The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, January 18, 1888, Page 1

V OL. X. ‘ NOTICE TO TEACHERS :—Public Ex- sons for the benefit ot those per- ring to teach in Bates county, be held on the 3d Saturday of each inthe Ohio street school house, fer, Mo., and on the 1st Saturday of month in the West side school house, ch Hill, Mo., the examination com- cing each day at 9 o'clock, A. M, W. W. GRAVES. County School Commissioner. fw. E. TUCKER, DENTIST, BUTLER, MISSOURI. WEDNESDAY JANUARY 18. 1888. ( Advertisement.) LOCAL OPTION COLUMN. —_-—-2-—— Sayings of Sam Jones. “The next I’m going to talk about is the sin of intemperance. My! My! When we talk about that the hori- zon widens and the field broadens until we say we need a lifetime on that one proposition. And let me say to you young man, old gambler, mark what I tell you! ‘Tramp, j LER, MISSOURI. > OFFICE OPERA HOUSE. Lawyers. BADGER > LA ,. in all courts. led to, Office All legal business over Bates Co. Na- ARKINSON & GRAVES, - ATTORN:YS AT LAW. Office West Side Square, over Lans- ’s Drug Store. “PJOLCOME & SMITH H LAWYERS . BUTLER, MO. Office front room over Bates Goenty National Banx. W. SILVERS, e | ATTORNEY : LAW Will practice in Bates and adjoining owaties, in the Appellate Court nt Kansas \ee cus the Supreme Court at Jeffer- : wrice North Side Square, ov: 9 McBride's. scare re 5 Phvsaicians. | §. R. BOYD, M. D. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, \ :Orrice—East Side Square, over Max Weiner’s, ig-ty Butier, Mo. eS DR. J. M, CHRISTY, HOMOZBOPATHIU PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, /\Office, tront room over P.O. All call: \newered atoflice’day or night. aii ;Special attention given to temale dis- cases. T C. BOULWARE, Physician and e Surgeon. Office north side square, Butler, Mo. Diseasesof women and chil- ren a specialtv. , ]\, DRS. FRIZELL & RICE. | -PHYSICIANS, SURGEONS AND ACCOUCHEURS. Office over their drug store on North Main street, Butler, Mo. " — Secret Soctetres. ctr re sr: Butler Lodge, No. 254 jo. 254, meets the first Saturday in each mone A Miami Chapter Royal Arch Masons, nated meets second Thursday in each nth. Gouley Commandery Knights Templar | 4 meets the first Tuesday in each month. 1.0. 0. F ELLOWS. Bates Lodge No. 180 meets every Mon- night. da Butler Encampment No. 6 meets the and and ath Wednesdays in each month \Cockle’s siitcs Pills. - Thisold Engiish Family Medicine in use for 86 years all over the world, tor Bile, Ind gestion, Liver, &c. , Of Pure, Vegetable Ingredients. From Mercury. THOROUGHBRED . Poland China Swine, EITHER SEX. hus For Sale by 23 Miles West of Butles, Mo. DORN & PIERCE—BARBERS. Shop on North Side Square. : tramp, the boys are marching,’ 60,- 000 a year into the drunkard’s grave, and every barroom in Kansas City and America are but the offices of hell to fill up the graves of our poor drunken boys. [Applause.] God help us to see it. Ifthere is a man upon earth that has got aright to cry out upon this subject, I am that man. Hear me, my countrymen on this question. Ihave got the right to speak out. In 1869 I went to the state of Kentucky and there married a rosy cheeked, beautiful, Christian girl and carried her to my own state. I was then just admitted to the bar to practice law and in three short years after she came to my home, O, how it was blighted, my life and my home! In that time God sent a little angel to my house who was all of life to me; and that little cherub staid there for nineteen months. Many a time in my sober moments I pressed her to my heart and blessed her that she was the infant of my loving wife. My dear wife had lost the companionship of a husband and during those dreary hours God was kind enough to giveher alittle angel to sleep in innocency by her side. And often I have gone staggering into that cheerless home. But God took her to himself before she was two years old and if Iever get to that bright world I will hunt her up, that precious little cherub, and be- fore the hosts of heaven I will beg her pardon for ever staggering into her presence. I drank on until I saw the light fade out of my home. I saw the roses fade out of wife's cheek, and at last, a poor hopeless wretch, I wandered, with but one friend in the world, and that was wife. I have waked up at midnight and found her kneeling at my bed as she cried out: ‘Great God, save my husband; great God, redeem my husband.’ And if I had another friend in the world at all it was my father. Poor man! I broke his heart literally, but thank God for that day in August when I was call- ed up to see him die. He caught hold of my hand and squeezed it in his bony hand and said to me: ‘I am about to go home. I want to say this to you; You have given me more trouble than all my children.’ I can hear his words to-day: ‘Prom- ise your dying father that you will meet him in heaven.’ I staid there and mustered up all the courage of my nature, and said: “Yes, father, I will, I will, and glory be to God. I will start toward the good world one of these days. A poor drunk- ard saved by grace, I will enter the pearly gates. Don’t drink boys. In three short years I conquered the "| appetite that haunts me until this day. That appetite ison my track day by day. ‘to say to you, and it is the saddest | tite. you feel like rushing up this after i Though I have been a | of a husband by the arms and drags preacher for sixteen years, yet I want |thing a mortal man ever said, I shall | the bloated wretch and kisses him | never consider myself saved froma i and prays God: ‘Have mercy on my | | drunkard’s grave until my wife kiss- poor, drunken husband.’ Why? Be- | of those petitions and you've got to !es my cold lips and Iam home for- ever. God save me from that appe- | has been poured right into her heart Intemperance! intemperance! 1 | I may be rough, and I may be ex-| we preachers need is sympathy for | J, 11. ALLISON, | travagant, and I may be harsh, but | our fellow men. [Applause.} so 3m | my heart gushes out like the flow of | |a river, toward every poor drunkard | he connected with the liquor traffic. a | that walks this earth. I know how |fapplause.] My God! How the e) z ive special attention to Ladies and Ehildren's hair cutting. We keep | best of Barbers, also grind scis- | 7° and razors. Everything first- | noon unto Him who is able to save | Methodists, with Baptists, with | | Now, sin isadisease. Ihave seen Jase. All k | it doing its work. I've felt its pow- call, TE Staranteed. Give ie. ‘The blind influence of sin is | hell sure t he Butler Weekly Times. NO.8 |such that a man can scarcely | perceive its effect on the community. I hear it said on the street, ‘I don’t | like Jones’ exaggeration,’ My broth- er, wherein have Iexaggerated? On what point? Have I said anything about the bar-rooms, anything about CLOSING OUT! ungodliness in the church which isn’t true? You'd have tarred and feathered me and burned me up in the streets if I'd told a lie about you in t-lling about your meanness. EVERYTHING GOES AT COST \ aaa {Laughter.} I’m doing work for God, and as God is my judge, if I set such an example to my family of death and hell as some or you do I'd never walk in the streets where I could be seen again. It’s time to call a halt. - % * While sin is a disease let me press the question more practically on the heart and conscience of every man here tonight. The worst thing a man can commit in this world is to sin deliberately against his own con- science. If you sin when your con- science bid you beware it isa stab at your own life. And some are here to-night who have no more con- science on the question of morals and right than any brute walking in the streets of your city. Conscience- less! That man will curse around all day and go home at night and sleep as sound as any hog down in the stock yards. (Laughter.] My God! where is such a man’s con- science? I used to act mean, but I never acted mean that I could sleep that night. Yet some of you sin against God and humanity and sleep like a hog, and eat like a hog the next morning. And some of you church members sit with your heads upon your pews like one of the saints of God waiting for the wings to put out so you can fly to glory. (General laughter. ] A boy begins to dissipate and go down. The mother follows that boy down, and down, and down to death, and even into eternity with her sym-} pathy and prayers. She does it be- cause a little of the nature of God is poured right into her heart. Take the wife. She married the man of her love. Her husband be- gins to dissipate and drags his wife and children down, and down, and down. = = * If there’sa thing in the world I I have a quarrel with its the whisky business. [Applause.] If it drag- ged down men only I might tolerate it. But when it drags down women and children, and I see a poor little ragged child have to face the world and say, “my father is a drunkard” — that is a scene to makethe devil him- | OVERCOAT Everything goes ping your hands don’t own anything! (Laughter.] What curses, curses, curses on the man who rents his property for the liquor business, for a gambling hell. You are arrant, accursed, high-headed fools to doa thing like that! [Sensation.] I don’t care how big a man you are, you are a hypocrite of the first water. I don’t care what church you belong to, if you shirk around and do such things you are contemptible hypo- crites. ° : But that ain't all. I've got an- self hide his black face under his | other quarrel with you. [Applause.] wing and weep with horror. [Ap- A member of the church, who plause.] signs one of those infernal petitions to have liquor sold isno better than a bar-keeper. [Several voices: ’Amen.’] Why is every fellow here not slap- ping his hands? Because he’s writ- ten ‘hell’ when he signed his name to that petition. If Iwas a pastor in this city and found one of my members had signed such a petition I'd turn him out and bust up