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The Butler weekly times., 1896-12-31
Cheap COrnbread for India.

Corn is suggested as substitute
for wheat to allay the demand for
bread, caused by the famine in India
The shortage in the wheat crop Of
the leading commercial nations, in.
cludipg our own country,is estimated
at 200,000,000 bushels OF this ag-
gregate Russia is short $4,000, 900;
Canada, 10, 900, 900; India, Sc, 900, ,0OG
and the United States, $4,000, 900
The Argentine Republic and Aus
tralia have likewise a considerable
shortage, aud the United Kingdom
aud the countries of Continental
Europe outside of Russia, have
about sufficient for the needs of
their own people.
This condition, coupled with the
discouraging outlook for wheat
crop in India and Russia next year,
owing to droughts and other causes
now prevailing, makes it probable
that the present high prices of wheat
will be maintained until far into next
summer. Wheat advanced from SIS
to 81 cents in tho last three months.
It is thought that Russia and In.
dia will be required to pay from ST
to 81 20 bushel for their wheat,
and the other countries of Europe
will have to pay correspondingly
high prices for the wheat needed to
supply their deficiencies
This state of things has suggested
the idea that perhaps the corn crop
Of the United States might be util
lied to supply India. OF the corn
crop of 1895, this country has still
on hand about 410,0O0.O0O bushels.
According to a recent estimate of
the Agricultural department, the
corn crop of 1896 will approximate
$780, 100000 bushels, making total
on hand of 2,57O.0OO, 900 bushels.
Estimating the consumption at l,
700, 100000 bushels and exports at
10O,O0O,000 bushels, it will be seen
what an enormous surplus the Amer
lean farmers will have on hand for
shipment abroad. At present prices
and freight rates corn could be laid
down in India for 53 cents a bushel.
1t is calculated that bushel and a
half of corn will nourish a man as
long as will a bushel of wheat. This
would make the price of sustenance
to the inhabitants of India, if taken
in corn at present prices, about so
cents as against wheat for the same
purpose at 81 IA, saving of be-
tween 40 and so per cent This diff.
ference. where millions are to be fed,
would amount to considerable.
1t is hardly probable were de.
mand Of the character suggested
created for our corn surplus that the
price would remain where it now is.
1t could. however, advance to flo.
ure that, while profitable to the far.
mers, might not be so high as to
prohibit its abundant export as a
TODD supply to those countries that
are too poor to purchase high priced
wheat.-hansas City Times.s
The Butler weekly times., 1896-12-31
To Paw Pensions.

Washington, D. c., Dec. 23.-The
Secretary OF the Interior has issued
a requistion OF the Treasury for
Sl0,000,000 for the next months
quarterly pension payments. The
amount is divided as follows: Pitts.
burg. S1.775,000; Milwaukee: ST.
$4,000; Des Moines, Ia. S2.lOO. 600;
Concord. N. H, 100000; Chicago.
S2.T50,000: Buffalo, $1,000. .OOn.
The Butler weekly times., 1896-12-31
PLANS FOR THE INAUGURATION
1t viii Cost Five Dollars TO Dance in
Hsnna's Set.

1t viii Cost Five Dollars to Dance in
Hsnna's Set.
Washington, D. c. December %.
to the ball to celebrate the
Of President Mckinley
will cost S5 each. This price has
been fixed by the committee. The
committee also decided that the Har
rison inaugural ball held eight years
ago, could no, he improved upon.
and the arrangements made then
will be followed in detail now. An
application will be made to Secretary
Francis of the Interior department
for the use Of the Pension building
on this occasion, This is simply a
matter Of form,
The executive committee decided
to request the Joint Traffic associa
tions and other railway associations
to fix rates TO Washington for the
inauguration, 10 make the rates good
from February 81 to March II, SO
people desiring to visit Washington
will have ample time These traffic
associations have already fixed spe
cisl rates from March l to s. The
committee Of decorations has decid.
ed to erect Illuminated arches across
Pennsylvania avenue at the intersec.
tion of each cross street.
The Butler weekly times., 1896-12-31
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tad pleasure in informing my neighbors
and friends what it has done for me.
Chas Hanley, clerk ter Lay & LYMAN.
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ement cured him OF rheumatism. WHY
not try il. twill surely do you good.
II will cure ali inflammation wounds, sore
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The Butler weekly times., 1896-12-31

