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of- rst. \~ £8 — Time Ta! Lexivcton & SourHERN Brancu. Trains leave Butler daily as follows: GOING NORTH. Texas Express (daily) ----- ‘ee joplin & hk. C. Express | Freight ----- oe GOING Texas Expres (daily) joplia & K. C. Express - toes Freight FE. <. Carnes, Agent. Secret Societies. MASONIC. Butler Lodge, No. 254, meets the first Saturday in eac! month. Miami Chapter Royal Arch Masons, No. 76, meets second Thursday in each h. *Ghuler ommandery Knights Templar meets the first Tuesday in each month. 1,0. 0. FELLOWS. Bates Lodge No. 180 meets every Mon- day night. s Butler Encampment No. 76 meets the and and sth Wednesdays in each month ————— Health and Marriage. | i From the Sedalia Democrat | Some of the most intell.gent and best educated men of this country have queer notions of marriage. We notice that at a recent meeting ot the Law Reform Association, in New York City, a paper by Mv. John S. Benson was read, in which he advocated the most measures to prohibit marriage be- tween those whom disease and sick- ness had rendered unfit tor matri- monv. The idea will at first strike the reader as an excellent one, but | rigorous upon following the details of Mr. Benson’s argument, one is lead into such a labyrinth of unintelligible dis- tinctions that the ‘‘vigorous measur- g:0 pM! . aoe - : : -7:40 4.m, | 7ich girl’s to elope with their father’s dicular,while others j that she was then preparing to join Kepenteed at Leisare. Coachman are below par in the matrimonial market. Miss Nelle Hubbard, daughter of ex-Governor Hubburd, of Hartford, Conn... who j tour years ago set the fashion for | New Haven from Frederick Shep- herd on the ground ot abondonment. As he made ro counter charges it is | supposed that the illiterate husband | Mayor of the city as flat as they will | | and his educated wife had agreed to | j F | Separate. It was while teaching | Shepherd to read and write that 18- | vear-old Mise j lost heart. Nellie imagined she Eleven days after cate sent him by Shepherd's parents. Nellie adn.itted that she was mar- nied, that she loved Shepherd, and him. She did so, notwithstanding her parents’ attempt to restrain her. Mr. Hubbard disowned her then and since that time Nellie’s name has heen a forbidden word inthe house- hold. The peared from the aristocrutic horizon, wayward girl then dissap- | secret marriage the ex-governor was | | confronted with the wedding certifi- | portions ot his body will take the | there according to appointment. place his feet have just vacated, with | !and guve some whispered directions | though she remained in Hartterd for nearly two years. Shepherd clerked in a shve store, and she had plenty cf money, some in her own right and more heart- broken mother, who has never ceas- from her ed communicating with her cherish- ed daughter. The couple happily, and finally a daughter was born to them, About two years ago they removed to New Haven, lived es’? must end where they began—-on paper. * It is declared that *-to bring into an already overburdened world unhealthy offspring—heirs to disease and death—is not only a crime against the State, but a sin against ordinance of the Mest High.’’? This issomething decidedly new in social moral, and phisical ethica, and will therefore, be read with a peculiar in- terest. In as much as all the world | —without respect to color or politic- ial affiiliation—is heir to death, since nineteenths of humanity absolute in- herit disease, it must seem that mat- timeny, must have an uneaqua: struggle for breath under the restric- tions proposed. It has a hard enough time now, with out encount ering a board of health. But it is further declaired that ‘*yictims ot herebitary disease, sickly persons, and persons carring about with them the seeds of tuture disease to them- selves or offspring, should not ente: the married state.”” This sort ot scientitic bost might very properly emanate from Flewer, but we had not expected it trom Benson. Chil- drea, born to consumptioa very fre- quently attaim.a ripe age, while it is seldom that one dies betere ‘thirty ; but what wondertul:lives haye bless- ed the earth during thirty years o1 existence, and how calinly and hero- ically they have gone down