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The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1898-03-03

49,
The public schools of this county
ought not to be too good to read
the Bible daily, law or no Law.
Rev Jarvis, pastsr of the III. E.
church, south, who has been absent
IN tennessee visiting home folks,
has returned.
Our old friend z. Nestlerode, of
Virginia, substantial farmer and
citizen and one of the best men in
the county, places US under renewed
obligations
The rich man never goes to war
He stays at home to care for the
women and children and hold the
offices. In the late war Mark Hanna
bought three substitutes.
The war feeling in this city has
been at a fever heat for the past two
weeks. However, when it comes to
q show down. the fellow who is most
excited is willing for the other fellow
to 60.
Mrs Oldham, the TINES esteemed
lady friend aud good subscriber, re
siding near Virginia, gave Us pleas
ant call few days ago. She had
just returned from an extended and
pleasant trip TO relatives in Washing
ton and KaDsas.
Mrs A B. Owen was up to see
her mother, Mrs. Rhoda Reeder, of
Grand River township, the last of
the week. Mrs. Reeder is very feeble
from old age. Her son Thomas
Reedsr, formerly deputy county
clerk of Bates county, now teaching
school in Arizona, 10 at her bedside.
The motion fled by Messrs- Den
ton and Jackson to quash the in
dictment against F. V. Hamilton,
charged with perjury, was heard in
court Tuesday and at the conclusion
of the arguments The court override
the motion. The case comes up for
trial to-day.
The programme for the Sunday
School convention OF Spruce town.
ship to be held at the III. e. S.
church at Bethel Saturday, has been
circulated. There will be full dis
cussions of all the various phases OF
Sunday School work, and no doubt
the convention will be largely at
tended.
E. 8. Carrithers, proprietor OF the
American Clothing House, who has
been absent for the past three
months in Colorado and Arizona,
with his wife, wko has been spend
ing the winter in the west for the
benefit of her heslth, arrived home
Saturday. He left Mrs. Carrithers
improving in health which will be
gratifying news to her many friends
in this city.
The TINES Office has just added to
its machinery another fine job press
for doing letter heads, statements,
cards and oil kinds of job work. Our
facilities now are better than ever
for doing this kind of work, we have
spent several hundred dollars of late
in fitting our Office up and We feel
confident that we are now able to do
your work on short notice and al
reasonable prices. Give us a trial.
While you are trading, why not
trade at the whitest, clearest and
cheapest house in town.
U C,x,-u T. Gov
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1898-03-03
ATTEMPTED ROBBERY.
The Collector Of Pleasant Gap NIsitC d
by Suspicious Characters.

The Collector Of Pleasant Gap Visited
by Suspicious Characters.
From r. r. Carson We learn Of O
daring attemptto rob Charley Beard,
collector of Pleasant Gap township,
on last Thursday night. Mr.. Beard
had been collecting taxes that day
and had 81, 100 in the house. During
the night his wife was aroused by
some one trying to effect an entrance
through their bed room window.
She awoke Mr. Beard, who secured
his pistol and took a shot at the
intruder, who was plainly discern.
able. The thief ran into q bsrbed
wire fence and Mr.. b. took three or
four more shots st him but is uncer-
tain about hitting him.
There sppears to be bad gang
in or near that neighborhood, who
have committed many depredationS
of late. Our advice to the good
citizens ia to sleep On their arms
and a funeral or two will stop it.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1898-03-03
Held on Suspicion.

Kansas City, No, Feb. 26,-Clin-
ton a Mack, bridge builder, was
arrested in Kansas City last night
charged with assisting in the robbery
of the express car OF the Pittsburg
and Gulf month ago G. E Dim
NIT, captured few days ago, ia still
held
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1898-03-03
Every Dog has his DAY."

is an old saying, which generally
proves true. So says the very re-
spectacle young lady Of this city.
who CHANGED to be tae victim of a
very sensational "s;ory' published
a few weeks ago by very popular
reporter of this CITY T.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1898-03-03
Chickens
IN
Chickens

Chickens Chickens
Eggs Eggs
The highest market price paid for
both at FRANK SMITH & Son. 13-U
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1898-03-03
The Dangers of Spring

