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failures. cannot fall. money if a ! | | Joe Farmer, the lad who was |thought to be fatally wounded by/ers. For several weeks Bob Light- Wolves are certainly prolific breed- The Power Behind the Dough! BAKING POWDER 25 ounces for 25 cents A real power that raises and sustains the dough with absolute certainty. No A cake made with K C We insist upon refunding your |the accidental discharge of a shot- gun on the farm of Minor Vancamp on March 18, was able to be in town. Thelad received the most of acharge of shot In the side, many of the shot recovery savors of the miraculous. He was brought to town in a car- tlage. He left home in Mr. Van- learned of his visit to town, he ob jected strenuously. He wishes the boy to take absolutely no chances until it fs known beyond a doubt that his recovery !s permanent.— Cass County Democrat. Isis said thas Arthur Wilder, of St. Genevieve, a brother of our state auditor, has instituted sult against trial does not his wife for divorce, alleges that she penetrating the intestines, and his | Camp’s absence, and when Minor | foot of the North Side has been miss- |ing pigs, chickens and other things | | jin ap unaccountable manner and on Friday last he found a wolf nest with a@ litter of tenwhelps. Eight of them he brought totown that day, but the other two were left in hopes that the mother would return and be kill- ed or captured. The youngsters had | not yet gots thelreyes open and few) in town could disttuguish them from young dogs. The bounty made them valuable. In fact at the present bounty, their ratsing would be profi- |*able if they could be confined and fed like other live stock —Osceola Dem. + CASTORIA. Jaques Mig. Ca Chicago Two exciting runaways occurred in Appleton City last week. No fa- talities resulted. . Appleton City has been holding a “Rubbish contest.” Prizes being given from 25 cents to $2.00 to the boy or girl delivering the largest load of rubbish at the electric light plant. There {s nothing better than Kodol for dyspepsia, indigestion, sour stomach, belching of gas and nervous headache. It digests what you eat. Sold by Clay’s drug store. Mr. Jonathan Denning ,the Bates county “Peach King’’ gives out a statement to the effect that in his orchard of over 1800 peach trees he does not think a elngle peach bud has escaped the late freeze, As Mr Denning is authority on “peach ology” our visions of peaches and cream have all vanished.—Appleton City Tribune. Kennedy’s Laxative Cough Syrup acts promptly on the bowels through which the cold {s forced out of the system, and at the same time it al lays inflammation. Sold by Ciay’s drug store. An attempt fs belng made to get Governor Folk to commute the death sentence {mposed on Arthur C. Biles, who isto hang June 3rd. Young Biles, who is the son of R. L. Biles, at one time marshal of Appleton City, Mo., with an accomplice, lured @ man to a lonley spot, and murder ed him. Robbery was the object. Biles’ accomplice turned states evi- dence, CASTORIA. sare the . The Kind You Have Always Bought Pieced Ci/bthu of 4 Lledite It W. 8. Cowherd has the sweet spirit and the judgment with which he has ever been credited and which has made men love and admire him, he will pay but scant attention to the ravings of an opportunity to ex- hibit selfishness and bitterness un- paralleled. The Democratic party will repudiate troublemakers and stand by the man who will use his best endeavors to be fair to all and refrain from stirring up a muss. Mr Cowherd {s just such a man and will make the campaign upon his own worth and _ merit.