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Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1883-01-19
7 Wont Lie
. On ny Meighhur /!

l won't Open Pack
ages and dissatisfy
the party by saying
/ Could do Better!
1 wont keep an In
ferior Class Of Goods
l wont take goods
back after they are
sold.
1 won't disfigure
my goods by giving
samples.
Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1883-01-19

For school supplies of all kinds.
books, states, chalks. papers, pencils,
ETC., cali at Fout Bros, west side
square.
Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1883-01-19
DRESS MAKING.

Hoods and mits very nice at Baylor
Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1883-01-19

We JON with cetemporary in hop
ing our Missouri young ladies will not
to a great extent. adopt recent Quin'
cy. Illinois, custom mentioned by the
Wing. Quincy since she gave up gas
and water works cannot and shall not
arrogate to herself metropolitan airs
TO set the fashion, for us-no indeed.
The custom alluded to is for the ladies
10 sit down suddenly on the side walk,
The style Is to throw the muff into the
circumambient air, utter little screech,
and simply SIT down. all in a heap.
FRIDAY morning young Miss coming
out OF the post Office tried to get of
something of the kind but it is foolish
and dangercu practice. IT. ought to
be frowued down as not at all recher-
che, or chic, or Ell modo bon ton. Don't
do it.
Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1883-01-19

Diagonal black Dolmans Baylor's.
Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1883-01-19

Some special drives in printed enve-
lopes. note heads, and statements. Call
at the GRAPHIC office.
Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1883-01-19

Holiday Novelties at Baylor'S.
Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1883-01-19

Col. Copeland is billed for lecture
here for the benefit of the Normal
Library, on the 29th. His subject will
he mistakes of Bot Ifthey keep up
h.mmerinR Bob somebody will send
for him, yet. Copeland is said to be
o,od on the rostrum and We hope be
may meet full house. The committee
deserve success after so much trouble
from weather etc. Give them a good
send off this time.
Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1883-01-19

Take your prescriptions to Gray &
Co. who will fill them promptly and
with accuracy. at tire lowest prices.
Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1883-01-19

Bargains in Rubber Goods
at Such & Co.'S.
Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1883-01-19
% Dolmans late style. Baylor 5.

Plush. yelvit and Silks ar Baylor's.
Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1883-01-19

Big stock Mems, Boys and chill
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-12-27

