The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, December 14, 1887, Page 10

Very Lowest Rate Real l | Zs Organized Under the Laws of Missouri, THE " 43° g petie ee’ i L j TMC Which require that at least one half of the Capital Stock be paid up in Cash. This Company always stand ready to make the On Bates County Land. Makes and certifies Abstracts of Titl To any Land o1 ‘lo Lot oanty. Call on - PC. FU_KERSON OR GiO. CANTERBURY, - Managers, west side square, Butler, Mo. ‘ ¢ . ¢ e + #>--ofahts iron truth, if, * ooe€8 count labor worth more than gone » Tows to this coun /GENIUS IN ENERGY. ‘“@liammest wid Unceasing Labor the Golden Key tv Success. There is a positive gouius in energy. Many pooplo have yot to learn that the Purront tradition, that certain great Pharactors have wrought their great mess through inspiration alone, is a @o ion pure and simp'a There are no efvalsin any career so for nidable as Ge earnest, vigorous, de ermined | Worker, who reckons hours only as a | Possibility of ach'evoment. Literary ‘Mapirations may inflame tho s. ul of the ambitious as a thought of some great ‘mimo dashes like « metoor through “tho mine, and midnight may tind fhe -dreamer chasing the phantoms ‘of the «future; but otis Gabor alone that ytelds the perfeet fruit. I is possible to feel the weight ufter a scason of -attnless service, he turns to the pages Of -sumo enriest thinker, ponderins calmly over the result of ceaseless ant pationt delving in the mints of modi- dation, until from out his flinty tethar- zs the ;hosphoric flash of Sympathe thought yielling both fight and heat. Then flows th: wondor rt the grand stretch of beauty where before was dreary and was'e. -&us,"" said the sage of Caelsen. And ST. BASIL’S EVE. Curtoas Customs Observed by the Peo- ple of Rural Greece. Tt was St. Basil's Eve—ihat is to say, tle Greek Now Year's Eve, a very tvarked day in the period of th+ Twelve Davs, and one on which all make merry. The squald streets of Trkkala even looked bright as bands of caly-lres-ed children, nay, even grown-up young men, went round singing the Celand songs—Gre-k Culends, that is to say, which, though i is twelve days later than ours, came atlast. And on this, the eve of Calends, these banis paraded the streete, ench carrying a long pole, to the top of which was tie! a piece of Lrushwood, within which was con- cealed a bell, and 'o which wer. tied may scraps of colored ribbon. At each house the singers stopped. Tae | inhabitants came out to greet them and cff-r thom refreshments—fi rs, nuts, eggs and other food—which who carried a basket. | our ears v execedingly ugly, lon: chanted st Ss beginning thu-: *To- morrow is the feast of the Cireimei- sion of our Lord and the feast of the Diessed, great Busil.” I asked a priest whose acqnaintance I had made to copy down one of them, of Their songs to Eentlo Elia declared “labor is the Zoklwa hov to suecess"—Llustrated ¥ oe Moana "A General Overhauling. Dunley (at tho supper tabte)—Yes, Mantes, > Mra. Hendricks (the landlady) —Are syou having your tovth filled, Mr. Dum- ley? i Danley (struggling with a Steak) — Yes, ma'am; tilled and sharpened. — NF. Sun ee —A woman ot Jorse City, N.S. fecoutly brought home a 3 range egg -aa the souvenir of a trip, ant placed it ‘on the parlor taba Oi week afier eho was surprised to see a litile turtle “break the shell of the eg: and stowly “craw! out. ‘The hoat cf the room had Saiohod it. ———~ es ___. “ALT. Stewart used to say that the Ssocret of advertisine was to “compel peopte to remember your name." —H vine ex $8 o's -ar ighch are mof the staring ing dhetr own field hey say tha: tho Dink with iis sharp bIL KUL beh 6mall birds and those considerably farger than itself, and inflicts damage _ compl Aneric ining of he tnive toc r re lewinced por the grain fields H { Whave sp:nt most of the day at the { which the following is arough trans- lation: * From Casares came the holy Basil; Ink and paper in his hands he held. Cried the crowds who siw him coming, Teneh us letters. dear St. Basil. Ris rod he loft them for instra:t'on— His rod, which buds wth verdaxt leaves, On whioh the partridges sit Singing And the swallows make their nests. Jangle went the bell in the brush- wood— “the thicket,” as they call it— and out came the housewi e when the Saging was cover, her hands full of homely gifis, in return for which she was yr aented with one of the silk rib- bons from the trophy. This she will } for it will bring hee good lick. A od i after many good wishes for the coming } year the troupe removed on to another house. —-Geat'eman's Magazine. |}. —The German Governmont has com { pletely eraticated the Co-orade beetle, jor potato bug, from the fields of the j kingdom bv the timely use of poisons jan the tilling of the tracts of Incd on j which the pest had appeared. There is fae doubt but y energetic ; Measures in this ex : dues the same r at the matter thas been allowed to taps g until j the beecle has spr-ad throughout the