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prepare medicine az paIatsbie as possible with
out diminishing its curative power. PrfckIv
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IN thls direction. IL il not drastic az the nsme
might suggest, is tS mild and pleasant and hss
an agreeable favor, besides which il Is q sne
cessfal kidney tonic, liver regulator and hn.r-I
cleanser AS a cure Cor the diseases that st.seE
the kidneys It's superior has not yes tean De
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The Butler weekly times., 1896-12-31
RACE WAR IMMINENT.
Whites and Blacks Preparing
for Battle in Kentucky.
HOTHSIDES HEAyILYARMED
Blacks Seek to Avenge the LynchinS
of Jim Stone Boys Pressed
Into Service.


of jim Stone Boys Pressed
Into Service.
St. Louis, Mo, ga special
from Mayfeld. Ken, at 3 a. N. says:
The chances for big battle here at
daylight are good Special trains
have brought armed negroes and
whites to town, and they are pre-
pairing for fierce contest.
An attack is hourly expected by
the whites. Fully 500 white men
are armed, and it is believed that
the negro forces are equally strong.
At a. N every man OF the town
and every boy who can carry wea-
pom is on guard here for en- attack
by an army of negroes is expected
at any moment The whites are be-
ing reinforced hourly by citizens
from surrounding towns.
1t is thought that before day.
break there will be commenced the
fercest race war ever known in the
south. For forty eight hours news
has been received here from differ
ent points that the negroes were or.
ganizing in large bodies for the
purpose of visiting the town and
wreaking vengeance upon those who
lynched Jim Stone, the rapist, Mon
day morning, and followed this by
whitecapping some of the colored
families who lived on the outskirts.
At 8 o'clock last night kilograms
from Water Valley SAID that the ne.
groes who had massed there were
$50 in number, and that every one
had some sort of weapon. A half
hour later news of a similar nature
came from surrounding towns during
the afternoon, causing the greatest
CONSERVATION, aud preparations
were at once made for battle. Men
first saw to it that their homes were
barricaded, as we'll as that could be
done, and then they proceeded to
the hardware stores, where everyone
who could use weapon was handed
one, until the entire stock was dis.
tributed.
A dispatch was sent from here to
Fulton as soon as the alarming re-
ports began to come in, asking aid
of the white citizens at that point.
A reply came at once, stating that q
special train would be chartered,
and body of armed men would
reach here as soon as possible.
At midnight tho reports had be.
come 90 alarming that the fire hell
was sounded, and all of the citizens
assembled in the public square,
where they remain, expecting the
attack at any hour.
A message from Paducah stated
that body of negroes was being
organized there, but that they will
probably not march upon Mayfield
before daybreak.
At 1890 this morning a body of
citizens of Fulton reached town.
They report meeting mob of 200
negroes, every one armed with
life, on the outskirts of the town.
No attempt was made by the blacks
to interfere with the Fulton people,
and it was evident the former are
waiting for reinforcements.
Guns have been ordered from
Paducah, and are expected here at
any moment on a special train.
At 2:30 o'clock this morning sew.
eral shots were fred at three negroes
who were seen On the outskirts.
There was no response, and the
blacks retreated, evidently toward a
larger body.
The Slaves Freed.
Washington, Dec % Among the
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hn. ne turned on me in a savage man.
and acted i, 49, ',uniisa fn,s S ,se :,
and said, with a sneer, that females
q was but a child, one of class in Sun
day SCHOOL, should be put stop to be-
ing allowed to go about collecting mon
ey in public buildings, etc, and that
he would not allow or encourage it in
MS place, and would give to no charity
where females were employed as col
lectors.
II felt such a rush of furious indigna-
ton in my very soul that / there and
then decided that | would humble that
brute and bring him down financially by
some awful Wholesale means. AS 1
thought the shortest way was by fire. 1
concentrated nv Will on the esta blish-
The herald., 1896-05-24
MECHANICS HELD BY THE STATES

