The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, January 28, 1915, Page 3

The Linsine _ AUCTIONEER of the Southwest ri ele When YouNeed an Auctioneer | Make sure that you retain one who is competent, ex- perienced, and a master of the Auction Sale Business COL. C. E. ROBBINS of Butler, Missouri is such a salesman. He has given years of active, careful painstaking effort to this work and is a leader of the profession. That he has officiated at most of the successful sales in this and adjoining counties in the past several years held by the best breeders, who employ him year after year is certain proof that his work is well done. It is to Your Interest to Get the Best Telephone No. 11, °° - > BUTLER, MISSOURI. A Few Exchanges 116 acres Vernon county, Mo., good rich land, good 9 room house, $75. 3 small residences, Kansas City, Mo., $2000, each subject to $1000 each. 40 acre clear, improved farm Taney county, Mo., $1200. Want something here for either or all of the above. 5 room house and 5 nice lots near Butler square, Want sub- urban home. Some fine cattle ranches in southeastern Kansas. Want smaller farms. Good Dray business. Want small farm here. 460 acres near Schell City, Mo. $60. Want merchandise. 2 good work mares in foal $65, each for quick sale. See us for all kinds of exchanges. ALLEN The Land Man & Co. Butler, Mo. Capital, Surplus and Profits $350,000.00 Always has money to loan on Farms on Long Time at LOWEST INTEREST Rates Have a complete Abstract of Title to all lands: and: Town: Lots: in. Bates county—Furnish abstracts. Fees reasonable. Pays Interest on Time Oeposits tur 6'to 12: Months Safe. mortgages for Sale. Have soldithous- - ands of mortgages to money lenders WITH- OUT ANY PURCHASER LOSING: A DIME OF INTEREST OR PRINCIPAL. The twelfth installment of which | appears in The Sa this week Trenches Recaptured by-Ger- mans and. Czar’s. Army ‘Moves Up'in Poland. QUIET _ON WESTERN FAONT London Press Devoting Little Space to Movements in France and Belgium—Austrians More Active in Galicia. Petrograd, Jan. 26-—The following Official communication was issued to- ! day from general headquarters: _ “January 24, in the region between the Vistula and the Miawa Railway, there was no important modifications to report, but there have been engage- ments between small number of units and rifle firing. On the left bank of} the Vistula relative lull prevails. “North of the Borjimo farm the Germans were successful January 23 in capturing from us one of our ad- vanced trenches of secondary import- ance. The 24th, near the same re- gion, the Germans attempted an of- fensive and were successful in mov- ing forward one by one and ‘occupy- ing another of their own trenches which they previously had abandoned. But as a result of our efficient fire they were obliged to evacuate that trench, which we seized. “January 24 our artillery checked the movements of their troops along the front. At one point we captured by means of our heavy artillery fire a trench of the enemy, together : with machine guns, “In the region of the village of Kourjeschine, about five miles north of Rawa, our artillery destroyed an armored motor car, which was ad- vancing to-bombard our positions, “In Galicia we note a certain ani- mation and activity among the Aus- trians among all the Carpathian pass- es, beginning with that of Bukla.” No Change in West. London, Jan. 26.—In the Western theater of the war there has been so little change that the British news- papers print the official communica- tions with scant comment, preferring to feature Sunday's naval action. The facts concerning this engagement are not given in detail and the admiralty -| up to tonight had added nothing to | the original announcement. With great battles soon to be fought out at her front door Rumania has not yet decided to join in the conflict, but it is patent that the situation in the iHIS 60- EDS MAY st, DAMN | James Thomson, owner of the New Orleans Item,_is the fortunate man who is to bscome the husband of Miss Genevieve Clark, daughter of the speaker. Cleveland College Prexy Tells Girls it’s All Right to Swear if Occasion Demands It. Cleveland, O., Jan. 25.—"Damn,” that good old expletive, has been con-| Jlitionally, but officially, approved for co-eds’ use by Charles F. Thwing, doc- tor of divinity and president of West- ern Reserve University. It happened in the Bible room of ¢he college for women chapel, where Doctor Thwing | was talking to a freshman Bible class. | “Girls, do. you ever swear?” he; asked, “Rats, fudge, oh pickles, the dickens | and the deuce,” were some of the “aw: | ful oaths” confessed to by the girls. | “I think it is perfectly permissible to swear at times,” the girls quote; Doctor Thwing as saying. “I think it) is all right to say ‘damn’yeven, If, some man did something terrible to} you and you said ‘damn that man’) that’s all right—-that man should be; damned.” FOUR DEAD ON U.S. CRUISER Nine Others Were Injured When) Boiler Tube on the San Diego Blew Out. San Diego, Cal., Jan, 23.