The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, October 21, 1897, Page 7

ep aa RR RII, HAS A UNIQUE RECORD. Tho Champion Marrying Parson of the United States. Rev. Dr. George C. Baldwin, of Troy, N. Y., Has United Six Thousand Persons in Wedlock, and In Still at It. The champion marrying minister of the United States is the patriarchal Rev, Dr. George C. Baldwin, of Troy, N. Y. Dr. Baldwin is nearly 80 years old, but he is as young in mind at least as most men of 50. His eyes are piercingly mile bright and cheery, and His handshake is keen, his his voice stentorian. strong and hearty. For more than a half century he has been marrying couples, and to-day the list has reached the enormous number ‘of 3,000. Six thousand persons united in wed- lock by one minister. Everybody in Troy and vicinity knows Dr. Baldwin. Young people who want to get married go to the venerable pas- tor, knowing that they will always re- ceive a kind greeting anda hearty “God bless you” when departing. They like him because his cheerful- ness is so spontaneous, so contagious and so quick to dispel any embarrass- ment they may feel. Dr, Baldwin is en- shrined in the hearts of thousands. He bas wedded the children and the grandchildren of those who first came to him. Heh een many of “his chil- dren,” as he loves to call them, become old and pass away. He has seen their children grow up to manbood and womanhood, and he has seen many of them cross the great divide “f performed my first marris than half a century age erable pastor to a New York Journal re- porter, “and since then thousands of young people have come to me, For years I have ministered to the spiritual wants of a great body of people who be- long to no church. While I was pastor of the Third Street Baptist church, and REV, GEORGE C. BALDWIN. (The Champion Marrying Parson of the United States.) even before that, they came to me. I have married many of them and I have officiated at the funerals of many of them. I have seen many of them grow old; I have married many of their chil- dren. 1 marry several couples a week now when times are good, ‘but when times are bad there are fewermarriages. Commercial conditions sway the matri- monial straws with great accuracy. “I suppose that one reason why I marry so many people is because I am so well known. I marry a couple; they know another young couple who also wish to wed. They tell them of Dr. Baldwin, and so, of course, they come to me. I predict that the wave of pros- perity which is now slowly spreading all over the United States will cause many marriages.” “Do you have many queer experi- ences, doctor?” “Oh, yes; so ma that IT can't begin to recount them, But IT recall one in particular, Not very long a man from Albany came to me and said he wished to be married, and I obliged him by wedding him to the woman of his choice. He was an elderly man. Before he left he called me aside and said: ‘Doctor, IT want to tell you something. You are the man who married me 50 years I don’t. suppose you recol- lect the event?" Of course I didn’t re- member him, but I was very glad to meet him again. It is not the privilege of every minister to marry the same man twice, espe dings se wed- ing domi i state “lL believe that the x is less expensive than cel- Of course care and 7 prudence must be exerc It should be so in ge is not a mere ise. It isa great ven- when two people are ly mated their lot an enviable Matrimony breadens their ment them for better life brighter. Iam . of perfect, or near- rs. Ob, they are There are thousands of ss. They are the happi- ation. If more right view of matri- mo would be fewer jails and penit aries, I believe it is the duty of people to mar let them obey the tiblical injunet and prope to be found. happy marri people took the ther Men Who Get Drunk on CIry. The habit of ¢ the Indians in upon by the natives in much the same light as inebriation by liquor in this country, The clay eaten is of a dirty white color and has a peculiar appear- ance and does not crumble, but becomes sticky when moistened. Itis held in the mouth until it dissolves and is swal- towed in small quanti ting exists among Ss. Married People Live Longest. Married people live longer than the unmarried, the temperate and indus- trious longer than the gluttonous and idle, and civilized nations longer than the uncivilized. Tall persons enjoy a greater longevity than short ones. METEORITE NOT NEW. feary’s Nickel Steel America Found by Ross in 1818S. The meteorite which Lieut. Peary has brought home with him from Cape York was found in 1818 by Sir John plorers for many years. fragments uggreguting 500 pounds in weight were collected. known to exist, and it is believed that ducing meteors are as large as these