to death leaving tne world mches tor them having liyed in it. Suppose that all young men and Women having a taint of consump- tion, of scrotula, ot heart-disease,and of kmhereditary ills, be prohibited from entering the matrimunial state ; what then? Universal batchelorhoou | and spinsterdom. Scarcely one mar } ina hundred is enurely free from | hereditary phistcal taints, or ‘*but carries about) with him the seed | of future disease,’ and to condemn nine-tenths of the world to. celibacy simply meant extermination. The matrimonial state is all ready hedged atround with cnough terror to the av- erage young man, and if he is called Upon in addition to enter a complete examination before physicans for the } Purpose of determining whether his | setting up where shepherd started a large livery stable im connection with a hotel, and is still running it presperously. Nellie and her frieads however, tur- nigsed the cav-tal. The pair lived in a precty cottage, but after a while they began to find that tastes no longer agreed. Shepherd was de- veloping into a good business man, and his wite showed her contempt of the tashionable world by appearing in gorgeous costumes. She also drove a dog cart and a pony. Be- ing beautiful, she naturally attract- ed attention. Among her avowed admirers were a wealthy manufac- turer of that city and a New York millionoire, who often had business in New Haven. Shepherd of course became jealous and they separated several months ago. Mr. Blyden- burg, who was ceunsel fer the Mal- ley boys—to put through a divorce for her. It is not believed ‘that even this will appease her father. An Essa On Roller Skates. The roller skate is away ward lit- tle quadruped. It is trelicsome and more innocent looking than 2 lamb, but tor interferring with one’s up- night attitude in the community, it is perhaps the best machine that has appeared in Salt Lake City. One first teels on standing up on a pair of rolier skates is an uncontroll- able tendency to come from togeath- er. One toot might start out teward Idaho, while the other promptly strikes out fer Arizona. The legs ao not stand by cach other as legs related by bleod should do, but each shows a disposition to set up dust- ness alone, and leave you to take care of your selt as best you may. The awkwardness of this mentis apparent. While they independentiy there is nothing for you to do but te sit down and wart furure developments. And you have to sit down, tee, without having made any previous prepara- tien for it, and without having de- voted as much thought to it as you might of dene had yeu been cansult- ed in the matter. Une of the most noticeable things at a skating rink is the streng attrac- arrarge- nure iy} Possible issue would live ‘twenty tion between a human body and the Years, or seventy—farewell to matri- | froor of the rink. 1f the human body : has been coming through space for } ward and ferward, and then vanish- ‘On. pats and sat cn Mony. We recognize the fact that all honorable young men and women are fully censcious of the physical infirmities that should, in the very nature of things, prohibit marriage, and they can be left alone to deter- tine when these ills should ameunt inmbition. And when the hst of hereditary disease is lengtinened into the entire category discending phis- | ical taints and made prohibitory ot! Marriage there is neither rhyme nor Treason in it. tick to Mr. Benso to the law, and Ici physical science ; alone. days and days .at therate ofa mile | ¢d trom sight. a second, without stepping at eating ; would t | the ri xcused from the describing, ar fallis favonte. It is more frequently nany others. There are two positions in skating the perpendicular and horizontal. Advanced skaters preter the perpen- 9330 A.M.) coachman, has, just got a divorce in , zontal. Skaters are no respectors ot persons. T Gospel, a schood te ot y will lay eut a e ner or a short-coated, one suspendered boy | or a giddy girl. When one ot a man’s feetstarts for Nevada aud the other Other fleo: or break up his fun. oromptness that is surprising. And he will find that the fun has just be- gun--tor the people loeking on. The equipment for the rink are a pair of skates, a cushion, and a bot- tle of liniment. Li amine Boomerage. Uumarried