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The Butler weekly times., 1897-07-15

Hume news was credited to Butler
and vice versa.
We understand the Telephone will
soon move it's Office down on the
square and will occupy the building
now occupied by p H Powers.
The ladies of the Christian church
gave an ice cream supper in the park
Saturday evening which was we'll at
tended.
Joe Thorpe went up to Kansas
City Tuesday on business, returning
Thursday.
j Petty transacted business in
Kansas City Tuesday.
RI Gwinn and wife Sundayed at
the home of the formers father, near
| Sprague.
Cal Biser has bought half interest
| in E | Covert's blacksmith shop. Cal
| is a good workman and will be well
patronized.
Misses Maggie and Emma Wood
visited with friends in Independence
since our last.
DR. Allen, of Rich Hill, came in or
the Arkansaw Traveller from the
south Thursday and went over to the
Hill.
Fred Lightner and Mrs p A Cobl
transacted business in the count.
capital Thursday.
j G Holland threshed and shipped
a car Of No wheat this week.
Messrs Williams and Kicks were III
from the east end to attend a meetin:
of the township board Tuesday.
l. Il. MIZER.
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Summit Items.

Thursday and Friday of last week
were the hottest days we have had
this year, the heat being almost in
tolerable.
Oat cutting is over. The chinch
bugs are leaving the oat and wheat
fields and going into the corn, doing
considerable damage already.
Those who attended the basket
meeting at Altoona Sunday under the
management of Bro Coffey,. OF Eliza
beth Chapel, report a fine time. We
hope Bro G will arrange for another
meeting soon.
Several couples of young people
from Butler passed through SUNNI,
Sunday enroute to Altoona to attend
the basket dinner.
Mr. Lawson has his new house abou'
completed.
Mrs Cooper and Miss Edna Doan'
were the guests of w P Sewers fam
lily last week. OIAlk.
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Cars Needed for Wheat f.,

Perry. Ok, July 1l.-For more
than month farmers of Oklahoma
have been harvesting nearly day and
night, Sunday included Wheat is
about all in stack and hundreds OF
threshers are running. The wheat
Weld for the territory will be far
greater than first expected by the
most enthusiastic. There is a dear'h
of cars to haul tue wheat. The
Santa Fe railroad has put in 1,OOt
new cars to help take care OF the
wheat, and many towns can hardly
get enough cars to remove the crop
The crop yield will not fall less thar
80, ,0O0. 600 bushels. In many places
farmers report fifty bushels pei
acre. The price paid by LEGAL buyer
| is IS cents q bushel To remov'
the Oklahoma crop will take 5O,OO'
cars of 10000 pounds capacity. A
SO cents a bushel it wilt give ever.
mao, woman and child in the terri
tory $50 All crops are very prom
isno
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Tramp Pest.

Topeka, kss, July l2.-Tramps
in great swarms are beating their
way across Kansas Word has been
passed along throughout the wheat
belt to decline to give foed to
tramps. The people have decided
upon this course because the travel
ing bands of tramps refuse to work
in the harvest fields for g day.
Farmers are working night and day,
including Sundays, trying to save
their wheat, aud appeals to tramps
for help at good wages fall on deaf
ears. When tramps ask for food
now they are refused and told to GO
into the fields aud earn their bread
or starve. An average Of 100 men
to the county in so counties in Kan
sas could secure work at from $1.50
to 81 day.
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Electric Bitters.

Electric Bitters is medicine suit
ed for any season, but perhaps more
generally neaded when the languid,
exhausted feeling prevails, when the
liver is torpid and sluggish and the
need of tonic and alternative is felt.
A prompt use # this medicine Laf
often averted long and perhaps fata
bilious fevers. No medicine viii
act more surely 10 counteracting ano
freeing the system from the malaria
poison. Headache, indigestion
constipation, dizziness yield to Elec
trio Bitters. SOC and 81 per bo't.'
at d. L. fuckers Drug Store.
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Hume News.

