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The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1898-01-27
QUALIFICATIONS AND LOYALTY.

QUALIFICATIONS AND LOYALTY.
We hold that the test Of a man S
right to the nomination on the dem
ocratic ticket is, first, his qualiica
tions; second, his loyalty TO the
party, When a man has served his
party all his life, always accepting
uncomplainingly the party platforms
and tenete, and seeking by every
effort TO advance its interests and
who has subordinated his own pri-
vate opinions to party success, is he
not entitled to recognition? Is it
possible that the democratic party
is to exact of members that they are
to have no opinions on great public
questions and party policies, or
having them, they must be in accord
with what the party adopts in Ma
tional convention, else they are for
ever debarred from holding Office.
Will these righteous fellows who are
now trying to make so much capital
out of the silver question, please in
form US what penance is necessary
for democrat to make who happen
ed to hold views prior to the Chicago
convention opposed to the majority,
but who accepted the platform and
supported the nominees, to reinstate
himself in their good graces. Will
they please inform us if it is to
be the law henceforth OF the demo
cratic party, that a man must be
judged by his opinions before the
party has spoken and not after. If
that were true there would have to
be mighty close trimming by every
democrat who possessed a mind ca
pable of thinking. for fear no would
fall Gu side the breastworks
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1898-01-27

Those democrats in congress who
want Judge DsArmond for speaker
of the next house are wise. He is
to day, and has been for several
years, the ablest membsr of con-
gress from Missouri Had be the
faculty OF Dockery for getting his
name in the pagers every time he
has two consecutive thoughts, he
would have been the nominee for
president in 1895. But he is a very
modest man; he avoids reporters
aud notoriety; he does not even mix
with the crowd as much as he
should, His real worth will be rec
ogn'zed in time, however.-Dunklin
Co. Democrat.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1898-01-27
FOR STATE SENATOR.

We see that W. O. Jackson, of
Butler, is mentioned as a candidate
for Circuit Judge. He was a free
silver man from the start and we
have been informed that he was the
only free silver lawyer in Butler for
some months after the wave started.
He is man of bright intellect and
has a fine sense of humor. As a
lawyer he is the peer of any man in
the circuit.
The above is taken from the Ell
Dorado Free Press, and while The
TIMES can heartily endorse all the
good things said about Mr.. Jackson,
that paper is mistaken as to the of
fee for which his friends are urging
him. At the next session of the
Missouri Legislature the statutes
will have to be revised, and it will,
therefore, be OF more than usual i'm
portance and interest to the people
of the state. It is set forth by many
of our people that the next senator
from this district should be man
we'll versed in the law. The statutes
are burdened with many useless and
some vicious laws and are lacking in
some very important ones. And for
this reason, Mr.. Jackson, who is one
of the best lawyers in the district, is
being urged to allow his name used
for State Senator. He is an infuen-
tial democrat, at present state COM
mitteeman from this congressional
district, elected by the Pertle
Springs convention, a man of learn
ing and ability who would reflect
credit upon his constituents.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1898-01-27

It is source of pride to the Sixth
Missouri District that Congressman
DeArmond has takea the leadership
in the aggressive policy on the floor
of the house and has electrified the
country with his practical statesman
ship and P atriotic courage.-Clinton
Democrat.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1898-01-27

The next General Assembly of
Missouri will elect United States
Senator. The term of Office of the
present senator, Frank III. Cock
rell, expires IN 1899, and his sue
cessor must be chosen. We believe
the sentiment of this county among
democrats is almost unanimous in
favor of returning Cockrell.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1898-01-27

s. W. Jurden of Cass county ia
being doomed for the republican
nomination for congress in the sixth
district. The district has a demo
cratic majority of 1900, and Mr..
Jurden expects rousing good de-
Feat in the wind-up. This is MFR.
DeArmond's district.-Republic.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1898-01-27

The Lamar Democrat wants De-
Almond for governor. He would
make a good one, no doubt Of thet.
He is also making a good congress
man and the sixth district is not yet
ready or willing to give him up. He
will again be nominated without op.
position.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1898-01-27
State Committee Meeting.

