogue but slightly, if at all. The practice flourished best when the goat raisers knew very little of the larger prices they might have obtained for a better grade of mohair. They were content with prices ranging from 14 to 22 cents a pound. Manufacturers have required better hair than can be pro- |: duced by grades and this has tended to reduce very greatly the number of crosses. Kicking Horse.. To prevent_a -kicking throwing up his heels, a hitch like above illustration. dow-cut waistcoats.or not? They just rifice. It was a-real sacrifice, because if there {is anything which is a joy on earth to me it is to get into my best clothes and dine downtown in a fashionable restaurant and know I look as well as the rest of ‘em! “‘Maybe,’ my sister said as we slunk into the most exclusive cafe in town where Genevieve and my sister’s husband and his brother were to join us severally, ‘maybe strangers see- ing ug will think we’ve just got into town from off the train and of course @ur trunks haven’t come. We've got to trust to luck that we don't run across anybody we know! Horrors! There are the Plankingtons and that’s a real lace frock or I'll eat my hat! I'd like to, anyhow! Hide behind this pillar!’ “We did so, occupying the idle mo- mets in dusting soot from each oth- er’s noses. You see, being in shop- ping garb, we didn't have any éxcuse for ordering a taxicab to bring us down and had taken the train from Hyde Park. The lake wind besides peppering us-with-seot had blown our hair endwise. We weren’t happy. Far from it. “The two men arrived next. Of course, they weren't in evening clothes either, in concession to the spirit of the occasion. “While we sat surveying one anoth- €r grumpily we saw a huge touring car spin up to the entrance and a French fashion plate descend tRere- from. Oh, it is Genevieve, of course. She had dutifully gone out to the north shore suburb after her shopping to prepare for the gala occasion! May- be the prince of India’s wife or daugh- _ might have rivaled her, but I doubt “From the point of view of an in- nocent nonparticipant in the occasion Genevieve was a lifetime's expensive dream, but from the infinitesimal spot Buy any kind if they are Fat. Not necessary to be sound or good workers. Show me your good horses as I ship to the best market in the world. RICH HILL, MO., THURSDAY, OCTOBER ADRIAN, BUTLER, MO., SATURDAY, OCTOBER Y Southerners, Drafters and Driving Horses and Mares 4 to 20 years old from 1000 Ibs WILL BE AT . MILLERS BARN. MO., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 8 SMITHS BARN. Regardless of weather, and will pay the highest possible market price for all stock brought to us, age, size or price cuts no figure if your stuff is fat. Bring in the best stuff you have, or the bad fat ones, as prices cut no figure if you have the goods. DON'T FORGET THE DATE AS | COME TO BUY Buy Mules from 4 to 10 years old.—Must be FAT. Ihave no market for thin Horses or Mules or 3-year-olds. But you all know I pay the price for the fat kind. 1 Roped a Bobcat. G. C. Purcival, a well-known resi- dent of the Osage nation, southwest of Silverdale, had an exciting experi- ence with a huge bobcat. He was looking little worse for the wear and is walking with two canes. “Yes, it’s true. I tried todo Jim Warren’s stunt of roping a bobcat, and I got bruised up on the rocks for my trouble,’’ he said. “Even at that, I would have land- ed him if a bunch of ‘yaller’ hounds hadn’t happened along and spoiled the sport. “Thad been riding the line fora Pawhuska outfit, and concluded to hunt up some carpenter work, and so I saddled Baldy and started north. 1 stayed all night with a friend on Lit- tle Beaver, and in the morning I head- ed for Arkansas City. “In crossing the lane by the Hough- ton ranch I sighted a big bobcat, and as it took north through the Scott ranch, I galloped after, shaking out my rope-as I went. I missed the old fellow twice, but got him around the middle at the third cast. We were now ina rocky swale, and I turned Baldy for high ground expecting to pull the cat into Silverdale. “But then a bunch of ‘pesky yaller’ hounds that had been running the cat came yelping over the hill, and the wildcat made a jump and landed right on top of me and old Baldy. The slack.of the rope caught in the rock and jerked the saddle sideways. “About that time things began to yaller hounds yelped at Baldy’s heels. It was entirely too busy for me, so I} beamed on Genevieve and forgot them-| dropped off on some nice smooth, stones. Baldy sailed over the hill’ Extra Price for Draft Horses. No Leggy, Out-Classed Stuff Wanted. S. Lowenstein NATIONAL STOCK YARDS, ILL. faeiciite : being the main articles to be placed | hillips returned with a small amount in the wagons. of money and Jonathan Culbertson The men were armed much like| With something more. Only a short soldiers for the Indians were not al-| time elapsed before Americans had together willing to all this invasion of | taken gold enough out of California the west. Mr. Waldo was made cap- | to pay for the vast territory obtained tain and from his experience and | from Mexico as a result of the war of bravery he had the confidence of the | 1846. Of the privations and suffer- people generally, and friends of the | ings on the plains and in the moun- men and boys with him believed that | tains during those years there is but the best thing for the safety and little conception at this time of easy health ofthe men under his care and rapid travel across the continent. would be done for them under all| It might be of great advantage, as circumstances. 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