Mrs Gibson, of Houstonia, Mo, is
visiting her brother, Joseph Gregg, |
Of near town.
NJ w NJ Ellis has purchased the
nroduce commission establishment
irom c s Bond and will conduct the
husiness at the old stand.
Al meeting Of the school board
Wednesday night Miss Torbett, of
Jerico Springs, was elected to the
vacancy in our of teachers corps
caused by the resignation OF Miss
Gooch. -.
CA Shaw begun cutting oats with
bran new self binder Thursday.
Married on Wednesday eve at the
residence OF the brides mother at the
Mitchell Hotel, Mr. Ellie Epps and
Miss Bessie Adams, Rev Wagner
o6aciating. Only few relatives and
intimate friends of the contracting
Il parties were present. After the cere-
inony all adjourned to the dining hall
where magnificent supper OF good
things was served. Mr. and Mrs Epps
have the best wishes of host of
friends for their continued happiness
and prosperity. =,
The Buckles building on the south
side OF the square is being re-papered
and will shortly be occupied by Patsy
( Powers grocery store and restaurant.
CHI Senior and little son returned
Sunday from a months sojourn with
saslatives in Colorado.
Mr. V v Morgan returned Thursday
from Warsaw, where he has been 1or
the past month. He was called here
by the insurance company to make
adjustment in damages OF the recent
storm
Lawrence East returned Friday
from Illinois, where he has been al
work for the past six months.
Roscoe Reid went to Columbus
Kas. last week to accept q position IL
l the telegraph Office, but on accoun
OF the meager salary offered he die
not accept and returned home Tues
day.
Walter Hibler is now chief cool
and bottle washer at the creamery
Merle Thorpe is his first assistant.
Rev Potter occupied the pulpit a
the M 4 church Sunday.
DR. Standish transacted business II
Kansas City last Monday.
Mr. Hefley who recently bought tn
Gwinn drug stock left this week wit
his family and merchandise for som
point in Eastern Iowa not yet deter
mined.
Grandma Jones left Saturday 10
Illinois, where she will spend a FEY
weeks visiting.
The management Of the y u
road have discontinued their mid -da
passenger trains, but their freigf
trains will carry a passenger coac
\ for accommodation Of their patrons
We learn that DR. Frank Slater,
Rich Hill, has been honored by beln
elected President of the Nilsson
Dental Association. DR. Slater is or
Of the leading dentists of the stat
and honor could not have been col
ferred upon more worthy or capab
man. DR. Slater visits Hume, whel
he has an extensive practice, ever
Wednesday.
Editor Wiseman, of the Rich ii
Enterprise, got things little mike
last week. Quite n contribution
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Double Suicide.

Bowling Green, O., July 9--The
little village of Moline is IN fever
of excitement over the shocking sui
eide of Miss Nellie Lusher and her
lover, Edward Cowles.
Wednesday evening they attend,
ed lawu fe.e and failed TO return.
This morning An old stone quarry
pool was dragged. The remains oil
the couple were brought to the sur
face. The young man had hls arm
about his sweethearts waist and they
were ciinched in such manner thai
it was with difficulty that they wert
separated.
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WAR AGAIN.
Fear That the East Will Be
AbIaze Within a Week.
Turkey Defies Europe Sultan Pro-


London, July There is reason
to believe this morning that the East
will be ablazs agaia within fort
night. The Porte has declared in set
plain terms that it can not accept
the peacs proposition of the powers.
Instead the Sultan insists upon a
substantial cession Of territory from
Greece as we'll as war indemnity.
Orders have been prepared for the
Turkish troops to advance and will
be iseued in few days unless the
powers back down.
II will dictate my own terms in
Athens the Sultan is reported to
have declared.
Foreigners IN Constantinople are
in terror of a general massacre in
which Englishmen, Armeniaus, and
Greeks will be marked for indiscrim
mate slaughter. 1t is remembered
that at the first firing of the salute
in honor of the Queens jubilee arm
ed Mohammedans rushed into the
street and asked if it was a signal fer
the killing to begin.
Events 10 the East urge England
to take prompt and vigorous action
The Sultan's emissarles in India have
been stirring up revolt and the
restless Islamic population there
will be emboldened the more the
Sultan is allowed to defy the Chris
tian powers Of Europe. It may be
found that the preservation OF the
British Empire depends upoa the
!; overthrow Of the Ottoman Empire
The London Standards CORE
spondent at Constantlnople quotes
the Sultan as saying that he hai
nothing to fear from the powers
] That the Sultan has been strainine
: every nerve to put the whole Turkish
army on a war footing is we'll known
+, He has 100000 troops at commans
) and the strong IsIam,c party is urg
) ing him to the desperate course o
!; fighting combined Europe. Th
fanaticai Turks believe that al
Christians could be driven as the,
, drove the Greeks.
All ths foreign Ambassadors hav
informed the Sultan that they viii
9 stand no further temporizing.
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Finds Anthrax.

