The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, June 19, 1902, Page 7

W. F. Devati eo #.J. TYGARD, President. CAPITAL, $75,000. Oapital, «= H. E. Percivat. + Bates County Investment Co., (BUTLER, MO.. i J.B. Drvat. o—— DUVALL & PERCIVAL, _ FARM LOANS. | Money to Loan on Reai Estate at Lowest Rates of Interest Come and get our lates, BRP LL RRO RPL pon | PREPARE RT BEET HUET Be HON.J. 8. NEWBEBRY, J. C.CLARE, Vice-Pres't. Oashter THE BATES COUNTY BANK, ‘ 4 BUTLER, MO. Successor to BATES COUNTY NATIONAL BaNK 4 ‘ ‘ ‘ ‘ Eetasiienen Dxv., 1870, enera!l Bankin; . Ggosiness ‘Transacted = $50,000. Money to loan on real estate, at low rates. Abstracts of title to all lands and town lots in Bates county, Choiee « securities always on hand and forsale, Abstracts of title ( furnished, titles examined and all kinds of real estate 4 papers drawn, ‘ ¥. 3. Tyaanp, Hon. J. B, NEwaenry, J.C. Oar, , President, Vice-President Seo’y. & Treas, "Jno, C. Has, Abstractor, 8. F. Wanxocx, Notary, ¢ ice kath AAS RRA REBPLBD PPP PARE OPC AP Pe Or mail 25 conts to C, J. MOFFETT, C., Nov. 26, 1900,—I was first advised by our family physician in Charleston to uss bal ung infant, as & preventive of colic and to warm and sweete: it was Useful in teething troubles, and its effecthas been found tobesovery hp sofree fi the use yy when he was buta very ec take pleasure In recommendin, Wy quiet. TW! Children of Any Age. Aids Digestion, the Bowels, Strengthens ™ the Child and Mak Bite ING EASY, |. DB. ST. LOUIS, MO, to regard until the teething trouble: uil that so many teu Manager Daily Times and Weekly Nimes wer.) 4 masterpieces 80 expert can tell them from original oil paintings. The colorings of the pictures are exquisite and the Given free with each six months subscription to the St. Louis Sunday Post Dispatch at the regular price, $1.00. : . SET OF ART PiCTURES. The great St. Louis Post-Dispatch contains besides the news section, a regular 4-page colored comic weekly, a 12-page magazine, illustrated in half tones and line cnts and a 4-page children’s wonder- land, a wonderfully pleasing supplement for child- Mail a P. O. money order to the Post-Dispatch, St. paper six months and the pictures free, Sunday POST DISPATCH. subscriptions sent on this BEFORE offer must reach the Post-Dis- subjects. desirable. ren, 60 pages in all. SPECIAL NOTICE. patch office. A set of six high-art pictures, size 9x16 inches, reproduced from world famous faithfully that only an Louis, Mo., and get the JUNE 15. = A New “Water Cure” Witness. Washington, June 12.—Mark H. ‘vans, of Des Moines, Ia., once of Me Thirty-second voluntcerinfantry, a witness before the Senate ppiue committee \to-day. He ‘testified to seeing the “water cure” ‘administered in the province of Ba- tan, also to the burning of villages -where insurgents were located. He related incidents where natives “were ducked under water for halfa “‘inote at a time to compel them to “tell where arms were located. With ‘these exceptions, he said, the treat- | ment of the natives by the troops iad generally been kind. $100 Reward $100. readers ot this paper will be pleas- learn that there is at least. one d disease that science has been in all its stages, and that ie Hall’s Catarrh Cure is the sitive cure known to the medical ity, Catarrh being a constitution- . quires, a constitutional Hail’s Ca ~arrh Cure is taken acting, directly upon the | mucous vorencee : ote v destroying the foundation } dises and giving the patient ygth by building up sisting nature in doing the state. ee July 10 is the Boers’ Last Day to Sur- \ render. Cape Town, June 12.—July 10 has been fixed as the last .ay upon which Boers or rebels who surrender will re- erive the benefit of the peace terms. All rebels surrendering before that date will be merely disfranchised for life and will not be subject to trial or punishment. Exception is made in the case of field cornets and justices of the peace, who may be tried and fined or imprisoned. Rebels who hold out after July 10 will be subject to the extreme penalty for high trea- son. ' 5° Million Bushels of Wheat. Topeka, June 13.