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The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1908-01-30
Administrators Sale OF Real Estate.

Whereas, the Probate Court of Bates County,
Missouri, by its order duly entered of record
at the regular November term. 1907, of said
court, did order aud direct the undersigned
public administrator of Bates County, Mis-
souri,, and a. such having in charge the estate
of Branham Hill, deceased, as administrator de
bons non with the will OF said deceased an
neXed, TO sell at public or private sale the fol-
lowing real estate, lying, being and situate In
said county of Bates aud state of Missouri, to-
witt
The east half of the southeast quarter OF sec.
ton thirteen Q3), in township forty 40), Of
range thirty (3o). and the south half of lot two
GU, In the southwest quarter OF section eghte
Isl in township forty (40), of range twenty mine
G9l. containing In all 1870 and 32 100 acres, more
or less, the same belonging to the estate ofssid
Branham Hill, deceased for cash in hand. for
the purpose of paying the specific legacies
provided for in the will Of said Branham Hal,
deceased.
Therefore, will on Thursday the 18th day of
February, 1905, between the hours of nire
O'Clock in the loren DON and five O'Clock in the
aftt rnoon of that day. offer for sale at public
auction to the highest bidder for cash, at the
east front door OF the court hous 3, in the city
of Butler, in Bates county, Missouri, the wheie
OF the real estate above described
JOHN c. HAYES. n
lS'4t Public Administrator of Bates Co. No.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1908-01-30

Az a general rule We do not knock
on wealth, being In such a position
as to long to acquire a little our
selves, most OF the time. But when
some individual like John D. Rookie.
iellsr or Mrs. Russell Sage, hands
out that stale gag about wealth be
ing Il burden, it gives us an ove!-
whelming desire to say naughty
words and relieve them OF their task
OF bearing the burden"
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1908-01-30

The second floor Of the court house
at Nevada will be- ready Tor occu.
pancy by the first of February, On
account of q lack a funds the officers
will be compelled to use the old iurni-
ture for some time yet.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1908-01-30

De Hitt-Hello! Where are you
going with the gun?
De Witt-Gunning. Where do you
suppose?
De Hitt-Huh. You couldn't hit a
barn door.
De Witt-Perhaps not: but | could
hit a darn bore, and might be tempt
ed to do 1t any moment.
Added Years.
Young Wife-To-morrow will be my
birthday, dear.
Young Husband-You'll be 81?
Young Wife-No; rs.
Young Husband-Why, a year ago,
Just before our wedding, you told me
you we're only 20.
Young Wife-Yes; but / have aged
rapidly since our marriage.-Chicago
Daily News.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1908-01-30

Testimony showing the straits ol
the civil population as Port Arthur
during the siege Was given at thr
court martial OF Lieut.. General
Stoessel, gave u list OF prices shat
out classes n healthy United States
panic. 4 COW cost eight hundred, u
pig five hundred dollars, eggs one
doiiar each ana other things CORE
spondingly.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1908-01-30
Not OF the Boiling Kind.

Washington, Jan,-Senator Stone
prepared and authorized this inter.
view:
"The stat ment IN some St. Louis
papers that my friends would not
consider themselves bound by the re-
suit OF the senatorial primary is silly
nonsense, and worse even than that
when we recall past experiences or
when we consider the origin OF the
story. My irlep $ are the Democrats
OF Missouri, who always stand by
the tickes, the whole ucket, whether
it's personnel suits them or not. No
body honestly supposes for n mo-
ment that my friends will be found
among boilers or sulkers, and whas
ever may hethe result OF the primary,
my friends in the Legislature will
faithfully abide by and honestly sup
port the result, ns | will,
Senator Stones statement replies
TO reports said to have been circula.
ted In Missouri and published In Re-
publican newspapers as coming from
friends OF Mr.. Stone, that the result
OF the primary will not be considered
legally binding by Stone men
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1908-01-30

A young man, OF Metz, Mo-, has
received a leap year proposal in
rhyme from an unknown young lady
who signs herself "Silent Admlrer,'
and asks either his acceptance or five
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-07-31
Must Keep Well Prepared.

