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Saba tials peters ess ae Fe nr vO | | one nn mr te ET, REREERT M. HOXIE. a ae Death of the Railway Magnate After a Painful Illness. Bie een A New York, Nov. 23.-—Herbert Mallory Hoxie, first vice-president ef the Missouri Pacific railway svs fem, and one ot the most widely &aown railroad managers in the United States, died at 2 o'clock this @orning at his apartments in the Broadway firts, immediately over the Metropolitan opera house, His wofe and Capt. R. S. Haves, whom Mr, Hoxie succeeded in the control ot the Missouri Pacific system, were athis bedside. Mr. Hoxie’s death was brought about by an affection of the kidneys which gradually pors- ened his system. Until the close of the great railroad strike in the west. a which he took so prominent a part, Mr. Hoxie’s home had been in St. Louis During the past summer fe passed the hot season with his wife and niece at Saratoga, and with the approaching autumn removed to New York. He was influenced in coming to reside here by the close Giendly relations he bore with Mr. day Gould, whose trusted lieutenant be was, and also with the hope that he would be benefited by medical specialists in this city. After the mariage ot his niece a week which was hastened through his desire to see her settled betore his death, Mr. Hoxie gradu- ally sank, and at 7 o'clock yesterday ago, }ings on danp nights and in cool, j an uncongenial companion and liv Twelve Ways of Injuring the Health. | 1. Wearing thin shoes and stock- rainy weather. Wearing insufficient clothing, especially upon the limbs and extremities. | 2. Leading a lite of unfeeling. stupid laziness, and keeping the mind 1n an unnatural state ot excite ment by reading trashy novels. Go- ing to the theatres, parties and bal's in all sorts of weather in the thinest dress; dancing till in a complete perspiration, and then going home without sufficient undergarments, through the cool, damp night air, 3. Sleeping on teather beds in seven-by nine hed rooms, without ventilation at the top of the window ; especially with two or more persons in the same unventilated bed room. 4. Surteiting on hot and very stimulating dinners; eating in a hur- rv without halt masticating the tood, and eating heartily before going to bed, when the mind and body are exhausted by the toils of the day and the excitement of the evening. 5 Beginning in childhood on s rong teaand coffee, and going trom one step to another, through chew- ing and smoking tobacco and drink- ing intoxicating drinks, and personal abuse, and mentle and physical ex- cesses of other kinds. 6. Marrying in haste and getting ing the remamder of life in mental | dissatisfaction, cultivating jealousies | iand domestic brows, and being al evening it becune that @eath was near, gathered at apparent trends his bedside, where they remained until he breath ed bis last. The Value of Salt. Severe pains in the howels anc stomach are otien speedily relieved by the application of a bag of hot A weak water is recommended by good phys- pall. solution of salt and Klaas asa remedy for mpertect di- gestion, and for a cold im the head at as « complete cure snuffed trom | the hollow of the hand. We have known severe cases of catarrh en- tively cured by persistent use of this asnple remedy every night and morn- say for several months, when the best of efforts of the best physicians | jailed to do any good, Tt should be used milkewarm. A’ good hand!ul ot rock salt added to the bath is the eext best thing after an “oceandip,”’ and a gargle of a weak solution is a good and ever ready remedy tora sore throat. As a dentifrice, salt and water is very cleansing, and also hardens the gums. It will also pre vent the hair from falling out. When roiling stake, throw a little salt on the coals, and the blaze trom the Sipping tat will notannoy. A little we starch, boiled or raw, will prevent @e irons from sticking. If the irons are rough, put a little on a thick brown paper, lay a piece of thin meslin over it, and rub the iron over @ til perfectly smooth Ink stains @e entirely removed by the immed: ste application of dry salt betore the mk has dred. When the salt be- comes discolored by absorbing the snk, Hrush it off and apply more ; wet shghtly. Continue this till the ink seall removed. If new calicos are allowed to lie in strong salt water for an hour before the first washing, the colors are less hkely to tade. A teaspoonful of salt in each kero- aene lamp makes the oil give a much @earer, better light.