icouatry. The ins-ct was imported into G-ruauy in eargocsef Americaa poia- H loca. — Chie g? Limes, were stowed away by one of the band | i keep the whole of the ensuing year; | pro- | i BEAU BRUMMELL. | Some Droll Stories Told of This Once Famous Individual. B-au Brummell, the gluss of fashion in his day, died in poverty at Cuen. Many droll stories are told of him. H: was once met limping on Bond street. Ou being asked what was the matter, he replied that he had caught a cold in his favor'te leg, udding: “1 left my j carriage yesterday evoning on my way to town from the pavilion, and the in. tidel of a landlor! put me in a room with a damp stranger." Meeting L dy —— at Ascot, he en- tered into conversation with her, on which sho expressed surprise that he 'should waste his time on se unfashion- nble a person, and begged him to think of the risk he ran of being son. “My dear laly.”” he repliod; “pray don’t mention it; thro 13 no one near us” The story of “Wates, ring the bell,”” Bowumell al denied, but it is after his quarrel with “ j the tee, on meeting His Roval | Hishues , who hid deo ec.uined to give him th: dead eu, Beummell turn <d to the freed he was walkiig wih, whom the Prince had aceos el, and coolly paskes: “Who's your fat friend?” Brummell o ce b-rro vet £509 from Po senticman. Some tim: afterward Vans leader pressed for the d-bt. on { which Braminell declarsd ho had paid | bi “Pad | when!" “Wher criel Brummeil, indig- JSaate why, whea i was 5 andiug {n the win .ow at White's ant said as | you passed: Ah! how do you de Tommy." —Detrot Free Press. General Grook’s Wifo. H The wife of G -neral Cro.k, the Indian | fighter, is rerard-disa public b-nef se. tor by the people of Arizona. It came | about in this way: She was traveling across the Territory by rail several |years ago. Horinsches hid been pro- vided by a city catersr, ant the most me!” sail the g:ntloman, sriking feature of then was the abundance of waterero+s. There were altovether too many er-ases to suit Mrs Crook's taste, and aecorl- lingly she threw them ont of the win- ladow. Bit she did nor disp se of hem [haphazard ‘The country is er ess ad by ‘innumerable bro k: Lit was onty jin passing them tha: N C-o°+k threw pout the superilacus er + They took root on the spo's where they f {eenltiplicd with mary leas } Tho result is thas to-dar (appetizer iste be found in }rarts of the Territory, where b-fore i Mes. Ccook’s cance sowin rit was en- ltirely unknown. —Lowisvilie Courier- Journal. state Loans, ILLEGAL ADVERTISING. ATimely Protest Against an Evil Prevall- | ing Everywhere. It avpears to ne that cert:in forms of vdvertising are growing illegally agressive. If I have a fence or wall i vilirg to bili-pestera, why am I come O. if 1 put up no warning sign, and find a board inviitg the pubic to pureh se their clath ng at “Cu chnen- nv’s ch ay cash stor"? why may Pnot tear «fF the unwarranted advertise- ment and throw it on the ground tn- stord of both-ring mvself to write to *Catechpenny' to remove it within a evriain time? Acrain. why has wy lampblack sheet with the — first chapters of such thrilling stories as “A Fre Fen." or “Chicago Crimes and Crimi sala," ete, tho right } to thrust itsif by doubles under my | doorways and into my front halls, to | pollute the pure minds of my little | children wi h its pictures ef bloodshed i ant thievery, and keep my dinner be- j luted by engrossing the time and at- tention of my illiterate but too literary | servant. Nor does the evil end here. | Mist I perforce sit supinely while some qiack doctor, vender of illegal wares, thrusts his nauseating hand- bills, tilled | with medical details and prurient suge | gestions, Inte my very house, where ! my innocent little girls, and my still uncontaminated half-grown boys na- | turally read and puzz'e, and ponder over them? Can a producer forcibly thrust his pr ducte upon an unwilling reepient? Do not my fence, my steps | my yard, my mail-box, my house be- long to me? Has any man a right to deface, or throw literary or other gar- | bage 0.1 the n?—Chicagqo Journal. _ Oo | —Tho paper: of the Ciuy of Mex'co are again agitating the question of | free printing paper, or at leastdemand aco 8 derable reduce icn in the present im: ortation duties on that article. It bas been clearly shown that tho pree- ent importation duties are such a bur- den as to make the publishing busi- ness unprofit:be in M-xico, and to entir-ly deprive the masses uf the peo- | ple cf cheap literature, _ A Story of Real Lite. Asmall boy was briskly s#voo ping the leaves from the sidewalk in front of his home when a benevolent-looking man who was passing stopped and nodded approvingly. “Good boy. good boy," he said, “helping his mother and doing his duty like a man. You will be rewarded, my son, never fear.” “You bet,” anawered the small boy, hastliug another lot of leaves out of the way; ‘ten conts down and a nickel and-credit feller to enny boly round this hous, I kin tell you,’” and he looked musingiy at a stray cat that was sneaking across tho strvet.