The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1898-01-13
PasSaic Items.

Passaic Items.
You may talk about free silver
To grace our roof of state,
And how our ways and means com
mittee
Should proceed to make Us great.
But when the laws of Tennessee
Are baked this very hour,
So that railroads shun their taxes
BY intervening federal power,
And St. Clair, our sister cOunty'S
Judges are in prison thrown.
Because they brave this giant = frOwn
And their state laws won't disown;
1t seems like one-idead-men,
Might right about and con
If our political independence
Isn't a dangerous brink upon.
And though we get free silver
To be-deck the spires and cones,
And the fabric be embIeZoned
With such wealth from all the zones,
Can the structure of our freedom
| Stand without foundation stones.
| Then let us have more money,
| Unlimited and free,
| And vigilance eternal,
| To guard our liberty.
| For the ancient rights of n sovereign
state,
| Are the safeguards of the free
| one of the strange things that oc-
casionally occur took place III this
community one dav last week. Ten
| years ago, this coming summer,
| little lad going to his first school
stepped on a piece of glass that pen
etrated the ball Of his foot. 1t was
| to all appearances removed at the
| time, but for a year afterward he
would at times complain OF his foot
| hurting at the place where the glass
went in. About this time his mother
took out another small bit of glass
and he thought his foot was well.
| But sometime afterward his foot
would pain him as if it had some
thing in it. Things ran along this
way until one day last week, when
he felt something hard just under
the skin on top OF his foot. Upon in
vestigation il was found TO be piece
| of glass over lth of an inch long and
| 1-16th of an inch square. Thus was
Reas son Williams delivered from this
uncanny companion picked up ten
wears ago and furnished a story; one
of the strangest feats that a foreign
substance can perform in human
body. Reason has his little keep
sake still in his possession but not III
his foot.
In a characteristic scuffie between
the BOYS on the play ground at Prai-
rie Rose school house last week, Wal
| ter Rice had his ankle dislocated.
| DIR Son was called in and ad usted il
and he will soon be out again. Such
| is life among boys.
| Jas ID Tathwell made trip TO Kan
sas City last week.
| A shooting match was one of the
| entertainments billed for Passaic last
| Thursday. It's an unlucky day
when Passaic don't have some eK-
| element.
Uncle Dick Wilcox now pulls the
reins over high stepping trotter.
He has hopes of him lowering the
record of Hal Pointer, should he get
him TO going fast enough.
Marcus McCann is reported 10
| have figured in a little cOurting his
| tory recently, which if true, outdOes
that Of the famous Mayor Jones Of
| Georgia. Between the dogs and the
| old woman they furnished a trageio-
| comic affair that could only be ex-
celled by the traditional flight Of
Ichabod Crane from the "FIying
| Hessian," a. il il told by Washing
| ton Irving in his Legend Of Sleepy
/ Hollow, in Sketch Book. / won't
tell on You, Marcus; 80 don't give up,
! for none but the ''brave deserve the
| fair" a. you have often been told.
! Some Of our greatest men have had
trouble in getting their wives.
Fred Church and sister, Miss Five,
/ have returned from their Christmas
trip. Fred took the chance and yi--
tied several cities while gone, such
as Webb City, Joplin, Golden City
and others. He reports a very en-
/ loyabIe time while gone.
/ am not surprised at the popu-
/ Iaritv Of Young Claude J.. Clark. the
+ Junior son OF j { Clark, here ia Bates
and elsewhere since / have had Occa-
sion 70 test his accommodating ma
ture, a. per his sending me some
! voluminous information from the
capitol 81 Jefferson City whore he
i now employed a. chief clerk in the
/ Adiutant Generals Office. Such kind
ness will bear its fruit, and / shall
not be surprised 10 see him rise 70
well merited eminence should time
deal kindly with him. Many thanks,
| Claude.
We are informed that Miss Board, /,
our present teacher, viii be employ
ed TO teach our summer school a.