The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, May 4, 1899, Page 4

VOTE TO SAVE THE OHILDREN. The Times bas no desire or inten. tion to attempt to dictate to the — | people of this district how they shall yote on the school levy. We firmly believe that if our public spirited citizens understand that it is neces- |sary to vote the additienal levy in order to haye a nine months school, that they will vote it. The argument jused by some who are opposed, | because of lack of interest in our | schools, that teachers’ wages are too The great naval battle at Manila high, is ridiculous. Weare paying was fought May Ist, one year ago|a lower schedule of wages than any Monday | district the seize in the state. Any man who favors education and progress would much rather increase the price for better talent than decrease the wages with the absolute certainty of getting poorer teachers. To let our public schools take a backward step would he the worst backset our town has eyer received. The additional levy asked is the same as was voted last year and is absolutely necessary in order to continue our schools at the nine months term. Citizens who now have children at the school age will not think kindly of large property owners, who have educated their children in our public schools, and now oppose the school levy in order te save taxes. The pride of our state and the safe guard of our country is our public schools, where the poor man’s childran can have the same educational advantages as the rich. The man who has children and doesn’t have to pay taxes, gets tho full benefit. Acyclone passed through San-| Te poor man should rebuke the ders county, Nebraska, Sunday and|8ttempt to take away those rights destroyed everything in its path. and keep his children in ignorance Many head of stock were killed and|fer the purpose of saving a few the damage to property will iount | Péltry dollars in taxes. to thousands of dollars. There is no denying that there is - . considerable dissatisfaction among a Mark Hanna cays that a meeting | respectable number of the patrons of the republican national commit- of the echools at the management, tee is unnecessay. Thereis nothing and further that this, in a large for the members of that organiza measure, was responsible for the tion to do but to omy ae the or-| defeat of the levy. That this isa ders of oe chairman, who is also the very unfortunate situation all admit, whole thing.—Repubiic. but we contend that that fact does ft is claimed by the county clerk|not justify the disruption of the of St. Clair county, that the county|schools. The present board is jadges went into Osceola on Friday|composed of gentlemen, whom, we night, met in the court house, made| believe, intend to eatisfy~ all the the tax levy and returned to their| patrons by the selection of the very hiding places. The deputy marshals| best principal obtainable. A major are still waiting for them to appear.|ity have assured us that they are aims unpledged and intend to do the very in our desire for retrenchment let| beat they can for the success of the as not begin on our public schools. | gehools. We have no right to rob our children} sincerely trust that for the of'theee advantages. We would be! interests of the schools and the city guilty. if ne permitted them to grow | that the required levy will be voted opin ignorance and idleness Men by an overwhelming majority. lose their patriotism indeed when they oppose the education of the children for the sake of saving a few paltry dollars in taxes. A cargo of dead coldiers arrived Lamar Democrat, is so-nd demo- at New York Friday on the govern cratic doctrine. He is strongly in ment transport Crook. The bodies, favor of making the money question 356 in number, were shipped from the dominant issue in 1900 A de- Porto Rico, Santiago and Guantana |™254 for more money and economy mo, 98 from Ponce, Porto Rico, 12|i2 public expenditures. He declares from Guantanamo and 246 from/| tbat “the annexation of the Phillip- Santiago de Guba. The marines pine archipelago is but the beginning and sailors will be buried in the|°f 8 Policy of colonial Ombre Henne: paval cemetery at the navy yard, nant to the Monroe doctrine and Wew York, and the 246 volunteers | S¥bversive of the cardinal tenets of will be sent to the national cemetery, republican institutions which have at Arlington. hitherto guided us during our con | stitutional history.” He recognizes the startling growth of trusts as necessarily making that an issue of commanding importance “The absence of competition stimu lates the inordinate greed