The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, April 22, 1897, Page 3

FEARFUL HAVOC tysed by the Flood.—40,000 _ Farms Under Water. of Submerged Property $125,000, - 00.—How Missouri is Affected—Dam- age in Several States. Washington. April 11.—A state relative to the egricuftural in of the submerged districts of Miesissippi valley south of Cairo, bas been issued by the Depart- tof Agriculture. ithe total area under water on i) 6 was about 15,800 square of which 7,900 square milea jo Mississippi, 4,500 equare in Arkansas, 1750 square miles Missouri, 1,200 in Tennessee and in Louisiana. This region con ied in 1890, 80 far as can be de ined in view of the somewhat ain boundary ‘ines of the {, a population of 379,658, of ich 186,489, or about one half, was Missisappi, 1° 935 in Arkansas, §the remainder about equally ns-Mivided b:tween Missouri and Ten- Taking the entire region, colored population outnumbered whites in the proportion of 12 es,fig1, the colored dominating ia the ter Mooded districts of Mississippi inthe oof more than 5 to 1, and in janeas in that of 2to1l. In Mis ri and and Tennessee the popula on of the flooded districts is largely ite, in the former in ths propor n of 10to land in the latter in of 2tol The flooded districts contain, it is mate about 39,500 farms, of hich about 18,500 ara in Mississip- j,nearly 10,000 ia Arkansas and a number about equally divided ween Missouri and Tennessee. one fourth of the number of tarms Meso farms contaia a total area of out 3,800,000 acres, one-half of ich is in Mississippi, and rather in Arkansas, the oportions ia Missouri and Tennes- being about the same as in the The value of theee farme. with their provements, farm implements, etc. close upon $65,000,000, and here othe proportion in the different Admission, One Dollar. Colonel Ingersoll has delivered his lecture to a Kansas City audience aod those who paid hima dollara head to be enlightened have receiv- ed about as much satisfaction asa hungry man who goes into a restau 4 ravt expecting to get a square meal ; for his money and is forced to fill up 3 on Charlotte Russe and “floating island.” The wordy pagan really obtained their money under falss pretenses. The lecture he advertised as new is only a rebash of a number of bis old ones. Those who listened to h'm at the Coates Tuesday evening who have heard him in previous lectures must have been sold. Not only did they recognize the thoughts and arguments he presented az o'd and familiar acquaintances, but they no- ticed the verbal clothing ia which the peripatect agnestic arrayed them was the same tbat has been doing service in cogging coin into the cof- in fers of the apostle of irreligioa for}... the past twenty years. Be It has ben long appirent to those who have observed Ingersoll’s ca ot oD one face and you make yourself en. | immortal bard of Avon had Ingersoll |geseasseesssssssnesssasSs | 4 IMPORTANT "3 : RHEUMATISM, To those who are subject to NEURALGIA, or GOUT. LALLEMAND’S Specific for Rheumatism IS A SOVEREIGN CURE. It {sa hichly concentrated and A drops only, yet it penetrates to the r Y poen eee acid in the blood, relie 2 y thoroughly eradicating t ~ t renders the bo ree "4 disease and proot against foture eee Pie pee o> oor tree troniine PRICE $1.00 PER VIAL. Prepared by PRICKLY ASH BITTERS CO., St, Louis, Mo. SOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS. SESESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS: her.” | And finally: “A politician e that would circumvent God.” | It would as if the x ew! almost scen + his mind’s eye when he put the | ntence last qaoted into the mouth | Hamlet. | The aged infidel is both a poli-| \ : : against the people. beationy ato all sorts of i us, freezes us, giving us aches, pains and ailments of « Another Sample of!Prosperity. The Illinois Steel company has just given a strikine object lesson | 6 in McKinley prosperity by locking | jout 4.000 workingmen. The motive} . 