The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, January 2, 1908, Page 1

q yi i q fl iv i Y) evt’s farm, seven miles east cf Butler. interest every property owner of the f our towns and villages, so itis easy . land before he leaves. _ nd blow. a DEAE OTL A — — VOL. XXX: gi Word About the Land Msiness in Bates County, (Communicated :) There haye enough land seekers visited Bates county during the past twelve months to have sold sixty per cent of the land on the market _1n this county. There bas not been twenty-five per cent. of itsold. Why? That is she question that ought to county to anextent. Some will say, why are all property owners inter __ gated? Because the sale of our land $0 outsiders advertises our county, iivances Values Of Our lands, ws to our population; fncreased values and population neces#ltates better and more {ntensified farming, that produces more profit and establish- es land values permanently on a higher basis. Whe increased valuation and tn eased production helps build up to see thatevery property owner of the county ts jolatly interested with the realestate man who has spent his time and money getting the pros pective purchaser here to see our country, in having him purchase Ifhe buys he at once becomes a diving, positive advertiser for Bates, county. It he goes away without * buying, even if well pleased, bis ad vertlelng has less weight and little éffect, Are we going to say the reason more sales have not been made lies in the quality of our lands? Ido not think so. The lands of Bates county are gen- erally good, or can easily be made good, even our most worn:and most abused lands. There ore many living examples of that fect in oar county. _As_an illustration I waut to cite the Bates county people to Mr. Jew- Mr. Jewett tells me be bought his 240. acres seven years ago and at that time {t was looked upon a8 one Of\she poorest and worst worn farme in the county. Is ranks to-day as one ofthe very best farms in the county and Mr. Jewett has added little to it in buildings, the improve- ment all being in the building up of the land. His land was not original- ly different from any land in that vicinity. Mr. Jack Elgin’s farm north of Passaic is another. Mr, Eigin re- cently refused $75.00 per acre for hia 240 acres. Plenty of land adjoining it, or close to it at $45 to $50 per acre. : Mr. Elgin’s farm {s nicely, but not expensively, improved, but the land has been taken care of and crops ro- ated. Adjoining lands and lands of the vicinity were originally of the sale quality. Different treatment “4s $11 tha’ makes the values different. ,/ Phese examples could be malti- i / plied upon many times. These evi- ce AN dences are enough to convince a thinking person that Bates county land fs all right. Then, what is the reason more of our lookers do not buy? Ihave an opinion about it, and that ts, that our own people do not appre- clate our lands and are so often “ready with a hammer to knock when they ought to get out their bugle It 1s 80 easy for a disinterested Party to say something to etrang- er, who has ears and eyes open to rn all hecan about a newcountry, pat will throw him entirely off. Wo often eee the land seeker chang- ~ ed from 8 good prospect to one ready ts to go home without doing business from .a talk of five minutes with ome fellow with a hammer, not be- pause he has had matters mierepre- d to him by the agent, but ply because the knocker looke at age from a “sour grapes” view. any people seem to think only| the worst features of a cou ‘when they get a chance ata “OR the, to them, worst fea- and dering the next en or elgh- teen months there , atto be $1, 500,000 worth of Baves county land sold, thereby adding greatly to the wealth of our county and greatly increasing our population, and I be- Heve {four people all belp push and hide their hammers, this result will be reached. ; I believe the man who !s seeking an investment or a home tn our up lands gets more discouragement than the one aeeking the boitom lande, but it one seeking either min gles freely with our people, he yete enough discouragement on eisher proposition to usually send him home without buying. “Pits te nov as itshoutdt beta county people may as well make up their minds now as later that the Marias des Cygnes River bottom lands are going to be agricultural lands, and thatsoon. Most of our people in speaking of the