"Our duties at home are of first i'm
portance, but our duties abroad are of
vital consequence also. This nation
may fail. no matter how well it keeps
itself prepared against the possibility
of disaster from abroad. But it will
certainly fail if we do not thus keep
ourselves prepared. We need greatly
In the interest of peace, I'm the interest
of true national greatness, that the
United States navy, with its ships, its
officers, its enlisted men, shall at every
point be kept in the highest possible
condition of efficiency and we'll being !"
At the conference that was held
President Roosevelt made the impor-
tant announcement that he wished all
of the officers present to submit their
own views and to lay these before the
college, not the summer habitues of
the institution, but before the officers
who had at his behest foregathered
from all sections OF the eastern sea-
board to hear these wishes of the
president personally expressed.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-07-31
Inviting Certain Disaster.

ait is defensible policy. But a
wholly indefensible policy would be
consistently to work for the assump-
ton of responsibilities without making
any provision for meeting the de-
mands necessarily entailed by those
responsibilities. 20 be rich, aggres-
sive and unarmed is to invite certain
disaster and humiliation.
I'VE have taken the Philippines, but
If we had not taken them not parti-
Gle of difference would be made as re-
CARDS the needs of our naval policies.
There has been q division among this
people as to taking the Philippines.
There has been no division on the
Monroe doctrine; no division on build
ing, maintaining, policing and defend
ing the Panama canal; no division about
Hawaii and Porto Rico; no division
about keeping Alaska, which, though
arated as if it was an island; no di-
vision about asserting our superior
right to defend and protect Cuba. Not
one of the courses of action thus out
lined can be followed out excepting
with first class navy.
1.-THE Monroe doctrine was in danger
of falling not merely into disuse. but
into contempt, until we began to build
up our navy. The Monroe doctrine
won't be observed by foreign nations
with sufficient strength to disregard it
when once it becomes their interest to
disregard it, unless we have navy
sufficient to make our assertion of the
doctrine good. The Monroe doctrine
unbacked by navy is an empty boast,
and there exist but few more con-
temptible characters, individual or ma
tional, than the man or nation who
boasts and when the boast is chal-
lenged fails to make good
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-07-31
Big Navy Best For Peace.

"If we have coast defense navy
only, we had better at once turn over
the Panama canal to some stronger
limit itself merely to q coast defense
navy and could protect it. If we
should limit ourselves merely to a
navy that would confne US to defensive
war-war certain in the end to be I'M
successful-it would be well at once to
give up Hawaii. to give up Porto Rico.
to give up Alaska and to say that we
had no more interest in Cuba than the
smallest outside powers.
"If we intend to claim to be great
nation, then we must fit ourselves so
that we may be ready at need to make
good that claim. That can only be
done by building up and maintaining
at the highest point of efficiency the
United States navy.
"There is curious eorolIary to what
. am just saying. IF we really make
good the claim, the chances are in
finitesimsl that it will ever be neces.
sary to do so. The real chance for
war for this nation comes only if we
combine policy which disresards the
interests or feelings of others with a
policy of helplessness to hold our own
if our right to do as we wish is chal-
leneed. If, on the other hand, we are
ready in very fact to hold our own, the
chance becomes infinitesimal that we
will be called upon to do so.
But, constituted as this people Is,
IL we did not have foreign posses
sion, if we abandoned the Monroe doc
trine, If we handed over to some other
power the Panama canal, it would still
be necessary for us to have navy,
and strong fighting navy.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-07-31

~
tiller of the soil and the wageworker,
for the prosperity of all other classes
will follow their prosperity. Therefore,
gentlemen. as it becomes more and
more important to keep that prosperity
on a high level it is very possible that
we shall have to exercise a continually
greater supervision. continually
greater exercise of the right of rejec.
ton among Immigrants that come
-hither. and shall. 1t may be. take an
attitude that viii tend at first to pro-
yoke friction.
Now. II. is our undoubted right to
say what people. what persons. shall
come to this country TO live, to work
to become citizens. The theSry of GER
tain of our fellow citizens that we can
permanently follow policy of peace
with insult is erroneous. We: must
stand up for our rights firmly, but
temperately and courteously and with
all possible respect not merely for the
rights, but for the feelings of others.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-07-31
Wants a Foot Loose Navy.

