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The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1900-04-19
LETTER FROM BRYAN.
Democracy Perpetuates the Declaration
of independence.

Washington, April 14.-William
jennings Bryan, now in California,
in replying to an invitation to attend
a Jefferson dinner in this city, has
sent the following letter to W. S.
Mexican, secretary of the national
association of democratic clubs, un-
der date of April 8, 1900:
MY Dear Sir-I regret exceedingly
that engagements made before your
invitation was received will prevent
my attending the Jefferson dinner.
1t is especially fitting that in this
centennial year OF the party's first
| victory we should commemorate the
birthday OF the party's founder and
patron saint.
In 1900 the genius of Jefferson
organized the democratic party and
| led a successful fight against the aris-
tocratic ideas of Hamilton. To-day,
when democracy is engaged in "A life
and death struggle with plutocracy
we can find inspiration in the teach
ings of the sage of Monticello.
"The doctrine of equal rights to
| all and special privileges to none, ap-
| piled to present problems, would re-
store an equitable financial system,
| deprive national banks of the power
to issue paper money, destroy monop-
Olies, remove the menace of militar-
ism and Imperialism, save the ma
tion from entangling alliances, make
it an example to other nations, and
it's flag an emblem of peace, Justice
| liberty and progress.
Il hope that the national associa'
ton of democratic clubs will urge
each local colonization to celebrate
the coming Fourth of July. Those
who assemble throughout the coun-
try can listen to the reading OF the
Declaration of Independence, hear
patriotic speeches and then learn by
wire that the national convention OF
the democratic party. meeting on
that day, has reasserted the party s
faith in the principles set forth in the
| Declaration and embodied i'll the con
stitutional of the United States.
Yours, Truly, W. j. BRYAN
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1900-04-19
CuItivators, CuItivators.

We have the best line of cultivators
on earth and can make you the right
kind of prices. We are agents for the
celebrated John Deere spring trip
cultivators, and if you have any
stumps or rocks to contend with,
don't fail to see us as we have the
best stump cultivator made. 1t has
the trip spring on top of beam SO
that it does not bother you in trashy
ground. We also have a full line oi
Deere and Pattee riding cultivators
and have the right kind of prices on
same We also handle the Pattee
New Departure Tongueless Guilt
vator that takes the cake every
where
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1900-04-19
Flour and Feed.

We handle the Pleasanton and
Power Bros. -four and can sell you
same at mill prices. We are just un-
loading two ears of shorts and bran
and can make you the right kind OF
prices on same We always have a
good stock of corn, baled hay, corn
chop, oats, etc. at lowest market
price.
Remember we are always head
quarters for all kinds OF field and
garden seeds.
Thanking you for past trade and
soliciting a continuance OF same. we
are yours, truly,
BENNETT-WHEElER MER. co.
Leaders of Low Prices.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1900-04-19
Groceries and Queensware.

Our grocery and queensware de
partments are chuck full OF good bar
gains. So do not fail to see us when
needing same
We are still selling 19 pounds of
granulated sugar for S1.OO.
Remember We pay the top market
price in cash or trade for all kinds OF
country produce. So drive right up
to our store with your chickens, tur-
keys. butter, eggs, etc, and you will
get the best prices going.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1900-04-19

week.
Sile Dyer has planted a large field
of watermelons and will supply all
home demand.
Jumping the grape vine was one
of the amusemeIfts down at Mr.. Shill-
ingers' Sunday evening.
Rev. Clarkand family spent Sunday
with William Hall
Bennie " Wigger has been very sick
the past week.
Claude Stephenson attended the
Easter services at Germantown and
said that they were as good as he
ever saw. 'FRONT.'.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1900-04-19
Snruce Items.

Readers Of the TINES please let US
Know what your neighbors do
Because we only write
What we think is true.
in Kretzinger sold the Appleton
CITY butchers a load Of ice Saturday.
Rev. Clark filed his regular APP
pointment al Pleasant Home Sun
dav at II O'Clock and at night
Charles Wilson was on the sick list
last week.
DR.. Bowler OF MoptrOse, was out
in our neighborhood yaccinating last
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1900-04-19
GENEROUS UNION VETERANS.
Substantial Contributions for the Con-
federate Monument.

