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The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1886-11-23
So. Louis Marker.


FLOUR-Fairly active and higher.
WHEAT-The market III ed strong early, but
fell of toward the close, which Was A95se mig her
than yesterday. No ., Red, cash, 75z Decem-
her, 765k9765l, closing at 76>a January 7Sg1Sh,
el sing at 1874 May, AZ 9S43s, closing at s43s
9S41~.
CORN-Opeued firm at small advance over the
latest figures yesterday, bat later weakened ana
closed 1sQze lower than yesterday. No., mixed,
cash 3S5z ID cember "a January IS May, SSss
gSS54, closing at 3S5s bud.
OATS-Vers dull but nOminally steady. No. 2,
mixed, cash, 26He2614 December 261+ Did; May
3sk
RYE-Firm at 5Os5I1le bid, according to lOca-
ton.
BaRLEY-Dun but steady at 549S5c according
to quality.
LEAU-very dull at s4O5 bid for chemically
hard
PROVISIONS Very dull and irregular.
PORK-Firm at $40 90.
BUTTER-Creamery2SG27, dairy l4925e.
EGGS-Steady
HHISkI-Firm at 81 IL.
LARD-Finner al s. S595 90
RecelDts-FlOur, 5000 barrels; wheat $4,000
bushels corn. a. 800 bushels OaIs "a 100 basneis;
rye, 1000 bushels; barley, 200 oEsnels.
shipments Flour, 90 barrels; wheat, IL, 600
bushels corn, 26,t ~ bushels oats 900 oushelsi
rye, 10000 bushels /; barley, - bushels.
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A Young Traveller.

Mary Duncan, aged IL, applied o
the Mayor yesterday for transporta-
ton to Sherman. Texas. Mary is a
rather good looking, but thinly clad,
girl who tells the following story. Il
am an orphan, my father and mother
both being dead. have an uncle
who lives at Sherman, Texas. | also
have an uncle who works on the rail
road. | came to Sedalia to my aunt,
but she is dead. | have been at Mr..
Wilson's i'm East Sedalia for four
weeks, but 1 want to 90 back to my
uncle's, and he told me TO ask the
Mayor to send me-" Both officer
Kelly and the Mayor tried to pur-
suade the girl to remain and offered
to secure her a good home, but she
insisted on going and was given a
ticket as far as Clinton, Missouri.
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The divorce suit which has been
commenced against Lawrence Hop
kins, president of the Missouri Pacific
railway, by his wife, and which will
serve as sensational food for some
time to come among the society peo-
pie of Chicago and New York es-
pecially, has in it, not only cause for
reflection, but a warning as well. 1t
is said that Mr.. Hopkins, absorbed in
business, has no time for the social
circle, while his wife is devoted to it,
she having been belle both before
and since her marriage. There is no
question that when such antagonistic
elements attempt to run in one groove,
that it will not be long until the re-
suits are very unsatisfactory, and the
mistake was in the first attempt. A
business man, whose whole time is
amid the world of men, needs wife
who, while able to assist him by her
attention to the calls of society, yet
has enough domesticity in her ma
ture to make home resting place for
her husband. On the other hand, a
man should not allow himself such
utter absorption in his business, that
he never has time for the social cir
Gle. He owes something to his wife
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LONG-lIVED WHIMS.
Curious Directions Contained In the Wills
of Various People.