"For the protection of our coast we
need Notifications. not merely to pro-
tect the salient points of our posses
sions, but so that the navy can be foot
loose. A year ago, at the time it was
announced that the feet was to go
abroad, there were a certain number
of newspapers, especially in my own
city of New York, that raised a clam
orous protest against it. 1t took at
one time the form of mistaken proph-
ecy to the effect that the fleet would
not be allowed to go around the world,
and one of the reasons alleged was
that to let it go around the world
would leave New York defenseless In
the event of war.
1.-THE theory evidently was that the
fleet. or portion of it, would be used
especially to protect New York and
other cities in the event of war. If
that administration under which 1t
comes will indeed be guilty of folly il
1t uses the fleet to protect any port
Let the port be protected by the forti-
fications. The fleet must be foot loose
TO search out and destroy the enemy's
feet. That is the only function that
can justify the fleets existence, and
that function cannot exist in the case
of such ridiculous fleet as the feet
would be If it were only possible to
use it for coast defense purposes.
an any question of national policy
when statesmen. when the people be-
hind the political leaders, embark or
any given policy, they build up for
themselves time of humiliation AND
disaster IN the future If they do mol
prepare to make that policy effective.
There Is something to be said (from
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-07-31
First Class Navy or None.

"We do not want any navy at all If
IL is not first class one. and such
navy will be necessary for us just as
long as we demand the right to admin
lister our national affairs as we think
best. This country is as yet in its
youth. In the process of building up
many hundreds of thousands of immi-
grants are coming here from all parts
of the world, representing many diff
ferent nationalities, many different
strata of cultivation, of civilization.
In consequence there are points OF
friction between this country and 9th.
er countries such as exist in no other
nation.
Ultimately, and l think at not a
very distant period. as this country
grows up it becomes more and more
important that we should keep on the
highest possible level Of prosperity the
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-07-31
Great Nation Playing Great Part.

"All of the leaders of our people are
fond of assuring this people that it is
great people. We are great peo-
pie. That ought not to be a subject
for bOastfulness. 1t ought to be
subject for serious consideration be-
cause of the heavy responsibilities
that go with it.
'We cannot help playing a great
part in the world. but we can very
easily help playing that part well, and
to be great people and make great
failure is as unattractive a picture as
history affords. 1t is not open to us to
decide whether or not the career that
we lead shall be important. 1t has
got to be important. All we can de-
eide is as to whether our success shall
be great or our failure great. We are
sure to make either great failure or
q great success.
81 would not pretend for a moment
gentlemen, to you or any one else,
that merely military proficiency on
land or sea would by itself make this
or any other nation great. First and
gates of our own household, and
then our duty is to strive to bring
about a better administration of JUS
tice, cleaner, juster, more equitable
methods in our political. business and
social life. the reign of that orderly
liberty which was the first considera-
ton in the minds of the founders of
this rpnublip
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-07-31
Joel Chandler Harris.

He hath gone from the children and ''ud-
der little creeturs"
That he loved SO well
To that mysterious realm of which
No one returns to tell.
All childhood land is full of grief
And bitter tears
The animal Kingdoms cast in gloom
And darksome fears.
For the friend who understood and loved
them
Hath gone away
And neveruore can Join with them
In imaginative play. !.
But in better land than this,
More beautiful and fair.
He'll find some loving little ones
Awaiting for him there
And In this world he's left behind
An empty space:
The little creeturs" will find no mister
Man
To fill his place.
Clara Cox Epperson in Nashville Amor
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-07-31
THE MARKETS.

Chicago, July 81 -Following are the
market quotations soday:
Wzeas-
July, 9Oss, 90%f S9as, $685..
September, 900 911a, 80, 9OA.
December, s2l 93A, 80. 92.
May. 96A, 81 s6B. 96h.
Corn.
July, II, 777S 76, II.
September, H7s. IS. IA. 74B.
December, "a, 623s, 61A, 61A.
May, 611s, H%. 81, B1A.
Oats.
July, 55, E6 81, 81.
SeptembeI AS, 451s. "A, A.
December rs, 40, "A, "A.
May, 46hs46%, 451s, Ash.
Pork
July, 15.Sk -, 1857.
Septembe 1892, 1900, 1915, 1875.
October, 5-s7, 1906. 1882, 1886.
81 Lard.
July. clos 9.45.
Septembe@ 9.55, 9.57, 952, s.52.
October, a62. 9.67, 9.62, 1862.
Ribs.
July, closed S.92.
septembef, $40. 9.12,, 800. 9.02.
October IL, $40, $40, go.
Receipts today Wheat, 29s; corn
rs; oats. 172; hogs, 10000; cattle
500; sheetp, 5000.
Estimat9d receipts Saturday
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-07-31
LEADING for popular support
for first class lighting navy"
navy capable of seeking out

