Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1883-03-02

WEEKLYGRAPHIC
KIRKsvn.LE. MISSOURI. 6.
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FRIDAY. MARCH 2i 1881
The Macon Times, which is the sue
cessor to Gillespie's North Mo Register
shows signs Of good newspaper work.
1t is newsy, nicely printed and arranged
with taste. The Office is being fitted
out with new type. =, -ei
The NDlscRMlNArE putting Of
everything that comes along, by the
most of newspapers has done more to
disgust the public and injure the real
influence OF the press than ANYTHING
else, unless il be the universal habit
during political campaign, to .behttle
the opposite side without stint: reason
or justice. a-talaom.0 sFw
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The, fifteen year sentence passed
on the homicide Ray, last week, ought
to prove "a salutary lesson to
that class of young men
growing up. in some, country
districts, known as roughs and rowdies.
Fifteen years in confinement ; an adult
life line, the very cream of manhood
slowly, oh how slowly, counted out by
DAYS, hours and minutes! wha. fate
Verify the way Of the transgressor is
EVIDENTLY our late learned and as
,ute school superintendent, DR.. Shan
non, is firm believer in Solomon's
doctrine that the rod is a good thing.
He has been teaching at Louisiana
Mo-, and an exchange says that he dis
located his shoulder the other day,
while thrashing one of his pupils. The
strangest part of the story Is that
rather than let the pupils know of it, he
endured the pam till noon before hav-
ing 1t attended to- Either that boy
was receiving tremendous whal,oping
or the doctor has wonderfully weak
iointed shoulder.
THE following from the Macon
Times, sounds "sorter'' familiar like,
and we thought something OF the kind
happened in Kirksville, but perhaps it
is only one of those wonderful co.lnci-
dences which occur now and then. We
forget now, whether the figures gwen
are exactly the same in both cases or
not The Times says ''Iti very COM
mon for business men to grumble at
prices charged them for advertising IN
country papers. Not long since, one
of this class Srote to the GloDe-Demo-
crat for the price on a fifty-slx line ad.
one year, ano was answered $500
The fact is that city papers get about
twice as much for advertising consider
ing circulation as the country press gets
The price obtained in the country IS
frequently below cost, and the business
men for whose interests country paper
labors necessarily, ought to be ashamed
to ask or avail themselves of such rates.
Moberly may be the Magic City,
but surely her depot accommodations
are about the hardest on the road.
The "gentlemen's" waiting room is
generally an inch deep in dirt poorly
lighted, crowded with "mokes'' and
the seats occupied by employees of the
road, while the bela:ed traveller is not
favored even with a time card, or an
office clock to look at while waiting for
his tram. If he wishes any informa
ton 1T is given in an insolent and surly
manner as if it were oondescension,
on the part of the glver, and one trial
generally satisfies the traveller to de-
pend on his wits or the politeness of
some civil darkey he may chance to
meet, for whatever further information
ne needs. We speak specially of the
Wabash, but the other depot, is said to
be much worse. We do not see how
1t could be much worse. Lucky is the
man who does not have to lay over
long in Moberly. The reverse of all
this is afforded at Kansas City, where
poliieness seems to be the rule, and
any reasonable request or question is !
promptly and good naturedly attended
to. Why is it? s |
PANIC PREDICTED.