Curious Directions Contained In the Wills
ofvsrious People.
An old woman who died lately in q
village in Western Pennsylvania
was so attached to her home and its
belongings that she bequeathed it to
her daughter SO long as not an article
of furniture was removed from the
place it had occupied during her life.
Any change made in the house or fur
niture would forfeit the legacy. Not
year had elapsed after her death
when by an explo sion the house and ali
in it were shattered to fragments.
In no way do the ruling passions of
men show themselves so strongly as by
their wills. A curious collection re-
Gently made of these last testaments eX-
hibits the EXTREMIST forms oil vanity,
benevolence, malignancy and humor.
John Reed, a gas-lighter in Phila-
delphia theater for nearly fifty years,
bequeathed his skull to the property
room, to be used only as poor
Yoriak's" in the graveyard scene in
Hamlet.
Harriet Martineau left her skull and
brain to a surgeon, for the purpose or
scientific investigation. CartOuche
gave his skull TO a Genevese mOnas-
terry: and Jeremy Bentham his body TO
friend, who articulated the skeleton
and dressed it in Bentham's own
clothes.
A wealthy English nobleman. dying
about a century ago, left live guineaS
for the purchase of a picture of viper
singing the hand of his benefactOr, to
be given to an ungrateful friend in lieu
of the large legacy left him by former
will, now revoked.
Every kind of within and freak have
been expressed by wills. Sieur BenOit
desired that he might be buried in an
old leather trunk which had gone
around the world with him three times.
A wealthy Kentucky iron-master, who
died few years ago, ordered that his
body should be kept unburied by his
family, and a. soon as it was put under
ground they should forfeit their inner
itance.
A shrewd merchant in Bremen left
large legacies to six friends with the
condition that none of them should fol-
low him to the grave or show any sign
of respect or grief on pain of forfeiture.
Five obeyed the conditions, the sixth
rode as chief mourner and threw
flowers upon his coffin. A cOdicil was
discovered by which the loyal friend
who should disregard the will should
receive treble the amount given to the
others.
There is something pathetic in even
malignant attempts 10 make a mans
whims live after he is dust. 1t is the last
puerile effort of weak human nature &c
defy death. Youth > COsapGHiOH-
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Mrs. Cleveland Can Set the
Fashions.
From the Boston Post.

From the Boston Post.
| observe that Mrs. Cleveland is
still much talked about by the ladies.
d" That corduroy travelling dress of
hers" said one lady to me, sis going
to make corduroy popular again.
You know it nevershas been fashion.
able, but she has s"own how the
material may be made dressy and be-
coming. Oh, dear! l wish We could
have seen more of her."
This is the burden of more than one
remark made Of the presidents wife
and her visit, and | have observed
that some ladies who belong to the
same facial type as Mrs. Cleveland -
and they are by no means extremely
few-are beginning to roll their hair
In the fashion which she has followed
in the photographs exhibited in the
shop windows and models. Certainly,
looking at the matter from a masculine
standpoint, they might do much worse.
Mrs. Cleveland seems to me to be a
woman of subdued tastes and excellent
skill Ia devising her costumes. Per-
haps ,he will fill the place.
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IDENTIFICATION.
The Forces at Work Tending to National
Decay-Cities as Centers of Decay.

The Forces at Work Tending to National
Decay-Cities as Centers of Decay.
The successive decay of the great
nations of antiquity is wonderful
phenomenon. How hard to realize
that Egypt, now at the foot of the ma
tons, was once the head! that Rome
was the mistress of the world! that
Greece, in all the great products of in
tellect, was the master-mind of the
race, with a supremacy reached by no
nation sincei
In modern times Spain has sunk
down from one of the highest seats OF
power in Europe to one of the lowest.
A similar process is seen going on in
other nations. Do the elements of de-
cav inhere in the life of nation as
they do in that of an individual, so
that decrepit age must necessarily sue
coed to the most vigorous national
manhood?
Why this national decay?
History shows US that the ancient
nations persisted because power and
prosperity brought to one class luxury
and effeminaey, and to the other crush
ing poverty, and thus to both every
possible vice and physical degenera-
ion. The same causes are ever prolific
IF the same effects.
But il is the cities that are the CEN
tiers of decay. In these the destructive
forces are the most numerous, strong
est and most incess~ Htly at work.
Camille. in his Degeneration amongst
Londoners, says pure LondOner of
the fourth generation is impossible.
Certainly it i not - bad as that here.
Yet we find. i'm each generation, that
the leading business and professional
minds in our great cities are impOrta-
tons from the rural districts.
What would happen if this contsnt
supply of good blood should cease?
Two significant facts now comfort us.
| One is that the country is being more
and more conformed to the city type
/ of social life; the other is that large
cities are multiplying among US with
unexampled rapidity. Steam and rail
roads enable most of these cities to be-
come large manufacturing centers.
These two facts must in time greatly
lessen the ability of our cities TO re-
plenish themselves with vigorous blood
from the rural districts, as has hitherto
been the case in our national growth.
| More and more we need to take care
of our cities-by insisting on the stew
ardship of wealth; teaching and en-
forcing the right relations between
capital and labor; so caring for the
poor as to foster'their self-respect and
their ability to help themselves; multi.
plying and increasing the efficiency of
city missions; more vigorously enforc.
ing the laws against crime; adopting
every feasible measure TO improve
tenement-houses, to clean out the slum,
physically and morally. and to secure
TO every person m ample supply o.
pure air, good water and wholesome
YoutA's ConpGnion.
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a Confding Servant.