6 | astigaed is the desire to Snticipate a! If the Dingley Bill is Passed | strike. The company hasbeen stead | Without Change. ¢ ay reducing wages, and consequent | ly expected the workiogmen to quit. | yA | So it siezed time by the forelock and | @ \locked them out. | COMMERCIAL WAR THREAT- ENED FOREIGN MINISTERS PROTEST. i The beartlessness of this proced \ Germany, Italy a @ jure willadd to the popular hatrad the Netherlands Make s and Retaliation s Implied. Washington, D. C, April § See which have flourished by ex | There is grave danger of commercia) jacting tribute from the people| warfare between the United States |through the protectiye tariff Tt and several important commercia) | was a leading partver in the great| nations of Europe im the event of | etee] rai! trust—one of the most out |the enactment of the Dingley bill geous conspiracies erer formed | izto law in substantially the came \ferm in which it passed the House. | The millions made by the mem | The Italian Ambaseador, the Ger- He of the trust ought to have|man Ambassador and the Minister ‘ x) Formal Sta of the Il incis Stsel company. That concern is one of the gigantic con satisfied them, but they were con-|from the Netherlands to the United jstantly fighting for States have filed protests against the \ | more. They) | rate oe proposed legislation, and these pro- continually strove to reduce wages, thus warring cimultaneously on the | tests have been forwarded by Secre- tary Sherman to the Senate Commit- tee ou Finencs These protests, while couched in jlaboringmen, the smell manufactur jers, and the consuming, public | © | tician as wellas a pagan. I th i ‘i iN ; : diplomatic language, reer for some years past that his in-| 01. ho makes ie tS a= gst | ot kings clare Dien ahaa jNow, at last the employes have been | plainly call attention to the effect tllect some time ago reached the| oainct God = ¥ dt ee SES eoarictbnge Bee toe ocr oraed athe thee |pushed to the wall. Their wages| which the proposed bill would have p-riod where memory takes the gain od. e would circumvent | phere been cut until they canjoa the countries concerned in the place of origination. Jn fact there are numbers of critical minds, outside the clerics] profession, who are not willing to accord to Inger- soll originality in avy thought he has uttered. No ove can successfully deay bim the possession of eloquence, imagi- nation, an apt facility in word pavnt-|,; ing and a keen sens3 of humor. But this expressers the limit of conces sion. Noargument he has ever ad- vanced eg inst Christianity oragainst religion in general but can be found, perhaps more atrongly and logically, if not more catchingly, presented by infidels who have written books and had them printed during the past one hundred years. Nothing Ingersoll has ever said or can say against the doctrines of Christ or the teachers of them can approach the biting sarcasm, the ribald ridicule and the wealth of in- vective exercised by the diabolic in- tellect of that brilliant infidel, Vol taire. d even |. 1o m ey in in his puree God because the doing it puts mon- | H Barry’s a | oe against the Almighty in order to leud his services on the stump to | ® the Republican party and was re- a Hanna’s slush fund. of his waya of “Regenerating Man- fortune assailing with tongue and pen the Master who taught that Sie charity was the greatest of all vir- tues. eulogize in rythmic phrases the en- nobling influences of brotherly love, of charity, of home, of neighborly kindness and of country and to in. form them that the Christ, who eryatallized and symbolized them all in his life and teachings, is a myth, a fraud and a creation of crafty hypo- crites and persons of feeble mind. es are about the samo as above oted. The total number of acres improv datthe taking of the last census about 2,000,000, about 1,500,000 a were last year devoted to cot- and corn, to which crops nearly per cent of the entire acreage “Jaltivated is devoted. The live stock hand January 1 the ‘present year valued at over $7,500,000, divid din much the same proportion as her farm property. It is estimated the crops of last year, over 8,750,000 worth, remained on hand the submerged region on the last ths month, cotton representing out two thirds of this amount and n practically the remainder. The largest intere+ts at stake so fr are those of Mississippi, whose flooded districts represent an invest- fd capital in agriculture alone of ose upon $42,000,000. Arkausas stands next in extent of imperiled intereste, nearly 10,000 ms, containing 1,000,000 acres of ind, worth $14,000,000, being sub- rged. The agricultural interests affected Missouri represent a total capital of rather over $9,000,000, the 5,300 mbmerged farms containing an area let about 470,000 acres, worth about 250,000, the live stock represent ing nearly $1,500,000 more, and the tops on hand another $500,000. Tennessee is not far behind Mis- i in the extent of its imperiled faterests, the number and acreage ithe submerged farms being very rly the same,and the entire value, lading $1,250.000 for live stock d $400,000 for crops 9n hand, be- over $8,500,000. edt What effect the flood will have ce. yipen the crops of the present season pends upon the length of its con N Jean Jacques Rousseau has