The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, December 11, 1889, Page 3

Bn SU. HS aaa } No. 301, passenger os Time Tab?,; L. &S DIVISPON. TRAINS RUNNING NORTH. AHISTORY OF ADVENTURE.| The following sketch is from the Williams Farmer, of Colusa county, So. 304, passenger 4:47 a.m. i : | yi 312, local 8:30 © |California. It embodies the person- It was no ordinary gathering that # 302,passenger 3:38 p. m. al narrative of Maj. J. B. Clark, of walked the decks, and looked out on |that county, and is of especial inter- jest to any in Polk county, who | were Maj. Clark’s friends while he eee ae ‘resided here. He is a brother of No. ae nang beeen mae a i Mr. D. S. Clark, of this county: E. K. CARNES, Agent. | It was Christmas eve. The snow was falling fast on the outside of an BATES COUNTY jold hewed Jog wayside inn in the - | Ozark Mountains, where a number National Bank, f Bohemians, weary and stained by (Organized in 1871.) | the day’s travel, were gathered be OF BUTLER, MC. TRAINS RUNNING SOUTH - 12:30 p.m. 311, local 5:00 *§ &“ 303, passenger 9:40 Sr. L. & E. DIVISION. plumage in the golden sunlight of se that fair, pleasant morning, basking and smiling on a sea of calmness and serenity. c-a day, very many, 1 true hearted gent , with the firm step “men, conscious in ns of the eye and fore a great, wide fireplace in which heart: « few lads and misses, five or a great log heap was blazing, snap ping,and crackling, rehearsing the adventures of the day, and finally, drifted into a cursory talk on omeus,, ¥* strange warnings approaching the,“ Capial paid in, - - $75,000. uct thoughtless, there atof lurking ill, and ser, the breath of pleas Surplus Fane sas = $ 21.000 supernatural. One of them, who, life and hope, the fu- : “Fire the donkey engine, tear out | ward Was carried out further by! recieve the last. shock of despanr. a had joined the order of iron gray, , ture be ed smilinsly, and there the steerage bunks for fuel and keep! another. My door turned on me! th; a ie Raa j ; ; : BrAYs | ae : ‘ i oo vEnst ; ¥ 3 jthat loved ones were surely lost. i F.1. TYGARD, - - - President. modestly said with their permission | ¥45 # trustiu: ripple of laughter, | the pumps going,” was the firm or- i and it was a great task to get on Armstrong, the chief engineer, was i HON. J. 8. MEWBEKR) Vice-Pres. | he would relate the personal experi jlow and full of melody, jests, bits of | der, and it was exeeuted. The wo-' top again. rr ee ES: } C.CLARK ks i Cashier : > | i ei Pp ®g8 there: I wish to forget all bitterness i J.C ence of an old friend, the dread de (80g, und the de ytsome short | men with blauched cheeks, blue lips! “Are you all right Reed?” Hee ee . > i ; : 2 | See : cael 3 E 3 5 of this occasion, still I could but - - tails of which were given atthe time, morming hours with no croake disordered : dress and disheveled s, push out as fast as you) mark how her eyes, this Joan of Are | W EH TUCKER in various forms, by the startled;ing raven, bat-like wiczed, to cast its | hair aided; in the lurid lamp light! can. this Agnes, shown like heated cimi i G : >| press of the world. “And,” ¢ nutiue | sh dow over them. appearing like the peoplein Byron’s| The captain was still standing on | ters, as she regarded him in silent | DENTIST, jued he, “I will, gentlemen, give this | The cxptain,a lieutenant in the i sunless world, tearing up the trees!the wheelhouse. We had worked contempt. She must have been i = ¥ ¢ terrible story, withal noble in its ter-| U- 5. Navy, crossed the deck. A!to make light that they might see |forty yards or so away, when the] thinking ar brave Faus i BUTLER, MISSOURI. ry : | . ; |forty y ) thinking of her brave Faust under | ribleness, as nearly in his own Jan-) 80 of noble mien, uot large of hope in each other's faces | giant monster quivered, and as two | the sea, and this fellow’s execrable fi Office, Southwest Corner Square, over < 1 Aaron Hart’s Store. sd, blue-eyed, wear- guage as I can, as he has from time | Steture, Jair hin jto time told me the awful facts, in-| citizen dress ing g Lawyers. advertently relieving its da ker | Par never after x. _________ | shades by flits and flashes, that man | cuing the with all foibles can be ereat nas eareful ghiice Woo. JACKSON, th all his foibles can be grea ou na eae : the threshold of death, and sustain: iizon, when his exe ATTORNEY AT LAW, j Butler, Mo. Office, South Side Square, | over Badgley Bros., Store. above the wa the dignity of manhood im death: iter iine i strong | WAS IT AN OMEN? as 15 ren sor bered, a eload dauyer- | Way cut at sea, a vessel, the sea birds turning gay colored ng out of childnood, and a) - ; hor was at the mercy of a maddened ocean. Strong arms grew weak, bold hearts sank, as the tired men heard the suppressed sobs of pallid women and trembling children. The vessel wallowed helplessly in the! trough of the sea, the deadening | weight of infuriated waters beating her sides, and ¢ anching her worm- eaten timbers. 