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i ' * is dmirab! Lite Gir's Obstinte Case of | Vendire st Ratiway Stations ast |'* 00 somirile tal i High Prices at First — Pur Boy—Yes, but the boss cata I was Meads Are Tied Behind the Receives deposits and always has money to loan. 25 years \, Eczema — Instantaneous Relief chaser Should Visit Wom- nein ae a Back—Two String successful experience, : ” By Caticura—Little Boy's Hands en at Work. mee ee Tricks. —DIRECTORS:— = hi and Arms Also Were a Mass | ‘ne tourist, who contemplates mak- Pinto Pete— What ‘a Be Sagebush Sam 4 Trick with a Small Coin. Ap te Yay gy hag of Torturing Sores — Grateful | * trip through Mexico, is always |shoot the sky pilot fer? Ask sombone totic your hands be- bey Ones > fe oe Max Wei — “ deluged with commissions from his} Bunchgrass Bill—It ‘uz a mistake, |%!™d pour back, and to lend you a 0. H.Duteher E bP Pees” wn B Tyler Mother Says: friends for drawnwork. The purchase |Th’ parson turned to him sudden Itke, small coin. Hold ; Sam Levy . of such a Very desirable article woul | an’ says, solemn: “Air you prepared the coin between 6 i ” “CUTICURA REMEDIES seem simple enough when you know ot |ter meet yer God?” An’ Sagebrush up your teeth, and WE WANT YOUR BUSINESS. the hundreds of families engaged {n/an’ pluggéd him without stoppin’ ter mmpet thet i, Wx. E. Wavon, President. J. R. Jenkins, Cashier. “ A HOUSEHOLD STANDBY” | Téagh Luck. " | Merchant. (to spplicant)—Yes, I ad- | tised for a boy. Where did you} i st? | COVERED LIMB HOW BEST TO BUY THIS onl Merchant—Why did you leave there? Boy—I got fired for being too . TRACTIVE NEEDLEWORK. prompt. —+— ver work la Boy—At Blank’s store. Merchant—That’s queer. Promptness the manufacture of &. However, # is/think it might be jest some religious not the scarcity of the pretty work/idee he was apringim’.—Cleveland that makes the trouble, but the diffi- | Leader. culty of locating it. —— At many of the stations along the} “ \ Just Possible. railroad dozens of men and women will] “They say,” remarked the boarder bid fiercely for your trade, and spreati | Who peruses the scientific notes in pat- the most beautiful creations before | Dt medicine almanacs, “that eating your longing eyes. In all probability | eans injures the eyesight.” you are tempted and gladly fall, spend-| “Possibly,” rejoined the scanty-hair- ing your full quota of drawnwork mon- ed bachelor. “I un@rstand there is a ey {pon these ligquid-toned venders | Constantly growing demand for spec- ‘Phat is where your greatest mistake i3|‘tacles in Boston."—Chicago Daily made, provided of course that you have | News. &@ moderate amount of time at your dis- ‘Set “A posal and are not compelied to trade} wwinis Piliman’s parents must have sight unseen,” aa the boys have it, | known he had the measles,” sald the These train venders are posted there ‘ school principal. “Why didn't they mre the SS ot wanna keep him home instead of sending him ee ete pede ercee to school to infect all the rest of the " : children this way?” rate with catalehing rapidity from | «Willie's fathor le a doctor,” replied Sve dollera*tothiek er two, or one, Willie's teacher.—Philadelphia Press, and ten chances to one you have the Obeying Orders, anxious salesman racing along close} geribbies—Pennibs’ doctor has or- by your window offering it for 50 cents. | dered him to rest for six months and They will take a ridiculously smai!/ under no circumstances to use his sum at the last with the same smile} praing and gurgling “Gracias” as they be-|° Dribbles—Poor fellow! How does he wp it lato your pocket. You can then offer to free yourself from the string. Go behind the screen, take a pair of youreelf free, pocket the loose pieces of string, and exhibit another piece self beforehand. This piece must, of course, be exactly like the piece with which you were tied, and the decep- SOME NEAT TRICKS WHICH MAY FURNISH AMUSE- MENT FOR AN IDLE HOUR. Putting a Coin in the Pocket When while your hands are tied behind your back, you can put the money into your trousers pocket