State nicknames in this country have
begun to lose their aptness, says the
New York Herald. New Hampshire's
name, the Granite State" fits almost
as we'll as some other mountainous
states and she never really deserved to
be called the Switzerland Of America,
since her mountains are but little hills
compared with the mountains of Switz-
erland. Several of the Rocky mountain
states more nearly deserve this title.
Colorado. for example has forty-one
mountains more than $4,000 feet high,
and in ALL 1879 mountains more than
1880 feet high. Colorado's own name of
the Centennial State is one that no
other can ever dispute with her, though
it looks as if Colorado might dispute
the name of golden" with California.
Names forests are disappearing so
rapidly that some of the Northwestern
states may soon have better title to
the name pine Tree State" There are
more famous bays than that of Massa-
chusetts, and certainly Chesapeake bay.
If considered only as a body of water,
has more distinction than Massachu-
sets, and, historically, the Chesapeake
The herald., 1896-05-24
MISS ANNA KNsFoRD

IN their work, and point to it with pride.
IL would add an interesting chapter
tc theSe Investigations if the law should
get after one of these self-confessed
thought murderers and try to convict
him of crimes. 1t would open up many
vast helds in criminal law, and would
demand a reconstruction of the criminal
statutes of every nation on the globe.
Some of the psychic experts believe
that it is possible to kill by willing, and
attribute the power to a species of hyp-
notism. Long ago hypnotism became
an established fact. but it's operations
are limited to people who are peculiarly
susceptible to its power. Men and Wo-
men of strong and masterful intellectu-
atty are unaffected by the doings of the
hypnotist But the victims of the al
legged killers by willing have been men
foremost In the ranks of science.
THE FIRST KILLER.
The late Anna Kingsford was one of
the hrst to come out and acknowledge
herself as a killer by willing and Edward
Maitland, who recently brought out a
book about her. describes these killings
with volumnious detail Mrs. Kings
ford was a strange woman i'm many
ways. She was ali accomplished physi-
clan, and the wife of an English clergy
man. They agreed to part and for her
to live in intellectual companionship
with Mr.. Maitland"
w nile pursuing nef medical studies
in Paris she started a war against the
vivisectionists. She willed the death
of Prof Claude Bernard, and he died.
Then she willed the death of Paul Bert.
another noted scientist. and he died. Her
IeXt selected victim was Louis PaSteur
who became ILL., but recovered. and this
so worked npon Mrs. kingsford that she
died herself. A year later Prof Pasteur
died.
The newest case developed by the in
vestigators is given in the words of the
Willer They seem rather eXtraVagant,
but as they have merited the attention
of scientists they may be worth the
reading. The willer is woman, and her
statement is as follows:
HER FIRST CASE.
'The first case of using 'will-power'
myself which [ can remember was when
/ was child. / had a collecting card
for my own Sunday school christmas
offering, also collecting card for the
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty TO
Animals. l went about the city into all
the public offices, warehouses, factories
shops, etc, collecting donations or sub
scriptions for those and other charif-
able objects. ] was highly successful.
and met with universal and characteris-
tic Irish good humor, kindness and po-
likeness. One day l called upon one of
the owners Of great saw mill in Dub
The herald., 1896-05-24
The Newest Kind of Murder a
Cultured Science
A PSYCHIC INVESTIGATION
The Hoodoo of An Evil Eye Which
Do0ms to Death
The Late Anna kingsf,rd Has Numerous Dis
cipies Who Claim to Have Removed"
Obnoxious Persons at viii

LONDON, May 6-Much interest is
being taken by psychological sharps in
the newest kind of murder. This is the
killing of the victim by will power 1t
is a nice, easy, safe and refined way of
doing away with an enemy, and it is
certain to appeal al glance to any muir
derously inclined person of culture. Most
people are inclined to regard the state
ment that murders are committed in
this way as absurd. OF course it does
seem preposterous that by the mere eX-
ercise of strong will power one per-
son can accomplish the destruction of
another even if the latter be several
hundred miles away. But preposterous
or not, the psychic sharps who have
delved into the subject claim to have
unearthed numerous cases where death
was brought about by willing. Skeptics
dispose of these cases as being merely
condolences This may be. but they are
certainly very strange. One popularity
of these cases is that the killers glory
The herald., 1896-05-24