Clinton, Mo, April 14.-Maior
Harvey W. Salmon, member OF the
committee on monuments and ceme-
teries, United Confederate Veterans
OF Missouri, has addressed the follow
ing letter to Captain George NJ. Jones,
treasurer of the monument fund:
Clinton, Mo, April II, 1900
Dear Captain Il inclose with this three
checks, $50 each, made payable to
my order and indorsed to you as
treasurer.
"These checks represent the volun
tary contributions of three ex-unior
soldiers, who have each generously
donated $50 to the fund being raised
for the purpose of erecting a monu
ment in the Confederate cemetery al
Springfield. Mo.
The contributors, Missourians by
adoption, who cast their lot with us
after the close of civil war, represent
a type of manhood that has aided in
the up-building of our grand old
commonwealth.
The fact that these men. and 9th
ers like them. who wore the blue, will
| ingly contribute of their means to
build a monument over the graves oi
| those who were arrayed against them
in the greatest war of the worlds his
tory. tells a story that is without a
parallel, and is too beautiful for
words. Such an incident could occur
in no country other than this great
American republic.
You will please make acknowledge
ment to these big hearted Missouri
ans. Col. John s. Sullivan Jefferson
City. Col. NJ. c. Wetmore, care Plant
ers Hotel. St. Louis, and Mr.. Thomas
Connor. Joplin. In the language oi
| Rip Van Winkle, May they live long
and prosper Yours. truly.
! HARVEY W. SALMON,
Capt. G. NJ. Jones, Springfield, No, >
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1900-04-19
Hardware, Hardware.

We have the largest stock of shelf
hardware in Bates county and can
furnish you same at very low prices
considering the present cost. We
have large stock OF barb wire, nails,
hog fencing, poultry netting, screen
doors. window frames, screen wire.
spring hinges, hay carriers, etc, and
will sell YOU same at the lowest mar
ket price.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1900-04-19
Mowers, Binders, Table Rakes

We are agents for Standard, Mil
waukee, Osborne and Champion
mowers, and if you are going to need
one do not place and order until you
see us, as we have the best line on the
market. We handle the Champion,
Buckeye and Osborne table rakes and
Milwaukee binders
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1900-04-19
Wagons, Wagons.

We have a large stock of wagons
on hand and can make you good
prices on same. We handle the
Schuttler, Mitchell and Weber.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1900-04-19
A Horrible Outbreak

sfOf large sores on my little daugh-
ter's head developed into case OF
scald head" writes C. D. Isbill of Nor
canton, Tenn, but Bucklen's Arnica
Salve completely cured her. It's
guaranteed cure for Eczema, letter.
Salt Rheum, Pimples, Sores, Ulcers
and Piles. Only 25c at H. L. Tucker 5
drugstore.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1900-04-19
Millions Given Away.

1t is certainly gratifying to the
public to know that of one concern
which is not afraid to be generous.
The proprietors of DR.. Kings New
Discovery for Consumption, Coughs
and Colds, have given away over ten
million trial bottles and have the sat
isfaction OF knowing it has cured
thousands ofhopeless cases. Asthma,
bronchitis, la grippe and all throat,
chest and lung diseases are all surely
cured by it. Call on H. l.. Tucker,
druggist, and get a free trial bottle,
regular size soc and 800. Every
bottle guaranteed.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1900-04-19
Stoves. Stoves.

We have a large line OF steel ranges
and cast stoves that We are selling at
the right kind of prices. We also
have a good stock of gasoline and oil
II nNpS
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1900-04-19

Alba Haywood. the Prince of Com
edians and the ever popular retailer
OF fun, will be with us on the evening
of April 26 1900 with complete
change of program, new songs, sto-
ries and representations designed for
laughing purposes only and bearing
the Goth century imprint.
He is supported this season by the
following well known artists:
Miss Gertrude Monroe, Il brilliant
violiniste who has distinguished her
self with the leading musical organ
izations in the Uuited States (includ-
ing the Boston symphony Orchestra)
Her playing is brilliant, fascinating
and highly pleasing. She has gen
uine old Cremona violin, of which she
is very proud.
Mr.. Gustave Ullrich. 'Cellist OF
remarkable ability and pupil oi
Bruno Steindel of Theodore Thomas
Orchestra. The cello, though the
grandest of string instruments, Is
seldom heard in the provincial cities,
and will be a source of great pleasure
to all and a surprise to many.
Those who particularly enjoy vocal
music will be pleased to learn that
Mr.. Haywood has secured the
services of Miss. Beatrice Carpenter,
the beautiful and talented contralto
who for two years was understudy tC
Jessie Bartlett Davis OF the Boston
ian Opera Co. Miss Carpenter voice
is exquisitelv sweet. and her Balladt
singing is most delightful.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1900-04-19
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The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1900-11-29
Fishing an Arr in china.

