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BUTLER TIONAL BANK, | ppera flouse Block, BUTLER, MO. $5,000 +++» President ' +-++¢.Cashier RUE +e. Ast Cashier, ON KINNEY..- DIRECTORS, Dr, T. C. Boulware, M Tucker. udge }- H Sullens, R, Simpson k Voris, H, Dutcher Booker Powell, Green W. Walton John Deerwester, Cc. Wo, E, Walton, J. Rue Jenkins. Receives deposits, loans money, and nsacts a general banking business. Weextend to ourcustomers every ommodation consistent with sate ac- ank- CORRESPONDENTS. irst Nat’l Bank ‘ourth National Bank Hanover National Bank Kansas City. St. Louis. New York. COUNTY ational Bank, | (Organized in 1871.) OF BUTLER, MQ. BATES S6OG6,000,. Clerk and Collector | C. Duke, | NORTH MAIN STREET ee DRUG STORE) First-class OPEN EVERY DAY IN WEER, FFRIZELL & RIVE, BUTLER, MO. a. sete ica THE HORNS pital paid in, - - $75 Surplus - -- - sae 19.1. TYGARD, - - - - President, ON. J. 8. MEWBERRY, Vice-Pres. , .C. CLARK - - Cashier. ) FARMERS | It Costs Less tu Feed 50 Hogs With ‘\ DR. JOS. ILAAS’ 0G & POULTRY REMEDY As A PREVENTATIVE] to lose one by DISEASE, because the extra pork it puts upon the hogs vill return three times its costs. Farmers and feeders who have used it write follows : Teonsider it a sure cure and do not intend to withoutit. Mf D. Johnson, Walker, Mo. isasuccess and we cheerfully testify to Griffin & Bro. LaPlata, Mo. Thave used Dr. Jos Haas’ hog remedy and an recommend i asurecure for hog chol- @a, and Iam sure it has saved me from $si0 40 $1,000 Frank Lee, Hannibal, Mo. We have sold it in a dozen instances, no cure Pay and have never lost a c It has never fs Brown & Mills, Louisville, mo Thave used your medicine for several a F, Walter, Knox City Ifind it the best preventive for prevailing C. RK. Dawson, Denver, Mo rete Tecommend it to ai having hogs Mficted with cholera, T. A, Bufford, Ai ouiaviite, Mo Twill not be without Haas’ hog remedy if it cost three times the present p John Castin, Grant City, Mo Peat Haas hog remedy does all he claiins for C. P. Haxton, Louisville, Mo “ae satisfled it will pay for itself putting on flesh, aside from keeping hogs healthy. y Thos. H. Logan, Grant City Mo. ‘our remedy gives bette tisfactic ba) mith, Perry, Mo am convinced, itthe’ medicine’ is properly » itis the thing for hogs. i - J. McCray, Browning Mo ince using wore pede I lave not had the olera among hogs. i ohn S Courtright, Peenliar, Cass Co, Mo. tis the best thing Ge kind [ever used A.J Leggett, Hannibal Mo. Your remedy te poreal satisfaction. H, Lewis, Boliver,Mo PRICES, 82.50, 81.25 and 50 cents, yer box 35 pound cans, $12 50 For sale PYLE & ‘chumey, Butler Missouri, wee ste authorized by me to receive and for- applications or the insurance of youn hogs against diseases. ss shalt ma ag of insurance will provide that I tee every Highest Market price insured hog which dies from diseases While being fed the remedy. dos. Haas,V. S., Indianapolis. Ind OR, § STRONG'S PILLS! he Old, Welt Tried, Wonderful Yona Renewing Remeaies. foe's SARTIVE PILLS Rossa tines A speedy eure for Bowels, Purifying ional Taint. per- adache, Constipation s Disorders, =*Coughs,Colde, = Dyspepsia & petitecood diges= precious boon and bea aiehy coo CHAS, CENNEY At Old Stand, East Side Square. NEW GOODS Fresh and Nice and Comprising every- thing in the GROCERY And Provision Line. COUNTRY PRODUCE Of all kinds wanted. COME AND SEE ME. Nal cH BARK ae R f spRIcalY aye ay ASHER SENNA- shes BUCHU AND OTHER EQUALLY EFFICIENT REMEDIES. It has stood the Test of Years, A in Curing all Diseases of the BLOOD, LIVER, STOM- ACH, KIDNEYS,BOW- H ELS, &c. It Purifies the | Blood, Invigorates and Cleanses the System. veficial influence. Itis purely a Medic:=e as its cathartic proper- ties forbids its use as a be It is pleas- ant to the taste, and easily taken by child- ren as adul' PRICKLY ASH BITTERS CO a NLDRUGGISTS PRICE] DOLLAR} melee and Ravecel Crrr \ | | | ADVERTISERS ,can learn the exact cost of any proposed line of | advertising in pecan papers by addressing | Geo. P. Rowell & Co., Newspaper Adver 10 Spruce St, New York, Send 10cts. for eerie Gos SELTINE Sule SEWARD A A.HA PATENT SOLICITSR & ATP'Y AT LSA SPRINGFIELD, MO. {Associated at Washington. D.C. Cor Fequested. Inguiries answared free and pr YOU: all ages. earnings sure from the first start. Costly outit and terms free nothing to send us yous address and find out; if you are wise you will do so at once. SCHWENCK & OLDEAKER. Boot &Shoe Makers Boots and Shoes made to orde: fhe i avrac betwe best of leather used: | to a mutual arrangement between . 