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Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1884-02-29

Prohibition is not solely the
characteristics Of a highly civilized
state Of community. Even some Of
the benighted tribes of Africa have
learned to dread the baleful effects OF
alcohol, and two Kings, MoEtsoua and
Khama. do not permit itin their king
dom, and punish severely any one who
transgresses that law.
Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1884-02-29

- We continue to hear whisper
ings of the proposed new democratic
sheet to be started in Kirksville. We
hope the Democrat will not get into a
rage because We happen to mention
this little Bit of current rumor.
Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1884-02-29

1t is becoming more and more
apparent, day by day, that one or the
other Of the great paihes must sooner
or later take up and dispose Of the
great questions of "Lano, Labor and
Monopolies" or be left IN the lurch.
Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1884-02-29

We believe that a county is
held, like an individual, by the acts OF
its duly authorized agents, our neigh
Dor over the way to the contrary not.
wilhstanding.
Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1884-02-29

The GRAPHIC aims to discuss
all questions proper for its columns on
ther merits. 1t will not therefore,
handy epithets or enter into any ''slang.
whanging contest" under any circum-
stances whatever. 1t believes with old
Ben Franklin that
''Immodest words admit but this sefcree,
That want Of decency is want OF sense"
Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1884-02-29

Greece has rescinded her pro-
hibition OF American pork. This is
proper, grease and pork" naturally 60
together.
Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1884-02-29
Largest BOnafide Sub
scriptiOn list
IN ADAIR COUNTY,.
EDITORIAL NOTES.

The LaPlata Home- Press
seconds the suggestion OF ]. NJ. De-
France, ofthls place, for State Senator.
Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1884-02-29
ADMINISTRATORS SALE.

~ virrue OF the will ofJseoo shoop. deceased.
will sell zt public auction At yavinger in Adatr
county on Saturday. March q. Isss. A 70 O'Clock
N. for cash In hand. to:wit y LINE Sec a. and
i-xsE See: ., Twp %, R-ngeB IS.
reo 18th, 1884. ADAM SHOOP,
bs0f~ Admir- With the Will annexed.
Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1884-02-29

Would you have fame 2 Write your
name in deeds Of kindness, love and
mercy on the hearts you come in con.
tact with.
Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1884-02-29
FINAL SETTLEMENT.


Notice Is hereby giysn Dat the uaderax,sl sds
ministsztor eJ the eststs efJacsb shooo. 1ssesesl
sliI MAKE nnsl aettieasrs Of SAID ssfsts q -
Msy term .or me rrobsfs conrt oS Adsis ooansy.
bs$. ho-N ADAM 9HO0R,
Adnlassfsto
Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1884-02-29
Liberty Township.
Graphic Correspondence.

1FhpHc Correspondence.
l take the present opportunity to
write you few Of the happenings OF
this immediate vicinity
There is not much work going on
here just now with the exception of the
work which is being done in the timber
such as cutting and hauling ra1 road
ties and saw timber.
The Tie business has revived again
somewhat recently In the neighborhood
of New Baden Springs. And the tie.
mans axe may again be heard in the
land.
As he swings II to and fro.
FROM early morn iii sunsets glow.
But there is another and different
kind Of tie business which is beng
engaged in pretty extensively quite
recently by the youths of this com.
munity. That of becoming entangled
in matrimonial knots. There has been
four weddings during the past two
or three weeks. And atnight person
can scarcely hear any thing else save
the noise OF the guns and the tintinnab-
ulations of the bells OF the charivari as
they work for their usually well earned
treat. J.O.T T.
Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1884-02-29

Worth begets in base minds envy, in
great souls emulation.
To read without rejecting is like
eating without digesting.
The usual fortune Of complain, is to
excite contempt rather than pity.
Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1884-02-29
ga CARDS
TO THE PUBLIC (!

The nrdssigned having succeeded 10 the sole coz
irel ofihe
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1884-01-10
Cheap Butter.

