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BUTLER, MISSOURI, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1905, Take cold easily? Throat tender? Lungs weak? An relatives have consumption Then a cough means a great Cherry Pectoral deal to you. Follow your doctor’s advice and take Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral. It heals, strengthens, prevents. mer @ roars, I have depended on Aver'y Cherry Pectoral for coughs and colds, tee ge pee ease na. . C. AYER.CO., for jezet Weak Lungs ae? Pills increase the activity o1 liver, and thus aid recovery. Kansas And Standard Oil. K. C, Times, Facts as to Divorce. The Culver Voice. Kansas City World. This weather is invigorating but _ The president’s recommendation bad to take. that congress provide for the collec-} Dr. Bakers agent is meeting with tion of statistics of marriage and | quite a deal of success on his canvas divorce is an important +tep toward | this time. aremedy for what has become rec. ognized as one of the most degrad- ing evils of this country. The first need is for reliable and trustworthy facts. With these at hand, intelli week. Rev. Stamper is a splendid preach- er and every one should come out to hear bim; they are also having good gent and prudent action will become| prayer meetings at Bethel every possible. Sunday night and interesting Sun- No official census of divorce has| diy achool been taken since 1886. When Car-| Miss Onona Crook, we understand, roll D. Wright made his report on/has come to stay with her grand- marriage and divorce for the twenty | parents. Mr and Mrs. Sargent years between 1867 and 1886 he| Mrs. Christle returned last week lscovered the disagreeable fact that | trom a visit with her daughter, Mre, the divorce rate had increased 157 | Charlie Couchman. per cent, while population had in- creased but 60 per cent. In 1867 the number of divorces in the United States was 9,937; in 1886 no less than 25,535. This showing is bad enough, but there fs reason to fear that the new investigation will show a still worse condition. the family of his father-u-law, Mr. Van Sant, Greer Bros. are out buying calves and are paying 24 cents, Mrs. M.S. Ketrsey ts visiting rela- tives in Polk county. guests at Mr. Petty’s last, Wednes- L. E. Evans killed hogs thie last Mr Netz from Kansas is visiting Mr. Goggins and Miss Ward were * GAME LAW PASSED. Open Dates Between Which Game May Be Killed In Missouri. Jefferson City Mo., Feb, 11.—Yes- terday the vote by which the Walm- ‘Way game bill was defeated in the hotee was reconsidered and the measure was again put upon its passage and passed by a vote of 79 to 46. The salient feature of the bill is the open dates, which, are as follows: No person or persons shall injure, kill or destroy by any means what- ever the following named game birds, except between the following named dates: Wild turkey, Nov- ember 1 to December 31 ofeach year; quail (bob white, partridge), Nov- ember 1 to December 31 of each year; pinnated grouse (prairie chick- en) November 15 to December 15 of each year; ducks and geese, January 1 to April 30 and September 15 to The Difference in Cost between a good and a poor baking powder would not amount for a family’s supply to one dollar a year. The poor powder would cause doctors’ bills many times this. Dz. PRICE’S cream Bakki:; ot CR ne-- A mgs Lag OW GOL The Standard Oil company has} The number of American divorces | day night. remgrce 31 = fogs year; snipe, is the most econoricel in the end, be- resorted to tyranny in order to co-/is now unofficially estimated at] We have attended the Home Liter- Py sg - = and September ; = c eee 1 2 oe oe o erce the atate of Kaneas. This show |50,000 annually, an increase of 100!ary Society and it is one of the]? to December 331 of each year: cause it @ous turer ia ivavening and es how little the Rockefellers and . woodeock, August 1 to December 31 o their ilk understand the Kansas temrer and fighting quality. The Oil trust has crushed competition without mercy. It has exacted trib- ute without conscience, It has de- manded epecial privileges without compunction. It has robbed