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ficiently wilted it's bound and set in
large stacks and allowed to cure,
standing on the ground until winter
sets in, when il is hauled to the barn
He secures a yield Of about seven tons
of cured fodder per acre, worth as
much as the best hay, and Is thus en-.
abled to devote large amount of his
land to pasture. He is one of the sue.
cessful darymen of Illinois.
Bsonze turkeys are the largest, tam
est, most prolific and hardest of all
varieties.
Don't leave to memory what should
be written; it makes lawsuits.
Feed young calves three times day
at regular intervals.
Farmers throughout Northern Colo
RADIO are preparing to raise more hog:
than ever.
Pennsylvania wool growers estimate
their loss by tariff reduction at owe
So 900, 900.
Ifyour COWS seem indisposed CIV,
them a warm bran slop we'll seasoned
with ginger.
The United States is invited to par
ticipate in an exhibition of dairy pro
ducts at Munich next October.
Coarse oatmeal, scalded, is good TO
young chickens. Give it cold an,
; soft, and alternate with cracked whea
or corn.
A peach grower IN Michigan lost 2
200 peach trees by placing too niue
salt about the roots.
Eight cents per pound is the pro
, OF choice cuts of "horse steak il
some of the markets of France an
Germany.
The cattle industry in this countr
! represents over 100000 head {
: cattle, worth $I,5oo,ooo.
S The younger the calf the easier t
= wean. An old calf is stubborn, and
E a scrub will sometimes die before h
v will drink.
e When extra sheep are mentioned
market reports wethers are alwa,
meant. Ewes never rank high in til
fat stock trade.
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w Daugherty, number in herd

Total IN the ASSOCIATION, 231.
On motion, L. G. Campbell was elect
ed chairman of the meeting. On TAX
ing the chair, the chairman said the
object of the meeting was to organize
an Association OF Short Horn Breeders,
to encourage the raising of short horn
cattle in North Missouri.
On motion j. B. Thomson was
elected Sc cretary ofmeeting.
The chairman presented copy of
| the constitution OF the Short Horn
Breeders Association, which was read
to the meeting.
On motion the meeting proceeded to
a permanent organization, by adopt
ing the constitution, and electing the
following officers
7. G. Campbell, Kirksville. Presl-
Cent.
w. A. Miles, Atlanta. Vice Presi-
dent,
j. w. Voorh ers, La Plata, Sec. and
Treas.
Executive Committee. G. Jami.
son, kirksville, A. S. Ray and James
Johnston, Laplata.
On motion, j. B. Thompson was
elected an honorary member OF the
association.
The treasurer's bond was approved,
and the members paid their limitation
fee. s..
On motion, the thanks OF the assocla-
ton were extended to the editor of the
Home Press for assistance in organlz.
ing the association.
On motion, rules governing sales
were adopted.
On motion, the secretary was IN.
structed to have printed 100 copies Of
the cons titutlon and rules.
After few revival remarks by the
Vice President, the meeting adjourned
l-LaPkaka Pres.
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ADMINISTRATORS NOTICE.

Notice is hereby given that letters OF administers.
tion upon the estate OF NJ. v. Atterberry late OF
Adair county deceased have been granted to the
undersigned NJ. q. Glenn, by the probate court OF
Adair county, bearing date tile goth day OF July
1884. All persons having claims against said estate
are required to exhibit them to me for allowance
within one year after the date Of said letters or
they may be precInded from any benefit OF such
estate and II such claims be not Exhibited within
two years from the time OF the publication Of this
notice tney Will lie forever pnrred.
NJ. g. GLEN,
Administrator oil NJ. V. Atterberry. Deceased.
Aug6th, 1884.
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ADMINISTRATORS NOTICE.

