The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, April 14, 1910, Page 9

eee Soe ee EEEEEEeEeEeEeEeHeEeaeeee They're going to tn- vestigute the cost of bread and meat, The congressmen wil! hum = and Haw about the) price of butter; Full soon an earn- est statesman | will arise ‘and| will repeat The diplomatic version of the other things we mutter. Let not your heart be thrilled with joy because ere many days A dignified proces- sion of the cost- of-things com- mittee Will stalk with silk hats shining down the market ways That hold the household com- merce of your enterprising city. Go not unto the butcher-man and grin with wicked glee, Go not unto the grocer-man and chor tle at his prices, Go not unto the dairy-man and bid him bend the knee Because of what you think of these congressional advices, “Tis true that data, evidence, and bills of yesteryear, And monumental figures and statistics will be taken, That these tmpressive congressmen will want to see and hear The truth about the cost of things from breakfast food to bacon, But, 0, my fellow citizens: Think not the price will drop For all this sherlock-holmesing by the men of legislation, Ah, no, a year from now when you and I may go to shop We'll find the price Increased by this high-priced investigation, OQ» MAN GippLes, )BSERVES. My observation has been that a man who can talk all day without feelings is usual- ly referred to as a good Talker. It seems to me it would spoil the fun to go fishing or bunting with the knowledge that you have to get a magazine arti- hurting anybody's | cle out of the trip. Ezra Timms is trying to be a re former, but his caliber is shown by the fact that he is sending anti-peeka- boo-waist tracts to women with skinny shoulders. The man who finds a good canta- loupe is like the man who takes @ cold bath every morning—tells every- body else about it. Two people always think a boy is overworked—the boy and his mother. All the Moral Lessons and the Self- Communions and the Character Analy- ses in the world have less immediate effect on a man’s conduct than losing money People differ as to the Mode! Hus- band. Women think he ts a man who never smokes, drinks, swears or stays out of nights, because he knows such actions are Wrong; men think he be- haves that way because he is Afraid. When you hear a man scolding at the top of his voice you may know he is trying to teach his children to be respectful to their parents. The Terrible Example. “What has become of that dear, de- lightful Mr. Sleer?” asked the first Newport lady. “Hadn’t you heard?” asked the sec- ond. “He has gone to work.” “Work? How dreadful!” “But it is not manual labor.” “No?” “No. He signed a contract to ap pear on the stage with Mr. Swatter- son, the anti-society lecturer, as a ter- rible example.” Criticism. This life is but a fleeting show To bother us and irk us— Sometimes a tragedy of woe, Again, a three-ring circus. Fe The Artistic Instinct. “So Sendembak, the editor, rejected your drawings?” “Yes. He doesn’t know art when he sees it.” “Did you say anything to him about it?” “No Just turned the pictures up side down and digned ‘em at the top, and sent ‘em to him again and he took the lot.” The Danger Signal By Oskar Reich (Copyrighted by Short Stories Co., Ltd) Porter. put tebe! in the throurh carriage for Salzburg. not the smoker’ “All right, sir.” | A few moments later Edgar Spilten | was installed in the desired carriage He always traveled in the compart j ment for non-smokers, for he not only disliked the habit, but also was ever on the fookout for adventures on his travels, and as ladies generally gave special preference to this compart- ment, he found it more opportune To-day his prospects looked meager The guard had already closed the doors, and he was still alone. The train, on the whole, was rather empty As it was winter there was but little traveling for pleasure, and the num- ber of those driven forth by business or duty was small at this time of the year. In one of the two adjoining compartments a trio of men had already picked acquaintance, and were absorbed in a game of “taroc,” while in the other a pair of travelers seemed to consider tt their chief aim to estab- ‘ish a cigarette record The carriage door was thrown open and a porter appeared Iaden with tn numerable bags and bundles, which he hurriedly tossed up into the rack “Just like a novel, murmured Ed gar. “I say, porter, who is coming in here?” “A lady.” “Young?” “Surely, Herr Spilten, for yourself.” “What, Frau Hofrathin! You? This {s what