and still robs without remoree. But it has never encountered a really arous- ed puolic sentiment, much less tn percent in the last nineteen years, while population has increased only about 50 percent, Incomplete state reports prepare us for what to ex- pect. Indiana, for example, in 1867 granted 1.096 divorces, 1,655 in 1886 and 4,699, or one to every 5.7 marriages, in 1900. Michigan’s divorce’s increased from 449 in 1867 to 1,339 in 1886 and 2,418 in 1900. Ohio granted 901 in 1867 best literaries we ever went to, It is doing nicely under the control of our exemplary set of young people. It opens at 7 p. m. Miss Lukie Bradley has been em- ployed to teach the spring term of school at Fair Play. Mr. Geo, Stephens gave the young people a party last Monday night which was & most enjoyable affair, Parlor games and flinch were the ofeach year; doves, August 1 to Devember 31 of each year, Anyone who shall violate any of the provisions of this section shall, upon conviction thereof, be punished by a fine of not less than $25 nor more than $50 for each offense and an additional fine of $5 for each bird injured or killed Hunters must pay @ license for hunting outside the county in which he lives, Gov. Folk insures perfect, wholesome food, When ordering of the ero always call for Dr. Price’s Cream Baking Pow- der by name for good health and good food. It makes the finest cake, pud- dings, flapjacks, biscuits and bread. such @ community as that which} and 8,217 in 1900. principal features of amusement, all ; NOTE.—There are many imitation constitutes the Sunflowerstate. And| Taking the country asa whole, in|the young people took a lively it Ja stated, is an ardent advocate of baking powders which are sold trom five fis fs a fight to @ finish between! 1900 it is estimated that there was] interest and a jolly time was had by | *¢ bill kee 5 yh ada Fu ale AHMAR ae pe Kansas and the Standard Oil com jone divorce to every fifteen mar-|all present. ‘lhe Stephens are going mad: trom alum and are unbealthful pany, pnt no money on the trust. If the Standard Oil company really pute into operation its threat to close down its Kansas refineries and to refuse all farther offers of oil pro- duced in that state, then just as eoon as its charter may be revoked for ' in the state. It should be driven out and kept out. Relatively the But these new developmenta do state is the most important in the rlages. Such tigures as these, if of- ficially shown to be true, can not fail tu arouse @ public feeling that will result in radical effurts for a remedy. The 1886 report did great good, marking practically the beginning of to leave the nefghborliood and we are sorry to lose them. Geo. Carrol has gone to the Terri- tory to work a while, He lett with Will Hendrix and wife and Charles Williams and wife. Mr. Goggins and Victor Randall is still a woeful lack of harmony be- tween the various atates and statis- Stamper did not fill his appointment at Bethel Sunday. Zarry Vatterson. “the age of jam,” says the Sun, Platt in no Danger Washiugton, Feb. 11—Senator Platt is apparently safe from the attacks of Charles W. Post, who is seeking to have him unseated be- United States Express Company, of which Mi, Platt is President the Post matter to-day, except to; Buried Alive, Boy Dies in His Grave. Paris, Feb. 11 —A terrible ense of | | A lad named Choveaux, aged 18, | was subject to epileptic fits, Gn Jan "| Britain Relies On Monroe Doctrine London, Feb, 13 —Enygland hae “% auch a failure to comply with its|the anti divorce agitation. Some|willsoou leave the community in|C4US¢ he opposed the postalcurrency | Premature burial is reported from | taken President Roorevelt at bie a terms, just so soon should the com-|reforms bave been instituted in| gearch of wealth. ” billfor the alleged reason that it Ricamarie, a town of 8000 inhabit-| word, Relying on his {nterpretatior © pany be prevented from operating] many states as aresult. But there} On account of the snow Rev. would interfere with business of the| aunts near St. Etienne. of the Monroe Doetrine troops are soon to be withdrawn from at possessions in the West Indies. Oil