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one ink in a chain of twent John A. Letker & Co., Managers. Office on north side, over Steel's. We make a specialty of buying selling and exchanging farms, to property, or any kind of business i Missour:s and Kansas. Our office t counties-—nine in Missouri andl four- teen in Kansas—and intrusted to us will receive the the 1 ot any tion of every office i advisable. If you have either farms or town property, or stock ot goods ot any kind you want to sell or exchange, place it in our hands and we will find you a custo- iner. If you want to borrow money at liying rates we have it. We the agents forthe New England Trust Co. that has an unlimited amount of re estat are money to loan, and the fact that Gov. | T. T. Crittenden is its president 1s | sufficient guarantee that tairness and | hberality are its watchwords. Come and see us and have a chat these things and if we don’t Gd good we will do you no harm. GEO. E. CATTERLIN DEPUTY about you County Surveyor AND CIVIL ENGINEER, Orders of Surveys left with me will recerve prompt at- tention. Office East Side Square, over R. A. Atki- son's store. Butler Bates County, Mo. The BUYERS’ GUIDE ts fesued Sept. and March, each year. £9- 312 pages, 8}, x11), inches, with over 3,500 tilustrations — a whole Picture Gallery. GIVES Wholesale Prices direct to conswmers on all goods for personal or family use. Tells how to order, and glves exact cost of every thing you use, eat, drink, wear, ov have fan with, These INVALUAL GOUKS contata information gleazr: the markets ©: mall a copy F De I. C. West's Nenve axp Pray Trrat- MENT, a guaranteed specific for Hysteria, D) ness, Convulsions, Tits, Ne Neural Headache, Nervo: Prost f ofalcohol or toba Ww pression, Softening of tho J 5 i sanity and leading to. misery, decay and death, Premature Old Age, Barronness, Loss of power in either sex, Involuntary Losses and Spermnt- orrhcea caused byover-exertion of tho brain, self- 80 OF over-indulgenco, ntains Shemonth’s treatment. $1.00a box, or six boxes '$5.00,sent by mail prepaidon receipt of price, WE GUARANTED SIX BOXES Tocuro any case, With each order received byna 81x boxes, accomp: t with $5.00, we will tend the purchaser our written guaranteo to re. ilthe money if the treatment does notetfect teure, Guaranteos issned only by JOHN OC. WEST & CO, 862 W. MADISON ST., CHICAGO, ILLS., Sole Prop's W ver Pills, Uk your retailer for the Jam pans’ S3 Shoe. Caution! Some dealers recommend, inferior Mods in order to make a larger profit. This is the $8 Shoe. Beware of imitations which ac- ge their own lufertority by attempting to upon the reputation of the original lene Genuine unle: i} JAMES MEANS’ Org 23 SHOE. Made in Button, Congress and Lace. Best Calf Skin. Unex celled in Durability, Comfort & Appearance, A postal ¢: seut tous will bring you in- a how og on] this joe in any State or Territory. 41 Lincoln St, Boston, se UTTON Our celebrated facto: Of Shoes of this grade t World. Thousands wh Bion tt you ask them. 8 HOE for Boysts unapproached in Durability. Full lines of the above shoes for sale atler by. ees SAM'L LEVY & CO teceive free, cents and a costly box of goods which ill help all, of eithersex, to more mon- erightaway than anything else in the World. Fortunes await the workers ab- Mutely sure. At once addresss True} & o., Augusta, Ma‘ ie, 17-tyr* $100 A WEEE. Ladies ot gentlem n desireing pleasant rotitable employment write once. — © want you to hand N article of estic use that recommends itself everyone at sight. STAPLE FLOUR. Ser shot cake 0 percent Families wishi lice econemy should tor snefit write tor particulars. py) the year round in every household. ice Within reach of all. Circulars fr Wwonts receive mw AMPLE FREE. A fess Domestic W's € Ohio. rofits g te prac- their own Used every 48 6m. [eterna enere sre: SY GAPSILES A BE LN sath THS LATEST DISCOVERY. Re. Lanarie’s Preparation, Safe and Ro pensable to LADIES, cents for Sealed Circular. Bend MUMET CHEMICAL CO., Chicago, ons. Marion | | i SWEETEST BABY IN THE LAND EMBLEMS OF WAR. | an ho ure poor and | ical, carry work into the | where itis warm and comf + hot mindin sdov of the cows and goats, which they ¢ were in number ble morn- pigeon-towers H-stocked, of their Was When they descended for the or ates. ing meal upon sown nsider health- | ready their passage must | | over the land. Doves as Procipitators of the} The garden ter did all in French Revoiuti her power to keep the birds at home, feeding them night and morning, but like boys in the country they never The Keeping of Pigeons a Manorial Peivie | 5 oot they cet found lege—How They Preyed Upon the : ; aoe Property of the People the fruit much sweeter that they filched “Life for Life.