The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, October 9, 1889, Page 6

Water Works. Tnags.—There has been so mush said in the papers and on the si upon the water works ques- h in an effort to make the senti- ment in favor of the pending propo- sition unanimous, some of which is so far froma calm statement of the facts, which should characterize all discussions upoa a question of so much importance to the city and to all of its.citizens, as to create in the minds of some a suspicion that those who engage in this have more inter- est in the adoption of this proposi- tion than simply the good of the city. It has been recently said in our spicy daily that if this proposi- tion should be defeated no other proposition could be submitted under > the law until the expiration of two years thereafter. I have heard those who ought to ' know, and who I think do know, say there is no truth in the statement As the editor of the Daily Democrat dims to bea member of the bar and professes to be advised whereof he speaks, it would not be either kind or courteous to accuse him of ignor- ance on this question. If not ignor- rant why the statement? The papers say one of the great benefits which will be received by ‘the city if we adopt this proposition will be the inducements which will thereby be offered to manufac tories to be established here. If that isan object then why did ‘not our board of aldermen require Mr. Dewey to state in his proposi tion some reasonable rate at which | he would furnish water to such in- dustries? As the proposition now is would “not any and every person who would engage in any new industry in our city be completely at the mer- cy of Mr. Dewey, or the corporation to whom he expects to assign his franchise if the proposition is adopt- ed? Another argument used is that we will have a supply of water to sprinkle the streets. If this is an object why then was not Mr. D. re- qguired in his proposition to furnish the water at least as cheaply as it could be hauled from Mound branch? Some one has said that having the water he will be compelled to dis- of it cheaply or he could get no sale and therefore no profit. If this is true and isa sufficient an- ‘gwer then what was the use in hav- ing rates for any purpose stated? Everyone who has had any experience } in business knows this is not true. It might be said of a railroad com pany that it would be compelled to haul freight and passengers cheaply + er it would not get any business and Mthewic”. there is no reason why the - fegislature showi?- proscribe a tariff ‘of rates. Yet ali experience has dem- onstrated the necessity of maintain- | /$ng control of these creations of the | lew. Can it be that the fact that the | Butler Lake& Park company in which | it is stated at least three of our city - fathers have stock, has reserved ‘Gn its charter the right and power #to furnish water for manufactories, , had anything to do with the failure to require Mr. Dewey to give a cheap ‘rate to manufactories in his water _ jworks proposition? The Lake & ark companies articles of associa- _ fon are recorded in book 88 at page } 3 311 in the recorders office. | It issaid that the other proposi- ions for water works that went be- ore the board of aldermen had me- tates and manufacturing rates . | “S\ewspapers say the board : sitt considered all the proposi- ore it. If this is true tnen _¥ the failure to have manufacturing or {meter rates stated was not simply an oversight. There are so many ‘thi remarkable about this propo- ‘ition that it does appear to me the board of aldermen should at least have invited friendly criticism of its Wovisions by an interested public stead of excluding the citizens fom the room where they had a le- right to be, and in secret session upon the very night upon which ‘this proposition was submitted so ommit. themselves as they felt and to adopt it. Who would like |» oiock_ Xo have his front gate open instead | “¥ upon his sidewalk into areservoir d with water,as wide as the street | -@nd_as long as the block in which he Or who would enjoy having children while at play in his d or when they-go to school pyour yarns at the Postoffice. to be compelled to pass under the shadow of a stand pipe one hundred | and ten feet high, ever as a menace | to his property and to the lives of his family? Will any one read sec-! tion one of Mr. Dewey's proposition and say that in so far as it can be done by the board of aldermen the right has not been given Mr. Dewey to put both areservoir and stand pipe as well as his other machinery upon any street in our city? How is this for careful considerate action. It | can not be said that this was put in by accident and not intended, for it | has been given out by Mr. Dewey | that the ordinanee from which this was copied was drawn up by zou Jackson L. Smith, who knows the} force and meaning of every word he’ writes, and who writes nothing sim-/} ply by accident. I have heard it said) as an excuse for this, that the board of aldermen could not grant the| such — purpose. it try to