Notice is hereby given that letters OF adminis-
tration upon the estate OF Geo. w. Miller late OF
Aaair county. deceased. have been granted to the
undersigned William Miller by the Probate court
of the county OF Adair bearing date the 18th DAY Of
June 1884. All PERSONS having claims against said
estate are required to exhibit them to me for AL
lowance within one year after date of said letters
or they may be preciuded from any benefit OF such
estate, and Ksnch claim be not exhibited within
two years from the publication Of this notice they
will be forever barred. WILLIAM MILLER.
Administrator OF Goo. W. Miller deceased.
July 7th, 1874. nI2-4w
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state being battle ground or pivotal
state, with population only normally
less than Missouri, all but 27,764 voted
in that state, and Of this number it
may be safely stated most were aliens.
and those whose rights to vote were
imperfect.
We have the statistics at our back
when We say there are hundred thous-
and voters in this state who have yet
to assert themselves, and at the sug.
geston fan opportunity such as Dem
ocracy is about to give them, they will
be at the front.
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OLD EDWARDS.
The sharp Answer of Man Who
Could Sass.

The fame of Stockbridge rests large.
ly upon three great names Of which
the first is that OF Jonathan Edwards
Here is the house in which that won.
derful preacher and philosopher used
to pray and read and write and fight
hand to hand with the devil. Here is
the very table at which he sat, and on
it are ink stains from the very old ink
horn into which he SO often dipped his
pen.
Here is the very chair IN which Ed
wards often sat, perhaps the very one
in which he was seated when a young
man called upon him to ask his daugh-
ter's hand in marriage.
"You can't have het," said the
preacher.
But I love her,"
"No matter, you can't have her"
"But she loves me, too"
ri say you can't have her,"
"But am we'll off and can supper,
her."
"You can't have her, tell you."
"Why not. Mr.. Edwards2 What
have you against me 2"
Nothing
"Well, then. why can't l have EN-.
ly !"
Because think you are pretty
decent sort of a young man too gooe
for her."
"What! Mr.. Edwards, what in the
world do you mean 2"
tShe's got a wicked temper, ane
you wouldn't be happy with ner."
"But l thought she was Chris
tan 2'
$50 she is, young man SO she is
But before you have lived as long as |
have you'll find out that there art
some people in this world that TIT
grace of God may get along with, Blu
you can't"
On another occasion a graceles:
wag thought to have some sport a
Edwards expense, and ask him in TIT
|presence of group of idlers:
'Mr. Edwards, doesn't the Bible sa,
in one place to answer a fool accord
ing to his own folly?"
Eyes"
Sand doesn'tit say somewhere els,
not to answer him according to his fol
lys"
"Yes."
We'll, then which are we to believe
How are we going to answer a fool q
The way Pm going to answer you
roared the preacher and swung up tn
log which he carried as a walking
stick so truculertly that the discomft
ed scoffer only saved his pate from be
ing cracked by a most precipItat
flight.
"Mr. Edwards" another darini
wight asked one day, "the Bibl
speaks OF the keys of hell. Do yo
suppose there really are such thingss
YES"
"Where are they 2"
"In the locks of the doors OF hell
"What do they leave them stickin
in the locks for?'
"To keep souls as small as your
from crawling out through the key
hole
Ina neighboring village, in Edward
time, singularly grim divine, to whor
during a revival season came motor
Gus scamp and practsed backslide
with sanctimonious snvel, saying
doctor, realize that | am indeed tn
chief of sinners"
''Glad to hear it; your nelghbors re
allied it long ago."
81 feel that / want salvation"
"Guess you need it about as mucl
as any one"
"And feel" confined the hypocri
teal patient, shat am willing to d
anything God requires of me. woul
willingly be damned for His glory"
"Well," said the preacher, IL don
think there is any one that knows yo
that would have the slightest objection
> to that.-S0fkbrags Letter.
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ORDER OF PUBLICATION.

