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The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1903-08-13
BOY KILLS BIG BEARS.
YOungster, Aged Thir-
Seen, Bags Three Animals
In One Day.

George Many, 10 years old, of Will
Transport, Pa, has won the distinction
of killing three bears in one day. 4
few days age he got his fathers gun
unperceived by his mother, and went
to field not far from the house where
bears had been seen to feed. He saw
large bear eating the tops of turnips
that still remained in the field, and
fired. The bear fell, and the boy re-
turned to the house eager to tell of his
luck.
When he got there, glancing through
window ON the opposite side of the
house he saw two bears making their
way through strip of woods. Reload
ing the gun, he followed the edge of
the woods to point where he thought
the bears would come out. He had
been hid only n moment when they
shambled out OF the timber, and he
killed them easily.
Two members of the Du Bots Rod
and Gun club killed bear after the
longest chase on record. They wound
ed the animal in the heavily timbered
Hicks Run district. in Cameron coun-
~, on the second morning of their
hunt. Not liking TO give him up with
out chase, they followed the trail all
day.
That night they camped on the trail
in the snow, and on the two succeeding
days continued the chase. About noon
of the third day they came upon him,
He was seriously wounded in the groin,
but he fought the dogs, killing one of
them and injuring the other before
he was dispatched.
The hunters found that they had
followed the bear so miles through two
counties.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1903-08-13
Gold Excitement in Oklahoma.

Wichita, Kan, August Sword
was received here to-day to the effect
that a large number Of Oklshomans
are making for the Wichita noun
'ains, where the discovery Of gold is
causing almost as great excitement
as did the discovery OF the precious
metal at Cripple Creek several years
ago,
This information was conveyed to
Judge f. E, Harvey Of this city by
his brother, who is now in that To-
cality. Mr. Harvey writes OF one old
miner who disposed OF two claims
there within the last two weeks. sell
ing one for $4,000 aud another fol-
$4,000. Mills are being built and
the necessary machinery for mining
gold in large quantities is being
brought into the country.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1903-08-13
HOPE In FORMALINE.
Strongest Of Antiseptics Said to
Have Cured Blood Poisoning.
Case I'm Point I'm New York City
Woman Dying at Bellevue Hos
pi<aI Is saved by Injections
Of the Liquid.

At the last meeting of the New
York 0bStetrical society DR.. Charles
iC. Barrows, OF New York city, sub
mitted report of an experiment
with formaline, a drug known as the
strongest of antiseptics, which he
had made in Bellevue hospital on a
patient, who, after giving birth to a
child, had a temperature of l0s de-
grees and a pulse of l6O.
When the patient was admitted
she was suffering from sepsis or
blood poisoning. A blood culture
was taken and il was found TO be
full of septicaemia, known to the
medical profession as streptococci.
After the injection of formaline the
patient recovered rapidly.
The belief at the start was that
the patient was dying and most radi-
cal measures were used to save life.
Five hundred cubic centimetres of
formaline. were injected into the left
arm. The effect seemed, according to
DR.. Barrows' report, to be almost
instantaneous. A second injection
was given her and her pulse and
temperature fell to normal. The
patient is recovering now.
Experiments are being made on
animals and further important re-
suits are expected. The injection Of
formaline into the veins had never
been heard Of until DR.. Barrows read
his paper.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1903-08-13
CAS- TOEIA.
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Col. Bryan Interviewed.

William Jennings Bryan spent sew.
eral hours in st. Joseph, Mo-, on the
Bird.
"What do you think of Joseph
Folk as candidate for Governor OF
Missouri" was asked
"Mr. Folk Is a most excellent gen.
tleman who has accomplished great
good since his election AZ district at.
torney and the people regardless OF
party commend his course in punish
ing corruptionist, said Mr.. Bryan.
"He would make good guberna.
torial timber. know Mr.. Folk per
sonally and admire him greatly"
As Mr.. Bryan was talking a come
Unlocking woman carrying a baby
and leading four other children ap'
preached and said: "Mr. Bryan,
want my children to meet you, be-
cause my husband is a great friend
OF yours and my Oldest boy is named
Bryan"
The Commoner' face showed pain
ly that he was pleased and he shook
hands with the mother and her chill
dren and slipped a silver dollar into
the hand OF the lad named Bryan
FIX.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1903-08-13
MAY CHANGE DINING COSTUME,
Paris Women Are Said 90 Favor the
Low-Necked FrOcks of the
English.