do it? this right, it | sed the board | streets for If so why did Having is not to be would ever ivy to Then who would prevent the any grauted opus its ac-| tion. exercise by Mr. Dewey or his assigns of this right? I asked a lawyer about this and he said that nocitizen could prevent itunless le should suffer special damage in consequence there of which was not common to all cit- izens or the public. He told me al- so that it was well settled in law that no one in law could be damag- ed by that to which he consented. Therefore does it not follow that every one who votes for this propo- sition gives his consent that Mr. Dewey and his associates may put in upon any street in Butler a reser- voir, stand pipe and all other neces sary apparatus for furnishing water to the city? If he votes for it he consents to it If he consents to it he is not inlaw damaged, and if he is not specially damaged he can not preventit. Will any intelligent man disputes either of the premises or the conclusion that fol lows? ahove These are a few of the many objections that can be raised against the proposition before the voters of our city. To point out all would be to take more space than would be allowed me. DEvIBERATION. how A circular is being distributed throughout Texas signed “John | Wanamaker,” which promises a post office with every suit of clothes bought of John’s agent in that state. | The circular is said to have a gen- uine appearance, and while if genu- ine it is probably the work of some subordinate, it is_perfectly in keep- ing with Mr. Wanamaker'’s way of doing business. It is by no means sure that it is not the sole work of his brilliant mind. Post offices would be cheaper premiums for him than Waterbury watches or chromos. —Sedalia Bazoo. Patronize home institutions. Buy County Meeting, The Annual Ce-Operation of the Christian churches of Bates couats, will be held in But- ler, MONDAY NIGHT, TUESDAY XND WED- NESDAY, OCT. 14-16, 1889. PROGRAM: Monday Night» 7:30 0’ Clock.— 5 Tuesday Forenoon ; 10 o'clock, ra sermon—G. A Hoffman. Devotional exer ) Led by, —1 of Nevada. 10:30—Address of Welcome, Dr. W. E. Tucker, of Butler. Response by W. S. Mahan, Adnan. 10:50—Enrollment and ap tees. ll o’clock—Paper, “How to succeed.” . __——— Martin, of Holden, Adjournment, AFTERNOON SESSION. ointment of commit- By Dr. 2 o'clock—} Devottonal exercises, le rw ot ses, led by W ‘ &. Miller, F 2:30 o’clock— + Report of Executive committee \ and Treasurer. Five minute talks on the condition of the work in the county, 3:15 o'clock} Address of — Landerdale, on ‘ Developement of Christian Character, to’clock—i Adjournment, ’ NIGHT SESSION. Devotional exercises, led by S. W. Webb. Sermon by J. B. Wright of Appleton City; sub- ject, “The New Testament conception of Missionary Work.” Pledges—G. A. Hoffman. WEDNESDAY FORENOON. 9:30 o’clock— Devotional exercises. Reports of commuttees. 10:15—Discussion. ll oe H to supply them—led by J. R. Price, Le beck, Mo., 15 minutes, W. B. Miller others, 10 minutes each. AFTERNOOD 1 SSIUN, 2 0" Uniinished business. =I 2:15 o’elock—Sunday School Work. 7/85 PY | Sup'ts., Allen Wright 15 mass! Bro Judy of Virginia aad otn@® BUCS) each. cs el | 2:45—Hoew can we best bola cere at sprituality of cure ee d ed ee A. Hoffman, 30 mi 14 Rants : Wright and QSSION. Sermon. | in hand to write you a@® Words.”— | Boston Herald. | with 4unkenness)—“You must pay a | lock—The needs of .he church and how/¥Ou must go fine. "—Topical Times. | , asked one married lady of another. | “Can I manage a type writer? I | | Should say so. I made three leave my | husband's office within the last two | months and the last is so homely that. | John is almost afraid of her. The man- | | agement of a type writer in anart, but Ive got it down fine."—Merchant | Traveler. PERSONAL AND IMPERSONAL. —A Burlington (Iowa) man who had been reporter, editor, sheriff and chief of police by turns was bunkoed out of $5,000 the other day, and in a manner (that would hardly have caught an idiot. —Colonel John T. North, familiarly known as the Nitrate King, recently gave a bali at the Hotel Metropole in London which cost $40,000. But the | Colonel could afford it, as he is-worth about $60,000,000. —The late Isaiah V. Williamson, the wealthy and charitable Philadelphian, was a most eccentric man. He was reserved, silent, abstracted, careless in his dress and utterly indifferent to conventionalities. The umbrella which he always carried was thirty years old at least. —Lord Balfour, of Burleigh, is a di- rect descendent of Robert Bruce, and has in his family archives a deed signed by that monarch conferring upon one of his ancestors the title toa small estate at Clackmannan, which has ever since remained in the posses- sion of the family. —The late ‘Larry’ Jerome was at one time driver of a stage coach, and later edited a country newspaper. When he first appeared on Wall street he exhibited great courage in his dealings. His fortune at one time was estimated at from $6,000,000 to $10,000,000, but was only a modest one at the time of his death. —John Banvard, who entertained and instructed the last generation with panoramas, is living. in humble circumstances in Watertown, D. T. It is said that General Fremont vouches for the truth of Banvard’s claim that he originated the idea of a canal around Island No. 10, by which the capitulation of that rebel stronghold was compelled. —Mr. Asset—‘“‘Excuse my mention- ing the matter, sir, but as you are pay- ing quite close attention to my daugh- ter I feel it nothing more than right I should ask your intentions.” Mr. Nickel (displaying a large caliber Colt’s navy—“‘To blow the head off that snarling bulldog of yours if he is not chained when I call at the house to-night.”"