masses. ‘1 meteoroids are entirely in- sible until, at a height of less than 100 miles from the earth, they enter air dense enough to resist their motion and create light. But for the action of the air in arresting and destroying the meteoroids should be intolerably we which rosed !, prob a trace of copper and tin. fact, a mass nick from which the armor f is made. No wondert y some cob: be of -ste gnorant an enormous * coast, h that thrown tone” lay on the there by It was found in t} mount a In this : as lis- by Dr. Irwin, of the United States army, who bought it fora sum and gave it to the Smithsonian in- stitution. Santa Cat- 1eson. covered WILL NOT UNITE. Report That Volt Back to Snivation Army Denied. The banner of the Sal not going to wave over the American Volunteers, as has been stated. On the contrary, the flag of the Volunteers will shortly be unfurled to the breezes of England. A report from Detroit that lington Booth, Mont Clair, N. graph who is at her home at Volunteers of America with that organ- y and is looked | ization known as the Salvation Army is utterly without foundation. Com- mander Ballington Booth and his fol- lowing left the Salvation Army on an | issue which involves principle and un- reconcilable ‘differences of opinion con- cerning democratie and autoeratie gov- ernment.” Col. Hollimond, private secretary to Ballington Booth, commander of the Volunteers, sa “T can authorize a complete denial of any plan or prospect of any affiliation of the army and the Volunteers. “Maj. Blackhurst has gone to Eng- land at the invitation of the former Sal- vation Army officers to help establish the Volunteers in England.” Commander Ballington Booth is in San Francisco now inspecting posts, his private secretary said. Booth-Tuck- er is also in San Francisco working for his new labor colony. ROTTENNESS IN SPAIN. How a Prominent Spaniard Accounts for the Cuban Situation. London Truth prints a statement, said to emanate froma prominent Span- iard, accounting for the Cuban situa- ticn, He is quoted as saying that in Spain there is no such thing as public opinion and that the government of that country is a mere struggle a number of profe and that with very few between 1 politic’ ceptions these politicians endeavor to feather their own nests. Capt. Gen. Weyler is credited with having amassed a fortune in the Phil- ippine islands, and he is said by the Spaniard referred to to have increased it in Cuba, although, probably, he has had to divide with a good many poli- ticians at home. The Spanish army i pronounced to be as rotten as theS ish civil service system, and still, ac- cording to Trut info Spanish regiment is sent to attack a force of insurgents the Spanish com- mander sends an emissary with a purse who makes arrangements which provide nant, when a that while the S march one way the insurgents go away by another route. HE SWALLOWED HIS TEETH. Queer Accident That Nearly Cost a Massachusetts Man His Life. 3. Thomas Sawyer, one of the we jest and most inthuential men of hampton, Ma h a pecu and painful ent. About o'clock in the morning, while he swallowed two false teeth. ‘T’ m in the mo sible to draw the teeth out ar eration was nece Dr. Rie of Boston, wa able to come. Was se the ope teeth removed. prongs. fell out. throat he w get lowed t | the pro could not be removed. tense pain. Losing Fight with Hard Luck. | The diary of an old woman who late- ly died in Vienna showed that she had | spent 38,240 fiorins on lottery tickets, j while her winnings amounted to only sag florins. Brought to Ross, and has been known to arctic ex- In 1873 there was a fall of meteorites in Iowa, and Iron masses as- sumed to be of meteoric origin are the largest detonating and stone-pre- of yng time | ns at} mal cers Were Going ation Army is | the Volunteers and Salvation Army were going to unite isdenied. Mrs. Bal- | “The story tele- | from Detroit of a possible re- conciliation and amalgamation of the ; CHAPPIE WEARS A VEIL! does Ali His Fellows. Adopted the Style Because the Sun Shone Real Strong—Proad of His Pink-and-White Complexion. ‘No animal, either biped or quadruped, caused such a sensation at the West- chester (N. Y.) horse show last week as was achieved by Goold Hoyt. Mr. Hoyt isa young gentleman whose ideas had hitherto been confined to consid- ering what was correct form accord- ing to the rules laid down by othe aud slavishly followed by all chap dom. While attending the horse show, however. he was struck by what must have been an inspiration. He had been seated on the top ch for some time enjoying the exhibition of hand- some horses and women when he be- came di reeably conscious of the fact that him with unocomfor ow, if there is any one thing on which Goold Hoyt