Nowhere in the world. is the art Of
fishing so mighty developed as in Chi
ma. Rivers, creeks, stagnant pools,
the great ocean, and the little tank,
lakes and garden ponds, all furnish
their quota to the sustenance Of man.
Even rice grounds are turned into fish
ponds in winter. The inhabitants of
the waters are killed with the spear,
caught with the hook, scraped up by
the dredge and captured by nets. They
are even dived for by birds trained for
the purpose. Eels are fed in tubs and
jars until customers carry them off,
Washington Post.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1900-11-29
The BeMitched Penny.

To give the exhibition termed "the
bewitched penny" 10 or II pennies are
required. Place them separately on the
table, and have n of the coins chosen
and marked by several persons. Have
this coin dropped, along with the other
coins, into a hat and the whole shaken
up so that the coins will be well mixed.
Placing your hand in the hat, feel ev-
cry coin. and you will at once detect
which is the marked one by it's
warmth. The heat is impaired to it
from the many hands through which it
has passed. 1t is always advantageous
to have the coins placed on as cold a
place as possible. but on no account
turn back the tablecloth, as this act
might give a hint to the solution of
the mystery. You can add considerably
to the effect if you are blindfolded and
allow your audience to attend to the
preliminaries. There are few expert
ments with coins that excite more
w~onderment.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1900-11-29
Spider Republics.

The spider has usually been regard
ed as a type of the solitary among an
finals, each individual preferring to
live alone. But naturalists have dis
covered exceptions to this rule, and
among the most remarkable are three
species of spiders recently studied by
Eugene Simon in Venezuela. The most
interesting of these. the Uloborus re-
publicanus, seems to be truly repub-
lican in its instincts, several hundreds
of individuals dwelling together in
huge webs, made up of smaller webs
linked together by strong threads and
fastened among the branches Of trees.
On these webs the spiders can be seen
moving freely about, meeting and ex-
changing greetings with their anten-
nae, like so many ants. In the center
of the main web is a space where the
eggs of the entire republic are laid, and
where, at the proper season, the female
spiders can be seen assembled, each
guarding her silken cocoon filed
with eggs.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1900-11-29
England Follows United States.

Red, white and blue, though the coll
ors of the union jack, were not Used
generally in England as marks of pa
triotism before the queens diamond
jubilee, three years ago.. The old COL
ors were red and white, and the limo
walton is said to be due to some deal
er's importing a large stock of French
decorations left over from the French
national fetes. Englishmen are cheer
ing the three colors now, however, as
vigorously as though they were Amer
leans or Frenchmen.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1900-11-29
AGED PERSONS.
Live. THAT stretched over Longer Terms,
Than Seventy Years.