~-Four men were killed and nine seriously injured -yesterday afternoon on board the ar-| mored cruiser San Diego when a boil- er tube blew out after a steaming Balkans is simmering and it is be-| lieved action will come suddenly. The | Italian, Greek and: Bulgarian minis- ‘T| ters were among the callers at the || foreign office today. Naval Battle in North Sea. London, Jan. 25.—An attempt by a’ German cruiser squadron to repeat the | attack recently made on Scarborough, | the Hartlepools and other British; coast towns was frustrated yesterday by the British patrolling squadron, and in a running fight the German armorei cruiser Blucher was sunk and two Ger- man battle cruisers were damaged se-| riously. | So far as: 1s known only 123 of the | Blucher's crew of 885 were saved. British Ships Were Greater. A battle also occurred between: the | light cruisers and destroyers accom. | panying the bigger ships, but the re- sult of this engagement has not yet! reached the admiralty. | The British were superior in ships | engaged, weight of armament and speed, and ‘the flight of the German | ships into their mine and submarine protected field possibly saved them | from further losses. The Bltcher was a cruiser of 15,500 tons ‘displacement, and although com- missioned in 1908, was completely re- rigged last year. | Germany’s Newest Cruiser in Action. | She was not classed as a battle cruis- | er, but was in the next class to those | formidable fighters: With her were ; the Derflinger, Germany’s latest cruis- !er, which had just left the builder's hands, and the battle cruisers Seydlitz and Moltke. The Moltke is a sister ship of the Goeben, formerly of the German, but now of the Turkish fleet, which was recently reported damaged by the Russians in the Black Sea. | The British squadron, commanded by Vice-Admiral Sir David Beatty, who also was in comand at the battle off Helgoland last August, consisted of the battle cruisers Tiger,: Lion and’ Prin- cess Royal, and New Zealand and In- domitable. ie first three of these ¢rufsers mount eight 13.5-inch guns each, and even ‘the New Zealaand and Indomitable carry 12-inch guns,. which | the equal to those.of the Derflinger, the only one of the German ships that | had better than 11-Inch guns. * Okishoma Bandits At‘it'Again: hegre Ok:, Jan. 26.—Masked ban-| ‘lin, Mo.; | Cal; trial of four hours had been ‘com- | pleted. The dead are Ante +, Hardee, Jop- Oscar J. Wyatt, El Centro, William F, Eniott, Brooklyn, N. Y.; Clifford A, Western, Davenport, | Cal. All were firemen Among the injured are William H. Miller, Downs, Kas.; Benjamin H. Tucker, Lead Mine, Mo.; Patrick O.,/ | Merriman, Wolbach, Neb., and George Ohm, Yutan, Neb. Immediately after the accident the cruiser left for Guaymas, Gutierrez to Battle Now. | Washington, Jana. 23.—Advices re-| ceived here from the Mexican border tonight by the Carranza agency were interpreted there as indicating that | General Gutierrez had joined froces with Carranza commanders in the) campaign against Villa and Zapata. Blucher’s Commander Saved. London, Jan. 26—The Daily Mail says it understands that Captain | | Erdmann, who was in charge of the | German armored cruiser Blucher when she was sunk by the British warships in the North Sea Sunday, was among | the survivors landed at Leith. New Nebraska Chief Justice. Lincoln,. Neb. Jan. 26.—Governor Morehead yesterday appointed An-| @rew M. Morrisey as chief justice | of the supreme court of Nebraska to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Chief Justice Hollenbeck. [ conenseD NEWS ITEMS ) —Contempt of court sentences im- Posed on William L. Curtin and George Burdick of the New York Tri- Dune because they refused to divulge sources of information of a printed Story of grand jury investigations of ustoms frauds in New York, have been set aside by the United States supreme court. Governor Morehead has appoint- ed Andrew M. Morrissey as chief jus- tice of the Nebraska supreme court to fill the. vacancy caused by the @eath of Chief Justice Hollenbeck. ——Anne Whitney, famous sculptor, is dead in Boston. She was 93 years old. “A great market terminal, costing Uplrgolmergelpela nop dyed ,Penciled paper in my