Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1885-08-28
EDITORIAL NOTES,

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yield, and the quality Of the grain is
very fine. A first class Touring mill
could do paying business in Kirks-
Vile.
Owing to the very fine wheat
grown in this county this season, when
the wheat crop over the country is
generally so poor, there will be great
increased acreage of fall wheat
sown. The farmers are becoming
anxious about a good Touring mill
and number have spoken to US this
week in regard TO it. Have our busi-
ness men any interest in thisa When
they consider, that 1t would bring
thousands of dollars to this point that |
now go elsewhere on account of mills.
We think they can be led to make
move in this important matter.
Salvation Is now free in Ken
tuckey. The recently much.talked of
High Bridge Methodist camp meeting
in Kentucky is run by stock company.
The regular admission price is twenty
FIVE cents, and when Rev. Sam Jones
preached there last week the receipts
tor one day were $4,000, This style
of running camp meetings is said to
generally prevail in Kentucky. At
Lexington, railway tickets for the round
trip are sold with camp meeting
coupons attached. In addition to the
entrance fee, the committee own all
the tents or rooms that are for rent,
the lemonade and fruit stands, and
run the boarding houses.
1t is nearing the time when the
seed corn should be gathered. The
experience of last spring should cause e
every farmer in the county to take
extra care in selecting liberal supply
of his best corn for seed. The fields
that were planted but once, will yield
nearly double the amount of those
that had to be planted two or three
times, besides being almost entirely
uninjured. by the grasshoopers. A
few hours spent by each farmer
in Adair county, last fall, gathering
and carefully putting away seed corn,
would have been worth many thou.
sands of dollars this year. The farmers
understand this as well as We do, and
in the face of these facts let US ,rge
upon them not TO reglecr this very i'm
portant matter.
The Wing: The New Yorl
SUP of Saturday, has leading editoria
which ought to be dedicated to Georg'
William Curtis. The Sun makes ex
tracts from the platforms Of the Demo
cratic State'sC Conventions of Mississippi
Iowa, New Hampshire and Ohio, ane
then says: The noticeable agreemen
in these four declarations is that il
not single line is there even the mos
meagre reference to the newfangle
doctrine OF civil service reform, 81
called. 1t is not cited as a blessin
for which Democrats should be thanh
ful, nor does it appear as foundatio
for Democratic approval of MIR. Clevt
land. The Democrats are as silent O
this subject now as they were in tn
National Convention of 1884, Get
William may now behold his reforl
president before taking and after tai
. ing.'-in the Mugwumpian reformers
ID The democrats in conventio
in Ohio last week congratulated Pres
dent Cleveland on the retnrn of pro!
perity and the revival of trade undt
his administration. There is no thinl
ing individual, it matters not what h
political faith may be. but will considt
these congratulations little previou
1t is difficult to convince the farme
when there is no sale for his grain, vii
which his bins are running over, n
sale for his beef or stock cattle; n
sale for his pork or mutton, except ;
prices that do not pay for the cost I
producing, that we are in the midst {
revival of trade or unbounded pro-
perity. True this prosperity wa
promised by every Democratic speake
on the stump last year and those VIII
voted this ticket in good faith hav
been hoping and expecting, ever since
that the tidal wave OF prosperity wo ul
strike them washing out all old debt
and depositing large amount of tn
filthy lucre in their Golfers beside.
Bu,.this seems to be one of til
times when hope deferred maketh tn
heart sick; and it would be NOR
consistent for the politicians to with
hold their congratulations unit
we feel in every nerve and fibs
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