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$= veeneeraeoraee: ii DALGHT rik. —_—--—_—_— | onthe Trail of a | HUNTIN | Runaway Couple. +o The Vid Tale of a Woman's Love and Weakness and Man's Perfidy, Which Ruins a Happy Family. — Last night an old gray-haired man, probably sixty years old, approachew a party who were standing on Main street near the corner of Second, and holding an old-fashioned gold case English watch in his hand, requested that some one in the crowd loan him $10 and take the time piece as security. None of the party had the amount ot money the ol he went away, walking down the street, A reporter for The Mail was in the party to whom the old man applied and the appearance ot the applicant interested him to such a degree that he toliowed him. In the distance of a block he applied = half a dozen men tor the amount ot of gentlemen money mentioned, bur tailed secure it. Reaching the corner of Third street the old man leaned against a telegraph pole, with his eyes bent on the ground. Lhe re- porter approached bias and a modestly as possible asked the od fellow what be wancd with ts money he was trying core the watch. “JT wish to get to EO Paso,” answered. sive there ?”’ ‘No. Mo.”’ “Any part El Paso?”’ “*Yes.”’ “Going ther “Nos my fa souri, except oue daughter, Lhve in Vernon county, lar o to hive am endeavoring (o tind Pp ” “Is she in EO Pose “Lam sot sure, but L have good Teason to ty i “What do you think there ?’” “God only kr ve sh she ts doit ows, IT dou’t,’? arc the old man’s voice became tust wh emotion “It talking to a stronger, I yor au no objection hi ve would to hear satd the ! orter. your story,’’ “Well, | don’t know that it would @o any harm,’ began the old tellow and he told in bis own way the fol lowing tale: “*My name is Wallace Henderson, andI am a farmer; Vernon county, for 28 years. I have two sons and one @aughter, the latter just eichteen years old. About three months ago ® young fellow,whom I have learned was from Kansas City, accompamed say daughter home trom camp meet « that was held about three mutes from my place. have lived in Missouri, Ile appeared to be genteel young fellow, gave his name as Defyfe and claimed to know lots Ot people in Kansas City whom 1 knew, He the house about an hour and went away, being tavited by myself and daughter to call again. stayed at He did so several days atterwards, and continued to call tor about three One Sundar ‘ weeks rning he drove up to the house in a buggy and Plten (that is her name), to go to church with him. She the two went away and consented ; that last I have seen ot either ber.”" “Have you never siuice ?”* “Oh, yes; 1 heard of them in is the him or heard of thew Kansas City, in St. Louis, in Dallas | This induced andin this place. Port Worth a week west."" ago “Are you sure they were here?" | Stranger was a Mason. **About as sure as I can be. ked my oe o| ota the virl had never be vw gut» i ye is at a tormer imprudence, ni he is af a loss to account tor th esca, ave. In | company with the reporter, Hender son went to 4 pawnbroker’s shop, where he was sosned $12 his watch, which money he may be on able to get to El Paso with, but he | has no idea how he wiil manage to get back to Missouri with the girl He said that.—Fort her. he tor should he find would trust God Worth Evening Mail. THE ROAD COMING. —- Tie Surveyors of tne Colorado Road in the Field and Hustling. Clinton Advocate Maj. Phinney and corps of sur- do man wanted and | veyors employed locatin, the route e 5 sect of the new St. Louis, Kansas Citv | & Colorado arrived vesterday even- 1g and pitched their tent in the westeru part ot the city. They left here at daybreak this morning for ihe point where they had quit work vesterday, about ten mes east ot ~ city, where they will to | wor. and move wesiward, until they | e .n tins city. It will be remembered that last May a survey was made from Fort | cot to Clinten, and extending | three miles northeast of this | te Dhis survey, at is said, wil d he pemminentone 4 h | ‘ nary survey n ) med cs ward will connect with Jobo terminus of this last sh yey. utes now being made is | py ow prolmimary one. After avevors coyglude ther work ' , Is thew teturin to | c 2 §s tet r th | coustuucdony in Prankin county, an! then wil commence the | survey, which, it ¢ bw i wh trom tae p liminary sary vo being sed s jtr as rehire ch ' Vecvacr ! Froma gentleman tasatiar with i Wwothings of the party, and who resume | ronan years. in Ges cific he and his MISSING LINKS. brother, E. C. G drew out $167.