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The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1908-12-24

Sunday e. ening between five and
elk o'clock she editor Of The TINE
and bis wife, while In their front
yard, witnessed rather q peculiar
phenomenon In the heavens. 1t was
like q shooting star, or comet, In the
west, bright as an electric light and
apparently about the size, and left q
white streak In It's wake which was
visible for several minutes. We both
remarked upon II. that II was the
most vivid and peculiar shooting
star" that we had ever witnessed.
It had much the appearance Of the
flight OF q very large sky rocket.
Dispatches report that q similar
phenomenon was witnessed by sew
ersl hundred people at st. Joseph,
Mo-, Kansas City and Joplin.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1908-12-24
Uncle John H0rnback Dead.

John Nj. Hornback, who for many
years resided near Sprsgue, this
county, died at the home OF his son.
DR., Hornback, at Nevada, Thursday
night at 8 O'Clock after a long Ill
ness. Nearly everyone IN western
Bates knew and loved Uncle" John
Hornback, and his demise will be
learned with regret by all these
friends
Deceased was aged SO years, and
his funeral occurred at the home OF
bis son In Nevada Rich Hill Review.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1908-12-24
For Sale.

Farm OF 100 acres. five miles west OF
Butler, Mo. Address Mrs. Leannah
Coffelt, Jamesport, Mo. 93t
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NEAR CUSTER AT DEATH.
Last Living Man Who Heard General
 Speak Is Attending Convention.

From the Chicago News
 The Republican delegation from North Carolina lays claim to a historic char acter in the presence of one of it's alter nates Daniel A. Kanipe of Marion, the last living man who spoke to Gen. Gus ter. massacred with his entire force of five troops of cavalry at the Little Big Horn June 25 and 26 1S76 Tall, gaunt, and sunburned, Kanipe, who was ser geant of Company c, Seventh United States Cavalry, veteran of the Yellow stone, Black Hills, and Custer campaign against the Sioux stood in the lobby of the Grand Pacific Hotel and talked of the massacre wherein 800 men met death and left no survivor to tell of the strug- gle.
 Kanipe himself would have been a vic- tim had he not been hurled off on an important mission.
 "It was an awful massacre" said Ser seant Kanipe. T was the last living man to talk to Custer. When we crossed the Little Big Horn and got down into the Sioux country proper Custer had command of five troops of cavalry was only 23 years old then.
 Everything was quiet although we knew that Sitting Bull and his warriors were pretty near camped on the banks of the river
 'On the mborning of the 18th we real ized that we were surrounded and pre- pared for the trouble. It came when those red men started to pick off our outposts from the bushes and scalped several of our guides.
 Just ten minutes before the first yell from the warriors in the hills, Custer called me aside and said:
 Sergeant, ride over the river and back to the pack train and tell Capt Me Dougal to advance at any cost with the rations. We are hemmed in and unless we have food they will starve us out
 'I shook hands with Custer and his hand trembled, and he said Boy, don't fail us, we need that train.
 "I never saw Custer again. I mounted my horse and forded the river. I rode through the hils the target of many an Indian, and finally reached the pack train.
 Late that night we moved on to the aid of Custer. but could not make any progress. as the hills were full of Sit ting Bulls men.
 "On the night of the 26th. when the In dians had retreated north. we marched
 "On the morning of the 18th we real dead and took back to the scene some of the wounded men from Maj. Reno's com mand, which had come on the scene too late to save Custer"
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territorial army is organized, the girls will take their places in learning to take part in military achievements.
 The official announcement of the penny postage to America has caused universal satisfaction. 'The next great step in civ ilization, the establishment of a penny post among all English-speaking nations, is the first and most clamant reform to which English speakers should direct their attention.
 So wrote MT. Stead is years ago. Since that time there has been a sudden re- sponse to this demand, and one of the persons who signified his approval was our present King, then Prince of Wales.