—Health and Nome. *Good morning, children,” said a physician as he met three or tour lit- | COUNty tor misappropniation of $100 | Window finish. @e children on their way to school. “How do you do this morning ?"’ “We darn’t tell you,"’ replied the otdest of the crowd, a boy of eight. “Dare not tell me,” exclaimed he docter, ‘sand why not?” “Cause papa says that it cost him Ghv dollars last year to have you «all in and ask how we were."’ & Vassar graduate, out in the seuntry, Went into the stable of 4 Girne house. te poor cows are crowded together,** Me remarked ‘Yes, mum, but we have to do it “Why so?” “Te get condensed milk, mum.” Fie sweet gurl graduate went off emeved and enlightened. tnd his family and | “Dear me, how close | | wavs in a mental ferment. H hy cordials, and 7. Keeping children quiet paregoric an | reach, | that you are prepared tod Health im Youth. Late hours, regular habits, and want of atrention to diet, are come mon errors with most young men, ard they gradually, but at first im- perceptibly, undermine the health and lay the foundation tor various forms of disease in after hfe. It is very difficult to make young persons | comprehend this. They frequently | sit up as late as twelve, one or two | o’clock, without experiencing any ill | effects; they go without a meal to- | day, and to- morrow eat torepletion,*| with only temporary inconvenience ; | one night they will sleep three or tour hours and the next nine or ten; | or one night, in their eagerness to | get away into some agreeable com pany, they will take no food at all, and the next, perhaps, will eat a4 hearty supper, and go to bed upon Indeed, nearly alt the shattered which too many are cursed, are the result of the vio- lation of the plamest precepts of health in early lite. ite constitutions with Rules for Business Men. From some **Rules tor Business Men” we extract the following in re- lapion to advertising: * Take advantage ot modern facil- Use increase ities. the means within your and muitiply the means of intormation, To neighbor, parnucipate in the tacilities successfully compete with a afforded to go ahead Don’t depend upon your own lungs alone; use the lungs of the press. Make it known by printer’s 1k » business Sell at small profits for cash, and teaching them to suck candy, and by | supplying them with rarsins, nurs} j and rich cakes; when they are sick | by giving them mercary, tartar | jemetic and arsemic, under the niv= taken notron that they are medicines and not irritant poisons. } S. Allowiag the love of gain to absorb our minds, so as to leave 1 time to attend to our health; tollow anunhealihy »ccupation, because money can be made by it g. Tempting the appetite with | bitters and niceties when the stomach says uo, and by forcing foud into 1 when nature does not demand, even rejects it; gormandizing tWeen meals, 10. Contriving to keep a conti wuiry about something ot giving away to fits of anger. tr. Bemg irregular in all habits of sleeping ; eating too much, too many kinds ot tood, and that which ts too highly seasoned. 12 Neglecting totake proper care of ourselyes, and not applying early tor medical advice when disease first appears, but by taking ‘*celebrated’”’ quack medicines to a degree of mak mg a drug shop of the body. John N- Wilson, editor of the Carthage Democrat and clerk of the county court of Jasper county, has mysteriously disappeared and _ his friends and relatives are uneasy about him. The Lamar Missourian says Mr. Wilson was in Lamar on Tues- day evening before the election,where he had an appointment with Mr. Clavcomb. He went to the hotel tor supper but did not register. Ed- itor Claycomb talked with him and was informed by Mr. Wilson that his intention was to go to Jasper and assist in canvassing severa! townships before his return to Car thage. bill, left the house and no turther trace can be had of him, though a thorough search is being made. Mr. Wilson had been indicted in Jasper belonging to county funds, but the indictment was set aside. It 1s thought by some that this matter has weighed heavily enough on Mr. Wilson’s mind to unbalance it. — Nevada Mail. | Ain End to Bone Scraping, | Edward Shepherd, of Harrisburg, ul, | says: “Having received so much benefit | from Electric Bitters, I teel it my duty to let suttering humanity Know it. Have | had a running sore on my leg for eight years: mv dociors told me I would have to have th bone scraped or leg amputated. I usea, instead, three bottles ot Electric Bizters and seven boxes Bucklen's Arnica Sah e, and my leg is nowsound and well.” Electric Bitters are sold at fitty cents a bottle,and Bucklen’s Arnica Salve at 2sc. per box by John G. Walker. Se nei. amas Anarchists are miid sort of looking people, but their principles and ses are Eull of explosives. make it knowa through the newspa- that any honest, legitimate requires is tar judgment, udustry, unwavering integrity, superior workmanship, tair prices. and to do better by customers, it possible, than others in the same busmness—and give it publicity.” | Throat troubles vield promprly to Red | Star gh Cure vouched ror bs U. | \ . $5 Ar et Cler dsingredients are j purely vegetable and tree trom opiates. 