The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, August 30, 1894, Page 2

Ny H PRESIDENTS AT PLAY. Found Recreation. New York Sun. When President Cleveland goes to mivistrations, was renovated and a/since it became his summer home on Buzzard’s Bay | he takes a few short fishing trips, but beyond that he indulges in no! handled a cue well and was especial- give the whole snap away.—Kansas is living in goes on his sports. It is when he Washington that he more important shootiug or fishing | expeditions. He usually does his gunning on the shores of the Poto ; | mac river and Cheshpeake bay. He) likes duck shooting. His sometimes last u week, and during part of that time he may be inaccess ible by mail or telegraph. His hunting ground is substanti ally the same that Benjamin son used, and constitutes what may | be termed the great Presidential game preserve. It lies south of} Washington, and takes in the Pote-/| mac river and Chesapeake bay to the sea. The game includes wild ducks (among which are canvas backs,) quail, pheasants, and snipe, and occasionally wild turkeys. If a} President isa true fisherman and} will fish with only the rod or a reel, he may go upon the outskirts of the Presidential preserve and find streams where trout are tolerably numerous. From the beginning of the govern- ment Presidents have used these grounds for their exploits with rod and gun. General Washington, liv- ing at Mount Vernon, knew every inch of the land for miles up and down the river. In his younger days he was a thorough sportsman, but after he became President there is no record of his shooting or fish- ing. President Harrison's first exper ience in the preserye was when he distinguished himself by shooting a negro’s pig under the impression | that he was firing at araccoon. He offered to pay for the animal, but the owner considered that the acci- dent was a compliment to him, and declined to accept remuneration. President Harrison afterward prov ed that he was a good shot. He could undergo unusual fatigue and hardship, and even shot ducks from a sink box, which, as every sporte- man knows, is a very uncomfortable thing todo. He never rode _horse- back, and for field sports he had no taste whatever. WhenjPresident Cleveland goes to the seashore he does not indulge in swimming, although some of his predecessors have been very toler- ableswimmers. Jobn Quincy Adams, next to Benjamin Franklin, was the greatest of swimmers among public men. In winter, when he was Presi dent he used to take long, solitary walks up Pennsylvania avenue and around by the Capitol every morn- ing before daylight, returning to the White ,House just as the day was dawning. In summer his walk was in the opposite direction. Going up aboye Georgeton he would there undress and plunge into the Potomac for aswim. A President, when he indulges in recreation, must take it quickly, for he is seldom so situated that he can have a prolonged vacation. Presi- dent Arthur was about the last President who took a complete vaca- tion. One Summer he and General Phil Sheridan went out the Yellow- stone region. They camped out, hunted and fished, and were often 100 miles from civilization. This was his only prolonged vacation. He was, however, very fond of taking short fishing trips. He handled his rod well and loved angling for bass and trout. Among fishing Presi- dents he rauks first. When he was on one of his official trips in the South a fishing club at Louisville presented him with a beautiful rod with a German reel, on which were engraved Izaak Walton's famous words about his love for all good fishermen as a gentle, kindly race of men. It is doubtful whether he ever received a gift that pleased him} more than this. His predecessor, Garfield, could shoot tolerably, but never fished. | General Garfield was a boy in his) love of other sports. For some years the old National Base Ball club boasted of him as one of its, honorary members. He was a con- stant attendant at the games, and! knew the players personally, and he used to play himeelf sometimes He was a billiard player. | when he came into the White House The Out-Door Sports in Which They | the billiard room in the basement, are in exact accord in this matter, trips | were almost universally bad,and the Harri-|and he enjoyed the exercise greatly. }recorded that he was a sportsman. also, and |which had fallen into neglect and had not been used for several ad- new table was put in. Here he used to play nearly every afternoon. He ly expert at pin pool. He was an excellent horseman. All the horseback riders. earlier Presidents were | Horseback riding | | \afforded an easier way of traveling | than a stage coach, for the roads} coaches were built without much re- gard to the passengers’ comfort. Washington was undoubtedly the best rider among the Presidente, | | He bad little time to indulge ie taste after he became general of the hard | from the army, and he was too old for retired Presidency, but before that he was one of the most enthusiastic for hunters ina fox hunting country. His diary relates how he ent fox} paths through the woods at Mount | Vernon, how he “catched’ three foxes in one day, and how much interest he took in his pack of hounds. Some of these were imported. “‘Sweetlips” is one that Washington mentioned several times. There is no record that he ever was a fisherman. The gentle Madison, on the other hand, was no sportsman. His ways were those of the student, and he lived the simple life of a country gentlemen without engaging in any riding after he of the sports that interested his neighbors. His friends and mentor, Jefferson, who lived 25 miles was more versatile. He rode a great deal, and much of his riding was for It is probable that Jeffer- sou did some shooting, but it is not away, pleasure Monroe was a constant horseback | rider, and a few years before his death he wrote to his friend Lafay ette about the fall he had from his horse. Tariff Taxation and Blankets. A writer in the Fort Seott Daily | Monitor, in attempting to disprove the fact that under the McKinley law the tariff tax on blankets is “While | this may be true in theory, practical ly there is no truth in it.” From the} beginning of tariff diseussion the! aim of the protectionists has been to create a quarrel between theory and The writer with this purpose in mind, continues: “Practically the poor man doesn't pay*any duty on the goods he con sumes, for he buys American made goods.” That is the gravest fault in the system, for while he buys Ameri- can made goods, eighty tive per cent, says: practice. in Toeeliteny| the prices are regu- lated so as to just cover the cost of the tariff and carriage charges added, so that the consumer pays the tax without | | the foreign article with contributing a cent toward paying the expenses of the government, | which is the only excuse there is for} laying the tax. | But the greatest evil in the Mc-} Kinley system 1s that, being dishon-! est, itcreates dishonesty. The writer in the Monitor says in further eluci- dation of his point: “You can buy a pair of good, all wool American manufactured blankets for $3.” That isa dishonest statement, unconsci- ously dishonest, no doubt, but nev- ertheless dishonest. There has never since the McKinley law has been in operation been a pair of all wool blankets made in America and sold for $3. There are blankets made of | shoddy, the filth and disease laden | idea that they do. | bam a week or jnearly all the counties |from the Navy department by wire! HOMES IN MISSOU RIL. The truth of the matter is that theory and practice Extra Censux Bulletin Showing Owner- and the McKinley law has served as an agency of robbing the public ever aS When Mire the tariff tax sup of Property.—Oat of 100 Panulles 64 operative Their Places the protectiouists say ; . Washington, D.C, Aug. 23.—An on sugar will increase the price they = extra census bulletin just issued jshows the owners and debt of ty is Mis The report tabulates the statistics for the eight ities of the State, giving the number of families, | the number owning their own homes, ty Times es ne farm and home prop sour. Alaniadva Polities. A gentleman who was at Birming- two before the elec- tion says it was the most remarkable political contest he ever witnessed. | the Being a republican it is fair to be- | and lieve he stated the truth so far as he | Ia regard to farms the ¢ could observe the general feeling in j that 31.05 per cent on the f u- parts of the state visited by him. At| ihes hire and 65.95 per cent own the Birmingham, he informs us, the peo- | farms cultivated by them; that 36.43 ple were as near crazy as it was pos- | per cent of the farm owning fa sible for them to get, and kept up a|own subject to incumbrauce and | general and tumultuous hurrah from | 63.57 per cent own free the time the campaigu opened until | brance. Among 1v0 The supporters of Mr,_/31 hire their farms, 25 own with in- Oates democratic candidate for gov-|cumbrauces aud 44 without in { leading number of hor the amount of incu ilies | of incum un familes it closed. ernor, wore a simall bouquet of oats | cumbrance. |on the lapel of their coats, and the} Onthe owned farms there are | colored men wore hat bands made of