5 gual flags of @istress were run up. The minute gun ran out, its ‘report rang above the awful ocean roar. | In great peril, strong hearts grit | their teeth and die hard. | “The women aud children must be saved” was a watchword. Barrels were rig the ¢ and tackle in There was redoubled energy in the! stacks were in sight lurched, and * bucket line— Woman forgot her te ,and brought | the exhausted aud bits of cheese, their only food; | sitated to the line of forlorn hope Inen Water, crecsers take their place in| | One, snd PLDEN HW, sMiTH, jand heavily loaded with logwood, boding to tux} eyes. There [shalt never forget her. For three Butler, Mo, | but sound as a nut, a Norwegian) Ws ¥ concene on bis face hours Thad been passing buckets Will {practice in ali the courts. Special at-| bark, the Ellen, Capt. Johnson, f ur| When he tases old tar who and had grown worn and very thirsty tention given to collections and litigated Jaims. hich pproached the + near after | masts, close reefed, after being stoim | ® beaten for three days. The capta n| he was standi answer was Walking on deck, when a drive - ling iis quest, Carvin F, Boxtey, Prosecnting Attorney. jed, tired bird iit on his shoulde rel “What do you thin! of it, Ton? CALVIN F. BOXLEY, Failing to catch it, the poor thi g M22 ‘oud ion . “Don't lke the looks on it, sir. flew away, but soon returned. Par-} . . . 7 | 3, SS 19 S hi suit gave it a secoud flight aud after | Thea h in a time there third ee ATTORNEYS AT LAW. Butler, Mo. Will practice in all the courts. se lonty of be 1 work rid was 2 return. mse platy of bare this weather She the first drink, and coming to to come, offered me a another, his | hand, though his nerves seemed cast fin steel, sheok slightly as he took the water. There i word. was no look or} “You!” only he said Turning to pass on, she paused an tae y Moodily the captain paused a vet : Gta Me. biazicr to quietly mnie wales ee snipe ant = ao eee esate [torn anc leeding; her face, her TOES Deine nee. pea a ee ital citi “Aye, aye, su.” neck, her arms, her hair falling to Ofiice over Butler National Bank, Butler, Mo. Knot there, pilot!” Aud the tacrea ship was ce itly her waist like 2 1uffied sheen of - = aa dressed for a sore tia: to the finish. | chestnut, nid a form of glorious “Aye, aye, sir.” “Point her three points N. E.” The direction was Cape Hatteras across the fearful through of disa ter. Slowly the vessel made its way & GRAVES, Right gieefuly u t gong roil ed out tunel cai, i ¢ on ears ub ATTORN:YS AT LAW. | Office West Side Square, over down’s Drug Store. aware, and the lauy INSEULETS Lans- ming hug a riee, witl bhtesome step t over the turbulent waters, keeping a i room, not tier abuin ount dio the dining the ' womanhood in 2 mould never reach led by Grecian flashed ‘her dark eyes in his of earnest gray flood jthat was surprise to me in the hor chisel, and 1 |with a smiling of brightness lror of that Friday night. Few words p* & DENTON, careful watch of sight aud sound as | : | 2 ATTORNEYS AT LAW, fuoileadenihene @nered alone {sound of the poo lever passed between them, though 3 = 2 foo Seats = rea mine > a} : 7 " “ oe i; ie : > < Office North Side Square, over A. L.} Hist! Four o'clock in the morning teturming to th ae fresh} she had been the sunlight of the McBride’s Store, Butler, Mo. Singha Ge Ge Gliese breeze ha! sprang up from the} voyage. Ss 8 — ; . vast, the barus were going land | Tater ten feet Geep i »@ = comes the distaut echo of the mimute wees ee ry a a) | Water ten feet deep in the en bysicians. pee 5 ard, ana my. iss it white caps] gine r P aini The . ae : gun at sea, sadly ringing a dirge to |" F : a é : fen ees ae ae noon prs iad The don ‘ ~ son ver.