—H. D. Russell, a crop expert sent to Kansas by the Chicago board of trade, hascomplet- ed his investigation of crop condi- tiondhere. He says that the state will have only 50 per cent of a wheat crop and that it will not be more than50 million bushels. Hesaysthe oat crop will be a record breakerand will greatly exceed any previouscrop of this graip raised in the state. He also belivves that the corn erép will be one of the largest ever raised in egulates THINA thestomach, SCHOOL AND CHURCH. Rev Dr. Lyman Abbott has pleted the twe h year of his con- nection with the editorial department of the New York Outlook. The trustees of the Wesleyan uhi- versity, Middleton, Conn., the oldest Methodist college in the country, have given their official sanction to a bieen- tennial celebration of the birth of John Wesley in June, 1903. Until recently the Japanese “book stores have not been willing to carry Bibles in stock for fear of offending their Buddhist pa come such a dem com- trons. There has nd for Bibles that iall the prom- an. they are now on sa inent book stores in J The latest Princeton alumni associa- tion is in Syria, It was or with 13 members at Zahleh graduates of the univer missionaries or are con the college at Beirut. K. Eddy, of 1s ss, was elected pres- ident, the treasurer, Dr, Re Dyck, of 1883, and Robert Se secretary, of 1901, ganized The 13 ty are either The annual report of MeGill univer- sity in, Mémtreal shows that the total Tumber of students attending classes is 1.114, and the financial statement shows that the revenue of the univer sity during the year, inclusive of cash on hand at the beginning of the year, . and the expenditures b x eaving a baly pended income of re of unex- Reston has now for the blind of 1 letters, wating library 1 volumes in About 500 books are ‘1 ont anmnally by the blind in Mas- tts. The state makes an ap- tion for instrnetion for the » but, Owing to the cost of send- he bulky books through the mails overnment oks, with i letters, are very la is the most read book amt the blind, “ OLD-TIME TRAVEL IN ITALY. Marvy Ditheulties eced by Mere Eneount- Tourtsts in That Country, if veled w rier a w e the ! i pent nab the way that phe eappers for pe each suece ertage were mage up separate parcels, Of course, these had to be largely supplemented, so yon were open te squabbl And disens matters mitt avin, by the dim light of th Saturday Rey midday, the enrrency question was a perpetual lantern, says the jew. Even oat grief, when each state was emulotisly de the precious metal at its par- ticular mint. Johnson advised Dos. well—unnece ily—when getting the change for a guinea to look carefully at it, as he might find some curious coin, In Italy your hands were ¢ coinage—scuddi, soldi, pauli, carlini, baioechi—and most of it so obliterated that a rare medal of the Roman republic might easily have passed muster. What you lost there- by in change and exchange there was no calculating, ways full but the passport sys- tem was even more aggrawating. The police were on the wateh at tach fron- tier, and relieved you of it at every garrison town, The visa was a fruit- ful source of revenue to offici in the course of a few journeys you collected a bulky volume of auto- graphs, illustrated richly with spread eagles and rampant lions. Drivers in Italy usually consider their horses and themselves, but in Calabria, and still more in Sicily, it was often breakneck work, The lian youth would stand up on his shaky box, erack his whi whoop to his horses and urge them intoa Hungarian or Roumanian gallop. We remember one night ride through the Vale of Enna to Calatafimi, wild as the gallop of Wilhelm and Leonore, when as our friends took ruts, stones and pitfalls as they came, had we be- longed to his church we would have vowed candles to the Virgin to be de- livered from imminent peril. It added insult to injury when we looked fora generous buonamano, Bygones, The traveler registered his name in the dingy atid dilapidated book per- taining to the only hotel at the min- ing éamp: Giglets, Buffland, N.Y.” eems to me I’ve seen that name be- fore,” remarked the landlord. “Probably,” replied the traveler, with conscious pride. “I served three successive terms in congress.” . “O, well,” rejoined the landlord, tol- erantly, “I won't lay it up agin you, and you'll git along all right with the boys, I guess. You don’t need to men- tion it, you know.”—Chicago Tribune. Nothing Sold in the Capitol, One of the strictest rules about the eapitol at Washington, is that no goods of any kind shall be sold there, other than what is handled in the senate and house restaurants.