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} — & SMITH, Attorneys at Lo rsnantene 68 AEP SEARO T EOC ABRAHAM LINCU rime Table yxeTox & Sourt Brancit Hains leave Butler daily as follows: INC GOING NORTH. express (daily) Texas EC Express -- Arsistance Given Hi her,and ad 9 a Half-Brother. ( St. Louts € The ongi- qexas Express (daily) - Sea ee jo cere foplia & K. C- Express i nals of the following letters are held focal Freight --- +++ --~ by Mr. B. L. Worth of St. Lours, always hac Agent cama cession through ze the purchase of the ofhce fixtures otf rt. ‘°Fime has almost cc ee ex-Mayor John Low. when the canker worms will open MASONIC. Washington, D. C., Dec. 24, 748. | up their spring ca ugn, and dis Butler Lodge, No. 254, meets the first Father: Your letter of | pute with the lords of creation for | Saturday (easy ap So Pe re ught befere | possession of the fruits’? of the ap- neat LE Os. ‘ uu Sav 1s SSH preacnt te your honorable body, an neg Mee ereaday in E monte: your land from sale. It is es Epor the canker worm. De awe. | singular that you should have forgot- | What it is and a remedy tor one ot Bates Lodge No. 180 meets every Mon- | ten a judgment against you, and it is | the werst enemies to the cultivation nigh. campment No. 76 meets the ne epela! that the planet | aie ie Sager wou mand ath Wednesdays in ach month | should have le forget it so long | are of two distinct kinds, the spring | _ — | particular! ypose you have \and fall worms. The tormer ts the | Lawyers. property enough to satis- Be- well Se fy a judgment of that amount. s. B. LASHBROOK. poset. SMrrtt. fore you pay it. 1t would be to be sure you have not paid it, or at Law Butler, Mo. Will practice in ses 2g : > news that de taunts of Bates and adjoining coun- least that you cannot prove that you ties, Collections promptly attended to have paid it. Give my 1dve to moth- and. Taxes Paid tor Non-residents. | oy and all the connections. Office, front room over Bates county Na- tional Bank. n2 tf. Affectionately your son, A. LincoLn. Dear Johnston: Your request for $S8o I do not think it best to comply with just now. when I have have —— |. S. FRANCISCO. RANCISCO BROS. Attorneys at F Law, Butler, Mo., will practice in the courts of Bates and adjoining counties. Prompt attention given to coi- lections. Office over Wright & Glorius’ hardware store 29 ARKINSON & ABERNATHY, At- torneys at Law, Butler, Mo. Office west side of the sauare 22 P. Frave co. At the various times helped you a little you said to me: can get along very well, now,” ina short time I find you in the Now this can happen by some defect in your con- What the defect is I think I You are not lazy, and. still same difficulty again. A HENRY, Attorney at Law, Butler, .e Mo. Will attend to cases in any court of record in Missouri, and do gener- al collecting busines BS. duct. know. you are an idler. I doubt whether, a | since I saw you, you have done a O. JACKSON, attorney at law, will good whole day’s work in any one e practice in the State aad Fedral yi z, 3 a ‘ ay. ou do not ver much courts. Office at Southwest corner of the Ca wes , square in front room of Thompson Brick, | dislike to work, and l you do not) oposite Opera House, Butler Mo. | work a | ; j not seem to you that you get for it. This hai V. BROWN, ry Public But- eler Mo. Will dr nd acknowledge deeds, contracts, leases and ail papers r ssly wast- ing your tim the whole difficulty, quiring the acknowledgment or Jurat of an officer. and it ts stly important to you, : . —— | and sul more to vour children, that you should break this habit. It is} E L, RICE more important te them because je cian and Surgeon. All they have longer to five and can} lyattended te. Office up a SN eee Crumly’s Drug Store. keep ovt of an idle habit before : ae lthey are init casicr than they can | M. CHRISTY, M.D t i a6 } = tout after they are in. *Phy nd cusgeon, Sli ante ; patiangivenito female d You are now sed of some Mo. Offic ready money, ¢ I propose room overBernhardt’s Jewelry store 25-4 u shall go to work, ‘*‘tooth | body who will C. BOULWARE, Phy Il ¢ r. Surgeon. Otlice north’side square, | 7)" : sau eer an ler, Mo. Diseases of women