—Warrensburg Star. Thestrangest freak coltever known, @ays the St. Charles Banner-News, wae born on the farm of William Lee Another big drainage canal in Mie- alesipp! county, Mo., fs to be con- structed as soon as the work can be done. The contract is les to Hugh C. Harding, of Vincennes, Ind. The cost ofthe construction will be $196,- 220 00, and tneldentally expenses al- ready incurred and pald by thecoun- ty amounting to $5,967. The total length of this ditch and {ts laterals will be about forty-two miles, and the total benefits to be derived from them are estimated at more than $750,000,000, In an optimistic mood the Humans- ville Star. Leader writes: Missour!, considering the well be- ing of every man, woman and child, {8 probably the richest spot of ground on the face of the earth. Mis- souri people can buy more, travel more, eat more and throw away more and notice {it less than any other three millions the sun shines on, Missouri subscribes for more magazines, supports more lecture courses, takes more newspapers, pays more for schools, and in every- thing that goes to test the ability of the people to have and pay for the superior things of life, meets the con- ditions with more ease than any other state {n the union. “Crossing the Atlantic with Mark Twain last summer,” said a W. C. T. U. woman of Moberly, ‘I asked his opinion of the prohibition law. His reply was very characteristic, very humorous.” “I ama friend of tem- perence and I want {t to succeed,’ he sald, ‘but I don’t think prohibition {s practical. The germans you see, prevent is. Look at them. I am sorry tolearn that they have just Invented & method of making brandy out of sawdust. Now what chance can prohibition have when a man can take arip-saw and go out and get drunk witha fence rali? What {a the good of prohibition if a mad fs able to make brandy smashes out of j the shingles of his roof, orifhe can | get delirium tremens by drinking the lege off the kitchen chafre?’ ”—Star Sayings. DeWitt’s Kidney and Bladder Pills prompt and thorough and will ina | short time strengthen weakened kid- | neys and allay troubles arising from {inflammation of the bladder. Sold | by Clay’s drug store. Congressman F. W. Cushman of Parsons, near Defiance last week. the state of Washington has been Boars the The Kind You Have Aways Bought aaa CLE a (Thelediit His Name Was “Billy.” prefers politics to him. She {s sald to be an ardent admirer of W. J. Bryan, while Wilder is a Republican. She once drove thirty miles to attend The community was thrown {nto a a Bryan celebration. Upon her re state of considerable excitement yes- turn home sbe alleges that Wilder serday morning by the report shat a was cruel to her and threw beer bot: ead toan was floating down the riv- tle at her. Her admiration for|°™ Marshal Calvird summoned the Bryan proves conclusively thas|S°% 40a8 to man the boats. Justice the brains of that household are in MeGuler hunted the law in the case the wile, and if I was the judge before while Sheriff Foote got busy looking whom the divorce case was tried [ after a jury to decide whether the de- would not only give her a divorce, ceased was the victim of too much but grant her allmony {n the sum of water or the prevailing drouth. All 90 per cent of Wilder’s income and repaired to the turbulent Osage and appoint her his guardian without the boatmen pushed off and after bondfor the remainder of hivnatural|CODs!derable hard work landed a lte.—Sikeston Hurnet. billy goat. [t was a rather mortified —————_—_———_ and disgusted crowd that slowly Justat this time our country needs | climbed the hill again.—Osceola Dem, a new religion that will make a man sci cccycagsgrers pay his debts. Shouting does not Plenty of Trouble settle old accounts with God orman., | Ia caused by stagnation of the liver We bounce right into @ man and put} @nd_ bowels, To get rid of {f and him out of the church if he goes to a| headache and billousness, and the polson that brings jaundice, take ball or theater, but a word to a pious Dr. King’s New Life Pills, the rell- old ecamp who never pays his debts. | able puritiers that do the work with- Preachers and people who do not|out grinding or griping. 25c at pay thelr debts are doing the church | Frank T. Clay’s drug store. more harm than dancers and drunk- uc Mikicee tks : ards, for there are more of them in the church. Reader, ts this getting too close to you? Then lay down Wednesday last shat thet r fir your paper and go and pay up and] shined = February 1st ghee then read on with ease. And don’t| sth, sixty-seven cars of eggs to east refuse paying because the “statute of} ern cities. Of course, this vast quan- Imitation” excuses the openaccount | *ty did not all originate in Butler, ., | a8 they have several branch houses which you made for bread and meBt.