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| , ‘4 HERE is but one way in the world to be sure | of having the best paint, and that is to use only a well-established brand of strictly pure white lead, pure linseed oil, and pure colors.* The following brands are stand- ard, ‘Old Dutch” proc always absolutely Strictly Pure White Lead a « 9 6 ” Southern,’ “Red Seal, j to extinguish the light thus kindled Collier. the eff ct was in learned to read aud write, and * If you want colored paint, tint by and he resolved to be free any of the above strictly pure leads | kuew sumething of with National ception was his mother. read. though how she could have learned has ever been a mystery to her son. All the world is more or less fa miliar with the slave life of America, | and the only exceptional feature of Frederick Douglass’ career was the jfact of his being a highspirted, brigbt and intelligent mulatto, with la consuming desire for knowledge | and freedom. , and are A woman incautiously taught him his alphabet, und al | though the peril of it was speedily |discovered and every efforr Vain by He the theology, Lead Co.'s Pure | but nothing of geography, ant did White Lead Tinting Colors. | not kuow whether there was a spot These colors are sold in one-pound ca x side the Atlantic whe € an being sufficient to tint 2 Bal ae BIO ANE IG SANS 1 : Pure White Lead the desire em |could be safe. However, ne an 10 sense rady- ed p: nm | 9 sense ready-mixed pain’ four or five others mad th i plans of perfectly pure colors in thi int ictly Pure White Le: handiest form t were betrayed aud were plunged on- Send us a postal card and get our book ;to more hopless depths of s!nvery. paints and color-card, free. A i 4 NATIONAL LEAD CO, In September, 1838, he fled “nom Louis Branch | Baltimore and made bis was to New tae i | York. Hence he went to New Bed ford, Mass, where be married Clark Avenue aud Tenth Stréet, St. Louis, soy ¥ er ee FREDERICK DOUGLASS DEAD ee lived for three or four years,support- ing himself by day the whasves and in various workshops. labor on The Noted Freedman, Orator and | Diplomat Suddenly Passes — | While there he changed his name to Away. | Douglass. ‘ealled Lloyds, the name of his old : me . |master. He was aided in his efforts Deetlu Results Prom Heart bellure ™" for self education by Wilham Lioyd ahi nee | Garrison of 1841 (ei he attended an anti slavery conven tion at Nantucket and made a speech which was so well received that he was offered the agency of the Mas sachusetts Anti Slavery society In this capacity he traveled and lectur ed through the New Englard States Fer four He had previously been is sat Anacosta His Home Tu the summer Been in Unusually Health and the End Came Without Warning. Washing, D. C, Feb. 20 —Fred- erick Douglass, the noted freedman, orator and diplomat, died a few min- utes before 7 o'clock tonight at his residence in Anacost, a suburb of this city, of heart failure. His death was entirely unexpected, as he had been enjoying the best of health. During the afternoon he attended the convention of the Women of the United States, now in progress in this city, and chatted with Susan B. Anthony and others of the leading members with whom he has been on intimate terms for many years. When he returned home he. said nothing of any feeling of illness, though he expressed himself as be- ing a little exhausted from the climb up the stairs leading from the street to lis house, which is on a high ter- He down and chatted with his wife about the women at the convention, teiling of various things that had been said and done. Suddenly he gasped, clapped his | hand to his heart, and fell back un A was hastily summoned,anud arrived within a very moments, but his efforts to revive Mr. Douglass were hopeless from the first. Within twenty minutes af the attack, the faint motion of the heart ceased entirely and the) great ex slave statesman was dead. a Moments years Large audiences were attracted by his graphic de scriptions of slavery aud his elo- quence of speech. At this time he published his first book, entitled “Narrative of My Experiences in Slavery ” In 1845 he went to Europe and lectured on slavery to enthusiastic audiences in nearly all of the large towns of Great Britain. In 1846 his friends in England raised a purse of $750 to purchase his freedom in due form of law years in Great Britan, and in 1847 began at Rochester, N. Y., the pub lication of “Frederick Douglas’ Pa per.” whose title was afterward changed to the NorthStar In 1855 he published “My Bondage and My Freedom.” In 1859 the John took place in Virginia race. sat Brown riots He was sup- couscious doctor his ,arrest upon the Governor of Michigan, in which State he then To avoid difticulty Mr. Doug- lass went to England, where he re- mained for six