it shall be yours. To do this you walk behind a screen, bend down to a chair, leaving the coin there, turn round, pick it up, and selssors from your. hip pocket, cut with which you had provided your- tion is improved if the second piece has two or three knots thed in it. String Trick. A very old trick, but a very good one to play on people who do not know it, is to tie two people together and ask them to release themselves without cutting the string, or untying the knots. They must be tied in this way: MISSOURI STATE BANK, BUTLER, MISSOURI. Capital 855,000.00 Surplus FPund and Profits 12,7028 483 Dr. T. C. Boutware, Vice-Pree. Wesiey Denton, Ass’t Cashier, CorB_y Gararp, Clerk and Bookkeeper. THE WALTON TRUST CO. OF BUTLER, MO. Always has ready money on hand to loan on farms in Bates, Vernon, Barton, Cedar, Polk and Dade Counties, Mo., at VERY LOWEST RATES OF INTEREST on one, three, five or seven years time, and allow borrowers to pay back part each year if desired, Every land owner wanting a loan should call and get our rates and liberal terms, Money ready as papers are signed. Wehave a ful) and complete abstract of title to every acre of land or town lot in Bates County from the U. 8 patent and showing all deeds of trust, Sheriff's deeds, tax titles or other conveyances that have been recorded in Bates county, Our Abstract books were begun by our Mr, Wm. E. Wal- he stowed for double the amount a few} manage to pass the time? a on ny a Grins o> moments before. ‘ Scribbles—He writes dialect poetey. ts from twenty to twenty-five dol- There are several small towns 1) | —Chicago Dally News. to come up on the mountain, | Mexico where drawnwork is almost the commen ton 85 years ago and are written up daily from the county ree- ords, We furnish reliable Abstracts at reasonable prices and The first’ man, whom we will call A, (see asecompany- sole vocation of the entire population. , They ever Meet. It is not made in factories nor in open “Bo you've bean calling on Mr. Gay shops, but behind the adobe walls of | man’s daughter dor over a year. It’s a countless dwellings. A person who] wonder he has never asked you your wishes to go among the people and buy | intentions.” .4 ing sketch) has his x wrists tied to- gether with a long plece of string by having one ‘end are responsible for their correctness, INTEREST PAID ON TIME DEPOSITS. Tf you have idle money for six months or longer the Walton Trust Company will pay you interest on it, mages, 4 Gage $0 cise fe their wares at first hand does not ques-} “Well, you #ee I never get to his| tied round one wrist and one round Wu, E, Walton, Pres, Sam Levy. Vice-Pres, orm ¢ Props, Boston, Mase, tion the hotel clerk por the conductor | house until after eight and I adwaye! the other wrist. The seecond maa is to ‘ eos aod" The Useat Skin Book e PAeuring | ¥ the street car, nor she policeman 0.1] leave before two in the morning.”—| have his wrists tied In the same way, Fank Allen, Sec C. A, Allen, Ass’t Seo, CASTORIA For Infants and Children, The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the Signature of an open door; almost all of these door: Probably Strong. piace. To release them take hold of Probebent nee Oe 4 — open into a courtyard, from which the/ «g, that is DeVere the great natura = ae in * PmcoeR ar rooms of the house lead. ist poet? I suppose he has written OOD FOU Fale ae DR. E. N. CHASTAIN. Butter, - Mo. Office over Bennett-Wheeler Mer. Co. Residenee High Street. Office Phone 213. Residence Phone 195, OR. HW M CANNON. immovable. It may be possible that, Miss Elder—Thank you, dear—b— Another String Trick. spies , after reiterated demands, and perhaps} Miss Youhger—They began tbat] Ammonnce that you oan tie a man —_— a careless walking still further into the | years ago.