Woman. One of the greatest social problem of the day is to explain why there are marriageable women get) married. Some say that it is owing to an ex- cess in number of women over men in consequences of which there are not husbands enough to go round, so many who never for Colorado | their | that does not separate him trom. the | | walked with her up to the stoop and In Love With Edwin Booth. From the New Yor Speaking of kk Sun. the persecution «f ac- tors reminds me of a very pretty steo- ry regarding Edwin Booth It was while he was playing at the Winte Garden that a young miss teens fell desperately in in her love with him. She was the only daughter ot wealthy Tents, and night after = would make some to leave her home | theatre. night st excuse und go to the She deluged Booth with her telling her to meet him at. the stage door at the ead of the pertor-n- ;ance on 4 certain evening. She was to the driver. The horses were driv- fen rapidly, and in a few mom-uots | the young girl tound herselt in front of her own home The carnage stopped, and Booth assisted her alight. Taking her arm in his, he rang the bell. It was late, and the girl’s tather who had very anxious about her whereabouts, opened the door. When he saw ker in the company of the started back in become he “Mi sid Booth, very quietly. “T have brought your daughter home auctor, astonishment. 9s This, sowever, 1s disproved by stat- Take the world through, and figuras show that there many menas women. Others attrib- ute it to the expensiveness of medern life. Men do not marry because it is saidthey cannot afford to. But the tact is that no man who truly leveda woman ever hesitated to become en- gaged to her and eventually marry her because of poverty. There are coldblooded men,with no idea of any teeling fora woman stronger than languid admiratien, whe may deterr- ed from assuming what they regard as a burden in the shape of a wite, unless assured of a liberal income, but most men are not so calculating. Others, again attribute the evil to womans tastidiousness. They ex- pect too much in a husband, and, while waiting tor an impossible shad- ow let the the possible sustances slip through their fingers. This 1s a lie bel on the sex. As a rule they are no more fasudous tnan men are, and they are just as susceptible as men to that enchantment of love which in- vests its.object with every pertection and covers up every fault. So far as men and women are concerned, they are as prene te marriage now asinany of the periods of the worlds history. Nevertheless, there are the women waiting for husdands and not getting them. They are pretty, they are accomplished, they are sensible, and, under proper train- ing, they would make excellent wives and mothers, but they never get a chance. What seems to be needed is a more thorough method of bring- ing men and women into social con- contact with each other. isticts. are as Bucklen’s Arnica Salve. The greatest medical wonder of the world. Warranted to speedily cure Burns Bruises, Cuts, Ulcers Salt Rheum, Fever Sores, ancer , Piles, Chilblains, Corns, Teter, Chapped Hands, and a | skin erup- tions, guaranteed to cure in every in- stance, or money refuuded. Prive 25 5 per bos. Forsale by F. M. Crom S Cu. tt Last Sunday a lot of miners and their wives indulged in a mock re- ligious service at one of the mines near Pinegrove, in Schuylkill county. They went so tarasto go through the torm of administering the holy sacrament of the Lord’s Supper, the tandlord of the tavern furmshing the wine. Just in the midst of their ter- rible blasphemy a spectral figure in black, with large fiery eyes, whose lewer limbs were hairy like a goat’s, with the round hoofs of a horse, en— tered the room. The crowd fled in terror, and a man who could not get away says the figure walked back- Shenffé Weir ‘of Athens, ‘Ga. > Was stations, and not expecting Sundays, j visiting some friends near McNutt, As it is inexplica- violence. phoweyer the thing is : able. There are different kinds of falls m vogue 2t the rink. rear ta nal Wolsey ali one across the other, sand so on. are some ot the falls that [ i itake a gunand shoot it. | chanced to be some bad dogs en the : | plac that got atter the sheriff, and to tree, | There are the Us. and front tall, the Cardi-} when it strikes the floor, we could! apd during the night he heard an (understand why it struck the floor | with so much owl in the yard.so he decided to But there save himself ke took up a where he’spent the night shivering ima Single garment. He was atraid | te raise an alarm lest the ladies be | matter. She has been very foolish, but she has promised never to do ' and I would advise you to take bet- ter care of her.’