- Some years ago vendors were allowed to sell curios in the corridor near the entrance to the house of representatives, but that has long been discontinued. Even a news- paper cannot now be purchased within the precincts of the capitol.—Indignap- olis News.’ Doubtful Advantages, She-If a man has a commanding presence he ean marry a dozen Wwom- en where a man possessing real merit couldn't marry one. He—Possibly; but—er—isn’t there women ?—Chicago Daily News. ted with . William | pushed aside both his war club and | neither of them had been bad. But 4 law against a man marrying a dozen } The White Stone Canoe. } From ‘‘Tales of a Wigwam,’’ Schoolcraft, by Henry Rowe There was once a very beautiful young girl, who died\suddenly on the day she was to have been married to @ handsome young man. He was also brave, but his heart was not | proof against this loss. From the hour she was buried there was no more joy or peace forhim. He went often to visit the spot where the wo- men had buried her, and sat musing there, when, it was thought by some friends, he would have done betterto | try to amuse himself in the chase, or | by diverting his thoughts in the war }path. But war and haunting had both lost their charms for him. He his bow and arrows, He heard the old people say that there was a path that led to theland of souls, and he determined to follow it. Heaccordingly set out one morn- ing, after having completed his prep- arations for the journey At first he hardly knew which way to go. He was only guided by the tradition that he must go south. Fora while he could see no change in the face of the country, Forests, and hills, and valleys, and streams had the same looks which they wore in bis native place, . There was snow on the ground, when he set out, and it was sometimes to be piled and matted on the thick and bushes, At length it began to diminish, and finally disappeared, The forest as sumed a more cheerful appearance, the leaves put forth their buds, and before he was aware of the complete- uess Df the change, he found himself surrounded by spring, He had left behind him the land of suow and ice, Phe air became mild, the dark clouds At winter had rolled a wa from the trees sky;a pure field of blue was above him, and as he went he saw flower |shore and began to cross the lake ; whitened edge of them they seemed ——— his motions, and they were side by side. They at once pushed out from Its waves seemed to be rising and at a distance looked ready to swallow them up, but just as they entered the to melt away, as if they were but the images of waves. But nosooner was one wreath of foam passed than an- other, more threatening, rose up. Thus they were in perpetual fear, and what added to it was the clearness of —E ee ee ee The Ship Subsidy Trick. The decision of the House leaders to postpone the ship subsidy bill un- til the next session of Congress is a move in that great game of politics whose possibilit stood in Washington. are so well under- Polities has been developed into such an art now- adays that the ol? masters—the Aaron Burr and Thurlow Weeds —would appear bunglers if they could be reincarnated at the national capi- tal. the water, through which they could see heaps of beings who had perished before, and whose bones lay strewed onthe bottom of the lake. The Mas- ter of Life had, however, decreed to let them pass, for the actions of they saw many others struggling and sinkingin the waves, Old men and young men, males and females of all uges and ranks were there. passed and some sank, [t was only the little children whose canoes seem- ed to meet no waves, At length ev- ery difficulty was gone, as in a mo- ment,and they both leapt out onthe happy island. They felt that the very air was food, It strengthened and nourished them. They wander- ed together over the blissful fields, where everything was formed to please the eye and the ear. There were no tempests—there was no ice, no chilly winds—no one shivered for the want of warm clothes, no one suf- fered for hunger—no one mourned for the dead, They saw no graves. They heard of no wars, There was no hunting of :nimals, for the air it selfwas their food, Gladly would the young warrior have remained there Some forever, but he was obliged to go back for his body, Ile did not see the Master of Life, but he heard his breeze, “to the land ne, Your voice in a soft “Go