St. Louis Republic.
It didn't take the Democratic
State Central Committee but about
40 minutes to dispose Of the ques
tions Of fixing a date and place for
holding the next State Convention
aud providing for the number of
delegates. Springfield was selected
as the place, aud Wednesday, August
10, the date The basis of represen-
tation was fixed at one delegate for
each 500 votes cast for Bryan in
1896 and fraction of $50 and over.
This gives a total Of 728 delegates.
FUSION MOVEMENT
There WAS a good deal OF talk
among the committeenel aud visit
ing politicians in regard to the
question of fusion with the populists.
and from All outside source al effort
was made to have it appear that the
populists will demand enc place on
the State ticke. as the only terms
npon which a fusion can be effected
The committee recognizing that it
has no power to act on this question,
did not, it is said, discuss it. 1t is a
matter that can only be decided by
the convention, aud hence it was
deemed best not to cross this bridge
uotil it is reached.
There is a difference Of opinion as
to whether there should be fusion
on the State ticket, aud, judging
from those who attended yesterdays
meeting, the sentiment is not favor
able to splitting up the State ticket
with the populists, and it does not
appear that any considerable number
of populists are expecting as much.
It seems that the republicans in the
of thu State who are not too
busy quarreling over postofficts and
other Federal pie are putting in
their spare time endeavoiing TO in
duce the populists to fight the dem
ocrats, aud to this source is traced
what little discord is said 10 exist.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1898-01-27
WILLIAMS
CASH GROCERY,
Are at Thier Name Old Tricks
Again.
SLAUGHTERING PRICES.

/ we laQ kucu u 4dCkc tEaus lasb
year. Nearly double of any previ
GUS year, and We know iust what did
it. Coed goods, low prices, and
square dealing And it stimulates
US to- try and see JUST HOW
MANY GOODS WE CAN SELL
THIS YEAR. We see no reason
why every family in Butler and
Bates county should not trade with
US. We know we carry the best
goods TO be Lsd. and you know we
make the prices in our line in Butler
and haze been making the prices for
last six years.
Do you ever remember Of any
other store in our line cutting prices
unless it was because they had to,
to meet some prices we had already
made? Then why don't you come
to us where you know the lowest
prices always exist
We know that others sell coffee at
same prices we do, but do you not
know that our coffee may be Sc a
Id. better than theirs at same price
They sell Rasins at DC q ID, but we
ask you to compare our Sc rasins
with theirs. Same way with humid
reds Of other things. There is not
Grocery Arm in Butler, no differ
ence how email but what can sell
lots of goods at SAME PRICE WE
DO, but the quality will not be there,
they will buy q cheap quality Of
1nn2m 80
there 10 not q firm in Butler to day
in position to sell So good goods as
We do, at same price, for they don't
buy as cheap as We do. Their ex
penses are too high and they haven't
trade enough to keep up, there is
only one way for a merchant to sell
cheap, and that lie, for the people to |
concentrate their trade as much as |
possible to one store, that in why We |
can make the prices We are making;
The people are standing by US
Have you ever stopped to think |
OF the difference in the retail price
Of hardware, now, and what it was,
when we first added hardware to |
our line. While the Wholesale price |
10 about the same, same thing on |
barb wire, nails, smooth wire chick
en- netting, Pumps, etc. Our pun p |
business has been a surprise to US
Having already sold more pumps to |
date than We expected to sell an q
year. It will pay you to figure
with us when you want a pump Of
any description.
We intend to try an experiment
this year, and see just how good |
goods we can sell and how cheap |
we can sell them. We ask every.
body in Butler and Bates county to |
come and trade with us for we must |
have q big trade in or der to sell the |
best goods at cheapest prices, and |
it ia to the interest Of every person
in Bates county, to help US out in
keeping prices down.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1898-01-27

II isn't always couyeu-
lent TO ask the doctor
about every little all
meut. Even II Won ask
him by telephone he will
charge you for consulta-
ton Why not know
these things for yourself
and save time, money
and worry.
You can have ALSO
lutely free, a copy of the
greatest and most COM
plete family ID doctor
book " ever printed in
any PuaEe II Is
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1898-01-27

l 70 basket jap finest grown tea a.
good brooms Ss
l gal pure sugar syrup a.
Dry salt meat al
Rope per ID n
". c. Kelly ak Ia
Best AK in the world "a
Best lantern made IA
No wash boiler ~
Galvanized buckets *
Ak handles 10. 10 ard 20e.
Nails 81 50 rate
Barb wire "a
Russia Iron wood heaters 2sO
Pumps for $3.50 up
Western square washers 2 "a
Western round washers "a
Cosl hcds "a
Pure wheat bran so
Rich shorts 20
And the best wire hog fence 10 The
world, that is one thing we beat them
all. No other wire hog fence ever
made yet that compares with ours
and we are contented TO make only a
few cents profit on it. BY all means
do not buy until you have seen our
fence. We will not only sell you
the best fence ever made but will
save you lots OF money.
We have on hands now a car Of barb
wire, nails and smooth wire, car OF
pumps OF all kinds and lots of open
rings, repair links, clevices, hedge
a1es, single and double treeP, hedge
trimmers, spades aud shovels, mat.
tocks aud grub Loes, steel rakss
aud hoes, hog rings and ringers,
hstche.s ard hammers, chicken net.
ting, bolts to give away, door locks,
and pad locks, files and augsrs. bits
and hand saws hinges In fact
most ev trythiDg. All bought at low.
er than ever before. Will do our
best for all who trade with us this
y ear. Yours truly,
WII IAMC RP0c
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1898-01-27