Columbia, Nc, July 12-Dsaths
among Randolph county cattle have
been so many aud SO sudden during
the last month that DIR. Booth of
Moberiy, ssnt the stomachs of some
of the dead animals to Columbia for
investigation. DR.. 7. E. White,
state veterinarian, after micrescop'
ic inspection, has pronounced the
disease anthrax. DR.. White states
that so long as the corpses are not
destroyed bv fra the gems will
work out Of the ground and infec,
cattle, horee,. sheep aud hogs.
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WILL GO FREE.
Full Pardon Recommended tor Willie
Sells,

Sells.
Topeka, Kan, July 9.-Willie
Sella, the boy who WAS convicted
and sentenced te life Imprisonment
eleven years ago for the murder Of
his father, mother, brother and sis
ter, near Erie. Kan, under most
brutal circumstances. has been to.
day recommt nded for pardon unani
mously by the State Board OF Par'
dons, who express belief in his inno
cence. The evidence under which
the boy was convicted was purely
circumstantial. Gov. Lseiy may
not act on the case for a fortnight
The report of the Board of Pardona
follows:
This board. after thorough in
vestigation and mature deliberation
is of opinion that Willie Sells is in
nocent of the crime of which be il
charged and convicted. and TO
which he has suffered eleven years
Imprisonment. Webelieve Justice
Justice, pure and simp!e-woul'
only bs meted on. by saying 10 Viii
lie Sells, Go out into the world wit
the charge of murder, under whie
you have rested so long, entirel
wiped out
Therefore. we most respectful
and earnestly recommend that You
Excellency grant said Willie Sell
an unconditional pardon.
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PAssAIc. July 12. 1896.

The heat of last week was telling IN
it's effects around here. No human
beings were Frustrated, but several
horses were killed by overheating,
and the comment is general that is 1t
a surprise that more did not succumb
to the scorching heat.
The township S s convention on
last Sunday at $50 O'Clock was Wen
attended. Song service and speech
making made up the program, a@no @
while there was no eloquence nke
Bryan's, nor logic like DeArmond $
vet all combined made 1t a pleasure
TO be there. loL. snort.
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Condition of Winter Wheat.

Washington, July 1.-THE fol
lowing are the percentages OF condi-
ton of winter wheat on July / in tbs
principal winter wheat producing
states as shown by the monthly re
port Of the stasistician of the depart
ment of agriculture:
Kansas. 50; Missouri, 81; Penn
sylvania. 101; Tennessee. 1l0; Ken
lucky, tOl; Ohio, IS: Michigan, 4
Indiana. 95; Illinois, 40; California
rs: Maryland. Ill; Virginia. 110
ashington, los; Oregon. 81
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sxmn,oms of Hes. Pros,ras,nn.

A leading New York pbyslela'.
saws the pr, monltory symptoms ct
coming heat prostration are gener
ally dizziness, feeling OF stupidity
and a general depression. In oEdi
nary Instances when these symptoms
become noticeable, it IS the wssest
course to seek some cool and shady
spot where attendance Is possible
Attendance is necessary as the dash
ing of cool water upon the head Ii
one Of the most effeasious remedies
The Butler weekly times., 1897-07-15

WILLIAMS
CASH GROCERY
IS NOW SELLING

so Id. S',aight Potent flour at $l.0O;
SO !, s. Fam, Y flour at 80;
so lbs, low g,ate -four at So.
The Butler weekly times., 1897-07-15
II9 Years Old.

Fort Worth, Tex, July 9.-Texas
claims one of the Oldest women in
the person OF Grandma Hawthorne,
who lives at Bonham. She is now
11e years OF age and is hale and
hearty. She walks two miles each
day. to attend church. and takes 81
aetiTe r.rt il the services
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Shoes in japan.