* from the neighboring orchards, pre- PnP ferring that, although they might have all they wished for the picking within Doves, that are looked upon as em- | their own grounds. lems of j ¢, had much to de with The pigeons, then, pulled up the maturing the outbreak of the French | jewly-planted seed, gleaned among Revolution of 1789. epoch considered by the peas patricians, and they were hunted down and destroyed as ruthlessly as the aris- tocrats who had been the and owners of the beautiful The peasants had good 1 as you shall see Before the revolution every exstle, chateau and manor-hous¢ pigeon-tower - Doves were at that prot creatar sons for this, poss “colombier’” grounds; a square, rom stone tower with conical mounted by supposed to ing much m » cClumsily-carved ‘present a dove, but look like a As far back as the thirteenth century the colombiers are mentioned in the de- scription of historic chateaux, and in Brittany there are still ruins of thes: icient constructions. But the last buil were erected about one hundred 3 win Normandy the good preservation that the reyo- lution did not destroy. One hundred 1786, Captain de a company in the re Prince de Berghes that had just returned from service with the American in the war of Independence, built the chatean of Etretat that still exists and Auro, still in ago, that randval, € ve tain of ment of the my bears the above date with two miniature cannon — wrought in’ the iren cony, over the front entrance, thus marking — the time of the construction even better than the style of architecture. a stone’s throw of the ing above the s an octagon Within chatean, tower- ables and outhouses, is of the pigeon-tower Inilt same stone, hewn in the same nmeanner and without doubt was built at the same epoch. This pigeon-tower and chateau es- aped the fury of the revolution, per haps because they Ww valley only connected scenes of the outhr 1 country roads, which v tetis cable save for pass ui ron horseback, these ros i ul more than deep ruts win rhaps. [ say, saved the cha Captain, hav that had an, orit American colonies, may hs frater- nized with the people, thereby sa . his head as well as his prope tainly we find him in 1792 comm a battalion of N the same year promoted to be the Legion. Before the revolution the } pigeons was one of the man ral Guards ar and the possession of one of a claim to nobility. The one belonging to the chat undval or At is a good specimen of those constructed in the time of Louis XVI The exterior is octagon wi limestone facit covered with conical red-tiled roof, surmounted by a spire of head, about thirty feet from the ground, crowned with the traditional clumsily-modeled lead dove. A low doorway in the base is the only ¢ trance; and the only exit for the doves throngh openings cut in the shutter of a dormer window that pro- is jects from'the roof. The interior is round like a and the walls are lin me eight feet above the ground is a flooring with a nt reached Standing on this floor around, you cane: comb, for the walls are with innumer: or nests up to ap- I al manner, with two feet have a set up on end on the inst the wall entirely around Row after row, until the ached, rise other similarly plastered bundles of straw with the ends resting on the top of the arches of those below, giving the whole, as I the sheaves of corn, and scratched and tore the straw thatch upon the cottages of the peasants. The fields and cott: belonged to the Seigneur of the chateau itis true; but the peasants paid rent, and ifthe thatch was destroyed they must replace it, as the cottages were only newly-thatched