The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, January 18, 1906, Page 1

~ VOL. XXVUI. — The Butler Weekly Times. BUTLER, MISSOURI, THURSDAY, JANUARY 18. 1906. NO. 12 short reprieve, given to me by cir- cumstances—‘time to write to you,’ ourgood colonelsays. Forgive him, father! he only does his duty. He would gladly save me if he could. And do not lay my death up against Jemmie. Ene poor boy is broken hearted and dors nothing but beg andentreat them to let him die in my stead, “Teav't bear to think of mother and Blessom. Comfort them, father. Tell tim L die aso brave boy should aad that, when the war is over, they witl not be ashamed of me, as they must be now, God help me! it is very hard to bear. Goodbye, father! God eeems near and dear to me; not atall as if he wished me to perish for- ever, but as it be felé sorry for bis poor, sinfal, broken-hearted child and would take me to be with him and my Suvior in a better, better life,” A deep sigh burst from Mr, Owen’s heart. “Amen!” he said solemnly, “Amev!’ LIEUTENANT BOWMAN. THE SOLDIER'S REPRIEVE. An Example of Lincoln's Mercy. 4 AUTHOR UNKNOWN, “I thought, Mr. Allen, when I gave my Bennie to his country, that note father im all this broad land made so precious a gift—no, not one. The dear boy only slept @ minute, just one little minute, at hispost. Lknow that was all, for Bennie never dozed overa duty. How prompt and relia: blehe was! I know he only fell asleep one little eecond—he was so young, and not etrong, that boy of mine! And now they shoot him hesanse he was found asleep when doing sentinel duty. Twenty-four hours, the tele. gram said, only twenty-four hours. Where is Bennie now?” “We will hope, with his heaveuly Father,” said Mr. Allen, soothingly. “Yos, yer; let us hope. God is very merciful! ‘IT should be ashamed, father,’ Bennie said, ‘when I am 4 man, to think that I never used this great right arm’—and he held it out eo proudly before me—‘for my country when it needed it. Paley tt rather than keep it at the plow!’ “To night in the early twilight I shall see the cows all coming home from pasture and precious little Blos- som standing on the back stoop waltingfor me; but J shall never, nev- ercome! God bless,youal! Forgive your poor Benniv!”’ Lute that night the door of the “back stoop” opened softly, anda little figure glided out and down the footpath that led to the road by the mill. She seemed rather flying than walking, turning her head neither to theright nor to the left, looking only now and then to heaven and folding her bandsas if in prayer. Twohours later the same young girl stood at the Mill depot watching the coming of the night train, and theconductor as he reached down to lift her into the car wondered at.the tear-atained face that was upturned toward the dim lantern he, held in his hand. A few questions and ready answers told him all, and no father could have cared more tenderly for his only child than he for our little Blossom. She was on her way to Washington to ask President Lincoln for her broth- Cold Affected Head and Throat —Attack Was Severe. Chas. W. Bowman, Ist Liout, and Adjt. » 4th M. 6. M, Cay, Vols., writes from Lanham, Ma., as foliows: “Though somewhat averse to pateni Medicines, and still more averse to be- coming @ professional affidavit man, it seems only a plain duty in the present instance to add my experience to the columns already written concerning the curative powers of Peruana, “1 have been particularly benefited by its use for colds ia rf head and| “‘Go, then; go, my boy,’ I said, t. eer’ ni ae hag pit one ‘and God keep-you!’ God has kept am vi ” eight hours by its use according | ‘im, I think, Mr. Allen,” and the s. luse itas a preventive|{armer repeated these last words contd aipany ser ~ ete slowly as if, in spite of his'reason his embers of my family also use ; for like cilments. Weare recommend- Man denen’ pag t his M ing it to our friends.” ' e the apple of his eye, Mr. Owen, doubt it not.” —™ <4. 77. Rowman, Aek your Drugeist for Free Peruna| Blossom sat near them listening with blanched cheek. She had not Almanac for 1906. sheh a tear. Her anxiety bad been Effort Made to Secure 80 concealed that no one had noticed | er’s life. She had stolen away, leav- . {t, She had occupied herself mechan- | ing only a note to tell where and why a Pardon For Patterson. {cally in the household cares. Now/she had gone.. She had brought she answered a gentle tap at the kitchen door, opening {t to receive from a neighbor’s hand a letter. “It is from him,” was all she said. Bennie’s letter with her. No good, kind heart like the President’s could refuse to be melted by it. The next morning they reached New York and the conductor hurried her on to Washington Every minute now might be the means of saving her brother’s life. And so, in an incredi- bly short time Blossom reached tl capital and hastened immediately to the White House. The President had but just seated himeelf to his morning’s task of over- ooking and signing important pa- pers, when, without one word of an- nouncement, the door softly opened and Blossom, with down-cast eyes and folded hands, stood before him. “Well, my child,” he said io his Jefferson City, Mo., Jan. 15.