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le —s > oa $$$ — P= VOL. BATES COUNTY National Bank. BUTLER, MO. THE OLDEST BANK TH LARGEST AND THE ONLY NATIONAL BANK IN BATES COUNTY. SURPLUS, - . GARD, - - - s HON. J. B. NEWBERRY Vice-Pres |. C. CLARK - - Cashier NIT. $125,000 00 5.000 60 John Atkison’s Pension ipas Over Dr Eyeringhbam’s store rooms West Side - Butler, Mo. DR. F. M. FULKERSON, | DENTIST, BUTLER, - MISSOURI. Office, Southwest Corner Square, U1 Tucker's old stand. Lawyers. J. H. NORTON. Attorney-at-Law. Office, North Side, over Barnhardt’s | tirm of Winslow & Lanier, Jewelry Store. Catvin F Boxtey, PROBECUTING ATTORNEY, CALVIN F. BOXLEY, ATTORNEYS AT LAW. Butler, Mo. Will practice in all the courts. ARKINSON & GRAVES, ATTORNaYS AT LAW. Office West Side Square, over down’s Drug Store. Lans- & DENTON, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, §oftice North Side Square, over A. L. McBride's Store, Butler, Mo. perce DR. J. M, CHRISTY, HOMOBOPATHIC PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, Office, tront room over P. O. Al! calls answered at office day or night. Specialattention given to temale dis- vases. T C. BOULWARE, Physician and e Surgeon. Office north side square, Butler, Mo. Diseasesof women and chil- en a specialty. J.T, WALLS, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. Office, Southwest Corner Square, over \aron Hart's Store. Residence on Ha- vannah street norrh ot Pine., Potter Bros. BRICK LIVERY STABLE. Au ample supply of Buggies, Carriages, Phaetons, Wagons, &c. £ bles in this section of the state First Crass Riss Porsiree: At any hour, day or night 1 the most reasonable terms. Farmers desiring to put up their horses when in the city will tind this barn the most convenient in town. POTTER BROS. ~ | give you one that’s fresh.” BUTLER, DEPEW’s DIFFICUL TES The Tria er Whe Teil= traf the After-Diiner Speak- id Stortes, du the the S Society dinner here of Feb : Fred Taylor responded brieily to a toast, “The City of New York.” That afternoon Mr. Taylor, woha ir end had met Bob Ingersoll anditec an vited him to the Hoffiue: House to “No, TD don't want a drink, they asked him why not “We said Ingersoll, vyou bave heard of two reasous, aud thas: When my was ou ber dying | the man who had the poor old mother first reason is bed she begyed ie with tears in her eyer to swear off, and [ promise ij jher I would never take another drop. | And the other reason is this, | just had one drink aud don't want Thave | another right away.” Taylor thought this was too good to lose and incor porate it in’ his speech without nentioning Tt Vs vac. Tt was printed in anol re comer of alo cal paper. About a week Tater Mr. Taylo jtnet Mr. Depew at a darge dinner perty of 1, und over the cigars Depew was asked jto sete to an impromtu toast. He arose and said: “Well. gentle- men, L have got a uew stery. — It is absolutely new, and Tl) us it as « Thereupon he told the of the man with two rensous. and | Taylor sat there and listened to his | _own anecdote as though it were no) | chestnut. A week later a dinner Mr. was tendered to Depew, Benjimen F. Bristoe, Sum | Babcock and many of the leading bankers of New York were present. Over the coffee Depew called to Mr. Bristow who was at the other | end of the table, and said: ‘Bristoe you have inflicted a good many chestnuts onus, but I'm going to There upon Mr. Depew told the story of the man whe had two reasons. When he had finished Bristoe turned to Sam Babcock, who sat near him and said in a stage aside: “Why, found Depew that’s a very mouldy ene. He used it himself at a dinner last week, and he got it from Fred Taylor's speech at the Southen So ciety dinner, and it was published in con- Lanier of the | $1 600 per annum in quartcrly pay- ; 14 Mr | MISSOURL WEDNESDAY RR. R.DEACON farries the Largest Stock of )WARE and IMPLEMENT ROCK ISLAND PI SULKY HARROWS, TOP wu BUCKEY Bt PLOWS, BROWN, UN pe OU . IRON FORCE PUM WARE. ALSO, R. R. DEACON RRET'S WILL. | sedian’s Testament Pro- | bated Yesterday Mass.. Lawrence