Quite a number of American wom-
en- in Paris are talking about trying
to bring about a revolution in the
costume which is considered de rig
eur when dining at hotels and fash
ionable restaurants. They think the
fashion which obtains in London is
worth imitation here and believe the
result would be more satisfactory
than in the English capital. Women
when dining out in Paris wear the
high-neck dress and hat. american
and French women certainly look
better in low-necked frocks than the
English" said an American woman,
recently, "as anybody who dimes out
in London could testify"
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1903-08-13
500 Reward 800.

The readers OF this paper will be pleas.
ed to learn that there IL at least one
dreaded disease thst science has been
able to cure In all Its stages, and that Il
Catarrh. Halls Catarrh Cure 10 the
only positive cure known to the medical
fraternity. Casarrh being constitution.
al disease, requires, 4 constitutional
teatment. Halls Ca -arrh Cure Is taken
internally, acting directly upon the
blood and mucous surfaces or the sys.
tenn, thereby destroying the foundation
of the disease, and giving the patien,
strength by building up the constitution
and assisting nature In doing Its work
The proprietors haye so much faith In
its curative powers, that they offer One
Hundred Dollars for any case that Il
tails to cure. Send tor list of testimon.
iAls. Address r. j. CHENEY 6 Co.,
Toledo, o. ~ Sold By druggis 7se.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1903-08-13
Hot Weather Weakness.

II you feel tagged out, listless and
lacking ia energy, you are perhaps
suffering from the facilitating effects
OF summer weather. These symp.
toms indicate that a tonic is needed
that will create q healthy appetite,
make digestion perfect, regulate the
bowels and impart natural activity
to the liver. This, Herhine will do;
it is a tonic, laxative and restora-
tive. Fl. j. Freegard, Propr. Grand
View Hotel, Cheney, Kan, writes: ~
have used Herbine for the last IL
years, and nothing on earth can beat
it. 1t was recommended to me by
DR.. Newton, Newton, Kan" SOC at
Fl. L. fuckers Drug Store.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1903-08-13
Physician and Druggists.

Ford & Sturgeon, prominent
drug firm at Rocky Hill Station, KY,
writes: 1--WE we're requested by DR.
G. B. Snigley to send for Herbine for
the benefit Of our customers. We
ordered three dozen in December, and
we are glad to say, Herbine has Civ
en- such great satisfaction that we
have duplicated this order three
times, and to-day we gave your sales.
man another order. We beg to say
DR.. G. B. SniRley takes pleasure in
recommending Herbine SOC bottle
ct b L. fuckers Drug Store.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1903-08-13
Maneuvers in October.

Fort Riley, Kan, August S.-The
second OF the annual army maneu-
vers will begin on the reservation
October /. The regular troops and
regiments OF the national guard will
all be on hand on that date. About
ten thousand troops willparticipate,
the number including two regiments
from Kansas, OF from Missouri, one
from Nebraska, Iowa and Oklahoma,
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1903-08-13
GA . To7IA.
Bears tia ,Ihs Kind You Have Always Bought
S's, q &zZzMu
Black Waterspout at Nome.

Nome, July 28.-Conciderable sur
prise and some anxiety was caused
here yesterday by the appearance Of
two immence wsterspouts in the
vicinity Of Sledge island, more than
twenty miles from town. They were
very black and seemed to reach the
clouds. Gradually they disappeared
on the horizon. The phenomenon ie
believed to have been q result of the
unusually hot weather.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1903-08-13

We defy the world to produce a
medicine for the cure of all forms of
Kidney aud Bladder troubles, aud
all diseases peculiar to women, that
will equal Smith, Sure Kidney Cure
Nincty-eight per cent of the cases
treated with Smiths Kidney Cure
that have come under our observa-
ton have been cured. We sell our
medicine on positive guarantee, if
directions are followed, aud money
will be refunded if cure is not effect
ed.
Price so cents and S1.Oo For sale
by all druggists.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1903-08-13
Wants to be Scattered.