 It is now two years ago since deputa- ton waited on MT. Asquith in regard to adopting the penny postage between this country and the United States, and was told that there was no possibility of the immediate attainment of such a scheme but that in 1908 1t might be possible to carry out the design. This has now been realized.
 The next country to follow suit will be France, and soon. I think, we shall see the penny postage between Great Britain and that country.
 The first penny post set up in Lon don was In 1881, and 1t will come into force for the United States this year. The scheme will entail loss on the British exchequer of f130,oOo. but the enormous growth of postal business in the future will, 1t is believed. far more than make up the deficiency in a short time.
 The gentleman who arrived to repre- sent the Buddnist religion in England IS now an impressive personality. The monks house is situated in a row of
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death. and of the barrenness of the earth; all of which were originally the penalties and are now the proofs of the fall.
 There is then a fearful struggle going on throughout creation. Nature Is striv- ing, under great difficulties, to right herself. In her mighty efforts, she some times appears to us as a blind Samson, straining madly at the pillars of the temple and threatening to overwhelm both herself and us in one common ruin. But this is doubtless because we see through a glass darklya To the in- spired vision of Paul the struggles and groans of travailing nature seem to have been but premonitions of the birth of perfection. None of these things moved him; for he was persuaded that neither death nor life. nor angels, nor principal tiles, nor powers nor things present, nor things to come. nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus, our Lord
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THE GROANS OF CREATION-By J. c. Fiden D D.

vided as fuel to warm fallen man, were silently preaching the doctrine of human depravity. Adam and Eve, in their pri- meval innocence, needed no fuel. They did not need even clothing It is hardly conceivable that, before the fall. they suffered pain of any sort Yet there lie the coal beds. formed long ages before man appeared upon this earth.
 But pain, we are told is a blessing in disguise; for 1t warns us that something is wrong, and needs correction. And this, though a profound truth, does not go to the bottom of the subject How comes it that something is wrong? How could anything be wrong, if man were perfectly pure? In proving that the body is disordered, the pain proves, at the same time, that man Is fallen-that his innocence is gone. Pain is the pen alty of violated law. It may be, and of ten is, overruled by a merclful Provi- dence, and made to produce good results; but the same thing Is true of labor, of
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animate creation, must be included in Pauls sweeping statement.
 But let us interrogate nature. Even in the vegetable world we discern traces of a strong yearning for perfection in de- veIopment-a struggle, so to speak, to re- alize an ideal. A sickly plant in a dark cellar will strive to obtain light and nu- triment to perpetuate and develop its frail existence. Schubert remarks that "even in the things of the material world which surround us, there is an element of life, a yearning .. :. e.. .. which, like the Memnow statue, sounds in uncon- scious sympathy when the ray touches 1t from above" Bonnet, the philosopher, also presents the same general view; and in what goes by the name of Goethe's Correspondence with a Child" Bettina says: When I stand all alone at night in open nature, I feel as though 1t were a spirit, and begged redemption of me. Often have I had the sensation as If na- ture, in wailing sadness, entreated some thing of me. so that not to understand
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debt of $1 by the payment of two than to cancel it with a payment of 50 cents.
 Responsive to clamor the New York legislature passed a law arbitrarily and contrary to good faith-making reduced rate on the elevated railroads of New York city. Cleveland, over the protest of very nearly every politician of both parties at Albany, vetoed the bill, alleging that public honor was more sacred than five-cent fares were desirable Tammany was in a rage, and immediately became a conspicuous en- emy for whom the country loved him. But there he stood:
 As meets a rock a thousand waves, so Inisfail met Lochlin.
 And then it was that the democratic party woke up out of a trance with the realization that "the hour Is come, and the man." and so it was. and Grover Cleveland was the next President of this republic.
