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| vyime Table Mo. Pact R. RK.) A s. } ; ; ji De eka mee, { : Don sree Big Words. ae A SS Blown Ogen and Barglarized. BUTLER ‘Prins leave Butler daily as follows: In promuy gating v our esoteric | St. Joseph. Mo., Dec. 12.—At | _ GOING NORTH, ‘cogitation, or ° articulating your | Winthrop, this county, a burglary | ¥ Texas Expres ey) =: superficial sentimentalities and am- | occurred last night. The store of \ NATIONAL H feral wee, 29:30 A.M icable, philosophical or psychlogica J. G. Morrow, operated by W. S- | 3/ Local Freight ..-- GOING SOUTH. Texas Express (daily) & K. C. Express - } BUTLER, MO. | | | Conner, justice of the peace, was en- i tered by forcit.g the back door bv | observations, beware of platitudinous ponderosity. hh wae ANA, Local Freight ~~~ Let yout your conversational com- | the aid of seme heavy etone drills { | Awinoweusa Conk 4400. =. “ | munications possess a clarified con-|and a sledge hammer, A hole | piel. eo H Vv. PENTZ ER ee | ciseness, a compacted comprehensi- | three quarters of an inch in diameter | ee 50,000 > a Secret-Societzes. j bleness, coalescent consistency, and ; washored through the tep ef the H oe } FUR NITT MASONIC. __| aconcatinated cogency, | safe and a fuse and gunpowder was | sales sista ee --President | patsy ¢ Eisen Butler Lodge, No. 254, mcets the first ; 2 2 i = :W. CHILDs,. ce President. | CARRIAGES saturday in each month. Eschew all conglomerations of | inserted. The safe was then blown i Wa. E. WALTON a uiCeshiee | avai Miami Chapter Royal Arct flatulent garrility, jejune babblement | up and the explosion was of such j Coe : --Ase’t Cashier | Good Wearss| Alwageone! Hane oy nals ace Thurs 4 sh { } ¢ . auth bueets second: “Thursdiy and asinine affections. !furror that the entire front ef the i —— | Corrine t Gouley Commandery Knights Templar Let your extemporaneous de store was blown out. The thieves i Made and turnia) Pe PRESS 4 . i ss i shed on short notace meets the Sint Tuesday in each month. | cantings and wnpremeditated expati- | succeeded in getting about $100. in DIRECTORS Orders may be lett at F. Evans? stable: Bates Lodge No. 130 meets every Mon- | ations have intelhgibilty and ver-| money and left for Kansas, Thev | vi SSS: Eee day night. a ee a oe Lae 3 * j pa Batis Encaimpmnent No. 76 meets the | 20US V'¥ acity, without rhodomin- | were tracked across the bridge by | Liver, Sfocting bech Cg 4 oe Be Rerieates CH, Durene: | Rope en Seo order to eftat a cure, H 2 ? ohn B. is, PEC eee ME tude or thrasonical bombast. | having dropped papers. The dam- ind and 4th Wednesdays in each month Judge J. H. Sullens, necessary to remeve the cause. Irregu- ithe incentrovertable tacts conc 3 S ‘3 t | Kidney -‘ort are better than most fig- | $0 3" all ee eee, ie H lures. For instance: *‘It is curing every- bury & Johnson, om Seat i ‘ body” writes a druggists. “Kidney-Wort Highest awards. sat ‘isthe popular medicine we sell.” dt a eyes : a Duahien o ze } E | should be be right, for no “other médi- ‘armers’ Sons an sa ms or any! g | Brown Journ. of Sabictat, = * ibe e * pcine has such specific action @b the iiver jective man or woman { eS I = e wels and kidneys. Vo noi fail to try it. Ng Bee 25 per | Sore cases than a7 wees Nine Ree bear enccons pe=-The most brill ant shades possible, AN month in; - See ‘His on ail tabricks are made by the Diamond Ea a ican F: ; &72Za Week. $12 2 day at home | bes owen S te : pons cash, working tor the Americ ‘'armer. | 3 e A ddres | Sims mree peta. ‘wonderful. 4 cA Unequalled ter brilliancy and Rddress E A. HACKETT, easily nade. Costly outht free. A Ocres Kerar woo mang enna Shetr ecxprese oud F_O. Sires | as : 10-¢e- no3 4t Ft Wayne, Ind, ! True & Co., Augusta, Masne- 26-38 ears any Oa OLE Se cedan St Rew York, | = z 4 * i, BI SV 10} Palas IEW Sedulously avoid all polysylabic refundity pompous rolaxity. | amounted to $200. pdlfeceo ie come wees dial ae 2oO: : | inthe Back and Loins, ete.,indicatethat | SI. L., Wolte, R! D. Williams ; L | EES the Laver is at fault, and that nature re- ze SS tytn. z P <eOus ’ q | Hop Bitters are the Purest and ivy a = st Judes probes Vowel, Wee o> waemetr verbosity, and vaniloquent vapidity. Sbun double ententes, prunent jocosity, and pestijerous profanity, bscurant or apparent. — In other words, talk plainly, briefly, naturally, sensibly. truthfui- ly, purely. Keep from ‘‘slang’’ don’t >ut on airs; say what you mean; mean what you say. And don’t use big words! —New