Muncie, Ind. Aug. 6.-After the
body OF Mrs. Laura Anderson, the
noted free thinker and former editor
Of the Free Thought Ideal, the Off.
cial paper, who died recently, is Gre
mated Saturday the ashes will be
strewn over a favorite rosebush &C.
cording to Mrs. Anderson's wishes.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1903-08-13
senaime nd stIu Potent,

- At London auction the other day
a lock of hair from the head of the
luke of Wellington was sold for $40.
Let the heroes go on. There is still
some sentiment in the world, says
the Chicago Record-Herald. and coal
isn't worth more than its weight In
anything else after all.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1903-08-13
AL,aht. Easy lob.

Sweden has two crematories, but
the average of cremations in that
country is less than one per annum.
The authorship of Swedish erema-
tory, says the Chicago Tribune.
would seem to come under the head
Of light, easy jobs.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1903-08-13
K. @. Pittsburg b Gulf Time Table
Arrival and departure Of trains q worlaad

Arrival and departure OF trains % worlaad.
NORTH BOUND.
No. Kansas CITY daily Express ....n;asp. 2.
SOUTH BOUND. ~
No. 2Through Port Arthur Express. f:tlp.
No. SLOAN SPRING. Express. see. .ls;sSp. =
Remember this 10 the popular short line bS~
tween tween Kansas AM City NO. and PisssSSurs Ks.
Ari. :, siiosm Springs. Arb, and the direct
route from the south TO st. Louis, Chicago.
and points north and northeast and 10 Denver
Ogden. San Francisco, Portland sad points
spared TO make the passenger equipment .
this line second 90 none In the west. Trave
vie the new line nc ORn.
Gen rPass. AT. KansstCity, Mo.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1903-08-13

InfeRmstioa for Boston scaestist.
A Boston scientist has been trying
TO find out what makes drunken men
zee double. Heretofore, says the Chi
ago Record-Herald, 1t has been gen.
orally supposed that 1t was the stun
they drank.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1903-08-13
CorLDN'T CROSS LINE.

Berlin, August 7.-ASt. Petersburg
dispatch to the Cologne Gazettesays
two Servian officers who we're deput-
ed to attend King Peters sons on
their journey to Belgrade toioin their
father have not been permitted to
cross the Russian frontier, the Rus
sian legation at Belgrade having
refused to wise their passports be-
cause they were implicated in the as
sassination OF King Alexander and
Queen Draga.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1903-08-13
sERvlAN OFFICERS UNDER ARREST
They Are Charged With Conspiracy
Against the War Minister.

Vienna, August 7,-According to
advices received here, a number OF
Seryian officers have been arrested at
Belgrade on account, it is reported,
ola suspicion that they we're conspir-
ing against the war minister, Gen.
Alanazkovics, who is said to have
prevented the advancement OF the
participants in the assassination OF
King Alexander and Queen Draga.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-06-21
BY w. R. HoUeHToN.

I propose to relate some of the small thefts, on a large scale, done in Alabama by the Agents of the party which swayed the government from 1860.
 There Is, as every one knowns, law regulating the recording of deeds and mortgages, and the fee for such services in 1868 was twenty cents per hundred words. The probate judge certified on the back of the instrument that 1t was recorded in a certain book on certain day. The scoundrels in office, by the grace of the negro, charged in addition, fifty cents for the certificate, and this continued until we turned the thieves out in 1s76 when, with different set of men. 1t was decided in the case of Wood ys. Tillman, that the charge was Illegal. The case is reported in 5s Ala. Page 57s.
 When one considers that in some coun-
 les. thousands of such papers were re- corded each year, it is easy to see that the amount stolen from the people in eight years, was nearly million dollars by this method. Then. after bankrupting the people, so they could not pay their taxes, their lands were advertised and sold by the tax collector. If a man own ed section of land which is composed of sixteen forty-acre tracts. they would advertise each forty separately; charge
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-06-21
SOME RECOLLECTIONS
 OF RECONSTRUCTION
BY w. R. H ouGHToN.