| whose Will power is, and has for long
| been concentrated on killing home rule.
| The people who are using will power
| ana understand how to work il. are COM
| paratlVely very small body of indi-
Vlduals. They are not belonging to the
class called agitators, nor to the unedu-
Gated class; but, although a small body,
| they nave been and will stick together
III using will power and they have
succeeded, and are, therefore, more pow
erful than the larger body of people who
use no means except agitation, arguing
and threatening
II do not keep lists of persons I have
Killed nor of things / have done by
wiling | am too busy to read the
daily papers, therefore. just as often
do not hear of the deaths of persons /
have 'Willed' dead until weeks. or even
years after and the same with changes
have 'willed' in social, political or pub
lis matters. do quite as much by tele-
pathy as by will power
NAMES OF VICTIMS.
You want to know the names of
some persons I have killed. Well. / do
not like the word killed. / call il re-
moved because | do not want to kill
them il they will step aside, cease to do
evil and get out of the way. | tried to
remove W. II. Smith, NJ. p, Lord Ran
dolph Chuchhll and others who We're
hindering certain reforms or doing other
evils. but as | failed to remove them by
other means | had TO will them to
death. | 'willed death to Pasteur |
only 'Wllled' once and thought no more
about 1t, but as it was about two years
before he died,and as he was an old man
l cannot say for certain that it was the
Will power that caused it. l was once
an admirer of Mir DaVitt but after
his action to Parnell. / 'Willcd' him GER
tain things in return and he got them,
one after another As one npreoO ca n
The herald., 1896-05-24
BRIEF COURTING

The shilly- shaIlying young man is
destined to ostracsm in Kansas if the
somewhat startling scheme of an At
Gibson girl is put into practice. The
young woman in question has given
long and laborious thought to the pres
ent system of counting, and the result
OF her deliberations is a conviction that
accommodated reform-is necessary.
She is at present writing a book de-
signed to overturn the present state of
affairs so far as this particular matter
is concerned, and as is fitting in Kan
sas notion, her plan of revolution is
something calculated to take ones
breath away.
Her contention is that under the pres
ent system when a young man goes to
see girl she cannot tell whether he
means business or is just amusing him
self. What she wants to do is to have
an understanding that if young man
goes to see a girl a certain number of
times it is to constitute an engagement,
and she advocates having the legisla-
ture pass a law making the young man
liable to damage suit if he breaks
away after going the specific number
of times.
She proposes that the Legislature au-
thorize the printing Of blanks, or cou-
pons which every girl must keep at her
house, and whenever a young man calls
he must sign his name to one of them
When she has say ten signatures of one
young man to different coupons she can
consider herself engaged to him. and she
can recover damages if he refuses to do
The right thing
If girl is willing to allow a young
man to come and see her more than the
number of times required by law and
not consider it an engagement she must
sign release relieving him of all La
bility. The book will soon be finished
and she expects ii to have a big sale
She believes that if her idea is carried
out it will result in less trouble for the
girls and a blessing to society.-Terre
Haute Gazette
The herald., 1896-05-24

