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THE WEST AGAIS. The Times Eegular Correspondent Finds Southing of Interest to Write. Colorado Business Interests Consid ered and Future Prospect Outlined. ItEFLECTIOX UPON THE PAST. Special Correspondent Hutler Times. I'uehlo Cor.. Oct. 4, 1SS3. It has been several weeks since I wrote the Times a letter, but my mind tlingdown of all departments ot business to a legitimate basis had to nlarn. and now that is iustwhat is the matter. The sequel is in the arthf the- minin" interest was the fnnnclatmn fnr this bloated StatC O affairs and the moment it dropped few notches there was a correspond ing drop and depression in business Hence the vacant buildings and the universal comnlaint that the "coun try is going to the devil." THE HOPE FOR THE FLTLRE. Attpr reading the tore?oinr one is apt to enquire what is there in lu ture for Colorado and her people. has been so absorbed with matters and things in general that I have not The hope is in the development of t.-itn thf rain tn mV.crt mteri-il new mines and the bringing tor a letter that would be at all in teresting to the Bates county public. Since my last effort, however, I have visited the old stamp ground dud oc ' cupied for the brief season of five days the editors chair in the Times sanctum. It seemed natural to do this and quite unnatural and with much reluctance to leave it. THE KAILKOADS. On my way to Missouri I was a passenger on the Atchison Topeka & banta Fe railroad, but returned via the Union Pacific to Denver. Through trains on these roads leave Kansas City about the same hour, the former running to Pueblo and thence to Denver, while the latter runs direct to Denver. They are , both excellent equipped roads and make the transit of the plains in twenty-two nours. mit 1 started 111 to write of Colorado and not of rail roads, but then you know railroads and newspapers are inseperably con into state of cultivation every available nrrc of l.md m the .State, which is quite limited in area at best. Thi is Colorado's only hope, and until it is realized I tear her business inter ests vvi 1 suffer. I have ventured to give the above oninion not from anv unkind feeling 1 v or intent to injure the country, for it is at present mv adopted State. But 1 I say this as a matter ot truth and to satisfy any Bates county farmer who is makintr a 200a comtortable Iivuijr for his wife and little ones, that he had better stay where he is, likewise the laborer who looks for his daily work to supply his iamily with food and raiment. A GRAND COUNTRY". Notwithstanding the very serious business depression in Colorado it is still a grand country in its wonderful climate, an asylum for the physically afflicted of the world. Her moun tains canons and valleys are beautiful nectcd 111 the general development aml sub"nie and the atmosphere de- of the country and the civilization of hghttul beyond description. 1 love man 1 11 not so favorable. olls 10 nie ancl nas granted me a new Three months ago I could have lcase on llte- 1 ncre is something written more favorablv of f !olor.nlo romantic about Colorado ami her than I can now having become bet- history. A study of her past is an ter acquainted with the business re- inviting field for the imagination that sources and prospects ot the State, delights to dwell upon, pioneer lite This is in every essential a minni"- in tIie urimitive days of the wild country. The chief cities and towns wcst- A journey over the country are supported and kept alive by the ra'' or otherwise brings one in mining interests. Some sections ot contact with many interesting remi the state possess agricultural icsour- I mscensesor early me m the mining ces, and there is vet a srreat deal of the Rocky Mountains. Some of land susceptable of cultivation when I tne ,nost sublime scenery in the world liupvi ungating iacumes are pre- ... ,1 T... . 1 t.t .1 p.nvii. ijui wit- iiouoie is mere is a monopoly in every irrigating ditch that is dug, lust as there is in every - " ... a omer important enterprise, and it usually bankrupts a community to . 1 .9 - w lave mem constructed. Hence it will necessarily require a long time to elapse before those lands that are productive will be utilized and made to bring forth wheat, oats, corn and other farm products. at a stand still. ti... t 4. i - tin; latus voioratio is lust now at a stand still. Every town in the State is as dull as "Stumptown," un less wc except a few ot the larger cities such as Denver, Pueblo, Lead- .