5 . |Ohio and Maine. if we were not as- Shop nerth side ot Square. 4g tf importance to be that will start you in busi- ness which will bring you in more money right away than anything efse in this world: one can do the work and live at home. sex, all ages | There ts anopmion abroad in the | | land that newspapers are seriously shocked hy ¢t aS Sis an withdrawal of ion ot | are some- vengeance has tailed wedding, and of course the coup t k & che >, » ha, > f. ; i Church ; wery happy and very affections es Oo their paper | = *Yes,"" said the husband, sini Sircaaie: the editor does not subscribe to some pet dogma of the church Trades nen frequently re- fuse to advertise their wares because { the editor has given expression to his views instead of their own. Not one of these gentleman but expects the work them througit sub-age fail to lear at least $ ated newspaper to collapse and hopestosee the recalcitrant editor berett of an occupation. But the | newspaper man goes nghton and the editor continues to speak his mind regardless. It takes not the patronage of a few hundred persons but of many thousands to sustain a newspaper, and a newspaper which | in the ability of its business and edi- | torial management equals or excels took eighte scriptive circ these we wish to ser i the agency 1 on the terms named in We would like to hav agents, sewing mac! itors and carpen- ters in the country, dask any reader of this paper who reads this offer, to send us at once the name and address of all such they know. Address at once, or you will lose the best chance ever offered to those out of employment t r aordinary « the address of all ‘the meoncy. Renner MANUFACTURIN 115 Saythfield St., Pittsburg, Pa. | its contemporaries finds little diffi- Soe {culty in winning the favor of the FOR | multitude. The politician who un | Mm ‘we JOU SYESS: MUR HEADACHE, CONSTIPTATHON, a buzz-saw. ae DYSPEPSIA, dealer who refuses to advertise ina | newspaper because it dissents from | his opinions gives his rival in trade | an advantage and does not after all at, | SUPPTess the utterance he condemns. ut) | —St. Joe Gazette. Mr. Blaine’s leaving the Indian Territory without going to see his | dying brother at Hot Springs, or even answering the telegrams sum- moning him to the death-bed ot Maj. John E. Blaine, was plain lly to prior engagements dertakes to ‘*get even’? by fighting his party Paper soon gets very tired of the undertaking and before the ‘fight is over realizes that he wrestling with canliveathome, ana make more money at work for us, than anything else in this world Capital nigtneede ed; you are started free. Both se Anyone can do the work Better not delay. Costs you H. Harriett & Co., Portland, Mane. owing ot a pressing nature. During his stay in Chicago he has been eon- tinually and ciosely closeted with Murat Halstead and other political potentates from distant cities and Mr Halstead is Sherman’s home orgar-grinder, but, as be tween Sherman and Blaine, holds the happy position of a mutual fnend who can be happy with either when t'other cear charmer’s away. His mission to Chicago might be sections. BUTLER, MO. suspected of having some retereace ; sured by the Chicago News that his and return itto us, and we will send you free, some- im} ambiti Grand o gusta, Maine. trip there was ‘‘only to lay in a new font ot burgeois type and get his whiskers trimmed.’’-——Post Dispatch. to be made. Cut this out thing of great value and The work of excavating a tunnel! under the Hudson river, between Jersey City and New York, which was suspended four years ago after haying been prosecuted a considera- ble distance, has just been resumed, and, it is asserted, will now be push- ed forward to completion. It wil] be remembered that the work was | suspended on account of a serious | accident—the caving of the arch of | the tunnel, by which the water of | the river flowed into the tunnel and | drowned several workmen. The excavation 1s through the hard blue |clay, which forms the bed ot the ‘river. About six feet advance 1g made a day, the roof being support- ;ed as the work