of trusts and makes it easy for them to plun- der the people. Trusts are to day closing factories, discharging em ployee, intimidating enterprise, rais- BUTLER WEEKLY TIMES J. D. ALLEN Epiror. ie D. ALLEN & Co., Ptoprietors 3 TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: The Weext.y Times, published eyery Thursday, will be sent to any address one year, postage paid, for $1.00. The hardware manufacturers, it is gaid, have formed a trust with a cap- ital of $40.000,000 The mayor of Kirksville bes is- azed a proclamation asking for aid tor the cyclone sufferers. Bob Fitzsimmon has begun train- ing in earnest for his battle with Jim Jefferies, which is to be decided at Coney Island on the 26th of this month. If our legislation succeeds in pass- ing & strong measure for the control of truste, it will have accomplished enough to well pay the people of the atate for all other delinquencies. The Ash Grove Fruit Growers As- sociation at Ash Grove, Mo, have set out this season over half a mil- lion strawberry plants. There will be picking in those diggings next spring. Aterrific wind and sand storm prevailed in western Kansas Sunday and did immense damage to the newly planted field A SOUND POLIOY. Hon. A. M. Dockery’s recently avowed platform, as published in the Jast as soon as the jury failed to sonvict Matthew S. Quay of stealing the funds of the Philadelphia bank, Governor Bill Stone of Pennsylvania appointed Quay United States Sena- tor—the legislature having failed to elect a senator. There is nothing can beat a bank wrecker in that state. Even Gillett, the Kansas cat- | tle King, who got away with a half! ing prices and thus imposing bur-| million dollers of the people's money, | dens upon the great producing and would be all right among Pennsyl |consuming masses. Nothing but vania republicane.— Ex. | the strong arms of state and federal Washington dispatches of haves i # ; & x jsinister evil which menaces 26th inst. say the President sent for) watety and perpetuity of our institu- General Miles to consult him in re! tions ” gard to the needs of the army inthe| He declares it as his opinion that Philippines. It is said this is the|the democratic party can win in second time that the President has/| 1900 yt such issues, if “we adjust consulted General Miles—the first Bae Giccsaiis ne ae being on July 2, 1898, when Shafter judgment of the majority.” lay helpless before Santiago, cabling! It is recognized that Mr. Dockery’s for permission to retreat. “Cable| Public record, so welland favorably Shafter to demand the surrender of EBOwn to the people of Missouri, Santiago,” said Miles. The President hag — ee pes 2a om did so and the bluff worked like a state necessarily helps the national sharm, and Gen. Toral surrendered ticket. Z his Spanish army to Shafter. And) While itis early for the party to yet some people seem to think Shaf- commit itself upon a candidate for my ; governor a year hence, it would re- |quire a very strong man indeed to defeat Mr. Dockery for that coveted honor. tera great general. Miles deserves the credit of the surrender of Santi- ago.—Clinton Democrat. the | power can arrest and destroy this} the} a that fate has refused them. Fate is often in this case only another word for ignor- ance. Many a glad mother dates her happiness from the day she 6 first began the use Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescrip- tion. It often hap, that with the cure oe female weakness and the establish- ing of the delicate womanly organs in a sound rape the way is open ior the joy = of motherhood. oe vorite Prescription ’’ is a specific for the chronic ailments peculiar to women. It cures them perfectly and permanently. No other medicine can do for women so much as ‘ Favorite Prescription.”” Do not therefore let any other medicine be palmed off on you as ‘‘ just as good.’’ ‘Favorite Prescription” contains no alcohol, opi- um, cocaine or other nar- cotic. It is strictly a temperance medicine. < “T had been a sufferer from uterine troubleffor about three years, and the doctors that I Consulted said I would have to go through an operation before I could give birth to children,” writes Mrs. Blanche E. Evans, of Parsons, Luzerne Co., Pa., Box 41. ““When about to give up in despair I saw the advertisement of Dr. Pierce’s medicine and thought I would give itatrial. I bought a bottle of Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription, and after taking it felt better than I had for years. Felt improved before I had taken one-half of the bottle. After taking four and a half bottles I gave birth to a bright baby girl who is now four months old and has not had a day of sick- ness. She is as bright as can be.” A woman’s complexion often suffers because of poisonous accumulations in the system. Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant Pel- lets remove these accumulations and cleanse the complexion. They regulate the stomach, liver and bowels. The ideal souree of bitterness is attributed to the slowest, most in- active and most fretful organ of the body—the liver. It isa gland—it produces nothing, it simply secretes gall he writer is of the opinion that tle average editor dips his pen too often in gall Led largely by the expres-ions of such newspapers as the Kansas City Times, we have had some sympathy with the bitter stuff written anent our Governor. The recent attacks on him has led us to a detailed study of the official acts of Stephens. Result: We find that moet of the rot written about him is spite pure and simple. The elegant gentlemen of the gold wing hated him always and hate him still. Gov. Stephens may have some faults— who bas not? No wan has ever found him really guilty of a dishonest deed. He has shown a loyalty to his friends found only in men of honor. The charge that he organiz- ed the legislature we ficd was a false charge, the real man guilty received not the blame that he should. No longer shall we allow our columas to echo the growls of men, sour and scolding because they failed to dic tate to Governor Lon V. Stephens. —Richmond Missourian A sensational report was published in the papers that the citizens of St. Clair county would on the let of May escort their county judges to the court house in Osceola and stand guard over them while they made the annual levy for taxes, and that they would resist forcibly any effort of Deputy U.S Marsbals to serve Processes on them The first came and went and the deputy marshals were on the ground, hut the judges failed to putin an appearance, and the reported citizens guard were not in evidence. New Laws tor Railroads, Jefferson City, May 1.—Governor Stephens te-day approved Wight’s bill to give the railroad commis sioners power to compel railroads to run their trains so that they will make connections with trains on }other roads. Governor Stephens | also approved the following senate bills: An act requiring railroads to | settle for live stock killed or injured | witbin six weeks after the amount of damage has been ascertained; an } act requiring railroad companies to} | make track connections and to inter-| | change care. | Germany should make a little! jallowance for Capt. Coghlan. |have known Americans to drink a| few glasses of beer—imagine the! enemy was after them—shoot a hole | in their hat, and then fill an import H ant niche in the Interior Department | at Washington. | just as important as “rush ¥ the, growler.’—Clinton Democrat. | Missouri Fruits and Berries, Joplin, Mo., May 1—Reports from | the fruit district of Southwest Mis-| souri indicate fine prospects for a} good strawberry crop, but the ber-| ries will be three or four weeks later | than usual. big crop of cherries | and apples is promised, but the yield | jof blackberries will bs short while} | the raspberries were nearly all killed by the late cold weather. | down. We. COST OF THE WAR. An Approximate Estimate Up te Date Makes it $275,000,000. ‘ashington, May 1—An approxi-| mate calculation places the total | expenditures of the Treasury on| account of the war with Spain, from the beginning of the war prepara-| tions in March of last year up to the present time, at $275,000,000. | It is impossible for the Treasury offieials to form even a rough esti- mate of what the war will eventually | cost in the pay ofincreased pensions | and miscellaneous charges on the) Treasury. The pension expenditures are expected to be heavy in propor. tion to the number of men engaged | and the duration of the war and on| account of the large percentage of | sickness that prevailed in the army of General Shafter. Much will also depend on the duration of the Philippine campaign. | The expenses of the navy are rapidly | being reduced to a normal basis, but the Philippine campaign is still keeping the War Department ex- penditures up. TORNADO DRIVES A PRAIRIE FIRE. FOR BLOOD PAINE’S CELER Sweeps It Across Country in Nebraska With the Speed of the Wind. Coleridge, Neb., April 30—A prairie fire burning in the hay fields along the northern tier of counties in Nebaaske, ten miles from this place, yesterday afternoon, passed into the track of a tornado and was swept with the speed of the wind diagonally aeross this