25 cents. } Richaud R Hoception Room and ary. Indian em- u e to the 1, Which is astately apart et to Lhe rightof the ante sentheast corner of the Vais roo n inspiration of the viories of tie yihing is Indian. Toe ceiing is decoratea with large beams and panels of orna mental design, the interstices looking like solid castings of silver. Pale red siik veluurs im wucut frise brocade, cover the walls, and from the ceiling are suspended four chandelters, adorned with opalescent and jeweled glass. Stalactite cornices, a foot deep. add to j the richness of the surroundings, while j 2 mantel of nobie proportions, elaborate with Persian tiles, still further invest the room with oriental character. The fluor is of hard wood parquet, and covered with an immense Indian rug speciaily made, and indescribable in its quiet ricnness. ‘The teak wood carv- ings were made to order in India; the curtains of doors and windows, and the coverings of the luxurious, divans and chairs, were gathered from every part of the world. The lace curtains arean elaborate pattern of Escurial, beautifully embroidered by hand. The library to the left of the ante hall is a room of the same dimensions, but how different in complexion. Here everytning is earnest and quiet in color, stately and impressive in form. The style is the eariy French Rennaissance, the carving not profuse, but delicious in its crispuess, done in Circassian walnut, which is found in the Crimea. High book cases line the walls all around, and a huge mantel of vert-antigue marble, with large columns carrying a hood, rises up to, and connects with the paneled ceiling. The windows, tive in | reception re | meni j ball aug in the | house. is : After supper he paid his | Bamber, are bung with curiains of dark | gray-blue silk velours of exquisite de- sign, and so arranged by overhead transoms of open wood work as to ad- mit the light above. Embroidered linen shades and long lace curtains un- der the heavy silk ones complete the The metal work is of antique dark bronze, specially modeled for every hinge, handle, key plate, etc., aren as varied as original. The dark-colored India rug, the lar, massive table and the comfortable soles and arm-chairs, covered with band- made tapestries, all combine to give this room an air of repose, dignity and warmth which is the very essence of a library.—J. C. Fluod’s California Man- sion, described in Good Housekeeping. { { | | ot inflamma. {tion of al! Jesh. CRAZES IN CANDIES. Sagared Rose Leav-s 00 l Violets—Pratts Dipped in Cream—0 her Novelties. “Tastes vary from season to season in ca dies as in flowers and hats," said a Stare street candy manufaciurer. | “There li be a tremendous run one vear | on something that won't be ealled for | half a dozen 3s the next. Just now | i] } the marshmaliow and French cream caramels take the lend. Next to these maple, vanilla, walnut, and chocolate are the favorites. There’s a steady eall, too, for butter-creams and nut-drops. Maple creams, walnut candies, and nugat are standard goods also. | \ ' “Chocolate nugat is made of choco- late. honey, sugar, almonés, and pist- } ache nuts. The white nuyat is prepared in the same way, with the chocolate left out. ' “A very popular confection now is ‘plantation drop.’ It is nothing in reality, but old-fashioned southern mo- lasses candy made with great care and pressed inio smail lumps, just the rignt size for the mouth, Oid-fashioned gum-drops are looking up a little lately. They went quite out for a while. I don’t know why they are finding favor again. unless it's because there's con- siderable ‘chew’ to them. “People eat candy everywhere now, and on all oc asions. Why, we have so much call for something that ladies could eat in church, at the theater, and opera without attracting notice and without soiling their gloves that we in- vented a little gum-arabic candy tor that purpose that we named ‘church drops.’ it is sosmall that it can be slipped in the mouth unobserved, and has great staying qualities. A good many ladies carry handsome charity boxes filled with them suspended from their waists. “Speaking of table confections, did you know that fine creams, creamed fruits, and eandied flowers are taking the pince of glace fruits for deserts? Giace fruits are not purchased to a third of the extent they were a couple of vears ago. Fresh fruits dipped in cream are ver: ir. Those who bu aces in variety ask for cherries and, after them, for plums and Not me person in tive hundred knows what pic 1 is a plant sugar cane. “Lhe most recent ey paniment for ereamed correct wind-up for an uit nsive aecom- aity and the fashionable juneh is candied flowers. No enter- | nment of this sort is reai affair without them. To be can’t perceive their alleged delicious qualities Inyself, out they are an expen sive novelty, and have been asa luxury by aristucratic soc eWoatis their retail p: “Lure ; Ro-e leaves and vio kind of flowers util yet, bat 1 expect to see ay peach-plossoms, geranium | number of oth rand prepa ee? 40 a pound. ts are the only ad for the table e-blossomas, wes, and rs dipped in boil- i for the table. Just ty violets,” he con- tinued, holding out a glass plate tilled with livender-hued, sugared flowers. “Well, what do they taste like?” he demanded, us the visitor nibbled a blos- som or LWwo. | . “Like the end of a lead pencil,” dollars and ‘ J any ing sugy te of these was flavor of candied violets is like wud one can get BENNETT, WHEELER & eee 12. 12 13 1 pe — DEALERS IN THE— ras 3 Celebrated Mitchell Farm Wagoy Cortland Steel Gear. : Spring Wagons and Top Buopig ou! [Halliday Standard “WW Bre BD BC Th Gel Tw ES and Iron Suction or Force Pumps. Hardware, Groceries, Wagon Wood wo Steel, Ni nec Tron Nails, sc. Northeast vorngy, square, Butler, Mo. Trustec’s Sale. Whereas, John A. Lefker and Anna his by their deed of trust, January 17 , and recorded inthe office within and for Bates county, Mi book No. 34 page conveyed to the signed trustee the following describ estate lying and being situate in the cous Bate~ and state of Mi-souri, to-wit: Lot No. two of block No. twelve 0 the west side additi n to the city of Bi Missouri. Which conveyance was made in trust cure the payment of one certain note, i ibed in sald deer = bt and w d- fault has been made in the payment! note and the acerued interest ‘thereon long past due and unpaid. Now, there! the request of the legal holder ofsaid note pursuant to the conditions of said deed } will proceed to sell the above deseribed: ises at public vendue. to the hij ash, at the east front door of the court in the city of Butler, county of Bates and of Missouri, on Phursdav, December gth, ® the hours of 9 o’clock in the far clock in the afternoon of that Tposes of satisfying said debt, and costs. a1! E. WALTON, ye twee wm ELECTION PROCLAMATIONR To the qualfied yoters cf the cite Butler county ot ates, State ct Misso In contormity with an ordinance p Best in the World. P Trustee's Sale. just as much sausfaction from ing 2a common ijead pencil as out of a $3 50- pound of these blossoms. ‘The rose leaves, you will see,” he added, taking up another plate heaped with shriveled pink ro: tals, glistening with sugar, “convey the inevitabie suggestion of a hair dressing. But they’re noveitivs, as 1 said before, and that's what people want.""—Chicago Neus. $$ =——__—_ The Chances of Matrimony. Aman who has studied the various phases of the matrimonial market has come to the conciusion that every wo- man has some chance to marry; it may be one to fifty, or it may be ten to one she will. Representing a woman's en- ire chance at 100, he has made out the following table to show the chance at certain points of time: Per ont B-tween the ages of 15 and 2 ye: 412 Betweeu the ages of 20 and 25 years, 52 Be. ween the ages of 25 and 30 years, 18 Between the ages of 30 and 35 yeurs, 1512 Between the ages of 35 and 8, 3a4 B tween the agi s of 40 4 8. 212 B -.wern tLe ages of 45 and 50 years, 58of 1 Be ween the axes of 5) and 55 yeurs, 14 of 1 After 60 it is one-tenth of 1 per cent, or one chance in 1,000.—.