A Mionri loctr Firnl Upon.
Chillicotbe, Mo, Dec. 31. Dr. J.
B. Freeman of tliin county ut thrte
o'clock yesterday iioriiiug was re
turning from a vist to n sick lady
wLu an he wan pubbing through
some heavy timber he was fiied at
by a m tu not Un ftot away, the ball
fittziiiL' Lis whiskers. His horse
carried him to Hafety. It is naid
that threats had been made in order
to nuppreHH hit professonol evidence
in a case in the circuit court.
In case an extra session of the
legislature in not called, the position
of congressman at-large will afford a
lively contest, lion. Chas. H. Mor
gan, of Dal ton, has announced hi
candidacy and will make a strong
pull for the place. It in als s:iid
that Hon. Champ. Clark, of l'ike.
Senator C. F. Cochran, of St. Jo.-eph
Senator Houston W. Johnson, of
Montgomery, Senator E. J. Stone
of St. Louis and V. F Tuttle of
St. Louis will be in the race. Neva
da Mail.
A Sound Liver Makes a Well Man
Are tnu Millions, Constipated or trou
bled with Jaundice, Sick Headache, Had
table in mouth, Foul Ureath, Coated
tongue, Dyopepsia, Indigestion, Hoi dry
skin, I'ain in Liack and between tiie
i-boulders. Cliills, and Feer, &c. If you
have any of these symptoms, your I.ivcr
i- out of order and your blood U slowly
being poisoned, because your liver does
not act properly . Heriiine will cure an v
disorder of the Liver, Stomach or How
els. It has no equal as a Liver Medi
cine. Price 71; cents.
Free trial bottle at II. L. Tucket's
Drug Store. 44 - 1 yr.
If the democrats of this coiigre.b
cannot reform McKinley they can
compel some of his trusts to give
closer consideration to the beauties
of free competition. Hundreds pr
cent, reform through the attack in
detail will go far towards convincing
some of our plutocratic taiift' friend
that their deed to the earth is l ot
recorded. St. Louis Republic.
Bucklen Arnica Salve,
The Best Salve in the world for Cuts
Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum Fever
Sores, Tetter.Chapped Hands, Chlblains
Corns, and all Skin Eruptions, and posi
tivelY cures files, or no pay required. It
is guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction
or money refunded, l'rice 25 cts per box
For sale bY 11. L. Tucker, druggist.
liie Atchison Uloue says: lell a
widow she should marry arain and
tuetwul look insulted, but, 11 you
notice, the next time you see her she
will have an extra frizz to her hair
and an added rufllo to her apron
How to Succeed. 2
This is the great problem of lite which
lew satisfactorily solve. Some tail be
caiifc ot poor health others want of
Iuck, but the majority from deficient
grit want of nerve. They are nervous,
irresolute, changeable, easy to get the
blue and "UKe spirits dowi to Keep
the spirits up." Thus wasting time,
tnonev, opportunity and nerve force,
There is nothing like the Restorative
Nervine, discovered bv the great special
isf, Dr. Miles, to cure all nervous dis
eases a headache, the niues, nervous
prostrasiun, sleeplessness, neurnlgi.i, St
itus dance, lit and hysteria. Tiial
bottles and fir.e book of testimonials tree
at II. L. Tucker's drugstore.
A paper ou the other side thinks
if Steve Elkius takes charjre of the
war department on ev lears
- - -
way xenuysons poem snoukl ne
amended for the occasion so as to
1 T , , i ,
read "King iu the old rinsr "
Messrs. Johuson and James hnd
a rough and tumble light at Duckut r
and Johnsou bit a majority of
James's under lip oft". This sounds
like the good old times.
The oval; man who is engaged
is usually a person to bo avoided
He ia too complacent for this wor'd;
but atter he is married awhile he is
less self-possessed.
UO HABITATION.