goes on, by a heavy jiron plate, under which a thirty-inch brick arch is built. The entire length of the tunnel when complet- ed will be 5,000 feet, or something lover a mile. It is proposed to make 'ita means of entrance into New York for all the railroads running ito Jersey City. Any Either Something new, that just coins ey for all workers. We will start you; al not needed. This is one of the genuine, fetime. Those who are prising will not delay. idress True & Co., Au- free. ¢ blood, and atreng TLY HEDICINE, Thousanc MATCHLESS 600,000 Avarice. Sam Jones at Minneapolis. AUER ASTAINIVENGIINIES | | When you find a fellow who ‘thinks more ot his money than he | does ot God, the only thing lacking to ‘make him a hog 1s two more legs | and some bristles. Now you fellows have lived here for years and never had a drubbing until Sam Jones came around. I don’t care any more for rich fellows than for the most insignificant thing on earth. Empty worldliness and avarice. I’ve been to class meetin’ and heard ’em confess dancing and drinkin’, but I never heard one confess avar- IT 18 THE BEST MADE, LIGHTEST RUNNING,': QUICKEST AND SIMPLEST In the world- OUR MOTTO: BaFProtection in Territory. Bas-Perfection in Principle. Bae Popularity Univeral. NEEDLES. OILS AND PARTS FOR ALL MACHINES. 2a RESPONSIBLE DE ALERS AND AGENTS who wish to handle BEST a most ice. You talk of whisky. Shall I ayer Yara iculars te}; you avarice is the curse of WI ‘ \ \ WP ' this world. It you take avarice out M Hite EM b wv CUM " 7 of it, I’ll take hell out of it, too, tor g2i Olive Street, St. Louis, Mo. sa MENTION THIS PAPER. hell is nothing more than selfishness von fire. is the only woman I ever loved. shall never ever proposed to her.’’ a young man wh ing a pretty ner. blushed ; bravely. it were yesterday. picnic and she and 1 got wandering alone. dear:’’ tree. haye you?"’ with the point ot her parasol. recall it sweet, don’t you?” and I name to it. and wrote my name it! picious Way on a HOW HE DIDIT. | | he st ory Told by a Husband With aj A Man Who Holds the Poor Memory, { They were celebrating their silv forget the first time **How did you doit?’ burst out ohad been squeez- girl’s hand all laughed but the girl in the cor- and he it off They carried “Well, L remember as well as if It was way back n Maine. We had been out ona Don’t you remember my The wife nodded and smiled. We saton the trunk of an old You haven’r forgotten, love, The wife nodded again. “She began writing in the dust You The wite nodded again. “She wrote her name, ‘Minne,’ the other And Ttook the parasol Snuth—after said let me put ‘How tovely!’’ broke out a little maid, who was beaming in a sus- tall chap with a blonde mustache. ‘‘And she took back the parasol and wrote below it, ‘No, I won't.’ And we went home. You remember it darling. Isee you do.’’ Then he kissed her and the com- pany murmured wasn’t it pretty. The guests had all departed and the happy couple were lett alone. ““Wasn’t it nice, Minme, to see all our friends around us so happy?” “Yes, it was. But John that reminiscence !”’ “Ah, it seems as if it had been only yesterday.”” sentimentally, **Yes, dear; there are only three things you’re wrong about in that story.’” “Wrong? O, no!’’ “Jobn, I’m sorry you told that story, because I neyer went to a pic- nic with you before we were marri- ed; I was never in Maine life, and I never refused you.”’ “My darling, wronp!’’ “I’m not wrong, Mr. Smith. I have an excellent memory, and, al- though we have been married twenty-five years, I’d lke to know who that minx Muinnie- was. You never told me about her betore.”* I guess she’ll torgive him; but I don’t know if she’ll forget.—San Francisco Chronicle. in my you must be There is no danger to human life more to be dreaded than that which arises from yitiated blood. Dyspep- sia, rheumatism, headache, and gen- eral debility, all result from it, and are cured by the use ot Ayer’s Sar- saparilla. Take it this month. Six bottles, $5. The ne Office Boy. When the telephone was intro- duced into the offices of Christendom a great many men sent away their office boys and tancied that they could get on without them. But the office boys came back. Like truth crushed to earth they rose again and asserted their indispensable value. The office boy knows that ke is an autocrat, and while he may never presume upon his position outward. ly, he carries the signs of authority and of power aroune with him. He is tardy, he is lazy, he is forgettul, but he looks calmly into the eyes ot his reproving employer without flinching. He will stay torty-five minutes on a ten minutes’ errand and bob up serenely without thought If on his return his of an apology. vacation, he will stare and reply, “What, sir?’ with a well cul- tivated stupidity. If an office boy could be patented who would be warranted to take in, or at least smile at, all of his master’s jokes, this world | | nier spot.