and chil- j d your boys hav >of things ren a specialty. . jac home for a crop and {| (Continued from last week.) Iimake the crop—and you go | 5 to work for the best money How Watch Cases are Made. We ne ae ee es | wages, or in discharge of any debt , : vou owe that you can get. And to This process of manufacture was invented = roe sora . . . |secure you aia UWA. u ad by James Boss, who started in business in | : bor I now promise you that every 1854, and the methods and tools used in making these watch cases are covered by patents. This is the only watch case made under this process. For many years the in- troduction of these goods was slow, owing to popular prejudice against “plated” goods, but gradually the public learned that the James Boss’ Gold Watch Case was not 2 cheap gold-washed or ¢lectro-plated article, between now and the dollar you ¥ ist ot May, get for your labor, either in Money or on your own indebted- ness, | will give you one other dol- lar. By this, 1f you hire yourself at $10 a month, from me you will get $10 more, making $20 « montana for but was made of genuine gold plates of | Your work. In this 1 do not mean standard quality and thickness. Conse ientious | you shall go off to St. Louis. or the adherence to the determination to make the best watch case ever put on the market, and the adoption of every improvement lead mines, or the goid minesin Cal- ifornia, but 1 mean for you to go at 1G it for the best wa yO. can yet suggested, has made the J Boss’ Gold | = 'OF the best v aees y u ocan ye! Watch Case the STANDARD. 5 eee to home—in Coles county. In this watch case the parts = 3 1 Now, if you will do this you will most subject to wear—the bow, crown, hinges, | soon be out of debt, and, what is thumb-catches, ctc., aremade of SOLID GOLD. | hetter, you will have a habit that will Bead 3 cent stamp to Keystone Watch Case Factories, Phila- delphia, Pa., for handsome Iluctrated Pamphlet sbewing bow James Bow’ and Keystone Wateh Cases are made. keep you from getting in debt again. But if I should now clear you out, (To be continued.) 2 | next year you will be just as deep in McREYNOLDSs & SCHWENK asever. You say you would almost give your place in beaven for $70 Then you value your place ‘in heaven very cheap. for I am sure he offer I made you, | you can, w ith You say if I wiil ey vou will deed you don’t pay months’ work. furmish vou tl time the le Boou& Shoe Maker | se! possession. Nonese ifyoucan- |. Put aa an es : rons some barrels pot now live with and, bow.wall you |" "POPC" = 35 Par et >a | x v theut ou have sour wagon, til! with water, leaving RUTLER, :O ther ¢ heut You have ai-;¥ s : 5% iad Sis Beetle ways bes ad to me, and Ido not one empty. Por vith London ' : 3 e unkied to you. On purple one of the sarrels of water, foots and shoes made to order ‘The , the contrary, if vou will bat follow P bs ‘ best ot lead used. } <7 ~ : using for this purpose about 1-2 Shop nerth side ot S if my advice you will find it worth: = 5 - + th side ot Square - og Aas ~ than eizhty times: $80 to you pound of the purple: stir wert and >t act ir brother. strain a part of this into the empty “RTH as smpe ecuonateiv, your brother. ra DRIDGEFURD « HUPY. A Lincox. | barrel, by usm a fine hose on tt “We | but | such | get the $70 or $So with four or five | iver PROTECT YOUR ORCHARD. Johu B. Innis Reads a Sensible Paper on the Canker Worm. tthe last meeti Bates County Horticulturai Society, John B. Inais, read the tollowing en the Canker Worm: one we wish to deal with at present. The spring worm rises about the of March. at once begin to middle to the last he temale wingless clime the trunks of neighboring trees | the branches or on the young leaves: leach female |: i ng a large number of eggs. The eggs are securely glued together with gravis varmsh imper-— water, and fastened with this same substance to the tree, j vious to and then the parents begin to languish and soon die. When the weather gets warm the little cankers begin to | hatch and at once to feed upon the leaves and flowers. They thus grow and numbers until the first hatched are full grown which i will be in from three to four weeks. increase in When