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nace does that gives out glowing gg ig Hea Where you want it— When you want it— No smoke—no smell—no trouble. Often you want heat in a hurry in some room in the house the fur- pick up and carry a PERFECTION Oil Heater Equipped with Smokeless Device) to the room you want to heat—suitable for any room in the house. Ithas a real smokeless device absolutely preventing smoke or smell—turn the wick as high’ as you can or as low as you like—brass font holds 4 quarts of oil The Country Paper. There are lots of better papers shan the Smiley ville Express, There is mighty little in 1s you would tind worth while, I guess, For it only has four pages and tts telegraphic news Isn’t cight up to the minute like in papers you would choose, Yet I snatch it up and settle back to read with eager eyes unheeded lies, | While I skim {ts local columns, dodg | ing “ads” for “dip” or pill, not reach. It's so easy to “raised” in Smiley ville. Why, it’s like a homey letter telilny me that Deacon Skeggs Has been feeling poorley lately with rheumatics in his legs, | And thet Ezra Cross of Wheatland Sundayed in our little town | And wae noticed buggy riding with Luella Thistledown, | And that one of Lute Wade’s Plym- heat for 9 hours. Fin- * ouths latd an egg that had three ished in japan and nickel—an ornament A\( ‘ nn — ae . h very heater warranted. — nd that Art Hicks from the clty is eee E td here visiting his folks, | ;And that Abner Bruce out Lowry i" —— ay i way fs soon to have a “kill” — ny somes! ‘f Nemeth Why, by Jove {t makes me homesick! Ny \\\ Va pated ead eqtepel \ saga I was “ratsed”’ in Smiley ville. pleasure. nickel with the latest improved central draft burner. Every lamp warranted, Ii you eannotcblain the Perfection OM Hester wr Raye Lamp trom ) mn your dealer write to our nearest agency ler descriptive crenlar, STANDARD Ol, COMPANY Incorpo! MTT —Ex. CASTORIA For Infants and Children, Three typewriters are held for postage at the Washington post- office, Thay were franked to Wash-| rat, ete,, must beremarkable, Every- ington by members of Congress, who assured the local postmasters that it would be all right. When the type- writers wern’t delivered, and Inquiry was made at the Washington office, {t was learned that the trankinz privilege didn’s apply to ty pewriters. | The postnge to be collected te 19: each. Kennedy’s Laxative Cough Syrup: stops the cough and drives the could from the system. Children like 16. Sold by C. W. Hess. A husky negrolad approached a. western farmer in the wash room of the Transit House during the recent | week of the International at Chicago | and started to wield the clothes, brush, continuing to do so for some | minutes, whereupon he addressed the farmer with: ‘Ten cents, please.” | The farmer just becoming aware of the situation answered: “I did not ask you to brush me off,” to which the negro lad replied, ‘‘Dat’s all right, suh, but you stood for {% jus’ th’ same.” Itch cured {n 30 minutes by Wooltord’s Sanitary Lotion. Never fails. Sold by, Frank 7. Clay, Druggist. 50 6m The Nevada Mail has the following sensible article on advertising: “Very often‘you find a business man who spends $5.00 once a year for adver tising, and then makes a great deal of fuse, because he “does not ges re- sults.” Suppose he only rented & store room for one month or hired clerks for one month, would heex- pect to get any satisfactory results? Advertising must be done fn a judi- clous, continuous way in order to get the best returns. Without a single exception, every advertiser in the world who fe looking alter his business in anything like a careful The Kind You Have Always Bought Cnet lithe lowa Won Fruit Honors. Council Bluffe, la, Dee —lowa re- celved first In the awards on state The powers of survival of such common rodents as the mink, musk- Bears the Signature of body is after their skine, {t seems from the small youngster with his firat 22" to the idle sownsman who | likes to hunt, and when they cannot get a bead on the furry rascale they surround