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" } ae an ie NE ERE VCL. XXXI. A FEARLESS, HONEST PREACHER = GIES HIS OPINION OF PE-RU-NA, An Up-to-Date Glergyman Describes an Up-to-Date Houschold Remedy that Has Had the Test of | i} Time and is Known the ' World Over. 4 Some preachers are afraid to give an outspoken opinion on any remedy, —/ however highly they may esteem it, Others are not afraid, / One of those who is not afraid is // quoted below. Read what he says, 4} He means every word of it. If you | doubt it write hima letter, enclosing | Welw ee astamp. He will tell you what he | { thinks. i) wiht EV. J. G. DUKES, Pastor of the Unitarian Churech—at— Pinctow ny N,C., writes: “My wife has been in a very bad late of health for several year 2emed to do her any n to use Peruna one month a then the color has returned to and she is gaining in flesh: every day, and I believe she is a well woman to-day, “My little boy, ten years old, was pale rnd had but little life, Het runa the day his mother To day his face is rosy, and he is out in the yard running and jumping with the rest of the children,” Throat Troubte. Catarrh of Stomach. J.T. PEELER, Hendersonville, 8. C,, writes: “J desire to make known for the bene- fitof suffering humanity my experience with Peruna, | “I was afllicted with catarrh of the stomach, and though I tried many rem- edies and applied to several doctors, it 1touse ne not been for Peruna I believe | Rev. H. W. Tate Lireoln Ave, ve to-day, | Walnut Hills, Cine: ti, Chio, writes | eve that! that for severs 10) is | cf | ed with a pecu tarrh known to the worl ty W rfered w Thave been, and shall continue to ree-| vocation as a preacher, He took ra. ommend it to those who are unwell | ua and his trouble disappeared, Jacob Ratts Dead. No Place to Linger In. Mr. J. ©, Ratts, who has been a Professor A. L. Lowell, the new victim of pneumonta ever since the) prestdent of Harvard, paused in one} funeral of his brother, which occur | of his recent lectures and smiled, red about ten days ago, died at shi) “That governmental difficulty,” he | home of Mr. J. K. Kelsoin Spragte sald, ‘was great—as great as the last evening at 6 o'clock. This {s an/ difficulty of Lincoln’s farm hand. unusually sad occurrence, as Mr “Two farm hands, Lincoln used to Ratts was stricken before he could|say, were ses upon by a huge bull reach his home from the funeral of|while crossing a rocky field. One his brother who died of the same ail | managed to gain a tree. The other ment. Deceased was an excellent| took refuge ina hole that proved to man and his death occasions general | have an exit {n the rear. sympathy and sorrow.—Review. | -“The man who had chosen the hole was no sooner in at one end than he H H i was out at the other. With abellow Epidemic of Pneumonia. the bull made for him. He turned Never in the history of this pars of} and againshot like lightning through the country has there been such an|the hole The bull once more bore epidemic of pneumonta as during the} down upon him, and once more he past few weeks. Already three deaths | wag in and out of the hole. have occurred, one north of the] “This strange pursult kept up Osage river,a young man named/gome ten minutes or more. At first Ratts, and Mrs. Lillian Armstrong, | {¢ mystified the farm hand up in the northwest of town, has lost her hus-|¢ree, Then it angered him. band and one son and her only re-| ‘Hey,’ he shouted, ‘ye danged maining son {s down with the same’ nincompoop, why don’t ye stay in disease. In Mr. Bell’s family, over' the hole?’ in Kaneas, there are eight cases, and; “The bull was dashing from one {ra Armstrong, also over in Kansas, | end of the hole to the other at great is very low and we understand there | gpeed, and the man was bobbing in are more than twenty cases in and'and out desperately. He heard, around Metz —Richards Progress. |however, his comrade’s shout and found time before his next brief dis- feat was et his chief then Long ago the Scotch learned this. eppearance to shout back: The sturdy old Scotchman -_* Pb xd . peg ings col yerself? amused at the recent ‘“‘discoveries” S oatmeal is the best food in the world. Our scientific men have been making experiments which prove that Ameri- cans eat too much fat and grease and not enough cereals. The Scotchmen say: “Look at our nation as proof. The sturdiest nation on earth.” Still we have one good point to make. We make better oatmeal than the Scotch. They buy Quaker Oats and consider it the leader-of all oatmeals. to be had anywhere. Quaker Oats is sold in fam- ily size packages at 25¢ or at 30c for the package containing a piece of fine china. The regular size package sells at 10c. Follow the example of the Scotch; eat a Quaker Oats breakfast every day. All grocers sell Quaker Oats. A Paddle For a “Masher.” Lawton, Ok., March.