TIE republicans have had full
swing in National affairs for one
year. What has become of the
promised prosperity?
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1898-01-27
TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION:

The WEEKLY TIMES, published every
Thursday. will be sent TO any address
une year, postage paid, for SI.oo.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1898-01-27

See oar Prices.
so fb Gold Band -four 3 So
so fb Golden Crown -four l 90
SO fb Full Moon -four 100
so ID White Lily -four 10
so ID Gold Medal fo.r 10
so b Straight Patent 10
so ID High Patent -four l 20
10 ID hand picked Navy beans %
10 ID beet oat fakes 25
II ID honiny fakes 25
Is ID pearl hominy %
l ID good rice OF
4 fb head rice IS
l ID large 3-crown raisips Os
3 ID seedless raisins 25
l fb Cal evaporsted spricots 10.
8 D. Cal evaporatsd peaches %
b fancy dIi.d peaches O5
6 10 fancy dried apples 25
To cream cheese 10
l 70 pure msp,e sugar 10
l dcz oranges 20
Bananas 10c and 15c per dozen
6 fb Dwight soda 25
fb Silken Gloss starch rs
3 ID pure Buckwheat hour %
10 bars Doll soap Is
IL bars Ark soap 25
8 bars Clairstts soap Is
8 bars Lenox soap 25
s bars Long Brown soap 25
3 cans tomatoes 25
3 cans cream corn %
6 CANS oil sardines 25I
6 cans mustard sard.nss 25I
l at bottle bluing 10
4 10 shot rs
Ii best powder 20
3 b blasting powder Isl
l box 12-guage new club shells 30
/ box 10 guage new club shells 80 |
3 packages xxx Golf, %
l % broken Java coffee O6 /
l b fancy Blend coffee ia
l b Java blend coffee ISL
l b pure Peaberry coffee 20
1 II pure Mocha and Java coffee Is 1
s b fancy green coffee 90 Il
2 boxes Greenwich lye IS
II you buy teas from US you will 1
never go anywhere else for tea We
handle OILY new pure tsas.
l II pure sun cured Japan tea 35
l % pure MoTune Imperial tea 30
l % pure Moyune gunpowder tea go
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1898-10-18

petual tossing about from drowning to
life as the big seas lifted him now and
now broke over him in clatter of yell
low foam. When the stress of the storm
went by, Alastair had tainted, but pres
emily the splash of some tossing wrack
upon his naked breast brought him to a
knowledge of hunger and cold and pain.
'The fish will be plenty next cast,
I'm thinking" Alastair gasped as he
tried to shake the drenched hair from
his eyes. eff only the sea WON'T cast
me up at their very doors-or then they
will be thinking I'd be coming back
again to haunt them. Is it coming loose
I am?" The rope had slipped from his
right arm, leaving it free, and the next
wave flung him against sharp edged
rock, bruising his free arm on the small
sharp shells that covered it, But Alas
tair chung fast to the rock, with light
in his face that would not fade for all
the pain Of torn flesh and nerves, and
presently he found what he was seeking
"a crevice through which he could
thrust his fingers. When his hand was
fixed fast in the jagged hole, the light
deepened and softened in Alastair' face.
sThis is good, this is better,'' he
whispered, "than the open sea, and still
this will not hurt my own folk, for this
rock is not Ronaldshay. \ y Kind.
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ALASTAIk'S UKUso.

