Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1889-11-22
3 WEEKLY GRAPHIC
FRIDAY. NOVEMBER % 1850,


advocate of Republican principles.
1t is estimated that one
hundred lives were lost in the re-
cent blizzard that swept over New
Mexico, Colorado and Western
Kansas. Thousands of sheep and
cattle also perished.
Capt. Dan. X. Shields,
State Temperance Lecturer and Or
ganizer, will be in kirksville Dec.
10, and deliver series of lectures
on temperance. Capt. Shields
Is one of the ablest advocates of
temperance in the state. All
should hear him.
Brazil has attracted the at
tention of the entire civilized
world. One day an empire. the
next a republic Business in the
Capitol was suspended only TWEEN
ty-four hours and an empire was
destroyed aud a republic born al
most before tie public was aware
that anything unusual was going
on
The grain inspection board
is said to be the biggest political
machine in the state, and that it
is being run on the platform of
Francis for vice-president, Clardy
for United States Senator, and
Dockery for Governor. Senator
Cockrell may yet find that AIissou-
ri's grain inspection board is far
more powerful than its distributor
Of garden seeds.
beginning with January 1st
next. the Rev. T. Dewitt Talmage
d. d., will become one Of the edi.
tors Of "The Ladies' Home Jour.
nal," of Philadelphia. The ia.
nous preacher will have a regular
department each month, writer
by himself, with the title "Undel
My Study Lamp" His first con
tribution will appear i'll the Janu
ary number of the journal. DR.
Talmage's salary is said to be Oh,
ofthe largest ever paid for editori
al work.
Last week our Fair Vie,
correspondent gave an account Q
plowing being done by steam i
his neighborhood. This is ne
departure, and Adair count
certainly leads In taking thi
step. There is no reason VIII
our broad acres should await th
slow plodding work of horses an
small plows, when engines al
standing idle all oyer the countr,
While it is true that there al
many places in the county whel
the use of steam would be in
practicable, yet there are tho,
sands of acres that can be rapid
turned by harnessing steam, il
stead of horses, to the plow.
1t is not little amusing
note how industriously the Dem,
Gratis are circulating the cry {
hard times, and putting forth IL
claim that the Republican part
has not given the country the goo
times that were promised befol
the election. Does it ever occr
to them that, if any political part
is responsible for the low price
of farm products and the stril
gency of money, the Democrat
party is alone to blame? Thel
has been no meeting of Congress
under the present administration
hence no legislation that coul
effect the country in any manne
whatever. But we do know th,
cattle were selling readily at SAC
per hundred at the close of th
Republican administration. w
know, further, that the price
have gone lower and lower wit
each succeeding year of a Demo
cratic ADMINISTRATION, till now til
same class of cattle is almost with
out a market at s2.50per hundred
The fact is that the Democrat
administration was disappoini
ment TO the Democrats, and the
so expressed themselves at th
polls last November. But the
expected too much of the Reput
lican party. They seemed to thin
that restoring the Republica
party to power would, or shoul
have, the effect of magic wand
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