Eng- land Journal of Education. Get Rich. When Hops are $1 25 per Ib. as an acre will yield $1 000 profit, and yet the best family medicine on earth, Hop ‘Sitters contain the same quantity of hops and are sold at the same price fixed years ago. although hops are twenty times higher than then. Raise hops, getrich in pocket; use Hop Bitters and get rich in health. no3 2t now, Genius Appreciated. From the Norristown Herald. Despite the assertions ot the York critics that Mrs. Lantry is an actress, a man has named a canal boat after her. Genius and talen' are appreciated in the most unex- pected places. Free of Cost. All persons wishing to test the merits of a great remedy—one that will positively cure consumption, coughs, colds, asthma, bronchitis or any effection ot the throat and lungs-=are requested to call at F. M. Crumley & €o’s. drug store and geta trial bottle ot Dr. King’s New Discovery for consumption free of cost, whicn will show you what a regular dollar-size bottle will do. No. 1 “Did you see dat hoss you twas talkin’ of buyin’ ?’” askedene Austin darkey of another. “Yes, I seed him,”? ‘Did you buy de hoss?’’ “No, I didn’t buy him, bekase dar was no mutuality.”” What do you mean mgger?”’? ‘‘Dar was no mu- uality. I seed enuff of the hoss, but the hoss didn’t see enuff of me. Hegee uaa ogi eee brakeman insisted mm kicking the OFFICERS. o be more mutuality in a hoss 53 trade.” Texas Siftings dog out. A drumn.er interferred ae cS. cee esi and told the brakeman te wait LEWIS CHENEY - - President: J.C.CLARK - - - - Vice Piesident. “Prickly Ash Bitters” is an unfailing specific for all complaints arising from a derangement ot the functions of liver. it purifies the blood and infuses new life nte the invalid. Pains in the side, gen- eral uneasiness, loss of appetite, head- ache, billrous attacks, &c., are sure indi- ations that a corrective is needed. “Prickly Ash Bitters’ is especially adapt- ed for these complaints It arousesa torpid liver to action and restores it toa h vaithy condition. no3 2t ponies Now What Does This Mean. From the Omaha Republican. Venus was unusually modest yes- terday; or perhaps as the Goddess of Love hadn’t met the sun ter some time, nature was kind enough to draw a yéil over their proceedings. «it youare @ woman and want both } remember that all: fF perp? nd beat and ant ; Superficial efforts to increase your eal cnarcis are vain. Freshness a beauty accompany health, and to secure this Mre. Lydia E, Pinkham’s remedies are all female weakness otter the surest mean ot renovation. The highest in- telligence loses its lustre when it must find expression through a biuious com-/ Good fer either sex. plexion. This is a neat story told by an ex- change, of the tond love who had gone West to make a home for his | fa6o acres] I ever put my foot down on,” Birdie replied: ‘*Suppese i you buy another quarter section, 'Jehn, so that you cam have a. lawn | gfound your foot.’’ John made a ‘home, but Birdienever avas the -mis- ; tressiof ith °,*-‘Figures are net always tact t | Bitters to-day. 3,7” but erning | | age to the store trom the explosion Best Bitters Ever Made. ‘They are compounded trom hops, malt j buchu, mandrake and dandelion,—the | oldest, best and most valuable medicines in the world and contain all the best and most curative propeities ot all other 1eme- dies, being the greatest blood purifier, liver regulator and life and health re- storing agent on earth. Ne disease or ill health can possibly long exist where these bitters are used, so varied and per- tect are their operations. ‘They give new lite and vigarto the aged andinfirm. To all whose employ- ments cause irregularity of the bowels or who require an apetizer, tonic and mild stimulant, Hop Biters are invaluable, be- ing highly curative, tonic and stimula- ting, without intoxicating. No matter what your feelings or symp- toms are, what the disease or ailment is, use Hop Bitters. Don’t wait until you are sick, but if vou only feel bad or inis- erable, use Hop Bitters atonce. It may save your lite. Hundred» have been saved by so doing. $500 willbe paid for a case they wiil not cure or heip. Do not suffer orlet your friends suf- fer, but use and iirge them to use Hop, | Bitters. Remember, Hop Bitters is no vile, diug- New | ged, drunken nostrum, but the purest not | 22d best medicine ever made; the inva- i lid’ tat friend and hope, and no verson or y should be without them. Try the no3 4t Frank Frayve 1s tantic over the death ef Mrs. Von