The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, December 31, 1903, Page 2

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Our great e will be glad to serve usly, and willingly, Yours truly, E. CABLE. (IA LDA SA NAA NG KAMP North Side Square, Butler, Mo. AGS SS0%LS Dixie Forever. At the state confederate reunion in re-write this state a motion to “Dixie” almost caused a riot, and was unanimously voted down. What! change the word-of “Dixie; The good old song we sang When leaden bullets marked the time And silver bugles rang? The lines that find an echo In every southern heart, The strains that melt our very souls Until the tear-drops start? You might as well make over, In something strange and new, The prayer we lieped at mother’s knee When tell the evening dew. The moth to dust and powder Has turned the coat of gray, But “Dixie” lives on every lip, The Southern “ Marseillaise.” “Away down South in Dixie!” Call up a vision bright Of moonlight where the Sawanee flows And cotton fields by night; And rows of tall palmettos Against the starlit sk) And oh, to live iu Dixie land, In Dixie land to die! Beneath the starry ensign That high above our heads Its splendor to the morning breez+ In fadeless bonuty spreads; Tie banner from whose glories The south no more sball sever, 1 take my stand in Dixie liud, For “Dixie's” words forever. { Miana Irving, in Leslie's Weekly. | BRYAN AND THE CZAR MET. An Audience of Fifteen Minutes Yester- day---Otf for Berlin To-day. St. Petersburg, Dec. 21.—William Jeunings Bryan was r ved in audi- ence by Czar Nicholas at noon to- day. The audience, which lasted for fitteen minutes, was arranged almost on the spur of the moment by Am- Lassador McCormick, who until yes- terday was uncertain as to the time of Mr. Bryan's arrival in St. Peters- burg. During the conversation with Mr. Bryan the czar expressed in the most emphatic manner the feeling of friend- ship entertained by him and by the Russian nation for the United States and the hope that the good relations which have always existed between the two countries would never be dis- turbed. He gave evidence of the deepest interest and acquaintance with affairs in the United States. In response to Mr. Bryan’s inquiry con- cerning the progress of public instruc- ion by Russia, the czar gave a min- | T ute description of the system of ed- ucation in the Russian empire, showing un intimate knowledge of educational methods and the statis ties relating thereto. Mr. Bryan was entertained at din- ner by Ambassador McCormick to- night. He will leave for Berlin to- morrow. Oar vw kKA,. Bears the Tha Kind You Have Always Bought Signature “ hid ] OPERA SINGER'S GRIEF. Brutal Murder. Des Moines, lowa, Dee, 26 —Thi will be a sad Chriatinas to Winnitred Reader, a member of the Grau opera company, who arrived home last night. * She was secretly married two years ago to Walter Halbach, another | member of the company, and she had come home to tell her mother about the marriage as a happy Christmas | surprise, Instead, she found on arriving that her mother, Mrs. Charles W. Graves, ; had been brutally and mysteriously murdered. The body of Mra. Graves was found | locked in her room in her home last Friday. It had been burned by | kerosene almost beyond recognition | and there were evidences of strangu lation. | Although the ecoroner’s inquiry is |not yet complete, it has developed | that her husbind had been enjoined |by an order of court from entering | the house, and that he had threaten- led the woman's life. It fs said, how- lever, that her husband is the one who reported the finding of the body. | . | | Lots of Kissing. One North Missouri paper printed a paragraph about a man who has | been married thirty years, but who |still kisses his wife every time he | leaves home. This reminded the Osborne Enter- | prise that Stewartsville “has a man, | married thirty-five years, who kisses |his neighbor's wife every time his neighbor leaves home; and that Os- | borne has a man, married forty years who not only kisses his wife when he leaves home, but kisses the hired girl when his wife leaves home.” Are there any others? Bryan Dines With Tolstoi. St. Petersburg, Dec. 20,—William Jennings Bryan arrived here today. Mr. Bryan said he spent fourteen hours with Count Tolstoi Friday arriving before breakfast. He rode half an hour with Tolstoi, who insisted that Mr. Bryan should take a siesta, while the author wrote. Tolstoi’s physician laughingly eaid he was sorry that the author had curtailed his