—Cleveland Leader. up with two pleces of string, each ‘ . Dentist, npeettn” Due se tam te realty athe cnivatetione | Mas stood The Test 25 Years BUTLER, - MISSOURI. Will bein A@rian every Tues- day and Friday prepared to do all kinds of dental work. OSTHEOPATHY Y¥armers Bank Bullding, the corner. No, you must take your | Philadelphia Press. courage and all the assurance you can —_—— muster and stmply walk in ugon the Wanted to Know. people in their po homes. “dnd many Caristiaas were stabbel As you walk along the street, bor-| !n the arena, dered cloely on either side by the} “Ma?” straight, unpromising adobe wails, you} “Well?” asked ma, stopping her will see nothing that wouk! guide the | Teading. most cunning to.any conclusion, You mee it hurt to get stabbed in the must just stro by until you come :o | 8*e0a?”—Honston Post You advance sth! further within, of] .ome peautiful things on flowers?” } course’ smiling in your most winning) = «¢ gon’t know about that, but I once wea “ct ay deca or| Toad & sonnet he wrote to an onion nore ttveraity. ‘table Mnen.. Possibly ba’ “** * Pene®."—Milwauhes Gents you may meet with a decided refusai, but just act as though a shake of the On! head, uplifted brows and outspread Miss Elder—i beileve peopte are be- hands were not translatable into Eng-| ginning to call me an old maid. lish, and stand pleasantly smiling but} Miss Younger—Oh, no, dear! ing to be had, so with a small gift of The General Plaint. copper fe: jt Bach man doth in his beart eentte eps herd. t pens Saas 6 This simple, egofistic song, withdraw repeat your pe ma: “Y Gnd it ona to be rights few doors farther on. Why are so pang people wronge” Perhaps at the very next place you Washington ; may see within an inner room, or may- Lease be sitting avound the patio, half a AF. TOO REALISTIC, but before the second knot ia fixed pass the string behind A’s string, so that the two men are linked together. p People who do not know the trick usually try to step out of the string, and in so doing get themselves literal- ly into a tight of A's wrists, pass it through the piece thet goes ronnd his wrist, and etip it dack over his hand. ‘Then, if A draws hts wrists away, he will find that he is frea If you watch the way in which the string slips out at the wrist you wil be able to reverse the pracess and Hak the two together again. such a Wey tBat ho cannot get free even with the use of a knife or a pair of - scissors, To prove your ability si to do this you in- ™ duce your victim to kneel down, and fs in that position you tie wrist to bis right foot, and de Es 4 3 A, A. Peach, Clerk and Bookkeeper W, D. Yates Abstractor, W. J. Nix, Clerk, ) PP LPPL LPL ILIA, LAL NAIL LIAL PAPI A LLAPPIAS IP, THE BATES NATIONAL BANK, | BUTLER, MISSOURI. Capital $50,000, < * Surplus, $6,000. eonmmmnondvased Grove’s Tasteless Chill Tonic No-Cure-No-Pay. 50 cents. Butler, Missouri, his left wrist to his left foot. You can CASBSTVTORIA. ~ Sheriff’s Sale. ) them put a pair of scissors in front of Boars the Tho Kind You Have Always Bought By virtne and authority of a special execu- DR. JOHN A. BELL hima ead ack him to cut himself trea tion treued from the office of the clerk of the Bigosture : » Mo,, reti . 50 id 9 He oanaot move either hands or fret; a at May term, 1006, ‘of said court, lt oe SUCCESSOR TO DR. HARRIET FREDERICK. m-tr T..C. BOULWARE, and & mn. Office psn women and North Bide Square, ne, Mo. This is Herr Bummel and his dog the morning after he attended the por * Oh, gentle spring, you are the thing For forcing leaf and bud; But oft, blas! i¢ comes to pass Oh, spring, thy name is mud. —Chicago Datiy News. Kind to Her. Bhe—Why, yes; I have to think he is when I remember what he did to the last man who asked me fos my a much, one will go into the interior and cg chance had come, and he roared out: | Neal barn on North Cedarstreet og a, by the ae a Be Ae] return with 9 scart, or table cloth, Handica “John J. Brown; John J. Brown; will | terday from an attack of pertionitle. day of Apel, 106, 4 some other piece of linen. You Arti ped, pall anyone tell me how to spell J?” Romulus was one of the finest horses | , All persone having claims againat sald cetate ap ats Fah bat uot agri Msc wan ae ae an vs your! “Yes, sir,” sald the boy, “J-a-y,” and |ever imported to this country. The | ance within one year from the date of said let- hy = “Good Advice.” eg Matter of Title. : “Have you any ‘captains of industry’ in your state?” asked the Ohio man. “No, sah,” replied the Kentuckian, | “nothing but ‘colonels,’ sah.”