jliens amounting to $53,753,011,/ oats, bouquets of oats, and other } which is fantastic emblems of their political | value, and this bears interest | faith in Oates. The Kolb men |at the average rate of 793 per ccnt! smoked cob pipes, wore corn cobs! making an average annual interest attached to their hat bands, and in| charge $68 to exch owned and in- Hany cases wore corn cobs with bo- | emnoreres farm, on the average, is| quets stuck in them. He rays He) alee $2,643, and is subject to al saw in one crowd at least two thous-/debt of $855. The corr sponding | and negroes wearing Oates badges | facts for homes are that €3.74 per The gentleman also informs us that |cent of the home families hire and! where the |36.26 per cent own their homes; that “whites” predominated were carried | of the 72.08 by Kolb, and all the “black” coun- | per ¢ ties were carried by Oates —Clinton land 2 Dew crat. 3228 per cent of their! debt home owning families t own free of incumbrance 92 per cent with incumbrance | In 100 home families, on the average | irs of aiee justice of the peace | 64 hire tueir homes, 10 own with in-| An| cumbranc he tant appointed by the county | brane. n ‘ : homes aggregates 32! Without incum- | debt on 232,658, or rs and 26 in Kassas City is a private snap. : owned accoy court of Juckson county has beeu and bears \interest at the average rate of 7.30) | 39.78 per cent of value investiyating the records in Justice | Rass W. Latshaw’s office, and finds | that ventleman short in his accounts | ppen sae with the county $9,066. The ac [ee each home averages S76. An} countant says he made no investiga- average debt of $1,041 | sinnthblc cil Caamee Hoturthar found | each home, which has the average that Latshaw had doetored his ree- é Seek Ae alias ords within bis week of g Hits Them Hard. the most of | Col. Conger, a leading Republi-| incumbers ace, hav-| ing put on 361 cases, | these tines being entered up against | ean politician of Ohio, recently gave | “Jobn Doe” He made a further discovery | aud other fictitious per-j/ outa statement to the correspond- sons. ent of the United Press which ecen- that the justice had exacted tribute | tained the following from keeping disorderly bouses, the! coneerning the! MeKinley bill and fue present situa | {great bulk of which do not appear | tion: | of record; and further that “The pre are scores of he had | and inconsistencies in the bill, and paid iuto the school tund $1,143 /it is all wrong for Gov. "Mec <i, Nature's | more than his records show to have /and bis been due that fund. In ove case | commit t the Republican party to a where Latshaw’s books show « col-! j Prop: -ou that will lead to sure! lection of a fine of $100, violatior of | deteat im 3998. law bolds receipts for fines of S557. friends to undertake to It-is not a erime for} |Republicans to differ upon these in another case where he eaters up | propositions, and some one in our! a collection of $80 there is evidence | State should speak out for the Re-| that he collected $670. The wonder! publican party. Personally, I stand| is thet Justice Latshaw would give jupon the tariff question where the! up as good a thing as he had to even , Republic: in national convention left| take a pleasure trip to Europe,which | jit in 1888, lefs it for revision ‘Down- | he did recently. —Nevada Mail. |ward. The committee now visiting | i Washington in behalf of different! \yndustries, al} concede reduction! |from the Mckinley bill. We must |pow commence to build for the fu- The taanufacturers, farmers | Léa to Misti for. Olina ance dav 6x and laboring men, when they get the! ss j true facts and underlying principles, | |two. The sailing of the ship was| . : = aalevea eat ieee, ee aoe | Wil favor revision of the McKinley} = We must not forget that the| ladelphia in order that the long ser- ion eS ae eens vice men on the latter might be; = drafted in the Chrrleston in place of | a number of men and boys who have | less than a year to serve, and there-| fore would have to be brought! home. Charleston Going to China, Washington, D. C, Aug. Final sailing orders have been sent 23.— ‘ ; ture. to the Charleston, afid she is expect-| a are living | to-day were passed mainly by the| | Repuplican party. Whether or not) these laws are responsible for the| present situation, it is quite likely that the recent panic would have | come even though President Harri soa would have been re-elected.” Exporting Carpets to England. Washington, D.C., August 23.