—De- Wow Free Press, veled to putupa “posieno-bill”” notice? | Life of Cast-Iron Pipes. The wear by rastin aneoated enat. iron pipes ex eset the aetion of clean, fresh water on both sides is not more than one-sigath of an ineh ia three generations — With the proseart m ‘thed of protee ing sve pipes with Fasphaltum, the life of he ortinary east-iron pipe used in’ builling eon. struoctonmay be greatly prolonge 5 indeed, even an ordinary ng of coal-tar opich, when proper ae plied. is suffici-nt to all at leas a score or two of vears to its duvabicitv. The life of a soil pips even when quite thin wud uncoated, has b en fount by experience to be so great that itis not unreasonab’e to supose that the greasy maiter contained in) sewage serves to coat and oroteet the iron from the corossive :¢ ion of the water and the acid components of the sew age. ‘Tho defce's ant leakages moro generally met with in auch pipes are cars by the def ctive manner in which the joints ave mate. and jv. proper placing and securing. —Luston Budget. A Scientific Problem. The verv interesting scientitic fuct is given on the authority of the ‘Ad- vancement of Science," that when pro- ple are sick above the diaphragm they are optimistic, but when they are sick below the diaphragm they are pessi- | mistic. It is very valuable informa. | tion ard a most sugges ive discovery. ; When a man insists on being cheerful | hereafter you can account for it and | pity him; b's disewe has got the up- per hand of his diaphragm, and there are only two things to b: dune—sither {turn him over discreetly so that his diaphragm will siow above his ail- | ments, or injure him about the legs i until his pessimistic virtues are | sroused. It is one of th: cur'ous | features of the cise, going to prove the theory that gouty people are pes- simists wh le consumptives are always happy. — Science, for some strange reason, declines to detine the tem ern: ment of the man who has no ailments above or below the diaphragm. Per- haps he is sot acquainced with him. — Harlford Courant. es —*Men with co isiderable push to them can hear of perma ent employ - ment,” was the way the advertisement was worded, and some of the fastidi- ous applicants for a position nearly had a fit of apop'exy when told that the alvertisur desired mon to wheel coal. —An English lock-maker claims to have p-rfected a door, to be used in public buildings, that will lesson the chances of accident in times of panic or real danger. It can bu opened from the outside only by » key, but a slight pressure from within causes itto swing opes outward. gE nee rs Oe EL ROYAL JERSEYMEN, Very Bruce Bl-od Flowing in the Vetus Natives of the Mo-quite Btate, There seousto be om ot Taal i New Joreey. There are finikes, especially in) the ont! part of the § ate, whose ANCE AT been traced to the > neiont K ngs regular lines In Borlineten there is a whole r gooentof People seended from Mere ly, Ring Powis, in Wales There age Smiths, of L casi Siade, and D sw Santh, of Barlington. The Gum of Burlington and Morecr ¢ tuntlon, cluding William Gi mere 9 k own N owark lawyer, ard his fi Barker Gummere, one of the prominent corporation counsel ip country, can claim) common ir m this family. Elmund Moore, the author of A res E ough,” was anothor aut, and so was Mra Anna M HL wife of Rov. Marcus F. Hyde Barling on. Shippen — Wailaee, 8 rlington, who is State chemist New Jersey, and the terror of all skimmed-n ik dealers for gy around, is a desecndant of Jane L Scotland. The linenge in ¢ thr ugh the long lines of M irrays the Douglasos and thon tue 8 Mrs. Marka Wilts Collet, of Pat is alsv inc uded among the desoond: of the Stuarts through the Wall, family. Eglinton, the pretty village in mouth County, gets i's name from carlton of Eglinton. This title is merged in the caridom of Winbarn E:gland, but the Montgoneries the rightful heirs and trace ¢ descent from David L, King of Sod Jand, who reigned in 1124 ‘The Mi fomerys of New Jersey are nearly members of this family. John T. M fouery, who is the rc gnized he the bouse, both in Eorope snd Al ea, since the death of Sir Noil M gomery in England several years fas his armorial beariags carved thy facade of his brown sone r. side in Paila e phim Hs death is likely occur AL any moment. Margaret Mi fewery, of this Stae, married, m: dears ago. Jchn P. Siaw, a purser the United States Navy. The sae this marringe was Anne D. R Sh who subsequently became the wife Rev. Wilam H. Olenheiner, Episcopal B.shop of this B ate. B Olenhbel ver’s daughters ave Mra {ry Grubb, of Burlingtov, and | Brewater, of E zabeth.—Jreaton |.) Letter. 6 Poa jackets and k.lts skirie will worn by little girls the coming —_—-<- —A French travel: hae t oruy explored the Orinooo river, and that its sources are surrounded ' fan-shaped chain of wountaine, wi | he proposes calling the D range. — Arkunsaw 4 raveler. when tho job's done. I ain't no trust.