daily exercise through the fear of tiring Mr Bryan. The conversation between Tolstoi and Mr. Bryan took the widest 6 HE Chie signatnre is on every box ot the genuine tive Bromo-Quinine Tavies the remedy that cares # cold tm ome day An Iowa surgeon performed an operation on a broken neck by which the patient may recover from a pa- Her Christmas is Marred By a Most | RIVER IMPROVEMENT. An Interested Party Writes In- terestingly on the Subject. Eprror Ties: As an interested party I desire to present my views on the drainage question in Bates county. I desire to say in behalf of those who promoted the passage of the law we now have, that they are tobe commended for the push and energy in trying to accomplish something of vital interest to the entire county, and of doubly vital interest to the owners of bottom land, but their+f forts ure along wrong lines To begin with Missouri, excepting Bates county, has @ drainage law second to no state in the union. It Indiana, a law that state has been vears perfecting, and it has been test edin the highest courts It occurs to me experience counts for more, if possible, in drainage matters thanin many ot her business ®nterprises. lam loth to have myself classed with the kickers as I am always in fivor of progressive enterprises and in favor of doing things; but Tam not able to see how anything of ma- terial advantage is to come trom the efforts making under the special act of the legislature, Do any of the promoters of the law, or any of the ditch commission- ere, or any one else, familiar with conditions, and the provisions of the law, undertake to say that after they have worked five or six years under this law, that they will have increas. ed the insured earning cap.city of our land eveu a very little?) Yet we will have been paying the tax all the while. That is wherein the burden comes $0 the bottom land owner, He pays the tax with no results, or increased earning capacity of his #ivenin-return, We have all been taught from boy hood to “never send a boy to mill.’ Figuratively speaking that ie what we are doing under this law in my opinion, The thing to do is to raise sufficient money and raise it at one time, to do what is needed to be done to pro- tect us from overflows. 1 do not be- lieve any owner of bottom lands would object to paying as much as 35.00 per acre tax or even $6 00 or 37.00 if he was assured enough was going to be done to benefit him, and increase the earning capacity of his land, and he have time on such tax; so that he could more than pay the tax off of the increased earnings fron his laud. The whole theory of drain- age taxation is based on the idea that the beneficiary is to have earn ing capacity of land taxed, increased sufficiently to pay additional tax and that time being necessary to do that, he is given time on his tax. No extensive drainage proposition in a farming community was ever accom- p ished any other way. I want to give my idea as to the successful way to handle the drain- ageo! the Murias Des Cygnes bottom lands, and when an experienced civil engineer goes over the ground, if he Joes not practically agree with my ideas, I want the privilege of “settin’ My plan is this. Cut an entire new channel, commencing some where near the west side of the coun- ty and run as near the hill land on the south side of the river as is possi- ble keeping on the lowest land, but making the channel as straight as possible, abandoning the lowest land if necessary in order to keep the channel straight. Follow down the river in that way to a point a httle west and south of Papinville, where the channel! should cross present channel and run east, entering the old channel near the mouth of Wil low creek. This would practically eliminate all the most crooked part of the river. This channel should be 44 to 46 feet wide at commencement and from where it croeses the old channel to where it again enters the river 56 to 60 feet and from 10 to12 feet deep Such a channel as this will positively solve the overflow question in Bates county, unless in such floods aswe had last June, Those floods do not come often enough to figure on over coming them, even if it was possible to do so, but I believe with a new channel like this, even a flood likethat would be discharged so s00n CASTORIA For Infants and Children, The Kind You Have Always Bought em up.” ralysis which was caused by his in! conn: otptden Fie ; 1a copied after the drainage law of | limited. as much fall. Americ in people, so far as undertak present law. If we