— Strong efforts are being made to in- duee Governor Folk to pardon Edi- -tor Charles Patterson, of Marshall, It was like a message from the from the penitentiary, where he {s dead. Mr. Owen took the lotter but serving @ term of two years for could not break the envelope on ac- shooting and, desperately wounding count of his trembling fingers and former State Senator E. D. Martin, held {6 toward Mr. Allen with the ofthesamecity; — * ~|helplessness of a child. "The defense entered ‘a plea of in-| The minleter opened {¢ and read as sanity, and the same argument was |ollows: ‘need by a delegation of Salinecounty| “Dear Father—When this reaches citizens when making the application you, I shall bein eternity: At firstit _for clemency to the Governor. - seemed awful to me; but I have Doctor Woodson, superintendent | thought about it so much now that of the St. Joseph Insane Asylum, ex-|ithas no terror. They say they will “amitied Patterson at the prisoa, and |0t bind me nor blind me, but that I expressed the opinion that he is in-| may meet my death Hke aman. I ‘gape. . : ‘ thought, father, it might have been| pleasant, cheerful tones, “what do) ‘Patterson has been‘ at the prison|0n the battle field, for my country, | you want, so bright and early in the one month. He {s an inmate of the|and that, when [ fell, it would be) morning?” Pa i “hospital. Governor Folk did not in-|fghting gloriously, but to be shot], “Bennie’s life, please sir,” faltered 5 _ Qieate what he would do. down Iike a dog for nearly betraying | Blossom. : ere « |it—to diefor neglect of duty! \Ofath-| “Bennie? Who ts Bonnie?” Fe A Gaarant Cure For Piles ‘er, I wonder why the very thought| “My brother, sir. ‘They are going “A doesnot kill me! But I shall notdis-/to shoot him for sleeping at hig money if grace you. Iam golog to write you| post.” 7 n¢ WFAzgomTWENT abeutit, and when I am gone you) “O, yes,” and Mr. Lincoln ran his «may tell my comrades. I cannot|eyes over the papers before him. ‘I now. . |remember. It was a fatal sleep. You ‘You know I promised Jennie pee, child, it was at a time of special (Carr's mother I would look alter her|danger. Thousands of lives migh} | srben he fell sick J did all I| have been lost for his culpable ‘negit {when he was ordered. back into the} ‘So my father said,” replied Blos ‘iat in va, 61 night|weak, He did the work ol two, a ft. was Zouimis’s night, not to ed Mr. Lincoln Bennie’s letter to read. He read it carefully. Then, takirg up his pen, wrote a few hasty lincs and rang his bell. Blossom heard this order given: “Send this dispatch at once.” The President then turned to the girland said, “Go home, my child, and tell that father of yours who could approve his country’s sentence, even when it took the life of a child like that, that Abraham Lincoln thinks the life far too precious to be lost. Go back, or wait until to-mer row. Bennie will need a change after he has so bravely faced death; he shall go with you” “God bleas you, sir,” said Blossom; and who shall doubt that God heard and registered the request? Two days after this interview the young soldier came to the White House with his little sister. He was called into the President's private room nda strap fastened upon his shoulder, Mr, Lincola then said: “The soldier that could carry a sick comrade’s baggage and die for the act so uacomplatningly deserves well of his country.” Then Bennie and Blossom took their way to their Green mountain home. A crowd gathered at the Mill depot to welcome them back, and as Farmer Owen's hand grasped that of his boy tears flowed down his cheek, and he was heard to say fervently: “The Lord be praised!” An Up-to-Dete Missouri Farm. Mexico, Mo., Jan. 15.