—Epoch. —A strange scene was enacted a few days ago ina Boston restaurant. A well-dressed man entered and called foraraw egg and a glass of sherry. His order was filled, the egg broken into the glass and drank. In a few minutes the order was repeated, and the egg and sherry followed the first order. For seven hours the man sat at the table and kept on drinking eggs in sherry until he had consumed twenty-four. He then paid his bill and quietly left the restaurant, appa- rently none the worse for his gastro- nomic efforts. ——_‘re “A LITTLE NONSENSE.” —Mr. Fangle—‘“‘Well, I see they have organized a milk trust now.” Mrs. Fangle—‘“‘I suppose the next thing will be to build crematories.”— Drake’s Magazine. —Rural Beef.—Farmer's wife—““Why do you get up and leave that piece of steak?” Tramp—‘I didn’t ask for work, ma’am; I asked for something to eat.”—Burlington Free Press. —Trumble (on Labor day)—‘“‘Are the men who march at the head of each company the walking delegates?” Laborer—‘‘No; thim gintlemin what rides in kerridges are th’ walking del- egates, sir.”—Munsey’s Weekly. —Clerk—“There, sir, I call that a pretty good-fitting pair of trousers.” Farmer Stubblefield (from Wayback Junction)—‘They feel all right in the seat, Bub; but, seems to me, they don't fit very snug under the arms.” — Life. —Kentuckian—“‘Sir, I come of he- roic stock. My father, grandfather and great-grandfather all died with their boots on.” Octogenarian hang- man, at the other end of the bar— “Fact, sir; I hung ’em myself.”—Phil- adelphia Inquirer. —In the Intelligence Office.—“I am afraid that Ishould not be willing to trust my baby to so small a girl” Clerk—“Oh, madam, her size igs her best recommendation! If she drops the baby, it won't have so far to fall.” | —Fliegende Blatter. —Mr. Newrich (to his lately 9 quired typewriter)—“I want yam to write me a letter on that " sting you've got there.” Type*Titer— “Well, sir. How shall it bat?” Mr. Newrich (dictating)—«I #X€ my pen —Mr. Shawmut.“I understand, Miss Kakrus, tha there was some- thing in the natu? of a personal alter- cation between jOUr escort and young Mr. Outfit at #¢ Red Fork ball last evening.” iss_ Kaktus—“Nothing more than s P48sing scrap, Mr. Shaw- mut. Nether gentleman had his gun.”—peck. —wasistrate (to woman charged | se Of five shillings.” Prisoner— «sare, then, I've but two shillings in gze world.” Magistrate—‘Very well, to prison. If you hadn't ; got drunk with your money you'd | | have had enough to have paid the | —‘Can you manage a type writer?” STUDY OF HISTORY. How It Should Be Pursued is Order to Obtain Good Results. { It is of course always allowed that it is necessary in any course of education to give an important place to the con- sideration of history, but there re- mains still much to be done before: there will be any proper and general appreciation of the great importance of this branch of knowledge. This is largely due to the fact that history has too often been taught asa mere dry and repelent collection of dates and uninteresting details) Perhaps nine men out of tenarein their youth so strongly repeled by the method in which an attempt is made to cram history down their throats that they never get to any thing like @ fair:com- ception of the interest-and-riehness of the study; and of those who are-more fortunate there are not many-who.un> derstand what the true object of study- ing history should be. This is especially’ unfortuftate in a. country like ours, where all the people are supposed to take an intelligent in- terest in the affairs of state, and where every individual is more or less likely to come sooner or later into active pare ticipation, at least by his vote, in the gravest issues which present. them selves for the solving. To know what should be done in any situation it is necessary to know both what others have done, and what was the result of the course which they took. The tried. adage that history repeats itself is at least so far true that it is not easy to find a problem in government to-day which has not at some time and in some place presented itself before, and we have the advantage, if we are but wise enough to avail ourselves of it, of living in an age so late in the recorded history of the human race that there is waiting for us the accumulated experi- ence of mankind for thousands of years in grappling with the very