- } 000 each in ear cas one-fourth of s. . nae mate es 0 Z North Carolina has a settlement call- whica Waiter Gordon invested in plan- od Pouck a Penny. . : . | tations In Sheffield they cleared 210,- A desolate town in the heart of Ari- | 999 each, and hold 1: bio ks of the zona bears the somewhat appropriate | stock, now six for one and rising. Just name of **Total Wreck. | before leaving for New York they It is estimated that about one bundred | cleared $120,000 by the sale of their thousand species of flowering plants are | Tennessee Kasroad to the Louisville & now known to botanists. | Nashville system. | A medical writer in Harper's declares There is a valley in Chautauqua coun- that life is but a temporary victor over | ty, New York, cailed “No-God hollow,” the causes that produce death. | snd this is the way one by aH pan 3 ; paper avers that the Prince | An evangelist went into the valley an of woenia Paine diamond Iatch- | worked very earnestly for some weeks, keys which are worn as a sort of decora- | and apparently without any good re- tion. sults. One day in speaking to one of + how to | the residents of the place he said: of . | do not believe there is a Godin Che- nango valley! This was picked up, and since then the place has been known as *No-God hollow.” “Roscoe Conkling,” said a Maiden lane jeweler the other day, “has a broad mind. , He is not only a great lawyer, but his general information is great. He has a great many chains and charms, and he calls them all keepsakes. He asks questions about the jewelry busi- | York combined. ness which prove that he knows what Mark Walton died 205 years ago, and | he is talking about. The other day, the fishing clubs of London are taking | when he ordered a pair of sleeve-but- steps to set up a statue of him in Win- | toms, he drew a diagram showing just chester Cathedral. the size and thickness he wanted them i i i ade. No jeweler could have drawn The biggest “big gun” in the world made. No je ite = | is a 112-ton bellower, with which Hum- | it more clearly oar correctly. | bert. of Italy, expects to salute the first In several European countries charred king who assaults him. cigars ‘stumps’? have a commercial A well-known oculist who has exam- | Y#iue. They are bought by shepherds ined the eyes of 1,000 persons who work | !0r making a decoction for killing in- by the incandescent electric light found | *vcts on pecatineg crn pey.chers in y particula y iniuri s ef- for ae Si t 4 greet | eee cage any pachenlaryiegurons houses or for steeping in water that is j A Bariaeion Vt, man takes railroad | Ue! for & ringing pine eae by = : guiegipr: = ' ants or other lusects. Some gardeners | aie hae nen painted pleck an ss employ them for making nicotine water, ; Hange bores 01 res, a e| ses } a | e ees aes ssaid to hasten the growth of them for fence posts. The effect is said | criain flowering plants and to cause to be unique and striking. uei to put out very large blossoms. The type-writer, now in such common ss = use. dates back to 1714, when Henry WIT AND HUMOR, Mill got a patent for it in England. bat ; 5 “No man can se two masters,” i) was not reaily made practicaple until | ness he is 2 low-down politician and 1567. It now seems indispensable. both masters have moey.—New Or- leans Picayune. An amateur once asked Li to | play the piano with soul. The geniat niaster replied: “You must first of all | have a soul.”” A English syndicate is negotiating | for the purchase of 81,000 acres of lanc in Tehama county, California, for graz ing purposes. A Philadelphia optician says that | there are more people wearing glasses inthat city that in Boston and New Skunk meat is a creat delicacy for the Chinamen and Siwashes Indian ae Why does the camel know more False creek, British Columbia. 8e | about base-ball than the dromedary? animals are very plentiful in that re- Because he is a hump higher. Take ion, and they are being hunted with atin this your dessert.—Commerciai great eagerness. Bulleten. Jolin MeGregor, a ¢ fornia coach- She—Isn’t that papa coming? He— . has by the death of an uncle in = aus Ilow I provoki 15 just going to : net lee tee fe ‘fortune of $100, | steal a kiss. » (ingenuously) —He’s oo sist r than running y : ; : ES ed othe EO es awfully nearsighted, Chauley—awfuily! win the dau rofa milionsure with : : — jid-buts. It is a curious fact that fleas are hatched froin eggs; curious because one cible temper. rth is supposed to lose time halfa second in’ a centur would hardly think that a flea could sit e says the F : “J still long enough to lay an egg.