or eight months. He then returned to Rochester and con ; ie | tinued the publication of his paper Mr. Douglass leaves two sons and | Woen the Civil war began in 1861 a daughter, the children of his first | he urged upon President Lincoln the wife. His second wife, who was white him. The story of the second marriage was @\cipation. In 1863, when it was at romatic Miss Helen Vitts.!jast decided to employ such troops, whom he married, was a New Ea |he gave his assstance in enlisting was. jemployment of colored troops aud survive woman, one gland woman of middle age, clerk | in the oftice of the recorder of deeds | of the District of Columbia, a men for such regiments, espeeially the Fifty-fourth and Fifty-fifth Mas when | suchusetts appointed to that office She was After the abolition of slavery he; a member of a literary society to) discontinued the publication of his which he belonged They were paper and applied himself to the thrown much together and finally | preparation and delivery of lyceum becume engaged. Her relatives op- | In September, 1870 he be lectures. count posed the union bitterly on of his color, ;but finally yielded to force of them have for some time been living Ana- Washington. This was afteward continued by his sons, Louis and Federick. In 18S7lLhe was appoint circumstances Some of near the Douglass home on costa heights. Frederick Douglass was without doubt one of the most talented men his race has ever produced. He stood by uviversal consent the head aud representative of his race in America. His father he never knew. | His mother was a black’ slave, and he was born on a remote plantation lying on the banks of the Choptauk river, in Maryland, February, 1877, “amid the laziest and muddiest of streams, surrounded by white popu- geeds lation of the lowest order and a slaves who in point of ignorance indolence were fully their surroundings ” mission to San Domingo. On his return President Grant appointed the District of Columbia at large for the State of New York and was appointed to ca’ y the elec toral vote of the State to Washing- appointed the Dis ton. In 1876 be was United States marshal for trict of Columbia er this he became rec for the District of C he emoved ent Cleveland in the fr ich office w by Pr 1Ss8. 1 the autu: L visted gland to inform the friends whom able fact that there was one, and ap-| ye had made while a fugitive slave parently only one, exceptic nto the ,of the progress of the African race general laziness and ignorance of the in the United State. After his re. black population in the midst Se to the United States he_ Was which he was born, and that one ex- |Sppointed Minister to Hayti by Doug'ass | He remained two posed to be implicated in these aud! Governor Wise made requisition for | he issuance of a proclation of ewan | ~ |has lived on quietly in Washington, eame editor of the the National Era ing ed assistant secretary to the com-|dent of the Mine Workers’ union, him one of the territorial counsel'for jof Jul In 1872) he was elected Presidential elector, She could | | A. O Welton Staple:Fancy Groceres, | Feed and Provisions of all Kinds. | CICARS AND TOBACCO, | | ways pays the highet market price for County) Produces East Side Square. Butler, Mo- | McFARLAND BROS. — «© i MeFarland Bros, the pioneer | | They | keep everything that horse owners ueed. | harness men of Bates county, “Mo Double wagon harness from $10 to $29: single buggy harness, 50 to $2, | ; second | hand barness from $3 to $15. of | Saddles all stylesand prices. from the cheapest to the best STEEL FORK “COW BOY; SADDLE” made in this country. Bring your old harness and trade in on new ones. | McFarland Bros. Butler Missouri. President Harison in 1889 He was | |sent to Hayti in a Umted States | man-of-war. He arrived in Hayti on October 8, 1389, just as the country Strange Contingency. Paris, Mo., Feb. 20.—A strange contingency arose here today in the trial of Charles A. Burnett for the | was emerging from one of the most | murder of Johu Kirsch, which he exciting revolutions that country may get his life and hberty before} had witnessed for years The gov the case is urgued or a verdict re- erument existing upon his arrival was simply provisional, and even after the new President took office there was some delay in the arrival jand presentation of bis credentials. turned. After the evidence was all} in, contituting, under Missouyi law) a complete trial, word came that the | | brother of one of the jury, Rose, | had died. Rose was informed and | also told by the judge that while | These circumstances gave rise in the United Sates to persistent rumors the law provided for a continuance | that the Haytian government had re |in taecase of death of a wife or| fused to Mr Douglass on acevunt cf'a child it did not in the case | his