Which arise from impurities in the
blood ard 8 deplettd condition of
this vital fluid msy be entirely avert
ed by Hoods Sartaparille. This
great medicine cures all spring
humors, boils, eruptions and sores,
and ~ enrichiDg and vitalizing the
blood, it overcomes that tired fesl-
ing and gives vitality and vigor.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1898-03-03
BUTLER WEEKLY TIMES
LOCAL ITEMS

To Cure a Gold in One Day.
Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tab
let's. All druggists refund the money
il it fails to cure. 25c. 3-6m
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1898-03-03

Hoods Pills cure nausea, sick
headache, billiousness and all liver
ills. Price % cents.
The Conservative, 1898-12-08
THE CLASSIFIED SERVICE.
The President Trying to Please the Friends
and Enemies of Civil-Service Reform.

President Mckinley is evidently much
perplexed by the turn which civil-ser-
vice matters have taken. Of all men
who ever occupied the executive chair
he is the most conciliatory and possesses
the happiest faculty of making the par
tisans of both sides believe that he is
sincerely with them. In the war with
Spain this triumph of diplomacy was
carried out to perfection. In most of
the peace newspapers of this country he
is held up to praise as the great peace
president, who with his restraining
hand kept back the demons of strife to
the very last. On the other hand,
wherever members of the foreign affairs
committees or leaders in congress have
stated, as Representative Moody of
Massachusetts did in the republican
state convention of Massachusetts, that
the president was not far behind con-
gress in it's actual war purpose, he is
hailed as the great war chief.
Now, in the matter of civil-service re-
lOlluy lcSluCuU NlCIAlllcy COllCS NCly
neal to accomplishing the same thing.
1t is notorious that the actual evasions
of the law have never been more wide
spread than today, and yet the press
dispatches describe reformers as coming
away from the white house satisfied that
the president is heartily in sympathy
with them. The newspaper organ of
one member of the cabinet, in a recent
editorial article, went further, and de-
clared that Mr.. Mckinley was a better
friend of civil-service reform than any
of the persons in the country who are
now presuming to urge him to stand by
the existing law.
But the presidents embarrassment
m about in this way. He has for
months been officially considering"
whether to take the 1000 medical ex-
aminers of the pension bureau out of
the classified service or not. The civil
service commission has finally recon-
mended that he do one Of two things
either to exempt these doctors and be
done with it, or suggest to his pension
commissioner, Henry Clay Evans, that
he pay some real regard to the existing
law. AS administered by Mr.. Evans,
with full knowledge of Secretary Bliss,
the thing has become simply a farce.
The statute permits the creation of an
extra board of examiners at the dis
erection of the commissioner in any town
where he sees fit to do so. In theory,
this is for emergency purposes, but Mr..
Evans, availing himself of a strained
Interpretation of the law, has. established
these extra boards almost everywhere.
To them he gives the business, and, of
course the fees, and thus starves out the
regular officers, who are still legally in
existence. This violation of law by in
"
The Conservative, 1898-12-08

of possessing a scientific and technical
knowledge of fisheries, would, according
to Mr.. Elkins, his senatorial hacker, be
''bright enough to catch on all right"
The civil-service commission itself
now receives some criticism on the
score that it is not so aggressive as in
the days of Col. Roosevelt, who was
feared by every man who tried to use
public salaries as a bride for political
service. But how are appointees of a
president, like civil-service commission
ers, to compel him to pay any attention
to what they have to say unless he sees
fit to do So? This brings the whole sub
ject down to a very simple basis. The
proper enforcement of our civil-service
law depends absolutely upon the per-
sonal attention of the president of the
United States. None of his subordi-
mates will long violate laws or rules
against his will, and, on the other hand,
one of his appointees can rise superior
to their chief and compel him to give
attention to them.-New York Evening
Post.
The Conservative, 1898-12-08
Che Conservative.