Fifteen and ten cents butter is
thus referred to by a correspondent
of the Cedarburg Wis News: "If
an architect and builder should say
to a man who wanted a fine build
ing put up, that he never used line,
level, plump, square or rule, he
probably wouldn't get the job even
of the most ignorant. But it is no
more absurd to attempt TO frame a
fine building without the use of the
proper tools, than to attempt to
make uniformly fine butter or cheese
without the use of the thermometer
But that is the way the most of ten
cent and shilling butter is made.
The mass of the butter sold goes
for half price, year in and year out,
and at all seasons OF the year, large
ly caused by being churned at the
wrong temperature, by persons too
stingy or too stupid to invest thirty
cents for a good thermometer. A
variation of five degrees from the
standard spoiis, or greatly Injuries.
either butter or cheese, while it 10
ommon to not guess within ten or
fifteen degrees, when feeling the
temperature with the hand. The
Unconscious condition of the body,
and the state of the atmosphere and
our exposure to great heat or cold,
leads even experts astray. Unlike
most men, the thermometer never
lies. And unlike most men, when
it does lie, it lies only a very little
and does but little harm"
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1884-01-10
Fancy Farming.

No class of men have been ridi.
culed so much, especially in the
south, as those we call fancy farm
crs. and none have done go much
good. They have been ia al time.
and countries the benefactovs OF
those who have treated them with
derision. They have been 10 their
profession, what inventors hav
beeu to the manufacturers they
have experimental for the advance
ment oftheir vocation, while others
engaged il it have been My work
ing for their individual gain; they
have tested theories while Others
TODD back deriding, out carefully
watching the result, and to them
alone is agriculture indebted for all
the dignity and intelligence there
is in this greatest of all oecupa-
tions.
Fancy farmers changed the wild
hogs of the forests TO the magnifi-
cent domestic breeds of the present
DAYS. and the wild 500 10. cattle of
Britain into the present smooth,
built 1000 10. Shorthorn
cattle of the present day kthey
the wild, scrawny, leggy,
sheep, with lean body and
hair eflece into our present mag
varieties. They have
brought up the milk of COWS from
pints to gallons and the yield Of
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1884-01-10
Keep It Up, Bruthern. Hits Good
Fur Ye,

The business boom seems to have
taken a firm hold on all the Georgia
towns Scarcely a town in the
state but is pushing ahead in such
rapid and prosperous fashion as to
make a mushroom western town die
with envy. The farmers and plan
ter, even, are endowed with the
same spirit, and are ext nding their
territorial limits and sailing down
wealth in every nook and corner.
The agricultural citizens of the
south are beginning to see and feel
the immense advantage which is to
them to have a sure and active de-
mand at home for their products.
The manufacturing fever which has
struck the south was in Georgia
first made manifest, where, having
seen the great advantage TO local
ity which these busy wheels bring.
have not only sustained and
strengthened those they have, but
are constantly on the outlook for
new plants of all kinds. Georgia is
fully entitled To the distinction and
profit she is getting from her enter
prise, and is a SHINING lamp to the
pathway of her sister southern
states.-EX a
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1884-01-10

butter from ounces to pounds. They
have heightened the sirloin Of the
bullock, deepened the udder Of the
COW, enlarged the hams Of the hog,
made finer the wool of the sheep,
added strength, speed and courage
to the horse and made beautiful
every animal that is kept in the
service of man, till they hardly re-
semble the originals from which
they sprung.
Fancy farmers were they who
first introduced the system of irri
cation, draining, subsoiling, grind
ing and cooking food for stock.
They introduced and domesticated
all plants and fruits we have of for
eign origin. They brought guano
from Peru and first introduced the
method of rotation of crops rs a
natural means of resting and en-
riching the soil.
Up to this day and hour all the
progress that has been made in ag-
riculture from the beginning has
been brought about by the fancy
farmer; nor has the improvement
stopped, every year advanced steps
in this business are being taken,
but always first by the fancy farm
er, and he stands to-day as he has
in the past, and as he will in the
future, at the head OF his profession
ever going onward and upward, s
shining mark for the stupid ridicul'
of brainless asses who have not The
courage to lead and learn, ant
scarcely intelligence enough to fol
low.-Spirit of the Farm.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1884-01-10
Seven Year-old Horses,

