The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, June 25, 1903, Page 2

ae at geo or ate ee i st { napa ocala THE MYSTERY OF LIFE. Prof. Beale of London Denies the Physical Basis. pion Express To the great controversy on the O-icin of life, in which Lord Kelvin hos been taking so prominent a part Prof. Lionel Beale, emeritus profes sor of medicine at King college, made an important contribution at yester- meeting of Victoria institute at Adelphi terrace. Prof. Beale, summarizing the prin- ciples taught by him during the last half century regarding the nature of | life and growth, declared that the distinction between every kind of life and every kind of non-life is absolute and that there is no evidence in sup- port of the view that any kind cf life bas proceeded, or has in any way been obtained from non-life. While it is certain that our world must have been formed ayes before the appearance of one living particle, there is no evidence, he affirms, justi- fying the idea of the gradual produc tion of a living organism from any matter or any combination of won- living substances, The infinite, designing, directing, sustaining power of theeternal living God,” eoutinued Prot, Beale, ‘as it sto ime, | looking from the science ny only, most be acknowledged in every kind of living matter and at every period of life, Can there be any reasonable doubt tat life, vital power, vitality, stands alone, not related to any of the forces or properties of any ordinary lifeless matter in the universe? Wt © originally came vital pow- er in living nature, and what becomes of it when it ceases at death is at this time unknowa to science, But so far as there is no indication of life ever having been brought within the domain of physical law, Rather does life seem to be a power which I venture to think will ere long be regarded as allied to if not to be actually included in the spiritual or- der of things.” Missouri Mussels as) Exhibit From Palestine. Mussel shells from Missouri will be shown at the World’s Fair in St. Lonis as an exhibit from Palestine. The largest manufacturers of shell yuvenirs in the world are in Bethle- Until recently the imported by the merchants of that historic city altogether from the Red Sea. Recently it has been discovered that the Missouri mussel shell, found extensively on the Mississippi River, takes a finer polish and lends itself more readily to ornamentation than even the famous Red Sea variety. Several shipments have been made to Bethlehem and at least one Bethle- bem merchant will show {n_ his dis- play of “Oriental gvods,” shell souvenirs made from Missouri mus sels. Even Missourians will be surprised to learn that the mussell shell fishery of the State, centering at Hannibal, Canton and La Grange and taken with crowfoot lines and rakes, amounts to about two million pounds annually. The fish output of Mis- souri amounts to more than two million dollars a year. The Missouri World’s Fair Commission is planning an adequate exhibit of the buffalo, gat, croppie, bass and other fish abundant in Missouri waters. Only the Missouri museel, however, will be on exhibit from both Palestine and Missouri, rhells were Killed His Assailant. South Bend, Ind., June 19,—At- tacked by a party of drunken fisher men Albert Smith, the one armed watchman at Notre Dame university yesterday shot and instantly killed John Jager, aged 40 years. Jager and a party of friends were fisihng at the lakes and when Smith ordered them from the grounds Jager wrested Smith’s club from him and struck him over the head. Smith then drew his revolver and shot Jager through the breast. Smith will not be prose- cuted. A Robbery at Webb City, { GENERAL YOUNG IS CHIEF. General Staff Officers Assigned To- Day by Secretary Root. Washington June 20.—Secretary ing Major General S B. M Young as ebief of staff. with Major General H. C. Corbin and Brigadier General W. H. Carter as the other geaeral staff officers. Brigadier General Tasker H. Bliss is to become president of the war college. The order will take ef- feet August 15. General Nelson A. Miles will be retired August 8. Seeretary Root announced at first thatthe bill would wo into efiecs’ August 10. General Miles stated that if the billshould go into effect before his retirement he would resign. The general staff is a complete re- arrangement of the army and a centralization of the powers of the various parts of the old organization stafi. The chief of staff takes the place of the lieutenant general, com- mandiog the army under the old sys- tem, Startling Leads Uncovered To-day By St. Louis Jury. St. Louis, Mo., June 18 —Startling developments marked Thursday's work of the grand jury, It is said that $40,000 was demanded by cer- tnin senators to defeat the insurance billand $40,000 to defeat the whisky tax bill. Lee isin Chicago