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Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1889-12-27
We will not run down others got
order to sell our own.

The moment begin do this moment our customers
VIII have good to question the character articles we
sell There is an old sayng"good wine needs bushwhch
has an application every line trade know that e is
short and we anxious long enough
goods to win their and when can't buy goods
nave merit sufficient hold their without our esorng to de-
Eas9n OF others we shall quit business and die
minds of the what ought be they may
De OF any agentor cap
that wares which need introduction this kind
milton are not worth buying.
w. B. REYNOLDS & SON.
GREENTOP, MO.
Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1889-12-27
THE WEEKLY GRAPHIC

7 G. SUBLETTE. Proprietor.
Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1889-12-27

That OF course financial suicide and everybody with
sense knows The who his business constantly
the LESS than cost plan knave case
unworthy of trust There may be times when off sur
plus of unreasonable otherwise unstable goods
cuar line be make few days
but these will be the exception not the rule
have much of that kind Of thing do We goods
close to the cost mark duty God neghbors
selves will permit but conviction toeaby clear
the three named will the selling price little
above and not "below cost" 1900
Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1889-12-27
WE SELL STRICTLY FOR CASH AND NO
EXCEPTIONS.
THINGS WE WILL NOT DO
We will not Recommend goods that are
Unworthy of Confidence.

Customers prefer with dealers on whose endorsement
they s rely M and we realize M that nothn about question
what will stand the practical the home There
factories that make honest good there reliable wholesale
honest goods that when friends something line
that we will stand by, may have it to sellthem
We will not make Practice of Selling
goods below Cost.
Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1889-12-27

-English capitalists have in
vested two million dollars in Ma
con county coal lands.
Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1889-12-27

-IO Icdu tue dUOfc Ouo
would conclude that the writer
had been either suddenly convert
ed or was using vast amount of
hypocrisy. Has the writer forgot
ten that only few short months
ago, as manager of the Opera
House, he brought shows of ques-
tionable morality to Kirksyille
and advertised them in his paper
as being worthy of public patron
age. Has he SO soon forgotten
the bouquet" business? He no
doubt considers it very immoral
for young people to dance for
pleasure, but when they are allur-
ed to a place, where they can be-
hold the artistic step of the "kan
kan" at thirty-tiye and fifty cents
a head, 1t loses its immoral and
unchristian aspect. This is not
written in defense of church men,
bers who dance, but to call atten-
ton to the fact that one, who
would pose as great moral refor-
mer, before turning flood of
piety loose on the community,
should, at least, apologize to an
insulted public for his own dis
regard for morality and decency.
Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1889-12-27

AT THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH.
Christmas evening by half past
six o'clock, the Christian church
was packed full of anxious people
to see Santa Claus & Co." render
their most interesting and exquis-
lte play entitled, Santa Claus e.
Co., A Christmas Cantata." BY
seven o'clock every inch of room
had been exhausted, in fact, the
house was packed for full hour
before the entertainment opened.
The Superintendent, Prof J. [.
Nelson was called to the stage
when U. NJ. Browder, the Pastor.
presented him with two elegant
presents, In behalf of the Sunday
School, as token of the apprecia-
ton OF the members and teachers
OF the school for his work as their
leader. Miss May Loomis, the
pianist, then played the beautiful
introduction to the play of Santa
Cl-us d. Co.," and the entertain-
ment began.
Presentations: The Snow fairies
Misses Della Shaver; Mamie
Sanford and Miss Harlan. The
Woman's chronicle. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1888-1???, 1889-09-14
SEX IN MORALS.