prid himself more than another it the sun was glari of that hyp n country | is his complexion, which to his intense d upon the str sect with | delight has on more than one ocea- awe first hear ieteorite | sion been Ceseribed as “just lovely” from i about | by fair dudines of his acquai Goold Hoyt reflected for some mom It would certuinly never do to have some his face . but it was equally out A ve nen now in| of the question for him to t k of the ni um is four feet in| leaving the show. Everybody was diamet thing 1,460 pounds ap-}| there. and as Goold Hoyt was certain- proxim and has the shape of a} ly somebody he could not for a mo- ment thi k of departing. His set-up, he knew, was faultless, because more than one admiring glance from bright eyes had been cast in his direction. Indeed, it is hinted that this latter fact had something to do with the ex- traordinary expedient resorted to by the embarrassed young gentleman, it being alleged that he was desirous of protecting his modesty from the g aforesaid. Le this as it may Hoyt astonished everybody by calmly taking from his vest pocket a greerf veil, which he deftly fastened around the rim of his hat in such a way as allowed the flimsy stuff to protect his elicate skin. Whether he was chiefly animated by a desire to save his com- plexion or by a wish to hide his dainty features fromm the mob of people “not in our set” may never be known. What- ever Goold Hoyt’s motive may have been when he “took the veil” there is no doubt that his action in this respect One of New York’s Dudelets Out. | 4 was the most sensational incident of the horse shew. For an hour or two Goold Hoyt sat there a-top of the coach. attracting more attention than all the other fea- tures of the show. Before long he was surrounded by a crowd of men and women, some of whom were profanely inclined to poke fun at the author of such a daring innovation. Mr. Hoyt apparently enjoyed the sensation he eaused, looking very smug and self- complacent behind his filmy face cov- ering. His coach was close to the fence inclosing the parade ground of the horses, and everyone present had full opportunity to study carefully the ef- fect of the green veiling over the face of a young gentleman. Later in the day he was asked: “Weren't you afraid of being ridi- culed?” “I am afraid of ghosts only.” an- swered Goold Hoyt. HE INSULTED JEFFERSON. Why Moore's Name Does Not Appear in Congressional Library. ‘The recently-discovered omission of Thomas Moore’s name from the roll of poets inscribed on the walls of the new Congressional! library has aroused the Ancient Order of Hibernians in Wash- ington, and they are formulating an ap- pea! to the 500,000 other members of the order in this country to bring pressure upon congress to have the omission rec- tified. lheir complaints have developed the fact that Moore wrote a number of bit- ter poems against America while in this country, and, unlike Dickens and some other English literary crities, did not confine his strictures to America at large, but wrcete a number of pointed, and almost unprintable, things about Jefferson, who wasat that ume president of the United States. These “Poems Relating to America” have been collected in a single volume, and it was upon this showing of delib- erate insult to the then president of the United States that the library officials say the name of Moore was omitted from the honor roll of poets. PICKS UP A SMALL FORTUNE. East St is Patrolman Finds $1,200 in Gold on the Sidewalk. Officer Dave Little, of the East St. Lours (Ill) police department, found a satchel containing the m 00 in $10 and $20 gold pieces on the sidewalk in front of Dr. R. A. Twite s resi- dence on North Tenth street in East s made about two o'clock g by the officer as he was g beat. He saw the satchel on the sidewalk and thought that as it lay in front of Dr. Twitchell’s residence and was quite heavy it contained sur- gical instruments that the doctor had forgotten to take into the house. Officer Little took the valise to the house and aroused the doctor, who said st was not his, but as he was about to 3se the door Mrs. A. J. Butler, who was spe the night there, said it belonged to her husband, Dr. A. J. But- jer. who had left it in her charge, and she had put it down to bid the doctor goced-by and forgotten it. The money } Was taken along for fear of burglars if left at home. Grow Blind at Night. Night blindness is a particular af- fection of the eye in which the patient sees well during the day, but becomes blind as night approaches. It is most- ly met with in warm climates, and usually gives way to mild treatment. Pte ennet - cememiiamecamanas SEE OOOOLOTEE Ea PES Ss COLLEGE SE Ea D N. THOMPSON, President. FE. A. BENNETT, Vice-President. E