At vy would not even the half once in twenty timust be paid or permitted to have estvoyed thatched root heads, and they depended ithe produce of their tields for tl of Crows hei 1s ) rent. uld be an spt away from th 1 wild birds « growing crops by rudely-mad: we-crows, but the Seign- ‘ pigeons soon grew famil- iar with stuffed old clothes, and took yore notice of them than they did the wisps of straw tied on sticks planted neav the road that all human p understood cs pri | ona sienh: 1, those : could Por tries the peasants had en- dared the raids of as one of for life ne tite of sant Lie f of ade This so roused the en- \ fo the farmers : , , r own p t is well as the ¢ al to arded by armed om wwe it from destruction. wen the revolution swept like sever I rance the arme f little 1; the cha t razed to the ground and the i cuard UX Were virds slaughtered. The emselves, hav litthe in ibustible, oft raped, and the + Thave said, towers s Dickens, when described yards all alone, witha roof and never used for any pur- ! at all.’ If Dickens had stopped his traveling-cx and examined he would probably have found the ground - floor used France, ge as a hen-house or pig-sty, but he would have seen no pigeons. The doves have departed. A few of t kind still remain; but ing flocks that in former days ended upon the neighboring fields rinitted to exi Al- *+y may not be the own- home the 1 the str fee nd he hire: and if he pigeons found eating upe ul with them makes a for his Sunday dinner he is lawfully right, {not in ds r of losing his farm, his libe or his head. —Henry Bacon, in Wide Awake. —_——_s ¢s__ Keeping Flannels Soft. The following method of washing flannels, if closely followed, will prove thoroughly satisfactory: Make a good sud by piece of ordinary yel- low soap in salt water: wash out the flannel in this, scrubbing as hard as is needed to remove the dirt, but taking care to rub no soap on the goods. If it is not clean enough from this wash re- the process. Rinse out in cl water. If the flannel is white ger amount of quired for cote | | | ton goods, as the flannel does not take | the color as readily. Hang the garment | to dry 1 ly y . and while still damp iron it. Wh flannels in this way will not become as yellow as if ws din the ordinary manner, | nor will they thicken to the disagree- | able fabric the This | method is especially good in doing up babies’ flannels, keeping them soft and | preserving the blue white tint that is so | desirable.— Detroit Tribune. | treated so often become. * EW LEASE OF LIFE. _When one has t a severe altac n suffering the agi eumatism, ne ief comes, it seem: > had been ,grai At Dubuque, Iowa, the-dru, lophoros beats them all. We would be like many other rhe! cines that have been put on th sell fora while then gradually sink out of our memory. But such is not the case with Athlophoros, instead of our sa diminishing they increase, and what m: us have more faith in its future missi thought it ¢ medi- 2 market, on is that our customers come back and praise its good work in the highest terms. Said one druggistto the writer: * My confidence is so great in Athlophoros that I often sell a bottle with the understanding that if it is not satisfactory I will refund the money. [ have never yet had to pay the bac -” Mrs. C. J. Alabeck, 1067 Clay Street, Dubuque, Iowa, says: “I waa sub- ject to frequent attacks of inflammatory rheumatism an} have been nearly all my life, at times L would be almost helpless. When I commenced with th Akagphorss I was carrying my arm ina ing, I could not move my fingers without causing me pain. One evening while snffering this way [ heard of Athlophoros. The next day I sent for a bottle. t was a little afraid of it at first on account of the buzzing sensa- tion it caused in my head, but it worked like a charm, the swelling and the pain were gone, my rheumatism was well. It is now a year and a half, and I have not suffered any since.” id Every druggist should keep Athlophoros and Athlophoros Pills, but where they can- not be bought of the druggist the Athlo- phoros Co., 112 Wall St., New York, will send either (carriage paid) on receipt of regular price, which is $1.00 