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The Butler Wee VOL. XXVIII. ( = BUTLER, MISSOURI; THURSDAY, MAY 7, 1906. OLD AND YOUNC _Find in Pe-ru-na AGrancmother. Who Has Used Pe-ru-na in Her Family For Years, a Reliable Friend. For the Debility of Old People— The Catarrhal Diseases of the Middle Aged—The Coughs and Colds of Children and the Var- ious Ailments of In- fants—Pe-ru-na Is Used and Recommended, Mrs. Helen Dawson, Snyder, Tex., writes: “I believe Peruna to be the best tonic ta use for a rundown system or general debility, also for all throat and lung trouble, and ailments origi- nating trom colds. “1 believe Peruna and Manalin would cure anything. “I have used them in my family for years and never have a doctor bill to A 1 koow the medicine to be all that is claimed foe tt. “1 recommend it to all."’ Mr. Caleb Conklin, Midland, Ohio, ‘writes: “After studying and watching my in’s case, | cana truthfully say |against them, and they did not affect jhim more than an ordinary cold, “Peruna did the work for him and I shall ever speak in favor of Perune and he Is a well boy with n0 symptoms of) Dr. Hartman’s treatment. catarrh at all. “Before taking your treatment, he ‘was constantly clearing his head and throat and gagging. The glands of his throat were swollen badly and he was very pale. “He is quite adifferent boy now. The rest of us had heavy colds during the past winter so as to be laid up for several dare tnt t« enemed to he fortified “He took only @ little over two boe tles of Peruna. “It brought the color to his cheeks almost immediately, aad, O, what an appetite!” For free medical advice, address Dr. 8. B. Hartman, President of the Hart man Sanitarium, Columbus, Ohio, who ' will cive a'l letters prompt attention DR. J. M. NORRIS SPECIALIST, Why fs Mr. Bryan like the earth? You will have to tell, Mr. Bones. Why ts Mr. Bryan like the theearth ? Mr. Bones: He am like de earth, Maree Paleface, because de earth an, Mistah Bryan both peter out at de ON THE EYE, EAR, NOSE | pons. AND THROAT. Gives special attention to the treat- ment of Catarrh and its efiect upon the Ears, Throat and Lungs. Those in need of Glasses can have the eyes tested free, and properly fit- ted. Office on the South side, over El- mer Dixon’s store. Office Lours from 9 a. m. to 4 p.m. At the Minstrels. Interlocutor: Good evening, Mr. Bones. Mr. Bones: Good eb’nin,’ Maree Paleface. How’s you allon conun- derandums dis eb’nin’? Interlocutor: I feel like tackling a hard one this evening, Mr. Bones. What fa it? Mr. Bones—Disisisit: Why em Mistah Willum J. Bryan (you all knows dat man what run two times foh president); why {!s Mistah Bryan (you all knows dat Lincoln Democrat; dat’s one thing Ab neber could understan’—how dey could be any Democrats * 'roun’ a town called Lincoln); (Ah knows Ah talks: jee’ like Maree Heory James, but Ahcan’t help it nowise how- somever.) As Ah was sayin’, to get back to dat conunderundum— poutor: If you ‘havea con- adam fm that old fog bulb of} Interlocutor: Mr. Hamm Patti will now render that beautiful ballad “She Was Kissed, But it Was Only a Bug.” Girl Slain After Brutal Assault. Seattle, Wash., June.—The muti- lated body of Eleie Milhoff, aged 11, was found under a pile of stones and brush within @ atone’s throw of the Adventist Churchin Benton, asuburb of Seattle. Tom Nelligan, a newspa- per carrier, who was in the vicinity of where the crime was committed, is under arrest, but the only evidence against him {s that he has givencon- tradictory accounte of himself. Elsie Milhoff and her mother went ineearch of a lost cow. They became separated and the mother returned. Nothing could be found of the girl. Parties searched all night. Blood- hounds were brought, and they found the body. [¢ was evident the girl had been assaulted. She was stabbed 12 times in the breast, strangled and dragged to the river, where her throat was cut. “Russian Parliament’ Aroused. St. Petersburg, June.—Indignation at the-shooting of the eight revo- ‘luttoniete at Riga on the heels of the interpellation of the government on the sublect adopted: by the lower house of pariis created 8 storm Nts NO. 32 MOTHER FINDS THREE How Uncle Sam CHILDREN DEAD IN TRUNK | Rewards Meat Inspec- ors Who Do Their Duty. Crawled in During Play and the} “nat the United States Bureau of Animal Industry knew of appalling Cover Fell and Latched. conditions at the Chicago packing Kankakee, I!!., June.