bis retreat with traps and potson, Withal, there are thousands and thousands of dollars pald out to farmers and trappers annually for the fruits of thelr sporting hours, , A Dangerous Operation is the removal of the appendix by & surgeon. No one who takes Dr. King’s New Life Pills is ever subject tural congress. Second place was given to Idaho; third to Washing ton; fourth to Utah, and fifth te Maryland, The Noon Hour in Budapest. From a Budapest letter to Los Angeles Times, You are on Kossuth streets now, And my newsy city paper fora time | | With an interest unflagging—I was) exhibita at the National Horticul- | More and more of the handsome! 10 CTS. T0 STOP THAT ITCH How Easy to get Relief—Instant Relief—from Skin Diseases. Is it worth 10 cents to you to stop j that awful, awful agonizing itet? It you are sfllicted with sklv dis ease, the kind that seems to bu ttle medical treatment, and leaves you wild with itch, we hope you will not) full to invesiigate a prescription | which {s now recommended by Many lofthe best skin spectalists, even in preference to their own preseriptions | Itis the simple soothing oll of win | tergreen comdound known as DDD | Prescription. A 10 cent trial bottle |} must convince you that the itch ts instantly allayed by this presertp: | ston. Get a Hberal trial bottle of the healing, soothing, external reme- ldy,D DD, Proscriptlon—and ree! We feel quite sure that before ‘01g vou will be cured, and at any rate we KNOW—KNOW POSITIVELY— that your itch will be allayed IN- STANTLY, the minute that soothing | | quid is applied to the ekin, |» D8 BF. T. CLAY, Druggist, Butler, Mo Write direct to DDD. Co, 112 Michigan St., Chicago, enlosing 10¢ for the trial bottle | A Barbaric Custom. \ | We wish a law could be passed pro- {hiblting the barbaric custom of ‘opentng caskets in public at chureb funerals. Itisa reife of dark ages and has no place in a etvilized com- munity. It jars on she sensibility of every tender cord, and ts something that the churches and undertakers ough’ to combine and put ton end In ninetonths of the cases it’s merely a pandering of ghoulish curlostty | People who never spoke to the de teenaged in thelr life parade arcund the church, gap. at the form of our loved one, then go out of the pres ‘ence of death, nos to talk of the good deeds done in life, but to critl- cise she appearance of the poor clay shat death has lefé for once at ‘bhelr ed to this frightful ordeal. ‘They work so quietly you don’t fee) them. They cure constipation, -heageche, billiousness and malaria, 25c at Frank T Clay’s drug store. M. L Stewart has been out at his farm near Pratt, Kansas. While, there he made and shipped fitteen | hundred posts from hedge trees upon | his farm, These will bring him from twenty cents to a dollar each. From one hedge tree alone he cut sixty-five hedge posts. The first cut made elghteen. The first three limbs made six each, the next two each made tive until sixty-five in all wore split’ out—certalnly a pretty valuable plece of hedge brush —Lamar Demo- crat. This is Worth Reading. Leo F. Zelinsk!, of 68 Gibson St, Buffalo, N Y, says: “I cured the most annoying cold sore I ever had, with Bucklen’s Arnica Salve. [ap plied this salve once a day for two days, wheh every trace of the sore was gone.” Heals all sores. Sold under guarantee at Frank T. Clay’e drug store. 25¢ Ever Try This? Most people think the horee hasno | use for horse radish, but a writer says he once knew a market gardner ‘stores, bus many ofthese with the \tobk fright a6 a scarecrow. The hutters d durt h h mercy. Death ts a sacred thing. If shutters drawn during the noon hour) 4. gre yoing on along journey we recess. In fact there is percepilble | 4, not make our adieus before a Ne oe aes ae we ought not to be expected to bid our dead last good- penston bridge across the Danube, bye while curious eyes fatten on our ahead, and wonder at its emptiness | ii6 and we ought not to be ex- The asphalt streets are growing de. |" : a " ap ° serted; the fine shops wane a Sunday | pecte ce alt rg house of