Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1883-11-09
EDITORIAL NOTES.

give us the customary CiSoie "ieh
clipping from our columns :?
The President has set apart
Thursday Nov, z9th, as turkey eating
day for the nation, and we believe
T. T. c. has followed suit"
Returns from all over the coun-
try establishes the fac. that the corn
crop is about IS per cent short in guam
tity while the quality in many section is
very poor.
We see by our democratic ex-
changes that Mr.. Richard T. Gentry
of Sedalia, is swinging around the cir
Gle of northeast Missouri county towns,
working up his little "boom" asa can
didate for State Treasurer. Mr.. Cen
try was in Klrksville, but not being
we'll posted, or well advised, failed to
give US call. 1t was a fatal over
sight.
The newspaper reporters of the
country seem to be carrying off the
honors in the way o. detective work.
There have been a number of cases in
the last year where the regular "detec.
tive force" has been beaten in its own
peculiar field by the reporters. The
latest case is the finding of Mary
Churchill, the missing St. Louis girl,
by Glo6e- Democrat man, full report
ofwhich appears in the Sunday issue Of
that.paper.
Mary Churchill has been found
at last after the country had been ran
sacked, quietly at work as servant in
indianapolis Asylum for the Insane. 1t
is peculiar case and no explanation
has been yet given why 4 young girl
should suddenly leave luxurious or at
least comfortable home, by stealth, tc
take up the drudgery of hired servan
under an assumed name in distart |
city.
Last week the Dem0fyut of
this city devoted no small amolnt
Of space to an apology or de-
fense of Governor Crittenden. We
have no desire to enter into a disus-
sion of the matter with our neiglbor,
for the report of the St. Louis grand
jury, portions of which we quote in
this issue, is quite sufficient. Fut we
are a little curious 10 know if the
Democrat does not feel as II it had |
taken up the cudgel little premature
ly. The first and mos: important thing
for young editor to learn is the un-
advisability of not being too previous.
The November number of
Dem0rest MonMD say that an ortho-
dox clergyman in the New York
Tribune calls attention. with some alarm
to the tendency toward free thought in
all the orthodox churches in the world. |
The leading religious teach ers, even in
the Oldest and most conservative sects,
are cfiticislng the old dogmas and re-
pudiating the creeds of their own de-
nomination. Ministers who express
heterodox views are the most popular,
and charges of which twenty years ago
would have banlshed them from the
pulpit, now fall still-b orn. Jonathan
Edwards terrible sermons, which so
expressed the Calvinistrc theology of
his time, would not be listened 10 with
any patience in modern Presbyterian
church. This same minister complains
that in Geneva, the home of John Cal
vim, Orthodox Clergymen, so-cslled,
are in fact Agnostlcs. They are in re.
ality more heterodox thar Servetus.
whom Calvin burnt at tie stake for bis
premature liberalism. But there may
be a revival of faith. Epochs ofun-
belief are very rare in this world, for
man is religions animal. Infdelity
was rife in Athens when Pericles was
all powerful, but later on the worship
of the gods revived, and Socrates was
put to death for teaching system of
ethics and religion which would have
been assented to, or at least tolerated,
n the time of Pericles.
Proctor Knott's last joke was to
present President Arthur, with gold i
fish-pole, the ceremony was {
'ery imposing, the music was furnished 5
d by a band of Italians, and the lights a
we're turned down low the rod had been
IN exhibition at the Louisville exposi-
ion and was presented by them to his =
xcellency. This was the presenta. r
ION speech b
"MR. PRESIDENT / have been re- a
Iuested by the managers of the Louis h
lille exposition to lay at your honored n
eet this fishlng.rod as modest tribute A