The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, April 27, 1893, Page 6

And you will be pleased if you will trade with us. asking a share of the Lumber Business in Butler. And we hope, by the very best of accommodation and mos eral treatruent, with as good and low prices at can be had any- where in South Missouri, to merit a part of your trade. Our Stock of Lumber IN BUTLER, Is Large. Our Methods are Correct. Our Prices are Right. ; We are now lib- We fear no competitition in the Lumber business on earth, Kansas Cith included. Remember the place. The J. F Boyd Lumber Co. BY J. F. BOYD. PURGE THE PENSION ROLLS. | A Powertul Appeal iu Behalf of the! Deserving Veterans tor Ridding | tne Pension List of Those Who Do Not Belong on It. fi { Grand Army Gazette. The Gazette's editor long ago} called attention in an article on “The Roll of Honor” to the fact that there were numberless frauds on the pen- sion rolls, and manfully took the! ground that these should be elimi- nated and the pension list be made again what it was at first, aad what We have added nothing to and taken nothing away from our de- mand, and readers of the Gazette will bear us out in what we say. We ask only this: Let the pension list be overhauled. If a name is sent in as that of a person believed to be a bogus or unworthy recipient, let the fact be investigated. If the per- son is unworthy strike the name from the Roll of Honor. That is all. Nomore, no less. Can the Grand Army mountebanks or Mr. Lemon object to this? Is it striking down honorably wounded or disabled the patriotic people of America in- | soldiers? tended it should be—a Roll of Hon- or. That article was republished with favorable comments in many of the leading newspapers in this coun- try, and the agitation thus started has gone on increasing. May it lead to the speedy purging of the pension list. The most drastic measures could not be seyere enough for that pur- pose. In this purifying process every comrade can be enlisted who has given honorable service in his coun- try’s hour of need. Anditis as much a patriotic duty. If you know of a person receiving pension in your town who is not honorably entitled to it by service in the field, send the name to the new pension commis: sioner for investigation. | Or if you fear the wrath of the no- | service wearers of the bronze button who might drive you out of the G. A. R. Post because you will not connive at fraud, send the namesand addresses to the editor of the Ga zette, at the office of this paper, and we will see to it that proper investi- gation is made. No American can afford to neglect this important matter. With a pen- sion roll greater than the number of men in the field at the close of the war of the rebellion—and most of those lie in honorable graves—and with an expenditure of over $160,- 000,000 a year for that one item, it | behooves those interested 1n the real | veterans, and the tried and true vet-| erans themselves, to be up and do- ing. | Phere will be some startling reve- ; lations in the next two or three years | we are convinced. We have some evidence already which will be pre- pared for the new commissioner of | pensions. If fraud cannot be proven | then the pension will still be paid. | If fraud can be proven it cannot be too quickly proven, and the pen- sion should cease. | Every dollar paid in fraud is wick- edly stolen, not alone from the pa-j| tient tax payers, but from the de serving veterans. Strike, comrades while the iron is hot, and ifit should sear some bogus claimants so as to leave a mark by which they may be known of all men, there will be no cause for regret. In this connection we wish to call attention to the frantic efforts made by one George E. Lemon, in his claim agents’ organ, to befog and mislead the people and the comrades who support his paper and have made him rich, by publishing huge cartoons of one-legged and other- wise maimed veterans, and claiming that when honest men and honorable editors clamor for the weeding oui of frauds they are injuring these maimed heroes. Lemon knows bet- ter than that. worse or more vicious misrepresentae tion made by him and the claim agents’ ring. The gist of what we | Jesuit father and has been received] rather than politics. There never was a! | | | Purge the pension ro!! 6f honor of fictitious claimants and recipi- ents. There is no politics in this. Honest veterans do not fear the light, however searching. “A God-send is Ely’s Cream Balm I had eatarrh for three years. Two or three times a week my nose would j bleed. I thought the sores would never heal. Your Balm has cured me ”"—Mrs. M A. Jackson, Ports. mouth, N. H. I have had nasal catarrh for ten years so bad that there were great sores in my nose, and one place was eaten through. I got Ely’s Cream Balm. Two bottles did the work. My nose and head are well. I feel like anoiher man.—C. S. MeMillen, Sibley, Jackson Co. Mo. A Missouri Pacific Sensation. St. Louis, Mo., April 19 —There was aramor in stock circles this morning which, if based on anything like a solid foundation, will before long cause a sensation which will eclipse the downfall of the Reading railroad. Briefly, it is to the effect that the Missouri Pacificis approach- inga midnight receivership or a complete reorganization, involving a scaling down of the interest on its debt. It is also stated that the com- pany has over $7,000,000 of floating debt which is not shown in the com j pany’s reports and statements. New York, Aprii 19.