An old farmer once said: What
a year it must have been for colts,
seven years ago this spring. No
person who has never attempted to
buy a horse can appreciate the re-
mark, but wants to buy a good
horse, he will be struck with the
circumstance that all the horses
that are any particular account
were born seven years ago. Occa
sionally there is one that is
six years old, but they are snot
plenty. Now, those of us who
lived here seven years did not have
our attention called to the fact that
the country was flooded with colts,
and it was seldom that the mother
had a half dozen colts following
her. Farmers and stock raisers
did not go around worrying about
what they were going to do with
so many colts. The papers, if We
recollect right, were not filled with
accounts of the extraordinary num-
Der of colts born. And yet it must
have been terrible year for colts.
because. there are only six hors SEES
in Milwaukee that are over six
years old, bat one of them was
found to have been pretty well
along in years when be worked in
Barnum's brick yard in 1868, and
finally the owner owned up that he
mistook six for twenty-six years.
What morality there must have
been among six, eight and ten
years old. There are none of them
left. And year from now when
our present stock of horses would
be naturally eight years old, they
will all be dead, ard new lot of
seventeen old horses will take
their places. 1t is singular, but it
is true. That is,it is true, unless
horse dealers lie, and we would be
slow to charge so grave crime up
on usef FIJI and enterprising set OF
citizens. No, it cannot be, and yet
does 1T not seem particular that all
the horses in this broad land are
seven years old this spring? We
leave the subject for the youth of
the land to ponder over. 1t beats
US G. w. Peck, in u. S. Vetrina
~ journal
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1884-01-10
Which is the Best Eertilizerl

How often do we hear this ques-
ton asked by farmers who desire to
purchase a fertilizer of some kind
for,their worn lands2
1t is an established fact that no
one constituent of plant food can
keep soil fertile. Some farmers
buy freely of phosphate manures as
bone dust, super-phosphste of lime,
and experience good results for =
few years and praise it accordingly
as good fertilizer. After a time,
however, the crops begin to fall of
and the manufactures and his goods
are denounced in no measured
terms, and some other manure takes
Is place. As a matter of course the
change improves the yield for a
term and then it also fails, and ia
turn is denounced as worthless, u ith
al other manufactured fertilizers.
The farmer now tries ashes or
somthing that contains potash. in
It's composition; the result is at
tended with possibly more marked
benefits than even the first applica-
tion Of fertilizers gave him, and he
is just on the point of pronouncing
it all sufficient. when again his
crops began to fail; in disgust he
gives them all up and returns to
first principles, stable manure. and
again the result is good, for in the
barnyard manure are to be found
all the elements of fertility, though
in insufficient quantities to secure
the best results.
A moments thought will give us
the reason for the increase and fall !
ing of of crops, as the gu alities Of
the fertilizers are changed. 1t is |
not that any one item OF plant food /
Is more efficient than another. but 1
the explanation lies in the fac
that Tue kind that produced the ia
vorable effects was that in vbsch 1
me SOL was most lacking. Thus il is /
that while crops require food in /
certain amounts and proportions /
yet the application of potash. for
instance, in some form. or sinner
phosphate of lime, slone causes
large yield for year or two and
then its benefcent action ceases
unless the other requisite substan-
ces are supported by natural re
sources or by a system of crop
ping, which is not generally the
case.
The best system of manuring
farm lands then is to supply all the
elements which the soil
'rops demand in proper portions
and amounts, at the same time tax
ne care of the physical condition
# the soil. Surely the farmer, to
thoroughly understand his work
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1884-01-10
rha s.lia contan. 4 Tarmsr Haa.