[ . q
COUNTY OF AFFAIR, o. %
In the Circuit Court. OF said county, October
term 1884,
silas Bennett, Pl'G.l
Petition for divorce.
Clara Bennett Dert)
At this day comes the plaintiff herein by his at
torney before the undersigned cerkof said court in
vacation and files his petition and affidavit stating
among other things that the above named defen-
dant is non resident OF this state that the ordi-
nary Process OF law cannot be served upon her.
Whereupon 1t Is ordered by the clerk that said
defendant be notified by publication that plaintiff
has commence ed suit against her in this court the
object and general mature Of which is to obtain
decree OF court dissolying the bonds OF matrinony
Contracted oy them on HE DAY OF May iss2 on
rsenneff defendant be and appear at this court
az the next term thereof to be begun and holden
at the court house 10 the Town ofKirksvile in said
county the Goth day Of October 1884, next and on
oribefore the sixth day of said Term answer or
plead to the petition In said the same viii be
AIKEN confessed and jadgemet render accor-
DINGHY; and 1t is further ordered that
c opy hereof be Published according TO
aw IN the Weekly Graphic a newspaper
published in said county for Il urweeks successiy-
the last insertion TO be atleasfour Ks before
the first day of the next term ofthis court.
True copy, Attest: W. j. AsHLocK.
Clerk.
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Meeting OF Short Horn Breeders.

Pursuant to call published in the
Home Press, the following breeders
of short horn cattle in Macon and
Adalr counties met IN the city hall in
LaPlata, Sept. 5th, 1884:
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PROF. GUILnE1TE's FHDHcH LIVER PAD.

VIII positively cure Fever and .Agne, Duub
4 que. Agpe Cake. Bilious Fever, JauuaiIcs I,ys
pepsia: and all diseases OF the Diver sfo.osch 90
BLOOD Price Sl-6o by mail. Send for Prof. emit
nette $ Treatise on tie Kidney and Liver fr.e Inv
NAL. Address FRENCH Pan c ne "
Toledo, Ohio.
For sale by ]. G. JAMESON, !
Kirksville. Mo.
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YOU CAN BE CURED
Without swallowing nauseous medicines, by SIM
ply wearing
PROF. GUILMETTE'S
French Kidney Pads
WHICH cJTRFS nv aRSop prroN

"IllSa SONEo D1 aBSCKFllON
Kidney cad, aud take 10 her. II he has not got
1t, send 800 and.you will receive. the Pad by re-
turn mail. -
TESTIMONIALS FROM THE PEOPLE.
JUDGE BUCHANAN, Lawyer, Toledo, Ohio
says: lone OF Prof. Guimette's French Kidney
Pads cured me OF Lumbago in three week,' time
incu rable. During all this time suffered untold
agony and paid outlarge sutns ofnoney.
GEORGE VETTER, J. P, Toledo. o., saws:
~ suffered Tor three years with sciarica and KID
ney Disease, and often had 20 about on crutches
Twas entirely and permanently cured after wear
Ing Prof. Guiimette's French Kidney Pad four
weeks
SQUIRE n. C. SCOTT, sylvania o. SAYS:
n have been great sufferer for IS years with
Bright's Disease OF the Kidneys. For weeks AT a
time was ur able 10 get out of I'd took barrels of
medicine but they gave me only tempo rary relief
weeks, and now know am entirely cured. >,
MRS. HELEN JEROME, Toledo. o.. seys:
~, or years nave been confined, great part of
the Il me to my bed. with LacorrIoea and female
weakness. i wore one OF Guilmette's Kidney
PADS and was cured in one month";
Nrttes, Have suffered tors yexrs with sme back
and In three weeks was permanently cured nv
wearing one Of Prof. Guilmette's French Kidney
4. r. KEEsLiSG, NJ D., Druggist. Loransnor,
writes: -N- A''hs' fsas
- wore one OF the first ones we had and rece,v
In s or. 10, benefit from Il than anything ever used.
an hluney medy we ever sold.i'
Hay Shoemaker. Druggist. Hannibal Mo-.
~ are workin up lively trade IN your Pads,
anu are hearing Of good results from every daJ
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1884-05-20

PH YBICIAN AND sURGEON
oalcs and Rssideucs-No. 10 Fort ssrsst, 10
Angelss, CHi OfAcs houu. 10 10 IL 4. T., 70
2. y. % 9 IN ths evening. 30 I'm
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1884-05-20
Press Plsasantriss.


