The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, February 29, 1888, Page 2

The Farmer and the Tariff. “What are the prospects of farm- ers in your state?” “Well, they are pore. Never so pare, in fact, sence I’ve ben’ there. Folks wonder why boys leave the farm. My boys left so as to get protected, they said, and so they went intoa clothing store, one of "em, and one went into hardware, and ane is talkin’ protection in the legis- stare this winter. They said that farmin’ was gettin’ to be like fishin’ and huntin’, well enough for a man that has means and leisure, but they couldn't make a livin’ at it, they said. Another boy is in a drug store, and ‘ke man that hires him says he isa weyal feller.” “Kind of a royal castor feller,” I aaid, with a shriek of laughter. ‘We waited until I had laughed all I wanted to and then he said: <T’ve always hollered for high tar- —f in order to hyst the public debt, bot now that we've got the national debt coppered I wish they'd take a Tittle hack at mine. I've put in fifty years farmin’. I never drank licker im any form. I’ve worked from ten f eighteen hours a day, been eco- womieal in cloz and never went toa show more'n a dozen times in my ‘Tife, raised a family and learned up- wards of 200 calves to drink out of tin pail without blowing all their ‘ittles up my sleeve. My wife worked alongside o’ me sewin’ new seats in the boys’ pants, skimmin’ walk and even helpin’ me load hay. For forty years we toiled along to- gether and hardly got time to look tnto each other’s faces or dared to stop and get acquainted with each ether. Then her health failed. Ketched cold in the spring house, prob'ly skimmin’ milks and washin’ Pans and scaldin pails and spankin’ batter. Anyhow, she took a long breath one day while the doctor and me was watchin’ her and she says to me, ‘Henry,’ says she, ‘I've got a ehance to rest,’ and she put one tired, wern out hand on top of the other tived, worn out hand, and I knew she'd gone where they don’t work all day and do chores all night. I took time to kiss her then. I'd Iseen too busy for a good while pre- “ious to that, rnd then I called in the boys. After the fnneral it was - teemuch for them to stay around and ent the kind of cookin’ we had te putup with, and nobody spoke up around the house as we used to. ‘The boys quit whistlin’ around the bern and talked kind of low by themselves about goin’ to town and gettin’ a job. “They're all gone now, and the erow is four feet deep on mother’s gravemp there in the old berryin’ ground.” ‘Then both of us looked out of the ear window for a long while with- ont saying anything. ~T don’t blame the boys for going inte something else long’s other kings pay better, but I say—and I say what I know—that the man who Kkeldsithe prosperity of this coun- try in‘his hands, the man that actu- ally makes money for other people tte-spend, the man that eats three geod, simple, square meals a day and goes to bed at 9 o'clock, so that future generations with good blood and cool brains can go from his farm tto the senate and congress and the White house—he is the man that gets left at last to run his farm, with mobody to help him but a hired man and a high protective tariff. The farms in our state are mortgaged for for over $700,000,000. Ten of our western states—I see by the papers —has got about three billion anda half mortgages on their farms, and that don’t count thechattel mortgag- es filed with the town clerks on farm machinery, stock, wagins and even -<rops, by gosh! that ain'ttwo inches Ibigh under the snow. That's what tthe prospect is for farmers now. “The government is rich, but the men that made it, the men that fought Pperarie fires and peraries wolves, and Injins, and potato bugs, and + Glizzards, and has paid the war debt and the pensions and every- ®hing else and hollered for the un- ion and the republican party and everything else that they was told} fo, is left high and dry th's cold wwanter with a mortgage of seven Kallions and a ha!f on the farms they have earned and saved a thousand | times over.” | “Yes; but look at the glory of sending from the farm the future president, the future senator and the future member of congress.” “That looks well on paper, but what does it amount to? Soon asa farmer boy gits ina place like that he forgets the soil tha’ produced him and holds his head as high as a hollyhock. He bellers for protec- tion to everybody but the farmer, and while he sails around in a highty tighty room with a fire in it night and day, his father on the farm has tokindle his own fire in the morning with elm slivvers, and he has to wear his son’s lawn tennis suit next to him or freeze to death, and he has to milk in an old shawl that has held that member of congress when he was 8 baby, by gorry! and the old lady has to sojourn through the winter in the flannels that Silas wore at the riggatter before he went to congress. “So I say, andI think that con- gress agrees with me. Damn a farmer, anyhow!” He then wentaway. Bru Nye. No-Man’s-Land. The strip of country known as “No-Man’s-Land” is 159 