The ability of the average colored
servant in the South to steal with i'm
punity from his or her employer, as
the case may be. is truly phenomenal.
"How's yer comm on in yer new
placer" asked Jim Webster of Matilda
SNOWFALL.
Use done laid up noah den twenty
dollars, and / hain't drawed a cent OBJ
wages yet"
"Ain't yer Altered dey will hold back
yer wagesP"
mo, Use got puffec conferdence In
'em." -Terds SytingS.
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FOOTLIGHT FLASHES.
Items of Interest to PIay-GOers
From Everywhere.

Lizzie Evans has been playing to
large houses this week in st. Louis.
Patti has arrived from Europe.
She is said to have trunk full of in
terviews.
Won Suppe has written an ope.
retta which he has entitled "JOseph
Haydn"
The American Opera manage
ment will soon offer a prize for an
American opera.
The engagement of lose Eytinne
as a member of Mr.. Days company
is announced.
The one thousandth performance
of "Chimes of Normandy" has been
given in Paris.
Mime. Modjeska is doing a re-
markable bushes at the Union Square
theater, New York.
1t is announced that Mad. Rive
King will lncate in Boston when her
touring days are over.
-Maude Granger has emerged
from her retirement and is starring in
the pay of "Lynwood."
An American lady's idea of a
ballet girl is all open muslin umbrella
with TWO pink handles.
Mr.. Edmund Collier is to add to
TIE realism of "MetamOra" by using
real Indians for supernumeraries.
Miss Emma Abbott has introduced
the Lullaby" song from "Erminis"
into the "Chimes of Normandy"
-"How is your wife !" was asked
of a prominent actor on the square
the other day. (which One!" was
the reply.
1t took Charlotte Cushman a de-
cade to conquer the public aversion
which her plain, almost repulsive face
inspired.
-Audrsn has finished a new comic
opera which he has christened Gin
diaua," and which is to be brought
out in London.
Arrangements are being made
by which Mile. Rhea will 90 to Aus.
tralia at the end of her present tour
in this country.
The ITALIA Opera Company will
90 rs far west as San Francisco on
their tour this season. They will play
at the Baldwin Theatre.
Mile. Rhea played at the Grand
Opera House, Toronto, to large and
fashionable audience. She will ap
pear at the States and present "A
Dangerous Game" 1.-The Widow,
Fairy Fingers" and her own version
of Romance of a Poor Young
Man The present is the most sue
cessful season she has ever known. :
A tragedy with grand ballet il
ii will he something of novelty
Mr.. Frederick Wsrde intends TO in
troduce one into "Galba. the Gladia
tor" with an auxiliary force number
ing 40 persons. The important
scenes in the tragedy are laid in thu
catacombs, among the gardens on the
Tiber and in the Temple of Juno.
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MANS CURIOSITY.
The Nice Things Which Emily Had to Say
About Her Friends Husband.

The Nice Things w nlch Emiiy h2o 10 Say
About Her Friends Husband.
'.By the way" she said to him, I've
got letter from Emily and she sends
q sweet message to YOU"
What does she say?"
Ill send you the letter to read and
you'll see."
A woman's curiosity about any thing
can't equal mans curiosity to know
what a woman SAYS about him. He
may disguise it, but it consumes his
very Utmost soul and he never rests
until he knows. He thought about
Emily and her letter and tried to i'm
agine what she had said about him
She might have sent him her dearest
love, called him dear boy, shown in
some very imprisoned but discreet
way that she was crazy about him. He
began to recall Emily, TO remember
lots of little things she had said and
done to him which pointed to some
exceptional feeling for him. At last
he got the letter. He started and read.
and read. Condensed somewhat this
was how he related his recollection of
it. After a lot of affectionate apologies
TO her friend she went on, as near as
he knows:
al have been so awfully busy redeco-
rating and refurnishing my rooms
You wouldn't know them again. The
floors are all tattooed with terra
Gotta; and the drawing-room CRATE has
been tinted with sienna; and rugs
edged with Valencia street lace have
been laid down all over the place. The
portieres have been taken down and
iupons of blue damask, basqued with
chinchilla fichus and fiuted with pink
chenille frizzes have been put up be-
tween the dining-room and parlOr.
You remember where the sofa was.
Well, I've taken "a way and put the
piano in its place, and have had hooks
put up in the lib ary and all my books
are hung up with electric attachments.
My dresses have all been moved into
the little dark room, and stained ma
hogany rods with green-gage frills and
Nile-green nobs, and sea-blue hooks,
and all sorts of things. Love to your
hubby, and regards to -"
And that was all.-San francisco
CAronsele.
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Kansas City fired with the reports
that Sedslia and other points in Mis-
souri, have strong hopes of securing a
supply of natural gas, has concluded
to try her luck and will at once COM
mence boring in the bottoms on the
hypo- thesis that wherever the worst
SMELLS, there is the best promise OF
success. 1t is useless to say that the
bottomswill probaly be as full OF
holes as a sieve.
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81. Louis Lave STOCK Market
ST. LOUIS. Nov