I call a surprise, You have no idea how delighted | am” “And 1, but for another reason, namely, that I succeeded in getting here at all. That | am in this last carriage ts stmply because I had just time enough to reach it. It was,a mad rush. Thank heaven my hus- band was not there; he is always so nervous.” “Like all husbands. May | be so rude as to ask where you are bound?” “To my sister in Munich; you know Ella married there. My husband left You may see Seated Himself Upon a Milestone, yesterday for a fortnight’s trip to the Budapesth convention, and I am tak- ing advantage of his absence to pay this long-deferred visit. And you?” “I am on my way to Salzburg.” “Ah, yes. Tell me, why were you not at the Waller's last Sunday? You have always been such a_habitue. there.” “T found it absolutely impossible, {t was such an exceptionally full day. Four “At homes.” Did I miss any- thing? “IT cannot judge of that. You must decide for yourself when I! tell you who was there. First, Martha Schwert——" “That is intended partly as a feeler, I presume.” “No, wholly.” “Oh, I don’t deny that I am atten- tive to Martha Schwert. Why should I not be? She is certainly very pretty, or perhaps you do not agree with me.” “Indeed, yes; one of the prettiest girls in Vienna. Is she equally re- markable for her discretion?” “The same old question whenever her name is mentioned. No, she is not remarkably discreet. Quite the contrary, in fact.” “And yet-——” “And yet I am one of her devotees. Anstetten it had picked up fire young girls, three small groups of people, and four unhappy looking couples. “We reach Ling in twenty minutes, do we not? They wait there Sfteen minutes for lunch.” “Too little time long to go hungry. are a little late, the trai ably not make so long a to eat, and too However, as we will pred “We might at all events have the heat turned off.” “Pardon me, my dear tady, Dut the wa lever you were about to grasp danger signal.” “Ah Im strange result.” “Not so dreadful, after atl. As Q see, ft would simply be a penalty of fifty guiden.” “I hardly know why, but t al think that I would like to give th = nal once, just to see what would bap pen. “That idea, | fancy, oceurs to Most of us; to me, at any rate, whenever | travel by train, It is the same when I cross a bridge, I always wonder what would happen if T were to femp over; or if 1 were to say something unheard of, something wildly sense tional, when I am out in society.” “I have the same feeling, precisely “Then—if you like, Frau Hofrathin -—Two souls with but a single thought’—let us put ft to the test.” “But think of the consequences You would be arrested and tmpris oned, and then—imagine the panic © our fellow passengers. By the war could they tell who had given the signal?” “I rather think the machinery ree isters that, But, really, this would be the best possible opportunity, and 1 am curtous to the Hmit. There is a long stop at Linz, time enough fo the station master to prefer a charge against me and for me to pay the penalty, for that {s all there is to it. 1 will simply tell him that I intended to turn off the heat, and made a mis take. So—" and before the young woman could prevent him he had pulled the lever. A shrill whistle and a jerk the wheels creaking and groaning beneath the grinding pressure of the breaks— another jerk, and the train stopped Passengers rushed to the windows guards ran from carriage to ca Then suddenly followed a crash, The, local had, as usual, layed, and behind it car the Orient in Linz a few minutes after and preceded it from t guards, startled by the t thought only of discovering help was needed, and in the excite ment and confusion no one membered the danger that ened and no precautions had taken to flag the train. Owing to the heav imp fog, and also to the local had come to a stop just a curve, the engineer of the express had first seen it when a few yards distant, and though bh blew his whistle and applied the brakes, the express dashed into the’ train ahead at almost full speed. FYf teen dead, more than forty severely | injured! j The examination disclosed nothivg | definite. So much was certain, th | the danger signal had been given. Fy) whom and why_ remained a mystery. Some thought that perhaps a passen- ger had seen the Orient express com: | ing, and had thought thus to avoid a possible collision. Edgar's friends wonder that he, | once the gayest of the gay, is now so) often sad and melancholy “You know,” they say, “he was in that ter | rible railroad accident near Linz, 8 was the