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The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1900-02-01
SY,iPATHlZE WITH THE BOERS.
Ex-Governor Stone and Others Address
Mass Meeting in ST. Louis.


st. Louis. Jan. 2>-The Four
teenth Street theater was packed
with enthusiastic svmpathizers ot
the Beers cause this afternoon. DIR.
Emil Pretorius. editor of the West
liche Post, acted as chairman. and
opened the meeting with "A brief and
interesting speech. Actresses were
made by Ex-Governor W. j. Stone,
Judges Rombou and Estes, J. W.
Tavlor and Hon. O'Neil Ryan. Reso-
luton extremely strong and sym
nathetic were read and adopted
The resolutions are probably the
strongest passed by any pro-BoeI
mass meeting Yet held in this country
After declaring i'll favor OF freedom
as defined by the immortal and IL
lustrious Abraham Lincoln, they
called upon the President of United
States to use his good offices to bring
about a quick ending of a struggl'
now on between the Boer republic
and Great Britain. and if later devel
opments tend to forecast the ultl
mate victory of Great Britain, tC
step in and demand that the wa
be stopped. They also ask the Pres
ident of the United States to a
once recognize the representatives o
the Transvaal and Orange Free Stat
officially.
The resolutions are to be sent to tn
congressman representing st. Loul
| in Washington.
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ARMED MEN LEAVE FRANKFORT
Greater Number of the Visitors Go
Home by Advice of Republican
Leaders.

Frankfort, KY. Jan. 26.-The po-
litical situation was quiet this morn
ing and the people of the capital
awOke with a sense of relief, after a
night that had threatened to he one
of wild excitement. The resolutions
adopted by the armed visitors from
the mountain counties i'll front OF The
Capitol Yesterday will be offered t
both houses OF the legislature to-
day.
About 65O OF the $50 men who ar
rived on the special train Yesterday
left last night. going back over the
route on which they came.
The decision to send them home
was reached at a conference OF re-
publcans at which at least two rep
resentatives declared they would
vote against Taylor retaining his
seat ii the men were kept here.
Senator de Boe is IA prominent fig
ure here this morning, conferrlne
with republican leaders.
At the opening of the house session
the Van Meter Berry contest from
Jefferson county being spe
cial order for this morning, a com
promise between the democratic anC
and republican leaders resulted in the
adoption OF resolution that The
house should hear the majority anC
minority reports as a committee o
whole, not less than twenty and no
more than fifty minutes being allowed
for discussion and argument.
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Stood Death Off.

g. B. Munday. a lawyer of Henriet-
ta, Tex, once fooled grave-digger
He says: MY brother was very low
with malarial fever and iaundice. L
persuaded him to try Electric Bitters
and he was soon much better but
continued their use until he was
wholly cured. l am sure Electric Bit
ters saved his life." This remedy
expels malaria, disease germs and
purifies the blood; aids digestion,
regulates liver, kidneys and bowels,
cures constipation, dyspepsia. ner-
vors diseases, kidney troubles, female
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STORY OF A HIGHLANDER.
f,ue of Methuen's Soldiers Tells of Bat
tie at M0dder River.

London, Jan. 17.-(Correspond-
once OF the Associated press) The
following account of the Modder river
fght was received to-day from the
Argyle and Sutherland highlanders:
I'VE have had some hot fighting
with Methuen, but we got through all
right until the 18th. when lie got
licking. We of the highland brigade
had to march during the night to
surprise the Beers. No one knew
what we were going to do or where
we were going. The rain came down
in torrents and we were soaked
through, and that on empty ston-
achs We were led right into the
Boer trenches by guides, and before
we could deploy from column half OF
us were shot down. We all ran for
our lives and reformed 800 yards
back, when the Gordons Joined us,
and we again tried the trenches. But
it was no good. All day we lay out
i'm the sun, without food or drink,
and i'm the afternoon the Boer shells
began bursting among us, so we
made the best of our way to the rear.
The men were sick and dispirited;
there was no fight left in them, and
they would not stop for the officers
or anyone else General Wauchope
was killed-hit in seven places. He
was the right sort. They say it was
not his mistake at all, and he did
not want the night attack. Anyway
it was a CHASTITY failure.
The camp at Modder river was full
OF Boer spies-colonials and others
so our every movement was watched
and information carried to the enemy
Why these people are allowed to mess
about the camp Icannot understand
Some of these disloyal colonials have
been caught red-handed fighting
against the queen. Why don't they
shoot them right off, instead OF send
ING them down for trial-they don't
deserve it.
Most of the regiments here are full
OF young boys for officers and the
men don't care about them. | saw
some of them at Modder river fight
ing like lot of school boys, shouting
out orders that none of us could un
derstand, so that the old hands tool
no notice of them and went their Owl
way as best they could. Most of th
regiments are the same. The guards
are the best for officers. None OF us cal
make out why so many young officer
are sent out to take charge OF ole
soldiers. Why can't we have more O
our old officers? NY late captain
who left us at Aldershot, came to Sc
us off, and we asked why he was no
coming with us He replied that tn
war office would not let him relOir
He was a good man. We would no
have lost hall the men we had ii w
had had older officers.
We were good brigade if we ha
not been messed up and if onl
Wauchope had been left to handle u
himself This is terrible war an
God only knows how it will end.
Ny wound is not a bad one-a sho
through the fleshy part of the thig
and | was so excited | did not no
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Working Night and Day.