-ilia. ri . - i , anu vjuiui!uii, una even in these places business men are com plaining and their long faces depict a feeling ot distrust and foreboding for the future. I have recently re turned from a lengthy trip through the southern part of the State during which I came in contact with the intti xjl section, i was in as many as a half dozen towns ranging in size from three to ten hundred people, and I feel quit safe in saying that neither one of which is to be witnessed in this country dunngthe spring and summer months when the surface of the earth is car peted with verdure aod the foliage of the pine and evergreen add beauty to the rustic scene. Tis autumn now and the meagre forests are in the sear and yellow leaf. It but reminds us that the autumn time of life com eth apace, and that the moments of mans existence from the cradle to the grave are fast fleeting away. crawl around on their hands and feet converse intelligently, and seem to enjoy life very much. They live j part of the time in the water, which j they enjoy very much, using their j tails while swimming, the same as the alligator, to propel their bodies. They are healthy, good-looking and w ell-developed children, and outside ot their love for the water their gen eral mode of living is the same as that of other human beings. 1S70. BENNETT & WHEELER Dealfss in HARDWARE AND GROCERIES, Headquarters for the Cei.ep.rated (North Main St.) The New York Herald. Wages Two Doors South of the POSTO FFICE New York, Oct. x. The Herald announced this morning that as J soon as possible the Herald would j 1 . , ... ! - 1 rf . I naveus own news Maiius jii unieicui parts ot the city, at which the Hera! and other city papers would be sole; at the price which retail' dealers I Hapiroocl Li lit Draft Sulkv Plow, Haish close barb SLXici Top Bmg'&'ies, :!jThe Mitchell Racine Farm Wagon pr;ce might consider proper. An adver tisement for 500 men an:', women to sell the Herald appeared in the same issue. According to managers of the department more than 4.000 made application, most of them available candidates for the positions offered. Carpenters are now mak ing stands. It is in expectation to have stands opened tor business Monday morning. The board of aldermen adopted a resolution giving Colonel George T. Williams, manager ot this new de partment of the Herald, permission to place, during business hours, a j stand on tne sidewalk within a dis tance of fifty feet of each stairway leading into the stairway ot the Man- Steel Fence Wire. Prices Ci uni-nnttiocl to l NORTHEAST CORNER SQUARE, t i siYi cto 13. BUTLER, MO. ivy r r frra rm 7 Is now receiving and will continue to receive a full line of 9 Dealer in GROCERIES a.v n QUEEKSAVAUE BUTLER, MO. no tt Groceries and Queensware, batten Railway sale of newspapers. i he 'i'Le Garfield Monument. Washington, D. C., Oct. 3. General S.vaim says there is no truth in the published statement that the project for the erection of a monmu- ment to Garfield in Washington. under the auspices of the society of the Army of the Cumberland, has been abandoned ami the funds col ected lor that purpose used in erect ing a monument m Cleveland in stead. The statement probably arose from the fact that a monumen to Garfield is to be pliced in Like View cemetery, near Cleveland, in addition to the one to be erected in Washington. Prices 2 1 tt and will compete in and Quality of Goods, with any firm in the city. (SOUTH .--II) 1 : 11111 LIC S8Q11AIJE. BUTLER, MO. Mr. Fred Douglass is about play ed out. He has been for many years the representative negro upon whom the republican party has lavished all its favors. He has been kept to the front and been the recipient ot many offices, which he has certainly filled well. He had a great ambition to 'Oh! whv should the spirit ot" mortal become a cabinet officer, and thought be found" I hf -onl stepping stone to higher honors than he has yet received. The abortive Half Human, Half Alligatsr. Jackson Fla. Times. Perhaps the greatest living curios- LouisviIIc convention has taught him ities now in existence in this country II .a 1.