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The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1898-10-20
"RUSTLING" IN THE ARMY.

=
in the ssld had nothing but my
eldest suit Of clothes and q good ak
shooter.
Haven't you anything of your
owu'" asked Col. Roosevelt, after a
plying glance at my bicycle slippers
and straw hat.
II have zone extra eyeglasses,
cir" I said.
"Well, yeah have to 'ru.tle for a
uniforn and cqu'prsents," remarked
the = mel, but you'd better be
careful. Low ,ou do ii "
At IA max inspection I was ar
rayed Fast Regular Cavalry
hat, hir fem the New York
Seventy fret Spanish trousers, q
navy revolver, n German cavalry
hester frou, the prussian military
alta :. - ptn ,nacaets, a Red
Ccos, "a ket md mule drivers
pJncho.
Where did you get the clethes?"
asked Col. Roosevelt, adding quick
ly, Il won't ask. As long as you have
d uoiform you'll do"
With this encouragement from
high quarter 1 was duly started on
my military career and it was not my
fault # I lacked for aught hencefor
ward. Yet [ learned that tue thing
could be ovsrdene. That same night
there was terrific row because
ssms Napoleonic genius succeeded
in flohing the only package of sugar
in the outfit lust after the captains
orderly had formally donated 1t to
the troop. Every mans hand was
lifted against the other, and the
quarrols and rccriminations became
so fierce that several Of tho former
cattlemen foud!ed their six shooters
Cling at their hips.
Next day [ was ordered TO report
at division headquarters across the
hill. While / was standing at at
tention l heard the following dia-
logue between Gen. Wheeler and
his sdjutAnt;
Il have found your saddle horse,
sir"
Where was ill.,
"In the Rough Riders camp
"Well. I'll be damned, How did it
get there?"
They stole it, sir. -
Where ia it now?
1T is still over there. They claim
it is their own and refuse to give il
up. They say they found it grazing
in their trenches four days ago"
The old General arose in his
wrath, exclaiming: rs there any
thing those devils won't steal! Re
port the facts to Col, Roosevelt with
my compliments, and tell him 1
must inAist on having nay horse re-
turned to me"
The adtutant departed and Gen.
| Wheeler turned to me. As he rec
ognized the cross sabsrs and No. l
on my army hat, his face cloude d
and he said:
so you are one of the Rough
Riders. Well, you may be good
fghtsrs-in fact you have shown
yourselves to be good fghters-but
for downright thisvery you are the
worst / have ever known. Why,
your camp is known all over the
army rs the den of thieves. 1t is a
wonder to me how some OF you
ever manage to get out of here IN
hanged"
We have the sheriff of Cripple
Greek to keep US straight, sir, said
I. saluting, and was promptly sent
away on detail.
When 1 got back to our camp
found the generals horse still graz
ing at it's place, while the generals
adiutant was making excited expos
tulations in front of Col ROOSEVELT
| tent.
Robert Bradley, who returned
from Henry county last night, says
". ". Graves candidacy for thu
circuit iudgeship is fairly flying
over there. He has a brother who
is rnnnhlIcan and WAS assured BIZ
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1898-10-20
SCENE I'M a PORTUGAL WINERY,

In mountains ScxiO, Portugal famous Port
trcadng the grapes for Port Wine
ISIS % each
night during the five
separate Of each who with their white bech wen
shoulders then
song shouts keep the ar TO t
work string instruments enlIvens the hours
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1898-10-20
Crippled by
Rheumatism.

Those who have Rheumatism find
themselves growing steadily worse all
the while. One reason of this is that
the remedies prescribed by the doctors
contain mercury and potash, which III
timateiy intensity the disease by caus-
ing the joints TO swell and stiffen.
producing severe aching of the bones.
s. 5. >. has been curing Rheumatism
for twenty years-even the worst cases
which seemed almost incurable.
Capt. o. E Hughes. the ponular railroad
conouctort OF Columbia. s. c., had an expert
ence with Rheumatism W hich convinced hi "a
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1898-10-20

Everybody knows that Rheumatism
is diseased state of the blood, and
only blood remedy is the only proper
treatment, but a remedy containing
potash and mercury only aggravates
the trouble.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1898-10-20