"How did YOU come to be in Cattling?"
Miss Claiming asked after moment.
Il had come on business" he an
swered quietly. 81 was telegraphed TO
come"
"Ah? And Rowland was your enc
my? You consider that he dcfrauded
you?"
II have always known it," said
Robert, unhesitatingly
"And yet You brought him home"
she unused aloud. viii you tell me
why you took the trouble to think Of
his safety?'
Robert waited moment, then an
swered, with softened voice, Il thought
of Clarice.'
you thought of Clarice? You love
Clarice?"
Il love Clarice," he repeated, with
infinite tenderness.
1T is very plainly to be seen," said
the lady, dryly. 1--WE will discuss it
tomorrow. Goodnight" And she
swept from the room.
Clarice came back TO him and led
him to his chamber, but lie had grown
faint and could scarcely see her face.
DR.. Keene came in and dressed the
wound, and Robert fell asleep and slept
heavily.
When he awakened the sun was shin
ing sweetly on dear familiar walls, and
there was strange peace in the young
mans heart.
Rowland Claiming had come TO him
self and was seeking an explanation OF
the affair.
II fancy that beggar of Mcclure
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was mixed up somehow in the matter, !"
he whined petutantly.
Miss Claiming gave him a swift re-
buke
Rowland, the young man carried
you in his arms for three miles-and
saved your life"
There was moments silence, then
the little miser sneered as usual.
"Ah, did he SOP"
Miss Claiming went suddenly out
and sent for Robert to come to her
own apartment when he should have
breakfasted.
He came Of once.
"Sit down." she said; II want to
talk with you. You are very like your
father. Did YOU know 1 knew your
father years ago? All, yes, we were
good friends--the best of friends"
She rose and unlocked a cabinet,
deep in recess of which she sought
and found tiny box. Then she came
back to her rocking-chair.
What do you suppose there is in
this boX?' she asked, smiling grimly.
After a moments hesitation, he an
swered, with reyerent tenderness:
Ashes of roses!"
Miss Charming sprang to her feet.
"How could you know" she cried.
With touch as reverent as had been
his speech, Robert drew from his
pocket the sealed packet held ever
precious, the dust of the rose that
Clarice had given him long before.
No words were spoken for space
no sigh fell on the silence of the room
The sunlight came golden through the
window lace; the snow-birds cheeped
without.
Then slowly arose Miss Charming
and spoke with trembling voice:
Il have made a mistake great
mistake! l have wronged you. Let it
pass-and let us be friends. L think
Clarice will like to speak with you. !
think she may explain better.
So saying she left the room. And a
moment later Clarice entered saying
softly:
Aunt has sent you a Christmas
gift. Will you take it? 1t is l."
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to face a death he might have pre-
vented.
Still he could not delay too long.
Heaven knew where horse and cutter
had brought up.
He bent and examined the dark
heap. He was not surprised; he had
known it must be so, else he would not
have come following after. 1t seemed
only natural.
He had come neither soon nor late.
He was in time, perhaps, and his enemy
lay at his feet Was the old man worse
than stunned? 1t mattered little, yet
he could not rouse him.
There was a distance of three miles
between them and the great house, or
any habitation. But there was one
thing, one thing only, to be done-to
convey the old man to his home. He,
Robert Mcclure, against whom those
gates had been closed, must thrust him
self upon them with unexpected tidings
of calamity. And could the old man
be left lying here alone? Alone, help
less, unconscious, in the bitter cold,
while Mcclure traversed that distance
and returned with aid?
If only he could manage so they
might never know who had brought
Rowland Claiming homel But suppos-
ing the old man died without speaking
1t would have an ugly look. No, there
was but one way. Let them put the
meanest construction upon it; let them
think what they might; he would not
shirk his duty.
He must gather his enemy up in his
arms, like q child, helpless child, and
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-12-27
Irying's Christmas.

When Irving was reproached for
describing an English Christmas which
he had never seen, he replied that,
although everything that he had
described might not be seen at any
single house, yet all of it could be seen
somewhere i'll England at Christmas.
He might have answered, also, that the
spirit of what he had described was
visible everywhere in Christendom on
Christmas day.
Some say that ever 'gainst that season comes
Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated,
The bird of dawning singeth all night long;
And then, they say, no spirit dares stir abroad ;
The nights are wholesome, then no planets
strike,
No fairy takes, nor witch hath power TO charm,
So halow'd and so gracious is the time.
This is the Christmas sentiment of to-
day, as it was of Shakespeare's time.
It is the most human and kindly of
seasons, as fully penetrated and irradi-
ated with the feeling of human brother
hood, which is the essential spirit of
Christianity, as the month of June with
sunshine and the balmy breath of roses.
Santa Claus coming down the chimney
loaded with gifts is but the symbol of
the gracious influence which at this
time descends from heaven into every
heart. The day dawns with benedic-
ton; it passes in holiday happiness
and ends in soft and pensive regret. 1t
could not be the most beautiful of festi-
walls if it were doctrinal, or dogmatic,
or theological, or local 1t is universal
holiday because it is the jubilee of a
universal sentiment, moulded only by q
new epoch, and subtly adapted to newer
forms of the old faith. George ".
curtis, i't Harper'S Magazine.
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Presently some one peered forth half
suspiciously.
81 have brought Mr. Charming home, :"
was all he remembered saying, till he
knew himself standing alone with Miss
Claiming and striving to tell her about
it. Il was at the hotel" he said, "and
learned they had given him skittish
horse that 1 myself had driven earlier
in the evening. I feared an accident
and followed on foot. / found him at
the railroad crossing. 1t took good
while to carry him up"
you carried him up from the cross
ing! Three miles," said Miss Chan
ming sharply. why are you standing
You are exhausted Sit down at once
She turned and filled him glass of
wine. DR.. Keene was attending to
Cowland Claiming in an upper cham
Der All merriment was hushed and
set aside. Mcclure sank into chair
and looked about him dazedly. He
was in the long dining-room, where he
had often been before. And this was
Christmas eve!
Miss Claiming came back with the
wine, and stood regarding him with q
curious expression.
He lifted his hand, the warmth OF
room caused it to pain terribly. He
saw her note the action.
1T is a burn" he said, family, "a lit
tie painful.
"A burn?"
Eyes L crossed on the railroad
bridge and stray engine over.
took me. 1 had to drop through the
trestles and hold by my hands,"
! He told it carelessly, half APOLOGIZE
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-12-27
A Merry Christmas f!