Bill Arp in Atlanta Constitution.
Farming is slow way to make
money, but then there Is a law of
compensation about everything in
his life, and farming has its bless
ings that other pursuits do not
have. The farmer belongs to no
body. He is the freest man upon
earth and the most independent.
He has more latitude and longitude.
He has a house in the country with
plenty Of pure air and good water
IL he makes but little in the field,
h. has no occasion to spend but
little. He can raise his own hogs,
and sheep, and cattle, and chickens.
His wood costs nothing, and the
uxuries of big back-longs and
blazing fires in open fre-places all
winter long is something that city
people long for, but cannot al
lord. My farm cost me 81, 200.
have 40 acres of open land in good
condition, and it yields me on an
average about So An acre over al
expenses. Say . per cent. upon
| the investment. Well that II
mighty little considering my owl
| labor and supervision. I've seer
the time when made five times al
much without any capital excep
nv head. But then we have u
keep a pair of horses to rid
around and they have to be fee
from the farm.
There are little leaks all around, hu
still we are happier on the farm thai
we are in town, and feel more secur'
from the ills of life. We fear M
pestilence or disease, no burglar
Or thieves. We lock no doors, ant
Mrs. Arp has quit looking undo
the bed for man. love to hea
The churn-dasher splashing in tn
buttermilk. l love to hear th
roosters crow and the peacock hol
Ter, and see the martins sailing
round the martin gourds. / love t
hear a neighbor stop and talk abou
the growing crops. l love to tax
the children with me to the water
mill and fish below the dam ami
the roar of the falling waters, o
paddle around the pond in an OF
ieaky bateau. 1 love to wande
through the woods and glades an
wear old clothes that can't get n
dirtier, and get caught in shove
of rain if / want to. Old man Hol
ace remarked 1000 years ago tina
the town was the best place for
rich man to live In, and the cour
try was the best place for a poo
man to die in, and, inasmuch =
riches were uncertain and deaf
was sure, it becomes a prudent ma
TO move to the country as 500
as he can get there. Farmer
i have their ups and downs, Of course
out they don't collapse and burs
up like tradesmen. They don't g
down under panic.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1884-01-10
What Causes Hard Times?


100 many spend money and too
Few earn 1t.
100 much money Is spent waste
iulIy ana uselessl y, and too little
saved ana made productive and &c
cumulative.
we BUY too much abroad that we
ought to produce at home.
We buy too much that we don I
pay for cash down-too much OF
what We buy being not what we
actually need.
We are too wasteful, know too
ilttie how TO economize, and have
100 l'ttle disposition 20 o 80.
ne are too speculative, unscrupu-
Ious, snd actually dishonest In our
Efforts 70 make money.
Too many prefer ldleness TO in
dustrv, and too few Of us know now
to work and derive profit and pleas
uTe from OuF q hDg
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1884-01-10

The lady who tapped her hus-
band gently with a fan at party
the other night, and said, 'LOve, it
is growing late, l think we had bet
ter go home" is the same one who
after getting home shook the roll
ing pin under his nose and said,
''your Internal old rascal you, if
you ever look at that mean, nasty,
caiico-faced, mackeral eyed old thing
that you looked at tonight, III
burst your head wide Open"
Some short time ago a woman
was trying hard to get her drunken
husband, and, as she pulled him
along the streets, her words and &C
tions were so tender that a citizen
halted and said: "Well, all drunk
ards wives haven't your DISPOSE
ton" "S-h-h! don't say any
thing" she replied in whisper,
''I've got to call him pet names to
get him home, but wait until he
drops into the house-be there
then %
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1884-01-10
Ponds for Carp.

The fish commissioners OF Iowa
makes the following suggestions re
speeding the construction of ponds
For saltwater wintering pond,
the deeper a portion of it is the bet
ter. If there is plenty of mud IN
the bottom of the ponds in which
the carp can bury itself during its
period of Information, or winter
sleep, a depth of five feet might
answer and bring them safely. But
a greater depth would please ue
much better. Il spring water can
be run In steadily into tho ponds
during the winter the depth is of
much less consequence. In drain
ing ponds great care should be Ia
ken 10 have it done slowly, so that
the fish may not be too much fright
ened to gather inthe deeper portions.
They are quite likely to bury them
selves in the mud of any part
of the bottom when they
take a sudden alarm, and might be
left to smother and to die. The loca-
ton and form OF ponds should he
such as to add 10 the beauty of the
surroundings and to the pleas
ure of the owners. They may be
needed to supply ice, or if stock are
kept they may be useful
as a reservoir to supply water. Of
course these points are TO be settled
by those who plan them, and their
great Importance should not be
overlooked. Carp can be kept and
fed, and made to grow rapidly in
reservoirs, tanks, small ponds or
other small bodies of water during
the summer that would not be safe
from freezing during winter. And
they are often so kept in the old
counties. Stock fish Tor such a
purpose would have to be procured
annually from some carp breeder.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1884-01-10
What to Drink to Kaep Warm.

