The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, March 24, 1898, Page 3

REVOLUTIONARY SERMON. | Ago. Washington Heard it at the Battle of Brandy wine. seers HH Sereevews |] Nevada Mail, David R. Pattoo, who is now in jail for the killing of W. W. Furgu- 0D, handed tho Mail the following | ancient document Monday. It has | peen in Mr. Patton's possession for | 99 years and is one of the most elo quent appeals we ever read: Preached on the eve of the battle of Brandy wine, (September 10, 1777) | jn the presence of Washington and his army, at Chadd’s Ford. “They that take the sword shall perish by the sword.” Soldiers and ceuntrymen: We have met this evening perhaps for the lact time. We have shared the toil of the march, the peril of the fight, the dismay of the retreat— alike we have endured toil and hun- ger, the outrage of the foreign op- We have eat night after and sure to punish guilt, then will | the man George of Brunswick, called King, feel in his brain and in hia! Preached to Soldiers 121 Years ‘heart, the vengeance of the Eternal | | Jehovah! A blight will be upon his | He and M. C, Wetmore Are Interested |8t 7 O'clock this evening by Gus life—a withered brain, an accursed intellect—a blight will be upon his children, and on his people. Great God! how dreadful the punishment. | Soldiers—I look around among! your familiar faces with a strange interest! will all go forth to battle—for need I tell you that your unworthy minis {ter will go with you, invoking God's aid in the fight? We will march forth to battle. Need I exhort you to jfightin the good fight—fight for | your homesteads, for your wives and | your children? You will go forth to battle to | morrow with light hearts and de termined spirits, though the solemn duty, the duty of avenging the ded, | may rest heavy on your souls And} in the hour of battle when all around | is darkness, lit by the lurid cannon | glareand the piercing musket-flash, | when the wounded strew the greund and the dead litter your path, then Tomprrow morning we |. EX-GOVERNOR STONE VISITS MEXICO, in the Cuiture of the Ramie Plant. St. Leuis Republic A friend of ex-Governor William J. Stone and M. C. Wetmore, both of whom have been traveling in Old} Mexico, said yesterday that the ob-| ject of their trip was to makea thorough investigation of the prices) andc lands in the; republic with a view to establishing | vast plantations in the State of San} | Luis Potcsi They may even purchase a hacien- | jda near San Luis Potosi e is a'’ready an ex- p u of the remie plant, ith the i cf extending the adustry ¢ fran ie culture ina climate and so! 4's said to sirpass even | nditions of the th ion at of CLi-a, here the plant flour- ishes ia its nitive luxury. Mr. Stone} bas been deeply interested in the possibiivies cf rim’e for some time, aud Mr Wetmcre, who is a business practical sort, man cf the mos: sbot him in the Kansas eS Politician Shot. Kansas City, Mo., March 17.— | James Moran, deputy county sur- veyor, was shot and fatally wounded | Hungerford in a saloon on Fifth and Broadway. Both men are promi- nent in local republican circles. Moran’s brother, John Moran, was recently nominated by the republi-, cans for the council from the second |ward. Hungerford is one of the election canvassers, and Moran ac bis brother og of the names. eked him down and} left breast | | cused him of nct using fairly in the p Hungerford kn with a} | revolver whi'e he was on the ground. Tho bullet passed entirely through | Moran’ sbody The woundei man | wes removed to the Sisters’ Hospi-| tal, where bi expected s death is momentarily | Huogerford is under ar- rest. Hungerford and Joha Moran | were indisted, with several others, | for alleged frauds in connection | with elections in the second ward Boy's Fatal Spart. | Montpelier, Ind, March 18. — PPPPPSOPESES SPOS EO DOC COS re REASONS FOR ?Walter ree Be sure that yor & CO. 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The Eternal God fighta for|*binks that the culture of the ramie| playing with a companion in his fa-| $ BUTLER, MO shared the same rough soldier's fare; | - : will have surpassed in extent and| ¢her’s barn yesterd id: \ 3 after hi Puriliess tearaithe nalloe you—he rides on the battle cloud,he! are : e n yesterday sxid: | 3 Capital, Si ase } un “ Ee < hich called us to duty, |o".