The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, December 21, 1887, Page 10

wM. E. WALTON, J M. TUCKER, PRESIDENT, SECRETARY. WALTON & TUCKER INVESTMENT COMPANY. MONEY ALWAYS ON HAND TO LOAN ON REAL ESTATE SECURITY, At Lowest Rates of Interest and on Time to suit wishes of the Borrower. We have a large amount of Eastern Money to Loan on THREE or FIVE Years Time at Low Rates and Furnish The Money at once Without Delay or Uncertainty. We keep on Hand at all Times a Large amount of Money to be Loaned on Time from SIX months to FIVE YEARS, and allow the Borrower to pay part or all eny time and stop interest. Parties wishing to borrow either Large or Small amounts for a few months or for a serm of years should call and see ug, a8 we can FURNISH THE MONEY QUICKLY And on as good terms as it is possible to be obtained in Missouri. We also have A COMPLETE AND RELIABLE ABSTRACT Of Title to all Farms and Town Lots in Bates County. WALTON & TUCKER INVESTMENT CO. KANSAS PROHIBITORY DECISION. The Supreme Court Says a Man May Drink Himself or Give Away Liquor. A Topeka special to the Chicago Inter-Ocean says: That the supreme eourt on Tuesday handed down an opinion in which it decided that any person the lawful and bona fide pos- sessor of intoxicating liquor may use as he see fit; he may drink it himself or give it away, but he can not by avy shift or device in selling or giv- ing away lawful evade the provisions of the statute prohibiting the manu- facture and sale of intoxicating liquor. They also hold that a per- son can not be convicted under sec- tion 16 of the prohibitory act of 1881 for keeping in his house, store, or warervom thereof, intoxicating liquor for his own use or giving away, if it is done honestly and in good faith, and not as a shift toavade the pro- visions of the act. The decision was rendered by Chief Justice Horton, all the judges con- _ @urring. The case came up in the supreme court on an appeal from Miami county, and the decision of the lower court was reversed. It seoms that a shoe dealer named Standish, of that place, had been in habit of sending to Kansas City and purchas- ing beer and whisky for a number of parties, they drinking it in the back end of his store. He, however, de- rived no profit, direct or indirect, from the dispensation of the prohibit- ed beverage. Notwithstanding this fact, he was indicted by the federal grand jury, under section 16 of the prohibitory law of 1881, charged with keeping a place where intoxicat- ing liquor was dispenced. He was convicted in the lower court, and the cage was appealed, the result being a reversal to-day. William's Australian Herb Pills. If you are Yellow, Bilious, constipated with Headache. bad breath, drowsy, no ite, look out your liver is out of > One box of these Pills will drive } all the troubles awaf and make a new being of you. Price 25 cts. qty Pris & Crumry, Agents. Must Do It. The St. Louis Republican con- tained the following special from Lebanon, Mo. Avery ably contested mandamus Proceeding was terminated in the court here this morning when Judge Wallace delivered a lucid and comprehensive opinion sustaining the petition and ordering a peremp- tory writ of madamus toissue. The suit was instituted by James T. Brad- shaw, editor of the Rustic, against the judges of the Laclede county court, anda writ of of mandamus was prayed for, compelling the court to carry out the provisions of the statute, by publishing a detailed statement of the receipts and ex- penditures of the county, which the court had failed to do. Hon. G. W. Bradfield, attorney for the court, made a hard fight to sustain their position that the law does not require a detailed statement and is not man- datory. Judge Wallace in render- ing his decision held that section 5,390 and 5,391 of the Revised Stat- utes are mandatory, and left no discretion with the county, and that a compulsory writ would issue to compel the county court to publish the statement as prayed for in the relators’ writ. The court submitted to the man- date and will not appeal. The Butler Trwes came to us last week in 12 page form. The Truss is one of our best and most lively ex- changes.—Foster News. To those who have been won‘er- ing what had beeome of the Sabine Pass railroad project, the following letter from,President James will ex- plain matters. K. C. & Sabine Pass R.. R. Co. New York, Dec. 8, 1886. Mr. J.G. McPzax, Dear Sir:—I came east several weeks ago on busi- ness for the company and have been expecting to return to Kansas City almost daily for the last two weeks. I now find I will be detained here about a week longer, when I will re- turn to Kansas City and in a few days after will have occasion to be down in your vicinity. We have not given up the plan of still doing something on construction this win- ter, and if the weather doesn’t prove too severe, continue work right along into next season. Very Truly Yours, H. M. James. —Foster News Don’t Experiment. You cannot aftord to waste your time in experimenting when your lungs are in danger. Consumption always seems at first only a cold. j Do not permit any dealer to impos: upon you with some cheap imitation iof Dr. King’s New Discovery tor Consumption, Coughs and Colds, but besure you get the genuine. Because he can make more profit he may tell you he has something better or just the same. Don’t be decieved but insist upon getting the genuine, which is guaranteed to give reliet in all Lung and Throat affect- ions. Trial bottles free at all drug stores, large bottles $1 CHRISTMAS Don’t FRANZ BERNHARDT, NORTH SIDE [| JEWELER, CHRISTMAS. Forget A RUDE AWAKENING. sng fair, or beauty rare— her, nothing less; To be with he: 2s happiness Three-ply. i | | { i { | Of course she knew, she was not blind; She saw my p) and she was kind | And good: | For when I asked her if she'd wed Achap like me, she blushed, and said She would O, then the summer quickly flew Till the time came to say adieu One night. She promised when I went away That every single biessed day She'd write. But her first letter drove me mad Almost, with wild despair, for, sad To tell, ‘This lovely maid. for whom I yearned So longingly, had never learned To spell. —Vowrnal of Education, THE SOUTH POLE. ‘What Has Been Done in tho Way of Antarctic Exploratioas. It must be admitted that the South P..e has been left pretty much to freeze unnoticed in the midst of its native cold compared with the inces- sant attention which for more than three hundred years has been be 8 owed upon its rival. difficult toaccount for. Antarctic re- gions lesd to nowhere. No north- West or northeast passage to Cathay and the riches of India has ever here claimed urgent solution. Uati the peuple of Australia with the restless ac ivity of Europe—a event of vester- day—the South P ile had only sav ges for its nearest neighbors, and the nearest of these some thousands of miles away. No great continents spread their fringes far over its icy borders; no huma. being, so far as we know. struggles to find a home among the ice-bound seas and islands) From the North Pole as acenter, on the other hand, stretch outwards the historic lands of the world; and the habitations of men approach it to wi hin afew hundred miles. No wan- der, then, that the one has attracted Scores of expeditions, while the at- tempts toexplore the other could be counted on one’s fingers. If we look at the north and south po-ar maps in Sticler’s atlas, it will be seen that the former within the sixtieth parallel is crowded with land, while in the corresponding area of the latter there are only a few in- significant patches amid a world of ice and water. That lands of great extent do lie between 70 deg. and the South Pole is generally believod among geographers; but this belief is only founded on conjecture. The enormous blocks of ice—quite unlike the irregular Arctic borgs—that come floating northwards could only, it is thought, be formed on a great area ofland. At the same time the “Great Southern Continent,” which attracted the earlier adventurers towards the Antarctic, and inthe maps of last century spread its arms far north into the Pacific, has long ago been proved 3 myth. Although various attempts were made in the seventeenth century to penetrate southwards, the first who crossed the Antarctic circle was Cook. This he did on January 17, 1773, when, in about 39 deg 30 min E Jong., he reached as far south as 67 deg. 15 min. Next year he sailed along the whole southern aspect of the Pacific and as far south as 71 deg. 10 min., but met with nothing there in the shape of 8 ‘Southern Continent.” Mist of the work of explor- ing of the south polar regionthas, how- ever, been accomplished during the present century. Early in this cen- tury the American whale fishers dis- covered the South Orkneys, and Palmer’s Land, which lies just on the Antarctic circle, to the south of Cape Horn. In 1819-21 the great Russian navi- gator Bellingshausen considerably ex- tended our scanty knowledge of this ice-covered region. Not far from the meridian of Greenwich he penetrated southwards to 69 deg. 25 min., when the immense masses of ice com- peled him to turn. Ninety-two deg. further west he got as far south as 69 deg. 33 min. and was still met by ice. bound seas. On the same day, however —January 22, 1821—in 90 deg. 46 min. west longitude and 68 deg. 27 min. South latitude, his perseverance was rewarded by the discovery ofan island 4 200 feet high, which he named after Peier the Great; and a week later, al- most directly south from Cape Horn, in 68 deg. 43 min. south latitude, he saw laud of great height, which seemed to him to be a cape belonging to a great continent, and which he named Alexander Land. The land was completely locked in ice, and in the sea itself there wasno sign of life. In 1822-24 Captain Weddell, in two tiny vessels, succeeded in bringing home a great mass of valuable infor- mation on the metcorology, the occan currents and the magnetism of these Tegions, and was able to penetrate further south than any former ex- plorer, reaching 74 deg. 15 min. (about one thousand miles from the pole) in 83 deg. 20 min west long. Here he found the sea free from ice, and expressed the belief that it would be an easy matter to approach much Bearer to the pole. In 1831 Captain Biscoe found Ender- by Land. just on the polar circla in And this is not | S * DU deg. east, and next year Adelaide | Lud, evidently a continuation west- ward of Palmer's Land. already known, and Graham's Land, subee- quently d scovered. south | from the southern point of America Next vear, to the east of Enderby Land, Keinp discovered th: patch to which his name is at ached. In 183839 Baileny cruised about ia th» neighborhood of the Antarctic cir cle to the south of New Zealand and Australia, discovering a few patches on the eirele, one of which, in 118 deg. 30 min., ie known as Sabrina Laid About the time that Balleny | was pursuing his discoveries, a French expedition under Dumont d'Urville, and the famous American expedition under Wilkes, were doing