a air. Beyond the lottery office of the | Wile eagle ‘wy never apres %, government American graphophones are sold, but that place, too, ts closed. Only the ubiquitous souvenir | postcard sellers continue their trade, offering you a picture of a man with the halr of real straw, under a cellu lold cover, to Indicate the epithet of a “straw head;” or with a little bug beneath the celluloid, to bespeak a “bug in she bonnes.” CASTORIA. who have no claim on us or our loved one, jostile each other in their desire to view the remains, and they get together and goselp over what they saw or failed to see We belleve that a majority of the people detest she painful scenes ws inueh as we do snd be more shan gldd to see them ended, but are pfrald to break & “enstom.” Bui it is a daty the rio ister and undertaker Owe to them selves and she long suffering public Real Estate Transfers. WARRANTY DEEDS, R H Williams to Geo G Nevins lots 34 blk 18 Connelly’s add to Rich Hill $350. Willis M Thompson etal to CE Crumly and wife 41 8 sec 6 Charlotte $1500, Drug Store, Butler, Mc COURT MARRIAGES UNHAPPY St. Joseph’s New County Judge Will Perform no Ceremonies. St. Mo., Dec.—Judge Charles Nowland, who was sappotnt- Joseph, J H Crawford to Clara Mordicta ed by Governor Folk last week a8 ve blk 1, lots 678 blk 4, lots | presiding judge of the Buchanan 1-2 Wk 8 Merwin g600. county court to succeed Judge John L £ Powell to J B Duvall 80 a eec| L. Leonard, has announced that he 11 and 14 Charlotte $200. Jumes Sherman to F & M Bank lot, | will perform no marriage ceremonies. “T belleve marriage {s too solemn Tand west 4 lot 8 bik 5 Willlama ® rite to be performed by alayman,” add to Rich Hill $250. Judge Nowland sald. “Ninety per L E Powell to Canny J Sells 80 a ‘cent of the marriages are performed vec 11 and 14 Charlotte $950 | by laymen nowadays, aad shat fs Win G Stults to J F Fulkerson lots | one reason why there are so many Concklins add to Passaic $500 \14.15-16 Passale and lots 4344 divorces. ‘taken on and too easily put aside. Marriage {8 too easily T D Smith to City of Rockville pt Where Leame from marriage was sec 14 Rockville twp $500, sec 31-32 Deer Creek $15,000, DeWitt C Mize to Roberts F Stand solemntzed only in churches, after F LSmtth to LH McBride 200 a) the bans had been called three weeks.” Judge Nowland is a native of {sh 80 a see 17 New Home twp $3600) England wnd has livedin Amertea © M Gray to A M Beach blk L5ctty twenty-five years, Formany years ot Butler 31 there has been strong competition OH Lawrence to D C and Claud Smong the county judges and mag- MeBride lots 1-2 bik 15 Ameterdam {strates at the cours house for mar- $R50 Clark Wix to (CF Beard pt see 15 elty of Buster $2,000, riage perquisites, and some « f them have gone so faras to arrange with runners to pay & commission on Sarah A Preston to Ad Ooley 40 marriages steered to them, a aee 12 Rockville twp $2,050. CL Washburn to HW Laneaste Wintin lot 7 blk 53 Meh HA S400 Thos Guthrie to Mary lotsa 78 bik 83 Rieh Hill 1200 TW & EB Silvers to Mra € Judge Nowland’s position meets r with the hearty approval of the lergy of the clty, who have long felt A Rupard thas there was boo much activity on the part of she office holders tn. thelr A. efforts so secure fees for duties which Badyloy pt eee 22elty of Butler $400 the preachers fee! should properly BF Galvin to Joseph W Raker pt devolve upon them bik 113 Rich THU $500 Heuloh H Merrifield to John MLAy {nyaton 864 a ree two $25,000. PL Beckham to C F Moulton lot 4 blk 13 and lot 1 blk 14 Altona $4,000 James A Woods to Mollile Doyle 14 ain Ballard $260, 45 Pleasant Gap From the Baltimore Lincoln’s Favorite Walking Stick News, Washington —That President Abraham Lincolo was the original big etick executive was demonstrat. ad bo President Roosevelt when Ernet Lee Jahneke, a New Orleans ship owner and qwent, came bo the White Chas Hass to A J Hoover pi lot House to show Mr, Roosevelt the fa- 107 Adrian $4,000. CASTORIA. vorite walking atick of President Lin- coln, The stick has a most Interesting Tho Kind You