—At the cloae| houses, but chose to ignore them, fs of a four hours’ search for her three} the charge brought by Dr. Juha C. younger children, Mrs. Adelford Nan | Milnes, who was dismissed as a Fed- Sleete found them last night dead in | eral meat iaspector because he iusist- 4 trunkin an upper chamber. All/ed that the packers be compelled to three were little girls, the youngest | cease selling diseased meat. Ir. Mil- @more baby. One dead body was| nes says: sitting upright, the others lay hud-| “There can be no exaggeration of dled together upon a pillow. The|conditions tn Chicago, The negli- lid of the big runk was tightly | gence of {nspectors is beyond dererip- closed upon them. It {s supposed|tion. | found that scores and scores they had crawled into thetrunk dur-jof hogs * * * were killed after ing their play and that the cover fel! | regular hours, and without any In- and latched and that they were suf-/spection. The hogs when seen iu the focated. The tray of the trunk had|morning were ready for market—the been lifted out and lay upon a@ bed. | heads, glands and viscera belug re- With their six boys and four girls} moved, thus making detevtton of dis- the Van Sleets mo ved here from a/ease impossible, All this with the farm at Beaverville \t year ago. Van}full knowledye of the {nspeetors 'n Sleete fs a teameter and {sin good|charge and under frequent protest circumstances. The ‘whole family | by myself and my subordinates. occupy @ fiveroom hones. The] “After nearly five months’ expe- younger children of thefamily had/rience such as this, I felt it my duty been playing out of doore much of}to cell Dr, Salmon'e attesthon + the day, listening to music and/these conditlonus, (Dr. Salmon fa watching a martial display. chiefoi the Federal Bureau of Animal Late in the afternoon the three|Industry.) I asked for an intervie youngest, Ida, 8 years old; Rosella,|and it wae refused. ] was told bo aged 6; and Pearl, aged 2, left the}make my statement to Dr. Disson, others, going into the house to con-|the man responsible for the evils. I tinue their romping. Supper time|declined. | was then asked for a came and Mrs. Van Sleete called} statement in writing, and being un- through the yard and house, falling} able to find time from my duties, | to bring any response. asked for stenographer or for time After supper was over Mrz. Van|to be deducted from my vacation. Sleete, according to the story told|This was refused, and a few months by the family, turned her attention |later my career was ended with the to thehouse. Shehad gonethrought| official reason: ‘Insubordination the room & dozen times and though/and conduct tending to the demoral- she had searched every nook and|ization of the meat inspection ser- corner. At last the mother, in a|vice.’” sleeping room, {n which was @ round topped trunk of the “Saratoga” variety, observed something she had are as common in India aa arestom- overlooked before. ache and liver disorders with us. The light tray had been taken} For the latter however there is a from the trank and was lying on the/sure remedy; Electric Bitters, the bed. Mrs. Van Sleete lifted the lid|@reat restorative medicine, of which of the closed trunk and saw her two|* > eter Guten aes, et bables lying on a pillow in the bot: lfgct health after years of suffering tom of the trank. Ida the oldest of/ with dyspepsia and a chronically the three girls, was sitting upright, | torpid liver,” Electric Bitters cure her head drooping on her breast. chills and fever, malaria, billousness, lame back, kidney troubles and The children were so still that Mrs.|itaddor disorders» Sold on que Van Sleete stood in sympathetic|/tee by Frank T. Clay, druggist. stillness for an instant. Then she| Price 50¢. put forth her hand and touched Ida and spoke. Contact with the girl’s head and the lack of reaponse froze the woman with horror. The chil-} Chas, W. Smart recently bought a dren were dead. farm near Fulton, Mo.,ond o day The trunk is not self-locking, but}or twosince made a grewsome find it has clasps that easily might spap}in she foundation of an old log house and hold it shutagainst the strength! which he had pulled down. The of children. house was built fifty-six years ago —— on the top of a large mound, which Delmar Club Dissolved. _ been partially leveled off In iggiug away the mound many Jefferson City, June 4—The Mie-| skeletons, almost wholly decayed, souri supreme court in banc made | were found. Twenty-six have been an order ousting the Delmar Jockey | uncovered and the work is not com- club of St Louts, ordering the cor-| pleted. The skulls were in the bost poration dissolved, directing the} state of preservation. Part of the trustees to close up {ts affairs and| skeletons in nearly every case were imposing a fine of $5,000. covered over hy a flat stone. In- This order is based on the declara-|yariably they were face downward. tion that the club violated {ts char- | The mound :- -vidently an old Indian ter in conducting racing in asserted | burying ground. The bodies seem violation of the law after the passage | to