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If you have any quills or feathers,
write TO The Warren Featherbone
Co. at Three Oaks, Mich, for their
booklet Of ..QuiIls and Feathers.
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saved him from an untimely end. The
story is an interesting one.
A dozen or more years ago an unprin-
cipled young fellow named Thurston
was tried in LeavenWorth on a charge
of murder. Baken, then a member of
the Leavenworth bar, defended Thurs
ton, and, after an exciting trial. secured
his accquittal.
Two years afterward Thurston quar-
relied with Editor Anthony of Leaven-
worth because of the publication of an
article which cast some reflections upon
him. They met on the main street, and
without any warning, whipped out a
gun and began firing. Anthony escaped
injury, but one of the bullets went clean
through Senator Baker, who was about
a rod and half away, talking with a
friend.
Baker had been listening to a funny
story. The point was reached stimuli
taneously with Thurstons firing. In a
burst Of laughter Baker drew his body
backward. The bullet struck the tleshy
part of his left arm and passed on
through the left lung. For several weeks
he lowered between life and death. To-
day he is apparently as well preserved
as any man in the United States Sem
ate. Thurston was convicted of shoot
ing with intent to kill, and was given
long term in the State Prison-Wash-
ington Star.
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and will soon publish, a number of
bright novels. Foremost among these
is a translation from the French of the
Attack on the Mill by Emile Zola'
one of, If not the best, short stories this
author has ever written; the balance OIL
the volume is made up of gems from DE
Musset, Kari, Gautier Merimee, Cop
pee, Bourget, De Maupassant and
Claretie. Other books are "A VIVA
Proxy" by Mrs. w. X. Clifford, author
of Love Letters of a Worldly Wo-
man. All will want to read this charm
ing novel. "Old Raclot's Million" from
the French of Emile Richebourg, IS
described as a story of great power
1.-TWO Sides of a Story by George Far
sons Lathrop. "a Supert1uous Wo-
man. the authorship of which mas peeh
attributed to Sarah Grand and others
written in Red" a detective story OF
Boston, by c. H. Montague and G. W..
Dyar. "The writing Table Of the
Twentieth Century" by T. Schuyler
Mathews, an indispensable book Tor an
American society correspondents. Ihe
Joy of Captain Ribot,' an authorized
translation from the Spanish of A. "a
lacio Valdes,' by Minna Caroline smith.
Brentano's have also just publlshed
Madame Dreyfus," an appreciation, py
Josephine Lazarus.
The World Almanac is Immensely
usefel In every newspaper office ana IN
MANY other places. 1t is as full of in
formation as good egg is OF meat.
There are 900 pages of usefulinformation
on a surprisingly great number of sub
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have in the store, office or in the family,
and it is marvellous that so much de-
sirab information can be gathered to-
gether and furnished at so little cost to
the buyer The World Almanac has
been standard publication of it's kind
for many years, and it's excellence year
ly increases.
"To Have and to Hold" Mary john
ston's latest book, from the press OF
Houghton, Mifllin & Co., will be ready
for sale on Saturday of this week. Few
serials of recent years have awakened
a wider interest or more favorable no.
tice than has this second great story by
that talented southern novelist, which
has been running in the Atlantic Month
ly and which is now offered an eager
public in book form. In her former
book, prisoners of Hope" Miss john
ston established herself securely among
the best American writer's of fiction and
in the new work even greater power is
shown and more firmness and delicacy
of construction is displayed.
Professor w. l.. Phelps, Of the De-
partment of English, Yale University
will shortly publish through the press
of Henry Holt & Co., an edition of
Thackeray's English Humorsts," with
an introduction and very full notes.
No regularly annotated edition of this
work has ever appeared, and this one
Is intended both for the general reader
and for text book use. All literary and
other illusions will be fully treated in
the notes.
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Trank1Iers' 9atide,
New York, New Hayen'and
Hartford IL. II.
December 3. 1894