hand. HOME PAPER BROUGHT JOY konesome American. Girl, Marooned by the War. Found Cheer in Sheet From “Her Own. Town.” Although detained in Europe much longer than she had expected to be | there, the American girl said she had | not got lonesome. “But I, should-have been homesick, terribly, because it is my disposition to get homesick, if it had not been for the things I found in hotel and board: | ing house cupboards. No, it wasn’t in| -otttes; nobody left anything of that kind behind. What I found was coun- try newspapers which had been spread on cupboard shelves—by—American } girls who had tenanted those rooms before me. “They came from towns in all sec- tions of the United States, those pa: | pers. One that I found made me cry. | It came from our home town in: Vir- | ginia. It was the first Express I had Seen since leaving home three months before. The sight of that paper was more magical in its effects than en- | ; chanted carpets and brass bottles. With incredible swiftness I was trans- ported from the little Austrian fron- tier town and set down in the main} street of a Virginia village. There -| was an ice cream supper on at the | Masonic lodge. I went in. Just across | the street the Plum family were hold- ing their annual reunion. I attended that, too, the local band and spent all my spare cash at a bargain sale at Floyd's store. “In the space of about two seconds | I was back in Austria with that blue | The | more I read the more I wondered how it got there. The people in our town are not travelers. Some of them go to Richmond once 4 year, maybe ‘one or two get to Washington, but no farth- er. Nobody from home had registered at the hotel, yet some previous guest | had friends in our town and was suffi- | ciently interested in its doings to re- ceive marked copies of its principal Paper.” “WOUNDS MAKE BOYS GROW” | French Lad, Determined to Fight Enemies of His Country, Likens Blood to Soup. Gustavé Chatain, fifteen years old, a gamin and a soldier, who was brought to the hospital at Paris after he had been playing at war like a | man, has started again for the front. | He wished to coxrtinue his game of | war, having an ambition to capture a flag. The good sisters who had been nursing his wounds were unable to restrain him, especially since an army lieutenant had given him a uniform | with the congratulations of the of- | ficers of the regiment. His father took nim to the recruit- ing office. When the father told Gus- tave where they were going the boy leaped from his bed. “Bully,” his clothes in feverish haste. Some one suggested teasingly that | he would be rejected because he was so small. “A wound is like soup, it makes you grow,” retorted the boy. “Anyway, if | they refuse me 1 will find a way to} wriggle to the front ranks.” Ki rs Stud F Farm. Poultney Bigelow, author of Borderland of Tsar and Kaiser,” once paid a visit to the famous royal stud | farm from which the Russians now claim to have carried off all the horses. The farm is situated, he says, “in the most favored province of Germany for horse brecding pur- | poses, although, geographically consid- ered, it appears to be the most unpro- | pitious. Nearly every farm in East Prussia is devoted to this one occu- | | pation, and the German army gets | many more horses from this little cor- ner than any other province or king- ; dom of the empire. The war authori- ties are, in respect to this branch ot the government, very liberal; it at- fects the army directly as weil as it does the country indirectly.’ | United States’ Store of Gold Treasure. Although the United States has al- | ready a greater store of gold thaw any other nation, the supply is now in. creasing at a rate which will probably double its treasure in a decade. An estimate, which of course is theoreti- eal, places the value of the gold this | country will possess at the close of the century at aproximately $10,000,000,- 000. That in keeping at the present time is divided among mints and treas- uries in various states, of which the Denver mint held $510,000,000 on the first day of this year. The mint at Philadelphia, which has the second largest store, usually has 600 or more tons of.gold in safe-keeping.