battle with the ice in the same quarter. In the beginning of 1838 the former gave the name of Louis Philippe Land to a north- east extension of Palmer's Land, with heights rising to between 2,000 and 3.000 feet. Two years later to the south of Australia, in the region ex- plored by Balleny. D'Urville added two other patches to those already known, which he named Adelie Land | and Clairie Land. At the end of March, 1839, Wilkes, with one of his | four vessels, got as far south as 70 deg. to 100 deg. west, not tar from Cook’s turthest. In January of next year, starting from Sydney south- wards, Wilkes approached Adelie Land. and sailing eastward as far as 98 deg. east found acoast girt by a wall of ice 150 to 200 feet high, behind which were mountains rising to a height of 3.000 fect. Wilkes traveled over a stretch of 1,500 miles, and es- tablished the probability of almost continuous land all along the circle, increasing the likelihood of the exist- ence of a great mass of land in these regions. Moreover, the observations made by Wilkes and his officers were of the greatest value to science It was mainly to fill up the absolute blanks in our knowledge of the ter- restrial magnetism of the South Polar regions that the British Government sent out a well-equipped expedition under Captain James Ross, the dis- coverer of the magnetic pole of the north. The expedition, which includ- ed on its scientific staff Dr. (now Sir) Joseph Hooker, sailed in the two famous and unfortunate ships Erebus and Terror, and started from Hobart Town in November, 1840, to attack the formidable barriers which had baffled so many previous expeditions. Into the history of this famous expe- dition we need not enter. Suffice it to say that in his gallant attempt, directly south of New Zealand, Rose came upon land in 71 deg. 15 min., which he fol- lowed for nearly eight degrees further, its character and features amply re- warding all trouble and suffering. South Victoria Land was found to have an active volcano (Mount Erobus) 12,- 400 feet high, and an extinct volcano, a perfect pyramid of snow (the Ter- ror), rising even higher. Other great mountains cover this land of perpetual snow and ice, and far beyond the wall of ice two hundred feet high, which barred all further advance, mountain peaks were described, all covered with ice. In the beginning of 1842, east from Victoria Land (161 deg. 27 min. west), Ross reached his highest, south lati- tude 78 deg. 9 min. SO sec., further ad- vance being stopped by a wall of ice, but unmistakable signs of land being discovered. On the opposite side of the circle, in the beginning of 1843, amid the groatest difficulties and dap- gers from the ice, the two plucky ships | penesratea as far south a8 71 deg | $0 min. in 14 deg. 50 min. west tude. The gains to all departments of science made by this expedition were | enormous; it may be regarded as one | of the great glories of our country, | The Challenger just got beyond the i j circle in 80 deg. cast in 1874, ang j found an open, navigable sea aL though its contributions to a know} edge of ice forms and Antarctic biolo- gy are of high importance, it was not the business of the expedition to seek for new lands. Any new expedition to the Antarotie should be planned with the greatest | care. It should be remembered that all that has hitherto been done has been with sailing vessels; now that we have steam the task of exploration should be much easier. It would be absolutely necessary for a party to winter at as high a latitude as possi- ble, and two vessls at least would be required. —London Times. THE LIMEKILN CLUB. Advice to a Brother Who Is About te Change His Residence. “Will Moses Jumbo Comebuck please step this way?" asked the presidont, ; as the meeting opened. Brother Comeback, who has been a very quict but deeply interested mem- ber of the club for the past fow yeara, advanced to the desk, and Brother Gardner continued: “Moses, Il’arn dat you am onde pint of removin’ to Ninoy?" “Yes, sah."’ “You will take your certificate "long wid you, an’ you will keep your mem- bership wid us jist the same; an’ any time you kin raise money ‘nuff to take 8 freight train an’ cnm up an’ see us you will find a hostile welcome.” “Yes, sah—Ize much obleeged, sah,” replied Moses, as he wiped a tear from his eye. “An’ now I want to say a fow furder words to you,"’ resumed the president, after a solemn pause. “You am gwine to cut loose an’ sail in de com- pany of strangers, an’ dar’ am a few things you would do well to remem- ber: “Remember, dat a lawyer will work harder to c’lar a murderer dan he will to convict a thief. “Romember, dat a naybur who of- fers you de loan of his hoe am fishin’ ‘round to secure de loan of your wheel- barrer. “Remember, dat you can't judge of de home happiness of a man an’ wife by scein’'em at a Sunday-skule pic nic. ‘Remember, dat while de aiverage man will retarn de k'rect change in a business transackshun, he'll water his milk an’ mix beans wid his coffee “Romember, dat all de negatives of de best photographs am retouched, an'de wrinkles an’ freckles worked out. ‘ “Remember, dat society am made up of good clothes, hungry stomachs, deception, heartaches and mixed grammar. “Remember, dat people will neber stop to queshun de truf of any rumor or any seandsl affectin’ your charac ter, but it takes years to satisfy em dat your great-grandfadder wasn't pirate an’ your great-grandmudder de leadin’ gal im a fifteen-cent ballet. 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