—The “whip- | ping post” has been revived in Law- ton by Heck Thomas, chief of police, in the punishment of A. Lewis. Lew- is several times insulted small school girls as they were passing the rail. way yards and was captured by the police immediately after his last in- sult. Without uffering a defense he was convicted. Belleving that no ordinary punishment under the law adequate. Thomas decreed that he should receive thirty-nipe blows from a wooden paddle. John Land- zester, 8 patrolman, acted as execu- sioner. Cleveland “Like Lincoin, Says Taft in Speech. New York, Merch.—On his firat trip away from the White House, Presiden’ Taft came to New York to eulogize, In his first public address as President, # Democratic predeces- sorin the office which he now fills, Grover Cleveland, Mr. Taft paid an earnest tribute to Mr. Cleveland as & man who was as| completely American {n all his char- acter as Lincoln, The President spoke at the Cleve- land seventy-second anniversary ex- ercises In Carnegte Hall during the afternoon, and was an Interested Its- tener to the tributes to the late ex- President Cleveland, when the cere- monies were continued {n the audl- torlum of the College of the City of New York. President Taft was introduced by Mayor McClellan, who called upon the audience to rise and be presented tothe President of the United States, The President spoke with unusual fervor in his eulogtes of Mr. Cleve- land, and frequently the course of his address was broken by applause. TAPT EULOGIZES CLEVELAND, President Tats, in pars, sald: “Grover Cleveland was as com- pletely American in his character as Lincoln. Without @ college educa- tion, he prepared himself for the bar His lite was confined to Western New York, Hts vision of government and of society was not widened by foreign travel. He was a pure prod- uct of the village and town life of the Middle States, affeeted by New En- gland ancestery and the atmosphere of a clergyman’s home. “His chief characteristics were sim- plicity and honesty and the courage of his convictions, with a sense of public duty that has been exceeded by no statesman within my knowl- edge... Is was so strong {n hiin that he rarely wrote anything, whether {n she form of « private or public com- munication, that the obligation of all wen to observe she’ public fuser. A Military Attitude. Springfleld Leader, Mr. Birrell, a member ofthe British cabinet, has expressed the beltef thas President Taft in his {naugural ad- dress pronounced the doom of the hope for the disarmament of nations. | The Italian press sees & strongly im-' perialistic note in his speech and the Paris papers think the United States will strive to be & great world power It these foreign observations ure right the American taxpayer is about to have the opportunity of consrib- uting very large sums to the public treasury. The country will have to pay the usual price for acquiring military prestige. What Do They Cure? The above ¢ cerning Dr, cines, "Golden Favorite Pre estion is often asked con- eree’s: two leading me ription, r is that "Golden Medical @ most potent alterative or blood-puritier, and tonic or invigorator and acts especially favorably in ° tive way upon all the m | faces, as of the nasal bronchial tubes, stomach, Foal aR a large per cent. of catar- rhal c whether dhe disease affects the nasal pa) at, larynx, bron- chia, stomac! 1 dyspepsia), bowelse(as_m bladder, uterus iF other yet genuly ng . ing tonic and nervine. For weak worn- out, over-worked women—no matter what has caused the break-down, “Favorite Prescription "will be found most effeciive in building up the strength, regulating the womanly functions, subduing pain and bringing about a healthy, vigorous condition of the whole system. A book of particulars wraps each bottle giving the formul:e of both medicines and quoting what scores of eminent med- {cal authors, whose works are consulted by physicians of all the schools of practice as guides in preseribing, say of each in- gredient entering into these medicines. The words of praise bestowed on the several ingredients entering into Doctor Pierce’s medicines by such writers should have more weight than any amount of non « professional testimonials, because such men are writing for the guidance of their medical brethren and know whereof ey speak. Both medicines are_non-alcoholic, non- secret, and contain no harmful habit- pate being composed of glyceric extracts of the roots of native, American medicinal forest plants. They are both sold by dealers in medicine. You can’t afford to accept as a substitute for one of these medicines of known composition, any secret nostrum. . Pierce’s Pellets, small, sugar-coated, easy to take as candy, ulate and in- vigorate stomach, liver and bowels. Medical Discovery” and | 7, | a88iat in fixing some bad place in the MORE REVENUE NEEDED. | Judge Paddock Gives a Compre- hensive View of the Coun- ty’s Finances. Rercer, Mo., Marcu 6th, 1909 To tie Propce or Bares Cornty, Mo.