color They were denied, how- | of a brother Nevertheless, the | ever, and Mr. Douglass was finally | law does not give a judge in the lat | warmly received. The Haytian Min- | ter instance power to separate a jury | istry was the last position in the nor power to hold it together. | gift of the United States held by Mr. Douglass. In 182 Hayti made au apprepria | tion of money for the Columbian ex , Therefore it lies with Rose he shall stay or go. whether | In the latter; case the entire proceedings will be nullified and Burnett set free, as the case being legally com} leted he not be tried again. for time to decide and has been given him This is the first ix cf the kind in State's history. | position and appointed Mr. Doug! | the senior of her two commissioners Since the jof the exposition Mr an | Rose has asked | it jto the exposition close Douglass has | without engaging in any special bus- | iness. His wealth is variously esti- } mated at from $100,000 to £200,000. Anna Gould's Wedaing. | The charges of corruption among ‘the officials of the United Mine Workers in connection with the end of coal New York, Feb. Mrs. Gould have Lakewood and started preparations | for the wedding of Miss Anna Gould | to Count De Castellane It is an- nounced detinitely that the date for the wedding has been March. 6 will be the The ceremony will be performed twice, Archbishop Corrigan and by Dr. John R. Paxton. | The double ceremony will be cut of deference to the count. who is a member of the Catholic church. 20.—Mr. come here and strikes last summer in- | | interest and directuess. reases in |Yesterday Mark Wild charged that | John McBride, at that time presi- set day. | gave him $600 as a bribe for indue of the Debs strike and the statement is to be n investigation. By the time these labor leaders get ap a settlement ing a settlement made the subject through with each otber the c Miss hittie Cameron, Miss Mont- the oring men of the gomery and his \ Richardson << ~~ will sta the, | sion 2fe Said to be the choice of Miss Gould to act ss ber bridesmaids Yo those living Bor You: ia malarial dist He Tutt’s P that it is safer to trust their employ- ers than ile walking dele rob and betray them.—K 1t May Do As Much M red M tI in) 2 Svstem in pertect or \ ier and are an absoiute cure for sick headache, indigestion, malaria, torpid liver, constipa- i QUEENSWARF AND GLASSWARE : Harness and Saddlery, : ‘ister in charge hppointed a Voce oon girl a cow j outgrown the }and ran the chance from? When Democracy Will Die. In reply to the repeated republi- can assertion that the democratic party is dead, the Record, of Fair field, Illinois, prints a poem showing just when democracy will die. It is handed us by Samue! Holmes and reads as follows Shot Ris Head Off. Ok, Feb. 22.—The an- niversary of Wasbington’s birth was ushered in today in this city by a ghastly tragedy, in which William Henry Harrison, manager of Mlle. Savara Navara, the human freak, was shot and kilied by Mrs. Margeria C. Taylor, a dressmaker at 51S First The weapon used a double barrelled shotgun, only one 10t was fired. but that almost com- pletely severed Harrison's head from Guthrie, street. was ke frogs per feeds on the her und on hogs his bo and the corpse prese > < Setar is body, and the corpse presented on trees a most sickening sight Three husband months ago Mrs Taylor's instituted suit for divorce fron his wife on the grounds of adultery. No co-reepondents wero named, but it is alleged that Harri lson was intimate with Mrs. Taylor toa few weeks since, when she ‘threw him over for another mau. | Harrison, angered by this treatment, it is alleged, then began to play the i spy in order to give Taylor good | evidence for divorce proceedings. | This morning Harrison called on Mrs. Taylor, but she ordered him te leave the house. He refused, when she rushed into an adjoining room When foxes | And women in dress take no pri When Datehnien no longer drink l reaching on time; butt from t up When ploughshare And hearts of Il Then the dem And this cc Dr. Sawyer’s Family ble Dr Sawyers F plaints, cures Ai L Tucker Cure en r yt What Can be Done With a Cent. | Kate Field's Washington. and grabbing a shotguu aimed and #ink's Leather Tree Saddle | A few years ago the E lfired on Harrison with the above eburch of a small Maryland town jresult. Harrison lived thirty minutes South Side Square (v8 in want of an alms ba ee Taylor coolly admitted the = gation was for the most part | crime and was locked up. Harrison Butler Mo. Bees | poor and few in numbers. The min ‘eame here recently from Denver young | Where he conducted a museum with mittee of one to collect | Mlle, Navara as the leading attrac subscriptions Phe amount needed | ton. was $5, for a alms basin costing How's This! that had been heard of fer sale by 