| 1.46 all were billed from here. Each Big Egg Shipments. W.G, Shafer, of the Carpenter & Shafer Co., informed the Record on fully proficlent. To see a man rat- sling up long columns of reading matter ona Inotype machine is in- spiring; to hear a lawyer clearly and incisively summing up a case tills one with admiration; to. read a strong, forceful editorial affords pleasure at the thoughts so well ex- pressed; to watch the violinist and listen to the sweet melodies he draws from the strings wafts our souls to higher realms—yet the acquirement of each and all these abilities has robbed the trained or talented per- formers of something else. The lno- typer {8 wearing out his nerves in setting type at such a rapid pace; the oratory of the lawyer has been acquired at the expense of a dyspep- tle stomach; the man who wins us with his facile pen envies the strength of the sturdy laborer shoveling tn the street; the virtuoso would fain have the appetite of the performer on the big horn {n the little street band. In thus specializing, each fs apt to neglect the routine of work for all the muscles that nature demands to keep up the physique. Had each of these performers orgeniuses done his stint of work on @ farm, raising the food he consumed, he would have been less skilled in his vocation, but possessed of vastly better health, asserts (, H, Cochrane, in the May Metropolitan. And all would live out not only their full seventy, but a round hundred or more of years. DeWite's Carbolized Witch Hazel Salve. I$ 1s espectally good for plles, You must pay !¢ in cash or God will] car contained 400 cases and each lay {tup agatost you. God kaows| case 30 dozen, or a total of 792,000 “ » WwW of twelve ceuts a dozen the value ag- sg sony : my a gregates $95,004 00, a large sum to Pais WARS exons eep Irom Pay"! be paid for the product of the hen. ing your debts you can stop sing-| Several car loads of poultry were ing, ‘‘When I can read my title clear} also shipped out, but these figures to mansions in the skies.’ Youhave| we did not obtain. Carpenter & none there.—Methodlat Advocate. Shafer are certainly doing a land of- ‘ oa : fice business. Posse Fights With Bandits, Sulphur, Okla., April 20.—A des- perate fight took place here between @ Sheriff's posse and a gang of or- ganized horse thieves in which one of Sam Henderson, Alton’s champton| the robbers probably was fatally duck hunter, has quit this sport dis-| wounded and two horses killed. gusted because, he saya, the educa The Sheriff was notified from Davis ton of the Alton duck hunters has} that thieves with a heard of horses been sadly neglected. Henderson has} were on thelr way to Sulphur. He & flock of tame decoys trained to at-| organized a posse and met the rob- tract the wild birds to hisgun range. | bers outside of town On sight both Yesterday he was hunting !n 4 s{des opened fire, and after a number willow marsh and his tame decoys] of shots were exchanged: the tlileves were swimming a long distance out.| were routed, leaving one of their Several young hunters saw them, number behind, wounded. made a long detour, and poured six aimee barrels of shot {nto Henderson's de- Death Was On His Heels. coys, killing almost the entire flock.) 7,44, p, Morris, of Skippers, Va. Henderson gathered up his dead) had a close call in the spring of 1906. ducks while the hunters who had| He says: “An attack of pneumonia left me so weak and with sucha fear- DeWitt’s Little Early Risers, the famous Iittle Iver pilla. Sold by Clay’s drug store. Decoys Killed; Hunter Quits. Republic. killed them hastened away. no such excuse for not paying as| dozen, or 9,504,000 eggs. At a cost] - Dr. Stahl describes it as having no) front legs. Its breast, instead of be- | ing covered with hair, had a sheet of | some transparent substance across it which showed the heart, lungs and other organs at work as a piece of glass sometimes exposes the inside workings of a clock. The animal lived but ten minutes. Two photo graphs were taken of it, which, with proper description, will be sent to a medical journal. Owl Pecks Out Hunter’s Eye. Claremore, Ok., April 20 —Charles Tosser loses one eye and suffers a . seriously lacerated face, to say noth- ing of chagrin