One of the most striking sights that
49, tho attention of the traveller in
worn by the 35,O00,000 of ueupie
These sandals have separate COM
partment for the great toe and make
clanking noise on the street Straw
slippers are also worn, and a traveller
starting out on a journey will strap a
supply of them on his back, that he
may put on new pair wher the old is
worn out. They cost but a cent and a
half pair. They are rights and lefts
and leave the foot free to the air. We
never see those deformities of the foot
in Japan which are so frequent in this
country. They are never worn in the
house but left outside the door. Pass
ing down a street you may see long
rows of them at the doors. old and
new. large and small.-Boston Journal.
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the respect and admiration of the mem
bers of the board, who praised end COM
mented upon his conduc'. This liz, as
race, all Wa shall contend for and expect
We are willing to rise or fall, as the case
may be, if the test is to be upon the
question Of merit. The Afro.American
no longer begs or pleads on the question
of sentiment. Thirty years of free dom
and ita advantages have placed US be-
You'd the pale of be g gary, end today We
are willing the mettle of Drawn, intel
lectual ability should be tested against
that OF any race on the face of the earth.
# we fail in the contest We will abide ty
the consequences and profit by our de-
feat by strengthening our fore es In pre-
pairing for another attack. In short we
purpose to keep up the onslaught until
we are successful. We have not yet, es
race, attained that proficiency to which
We aspire and which is the Caucasian's,
but We ere making great strides in that
direction and the outlook is more than
hopeful. John Smith, although of Wis.
consin birth, is product OF the Chicago
public schools, where he has earned a
splendid record as q student aud is re-
garded az young man of considerable
promise. His failure is therefore to be
regretted by the race generally. Cor
gresham White ofChicag ,, who sele cted
tho young man from his district and re-.
commended HIM, showed a determine
ton to stand by him at all haz ards should
occasion demand it, fortunately had no
need of showing his zsal. To him, Afro.
Americans from all over the country,
extend races gratefulness and heartfelt
congratulations for this manifestation of
friendship.
Meanwhile young Mr.. Smiths future
movements will he watched with inter-
est. 1t is safe to predict that he will
make his mark in the world and prov
an honor to his race, and, it is to be
hoped, proud blessing to his kind re-
latives who ere educating him, for he is
an orphan
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journal sold in this country. LA Mode de Paris
| ia $3.50 year, IS cents copy, and ''Frenct
Dressmaker" is $500 a year, 80 cents a CODY
These journals make special feature of lessons
on practical dressmaking each month.
Mr.. Cable continues the Editors Symposium il
his usual happy ven in the June number Of Cur
rent literature. One Of the conspicuous changes
in the magazine under tho new editorial manage
ment is the illustrations of special personal art
icles and regular departments . devot
ed to personal mention with portraits of the
writer's of celebrities mentioned in the text
Our Little Book for Little Folks Arranged by
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This delightful little book is designed to guide
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learning, whethe r in the home, the kinde1gar-
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The Story of the Chosen People. By H. A.
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CINCINNATI, and Chicago. In this little volume
the story OF the Chosen People or Hebrews is told
IN the same objective manner the story of the
Greeks and of the Romans by the same author
Special features Current Literature for May are
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pictures in some Of the regular departments. In
the Editors Symposium In the May humber Of
Current Literature Mr.. Cable gives his readers
more Of patriotism than Of mere literature, Crete
and Cuba, The Patriotism of Ideas, and Cosmope.
Titan Patriotism being some of the subjects he
discusses.
Ractne's Iphigenie. Edited BY BENJAMIN
Duryea Woodward, B. es L., Ph.D Of the depart
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In its May number the Atlantic Monthly viii
| contain two instructive articles on life il
rural New England and the problems presented
| by the rush Of the population TO great cities
One of these articles is the study of remote vii
lage which has not been reached by moderI
methods of life. The native characteristics whict
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1897-06-05

The authoress, Mrs. Amelia E. Barr.
does not seem to be in love with some of
the customs of the new woman. Re-
Gently she wrote this eye opening pene-
trsting paragraph. ''There is going to
be a re-action from the aggressive,
athletic, sporty woman, to the old
fashioned woman, and when the old
fashioned woman comes in again she
will stay in" "What is the matter with
Mrs. Barr? Who is she hitting at?
Does che seek 10 inflict blows upon the
heads of Susan Anthony, Mary Lease,
Helen NJ. Gouger and Miss Willard?
Does she dare to allude to these women
out on the skirmish lines of womanly
progress, as sporty? II she does she had
better give an extra twist to the strings
of her bonnet and glue on her wig.
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SATURDAY JUNE 1897.

