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re (sR T ee 4 th : ae iif ae i 3 ii } +4 | ie | ; i { ni A LASS WITH 4 LASSO. How a Diana Bearing the Ui cal Name of Dottie Alhgator. has killed th wig by Tucker’s Lake, Miss Dottie L. S minated the career of 1 urlan. Miss Dottie is a hee and charming youn, wio has been visiting friends im this ate. Sheis a capital huntress dligator wamps at Tu ior years an overgrown tounged around the *s Lake. No one his Tair save dared ve Miss Dot and several | With two young iadies gentlemen she started on the hur €Te was soon tracked to his den nole in the sandy bank of 1 ted the location. “The tady’s aid-de-camp set to ws and after they vel and pick ulder deep in the shatt they king to intersect the level bottom igator’s den, the and the hoarse bellowings and stu scaly es of the big saurlan, whose | kthey had unwillingly alighted | sent them scr: gout b | ohtened. H Phe yuth of the cave whete ligator was ensconced was then barricaded with cottonwood logs and in br Just : Miss re finshing this part of their eng: ig the big lizard started for ayou and, tinding the way blocked, | sct up 2 hoarse ! r lond cnough for a herd of Bashan bulls \tter several furious rushes the bar ricade was carried away and lashing his tail in a way that bespaite: s| tormentors with muddy water from ead to toot, the ay fight. A tusilade ot rifle 1 revolver bullets rattled on the reptile’s mail, but only to glance | jato the mud or to ricoch across | the glassy water of the bayou. | Branches of trees and tence rails} were then thrust into the monsters throat when he opened his mouth, | but only to be snapped off by bis | pounderous jaws. Finally a lasso was slipped and tae brute’s head drawn tout. | The entire party pulled and sudden iy the alligator was landed on the | ank amid the party. Pamie strick—} en all the hunters fed except Miss | Hottie. She bravely stood ber ! ground and fired both barrels ot a | ducking gun at the infuriated = mon— | ster. ‘he shot lodged at the base | and in a few moments he He was over ten ot his jaws volled over dead. | feet long. Miss Dottie was given a } | serenade and surprise party lust} vight in honor of her conquest. | Sue | The ingredients entering to the com- | eosition of Mishler’s Herb Bitters in- | ciude the purest and most wiolesome tserbs, from which the medicine derives its name, and which stter the best scienti foseph G. Lane, a Chi high standing, are compounded © methods. Dr, ago physician of | { | | i i { atter thoroughly testing ne Bitters, writes that he intends using = regularly in his practice, having tried #2 with the most grstitying results in dis- eases of the kidneys. His Darkest Hour Over. Harry LL. Ebert. the young fellow who was arrested about a year ago or robbing the mail, and afterwards n May pleaded guilty and was sen- tenced to one year in jail, serday liberated. His imprisonment avus made to date from the time of was yes— He is the son of a once Hanni- | is arrest. very prominent publisber in | zal, Mo , who is now at Springfield | Mo., on the Gulf road. Ebert’s of sence was taking $53 from register- ed pouches while a postal clerk on the St. Louis, Hannibal and Keokuk raiiway. His tather returned the money taken to the department. On year Ebert handsome Valentine’s day of this was the recipient of a tunch of roses trom a young lady in Quincy, Hl. The young tellow is sot by any means vicieus, and can ake a man of himself if he posed to try. He went to City last night and will take a posi- | on in a railway office there. To Save had his’first Gelinquency visited with so severe a punishment and yet administered in so mild a manner may be the darkest hour just before | the dawn of a better day tor him.