eff you want drink that will
keep you warm a whole night long
out OF DOORS" said an old police
man to friend, don't drink whisky
or rum or any liquor. The heat they
afford is short lived and leaves you
cold and weak. They are worse
than nothing. But drink a glass of
ale and pepper-new ale and com
mon black pepper. 1t will not at
feet your head, but it will keep
your blood warm in the keenest
wind and coolest rain"
Il never tried the pepper part OF
that prescription said a Third
avenue car driver, "but ale is, 1
know, thought to be very warming
We car drivers have colder work
than policemen do, | think, and the
old ones among us have tired every
drink you ever heard. A lot of us
were talking the whole thing over
the other night. Hot rum, hot
whisky, brandy and ginger, and all
the cold clear alcoholic drinks were
discussed. But the majority were
in favor % hot coffee. That is the
least hurtful, the most heating, and
the longest lasting drink l know
Of"-New York Sun.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1884-01-10

We have known Mr.. Bennett per-
sOnally for more than ten years.
About six or seven years ago he
bought 100 acres of land on Mis-
sionary Ridge, near Chattanooga,
cleared it up and put it in small
fruits. He has since added about
100 more acres to his original pur-
chase; this he also put in small
fruits. The land cost him, if we
mistake not, about $40 per acre,
and the past season he refused
six thousand dollars for his peach
crop alone as it stood ungathered
in the orchard; and the land that
cost him $40 per acre 4 few years
ago would readily sell for 5000 or
$3.50 per acre.-Spirit of the Farm.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1884-01-10

needs the best education and an
exercise of the best judgment that
study and application can give, in
order TO attain the best results;
yet how many Of them say they
have no time to read and need no
knowledge of agriculture. "Verily.
a fool is wise in his own counsel. :"
Spirit of the Farm.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1884-01-10

A Wyoming jury, composed of
seven men and five women, were
shut up for two days and two nights,
and yet they couldn't agree. 1t is
said that if they had remained out
for seventeen years there would
have been no verdict, as the five
women talked the seven men deaf
in the first six hours.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1884-01-10

The Merchant Traveller says to
the men of Cincinnati: "It's all
right, gentlemen, for YOU to think
that your wives are angels, but isn't
it rather inccngruOus for angels to
carry in the coal aud build the
firesP''
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1884-01-10

The republicans evidently believe
in Chicago luck. They nominated
Lincoln there in 1860. Grant in 1865,
Garfield in 1880. AS for democrats,
they never had any luck anywhere,
up to the present writing.-Sun.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1884-01-10

Il understand JhaJ you referred
10 me as a pig. SIR, remarked a
pompOus elderly gentleman to a
Young gentleman who Ia spoken
disparagingly of him to third per
son. You have been misinformed,
sir" replied the young man. Il
hope l know better than To refer to
person at your advanced age as a
MIR
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1884-01-10

The English alphabet is tolera-
bly, virtuous. Twenty Of the letters
have never been in prison.-N. Y.
Nows. Yes, but look what lot of
them are how in penitentiary.-
Norristown Herald
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1884-01-10

mama, what's a book wormw
"One who loves to read and study
and collect books, my dear" The
next night Miss Edith, who
wears rings innumerable, was
present. "Oh, mama, look at Mis-
EtIiths rings. ! guess she's
ring-worm. amt sheY'
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1884-01-10

1t is said that 'Satan is ever
watching to find us unemployed"
The gentleman referred to never
watches newspaper men. 1t would
be a waste of valuable time.-Troy
Times.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1884-01-10

Senator Plumb will endeavor to
prohibit gambling by Legislative en-
actment. He is one of the most
coniding and unsuspecting OF all
our statesmen. 1t is unnecessary
to add that he was once an editor.