 That election was no accident. The vul- gar and the thoughtless profess to be- lieve that old Burchard's Rum, Roman ism and Rebellion" did the business. Not a word of it. That alliteration recruited more votes, up state, from prohibitionists than it lost to Blaine Catholics from Tam many. Blaine was a Catholic. though not a member of the church. Tammany knew him for d Catholic and gave him thou sands of votes. What elected Grover Cleveland in 1884 was the independent vote that went to him for the character he
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0F ALABAMA IN I846-By Emma Langdon R(


ing 1t with the ignorant wonder the fossil-hunter inspires in unfrequented dis tricts of England, France and Italy. He was anxious to examine the calcareous bluff at St. Stephens. Night fell before they reached it, but Captain Lavargy stopped-said he could take on wood gave him boat and two negroes bearing pine t<fches, making II possibly for him to thoroughly explore the whole cliff and find many fossils.
 Mobile again claims him on February 21, 1S46, and fiaunts her spring froward- ness by touches of green on the cypress and cotton trees, and scarlet seed-vessels on the rubra. Tn the gardens there were jonquis and snow-drops in flower, and, for the first time we saw that beautiful evergreen, the yellow jessamine, in full bloom, trailed along the wall of Dr. Ham ilton's house." Anxious for his first sight of the Gulf of Mexico he drove with Dr. Hamilton. the Presbyterian minister, to the lighthouse (situated on Choctaw Point and washed away by the storm of 1So2), and, from the tower, had splendid view of the city to the north, and to the south the noble bay of Mobile, IA miles across He then went to the bay which lay smooth and unruffled, the woods com Ing down everywhere to Its edge" He noted the immense amount of drift-wood, dug up bivalve-shelled gnatherdons that live in our mud banks, and that will in future ages indicate the position of our rivers He found Mobile to be built upon a deposit of these shells, the stratfication of which proved to him that it had been thrown up by the waves. Our delta. in the soft mud of which cattle are frequently mired and whzch receives carcasses washed dwn by the rivers and thrown up by the sea, exemplifies the formation of such regions as the Fayum of Egypt the elephants ancestral home-now cov-' cred by desert sands but which Is each day yielding priceless treasure to the paleontologist
 On February 23, the James l.. Day, bound for New Orleans, sailed out of the beautiful bay of Mobile in the evening" carrying aboard Charles Lyel and his wife
 lay struggling in the grasp of that spirit of unrest that from the most remote an- tiquity has often obsessed people of the Aryan race, calling them ever westward, towards the setting sun. Everywhere he met "movers"-Texas masking as the Promised Land, beckoning to the cultured as to the ignorant. Adventure prompted many, others knew not why they were going, some were "eaten out by their negroes" and one informant said: If we remain here, we are reduced to the alter native of high taxes to pay the interest
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what she longed for cut me to the very heart"
 Rosencrantz may deny the hurts of un- conscious nature. but they are so palpa- ble that they seemed to the heather po- ct, Lucretius. to warrant him in the re- mark that he "eould not believe that a world so disordered was formed by di- vine wisdom;" and that modern Pagan, John Stuart Mill, vigorously echoes that thought. Luther speaks of the grooming of the brutes under the cruelties of un- godly men, and gives some striking thoughts on the subject.
 But our authority is by no means con fined to the testimony I have cited. The statement of Paul is sustained In a re- markable degree by the results of strict ly scientific investigation; so that a phil osopher like Jouffroy. who attempts to construct a system of human duty, and ignores the disorders introduced by the fall of man, Is leaving out one of the ele- ments of the account, and may well ex- pect to get himself and his system into inextricable confusion.
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and how the clerk of the circuit court was the last survivor of those who had won the battle" The Indian paths still trace able through the forests near Tuscaloosa awakened the same feeling. On his re- turn he and his wife crossed to Claiborne to await the Mobile steamer, and he ex- presses his pleasure at finding It the "Amaranth," commanded by his "old friend Captain Bragdon."
