The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, May 12, 1910, Page 4

2 Cars Merchandise THIS WEEK 1 car New Orleans Cane Sugar due now. If you want sugar, buy where you can get what you want. WE DO NOT HANDLE BEET SUGAR. 1 car Old Glory flour due here Thursday. a ee smn we Screen Doors from 85e up, fixtures included, We have Window Screen Frames ready made, cheaper than you make them. Screen Wire all kinds and sizes. of wire, Let us figure on your bill t i i 1 i ‘ ‘ Lemons, large size.. ....per dozen, 20c . per dozen, 25c +s seesssPer gallon, 35c ....3 packages, 25c SbksaNaaaaneae per can, 10c .. +3 for 25c .. 3 for 25c 3 for 25c +s ess. Per pound, 64 ..'y pound cake, 20c Sweet oranges, something fine... MORE BPE is vveescvcaccsacs Jello, Can sweet potatoes. Can tomatoes.................,, Quaker Wheat Berries, Quaker Pulfed Rice......'...... Crackers, by the box............ Walter Baker chocolates............, Can peas, sifted early June DEAS... ee seccceeesecee sd CONS, 25c Post Toasties.......... ..2 packages, large size, 25c 2-Ib can oysters at .. .. 16e YOURS, Norfleet & Ream Phone 144 TheOnly Independent Grocery and Nardware Store. White Front BUTLER, MO. West Side Square REMEMBER Mrs. Farmer that during May you pay less for many things. Not more for anything. You get your Goods Delivered You get a Present COME IN AND SEE A, H. CULVER FURNITURE CO Headquarters for Good Furniture. QQ \ 2 LPAOROR OKO] Ho, the voice of spring Is calling Where the dreary fields are sleeping, And a whisper, softly falling, Sets the buried life to creeping; Tt Is calling: “Waken! Waken!" TI the barren twigs are shaken And the buds that cling in drowsing Swell with leaves that they are housing. And the voice of springtime forces All the sap until it rushes Through the hidden ways and courses That it left in wintry hushes; And the call speeds on and passes All the roots of all the grasses With its word of warming showers For the world of sleeping flowers. And the dream-held bees will chuckle In thetr sleep, and scent the bursting O* the rose and honeysuckle With the nectar for their thirsting; Through the orchard goes a thrilling Of the b ms meant for spilling To the br s in their playing With the shine and shadow straying. Ho, the volce of spring is speeding Out across the hills and hollows And tuned to its joyous leading Is a song that swiftly follows Till the birds afar have heard it On the winds that have not blurred It, And thelr wings are thrumming, thrum- ming, Vor they're coming, coming, coming. Bud and blossom, bough and berry, Sky and soil, and man and maiden Sense the calling, sweet and merry, With its olden promise laden— And we rise with hearts enraptured Of the song that we have captured, O& the song that Iilts with laughter, Of the days that shall come after. The Helpful Man Again, The man with the incandescent whiskers materializes at the elbow of the high-browed slave with the band- aged fountain pen, “Rather a neat little idea occurred to me this morning,” says the man with the incandescent whiskers, “You're welcome to it, if you care to use it, elther as your own, or with credit. It goes like this: What is the difference between a man who goes on a long journey through the moun- tains looking for an individual who was one of the early settlers there, and a man who has written to his old home in Ireland for a meat ple to be shipped to him for his birthday?” “What kind of a meat pie?” “Any kind at all—it doesn’t make any—" “This is Lent.” “Oh, that has nothing to do with it. It’s simply an imaginary condi- tion, anyway, and so—”, “Hasn't anything to do with the Pinchot case—that fellow who is tray- eling through the mountains?” “No. There's nothing of that kind in it.” “Well, the proposition lacks hu- man or contemporaneous interest and Tcan’t use it.” “Very well! One of them is looking for a pioneer and the other for an Erin pie, but you cannot have it!” einen Overdressed Dishes. (Anna Barrows of Columbia university Protests against the overdressing of dishes to hide thelr defects.) The codfish-ball-gown is passe, The salad should be decollette, A chop in ruffies bright and gay Is something we would fain forget. And nothing so disturbs a guest And knocks his blithe enjoyment fiat As does a head of cabbage dressed In an expensive modern hat. The time will come, dear reader, when The board will ring with angry hoots And language such as we can’t pen, O’er fishes served in bathing suits! — An Expert Opinion, “What,” asks the eager youth, “is the difference between art and arti. ficiality?” The gray-bearded Philosopher tnoughtfully tugs at his whiskers and revolves the problem in his mind, “I shall endeavo: to make it plain and simple to you.” he-remarks at last. “On the one hand, consider the portrait of a woman's face; on the other hand, consider Site itself Art and artificiality—paint and pow. der—see?” Important Germ. “I have found a new germ,” nounces the eminent savant. “Ah, indeed?” asks the friend. “And what will be ‘its effect?” | year. Do not coijnt your bluebirds before | they are hatched. This movement to dehorn women’s hats grows in favor. ¥ Water faucets which yield