clerk t to-day. ble bequests. will Joston. April 1 —'Tt B ot ate of the ed with tie Probate reased bequeaths to his wife. 3 Crederica Barret, pie watches and jewelry, wines and houes- tures, clothes. pl: clina, and all the rest and res- jidue of his property is give to jtrustees “to have aud bold for his ‘three daughters, Mary Aguer Roder, fin Wurtemburg: Baroness vou of Stuttgart, Anna Gertrude, Anderson, of Lon- j don, aud Edith Mitoma Barrett. to each of whom are paid the sum of iwife of Joseph jments of $400) each The net in- ‘come of his estate |his wife. Harry Burnett, Charles | Fairchilds and Wilmer W. Blackmar are named in the will aud trustees The wili was made ; December 12, 1889, at the Vendome, as executors . Ropes, George A. Morse and | vile hailes C. Barry. Electric Bitters This remedy is becoming so well | known and so popular as to need no | special mention. All who have used | Electric Bitters sing the same song { of praise—A purer medicine does not } exist and it is guaranteed to do all that is claimed. Electric Bitters will | cure all diseases of the liverand kid- neys. will remove pimples. beils. salt HAWORTH AND BROWN ES, SPRING WAGONS, BAIN & FISH BRO. WAGONS. WAGON WOOD WORK. A LARGE VARIETY OF rret was fil- | is tu be paid to} Boston, aud was witnessed by John | |rheum, and other affections caused APRIL IN ‘THR COUNTY. OWS AND CULTIVATORS, EAGLE PLOWS AND CULTIVATORS, CASADAY ION AND U.S. CORN PLAN PS, IRON. STEEL, * ROAD CARTS, f and more of the best men and women j of this country are jeining with the poet: “Woodman, spare that tree!” ) A-century ago, the iron blast fur ‘nades of England had so devoured | her forests as to give rise to severe | parliamentary enactments against the destruction of timber. Bat at the very time when the situation seemed most desperate, coke and af terwards coal became food for these devouring blast furnaces. But for this timely discovery, there would have been prolonged for centuries both in Europe and in this country, ‘arelentless contest for the survival of the fittest, between the blast fur- one hand and the forest es on the n the other. Bat the forest presents the utility side rather than that of the beauti- ‘fal. The school room has become the educational Mecea of the chil dren of our } Hither. every morning more than half a million wend their way. do what within us lies to embellish and adorn the grounds surrounding | these modest temples of knowledge, ‘where this great army of children | receive their preparation for the high duties of American citizenship. For se Jeetion and suggestive exer- cises. Itake pleasure in referring jyouto the March number of the Missouri School Journal (H A. Gass Jefferson City. Mo.,) and toother ed ; ucational journals. Do ret fail to secure an address from one of your | best citizens. The details I leave to ‘the discretion of each teacher and board of education Finally, permit me to urge a uni- versal observance of this day and a 8.1891. N CHECK ROWERS, FREE MA S BARB WIRE, Let us, therefore, | NO. 20 ey -BRADFIELDS- % FEMALE- i REGULATOR Dlg ust pot Dia pena PAE NST RA UATION SICKNES: IF TAKEN DURIN ANGE GREAT SAS RN ate ATED ST Book TO WOMAN MALzD Few | °RADFIELD REGULATOR CO. ATLANTA GA PLENTY OF SUGAR, BUILDERS HARD- iF ALWAYS ON HAND. | The United States Consumes More BUTLER, MO. ) Than Any Other Country. | : — | DIED ON THE STAGE | No two countries on earth con- sume the quantity of sugar that is Ween oar tary F disposed of in the United States. A Genuine Tragedy at- a Performance The pioneers of Indiana used to talk of “tree ot “Romeo and Juliet.” aay sugar’ —thai is suga> made from the Manchester, Am! 1.