O KIPP. Cashier ) G.W NEWBERRY, Asst. Cashier q G. P. WYATT, Asst, Cashier. RESOURCES Loans and Discounts... Farniture and Fixturea We wact your bueiuees Other Stocks and Bonds,.. Cash and Sight Exchange,. OFFICIAL STATEMENT —OF THE— FARMERS BANK, of Bates County, Buticr, Mo, AT THE CLOSE OF BUSINESS, OCT. 4, 1897. Condensed } $100,144 47 Surplus and Deposits, Above Statement is Correct Capital Stock E. D. KIPP, Cashier. Deposits Oct. 5, 1896, $52,755 95. UNDER STATE SUPERVISION. ARE LIABILITIES 850,00) 00 PE PPP APOP A Prods, 6 oe 4 $160,941 SS RAR RAPRRPAPSY VRRLAR RRRRRRAR RRARRRARBE RAPA | DEACON BROS &CO. Heavy and Shelf Hardware. Cutlery | and Guns, Tinware & Stoves, Field and Garden Seeds, Buggies, Wag- ons and Farm Machinery, Wag- on wood work, Iron, Steel, Nails, Sait, Barb wire, Buggy Paints, Machine Oils. Groceries and Farm Produce | | i { ROUND OAK HEATER. The woods are full of Oaks, but bere is on'y one Rourd Oak. We sellit. Burns any kind of fuel, coal, coke or wcod. Keeps fire all sight, buras the coal all up, makes ao clinkers. It has pleased thous- ands, it will please you. It is air ‘ight, is made of the best material. There are over 400 imitations; co be -ure to look for the name Round Oak on the leg. OUR SPECIALTIES. Bain Wagon, Hoosser Drille, Good Enough Sulky Plows, Moline Stir ring Plows, Kentucky Wagons, Our $12 00 Cook Stove made by Charter Oak Co., Our large Crown St Clair ange oly $1900, Cur Thomp- <on Spring Wagon, with pat- nt oscilator, the Majestic Steel Range, the best in the world, Chase and Sanborn’s fine Bostcn Coffees Columbian Stee! enameled ware, the only American Round Washer, Buck- ye Double Acting Force Pumps, Complete rew stock of Guns and Rifles for the fall trade. New Club Loaded Shella, a}! kinds of Heating Stoves and the best buggies for the ADMITS IT IS A SHAM. Secretary Gage Punctures the Bubbie of “Bimetailism.”’ USED MERELY TO CATCH VOTES. Wasbington, D.C, Uct. 15 —The forth-comwg recommendations of Secretary Gage on the currency question in bis avnual report to con |} gress will puncture the buoole of | ; “bimetaliisom” which Presiveut Me | § ght. | Kinley has been expleiting through | | hig monetary commission to Europe. | dict that after 1898 the number will Secretary Gage is now at work upon his repert, and it ie stated on | excellent authority that all his plans contemplate the complete failure of the bimetallic commission, aud tuat bis recommendation to congress aie | based upon the theory that by De ember tae whole world will know the hollowness of the theory that the administration proposes to at tempt anytbivg for silver. Messrs. Wolcott, Stevenson and Payne, who constitute the bimetallic commission, are still in Europe. They have accomplished nothing thus far, and there is hardly a re- mote pors:b lity that anything will be done. Everyone who is versed ia finan- cial affairs knows that the commis sion was sent abroad for the main purpoee of creating a false :mpres sion with the public. It was allowed $100,000 by congress, or such part of itas might be necessary Un doubtedly there will be little of thie vast sum left when the “commis sion” reports to the president that it was unable to bring about an in- ternational conference on the mone- tary question. CONTEMPLATES GOLD MONOMETALLISM. Secretary Gage has been formu- lating bie plans for financial sugges tions and they contemplate outright gold monometallism Some time ago the secretary sent a confidential circular to bis banker friends asking their opinion on these propositions: First—To refund the whole of the present national debt into 2} per cent bonds, interest and principal | payable in gold. Second—lIn order to prevest or correct redundancy of the currency. to sell $200,000,000 gold bonds with | which to retire legal tender and sil ver notes. Third—In order to strengthen the gold reserve, to sell in Evrope $200,000,000 gold bonds Fourth—Authorize national banks to issue notes not ovly at par of United States bonds deposited to {secure circulation, but to issue in | addition notes to an amount equal to 25 per cent of the capital stock without security at Washington money ever sold in Bates Co. DEACON BROS. & CO. Low pric- Hardware and Grocer Co. Millinery MISS KATE HARPER, | anace ] The West Side Milliner, Has her new FALL GOODS on | display and the stock is as hand- | some as ever brought to the city. | ; i | Miss Clara Obermeyer, An artistic and experienced trim- mer from St Louis, has been employed and Miss Anna Hulse, Who has spent nine seasors with the late firmof Ha’ m & Vay cAMP, is Assistant sited to Call Selections. The Ladies are Ir Early and Make It May Save Your Life. A dose or two of Foley’s Honey and Tar will prevent an attack ef pneumonia. grip or se- vere cold if taken im time. Cures coughs, colds, croup. ippe. hoarseness. breathing, whooping cough. — can- sumption, or bronchitis, ives posi- tive relief in advanced stages of consumption asthma or bronchitis. Guaranteed. 