There can be no habitation iu the
blood or body for poisonous mic
robes when Swifts Specific, enters
the Bysteni. It chauges the charac
ter ot tiie blood so tnat tlie germs
must cither perish or get out, and
of course they leave. S. S. S. also
forces out the poison which the mi
erobes have left behind. If there is
a sore or ulcer the poison comes out
through that, otherwise through tin
skiu.
''Having suffered much from
con
tagious blood poison, after usicg
half a dozen bottles of Swifts Speci
fic, I was restored to perfect health
and all eruptive sores disappeared.
iou are at liberty to make anv use
of my statement that you wish. J
Ceosbv Irvsos, UCs 1 hird Avenue,
Pittsburg, Tu."
Treatise on Blood and Skin diseases
mailed1 free.
SWIFT SPECIFIC CO.,
Atlanta, Ga.
FOR GOLD.
Hardship
of the !- lio Itiak Krry-
thlng in tba Sarr .
It is scarcely to be wondered at that
gold-hunters frequently botuinc insanii
All classes of men join in toe search
for the el usie yellow ruetaL Des-rtera
from the army, men who have grown
tired of ranching', clerks, sailors and
reformed tramps. The number of enor
mously rich mines that have been mys-'
teriously lost in thi- morj r:n sti-rious
desert is the incentive. Up and down
the desert do these men go, some of
them well equipped with teams and
wagons, others riding mules and there
are some foolhardy enough to essay the
perilous adventure on foot. The fierce
heats of summer, nor the cool nights of
winter, do not deter them. They are
all eager, keen and suspicious. Brave,
they naturally must be, to penetrate
into t.n in -t r.thospita.ile wilds in
search of a "'littering shadow.
Nothing seems to flaunt them.
continual failure appears but to
provoke fresh courage, and when once
the passion has taken hold of a man to
discover a mine, nothing but death will
make him reiinotiisli the attempt
These men are generally very one
sided. They have eyes, ears and under
standing for nothing else bat gold or
silver indications. There is one pros
pector on the desert a notable excep
tion, a man called LMHollaul, a poet,
philosopher, laiiu owner and store
keeper. Some strange allurement drew
him away from civilization, and since
the delirium of mine-owning seized
him he takes only a passing interest in
other matters.
Prospectors are difficult people to get
information from. They delight in the
mysterious and the mystifying. They
all have ha I hair-breadth escapes from
the Indians and woeful marches when
assailed by thirst There is a cheery
feeling about them that they will one
day meet with sudden anl painful
deaths on s mi5 exploring exne lition.
but so long as there are sig.is of the
existence of gold will the prospector
push on. There are several gallant
specimens of this class to be seen in
Yuma, who rcnpirate
they stirt ;ig:iin 'n som;
ney. Their tales will
there before
P'r'.lous jiur
alwavs fetch
ice, anl with
around thorn an air.li'-.e
back against th ; bar ail
the trials an i troubles of
foot on rail
their weary
wandering are forgottjn in the blaze
of popularity. Nothin p'eases the old
miner so much as to so ; ik of past dan
gers and prospects of success.
"You remember yo :n Iv.,n one will
say; well, in live 1 with the Injuns
down the Ilio (ir:n l v an 1 cot as thick
as thieves with th ; n. (I;r;ss ha doj-
tored one of th tn, for h hail a pile of
patent medi.'ines with hi'n. Iljgotto
talk their language purty well, and one
day one big Injun says to him: 'Look
here, if you promise never to tell where
we take you and promise never to come
back again we will show yoa where
there are heaps of gold Of course K.
consented an I the Indians took him a
jonruey of several days, and he
gathered up thousands of dollars. He
would never saf where h got the coin,
but I know he got it, for I saw the cer
tificate. Whv dilYt h' co:u,o back?
Oh, bcausn the Imli ms would kill him,
that is w hy."