—) From reports received at the State; of the poet who penned the follow Department it appears that thejing: ‘Will the merchant who is_ ent, so that the annual intecest! ~ | wrongs | Los |in operation. |ed in business do not go out of their As the vessel has a capacity of 3,000 | of the Democrats, they will have to ae way in order to maintain a competi-; tons and it is only loaded with 1,000 | break away from the “old man Fil- iw rags of the European and Asiatic) Uyited States bas at last turned the cities, which are imposed on the} tapes on England, and is now ship- poor people as all wool blankete, ping to that country carpets of the that can be sold at that price. But! yaiue of nearly $500,000 annually. no wool blankets can be or ever! To make the case still stronger, it is have been. It is a fraud that is made stated that these carpete are the possible because the duty of eighty-| s.nous Axminsters, supposed here five per cent on wool blankets make | 4, produced in perfection only in them inacessible to the poor. |England, and the trade is steadily If home competition shuts ost correniaa foreign goods there is no need for | protective legislation, and if the Mc- | Kinley law makes domestic manu- Tons of War Supplies for Japan. New York, Aug. 22—The British | it’s a little strange that the home| ee rock for Japan, will also carry | manufacturers are willing to pay a eight tons of cartridges and fifty) good deal to keep the McKinley law |tons of rifles which have been ac-| Asa rule men engag- cepted for shipment to Yokebama. | | tion that is ruinous, but the writer | tons and it is expected that the bal- when he was on the farm at Mentor. he can delude the public with the | and ammunition. wise ever cease to advertise? Yes, when the trees grow upside down, | when the beggar wears a crown, | when ice forms upon the sun, when | Johnny gets his gun, when gold dol | Jars get too eheap, when the women | secrets keep, when the fish forget to| swim, when old Satan sings a bymn, | when the girls go back on gum, | jwhen the small boy hates a drum, |! j | when there are no political schemes. when mince pies make pleasant dreams, when a drummer has no | facturers can't compete with them, | steamship Cain, now here with phes- | brass, when these things come to | pass—then the merchant who is wise, may neglect to advertise.” If the Republicans of Missouri expect to whip more tham one side jley” and move their headquarters | Star. CURETTE SOAP ay R. J. HURLEY, P-rptest. RIGHT y HOUSEWIVES USE > No OTHER. THE BEsT, PUREST Sa i Mor THEN, KFAIRBANK COMPANS:w0ms & MOST ECONOMICAL. G. B. HICKMAN, vice as Bates Co, Elevator Co, INCORPORATED.) BUTLER, Missouri. DEALERS IN Grain,Seeds, Fl our, Feed and Farm Implements. Branch House at FOSTER and SPRAGUE. Ba" Flax Seed to Loan to Farmers. “DIRT DEFIES THE KING.” THEN i SAPOLIO IS GREATER THAN ket overexertion, Vert pocket. SA per box, ROYALTY ITSELF. MANHOOD RESTORED! (APRUEATEDS hol hervougdi-eases. such as Weak Memory, Losaof Hratn ulness, t Manhood, Nixhtly Emissions, Nervous: f po enerative Organs of either sex caused ful errors, excessive use of Lobacco, oplum or stim- fants. which ead co lntirmity, Consumption or inaantt Yr Gee be carrtedin C tor BS, by mail prepaid. With a SS, order we cure or refan: 1d by atl er. Write nt seated VESEED ©O., Masunic Tempic, Cuicago, the money. for free Medical Boo For sale mm Butler, Mo. bya H. PRIZELL, Druggist. —ELY’ os GREAM BALM Cleanses tho Nasal Allays Pain and Inflammation, Heals Rie Bore ores, Restores Taste and Smell, and Cures Gives Ke! Motes oy e for Cold in Head Apply into the ruggists or by rauil, El ( Scuenck's Scuencr’s| Remepy ries 2 Manorare IVER / i Compcaint (Livers AUCTIONEER. I, the undersigned, will ery sales jam this and adjoin nties cheap as the cheapest. Satisfa ranteedl OF nO pay. Address me MAY Bates cownty, Mo All orders prompt to “PETER EWING. 7-3m* Dr. Kimberlin : Nao, Prat Catat W. Cor. 9th and Main Streets, | “Junction.” Dr. Kimberlin will visit Butler the: Fhird Saturday of every month. | Office, Day House. t There was no water on the brain| - Call and Settle, Having sold my stor building, I desire to close out my stock of goods by September 15th. Also ail persons knowing themselves indebted to me | are requested to call and settle their aceounts without delay. WANTED—CHICKENS & EGGS. De drop in and see N. M. Neatle- rode at Virginia. Mo. He will give youthe highest market price for chickens, eggs and hides. Also! es subscriptions to the Butler eekly Tres, at $1.00 per year and (as agent is authorized to collect and | in the Ft. Scott paper seems to think/ance of the cargo wil be of arms’ farther west than St. Louis.—K. 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