{ n q : there Is only one
cure for that painful dis
ease. He says: u was q
great sufferer from mus
cular Rheumatism for
two years. / could get
no per emit relief
from any medicine pre-
scribed by my physician.
/ took about q dozen bot
ties of your S. 5. s., and
now / am as well as I
ever was inmy life. lam
sure that your medicine
cured me, and / would
recommends TO any one
suffering from any blood
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1898-10-20

opeer, OF wv IsTse' 80 , u
fiji the vineyards Of the SPec Wine Co y Passaic
Of rubber, revoved This the
real genuine Port Wine made from the
ODorto gape-and they grown right SPEER FHEYARDs
vineyards mile along ot the Nam
Psa5c soil being
makes valuable for Medical use
SPEER'S WINES
highest character the Oldest ana most
TIE
OF
Wines Brandy NJ. SPeer has some Vine in Hs
eight All Of Speee
Brandy very Old rich well rounded soft and delicate
Of each variety q Spe
the home - sickness or farny use
Fer Sak ~ Dragsts ard GT0aS .@0 - l7 car ''i''
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1898-10-20
S.S.S.fffEGe Blood

being Purely Vegetable, goes direct TO
the very cause of the disease and per-
manent cure always results. 1t is the
only blood remedy guaranteed TO con-
tain no potash, mercury or other dan
gerous minerals.
Books mailed free by Swift Specific
Company, Atlanta, Georgia.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-03-24
WAR SPIRIT IS LOCATED.
Charles Dudley Warner Says the Free
Silverites are Responsible.

Mexico City, March 24.-Charles Dud-
ley Warner, the American author, now
here, says on the Cuban question that
he much doubts the ability of the Gu
bans to govern themselves. and adds:
There will be no war. But many
things combine to a warlike feeling and
the appearances OF preparations for
war. We have in the west an element
of population that is always ready for
an adventure. They are constantly ag-
itating for more money. They want
free silver-I don't mean the free silver
as you have it here-but silver arti-
ficially maintained by the government
at an unnatural ratio with gold. They
are ready to support any adventure
that will force the government to use
more silver or paper money. 1t was
these same people who, at the time of
the Venezuelan question, almost want
ed the government to declare war at
once against Great Britain and for the
same reason.
'Then, too, there is in all of our large
cities an unsettled element of pOpula-
ton who are ready for any sort of ad-
venture merely for adventures sake,
and the less thinking element, as have
said, has been stirred up by stories pub
Hshed in the sensational journals.
Another thing combines to the ap-
pearance of warlike preparations. Sen
atOr Hawley, who is no more of lingo
than I, and other senators and members
of congress have long been anxious to
increase our artillery force and coast
defenses. Advantage was taken of the
present circumstances to obtain from
congress the necessary money for the
purpose which would not have been
voted at any other time. I am quite
in favor of such expenditures.
4 am quite of the opinion that ev-
cry nation should be in a position to
protect itself and to resent affronts, but
the activity in this respect just at pres
ent has given additional color to the
reDOrtS that war is imminent.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-03-24
SOLD IN SLAVERY.
Two COlOred Migrants Auction
ed Off in Kentucky.

Glasgow. Ky. March 24.-An immense
crowd attended the sale of Wade and How
ard, the colored Migrants, here today. The
large yard in front of court house was
well filled. while every door and window
of the court house looking out upon the
scene was packed with spectators, anx-
ious to take in every detail. When the
sheriff arrived with the negroes he had
difficulty in making his way up the front
steps, from which he was to cry them
off. The crowd was in a peculiarly good
humor, and good-naturedly guyed the
sheriff and the darkies. Such expressions
as HAS he got any splint knots on him?''
"Can he work anything but his jaw and
How rs his appetizer" amused the onloOk-
ers. Howard was first put up and num-
Der of men climbed up the steps and ex
amined him, as if for his fine points as
they would a horse. The bidding, how
ever, was spiritless.
Someone started the ball rolling by
bid of % cents. He was finally knocked
off at S2.25 to William T. Adams, a farmer
living eight miles from town Wade was
then put up, and he also was started a t
quarter. When he had reached 81 his
father, a colOred shoemaker in town, join
ed the bidders. but dropped out after Jim
had passed the two dollar mark, evident
" believing that his full value. He
brought $3.50 and was bought by V. f.
Schwartz, merchant
As soon as the sale was closed the pur-
chasers paid for their property and each
took his particular negro. 1t is generally
believed that both boys will soon grow
tired of their masters and take French
leave of them some night.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-03-24
TORTURES INDESCRIBABLE
Are Being Undergone by Prisoner
at the City Jail.