trust needs Kansas ofl morethan|tica covering the whole ground are] Mr. and Mra Dark have another The reason for this is that Senator | U8Ty rae was taken with a seizure | Aus i States is preparing Kaneas needs the trust. necessary to concerted action. little daughter in their home, W. P. Frye, the President pro tem- and lay apparently lifeless on) to prevent foreizn enero whment is ‘ ( pore of the Senate, in whose hands the floor Eventually the family ) the Western hemisphere the necessits driving it entirely out of the system not alter the fact that it would be a Fight Will Be Bitter ; Mr. Post placed his petition, refuses | Seat ae wee paral doctor, who, ul ne in English d ! serious mistake to establish a state URE MER Be BUSTERS Nearess Wins in Court: to present it bo the Nenitte, Senator | aor SAB, save a mea torr. ¥ Fre refinery of commercial proportions | Those who will persist in closing g ’ , Frye will have nothing: to do with it, | 4! ae a for tape 1 ' rig » | OY \ ; W An experimental refiners might, per- their _, agains ; Ph ag Mi ag Hannah Elias Gets iMoney. He says that it is trival, and has no a en “ * y M vd pla S if a . sh : i haps, be useful, but the thing to en- recommendation of Dr. King’s New place in the Senate files, cottin one of those present called ute of his wan ecararela private inves ment ——— sy : pa cesar = New York, Feb 1 .—iannah Elias, phe only way in which Mr. Post| tention to the fact that the limbs | “As we uaderstand ip tie Un . Me ‘ave along and bitter fiz with|,, ciate a sien a fishes ig Le ie seen ati ioht re aa. |y oO. States is pr eto preventaAr Throw the Oil trust out, and in-| their troubles, if not ended earlier by | blr netess whom the ng i! ‘0 Tt | oan get his petition before the Senate | Were still of a bright red hu ‘ HE Stabe 8 PSD prevenban sure private capital that it will be|fatal termination. Read what T. R | Plattsued to recover nearly $700,000 ig to have some Senator cfier it fa PUOtCe Was taken of it, and the burial | ican terr m under Amer i 5 teall, Miss. has to say:|that he cluiins to have yivou tory at staked But here “senatorial | t008 place on January 5 I es ling {#¢ kept out, and the money for inde | Beall of Beall, | 3 Psi ' “Ty open session. But here Csenatoria : A ’ P : . ‘lt “ h P “Last fall my wife had every symp-|won a victory to-day in a decision | eguptesy” intervenes Kleven days after the burial a inds or to prevent yp pendent refineries will befortheoming | 401, of consumption. She took Dr. . ‘ “ee are ; H \ ie : saad oh ‘ . ‘ . setting aside the injunction which Alth rh tl igt f story that sounds had been heard ropean powers: fr in no time. And when the state} King’s New Discovery after every : pan ies though the right of petition,| " : : ; : ee et once looks to indepencent refineries | thing else had failed, Improvement restrained her from taking hertoney | gader the Constitution, is sacred, 1sUIng from the grave came to the} © NEE Ss P] for the purchase of its oil, with com- | "ame at once and four bottles entire-| out of several banking institution’s the right of “senatorial courtesy” is | PhS of the mayor of the town, A ; , * ly cured her. Guaranteed by Frank aaa ae ape peneeannetennernna ‘ ; ‘ aty (companied by gendarties, he pr petition as the basis of trade, the T. Clay enaoiat Price 50c and #1 more sic red still, and the Constitu aedcd bo the ; ane he, Sickening Shivering Fit whole scheme of producing, refineries Tri * bo ] ft : ; *) tion between friends doca notamount | Ceeded to the cemetery, and ordered | Sickening Shiverir its : ‘cag ria: botiles free. dns i ike the grave to be opened. ‘of ague and maliria, can be relieves and marketing oil and its products Se ae ee tomuch. Soit is not likely that a . : i edits with takes : > * q 3 3; ’ jen the collin Was Orouge oO; * ¥ - * ere, 2 ink i ut on an ceqnitable basis, 80 4 and Senator will present Mr. Post's : ‘ = li ire, tone if enperin’ * bseaglogl ‘ : The Age of Jam. j he Senat the surface and the lid was removed, | 1 BUT , Maeda > UE GRpecits r as at least one state is concerned. petition to the Senate. | benetit in malaria, f6rit exerts