work say “oh, {f the ditch fs a success,” or “If it should be a failure,” ete. There is absolutely no reason for pusting it either way. To bea fallure is out of the ques- ton, It might be the result would not meet our fullest expectations, bat it should always be borne in mind that ff necessary we can do as much moreas we are doing, and thereby pus at rest all boubs of con- srolling floods, and yet have cheap. land, We saw a great deal this season iu the press about devastating floods {n Italy and the south of France— pasetimé than talking down.” You} then feel better toward yourself and your neighbors like you better and you are better. Hide your hammer} and buy a horn! | Respectfully, . J. FP. Kern, An Exciting Chase. Who has not heard of the driver's assertion that he “could. ride as fast a3 any hoss could run?” A writer in Lippincott’s tells the following hair. ralsing experience of a stage driver: Back tn the good old days wae nerves and raflroads were little “known, a titel stage road ran trom Lake Champlain to Odensburg, N.Y passing through the little town of Sodom. This village nestled In a valley between two great hills, over which she white ribbon of the road wound steeply, Upon one of the trips of the stage, the regular driver, who had been at home for some weeks recovering from sn illness, was riding tnslde, while the red hatred, mild featured, big boned Irishman acting as his substi- tute occupted the driver's seat upon the box. The day was a beautiful one, and the passengers were enjoy- ing the drive keenly, their appetites increasing as the distance lessened with ite promised pause for refresh- ments. Suddenly as the heavy stage lum- bered over the brow of the hill, down people fleeing to the bills to save their lives, ete. Yet, Iam reliably {nformed that these very lands are worth trom $300 to $500 per acre. The same is true{n Miami river bottoms in Ohio, except that they are not quite so valuable, but much of {scould not be houghé for $200 per acreand yet they have floods whey do not consol fact that we should happen to have a flood we did not control would not signity failure of the ditch by any means. Many interested in up-lands seem to think if @ prospective buyer {s {n- terested in the bottom lands that to discourage his purchasing there he will likely buy up-lands. This usual- ly proves & sad mistake, as the re- sult is they usually buy fdthing. It their inclination runs, to up- lands, all the pushing shouldbe that way, and if to bottom lands, fhe en- couragement should be to have them purchase bottom lands. It is @ rule in all lines of business which the road plunged at a sharp angle, running through the™ little town at its foot and ascending the hill beyond, the passengers became conecious that their pace had beer recklessly increased. Faster and} faster they went, dashing down the | hill at a rate rapidly becoming a tur fous one. Trees avd bushes at last heepme baton dtzeying blrer along the road, All clung to the reeling stage and held thelr breath In terror, while on the stage raced, down the hill with ever increasing speed, Into the town, past the hostlery with the. walting host left standing in amaze at the door, past the postof- fice without paure, and out upon the road leading up the face of the hill beyond. There the pace slackened, and as the tncline grew more steep atlast the smoking horses came to a standstill. With one accord the dazéd passengers tumbled out and surrounded the driver, who now stood at the head of his reeking leaders. “What is {t, Pas?- What ts ft? Did they get away from you?” came the that youcan sella man what he wants much Masier than something be does not want. In fact, it takes @ bester salesman than most of us real estate fellows to sell these home and land investment seekers what they do not want. Right hereI might say that the real estate men of Bates county are @ hustling lot of fellows, and witb- out exception, so faras my knowl- edge goes, they deserve the co-opera- tion of our people along the lines here suggested. List your land with some live agent (not agents) and if he getsa prospective customer, les him handle the deal entirely. I would like to add also that work on the Big Ditch has been the means of the building of a large up to date farm tile factory at Rich Hill, which {s now putting out large quantities of tile at prices as low as these tile can be bought