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FAVORITES ON FRENCH MENU a ‘Artichokes and Truffies Are Particu |. larly Liked by the Gourmands of That Country. . “Nott fog more ‘embarrassing than The Frenchman is very fond of arth |- not to know how to say ge ‘Fhe | chokes. One kind, the Verte de Prov. 1 eat F gross di8- | once, has-wideopen petals like = awkward, Tose in full bloom. The violet Hative ovence is a rare specimen of vio let hue, having its petala closely fold- ed into a firm ball; tr —* to.p € Dro evdlicy of our customers, Truffles are among the rarest of eph -belie the i interests are ide curean treasures in France. Dogs and hogs are trained to scent out the tuberlike nuggets in their earthly cov- erings in the forests. For the truffle ls a fungus which grows underground and requires the scent of animals to discover it. Its growth is rather a mystery, in that science has yet dis- covered little about it. In Perigord and Provence the custom prevails of sowing acorns in an inclosed space, the natives declaring that when the trees are big enough to shade the bad wh- Bre felpful and acco - ing lar as Consistent with banking px ence—to provide the best facilities and safe- guards that modern methods can supply— mai ‘business enterprises of the fu unity—in short, to make in every way © UDSON MAXIM, international authority on arms and ammunition makes an eamest, patriotic plea in THE BATTLE CRY OF PEACE Sas saying good-by and getting out. He would thank his ‘lucky. stars if some “bouncer” would come along and tend the agony by throwing him out. Now, remember, there's only one thing to do in a case like that, when W. SS This call to arms against war touches the heart | ee ee ea ee or rape the Hs has come for a crop Ie 4| strings of your every emotion. . It appeals to your \s> 4 lust say “Good-by” and be honest of truffles to gathered, MEE sense 2 4 {| a not diplomatic about it and see how A violet truffie i: the finest of all. | | ki of eee ee : ch yas a | | i nicely you settle the difficulty.—From | it is covered with polygonal warts and | isan inspired revelation from the pen of J. Stuart § a the New Era, Federal ,Penitentiary, | is found in Perigord and Provence. E @| Blackton and produced under his personal supervision. > a When it reaches maturity in late au- | |PEOPLES BANK, |; vor ve her ; dish violet sheen and its odor and fla- The Bank on Which You Can Always Bank ANTS PROVIDED WITH LIGHT vor are as delicate as its covering. Curlous Phenomenon That Has for Some Time Attracted Attention | STUBBORNNESS HAS A VALUE It is more than a picture. It is a great national . propaganda which deals with the most important problem that has confronted this nation sitce the - Civil War—the problem of unpreparedness. These, when seen on the headwaters| The fact that a mule is stubborn of the Rio Verde, seem to be covered | may lessen his value to the average with tiny stars, which give the nest} user—but the soldier is inclined to the aspect of a miniature tower. bril-| value this trait. The mule is being lantly illuminated. When the nest is| rated above the horse for actual use struck with a stick the lights go out, | under fire on battlefields, and is much only to reappear again little by little. | used by the artillery. An untrained Castelnau, in the middle of the last | horse, being nervous and high strung, century, reported a similar spectacle | is likely to dash about madly under near the city of Goyaz. According to | fire, but the mule stubbornly holds hie his account, the lights were produced | place regardless of the din. The Brit: by an immense number of small phos-| ish are now planning to mount a part phorescent larvae, which withdrew in-| of their cavalry on American mules. to the galleries of the mound, when| A favorite story of the British artil- ah attempt was made to capture them. | lery is told of the artillerymen who of Scientists. * eat Quality Not Usually Considered | 7 ' ‘| apis There has been observed a curious Praiseworthy Is All Right in the i 4 | ? | Bry x phenomenon connected with the nests _ Army Mule. | ry ofthe Brazilian white ants or termites. — ee » | | | ae CAPITAL and SURPLUS, $250,000 FARMERS BANK BUILDING, BUTLER, MO. das ‘We have money to loan on real estate at a low rate Farm Loans of interest with privilege to pay at any time. : Abstracts Ye We pave a dit lade set of Abstract- Books and will fur- bstracts to any real estate in Bates county and examine and eriott titles to same. We will loan your idle money for you, securing you Investments reasonable iterest on good secant) We you interest on time deposits. FE avail Butler’ s New eae House - W. F. DUVALL, President, J. B. DUVALL, Vice-President, Fe ee a te aa te mn en | LwesDAY, MAY 16 Special Music 5 authorities that these exhibitions are|a warm attack.