8} we offer One Hundred Dollars Re that had | ward for any case ot Catarrh that can hich ab) 20% be cured by Hall’s Catarrh Cure FF. J. Cheney & Co., Props. Toledo, O started life | We the undersigned, have known * J Cheney for the last 15 years, and be neve him perfectly honorable in his business transactions and financially able to carry out any obligations made by that firm, West & Truax, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, Ohio. Walding, Kinnan& Mar vin, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, ©, Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internal ly, acting directly upon the blood ane more prosperous parish one with The young woman's tirst call was | at the store ofa weil to do merchant. A-king fund received the following reply, spoken in a very gruff voice, “I can give you nothing,” but as she turn ed to leave he added, “There, you something from him for her ee mucous surtaces of the system. Price may have that if it will do you any} 7s5c per bottle. Sold by all druggists good,” and suiting the action to the | 1¢stimonials tree. aa word, threw down on the counter a cent. Mortified and abashed, first impulse was to leave it where he had thrown it, but better judg- ment prevailing she picked it up, thanked him and left. most favorably known traveling Without going further she return-|galesmet, dead in bed. He repre ed home and told ber mother that/ sented a Cincinnatti clothing house she would not ask for anything more of such treat- ment a second time. “Take the cent my dear,’ the mother said, “and| show what you can do with it.” She) followed this advice and bought a small china doll, and dressing it in; some scraps which she had, sold it Took an Overdose ot Morphine, Mexico, Mo, Feb. 21.—When the bell boy went to room 19 of the Ringo hotel this morning he found H. Benton Wise, one of Missoun’s her and had been in Mexico several days Yesterday he procured some mor phine, aud last night, after eating hearty supper, he went to his roor and took the poison. Whether he intended to take enough to end hip life is not The verdict of the coroner's jury was to the effec: to a friend for her little daughter. | that the deceased came to his death Having increased her capital 400 per) from an overdose of morphine ad ceut. she invested it in a spool of | ministered by his own hands. Mi crocheting cotton with which she, Wise was unmarried and known. resided at worked several small articles, aud) McCredie, Mo. the sale of these brought her one, = 7 2 dollar and twenty cents. This was | You get Strong, in turn used to purchase cotton ma ,if you're ot ed ved ts ely poet terials out of which were made sev women with Dr. Pierce's Favorite ld for il child that | Prescription And, if you suffer Oral Cresfes tor sai coneren, ‘at from any, “female, complaint’ or dis- netted when sold the de ,order, you get well. For these tw: when the alts basin things—to build up women’s bought strength, and to cure women’s ai) This story was told to a lady of | ments—this is the only medicint 5 : that's guaranteed. If it doesn’t cure. scholastic views, who was constantly |i) every case, your oS eS complaining that she was not rich, = é i and s red $5, was duly) ed. Ou these terms, what else car be ‘just as good” fcr you to buy? g that she could lay so lit- tle by, it was not worth while to, Tbe ‘Prescription’ regulates aud save; her answer was. “Yes, she got promotes all the natural functions OER : > never conflicts with them, and i her $5 but what a lot of work she perfectly harmless in any condition jof the female system. It improve: digestion, enriches the blood, bringe refreshing sleep and restores health and vigor For ulcerations, dis placements.bearing down sensations periodical pains, and every chronic weakness or irregularity, it's a rem o8ledy that rafely, and permasently bad to do A Sound Liyer Makes a Well Man. bad} at dry the Died in Voverty : St. Joseph, Mo., Feb. iH .. | Melissa because your } not act properly disorder of the live Ithas 75 cents. Luckers drugst re. Herbine w Stomaci 1 —Mre a: died ai sS 1y}ber home, a short distance south of [this city today. For some yeare Any reader of this paper can get| past she bas been cared for by the 0 eC Rhades, aged 65, Absolutely Free. The St. Louis Globe-Democrat Ab-| charity of friends. Ten years age solutely free for three months. Read|she was the wealthiest woman ir i i take ad | Buchanan county outside of St. Jo ne sepb, her husband having left her a ‘large fortune at bis death. She married a second time, and ber hus band squandered her fortune and then deserted her. in eight pages each, ‘Tuesday and Friday. sixteen ek, making i y paper, yet t every In New York Wednes day ¢ the amount of $140 t 100 waa receive! n Canadas profes: time to Tutt’s Liver Pills {: | i I