—R. R. Huw- ard, a young farmer who lives about sixteen miles northeast of here, has an electric light plant complete in every detail, on hisfarm. fie not only illuminates his residence, but lights his barns and outbuildings. sixteen candle power strength. Besides being a practical and suc- ceseful farmer Mr. Howard is an elec- trical geplus of no mean ability. He has patented several inventions which have proved to be practical: His latestinvention is an electric mail box signal. Many homes on the rural routes are some distance trom the road and their mail boxes are placed on the public highway, in many cases @ quarter of a mile from the house. This electric alarm is so arranged that a bell in the house will ring ever the box is opened. The plant was put up by Mr. How- ard himeelf, It has a capacity of twenty-five incandescent lights of SUFFERED AGONIES FOR FOUR YEARS Whole Foot Nothing But Proud Flesh —Tried Different Physicians and | All Kinds of Ointments — Could Walk Only With Crutches — Ohio Man Says: “CUTICURA REMEDIES THE BEST ON EARTH” | —_——. “In the year 1899 the side of my right foot was cut off from the little toe down to the heel, and the icia’ who had el was trying to sew up the side of my foot, but with no success, When he found out that wouldn't rh proud red un tried \/ told agonies for four y ivi of oint- different phy: ments, | It is sixteen mont! using Cuticura Soap ¢ my limb and foot. T months the Cuticura Remedies did not seem to work, but I kept on using them both. In two weeks afterwards I saw a change in my limb, ‘Then 1 began using Cuticura Soap and Ointment often dur- ing the day and kept it up for seven months, when my limb was healed up just the same as if I never had trouble, “Tt is eight months now since I stopped using Cuticura Remedies, the best on God’s earth. am working at the present day, after five years of suffering. The cost of Cuticura Ointment and Soap was only 86; but the doctors’ bills were more like $600. You can publish my name and refer any one to write to me about | Cuticura Remedies. I will answer all letters if pores is enclosed, John M. Lloyd, 718 8. Arch Ave., Alliance, Ohio, June 27, 1905.” Complete External and Internal Treatment for every Humor, from Pimples to Scrotula, trom Infancy to Age, consisting of Cuticura Soap, 2c., Ointment, 30¢., Resol- ‘vent, 50c, (in form of Chocolate C+ Be. Forte: Drags Chem. Compe tote Propes Boson 1Og"Malll Free, Hiow lo Oure Skin aid blood Humor.” Crazy Snake to Roosevelt. Washington, Jan. 15.—Crazy Snake, the most renowned chief of the Creek Indians, will call upon the President to tell him why, in his opin- fon, the Creeks should not be forced to relinquish their tribal relations. The old Indian warrior {s very de- termined in his opposition to the treaty, and, through his interpreter, will make a strong appeal to the President for himeelf and his people. Ninety Years Old. Richard Grabam Andrews, of Bat lard, celebrated his ninetieth smai- versary on the 1Oth of this mom 2b. Heis a Tennesseean by birth, hariag come west on horseback fn the epriagt of 1840, His life had been an ene m- plifcation of the best type of cbries |tlan cltizensbip. The ocensima brought together a large compaay of | Telatives who shared and evioyed # full measure the festive and sovbal features of the day. Below is a list of the participate Cloldrén: Mrs. Etzabeth diode Re Hays, Butler, Mo; Mra. Ann {aa | Jonson, South Side, Wash Mow | Beeea Andrews Murphy, Atehfac, lard, Mo. Others John Mevea Tohnson, South Side, Wast Mires. Jennie Eavella Andrews, Ballard 3 oe John A Murphy, At Kan dren: Leota Sects Andrew , Leda Ayrs Andre te Jonnie Andrews and Lolo £ a Audeewa Fil Mr 4 Jobn Hass r iM wrt Awexuvder, Hick Rav nod wie Sane 'Narissus Pettus, George x and n \ hoyle , Will Warford, M ica Wa sad aud daughter, Sallie, John 4 ‘ jaud wile, Dore Moov and wife, Say ie Greer, Mrs Fortner, Yeelie Alexander, Grace Venal iorae | Schuyler, Irene Venable, I vy ‘ers | ble, Jessie Schuyler, Mattie Sehiay Jer, Leo Alexander, Fred Schuyler. To Cure a Cold in One Day: Take LAXATIVE BROMO Qi@a- NINE Tablets. All druggists reform the money if it fails to cnre, EL WL Grove’s signature is oneachbox, 25 Roofer Killed in Carthage: Carthage, Mo.. Jan. 25,—Jetnu Skidmore, a workman engaged in placing the reofing on the new. epnn- try residence of Colonel William» 31. Phelps, near Carthage, fell-fromsixe roof and died in less than one howr. Skidmore lived at Humboldt, Knz., where he has a wife and child. tn hie ocket was found a letter writtes to is wife. The body will be sent to Humboldt. {oo | The Kind You Have Always Bomgixt Bears the | a if ittins | The Columbia and Sayers and Scoville vehicles have been sold for many years in Bates county, " with the very best results. Elegant in style, a grade ma- Wy workmanship, our Buggies, fine Har- ness, whips ‘and lap dusters are match- ed to sult the taste ‘ ‘ ‘ axle grease, tents, wagon covers, harness and trade them for new onea ; McF'arland Bros. |The Pioneer Harness and Saddle men offBates eounty, 1874. [COLUMBIA OR SAYERS AND SCOVILLE BUGGIES, » And an elegant Flat Pad Single or Double Buggy Harness. from $10 to $30. Single and prices from the cheapest te horse blankets, dusters and # southwest and our harness are all made a, aleo carry a full eo sane ane