only one in the rear carriage / to escape with his life. That ts why he is always so unwilling now to travel by train.” NAPOLEON AS PUSS IN BOOTS Master of Europe Conquered by Re mark Made by Twelve-Year Old Child. have brought & a vs express, whi had re threat: deen | | | Napoleon Bonaparte was always & very small man, and when he frsi entered the army as a sublieutenant in an artillery regiment, the top boots which were part of his uniform were so high and wide, that the thin little legs of the future emperor seemed quite buried in them However, the young” subd-lieutenant was vain enough to be quite uncon scious of the comical figure he cut, and went, readily enough to show off himself and his fine uniform to the Duchesse d’Abrantes and her sister, who haq heen early playfellows of his. Die No sooner did the young officer en- At balls and skating parties she is always the most beautiful girl present, and to dance a polonaise or a quad- rille with her gives me thorough satis- faction. As for my acquaintances, it irritates the men exceedingly, and the women even more, And then the cut- ting observations, especially from the ladies: ‘Ah, you know Fraulein Sch- wert? Pretty features, but rather ex- pressioniess.. ‘A picture without a a soul.’ ‘Do you find Fraulein Sch- wert so very entertaining?” etc. Be- sides,,my dear lady, I have recently met Ida Zwirner at Wiegand, and I worship at her shrine also.” “You are positively Don Juan of the drawing-room. You have a long list of gods and goddesses, 8 veritable Olympus, before whose altars you bend.” At St. Polten, this being the weekly market day there, a number of people got on, but mostly second class, More- over, Edgar had tipped the guard a gulden to insure no one entering bis compartment. Sather AecbT~| BY ie time the cain had reached ter their drawing-room than the two girls burst into a loud laugh at his appearance, the younger of the two especially making great fun of him; but Bonaparte never could relish a joke, especially at his own expense, and he now became quite anery at their laughter. The elder girl was a year or more Bonaparte’s senior, and she told him ‘hat “now he was an officer and wore a sword, he ought to know how to be have to ladies and not to speak angrily to them, but should be able to joke back if they laughed at him.” “Ladies,” said Bonaparte, contemptu- ously, and looking at the younger girl, “she is nothing but a little school- girl.” This affronted the 12-yearold roung lady, and she retorted with great spirit: “And what are you? Nothing but a puss in boots!” The careful housewife doesn’t mind her husband leaving footprints in the sands of time, provided he doesn’t track any in the house. , of one's self. | dy with the smoke. thing short of a miracle that d to my friends and rela- ed Patty, with a lugubri- he proceeded to unload creation of birds and “It's a won- sad and sudden end—" Patty, what in the world has cred?” asked Corinne, plumping 1 on the hatrack seat and draw- aller to the place beside her. over to tell you the whole ng tale,” said Patty. “You know, t all my life I have longed do s thing worth while—I mean ) put my own powers and resources » test. I wanted to know just at | should do under circumstances < for coolness and quick decision, linery from her head. yesterday my opportunity Why, what jin the world hap pened?” exclaimed Corinne. “Do get your story quick, Patty ,and leave the preliminaries,” No story is good without the prop- er introduction,” returned Patty, re- sly, “and this is just like the s you read in books.” that her listener was proper y impressed, Patty went on: “I had sed Merrill that I would press ut his mutiler, so I put an iron on hat litde stove attached by a hose to near mother’s dresser and went down to the library to it was heating. Only a : later there came a smell of burning stuff and the room began to fill with smoke.” t Why, Patty, it was a fire!” ‘Please don't interrupt, Corinne, but | guessed correctly. Instead of rushing wildly into the street or screaming for Hilda in the kitchen, I ran upstairs and by some instinct made for mother’s room, There the | seething, roaring flames met my while you gaze You didn't go in?” cried Corinne, 1 did,” declared Patty grimly, though well pleased with the effect of her recital upon her listener, “OT ourse, the fire was over in the cor- ry, Where Merrill's mufller, dangling the dresser, was a mass of es. Without a ery, but with my adly pale—I could see myself n mirror—I rushed into the midst f terrible conflagration