-P* cnward with the march of {Prot withia a few years anything) «-Watca me bang myself,” tied a| ; y to loan on real estat low r Al ‘i ts of ; , . - Cc ) 1 Xe * = » 10) °o e estate, at v ates, é st ets o ms the reveille . ees Hiab ¥*|the hurricane charge. The Awfal|©¥°r *¢ omplished by ae Cotton. rope which was suspended froma) ¢ ti » all lands and town lols in Bates county. i Ghales . ie: or the beat of the ta “ : ic re eid the tuba Gel dor son, acd |) Mr. L D Kingsland of this city | beam of tha birn around his neck, | 3 sec os always on hand and forsale. Abstracts of title 2 is- { the signal for the hardy sleep of the | aan cil nara lis believed to! (be interested mith |e@ene Ge Rom ihe ldder He] 3 : 1ed, titles examined and all kinds of real estate : “They that take the sword shall Messra Stone and Wetmore in the} was nearly dead when his mother B, Newrennry, J.C. Crank, § orgenization of company for the ©x- | reached the bara, and died last even-| allan F.W el Aleta § i s | s cK, Notary. ing SAR AR AARP RR RAR ARPA RAR RAR OP j and rav | Little R Ark., not in the spirit of wrong of the so-called China silk is a fabric | on the sve of battle, while the sua- light is dying away beyond yonder heights, the sunlight that tomorrow morn will glimmer scenes of blood We have met amidst the whitening tents of our encampment, intimes of terror and gloom have we gathered together—God grant it may net be fer the last time. It is asolemntime. Brethren, dees not the awful voicesof nature, seem to echo the sympathies of the hour? The flag of our country droops heav- ily from yonder staff—the breeze has died away along the plain of Chadd’s Ford—the plain that spreads before us glistening in the sunlight—the heights of the Brandywine arise gloomy and grand beyord te waters of yonder stream, and all nature holds a pause of solemn silence, on tha eve of the bloodshed and strife of the tomorrow. “They that take the sword shall perich by the sword ” And have they not taken the ewordt Let the desolated plain, the blood sodden valley, the burned farm house, the sacked village, and the ravaged town answer—let the whitening bones of the butchered farmer, strewn along the fields of homestead answer—let the starving mother, with the babe clinging to her withered breast, that can afferd no sustenanee, lt her answer, with the death rattle mingling with ths murmuring tones that mark tha last struggle for life—let the dying moth erand her babeanswer. It was but a day past, and our land slept in the light of peace. War was not here— wrong was not here. Fraud, and woe, and misery, and want dwelt notamong us. From the eternal solitude of th» green woods, arose the blue smoke of the settler’s cabin and go!den fields of corn peered forth from amid the waste of the wilderness, and the glad music of human voices awoke the silence of the forest. Now! God of merey, behold the change! Under the shadow of a pretext—under the sancity of the name of God, imvok- ing the Redeemer to their aid, do these foreign hirelings slay our peo- ple! They throng our tewns, they darken our plains, and now they en- compass our posts on the lonely plain of Chadd’s Ford. “They that take the sword shall perish by the sword.” Brethren, think me not unworthy of belief when I tell you that the doom of the Britisher Think me not vain when I tell you that beyond that cloud that now en- shrouds us, I see gathering, thick and fast, the darker cloud, and the ns, on rho we ik is near!— tion! They may conquer us tomor- row! Might and wrong may pre- vail, and we may be driven from this field--but the hour of God's own Vengeaneo will come! - Aye, if in the vast solitudes of less universe, there throbs the being of an awful God, blacker storm of a Divine Retribu-| 8pace—if in the heart of the bound. |S age. You havetaken the sword for your homes; for your wiyes, for your | little onee. You have taken the sword for truth, for justice and right, you the promise is, to be of good cheer, for your foes have taken the sword, in defiance of all that man holds dear—in blasphemy of God; they shall perish by the sword. And now, brethren and soldiers, I