—Chicago Daily News. . ¢ Headed Him Off. ¥ “You wouldn’t marry a man just be- cause he was rich?” . “No; but I'd reject one just becanse was poor.”—Houston Post. . a ay E fhe only movement he can ¢ & the one that he will make if. to get hold of the scissors—he fall over, and in that position be jee Feof, Wentworth and John J. The stories told at the expense of Prof. Wertworth, commonly known as “Bull” Wentworth, aad for years con- nected with the Phillips Exeter acad- emy, are kegion. The following, how- each instructor to take the names of the pupils of his classes. “Now,” said Prof. Wentworth on one occasion, “1 want every boy to give his fwH name. If your name is William Smith.” The list was nearly completed sat- iefactorily when the name of John Jay Brown was given. The proiessor’s Prof. Wentworth laughed with the rest. —Boston Herald. Hostess—Well, Tommy, you can te!l your mother for me that you are the best behaved-boy at table I ever met. Tommy—Thank you, ma’am, but I'd pray? Tommy—She'd think. I was ill, ‘and send for the doctor.—Tit-Bits. _ | Nothing More. Tom—What did your mother say when you told her that I. was sorry that.I’d made an idiot of myself lest f 4 Gree she simply #did she had | fe directed in favor of J, W. Speers and against George C. Wells, I have levied up- Ts . ee : on and perigee She ee Bee interest and cintin of 8: eorge C. Wells of, in and Mo. Pac. Excursion Rates. the following described real catate, tovwn, The south halfof the southeast aod in Special round trip rate to Kansas | tion thirty-one [31] township forty-one h Clty $2.15 on sale Saturday of each | said remit At tate week. All trains leaving Butler after twelve o’clock noon and all trains on Sunday, goo¢to return on any train leaving Kansas Ulty before noon the following Monday. Special West Bound Winter Tour- bal 1st, 1905, to May 31, 1906, to Den- ver, Colorado Springs and Pucblo, Colo. Rate 80 per cent of double one way standard rate for theround trip; final return limit May 31, 1906. others interested in the state of Missor Romulus, the fine Percheron stal- Notice. Non, owned by the Vernon county horse and jack company, died at the Vernon county company paid $3,600 for him about two yeare ago and at TABLER’S Pease beta Sve —UINTMENI CURES NOTHING BUT PILES, & SURE and CERTAIN CURE known for IS years as the BEST REMEDY for PILES. BY ALL DEVUGIsTS. a juarter of sec- 41} e uri, I will, on _ Seturday, the 19th day of May a. p, 1906, between the hours of nine o’clock in thefore- noon and five o’clock in the afternoon of that day, at the east court house door in the city of Butler, county of Bates aforesaid, sell the same or 80 mygch thereof as ma: Jager vendur, tothe highest bidder for cash In hand to satisfy said execution and costs be required at @ver, &s one of the best: iat Excursions to Colorado, Serson| 94-4 sherltt of Bane Bo ORRIS. Ode to Spring. It was the custom on opening day, for | of 1905-06.—Tickets sold datly, Oct. | "Notice of Final ——_ | Pe Notice is hereby given to all creditors and estate of David Notice of Final Settlement. Gilbert, deceased, that I, Ril bert, sdministrator of sald estats, intoud to po esau beotere couse the yd term of the at ty ari, to be held at intend to make Bates county, Butler, Mis- Notice is hereby given, that letters of admin- istration w the estate of Frelin Holloway, deceased, have been granted to the undersign- said claims be not exhi- Dited within two years from the date of the Second Artist—Ah! No one ever this time he was worth about $5,000, | poblication of this notice, they will be forever wants that.—Cassell’s Journal. Unusual Conduct. , —Nevada Mail. miei boo aide Een sees Henry Smith, say William Henry Smith, F, GEIGER. souri, on the 2th day of May, 1906. ’ Pied is your father @ kind pae-| soq not W. H. Smith nor William H. J ‘Agent.| ss miley Grupeer, 4 5 2 ARTE PEALE EAE AEE INT EUR!