Sex in brains is an exploded theory. Centuries
rolled away and the point of inferiority of the
feminine brain never was contested. Brains
went by weight During the past few decades,
however, since women have been admitted to col
leges and allowed to inhae the hallowed air IN the
halls of learning, and have proven themsees equal
in capabty to their great leaders in the race, the
brain has been taken into discussion. Daniel Web
ster's brain weighed great deal; in TRUTH Daniel
Webster's brain may be regarded as the standard
brain. One day the idea took root in some ones
fertile mind to weigh woman's BRAIN A washer
woman, who never came in contact with fame,
happened to be selected for the test, and to the
establishment of science her brain weighed more
than Daniel Webster's brain. 1t was evident
some one had Numbered. However, since then it
has been admitted by scientists that there is really
no sex in brain, and even weight has nothing to do
with it.
There is, however, sex in morals. No reason
fnng element in creation, recognizes this more
than any one. The mother recognizes it as the
dividing line between her sons and daughters.
And as she anxiously watches them make a selection
of their life partners while she would be Mortified
beyond measure should her son select for wife a
Young woman who had not always trodden in the
straight and narrow path of virtue, she will still
give her daughter to one whom she knows to be
unworthy of the fair girl whom she has cher
ished from all harm Sex in morals is the greatest
barrier to perfect civilization. And it is woman's
recognition of this false element that renders it
life Woman holds the power of purifying in her
own hands-why does she not use it? When we
say society countenances and condemns, 1t is only
Woman's chronicle. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1888-1???, 1889-09-14
$1.OO Per Year.
ONE DAY AT A TIME.
HELEN HUNT JACKSON,

One day at a time that's all it can be;
No faster than that is the hardest fate;
And days have their limits, however we
Begin them too early and stretch them too late.
One day at timel
It's wholesome rhyme
good one to live by,
A day at a time,
One day at timel Every heart that aches
Knowing only too well how long they can seem;
But it's never to day which the spirit breaks
It's the darkened future, without CLEAN.
One day at a timel When joy is at height
Such joy as the heart can never forget
And pulses are throbbing with wild delight,
How hard to remember that suns must set
One day at timel But single day,
Whatever its load, whatever its length;
And there's a bit of precious scripture to say
That according to each shall be our strength,
One day at timel tits the whole of life;
All sorrow, all joy are measured therein;
The bound of our purpose, our noblest strife,
The one only countersign sure to win.
One day at a timel
It's wholesome rhymel
A good one to live by,
A day at time
Woman's chronicle. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1888-1???, 1889-09-14

another expression for wonan's power. Society
means woman in this case.
The shame it is that ii isnot The sin that counts,
but the skill in concealing IT. Skillful sin assisted
in its art by society-this is what makes sex in
morals.
Woman's chronicle. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1888-1???, 1889-09-14
THE OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES THEY BE-
COMING EXTINCT.

COMING EXTINCT.
"OUR Grandmothers-a race which is fast be-
coming extinct '-this was toast offered at a
medical mans banquet not long since. ltrefected
upon the physical disability of woman of the
present day and the consequent dearth of large
families. The physicians point to the corset and
the high heels and the demands of society, and
draw a moral therefrom Men of the Grant Allen
type, who believe woman was merely "told off for
reproduction" point the finger Of disapproba-
ton at the colleges and various aids to the higher
education and development of woman, as a
stumbling block to the goal s, grandmotherdom
Should you ask the unmarried women Of Massa-
chusetts the cause of the de#tth of grandmothers
the so-caled coming exhibition of the race
vae -wy,ln,-4 ergr yyr 10 VI es'htrUy s,in.---
point of observation, from which eminence you
will discover dearth of future grandfathers,
condition which will at once present solution to
the problem.
When you tell them the grandmothers are dying
out because of the physical disability of woman,
they will say, "what nonsense! our grandmother
of '76 dressed far more imprudently, and laced
their waists and wore high heels and wigs and
what not-sheer nonsense about the physical
disability, " and with one accord they will point
their fingers to what they deem the offensive
partisan. In this case it is the bachelor, and when
you 90 to him and take him to task, he will clear
his coat skirts and refer you to woman's extrava-
gance as the reason of his condition of single
blessedness, and while he is talking about this
stumbling block to his unmarried condition, he
will treat you to two drinks, a cigar, buy you a
silk umbrella with gold handle and tell you
about his fine horse that can 60 in 2:l5, and in
the narration you will quite forget all about the
original topic up for discussion.
After you have consulted these people-the med
ical fraternity, the old maids and the old bach
elors-then 60 to the laboring man and consult
him on the subject OF this fate impend-
ing modern civilization. He won't understand
you at first, when you speak Of the extinction of
the race of grandmothers, but he will listen and
for an answer when your idea has penetrated his
noggn he will, perchances ask you 10 walk with
him when, like the plowmwb, che homeward wends
his weary way" You nj Eter your body guard of
medicine men, and your 4nest yeoman will gather
up his coat and dinnerbucket and together you will
sally forth.
He will take you among the cottages out on the
edge of town, and by the time you have counted
up the little folks in one block that stare at you
Woman's chronicle. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1888-1???, 1889-09-14
Vol. II.-NO. 20.
4a LITTLE ROCK ARK, SATURDAY SEPTEMBER A. 1885,