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M. 1890, 1906. $3.50, (parlor car limi-
90 l:ao' ZOO, $3.50. 800, *4:O0, "4:17.
~ 1.sy, 30 5:S5. $50. 1910. 1910. sis
u y Accommodation, 1910, 9:15
20 70 or. ao oundays-*4:05. 1850, xS:0o q. M,
sou. o.9o' &4'So, x6:15. "7:10, *S:10, $3.50,
TOR WASHINGTON via Harlem
'iEv ar *1l:5o p. m. daily.
MI, noR BOSTON via springfeld-'1:1o,
Sio:lo' 'l1:o5 a. M. +1:45, $3.50 D. m.
NE S-I:!o a. m, 1852 p. m.
FOX BOSTON via New London ana
toViaence-"2:10. 1920, +11:35 (parlor
"a. .ar iii.l,teo a. M, *12:o5 s2:47, .4:15,
4'oo' 900 p. m. sundays-.2:1O, *2:2o
:" E W. lz'oo. *4:55. 1855 p. m.
FOR MERIDEN. HARTFORD.
, o,nnh1dNGFIELD, etc.-*1:1o, 6:40, $500,
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, 1.9z' se:15 to Hartford). 500, 10000,
49,. 1919, Uo Meriden) p. m. Sundays
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and papers which are proof that the
traditions of red tapism are being reli-
giously observed. The Pavilion de
Flore is already packed from floor to
ceiling with the usual official paperass-
es while to make this immense waste
paper basket as inflammable as possible
it has been divided by means of wooden
partitions into an infinity of small Of
fees. All that is needed to provide the
almost inevitable blaze is spark, and
that 1T shall not be wanting the major
ity of the offices are heated with stoves,
the pipes of which traverse the wooden
boardings. Periodically these pipes
get overheated, and an outbreak of fire
is the result. During the last two years
there have been fourteen fires of this
description in the Pavilion de Flore.
They have all of them been promptly
extinguished, but this good fortune
cannot continue forever. Sooner or
later the Pavilion de Flore will be "well
alight," and nothing but miracle can
prevent the flames spreading to the
Louvre, an old and highly inflammable
building.
Everybody recognizes the danger, the
authorities equally with the nNh1ic.
The official plea for not taking any ac-
ton is want of money. The third re-
public has increased the national ex-
penditure by over milliard a year, but
it cannot afford to safeguard the incom-
parable treasures of the Louvre.-Pars
Correspondence of the Pail Mall Ga
zette
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THE CHEMICAL FIRE ENGINE.

One of the most practical and effec-
tive applications of carbon dioxide is
in the chemical fire engine Here it is
the agent which throws the stream and
extinguishes the fire. The engine con-
sists of two exactly similar tanks each
holding sixty gallons of water. In this
twenty-five pounds of soda is dissolved,
an agitator being used to facilitate its
solution. In the top of each tank there
is a bottle containing eleven pounds of
sulphuric acid. The bottle is kept
tightly closed until it is desired to use
the engine, when by turning down the
bottle the acid flows into the soda solu-
ton. The gas and the soda solution
come together, and in a very short time
a pressure of three hundred pounds to
the square inch can be obtained, which
will throw half-inch stream of mingled
water and gas about ninety feet. The
water is here used rather as a means of
conveying the gas than for it's own fire
extinguishng properties, for the gas
liberated from the water by the jar of
the impact and by the heat covers the
fire, excluding the air much more eff
fectually than water, and thus smothers
it. In some cities more than eighty per
cent of the fires are extinguished by
these chemical engines Only one tank
on the engine is used at a time, so that
it can be kept going constantly by re-
charging the empty tank while the 9th
or is used. The method of charging the
tank is exastly the same as that used
to charge a soda fountain. Any one can
demonstrate the feasibility of extin-
gushing fire by this gas by holding a
lighted match close over a freshly
drawn glass of soda-water, or over a
glass in which effervescence is produced
by pouring vinegar on soda.-Self-Cul- |
tl1ra MAGAZINE.
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THE HEATING OF CARS.

With the return of cold weather
comes the usual crop Of complaints of
the overwhelming of passenger and
sleeping cars, and a little later we shall
phobably hear that cars are uncomfort-
ably cold. These complaints are not
wholly from chronic "kickers,' but
from reasonable people as WELL those
who are not given to grunbling at mi
nor Inconvenience. There is usually
some cause for this. We recently spent
night in a sleeper where the tempera-
ture in the lower berths must have been
at least ninety degrees, and it would not
have been uncomfortable had the steam
been entirely shut off during the night.
Sleep was out of the question, and the
parboiled passengers, when they collec-
ted the next morning, were irritated, to
put it gently. The porter seemed to be
the only person in the car who was not
miserable; even he acknowledged that
it was a little too warm during the ear
Iy part of the night. The question may
be asked if these people Were In the pro-
per frame of mind to appreciate beat
tiful and expensive decorations such as
the passenger department is now so
fond of providing. This is think that
comes up every year, and although the
heating and ventilation of cars is one
of the favorite topics of discussion, yet
little improvement is made. 1t may be
well enough in principle to leave tenn
perature regulation to trainmen and
porters, but as the plan actually works
out it is not far from failure. On the
other hand, in many modern office
buildings and hotels the regulation of
the heating apparatus has been taken
out of the hands of attendants, and is
done automatically with good results.
Something useful might be learned re-
garding regulation from those having
charge of the modern stationary heat
ing plants, and it would seem that the
possible fuel saving as we'll as the COM
fort and health of passengers should
prompt some change in the methods of
regulating the temperature of cars
Railroad Gazette.
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ART TREASURES NEGLECTED..
The Danger of Fire in the Louvre.