Christmas, which always recalls
pleasant memories of the past, in
which we behold the faces of dear
friends whose presence cheered us in
the olden time, is again here to gladden.
us with its time-honored festivities, to
melt our hearts with charity for the
needy, and by reviving in us the Divine
attribute Of Good VIII to man" bring
ing us nearer to God, the Father of us
all. At no time of the year are men so
forbearing, so kind, so good-natured,
as during the Christmas holidays.
Hearts hardened by selfishness seem to
thaw under the genial ways OF good
feeling which universally prevails at
this season, purse strings are relaxed,
and old and Young are gladdened by
unexpected gifts. The secret of true
happiness is readily learned in the
merry Christmas time; it is simply TO
make others happy, and you will derive
happiness from contemplating their
delighted faces, and the reflection that
their pleasure is in q measure due to
your generosity and kindness. Let us
then resolve, since happiness is so
easily attained, to do our utmost to
cheer the needy and distressed, that
one and all may enjoy the pleasures of
"a merry Christmas"
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-12-27
HANG UP YOUR SOCKS AND
STOCKINGS.
nY uELEN sTANNAnD.

Twas Christmas eve-and from chair
Near which sat mamma softly rocking
Suspended hung, ili-mated pair
Dear Jacky's scotland Jennie's stocking.
The wee sma' sock, home made and gray.
Was suited to tie sturdy boot,
Which kept the winter storms at Bay
And safely housed the dimpls foot.
The lassie's stockings, fne and new.
Came DER the waves from sunny France
Around the stripes of varied hue
prisoned rainbow SCENE TO dance
The mother gazes at the twain,
As she still sits there softly rocking
mist of tears like summer rain,
Hides Jacly's sock and Jennie's stocking
"oh, Father, dear!" she softly prays'
my darling children's feet Ger guide,
Oh lead them through the pleasant way
And keep them ever near Thy side
Another prayer az fervent quite,
Was waited from the little led.
Where, side by side that self-same night,
With folded hands ana appraised head.
The children asked their Dearest Friend,
while meath their room mamma was rocking
Dear Jesus! please Kris Kringle send,
To fill up both our sock AMI stocking.
As if in answer to their prayer
Mamma had ceased her steady rocking
And 10! what curious changes are
In Jacky's sock and Jennis'5 stocking.
From top TO toe they're both swelled out
With queer shaped punches, odd and funny.
They surely cannot hold the govt
They must lie bon-bons sweet as honey.
The tiny sock, so short and small,
Is queerly pie,ed cut from the toe,
Below which swings . rubber ball,
And top that S warranted 70 go.
Above the leg whip sticks out
woody dog looks calmly down,
Conjecturing what it's all about,
And whether he should bark or frown.
From out the stockings top-see! peep
That Joyous, beaming little face-
lovely doll. whose ringlets sweep
Far downward with unconscious grace.
She's fenced around with little toys,
That glance out here and there
Gay tokens OF the Christmas joys
Which good Santa Claus doth bear.
The mother sits again TO think
Once more the chair is gently rocking
The dog and dolly seem TO wink
Cross Jacky's sock and Jenny's stocking.
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carry him slowly on to the great house
yonder.
The snow cracked beneath his feet /;
it was still growing colder. He smiled
grimly, wondering what they would say.
1t must be midnight now; but the
dancing and music would still be in
progress. As he toiled onward he felt
curiously Indifferent to their possible
opinion. Let them cavil as they might.
He was doing his duty-tardily it was
true, but his duty.
There were lights in the drawing
room, warm lights shining through
heavy curtains. The rest was like a
dream, his staggering upon the side
porch and knocking heavily.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-12-27