and Y the open gas jet The tful heat and smoke and odor al- t overcame me. I fell back only on again with renewed de- nation, dragging mother’s new kets which had lain folded on the uch. I dashed the bundle with all y strength on that wicked blaze.” Why, what if you had caught on fire?” “In such moments of peril,” said Patty grandly, “one must not think Next I rushed to the} telephone and told the operator that | our house was burning to the ground | and asked her to ring the alarm for | . In an another second or two 1| had Merrill on the wire. To him 1 had barely reported that our home | was in flames and I was battling with | them all alone when I heard the re: | ceiver drop at his end of the line. | “By this time I was faint and gid- | I ran to the win- | dows and threw them open just as} | the hook and ladder wagon came tear- I waved to the driver to ing along. | not stop and the firemen yelled to me to jump. “There came a horrible crashing | and falling. It proved to be our front, door, which they had broken down. | Then the house immediately was filled with the firemen. | “I had scarcely finished showing | them the smoking debris when Mer-| rill came dashing wildly into the hall, | grabbed me and carried me out in his! arms to the street. | “1 succeeded in explaining to Merrill | in just a few more minutes that‘, all | unaided, had quelled the blaze. As} he had rushed down in a_ taxicab, without his hat or coat, we went back | into the house to get thawed out. “Honestly, after he came and was | holding me I hardly swooned at all. | “The firemen were all filing down | the steps and every one of them was} smiling and chuckling as if pleased | with my heroism. Still, one horrid | fireman said as he passed that it was| a pity I didn’t have sense enough to} thrown a glass of water on the muffler | instead of making a bonfire of my| mother’s blankets. But the others | told him to hush and Merrill said I} was a brave, cool-headed little hero- | ine.” “Well, I should think you were!” breathed Corinne, allowing herself to relax. “If you had only called me} up, too, I'm so sorry I missed it.” | | Lord Rosse’s Charity Legacy. Lord Rosse is one of the Irish peers who has come up to London since the presentation of the budget. He owns the little town of Birr One of the legacies going with this inheritance is an almshouse, to each inmate of which the family in power must give 12) pence every. Sunday. Each woman among them receives a new red gown every second year from Lord Rosse and a badge from the hands of the heir. This institution was founded in 1641 and the conditions go with the title to last as long as it lasts. Lord Rosse is a scientist and took honors im this department at Oxford. _ Foiled. “How can your firm beat our com- pany? We sell the only absolutely proof safes made.” “Haba! We sell safes!” '7 blk 22 1st add Rich Hill $300. SEASON 1910 ARTIST BLACKBURN NO. 259 The undersigned take pleas in introducing to the breeders of Bates county through The Ti , the finest Saddle Stallion ever sired by Artist Montrose, the winner of the Sweepstakes at the World’s Fair in Chicago, 1893. ARTIST BLACKBURN, No. 2598, will be found during the season of 1910 at our barn in Butler, Mo. Registered in A. S. H. R., Vol. 6. Special care and attention PRE- given to mares from a distance and kept on reasonable terms. MIUMS OFFERED ON HIS COLTs. Description and Pedigree Artist Blackburn is'a dark chestnut, marked as shown in pho- tograph, 15 3-4 hands | and weighs 1100 pounds. He was foaled April 2, 1903, and was <i by Artist Montrose No. 51, owned and developed in Appleton City by Judge A. F. Wyckoff. His rand sire was Artist No. 75, by King William No. 67, he by Washington Denmark No. 64, and he by Gaine’s Denmark No. 61. ist DAM—Delsie, No 3614, by Blackburn, No. 993, he by Du- luth, No. 79. 2d DAM—Pet, by Kentucky Prince, grandson of Gaines’ Den- mark, No. 61. 