and defeat resulting from the fight witha mother horn owl out of whose nest Tosser at- tempted to take some young birds A New Orleans quiets asa mouse this session, and when asked why hereplied: “Ina speech made two yearsago I sald Henderson says he will hunt no happened. more. It isthe third time this has ful cough that my friends declared consumption had me, and death was on my heels. Then I was persuaded to try Dr King’s New Discovery. It that during the last Democratic ad- ministration times were so hard out my way that I couldn’t getanything to eat but clame, and that before ' the financial and business depression 'was overI had eaten so many of | them that my stomach roe and fell with the tide. I’m not going to ' make any speech, funny or otherwise, this year. I’maftraid ifI do some | Democrat will get up and remind me jof that clam speech.” ‘Well, what \if they do?” inquired the questioner. | “Because,” responded Mr. Cushman, bitterly, as heaccidently bit hiscigar in half, “although this isa Republi- can adminiatration, about 6,000 un- employed out in my district are liv- {ng on clams now. That's why.” woman was thin. Because she did not extract sufficient nourishment from her food. She took Scott's Result: ‘Emulsion. , She gained a pound a day in weight. ALL DRUGGISTS: S0e. AND $1.00 helped me immediately, and after taking two and a half bottles I was & well man again. I found out that New Discovery is the best remedy for my barn, 5 miles east of Butler,|coughs and lung disease in all the known as the Max Weiner place. } se a sane fp aand a be Terms:—$10 to insure 4 colttostand | rank 1. Uiay 8 drug store. oVc an up and suck. Colt to stand good $1.00. Trial bottle = for service money. Care taken to . . prevent accident but not responsible. Hail Storm in Oklahoma. Mare changes ownership or 1s moved| The following communication was from neighborhood money becomes | written to the Osceola Democrat by due. a former citizen of that county. Description.—King Simpson No. Raleton, Okla, 1908, registered in Vol. I, A.C. H.R.| Editor Democrat: As I saw in Bay stallion, foaled 1905, three years | your columne last week an account old, 16% hands, weighing 1,300/ of a hailstorm near Monegaw, stat- pounds, good bone and substance, | ing that the hail was as large asa fine style and good knee action and| bantam egg, just let me tell you very speedy for a Coach horse. Sired| something ofa storm we had here by Simpson No. 2129, son of Ruth-| last night. It began hailing about land 1256, fires dam Ginger by Folie| 8 o’clock and lasted about half an 1071 French Coach. Dam of King| hour and when the storm was over Simpson by Red Buck Chief he by|the ground was covered with hail Buck Skin record 2:27, he by Old Red | that measured from 7 to 9 Inches Buck record 2:14. Dam of Red Buck| around. Barns were blown down, Chief, Dollie F, she by” Dick Turpin | glass fronte and windows were brok- and he by Clarks Chief and he by|en out and roofs looked like brick Mambrino Chief. bats had been thrown through them. Full pedigree at barn. Now, what do you think of that for King Simpson mated with good|a hailstorm. I thought this would mares will surely produce fine style} be theeasiest way to tell all my and good coach horses. JESSE SMITH. 1°) King Simpson. Will stand the season of 1908 at Sold by Clay's drug store. He Sees a Fight. Washington, April.—‘Somebody has got to lick Japan, and I am very much afraid that !mportant duty will fall upon us.”’ So sald Represen- tative Hayes of California after a vielt to the White House. “Who do you suppose,”’ he continued, ‘fs {n Japan's mind while all this prepara- tlon is going on {in her shipyards and gun shops? Kansas, Kentucky, Loulstana, Mext- co, Misstsstpp!, Montana, ‘Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, {Oklahoma, Oregon, South Dakota, Tennessee Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington, Wisconsin, Wyoming. On all firss and third Tuesdays of each month at rate of one and one,halfifare plua 32.00 for round trip. Twenty-one days from date of sale. Second class colonists rates to Los Angeles, San Francisco, Santlago and other California points $30.00, To Portland, Oregon; Tacoma, Se- attle and