‘ The gun team of Arthur Duvall, Treasurer. W. D. Yates, Title Examiner. probably confined to some particular| mules stubbornly refused to budge, LOWER FLOOR 50c, BALCONY 25c —— species or to some special occasion | so in desperation the gunners returned | Seats on sale at T. W. Fisk’s Store. If you desire good seats, orderthem or conditions of termite life, since| to the gun and succeeded in beating at once as they are going fast. many scientists have spent consider-| back the attack. They were warmly able periods of investigation in Brazil | commended for their valor—but admit- = Vithous peeing them, ted that the praise’ was properly due | AMERICANS ROUT VILLAISTS | BACKACHE IS A WARNING PROFESSIONAL CARDS - the mules.—American Boy. DR. J. T. HULL When “Honesty” Pald. ee Pa Ge Dentist The secretary of the New York waste Use fn a eee Bork tran same leads Prison association tells of the answer ere is a story of a man, desper- pent fy year a thief gave to the question “Is hon-| ately ill, who, having passed the crisis of his ailment, needed, only, so uadron of Ne ie hide inte Cavalry | Butler People Should Not Neglect ty-Two, Their Kidneys. Field headquarters, near Nam- iquipa (by wireless to Columbus, Backache is often nature’s most N. M.), May 6.—A full squadron frequent signal of weakened kid- of two hundred and thirty men|neys. To cure the pains and aches, of the Eleventh cavalry surprised|to remove the lameness when it and routed a much larger force of | arises from weakened kidneys, Villa bandits at Ojo-Azules, seven-| you must reach the cause—the teen miles south of Cusihuriachic,| kidneys. If you have pain early yesterday. through the small of your back, By actual count, forty-two Mex- urinary disorders, headaches, diz- icans were killed, and a number|zy spells, or are nervous and de- wounded, but there were no pressed, start treating the kidneys American casualties. with a tested kidney remedy. The American command, under} Doan's Kidney Pills have been Major Robert. L. Howze, had been| proved good and are especially pursuing the Villa bandits wmder| for weak kidneys. Doan’s have te SEE THE : | : : care ee Missouri | esty the best policy.” It was in the isabel enedli Butter, Elmira reformatory, where a class was | the doctors asserted, an incentive to : . JETER undergoing instruction. A young | recover. He had had dire misfortunes . 4 a B, F. i : ; | uestion. “I believe honesty is the | Neither his business, nor his motor Doctors Attorney at Law Notary Public Apoey policy,” said” he, grr til of a | car, nor his children, nor his wife suf- : East Side Square Phone 186} 2.6 where I knew it to-work that | ficed to lure him back to the trials ‘way. See? There was two young ‘of temporal existence. Then some in- f Th. r crooked, see? And they didn’t suc book, She" put it into the hands of For practical cleaning qT J. HALSEY, M. D. 0. 0. ceed. They went to Philadelphia, and | the sick man as he lay withering on and pressing. We posi- Eye, Ear, Nose and | they turned over a new leaf and| bis pillow. He turned it over lan- agreed to be square and honest, They | Suidly; then he fluttered the pages ‘@ gull ecience. , and the Atting of Glasnee itiad uontha:© ; aie Mo they prospered. They got everybody’s.| #8ked to be propped up in bed. Be- Ofies over Peoples Bank Phone No. 48 | confidence, and they borrowed $100, | fore long he was whispering fervidly Hats Cleaned and Blocked 000 to enlarge their business, and| Of what he was going to have to eat ’ DR. BB. GLOYD then they failed and got away with | When he got well—those pig hocks man asked permission to answer the and had lost all interest in living. BUTLER, MISSOURI fellows in New York and they was | SPired relative thought of the cook tively clean everythi: Throat Specialist r4 “4 opened a clothing store, see? And _| With transparent fingers; presently he every cent of the money, which they | With dumplings; hot waffies and sirup; All work guaranteed and prices reasonable. ' Graduate Veterinarian never could have done if they hadn't | #chnittbohnen with sour sauce. What|Cenerals Cruz Dominguez and|been used in kidney trouble for Located at been honest. See?” were rissoles, and ramekins, and ban-| Julio Acosta for several days] over 50 years. Read Butler tes- Coods Called for'and Delivered. Garretts Livery Barn nocks? And why had he never known | when