3d DAM—(Bally) by Stonewall Jackson, No. 72. TERMS--$15 to insure a living colt. $12 to insure in foal. $10 by the season. Artist Blackburn shows all five saddle gaits in a beautiful and graceful manner, also a good square trot. NIPPER, No. 1908, A.C. H.R. The finely bred (German) coach stallion will stand at the same stables at the very low price of $12 to insure a colt to stand suck, or $10 by the season, with return privilege if mare fails to get in foal; other terms and conditions same as Artist Blackburn. Description and Pedigree NIPPER, No. 1908, registered in Vol. I, A.C. H.R. Bay stal- lion, foaled 1905, 16 hands high, weight 1400 pounds, good bone and substance, fine style, high knee actor and very speedy for a_ coach horse, sired by SIMPSON, No, 2129, son of RU ND, 1255, first dam GINGER by FOLIE, 1071 (French coach). pper, with his ex- cellent breeding, mated with good mares, will surely produce style and high class coach horses. Also the finely bred young jack MONTEZUMA Will make the season of 1910 at the same stables. Montezuma will be permitted to serve mares at the low price of $10 to insure a living colt. Other terms and conditions same as above, This jack was sired by the celebrated Jack Monster, and is 15 1-2. hands high, color black, mealy nose, good head and ear, large bone and foot, and is breeding a class of mules that will sell readily at weaning time at top prices~his mules selling for $75 to $100 A lien according to iaw will be held on all colts: until, service fee is paid, Care will be taken to prevent accidents, but will not be responsible should any occur, We invite breeders to see this good stock before breeding. For extended pedigrees or further informa. tion, CALL ON OR ADDRESS BUTLER, LW. & J. S. Warnoc MISSOURL. Residence Phone 150. Office Phone 167, John S Ashley to J W Bobbitt 67 A sec 7 Howard $242 Carrie Long to Lillian P Redd lot 8 blk 127.3 Add Rich Hill $500.00, Carrie Long to John T Fox blk 117 & pt blk 116 Rich Hill-$500.00. Wm J Lamm to A D Pope 60 A see 13 East Boone $4500.00. Real Estate Transfers. Warranty Deeds. R L Guthrie to Nick Chlomes 75a sec 22, 26 & 27 Homer $2000. Lydia Coleman to B F Ward 1-6 int tract sec 8 Mingo $1. M G Schauer to Duvall-Percival Trust Co 120.a sec 21 Homer $8500. Nick Chiomes to R L Guthrie 75 a secs 22, 26 & 27 Homer $600. M G Schauer Trust Co 120 a sec 21 Homer $172. Saved from the Grave. : “Thad about given up hope, after to Duvall-Percival nearly four years of suffering from a severe lung trouble,”’ writes Mrs. M. “4 ® Sstiertin 190i a enn | Ole OF Clarksville, Tenn. “Often ‘ - Atom - me Caicertn Tat a ane the pain in my chest would be almost 3 New Home $200. SL ar unbearable and T could not. do any Rosa Volger to E F Smith 483 a work, but Dr. King’s New Discovery 12 Elkhart E Boone and has made me feel like a new person. Its the best medicine made for the throat and lungs.’ Obstinate coughs, stubborn colds, hay fever. la grippe, asthma, croup, bronchitis, and hem- orrhages, hoarseness and whooping CS Ewin to L P Simpson pt lot 1) cough, yield quickly to this wonder- blk 10 Butler $5,000. ful medicine, Try it, 50¢ and $1.00. JC Chitty to Pearl Shelton 50 a see | iy taal free. Guaranteed by F. 36 Grand River $2,000. gS isla. F H Diehl to John Diehl 132a sec} Boy Bankers Sent to Prison. . 24 and 13 Pleasant Gap $1. Covington, Ky., April 11.—Three John Diehl to F H Diehl 147 a, sec| youths, David Prinze and Marion and 13 & 24 Pleasant Gap $1. _ [Richmond Sparks, each less than 20 Monroe Laskey to Jesse E Smith | years old, were taken to the Federal lot 8 blk 2 Atkinson Park ad Butler prison at Atlanta, Ga., to serve sen- . wee eee tences ofa year imposed by the E W Prewitt to Jesse E Smith pt | United States District Court here for blk 15 Butler, west ie _{a fraudulent banking scheme, which Geo. F. Cobb to Nora M Smith lots |they concocted in the mountain town 1 & 2 bik 25 Butler $1400. latOrr. iy wie. E Leonard 160 a sec +e boys profited — $2,300 by . their scheme, which included the JALeonard to J E Leonard etal) oe . establishment of a mythical “bank, 214a sec 4&5 Walnut $5. ce eae ME ae , E F Wilds to Wm Queener lots 1 to which gave wholesale dealers glow- lahat ark ena ling accounts of their credit, enabling them to obtain large shipments of secs 7, 19, W Boone $24,000. Jaines E Powell to J W Sunder- wirth lots 1 & 2 blk 3 Fields ad Rock- ville $1,860. P : Fen +h C Chitty tract sec] jerchandise. Rosa Vogler to E F Smith 40a sec|___ ia TT 16 Deer Creek $5000. Office Phone 3. Residence Phone 268. Elizabeth C Reedy et al to WH Reedy 40a sec 3 Charlotte $1400. W H Reedy to Duvall-Percival Trust Co 40 a sec 3 Charlotte $800. Rosa Vogler to J W McCombs 40 a sec 16 Deer Creek $400. Mrs. M A Leech to H R Wilson lots 1&2 blk 7&2 bik 8 Mulberry $200. Robert 1 Dawson toT J Jackson 40 a sec 5 Charlotts $1800. CL Goodrick to Jesse A Sims 55 a sec Z Shawnee $2,525. L J Snow to C L Goodrick 55 a sec 2 Shawnee $2,525. : Mary E Miller to L J Snow 10 a sec 2 Shawnee $300. JD Bobbitt to J W Bobbitt lots 8, 9, 10, 11 blk 12 Sprague $500.00. H. E. MULKEY, en Veterinary a irgeon BUTLER, MISSOURI at Harley Smith’s Livery Barn 4