- elore §& ise e 8. rey en® > a) the dying. Cold, eager hands tight- | V€™ "Y J ney ebeine Ce J. R. BOYD, M. D. an leords ate - _ [Was ovescasi aud the salt spray} Saturday morning found us bail- en cords, and stretch more canvas. Seeger |p ney Pee PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, | There is a sickening, throbbing of drove a GacH eee se ing, bailing, bailing. : The courage ; do.’t know af tue dies undressed | of marhood shone as jewels and the hearts, as anxious eyes peep out on the wild waste of waters in the dark- ness. Then comes a silence, a fatal stillness, as though the great doubt “to be or not to be” was to be solved, whatsoever was the solution. The rough sailors talk in whispers, as though at the grave of loved ones. The morning breaks, after the Orrice—East Side Square, over Max Weiner’s, 1g-ly that might, asa bit had crept among then. The Cap tain, Laid many of the men, dic Butier, Mo. not. Inastrong wind, morning broke upon us, with seud ding clouds overhead and spits o rain. An angered ocean was pitch ing us uneasily. The Central Amer DR. J. M, CHRISTY, HOMOEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, Office, tront room over P. O. All calls of nervousness a sunless fortitude Cf woman as diamonds. | Two o'cleck p. m. lull in the 1} gtorm and patches of blue sky. a Four o'clock a sail! hope! It was the Marine of Boston, sad- ly disabled, but the gallant crew scood by us. Soon afterwards an- other vessel, the Souvenir, was hai’- f answered at office day or night. : 3 iean, formeily the George Law, her|ed. She promised succor and drift- Special attention een to female dis-| dull, deadening weight of toilsome See ene rape eae oe serie } cases. : hours, andno cheerful sun struggled : Fy LO ; eta gous Sepa ae 9 through fragmentary clouds. The wena a Se er the) ‘The work of transferring the la- C. BOULWARE, Physician and most miserable vessel to roll I ever T lookout spies a drift, ora something! Surgeon. Office north side square, 2 . » advane Butler, No. Diseases of women and chil- | There comes painfully over the rest- rode. Advancing day advanced the ren a specialty. lecuiwavcelaimalloe distressed iva. rate of the storm iuto the night, and manity. They near it; next is heard all night rain was blown in sheets; J. T, WALLS, a joyous shout of dauntless man- the sea was running very high, there hood. It is a raft! Most frail was a great roar of tumbling waves, f ! J B PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. Office, Southwest Corner Square, over Aaron Hart’s Store. Residence on Ha- vannah street norrh ot Pine. Missouri Pacific R’y. 2 Dail Trains 12 TO and no sleep that night. Thursday morning the furiou gale showed the cruel teeth of th hurricane. There wasa call for th skill of well-trained There was no fultering. As yet th hastily made, and tale-bearing; two stateroom doors, torn from an ocean steamer, lashed together by the knobs witt a handkerchief. On ita map, tired and cold, worn, wounded, but unfaltering as Leonidas at the pass. “How many have you found?” he asked before they could get him aboard. “Forty-six.” “Thank God. But there are so many more.” The Ellen picked up two more, KANSAS CITY and OMAHA, and with tender hands cared for the sufferers. i) Daily Trains, 0 In the relation of this story, gen- Kansas City to St, Louis, | tlemen, if the modest Major is cred- ited with language he did not use, gered ocean. Ten o'clock a. m. “She has sprung a leak!” it wa whispered. “Is it bad?” “Bad. Old timbers rotten.” “Rapidly. know!” Soon they must know. The captain suggested forming THE of self-praise, place it rather to for-| sty men were bailing out water COLORADO SHORT LINE | getfulness than boast on his part of through the upper deck hatchway an the actions of himself and others, | Jith ropes and buckets as you do at which speak for themselves. PUEBLO AND DENVER. Saierenin: PULLMAN BUFFETT SLEEPING CARS | Kansas City to Denver without change 1857, a steamer left Havana with a H. C. TOWNSEND. | full complement of a crew, well of- GeneralgPassenger and Ticket Ag’t, | ficered, and many able bodied sea- ST? LOUIS, MO. | men, and over 500 passengers she hand to hand until the brine was r turngd to the brine of the deep, return again. The desperate stru; gle for life had begun! Tedious On a bright. sunny morning, the exact date Tuesday, September §, seamanship. ship rede well and slowly on an an- Don’t let the ladies The wa- ter is gaining fearfully in the hole. bucket brigade, and quickly a line of awell. The buckets passed from dies began. Bailing continued. We had six life boats, one out of order and two stove in in shipping | leaving three. In anxious haste, in difficulty, in danger, the ladies and children—sixty-three all told—were lowered to the boats, the captain tying the ropes on them. My God! Let us pass over the parting scenes! She stood by very quietly and was the last. He-hadleft the line and drawing near stood by. Not a word escaped them. Her generous work done, she looked sadly out on the Ss e ie e = : Ee = : . . H had received 1t Aspinwall, who had | discipline of the most rigid marinets.!ed a moment, drew on his uniform come down from San Francisco on | The coal bunkers were submerged! 