—Bur- if the earth ever ceases t » revolve on its ington Free Vress. % a Debs Gace 000,000,0 Nhs Raa % % a x Sp eesruan ae It has been remarked that the youth ‘ - who wears the tallest collar and carries An oak ‘a < cen the jargest stick wears the smallest hat; speare’s day t eda bit of but why it is nobody seems to know.— how iin pOsinHT to HBCU aceHiweady in an sh} Philadciphia Call. ! rs k timber did dan eres Ou the subject, the tor owimg “porate Paine Pees a Bor 364 - | A phrenolovist ys that ‘fullness ae r y Le : : under the eve denotes languaze.”” boy ee ee ee ee ee fs When the fullness is caused by another pomt where tt 1s ibe i : ver |) man’s fist it denotes very bad language, | , RirycenttoGotecaminds SUT com Norristown Herald. hire Jost | Soaiee : y better, pro- 2 a fe in Hamp- “ r Nansas City, passing | | a = s trent man jitrough Windsor, the main tine Vv deve : pleased all continurag to Clinton, and benc o Stausties, Por Less aeeur: es , oe ‘ that Join Bail ix by a6 mean Ifa indy is beautiful, my son,” said j Fort Scott. Teas said the men al pees Cue ikcmieked ia a davter-dav Lord Chesterfield, “never worked # portion of the tune on gtinuaan cat Wit sane ees Ae a0 refer to be ett : nen i : to do when lady is plain?” “Just branch and the remamder on main} lve poundsa vear, woul Auscralians are b , a VERe TSU GGUS ANE eniKG the same; suck to the beauty.” —Boston fine, alternatively. This) statement concerning the main line and branch | has not been verified by the officers ot the road, butit itis true the citi- zens of Clinton need not tear ot being slighted. Maj Phinney and assistants will comp here every night until their / work is completed. Whatever name or designation is given to Fever and Ague, or other intermit- tent disea-e it is sate to say that Malaria or adiso dered state of the Liver is at he wae | United Sites 130 pounds. HERO E Geowre Hurriouan a Nowe Vouk bos Grotee to cae »—Your papa is ik 13 v old, is a professional e a eel Legs soe es ° . : bind time to-might. orge—Tien and his t S.x years ago, Was the employe come tomy aris. As long as he isn’t behind me, 1 eare not where he is.— Wash ngton Critic. | Several Limes arrested. when only 7 years old. he tantofia noted bu Ssis- to ‘ conceal him-elf in siures and open the A contemporary says: “We con- doors at nicht. sumed much more pig-ron the first six e president of the Pittsburz, manne f sae Seer ase form the | Window ss Workers’ federation hs corresponding period — of ast yea 1a gavel which has been used in ogere Betier move back to the old boarding- | ing Knights of Labor meetin -s at Read- ggo is — re ki [ines Pas in 187% Phitdetphin, 1875; | of SUE Ziel eae, making | St Louis. 1879; Chicago, 1879; New | York, 1882; Cincinnau, 1873; Philadel- | 2 and etther allowing his earnestness tault Eliminate che impurities trom | p} i to get the beter of aim, “it’s perfectl ties hig 84: He ‘ . 2 t y the syst andas d P . : be _ 188 4S Hamilton, Canada, 1885; lain to me—as plain as you are.’ — sy : a sure and prompt cure is | Cleveland. 1836, and St. Helen's, En. | ? ; a 4 the immediate resuit. Prickly Ash Bit. ! and, 1886. Z 4 buriingtn Bree Cress. tery is the -arest and most effective rem [7 : Citi rmer, i | em ‘ 3 itizen (to farmer) —How are things edy for ji biliary troubles, Kidney di- Ee correspondent in Mexico explains out your sia Mr. 7, vseed? Mr. Hay- seise, ni like complaints that has ever | Whv the Mexican calls the American a | Out § (sloomily) ev comllane ts been brouzht betore the public. A trial | “4 invo. She savs that when the ach Me a ‘ clan chives ce ze is its best recommendation. 2 1m. ) American army invaited Mexicoa fa. | UY uae on Scere --- — | Vorite song in’ the esmps was Burns’ Seg iy etree ee cae ens 1 The Mark ot a Mason. “Green Grow the Rashes, 0.” The pars He une olan upiece for ’em = Mexieans heard itr 7 spd pees oan aarti dd whec = Mexicans i ‘peated over and | 5 i . Quebec, Ont., Nov. 27-—But for | over, and fir beg to call the {| _ Chief of Polic ‘You want a place he tact of bis membership m a! Americans by the fir-t iwo word . which | 1 the 2» department?” Appli- 1e rononnce i ” cant si lam willing to under- secret society, the remai they pronounced ‘grin go. Hence r sii . bets Ruck hi o spate en ot John “Gringo.” - take Chief of Poliee—*You can ANusk, Which were interr y The y bureau i 5 : Se US, The four Acken brothers of Middiesex | 7° i ures hiatal Og URL SR KEL us relatives yesterday woula now © lying im the potter’s field at Mil- waukee. Wis. Rusk, who wasa young man, was found dead ma lodging house in that city a few mghts ago. Pricked upon his arm was the Masonic embiem, a square and compass with letter inyestigation, the and They were in} Worshiptul Master G. L. Thomas, and went]of Wisconsin lodge, F.