— =: Louis Republican M ral Character it becomes ae some tot d his Lite npure desire more press} ! | are entertaince unt forbidden trust is t ceding the ¢ on ire fit « } te 2 in att aa nee co ption jhearing that Bonaparte was < Paris, the captam sent for his cal attendant. and asked him) how ! { tong, with care, ic omght hope to |} live. ‘With care, several months,’” rephed — the detor. *+Several months only 2”? said the poor inva- | lid; ‘then I may as well die in bat- tle as in my bed.’ He jeined his reciment, fought gallantly at Water- loo, received «a wound that took away all the @iseased pact of his ike and hyed many years longer. nas disease of throat id proot that Piso’s has cured the same dr To any bo or lungs, we w Cure tor Consumption complaints in other cases. 4 E.T. Hazectine, W. He took Her ror a Dummy. Atthe entrance to one of the prominent dry goods stores on Fed- eral streec., Alles a lady, remarkable tor the wax pany, last evening, like appeerance of | rcomplexion, stood waiting fora car. A young man, ladies, passed few still n the same position. Now just ised his hand figure a The accompanied by two in wand came out in a The lady a statue utes. stand- ing hke Was The young man said id he ra look at this.’ and struck the supposed smart slap on the cheek. ue turned up a pair of flashing black eyes upen him and wilted him with Ok ly, *-i—I—thought you were a dum- He stammered incoherent- and almost ran follow as my away, allowing his companions to they could. Ha , 1SS4- After having lung tever and pneumo- nia I had a dreadful cough and could not sleep atnight. The doctors told me I had consumption and would die. taken six bo.tles ot Pisco’s Cure and my s entirely gone and am well as Ivr EMeta Forp. Re Lawyer's Joke. Edgar Johnson, the well-kKuown lawyer of this city, while not in all respects a perfect man, is «at least sharp of speech. Once upon atime he was having a tilt with T. A. Lo- an, a brother lawyer. So My record 1s quite as ) * said Logan, had waxed warm. good as 2 eee the talk when “It is more comprehensive.”’ re- plied Tohnson humbly. “What do you mean? inquired Logan hotly. “Why, my dear fellow, among lawers you haye a great record as a hunter, and among the Nimrods of the Cuvier Club | erstand you have a great record as a lawver.”" It took the crowd at least a minute | min- | stat- | best! I nave | “yet the neglect the bes powerful medicines tast er Gsly in- jure the system. Mists eS |: isacombinationof vaiuab fully compounded from th regular Physician, who scription largely in ‘his 5 w = reat success. I a icine used by man: aa- 5 is invaluable for a LIVER COMP TAT X? VOUS EXPFAUSTION, $i . , INDIGESTION, &c.: sr whus z will mot hurt the syste. | Mr. C. J. Rhodes, s well-knorn iron man of Safe pendent Pa., writes My 6 tely prostrated bsfever end Q t thim eqod I 8 sand. s+) t e the boy was q E. A. Scheilentrager, Drugg3t, (17 St. Clair Street, Cleveland O., wrt Your Bitters, I car lo say, ecribed by some of th physicians in our c MISHLER HERB BITTER 525 Commerce 8t., Philadelm: Parker's Plecsant Worm Syrup Nevr re Goot Hearse Always en Hane} ore ines Made furnished on | Oiders may be lett at F. [wo Doors South of th | POSTOFFICE, j Dealers in— | LYon & | MARDWARE GROCERIES. ( —aAND— H (QUEEN SW ARE i BUTLER, MU. case of dys- ia, debility, | rheumatism, er and ague, | lLver complant, inactivity of the Ee kidneys aud Had der, constipation and other or- ganic malad | Hostetter’s Sto rach Bitters is | a tried remeiy, | to whieh he medical breth- erhood have lent | their professivn- | al