fish hardly thwart the food trusts. Soon somebody will be coming in breathlessly to report the first house fly Three nations are in a race for the south pole. May none of them get cold feet. Tt is getting so that it must hurt the feelings of the ham to have to as- sociate with the eggs. The government is going to give us weather tips while we wait. That's the way we get.the weather. With three nations racing for the south pole it is fortunate that Amer icans are nimble on their feet. This cold weather subjects the ice harvesters to danger of frost bites, so of course the price of ice will go up. Platinum is going up to $710 a pound. Thus we see that the perni- cious example of beefsteak continues to spread. There would be no particular ob- jection to the long hatpins if in crowd- ed cars and elevators they were worn in scabbards. In these days any purchaser of a telescope who cannot find a comet with it feels that he should be given his money back. New York has convicted a police The first collision between two air- ships occurred the other day. Unfor- tunately the historic spot cannot be marked by a memorial tablet. eee That little comet which is anticipa- ting Halley's is no doubt a little per- former that is ready to do one-night stunts to please the general public. After visiting the north pole the Zeppelin airship expedition expects to “anchor behind Greenland.” Sounds like a nice cozy place to warm up in. London, with 40,000 children in the hunger line, needs to try something more far-reaching than reform of the house of lords for its present troubles, <oeyeiaicnaansmneeies When Chicago becomes truly beau- tiful the crossing policemen will be Provided with flageolets or oaten pipes instead of the present strident whistles. No good can be accomplished by poking fun at the man who appeared in the foyer of a St. Louis theater wearing a muff. Remember he has been compelled to live in St. Louis. President Underwood of the Erie says Americans are bad losers. He must have attended a ball game where the home team was defeated because of a questionable decision by the um- pire, Germany is excited over the discov- ery of the skull of a prehistoric man near Heidelberg. Of course, such a discovery is interesting, but what the world particularly needs just now are live men—very much go. A fashion note says women’s waists will not be cut any lower in the back during the coming season than they have been in the recent past. We that will not eventuate. —_—_—— A Philadelphia magistrate has held that taking an umbrella from a friend {s not criminal, but taking one from a stranger is larceny. But a man who has his umbrella taken can scarcely be called a friend of the taker. There {s a lot of satisfaction in the way the large business houses take care of their teams, It’s getting to be the exception for them to have poor, abused~- horses. They are not advertisements, and an advertisement ‘see 2 oe Seal. A Milwaukee woman has raised a novel point by suing for damages for attempts to drive her out of society. The next thing courts will be asked for injunetions preventing exclusive hostesses from shutting out aspirants to soetety from their luncheons and teas, ; Bitt to ting. the | March is indeed the blowhard of the | magistrate of having accepted a bribe of $16.66. The 66 cents "shen ioekh | he-wasa stickler for form. may list this with the impossibilities ; Vital Washington News. By Tavenner. Washington, May 9.—The Demo- crats, assisted by a handful of fight- ing progressive Republicans, have forced a Republican administration to abandon some of the worst of the corporation-serving clauses placed in the railroad regulation bill by Attor- ney-General Wickersham. Wickersham framed this bill after a conference with six railroad presi- dents. Wall street knew long before the public appearance of the bill that it would be so drawn as to annul that feature of the Sherman anti-trust law which prevents mergers. Railroad interests bought and sold stock on the strength of their advance informa+ tion. Itis not plain as yet who sup- plied Wall street, with information as to the kind of a bill Wickersham would draft. Had the bill become a law as pre- pared by the attorney general, it would have practically destroyed all that has been accomplished in the last twenty years to give the government some measure of control over the railroads of the country. No attorney general of the United States has ever been revealed in just the position Mr. Wickersham now occupies, Instead of having drawn a bill that would tend to place greater safe- guards about the righls of the peo- ple, as might naturally be expected from a public office who is receiving asalary on the assumption that his office is giving such protection to the people, Wickersham has been charg- edon the floor of the Senate with having attempted to take from the masses even such inadequate safe- guards as they now enjoy, while at the-same—time-giving the corporate interests the right to merge and do other things that the Sherman law has forbidden them from doing. At the time of Wickersnam’s ap- pointment it was averred that he had been selected by President