—A_ perform- i sup of the maple tree lance of “Romeo and Juliet” erven {#24 “store.” or New Orleans sugar labthelanchesten cathedal celieels the latter a very common article, bringing about 12} cents a pound. Honey was the chief source of sweets it has not been times that sugar has been found in the homes of the Tn the time of Shakespaere jit was 4 rue commedity and Prince Hal speaks of having sugar clapped had a tragie gotten up by Tt was of the Young Men's Amateur Dramatic ea ciety with the object of benefitting | Unt! very modern certain charities connected parish. termination the members to the ancients and with the Everything proceeded per- fectly smoothly until the third act it the catastrophe which terminates the killing of Mer- poor. came and with e i into his hand by a waiter who wants cutio by the infuriated Tybalt. The] /’” SES ened wath him. The fight went well between the repre- Chinese, who claim everything, ef course claim that sentatives of the rival houses and c ‘ d sugar cane origi- Murcutio received the wound which eee Me Ghse kingdom, aud coll is supposed caused his death. At|&! the juice “honey of canes.” About this point the real tragedy replaced une uinth century the cultivation of : this grain had extended to Persia. that of the mimie stage. The Mer : cutio was Thomas Whaley, a young In the tenth and eleventh centuries, sugar was only in the man 19 years old, and he [it Europe, could speak the well known lines, palaces aud castles of the nobles before finishing with “A plague o’ both and used in medicine. The discovery your houses” he fell iiwara vith of Awerica, which set the old world forward as nothing that had pre- viously happened ever did, distribut- his sword in his hand and died im mediately in the presence of the as semblage, which was alarmed and ed the cane over a large part of the shocked beyond measure at the trag globe. Santo Domingo, Brazil,Cuba, ic ending of the scene. At first it Mexico and other countries began was thought he had received 9 its cultivation and in the meantime wound from the Tybalt. but an ex- it was taken to Africa and the Ine amination proved that this was not dian archipelago. so. The cause of death has not a+ The preparations of the purest va- yet been ascertained. All that is seo enter we Doe originate in known is that immediately after the the coun tele producing that sweet. sudden fall on the stage he was The art was first applied by the picked up in an uncoascious cond Venetians to crude sugar brought tion and blood was flowing from his from Egypt. It was practiced in mouth and nostrils. It has there Antwerp in the sixteenth century fore been assumed that the unfortu aad thence introduced into England. one of the morning newspapers ~ The next morning Mr. Depew, with a rather solemn face, summon- | by impure blood—Will drive malaria |“P0"t of the same to your county from the system and prevent as well commissioner to be reported by as cure all malarial fevers —For cure him to the state superintendent. nate youth ruptured a blood vessel The cane appears to have been firs of the brain and that this may have cultivated in this country about 1758 been caused by the unwonted excitce sear the site of New Orleans, by Drummer. ed Private Secretary Duval into his office and said, “Harry, you bave got |® me into x scrape that story you told | me of the man with two reasons was really rank and youstole it from Fred | Taylor's speech.” When Mr. Depew | is with his friends they ask him if he would like to hear the story of the man who had two reasons Silver Certificates to Take the of Silver Dollars After July 1. Washington, March 30).—Director of the Mint Leech thai July next it is probabie no more sil- after says ver dollars will be coined. but that silver certificates will be nted in jstead. Cong xress has given the see- »sur ‘retary of = tre jeoiu about 24 mi dary coin now 1 that t« pre as possit lei beginning This will in iore Mone ¥ soon jot the next t effect put ju in cireculatior $2,600,000 in the which silver certil also treasury tates aa Hee Ds gained hwhile taxing it. Fin ed treatise on “Nervous Dise and sampie botties of the Restorative Nerv ine, treeat H. L. Tucker, druggist, who | guarantees it. ‘trat- of headache, constipation and indi Let it not be said with the retire- Place | gestion try Electric Bitters—Entire satisfaction guaranteed or money re- | funded—Price 50cts and $1 per bot- tle at H. L. Tucker's