they encountered. them en-|timony. i Phones, Office 128; Res. 358. Current for, Heating Homes. SISA ccna MII: Beek te camped in the huddled adobe Mrs. W. H. Hupp, 107 Broad- houses of Ojo-Azules. The Mexi-| way, Butler, says: “T had severe x cans were completely surprised attacks of backache and was also 4 and sprang from their pallets half bothered by pains over my kid- clothed. After firing a few wild | neys, which made me weak and: --+« shots they fled, each man shifting tired. I got Doan’s Kidney Pills for himself. Some of them. were|at Clay’s Drug Store and one box able to seize their horses already | brought me prompt relief, Since jaded from a hard day’s ride pre- then, whenever I have taken viously, but others made their] Doan ’s Kidney Pills, ‘they have way into the hills afoot. benefited me.”’ In Major Howze’s report he| | Price 50e, at all dealers, Don’t said’ the route had been absolute | simply ask for a kidney remedy— and that he was still pursuing|get Doan’s Kidney Pills—the scattered remnants of the band. {same that Mrs. Hupp had. Fos- - Farther reports from Major ter-Milburn Co., Props., Buffalo, Howze stated that General Anton-| N. Y. 80-2t . io Angeles was killed. He was a . 80 4t *! According. to the Electrical World, electric heating has been: seriously tried in a great many places in Nor- ‘way, and reports made by a royal com- mission indicate that a plensant, even | white and Dr, Hugh Black, who, dur ok aroha FM wesiaely Maa eh Ing their joint Edinburgh ministry, ee SAR i hese eas pelt. were said respectively to have black- sas ear eae no & ae: balled the saints and whitewashed the of & room at 64 pater Mahrenhelt Sinners, is now claimed to have origi- By. virtue and authority of with auxiliary heating when the. ther- ee ent toon, ane i ties Transcript Execution issued from : pay ee deh mon but of the Wesleyan Methodists, When the office of the Clerk of the Cir- froumetances electric heating te as.| Hush Price Hughes was founding bis cuit: Court of Bates County, Mo., ’ pach ae be ehinger Morag alae taal famous West London mission he wrote returnable at the May term, 1916, when the energy. can be supplied at to the Rev. Mark Guy Pearse, inviting of said Court, and to me ofl pana : $7 to $8.25 per horse power ig annum | %!8 personal co-operation. Mr. Pearse in favor of Beech ’ d ; on maximum demand. — Bctentifio| roPied that. for Secuwant coe heatee against R. J. Groves I ag cago ‘ . - go i seized “all «the right, ‘monen : : relative of Felipe Angeles, the title, int terest nd claim of the | no; 208 K. 55 Falee- Eyes for Animals. i former confidant and leader of pon RJ. ‘Groves of, ‘in and to Ree KC as . Among the most difficult things there was little room for | Villa who was once mentioned for ‘Gescribed Real which eo egewimarsoly have = & meld E a Foe tpleg Ng the presidency of Mexico and who animals they ote lenty of room. | is now living near El Paso. ; i ; t i ; : how gad oe ; al ety the saints, and I'll pur | The band engaged is the larg- 451 at em oe : iaaybe pant 4 “| est remaining under the Villa na tie , Sof |, But -m.| ed: any Sane or standard, .and yesterday’s decis- i a great Seal Fleh Failed to Respond. ive victory gave much satisfaction é-akill and pa "For some hours the angler had sat |‘ military men here. ‘ quarter and. , a om, ent ‘ t the eyes quickly. on the river bank, patiently waiting, is]. A stranger to the place had been e pl it streaked in such ®/ watching him for some time. At last it Js an extreme} he went up to the old man and asked casually: - “How are the fish in these parts?” The old fisherman rebated his hook, threw it back into the water and then turned calmly to his questioner. . ‘*Well,” he replied grimly, “I really can't say. I've dropped them a line every day for nearly a week now, and gt had no reply yet.” | life.—Atlantic “Monthly. CROUCH BROS, - No. 7 S. Main St. Phone 17:1. — Butler, Mo. Saints and Sinners. Sheriff's Sale, FARMERS. BANK of Bates County German Raider in the North Pacific. Seattle, "May 5—A German commeree raider, alleged to be an escaped merchantman interned at Honolulu, is seeking prey on the North Pacific. That is the wire- less information flashed to the Nippon Yusen Kaisha’s Sado Maru, when 1,000 miles off Cape Flattery. The Sado has arrived here from China and Japan. Her officers took the report so seriously that the vessel’s lights were extin- guished and she made her way at ah enien Raider] cruiser | has set out from Esquimalt search of the commerce destroy: At this time of year when you are at home; write us meeds. We can you complete...