to-day, but will be here Saturday to beasked about these deals, EO Brown, who gave Representa- tive W. O. Cardwell the “dignified” sum, ix expected here to-morrow to tell the grand jury whether or not he ‘ered Lee $1,000 & monthata Kan- vas City depot to stay out of the state, With the appearance of Will- iam H. [ttner, a St. Louis wholesale crocerynan, before the grand jury to-day it is apparent for the first time that grocers of the state may lave been approached by the baking powder trust agents and asked to use any influence they might haveon legislators to vote for the alum bill, Assassinations of Rulers of Nations. President Lincoln, shot April 15, 1865, * Alexander IT of Russia, killed by a bomb, March 18, 1881 President Gartield, shot, July 2, 1S8S1, President Carnot of France, stab- bed, June 24, 1894 Empress of Austria, stabbed Sep- tember 10, 1900, King Humbert of Italy, shot July 29, 1900. William McKinley, President of United States, mortally shot at pub- Ife reception in temple of music at Pan American Exposition at Buffalo Friday, Sept. 6, 1901, by Leon Czol- gosz, anarchist: died Friday, Sept. 13. Alexander and Queen Draga of Servia, six cabinet ministers and members of the royal household kill- ed June 11, 1903. Two Hanged io Arkansas. Clarksville, Ark., June 19.—George Durnam and Frederick Underwood were hanged here to-day for the mur- der of John H. Powers, a sheriff. Both men spoke and thanked the people of this place for their kind- ness. The crime was the murder of a sheriff, John Powers, February 5, 1902. Sheriff Powers was awakened that night by hearing an explosion in the bank building, where robbers were demolishing the safe. He rush- ed toward the bank and was shot dead. George Durham, Frederick Underwood, James Wallaceand John ?. Dunn were indicted. Dunn escap- ed from a hospital at Wichita, Kan., where he was treated for wounds, One Juror Saved Jett’s Neck. Jackson, Ky., June 19 —But for one juror Curtis Jett would have been convicted here to-day of the as- sassination of Attorney J. B. Mar- cum and a majority of the jury fa- vored the conviction of Thomas White also, Both are to-night in jail at Lexington and their next trial will be at Cynthiana, more than 100 miles from Jackson, away from the Joplin, Mo., June 19.—The office of! mountains ahd in the Blue Grass the Adams Express company at country. The change of venue gives Webb City was robbed this morning of $2,000 by two meu, said to Burt Fair and Frank Ellis. The rob- bers escaped, but were pursued and | hope of justice yet. Refuses to Wear Clothes. Winnipeg, Manitoba, June 20.— captured near Oakland and the “John The Baptist,” leader of that money recovered. It was all in silver dollars. One ¢housand dollars was found late this _ afternoon. hidden in a mill pond three > feet under water. Both men are hack ~ @rivers ot a Webb City livery stable, faction of the Doukhobors that re- fuse to wear clothing, was taken to ‘Brandon asylum, heavily shackled yesterday. It was necessary to keep ‘him ina straight-jacket to prevent A sad stripping before the crowds, KELLEY AFTER JOHN A. LEE. | , The Fugitive in Canada May Re- turn to St. Louis. Lee that Lee wouldn’t like to have the people of Missouri see. He be- lieves Kelley is preparing to return and tell all be knows about the alum deal. Kelley wants revenge on Lee. If Kelley should come, he would be welcomed by the prosecuting officers because he knows and can tell all about the 1903 alum deal which no one else seems willing to explain. Now that Lee has begun to tell re luctlantly, of some of the things that happened soon after he made his first confesson, he has unburdened him- self of another detail that he kepta long time. His story ia that he received a tele gram from Kelley in which Kelley said; “If you don’t retract what you said, will expose some of your other deals.” There may be a slight inac- curacy ia the wording, as Lee gave it from memory, but the quotation is so near this language that it is the tull sense of the telegram. The signature was ‘Kk.,” but Lee is sure it came from Kelley, It wassent vefore the New York papers had pub lished the fact that Lee had signed a confession, and given it to the at- torney general, Mr. Crow. It was about the time that Lee says persons interested in getting him out of the state were offering him a thousand dollars to stay away, These stories come from Lee in such a hesitating way that they have caused those who heard them to wonder whether or not Lee did not really think well of the $1,000 a month proposition until Kelley sent the telegram and frightened him into coming buck, Lee is not a willing witness |He te'ls his story piecemeal and does it inv way that does not indicate a hearty sympathy with the investi- gation, A Gold Democrat Appointed. Washington, June 17.