Lives That Stretched Over Longer Terms
Than Seventy Years.
A generation is commonly reckoned
as thirty-three and one-third years,
but sometimes two or three lives will
stretch over several ordinary genera
tions. A grandmother of C.. j. Monk,
a member of parliament, was born 1853
years ago, that is, in 1747, the year
after the battle of Culloden, and the
very year in which Garrick and Lacey
took a lease of Drury Lane theater.
Gen. Francis Vinton Greene's grand
father was born 1928 years ago, when
Napoleon was a baby entering upon
his third year, and Sir Walter Scott
was entering upon his second. He
was a year old when Watt built his
steam engine and the tea was thrown
overheard in Boston Harbor. The,
generals father, Gen. George Sears
Greene, died last year at an advanced
age. Therefore the lives of General
George Sears Greene and his father
Caleb extended for an interval of 127
years, nearly four ordinary generations.
A relative Of the general, Mary Ann
Greene of Rhode Island, died a few
years ago at the of 105, having in
her single life bridged more than three
generations. Sir Stephen Fox, grand
father of Charles James Fox, the dis
tinguished statesman, was married in
1854, and in the following year his
wife bore him a daughter, who died in
infancy. Sir Stephen marrying a Sec
ond time late in life, another daughter
was born to him in 1927. She died in
1920 at the age of SO years, no fewer
than 40 years after the death of her
elder sister! In other words, a lady
who might have seen Queen Victoria
had a sister whom Oliver Cromwell
might have looked upon! The fact
that seventy-two years elapsed be-
tween the birth Of Sir Stephens first
and last daughter proves that he must
have been married very early for the
first time, and that he became a father
for the last time remarkably late in
life. Indeed, perhaps, this is the most
wonderful part of the story. The
grandfather of the present British sec
rotary of state for war, the old Marquis
of L~andsdowne, who died in 1857 at the
age of 80 years, told Lord John Russell
(who relates the incident in his life of
the poet Moore), that he was intimate
with Sir Henry Baytun, who knew the
before mentioned Sir Stephen Fox. AS
Sir Stephen was the page in attendance
on Charles 1. when he was executed in
1649, the three lives named-Fox,
Baytun, Landsdcwne-extended over
a period considerably over two CEN
turtles.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1900-11-29
HOW TO BE HAPPY.
Make Note of Only the Cheerful Things
In Life.

Happy is the man who forms, early
in life Tor if not early, then late), the
habit of taking all the light and
warmth and cheer he can get with a
fine glow of appreciation, looking,
meanwhile, somewhat sideway at those
opposite experiences he cannot escape.
Let him squint a little Dr. look the
other way. He will be a happier man,
as well as more popular, writes Daniel
Gregory Mason in Scribner's Maya
zine. han the self-appointed devils
advocate who sedulously notes the
m%ugginess Of the weather, the feeble
ness of his pulse. or the fact that he
is tired (Which, God help us, we are
all-until we get rested). He will be
a happier man, moreover, for two rea-
sons and by virtue of two distinct
forces that his act of attention en-
lists in his behalf. In the first place,
by removing the constant irritation to
his mere body his viscera and nerves
and muscles, that has resulted from his
morbid attention. he leaves a clear
stage for the benign action of the ten
dency to health. A mans body is not
the normal object of his attention.
Just as the normal focus Of a sense
organ is an external object (of the eye,
a sight; of the ear, a sound, SO the
normal focus of the mind as a whole
is the breathing, cOlored world out
side itself, and particularly the absorb
ing world Of other people. The very
i~nsidiousness of sickness is that it
tends to seclude the mind from this
wholesome outlook, and concentrate it
upon inner sensations. The process,
once begun, proceeds apace, and oon
the healthy activity of the body is still
further deranged by the meddling at
tention, precisely as c~learness of exc
cution on the piano, for example, is
deranged by ~particularized notice Of
lingering or other mechanical pro-
cesses that should be automatic. Con-
scious thought always bungles the del
icate acts properly cared by the sub
conscious mind. The remedy is in
both cases to direct the attention else
where.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1900-11-29
Queer Buildings of New York.

Fortunately the landowners and ar
chitects of western cities have not yet
been compelled to resort to peculiar
structures like those now projected in
New York. There contracts have been
let for two nine and one-half story no
tells, which will each be but 1879 feet
wide. Each hotel will be fireproof and
furnished with an elevator. Railways
and an airshaft. There will be two
bachelor apartments on each floor, max
ing eighteen apartments in each hotel.
The front apartments will consist of
three rooms and a bath and the rear
ones of two rooms.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1900-11-29
POCKET LENS POLIsHER.

pivoted screws. The inner pair of pads
are placed back to back and connected
with the central stem projecting be-
tween the handles. This central stem
has pins formed on either side, to act
as pivots for the main arms, the latter
being gripped with the thumb and fin
ger to open the polishing pads and al
low the insertion of the lens. The
p%olishers on one side are coarser than
the other, the fine set acting as a fin
isher for the lenses. 1t is obvious that
the disks can be removed easily when
the chamois becomes soiled and the
spring arms exert the necessary pres
sure to do the work without any ad-
ditional pressure from the fingers of
the operator.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1900-11-29
Death Valley Once a Lake.