-. win pass tnrough this city on their to Cincinnati and Louisville next Tuesday. About two j ears ao Mr. Charles Lewis, m passing throu Jiaii uiMUM-u'ti aoout tiiteen miles below St. Augustine, a fami ly of white persons, consisting of John McDonald, his wife and five children. Two of the children he found to be half human and half al ligator. He at once contracted with the parents to give him the manae- a lesson. .Mr. JJou?lass has o-nn,! administrative ability and rare orato nal powers, but he has lost his influ ence with the negro race, and the re publican party will drop him, as he can be of no farther use to them. It docs not matter where the negro vote goes. Tne republicans will be overwhelmingly beaten any way. MINNEAPOLIS TWINE BINDERS REAPERS AND MOWERS, lilCKEYE CULTIVATORS, BAN RACINE SPRING WAGONS, and full line ot BUGrOIES, AT I. DEACON'8 I IABDWARE DEALK I i , MISSOURI pGrJTRUNNlfjQ SIMPLE r 1 A f 1 11 11 1 11 1 7 AS C.J newHome!0 SEWING MACHIHE CO CHICAGO. ILL. ORANGE, MASS. 1 u n ATI A UT1 CI A BUTLER, niet.L tu me ennuren. anu aTrm t,, uunng my stay in them did as much pay them $25 per month to take ousiness as 5.150 per day. This may care of them until such time ;is he eem strange and even startling to s saw fit to take them avvav. A w Hutler merrlvir tU-t . n.,i I t' t u't lUHii in-iNs .ui. L,ewis returneil tn ot a thousand inhabitants would not the State for the purpose of taking transact more than a $150 business the children North, and on Wcdne n a nay, but it is nevertheless true Red tape has long been a svnonim of the slow, devious of the govern ment offices, but a steel tape has been contrived to expedite the work of women in the evinr- room. A motive power to drive the revving machine has long puzzled the brains ot inventors, but so far a cheap ar rangement has not been invented. HPHACTE Ac IlTJIVTI:i. AGENTS, Hl'TTLER' - - MISSOURI. PRESENT POWER" To-Ii m- a Long Wjiy fl WIm-ii Help 1m M'a 11 ted To Way, Comtort is nexvr in a hurry. Pain and distress are in hot haste, It is to the "friend ir. need" the triend who doc something now that the old adage p.ivs the compliineiit ot being 'a friend in deed." Tnat they do not keep the suf ferer in suspense i the salient rxcellcnfc ot Uenson s Capcine I'orous i'Iaters. The plasters of other davs whether por ous or otherwise -aid "Wait until to morrow: We can promise nothing on the spur ot the moment." But pain unre lieved, like hope deferred, maketh the heartsick. Benson's plasters act on ap plication. They permeate, soothe, warm and heal, containing1, as they do, chemical and medicinal agent of the highest etliciency, Their motto in now, and the genuine have the word aprine cut in the middle ot each planter. Price 2$ cents, Seaburv A: Johnson, ChetnMs New York. BOOKS 2 TONS A DAY in iiHigement anJ I certainly have no object in dealing ifi exaggerating statements. Vacant business rooms and dwellings con be counted bv the dozen in any of these places bu.lt years ago during the big mining cxcitmcnt. Those were hal .1.1.... 1. .uiiii.i)5 mi voiorauo, anu every room, street corner and atic was in demand. But a change in affairs must have been evident even then to the shrewd observer. Money was plenty then and men were reckless. Their minds were thoroughly disipat ed by the raging boom which car ried them along as swiftly and ruth lessly to business destruction as the cyclone does its helpless v.ctims. Hut the crash had to come. A set- untll an tnghshman contrived to lay arrived in this city to arrange for make a sewing machine run by means their transportation. He will go to St. Augustine Monday after the children, and arrive in this city with them perhaps on Tuesday morning and will remain here about five hours before leav ing for Louisville. Mr. Lewis did not intend to exhibit them here, iv.vnt ,1 .-1,-1-1. n- . r- , , -....i. rviM-p iu.i icw inencis and acquaintances. These children are now nine years ot age, and have never been to exceed ten miles from their home, and consequently hav e never oeen placed on exhibition. Their bodies, arms, ami heads from the hips down they present the iden tical aupearance of an alligator, hav ing a perfectly formed tail afoiitfive feet in length, together witk frVm, r " 1 liiV- lillil feet and Iers of the aiii , ' ' - jLiitry nl n.l - r.. ir t . -j. . atetJ i.i-e. v -J1. atKUlS, i.V means of a box of steel tape and an arrangement of wheels and pulleys, makes a sewing machine run with out any exertion of the operator, ex cept to wind the thing up. , Over 500,000 Volumes readv. The choicest literature ot the world, oltcn J the best editions jnihiiMied. :or-page j catalogue free. Lowest prices ever , known. Not sold by dealer. Sent tor ' examination ix-tore pa yir.cn, on evident e of good faith. John n. AJden, I'ubiish er, IS 'et.ey Street, N. V- (). IJos 1227 PARKERS GlfJGcn TONIC. 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