? With these words he turned and lett. That young girl is a happy wife and mother now, but she never tires of telling the les son she received from the great ac- tor. so again, "GIVEN AWAY. — One Thousand Bottles ot Marsh's Go)- den Blood & Liver Tomieto be Given Away. Every body in Butler Bates County Missouri, who is suffering trom Scrotula. Chronic Rheumatism, Jaundice, Bil- iousiness, Dyspepsia, ‘ ostiveness, Head- ache’ Loss of Appetite, Backache, t'e male Weekness, Nervous derangements Debilily or any Bloed Livery, Kidney, Stomach er Bowel Disor 'er— can obtain a bottle of Masru's GoLJEN Broop & Liver Tonic, free of charge, by calling at J, H. Hitshew & Co’s dru: store, north side the square Butler Mo. Persons who have tried this valuable medicine can procure the large bottles at 50 cents and $1. It purifies the Blood, invigorates the Liver, Stomach or Bowels, regulates the Kidney, and strenghthens the system. Yor all diseases of the throat and lungs use Maish’s Golden Balsam, the great coughremedy. Sample Bottle free. ar2t OF ANOTHER AGE. Gradutlly Supplanted by a better Aaticle Certain old Things Done away. teers | love letters, and finally he wrote to} Booth handed her into his carriage | 'O| Geo. W. Miers, BATES COUNTY National Ban BUTLER, MO. ORG ANIZED tN 1871, Capital paid in, - - $ 75.000. | Surplus - - + + $20,000 ‘Large Vault, B urglar-Proot Safe with Time Lock. i : | We are prepared to doa general bank- | ing business. Good paper always in | demand. Buy and sell exchange, receive deposits &c., &c. DIRECTORS. Lewis Cheney, 4... Clark} Dr. Elliot Pyle Hon. J B. Newberry E. P, Henry. I. N. Mains, eringham, J. P. Edwards, J. J Ryan, W. J. Bard, Dr. D. D. Wood, J. M. Patty, F. Coleman Smith. F. J. Tygard. OFFICERS. LEWIS CHENEY - - President: J. 5 CLARK - - - - Vice P esident. F.T. TYGARD - - .- » Cashier. BUTLER NATIONAL BANK, Block, MO. ‘Ypera House RUTLER, authorized Capital.§ $200,000 50,000 1,0 surplus Fund ROOKER POWELL, t.W. CHILS,... wa. E. WALTON, «.C. DUKE, - President -+.-Vice President. «+eee+-Cashier. -Ase’t Cashier Dr. T. C. Boulware, R, D. Williams. Judge J. H. Sullens, A. L, McBride, C, H, Dutehe. Frank Vonis, Booker Powell, Green W. Walton, Dr. N, L, Whipple, T, W, Childs, A, H, Humpft rey, Wm, F, Walton, OTHER STOCK HOLDERS: c, C. Duke, O. Spencer, J, R, Estill, G, B, Hickman, John Deerwester, R. Gentry We-t, John B. Ellis, N. Hines, S, Q. Dutcher, J, 7, McKee, Henry Donovan, Receives Deposits payable on demand Loans money buys and sells exchange and does a general Banking bus ness. Demonstrated. In the general reception room of the That «mart men average $5 00 to $8 00 Western Union Telegraph building on Brcaiway, New York, are exhibited the course, crude and clumsey instruments of the infancy ot the telegraph. They are onty relics now. 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By which you can avoid a Midnigit change of cars between St. Lowis and Cincinnati, if you leave St. Louis on ay extra fare ite night trains unless you § addition to money paid forticket. 232» Via ’ incinnati, making ditrect connec tion with all roads. g@j712 Hours isy- over by other routes. —PLEASE— eee SWINE. |ASK ANY TICKET AGENT iLLimom | (except those working tor sompemlag road,) Which fe the Quickest and Dest’ Route from roe to Cincinnati, » koe vill imore, Wasnington, a1 ie wil be told the Ohio & Missicsipph Ry Wher purchasir.2, please ask tor Ticket. by this road, forsale at all offices of cous necting lines. In St. Louis, at 101 Aros N. Fourth St. W. W. PEABODY, Gen’l Superinterdent- W. B. SHATTUC. STE EL PE NS. eae. Gen"! Pass. Agen’ Pen, ree ine, askwaimal samplegrosvonsesistel G. D. BACON, General Western Passes ger Agent, St- Louis, Mo. The new store has just received aft kinds of gras= seed tn stock. és Wright & Glerius