Taft in de- ference to the wishes of the corpora- tions of the country, who had spent money, coerced workingmen to vote the Republican ticket, and who de- manded as compensation for this ser- vice the privilege of naming the at- torney general. The feverish interest of special privilege in this office may be realiz- ed at full value when it is understood that the attorney general is in abso- lute charge of the prosecuting ma- chinery of the government. Whether Wickersham’s appoint- ment really was the result of a pre- election arrangement or not, the trusts have had no occasion to be dis- satisfied with the President’s selec- tion. Whenever the rights of the people and special privilege come in- to conflict, Mr. Wickersham decides favorably to the corporate interests and against the people. Some assert that Wickersham leans toward the corporations because of his tempera- ment, and others attribute his attitude to force of habit, he having long been a corporation lawyer in New York. Whatever the reason, the records of the Attorney General’s office show that Wickersham’s opinions are in- variably favorable to the big cam- paign fund contributing corporations. President Taft’s definition of a “Republican” member of Congress isone who will vote for legislation indorsed by him whether said Con- gressman believes the legislation is good or bad. The President complains that the insurgents visit him at the White} House and assure him of their great Personal respect and’ well-wishes, and then go to the Capitol and vote against his-railroad regulation bill. “Why do you act this way?” a progressive Republican was asked, “Do you not respect the President of the United States?” The recently “reformed” House Committee on Rules is proving to be as secure a catacomb for proposed legislation antagonized by the special interests as was the one of which Speaker Cannon was chairman. Not asingle resolution which might ad- versely affect unlawful combinations such as the sugar trust has been re- ported favorably by the new commits. tee. Speaker Cannon dominates the reformed body just as effectively as he did the old Rules Committee. Attorney General Wickersham has given out two more of his famous opinions. One holds that the Secre- tary of War cannot lawfully refuse to award a contract for Panama canal supplies to the lowest résponsible bidder simply because such bidder has been adjudicated fo be a party to an unlawful trust and monopoly or otherwise carrying on business in violation of the Sherman anti-trust law. The other decision holds that Public Printer Donnelly has no right to abolish certain branches of the government printing office simply be- cause he thinks they are unnecessary and that he wishes to cut down ex- penses, During the first three days of May the government spent $2,602,093.81 more than it took in. This would in- dicate that the new tariff law is a fail- ure inasmuch as it is not producing sufficient revenue to meet the ex- penses of the government. The report that Roosevelt has writ- ten letters to President Taft, Son-in- law Longworth and others, indorsing the Taft administration has been giv- en wide publicity by the Republican press. Careful inquiry brings out the fact that all of the persons men- tioned in the story emphatically deny having received such—aetter.—And Roosevelt denies having written any- thing which could have been so con- strued. Sparks Electric. Electric News Service, Television is the latest. You talk with a friend a hundred miles away and you see him as plainly as though you were in the same room. The quarter-in-the-slot electric me- ter has made its appearance, A cent’s worth of electricty will drive a 12-inch fan for ninety min- utes, Eight thousand passenger eleva- tors in New York carry more than six million passengers a day. Officers of the new battleship, South Dakota, which is equipped with Curtis turbine engines, say there is absolutely no vibration of the fire control masts, a difficulty always found in the reciprocating engine- driven vessels. An electric light of four billion candle-power would be necessary to signal to Mars. The average number of passengers carried daily on the elevated railways of Chicago is 419,897, Thomas A. Edison’s royalties for moving picture patents total nearly $7,000 a week. Plans for a sixteen million dollar tunnel between the North and South stations of the New Haven railroad in Boston are about to be approved. The express elevators in the Board of Trade building, Chicago, are the fastest in the world, having a speed of 570 feet a minute. New York boasts of an electrically lighted hearse. An electromagnet is being used to recover sunken iron, cargoes such as nails, steel strips and. rolls of wire, in.the Mississippi River. “Ido, indeed, respect the Presi-| ; dent, both personally and officially,” was the reply. “But I have even more respect for the welfare of 90,- President sends the Congress a rails road regulation bill which absolu annuls the Sherinan anti-trust law. Along with the bill comes the ultima- tum that our vote on this measure 000,000 people of this country. The|j + You will feel f good If you keep your earn 4