The crusade against corsets should
now cease. Advise the girls TO wear
Mother Hubbard dresses.
Don't blame the dudes for wearing
tight pants. 1t prevents rats from run
ming up their legs and consequently
soaring them to death.
Mary Ellen Chase says there will be
three women 10 one man in heaven. We
know who the man is likely to be. but
for the life Of us can't place the three
women.
1t II said that when the Queen fixes
her royal gaze ON the Marquis Of Lorne
and says, John Sutherland CoIquhoun
Campbell the Marquis listens TO what
she has to say without making any ex-
cuses.
The first sermon ever preached in
America was delivered on the site Of
Boston in 1921. The subject was s'Siu
and Danger of Seif-Love." This shows
that vanity Is not . modern sin In Bos.
ton man.
1t has just leaked out that John Tay.
ior. President Of the Mormon Church,
called Patti "a delicious darling" and
tried to embrace her. He didn't mean
y. He acted involuntArily through
force Of habit.
Bald men need not despair. A patent
medlcine man Is advertising for bald.
headed men who will allow the ad dyer-
tisement Of his new self asserting pills to
be painted on tho tops of their heads.
We wrote Lim at once.
The measure of his devotion; A
young lady who recently received bou.
quet o. roses WA somewhat amused ia
tind the donors visiting card Al attached n
u and written on the wrong side tbess
words: mot to excesd g."
"WhAt you call dats'' inquired a Kan.
sas Jayhawker In passing Faust's Fulton
market the other day on beholdine {
large sea turtle. On being informed
that II was n sea turtle he replied.
"rurdes don't grov dat large la Kansas. >
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1884-05-20
Eternal hanging is tile prize of vigi-


April showers: MAYS mother calls
her beau April showers because he
brings May flowers" piped sad eyed
slim as he poked his head into the sane
tum late Last night. We exiinguished
his feeble spark of life with Watering
pot.
A Mexican paper publishes story
about "wild boy" We suppose the boy
couldn't raiss SO cents to go to the cir
Gus. Nothing will make boy wilder
than to hear the band playing and the
clown singing from the outside of the
tent.
According to natural history the
giraffe has tongue seventeen inches
long. This only shows how valuable
giraffe might be for cleaning windows,
because he could lick the dust of like
Lightning and wouldn't require step.
ladder.
A Saugertiss woman attempted to
elope the other day with young man.
hut her husband caught the runaway
couple Just In time and compelled his
wife 70 rstarn home. He evidently did
not want to wash the dishes and darn
stockings II be could help It.
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1884-05-20
WEEKLY HERALD.
PuallsH.o EVERY SATURDAY Mosxllss
THE LAND OF THE AFTERNOON.

bafesf4 ~. $50
And IN the afternoon they came unto
A land whero II seemed always afternoon.
1.-The Lotus IA ters.
An old man sits In his garden chair,
Watching the sunlit western sky;
What sees he In the blue depth there,
Who're only the lslcs Of Memory lie,
There are prIncely towers and castles high,
There are gardens falrer than human ken,
There are happy children thronging by,
RsdiAnt women and stately non,
Singing with voices OF sweet sttune
This songs OF the Land Of the Afternoon.
The old man watches . form Of cloud
That floats where the acute islaiids arc,
Aud he sses = homestead gray and bowed,
Aud hand that beckons him sfar.
@ cheek Of roses and hair Of gold
U eyes Of Heavens divinest blue
Long have ye lain In the graveyard mold
But lie Is inhnits. love Is true;
He will fnd her--yes-it must he soon;
They will meet In the Land Of the Afternoon.
The sky has changed, and wreck Of cloud
IL driving athwart its troubled face,
The golden mist ls Q trailing shroud.
II 10 cold and bleak In the garden place,
The old man smiles and droops his head,
The thin hair blows from his wrinkled brow,
The sunset radiance has spread
Ger every wasted feature now;
One sigh exhalss like breath OF June,
He has found the Land Of the Afternoon.
--tDetroit Free Press
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1884-05-20
DAT. Q. GAS, TINE HsAlrm esFlcuR,