any where. This should lead to a vast amount of tile drainage in our~county on the up- lands. Infact, I think there is as urgent need of tile in our up-lands as in the bottom lands. These spot- ted corn fields on onr very best and atrongest land should cease to ap- pear year after year, and will if the land {s tiled with judgment. No in- veatment the farmer can make will equal judicious use of tile for drain- age. This is one certain way to push up Bates county land values. As was recently said of the talking land purchaser, they en-|+o death of the National Bank .of|ed trying Commerce, “What we-need is an epi- demic of optimism;, an alopathic dose” of talking the good points of ee more profitable plaints, by F’. T, Clay, druggist, 50c. breathless question. “Nope,” replied Pat, with a set face. “It wor that,” pointing grim- ly before him. There lay the stage tongue dragging useléesly on the the ground at the heels of the horses and completely severed from . the coach. Ata glance the regular driv- er comprehended the meaning of the : danger to which the passengers of| ; “ley of the State where the | elects. tcaper,he’d-shout to them: —‘Just The Buller Weekly Cimes. “BUTLER, MISSOURI, TPTTRSDAY, JANUARY 2, 1908 NO. 10 $75,000 VERDICT Julian Wins Suit Against K. C. Star. Judges Graves and Lamm Dissent on Con- Stitutional Question. Jefferson City, Mo., Dec—'We shoc'd recollect that a Iibeler fs a libeler, whether individual or corpor ate,” ts language used ina dissent- ing opinion by Judge Graves, and concurred in by Judge Lamm, filed in the Supreme Court in banc. These words wore used in expreseing the Judge’s opinion of a law under which @ newspaper can be sued In any coun- plaintiff Judges Gantt, Woodson, Fox and Burgees concurred in an opinion filed by Judge Valliant, aftirming a decision of fhe Ray County Cireult Court, [nan action for damages tn- stituted by Major Henry Julten, formerly Chief of Police of Kansas City, against the Kansas City Star. Che judgment was for $15,000, dudge Graves, who dissented from the opinion; potuted ous the result of permitting platotiffe in such cases to file suite where they please. Such doctrine {n ‘ts full meaning, he says, would givrea Democrat who hada grievance agalneta Republican news- paper the right to aue in some local ity where prejudice existed agalnet {é, and the same rule would apply to a Republican bringing a libel action agalnet a Democratic paper. “The “law, he says, “detests any- thing unreasonable, unjust and un fair.” In another part of his opin fon, Judge Graves holds that the, construction placed upon the law th the majority of the court fscontrary to both the Stase and Federal Con stitutions, DeWiis's Little Early Risers are the best pills kuown sold by Frank Clay, druggist. Harvsburg Truth: ‘The editor sat in hiv office whenee all but him had fled, and he wished thas every last dead beat was in his grave— stone dead. His mind then wander ed far away to the tlne when he should die, and his royal editortal soul go scooting to the sky; when he’d roam the fields of paradise and sail o'er jaaper seas and ali things glorious would combine his every sense to please. He thought how then he’d look across the great gulf dark aad drear, that'll yawn be- tween happy souls and those who swindled here, and when far water they would call, and in agony they'd quench your thirst with the due that’s on your paper.’ ” Making Good There is no way of 1 i like "Making Goo nes well ng fasting and Doctor xemplify this, after more than two of popularity. are numbered by that stage, deprived of {ts sole means of guidance, had been exposed, and, realizing the miracle of their escape, he turned sick aud fainted where he stood. Later, back at the inn, when the excitement had somewhat. subsided and fresh horses were being put to the repaired coach, some one turned to Pat and asked: “Pat, what was_your first thought: when the pole dropped?” “Well, sor,” he answered, settling the quid more comfortably in his cheek, “me firat thought wor, ‘Lord ha’ mercy on our sowis!’ Thin thinks I to meself, ‘Confound a horse that can’t outrun a wagon!’ and I kicked the poor bastes all the way down the hill!” Bafil, Up. : Abraham Brown, of Winterton, N. Y., had @ very remarkable experience he says; “Doctors got badly mixed up over me; one sald heart-disease; two called it kidney trouble; the fourth, blood poison, and the fifth Pyeng i liver pty ing Fd Booey of them me; 80 m) Dect Bitters, which are toring me.to perfect health. One bosti me more good than all the ve a rescribed.”” Guaranteed to core mong weakness an all stomach, liver and kidney com- * d | and when once ‘tried are ever afterwards the hyfdreds of thousands. They have "made good” and they have not made drunkards. . A good, honest, square-deal medicine of known composition is Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical mH oy ery it still enjoys an im- mense sale, while most of the prepara- vions that have come into prominence in the earlier period of its popularity have "gone by the board” and are never more heard of. There must be some reason for this long-time popularity and that is to be found in {ts superior merits. When once given a fair trial for weak stomach, or for liver and blood affections, its supe- rior curative qualities are soon manifest; hence it has survived and grown in pop- ular favor, while scores of less meritorious articles have suddenly flashed into favor for a brief period and then been as soon forgotten. ‘or a torpid liver with its attendant indigestion, dyspepsia, headache, per- haps dizziness, foul breath, nasty coated tongue, with bitter taste, loss of appetite, with distress after eating, nervousness and debility, nothing {s so good as Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery. It’s an hones‘ agebee-déal medicine with all its in; jents printed on bottle-wrapper —no secret, nd hocus-pocus humbug, therefore don’t accept a substitute that the dealer may jibly make a little big- ger profit. ‘In on your right to hava what you call for. Don’t buy Dr. Pierce's Favorite ent tion expecting it to prove a “cure-all.” It is onlyadvised for woman's special ail- ments." It makes weak women strong and “sick women well. than some ‘preparations sold for like pur . its‘sterling curative virtues still maintain _its position in the front.ranks, where it over two decades ago. As an in- vigorating tonic and preneenaning nerv- ine it is. ualed. It won't satisfy those who want" ” for there js not a drop of alcohol in it. Dr, Pierce's Pleasant Pellets, the origt- nal Little Liver Pills) although the first pill of their kind in the market. still lead, in favor, “Easy to take as vg reed to three a dose, Much émiuied but never AFFIRMED.| STRAIGHT TALK TO YOUNG MEN. UF WILLIAM ALLEN WHITH Just elt down and figure it out, Bub. Of course there are a lot of 00d fellows on the road to hell; you will have a good time golug, bus you'll bew long time there. You'll dance and play cards and chase out nights, avd soak your soul {nthe essence of don’tgive-a-damitiveness, and you'l wonder, as you go up in the balloon, what fun there ts {n walk- {ng through this sober old world. Friends—what are they? The love of humanity —wheatde it? —Phetieheial nees to those about you?—(enttlity —What sre those things Lotteroll, lesterol! But as you drop ous of the balloon the earth will [ook likeasert ous piece of landscape, “When you are old, the beer you have ewilled will choke your throat; the women you have tlirted with will hang around your fect and make Feed your hair; nourish it; give it something to live on. Then it will stop falling, and will grow long and heavy. Ayer’s Fair Vigor is the only genuine hair-food you can buy. It gives new life to the hair-bulbs. You save what hair you have, and get more, 00; And- it keeps the scalp, clean and healthy. Tho best kind of a testimon “Sold tor over sixty one dead, ohe a porter in a saloon you stumble. All the nights you}in Peoria, one crazy: and he looks at have wasted at poker will dim your you,and it seems to him that he eyes. Aud the garden of days that] just wake you dn is arms, os he did are zone, whereln you should have] when you wera littl ehild in the planted kiudness and conetderation, prairie tire, and run to safety with and thoughtfulness, and manly cour- you And when be talks to you age to do right, will be grown-up 60] with hfs bashfal, halving apeech, you weeds, that will blossom fn your}juss sie vhere and yriu, and te tls twisted, gnarly face that no one loves. “Go ft, Bub! don’s stop for your do no understand, “Des rather up te you, bub. In she next few montis you have to de- pa's sake; you know fe all) Your pal cide whether you are going te bell or {g merely an old fogy. Tell him you} yow. Of course ‘the