My God, this is terrible. It is killing
me, killing me-" moaned John Larson
as he rolled and tumbled in the bull
pen of the city prison, writhing in the
agony that comes to the user of NOR
phine when he can no longer obtain the
drug.
My arm, how it pains me. OH it is
awful, and he thrust his SCARED and
hardened arm through the bars for in
Specuon. From his wrist nearly to the
shoulder his arm was as it would be
nad 1t been pierced here and there by a
knife blade and not a square inch that
did not have at least one or two pune
lures In the flesh. The flesh of the arm
seems hardened as if Justification had
set IN from the use of the drug and
was slowly claiming the mans entire
system.
1t is so cold here" he moaned and
threw himself on the straw mattress on
the moor OF the cage. The bull pen, ,"
as II IS called, is a heavy steel cage in
the cellar of the city jail and is used
Tor desperate criminals and to break
the spirit of those who can't be con-
- Ot 4{ oy ordinary methods; me moor
OF the cellar is cement and the stone
walls are WhiteWaShed. There is no
hre OF any kind there and it is quite
coid on such a day as today.
My heart seems to stop, my blood
does not circulate. must have some, -
he cried. I will die without it." He
begged most pitifully for morphine.
My limbs are SO cold but my lips and
AGNOC Ou441lAlS up ne CIlGQ anu II
was with difficulty that he could speak
distinctly with his feverish lips and
tongue.
He was so noisy and moaned so
much while he was up stairs that he
scared the other prisoners and we had
TO take him down there" explained the
jailer
Larson was arrested by Sergeant Ow-
ems as vagrant and was fined three
dollars yesterday morning in police
court: The police hardly know what to
do with him as he is not safe to turn
loose upon the public. He may be tried
for his sanity and sent to the insane
asylum
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-03-24
RAYS OF LIGHT
Sent Over a Discovery of q
Poor Sehoolmaster.

London, March M.-One of the most in
teresting features of the Paris exposition
of 1900 should be Herr Szczepanik's appar-
atus, by means of which actual scenes are
made visible to people hundreds of miles
away from the spot. The objects are to
be reproduced in all their varieties of
color, light and shade, and every phase of
movement is to be represented. Such is
the promise of the inventor, and the fact
that he has received nearly 81, 25O, 600 for
the exhibition and French rights of his
patent would seem to prove that this poor
Galician scbOOlmaster has really solved
the problem on which so many people
have been working.
Herr Szczepanik calls his apparatus the
telectroscope,' because it renders objects
NlsloIe IN their natural colors at dis
ner in which it is effected is somewhat
difficult of clear explanation From the
inventors representative in London the
following particulars have been gathered
as to the method of transmission:
Roughly speaking, the picture is broken
up INTO number OF points. Each point
is reflected in mirrors, and the reflected
current which can be transmitted any
distance At the receiving end the cur
spending ray of light. This ray of light
is reflected in mirrors and the reflection
thrown upon screen. Now. it follows
that if all the points of a picture are
taken in very rapid succession the result
ant reflection on the screen will be the
The picture can be made to last as long
as may De desired by constantly repro
ducing the effect and at such speed that
the observer is unconscious of any break
In the process. 1t is no more difficult to
reproduct a moving picture than a still
one, for the inventor explains that lit is
the actual picture which is reproduced.
and not a mere record, as in the case of
the cinematOgrah-'
Another point claimed is that there is
practically no limit to the distance within
which the apparatus can be used With
the possibility of a telephone wire 900
miles long, such as that between Chicago
and New York, the inventor thinks that
the telectroscOpe wires might be of any
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-03-24
CONES FIGHT ON LEEDY.
Methods of Pacification are Under
Discussion.