drugstore. Arbor Day pril 10th, axe-marks left by my predecessor, the Hon. W. E. Coleman, none will sink deeper into IS9l, Among the many the educational tree than the insti+ | tution of Arbor Day. To him be- jlongs the credit of instituting this day for Missouri and having it legal- ized. The Thirty tifth sembly enacted section S010 of follows: general as- the ~The first Tue in ich year is hereby set apart r Day for this state. ners, pupils, aud school law Jay and all sted to observe ctive districts 1 f trees the planting ubbery around the school flowers upo grou pay be rendered pleasant and aitractive—a part lay to literary es be devoted to s hav- especial refer its prime The for gone down with a val” has not been spared ests of this country have before the woodman’s axe vidity which has alarmed the pat- Year after year, more | riot thinker. 'ment of State Superintendent Cole- man, the originator of this observ- ‘ance in Missouri, interest in this day become less, but let it rather be noted that with each coming year interest deepens, and that though the worker the work on. In the confident hope that this may be a great day for the teachers, the children and the patrons of the state of Missouri, Iam retires. goes Very ae yours. some Jesuits from Santo Domingo, and in 1758 the first mill was built, probably, for breaking cane and manufacturing molasses. The man~ ufacture of cane into sugar was mot ere begun before 1764. Though Louis- Is the old chess board to be reviy. |i#nais the most favorable state in ed? John Bland, a chess player. pro-; this country for its cultivation, it iy poses to revolutionize the board i: |tvo far north for the perfect ripen- nine squares wide and adding be-,ing of the plant, which in some por- sides a pawn another piece, to be | tions is sometimes killed by frosis | ealled the “Premier,” possessing the | in the spring and also injured in Oc- ‘eombined powers of and|tober and November. Cane knight. | grown in Texas and to some ment he had undergone. He was conveyed to the infirmary without loss of time, but on arriving there the suspicion that he was dead was | confirmed. is also extent queen . Wore. nt Publie Sc 20018 FOLK-LORE who m ave lately s ab the malady people called s iever. It is a genuine malady. thongh more rreeable than serious. Yetit should be taken note of. While the sci inquinng about the tone of the i ety. hia, ould run the disease out of theirsystem by means or fo that more subtle SS scientist and cures vartic fever suck condi- leaves the system in tion that it succumbs readily to dis- eases that are more less easily controlled. dangerous and S.S.Sc.isa preventive as well as a remedy. AND FOLK-CURE. | ¢ ae lin Florida. patriot. | A Frenchman allows his Th > Pride a bright handsom sunny tempered, b g. the delight of his pa joy of his home, and the Bat a sk s bright prospects cough: consumption. from ac of His Class. r of 39,009 Ik £o0n began with a bat in B A Wonder Worker. country, lin neve jcame pre cheeks prey ' jof 1 gton, Ohio, states the an early grave. Then a f j has en under the cure of vised Dr. Vierce’s Golden Medica! ik nent physici and used their | Discovery. He tried it and was tre ut until he was not : to He alth aud strength return , bi s cheerful voice rang out a ross the playgroun rosy, id. get prenoun Is | case to be copsumy and incurs ble. He was persuaded te try King’s New Discovery for consu ' tion, ¢ sand colds and at time v not able to walk across tion sch a cheeks again grew yer ight He is still “the pride of his and he graduates this year h the highest honors. street without resting He { z ae Baraat ed balf oad Chronic Nasal Catarrh pes itive y bottle much bette Sage’s Catarrh Reme- 50 cents, by druggists. continue d to use i to day is en- joying gould health. If you have any throat, lung or chest trouble try | it. We guarantee satisfaction. Trial | , bottle free at H. L. Tucker's drug } | store. . Patrick drove out the suakes Fite Ireland. A like saint must hare visited Bermuda. There are no rep- | tiles on that island.