—I take this opportunity of tn- forming the people of Bates county, | of the county at the first of the year 1909, also ot the present time 1909, outstanding warrants to the amount of $48,000, which were draw- ing Interest at the rate of 6 per cent| for the lack of funds to meet same. There has been considerable taxes | pald in since then which has enabled | the county officlals to cancel about $40,000 of the said outstanding war- rants leaving now about $8,000 un- | patd which will continue to Increase | each month and draw 6 per cent {n-| terest und no money to meet the! county's expenses for the coming year, which will put us about $50,000 | {n debt again. | I think Lom rellably intormed thas | some fifteen years ago the assessed valuation of Bases county Was about | $10,000,000 and now tn 1908 of} which we are paying taxes for after! an increased population and a most| wonderful Increase in the value of} personal property and-reat-rstate, | real estate which has doubled and thribled in value in the last fifseen | years {n Bates county, and yet we have the small {nerease fn the assess ed valuation of abous $1,000,000 which every good reasonable think: ing man will say fa not just and right when by an increase of population and an Increase of wealth makes more necessary expenses which in some way has to be mot. Now | have arrived to the point 1 want to jenil your attention to jture very wisely saw the ditticulty we were wetting into and enabled us to }vote o& last fall clectton an amend- | ment tu she coustitution of the state lot Missouri a law giving the county court where they are not under town- iship organization and township | boards where they are under town- jship organization, which is the condl- |tlon in Bates county, to levy an ‘additional tax of from 5e to 25e on the #100 valuation for road and} bridge purposes and for no other purpose whatever. This money 1s} to be kept in the several townships, jand the county court has no jarisdie- | tion over {6 under any circumstances, \and 1% 1s keps and used {n the town- ship In which St 1s pafd. In conclu: sion will say that they are very bad- \ly overdrawn by warrants on the | bridge fund, and there {sa bill now {before the legislature enabling the township boards to build bridges ‘costing $500 inetead of $50 and in | view of all this you Mr. Farmer and you Mr. Business Man {f you want j many bridges urge upon your town- |ship boards the importance of levy- ing this extra tax. We have $1,200 saloon license money to distribute equally between the several townships which makes $50 apiece and which the township boards can get by applying for to Phe legisla. public road or to help build a small bridge or culvert. Now in all proba- bility you will see where sume small bridges have been ordered and will jump ut the conclusion that some part of the county is favored more than others, but investigate matters before saying too much and see what Missouri, thecondition of the finances | ¢ There was at the first of the year]. WI Dr Price's part of the bridge is being bulls by subscription and see if you could no} ges one under the same cireum- stances. Asan illustration thefarm- ers, southeast of Butler on the main Butler-Rich Hill road, wanted a bridge over a small branch section 28 of Mt. Pleasant township, they petitioned for the bridge and follow- ed same up with a good bigsubscrip- tion, and we agreed to furnish the steel to put upon the masonery and nothing else, and we were also to use for the purchase of said steel Mt. Pleasant townehip apportionment ot the said dramp shop license tax, and other townships as I have said can get their apportionment in a like manner, and I will say it is my opin- BUTLER, MISSOURI, THURSDAY, MARCH 235, 19(9. The cream of tartar use Improves “ag and adds to fon that if you {intend to build some: thing permanent shat will always be | a monument to your township and that you can refer you wife to when ahegets after you with a “ROLLING PIN” or “POKER” for buying whts key you can