Then another will tell the story of
how a poor young fellow got lost on
the desert, and, seein three hills, he
el imbed one to observe, and d wn at
his feet lu saw huge lum-is of gold as
big as his head He emptied
his saddle bags of all superfluous
luggage and pile 1 away as much
gold as he could carry. He eventually
found his way to L s Angeles. Though
he took most careful observations, yet
he wus never able to re-diseover this
wondrous mine.
Again, another whir mn who lived
witu an Indian wvunai was told that
she would show him to a very rich
mine. or. rather have a relative of hers
do so. Thev journeyed for three days.
and then the women grew alarmed and
would go no further.
Then there is another mine due east
from Seven Palms called the "Lost
Squaw," which has attracted many
prospectors, but she, to , has been a
eov mistres an l lias so :ar concealed
herself from the prying gaze of hun
dreds of seekers.
All these stories have but one ending.
'Well, one day some fellow who least
suspects it will stumble on this mine.
and then he w ill rank with the richest
men in the world." Chicago Ledger.
DECEIVED BY APPEARANCES.
How Two Arizon-i lliy Int-reisfil Tlu'ir 1
l.lttle Tile.
The vaqaeros on the Tei n ranch
were paid o:t recently an l som tnere
wasn't enough money left ia the pockets j
of the whole cro wd tJ buy a wad of
brown cigarette paper. This financial
embarrassment was brought about by I
two young fellows whi said they were j
cowboys from Arizona. The two young !
fellows came into camp on pay-day. j
got drunk and jeered at the riding of I
the vaqueros, who were amusing them
selves by doing all sorts of queer things
on horseback. The vaqueros endured
the insulting criticisms of th? strangers
as long as the laws of hospitality re
quired, and then they wanted to know
what the Arizona men knew about
riding.
The Arizona men said they could ride
anything that wore hair, and chal
lenged the vaqueros to bring out their
mustangs. l wo ugiy nine oroucos
were caught up and saddled, and the
.Arizona leuuws, v mi utuuncu '---i-
lessness, climbed aboard. They were
pitched off with neatness and dispatch,
and proved to be very clumsy fellows
: . 1 1 - : . U 1 1 -.1 -
m me sauuie, um mai umu swp lueir
bragging. The elder brother, who was
very drunk, explained that the younger,
who had displayed the more clumsi- j
ness, was a little too full to show what ;
he could do, bat oiTered to bet all he (
owned that the boy would on the next
day ride any horse that the vaqueros
could drive into a corraL . 1
The vaqueros had sized up the Ari- i
zonian lads, but didn't want to take
advantage of them, and persuaded
them to wait until morning before
making any bets. When the morning
came the elder brother was still a lit
tle soggv, but he cloomily insisted
upon making good bis drunken chal-
HUNTING
Unge. Tba vaqueros told him that
wu all right, that they didn't expect
him to back up all his whisky talk.
Be wouldn't have it that way. No
body could aay that he was a bluffer
or a quitter, drunk or sober, and what
he said he would back to his last bean.
The younger brother, who was sober,
tried to dissuade him. "Come now,
Bill," he said, "don't be a blasted fooL
These boys don't mind what we said
yesterday, and they don't want our
money. I've had enough and want to
go home. Juit your foolishness and
come along. I don't want to ride any
more mustangs."
Whereupon the elder brother became
noisier and more insistent than ever.
and abased the other outrageously.
calling him a coward and a tenderfoot,
until the young fellow could endure his
taunts no longer.
"All right," said the young man. "if
you want to blow in all your stuff, go
ahead. Nobody's holding vnu. You
sha'n't
say I'm a coward if you are
and I'll tackle any plug van
drunk.
point out But don't blame me if you
pack blankets back to the ranch. You'd
better get long odds in your betting,
though. "
The vaqueros were very willing to
give odds of two to one, and upon that
basis they pat up all the ramey they
had or eou'.d borrow. When the bets '
were made, the vaqueros roundel up
a band of horses, drove them int a
corral and pointed out a vicious,
Roman-nosed plug, at least ten years
old, that had never had a saddle upoD
his back and was known to be hope
lessly cussed from his forelock to the
tip of the longest hair in his tail.