 Reaching Mobile, the Tuscaloosa steam CT was ready to start, so they were soon northward bound on the Tombeckbee, then so high that the trees of both banks seemed to be growing in lake" Arriy- ing at Tuscaloosa, where there is fiourishing college, he was met by MT Brumley, the professor of chemistry, who at once conducted him to the outlying coal fields He found the coal, even of the strata exposed to the surface, to be or "excellent quality and highly bitumin- ous Here there is a bit of justification In Huxley's criticism of "Lyells aversion to look beyond the veil of strafified rocks, for while he notes with seeming satlsfac- ton the imprints of the fossil plants in the black shale to be exactly the same a5 those eXlSllnB III lile dHSicit SOoi-hiNA' ures of Europe and America there IS no foreshadowng of the explanation giSen by recent geology and astronomy. that even as late as the early Carboniferous era there were no seasons, the earth being wrapt in @ uniform, vaporous warmth greater than the heat now exist ing in the tropics a heat which came not from the sun, but from the earth itself One proof lies in the fact that IT, respective of latitude the same organic remains are found-their nearest kin = today living only in the tropics; also In that there are no rings of annual groWth in carboniferous tree-lfe.
 Lyell and Professor Brumley extending their warderings, "entered about 33 miles northeast of Tuscaloosa a region called Rooke's valley, where rich beds of iron stone and limestone bid fair from their proximity to the coal, to become one day a source of great mineral wealth. He was not only indebted to Professor Brupl- ley for much scientific information. but also to Mr Barnard, the teacher of as tronomy who showed him some double stars and consultations not visible in England'-the telescope a recent acquisi- tion from London. Mrs. Lyell, also, made many friends in Tuscaloosa. among them two ladies who were reading as pas time Goethe and Schiller in the original" :"
 From Tuscaloosa to Mobile he had splendid chances of studying the geologl- cal character of the country and he fre- quently expresses an appreciation Of the courtesy and assistance that was always given him throughout Alabama. contrast
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silver question would have been settled without a disruption of the democratic party. But Harrlson signed the Sherman silver law that was to be a composition of the entire coinage question Instead, it operated to eliminate good from tho currency, and when Cleveland became President in March, 1893, the country, in the midst of financial panic was already on the silver basis for all practical pur- poses.
 Mir. Cleveland set about the work of tasporins and maintaining the public credit. There was but one way to do it-pay gold. There was but one way to pay gold-to get it. There was but one way to get gold-to buy it with bonds Never In our history was a man the vic- tim of so much coarse abuse as was MT. Cleveland the last four years he was president; but he never wavered Not Cor one moment did he dream of yield ing. Men whom he had appointed to of- flee took delight in reviling him and let 't not be forgot that Grover Cleveland appointed more democrats to office than all other Americans put together. He was the man who moved the souths seat al the family table above the salt, and the south, like an ingrate, bit the hand that fed It.
 They said Cleveland wrecked the party. Over his protest and contrary to his warnings the party wrecked itself. If on the high seas a crew should mutiny, re- fuse to obey the captain, and reverse every order he gave, and the vessel went on the rocks, who would blame the cap tain? But that was exactly the case of Captain Cleveland and the democratic craft. He was in command but not one
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r ONDON, July LA new idea must surely be a rare occurrence in an A age when ideas follow each other as the motor cars along the highway, but Captain Baker has propounded schemes at which he has been working for some years which evidently are new to the average mind. The movement is called the School of Mounted Nurses"
 Seven months ago Captain Baker mounted the Islington Drill Brigade Girls Yeomanry, numbering five-and- twenty strong young amazons. dressed in red, gold and blue uniforms. mounted on black horses.
 They received the concentrations Of Colonel Ricardo, than whom no more sol dierly man exists, and so great was his satisfaction with the idea and its mate rialization that he invited the girls to give display at the military tournament The display consisted in seeing the girls go into imaginary battle, tie up the ban dages of the wounded, and hoist them on to their own horses, and ride away with a man behind the saddle.
 The discipline, self reliance and physi- cal strength which they displayed were simply wonderful
 The uniform consists of a red tunic blouse, with blue skirt with white braid ing round the bottom, white gauntlets, black leggings and yellow sash, with a red and blue field service cap and chin strap.