array- ed the artillery for his attacks upon the duties and responsibilities of man to his Creator bebind as lovely |}, rainbows of sentiment, as mellow |, hues of human affection—love of home, family, friends and fatherland —as ever Colonel Ingesoll did. e Tom Paine coupled his assaults|c against Deity behind even more laudatory tributes to libarty and pa triotizm than the ex Peorian, in all}c' his delirium of rhetorical expression eyer uttered. So traces of the Inger- sollian form of argument, idea and even language may be found in other |r writ2ra who strove to tear veneration | t of God out of the human heart and replace it with chaos and soul-hun- ger. He bas said nothing new that they have not said, nor does he sup- port what he says with the show of logic and the array of facts which they have marshaled in a losing MAR ik. y. cause. In the revamped lecture which he delivered in Kansas City, Colonel Ingersoll made statments which re futed himself at nearly every turn of his discourse. - After laying down the premise that the religion is based on ignorant superstition, born of the savage eons of centuries ago, he proceeds to declare that Shakes peare was the greatest man that ever lived in the splendor and magnifi cenca of his intellectual gifts. Yet Shakespeare, that wondrous ocean of genius to whom the thoughts of lesser minds,like so roany rivers, fiow, and the inundations from whose in- telligence rise and revisit hke re- freshing dew the hills of time, mak. ing them blossom with the fadeless hues of beautiful thoughts, to in- form, ennoble.and elevate all gener- | ations of men’—Shakespeare was a confirmed believer, :f not a strict re-/ ligionists. | y f te ty. anca and the practicability of feat planting after the subsidenc» the flood. The entire region under er on April 6 produced last year ut 370,000 bales of cotton, valued Mi clos> on $13,000,000; over 11.000,- D bushels of corn, worth about B400,090, and wheat. oats, potatoes @hay worth over $800,000 «wore. most valuable portion of these Mops was raised in Mississippi, @ ragion now submerged pro eed nearly 250.000 bales of cotton, Sides other products, mostly for with proofs of this. For he bas said: “But mercy is an attribute of God consumption. | himeelf; a ‘ | he weather bureau predicts aj “It is enthroned in the heart of her extension of the flooded area, Kings, Rt no attempt, of course, was made timate the serious possibility of extengion. “Jt is an attribute of God himself!” And again: “God has given you 4 intellect, never established a home | for the sick, the aged or the poor and never, so far as known, given of | full of professions of benevolence and charity, but empty in perform-, the land for growing sugar cave.) cy, claims she knows them and will People here know, of course, that|institute proceediogs. Central Missouri can produce sugar cane in quantities that less fertile He has passed into the | countries can not equal, but it is for the purpose of convincing non resi- His power to draw has waned into | dent capitalists that this test is to|year-old daughter of the victm one night stands. r instead of the circus ring to make money in. Kansas City Times. with a more disgraceful situation. It was apparently only half a secret among any number of legislators; that bribes were freely offered and | the special envoy w.li be abie to in | duce any coun'ry to take steps to Last summer he | wordy warfare | Antiseptic Mixture termitted his home. 1 @ i slica of R Skin Di uralgia, embsred by a ppm ‘That was one} ie and be convinced. Our large ad” ) Iogersoll has made an immense has proved the ideal remedy for the It cures Sore Throat and Tonsilitis, events Diphtheria, never fails to cure Catarrh, Ne ia, Rheumatism and Antiseptic Pharmacal Co., $t. Louis. event of its passage. That of Baron Von Thielwan, German Ambassador, 1s particularily forcible, amountiog almest toa direct threat of retalia- ton by the German Governmeat against the United States. Should the pending tariff bill be- come a law, it 18 notimprobable that the German Government would re- taliate by imposing still greater restrictions upon American products. While protests have not yet been received from other countries, the action of the Senate is being awaited with much interest by the represen- |not endure the conditions. So, as the co npany sees its oppresrions jabout to bear bitter fruit, it closes its doors on 4,000 men. The situation of these men is full of gloom. For several years they have worked on reduced wages. To @ | save money for the future has beeu impossible. Now, with their poor wives aud helpless