from gate posts and peep at you through fence
palings, and bye and bye when the lamps are
lighted you can look in at the windows and OBJ
serve them slowing away their evening meal, six
and eight at table, it will all at once dawn upon
you that the race of grandmothers is not on even
the verge of decay, and you will then know why
your guide first looked blank and then smiled, as
you confded to him your fears.
Such walk is good for the man of fears and
even though he may not happen to stroll by one
of the well-fled public schools on his way home
yet by the time he has reached there an idea may
have penetrated his Uranium that he has been
basing his deductions on one class of individuals
the society women-to the utter exclusion of all
others. With the wave of dress reform which
seems to be sweeping over the country, the ex-
tnctlon of the grandmother, even among this Glass;
is not as imminent is in the past century, wherein
lived the good old danes SO piously dotted on.
Was there ever time when upper tendon trod
on low heels or the corset was in such growing dis
repute as now?
If the medical fraternity would turn their atten-
t1oh to the gfandfathers, The gfand1pthers
would soon be able to take care of themselves.
Apropos to this, the following would seem an APP
propriate toast: ''The Grandfathers of Our
Country-may they be on hand to keep the Grand
mothers company"
The secretary of the Los Angeles w S. A.
gives some very definite answers to the pertinent
questions, ''What are you doingY "What have
you done in California; She says this is the
only suffrage association in the State, and was
organized by Elizabeth A. Kingsbury five years
ago. From a membership of less than twenty at
the beginning, they had over four thousand sgners
to the petition presented to the State Legislature at
its last sitting. After quoting some portions OF
The law bearing unfairly upon woman, the secre-
tary asks how women can be so Indifferent to the
laws by which the are controlled, for ignorance of
the law excuses no one. Every woman should in
form herself upon those points which make or un-
make social purity and happiness, and as long as
woman is denied the ballot, her especial wants will
not be looked after by the legislature, She closes
with the following,
"Man and woman must rise and fall together.
God created us companions; and not until woman
has reached her highest point in the ethics of law
and freedom will man realize his true grandeur of
character. We need each other, in full equality,
to evolve the ideal of human freedom and it is
the belief of our greatest thinkers, past and pres
hat ,bo,, Nc
equality shall exist there will come such state of
harmony in the human family as has been but
dimly outlined by our most enthusiastic dreamers
and most prophetic thinkers"
KENTUCKY requires all her public school teachers
to be intelligent on the subject of civil govern
Woman's chronicle. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1888-1???, 1889-09-14

KENTUCKY requires all her public school teachers
to be intelligent on the subject of civil govern
ment, obtaining not less than 65 per cent in test
examination on that subject in addition to the
usual standard required to fit them for educators,
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1889-04-04
LINES FROM LoCKHART.