'of the United States navy, the old Sonora, bound for New York. | The engines stopped! The dead crossed the deck and climed the|the storm began, even to my hat ship, two hundred miles from shore, | wheelhouse. wild sea bat we'll try it.” ‘took a stand. heavy c ithe helm ¢ F x jinjured. Tne next roll re Tjumped, my door ‘inro the raging ithe sur ; Strong receeding wave bore me out- ed with block | rockets were sent up, she went down companion way. stem of dispair./ shot down bow (of the days of trial for life. Manv|the sea, strong brave hearts, that ; 8 j went down with the ship; some sank | died to save woman. And woman | without an effort |up the battle to live. \iny frail craft. was more fortunate, having kept on firmly | the full dress I was wearing when jand boots and had saved my money jand checks. | “Reed.” “Let's = = Thave yet, and wore across the ow ; ; ; plains the next season in bringing “Tear off cabin doors and take to! over This I kept fe ; and was a broad brim- “It will be hard to live in such aj med, mouse colored felt, now salt THE HAT € ourselves.” a drove of cattle. | as a souvenir, aah 2 , Water stained, wind and dust faded By the bulwarks to the larboard I j to a colorless drab, the chin strings A lurch shipped : 2’ knotted as I wore them on the raft, throwing R eed and bis |} sttered. an lining torn, worn and old like myseif. A thing I retair, with ny memory of the whole, my lameness, as Joor ag foot in| | used me, and T fell agen a, and coming to top + eate ga was badly Ye t an ow you may observe as I walk the streets with my cane. e THE MARINE arrived two days after the Ellen with her precious freight, many to eT was on anda Words would fail to do justice to the other officers and to the daring crew. And now cowardice. first, but while the smoke foremost, and 426 the fire is this continued cold gentleman, brave true men went to death. burning low in The suction created greater fury of falling snow, and you have grown of the waters. I was drawn to the My story has been a little long, a little wierd, a little sad, but wearied. spot where she sank and surround ed by drowning hundreds. The | our heart grows warm when we re- death wail afflicted me sorely. The|member the sunlit waves singing noble men always cool and self pos | pleasantly over the place where fath- sessed throughout the weary length | gus deep, amid coral mysteries of and others kept always true to the truly great, ever My frail bark build in their hearts the only monu- could ill carry one, and I struck out/iment to them—erecting in their to sea, paddling with my feet as}earnest depths grand archways, T could. I never saw Reed) more gilded than Greece or Rome, again. He was an elegant gentle | Paris or Carthage ever set up, deco- man and had a family at Petaluma,!pated with olive leaf and rose, and Cal. in the gilt of jewel and diamonds Very soon there was a paintal si- stillness, with only the return of conquering generals weighted down with spoilation. And you, gentlemen, though be- ing only men. forget the $1,600,000 that went down with them todo lence, a deathly the lash of waters, and the moan of the winds, and I knew there had in- terrible finish. deed been 2 most But I wanted to live and of needs] them honor. give attention to the navigation of} Major J. B. Clark, the hero of the whom most of the facts related were gleaued, is nowre- siding in Colusa, Colusa Co., Cal., in splendid health, erect in name and figure as the pine of the forest. Aud, wishing you a very merry Christmas, allow me to bid you good night. We upset again, but} door raft, from hungry, cold and worn as I was I managed to right us for the life voy- T was alone, alone! The waves e tolling the knell of nearly all my late companions. The chances waters were ex The hours were very long. I don’t know for how long it was that I found another door and caught it, and tied the two to live on in these