Drums and whistles, and guns and whips,
Crying babies and flying ships;
Every conceivable kind of box,
With all conceivable kinds Of locks;
Tigers and elephants swinging in air,
Singular fruit for tree to bear!
But so it blooms and bears fruit for me,
My winter boomer! my Christmas-trcc!
Elm and linden may both be fair,
But they have 10 elephants swinging in air;
Ash and maple may gracefully grow,
But they have no flies nor whistles TO blow;
The oak may be king of the forest wide
But he has no parcels with ribbons tied
No guns, no rattles, no books, no boats
No pigs, no lions, no cows, no goats,
No dolls, no cradles, no skates, no tops,
Nor oranges, candy or lollipops
Nothing that's pretty, and nothing that's good,
But leaves and acorns, and bark and wood.
So the tree of all others that's best to me
Is my winter bloomer! my Christmas-trce.
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The English Christmas.

The English Christmas tradition
makes good cheer the glory of the day.
Forty years ago, when Leech was be-
ginning his career, Kenny Meadows
was the character artist" of the IL
luStrated London Ns,cS, and its chief
holiday pictures were drawn by him.
They were all scenes of eating and
drinking, Of games and jolity. They
were full of bottles and smoking bowls,
of roast beef and plum-pudding and
mince-pie, of burning brandy and kiss
ing under the mistletoe. "Old Christ
mas" was represented as flowing
bearded satyr crowned with ivy and
pouring huge fagons of wine, or as o
rollick ng boon companion stretching
out one hand to the spectator over de-
canters and jugs and glasses, while the
other holds an open tankard, The
typical faces of the Christmas figures
were those Of the rubicund middle class
John Bull, and his healthy daughter
gayly resisting the efforts of the young
soldier-Irving' Julia and the Captain
to draw her under the permissive
Dough; or of the buxom chambermaid
and greedy children in a frenzy of de-
light over the smoking plum-pudding.
Christmas, according to those defect
able pictures, was all guzzling and COB
bling, love-making and other blind
man's-buff; and as the reader Of to-day
looks with amused curiosity at those
holiday sketches of yesterday, he, too,
like the stranger by the fire in Brace
bridge Hall, through all the fun and
the feasting, hears the music of the Old
Christmas song
Twas Christmas broached the mightiest ale,
Twas Christmas told the merriest tale;
A Christmas gambol oft would cheer
The poor mans heart through half the year"
This is the spirit of Dickens Christ
mas, and of Thackeray's, and, in great
degree, OF Irving's, touched in all of
them 10y the modern humanitarian SEN
timent. 1t is the traditional English
! Christmas, when no man should 90
hungry. For there is no JOY upon an
empty stomach-eXcept indeed, the
thin ecstasy of the starving saints in
old pictures, and they were already de-
humanized. This is Christian truth
which asceticism has forgotten To
identify squalor, emaciation, and de-
NAL of all human delights with espe-
cial sanctity was to degrade the rich and
generous religious spirit which taught
| that all the world is for mans benefit
and pleasure. 1t was George Herbert
of whom Richard Baxter said that he
sang as one whose business in this
world was most with God, and whose
beautiful lines,
Sweet day, 50 cool, so calm, so bright
The bridal of the earth and sky"
are as fresh as when they were written;
who also said,
For US the winds do blow.
The earth doth rest, heavens move and fountains
flow;
! Nothing see but means our good,
| A cur delight or "a our t-easure;
The whole is eth r cupboard Of food.
Or cabinet Of pleasure"
Christianity does not decline any
wholesome use or beauty of the world,
and it would be a sorry preacher in the
church empowered and scented with
Christmas greens who did not hold
that Christmas good cheer contemplates
body as well as soul.-Geo. I'm. Cur
It's, IN Harper'S Magazine.
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cally, and as he ceased a sharp cry rang
through the room.
Clarice was standing in the doorway,
with terror in her lovely eyes. She
came swiftly forward.
"You did'thatl To save him Victor
told me. Victor knew, but i never
did, how you were wronged"
Her cries were half-hysterical, and
Miss Claiming interposed.
"Clarice, my dear, go and see about
n room for Robert, and ask Victor what
to do for the burn"
She had called him Robert
Clarice wheeled like flash and
went out. She must have felt now that
her aunt would be just.
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finger up the muscles of his arm, as if
coal of fire had fallen upon his hand.
He looked up into the moonlit sky
again. 1t could have been but loco
motive, he thought, as he drew him.
self up with no great trouble, strong
limbed, athletic fellow that he was.
Then he went on, thinking little of his
own late danger, even the pain of his
hand where the red coal had burnt. He
went on mistaken, following the track
after leaving the bridge, and so coming
at length to the crossing.
By the roadside, beyond, lay some
thing dark, uncannyl That was all.
He went slowly toward it, dreading
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Which is the best of all the trees?
Answer me, children all, If you please!
Is il the linden. with tassels gay,
Or the willow there where the catkins sway?
is it the oak, the king of the wood,
That for hundred years has stood?
The graceful elm, or the stately ash,
Or the aspen, whose leaflets simmer and flash1
Is it the solemn and gloomy pine,
With its million needles sharp and fine?
All no! The tree that love best,
II buds and blossoms not with the rest,
No summer sun on its fruit has smiled,
But ice and snow are around it piled;
But still it will bloom and bear fruit for me,
My winter boomcr! my ChrstmaS-trce!
Its blossoms are candies, all shining gay
And it's bears its fruit in the queerest wayl
All tied by ribbons TO everything,
Big and little, and little and big,
Dolls and trumpets, and balls and bats,
Horses and monkeys, and dogs and cats,
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The Christian Messenger says
ave once offended q brother by chang
ing a sentence, and yet the only thing
we cut out was the announcement that
some old mother in Israel had died OF
cholera infantum."
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-01-13
SKATING At CENTRAL PARK.

