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Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1885-06-19
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
From our Regular Correspondent.
wAsusros, d. c., June 10, Is

W 'ActhNkoNs ~. W, u uAC iti AZ
II would seem from the evidence of
the architectural expert now being ex-
amined upon an investigation of The
Capitol architect, Mr.. Clark, that the
reign of shoddy commenced in this
country good many years ago. s'rom
this testimony we are informed the
very walls of the Capitol. watch we
assumed would stand the wear and
tear of centuries of politics and politici-
ans, have long been in state of disin-
tegration, decay and destruction. The
iron dome. weighing 8,909,200 pounds
is about to fall upon the heads of the
unfortunate visitors In the rotunda,
without moments warning, because
of the shoddy material with which it
was composed, the shoddy printing
that was put into the paints, and the
shoddy labor with which the iron
beams were joined together Even
the bronze female that surmounts the
dome to represent the freedom shrek
ers, is warped out of ali shape and
looks as though it had inst emerged
from case of secondary rlckets. OF
course the architect of the Capitol has
his enemies, and they may Averstate
matters somewhat, but [ wish that you
could see some of the botch work about
this Capitol, for which we have paid
tirst and last about seventeen millions
Of hard earned dollars. :.
The Regents of the Mount Vernon
estate have just got through with their
annual meeting. These Regents are
all ladies, and that is doubtless the
reason of their lnterminable session.
From one of the reports read, it ap.
pears that more people visited the
memorable mansion this year thar
ever before, save the Centennial year
Consequently the captain OF the steam
boat which carries all the passenger;
to Mount Vernon, and has the exclu.
slve monopoly of the business, pocket
ed more than the usual amount of pa
triotic lucre. The board has resolved
to make some extensive additions anG
repairs ur on the property. conspicuou:
among which is the rehabilitation Of
the banqueting ball at the north enc
of the house, which is called the New
York room, and several hundred dol
lars are to be devoted to the propaga
tlon OF plants, pastime to which Gen
Washington paid much attention. Th,
Pohick Church where the immorata
George worshipped when in the flesh
is old fashioned enough. rhe pew.
are simply boxes with uncushlonec
seats, very much as | RENE Der those
in many of the New Finland towns
The backs of the pews are so highstha
that no encouragement whatever i:
given tor the display of millinery, and
the ball heads that show their polished
surfaces over the top of the rails look
too funny
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Proof of Title.
SOLOMON Coon.

We are glad to learn the beautiful
little statuettes prepared by the Com
mittee of the Statue OF Liberty are be-
ing subscribed tor throughout the
length and breadth of our country.
This is as 1t should be, for it is the
noble gift OF France TO the United
States. Every lover of liberty should
subscribe sl.00, which, If sent to Rich
ard Butler, Secretary, SO Mercer street
New York, will secure one of these
artistic statuettes, being fac simile of
Bartholdi's great work.
Let the good work go on until every
home in the land shall possess this
proof of ownership in the grandest
work OF modern times
LIBERTY ENLIeHrENiNG THE WORLD
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SMITHS EXPOSITION.
A cHARIToNIrE VISITS SMITHS GREAT
INDIAN AND RELIC SHOW.

ED. GRAPHic.-Your correspondent
took in the Smith exhibition yester-
day and was much surprised at what
he had the pleasure of seeing. First
the large, substantial and beautiful
building that is an honor to Kirksville
and Adair Co, known as Smiths
Commercial College, which is a mon
ument of what indomitable will and
energy can accomplish, Mr.. Smith
and his excellent lady merit, and should
receive, the gratitude and pecuniary
aid of all the people ofNorth Missouri,
but especially of Adair Co.
There were 2 Indians; big Indians,
little Indians and papoose. One of
the Indian ladies is the finest singers
it has ever been our fortune to listen
to. Several parties who are co Pc
tent to judge, say she rivals the famous
Patti. whom they have heard. There
are innumerable stone relics belong
ing to the prehistoric or stone age.
A meteoric rock, a coat owned by
Sun Dog under Sitting Bull in Custer
massacre, a medicine mans hat, a
rife picked up on the field OF the Gus
ter massacre, FIVE beautiful vases found
in excavating the ruins of Pompel,
coins made before Christ's time, con-
tlnental money rare pictures, a pistol
carried by Gen. Lafayette while fight
ing our battles for our emancipation
from British rule and British slavery,
beautiful quilts, the work and handy
craft oft dusky maidens and matrons
of the forest. Mr.. Smith has explored
and made the briny deep give up
shells and fossils making a collection
at once, unique and beautiful. The
father who fails to take his family 10
the Smith exhibition will miss the
chance of life time. Fathers take
your wives and children to hear the
beautiful and accomplished dusky
maiden of the forest sing her sweet
lays. CHARIToNrrE.
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Narrow Escape.