The youngster from Arizona, looking
very glum and disgusted, climbed to
the top of one of the gate-posts of the
corral, to the great amusement of the
vaqueros, who knew that it was useless
to attempt to put a saddle upon the
Roman-nosed horse. They thought the
young fellow was afraid, and they
laughed joyously until he began to peel
off his clothes an i fling them on the
ground. Coat, vest, trousers and shirt
were flung aside, an 1 upon the top of
the gate-post stood a lithe, athletic
young man in tights, with a few yards
of rope coiled around his waist Then
the vaqueros rolled cigarettes and
wond -red what he would do next
The elder brother opened the gate just
wide eaough to let one horse pass out
at a time, and began driving out the
band. When the Roman-nosed brute
came along and jumpea throug.a the
openi g the man in tights dropped
upon his back from the gate-post like a
pantlvr leading from a tree upon a
deer, an l i a deer the astonished
horse bounded across the plain. Away
he went, distancing the vaqueros, who
spurred in pursuit, and in a few
minutes the flying horse passed out of
sight, the man in tights still sitting
upon his back. And then the vaqueros,
returned to the corral, rolled cigarettes
smoked, and waited.
In half an hour or more the Roman
nose 1 horse loped heavily up to the
corra1, wild-eyed and foam-tleckedand
the man in tights sat upon his back and
controlled him easily with a hacka
more, roughly fashioned out of the coil
of rope that he had worn around his
waist when he started. There wasn't
a kick or a plunge or a buck-jump left
in the old horse, and his wind was all
gone. He was covered with dust and
sweat and mud, anil it was evident
that he had been down sideways and
backward half a donen times and had
rolled over on the ground in vam at
tempts to crush his rider. lie would
have smashed a sad l.e all to pieces
and probably have driven the horn of
it through the breast of a ri ler in some
of his wild backfalls, but the man in
tights always landed upon his feet and
when the horse got up the man leaped
lightlv upon his back.
The man in tights was a ehaaipion
bareback rider from MeMahon's circus
anil the drunken elder bro'her was a
gambler from Tucson. Thev carried
away all the money on the Uanco Te-
jon, and the vaqueros aren t saying
much about suckers from Arizona,
Butcher's wrapping paper doesn't make
very good cigarettes, but it is all the
boys can get just at present San
Francisco Examiner.
I Ve'vft :mil I'lnslu
i Rich black velvet mantles in shape of
three-quarter capes, knee length, fitted
j in the back, open half way up, high on
the shoulders loose in front and
j trimmed elaborately, with jet era
j broidery directly on , the velvet and
j feather trimmings, are highly favored,
j A handsome sage-greea smooth cloth
j cape has a round yoke trimmed with
lliree narrow rows oi minu Iur, ana a
moderately high collar, bound in fur.
j From the yoke hangs a plain full cloth
j cape, satin lined- Long mantles of rich
' brocade satin cloakings, lined with fur
j or silk plush and trimmed with feathers
' or fleecy fur, with elaborate beaded
; passementeries and cords will be fash-
ionable for evening wear. As velvet
is to be so much worn ia costumes,
I fur-lined wraps are not desirable, since
! the velvet pile is swn covered with
hairs from the fur. M'.k plush, with a
slight inter-lining, is equally as warm
a lining as fur. For yoan g ladies who
do not care for capes, close-fitting long
coats or double-breasted jackets are
provided, each trimmed with furs or
feathers and large fancy buttons.
Chicago Journal.
j rroprr Spank.
j "Richard Tate!" exclaimed the wife.
, , , . . .,,
i paie cm nnuaumeci, "i win submit no
longer to your dictation!''
j "Chestnut!" groaned the unhappy
: husband, putting on his hat and going
i out recklessly into tne pelting rain.
j Chicago Tribune.
j brethren, that it was the high priest."