What Congressman Moore Says Concern
Ing the Designs of the Administration.
Special Telegram to the Statesman.
District court convened here last Mon
day, Judge Teichmueller presiding, he
having failed to effect an exchange with
Judge Garrett, as was anticipated; all of
which is very satisfactory to our bar.
Among the nonresident attorneys in at
tendance we notice Judge Burts and Mr..
Dowell, of Austin, and Hon. l.. W. Moore
ard Mr.. Duncan, of LaGrange.
Judge Moore, who is our congressman,
is Just home from Washington, where he
has been serving an admiring constitu-
ency to their complete satisfaction.
Judge Moore is open and unmeasured in
his denunciation of the northern republi-
can leaders, who, he says, are determined
that the south shall have no
voice in the national government,
and, to this end, seriously contemplate a
declaration of martial law in the recon-
struoted states. The recent appointment
of United States marshal in this district is
an evidence of the yearning love of the
administration for our people. The la
u1ouOou 1dl NOolAuS uhNo
could he have anticipated such a successor.
Lookhart and Luling have granted an
extension of time to the Arkansas Pass
road for the completion of the same to
Lockhart by the 1st of next September.
We very much desire direct rail communi-
cation with Austin, but if the people of
Austin are willing for the road to be ex-
tended to this place and here stop, we will
try and stand it.
Mr.. Crawford, of The STATESMAN, ID in
town working up The STATESMAN, and is
meeting with encouraging success, which
he richly deserves for his energy and in
dustry.
The grand jury have just returned into
court seven bills of Indictment; four of
them against one educated colored gen.
tleman for forgery. This'c. G. will soon
discover that "a little learning is a dan
gerous thing"
Several important enterprises are incu-
batting in our town which it would be i'm
polite to divulge just now, for while we
desire healthy and prosperous growth,
we do not wish to induce a rush of fort
une hunters until we are fully prepared
for them, which is now partially accom-
plished by the completion of our new
jail.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1889-04-04
TEE OKLAHOMA BOOM.
Great Joy In the Promised Land Whic
Is Rapidly Filling Up.

Great Joy IN the Promised Land Which
Is Rapidly Filling Up.
WIonITA, March 29.-The long looked
for proclamation for the opening of Okla
homa was received here with demOnstra-
tiors of great joy. Flags hung from
buildings, cannons were fired and bonfres
built. The same enthusiasm Welcomed
the Dews all over Kansas. Extensive
preparations are being made for enter
ing the country, and some of the towns of
southern Kansas will almost be depopu-
lated. The boomers who have been
camped along the line are making ready
to- move. Some men are hurrying on to
Oklahoma to get their cattle, as they fear
violence to stock and property from their
deadly enemies, the boomers.
The soldiers having left Oklahoma city,
the boomers have come out of their con-
cealmentin the woods to hear the news.
1t is estimated there were 800 persons that
reioiced. Colonel Summers received from
Colonel Wade at Fort Reno the orders
from Washington and posted them up in
the Oklahoma depot.
They were that every person must i'm
mediately leave the country and that the
names of those foHnd would be taken and
kept to defeat future filing. The soldiers
left Fort Reno the night before and are
advancing to Oklahoma, securing the
country as they advance. AS soon as the
order was posted many commenced leav-
ing, but when the train reached Guthrie
the news of the issuing of the proclama-
ton was received and they alighted to
Join the boomers in their celebration and
to be near to their claims.
At Purcell there was the same wild en-
thusIasm, only by greater numbers.
Claims are being rapidly taken up and
there is hardly good selection of land
that has not one ore more claimants.
Fights are daily occurring. Tuesday
night Swede from Cold Harbor, Kan,
while contesting claim twenty-four miles
west of Oklahoma station, was killed
Men have already sold their rights to
claims for $4OO and $500.
A boomer arriving from Oklahoma says
the country is full of people; that the
number is constantly increasing and that
he believes it impossible to keep them
out.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1889-04-04
Tho Rock Island Railway.

