Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1891-07-31
Side Walks and Streets.

instituted against the city, strike
you? Some day soon you may ex-
pact this unless our eide walks re-
ceive your early and careful atten-
ton. Recently the writer saw a
lady fall on the walk south OF Mil
ler's lumber yard; had she been
injured, there would have been q
clear cese for legal proceedings
agninst the city on the ground of
sidewalks.
II some enterprislng yankee
should visit our town just now In
quest OF n business opening, he
would most nssured!y open an ac-
cident insurance Office to protect
his patrons from loose boards, rot
ten planks, aud holes where boards
ought to be in our side walks.
The primo requisites of mod
ern city are these rapid transit,
water, light and drainage.
Rapid transit, as applied to our
city, means well paved streets and
good side walks.
We are glad to note the fact,
that we are to have some more
good street paving. We need more,
and must have it if we ever expect
to be anything more than a mud
cursed" little back woods town.
The great drawback to the rapid
settlement OF this country has
been the lack Of good, dry roads
in the country and solid, substan-
tial streets in our towns end cities.
There was sensible, forcible ar
ticle in a recent number of the
GRAPHIC on the importance OF
county roads. All modern reforms
begin in the centers of population
our cities and towns.
Our city only needs to pave its
chief thoroughfares and show to
our farming brethren the advant-
ages of good highways to have the
principal roads of the county all
mecadamiZed in q very short time
IL the farmer leaves his home
on poor uncared-for-ditch like
road, and finds it gets worse the
nearer he gets to town, how long
do you suppose it will be until said
farmer advocates better and more
modern roads:
CITY fathers. should any strang-
er call and desire to invest few
dollars in our naturally beautiful
city, take him over past tn p
south ward school house. and
snow him that beautiful road
running past the Willard proper
ty.
That is a shining example of
how not to do a thing. That is a
beautiful illustration of corporate
thrift and enterprise.
Years and years we have been
sitting, stupidly gazing at the dirt
bespattered vehicle, pass our doors
and founder through our quaggy
streets, Looking at the matter
from the cool standpoint of
business Investment, we might ex-
claim with the immortal Sellers,
"Their millions in it"
Viewing the matter from the
aesthetic side, there Is beauty in
it, from the sanitary standpoint,
then is health in it. There are
and should be proper incentives
to urge our business men and city
authorities to pave our streets
and build and repair our side
walks, or see that it is done, and
that, too, speedily, ere we are
lost in the slough of despond"-
the mud of Kirksville streets next
spring. ANTI-DIRT.
The Century For August 1891.
The Century for August has
double frontispiece consist ting of
portraits of the Emperor and En-
press of Germany to accompany
candidly written paper of person.
al interest, by Poultney Bigelow,
on the German Emperor, being
sketch of the first three years of
his reign, in which, in general, a
favorable view is taken of the &c
complishments of the new Emper-
or, whom the writer considers
successful business manager Of a
practical political corporation =
The paper is also illustrated with
sketches of the winter and sum-
mer residences of the Emperor,
the Throne-Room, the White Sa-
loon in which Parliment is OPEN
I'd, etc.
A unique paper contributed by
Gustav Kobbe deals with "Life
IN the South Shoal Lightship,"
which, year in and year out, is
anchored twenty-four miles sea-
ward Of Nantucket. Various phas-
% of this desolate life are record
ed with much incident and with
not a little variety, and are also
shown in pictures.
To the California series Willard
B. Farwell contributes a p aper on
he Cape Horn Route, 80 largely
by the Argonauts in the
early days of lS49, his narrative
being the record of q cooperative
mining association which salad in