children, they are turned ont to beg. steal, or starve. This is prosperity. This is‘open- ing the mills instead of the mints” This is restoriag confidence. This jis calming the excited capitalists’ He has been charging people dollar a head for years to hear him Done in Missouri. the arrangements have been sugar from sorghum cane. Ia all the time hehas been making \ owed an asylum for the helpless in Wiley, board of directors. ducating the ignorant. Ingersoll is nces. He isa showy, entertaining harlatan, who has chosen the forum hestnutesque and reminiscent stage. be made. When he ba; passed away, like a} aindrop on the river, Christ and the | secretary of the assc sugar. the law. class. Pleasant Trip- The rottenness is seemingly }international monetary No State has ever been confronted | pease taken. Witnesses discuss the dis graceful efforts to bribe them with a show of icdiffereace which is abao- |, -) 4 x S | his views 02 t2is subject. lutely incomprehensible. Many of | the well-known institutions of the | State have b<ea proved to be in the ae offer | wards the remunitization of | He will prepare a etatement politicians of are implicated. size 50 cen's Buckle! Best Salve inthe w Sores, Ulcers, Salt Tetter,Chapped Hand: ’s Arnica Salve, afc Cate eatarrh I suffered from Br am Fever Sore is guaranteed to give pertect satisfaction r money refunded. Price 25 cts bor | For sale by H,L. Tucker druggist THEY WILL TRY TO MAKE SUGAR. Capitalists Propose to Show What Can be Hughesville, Mo, April 9.—All for the erection of a large plant at this place for the manufacture of Follow- ing are the officers of the company, which has been organized to make a practical test of sugar making ino Missouri: D. W. McClure, preeident; money in this way he has never en-|Col C. E. Musick, vice president;| ““y¢ H. D. Sheltos, secretary; T. T Viets, L H. Darley, J. E. Scott and R W. ; It is proposed to grow 200 sample | whitecapping of Mrs Mary Gertly,a is bounty to assist in the cause of | crops in this vicinity the present | widow, and her family, has not abat- year, for the purpose of making a ed. Despite the punishment already practical test of the adaptability of The estimates of Mr. Sielton, the received s tion, from ruths he taught on the Mount will | practical tests, show that on an aver- still ba with the people—helping, consoling, ealighteniug and uplifting them with its saving grace, its sim- ple grandeur and its ineffaceable | truth.—Kansas City Times. CASTORIA. | bea great success, and that in the near future Miesouri will be a rival signature |of Louisiana in the production of a Lax SP TLldde wae | P age fifteen tons of green cane and} cough or a little cold or baby may have forty bashel of seed can be grown to| the croup and when it comes you ough: the acre. The price paid per ton for] pest cure tor ft. Sold by H. L.Tucker sugar cane is $4.50 Those interested | are confident that the enterprise will Many so-called “‘bitters’’ are not medicines, Rotten fitly describes the legisla- | butsimply liqaors disguised, so as to evade tive conditions prevailing at Topeka. As the special committee, appointed to investigate the indefiaite charges made during the legislature session of fear and was planted in the brain proceeds with its work, the evidence | of corruption becomes mora plen | tiful. confined to Yesterday's developments show that Populists, Republicans and Demo crats were alike implicated. Prickly Ash Bitters is not one of this It is strictly a medicine, acting pri- marily onthe kidneys, liver and bowels, and for the dangerous diseases that attack these i seri i i organs it is a remedy of the first grade. There to withstand —— physical = is nothing objectiouable in ite taste, it hase very agreeable flavor and is acceptable to the | most delicate stomach. Sold by McClement&Co Washington, D C.. April 14 -Few ig public men here have any idea that no political party. ! the action of the administration in appointing three specisl envoys to European couatries to discuss sn/ agreement will result in anything more than giving those gentlemen a pieisant trip to Europe at Government ex William J. Bryan does not believe Who can fail to take advantage cf) has been here fer a month urging pear 20 cents ie fer his candidacy for auditor in the) = | =. = 1c }a generous trial siz? or ask your! Navy department, was informed to | His plays and poems are filled | habit of st — | druggist. Ask for Ely’s Cream Balm Fir aes lawyer would have to be| goa ~ egree | the most positive catarrh cure. Full! .iceted for the place. : Elv Bros. 56 Warren St, N. Y. City :| worst kind ever since a boy, and