problems that trouble and challenge us to-day. If our predecessors have not solved them all, they have at least eliminated many of the solutions which might present themselves, and spared us the labor of proving many things false that are to the eye specious and alluring. No better illustration of this could be found than the so-called ‘‘National- ist” movement, which is making a somewhat brave show to-day. One has only to study history to discover that the greater part of its proposed reforms have been thoroughly tried before and their fallacy proven beyond peradventure. It is certainly not the part of wisdom to go over the same ground again, merely to demonstrate once more thetruth that socialism is not the solution of the riddles which have vexed man from the dawn of civ- ilization. It is a pitiful waste of hu- man energy to thrash anew the straw that has already been again and again so thoroughly beaten that there has not a grain of wheat been left clinging to the bare husks. The untrained mind is always Mable to fall into the error of supposing that because a fact ora theory is new to it, itis new to mankind; and one of the most important uses of the study of history is to correct this natural mis- take. In the painful zeal which earn- est souls feel to right all that may by wrong, or which may seem to f° wrong, upon this complicated pisit, they are almost inevitably A this danger. No man should @#bble with the social and moral of the race until he has made at least tolerably familiar wit the exe periments of his predesstors; and many a prophet wou? have been spared much fruitless. ed the world much mischievous yfeaching had he but taken the precsttion to assure himself that the rew/ation he brought forward as new w# n0t in reality an old and long-digtoved dream of the theorist. History mv# be studied with a mind unprejudiced and willing to receive the truth, ¢ven although it demand the sacrisee Of the dearest of theories. It is uge®88 to go to history with the deterned purpose to establish some cunr#®ly-devised scheme, as it is use}#8 to go to nature to collect facts topfove some theory framed before- ysnd. It must be examined, more- ever, as a record of human experience and not as achronicle of the doings of unreal puppets playing their parts marionette-like upon the stage. His- tory is not dates and wars and migrae tions; it is the record of human struge gles to solve the riddle of existence The dilemma has.been the same throughout the ages, and it can only approach solution by the bringing to- gether the experiences of mankind, and taking advantage of all that has been done before. How often this pftinciple is forgotten or disregarded, no one need be told who studied the history of social and economic the- ories, which perhaps afford the most striking illustrations of the sad results of such acourse. Clumsily handled, nothing could be more senseless than the study of history; rightly consid- ered, there is nothing more impor- tant, nothing more pregnant with good results. —Boston Courier. 0 The Meanest Man on Record. : Husband (kindly)—My, dear, you have nothing decent to wear, have you? Wife (with alacrity)—No, indeed, I haven't; nota thing. I'd be ashamed to beseen anywhere. My very newest party dress has been worn three times already. Husband—Yes; that’s just what I told Blifkins when he offered me two tickets for the opera for to-night. I knew if I took them they'd only be wasted, soI just got one You won't mind if I hurry off.—N. Y. Mercury. CAPPER, Receives Deposits subject to Check, Loans Money, Makes Colletions and FARMERS BANIS Cash Capital. PETTYS & WELTON, staple:Fancy Groceries,, RMB pn re fissouri State Bank’ OF BUTLER, MO. - $110,000, } does a General Banking Business. In the Real Estate Loan Department. Make loans on Real Estate on long or short time 4 lowest rates without delay. DIRECTORS J. B. JENKINS Cc. H. DUTCHER JOHN DEERWESTER JOHN f M. V. OWENS M. P. WALTON. be igs ae ad i : WELL. H.C. WYATT. C. By RADFORD BOOKER POWELI « i @. W. WALTON T. C. BOULWARE N. L WHIPPLE 4 F. M. VORIS JOHN HM, SULLENS. president WM. E. WALTON cashier q vice-president J. R. JENKINS asst. cashier Why Spend the Time, Looking the town over for Bargains | When you.can always find (| ther in all our % DEPARLMENTS. A large stock to select from pought with spot cash, J. M. McKIBBEN, OF BATES COUNTY, Southeast Corner of Square, (In room formerly occupied by Grange Store.) $20,000.01 D. N. THOMPSON : . President J. K. ROSIER, . Vice-President - E. D. KIPP,. ... CASHIER Dr. J. EVERINGHAM = Secretary es T. W. SILVERS, .. ... Attorney DIRECTORS. J. K. Roster, - T. W. Srrvers, = J.J. McKee J. Evermnecnam, - Jno. STEELE, - A. S. Roster, D. N. Tuompsox, « M. R. Lyte, - E. D. Krep. 3 Does a Geueral Banking Business. Special attention given to time deposits and interest paid on same. T. L: PETTYS., A.O WELTON . DEALERS IN Feed and Provisions of all Kinds. QUEENSWARE AND GLASSWARE. , CIGARS AND TOBACCQO,]) Always pay the highest market price for Countrv Produces East Side Square. Butler, MO