dollar for levying and a dollar for sell ing. besides the printers fee; so that the owner had to pay thirty-two dollars. instead of two Some who owned several thousand acres of land were treated In this manner. The papers had to print extras to hold the advertisements, and sometimes half the land in the county was sold for taxes. This state of things existed until 1874, when the case of Ga- chet vs. Mccall, 50 Ala 3o7, was decided, and another particular form of theft was abolished. The price of marriage license was two dollars, but one official had some printed with pictures, and "only three dollars my friend' got to be famous
 A. c. S. Railroad.
 There was a law passed by the legisla- ture of 1868. composed mainly of negroes, carpet bag thieves, and adventurers gfv- ing endorsement of the state to the amount of $16000 per mile of railroad built. The A. G. S. railroad, then, under another name, was being built and $oS0.- GOO of bonds were endorsed for thirty-six and one-fourth miles of the road in ex- cess of its length. and which had no ex- istence, a clear steal; but. by decision of our Supreme court, composed of demo- crats, the holders of these bonds being in- nocent, were protected, and we have been paying interest on them ever since. The case is found in GA Ala. Page 127, Counties were authorized to issue bonds in aid of railroads on a vote of citizens, and it is related that on election day at Opelika, the trains were crowded with negroes. A free barbecue was given. aud the col
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-06-21
Great Play at East Lake.

George Ohnet, Jane Hading, MT. and Mrs. Kendall Agnes Booth, Viola Allen, Lester wnllack. Harry Montague, Robert Manteli are all identified with one of the greatest and most successful plays ever written and that Is 'The Ironmaster," which will be produced on Monday eve next for three nights only at East Lake by the Weston Darlington Stock com pany. The title part gives Kendall Wes- ton a splendid opportunity as leading man. and 1t will seem like the old Boyle and Edwards day when he was so popular to see him in the sacrificing Nero. Mona Darlington has in the part of "Clarie" one of the great parts of the modern drama.
 The clmaxes of '"rhe Ironmaster'' are extremely melodramatc. The scene be- tween the Ironmaster and his wife, the duel and the big fight scene of the two wives are remarkably strong The entire strength of the Weston Darlington Stock company will be brought out upon this occasion, and the i've sets of scenery are all interesting stage pictures. The entire company are cast In the play and the opportunities for equipment and dressing are many. Confusion" a brilliant and ridiculous three act farcical comedy will be played the last half of the week
 The Weston company are doing a good business now that the weather is settled and their season promises to be brilliant one.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-06-21
-----~--------e'--- PETER WILL VET EXPLAIN.
New King of servia Has Not Addressed
 All the Powers.

Paris, June 2O.--Foreign Minister Dell asses colleagues express the belief that he is likely to deprecate the Servian trag- edies by an explanation to Russia and Austria, but it is pointed out that King Peter took the initiative in the cases of Russia and Austria by telegraphing to the Czar and Empror Franz Josef, thus af- fording them the opportunity for Russian and Austrian responses, whereas the Ser yian king has not addressed the other powers, and consequently has not given them an opportunity to make rejoinders.
 The opportunity, however, will come when the question of the recoknition or King Peter arises. In the meanwhile the French minister at Belgrade has been in- structed to restrict his action to current routine affairs and to maintain In a neu- tral attitute towards the new regime un- til the question of the kings recognition IS formally decided. This will not come to the front until after King Peters arrival in Belgrade, his formal assumption or power and his notice of that assumption to the foreign ministers.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-06-21