a brur . F i i the body was found to have turned ive 4 And it happens that just now that] In the legislative matters this is Senator Platt refused to discuss; &° 0" Ayr found to hs eee jcurative istlience on the disease over, and there was evidence to show Union so far as the supply of crude oil is concerned. Spoiled Her Beauty. which adde: The Republican con- ference decided that the railway rate bill should be jammed through the | ness of fever, J had a severe aitack of house at once. An effort will then Newport News, Va., July 22, 1903. from which I was unable to leave my Last summer while recovering from ill-! Inflammatory Rheumatism in the knees, | say that the petition, as he was ad vised, would not be presented to the, Senate. Says :uropatkin Lacks Will. that the youth had survived his interment for some days Claim Crown Prince of | Tex , writes It is much to be prefered to quinine- having none of this drog’s bad after- effects. ES Manday, of Henriette. “My brother was verz low with malarial feverand jaundice till he took Electrie Bitters, whiet be make to jam it throvgh the! room for several months. I was treated ‘ . ne : ‘ae Harriett Howard, of 209 W. 34+h, | Senate i by two doctors and also tried different Austria Is In America. eye his ae ; At Frank T. Clay'> York, at one time had her} « i | kinds of linaments and medicines which} St. Peteroburg, Feb. 14 —The talk drug store; price 50¢ guaranteed, - 8t., New York, Whip-end-spur—rvs. brains and Oi beauty spoiled with skin trouble. She writes: “I had Salt Rheum or Eczema for years, but nothing wo.ld cure it. until ! used Bucklen’s Arnica Salve.” A quick and sure healer for cute, burns und sores. 25c at Frank T Clay’s drug store. Water Sweeps A Valley. Madison, Ind, Feb. 12.—A mes- sage just received from Beatty ville, Ky, reports » thirty-foot swell coming out of the Kentucky river| jammed into the background. carrying everything before it and aweepirg the valley clear. A Frightened Horse. _ Running lke mad down the street to have areliable Salve handy and there’s none as good as Bucklen’s Arnica Salve. Burne, cuts, sores, Eczema and piles disappear nickly | fs Se ‘seemed to relieve me from pain for deliberation. Legislation while you! wait. “The Santo Domingo affair looks awhile, but at the same time I was not reading a paper Isaw an advertisement of S.S.S. for Rheumatism. I decided like a bad care of jam that got jam-/|to give itatrial, which I did at once, After I Had taken three bottles I felt a med before it got ripe. i great deal ‘better, and I still continued “Army captains are jammed into | to take it regularly until I was eutirely generalcies. Appropriation bills are et ie ee better ome ie _ : H ig | am cheertul recommen . §.S. to jammed through. The age of jam is any one saflering from Rheumatism. upon us, but it remains to be seen] 613 32dSt. Cuas. E, GI,DERSLERVE. whether beet packers and railways) preumatism is caused by uric acid or will be jammed {uto obedience to the some other acid poison in the blood, J po! law. Meanwhile the constitution is which when depesited in the muscles and joints, uce the sharp, cutting pains and the stiffness and soreness pe- culiar to this disease. S. 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But when coughs and colds are properly treated, the tragedy ie averted. F. J. Huntly, of | Oaklankca, Ind., writes: “My wife of Generat Gripenburg and the reve-/oigest. son of Emperorer Francis country. The story is backed up by | Boston, Mass., Feb, 12.—A story is printed here tonight that Rudolph, Joseph of Austria, instead of being | in a suicide’s grave, in his homeland, | is alive, and is now living in this affidavits of men, who assert they have been personally acquainted with the crown prince, and that they have seen him la‘ely. Revolution Imminent. A sure sign of approaching revolt and eerious trouble in your system is nervousness, sleeplessness, or stomach upsets. Electric Bitters will quickly dismember the trouble- some causes. It never fails to tone the etomach, regulate the Kidneys No Eatahles To Convicts. 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