—Boston Adyertiser. tors or engineers, ed in classes, portance ; ger and treight; one class running ina specified di- rection have the right of the road, or need keep no lookout tor trains gf the same or a lower class running j the opposite direction. assumed that on a certain aati trains running eastward have a right over trains running westward, an east bound passenger train can run the whole length of the road in entire disregard of all trains; anoth- superior officer plucks up courage | to inquire it he has had a pleasant’ ot toil and trouble would be a sun- | THE TRAIN DISPATCHER. oe Life of Every Passenger in His Hand. ~~ -2- a Class of Iway em- the than ivdize more t of conduc- indeed that it Is strange Nie es are so seldom men- tioned in e public prints. This class is des train dispatchers, whose every order is implicitly obeyed by trainmen; and one while the crew of responsible for the train is movements of that train alone, the dispatcher holds in his hands the lives of every individual on every train on the road; and on a road having a large traffic the duties im- posed on him are very great and arduous. His position in the railway service is unique; were all trains running on time and provided for on the pe riodical time table issued by the company, he would have no duties to pertorm ; but trains will get de- layed and occasions will arise re- quiring extra trains, or out any specified time or nights, be run over the trains with- to road, and then his services are necessary to ayord hours of delay. All trains on railroads are divid- according to their im generally two, passen- and all trains of Thus it ¢ thef er passenger train going west need only to look out for the east bound passenger train, while the treight trains must kecp out of the way of both passenger trains and of the freight train which is running in the direction prescribed as having the right of road. all time given tor passing each station, which time can in that havea Every one understands trains are chartered, or be anticie pated, and hence all trainmen know where all other trains oughtto be at any particular moment, :f on time; butas trains frequently and generally get late, the train of no instance inferior class must have its movement expedited by some extr , or it may uting a train that may have been wrecked, or has ome other of the duties of ire of impor- 1 probably give an delayed train by tele- be delayed tor | been kept baci many causes. the tance. train dispatcher He order to the w graph directing it not to go beyond acertain place which he thinks it and he , train to proceed and there pass the other train, and in that manner the trains are enabled to pass each oth Hs that he may have other trains in his charge at the same time, and in directing one train to go beyond its usual place to meet another he may neglect to give an order to the second train, and in such an event a collision would probably ensue, property be destroyed and probably lives be lost It will readily seen that the slightest mistake of a train dispatch- er might cause serious results; and in this respect the responsibility 15 probably greater than that of any other individual under whose charge the public are placed.—Philadelphia Times. can reach without difficulty, directs the op ace to the same pl er without any delay toeither. great responsibility consists in a dozen much be There 1s a negro Centreview who had better stay there if he val- ues his lite, If he ever comes to Hol- den he takes his lite in his hands, | for we surely intend to kill thatcoon- | He is in the employ of Mr. Murray, | the muller, and when in Holden | | Tuesday he mistook Mr, Hiram Koontz for us. U! just let us getour .!—Holden Enter im | hands on that coon | prise