The Danger of Fire in the Louvre.
The Chamber has been discussing the
budget of the fine arts department.
Several of the questions raised were of
more than local interest. A reference
may be made in the first place to
matter in which England is directly
concerned. M. Hubert related with I'M
disguised glee the story of some statues
of the Plantagnet kings preserved at
Fontevrault. 1t seems that the French
authorities had consented to hand over
these statues to the British govern
ment. Armed with the necessary Off
cial papers, the British ambassador
went to take possession of the historic
relics, but the governor OF the prison
Fontevrault serves at present as jail
made light of the orders of his superb
ors, and fatty refused to part with the
statues. M. Lucien Hubert commenced
his "patriotic' dsobedience, but an in
curry into the high-handed proceedings
of this petty functionary is surely called
for.
The chief feature Of the discussion,
however, was the evidence adduced OF
the risk of fire to which the Louvre Is
exposed. Attention has been called be-
fore in THE Pail Mall Gazette" to this
matter. BY strange dispensation OF
fate it is the colonial policy of France
that has placed the masterpieces of the
Louvre in peril of the flames. Thls
policy, which threatens to lead to con-
of every ORDER has necessi-
tated the creation of a colonial office
and for want of space elsewhere the
of the colonies has been lodged
in wing of the Louvre, the Pavilion de
Flore. The first care of a government
in France is to accumulate
a monumental stock of those old letters
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Sundays, Tuesdays and Thursdays Steamer
ERASTUS CORNING, Captain Thompson.
Mondays Wednesdays and FRIDAYS. m,
STARIN leaves New York from Pier III.
North River at 8 p. M. Mondays, Wednes.
days and Fridays; the EKASTUS CORNING
Sundays, Tuesdays and Thursdays. Fare
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rooms, $100.
Tickets and staterooms for sale at ]. b,
Judson's, 1857 Chapel street; Peck & Bish-
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the depot on arrival of Hartford train and
from corner Of Chapel and Church streets
every half hour, commencing at $50 n nj.
Through freight rates given and bills Of
lading to all points West South, and South.
west. G. Fl. FISHER, Agent
Order your freight via Starin Line.
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Local Weather Report.
FOR FEB RUARY l6 1900.
Brief Mem tion.
[igh water to-day, 1874 p. m.

High water to-day, 12:44 p. m.
Bargains in shoes at Howarth Bros.
The committee appointed to investi-
gate the fire department, by the COM
mon council will hold their first meet
ing next Monday evening
The remains of Mrs. Joseph Straw
binger, formerly Miss Nellie Sullivan,
whose death occurred in Waterbury,
were brought to Branford Thursday
for interment.
Edward Cramer, 16 years old, a fish
market hand, employed on Franklin
street. was run over by his own wagon
on York street yesterday morning and
severely hurt. He was taken home.
A united meeting under Church army
auspices was held in Trinity chapel,
George street, last evening. 1t was in
the nature of a conservation service
and under the direction of Colonel j.
A. Stansfield.
Mr.. Jacobs of Oakville, near Water
bury, has sold his farm to W. P. Jar
bury, and bought Byron Newton's resi-
dence on Newton Heights. 1t is re-
ported that Mr.. Newton will make his
future home in West Haven.
The subject of the next debate for
the boys at the High School will be:
Resolved, That the conduct of the
United States in regard to the Philip
pines is justifable.' The affirmative
speakers will be Fred Weideman
and e. G. Fleischner and the negatives
j. Marlborough and Charles Boyer.
The regular monthly meeting of the
Mems League of the Davenport church
was held in the chapel of the church
last evening at 8 O'Clock. The Rev
DIR. e. S. Lines of st. PauFs church
was the speaker Of the evening and de-
livered a lecture of John Brown. The
league have also secured the services
of Mr.. Charles Shamp, pianist, for
many years pupil Of Prof. e. A. Par
CONS. Preceding the program of the
evening supper was served by the
members, assisted by the young ladies
OF the church.