Behren, who ‘he accidentally shot that Thursday night. He will bé bailed out and accompa- ny the body to Brooklyn. The tuneral of Congressman Up- degraff, whe died Wednesday, wil: take place Monday next at noon at Wheeling, W. Va. A cengression- al committee will attend. Hannibal Hamlin will probably not return to Madrid. Arabi wants to be exiled to Da- mascus or London, he is not particular which. A Georgia woman with tears in her eyes begged to carry her small dog with her in the cars; but the until he came back. The brakesman agreed to do this, and in a tew mo- ments the commercial traveler re- turned with a valise, put the dog in letting his head stick out of a hole he cut in the side of the valise and de- posited beth by the side of the old lady. They had a good laugh when the brakeman came in to kick out the dog.— Atlanta Consiitutron. ALMOST 45 BAD. in Casses of Emergency. nity. comes to me with Bright’s disease, o any kidney trouble acting like it, I him to put on™ won’s Canc ne Porog Plaster witho: ‘The doctor amnesia manana tenn « cing cutin the midd a —T-Y ‘What the Perplexed Physicians do truth,’’ certain stage, both point stright to eter- It may be unprotessional to let out the secret, but whenever a pstient ‘ ne Z can beheld . Capeine will di { Look Sut tor trauds. Isthe word Cap- eot the plaster? If | lar and Sluggish action ef the Bowels, Headache, Siekness at the Stomach, Pain quéres assistance to enable this eryan to throw off impurities. Prickly Ach Bittersearc especally compounded for thispurpese. Theyare mild tn their action and effective as a cure; are pleasant te the taste and taken easily by both children andadults. Ta- hen aceording to directions, they are a safe and pleasant cure for Dyspepsia, General Debility, Habitual Con- stipation, Diseased Kidneys, ete.,etc. 4:0 Blood Purifier they are superior to any other medicine; cleansing the system thoroughiy, and imparting new life and energy to thein- valid. Itis a medicine and not an intoxicating beverage. ASK YOUR SREGGIST FOR PRICKLY ASH BITTeRs, and take no other. PRICE, $100 per Bottle. MEYER BROS. & CO., - SOLE PROPRIETORS, St Louis and Kanses Cit7. Me 617 St.CharlesS' U: editing Advice free. Cnarucs MARRIAGE GUID - = 3 on ‘ aoe <P 1 the honest 2: “birdie,” and wrote back: I've Seated ake aoctor “Bright's disease e & got the finest quarter section of land | bether the medical mea almost as 2 , mueh as cancer does. Having passed a Gl G “onnc. DR. WHITTIER farmes, worn out with oo ee 2 Pure Family Maielns ‘(at Hover intenicates. A, H, Hump rey, | Green W. Walton, T, W, Childs, | | | Dr N, L, Whipple, | A. L, McBride, j | ; Receives Deposits subject to check at | sight, Loans money, buys and sells ex- change, and does a general banking bus- ness. Correspondents.! Merchants’ National Bank,.. Kansas City Valley National Bank,... st. Louis, | Doneil, Lawson & Simpson..New York, | “OTHER STOCK HOLDERS: G, B, Hickman, R, D, Williams, John Pharis, S$, Q. Dutcher, Frank Vonis, Henry Donovan, J, I, McKee, C, C. Duke, J, R, Estill, M, A, Maynard, Your business ts respectfully solicited | BATES COUNTY National Bank. BUTLER, MO. a ORGANIZED IN 1871, Capital paid in, - - $75.00. Large Vault, B urglar-Proot Safe with Time Lock. We are prepared to doa general bank- ing business. Good paper always in* demand. Buy andsell exchange, receive deposits &c., wc. DIRECTORS. Lewis Cheney, 1.C. Clark,§ Dr. Elliot Pyle fion. J B. Newberry E. P. Henry, I. N. Mains, Dr. J. Everingham, J. P. Edwards, L J. Ryan, W. J. Bard, r.D. D. Wood, J. M. Patty, Geo. W. Miers, F. Colerran Smith. F. J. Tygard. F.1. TYGARD - - - Cashier. THE NEW ORUCG STORE! WwW i. LANSDOWN, Prop’r. Good Stock of Pure, Fresh Drugs. [ON THE WEST SIDE OF THE SQUARE | IN BUTLER. MO. , Iwill give my persona! attention to compounding prescriptions, day or night. ( Give me 2 trial trip. W. J: LANSDOWN. Also proprietor of the OLIVE HOU SE, A first-class Hotel in the Southwes cerner of the public square, BUTLER. MO BRIDGEFOKD & HUPP, Ornamental Heuse —AND— Sign Painters Graining, Paper-Hanging, Decora ting, Sign and Buggy Work a SPECIALTY P, MORGAN slas opened a Second-hand Store EDWARD'S BUILDING NORTH MAIN TS. On Farms at 7 per cent interest and Commission on 4 3 to 5 Years time with privalege of paying betor due it desired. Money turnished or short notice. w. E. WALTOB [yjissouri pacifie RAILWAY. The Direct Route FOR ALL POINS IN Bansas. 2 Trains Daily —VIA ST. LOVIS.-- EAST andNORTH 2r TransDaily A.A. Tatmage ¥. Cuanpext