Last Monday Mr.. G. Il. Dearing
while overseeing the digging of well
in Clay township in which one of his
well machines was at work, came near
losing his life. An extra piece OF
shaftiDg was beng attached to the
boring apparatus which was held in
place by set screw. The screw not
being set tight enough 10 hold 1t, the
shatting and lever weighing IT'S lbs.
fell distance of nearly twenty feet
Just missing his head and striking him
on the right thigh, bruising it in
fearful manner. He was brought
home and is now doing well under the
care OF Dr. Grove.
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FLORENCE CAMPBELL,
Teacher.

Garden Grove report of school in
district number 2, Clay township, for
the month commencing May 11th and
ending June 9th 1885. The two year
star pupils are-John Lacy Annie
Stout IN A grade; Dora Rowlison.
Avis Bodle, Cora Storts, Alice Malone,
Lorretto Ainsley, Maggie Muldoon,
and Ambrose Odonnell in B grade:
ANNE Malone, Thomas Demony, John
Storts, Willie Malone Katie Muldoon,
In Z grade; Thomas Clark, Allie Null
doom and frankie Clark in D grade.
The seven merits are: James Rowlison,
IN Z grade. Six merits are-Mary and
Ella Muldoon and Samuel B. Wilson
IN a prade; Maggie Gillespie and John
Muldoon in B grade and John O'Don-
mel in G grade. One star pupils are:
Eddie Cooper, Allie Rowlisor, Martha
Bryant, Johne Alnsley, Minnie Green,
Katie Clark, Isaac Cooper in C grade;
Ora Green, James GILLESPIE. Angie Ma
lone and Dannie Hall. Three merit
pupils are-ilaggle Monroe, Mary Nc
Clannahan, A grade; MINNIE Cooper B.
grade and Clarence McClannahan in C
grada. Two merit pupils are Gert.e
Cooper, Ida McClannshan, Oswell Clark
and Lura Cooper in B grade. One
merit pupils are--Emma Hall end
Minnie Mclaughlin. Two star pupils
per cent OF attendance. 100, of deport.
ment 81 1-2, OF study and recitation
92 1-2; merit pupils per cent of atten-
dance IS; of department, 80; of study
and recitation 90. One star Pupil per
cent OF attendance 81: of department
80; of recitation and study 90; average
department oil entire sch ool Sc Ii; at
tendance Sc Is, of study and recita-
ton 81 IA; number of pupils enrolled
this month 55; name of those who have
discontinued because of work, Johnnie
Ossle Clark. Thomas Hall. |
Hattie Rowlison, Minnie Cooper; be-
cause of not belonging to this district, |
Samuel b Wilson, Clarence. Mary and
Ida Mclaughlin, Florence Turner and
Lizzie McAlister.
RowENA V. CRAMER.
Teacher.
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Father, Mother, and Three sisters Dead.

Father, Mother, and Three Sisters Dead.
Mr.. David Claypool, formerly Sergeant
alarms ofthe New Jersey Senate, and now
Notary Public at Cedarviile, Cumberland
Co., n. j., makes the following startling
statement: My father, mother, and three
sisters all died with consumption, and my
lungswere so weak raised blood. Nobody
thought 1 could live. My work (ship-
smithing was very straining on me with my
weak constitution, and / was rapidly going
to the grave. While in this condition |
commenced using Mishler's Herb Bitters,
and it saved my life Because it was SO
difficult to get it in this little place, and 1
had improved SO much, l stopped taking it
for a-time, and the result is that have
commenced going rapidly down hill again.
Somehow, Mishler's Herb Bitters gives
appetite and strengthens and builds me up
as nothing else does, and / must have
dozen bottles at once. Use this commu-
nication syou please, and if any one wants
to be convinced of its truth, let them write
Eie and | will make affidavit to it, for
owe my life to Mishler's Herb Bitters"
The secret of the almost invariable relief
and cure of consumption, dysentery, diar-
rhea, dyspepsia, indigestion, kidney and
liver complaints, when Mishler's Herb
Bitters is used, is that it contains simple,
harmless, and yet powerful ingredients,
that act on the blood, kidneys, and liver,
and through them strengthens and invigor-
ates the whole system. Purely vegetable
in its composition; prepared by regular
physician; standard medicinal prepare
ton; endorsed by physicians and drug
gists; These are four strong points in favor
of Mishler's Herb Bitters. Mishlers Herb
Bitters is sold by all druggists. Price SlO0
per large bottle. bottles for $500.
Ask your druggist for MIsHLER's HERB BrTTEas
III hs does not keep it. do not take ANYTHING else but
send postal card to NrsHLER HKRB BrrxxRs Co.
40 Commerce Street. Philadelphia
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Young Lady at Boarding School.