When the Populist state committee
decided that Rufe Cone should not be
removed as a member of the committee
because he had been creating an anti
administration disturbance in Wichita
on account of the methods adopted by
the police board, ii was generally be-
heved that Cone would subside, but this
proves to have been a mistaken idea.
On the contrary Mr.. Cone is working
among the POpulists in Sedgwick coun-
ty for the avOwed purpose of bringing
an anti-Leedy delegation to the state
convention.
The ants have not selected a candi-
date upon whom they might unite, but
in number of counties the fight is be-
ing made against Leedy.
Recently the Lincoln Sentinel an
nounced that ex-COngressman William
Baker would be candidate for govern
or. The Lincoln Beacon disputed the
recanted and states that Mr.. Baker will
be a candidate and that Lincoln cOun-
tvs delegation will be for him, also the
delegations from other adjoining cOun-
ties.
The friends of Gov. Leedy say that
all opposition to the governors renOm-
inatiOn will be overcome and that he
will be renOminated and elected.
Just what figure Mr.. Cones fight will
cut in Wichita, is a matter of conjec-
ture, but if he desires to deliver the
county to the opposition candidate at
the election, he can probably do so.
Taylor Riddle and the governor held
a conference today to see what could be
done towards placating Cone. Sedgwick
by the Populists might prove disas-
trous to the state ticket, in view of the
very narrow margins by which the re-
cent elections have been won.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-03-24
POOR KATY FERDIAND.
The Temptation of City Proved Too
Much for Her

Visions of jewelry and nice dresses,
watches and watch chains and the hun
dreds of other things dear to the fancy
of a young girl, are the cause of the
downfall of Katy Ferdinand, aged II.
Katy Ferdinands home is in Peter
ton, Kan, a little town southwest of
Topeka, and her parents still live there.
Katy came to Topeka about a year ago
to make her own way in the world She
was young and willing to work, and she
soon found employment in the home of
J. w Tincher at Ala Western avenue.
She worked hard all day, and every day
in the week and each week received 81
for her labOrs. All was well until one
day Katy was strOlling down Kansas
avenue, looking in the shop windows.
There were many pretty things she
would like so much. A small gold watch
with a pretty scene engraved on the
case, a delicate long watch chain that
would go around her neck, a gold ring
that would look so pretty on her fin
ger, a breastpin and a pretty dress
skirt If she only had those she would
be the envied of all her friends. But
she did not have the money and her
pittance of 81 a week would not afford
her such finery. She thought of the
beautiful things constantly. While
working she dremed of the pretty
things she had seen behind the thick
plate glass of the store windows. If
she could only have them she would be
happy.
Katy was working Tuesday in the
room occupied by Mrs. Tincher. She
was brushing a cloak when a roll of
bills fell from the pocket. She stopped
and picked them up and started to put
them back. Then the visions of the
f1nery she had seen in the shop windows
came before her and she hesitated. The
longing for the new dresses and jeWelry
was more than she could resist, and she
slipped the money into her pocket. She
did not know how much it was, and
when she was through work she count
ed it. There was $35. That was more
money than she ever had at one time
before. That afternoon she went down
town.
Yesterday Katy Ferdinand was ar
rested by Detectives KessOn and Ca
prom. Upon searching her room they
found a watch and chain, a. small gold
finger ring, a breastpin, a pretty dress
skirt, some dainty underclOthes and Is
cents. All that was left of the S35. Katy
was taken to the police station and in
to the chiefs room, where the two de-
tectives questioned her. She stoutly de-
MED the theft, but finally she broke
down and confessed. Fifteen dollars
she had given to a friend to keep for
her, 50 she had sent home, and the rest
she had spent for the articles found in
her room. She is now in the woman's
ward of the city prison and will be
turned over to the state to answer to
the charge of grand larceny.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-03-24
MORRILL, WAS THERE.
Ex-Governor Attends a Meeting of
the Sound Money League.


Chicago. March 24.-The first annual
meeting of the vice presidents of the Ma
tiOnal Sound Money league, founded
quarters in the Monadnock building.
Among the state vice presidents and
others present were z. N. Morrill,, Hia-
Watha, kan; James L. Blair, st. Louis:
J. Sterling Morton. Nebraska City, Neb.;
Joseph NJ. Carey, Cheyenne, WyO, and J.
The purpose Of the meeting was the
election of an executive committee and
officers.
Ex-secretary ]. Sterling Morton of Ne
braska presided, with E. V. Smalley as
secretary.
Mr.. Morton was elected president in
place of George E. Leighton of St. Louis,
most of the year in Europe A. P. Hep
burn of New York was reelected treas
urer, c. L. Hutchinson of Chicago aSSO-
ciate treasurer and E. V. Smalley general
secretary.
The following were elected members of
Todd, New York; H. P. Robinson. Chi
cagO; John B. Jackson, Pittsburg; J. r.
CoWen. Baltimore; NJ. E. ingalls,, Cinetn-
natl; James L. Blair St. Louis, and Louis
r. Enrich, Colorado Springs, Col.
z. Y. Smalley, general secretary, IN his
annual report said:
Reports from all parts of the country
are encouraging. They show that while
the silver movement is still active, it will
not be able to hold together at another
national election the great vote that 1t
ca st at the election of 1896. In the Opin-
ion of your secretary, the work of the
league should be continued without relax
alton and should be pushed with increas-
ed activity and kept upon a non-partisan
basis"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-03-24
A TOWN UNDER WATER
Four Miles of Railroad Track Washed
AWAY.