per bottle for Athlophoros and 50¢ for Pills. For liver and kidney diseases, dyspepsia, in- digestion, weakness, nervous debility, diseases ot bived, &e., Athlophoros Pills are unequaled. Women, constipation, headache, impure u $25,000.00 IN GOLD! WILL BE PAID FOR UCKLES’ COFFEE WRAPPERS. AAG 1 Premium, + $1,000.00 2 Premiums, - $500.00 each S Premiums, - $250.00 “ 25 Premiums, - $100.00 “ 0 Pre - $50.00 ‘ 2¢ iums, - $20.00 ‘‘ 1,650 iums, - $10.00 * ull particulars and directions see Cirew ery pound of ARBUCKLES’ CorFEE. os SPREE ER’ WANTED es free) i tor BR, SCOTT'S beutiful ELECTR GGRSETS, BRUSHES, BELTS, ETC. No risk, quict errito ct wtuon sunr- antees Di adway, N.Y. MANY LAMP CHIMNEYS ARE ofiered for sale represented as good as the Famous PEARL TOP BUT THEY ARE NOT! And tike ali Counterfeits lack the Remarkable LASTI OF THE GENUIN ASK FOR THE PEARLTOP And Insist e upon eo CHIMNEY Pat.0ct. 80 , 1883. xe PEARL TOP is anufactured ONLY by PITTSBURGH. PA. THE ONLY TRUS IRON TONIC Will purify the BLOOD late th: ! and pe LIVER “cE RIQMEV Ec ‘TH. Dyspepsia, Wan’ i of cure of eczema or salt rheum I deem it advisable to give you a detailed ac- count of my ease, and as there is, and always will be a prejudice against advertised remedies, you have my consent to publish this testimoni- al, and all inquiries, by letter or in person, I will cheerfully answer. I do this that people who xo on year after year paying out large snms of money to incompetent physicians and Teceive no cure, or even relief, or end in Mili apremature grave, as Was nearly my case, ni be induced to make trial of the wonderful Cu cura Remedies At the age of three months a rash made its appearance on my face. A phy Was call- In returning miraculous uanks to you for almost my ed, he said teething was th scribed some cooling medicine, spread tom was calle use, he but the sores ad. Another M.D to know all about Evil,’? and. pr and lard mix) se continued. Th Another pre- , Water and flour; another lin. None of t pre- ears and bh c l gunpowder, b into a salve, but the could not do anyth scribed hora seed poultices 1, but made ed nnabates laid i mdid me any good t spread to my up entirely, atal ll, and had to we My hair had all r ted down or fallen off, and my head, f ears were one on my he eo fies of cab, and Thad to havea towe 1 all the time inthe summer to keep My const he mentioned were of a.) he said a promi- ent physici ther pl ans before Dundas and Hamilton, ¢ could do nothing for me it, vr that lt would and kill mein time. He want- ed tocut the pws of my legs so that Peould walk, ould not let him, for if rT would have no control of them disease continued in this manner until Iwas 17 years old, and oneday in January, 1579, in the Chicagg Tribune, I read an secount of strike inwar Idid get ur medicines. They described my ease tly that I thought, nem a trial When L first applied the Cuticura, [ was all faw and bleeding from scratching myself. but when I applied it I went to sleep almost imme- diately, something I had not done for vears the effect was so soothing salast resort, to Active and intelli- Wanted--Woman piv airesentes- tablished business in own locality Permanent position and good salary. References exchang- ed, Gay Mfe. Co., 16 Barelay St,, N.Y kage, 25 cents, makes 5 gallons of a de- ous, sparkling, temperance beverage. Strengthens and purifies the blood. Its purity and delicacy commend it to all. Sold by all druggists and storekee) EAFNESS cn SU y most of the not- Cureb himself enetit in three months and since then hundreds of . Full particulars sent on application. T.S. PAGE, No tl West New York. Weak Lungs, Asthma, Indi naustion. Combining the most cines with Jamacia Ginger, it exerts a cura- T over disease unknown to ‘other remedies, Weak Lungs, Kheumatism, Female Complaints, and the distressing: are dragging their health by Itis new lif gists sand Bowel ould recover Beautify Your Homes. /JOHNSTON'S KALSOMINE READY FOR USE. White and choice colors. Chea chen wail paper or oil paint. Parii HM sarfaces and kills germs of disease. Any one can use it. IT IS THE BEST. G Medal and Highest Awards, Beware of imitations. If not for sale in your town, send for sample card and prices. Dry Kalsoming and Fresco Paint Works, 25 & 27 John 8t,, Brooklyn, N. Y. OH! MY BACK, MY BACK! RELIEVED IN ONE MINUTE. Aching backs, hips, and sides, kidney and uterine pains, weakness and in’ mation, rheumatic, neu sudcen, sharp and nervou colds and strains relieved in one that new, original, elegant and tnfallibie oO pain and inflammation, the Cuticura Anti-Pain Plaster. 