& A. M., came the to conclusion that the Thereupon I} he had the remains remoyed to an have been on their track until [have | undertaker’s and coffined, and tele- spent every cent ot money I had, and that is why I wanted the $10.” *“What do you propose to do you catch the girl?" “Twill endeavor to persuade her | to go home. Her mother is nearly crazy over her cosduct, and of I can only find the girl and get her to back home we wil! forgive her,” In answer to questions by the re- Porter the old gentleman stated that xo graphed the facts to Deputy Grand Master Russell of this city. The it | latter quickly found the parents of | istve seen a w the deceased and the remains were forwarded here by the fratermty and interred with the usual honors. Yor eight years Col. D. J. Williams Quarter-Masier, us, yc ex-U. “s” Consul at Ca'lao, was crippied with rheu matism. He got vo reliet until he used Se pas Oil, which cared him. No v On earth equals it tor in. rice, fifty cent. a bottle. etic G.| I am looking for detectives who can overtake.’— h ludelphia Cail. VetinaQrdial CURLS 3PEPSIA, INDIGESTION, WES \WESS, CHILLS AND FEVERS. MALARIA, Livre COMPLAINT, KIDNEY TnOuBsLes NEURALGIA A County liam New Jersey, are tine men. Wil- eight-three” years old, six fect Inches tn height, and weighs 250 pounds; Henry is six feet tour, and weighs nine, six feet five, and ighs 225; | Theodore is seventy-three, six feet six, and weighs 2 ids. They are in ) excellent heaith, and vigorous beyond their years. e i] ‘Sunset Cox and his wife one day ask- ed a Constantinople lady of bivh birth | to take a drive n th them and she con- | [7 is Ia» | sented. As soon, howev as they 3 | Ureve on to the street the driver was ar- | Tested and the re ordered & j | by the polic uis Was owing to the existence of law in Constantinople i t n of noble family | n public with for- otiue Moslem | not The Paganint is said Vision respecti } marvelous son. She [ him in these terms: mor the feture ,OuTAINS no hurtful Book, ‘Volina,’ by leading ito A ~Mysson. be | Minerals, is com- ySicians. teliii For an adiant with’ beaatt posed of carefully oe to treat diet neared = peters: st Selected Vegeta- eases at HOME, peared to me in the night anit saic ble Medicines, mailed, together By request Tmigit make sh | SS skill- with a setof hand- ‘ora Serres Seppe ully, making a Some cards by new eTanted > 2 asked that you mi | Safe and Pleasant aseypeveccs, come the st of all vivlinis: Remedy. on receipt of icc. the angel that my re por an nay, TL Drasttts and Grocers. Shoaid the deaier near shouli Teas wat beeen, chergspaat 7 nn SAO Ones ace Walter Gordon of Atlama is said ps —-. _ have made three Snug fortunes in six | Volina Orug and Chemical Company, i BALTLAORE, ED, U. & A. BENET, WHEELER & — DEALERS IN THE— | | Celebrated Mitchell Farm Wag, ra Spring Wagons and Top Bugpia [Halliday Standard Cortland Steel Gear wie Hw Giaw hese and Iron Suction or Force Pumps. Hardware, Groceries, Wagon Wood wo | Steel, b Iron Nails, ec. Northeast eorne square, Butler, Mo. amen -- THE CENTURY | Tree s | Whereas, John A. Lefker and Anna Lefkey For 1886-7. his cir deed of trust : and recorded inthe Tine Century h iilustrated maga for Batescounty, Missouri. af is ; ing a regular cieulation of | b ze 550, conveyed to the wm Zane ane lcopi following described bout two bundve vousi 2 sc, otter 0 about two bundied thousand copies, often | a tate lying and being situate in the cou reaching sometimes exceeding two hun »- and state of Missouri, to-wit: dred and twenty-five thousand, Chief © two ©) of block No. twelve among its mary atiractions for the com sens we RO addition to the city of B : cae + Se See ac. | Missouri : ing » is a serial which has been in ac Which conveyance was made in trust te tive preparation tor sixteen years. Iti + the payment of one certain note, a history of our own country in its most ribed in said deed of trust critical time, as set torth in THE LIFE OF LINCOLN, ETARIES, te and the ued interest thereon, nou] jong past due and unpaid Now, therefore, @ the request of the legal holder of said note pursuant to the conditions of said deed oftratJ I will proceed to sell the ahove described prea ises at public vendue, to the highest bi "EO at the east front door of the court f Butler, county of Bates and vuri, on BY HIS CONFIDENTIAL SEC FOUN NICOLAY AND COL, JOHN HAY. This great Work, begun with the sance tion of President Lincoln, and continued G. fer the authority ot his son, the Hon “ a Rekert TeeLineelnats the only tull and Vhursday, December gth, 1986, authoritative reeord ot the lite ot Abra- | yetween the hours of 9. 