full grown they measure | about 3-4 of an inch long. When hook from the tree they hang be- ieath the branches by a fine thread r 1 ike web, and 1t shook from the tree to the round unless killed will soon wl back again and renew their ormandizing work. They eat Be | leaves leaving the stem and mid rib | causing the tree to look as though \ When fully they leave the tree letting dby the fine scoret by €£ | grow grown | them {like th This work is now op season. Now comes t aration for this trans— earth pass the pudae state there only ir the next spring to nation they burrow in the work destruction and pass through the different stages as I have described. The first I saw of the pests was in and becomin the spring of 1S: i the insolent alarmed at manner i | which they took possession, and did i thier work, believing they had come to stay, I thought it time for me to enter proceedmgs for ejectment ‘bur not knowing how to proceed with the case I. consulted Horticul- and was serists on the subject, an- swered that 1t was @ V ) enemy to the fruit growers and would | damage the orchard a few years but the birds would sind them out and destroy them. I wrote to an Eastern | Agricultural paper and was told to i place batriers on the trunks ot the} ltreesto keep the wingless female ‘from crawling up the tree. This : might do in the granit hills ot New } England orchards ; small and labor plenty, but would |hardly be practicable in the west ' Where orchards are large and in some cases trees numbered by thousands, where the are ; but something must ! determined to try the same process | that is used to kill potato bugs, Jj the | procured a fountain pump im S82 and also some Paris | spring of n,made a solution of this and gre sprinkled it upon the trees swith good effect In the spring of 1353 [procured 3 quantity otf London Purple. at # cost of 11 cents per pound, and be- heve it as effectual as the more costly Paris green. solut and deposits the eggs in the forks of | formidable ; he done. and I: Instructions tor useing to be repeated at intervals of a few i days or a This remedy for the Itis said to be equally effec- tive in destroying the codling m&th but would need to be continued later week. cheap and efficie pest. is a very inthe season. [I have had no expe- at purpose, but will undoubtedly kill any and all kinds of worms that eat the foliage, rience witt tort for poisoins there need be n ‘alarm, asso st and as the danger of usei arsenical o fall on a single blossom or fruit and ‘o the almost certainty that this wil the long before the fruit is Moa quantity will i be washed out by heavy rains matured or | ready ‘or use. Last Summer I had a walnut tree that was infested catapilars. with the’ walnat It was sprayed with the poisoned water and in six or eight hours there was nota live worm jon the tree but the ground was H jcovered with dead dnes. If this | course was persued by all orchardists in a neighborhood the canker worm | would soon be a thing of the oast. Andrew Jonnson’s Last. From the Nashville (Tenn,) American, | There was foundon the desk of the late ex-President Andrew John- | son a letter which he was engaged in writing when stricken with paraly- sis. His death came soon atterward, | and the letter was left lving where | it was until) sent by the family to the | late Judge John M. Carmack of West Tennesee. to whom it v dressed. The letter was exhibited at the American office, and read as | follows ‘GREENVILLE, TENN., June 6, **John M. Carmack, Esq: | ‘Dear Sin.--Your letter of the | gth ult. bas been received and read. | i i s ad- Ya when I received account I confess I was somewhat surprised | your of | Vice-President Wilson’s conversa— j . . + t tion with Gov. Isham Harns and } | others in regard to what would have | been the policy of President Lincoln | if he had hved, &c. In your letter | you state that H. Wilson, Vice-Pre- sident’’— | | al stroke. The} Here came the fa letter is written with a lead-pencil | | on ordinary printing paper, such as }is generally used tor “copy 41V'| ' newspaper offices, and the ex-Presi- | dent was evidently preparing it with | | the expectation that it would be pub- | \jished. What 