The snow was cleared from the part of the
lake east OF the bridge in Central Park yesterday.
crowd Of skaters filing cleared portion so completely
as to interfere with the full enjoyment OF the sport
present most Of the day and up TO 10 O'Clock
in the evening There were color and
life and animation in the picture by
day. but It was when night and numerous lights
flashed overthe lake that the most picturesque
The skaters moving rapidly the smooth surface aud
passng from light TO darkness, and then flashing back
into the light again, formed of
constantly varying color and hight and
shade The noise Of the glancing runners
on the ice and the merry voices Of the skaters mingled
in sound that echoed from the rocks 10 the northward
NJ the lake and penetrated tar into the dark
Several times 10 the OF the day and evening
many az 900 people were on the ice at once. The
treatment stand was in full and joyous opel s.iOn,
and the skaters freely partook OF what 1t had
70 Offer Th9re was not much chance for the experts
make eights" grapeylnes" and other devices which
excite the envy of very heshy people, and there were
many collisous and "tip-ups all account OF the
crowded state OF the ice Everyone enjoyed themselves,
howeyer and the iun fast and furious until the
hour OF 10 arrived when the skaters turned homeward
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-01-13
ASLEIGHING CARNIVAL.

WASHINGTON Jan. 1.-THE sleighing carni-
val on Pennsyvanaave. to-day was of much interest.
Several thousand people filled the sidewalks Of the
avenue to witness IT, and altogether the day OF
much merrlent The last festival Of the kind occurred
SIX years ago formal procession opened the sport
day. The capacouS thoroughfare was hed with sleishs
and other vehicles occupied by with and without
passks Some OF the outfits were gro;esque In the eI
trcme aud occasoned great laughter they passed
and down the avenue number OF fancy turnouts and
many fast roadsers Ot, and created great excite
menf In the contests for position the fine course be
tween the Treasury and CapitOldown one side and up
tho other Prizes were distributed by committee for
tho most ngeuious and grotesque rigs. humber OF
collisions occurred fast driving permitted by the
police under "a suspension Ol the regulations and the
avenue thronged by hundreds OF Vehlcles out no
nerious accident occurred.