other northeast polnts $31.20. City of Mexico $34.30, On sale March 1st to April 80th 1908. B.C. Vanprervoorr, PILE TABLER’S BUCK EYE VINI MEN! CURES NOTHING BUT PILES. A SURE and CERTAIN CURE known for 15 yerre ag the BEST REMEDY for PILES. STs. T. LOVIS. SOLD BY ALL DRt Prepared by BICHARDSON MED JOHN'|F. HERREL & SON Make a Speciality of Farm Insurance and Real Estate Office in court house BUTLER,MO, DR- |. M. CHRISTY, Diseases of women and Children a» Speetalty Office The Over Butler Cash Depart- ment Store, Butler, Mo, Office Telephone 20. House Telephoneld re DR. E. N. CHASTAIN. “I BUTLER, Mo, “What nation fs she spending] % Omce over Bennett-Wheeler Mer. Co, $100,000,000 a y Residence High Street. ve i B year COBO FO WAL) S Ome Phone iis. with? “Leis the | alted States of America, and there{s no use trying to fool Residence Phone 19 eaalcsoraiaenam cue ourselves Into belleving anything ‘eso "ae else. DR. H. M. CANNON, Proposes Hari Kari to Settle Dentist, i Shortage. BUTLER, - MISSOURI Carlisle, Pa., April20.—As a means of relmbursing the Merchants’ Na- tional Bank, from which he is accus- ed of stealing $45,000, John V. Har- ris, former teller, wants to commit suicide that the bank can recover his | ~~ insurance. Harrls holds several large policies which he thinks will cover his alleged detaleation. Harris made his offer to Presidents Eckles of the bank, who declined hits sacrifice and convinced theformer| teller such an act on his part would be cowardly. Harris was a “model cltizen.”’ He did not drink or smoke and. his fam- {ly lite was without flaw. He was prominent {n church and Sunday School affairs. The money is said to have been sunk in some of WILL BE IN 3 ADRIAN EVERY FRIDAY, 3 prepared to do all kinds of den- be. tal work. B, F. JETER, Attorney at Law and Justice, Office over H. H. Nichola, East side square, Butler, Mo, DR, J. T. HOLL DENTIST. Sntrancs, 3ame thatiead to Hagedorn’s studio, north side square, Butler, Mo. T. C. BOULWARE, Physician and Surgeon. Office the investments he had ‘ton the) North Side Square, Butler, Mo. aide.” ; Diseases of women and children Pa p @ specialty. ywinog skemjy axeyy nO, puly ayy OU saveg Ss oO uU r “WIwUuoLtsvo Postal Banks Bill Passed. Washington, April—The Senate committee on postoffices and post roads voted to report favorably the postal savings bank bill drafted by asub-commistee of which Senator Carter was chairman. An amend- ment was adopted changing the name of the intended institutions to postal depositaries, which meete the objection raised against the bill by bankers. The amendment doee not alter the purposes of the bill, the object of which is to furnish conven- fent depositaries for the amall sav-| Bees only. friends about the storm. So I close. | ings of persons remote from ade juAte | prepared by &. @ a Mrs, Dan Maprs, ; banking factlities. Ne —— less of Pat etrat eee a8 ee See Eee tal ie | Sold by C. W. HESS. We Should Live to 150 Years/ 7» ‘'svoum! Bactis Dine abies ; Butier Station. 3 5 * Every man who dies before he fsa 3 hundred years old does so because he | , a q has neglected the laws of health. 1) $o-207 K.C.4 Joplin mai aoe belleve the time will come when men | No. 2"! Local freight will commonly live to be 150 years aoutsnounD. = . No. 26 Kaneas City and St. Louts Ex osm old. But to do this they must be | No. +5 Kansas City D } } } s lu Kaneae City born right, and be taught matters of LOCAL FReicutT | health with their a, b, c's No, 222 Local Freignt 11:55 8 m ae aie e No City stock s:3 pm A majority of the people of Amer- INTERSTATE DIVISION. ; fea lose about thirty years of life WEST BOUND. 4 dB No. 74] Local freight and Pas mixed 58am A through not understanding or not) bepetycinliccsng : following the demand of nature for | No. 742 Local freight and Pas mixed ar5:00 pw - | No. 713 Sunday Pi r 8:00am regular and adequate exercise. Our! No. 714 Sunday Passenger, arrives 12:30 p @ systems of civilization have worked | FE, C, Vaypenvoort, Agent j a vast improvements tn production | Home Seekers Excursion j . oy ining men to spectal lines o : : i by a 7 g = : = pectal li : of} To pointsin Alabama, {Arizona, wor, hus they become wonder) 4 rkanaas, Colorado, tieorgia, Idabo, -