N A-ANADi-NN pOlJuldE Suppofi
~ for first class lighting navy"
a navy capable of seeking out
the enemy and .''hammering
him into the quits,'' President Roose-
welt was the central figure at the Naval
War college in Newport the other day
in the most notable conference of
American naval officers ever called to-
gether to consult and discuss in a
broad, general way the features of fu-
ture battleships. The president spoke
publicly for more than half an hour,
and the conference went into executive
session for an hour.
During this session the president
took leading part in the discussion.
He argued as a layman, he explained,
and did not attempt TO give advice to
professional men. He impressed upon
the officers, however, that it was given
to them to keep the American navy
abreast Of the times and to make it
the hard hitting, efficient fighting
force which he believes to be a guar
antee against the possibility of war.
Mr.. Roosevelt characterized the navy
as the cueapeSC 10TH OIL safety lDSuE-
ance policy the nation could secure.
: The president in his address said:
|. admiral, Mr.. Secretary Gentle
men-There are only few things
that desire to say today to the con-
ference, and what / have to say really
is said less to the officers present than
to the great bulk of my fellow coun-
.trymen outside. I could not speak to
you technically. l can speak to my
fellow countrymen, who are deeply in
terested in the American navy, but
who sometimes tend to be misled as
to the kind of navy we should have
and as to what the navy can and
ought to do.
For instance, there are always GER
tain numbers of well meaning. amia-
BILE individuals, coupled with others
not quite so well meaning, who advo-
cate merely coast defense navy.
Such advocacy illustrates habit of
mind as old as human nature itself
the desire at the same time to do
something and not to do it.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-07-31
DANGER In "Hittinq Soft"

"No fight was ever won yet except
by hitting, and the one unforgivable
offense in any man is to hit soft. That
applies to the nation, and those who
advocate a coast defense navy are
advocating that we shall adopt as a
national principle the principle Of hit
ting soft.
~ hope with all my heart that never
will this nation of ours hit unless it
cannot possibly be helped. believe
that the nation should scrupulously
refrain from wronging or insulting
another nation; that it should put up
with a good deal in the way Of mis-
conduct on the part of others before
going to war. But when this nation
does have to 60 to war such war will
only be excusabIe if the nation in
tends to hammer its opponent until
that opponent quits fighting.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-07-31
Words of No Avail.

sit is absolutely necessary that II
we claim for ourselves the right to
choose who shall come here we shall
be in trim to uphold that right If any
power challenges it, and it cannot be
upheld by words. it cannot be upheld
by a coast defense navy. 1t can be
upheld only by the possession of an
efficient fighting navy, navy able to
preserve the honor and the interest of
tack on our shores and then seeing il
we cannot repel it. but by taking such
action as shall guarantee us against
our shores being attacked.
"At the present day the Monroe doc
trine is unchallenged, and the people
abroad who used to sheer at it now
say it is pretty good doctrine after
all, a useful doctrine, on the whole, fol
the peace of the world. What has
produced that change? Words? Not
bit of it. Diplomacy? Only in SO
far as diplomacy rested on the sub.
stantial basis of potential force. The
voyage of the sixteen battleships
around South America. through the
strait of Magellan, from Hampton
Roads to Puget sound-thnt was the
most instructive object lesson that had
ever been afforded as to the reality of
the Monroe doctrine.
SNOW, gentlemen, wish to reit-
crate, with just as much earnestness
as have spoken today on other sub
iects, that ! want a resistIess fighting
navy, because it is the most effective
guarantee of peace that this country
can have. Uncle Sam can well afford
to pay for his peace and safety so
cheap an insurance policy as is i'm
States navy
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-07-31

Wheat, 2O6; corn, 1872; oats, 1870; hogs,
10000.
Hog market opened strong 5 to 10e
higher. Hogs left over, 5000. Light,
$6.O5@6.S5; mixed and butchers, $6.15
@6,9O; good heavy, s6.1596.95; rough
heavy, $6.15@6S5.
Cattle market opened steady.
Sheep market opened steady.
Omaha-Hogs. 5000; cattle, 1000,
Kansas City-Hogs, 5000; cattle,
1000.
Hog market closed strong and most
~ zoe higher. Light, $6.20@6.95;
mixed and butchers, s625@7o5; good
heavy, s625@7.O7; rough heavy. $6.25
06.5O.
Cattle market closed steady. Beeves.
So 40@7S0; cows and heifers. S1.50@
$50; stockers and feeders. s2.00@4.90.
Sheep market closed strong.
Northwestern receipts:
Minneapolis-To IFS; last week,
257: last year, 80.
Duluth-Today, "a: last week, Sc;
last year, 156.
Export clearances = Wheat and
flour. $4,000; corn. 1000; oats. none
Liverpool opening cables-Wheat u
| higher, corn unchanged.
Liverpool closing>Wheat " higher
corn X lower.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-07-31
*as g. = +sssaA $500
want a resistIess fiahtina nav,