bid you all farewell. Many of us may fall in the fight of tomorrow— | God rest the souls of the falleu— many of us may live to tell the story of the fight tomorrow, and in the will ever rest aod memory of all, linger the quiet seene of this au tumnal night. Solemn twilight ad- vances over the valley; the woods on the opposite heights fling their long shadows over the green of the mead- ows; around us ara the tents of the continental host, the half suppressed bustle of the camp, the hurried tramp of soldiers to and fro;now the confusion and the stillnsss which mark the eve of battle. When we meet again, may the long shadows of twilight be flung over a peaceful land. God in heaven grant it. E } soldier, with the earth for his bed, | rat and the knapsack for his pillow. | pags MEE a And now, soldies end brothers, | BLY ae tensive cultivation and mainelactu é | You have taken the sword, but s 2 Be: we bave met in the peaceful valley rae lof ramie. It is well known that most A Sure Thing for You. A transaction in which you cannoti lose Is a sure thing. Biliousness, sick headache, fur- red tongue, fever, piles and a thousand ’ other ills are caust y constipation and sluggish liv- er. Cascarets Candy Cathartic, the wonderful new liver stimulant and intestinal tonic are by all druggists guaranteed to cure or mo funded. C. are asure thing. ‘Tr $0 cents. Sample and Lookle big ad. SPAIN’S MIND MADE UP. A Semi-Official Ultimatum Declaring That Indemnity Will Not be Paid. Madrid, Msreb 17—The follow- ing semi official note was issued here to day: ‘The report of the Spanish committee on the Maiae is not yet known, but the statement of several technical officers, who have made close examination of the scene of the disaster, shows it to be indis- putably dus to an internal accident. American assertions to the contrary, therefore, are deplored in official quarters as tending to mislead pub- lic opinion and render the situation still more difficult from the stand point of maintaining friendly rela tions between the twocountries. It may be regarded as certain that; should the American technical com mittee present a report declaring | the disaster to be due to an external | | tedious and to;! le |threads, thinner and i being woven into avy fabric, | dyed readily and would be taken for made from the ramie plant by hand. Labor is go cheap in China that the | process of stripping the plants, de gumming the fibar, comb ing and bleachiag the preduc’ can be dons at almost a nominal cost. Southera Texas and Mexico are found to ba es well adapted for the cultivation of the plant as China,but thus far no machine has been iuvent- ed which could compete with the haudwork of the Chinamin, both in emy and dexterity. A numbe: of machines have been inveated for taking the bark off the plant economically, rapidly and with- recently none of these contrivancas placed the cost of its mauufaeture low enough to beat the Celestials. Mr. Kingsland and his associates, however, have secureda machine which is said to handle the ramie plant from its rough state, as cut, into fiber ready for spinning, which will make ramie silk as cheap as cotton and open trade possibili- ties for the culture, treatment and manufacture of the silk which will surpass im a short time the best grade of American cotton. Tt is a fact that Louisiana, Texas and others of the gulf states can produce the silken plants as gener- ously es either Mexico or China, but the advantages in favor of Mexico lies in the fact that the labor is much ;|cheaper than the States. Mr. King- land refuses to discuss the mechine which he is said to control and which it is predieted, revolutienize the silk matufacturing business. There is no doubt, however, that Messrs, Stone and Wetmore are interested in the enterprise, and wi!! formulate plan for the growth and manfacture of the ramie as soon as they return to St. Louis. There are points in Texas and Mexico where five crops of this plant ean be raised annually. The plant itself lives seven to eight years, and as soon us cut sprouts another crop When seven feet high the young plant is ready for the knife. It is skinned, the gums extracted and the fiber appeers in long, snow-white stronger than capable of