At some of the French boarding
schools in Paris, the girls are fed on
weak soup two or three degrees strong
er than hot water; meat, from which
nearly all the nourishment Is extract
ed by boiling; coarse veal. watery car
rots and gray, sour bread. The young
lady who comes home after a few
terms of this sort of diet may be very
learned, tut is pale and poor LOOKING,
lacking vigor and health. Give her
Browns Iron Bltters-t the best tonic
in the world for young ladies with i'm
poverlshed blood-and bring the roses
into her cheeks.
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When the system s weakened
through debility or other cause, a
strong tonic medicine is what is need
ed. James Donaghy, 'of GAINESVILLE, O.,
writes: "This is to certify that l have
been suffering from general debility
and loss of appetite for more than
three months. Hearing of the wonder
full Gu ratIve properties of Mishler's
Herb Bitters l tried three or four bot
ties and am entirely cured"
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StraWb errIeS.

Mr.. John Markey, of this city, has
our thanks for crate of the finest
Strawberries we have ever seen.
Mr.. K. Il. Sloan. also, has our thanks
fora box OF very fine berries.
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Tuesday afternoon a livery team
was driven against MIR. Isaac Cooper
knocking him down and seriously in
turing him. He was taken into Bav-
lor's store, near which the acciden,
happened, and physician summoned
who soon restored him sufficiently to
he taken to his home.
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EDITORIAL NOTES,

The cholera is raging in por.
,ions of Spain.
-Gladstone's resignation will
mark an epoch IN the history of Eng
land.
The prolixity of the alumni ad-
dress Tuesday evening was in strong
contrast with the profuuidiiy.
The Gladstone cabinet has re-
signed aud the Marquis of Salisbury
has decided to form 4 new ministry.
The first volume OF General
Grants book will be issued in Dec,
the second in March. There are al
ready 100000 subscribers for the
WORK.
Tie long and vexlng strike at Bevier
has ended. The miners succeeded IN
securing better terms, much better than
they have had heretofore, and every
thing is. now serene and all parties
happy.
The day has past when an in
indifferent speaker can come 10 Kinks
vilte and from few notes entertain an
audience for an hour and fifteen MIN
utes.
1t is fact worthy of mention
ti.at all strikes in Missouri this spring
have been amicably adjusted, and the
laboring men have invariably had con-
cessions made to them. Some of our
sister states should make a note Of
this.
When an audience has been
bored wi tn gimbleelogic for one hour
and quarter, is it wonder that they
cneer as the last expression of the
speak ker dies out on the stillv night.
1t was fortunate that the usual
quarter was not charged for the enter
tainment Tuesday evening for there
would then, certainly, have been suffi-
cient grounds for the great dissatisfac-
tion and grumbling about admlttance
fees to the entertainments.
The powers that be. should
show judgement enough in selecting
speakers to choose those who know
the difference between plaudis and
an expression OF disgust
The annual address was deliv
erered by the Hon. William A. Wal.
lace, of Kansas CITY, who has become
locally famous as the prosecutor off
notorious Frank James. The address
was not scholarly one but abounded
In practical thought and good common
sense. 1t was delivered with that vim
fire, and energy which are characteris'
tics of the speaker.
We have been unofficially in.
formed that no moressstate certificates
will be,,granted on graduation, but each
applicant must stand special exami.
nation by the state sperintendeat.
One of the cutest A B G book:
is the Household Primer" Eacf
large letter has an amusing picture ane
pretty verse. The whole is daintily
printed in brown and, best of all. /.
mailed free by D. Lothrop & Co.
Boston, on receipt of cent stamp
The onslaught, made by the speaker
Tuesday evening. on the met-opolita,
press and preachers, gave evidence o
very limited acquaintance with eth
er.
Prof. o. E. McF Faden will teacl
during the summer in the Missouri
Normal Musical Institute, at Cameron
Mo. The Professor has been engag
ed in the State Normal at this place
for two ears and the very fine vocal
music which has elected SO much
praise from every lover of song, is due
to his careful training. As an instruc-
to: in sight singing, his specially, he is
probably without peer In the state
and his employment In the Normal
Institute IS surely a great acquisition
to its already strong faculty.
Will Business Revive!
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THEINDEPENDENT