—Popular Mechanics. A Cramped Ranchman. Down in Amarillo lives a pioneer of Texas who owns a farm of 250,000 acres. He talke regretfully of the good old days when he could travel 450 miles and never see a fence, rarely a dwelling and more rarely a neighbor. "| Now, to him, Texas is becoming too thickly settled. His ranch of 250,000 acres seems small-and cramped, and he looks yearningly backward, mourn- ing for the old days and the old condi- tions—gone beyond any possible re- call. Odd, is it, that some of us futile- Then I heard a concert by | he cried, and jumped into | “The | Y} ” The Sheep and the Dog. | Thave been through the fire from jevery angle concerning legislation for the protection of sheep from dogs: and_am_-still-ready-to-do-my best for the best fiterest of all. Your proposed *bill as published in the December 1issue is. drastic and I | think perhaps jit is best to have it so to start with because it will be easier |to modify it by eliminating some fea- 'tures than it will to make it more | drastic. | I am sure if you should ve the | sheriff onto the job he would lie down ‘on it and would be worthless, as you | know the prosperous dog man is the | best politician and the man of affairs” is a poor man to work for a man at ' the polls. | The dog law that is going to be a | success will be the’ one that will be 'worked as any other law relating to live stock. That is, how many dogs |have you on this farm? and no mem- |tion of the amount the taxes will be \collected, but will sort of slide by as a piano, a wagon, etc. I would have jit collected with the general. taxes and make no mention of places to collect this dog tax. If the books are kept separate there is a general fight in the minds when the published col- lections come in and the dog man, | which is every farmer, is hurt when ihesees how much he has contribu- ted to the fund while if the incident icloses when the assessor passes the dog problem is solved and the poor | dog will be kept down to a minimum. With the present dog songs and eu- logies on dogs you certainly have my prayers to even mention dog laws, but still itisa good thing to talk about |in the press and by constant agitation | we may make it clearto many that the ‘other fellow’s dog isa menace to |good farming. But still ‘‘my dog is 10. K.’’ It is the other fellow’s every | time. Having been through the fire from jall sides on dogs and dogs and sheep, \itis unsafe to put the lime light on | | jtlement day. Thus you can see F | would be opposed to setting aside a ‘fund for losses on sheep as this would | be and is considered class legislation. | Besides an honest oath as to losses by dogs can hardly: be obtained. Should I mention to my neighbor I was needing a dog to drive hogs and. the like each one would gladly give ;me his dog. But should the assessor, Sheriff, deputy or I shec! this dog he would be a $25-dog and he would rather have the best horse on the | place to die than to lose this dog. Ihave handled sheep with actual | count of 524 dogs within a radius of ithree miles of my farm and find if |the gun barks at a dog, every man to ia man, goes mad at you, even the /man that refuses to feed the dog. So I take care of my sheep and stand my losses and don’t mention it to the neighbors. Neither do I kill his dog | by any means as through some chan- |nel he will find it out and he will hold it up against me as long as he lives in the neighborhood.| The farmer can not afford to lose a | single neighbor even if he is serious- ly run over. Tam still in the sheep business and have for years yarded them at night and use bells on the sheep to attract attention. These bells are the small |cow bells 2x 3 inches at the mouth | with an old piece of a harness tug for ja bell collar. This collar is riveted |just large enough to slip over the | head when shearing time comes and | being wide does not chafe the neck lof the ewe. I have two dozen of these bells and when a stray dog | passes this noise is simply more than | he can stand for and be funny and so |we at. the same time take notice of | his presence. | I considegghe dog menace to sheep | | industry only a small one in the state | of Missouri at the present time, even take off hog cholera, with loss from |sheep raids. The dog is a night prowler by nature and very quiet all day. In fact if only neutral dogs were kept we would be ina manner safe. I find they are as tractable and watchful as an entire, besides they do not care for companions at night. The operation is easily performed with no bad results-as we know from experiment.—E. E. Laughlin in The Missouri Farmer. Seeks Missouri Mules For War. Charleston, Mo., Jan. 17.—W. L. McAdams, mule buyer for the for- eign market, is in Charleston to buy mules for the armies of Europe. The animals he is seeking must be 153 to 142 hands high, weigh 1,000 to 1,100 pounds and be between 6 and 9 years. old. This is Mr. McAdams’ second attempt to buy up baer ternal ; available mule -supply, and. -he the dog on assessment day and set- , —