—Henry F. Green of Daluth, was appointed this morning to succeed James R. Garfield on the civil service commission, Mr. Green was & gold democrat, who sup- ported MeKinley in 1896 and in 1900 renounced all allegiance to the dem- oeratic party. The president first offered this office to Heffelfinger, the famous Harvard foot ball player. Since he left college, Heffelfinger has been manager of his father’s boot and shoe factory in Minneapolis. When the president was in Minne- apolis, May 4, he met Heffelfinger and offered him the appointment, but declined, the poor health of the foot ball players father’s, which made it necessary for the younger Hefielfinger to remain at home. Woman of 75 a Heroine. New York, June 20.—Mrs. Nancy Ross, the oldest lighthouse keeper in the United States, is the heroine of a combat in the historic lighthouse at Stony Point on the Hudson, in which she was pitted single-handed with a lunatic. Armed only with a poker the woman, who is 75 years old, and has attended the light half a century bravely stood her ground, and drove back her assailant. The man who made the attack is an Italian He climbed into the tower and exclaimed that thelight must be torn down, started to demolish things, Mrs. Ross seized a poker and belabored him. He stood the rain of blowsa moment and then fled, locking the door as he went. The old lady sounded the fog bell and secured aid. The Italian was locked up. He Ate Sixty Boiled Eggs. Albany, N. Y., June 19.—Reuben Saunders of Suffern, N. Y., bet his brother James $5 that he could not eat 50 boiled eggs at one meal. James accepted the wager and the eggs were produced. They were soft boiled. “This is a cinch,” exclaimed James washing down the 40th egg with a glass of milk. Hehad not hesitated, nor gasped, but had. consumed the 40th with seeming ease, while Reu- ben’s face grew longer and longer. “Fitty,” shouted the referee, but James kept on at the eggs until he had consumed 60, or 10 more than the bet called for. Reuben, meantime, had attempted the same feat, but stuck at 35. “I never want to see another egg ‘ds long as I live,” exclaimed James og he rose from the table. | Root issued an order to-day assign-| t. Louis, Jase a - gs Lowis} . |lawyer who met Daniel J. Kelley in| | Canada says Kelley told him that he| jhad a bundle of letters from John A. | nse PAYNE WANTS TO LEAVE CABINET. ee Is Only Held in By Strong Representa- tions of President and Friends. | Washington, June 19.—It would not be surprising, in the opinion of mauy well informed persons here, if! Postmaster General Payne should? retire from the cabinet in the near} future as a result of theinvestigation of his department and the ill-health which it has incurred. From excel- lent authority it can be stated that only the urgent representations of President Roosevelt and party lead ers prevented Payne from resigning a short time ago. When he and the president, with other members of the cabinet and many prominent Repub lic xn senators, were in Cleveland on June 10 to attend the wedding of Senator Hannu’s daughter, Payne himself brought up the subject. He declared he never would have aceept- ed the portfolio if he could have fore- seen this investigation. It wasmost displeasing to him to have to con- duct such an inquiry into the former official acts of old friends and he was sick and tired of the whole business, vesides being in actual ill-health. He thon expressed a wish to retire from the cabinet. The president, Hanna and other members of the gathering persuaded him from such a course, declaring it would be the worst thing he could do both for himself and the party. But now Payne is even more than before a target for criticism and some newspapers are demanding his retirement. Even his best friends re- gret what they term his unfortunate management of the publication of the Bristow report, his early tlippant comments on the Tulloch charges and his hasty action in the removal of Metcalf, chief of the money order division, A school commissioner in a neigh boring county asked every teacher who took a local or county paper to hold up their hands, and when only six out ofa hundred responded hy pro- ceeded to give them a lecture for ex- pecting the papers to publish notices of theirinstitutes,entertainments and saucry complimn ntary notices when they manifest so little appreciation Not longsinee the Appeal heard a man high up in educational circles express the opinion that teachers as a class read less outside of text books than any otherclass of professional people with the result thatas a class they are less posted on eurrent affairs than the averagerun of people. We believe each teacher should be required to subscribe for one county paper and one daily metropolitan paper and each day should be required to devote some time toevents of interest as chronicled by the