1 interesting chapter } of the history of that ex iting time it | would have beet By Judge Car- | mack, who naturally regarded it as | a historical relic of great interest the | letter was left to his nephew. Mr. John T. Miller of Jackson, and he} will have it deposited among the pa- ; pers ot the Tennessee Historical | Society. | THE PILGRIMs. | } BY FRANK P. RENO. I d@eamed dream; Its mem’ry makes my pulses leap. So real all i lories seem, I doubt it it were born of sleep, | | Such things as waking dreams are known? ; An, well! I'll not the secret tell; i | Its witchery is all my own, | | Except—methinks ¢wo know its spell. | a dream, &@ sweet | | | strange, | { i | Two pilgrims wan’dring tar apart, | O’er chang ng fandscapes spread be-} tween, With anxious eyes and restless heart 4 Surveyed each broad and shifting scene. ; Hope cheered their walks and song divine | Breathed through the chambers of the | soul; And yeta sad, discordant line Qn all their music, hapless, stole- Impertect were their lives, I trow; A wish, that neither could explain, ‘A nameless longing e’er would flow through heart and r In ’plaining tides brain. Each by an angle form was led, Whose smiling lips spoke future cheer, | And, pointing forward, safely speed Mid labyrinths of doubt and fear. An n upon the light-winged breeze be softened sounds of yeices came, « ripling notes from tropic t with ners cheeks are flame. ith throbbing hearts the pressed Mong their path with quickened pace; , who shail say they were not blest “hen holding converse, face to Hand clasped in ha Lheir eves drank in communion sweet; nd with purpose strong OQrnameniat euse eee fountain pump, throw this ; ° aamentai Hf = Bucklen’s Arnica Salve. eke weed hat are, folested with | Thelt bowome shod si deathiess song, y The grea - os . } a ‘The suul of sic, full, complete. -AND— _The greatest medical wonder ot the | he canxers. With an assistant to The svul reusic, full, comp: = world. Warranted to speedily cure Burns ng skies were warm and bright; Sign Painters Graining, Paper-Harging. Dever: ting, Sign and Bugey Work » SPECIALTY ores, ¢ ancer-, tions, guaranteed to per box : 6tt Bruises, Cuts, Ulcers Salt Rheum, Fever Piles, Chilbiains, Corns, r, Chapped Hands, and a I skin erup- cure m every in- stence, or money refuuded. Prive 25 ct8) way = sand or more wees can en eon crear ce. 717 Coe ee drive the team, and then on the other of trees, sprinkle as you go and in ‘be gone over m2 day. It will pass first on one side ch row ot this have ars were ever biossoming: at the Reign Light rp souls, since Love Po sessed hing. Middie Cottege, St- Joseph. face. } Talk is Cheap —__—_—_—_O0——_ But it won't win with the people of to-day, its entirely too thin. It takes FIRST GLASS GOODS LOW PRICES, Plain figures, and square deal take the cake. Others may — SST | ete a “AMERCIAN’ is still on top when it comes to Style, Make & Fit of ourGlothing Furnishing Goods, Hats and Caps All we ask is a trial and we'll treat vou white. THRELKELD, COY & CO. North Side Square, Butler, Mo. Goods as Low as the Lowest for CASH- BUTLER DRUG HOUSE. or ° J. H. HITSHEW & now rez with pure Drugs and druggist sundries. We sell our co a ee tor busines an exceller y assortment of North side square, Butler Mo VN. B JTETER. Watches. Clocks, Jewelry, Solid Silver and Platedware SPECTACLES We Co mplete Line of Agent for the celebrat S/ Uptical Goods, ROCKFORD — R. R. Watches. FIELv, 5 ee ae AND : MARINE All American Bc ANE GLASS ———— RA. A Miaynard, t THE POST OFFICE STATIONERY. VARIETI AND TOYS BOOKS NUTS, rC., IN LARGE CANDIES, and. Daily Papers and Periodicals always ont cet RR LAT TE, ture { Relieved and cu trom labor { bv Dr. J. A. She mert ard leave for home same ago, kidney and bladder impotency and Le ¢ soundness re- inuouws indorsements for the | past thirty-five vears tre sen, farmers and others | who have been curcat the Vienna Institate, : «in Dr. Sherman's iths- ; St. Louis, - trated pamphiets, ! has cured This bold fraud i d ular which is «ent to anvone * jiy coming from ed is tully exposed in an reduction of terms or treatment. Dassoi con- esday and Saturday each Tego aren NCE TENERC MMA RIOTS { :