is a family newspaper OF the hrst-clas., and is re-
cogniIed as one of the great educators OF the Land
Every one who wishes to be well informed upou
great variety OF subj, cts should subscribe for it.
During the past year The lndep ndent, desiring
that Its subscribers should have stories by the very
best living authors, has published contributions
from ". e. Norris author 'Matrimony.' NO
New Thing etc.: j. Dale, author of .Guerndale,
The Crime oflienry Vaue.' etc; Julia schayer aI.
hoI OF Tiger Lily aud Other Stories''; Sir Samuel
Baker, lhe celebrated Egyptian Explorer; Mrs
j. H. Riddell. author OF The Senior partner,i
SIC; T!iomas HARDY. author OF "A Pair OF Blue
Eyes. TWO Oh Tower etc, Edward Everett
Hale, uuthoro Of Ten Times One is Ten. etc: James
f;ayn, the celebrated English Novelist; Lucy c.
Lille, / Robinson, Fred Storey, Henry "
Lncy, Harriet Prescott spofFord, Rebecca harding
JAWS, sarah orne Jewett, Frank X Stockton II u
"oyese IL, Ivan Tourgenef and others
TERMS TO SUBSCRIBERS,
Three months 75c One year IS %
-Four h.onthF 81 % Two years n
months so Five ye,rs N NJ
Can any one make better inyestme,t ~ a. m to
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Fifty-tuo Dividends
The INDEpENDEAT

of New York. is acknowledged to be what the Pa
Mall Gazette, OF London. SAYS It is, zone of the
ahiesi weekies In existence.o IL occupies two
6elds--relIgiOn and literary.
!. publishes eachwSek from Twenty-Five to
Thirty three per cent more reading matter than
any ofits contemporaries. With the exception of
Its column of .'Sclections.r ~ every line In every
issue Is New, Original Matt.r. written expressly
Iarit. itp.ys more each week for literary mat
ter than ANY three ofits contemporaries put togeth
er. IL has tie largest aud best corps OF contribu-
tors of any periodical In the world. 1t is unde-
noninational In religion, and unsurpassed In lit
erary ability. lis reviews OF books are unexcelled
in journalism Is Edit, raIs are fearless. Its de-
partments OF Science and Biblical Research give
valuabl" Information nnObtaiued elsewhere. its
Markets and Financial Reports and commercial
Articles are eagerly sought Tor by those wanting
correct Information upon those subjects. Its oe.
partments for ''old and young' is filled with
stories and articles in prose and poetry.
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THE INDEPENDENT

has twenty-t two distinct departments edited By
twenty-five specialists, which Includes Bibicsl
kesesches, Sanitary, Fine Arts, Music, Scibucas
Pebles. Per ersonalt,es. Ministerial Register, Hymn
Notes, School sud college. Literature, Religious
Intelligence. SilsstOn. Sunday school, OF the
week, Finance Commerce, ins trance. Stories
Puzzles, Ssiections and Agriculture. Thirty-two
ma In nj 49,
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D. w. Woods, Post dispatch. St.
Louis says: "Burks' White Pine Bal.
sam cured an aggravated cough doz-
en- other remedies failed TO effect.
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Be sure and read Halladay Bros,
side walk advertisement.
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Wanted