CATTLE-ReceiDts, 1890 shipments, 800.
Marzet ruled shade higher on desirable grades
of natives and Indians aud about steady on Others
Choice native Steers, 81 5094 80; Butchers
steers fair 70 good, 81 so d3 20 : steekers. fair
To good 81 9OG2 rs: Texas and Indians, common
To prime, 81 S59S 50. o ~.
HOGS-Reeeipts, 6lso; shipments, 800. MAR
cot onened strong and auick clearance was made
AZ Yesterdays advance, closing easier. Choice
heavy and butchers selection, 81 0094 10; pack
ers fair to best. s. 90@4 10; workers, medium 70
81 6,9S 20, ,ou ~.
mtnt slow, prices steady.
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Mrs. Parsons, the wife of the con-
demned anarchist, is reported to have
made 81, 800 in New Yorks a, the re-
suit of her lectures. She will use the
money, she says, for the purpose of
defraying the expenses of a new trial
for the condemned men. Mrs. Par
sons had better save her money to
get a new husband with, there i: not
much reoson to hope that the old one
will be of mach use to her after
awhile.
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Ak B. thinks. ostrich like. that

A. K. B. thinks, ostrich like, that
when he runs his head in the sand,
that the balance of his anatomy is
hidden because he can't see himself.
The cowardly and contemplate ex-
terror of a sausage still fails to reveal
his identity, fearing that public opin-
ion will frown upon the worthless cur
who writes villainous and lying COM
munications over a nom de plume.
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"A young man of Nackswick. n.
B., quarreled with a young lady to
whom he was engaged because she al
lowed another sutton to pay her some
attention, and entered suit against her
father to recover twenty-eight dollars.
The bill of particulars included jew
elry, some wearing apparel, and fifteen
dollars in money. Before the case was
tried, however, the young couple met
again. the flame of love was rekindled,
and they were married before any
other obstacle could intervene.
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The El-Dorado Democrat has res
olved, under its new management, to
discard the patent part which has
heretofore been part of it, and will
now begin an all home print career.
This is step in the right direction
and EIdOrado citizens should see to it
that the paper is well supported.
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Perfect Sight.

As thousands can testify, there is nothing
90 much to be desired as perfect sight and
perfect sight can only be obtained by using
perfect spectacles. @. G. Taylor, our home
optician, exercises great skill and patience
ia fitting those needing spectacles with care
snd comfort to the wearer. l2-l1du.
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Chicago Live stock.
CHICAso, Nov. 10,

The DrUysrs' Jourus; TspOr,s.
CATTLE-ReeeIPts, 1900; shipments, LOCO,
Market steady and a shade higher, Shipping
steers. S3 U095 90 sJockars and feeders, 81 10
03 80: cows, bulls a. q mixed 81 5093 10; bulk
81 loQ2 Is through Texas cattle 81 5dy3 %
Hoes Receipts, 42GOD shipments, 10000. Mar
ket opened slow, closing strong and loo lower.
Rough end mixed, So 55@s4 Us packing and
shipping s. "a TO- light, So 5094 %; skiPs
e. 0i0gS 30.
SHEEP-Receipis, 5000 shipments, 1000. Mar
ket steady. Natives - i094 90; western So cog
60; Texans, 81 0O9S Is lambs, SO 5O94 p.
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Joseph Hoffman, the St. Louis
man who, probably anxious to aston
ISL Kansas City, swallowed a case
knife, handle and all, few days ago,
and had it subsequently taken from
his stomach by skillful surgical OPP
Grafton, is not only still living, but
liable to get well, and it is safe to say
that be will commence future exper-
iments with nothing larger than a
pocket knife.
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and her friends, and it is his duty to
see that the debt is paid. Marriage
founded on anything else than the old
fashioned bases of bear and forbear,
is apt to be bad investment, and it
is so proven every day.
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Mrs. Wlnslow's Soothing Syrup should
always be used for children teething. 1t
sooths the child, softens the gums, allsys
all pains. cures wind collie, and is the best
remedy for diarrhea. Twenty-Five cents
bottle. T-3leod&wly
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BY TELEGRAPH