'sRise up and come out now; it's a
bonny night for us indeed-and for the
work that's afoot, Ian Ban. Thus "a
voice cried aloud from the midm ost of
the silent group of cragsmen and fisher
men that stood waiting dourly round
the fast shut door of Ian MacAlastair's
cottage, perched, like CULTS nest, on
the ridge of the steep and shining beach
at Ronaldshay. "Make haste, man,
make haste, and come along with your
self. It's tired waiting here we are"
"Aye, aye, it's ready and coming l
am, Macdonald, but hasty work is aye ill
work, and I was saying bit prayer liz
an ORA minute here; that was all. !"
The door swung open now, and the
speaker came out into the half light
that a sullen moon gave as she slipped
fitfully from cloud to cloud in the
windy sky. A handsome man, this fair
Ian, with eyes as blue as cornhowers,
and yellow beard that the wind was
tossing all ways at once, but just now
his eyes were darkened and his face set
with the same stern purpose that made
dumb the crowd Of kinsfolk and neigh
bors around him. "Come out Alas
tair!'' he called. and tall slip of lad
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1898-10-18

ger to stop you, Tor long nave L peen
knowing was the needless mouth and
the useless hand among you, and my
red head bringing bad luck to your nets
all the summer. Only I'd take it kindly
if you would do it quickly, friends--be-
cause it's bitter cold it is waiting here. -
"You shall not be waiting long, Alas
tair," Ian said heavily, "and neither
will you drown yourself nor we you.
We will be giving you chance, though
not in Ronaldshay."
"Ronalshay know,'' Alastair said
quietly, "and it's glad / would be if
you would kill me here with your own
hand, father Mo- His hand slipped
from his fathers shoulder, "Then have
your will and your way, Ian MacAlas-
tair, I'll not gainsay you"
s'Theros the moon, Ian said at last,
snow make ready" He stopped and
dragged some dark object at his feet a
little higher up the beach, so that its
lower end only lay in the sea. Alastair
glanced at it and saw that it was tree
trunk, weed covered and barnacle grown
with washing about in heavy seas.
Upon it spar was dashed crosswise.
Alastair looked at it moment longer,
then, in obedience to a gesture from his
father, laid himself down upon it with
his arms outstretched. Then Macdonald
and another man stopped over him,
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1898-10-18
CHURCH DIRECTORY.

CT. ROSE OF LIMA-Catholic.
y Services every morning at $780, First and
third Sundays in each month services ut 1880
Parochial school in connection taught by Sisters
OF st. Francis. Every oody invited.
| REV. M. j. FARRELLY.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1898-10-18

klnu, aIuer All, are you, sea O. me, KInu-
er than dared hope you'd be" And
now big wave lifted him softly and
turned him over on his face, still an
chored to the rock by his right hand.
The weight of the cross on his back
pressed him down an arms length, no
more, and then the sea that he had
loved very gently took tho soul of Alas
tair MacAlastair to itself.
At long last fishermen from the is
land of Ebay found him, still bound to
his cross.
Though they were afraid to take the
drowned lad aboard their boat, lest they
should suffer in their herring haryests,
they towed cross and all ashore with
them and buried cross and all in their
windy hill graveyard, where lie those
few men of Ebay that the sea has not
drowned.
And the story of Cross Alastair is a
woeful story III the North isles 60 this
day. Black and White.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1898-10-18

.as.r.ns mis- Iu50 uusouner anu .non So
curing his arms 20 the crosspiece just

.a5.rlns mis- Ius0 tusotner anu .non So
curing his arms 70 the crosspiece just
above the Shows. Two stout ropes held
him by the shoulders and went over his
body, crossing Oh the breast, and these
were drawn so tightly that Alastair,
after enduring with clinched teeth for q
minute, was forced to cry out. 'Loosen
it," Ian MacAlastair said hoarsely, and
the others obeyed.
81 am safe now" Alastair said, smil
ing, as they drew back from him for a
minute. "Your knots are fast, Macdon-
aid, and so are-ah!" They had raised
the cross upright now, and the sudden
strain upon his overweight nerves had
forced another cry from Alastair, but
the next rough movement he bore in ST.
lence, and it was with shut lips and
quiet eyes that he endured the sudden
casting out from their midst and smoth-
ering splash into deep water.
ga boat will be picking you up may
be, but you will not be coming back tn
Ronaldshay, Judas MacAlastair Mac
donald shouted after him, but Alastair
called no curse back, as those on shore
half expected. He did not even turn his
head to look at the shore, but lay still
upon his cross, taking with the same
quietness tsae singing of the salt spray
in his eyes and the tingling pain in his
bound limbs.
"Naked limbs-the sea has need off,
Alastair whispered presently. "Does the
sea want mo any more than the lan6
does, Iwonder? Oh, but it's cold, cold!
shuddering as one wave after another
drove over his naked body. "Iwish the
wind would rise; then would get {
chance Of drowning. Is thata mutter O
thunder? I wish it were. Mother, art
you sorrowful somewhere for me to
night?" A nearer mutter of thunde
stopped his murmuring, and tho mex
hour laid another cross upon Alastair'
burdened shoulders-the cross of ner
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1898-10-18
Hobson,a Choice