 Perhaps these 25 maidens will be the nucleus of a very regiment of women en- listed, not to fight but to save.
 The girls march well, are well drilled and carry out the discipline perfectly. Il is believed that by and by, when the
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Horse vs. Jackass.
the Chicago News.

From the Chicago News.
 Congressman Frank L. Dixon, of Illinois, who lives In Ramsey, which Is down Egypt way, where, he says, jack asses grow, was talking to some friends in the Hamilton club today and com mented thus on as.er-dinner speeches and speakers, bearing in mind especially that luncheons and dinners of the present pe- riod incidental to Chicagos entertainment of the convention crowds of politicians and others.
 "They remind me or the old story of Solomon" he said. Solomon you know. was a king once. gifted, they tell us, with all wisdom. He has been dead these many years. Solomon. you know, could understand the language of beasts. One cay he was walking in q pasture when he overheard a dispute between a horse and a iackass as to which was the better ami nal. Fins,ly the horse said:
 "'Oh, Solomon, thou are wissi Tell us, would you rather be a horse or 2 jack assf" To which Solomon answered
 "A horse. They never ask horses to make after dinner soeeches."
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TT WOULD be exactly like the demo-
 cratic party to adopt by unanimous vote in national convention resolu ton eulogistic of Grover Cleveland and then turn around and nominate for Pres ident of the United States a man who, in a public address, stigmatized Grover Cleveland as a bunlko o-steerer. One week before the Denver convention there are tidings that George Gray, a "traitor of 'ss," is to be drafted to lend respectabil- ity-and democracy--to the ticket as the candidate for Vice President
 Caesar cried, Help me, Cassius, or I
 sink"
 Any roll of the dozen greatest Ameri- cans would be defective that did not con- tain the name of Grover Cleveland, and any roll of the score of greatest Ameri- cans that did not have the name Grover Cleveland would be ridiculous He build ed a character that stands for strength, for integrity, for wisdom. Emphatically, he earned the need that Tenryson paid to Wellington.
 Every American is the better man for the example that Grover Cleveland set. and our republic will be robust among the nations as long as, and no longer than, Grover Cleveland Is the ideal Of splendid citizenship. He taught that public office is trust. He said that 1t was the duty of the people to support the government, and that it was not the office of the government to support the Deople He exclaimed, Tell the truth. fhough 1t made him the mark of envy
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TN the Sth chapter and 22nd verse of
 the epistle to the Romans, Paul tells x us that "The whole creation groan- eth and travaileth in pain together un- i'll now" It is a strong statement, if we are to take it without limiting the mean ing of the phrase "the whole creation;" and there seems to be no sufficient req son for any such limitation.
 Augustine, indeed, held the view that the phrase should be limited to mean on- ly the extra Christian part of the human race; and some medieval commentators, influenced doubtless by his authority, maintain the same view. But Augustine himself was probably led to this posi- tion-or rather driven to it-by his con- troversy with the Manichees, in whose hands this passage seemed to be pow erful weapon; and he can hardly sustain himself against the profound and schol- arly criticisms of Tholuck, Stier. Olshau- son and Ruckert, who hold that not on- ly the lower animals, but even the in-
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The Bible teaches that the ground was cursed on account of mans sin. It was 10 bring forth thorns-and so it does. But what are thorns? They must be classed among natures failures They are arrested growths. A hourishing. healthy. vigorous. fruit-bearing apple tree bears no thorns. A wild apple, plum or pear tree, growing on poor land, neg lected, stunted and fruitless, is full of thorns The thorns are abnormal condi- tions of buds or of branches.
 Now, there is no evidence to show that any of the pre-Adamite periods in the formation of the earth ever produced a thorn. So far as geology has discovered this abortive, abnormal formation Is pe culiar to the human epoch. The carbo niferous period produced ferns and pines; in the secondary strata we find cyads and palms; latet periods give us still higher orders of vegetable life, and elms, brches, naples and elders are found.
 Just before man, we have the great family of the "Rosal Alliance," including over ten thousand species, and among