—When | shown the statement tht tne Mis souri Pacific was to be put into the hands of a receiver and that the | floating debt of the company was $7,000,000 more thau its books show, George Gould to-day said: “There is not a word of truth in the statement. There is to be no receiv er and the company’s floating debt is only $4,000,000, all of which is carried by Russell Sage and myself.” Russell Sage said: “There is ab- solutely no foundation for the state- ment abont the Missouri Pacific. There is no occasion for a receiyer for the company and there will be none. The company's report tells the truth about the floating debt. The stock is attacked by the bears who were short on it and wanted to cover.” A Million Friends. A friend in need isa friend indeed and not less than one million people have fourd just such a friend in Dr King’s New Discovery for consum tion, coughs and colds. If you never used this great cough medi cine, one trial will convince you that it has wonderful curative powers in all diseases of throat, chest and lu Every bottle is guaranteed to do all that is claimed or money will be refunded. Trial bottles free at H_ L. Tucker's drugstore. Large bottles 50c and $1. James Mulligan, so disasirously connected with Mr. Blaine by the Molligan letters, is very sick in Bos- ton. He has always been a Preaby- terian, but he has now sent fora have all along claimed is given above. ay the Roman Catholic church. | Sedalia Bazoo. | fund of that institution. HAL RELD INTERVIEWED. | dent of the home, Major James Ban- | nermann. Relates his Experiences as Agent | : forthe Confederate Home. The Difference Between a Certain | Wealthy Man and Cole Yo ier. Hal Reid, of St. Louis, is at Sick-) ers hotel. Mr. Reid is represent ing the Home for Confeder: diers at Higginsville and is so ing contributions to the endowment He is best] kuown in Sedalia 8 actor, he; having followed that profession for fourteen years. Two years ago he appeared in this city in the “Heart of Steel.” Mr. Reid was selected for his present work, on account of his thorough adaptability, by Presi deut Bannerman of the home. Mr Reid is a man of many parts, of five presence and is a most affable gen-} tleman. He has been workiug in the interest of the home for six weeks and the endowment fund now reaches $27,000. Much of this was raised by Mr. Reid, so it goes with- out saying that he is meeting with success. Mr. Reid was seen this afternoon at the Sicher. He is very enthusias tic over the work. He had canvass ed Sedalia some weeks ago, and stopped here between trains to day. In speaking of his travels over the state, he has come across some in teresting people and incidents. “For instance,” said he, “there is Joku Kingsford, of Neosho. He came home from the war, poor and ragged Now he has mining in vestments aggregating from $500,- 000 te $700,000. When approached by me be coutributed ten dollars then remarked that he understood Presi- dent Jas. Bannerman was a prosper- ous and rich man, asked me to tell Mr. Bannerman that he remembered him (Bannerman)after the war when Bannerman’s pants struck the calves of his legs. I deliver-d the mes- sage to Major Bannerman as direct ed and that gentlemau with a hearty laugh remarked: “The rext time you see Kingsford tell him that I knew him when he had no pants at all.” | “At Lewis Station lives W. Bron- augh who was a brave soldier in the Coufederacy and served in the eom- mand of Captain Younger, who since by force of circumstances, as has be- come the socailed notorious Cole Younger. Bronaugb knows Youug-} er only as a soldier fall of grit and true to his duty. Consequently when Youuger was sentenced serving a life sentence in the Minne sota state penitentiary at Stillwater, Bronaugh went not only to the war- den of tne penitentiary but to the governor of the state and offered his body and his services to that state asa guarantee that if they would | jes Younger visit his family in Mis | souri thet he (Younger) would re- turn at a given he (Bron-| augh) would serve out his life sen tence. “Apropos of this, Cole Younger, out of a munificent allowance of nine cents a day for ‘good time’ money, has forwarded me _ five dollars as his contribution to the endowment fund of the Confederate Soldier's home at Higginsville. Not only this, it is within my absolute knowledge, as proven by the record ofthe Stillwater prison, that Cole Younger has bought from his good time money thirty-one overcoats for | poverty stricken convicts who have left that prison during the winter season. The state allows to dis charged convicts only $5 and an $8 suit of clothes, and so these poor unfortunates might not freeze, the very wicked, ungodly, terrible out- law Cole Younger, found it in his heart to aid and protect them from and hour or the cold. In conversation with Gov- ernor Stone a short time ago he ex- pressed the thqught that it might bea good thing to now turn the home over to the state This, how- ever, is absolutely impossible from the fact that it owes its existence to that noble band of Southern women called the Daughters of the Confed- eracy, whose bright eyes have dim- med with tears and whose soft hands have labored unceasingly for the| nerman. | pany mak ‘next season in the interest of thet | States isa man who goes to bed avery night right with Jim Ban- I bave heard heard him} , that all he wished upon his tomb-| tone in way of epitaph is: “He was | a man.” | Mr. Reid and his wife, the popu | lar actress whose stage name is Mis Bertha Westbrook, will, with the | ista.ee of a well selected com | sen tour of this state! ass home. | yelone’s Path, .