would have been a lynching, only the speaker fled the town in haste.
 If one could realize how, under the promise of forty acres and mule" un- limited license, and the hope of asso- ciating with white girls as their beaux, the infiammable state of the negro mind, he might appreciate the result of such teachings, for such speeches made on that night and others like 1t all over the land, and the teaching of vile newspa- pers, viler politicians and yet viler preachers, saints at long range. inspired the negro to commit that peculiar crime which brings and always will bring death, north or south. The negro would have been benefited if that speaker and all like him had been put to death at once. The boys formed club for de- posing Gardener and drew lots, the first falling to Bill Payne, who, the next Monday, walked into Gardeners office and with one blow of his fists. knocked him senseless and walked out not word being said. The next Monday, Jim Brunson did the same thing in the same way, and 1t went around the club every Monday, until it came Payne's turn again. He put on a pair of huge spurs, dragged Gardener to the court house door, mounting on his back and spurring him vigorously, rode him to the door of bar-room. Calling up a colored man, he compelled him to hold his unwilling steed whilst the rider went in and took a drink, then, coming out, he rode him back to hls office with many dig of the spur.
 Gardener resigned.
 The prosecution in the United States court against the boys were dismissed, and Butler county has never had a car pet bag probate judge since nor has a negro been lynched for the peculiar crime We paroled confederates enjoyed | the affair immensely. At Rutledge, three of the elect advertised public speaking, and committee of white men demand l ed a division of time, which, after some objections, was granted. Of course the elect had the opening speech, at the l close of which when our speaker got up, every colored man left the house, which so enraged the whites that they ran skirmish line around the square. and
 with fence rails, sticks and brush, drove every darkey up stairs to hear decent
 man speak. Up to few years ago only | one white man in Crenshaw county ever l voted the negro ticket. He was half
 witted and the Hard-Shell Baptists turn ed him out of the church for this dso- bedience to what they conceived to be l divine law.
 Our grandchildren may read in some histories about the solid south," 'the
 long g-haired barbarians,' and few other i choice epithets applied by so-called gen.
 tlemen to their ancestors, but the facts
 here narrated will go in the history of
 reconstruction now being written by a Virginian, and future generations will l take pride in the fact that instead of a
 race of mongrels, the purest stock from
 the British Isles yet dominate their na- l tive states.
 I have refrained from relating many
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-06-21

ed him finally compelled respect. Fern Wood, in open court. told Kiel, another vile creature on the bench as judge in Eufaula, that he was a disgrace to hu- manity. to the bar, to the bench, con temptible and cowardly, and when the trembling creature ordered the sheriff to arrest Wood, there were fifty men ready to resist, and the judge resigned.
 Sometimes they fell out with each other, as the case in 54 Ala, Page 393, will show, and one republican governor tried to hold over after his defeat, but a judge of his own party, who hated him adjourned court and travelled in haste to
 teomery to issue a warrant which busted him, and justice was done through motives inspired by malice. No, we are not against the government, but we despise the politicians that refuse to allow their party to be respectable in the south, and if this nasty view of less than one-tenth of the enormities practiced by it, here given, is not enough to create and keep a solid south," there are a few things, such as attempts to pass force bills taunts, appointment of black off cials to positions where they come in contact with women and children, and the like which would band together a people less proud and brave. But the confederates.A even if under parole. got some fun and little revenges out of the infamous crew.
 After the Constitution of 1868 was fas- tened on Alabama by fraud, the officials pretendedly elected at the same time took their seats. By. reason of the dsfran- chisement of numbers of it's best citizens the negroes In Butler county had chosen one Gardner as probate judge. He was a very superior sort of person, who talked down at rebel as a very Inferior sort of man, but was very affable toward his colored equal who voted for him.
 Fearless Young Men.
 There were a number of boys who were too young to go Into the war, and consequently were not under parole. but who had grown to be strong young men, without fear of the devil or his imps, as they conceived Gardener to be. The lat ter, with some of his associates, had a public speaking in Greenville, and the boys, Frank Gafford of this city among them, hung around the outskirts, and when some particularly objectionable fling was made at the whites, a loud voice would cry out, That's a d--d lie No. l." and when another came, That's a d-d lie No. 2' and so on. At a meeting in the court house at night one of the speakers, addressing the col ored men, said, You have as much right as any man to write a note to one of the young white ladies. asking for her company to church." The boys went at once to Dan Dunlxlin's store, filled their pockets with eggs, and returning, bombarded the speaker and his associ- ates, and the colored audience, which im- mediately stampeded. A few pistol shots Into tbe air ha stoned their denartlire Of course the affair was published north as southern outrage, and when the elder men of the town got hold of 1t there
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-06-21
MIss Annie Prescott's Letter.

Miss Anna Prescott, in letter from 2f6 South Seventh street, Minneapolis, Minn., writes:
 "I was completely used up last fall, my appetite had failed and felt weak and tired all the time. My druggist advised me to try Peruna and the re- lief 1 experienced after taking one bot tie was truly wonderful.
 "l continued It's use for five weeks, and am glad to say that my complete restoration to health was happy surprise to myself as well as to my friends. ds."--Anna Prescott.