want resistless fighting navy,
because it is the most effective
guarantee Of peace that this
country can have.
No fight was ever won yet ex-
eept by hitting, and the one I'M
forsivable offense in any man is
to hit soft.
When this nation does have to
go to war, such war will only be
excusable if the nation intends to
hammer it's opponent until that
opponent quits fighting.
II war comes at any time in the
future, that administration under
which it comes will indeed be
guilty of folly If it uses the fleet
to protect any port. Let the port
be protected by the Notifications.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-07-31

my standpoint not much. but still
something for the theory that this na-
ton shall never have any interests out
side its own borders and shall assume
toward other nations an attitude of
such meekness that no trouble can
ever possibly come
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-07-31

The Monroe doctrine WON'T be
observed by foreign nations with
sufficient strength to disregard it,
when once it becomes their inter-
est to disregard it, unless we have
navy sufficient to make our as
sertion of the doctrine good.
If we have a coast defense navy
only, we had better at once turn
over the Panama canal to some
stronger and Drawer nation.
1t is very possible that we shall
have to exercise . continually
greater supervision, continually
greater exercise of the right of
rejection among immigrants that
come hither and shall, it may be,
take an attitude that will tend at
first to provoke friction.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-07-31
Cattle-Steers. $500 to $500 ;cows.
and heifers, $500 to $500; calves. $500
$3.50.
Feed and Fuel.

Grain-Corn. 7Sc to soc; oats, soc
TO SIC: wheat. 90c.
Forage-Timothy hay, IS to $40:
prairie. 81 to $40; clover, $40 to $11;
straw, Sc.
Coal-Lump. per bushel, 14c; slack.
per bushel, &c to &c.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-07-31
he quotations on the stock market to-

the quotations on the stock market to-
day:
U. p 1854, u S. Steel preferred |
10SN, u s. Steel common 451s, Read |
ing 122, Rock Island preferred 33A |
Rock Island common 17A, Southern
Pacific SO. n. Y. Central 1881, Mis-
souri, Pacific 565s, Great Northern 1877,
Northern Pacific 141%, L. & N. 1898,
Shelters S91s, C. F. I. 321e, Canadian
Pacific 174as, Illinois Central 1421s,
Penna 1858, Erie 25k, B. R. T. Sly,
B. & o. 92, Atchison S71a. Locomotive
Sc, Sugar 1872, st. Paul 141A, Copper
774. Republic Steel preferred 1884,
Republic Steel common 81, Southern
Ry. 10.
| LOCAL MARKET CONDITIONS.
Today's Quotations on Provisions, Live
Stock, Feed and Fuel.
Rock Island, July 31.-Following are
1.-THE wholesale prices in the local mar.
ket today:
Provisions and Produce.
Eggs-Fresh, tic.
| Live Poultry-Hens, per pound, &c;
springs. So to 81 dozen.
Butter-Dairy, zoe.
Lard-10c.
| Vegetables = Potatoes. soc; onions.
! 800.
/ tive stock.
/ Hogs s6s5@s.75.
Sheep-Yearlings or over. $500 to
$500; lambs. $3.50 to $6.75.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-07-31
New York ssoeks.

New York. July s1.-Following are
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-07-31
Clearing of
Low shoes

Women's s2g5- patent leather
Oxfords in pretty stylish shapes.
Welt soles; we'll made; $2.35
Women's $3.50 tan calf. low
shoes from one of our best
makers. Reduced to, pair, $2.49
Women's high-grade 81 patent
leather and tan calf Pumps. are
very special at. per pair, $2.83
East Aisle, Rear.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-07-31

25c, 29c, 33c and Csc Wash Fab
RIGS in newest patterns, yd., 15c
7kc, S1ac and 10c Wash Goods
in dependable grades, yard, SC
Batistes in dainty pats, 12I2c.
West Aisle.