100 berry pickers at he EacelsIo r
frult farm G. +. MERCER.
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OFFICE Southeast Coruer Public
fierce's building oyer Griggsby's Groceys
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1885-06-23

paper can testify, Nevada has plenty of lip.
The worst insult to Russian maiden
is to spread tar on the front gate OF her res
idence.-Ex.
An American girl would pay no atten-
ton to tar, but when spar" is heard coming
down the gravel path then she feels so in
suited that she slips back into The house
like creased lightning.
why do young ladies always seem to
feel happy when they get in an srmory?-
Exchange.
Because there are plenty OF arms around
them of course.
An Englishman says American girls
do not know what to do with their arms
Exchange.
The Englishmau has never had any ex
Perience. If he should be able to get one
of them to put her arms around his neck,
he would think-well he would change hi:
mind.
Ella Wheeler pathetically asks:
Chow can you hinder an old regret
For a Joy long dead and hope long set ?'
-Ex.
eff marriage don't hatch the hope "long
set" We give it up Ella.
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Anything connected with the crops
is of interest, not only to the farming
community, but the townspeople a:
well, for the latter are in a measure
dependant upon the former, and in
this connection it is well to state that
recent advices from Kansas place the
new wheat crop at 100000 bush
els. Along the western part
of the state, the farmers have
experienced no heavy rain, and
the consequence is, almost a drouth.
The wheat is generally winter-killed,
and wheat that is harvested, will be
of poor quality.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1885-06-23

for other colonies. Among the curl
GUS coins struck were silver pennies
and half-pennies for the special use of
the queen. They comprise her
"Maundy money" and are given to
the poor of the parish to which she
belongs, on Easter Monday of each
year. The coinage of "Maundy
money" is of very ancient origin.
Last year it comprised fifty pounds
sterling worth of two-pennies, eighty
nine of four-pennies, and fifty-eight of
pennies.
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The Post-Dispatch has a column
and half devoted to the lower walks
of life, as seen in st. Lonis, and well
its readers know, that as it is In St.
Louis, so it is in other large cities.
1t would seem from these pen pictures
that there are depths of misery and
crime which will admit of nothing
lower, and we can but wonder that
Christian people and philanthropists
are not sick at heart when they are
shown to them. 1t is probable, how
ever, that this class rarely come in
contact with the vilest criminals and
the mcst abject poverty, for, alas,
these travel hand in hand. We all
know how easy it is to say, "be good,
and then you will be happy" but in
the actual experience oflife, it is nat
ural to believe that "when you are
happy you can be good" What do
the people who allow the common
coin of sanctimonious phrases to fall
from their lips, whenever and where
ever they have a chanceto use them,
know of the hell of humanity reared
in crime, and with no more of a moral
sense than the brute? There can be
no doubt that newspaper reporters
and the police, know more of actual
suffering, and while never quite cal
loused by the contact, yet understand
its tendency to crime, better than all
the benevolent associations in the
country. Christian women who real
ly mourn over the wickedness Of
which they have only conception,
and who would DO anything but go
down into the slums, are not to be
condemned because they do no more.
Humanity cannot quite put on divin-
ity, and to the delicate woman reared
in the home of plenty, and sheltered
always by love, there is an absolute
pain in the thought of coming in con-
tact with criminals, which no one not
so situated, can understand. She
feels that her dainty dress. her look of
comfort, is an insult to rags and YER
min, she comprehends vaguely, that
tracts do not atone for an empty stom-
ach, she cannot find words to
preach duty and uprightness to
people who are destitute of moral sem
sibilities, and who look upon life with
the dull apathy of an animal. and she
becomes discouraged, while she yet
longs to do something. Now and
then, we find a noble soul, clothed
with the armor of the Master, which,
fearing nothing, and loving all, goes
forth, aud almost alone and unaided,
becomes plaHE which the very poor.
est and sin stepped wretch can cling
to for counsel. But an, even then,
what can they do? There is still
food for the hungry needed, there is
clothes for the naked, and one cannot
provide them, nor many, because the
demand is thousand times greater
than the supply, and 80 in crowded,
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There is no longer a possibility of
concealin the fact that cholera is MAX
ing terrible ravages in the Mediterra-
mean provinces of Spain. the capital
city of the province of Murcia in par
ticular, being scourged. There is no
doubt either that the spread of the
disease is directly traceable to dirt and
foul air and to these same causes,
should it by the natural avenues of
travel reach our own country, much
will be due. The press has done ev-
erything to keep the fact of absolute
cleanliness before the people, and if
the people do not understand that they
are responsible, then strict sanitary
laws should be enforced. Our city
to-day is filled with cellars containing
water which will, in a few days, be
stagnant if not promptly attended to
and few of the alleys are simply too
filthy to talk about. Health is better
than riches, but health must be pur-
chased by pure air and pure surround
ings and the sooner we can secure
these by active work the sooner can
we hope to be happy.