have been buried in !avers. of the statute making bookmaking and pool selling a felony in the state. —_ The application for ouster of the club was made by Attorney General Hadley. After the fine and costs are paid, the court orders that the trus- tees are to pay over to the stock- holders whatever money may be left. Deadly Serpent Bites Unearthed 24 Skeleton. Texas Reduces Railroad Fares,'§ Nearly every one likes a fine Dall Rail hair dressing. Something to ietiae teres co a oh. make the hair more manage- able; to keep it from being sacar De ementrearant too rough, or from splitting] to two and one-half conts on the|f at the ends. Something, too, that will feed the hair at the same time, a regular hair-food. Well-fedhair will bestrong,and will remain where it belongs — on the head, not on the comb! Houston & Texas Central. Dr. PRICE’S BAKING POWDER helps howsekcepers nove than any other article in the housekc!ld. Its use protects the health of WANTED NO TEARS i, | AT HIS FUNERAL. | log His Grieving Comrades Sing “For He’s a Jolly Good Fellow.” | New York, Jane.—Charles Heller's | old comrades buried him.in Flower | Hill Cemetery, Jersey City. Heller | always sald that at funerals there | should be a little soberness—not too much—and plenty of brightness to make mourners forget the sadness of parting. Heller and 100 other “boys” made | up the original membership of G. H. Thomas Post, @. A.R. They had fought together, starved together, had seen Heller distinguish himeelf at the battle of Gettysburg, and af- ter the war was oyer had watched him prosper asa builder in Jersey City. This post has a fund, out of which $100 {s given to the widow on the death of a member. Heller, who was 61 years old, lay dying last Saturday. He called his wife to the bedside and instructed | her to use part of the $100 to hire a | brasa band for his funeral. What | was left over of the money was to | buy refreshments for the “boys” af. | ter they had lald him away. So every man of the 45 grizzled | war survivors was ov hand when the band struck ap and the march of a | mile to the cemetery was vegun. The | thought that Comrade Heller would | not have wanted them te weep k vs | back tears from muuy an eye. ‘ihe | band played while the elode fe!! on | the coffin, and tren she “hoya faved about and marched to Mender’s Hall | to @ quickstep. j There was enough left of the 8100 | to supply & generous luncheon. | Forming o eircle around 6 vacant | chalr, the veterans drank to Helier, | the childzc-:, for the drinks were “on” him, The band played lively airs, ond on of the “boys” who pridcd bimaeif on Nis volee {a campfire days, beiran rHe'sa ly Good Fellow,’ Couarade Heller's funeral had beeu all that he hoped for A Guaranteed Cure For Piles Ttehing. blind, bleeding. protrnding piles, Drugglets are authorized to refunding money !f PAZOOINTMENT fails to cure in 6 to 14 days, 50e, A China Murder | Mystery. Pekin, June-—Reuben Morley ot Saginaw, Mich., was murdered on the border of Mongolla, 400 miles north of Pekin, September 2, by a French adventurer styling himself Viscomte Laverger, with whom he was traveling. John Morley ofCleve- land, O., returned from_an expedi- tlon following his brother's route, during which he obtained convinelng evidence from French missionaries and Chinese showing that Reubeu Morley left a@ Chineee inn on the morning of September 2 to visit a lake ten miles distant. The French- man returned at night with Morley’s riflo nnd saddle bagsand told tte servants that Morley had proceeded alone to Mongolia, The Frenchman was seen burning Morley’s papers, | and Mongols found Moriey’s pack | horse among @ herd of wild horses, Weeks afterward aman resembling Laverger cashed Morley’: letter of credit at Colombo, Ceylon, and sail- ed for Europe. The presumption {a that he either shot Morley or drowned him fn the lake. An Alarming Situation frequently results from neglect vi clogged bowels and torpid liver until constipation becomes chronic. This condition ir usknown to those who use Dr. King’s New Life Pills: the best and gentlest regulators of stom- sch ard bowels. Guaranteed hy Frank T. Clay, druggist. Price 25¢ ST SC CAA AND HEAR The following well known lecturers: The Rev. Dr. Dawson of London, England. Nat M. Brighton, 8. A Steele, Thos. McClary, Col. G. A. Gearhart, ' IN, McCash, . E. M. Roberteon, Sam Jones, Richard P Hobson. Come and spend a week with us. Lake Park Springs Chautauqua ES 2 AS OS NEVADA, MISSOURI, JULY 15th to 23rd THE ARTISTS are AMONG Madame Thelin i. tie Operatic Soprano, The Meisters Qvartette, The Wilbur Star Concerts Company. Midland Jubilee Singers Ten in Namber The Rawlings Sisters English Bel! Ringers. Fred Hastings the Impersonator and Reader’ Moving Pictares and a neti)