25 cts. ; 5 for $1; atall drug- giste or Potter Druz Chemical Co., Boston. ute > BOOKS FREE. detective stories, Home Cook and Doctor Boo! how to make poultry pay, and Robinson Crusoe, these 4 books sent free, on receipt of 4 cents each ‘or postage, with agency also our paper Home, Farm and Facto- ry. 3 months on tri ry For W cents we will piace your address in our Agents’ Directory, which will bring you edd books, papers, letters, cirenlars mples, &c. Heirert Per. Co., 46 Emile Bleck, St. Louis. he chances were | vo Was deaf twen- | Ml eT Fca CA qolbe frst morning after using it my desk (i Wad no skin only on the end of my nose) wa i color tday it was kind of white, could place my hands on the sores without it being painful. “In about two weeks 1 could stand straight, but mot welk, | was se weak, but my sores were nearly well, Then 1 con” menced the use of Cuticaura Kesolvent, and in three days | was worse than ever. Lo was one mass of pimples from the topof my head to the soles of my feet Were painfal In from twe asmall scale. the skin pure and and as nearas lean judge Iwas cured in about six to eight week nd up to this date (i.e. from January, 157 uary, Iss7) I have not been sic or have had the least signs of the reappearing on me Ihave an excellent appetite, have the very best health. My limbsare straight, supple and stro have’ been exposed to all sorts of Weather without the least signs of the disease yet The only difference [ find myself js that my skinis finer, softer, and not so liable te get chapped a r persons o dou ons Will not believe this would not do just to four daysthey b whi rstand le n dropped off and left way, almost improbs tory, many Ww nk it grossly exaggerated, Idon’t blame them a bit if they bu satisfy themselves they can call or write tome and find out if what} have written above is try There are WaNy persons who cant the wonderfui ire T have received ticura Reme- ntlemen, let me again t vou my 2 Dearborn ih. Jant MoDONALD Nothing is known to seience ble >the Cuticura Remedie ntheir marvelous properties of cleansing, purifying and beatify- ing the skin and in curing torturing, di at all compara ing, itching, scaly and pimply eases of the skin, sealp and blood, with loss of bair Cuticnra, the great Skin Cure and Cutieurs | Soap, an exquiste Skin Benutitier, y fron fula very where Cuticura, Socents; cents; Resolvent, $1.00 Prepared by tter Drug and Chemical Co , Boston WF Send for ‘How to Cure Skin Diseases,’ 648 pages, 3 illustrations and 100 testimonials | KASKINE (THE NEW QUININE.) No bad effect No veadache No nausea No Ringing | ow emerging from Darkness, A POWERFUL TONIt | that the most delicate stomach A SPECIFIC will bear MALARIA, | RHEUMATISM, }NERVOUS - PROSTRATION, \ and all Germ Diseases FoR | COLDS KASKINE HAS BEEN FOUND TO BE ALMOSt A SPECIFIC. Superior to | quinine | wellevne Hospital, N.¥., ‘Uni y suc | cess ul?” j lier, 620 Kast Isith etr by Kaskine of extrem after seven » from 175 pr une 1886, We work in one his fall weight in six months on Kaskine in | month, regain | Quinine did him no good whatever. Mr. Charles Baxter, architect, 135 Kast 156th street, New York, was cured by Kaskine of | dumb ague in three months after quinine treat | Ment for ten vears | Mrs. J Lawson, 141 Bergen street. Brooklyn, | was cured of malaria and nervonsd spepria of | many years standing by Kas’ ine, the quinine | treatment having wholly failed | Rev. Jas. L Hall, Chaplain A Peni- j tentiary. writes that Kas his | wife, afier twenty years suffering from nerv- | ous dyspepsia | Letters fromthe above persons, giving fall | details will be sent on application | Kaekine can be t&ken without any spectat j Medical advice. $1.06 per bottle. 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