stopped any time in the last eighteen
months if he had cared to do SO. The
civil-service commissioners are now
cold-blooded enough to say that i'll pref
erence to the present %absurdity they
would recommend hat the $3.50, 900 an
nually appropriated for medical exam
iners' fees be directly turned into the
Golfers of the party workers. This is a
choice which Mr.. Mckinley had never
intended to make, and hence his delay
about bringing out the much-promised
order of modification.
Last Saturday another covert blow at
civil-service reform emanated from a re-
sponsible officer of the administration.
Deputy marshals and deputy collectors
of internal revenue are nominally within
the classified service, and new appoin-
tees must be taken from the eligible reg
lister. But in case a United States mar
shall does not do it, and selects his own
men as he sees fit, what then? David
M. Dunno of Portland, Ore, for in
stance, has paid nc more attention to a
civil service-reform law and rules than
to the ceremonial requirements of the
Koran. The civil service commission,
in view of contemptuous violations which
were steadily growing more frequent,
made a formal demand upon the auditor
of the treasury for the state and other
departments that the vouchers in pay
ment for services rendered by these
deputies appointed outside of the merit
system be d~isallowed, in order that a
test case might be brought as to the val
idity of such appointments. This the
auditor refused to do, politely referring
the commission to the comptroller of the
treasury. This means that such barriers
against violation of the civil-service laws
as are now supposed to exist are being
rapidly swept away, and it will not be
of much moment what decision the
president reaches in regard to the CLASH
fications themselves. Whether he takes
old offices out or puts in new ones it does
not matter so long as "the boys act
ually get ''the jobs" Representative
Grosvenor wa not the plant weakling
that some persons supposed when in
congress he gave up the fight against the
appropriation for the continuance of the
civil-service system. He simply came to
the conclusion that there was nothing
worth fighting for, and in this events
have proved that he was too nearly cor
rect.
There has been a little stir within a
few days about the distribution of $50
railroad tickets to voters by the new
head of the fish commission. The Of
fence is acknowledged, and if a railroad
ticket is "a thing of value" the statutes
of the United States have been openly
violated. But why should this disturb
The Conservative, 1898-12-08
CHURCH-BELLS.

lne question: Is
sometimes asked,
why every church building has a bell
upon it, which is kept in operation, as
the neighbors think, a large part of the
day and night is it that in this age of
the world one who wishes to worship
requires to be reminded of the place and
time by the ringing of a bell?
With respect to the present usage, the
practice would appear to be justified by
the results obtained. Bells are found
attached to churches, school houses and
court houses, and in precisely those
places do performances begin at the
hours for which they are announced.
In other kinds of public gatherings, as
in meetings of lodges, city councils or
committees, it is useless to attend at the
set time, and one is safe in happening in
anywhere within a couple of hours of it.
There are even theatres, in which the
curtain is supposed to rise at s o'clock,
where the commencement is delayed
until it is thought that as many are
present. as mean 10 come. ETOu CnlS
point of view, it is clear that much val
liable time would be saved to the com
munity if bells were multiplied to the
point of distraction.
But as to the period when, and the
object for which, religious societies first
took up the use of sonorous metal as IN
adjunct to their worship, it does not ap-
pear that there is any man who knows
this. The practice seems to be universal.
Wherever mankind is found, the ruling
powers are addressed in the voice of
bells, or if the worshipers are still too
rude to be able to fashion bells, they
~contrive some other kind of clatter to
answer the same end. When they be-
gan it is only known to the deity whom
they all thus ~variously seek to propitiate.
The Egyptians, for thousands of years
before Moses time, used peculiar rattles
to notify their gods that they were
about to be praised Or petitioned in due
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-11-03
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SWORN STORY OF The FATAL
WOUNDING OF CAPTAIN RICHTER

have made
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night Nalate trenches July 81 1885,
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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-11-03
COUNTER
PROPOSITION TO
Be CONSIDERED
Administration Will
Deal Squarely.
MONEY FOR THE PHILIPPINES
WHOLE QUESTION NOW ONE OF
DOLLARS AND CENTS.
People Of America Favor an Honor
able Settlement With the Dons
to Resumption of the
War.
MONEY FOR THE PHILIPPINES
WHOLE QUESTION NOW ONE OF
DOLLARS AND CENTS.
Special Dispatch to The Cali.
Call Office, Riggs House,

