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The Fanner and the Tariff.
"Wliat are the prospects of farm
ers in your state?"
"Well, they are pore. Never bo
pore, in fact, sence I've ben' there.
Folks wonder why boys leave the
farm. My boys left bo as to get
protected, they said, and bo they
xffent into a clothing store, one of
"em, and one went into hardware, and
one is talkin' protection in the legis
lature this winter. They said that
Ctrmhf was gettin' to be like fishin'
and huntin', well enough for s man
Chat has means and leisure, bnt they
couldn't make a li vin' at it, they said.
Another boy is in a drag store, and
tfee man that hires him says he is a
orpl feller."
,"Kind of a royal castor feller," I
sua, wum a snnes. 01 laugnier.
Ha waited until I bad laughed all
I wanted to and then he said:
'Tve always hollered for high tar
iff an order to hyst the public debt,
ha& now that we've got the national
debt coppered I wish they'd take a
little hack at mine. I've put in fifty
years farmin'. I never drank licker
in any form. Tve worked from ten
Co eighteen hours a day, been eco
nomical in cloz and never went to a
how more'n a dozen times in my
life, raised a family and learned up
wards of 200 calves to drink out of
tin pail without blowing all their
vitUee up my sleeve. My wife
vrorked alongside o' me sewin' new
seats in the boys' pants, skimmin'
silk and even helpin' me load hay.
For forty years we toiled along to
gether and hardly got time to look
into each other's faces or dared to
slop and get acquainted with each
otter. Then her health failed.
Ketched cold in the spring house,
prob'ly skimmin' milks and washin'
pans and scaldin pails and spankin'
butter. Anyhow, she took a long
breath one day while the doctor and
me was watchin' her and she says to
tae, 'Henry, says she, Tve got a
chance to rest,' and she put one tired,
iwn out hand on top of the other
tired, worn out hand, and I knew
sbeTd gone where they don't work
all day and do chores all night.
I took time to kiss her then. I'd
been too busy for a good while pre
vious to that, rnd then I called in
aba boy. After the fnneral it was
ranch for them to stay around
susd eat the kind of cookin' we had
to put up with, and nobody spoke
op around the house as we used to.
Tfee keys quit whistlin' around the
ten and talked land of low by
themselves about goin' to town and
gettin' a job.
'They're all gone now, and the
ertow is four feet, deep on mother's
grave mp there in the old berryin'
gflotmd. . ..
Then both of us looked out of the
car window . for a long while with
out saying anything.
"I don't blame the boys for going
into , something else long's other
Cbings pay better, but I say and I
say what I know that the man who
Balds the prosperity of this coun
try in hi hands, the man that actu
ally makes money for other people
tpend, the man that eats three
good, simple, square meals a day
oad goes to bed at 9 o'clock, so that
future generations with good blood
and cool brains can go from his farm
to the senate and congress and the
"White house he is the man that
Cets left at last to run his farm, with
nobody to help him but a hired man
mud a high protective tariff. The
farms in our state are mortgaged for
for over $700,000,000. Ten of our
western states I see by the papers
has got about three billion and a
balf mortgages on their farms, and
that don't count the chattel mortgag
ee filed with the town clerks on farm
machinery, stock, wagins and even
-crops, by gosh! that ain't two inches
fitigh .under the enow. That's what
"tbe jvrospect is for farmers now
The government is rich, but the men
tthatjndeit, the men that fought
perarie fires and peraries wolves.
and Injins, .and potato bugs, and
blizzards, and has paid the war
debt and the pensions and every-
taing else and hollered for the un
ion and the republican party and
everything else that they was told
to, is left high and dry th:s cold
"auter with a mortgage of seven
billions and a half on the farms thev
have earned and saved a thousand
times over."
"Yes; bat look at the glory of
sending from the farm the future
president, the future senator and
the future member of congress."
"That looks well on paper, but
what does it amount to? Boon as a
farmer boy gits in a place like that
he forgets the soil that produced
him and holds his head as high as
a hollyhock. He bellers for protec
tion to everybody but the farmer,
and while he sails around in a highly
tighty room with a fire in it night
and day, his father on the farm has
to kindle his own fire in the morning
with elm sliwers, and he has to
wear his son's lawn tennis suit next
to him or freeze to death, and he
has to milk in an old shawl that
has held that member of congress
when he was a baby, by gorry! and
the old lady has to sojourn through
the winter in the flannels that Silas
wore at the riggatter before he went
to congress.
"So I say, and I think that con
gress agrees with me. Damn a
farmer, anyhow!"
He then went away. Bill Nye.
No-Man's-Land.
The strip of country known as
'No-Man's-Land" is 159 miles long
by 311 miles wide. There are 10,000
people living on it. It contains a
number of villages and stores. It
has belonged to the United States
for thirty-eight years, and yet during
all that time has been a neglected
orphan, without federal or territori
al law. This strip of country has
the most fertile soil and a climate
free from the extremities of heat or
cold. Lynch law rules supreme.