Have Always Bought ys nN ToS “atl Bang history, and Mr. Jabnek has no idea of Wadia of its value save that there isn’t The Mail Beats a Tornado. Eureka Springs, Ark., Dee —An old posteard, blown from the parlor of Mrs. Frank Rawlin’s home by the tornado which swept through Berry- ville three weeks ago, Was pleked up ing field in Greene county, Missourt, {hty miles northeast, and returned to her through the mafl, Kodol js inde of natural digestive jules found ia a healshy stomach, | walking and it digests all food completely. money enough In any one heap tu the world to buy 6. Mr, Lincoln cut {$ on the battetlield of Getsysburg on the occasion of tls appearance there to deliver the famed Gettysburg ora: ton. It weighs reversl pounds, and bas a huge brass head tnecribed with of A. Lincoln and) the “Gettysburg, duly 1, 2 and the name words BSG Isle no of average i for e ofa telegraph of lrouwood, @nhd & Tia hefyht who atten x BO use Boars the The Kind You Have Always Bought puta stop to vue ¢ xhibition, and Kodol ts pleasané to take, and is | i th i was exactly Signature they will find the publie only too guaranteed to give rellefin any case) 20" gob recquire » war preei- J é * ofstomach trouble, Sold by UC. W. | dent — glad to uphold them witha hearty toss A ae tas hd ae A Doubtful Apology. amen. —x : 1 » x | a DeWitt’s Carbolized Wiech Hazel Salve. Bestsalvefor burns, scratches and hurts. Ibis especially good for piles. Sold by C. W. Heas. Fourth Estate tells of & Kansas editor who liked to ridfeule his fel- low townsmen. He wrote: “John Brown and Henry Jones, of State street, were driving last night on the new road, when their horse Girl Starves to Death. San Francisco, Cal. Dee.—Carlotte Rodriguez, daughter of a famous animal shied, reared, and becoming A Christmas Suggesticn. The bese wif that cost che most ror Ibs thing thas strikes & need, that’s ap propriate and sppeais so wood shat makes the Cigwest lite. woman of domestic taste happy thought. me | the} bey {t bo Secre- randd way agrees with the general verdict | who had a lot of leaves and other Californta artist and ouce prominen, A new book of excepifonal recipes unmanageable, bolted. Mr. Brown Sick? that no money Invested brings bet- | waste from the horse radish, and not , ter results than that spent for judic- fous advertising, says an exchange.” How To | Gain Flesh A certain amount of flesh is necessary for health; if you have not got it you can get it by taking . SCOTT'S EMULSION | having any other nse for them he | and Mr. Jones were thrown out ata | gave them to his horses. One of the | curve of the road, alighting unharm- | horses was very badly broken wind-| ed on a heap of sund. Fortunately | ed, but the feed of horse radish effect- | both men were sober. | ed acomplete cure. This tsa cheap | Brown and Jones were enraged at remedy, and we should like to see ig she paragraph and demanded repara- tried soas to prove its efficacy.—| tlon. The editor made {t in his edi- Spirit of the West. | torfal columns in these words: “In yesterday’s issue, !n our report of the runaway accldent of Messrs. John Brown and Henry Jones, we stated that fortunately both men were sober. That statement, {t ap- Cassenna Stomach Tablets are be- coming very popular. If you should have trouble in finding them at your | druggiet’s, write the Cassenna Medi- | cine Company, Jerico Springs, Mo. 40-+! therefore beg to withdraw {t.” Stumped His Honor. The prosecuting attorney was con- tinually demanding specific answers toimposatbleincriminating questions when the defendant’s counsel finally objected. “These questions cannot Or to the courts. be answered by yes or no without Or to congress. | creating talseimpression,” he argued. Or to business and prosperity. | “All questions can be answered by ” + No other president ever succeeded y " 7 — vg sae lin beating so many things “to a| ‘Ican ask Your Honor one that To a Frazzle. “We've got them beaten toa fraz- zie,” chortles Mr. Roosevelt. ~ “Them” in this case refers to the democrats. But it might likewise refer to the