Call Office, Riggs House,
Washington, Nov. 2.
President Mckinley and Cabinet
members have no idea that Spain
will refuse to consider the demand
made by the American Commissioners
on Monday and break off further nego-
tiations.
The President believes that the Span
iards will make counter propositions.
These will be considered. A close friend
of the President says that 1t is eA-
pected by the administration Spain VIII
willingly part with the Philippines tor
a monetary consideration. This sum
will be a large one, and the whole ques-
ton is therefore practically resolved
into this: How much are the Islands
worth to US? If we cannot acquire them
as we did Porto Rico, without paying
do we want them at all?
Members of the Cabinet recall the
fact that we paid Mexico for territory
which we had already won by conquest
Even after we had planted our flag
on the Capitol at the City of Mexico
we did not care to annex any Of her ter
ritory without compromising the repub-
lie for it," said one member, who added
that, aside from ali other opinions, he
believed the people of the country now
desired an end to the war. They~were
not in favor Of returning to fighting
and the maintenance of a large army
If there could be an honorable settle
ment of the questions in dispute. To
secure this settlement the Philippines
would either have to be abandoned to
the Spaniards or they would have to
be taken and a cash sum paid for such
just debts as existed. He had no doubt
the seizure of the islands simply be-
cause this country was in position to
do so would result in the resumption of
war. Such struggle might not last
long, but there would be greater cost
involved than in paying what appeared
to be just to the defeated.
1.-The whole question he said, SIS one
of dollars and cents with the Spaniards.
1t is for us to determine how much we
will pay. That Is yet to be decided
and will not be answered for some
time"
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-11-03
NAVIGABLF WATERS MUST
BE SECURED TO EGYPT

LONDON, Nov. fright Hon. James
Bryce, former Under Secretary of State
for Foreign Affairs, subsequently pres
ident of the Board of Trade and now
Member of Parliament in the Liberal
interest for Aberdeen, speaking there
this evening, Endorsed Lord Salisbury's
stand in the Fashoda controversy, de-
claring that the military control Of all
the navigable waters in the Bahr-el-
GhazaI basin. as well as the Nile, must
be secured to Egypt.
Referring to the increasing cordially
between the United States and Great
Britain Mr.. Bryce said:
when last In the United States /
was much struck with the change in
public sentiment. The spontaneous out
burst of feeling in Great Britain when
the European powers wished to inter-
vene against the United States during
the recent war with Spain made the
Americans understand how close we
felt the tie between themselves and our
selves They have shown that they ap-
preciate and reciprocate our sentiment.
81 would never advocate q formal
alliance. At all events the obstacles
at present are serious, but all the con-
ditions exist for solid and durable
friendship between America and Great
Britain. They have no adverse inter-
ests anywhere in the world, and they
have common aims in sundry regions
Everywhere each can render a great
service to the other. The Americans
and the British understand each other
better than they can understand any
foreign country. Nature and history
meant them to be friends, and the
closer and deeper that friendship is the
better it will be for the greatness and
welfare OF both"
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-11-03
CARS PLANS BEING PUSHED
BRITISH WARSHIPS AT WEI
HAI-WEI READY.
Now It Is Believed That the Rus
slams Are Preparing to Seize the
Valuable Treaty Port of
Niu Chang.
Special Dispatch to The can.

WEI-HAI-WEI, Nov. ALI the Brit
ish warships here, including the first
class battleshfp Centurion, the first
class cruiser Narcissus, the second
class cruiser Hermione, the torpedo
boat destroyer Whiting, the torpedo
bost destroyer Fame. the torpedo-bo
destroyer Handy and the first-cIass
gunboat Peacock, have cleared for ac-
hours notice.
The first-class battleship Victorious
and the first-class cruiser Undaunted,
at Chefu. are coaling to their full
capacity.
The greatest secrecy is maintained as
to the meaning of these warlike prepa-
rations, but there is no doubt important
instructions are expected at any mo-
ment.
A large Russian fleet Is assembled at
Port Arthur.
LONDON, Nov. 2.-The dispatch from
Wet-Hai-Wei announcing the war prep
arations there officials here describe az
grave, coupled as it is with the Anglo
French war preparations at home. 1t
is surmised that Russia, profiting by
the present strained relations between
Great Britain and France, has decided
to push forward her claims in the far
east by forcibly Selling the valuable
treaty port in Niu Chang, which Great
Britain cannot permit, it is said
A dispatch from London to the Assoc
ciated Press October 20 says a cable
message had been received there from
Shanghai as follows: "a Russian reg
iment occupied the town of Niu Chang
(province of Leao Tong and the forts
at the mouth of the river Liaou on Oc-
tober Is, thus securing complete possess
sion of Niu Chang. The native troops
fled without making any opposition I'M
der orders from the Empress Dowager
and Ii Hung Chang.
"A British gunboat was In the river
at the time. Its non-resistance Is re-
garded as the virtual British abandon
ment of the whole of Manchuria to the
Russians and gives Russia an invaIu-
able strategic point Great Britain is
certain to lose the Niu Chang trade, of
which it has had 80 per cent"
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-11-03
.FASH0DA IS
NOT WORTH
WARNING FOR
Sentiment of the Press
of Paris.
FRANCE NOT READY TO FIGHT,
HINTS OF EUROPEAN COALITION
AGAINST ENGLAND.
At the Same Time the Newspapers
Point Out There Are Places in
the British Empire That
Are Weak.
HINTS OF EUROPEAN COALITION
AGAINST ENGLAND.
Special Dispatch to The Call.