back,” said this voice, from whenee you er time has sT TT f birds. By Httat he was going the rue they agreed with the tes cticus liistribe. At length he expic! It led him throu, a long and elevated ridge, ou the very top of which he eame to a lodge At the door stood an old.man with white hair, whose eyes, though deeply sunk, had a fiery brillianey. Fle had a long robe of skins thrown loosely around his shoulders and a staff in his hands, The young Chippewayan began to tell his story, but the venerable chiet arrested him before he had proceeded to speak ten words, “I have expect- ed you," he replied, “and had just risen to bid you’ welcome to my abode. She whom you seek passed here but a few days since, and being fatigued with her journey rested her- self here, Enter my lodge and be seated and I will then satisfy your inqu‘ries and give you directions for your journey from this point.” Hav- ing done this they both went forthto the lodge door, “You see yonder gulf,” said he, “and the wide stretch- ing blue plains beyound. It land of souls. You stand upon its borders and my lodge is the gate of entrance. But you cannot take your body along. Leave it here with your bow and arrows, your bundle and Tan Teard the sor cal } yreat! ha grove, the. ap is the Totyetcome. The duties for whieh Tiade you, and which you are to perform, are not yer finished. Re. turn to your people and accomplish You will be the ruler of your tribe for many the duties of a good man, days. The rules you must observe will be told by my messenger, who keeps the gate. When he surrenders back your body, he will tell you what todo, Listen to him aud you shall afterward rejoin the spirts, whom you mnust How leave belind accepted and wil! be ever here, as youngand as happy as she was when I first called her from the laud of snows.” When his voice ceased the narrator awoke. It was the fancy work ofa dream and he was still in the bitter land of snows and hunger and tears, Do Not Expect Miracles. If a cold, long neglested, or im- troperly treated has clutched yoo by ihethroat, you cannot shake it loose naday, but you can stop it prog: ress and ina reasonable time get rid of it altogether, if you use Allen’s Lung Balsam. There is nothing like thishonest remedy for bronchitis, astma, and other affections of the air passages. Goaded to His Death. Wichita, Kan., June 10.—S8. P. Harrison, an i i 1 your dog. You will find them safe on your return.” Ying he re- entered the lodge, and the freed trav- eler bounded forward, as if his feet bad suddenly been endowed with the power of wings. But all things re- tained their natural colors and shapes. The woods and leaves and streams and lakes ‘were only more bright and comely than he had ever witnessed. Animals bounded across the path with a freedom and a con- fidence which seemed to tell him there was no blood shed here. Birds of beautiful plumage inhabited the yroves and sported in the waters. There was but one thing in which he saw a very unusual effect. He notie- So sa by trees nor any other objects. He appeared to walk directly through. They were, in fact, but the souls or shadows of material trees. He be- came sensible that he was in a land ed that his passage was not stopped | around the world ona wheel barrow ofshadows. When he had traveled half| ease of Mrs. Davis against the Mod- a day’s fourney, through a country |6.7, Woodmen of America for $3,000, which was continually becoming|the »mount of a policy carried by more attractive, he came to the! Johu Davis, was decided in the Ver- banks of a brond lake, in the center} yon county circuit court tuis after- of which was a large and beautiful] poon in favor of plaintiff. The Mod- island. He found a canoe of Phining| ern Woodmen refused to,pay the po- ted suicide at Winfield and left a note tothe public in which he gave his reasons. It seems that the old man has indeed led a sorrowful life and the entire cause of his taking his life was due to the fact that he had suf fered so many aches. The note reads: “Twenty years ago in Florida 1 married a very beautiful woman, but our temperaments were entirely dif ferent. After we had three children aman steped between us. I killed him and served a term in prison. I then went back to my wife but her wrong doing goaded me until | took two of the children and ran away. I have trundled these two children until 1 am broken in spirit and body.” A Noted Insurance Case. Nevada, Mo., June 13.