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LEXINGTON & SovurHERN BrancuH. | 5 C oo qnins leave Butler daily as follows: 8 josline. of GOING NORTH. @ yas fishing in Fins 5 commoda . 2 GOING SOUT! 3OING SOUTH. PILOY GROVE COLLEGIATE INSTITUTE, PILOT CROVE, COOPER CCG., MO. Secret Societies. MASONIC. 25497 (SR ed women of In rm to re 6,348 girls attend hed for them. SOLD BY Now ther tto have her own (CHRISTY, W.H. BALLarp, o . CHRISTY & BALLARD, ithough it may be. The wild schools est It is almost impossible to take fish ee eee aceon to prominence in mocopa ysicians and S » # (fice, tront room over P. O- \ E aswered at office day or night. B phone communication to all p Baty. Specialattention given to fem: diseases. with a net from Indian river, Florida, sharks att the nets when h fish and 13 tear them to remem lmirers, MCFARLAND BROS. —-AT BUTLER KEEP THE LARCEST STOCK AT THE BEST PRICES IN HARNESS & SADDLERY. scan be found at Walnut, The orange tree at Versailles, known as the Great Constable, is nearly 500 years old. Itv planted in 1422 by Eleanor of Carlisle, wife of Charles IIL, King of Navarre. The cod tishery at Iceland has proved a total failure this season, and great distress exists in consequence. The privations are said tobe more severe than prevailed during the famine two years ago. In one of a number of eggs that Mrs. Patrick Sullivan, of Sheboygan, was breaking for a breakfast omelette the other day, a minnow two inches long was found imbedded between the white and the yolk. iglish gentleman ‘named Sum- o was found dead in his bed at jand Hotel, London, left an es- 00,000 and d not made "The nearest heic-at-law is a farmer 76 years old. The natives of the coast of New Guinea, having no iron, shave them- selves now with a piece of glass. For- merly they shaved with flint, which they could sharpen quite well and used with considerable dexterity. According to the Denver Republican there are 1,500,000 cattle roaming over the ranges of Colorado, with a@ valuation estimated at $40,000,000. The nominal value of sheep, horses, mules and other live stock in the State is put at $13,000, 000. In Queensland immunity from pun- ishment induces the white men to think nothing of taking the lives of the na- tives, and the latter are killed for steal- ing a few pieces of tobacco, as was the case with a skipper st Dufaure Island. For a trifling theft he shot three men whom he suspected. Of the native population of Texas, 93 r cent. is Southern and the remain- der of Northern extraction. Of the peo- je who have settled in that state, New ngland has contributed 4,064, the rest of the country north of the Ohio river 60,305, and the older Southern States have furnished 556,379. A regulation is in force at the Hague by which every one in whose house an {nfectious disease exists is bound te {| hang upon the front door 9 notice to that effect, and to state the nature of the malady, so that any one whose takes them to the house may es fit that followers are not and that the most admi 0 man ever feels for a woman in a drawing- room is when he looks upon her and says in bis own consciousness, ‘She_ is a perfect lady.’ That is a reflection that never occurs to him as his eyes 1ail upon the wild girl.” a this paper MOTH EDITION. PRICE OMY 84 By mail Post-paid. BOULWARE, Physician and T. Surgeon. Office north side square, F Butler, Mo. Diseases of women and chil- ten a specialty. side squ vy | comer Main and Ft. Scott str An equal assort: McFARLAND BROS., & MILLS. (Continued from last week.) How Watch Cases are Made. The many great improvements intro- duced in the manufacture of the Jas. Boss’ Gold Watch Case, have led to similar im- provements in the making of silver cases. Under the ald methods, each part of 2 diver case was made of several pieces of metal soldered tégether, requiring a great amount of cutting and soldering, which softened the metal and gave it the pliability ‘ of lead rather than the elasticity of silver. KNOW THYSELF.« GREAT MEDI WOR KON MAMHUGL tenants (not ies of Sut —_—_ — Balky Cook Stoves. —_—— ars is such as fellto the lot pages, bound i: embossed covers, full gilt, guaranteed to be a finer work every sense—mechani- cal, literary and profe other work sold in this country tor $2 50 or the money will be retunded in every instance. Price only $1 00 by mail, post paid. Illustrative sample 6 cents- Send now. Gold medal awarded the author by the National Medical Associa- tion, to the officers of which he refers, This book shoula be read by the young tor instruction, and by the afflicted for reliet. It will benefit all—London Lan- cet. There is no member of society to whom this book will not be useful, whether youth, parent, guardian, instructor or clergyman’—Argonaut. ‘Address the Peabody Miedicine Insti tute, or Dr. W. H. Parker, No. 4 Bulfinch Street, Boston, Mass’, who may be con- sidered on all dis s requiring skill and experience. Chronic and o nate di seases that havebaffled the n ofal otherphys icia pecialty- Suchtrea ed success tullywthout an instance o tailure. HEAL THY SELF. physician 21 French r Under the improved methods, each part tthe Keystone Silver Watch Case is made one solid piece of metal hammered into thape. The advantages are readily appar- at, for every one knows that hammering hardens the metal while soldering softens it. To test the superiority of the Keystone Gilver Watch Case, take one of 3 oz. weight, ¢ |) Pressit squarely in the center when closed, and it will not give, while a case of same weight of any other make will give enough tobreak the crystal. The Keystone Silver Watch Case is made only with silver cap tad gold joints. Send 8 cont stamp to Keystone Watsh Caso Factories, Pafis- Gizhls, Pa, tor handeome = ‘Pamphlet chewing bow (Te be continued.) s e «“Julia’’ writes, saying she has anew range in the kitchen that vexes her badly, because it won't draw, and asks what she can do with it. We wrote back and told her that judging from the fact that it was in the kitchen wo inferred that it was 3 short range, and advised her to either go out of the bus- iness altogether or else put up > Creed- moor range of 1,000 or 1,500 yards. If she erected a range of this kind we told her, and then advertised liberally and offered a lot of $100 medals, cost- ing 20 cents a dozen, a5 prizes, and hired an assortment of ancient colonels and brigadier-generals to loaf around the premises in fall uniform, we thought it would be aptto draw and pay er for the outlay, provided she run it in connection With a first-class bar-room- Then she wrote back and told us that her range had no target and that her husband was a policeman who was all the officer she needed, and informed us she referred to s new $60 cook-stove which she had just purchased, and whieh she could not induce to draw by any means. We board in a bean res- caurant at the South end ourselves, and are not troubled with cook- Before coming t “reqTon esz0gy s zot00dg ASIA KCB Spooner Patent Collar! —PREVENTS CHAFING$ CANNOT CHOKE A HORSE Adjusts itself to any Horse’s Neck, has two Rows of stitch- ing, will hold Hames in place better than any other collar, os JAS. . TUCKER, JNO. D. PARKINSON Attorney. WM. E. WALTON, President- Sectetary- | Booi& Shoe Makers BUTLER, *i< 0r.6.W.F