Has taken Room No. Il In the Los Angsles Ho-
tel, corner First and Los Angeles streets. He
VIII remain In his once from 10 10 A. ~, to
vsctinnAte those who may with T.. At the hands
OF the city.
La AcsonicA copy my4u
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1884-05-20
NEW TO-DAY.
NEW TO-DAY. N

The Peoples Store will re-
move to their new and COM
modious quarters, Nos. Al,
43 and As Spring Street, on
or about June 18th, 1884.
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1884-05-20
J. Harmon. y D..
County Physician.
Nra Alice Hiseins. n. D.

AAsCAREL BUILDING. upssainI Rsuidsass
Cosmopolitan Hotel.
Otllcs hours from 10 10 II 4. l.; mon 70 lr, =
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1884-05-20
Dr. Joseph Kurtz

srEys and sar dissases srsated with The csss Of
Z specialist ape9
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1884-05-20
OSCAR o. BALDY.
VETERINARY sUnGRoN.

All cfhoNtu DIsEAsS A SPECIALITY
Residence. so south Spring street
References: NJ. X n. WisS. Los Angeles: J.
W. Adams. Downey City. Suptcal operations
performed successfully on Ill tomcstae sninsAls
Aiso. buying end ssilia< hossss. spsin
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1884-05-20

Have we not earned and Justly merited the reputation
of selling goods from ten to twenty per cent cheaper
than any house in Southern California?
The Friedlander failure is but one of the many
illustrations that exempliy the power and effect Of hav-
ing ready coin with which hold back and take advan-
tage Of the tumbng Of the market fortify ones SELF
Thishouse carried the largest best assorted best
lected and seasonabe goods Of any in the
Far West Throughout business of twenty years
naught could be said against them that overzealous
ness in endorsing paper and lending accommodations
others caused their failure. There stock OF 100000
that had be disposed of for cash any price would
bring. Those who had the could take advantage
of this alarming sacrifice And the Peoples Store, with
its fiery steed and saddlebags well lined with golden du
cats, not long in passing all credit travellers the
road 1t arrived there rst took the and choice of
what he was dictated its prices emped its saddle
and stood aside and gazed with curiosity
the credit sellers painting for BREATH and grasp at
what had discarded and refused look, and at prices
that seemed to grabbing and ruinous.
That is the secret of the Of the Peoples
Store, and its pennant-Honest Values for Honest Prices
flies at its masthead waving defiance to all.
Everything in the Notion lne Hosiery, Ladies' and
Gents Furnishing Goods be sold by less than
prices Of European importaons.
N>We call especial attention to the advantages to
be gained by immediate purchasers and request nspec-
ton by the public peddles. country merchants and the
jobbng trade.
Peoples Store,
,oe NORTH MAIN STREET,
Los ANGELES. CALIFORNIA.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1884-08-26

include all the States. For Maine. the
average yield Of corn was 29.2 bushels.
which IL above the average Cor the coun-
try. And the price per bushel was 80 o..
OF oats the number Of bushels was 81 A.
and price sOjj. Po,a,oes-lOO bush
els Is the average amour, and sO.Tj the
average price The average yield Of hay
for the State Is % ton. and price pei ton
sl2 20. In average yield. As we'll As
price. Maine stand. ahead n nearly All
erop.. One lesson taught by these tables
i. the folly Of selling hay a, prevailing
prices and supplying rs irriililing prop
critic. by buying PhosPhaies a, $1,000 to
$50 90 per ton. A. the sale u hay be-
comes les. and ,hA, Of meat. butter, wool.
ETC.. more the welfare Of the farmer will
increase. And as Maine's manufacturing
resource. are developed. her prosperi y
viii BE- ehharocd.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1884-08-26
EXPORTS OF AGRlCULTURE.