ceedingly small. William's Australian Herb Pill, It you are Yellow, Billous. constipated with Headache, bad breath, drowsy, no appetite, look out your liver is out of order. Onebox of these Pills will drive the all troubles awav and make a new being out of you, Price 25 cts. 4aa Yr. Dr. E. Pyle, Agent togather fan-like with my necktie, by the knobs and rode the two. The lonliness was oppressive. An occa- sional star shone through the brok en clouds. The darkness was that of a clouded sea. A minister after- wards asked me, at my home in Pleasant, Hill, Mo., if I prayed. Hope is prayer. Hope is desire for better things. I floated the long- drawn weary hours away. Ab God! I rode my frail craft on my breast, resting on my elbows, changing from right to left and left to right for rest, if rest there was. Try itona floor for an hour, and think what it would be for twelve on a high roll- ing sea, with shocked nerves and ex- hausted nature. Charch and State. Washington, Dec. 4.—Senator Cockrell to day presented a memo- rial of citizens of Ralls and Pike counties, Mo., remonstrating against the passage of any bill for the ob- seryance of Sunday or any religious institution or rite, and also against any amendment to the constitution providing for religious instruction in the public schools. It prays that the government be kept strictly sec- ular, and the church and state er- tirely separate. Consumpton Cured. An old physician, retired trom pratice having lad placed in his hands by an Kast India missionary the tormula ot a simple vegetable remedy for the speedy Istudied navigation, and learned much in it, that fateful Saturday night. sea. The captain came with the rope §| hesitated and then handed it tohim. She raised her arms, he tied it or, and a second—no one saw it but the cxptian and I—her around his neck and the lips met, arms dropped and alone he lowered her into the A him. Strange! er reached shore. to | er returned. g-| Six feet ly j}cabin aud bailing. Life p we toiled, hour on hour, passengers | were put on aud bailing still. and crew working together, ob2ying each word and command with thejto his cabin with some frien beat, the captian gently restraining the sailors who would have sided It was said they were nothing to each other. He nev- Not aman crowded a lady back. An old man the captain sent with | appearance was unique. Some bare- them. By sundown the brig was footed and hatless, some enly in e-|three miles away, and the boatsnev- | small clothes, other quite nude. The of water inthe second resevers Captain W. L. Henderson walked | ds, talk- | The blessed light of day appear- ed at last. Halfa mile away I dis- cerned a sail! Faintly I called, then gave a Comanche war whoop sur- prising and cheering myself. I near- ed the vessel—was alongside—kind hands lowered a rope—I clutched it was drawn on board—I was saved! It was the good Ellen, searching for such unfortunates as I. We had the cramped hospitality of the Ellen, placed on short allowance, the crew acting nobly for five days, when we arrived at Norfolk, Va, and wereale lowed to skip the quarantine. Marching through the streets our and permanent cure ot Consumption, Bronchitis, Catarrh, Asthma and alt throat and lung affections, also a positive and radical cure for Nervous Debility and all Neryous complaints, after having tested its wondertul curative in thousands of cases, has telt it his duty to make it known to his suffering fellow. Actuated by this motive and a desire to relieve human suffering. I will send free ot charge, to all who desire it, this re- ceipt, in Germac, French or English, with full directions ‘for preparing and using. Sent by mail by addresing with stamp, naming this paper. W. A. Noves, 149 Power’s Block, Rocheste N. Y. The Hannibal Post says the only - | way to beat Vest for the senate is to elect a republican legislature in Mis- souri. And this can be done just as soon as the pigs begin to fly. An Absolute Cure. The ORIGINAL ABIETINE OINT- MENT is only put up in large two ounce tin boxes, and is an absolute cure tor old sores, burns, wounds, chapped hands, and all skin eruptions. Will positiv cure all kinas piles. Ask for the OK IGINAL ABIETINE OINTMENT. Sold by F M. Crumley & Co, é box—by mail 30 cants. | police arrested us but were most kind. The mayor came to our relief and hadus taken, in carriages to a wholesale house and clothed, those | who were destitute. Free hotels| and free travel were granted us. I}