I s, Chlblains| never hoped for cure, but Ely's Corns, + nd all Skin Eruptions, and posi- | Cream Buim seems to doe.en that in tively cures Piles, or no pay required. I Many acquaintances have used it | 4 | with excellent results —Oscar Os E \trum, 45 Warren Ave., Chicago, Ill | Sold ay H.L Tucker. tatives of nearly every nation main- taining diplomatic relations with the United States. Many special duties have been imposed for the express purpose of shutting out Canadian producte, and, as the Canadian Parliament bas complete jurisdiction over the tariff laws of the Dominion, it is not im- probable that some retaliatory legie- tation may be expected from that. quarter. The South American countries are wost affected by the proposed reei- CABTORIA. procity provisions ot the bill, and tees {the general disposition of the repre- Coffea FF |eentatives of those governments in CL fe 7 | Washington is to favor a provision looking to the negotiation of new commercial treaties between their countries and the United States. The New England mauufacturesa are entering their protests against the tariff on hides, and the manufac turers of soap are kicking vigorouely- They claim if the bill is passed in its present form the advance in the price of tallow and other ingredients used in the manufacture cf scap will ruin their business. The manufac: turers of woolen goods are also angry and will fight the schedule effecting raw material. They want a tariff on the manufactured product and raw material free Vienna, April 15.—Count Guido Zichy comnitted suicide at Sergel- lyes, a village near Stubiweissen- burg, Hungary. yesterday by shoot- ing himee!f with a revolver. The act was committed upon the g-ave of his mother. He was 21 years of lage and wasa student in the Law | Academy at Preseburg. MANY THINK! when the Creator said to woman, “In sorrow shalt thou bring .forth children,” that a curse was pro- nounced against the human race, but the joy felt by every Mother when she first presses to her heart |her babe, proves the contrary- Danger and suffering lurk in the pathway of the Expectant Mother, and should be avoided, that she may reach the hour when the hope of her heart is to be real- lized, in full vigor and strength. MOTHER'S FRIEND so relaxes the a system and as- sists Nature, that the nec- essary change takes place without Nau- sea, Headache, Nervous or , Gloomy Fore- boding of dan- ger,andthe r is robbed of its pai fears so that they may not insist upon denying us the right to live. Skilled workmen are locked out of their shops. They are denied the chance to toil on half pay for a gigantic corporation that bas made millions with the aid of a robber tariff. No wonder the people who see these things are testifying their rage in the great Democratic gains that have come to rebuke the “ad- vance agent of prosperity.”’—Kan- eas City Times. made Tied to a Fence. Paducab, Ky., April 14-The ex citement at Dublin, Ky., over the meted out to her, the wi man refuses to leave aud defies her assailants. Four white men with blackened faces weat to Mrs Gertly’s house, dragged her out, tied her to a fence and beat her brutally with a heavy paliog. A balf-growa son and an 18- were also assaulted. The widow 3rious injuries. What's the Use ot Talking About colds and coughs in the, sum- mer time. You may haye a tickliug to know that Parks cough Syruy is the Congressman Hoiman Very Low. Washiegton, D. C., April 15.— Congressmen Holman of Indiana is lying critically ill at his home in this city and small hopes of his recovery are entertained. Mr. Holman had a bad fall about ten davs ago, and bis present condition ie the result of the shock He has been in failing health for months and was in poor shape jary. Heise under the influence cf opiates at the present time. Mr Holman is 75 years of age and is serving bis sixteenth t+rm in Congresa, the longest House cereer of any man who ever eat in the low er branch of Congress. After Ten Years. Gainesville, Texas, April 14.— Tom Durham, a farmer of Oklaboma, was arrested and jailed here yester- day, charged with killing Policemar, | John Herriott, of this city, ten years| ago, Durham fled to Celifornia sbore- | ly after the murder, and recently moved to the Territory, where he) had married and was doing well. | | j | —____—_ | eae Dr. Boteler Makes Mis Exit. | giving | 3 | i Washington, D.C., April 15 —Dr | |W. C. Boteler of Kansas City, who) Exit Mr f action. | Boteler from the scene o - the of the Coa arks Sure cure. If it does not make|‘? = 13 feel better it costs -you nothing— | bie inic Mothers. ‘Tne Bradfield Bogulater Co, Atisats, Ga-