constitution of the United States. frazzle.” : attorney. “Proceed.” |BEA REPRESENTATIVE “Has~Your Honor stopped beat- Of The United Wireless Telegragh Co. In your home town; employees earn- ing $90.00 to $450.00 a week; you can do the same; no capital required; ap- ply at once. The United Wireless Tele- graph Co., Cooper Bldg. Denver, Colo. ing your wile?” asked the attorney, and the judge was compelled to ac- knowledge that some questions can- not be specifically answered —N. ¥; | Journal of Commerce. Bohemlan, starved herself to death With » small fortune on canvas in her possession, she refussd to save her lite by parting with the master piece of her artist father. She had planned that it should stand between her aged granmother and want. The girl had but to take the ple- ture to an art dealer, and at least $1000 would have been hers. But conscience would not permit her to sell the last resource of a once wealthy family. pears, hae given great offanae. We) Nearly everybody knows DeWitt’s| ' Little Barly Risers are the best pills made. tag | are small, pleasant, sure Little Liver pills. Sold by C. | W. Hess. Electricity to Purify Milk. New York, Dec —Modern methods of sterilization and Pasteurization of milk were condemned by Dr. C, C. | Carroll of this elty, in an address be- ‘fore the Medico-Legal soclety at the Waldorf-Astoria. Asa substitute he ‘suggested the polarization of milk cannot be eo answered,” replied the | by an alternating current of electric | you or ity, maintalning that the current ‘completely destroys all the bacteria by Mrs.Gunet MeKingle Hill of the Boston Cooking School, has just ap- peared under the tisie “Lhe Cook's | Book.” Lt 1s a selection of 80 of the ‘choicest creations of this eminent authority. The idea is to present to compact form 4 number of delicious |dishes, cakes and pastries fit for those special occasions when the |house wife 1s anxious to make her | best impression. Every recipe ts @ gem and the book contains In addi | tlou a fund of valuable household in- \tormation. “The Cook’s Book” is ‘elegantly gotten up, printed on flaest | plate paper and profusely illustrated | with beautiful half-sones and colored | engravings. It you would like “The Cook’s | Book” for yourself or a friend secure | ~ ja single certificate from a 25 cent ‘can of K. C. Baking Powder. Mall {t with your address and this article so Dept. 84, J. Aques Mig. Co., Chi- cago, and {twill be sent free. You will be delighted’ with K. C, Baking | Powder. It{!s guaranteed to please money refunded. You will | agree that “The Cook’s Book” would be cheap ata dollar and remember \ | \in milk, including those which form you get I free of allcost. Take ad-! lacteal acid. Pestenrization and sterilization he branded as a method | which not fe purpose, but destroys the nour- | ishing properties in the milk. | vantage of this spectal offer at once | while {6 fs good, even If you are not | Powder will keep {te strength for sev- eral years If necessary. only fails to accomplish | out of baking powder, K,C. Baking: Feeling well ct to he in bed a to put Vin into your or pleasu Your Liver is at the bottom of it. It is not doing its work thorou nd you're half poisoned with waste matter. is an easy, pleasant and never failing ! remedy for Constipation and all trous bles of the stomach or bowels. Bete Take an NR tablet to-night and you'll feel better in the morning For Sale by C. W. HESS, Druggtst. Busler, Mo. ter than pills for liver ills. Get a 25c. Box 60 YEARS’ EXPERIENCE Trace Marks Desicns Copyrichts &c. Anyone sending a sketch and description may quickly ascertain our opinion free whether an invention is probably patentable, Communica. tions strictly confidential. HANDBOOK on F sent free. Cldest agency for securing pat Patents taken through Munn & Co. receive special notice, without charge, inthe Scientific American, Abandsomety tIInstrated weekly, Largest ctr- culat f any scientitic Journal, Terms, $3 a MUN ir months, §L. Sold by all nowsdealera, N & Co,s6t2rnéer. New York ar Branch Oftce, 025 F St. Washington,