Offenders are caught and shot
promptly on conviction. One who
has recently been in No-Man's-Land
says.
"For all these years it has remain
ed 'No-Man's-Land,' in fact, for
though it belongs to the government
and is public land it has never been
made subject to entry, nor has the
United States even ever extended its
laws over its territory. There is no
officer who can arrest a man for
crime committed in this territory,
no court which could try him if he
was convicted. March 30, 1886, it
was attached to the internal revenue
collection district of Kansas for the
collection of the special tax on the
sale of tobacco and liquors. Some
of the dealers in the strip pay this
tax, others do not. There is no au
thority that can punish the latter.
The government has established
postoffices and postal routes in the
strip, but if a postmaster should
embezzle the funds or should the
mails be robbed within the limits of
this territory there is no court be
fore whom the offender could be
brought for trial The merchants
do a strictly cash business, as, of
course, no debts contracted there
can be collected."
No title can be obtained to lots or
land in all this country because of
the neglect of congress. The peo
ple in this strip are industrious and
peaceable, but they occupy an ano
malous position. They are within
the government, but not of it. Thev
are compelled to fall back upon na
ture s laws and take care of them
selves. They do this occasionally
with vigor. Hard characters ar
given short notice to get out, and
they get
The condition of this strip is sim
ply a disgrace to our government
and illustrates that weakness in our
system which threatens the nation.
Politicians, too busy with small
schemes to attend to public busi
ness, of no business habits or quali
fications, neglected the people's af
fairs shamefully. It is now propos
ed to incorporate No-Man's-Land
with Oklahoma into a territory, give
it a regular territorial government
and extend the protection of law
over it This should be done prompt
ly. It is probable that No-Man's
Land will get into the union as i
state sooner than Dakota, with its
600,000 people, which has been s
territory nearly thirty years. Chi
cago Tribune.
Itch, Mange and scratches of erery
kind on human or animals cured in 3
minutes by Wooltord's Sanitary Lotion
This never tails. Sold bv W. T. T.aiw
down, Butler, Mo.
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OurYouns Men
"When a young man looks forward
into life and tries to imagine what
position he will occupy twenty or
fifty years hence, he is lost; when
he reads of this one, hears of that
one or sees another who started on
his level having attained position,
power, eminence, he has hope, but
how often is that early spark "per
mitted to smoulder and die and he
remain during his natural life just
where his first hope left him. There
is a vast amount of climbing to be
done by an ordinary farmer's son if
he would attain an exalted position
in after life, but it can be done and
hundreds of thousands may and
should try it It can be done only
as the mountaineer climbs, step by
step. As by moments we add days
to our lives, so item by item we add
to our knowledge, and it is the well
drilled and well filled mind that
makes the man. One need not be
deterred by the magnitude of the
effort, it is not to be made by one
gigantic stride, but as little drops
of water and little grains of sand
make the mighty ocean and the
beauteous land; one by one, little by
little, step by step, day by day.
An aspiring energy is necessary
to begin with, this with inspiriting
influence of a noble and lofty ambi
tion to give zest to industry, continu
ity to perseverance and will power
to ever and always hold to the one
aim and purpose of life and -few
need fail. All things have a begin
ning therefore begin. Patiently, un-
wearyingly work on, upward, onward
climb. Out door physical labor
gives health and fits both body and
mind for effort, and by the avoid
ance of the enervating habits and
customs of the day, the fullness of
the stature of the perfect man may
be reached when full of years and
vitality, and be crowned with glory
and honor.
The jug goes to the water until it
breaks. That neglected cough may
rack you until it breaks down the
entire system and consumption is
fastened onto you. A sure cure is
is found in Warner's Log Cabin
Cough and Consumption Cure.
Two sizes, $1 and 50c.
A Double Killing.
Muskogee, I. T., February 21
News has just been received here of
a double killing near Mayesville,
Flint District Cherokee Nation.
Jeff Smith, a United States Marshal,
together with a posse of 3 or 4
men, went to the home of John Smith
on last Saturday for the purpose of
arresting him on a charge of larceny
Just as Marshal Smith reached the
house of John Smith the door was
thrown open and John Smith ap
peared with a revolver in his hand.
Both men fired simultaneously and
each shot proved fatal. Jeff Smith
was shot through the heart and expir
ed almost instantly, while John Smith
who was shot in the forehead, lived
only a few minutes. There is great
excitement in and around Maysville,
as both men were well known. The
two Smiths were no relation.
DON'T
let that cold of jours run on. You
think it is a light thing. But it may run
into catarrh. Or into pneumonia. Or
into consumption.
Catarrh is disgusting. Pneumonia is
dangerous. Consumption is death it
selt. The breathing apparatus must be kept
healthy and clear ot all obstructions and
offensive matter. Otherwise there is
trouble ahead.