At an experience meeting held m an j Other passages are cited in support of
eastern city, the various speakers tld j the theory, and the essay is a delight
what had been the objects of their am- j f ui bit of reading.
bition ia earlv life. One of them had Whv mental activitv should go hand
wanted to be president of the United
States another to get rich, another to
have plenty of mince pie, another to
be a military dictator like Napoleon,
another to own a pny, another to be
a preacher, another a lawyer, another
a blacksmith, anl another a naval
commander. Only two of all the
speakers hal attained the object of
J their earl ambition.
QUEER TELEGRAPH MESSAGES.
Tba
Pathetic and th Ridiculous
Operator's fci per lenee-
in the
Probably it is the sense of the incon
gruous that takes effect, but it is cer
tain that death messages are more
often ridiculous than any otl.ers. Sure
ly it was a dutiful and sympathetic
child who w ired, "Mamma kicked yes
tesday; will try to make burial Mon
day," and the number of people who
do no hesitate to make fuuer;.l ar
rangements while the prospective
corpse is still alive is simply astounding.
"We are all well but Sam. and he died
yesterday," was probably indicative
only by the sender's desire to break
the news gently not of any fears for
"Sam's" future happiness. And it is
scarcely to be supposed that any ghost
ly vi-i'atu,!! induced the communica
tion, ' Your mother is dead and wants
you to i-ome inline."
"Just send rive to help me; am starv
ing by telegraph. ' w as the cry of one
impecunious soui; and the wonder has
Wen since as to the exact method of
procedure ia a case of "starving by
telegraph."
Another soaree of amusement to the
telegraph operator is in the curious
names which come up in the course
of business. When Mrs. "Whetstone"
and
Mrs.
rirmstone send telegrams
in one day, ttie question arises as uj
their possible relation hip; and
whether Mr. "Moruingstar" and Mr.
Wintcrnight" are neighbors might be
an interesting discussion.
Mr. "Raspberry Smith" gives inter
nal evidence of Afro-American nomen
clature, and '("ooseberrv" is, beyond
all dispute, the name of a colored
familv. Mr. "Richwine" and Mr.
Cashier" might easily be Hermans
but the nationality of the "Bone
breaks" and the "Goodhands" would
be hard t guess. 1'ven "llumbird"
comes in occa i uially, and "Boss
hardt" is too suggestive to be pleasant
In oftices where the operator must be
also the receiving clerk many odd inci
dents occur to enliven the routine of
business. An old colored man went.
punting, into a reiegrapn o.ace once
and indicated his desire to telegraph a
small package that he held in his hand,
lie met with blank unbelief all the
statements to thj effect that siuh a
thing could not be done, and persisted
in his request "It's just got to go!" he
exclaimed. "They're my wife's teeth.
She went off and forgot 'em and I've
got to get 'em to her on the train."
After some ten minutes' discussion it
was a sadder and wiser old man who
shuttled slowly out of the office.
Drunken men, too, furnish their
quota of odd sayings and doings for the
amusement of the telegapher. "Say,
what'U you send a message for to my
wife to M ?" inquired an intoxicated
customer of the operator. "Twenty
live cents' Why, I'm one of the boys in
blue! Can't you make it any less?"
The operator refused to cut rates, and
the customer who had imbibed too
freely decided to stand the expense, al
though grumbling. "You'd take the
bread from the mouth of one of the
boj's in blue!" "You write it for me,"
was the next demand. "It's to my
wife," he went on; "never mind the ad
dress; now that's none of your business
where she lives."
Being induced to give the necessary
destination, he continued: "Tell her
I'll be home." "When shall I say you'll
be home?" prompted the temporary
amanuensis. "Well, tell her I'll be
home (long pause) be home when I
com and tell her to answer; if I've got
to pay for this she has to pay for one,
too." "Be home when I come; answer,"
read the long-suffering operator.