Special Cable to The Call and the New York
Herald. Copyrighted 1898. by James Cor
don Bennett.
PARIS, Nov. 2.-Everything indicates
the warlike spirit prevailing across the
channel All the journals record the
British naval preparations with pessi-
mistic comments. Nobody here desires
war In the first place, Fashoda is not
worth it, In the second place. France
Is not ready. If force is resorted to. 1t
will be England that insists upon 1t.
The Temps tonight even advocates the
avoidance of struggle at any cost.
France" it argues, ought to consider
her interests and those Of civilization,
both of which forbid an appeal to arms.
She ought to preserve her dignity by
imparting new character to her rela-
tons with the United Kingdom. Some
victories, either diplomatic or other
wise, are dearly purchased. By abus-
ing the monetary advantage, the risk is
run of determining the general direc-
ton of international politics in sense
quite opposite to the real interests of
the country, which seems to triumph.
This means, presumably, that Eng
land is in strong position, but that
If she pushes France too hard she risks
bringing about a European coalition
against her everywhere abroad.
In another part of the same journal,
commenting on the news of the day on
the Fashoda question, says:
LAS the English Government does not
seem to be actuated by a conciliatory
spirit, 1t may be as well that France
examine the question Of recalling
Marchand."
The Liberte attributes the recrudes-
cence of the warlike attitude in Eng
land to the return of Mr.. Chamberlain,
who may have thought that as France
accepts the principle Of evacuation Of
Fashoda that a few more threats would
procure further concessions from her.
This is by no means certain, argues
the paper; IF Great Britain seems in
vulnerable, there are many points in
her empire where she may be attacked.
Her name is not exactly venerated in
Ireland, where revolution might
break out the moment war was de-
clared, besides which it seems fairly
certain that strong .Abyssinian force
is rapidly drawing near Fashoda."
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-11-03
BUFFALO TO CARRY
MEN AND SUPPLIES

NEW YORK, Nov. 1.-The cruiser
Buffalo will sail for Manila tomorrow
by way of the Mediterranean and Suez
Canal. Their will be roo men for Adj
miral Dewey's fleet on the Buffalo.
They are intended to I'LL vacancies due
to illness and other causes on the YES
sells of the AsiGtic station. A large
amount of stores will also be sent on
the Buffalo She is expected to make
the trip in about fifty days, travelling at
a speed of ten knots an hour. Com
mander J. N Hemphill is in command,
Lieutenant S. w. B. Diehl, executive
officer, and Lieutenant George w. Lo-
gan, navigator.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-11-03
PARIS PAPERS CRY
"BASE HYPOCRISY"

PARIS, Nov. 1.-THE Soliel to-day,
commenting editorially upon the posi-
ton assumed by the American Peace
Commissioners, says:
mo monarchical government would
have dared to conduct itself ter the
fashion of the Americans, who are for
ever talking so much of right and lib
erty. The plan of the Americans is
now evident. 1t Is to take all of
SPANS colonies and leave Spain the
debts of all those colonies. This is the
result of the holy war undertaken to
insure the independence of the Cubans.