All the diseases of these parts, head,
nose, throat, bronchial tubes and hings,
can be delightfully and entirely cured
by the use of Boschee'a Herman Svran.
It yOU dn't know this alra4v- thnti.
sands and thousands ot people can tell
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tuu. i -icy nave Deen cured or it and
"know how it is themselves.' Bottle
onij i$ cents. Ask any druggist.
4-1 yr o w.
At the special congressional elec
tion in the Upper Michigan peninsula
republican mine-owners practised
the most " outrageous bulldozin
The mine foreman, stationed at the
polls, inspected each miner's ballot
as it was presented, and tore it up
if it was democratic In the
Champion mine alone 600 men were
driven to vote against their own
candidate; but in spite of such meth
ods, on a square fight for and against
protections, the republican majority
was reduced by over 7,000 and the
state promised to the democrats
November. Mo. Ben.
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A thermometer has been invented
with clock work attachments which
keeps a register of the weather for
eight days for every hour in the
time.
ITCH, MANGE, and SCRATCHES,
ot every kind on human or animals cur
ed in 30 minutes bv WOOLFORD'S
SANITARY LOTION. This never
tails. Sold by VV. J. Laksdown, Drug
gist, Butler. Mo. 3- m.
Florida has surpassed California
this season in the number of visit
ors. There has been over 60,000
visitors in the state this winter.
Americans do not have to go to Eu
rope for climatic reasons. They can
be suited in their own country.
Banematlsm Cured.
W. K. Powers, 293 3 Thomas Street
St Louis, Mo., ktates:
Ballard's Snow Liniment cured
me ot Rheumatism of 4 years stands
iag. I bless the day when I was in
duced to try it.
Lord Tennyson the lord adds
no distinction to his name is said
jto be in feeble health and never
takes his pen in hand. He has done
his best and done it grandly. Let
him alone. He has made his place;
it is firm.
William's Australian Herb Pills.
If vou are Yellow, Bilious, constipated
with Headache, bad breath, drowsy, n
appetite, look out your liver is out of
roder, One box of these Pills will drlra
all the troubles awaA . and make a aew
being of you. Price 25 cts.
V iv Pylk& Crumly, Agents
In the east and in Europe the su
perabundance of women over men
has become a problem. A London
item says: "The question to be solv
ed in Brittain at present is what to
do with the vast army of young
ladies of good family who are look
ing for employment. Husbands are
scarce and genteel work is at premi
um." Ballard's llorehound Syrup
is the best remedy for Consumption,
Coughs, Colds and all Throat and
Chest troubles. Every bottle is
guaranteed. It is the best remedy
for children.
A Dream Cannes a Suicide.
Hannibal, Mo., Feb. 15. Snowden
Holmes, a farmer living near Madi
sonville, Balls county, committed
suicide yesterday by cutting his
throat from ear to ear just after
finishing a hard morning's work
splitting rails. He had a bad dream
Saturday night which had so prey
ed upon his mind that his reason
was dethroned.
The ' Blaine Gang."
In our opinion it is the resolute
purpose of the Blaine gang in
side the republican party to put
their man, loaded as he is with scan
dals and knaveries, again in nomina
tion; and they have our warmest
wishes for their success. We think
they will succeed, and that this de
feated aspirant in four presidential
campaigns will be sent to his ever
lasting rest under the heaviest load
of popular disfavor ever visited up
on the presidential candidate of a
great political party. Washington
Capital.
SCROFULA
It is that Imparity la the blood, which, ae
cumulating in the glands ot the neck, pro
duces unsightly lamps or swellings; which
causes painful running sores on the arms,
legs, or feet; which developes ulcers In the
eyes, ears, or nose, often causing blindness or
deafness; which is the origin ot pimples, can
cerous growths, or the many other manifesta
tions usually ascribed to "humors;" which,
fastening upon the lungs, causes consumption
and death. Being the most ancient, It Is the
most general of all diseases or affections, for
very few persons are entirely free from it.
"ZST CURED
By taking Hood's SarsapariUa, which, by
the remarkable cures it has accomplished,
often when other medicines have failed, has
proven Itself to be a potent and peculiar
medicine tor this disease. Some of these
cures are really wonderful. If yon suffer from
scrofula, he sore to try Hood's SarsapariUa.
"ETery spring my wife and children have
been troubled with scrofula, sores breaking
out on them In various places. My little boy,
three years old, has been a terrible sufferer.
Last springhe was one mass of sores from head
to feet. I was advised to use Hood's Sarsapa
rma, and we have all taken it. The result
is that an have been cured of the scrofula,
my little boy being entirely free from sores,
and all four of my children look bright and
healthy." W. B. Atheetox, Passaic City, 2f . J.
Hood's SarsapariUa
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NORTH MAIN STRKST, BUTLER, MO.
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