THE FAILURE OF JOHN SMITH,.
The recent failure of young John
Smith. the Afro-American candidate for
admission to the Naval Academy at An
napolls, is 20 be regretted and deplored,
of course, but there are extenuating
features IN his case that are worth COM
,menting upon. Young Smith entered
into competitive examination, in sense
greatly unprepared, and to his credit be
made more than fair'showing. It has
been the custc,a for many wears with
parents having boys DESTROYS of passing
successfully the rigid examination of
the board 10 have them specially pre-
prepared for the confess, weeks, and
even months, beforehand by profession
al tutors-men who have themselves
graduated from the Academy VINO are
familiar with the nature of the examina-
tions, and make but mess of impartine
instruction. John Smith did not have
this advantage, If he had the result with
him, no doubt, would have been quite
different, and he would have been sue
cessful in his efforts. Notwithstanding
the chagrin his defeat naturally caused
him, he accepted it with be coming grace
and deported himself in q vesy credit
able and manly Manner Acknowledge
that he had been accorded fair show
and was fairly beaten, He thereby won
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corting prisoner who was to be re-
sentenced there. The prisoner was
shackled to the detective. They sat
in the seat ahead of that occupied by
the other lawyer and mysel. The train
stopped fifteen minutes at Poughkeep-
sic for lunch, and in order not to ex-
pose the manacled prisoner to curl
Gus Gus crowd suggested that we sit in
the car for few minutes after the
train was stopped, allow the passen-
gers to alight and go to the lunch room
and then go quietly to carriage which
awaited us. The others agreed and we
still. A nervous passenger who had
ridden in the same car with us from
New York and who did not know that
one Of us was condemned criminal.
V'shed tn get out for lunch and
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1897-06-05

Prof e, Williams of Medfor6. Wis the
only Afrc-Amerlcan circus owner in
America, after wintering in California,
has again taken to the road with a much
larger and greatly increased aggregation
then he has ever exhibited before, and
is now touring the northwest. This is
Prof. Williams tenth season. He en-
ployes 70 people and owns 200 head of
Arabian ponies and horses This is a
very unique departure for an Afro Anne.
rican to find favor and success III. Who
says the race problem is not solving
itself?
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AN HONEST MAN.
District Attorney Backus Tells HUI
mOr0us Story at His Own Expense

District Attorney Bacl<us Tells HUI
morous Story at His Own Expense.
This is one on District Attorney
Backus of Kings county. He himself
tells it and it was brought out curl
eusly day or two ago, says the New
York Herald.
"Mr. Backus in?" a visitor to the
district attorneys Office asked.
EYES," an attendant said. you've
just time to catch him before he goes
away for the day."
The visitor entered, passed Mr.. Back
us desk-and Mr.. Backus at it-and
followed the attendant into an inner
room. He was informed that he had
passed Mr.. Backus and returned, to
find that gentleman smiling to dis
cover that all the world did not know
him at sight.
This is case of arguing myself un-
KNOWN" the visitor said, apologetical-
ly.
1T reminds me of a story" said
Mr.. Backus. Il went to Poughkeepsie
once with another lawyer and a de-
tective in plain clothes. who was es-
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1897-06-05

They have some women in Michigan
who possess rare business capacity. The
other day one of them asked her hus-
band to tend to the baby few minutes.
She threw little checked shawl over
her head, ran out and secured a divorce,
leaving the care of the child to its father
and was married to another man IN
time for supper. Promptnes in husi-
nees matters is what tells.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1897-06-05

The tanners had.s,a strike in Chicago
the other day. The strike is over and
thousand of the strikers are out of en-
ployment, while a thousand new men
who took their places are at work. So
it goes, and probably year from now we
shall hear of many of these strikers of
this year taking the places of tanner
strikers in other cities next May. So it
goes.
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thought it advisable to ask some one
to keep an eye on his hand baggage in
his absence. He hesitated until he saw
only four of us left. Then he ap-
preached and looked keenly at each Of
us in turn. After a close scrutiny of
our countenances he leaned over,
tapped the prisoner on the shoulder
and said: Will you be good enough,
sir, to keep an eye on my baggage
while get bite to eat?'"
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1897-06-05

Tears in pathetic chapter in book
or paper do not seem 80 much out of
place, but when public speaker turns
his att ention to tears he ute the audi
ence in an awkward position. It wants
to laugh, but out of regard for him it
wrenches itself into rheumatism in ali
staining from laughter. Public speakers
should shed tears in private apartments.