press. A teacher with no knowledge outside of his text books ts small potatoes, and few in a hill—Paris Appeal. CASTORIA. Bones the The Kind You Have Always Baugh “a” acd Meda The Bugle, published at Ashland Boone county, Mo., has this to say of one of its citizens: ‘“‘Mosias Jones, who was born with- intwo miles of Ashland and has lived here all his life, reached his 73d year December 28, last, and has a history. He was never out of the State; was never in St. Louis: never rode on @ s‘eamboat or railroad car; never attended a circus or county fair; was never in a saloon: never held an office higher than road over- seer; never saw a fire larger than one he made in the fire place at home. and never in Jefferson City but once. then as a boy of fifteen he took t: the State Capitol twelve dozen live quail which he had caught in a net. Many will think that Mr. Jones’ staying so close at home is one of the mistakes of Mosias, but this is debatable.” German Syrup. We want to impress on ourreaders that Boschee’s German Syrup is posi- tively the only preparasion on the market to-day that does relieve and cure consumption. I+ contains the specifics, such as pure tar, extracte of gums, ete., which have been su highly endorsed for the cure of colds, coughs and cousumption by the great medical congresees. Tue con sumptive, whether his disease is in the throat or lungs, must have rest at night, and be free from the of dry aud racking cough in the morning. The diseased parts want a Bat ee Te Cc es County Investment Co, IBUTLER, MO.: iOapital, 850,000. Money to loan on real estate, at low rates. Abstracts of title to all lands and town jots in Bates county. Cholee securities always on hand and for sale. Abstracts of title furnished, titles examined and all kinds of real estate papers drawn. ¥. 3. Troan, President, Hox. J. B. New senrr, Vice-President. J.C. Cuamx, See’y. & Tress, i Jvo. C. Harzs, Abstractor. 8. F. Wansocn, Notary. § GREE AAALAC OL OD “7 PE OPLLPIPPIPIP PL PIPL I rrr estate on long time, with the privilege of making payments before due, is an advan- tage which the frugal borrower appre- ciates. We loan money in this way and at a low rate of interest. DUVALL & PERCIVAL, “BUTLER, MO. 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Tickets on sale June 2 and 16, July 7 and 21, Aug. 4 and 18, Sept. 1 and 15. Detroit, Mich.—Tickets onsale July 14 and 15 limited for return July 20. Rate one fare plus $2.00 for round trip. Fourth of July.—Rates to pointe within 200 miles at rate of one fare plus 50 cents for round trip. Except to pointe where one fare and one-third makes less rate in which case lowest rates will be used. No tickets sold for lees than 50 cents. Dates of sale July 3 and 4 limited July 7. Jefferson City, Mo., Teachers Asso- rest, healing and soothing treatment, | ciation.—Tickete on sale June 22 and and the patient needs fresh air, good | 23 limited return June 27. Rateone food, etc. German Syrup will give free and easy expectoration in the morning with 8} and permanent relief. Small buttles, 25 cents; regu- lar size, containing four times as much, 75 cents. At H. L. Tuck- store, G. G. Grrex, Woobury, N. J. fare plus 50 cents round trip. N. Y., account 1.C.N. of M.8. Tickets on saleJuly 4th and 5th, limited for return July 20th. One fare plus $2.00 for round Louis Fair.—Tickets on sale to Muscles aching, bones breaking, strength failing. That's Malaria! The remedy? Ayer’s Malaria and Ague Cure. a St. Louis Oct. 4 to 9, limited for re- wre Oct. 12. One fare for round p- Acc’t Y. P. S. C. E. at Denver, Colo. —Tickets on sale to San F Los Angeles and San Diego, Cal., July 1st to 10th, limited for retarn Aug. 31st. One fare round trip. H. B. Suanks, Agt. Beauty and Strength Are desirable. You are strongand vigorous, when your blood is pure. Many—nay, most—women, fail to properly digest their tood, and eo be- come pale, sallow, thin and. weak, while the brightness, freshness and beauty of the skin and complexion, depart. Remedy this unpleasant evil, by eating nourishing food, and taking a small dose of Herbine after each meal, to digest what you have eaten. 50c at H. L. Tucker’ Btore. we Italy’s Cabinet to Resiga. Rome, June 12.—The cabinet min- {eters have decided to announce their resignations in the chamber to-day. Although there was a ministerial ma- jority of 40, the Chamber of Deputies’ vote Wednesday for a pariia mentary inquiry into the conduct of the navy department, in which Signor Giolitti, the minister of the interior, was a leading figure, caused the cabinet to decide to resign on the ground that there was no further reason for its existence. The minister was until recently in unison with all the Liber. alists, including the extreme left, which, however, joined the opposi- tion in the adverse vote, <. ah Aen eeeeredlh jeeeaedbeiatme PED tr ge