from It can be uatil very silk, whiter than cotton, gossamer lace to carpets. silk by good judges explosion, the public here will refuse | to accept such a finding, and any de | | mand for an indemnity based thereon | jwill be indignantly repelled by Spain.” Foley's Hone icine is ub ‘and Tar C ‘ough Med- y the best! at and . Plesz asant to take { and is guara | J ATrimbile, dr | se t Miss Carrie Godfrey, of Cheraws, | S. C., was thrown from a carriage at Newberry, S. C., Thursday. Her! head strack on the railroad track and quick to avenge|she died soon after from the effects. | tradition papers. | difficulty has been the adequte ma- The cost of producing the plant! |has always been extremely low The| | charged with out damage to the fiber within, but | The trial of keeper of the |the Koights of Pythias’ Grand lodge 1 Charles F. records owe and see embezzling funds of | an erd this after- Lea the order, cama to noon when Judge the jury. to four for conviction I!l, March 18 and | Mt. Vernon, -Onal wager of $1.50 whisky Jack | construction ha ja 300 pound j mile without stopping or allowing it to touch the ground. Hl eS | earried | Gcegory, a telephone sterday. | amie a quarter of a} A verdict of death by foul means wes renderei at the inquest Thurs- day over the remains of Andy Gamm, | which were found badly decomposed in the rail:oad tauk four miles south of McKinney, Tex, Monday. No arrests have been made. It is true wisdom for every- body to take a thorough course of | Swift’s Specific just at this season of the year. The blood is slu h and impoverished, and the system is full of impurities which should be eliminated. In addition to thoroughly cleansing the blood, and toning up the system so as to avoid loss of appetite and a gen- eral run-down feeling in the spring, §. S. S. so strengthens and builds up as to fortify against the many forms of dangerous il that abound during the hot sum- mer It is a very small matter to take this precaution but it insures health and strength all summer. Swift’s Specific S.S.S 7. Blood is far ahead of all other remedies for this purpose. It is a real blood remedy which promptly ss season. purifies the blood and thoroughly stem, tones and renovates the entire s and strengther omach, appetite. It ng pure blood rem ns the sly vege- , and the o |guaranteed to sulphur, mercury, mineral substance, 7 | chinery. It is believed that the St. |Louisans named above have solved | the problem and will project the en- terprise within the next few weeks.i¢ Geo. A. Harmon, Terre Haute, Ind., on a charge of} larceny from J. A. Thompson, of | Wentzville, Mo., and suspected ot complicity im the Citizens’ Bank robbery Februsry 19, has been brought back to Wentzville on ex- arrested at} j much | nae; "3 Te Take | .S. S. and be we ll all summer. j | discharged | Q The 10 men stood eight | ) two quarts of | $ | night, by Sherift Hubb | of that city bas | him without the papers. eee FEE ") BARN. } Tam running a first-class Feed Barn opposite La- ; clede Hotel. Farmers patronage respectfully solic- $ ited. T want all the $ > COOD HAY IN BATES COUNTY. See me for prices. Want five to ten car loads of : $ good oats for which I will pay the highest price. 3 3 g B. F. JOHNSON, BUTLER, MO. RAR RRRRRRAR APD PD ADP PRE AFI FF IR RAAF Toledo, O, March 18.—Ex-Secra tery of the Treasury Charles Foster | today gave a newspaper interview on| Cuban situation. He said: “The | decision for peace or war really lies with Spain. She must accept our intervention in Cuba or she must | declare war. Senator Proctor’s | vivid description of the condition ef} the island and the horrors suffered | by the hapless Cuban reconcentra dos shows a condition which justifies the Unitei States in intervening promptly. Now, what ehape should our intervention take? Iam strong ly in favor of doing it by the recog- nition of the republic of Cuba asa free acd independent nation. United States should not declare war against a weaker nation Put the burden of the decision upon her by tke simple course of recegnizing Cub: as independent. Stop drugging youreelf with quack nostrums or “cures.” Geta well known pharmaceutical remedy that will do the work. 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