miles long by 34} miles wide. There are 10,000 people living on it. It contains a number of villages and stores. It has belonged tothe United States for thirty-eight years, and yet during all that time has been a neglected orphan, without federal or territori- allaw. This strip of country has the most fertile soil and a climate free from the extremities of heat or cold. Lynch law rules supreme. Offenders are caught and shot promptly on conviction. One who has recently been in No-Man’s-Land says. “For all these years it has remain- ed ‘No-Man’s-Land,’ in fact, for though it belongs to the government and is public land it has never been made subject to entry, nor las the United States even ever extended its laws over its territory. There is no officer who can arrest a man for crime committed in this territory, no court which could try him if he was convicted. March 30, 1886, it was attached to the internal revenue collection district of Kansas for the collection of the special tax on the sale of tobacco and liquors. Some of the dealers in the strip pay this tax, others do not. There is no au- thority that can punish the latter. The government has established postoffices and postal routes in the strip, but if a postmaster should embezzle the funds or should the mails be robbed within the limits of this territory there is no court be- fore whom the offender could bé brought for trial. The merchants do a strictly cash business, as, of course, no debts contracted there can be collected.” No title can be obtained to lots or land in all this country because of the neglect of congress. The peo- ple in this strip are industrious and peaceable, but they occupy an ano- maious position. They are within the government, but not of it. They | are compelled to fall back upon na- ture’s laws and take care of them- selves. They do this occasionally with vigor. Hard characters are given short notice to get out, and they get. The condition of this strip is sim- ply a disgrace to our government and illustrates that weakness in our system which threatens the nation. Politicians, too busy with small schemes to attend to public busi- ness, of no business habits or quali- fications, neglected the people's af- fairs shamefully. It is now propos-! ed to incorporate No-Man’s-Land with Oklahoma into a territury, give ita regular territorial government and extend the protection of law over it. This should be done prompt- ly. Itis probable that No-Man’'s- Land will get into the union asa state sooner than Dakota, with its |; 600,000 people. which has been a territory nearly thirty years.—Chi- cago Tribune. Itch, Marge and scratches of every kind on human or animals cured in 30} minutes by Wooiterd’s Sanitary Lotion. | Our Young Men. When a young man looks forward into life and tries to imagine what position he will occupy twenty or fifty years hence, he is lost; when he reads of this one, hears of that one or sees another who started on his level having attained position, power, eminenee, he has hope, but how often is that early spark ‘per- mitted to smoulder and die and he remain during his natural life just where his first hopeleft him. There is a vast amount of climbing to be done by an ordinary farmer’s son if he would attain an exalted position in after life, but it can be done and hundreds of thousands may and should try it. it ean be done only as the mountaineer climbs, step by step. As by moments we add days to our lives, so item by item we add to our knowledge, and it is the well drilled and well filled mind that makes the man. One need not be deterred by the magnitude of the effort, it is not to be made by one gigantic stride, but as little drops of water and little grains of sand make the mighty ocean and the beauteous land; one by one, little by little, step by step, day by day. An aspiring energy is necessary to begin with, this with inspiriting influence of a noble and lofty ambi- tion to give zest toindustry, continu- ity to perseverance and will power to ever and always hold to the one aim and purpose of life and few need fail. All things have a begine ning therefore begin. Patiently, un- wearyingly work on, upward, onward climb. Out door physical labor gives health and fits both body and mind for effort, and by the avoid- ance of the enervating habits and oustoms of the day, the fullness of the stature of the perfect man may be reached when full of years and vitality, and be crowned with glory and honor. The jug goes to the water until it breaks. That neglected cough may rack you until it breaks down the entire system and consumption is fastened onto you. A sure cure is is found in Warner's Log Cabin Cough and Consumption Cure. Two sizes, $1 and 50c. A Double Killing. Muskogee, I. T., February 21.