In the time of Shakespeare and Mil
ton it was customary, after the thoaters,
for gentlemen to ride home on horse
back, selecting from the many horses
in front of the theaters the best one they
could get. The first keeper of the hack
ney stable at Cambridge, England, To
bias Hobson, conceived a plan of plac-
ing his horse in line before the theaters
and forcing customers to take them in
turn, not allowing them to select. No
personal choice, but "Hobson's choice"
that is, this or none-became by
word. Success.
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came out ana STOOD Walt1ng by ms alua.
His father had given him strain OF
Danish blood as we'll as Celtic, and his
mother had been kindly Irish of the
Irish. But Alastair MacAlastair favored
neither fair Ian nor dark Aileen, for
his eyes were of the sea S shifting color,
and the soft hair under his fisherman's
cap was a dusky red. His eyebrows
were of the darkest, and against the
sunburn of cheek and chin his lips
showed curiously colorless, and in odd
ping lads around him was his extreme
slenderness of build, in spite of the
rough blue clothes which seemed almost
to hide him.
81 am here, - he said, speaking in
Gaelic. as he stepped to his father
side, "and the time is here, Ian Mac
Alastair says And what do you want
of me, neighbours"
"Go down to the beach. Alastair, -
his father said CURLY, and the boy
obeyed silently. When their feet were
ankle deep in water, Ian MacAlastai1
spoke again. "Did you pray before you
slept tonight, Alastair? Yes? that
good. Strip now" His son lifted won.
dering eyes to Ian's gloomy face, bul
obeyed silently, and presently some one
muttered verse of an old spell SONG
that changed the wonder in Alastair's
eyes to comprehension.
Naked hands and naked feet are all that thu
sea has need of;
Naked, oh, the soul must so that the nintl
wave has greed of!
Naked heart for the stars to sift naked limb
for the tide to drift
Out from the shore, to come more to TIN
hearths that the spirit has heed of.
When the murmur died, Alastai
raised his head and looked round Oh til,
darkened faces with Pickering smil
on his pale mouth. SIS it to drown my
self you've brought me here or will yo,
do it, Ian MacAlastair? I'll lift no fin
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Protection anA cn1:coea.

In 1900, by / & IL Will III. c. 10,
it was enacted that from and after
Sept. 90, l70i, not only all wrought
silks g * of the manufacture Of Per-
STA, China or East India but "all
calicoes. painted, dyed, printed or stain
ed there, which are or shall be imported
into this kingdom, shall not be Worn or
otherwise used within this kingdom"
etc. This was the first blow against the
wearing of chintzes or printed calicoes,
but it was not absolutely prohibitiye,
the ayowed object of the statute being
"the more effectual employing the poor,
by encouraging the manufactures of
this kingdom. /" Itmeant that the ladies,
having worn out the Indian chintz APP
parel i'll their possession and use prior
to Sept. 30, 1901, would have to be con-
tent with homemade stuffs for the next
@ years. as it befell in the sequel.
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.rne SILK ana woolen we.vers had

.rno SILK ana wooden weavers had
been hostile from the outset to the use
OF printed calicoes, whether of oriental
or domestic manufacture. During De-
cember, 1919, the houses of parliament
were inundated with petitions against
these stuffs, and on March 23, 1921,
the royal assent was given to an act q
George /, statute l, chapter y, "to
preserve and encourage the wooden and
silk manufactures of this kingdom and
for more effectual employing the poor,
by prohibiting the use and wear of all
printed, painted, stained or dyed cali
Goes in apparel, household stuff, furni-
ture and otherwise. Notes and Que.
ries.
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First CHURCH OF CHRIsT-s Scientist
Services every Sunday asep 80 and Wednesday
evening at O'Clock. SERVICES in McKim Hall.
Reading room in connection. Open from 8 to
6 y IN. The public is invited to call and ac-
quaint themselves with the teachings of Chris
tan Science.
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SYLVAN LODGE, NO. 5O7. A. f. & A. M.
Regular meeting Tuesday evening on or before
full moon. Special meetings I'd Tuesday fol
lowing, l.aub's Hall. Visiting members in the
city are urged to attend
A. OSWALD, w. NJ. C. NJ SrALEY, Sec'y