get our local law general atututes section 8278 to sec- diteh, which we can never do under present law. Under the general statutes the cost of the work can be paid by issuing bonds upon which there will be noth- ing due for at least two years except the interest, by that time the new chunnel would be done and land owa ers be getting immediate protection, and the tax would not be noticeable, Almost the entire proceedings under the statues ure had under the direct avts of the county court, and witha broad gauged energetic court, such aswe have in Bates county, who doubts the energetic und faithful prosecution of the work. I notice Mr, Atkeson mentions work being done in Holt, Chariton and Carroll counties, as well asin several of the southeast Missouricounties. This ix troramdbirevery~ cise” he men iors the work is being done under the sec- tions of the general statutes I have mentione’, and the actual construc tion work done by dredge boats. It is also a fact that no contract requr ing the amount dirt of moving that will be necessary in the work under discussion regardless of how done, can be done so cheaply and so quick: ly as with a dredge, and I believe it possible to get a boat owner to take hold of the work under the present law. While, regret greatly the delay it would ovcasion, I see no way to now yet work wccomplished that will be any relief to us people who are ben eticaries and who pay the tax, ex- cept to get thespecial act repealed at next session of the legislature, then go to work under general statutes. I take it asa matter of course every owner of bottem land is in favor oy drainage once he is assured there will be sowething accomplished and tho tax made so it will not be bur- densome. The drainage of wet land has hecome such an_ established method of making almost worthless lands the most productive and most saleable in our country, that it would seem we were in a foreign land to find a person opposed to the drain age of such land. I realize that it is not possible to du the work under the statutes or otherwise to exactly suit us all. We will each have to concede some points as to location of drains, our proportion of expense, ete., but it does seem to me that we should be of one mind in insisting that we are assured of results, and that we are entitled to have the best terms possible on tne payment «! the tax, neither of which we have under che local law. Assure me of compar atively quick results and give me time ob my taxes and regardless of amount of tax I will roll up my sleeves aud work unceasingly for drainage of Bates county bottom lands, —- Respectfully, J. F. Kern, Attacks Wife With a Knife, Armstrong, Mo., Dec. 26.—William Bransetter, a farmer residing near Washington Church, attacked his wife last night with a corn knife, severely cutting her about the head, He then beat her and, thinking he had killed her, started over to the house of John Houston with the knife. She ran to @ neighbor's for protection. Bransetter then went to the home ot his brother in-law, Mr. Kilander, where he fluurished the knife and threatened to kill the entire family if they did not do es he demanded Branesetter was captured by Con- stable Moorehead two miles west of Fayette late this evening and will be brought back to this city for trial, |that the damage would be very This channel would possibly be 24 to 28 miles long, and che present channel must be at least 70 to 80 miles. Our county surveyor assures me the fall for this distance is over 40 feet, so it is easy to see the new channel would discharge more water with its short route and swiftcurrent than the old channel; the old chan- nel being an average fall of 6 inches to the mile and the new chanel a fall of 14 feet to the mile or three times I know a good many people say this can’t be done, etc., etc. These people forget the word “can’t” was dropped out of the vocabulary of the ings are concerned in 1776. It can ee FARM LOANS, To be able to borrow money on real 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. ipnncibidiicieaaaa be done, can be paid for and be bur- densome tw no one, at a cost! believe not to exceed $5 00 per acre of the lands benefitted, but not under our repealed then go to work under the tion 8845 inclusive, we can thus bring iu from 10,000 to 15,000 acres in Vernon county to help build this Bat ates County Co. ¢ Investment Co, ; } IBUTLER, MO. { Oapital, = = 850,000. \ Money to loan on real estate, at low rates, Abstracts of title to all lands and town lote in Bates