TOPEKA, Kan, March 2S.-Inmediately
upon the announcement shat the presi-
dent had issued the Oklahoma proclama-
ton, officials of the Rock Island road and
a corps of engineers started from this
city to make the final survey for the ex-
tension through the Indian Territory.
The road is built as far south as Pond
creek, some twenty five miles below in the
Cherokee strip, at which point oonstruc-
ton will begin. The proclamation by
which Oklahoma is opened designates
Kingfisher as the land Office for
the western district. This Is
at present a station situated on Kingfisher
creek, the southern tributary of the Oimar-
ron. 1t is on the projected line of the
Rock Island and some ninety miles south
of the Kansas line. 1t is stated the rail
road company will push its line to King
fisher as soon as possible and go thence
to Fort Reno, twenty miles further on, at
which point there are 600 to 800 troops
stationed, which will create demand for
supplies and transportation.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1889-04-04

pass on either side OF the railway track.
The plsintiff was driving one horse hitohod
to hack heavily. loaded with merchandise
and his wife. There was no brake upon the
vehicle, and, coming down the incline to-
wards the bridge, the hack gained a
rapid acneleration. The hack was nearly
upon the bridge when the plaintiff saw a
street-car approaching the bridge from
the opposite'side. He tried to stop his horse
and cried to the driver to stop the car,
but the driver paid no attention to him
and the heads of the horses in the car
ran into his horse, frightening him and
causing him to back the vehicle over the
embankment into the ditch below.
The plaintiff claims to have
been seriously injured above
the shin, hip and ankle, which he says
prevented him rom doing any work for
six months and that he is permanently
injured. The plaintiff claims that his
wife also was permanently injured and
asks for damages against the defendants
to the amount of $4,000. The chi #
ground of action against the city is that
1T tnegligeDtly failed to have railing put
upon the edge of the embankment.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1889-04-04
FROM GOLDTHWAITE.

Criminal Matters-Parties Charged With
the Horrible Murder Near Eagle Pass.
| Special Telegram to the Statesman.
GoLDTHwAITE, Tex, March 27.-Since
the recent rain the weather has been
spring like, and vegetation is growing very
fast. With no disaster the grain crop will
be the heaviest ever raised in this county.
Stock is in good condition. Some con-
tracts have been made for ones and twos.
District court was formally adjourned to-
day. The judge discharged the petit
| Jury for the term. Several cases were
continued, viz: j. T. Guthrie vs.. Gulf,
Colorado and Santa Fe Railway com pany,
The State vs. Joe and Sam Hinton for burg
larry, Mrs. L. E. Young vs.. W. j. Thurman
suit for $4,000 damages for the wrongful
killing of her husband, B. F. Young, in
Brown county. w. j. Shurman was ac-
quilted at this term of the court. Dan.
Boon Cushbert was given five years for
theft of horse. He stole the horse from
Mr.. Kelly of Coryell county, and traded
him for another horse to j. Black, of San
name of B. L. White. Mr.. Kelly found
his horse in possession of Mr.,
Black. They then followed
found him in possession of the horse
he got from Black. He was brought here
this week, tried and convicted. There are
other cases against him in Coryell and
McLennan counties.
Sheriffs Howard, of San Saba, and Gun
ninghsm, of this county, returned from
Midland last night in charge of john, Joe
and Sam Hinton, who were arrested few
days ago. Joe and Sam we're jailed here,
and john was taken to San saba. Before
leaving here, Sheriff Howard made COM
piaint against John Hinton, charging
him with being accessory to the killing of
Mr.. @. W. Smith, who was murdered in
San Saba county few weeks ago. Dick
and Sam Duncan will remain in
Jail here until April IL, when they
will be taken to Burnet and tried
before Judge W. A. Blackburn under a
writ of habeas corpus for the murder of
Mrs. Williamson, her two daughters and
her son near Eagle Pass.
The jurisdiction of the county court of
this county has been abolished by the
present legislature and all the cases on
tie docket were to-day transferred to the
district court. The roller mill enterprise
is PROGRESSING satisfactorily. A first class
hotel is greatly needed here and would
prove profitable investment. A better
opportunity cannot be found anywhere
The ladies of the Baptist church gave a
supper here this week which netted about
$65.