In support of the view that Death
Valley in California was formerly the
bed of a lake, is the discovery of
traces of an ancient water-line run
ming along the tanks of the enclosing
mountains at a height of 600 feet. The
bottom of the valley is 200 feet below
sea-levei. The winds from the Pacific
cross four ranges of mountains before
reaching the valley, and by that time
they have been drained of their last
drop of moisture. 1t is said that "no
spot on earth surpasses Death Valley
n aridity or Tophet-like heat" The
lake that once filed it is believed to
have been fed by a river which has
now also vanished. The borax de-
posts of Death Valley are commercial
ly important, but labor is all but i'm
possible in a place where to be with
out water for a single hour in summer
means death.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1900-11-29
Power of the Mlstral Wind.

The mistral is a famous wind which
blows cold and strong in southeastern
France. In the districts where it pre-
walls, the trees all lean toward the
southeast, and the gardens have to be
protected on the northwest side, from
which the wind comes, by lofty walls.
Last winter in Marseilles a carriage in
which a lady was driving was blown
bodily into a canal by the mistral, and
both the lady and the horse were
drowned. In consequence of this ac-
cident, and Of other manifestations of
the power of this destructive wind, the
mayor OF Marseilles issued an order
that no carriages should be allowed to
drive alongside the canals or the wa
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1900-11-29

The modern craze. or vice. Of syn
dicatization is this year the correct
thing for the shooting party in Eng
land. 1t infallibly brings out the bad
in ones friends. One shareholder
proves to be a hitherto unsupported
dipsomaniac with homicidal tenden-
cies. The next decamps, leaving his
liabilities to his fellow directors. The
third is awkward with his hands, kills
a gamekeeper or two and burns down
the shooting box. No. 4 pushes an
insurance system among ones aristo-
cratic guests. Holiday housekeeping
is also conducted this year on the CO.
operative plan and is said to be quite
as successful in destroying faith in
human nature.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1900-11-29
THICK ICE FROZEN RAPIDLY.

In the Illustration is shown an ap-
paratus which will aid materially in
the formation of ice on a small lake,
the inventor being Ossian Guthrie of
Chicago, Ill. 1t is well known that
when a body of water starts to freeze
on the surface the latent heat of con-
gelation is liberated into the water I'M
derneath, thus retarding the freezing
process and often preventing the form
alton of ice beyond a certain depth. In
localities where the temperature sell
dom falls much below the freezing
point it is difficult to obtain a good
crop of Ice by natural methods, in
which case the machine will be found
useful. The apparatus is so arranged
that it will withdraw the water from
beneath the thin sheet of ice, cool it
and return it at the opposite side of
the pond. The sluice through which
the water passes is provided at inter
walls with planks set obliquely, to stir
the water and extract the latent heat.
The water ~re-enters the pond in a very
thin sheet directly under the ice form
alton and, being now at a low temper
allure, freezes rapidly, the inventor
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1900-11-29

A negro conference in C~harlottes-
vile, Va. adopted what they call "a
prayer to the intelligent white peo-
pie of Virginia. not to disfranchise the
colored people of the state, and asks,
if a measure of Acknowledgement is to
be passed, that it apply to both races
alike. The appeal, which is described
as non-partisan, goes further, and asks
the white races aid in the matter of
education, the uplifting CT the colored
race morally, and it's advancement
generally.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1900-11-29

There is such a thing as too much
realism. They are trying to have a
David Harum Day" at Tullay Lake
Park, near Syracuse, where the ia
nous "hoss trade" scene is to be read
by a professional i-mpersonator. But
the farmers in that region who were
buncoed by the real David, and who
have never seen the humor or the
testing, and the chances are the day
will not be held.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1900-11-29

Variot of Paris, according to a Lis
bon paper, has discovered a process
for embalming bodies which it is
thought will prove a great success.
He not only embalms but metallics
the bodies by the Roult process, just
as it is done with a fork or a spoon.
In this manner they can be preserved
Indefinitely and in such perfection that
the most imperceptible wrinkles and
lines are reproduced. and the en-
balmed body has the appearance of a
metal statue.