—Hon. P | county to day aud brought the first | autbentic information in regard to | the devastation in that section by| the late cyclone. The wind struck} ge river a few miles below) Warsaw and for a distance of a mile tree either side of the stream was uprooted or snapped in two. On the farm of James Riddle a} barn was blown down and two horses | killed, and fence rails were scatter ed all over the place. The adjoin ing farm, owned by Jerry Savage, was served similarly, three horses were caught beneath the ruins of the barn and killed. A barn on the farm of Daniel Griffith was carried away by the wind and land ed upsidedown in the public road. Monster trees were snapped in twain like pipestems, while others were torn up by the roots, and miles of fencing were carried away. It was the most severe storm ever known iu these parts, not one per son was injured, although there were several narrow escapes. ou and Signed by Gov. Stone. Jefferson City, Mo. April 20.— Gov. Stone to-day signed the house bill known as the “local option road vill.” This is a part of the road law formulated by the road conven- tion held at Sedalia last January, and provides for a general system of contracting for road building in such counties which, by a vote of the people may adopt the law. It provides for a county supervisor of roads, who shell have charge of let ting the contracts and have super vision of the work. This is consid- ered a good law and it is believed thet it will operate most successfully in the wealthy counties of the state. There now remain but two bills on the governor's desk and the thirty day limit for signing expires to mor row. One of these bills is hous bill No. 656, kuown as the bond iu- vestment company measure, and the | other is house bi'l No. 304, known | as the mortgage act. This from a pronounced Repub- lican paper is doubly significant: | Times are changing rapidly when | ex-Senator Ingalls, of Kansas, affis his signature to an article contain- ing the following ass Ss ertion: | “There will be no more political | campaigns fought in the United | upon the attitude of the; Democratic party during the war, | nor its relation to slavery and se | cession, or reconstruction, or the | resumption of specie payments, or/| the disputed succession of 1877.} The dead past has buried its dead. Social and economic questions are at the front. The industrial issue is the Aaron’s rod that bas swaliow ed all the rest.” What has come over the “Apostle of the bloody shirt” that he should depart from the course of reasoning} that has given him most of tbe prominence that he attained in poli- tics?—Star Sayings. The wind sometimes cuts queer eapers. An old colored woman in the upper part of the country owns a large wash pot which she claims She says the pot is as good as ever, only the legs and handle are on the inside now, and pester her when she stirs the clothes—Madison Adver- tiser. A Sound Liver Makes a Well Man Are you billious, constipated or trou- bled with Jaundice Sick Headache, Bad Taste in Mouth, Foul Breath, Coated Tongue, Dyspepsia, Indigestion, Hot Dry Skin, Pain in back and between the Shoulders’ Chills and Fever, &c. If you have any of these symptoms your liver is out ot order, and your blood is cause of God's unfortunates and who prefer that this Confederate home shall be administered by lore “I just want to say that the presi- slowly being poisoned, because vour liver does not act properly. Herbine will cure any disorder of the Liver, Stomach or Bowels. It has no equal as a Liver Medicine. Price 75cts. Free trial bcttles at H L Tucker’s drugstore 22-1 year « was turned inside out by a cyclone. 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MeceFarland Bros, BUTLER, MO. 2 LEWIS & C0, Proprietor of Elk Horn Stables Did you ever learn hat fabulous resui:s grew out of re b Mr. Noyes of an ornamenta! stand to hold 10 story reads like a fable, but to tell it one raust question: Have you ever noticed the auvertisement , which starts out as foliows; the the 2,288 sold in '69 6,268 sold in'90 29,049 sold in 91 | Having purchased the Elx Horn barn jand Livery outfit ot J. W Smith, a having added to the Beale a number of first-class Buggies, and horses, I can say to thé public that I now have the S Best. Livery Barn In southwest Mo. Bornediend ; bought and sold, or k hendiot ec commission, Stock be ience Mr Lewis teels ‘able to with any Livery barn Call ard see him SpBLEWis eco