5 National bank notes to be legal ten- der. | “Tt is now asserted that the object | of the secretary was to gather acon | ceneus of opinion, and that bis mes |eage will recommend making the | nations! debt payable in gold. | Thereis no question about what ‘congress will do. Both Houses wi!) | peremptorily refuse to fellow bi- H lsuggestions. But the meat of the | proposition 18 that President Mce- | Kinley’s Secretary of the Treasury | will lay bare the hollowness of the proposition that the administration | H \is for silver in any shape. i PENSION. LIST STILL GROWS. | Showing Made in the Report ef Com- missioner H. Clay Evans. Washington, D. C., Oct. 16.—H. | Clay Evans, Commissioner of Pen- sions, has transmitted his aopual ireport to the Secretary cf the In- ‘terior. It shows that there are now | on the pension list as a result of the ‘Jate civil war, the names of 983,682 | pensioners. This is an increase over Hast year of 13,000 names. This is explained in the report on the ground that this administration has taken up and disposed of a number of old claims for arrears of pensions, | which were bequsathed by the ad- [ministration of Judge Lochren and } Commissioner Dominic I. Murphy. | There ara stilla great number of j these old claims yet to be acted jupon, and as these are likely to | more than balance the names which ‘will be stricken from the rolls by jreason of d-ath, decrease in the | number of pensioners is not yet in Commissioner Evans says: “I pre- | begin to drop off, and then decline very rapidly ” The expenditures during the past year were $142,477,841, or $3,000,- 000 in excess of the expenditure of the preceding year A feature of the report is that Commissioner Evans will suggest legislation which will render wom~n who marry pensioners after this year ineligible to draw pensions as widows Itis a common practice for young women to marry old pen- sioners, just to draw the widow's pension. This practice is very no- ticeable around the Soldiers’ homes, where young women make love to the old soldiers, avd then do not +ven live with them after marnage. {t is a practice which is helping to maintain the long pension list. McCreary a Senatorial Aspirant. Fravkfort, Ky., Oct. 14 —Ex-Con- gressman McCreary of Richmond, who served on the international monetary conference by appointment of President Cleveland, but who has since developed into a free silver leader, will, it is said, be a candidate to succeed Senator Lindeay. Ex- Senator Blackburn is also a candi- date. SUMMIT TOWNSHIP S. S. CONVENTION To Be Held at Summit M.E. Church Sun- day, October 31st, 1897. PROGRAMME. 10:00 a. m.—Township 8. 8. conduct- ed by 8S. C. Lynn. 11:00 a. m.—Preaching service, sub- ject, Sunday Schools by Rev. R. R. Coffey. Intermission—Dinner on ground. 1:30 p. m.—Devotional services, J. C. Phillips. 11:45 p. m.—The relation that Parents sustain to theS.S., J. E. Butler and G. W. Fowler. 10 minutes discussion.— Music. 1:39 p. m.—The qalified Superintend- ent, paper, J. L. Shubert, 10 minutes discussion. p. m.—The qualified teacher, Rev. Win. Jones— Music. p. 1n.— How to organize and con- ducted a Normal class, ‘I’. W. Legg— Music. 3:40 p. m.—Address by presidént, R. M. Inlow—Musie. 4:10 p. m.—How I teach my primary class, Mrs. Lydia Potts. 8. C. Lynn, President. W. Fow er, Secretary. Administrator's Sale. I will sell at public sale, to the highest bidder, at the residence of the late Robert H. Knaus, two and one-half miles west of Ballard and four miles south of Altona, on SAT- URDAY, OCT. 30, 1897, the foliowing property to-wit: Onebay mare 5 vears old, one bay horse 5 years old, one 3-year-old mule, one 2-year-old male, one mule colt, one old roan mare, one fine blooded cow 5 years old, one heifer calf, one brood sow. 6 head of stock hogs, and about 160 bushels of oats, about 26 acres of corn standing 87 shocks of corn in field, one saddle and bridle, one set double harness, one 14-inch stirring plow, one har- row, one cultivator, one-half interest in a corn planter, one lamber wagon, | about 140 fence posts, 108 feet of box- {ing, one grindstone and many other articles too numerous to mention. Terms:—Allsuws under $5 cash, on sums of $5 and over @ note with two approved securities due in twelve months froin date, without interest if paid when due, but if not so to draw 8 per cent from date. A dis- count of 8 per cent will be made for cash in hand. Sale to commence at 10 o'clock, a. m. i 4 i C. N. TEETER. Praxa L:Fouterr, Adm'r. Aue. j