SherrodsvilIe, O.. March 2.-This town
is completely flooded Business is en-
tirely suspended; three feet of water over
the whole town. Great damage to prop
erty will result. The Wheeling & Lake
Erie railroad tracks are washed away for
four miles The Cleveland, Canton &
Southern road is in practically the same
condition. The town is completely cut
off from railroad communication.
Springfield, O., March A.-The water in
Mad river and Lagonda creek is four
inches higher than ever before known.
The damage is estimated a $50, 900 in the
city and county. James Donnelly was
swept from his house into the river and
drowned.
Wheeling, w. Va, March 24.-Wheeling
will suffer heavily from the flood which
is now invading both the wholesale and
retail districts. Manufacturing estab-
nshments employing 10000 to 1900 men
have shut down, either for want of nat
ural gas, which was shut off last night,
too much water.
Trains have been annulled on every
road entering the city, seven in number.
On Wheeling island every family of the
1890 has moved to the upper stories. On
the city side of the river hundreds of
families have done the same thing, as
we'll as at Martins Ferry. Bellaire, Ben
wood, Bridgeport and other outlying
communities.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-03-24
FANNY DAVENPORT ILL.
'EFedOra' Performance Not Civ
en- on Account of a Severe
Cold.

Chicago, March Blowing to a cold
which she contracted Monday Fanny Da-
venport was unable to appear in Fedora"
last night at the Grand Opera House. The
first intimation of Miss Davenports in
disposition was given a short time before
the curtain was to rise, when the thea
tergOers were informed that the perform
ance had been abandoned and that their
money could be obtained at the box office.
For an hour the ticket seller was busy re-
funding money for tickets.
DR.. MacMartin, house physician at the
Great Northern, where Miss Davenport is
stopping with her husband. Melbourne
Mcdowell. said that his patients illness
was only slight and that she would prob
ably be able to make her appearance this
evening. Miss Davenport has only
slight cold" said DR.. MacMartin. 1T is
nothing serious. 1t was deemed inadvis-
able, however, that she go on last night"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-03-24
ssEXPO" SUBMERGED.
Pittsburg Exposition Building Full of
Muddy Water.

Pittsburg, March PA sudden and
decided fall in temperature checked the
flow in the headwater streams this
morning and the affect of this was soon
apparent in the river here. After
reaching 80 feet, the water began to re-
cede and is now falling rapidly.
The deepest water covers that part
of the city at the Point, where there
are upwards of 600 families living
The exposition building is submerged
and the damage will be at least S., OOO
From 5000 to 5000 men are thrown
out of work in the mills on account of
the flood.
At most of the mills the shut down
was caused by the water coming UP
through the sewers and stopping ma
chimes where stream of water is
kept constantly running for cooling
iron.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-03-24
RESOLVES TO FIGHT.
But the Chinese Emperor Thought
Better of It in the Morning.

Pekin, March 24.-During the last few
days the constant consultations be
tween the emperor and the high officials
of state have shown that China is final
~ alive to her serious situation. One
night the emperor actually decided to
resist Russia by force of arms but lack
of money and the cOunsels of Ii Hung
Chang prevailed upon him to stop.
Nevertheless, the eyes of the TSung
Lii Yamen have been opened to the full
extent as to the value of Russia's prom
ises of friendship and during a recent
discussion the emperor exclaimed: why
did I not accede to the opening Of Ia
Lien Wan when England proposed it?'
Germany is beginning to experience
some difficulty in the province of Shan
Tung, where the natives declare that in
spite of the emperOr's proclamation
they will oppose with violence the con-
struction of the projected railway.