Il may be considered good sign for
our national prosperity that, while our
export, q raw agricultural products are
increasing their proportion to other ex-
port, is diminishing. !, i no, productive
Of good 10 any country 10 export largely
Of raw articles. Such expectation causes
a direct loss in several WAYS.
First. the loss Of the fertility Of the
soil. There being nothing returned TO
the land. j, mus, grow poorer every year.
second. the loss caused by no, manu-
featuring. I, nA settled principle Of
natural Law that every possible sfor,
should be made 10 furnish labor Tor our
own people. And jus, in proportion TO
the amour, Of raw material sen, away
mus, the income Of the lsborer and ar,i-
san be graded.
Third. in the expectation Of raw ma
,erial We have to compete with the whole
world and undsrbid in price every time.
Fourth, We also furnish them material
20 manufacture in their own way a,
prices for labor far below the ruling
prices here. and place before our people
article. 50 Manufactured. 10 the eviden,
injury Of our own industries. When the
farmer look. to the American producer
In other industries for the sale OF his
crop. and no, TO an export trade. then
shall we see things in fair way - nigh,
themselves. |, Is very hopeful indiea'
ton at present. as manufactures are con.
.,an,ly springing up all over our eoun-
try. While the value Of exports Of the
products Of domestic agriculture has in.
creased from 1920. when we became a
separate State. TO 1883 more than five
hundred million dollars the relative pro-
portion to other exports has fallen from
so per cent. to IL per cent Which i'
very favorable for our exports Of mer-
chandise and other commodities.
In these facts We see a promising out
look Tor the agricultural interests Of the
future and. As each goes to sustain the
whole. for every branch Of manufacture
,ha, depends upon the labor Of the cOun-
try.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1884-08-26

Use only the be-, animals 20 breed
from. No great expense j. necessary Tor
high blood animal. 90 staf, with; use
your bot female. and breed up by using
choice. fall.blooi males The produce u
such crossing Is fine stock and a. valu.
able. exeep, for fancy prices. a. tie more
expensive full.blood animals Now j.
a good time 10 build snd repair fences.
Don't let anything hinder you from
fulfilling the good resolution yol iormrd
Of not feeding the mo~ias 6eld' hi' fll.
Attend the heal fairs. Toy are
social. and much advantage may b. gained
by such gatherings .--Prparv q place
10 store leaves Coz winter bedding They
are The beet u sb,ofbanis --Iry p.ow-
ing in some grcea crop on lands made
poor by cropping. OF from which all or
ganic matter has been exhausted by the
use. exclusively. q mineral manuTes.--
Remember ,ha, the potato tops have beea
covered with poison. aud destroy them.
or bury a. soon a. dug --rake extra
pains when plo.iag this IAN. Turn ~
cry fuuow evrnly aai we'll. A piece of
ground well broken /. half slbdaed. --
II manure !. spread upon the ground A.
soon .sPo,,ible after removing ,hs crops.
the weed. may &c, start this fall and
can BE- destroyed by cate faliy pulverir-
ine. KEEP the heifer calves Even
II they are late they may MAKE extra
ows-Mske arrangements % par-
chase some useful machine fof use on the
farm reS, year A little time 'Peai n
studying will often enable any one 70
make many useful articles thai vii ave
much labor. and be comparatively mex
pensiye. ia Aying plans i'r nes,
year DO no, Try q manage more lAad than
eau he vel. MANFRED -Asmal. amount
Of work well done il better than large
amour, sighted. Bi' do ia" a. much
a. possibly can be done vel Make
ample provisions fof fool fof the yoang
stock Wed on, the poor sheep from
the Jock; give them q lililr extra feed.
and they will do for the hatcher Re
membsr The boys when disPosing y the
surplus produce Of the farm.