\ew dork Mail and Express. oo | Hereafter Darmstadt, Germany, will be a poor place for x patent medicine man. By a municipal law just passed, all such medicines will be analyzed, and the ingredients of which they are 2 will he made public. VotinaCrdial CURES DYSPEPSIA, INDIGESTION, WEAKNESS, CHILLS AND FEver MALARIA, LIVER COMPLAINT, KIDNEY TROUBLES, NEURALGIA AND RHEU ATIS#, T is Invizorat. ing and De- lightfal to ¢: and of great vai: as a Medicine for weak and Ailing ‘Women and Chil- dren. Rot Y pana [eran (atta Avet H pt ego rs . a Safe and Pleasant ‘ Remedy. | Por enie by oi! Draggiets and Crowd a i Femnit $1.08, end 0 ro og PREPARED CELT SY 3 Volina Drug and Chemical Company, BALTIRORZ, ED, C. 5. a. : ' 51-3te j tice. | by the Board ot Aldermen, of the city Butler, Mo., on the rith day ot Nov, a and who] aud approved Nov. 12th, 1886. Said has been dead tor more than g months, | dinance entitled an ordiance coag Whereas Wiliam R. | by his deed ot trust, dated March S, isstie of honds for water works. deciared himse w.dower), Marshall (who 1853, and recoded in the Recorder's |D-. V- Brown, Mayor of the city ot office within and tor Bates county, Mis-| ler, Mo., do issue this, my proclam souri, in book No 32, page 17, conveyed | for a special election to be held on to the undersigned trustce the following . ‘ § r = aturday. = b th, 8 described real estate, lying and being|. Suture ry, De cones gees J in the Sheriff's office, in said city, fo situate in the county ot Bates and State ; J of Missourl, to wit: purpose of voting on the proposition the Board of Aldermen to issue b ‘The southwest quarter of the south- : west quarter, of section twenty-three thirty tour thousand dollars; said to bear interest at the rate ot sixp (23), township forty-two (42), of range thirty-two (32), containing torty acres, | PeT annum, and to rnn twenty ¥ e said city of Butler reserving the more or less; which conveyance was A F made in trust to secure the payment ot | redeem said bonds at any time after expiration of ten years, The one ceartain note, tully descrived in said 3 deed of trust; and whereas, detault has | 2! said bonds when sold to be use inf , been made inthe payment ot the prin- construction ot = sree oe ciple of said note, and the annual inter- | tor said city. At said election vou E tavor ct issueing said bonds will est thereon accrued, now long past due 3 and unpaid Now theretore, at the re- | ballot con| ng the words “For the sue of bond—yes.’’ Voters uest of the legal holder of said note. Sad aredentts the conditions of «aid | the issue of said bonds will vote deed ot trust, I will proceed to sell the | Containing the words ‘For the isve above described premises at public ven- | Of bonds—no.”’ due, to the highest bidder, tor cash, at} Witness my hand and official signas the east tront door of the court : ouee, in | this 12th day ot Nov, A D., 1886+ the city of isutler, county of Bates and} D. V. Brows, Mavor of Butler, state of Missouri, on 54 3t. Thursday. December 2d, 1886, petween the hoursof g o'clock in the forenoon and 5 o’clock in the afternoon, of that day, for the pur,ose ot satisfying said debt,‘interest and costs. C. C. Duxeg, Trustee. 7 Public Notice. I, R. J. Starke, Clerk of the county Bates county, Missouri, hereby give tice, that at the general election county. Missouri, on November — Sea to enforce the law ne cattle, males aes sheep, ogefrom running at e was st = that at said lection S001 votes, were cast: of and 244 votes cast against ssid pr being a majority of 457 votes in favor o Administrators’ Notice. Notice is hereby given, that letters of admin- ietration upon the estate of Craton Owen de- ceased, have been granted tothe undersigned, ; by the Bates county Probate Court, in Bates | eer Poses date the Sth day of November 186, persons havin, claims | 3 against said estate are required to exhibit tnem } (sear ye bad ae oe Saas eH to us for allowance within one year from the | * “ag eae 3 County G date of said letters. or they may be precinded| from any benefit of such estate; and if said claims be not exhibited within two years from the date of the publication of this notice, will be forever barred. A B. & Jaca Owen, dyes owes, | THOROUCHBRED ' ee eT Ne ee ees . : : Notice is hereby given that the co-partner- ship heretofore &€ ing between J.T. Graves and k L. Graves under the firm name of J. I Graves & Son, has thisday dissolved, J.T. Graves retireing. The business will be con-| ducted at the old stand by R. L. Graves, who! will collect all debts due the old firm and as- | I therefore give they | FOR SALE. sume all indebtedness. | EITHER SEX. - ALLL SIZ# This 15th day of Nov. 1886. ‘ of 6 J.T. Graves. . A 31 at R. L. Guaves. J H. All parties indebted to the old firm are re- | 2 3-4 Miles West of Bulter- quested to call and settle as the books must be squared. reali ae Sener eS st Sa os Nouce of Dissolution ot Partnership. | By mutual consent the partnership / between D. A. DeArmond and Thos. J. | Smith, as practicing attorneys, in the! name ot DeArmond & Smith, is this day dissolved. D. A. DeArmond retiring and Thos. J. Smith continuing in the prac- wD. A. DeArsvonp. Tues- J. Smurn. | DR.sce Nov. g, 1886-