0’clock in the é Y hz 1 r Its suthors were friends | and 5 o'clock in the afternoon of that day, of Lincoin before his presidency; they | rposes of satisfying said debt, interaigily a were tost intimately associated with him | oa Wm. E. WALTON, Trastai" as priyate secretaries throughout his term of offce, and to then: were trans peel te terred upon Lincoln’s death all his pri | H. vate papers. Here will be told the toside | EE EC PlON PROCLAMATION history of the ewil war and of President DR Lincoln's administration—important de tail is Bo have nas See ‘To the qualfied yoters of the cite suai dedueneet rae thane CHAS || Butier. county ot Ba state ct Missouri p in this authentic history. By reason of | In contormity with an ordinance pas by the Board ot Aldermen, of the city dom Mo., on the rich day ot Nov., Signs nd approved Nov. 12th, 1886, Said phd dinance entitled an ordiance conce) deity the issue of bonds for water works. Um D. V. Brown, Mayor of the city of ler, Mo., do issue this, my prociamatty for a special election to be held on Saturday, December r1th, 1886, in the Sheriff's office, in said city, for tt} a purpose of voting on the roped j the Board of Aldermen to issue bonds thirty tour thousand dollars; said ® to bear interest at the rate ot six pere per annum, and to rnn twenty years: Om said city of Butler reserving the rightt redzem said bonds at any time atter™ expiration of ten years. The | ot said bonds when sold to be used | construction ot a system of water WOME, tor said city. At said election voters 9 | tavor of issueing said bonds will vote: ballot containing the words ‘For the # | sue ot bond—yes.‘’ Voters 0} ‘ | the issue of said bonds will vote a } | containing the words “For the issu ot bonds—no.”? < itness my hand and official signat this 12th day ot Nov, A. D., 1886- § D. V. Brown, Mavor ot Butler, 0 51 3t. the publication ef this work, !ilis WAR SERIES, Butle which ha been tollowed with unfl ging interest by a great audience, will cccupy less space during the coming vear. Get- tvsburg will be described by Gen Itant | (Chiet of the Union Artillery), | | Longstreet Gen. E. M. Law, and others: Chickamauga by Gen. D-H. Hill; Sher- man’s March to the Sea, by Generals Howard and Slocum. Generals Q. A. Gillmore, °\, F. Smith, John Gibbon, 'orace Porter, and John S. Mosby wili describe special batties and incidents. Stories of naval engagements, prison life, etc., ete., will appear. NOVELS AND STORIES. ‘*The Hurdredth Man,” a novel by Frank R. Stockton, author of “The Lady, or the Tiger?” etc., begins in No- | vember. ‘Two novelettes by George W. | Cable, stories by Mary Hallock Foote, “Uncle Remus,’ Julian Hawthorne, Ed. ward Feggieston, and other prominent American authors will be printed during the year. SPECIAL FEATURES (with illustrations) incinde a series of articles on affairs in Russia and Siberia, by George Kennan, author ot **Teat Lite in Siberia,’ who has just returned from a most eventful visit to Siberian prisons; Papers on the rood Question, with ref Public Notice. erence to its bearing on the bor Prob- é lem: English Cathedral; Dr. Egghs-| 1) B. J. Starke, Clerk of the county court Bates county, Missouri, hereby give publies | tice, that at the general election held in county. Missouri. on November 2d, 136. roposition to enforce the law % orses, cattle, mules, asses, sheep, ton’s Religious Lite in the American Cole Men and Women ot Queen Anne’s Reign, by Mrs. Oliphant; Clair- veyonce, Spiritualivm, Astrology, etc., hogs'from running at large was sul 3 by the Nev, J. M_ Buckley, D. D., editor! that at said election 3001 votes werecastia of the Christian Advocate; astronomical | of and 2544 votes cast against said pM jes: anere- articles ei = = being a majority of 457 votes in favor Papers; CAEL throwing light on Bible | ing said a I therefore give public soleh. jae | that said proposition was carried and the am PRICES. A FREE COPY. | will be enforced on and after this date. i\ seal this 12th R. J. Sta County “ eae Witness my hand and Subscription price 34 00 [SeaL.] November, 1586, a number. Dealers, MW the publishers ta for our cat a year, 35 cts. postmasters, and | : subscriptions. 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