—The noted white stone, ted to the shore. He} jiey on the ground that Davisfought was now sure that he had come the! with i man named Bryan, who killed right path, for the aged man had|}im in self defense, and that when told him of this. There were also] Davis met his death he was violating shining paddles. He immediately | ¢he jaws of the land. entered the canoe and took the pad- dies in his hands, when to it joy and} Stops the Cold and Works off the surprise, on turning round, he bebeld the object of his search in anuther x Cold. Laxative Bromo-Quinine Tablets canoe, exactly its counterpartiin ey-|cure a cold in one day. No cure, no \erything. She had exactly imitated PHY: Price 25 cents. | She * The management of the ship sub- sidy cull illustrates the methods of political manipulation that are so popular to-day. Its laudable pur- pose, as announced by its promot- ers, was to “establish the supremacy of the Stars and Stripes on the high Unfortunately for their plans the introduction of the bill was at- ended by the rapid development of the shipping industry, But the in- vrase of diftieulties only sharpened the wits of the men in charge of the measure, It was held back, pushed forward and jockeyed along as vir- cumstances dictated unul its path suggested the old rhyme: seas, It wobbled in and wobbled out, Until the mind was left in doubt Whether the snake that made the track Was going south or coming back At last it wasmaneuvered through the Senate, only to meet the blow of the Morgan shipping combine. Its friends might still have been willing torisk it in the House lad it not been for election, cireumstance it has been decided to impending congressional In view of this unfortunate postpone action until the next ses- sion, The delay will serve a two-fold It will tend to sidetrack an issue that might damage the pars purpose, ty this autumn, and it will give time jor the excitement over the Shipping trust to die out, Clearly itis to let the policies bilo over—at east this is tl eausoning of the men behind the measure, show Possibly events may that they have miscalculated. There isa chance that the voters will wot for They may resent the lack of frankness which has characterized so easily, the man: rement of the measure, and they may not cease their opposition to the bilE itself. Tt is just possible that this latest: trick won't work.— Kausas City Star, Seaieneenen cal — 7 Neely Has Been Released. Havana, June 12.—C, F, Wo Neely, who was sentenced March 14 to ten years’ imprisonment and to pay a fine of $56,701 for complicity in the Cuban postal frauds, was released yesterday under the bill signed by President Palma, June 9, grantine amnesty to all Americans cJuvieted of crimes in Cuba during the term of the American occupation and those awaiting trial W. HH. sentenced to ten years’ imprison- Reeves was ment and to pay a fine of $35,516, and Estes G. Rathbone to ten year imprisonment and to pay a fine of $55,324. Both were implicated with Neely. Reeves was pardoned April Wood. Rathbone was released under $100,- 000 bail, April 21, and later Presi- dent Roosevelt ordered that his case 22 by Governor General nv Mr. Carnegie Wants af Inquiry. Washington, May 12.—Representa- tive MeCall, of Massachusetts, sub- mitted to the House to-day a memo- rial signed by © Ss Francis Adams, Andrew Carnegie, Carl Schurz, Edwin Burritt: Smith and Herbert Welsh, asking that a eon- gressional committee ofinvestization beappointed to go to the Philippines to inquire into and report upon con ditions existing there. Mr. Carne- gie’s signature was authorized byca- ble The memorial is dated at Bos- ton und states that the signers are a committee appointed at a recently held meeting of persons irrespective of party, interested in the policy pur- sued by the United States toward the Philippines. To Compete With Standard Oil. St. Petersburg, June 12 troleum producers of the Caucasus have met to form a syndicate to sell petroleum abcoad with the Standard Oil company, They can do nothing without government support, but it was alleged they have now obtained this to the extent of a reduction in railroad rates and possibly a reduce. tion in the export tariff on oil. CASTORIA Yor Infants and Children, The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the Signature of 4 he —The pe-