the church if it was necessary. [Ap- plause.] You pastors go down and look over your list, and you'll have to bust yourself or bust your list of members. You Christian people, I How a man can preach in a city debauched by whisky without say- ing something about it is a mystery to me. Here is a poor, pale-faced woman, toiling and working, making shirts at 60 cents a dozen. There is enovgh real burning communism in shirts at 60 cents a dozen to burn this country up some day, mark what I tell you. [Applause] She goes out to the gate and catches her poor, besotted, drunken, vagabond him into the house. She bathes his | fevered, bloated face, and leans over | got the power to put on the brakes on the liquor traffic. [Applause.] Old fellow! Your name is on one get down and pray God to forgive you or go to heli for it. {Laughter applause and amens.] You{may put | cause a little of the nature of God | {and she clings to that man. What | | sear it and burn it to and cier before d I would sign one of those things. | I've said these things by way of pa- irenthesis. {Laughter.] They don't | | You can not be a Christian an church in America is cursed with Presbyterian owning property rented | °¢- IfI were you, when I went | for the liquor traffic. You'll go to|home I'd get down on my knees, {Loud applause.] Now | stick my head under the seats, and i S, WINTER SUITS, WINTER PANTS, Our firm changes March 1st, and until that time we will sell all winter goods at cost and be glad to get it.. UNDERWEAR, FUR CAPS, CLOTH CAPS, LINE at cost. some of you fellows who are slap- | crawl out the back way! (Laughter and applause. } A Methodist in this town told me that they'd been to him a hundred times with every inducement to sign one of those infamous peti- tions and ‘I'll die before I do it.’ I like him. If I ever wanted a partner I'd take him in. (Ap- plause.] I wish I could geteome of you brother Methodists, brother Baptists, brother this-or-that, to tell me why you signed that petition. Some from pure cowardice. [Ap- plause.}] * * * Some sign be- cause it’s your neighbor. And when you get in hell, jumping around on the waves to escape the flames, just tell "em you are thereas aneigh- bor! [Prolonged laughter and ap- plause.] Brothers of the ministry! | Brothers in Jesus Christ! March the church on to victory. That is what we want. JApplause.] No staggering, drunken, ruined wretch who walks the earth can point his | bony finger at me and say on the | judgment day, ‘there goes a man ; Which damned me.’ It's wrong, it’s wrong, it’s wrong to sell. And if it’s wrong to sell, its wrong, it’s do believe the chureh of God has | Wrong, it’s wrong to sign a permit (Applause.] Well, if they | | can’t get you to sign it, your wife | She owns the property (Laughter.] If a fellow | would insult my wife by asking her to sign such a petition as that I'd ride him all over town, I would. | ‘ : | (Laughter.] Now some of you say! my hand in the fire and scorch and: Pita has quit preaching and has | gone to talking politics.’ I've found | out this much: you don’t want me} to talk about things that hit you. | Break a drunkard’s jug and he'll go | Preach against belong to the sermon, but they be-) profanity and the profane man will | long to some such hypocrites as you | to sell | will sign it! | anyway. | home and curse you. go who signed a permit to sell the stuff home and say how vulgar he is. ; Listen, brother of the church—| ONTHLY SICKNESS. every member of every church on} the face of the earth, you've got to (stop and reconcile Jesus Christ and | D GLOVES. We are extremely anxious to sell all these goods and will make prices which can- not fail to interest you. Now is your time for Genuine Bargains: Yours RespPrecTru.y, AMERICAN CLOTHING HOUSE. the liquor traffic or work and vote against it till ye die [prolonged applause] and I smell some of you from where I stand now. I used to be a democrat, and stayed one as long as I thcught any Christian gentleman could. [Ap- plause.] But you old republicans needn't be Leary, a I never got low enough downto bearepubliean.” The crowd let itself loose and ap- plauded again and again. “God help us to wake up on these questions,” continued Mr. Jones. “[’ve got my conscience on fire, and I'll never close my mouth till God says ‘enough, come up higher.’ If there’s but oneman to stand up for broken-hearted women and ragged children, I'll die ina pool of biood in front of their doors before I'lb shut my mouth. God deliver the church from the pusilanimous spirit. which has characterized it in the last. century. I thank God for the hon- est grips of the hands of noble mem and women in Kansas City as they said: ‘Go it, Jones! Go it! I pray God to keep me from @ drunkard’s death. I ssy God hel me from taking the second drick an so help me I'll never take the firs6. | one. i aecULATUL ee S38 A SPECIFIC FOR Wortan's [JIsbases -—-stCH 2a— | | i \ | ainfal —— creed i rofase canty and ate i ENSTRUATION or