— News has just been received here of a double killing near Mayesville, Flint District, Cherokee Nation. Jeff Smith, a United States Marshal, together with a posse of 3 or 4 men, went to the home of John Smith on last Saturday for the purpose of arresting him on a charge of larceny Just as Marshal Smith reached the house of John Smith the door was thrown open and John Smith ap- peared with a revolver in his hand. Both men fired simultaneously and each shot proved fatal. Jeff Smith was shot through the heart and expir- ed almost instantly, while John Smith who was shot in the forehead, lived only a few minutes. There is great excitement in and around Maysville, as both men were well known. The two Smiths were no relation. DON’T let that cold of yours run on. You think it isa light thing. But it may run into catarrh. Or into pneumonia. Or into consumption. Catarrh is disgusting. Pneumonia is cangerous: Consumption is death it- selt. The breathing apparatus must be kept healthy and clear ot all obstructions and offensive matter. Otherwise there is trouble ahead. All the diseases of these parts, head, Nose, throat, bronchial tubes and hings, can be delightfully and entirely cured y the use of Boschee’s German Syrup. If you den’t know this already, thou- sands and thousands of people can tell you. They have been cured by it and “know how it is themselves.” Bottle only 75 cents. Ask any druggist. 4-Iyre ow. At the special congressional elec- tion in the Upper Michigan peninsula republican mine-owners practised the most outrageous bulldozing. The mine foreman, stationed at the polls, inspected each miner's ballot as it was presented, and tore it up if it was democratic. In the Champion mine alone 600 men were driven to vote against their own | candidate; but in spite of such meth- | ods, on a square fight for and against protections, the republican majority was reduced by over 7,000 and the This never taiis. Soild by W. J. Lans | down, Butler, Mo. 11-6m¥ state promised to the democrats in November.—Mo. Rep. A thermometer has been invented | with clock work attachments which | keeps a register of the weather for | eight days for every hour in the | time. ITCH, MANGE, and SCRATCHES, } ot every kind on human or animals cur- | ed in 30 minutes by WOOLFORD’S SANITARY LOTION. This never tails. Sold by W. J. Lanspowx, Drug- geist, Butler. Mo. 8- m. Florida has surpassed California this season in the number of visit- ors. There has been over 60,000 visitors in the state this winter. Americans do not have to go to Eu- rope for climaticreasons. They can be suited in their own eountry. Ruhematism Cured. W. K. Powers, 2933 Thomas Street. St. Louis, Mo.. states: Ballard’s Snow Liniment cured me ot Rheumatism of 4 years stands ing. I bless the day when I was in- duced to try it. Lord Tennyson—the lord adds no distinction to his name—is said to be in feeble health and never takes his pen inhand. He has done his best and done it grandly. Let him alone. He has made his place; it is firm. William's Australian Herb Pills. If you are Yellow, Bilious, constipated with Headache. bad breath, drowsy, ne appetite, look out your liver is out of roder, One box of these Pills will drive all the troubles awaf and make a new being of you. Price 25 cts. Aliv Pyre & Crumty, Agents In the east and in Europe the su- perabundance of women over men has become a problem. A London item says: “The question to be solv- ed in Brittain at present is what to do with the vast army of young ladies of good family who are look- ing for employment. Husbands are scarce and genteel work is at premi- um.” Ballard’s Horehound Syrup 1s the best remedy for Consumption, Coughs, Colds and all Throat and Chest troubles. Every bottle is guaranteed. It is the best remedy for children. A Dream Causes a Suicide. Hannibal, Mo., Feb. 15.—Snowden Holmes, a farmer living near Madie sonville, Ralls county, committed suicide yesterday by cutting his throat from ear to ear just after finishing a hard morning’s work splitting rails. He had abad dream Saturday night which had so prey- ed upon his mind that his reason was dethroned. The “Blaine Gang.” In our opinion it is the resolute purpose of the Blaine gang in- side the republican party to put their man, loaded as he is with scan- dals and knaveries, again in nomina- tion; and they have our warmest wishes for their success. We think they will succeed, and that this de- feated aspirant in four presidential campaigns will be sent to his ever- lasting rest under the heaviest load of popular disfavor ever visited up- on the presidential candidate of a great political party.—Washington Capital. WHAT Is —— SCROFULA It is that impurity in the blood, which, ac- cumulating in the glands of the neck, pro- duces unsightly lumps or swellings; which causes painful running sores on the arms, legs, or feet; which developes ulcers in the tions usually ascribed to “humors;” which, fastening upon the lungs, causes consumption anddeath. Being the most ancient, it is the most general of all diseases or affections, for very few persons are entirely free from it. “ree CURED It Be By taking Hood's Sarsaparilla, which, by the remarkable cures it has “Every spring my wife and children have been troubled with scrofula, sores breaking out on them in various places. My little boy, three years old, has been a terrible sufferer. 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