| IL quite as famous, 80 that the name
Bay state might with aptness be
| given to Maryland.
| There are quite as characteristic
green mountains elsewhere in the
United States as those which gave YER
mont her French name. The Empire
| State" seems Inappropriate to any dem
ocratic community, but 1t is appropriate
to New York If to any state of the
| Union, and II Is likely to be a long while
before even Texas can lay claim to the
title The name that Texas takes pride
in, the Lone Star State" Is certainly
hers by right, as she is the only state
to have come to be an independent re-
public. totally unconfederated with any
other state
Pennsylvania is no longer the key
stone of the Unions arch. just as 1t is
no longer politically true that as Penn
sylvania goes so goes the Union.
If Delaware ever deserved her name of
the Diamond State" she certainly can
not claim it against Rhode Island, since
the latter is not only much smaller but
as well. much richer.
No state disputes Virginia's pictur-
esque name, the "Old Dominion"
though few people realize that it dates
back to time when our Atlantic coast
knew only two ill-defined political di-
visions-New England and Virginia
Ohios buckeyes are no longer dis
tinguishing feature of her rapidly dis
appearing woodlands.
Indiana is being civilized out of her
nooslerdom. and wolverine must be
pretty scarce in the state to which the
beast has given a nickname.
Connecticut has learned so many
smart tricks since the days of the ira
ditional wooden nutmegs that her
neighbors could easily discover an apt
er name of reproach.
Louisiana doubtless has as many pel-
leans as Florida or any other state, and
may well hold to her nickname. while
North Carolinians are properly enough
called tar heels since their state is
sun famous for tar and kindred prod
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The "willer" attended the funeral and
returned home in carriage with one
of the members of the family of the de-
ceased, and said Thank God that -
is dead. He was the scamp of scamps,
and no one knows what evil he was
planning for you and your family.
Continuing the statement says; his
1ather-ln-law was a very Respectable
man, man of character and position
and he told me he was thankful his SON
in-law was dead. The people every
where rejoiced.
But was not my conduct justfnaDle.
l cannot tell. l am sure my family, so
little fitted to cope with the human eie-
ments of that country, were doomed 10
disaster. nay, to ruin, by that wretch IL
death had not interposed. l began the
same thing with another once, persuad-
ing myself that L was justified. l saw
him in six weeks after l had begun my
deadly work; he was shriveling up; he
trembled like an aspen leaf. / was
touched. | could not bear it. ! with
drew. 1 had to withdraw, notwithstand-
ing the injury he had done to me. The
man at once began to recover strength;
it was as if a pavement slab had been
taken off flower bed. He was in his
usual health in month.
'Of course each of these cases would
be pronounced a coincidence by some
people; but if the whole world of skep-
ticism preached that doctrine to me |
would not believe it. l know better.
But 1 will only now say that there is
no law or principle. or whatever else you
like to call it. in the infinite universe
more absolutely true than the one |
am speaking of. Anna Kingsford's cases
We're no condolences. l very much
doubt whether she was not justified
But | have less doubt about her than
about myself especially in the first in
stance l have named. 1t took me
however, much less time than it seemed
to take her to accomplish the work.
Madame Blavatsky speaks of the eXer-
else of this power as "A weed which it
will take seven and seven times seven
of us to eNterminate.'
The smile | don't think is very good
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man is only accountable for the re-
suits of what he sows. We, none of us,
SOW the seeds of weeds if we know it,
They sow themselves. But if this is a
Weedit found suitable soil in my nature
before | knew it; and some mysterious
voice told me to look if it was there.
found it,
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Not long ago Barney Barnato pur-
chased the site for London house very
near the town house OF Baron Roths-
child. 1t is required of persons who buy
property in that locality that they shall
build houses to cost not less than G20,-
900. The attorney forgot to put that
stipulation in the transfer sent to Bar
ney, and later informed him of the fact
Barney replied: do not trouble your
self, sir. N.Y. stablest WILL cost more
than 100000"
The herald., 1896-05-24
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many articles advertised to do wonders what lady do,
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she looks old Beauty preservation to always have clear
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The herald., 1896-05-24

When the Rev. Frank Vrooman. who
is defending a charge of heresy in the
Chicago presbytery, was a newspaper
reporter in Kansas. he wore an ice
cream seersucker suit and a plug hat,
and carried a big walking stick which
was full of "jaggers." He was what is
known out along the line Of the Santa
Fee trail as "hot boy"
The herald., 1896-05-24
Four-Day Hair Restorer

Just restore hair to original cor That why different from
other why does its work where others fail Very use;
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suppose you have gray hair with gray hair your hair
ing not thick and glossy enough Then you should get my
nvgorato Delightful tonic and DRESSING dndruf dollar
per bottle. Get my book free
The herald., 1896-05-24
[ LADIES
Are You Puzzled

About a Isn't getting gray and don't feel what will
restore to original coor Or have tried articles that faed Here
secret Most restorers advertised hair falling dam
du stimulate growth tonic and dressing besides restoring
hair But there something about hair that demands special treat
nent don't get the original won't back you
have tonic and oer quite likely have tonic we'll
bad reso Because of this discovered by have made
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w. S. Gilbert says: IT have no ear
Tor music, but I have a very sensitive
ear for rhythm; it is precisely the diff
ference between time and tune. ! am
very fond of music. but I don't know a
discord when l hear one"