county for 25 milee, destroying everything in its path. The only lives lost so far as known | were those of Mrs. Rolla Livingston | and her 5-year-old boy. The woman saw the fire coming and ran to the pasture to release the family stock. The boy followed her. Both were knocked down by the terrified auima!s. The fire passed over them before they could get out of the way. The body of the boy was almost consumed and Mrs. Liv- ingston lived but a few hours. A great many cattle were over- taken and burned. A large number of farmhouses were destroyed and the families escaped by seeking ref- uge beyond the track of the storm. The path of the fire was nearly one mile wide. Some of the losses are: Rolla Liv ingston, $15,000: Stanley Martin, $20,000; David Walker, $10,000; Isaac Pritchett, $2,000; W. A. Ben- nitt; Joseph Hodgkin, $20,000; Wm. Weber, $25,000; James Parsons, 300 head of stock, etc. $12,000; Wm Zook, large number of borses and cattle, $10,000. Blown From Kirksville, Lancaster, Mo., April 28.—A great many articles of wearing apparel, papers and other pieces of jewelry bearing the names of Kirksville per- sons were found strewn over the western part of this county to day. They were blown from Kirksville 25 miles, by the tornado. Among other things was a $100 note. effects that it has no competitor spring remedics of ail kinds combined never yet failed! ** Courage and Strength Fences ileendanoe atte nb » 5 os in Times of Danger. STATE OF MISSOURI, ; ase nenenenaenamamamereenmamnens County of Bates. "s °° itcourt of Bates cor May 6, 1-9. B Company, plaintin, ndant. day comes the and files her pe Order of Publication. | | | souri heel , Mis -W Read the warning between the lines. What is that warn- ing? It is of the danger from the accumulation of badness in the blood, caused by the usual heavy living of the | Winter months. Spring is the clearing, cleansing time of the year; the forerunner of the brightness and beauty of glorious summer. herein by | which it is nota abl that pla tagainst him, Albert h ject and e of which is lefendant on two d that his propert the said amor ow the tart ir »od with princ etl bk “Shoot the hat” is| Mz Hoods <, sali of Bates County, Misso sons hav ime ageine hem for al ers, OF t. 7 - | any benefit of aaid Never Disappoints | Bot exhibited withi jot this publication, they shall be fore barred. Thissrd day ot May, ix. acseed W. H. ALLEN, cAdministrator. | only catharts — 5K GREATEST OF ALL SP | write D NERVES, RING REMEDIES. Y COMPOUND. It makes new blood, and new nerve tissues. A few steps to most ary neighbor will tell you the plain truth about the amazing results which have followed its use. Paine’s celery compound is so far above all other spring medicine in its strengthening, nerve restoring, blood making, health giviog, lasting The old “cures” one by one, in the ast few years bave dropped by the way, until to day the sales of Paine’s celery compound in every civilized country are larger than those of all other Paine’s celery compound is the one spring medicine endorsed by phy- sicians—because it ia the only known remedy, that for all run down con ditions of the nervee, brain and tissues, and for purifying the blood (espe- cially in the spring when the body is most amenable to improvement) has In the spring take Paine’s celery compound LE A EL ER ee Order of Publication. STATE OF MISSOURI, 7 County of Bates. 5 In the Cirenlt Court of Bates county, Missourt in vacation, April zith, 1x9, The state of Missouri at the relation ‘and to the use of TS Evilsizer, collector of the revenue of the city of Batier in Bates county, state of Mis- souri, pla‘ntif,vs AL Humphrey, defend- ent. Civil action for delinquent taxes, Now at this day comes the plaintiff herein by her attorney before the undersigned ¢ ofthe circuit court of Bates county, state Mi nd files her petition other things a . and affidavit stating among that the above named defendant A L Hamph- rey is a non-resident of the state of Missouri. Whereupon it is ordered by t tion, that eaid defendant be n cation that plaintiff has com against him in this court by petition and s®- davit the object and general natare of which is to enforce the lien of tate of Misseurt forthe delinquent tax the year 16%, amounting in the sggreg: x cents, together with interest, costs. jon and fees, npon the follewing 1 tracts of lard situated in Bates i, to-wit i umphrey’s sddition a iniess the sald xt term of foreenid with to emix- the 2758 For Rest —360 acres of good pss- ture land in Bates county good grass and plenty of water. See oF A. W. Tucemas, 23 2t Butler, Mo.