county. Chotee securities always on hand and for salacdtatracts of tithe furnished, titles examined and all kinds of real estate papers drawn, Jno. C. Harms, Abstractor. eeeisbeiee 8. F. Wanvocn, Netary | PPPPPPPID Asked Farmer to Be Witness to Killing Wareaw, Mo., Dec. 26 —Jake Phil- lips, of Clinton, a hunter and trapper, was shot in the left temple by W. H. Shelton, a fisherman, living nearthis place. Shelton and Phillips had quarreled in Warsaw during the day and had made up later. About 4 o’clock they started down the railroad track, After they had passed the cemetery, Shelton stopped vfarmer and told him to halt, that ne was about to shoot and kill Phil- lips, and wanted him to be a witness, He then fired three shots from a 82- caliber revolver at Phillips. Shelton’ is in jail and Phillips is dying. MILLIONAIRE’S POOR STOMACH The worn-out stomach of the over- fed millionaire is often paraded in public prints as a horrible example of evils attendant on the possession of great wealth. But millionaires are not the only ones who are afflicted with bad stomachs. Theproportion is far greater among the toilers, Dys- pepsia and indigestion are rampant among these people, and they suffer far woree tortures than the million- aire unless they avail themselves ofa standard medicine like Green’s Au- gust Flower, which has been a favor ite houeehoid remedy for all stomach troubles for over thirty five years August Flower rouses the torpid liver, thus creating appetite and in- suring perfect digestion. It tones and vitalizes the entire system and makes life worth living, no matter what your station. rial bottles, 2he; regular size, 75e. THE REPUBLIC’S GREATOFFER Special arranjrement has been made by The St. Louis Republic to furnish old or new subscribers with the only official and authorized life of Pope Leo XUL. This is one great volume, bound in elegant cardinal cloth, gilt and ink stamping, with Papalcoat of arms, containing nearly 800 pages of text and illustrations. The work was prepared and written by Mon- signor O'Reilly, D. D , D. 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No other line offers such seperb service, For further information write or address, J.C. Lovawex, Ass’t Gen’l Pass'r. Agent, 276 Kansas City, Mo. Ballard’s Horehound Syrap Immediately relieves hoarse, crompy Stearns, Druggist, Shullsbarg, Wis- consin, writes, May 20. 1901: “I have been selling Ballard’s Hore hound Syrup for two years, and have never had a preparation that has given better satisfaction. I netics that when I sell a bottle, they come back for more. I can honestly ree ommend it. 25¢, 50c and $1.00 at H. L. Tucker’s Drug store. Coughing Spell Caused Death. “Harry Duckwell, aged 25 yeara, choked to death early yes morning at his home, in the of his wife and child. He contracted aslight cold a few days ego and paid but attention to it. Yesterday morm ing he was seized with a fit of ing which continued for some time His wife sent for a physician bat be fore he could arrive, another comgh- ing spell came on and Duckwell died from sufforation —St Louis Globe Democrat, Dec 1, 1001” Ballads Horehound Syrup would hav. sawed jhim. 25c, 50¢ and $100 at Bo | Tucker’s Drug Store. Special Land Buyers’ Exevrsions Willrun to the new lands of Greet county, Oklahoma, and other see | tions of the great Southwest im No | vember and December, via the Pree | System. Are you looking for rich and fertile farming lands in the Southwest whieh }youcan buy for from one fourth to j one-tenth the cost of lands of the East and North? They produce as much acre for acre. Hore is achamee to better your condition and add@ liberal amount to your pocket book, ” For full particulars and special railroad rates apply at once to R.& Lemon, Secretary Frisco System Im migration Bureau, St. Louis, Ma ‘8-76 SCROFUL: a WE INHERIT. 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The deposit of tubercular matter im the joints and glands is carried off as soon as the Head is restored to a normal condition, and the So grandchild when only if ae jpread rapid); jase next attac: we feared she would lose her inent oul 14 aonynistans were io nothi: lieve * o then that we = ¥ “That medicine at aim cure. toreturns BRUTE, ‘Tt Symptoms of Scrofula di . 8. S. S. is guaranteed purely vegetable and harmless: ideal Mood purifier and tonic that removes all bleed talut acd builds up weak tions. Our physicians will advise without charge, all who write us about : f t cough, oppressed, rattling, and difficult breathing. Heary rd * } q