Nkw YORK, Nev

NKw YORK, November 10
mONEI-On call quie; at 4s6 per cent, closing
at 5 per cent.
PRIME FAPER-hercantle at 4tL5 cent.
STERLING EXCHAN' E-Quiet but steady
az Sl1& for so day bills and 4 $40 for de
mand
STOCKS-The total sales CT ST, cks to-day were
SOS SIS shares
GOVERN MENTS-BonlSw were dull and steady.
STATE BONDS-Were dull and steady.
The stock market active with the widest
distribution of business ever recorded.
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hrttlpts--F IOuI. If.UOU 0dfItIs. WntdI, o4,UOU
bushels; rurn, 126 OO0 bushels oats, IS, 600 bush
els: rye, 2,0GO bushels barley, S7,01J bushels
Shipments-FiOur, 1900 barrels wheat, 5000
bushels; S0O0 bushels oats, 81, 900 BUSH
els rye. 1000 bushels ; barley, G., 600 bushels.
~ TIT e. u the produce exchange butter ru ed
steady. Good TO extra creamery, 20(g27c fair 10
good creamery, l56SI9 good TO extra dairy, l5924;
pacs ing stock. 1lG12H.
E1tIS-FreSh al I9 a2Oc.
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He stood under the window and
sang, "How Can l Leave Thee3" But
he did leave so suddenly that the dog
went behind the house and wept-
PecE's SHn.
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The trial Of ex-alderman McQusde,
the man who has earned the title of
"Boodler." which is now in progress
in New York, shows that when il
comes to the test, there is very little
honor among thieves. Wait and Full
CROFT, who were In McQuades' conf,
dence have both added their testim ony
to his guilt, and the chances are that
McQuade's goose is cooked.
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Lord Lonsdale and Violet Cam
eron claim that their visit was fail
ure on account Of American preju-
dice against England. 1t was not
American prejudice against England,
but rather American prejudice against
English indecency, that withered the
Violet and her manager in America.
And since the prejudice is liable to
extend, it would be an excellent
ching if other foreigners, with tenden-
cies of certain kind, would take
warning.
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chicago Marker.
CHICAGO, Nov. 10.

CHICAGO, Nov. 49,
Flour was unchanged.
Cash quotations were as follows: No. 2, Spring
wheat, 751sq74: No. 3, do, 6ZtG6S1z; No. ?, Red,
745z. No. 2, corn, 369S6%, No, 2 oats 261sQ
264; No. rye, %. No. barley, 81 No,
faxseed, SO. Prime timothy seed 81 67zl 6S.
Mess pork 6nG9 IS. Lard, S. 95. Whisky 81 Is.
Leading futures ranged as follows.
Opening Highest Lowest Closing
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While the liar has more pressing
need Of . good memory than other
men, be is of all men least likely 70
possess it-Presiderx Porter.
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Forest culture in Dakota has led
to the appearance of birds that were
never before seen there
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1t is said that agents are at work
in St. Louis for the purpose of secur'
ing recruits for the filibustering ex-
petition against Mexico, headed by
Cutting, and that good many of the
old Missouri Pacific employees who
were left out of job when the strike
failed last spring, are enlisting.
There would seem to be peculiar ap-
propriateness in the enlistment of these
men in fiIibustering scheme, but
since it is possible thst the Mexicans
will not be any easier filibustered,
than were the railway managers last
year, they might as we'll stay at home.
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Afternoon DVaEd.)

WHEAT-Firm and re higher.
CORH-Easy and &c lover.
DAT Firm and unchanged.