sanction, and | alterative and house- ders of the stcm- tonic, which asa ite for d s¢ hold speci Almanac for 1885. | ach, liver and bowels has an unbounded | | popularity. For sale by druggists and | | dealers, to whom apply jor Hostetter’s | i | HORT HORN BU i living six storsalea? | Or.6.W.FITZPATHICK, Co 3 af Teachers, By Mr. James SOA, y s s, now > M CONST? TUTY'S PILLS arce Pe pled cose € eects in 1 CRSES, cof secling as te ‘Fonte Ac dion « ry on ! hed.and byth eer Stoolsa Pigestive Organs.t 5 wed, Price S3ie 2 ppl ication of i! color, nett MARRIAG’ _ SUDDE rated in Toth and ile binding £00. sae, per © eovers se. This bee us, doubt’ 1 er inquisiti 10,000 ear ., seld every otbs. Beauty. Happinesa, “are promoted by its 0d: id relieveall bil- | LIVER=== St. Louis, | Bapsly Vegetable; Ho Griping. "Fong Vomailey WoGrhings Price ie, Al Dearie 7 Banoo ee mms "WD reauuz PILLS Secure Healthy action to the Live: VEARMS @ HILLS zoe Sale & Fxect nunee- REE Catatog: at. B. CHAFFIN & te! Richusoad, By Office 608 Wyandotte St, KANSAS CiTy, MO. ‘A REGULAR PHYSICIAN AND SURGRON. MAKES A SPECIALTY OF THR DISEASES OF TH! EYE, EAR AND THROAT Located in Kansas City since 1865. os i Cataract, False (eater ale Cross. By form ranulaced Liasand scrote mm! Butler Academy. Will open for its eleventh year on SEPTEMBER. 8th, brick b 1884. | A large new be erected will afford tacilities to anything betore enjoy M, NAYLORgs Butler, Bates county, Mo- | Feed Flour and the best oo :uex: Under Sec. 7087, 1 qualiy of Staple und Bis Seeines ete ines ree o 1} liberal prices = inuance « sed customer ecatelins oligo oe Il. Histo “Chas. Dennev. ~~ _— S: towne rs icTs me | Ee | ae Cy DEALERS IN THE | 3 ie | 1 Vil slebrated Mitchell faim Wagon, Cortland Stee! Gear oid Wag0ls -_ e Hadwate, bocciies, Wag 0H 1 Woot wor Iron Steel, Nails, <c- Nort Lu Square, Butler, No. ee Liake piexsure 11 Ano 0 NEW JES WW ESILISR, y future. hon f The Newest and Freshest Line of ~ GROCERIES IN TEE Ccrry,y BOTTOM PRICES for CASH Sion of the Horse Shoe. East Side Square Sale Hudson his wite, by their cert ot trust i Nugust 24 and rec Recorler within and tor the ¢ nty of Bates, State ot Missouri, on the 24th day of August, tothe undersigned trustee tollowi desc ribed real ¢ estate Iviny and being sit e inthe counts of Bates and State of Missouri to-wit: The east halt ot lot one (1), in the northwest quarter and twe acre ore or less off of the sot side of the west halt ot lot one (1) int northeast quarter, all in section three 3), township fort 41) of ra twenty-nine J secu pa in said deed of tri wi due August nd unpaid. q t of the legal h by the authority in See eS erms of said deed ot : , 3 Wednesday. December 24th 1554, Grocery Ho between the hours of g 0" ee in the }'> torenoon ar o'clock in the after pha OF on of that day, at tne cast tront of the court house, in the cityot Butler, ic DENN cW Zates county, Missouri, biti i due tor cash in hand a ee e 4 in said deed of tr stice be their well known and pp stand on the Mast sl Gi cue ‘Bquare, are leading the GROCERY TRADE wr BUTLER. ++ ‘Their stock 18 composed oF » for the Adoption of Text- Books. Riew Fsir, Mo., Dec. 1, 1584- To the Presidents of School Board» ot Bates Co-, Mo. r™N vatiaus co of this State te meet the cour ot their respecti r counties on t in January, 1585, to select « Text-Books to be used forthe next rs by t sin t ta ¢ Put retore, the presidents of ot Bates Co the Fancy Groceries, Glass. Queensware and € THEY ARE AT LESS EXPE? fery riowe lic Sehe o SL are hereb PRIZE... y box ot goo erse receive free, a cost pail, ofe away than an Fortunes awa Isoutely sure. Ato Co., Augusta, Maine,