"Can I say auy more?" inquired the
boy in blue from M . Upon being
informed that he still had a margin
within the twenty-nve-cent limit lor a
message, he leaned over the railing to
ward the desk and whispered conti
dentially: "Say, tell her I'm drunk
but I ain't locked upyet" Washington
Post.
SIGHT AND
STUDY.
Physical I)is:illli t y Illilii-l
Activity.
l!y Mental
Xear-sijriiteilness is usually consid
ered one of the effects of modern civili
zation and stndv. The greater the
progress, the higher the culture, the
more prevalent is the distressing
myrpia: and one has only to think of
intellectual lloston, with its many
short-sighted inhabitants, to acres' in
the truth of tin; proposition. One
heretical observer, however, spitefully
remarked after having been in com
pany with a number of Uostonians
that he believed that half of them wore
plain g. asses instead of the real thing-,
in order to appear literarj-. The asso
ciation of literature with near-sightedness
has much to support it, and the
young person who is compelled to re
sort to "aids to sight"' has to bear many
sly allusions to the superior learning
which necessitates their use.
To find an early example of literary
nearsightedness we must go back to
the author most widely known, most
deeply studied in Christendom; to the
one learned in all the wisdom and
p ctry of the Greeks, the thorough
Hebrew scholar, the Roman citizen
understanding and ably defending his
rights, the great logician and master of
st3-le M. Paul, the apostle of the Gen
ti:es. A charming paper inserted in
one of Dr. John llrown's essays and
written, we believe, by one of his kins
men skillfully demonstrates that "the
thorn in the flesh" was impaired vision,
resulting from the memorable experi
ence on the way to Damascus and that
it was his near-sightedness which led
M. Paul into the error of speaking
harshly to the high priest; for which he
apologized by saying: "1 wist not.
in hand with physical disqualification
it would be hard to explain. Disraeli
makes one of his minor characters say,
"I look upon a long-sighted man as a
brute who, not being ale to see with
his own mind, is obliged to see with h:3
body." This may aiTcrd a partial
solution; as conversely, one who cannot
see with his body develops clearer
mental vision. Harper's Bazar.
for Infants
"Ctorl Is so well adapted to children tht
I rvcomnieK J it a guperior to ary prescription
known to n-.e." H. A. Abcbcb, M. D.,
Ill So. Oxfori St, Brooklyn, N. Y.
A.. O Welton
Staple? Fancy Groceres,
Feed and Provisions of all Kinds.
QUEENSWARE AND GLASSWARE
CIGARS AND
Always pay the highest market price for County
Produce. Hast Side
NEW FIRM?
Having purchased the stock of goods known us the
Grange store consisting of
GROCEREIS & DRY GOODS,
I desire to say to my many friends that I liavo re
plenished the stock and fitted up the stoie room in
shape and I would be glad to have nil my old friends
call and see me.
PORDUCE OF ALL KINDS WANTED.
I will guarantee my prices on goods to be as low ns any
store in the city. Call aud see me.
An unlimited 1 1 (
.f .MONEY
drawn five vcai and mud
per cent home mom y.
Farms for .su!e in nil parts of Hates county. L.av Prices, Eauy
TVrtiiH. If you want to buy or 8ell it will be to
your Interest to see mo.
omplete Abstracts of all Real Estate in Bates County,
Missouri.
GEO. M. CANTERBURRY.
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and Children.
Caatorla crj-s Cclie, Constipation,
Sour Stomach, riarrh.-pa. Eructation,
Kills Wuraii, give alcrp, and proiuotoa U
cestii u.
Without injurious medication.
Ta CfcXTAia Compvsi, T7 Murray Street, N. Y
TOBACCO,
Square. Butler. Mo-
NEW GOODS?
to LOAN ok
l eul fhtute. Loans
Also pluiity of K
X-aOStLULS
ifivable any time.
Dank, Butler, Missouri.
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