call her ateention to the fact thatift Ib had not been for you buying the whiskey that place tn the road would never have been fixed and you {tn all probility would bay lost you Ife crossing: there long ago, and if such f# your intentions you had better use this last $50 fa that manner for{n my opinion the Osnge | dram shop Ilcense will never be able} to cross the big ditch built by Timothy Foohey & Sons along the Marios Des Cygnes River. We will meet on the first day of April for the purpose of checking out the old treasurer and {nssalling the new one and will adjourn to meet in regular session the first Monday tn next month as a County Equalization, and fn case any of you want your assessment rafsed please call on Monday or Tuesday of Apri! the Sth or Gth—poestbly longer. Yours Respectfully, LS. Pappock, Judge North Distriet a a cured in 80 minutes by Woolford’s Sanitary Lotion. Never fails. Sold by Frank T. Clay, Druggist. Wanted---A Riding Churn, Out in Bates countly recently, uot a thousand miles from the comfort- able and hospitable home of our friend, Fritz Plepmeler, a patous Might agent who was selling » new churn called at the home and {nquir- ed of the good lady of the house if Bonrd of 506m she did not need something In that| ine, when she replied. ‘Yes, I do.’ ‘Quick as a flash and with vistons of the profits from a good sale Hashing before his eyes the man started for his buggy to get the churn, when the} lady aaked, “Is it a riding churn? “No,” not exactly, but what kind of achurn is that?” ‘Well,’ answered the housewife, “my husband always buys riding plows, rfding cultivators, riding hay rakes, riding harrows aud such things and I’ve made up my mind thas I’m going to have a rid- ing churn. A pure, wholesome, reliable Grape Cream of EE Tartar Baking Powder Powder is in the exact ferm and composition in whici it occurs in the luscious, healthful grape. fulmess of the food It yours isn’t thas kind | NO. 2 d in Dr. Price’s Baking the flavor the health- No lime Phosphate Liar Means Fight in Georgia. Atlunta, Ga.,’ March.—To call a man ifiar in the State of Georgia fe a breach of the penes aud me o fight, declares the State Court \p peales in a deel court, which refused damages to WM. Rumsey, woe sued W. A. Bullard for S100 for otk {ug hima iar, is revereed, the opine The lower jion by Judge Powell coneluding “Belng tothe manner born, he Judges of this court take judfeal cognizance of the face thas i (evr gia, tocall aman altar, even with: out bhreatentng him with a weapou, most generally means actight, Thore may be exceptions to this rule, but sles, and find jittle no ar 1 under they are exc Ishment on Georgia soll an ' Southern skies.” Stomach Distress. itvery familly here oughs ¢ some Diapepsin in the house. as ay one of you may have anaes vin digestion or Stoinaeh trouble si nag time day or night. This harmless preparation wil) dt gest anyshing you eat and jasour stomach five minutes atier- wards, If your meals don’t’ temps you, or what little you do eat seems to all you, orlays ke a lump of lend in your stomach, or {ff you hive hence burn that fs a sign of Indigestion Ask your Pharmacist for @ 50-ceat ease of Pape’s Diapepstn and wke one triangule after supper tonke ht | There will be nO sour risings, ne belching of undigested food mixed with acid, no stomach gas or heart | burn, fuluess or heavy feeling In she stomach, Nausea, Debilitating, Headaches, Dizziness or Intestinal griping. This will all go, and, sidee, there will be no sour food left | over in the stomach to poison yout breath with nauseous odors. Pape’s Diapepsin {s & certain cure jfor all stomoch misery, becuse It will take hold of your food and dt gest 16 just the same as If your shore ach wasn’t there. Actual, prompt rellef for all your stomach misery {sat your Pharma cist, walting for you. These large 50-cent cases contain youcan drive on.”—Appleson City | more than sufficient to cure 4 case of Journal. chronic lung trouble? There all about it. can ever take the place of tive. Dose, only one pill. Sold for nearly ‘For Coughs and Colds Troubled with a cough? A hard cold, bronchitis, or some these cases—Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral. Your doctor knows Ask him what he thinks of it. No medicine touch with him, consult him frequently, trust him fully. No alcohol in this cough medicine. Ayer’s Pills. Sugar-coated. All vegetable. Act directly on the liver. Gently laxa~ Dyspepsia or Indigestion. is a medicine made for just your doctor. Keep in close sixty years. Ask your doctor about them, 44 AEA ND ite \ ‘: 4 E Pa) i A ts a eS re “ Be Pats)