vileet sinner may can paddle your own canoe. But} revurn’ at any poius along the road when you were @ little boy, a very|—but to what? To shattered health; little boy, with a sofs-round body,|4o @ mother, heart broken in ber ya used to take youin his arMs| yrave; to w wile, damped to all eter- and rub his beard—bis rough, atub uley by your thoughtless brutality; by, three-daye’ beard—agalnstyour] aud so ehtldren; who are always face and pray that God would keep] afratd to look up the alley when they you from the path you are golog !0.) spe a group of boys tor fear they may “Ard so the alps of the father, Rub] iy seaning yous-you drunk and dirty; —but we won't talk of thas. i ing in the sab: vt ' , A) = spent and your sportive friends gone to the devil before chance in life frittered a way.” ing complaining about his ‘old troub le,’ that erlck ip his back that he got toading hay one hot day in Hurow county, Ohio, ‘before the war.’ The ‘old trouble,’ as you will remember, bothers your pa’ a good deal, and ma thinks that his father must have been a pretty hard hearted msn to let him work so hard when he was @ boy. Your pa likes to have you and your ma think that when he was a boy he did nothing but work and go to prayer meeting and ge around do- ing noble deeds out of the third read- er, buéa number of the old boys of f nicks r the Eleventh Kansas, who Knew your| *° Rarel fale Le (she pa in the sixtles, are prepared todo, 2° mall BBO OE rae * Bo lot of forgetting tor him whenever he REPL BLIC) and THE BUT 4 i asks it, The truth about your pa’s aes TIMES tor one year lor ‘old trouble” is that he wae down at} 92-20: Fort Leavenworth just after the close This offer is i oat ee ali subscribers of the war, and after filllug up on who have paid for THE TiMES ee laughing-water at a saloon, he got | one year in advance from olde anc {na fight with the bar-tender and new cash subscribers. To other worde was kicked out of the saloon, and Ityqur subscription is aes IDE oe slept in the alley all night. That was |7°°F In advance, yive ue Aas ss hia last whiss. He took an invotce| *° will order the DAILY REPUBLIC of hia stock and found that he had for you. Or if you are not’ & Bub: some of the trost valuable experfenc- seriber remit $2 50 parma RIL ABY: es that a man can acquire; and he —— REPUBLIt gen — seal t -here | 2ddress for one year, and alse e a alse fe Apred country, Your|7oU THE BUTLER TIMES ns well rasa ants hac senels/THE RURAL ROUTE REPUBLIC and she thought him an extremely What fs it? It is the old rellatile pious young man, so they made a go a Bub, when you think that by7S*. Louis REPUBLIC with a new s breathing on your sleeve to kill the dally issue. In fact the Regular Edi. - whisky you can fool your pa, you| on (ten pages) exactly as 16 ap- are wrong. Your pa in his day ate| Pears in the Fast Mail Edition, only three carloads of cardamon seeda|*he details of Sporting News being and cloves and used myrrh by the omitted. The Telegraphic, Market barrel. Also, he knew which was the and Financial pages are complete in creaky eteps on the etairs in his|°Very particular. There is also mis- father’s house and he used to avold| °ellaneous reading Interesting to all {t coming In at night just-as you are the family. This edition is delivered doing, And iore than that, your by mail only, DAILY EXCEPT SUN- pa speaks from the bitterest kind of DAY—312 copies a year. Subscrip- experience when he pleads with you tions will be accepted only from per- to quit. Itis no goody-goudy talk |®°08, who reside and recetye their of a mutton-headed old deacon that | ™4ll on the rural free delivery routes. he is giving you; it has taken him a No subscriptions are accepted for year to get bis courage up to tell|® *horser term than one year. Make you, and every word {s boiled out of all wel ans to THE TIMES, not an agony of bitter memories, He! *° THE REPUBLIC. Take advan- knows where boys that start as you tayo of the offer today—it can’t be are atarting end, if they don’t turn | beat any where. back. Your pa turned, but he recol- ‘: lects the career of the Blué boys, who | The Times and The Repub- are divided botwesin she penitentiary, lic Both One}Year for Only, the poorhouse and the southwest. $2 50 e = » te you, aud your The Best Yet! a GOOD OFFER! t We are now ina posithon to cifer corner of hell; he recalls the Winklers ip2 des aoanetal Peal are