Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1892-04-15
FRIDAY APRIL Is ,se.
The surplus land of

heoeENdttOl III OklhuOtuh. Will pc
opened to settlement April 19, at
noon.
The result of the Rhode
Island election shows that the Re-
publican party will more than hold
its own this year, and that Demo-
cratic expectations are far from
realization.
The weather this week has
been discouraging to farmers. Bot
Adair county farmers are plucky
and energetic and as soon rs the
weather permits the fields will be
alive with men and teams prepar-
ing the ground and planting the
crops. Do not fret or worry. Re
member that seed time md hsr-
vest have never failed in North
east Missouri.
Only three democrats voted
against the admission of cotton
ties and bsgging free of duty,
which vas passed by the House
last Saturday, and yet it is one of
the most illogical as well as Sec
tionsl bills ever before Congress.
1t is direct blow at one establish
ed American industry-the iron
hoop and band mills-and it
would if it became a law, create
distractions in the path of those
who are trying to establish on a
large scale the manufacture of
jute tagging IN the United States.
The weather predictions of
Rev. l. r. Hicks for March and
April, have been astonishingly
accurate, and those who had fig
ured out that one who has studied
for years the effect of the equinox
es of the planets on the weather,
knows no more about it than the
grounding or goosebone, are
now gong over their calculations
a second time. Accumulated
evidence proves that the ground
hog and goosebone are not. sin
it." while the scientist is, and to
stay.
The Kirksville journal was
sorely distressed last week, be-
cause the GRAPHIC saw fit to COM
mend the Sheriff and Prosecuting
Attorney for breaking up gam
bling den in Kirksville. In COZ
nection with the article that ex-
hibited its distress, that paper
made the assertion that the Pros
ecuting Attorney caused the fines
to be cut down from S19.60 to
$1,000. If the statement was de-
liberately made with the possess
sion of all the facts, the pubIics-
ton is reprehenslble faIsehood.
If it was made on misinformation
the microscope recently used in
the examination of the Normal
pond water, should be secured
and a search after truth instituted.
-Ex- President Cleyeland's s
speech in Rhode Island was a re-
hash of his old message to Con-
gress, except that he had to leave
out the condition" under which
that message WAS fabricated. That
condition" was the Surplus"
which he had been boarding for
year and half. The message was
based on condition" which Mr.
Cleveland was wholly responsible
for and which does not now exist,
simply because we have a Presi-
dent who has used the money as
tast as it came in to pay off the
debt, and we have had Congress
which voted appropriations and
passed an act reducing the revenue
thus distributing the surplus"
among the people. The ex-Presi-
dent now speaks for free trade
pure and simple-for theory
not condition.
The new normal roof is
nearly completed, and will be
finished this week. The work has
been done by Kobt. Clark, and
the material used, genuine Ameri-
cen tin, manufactured by Neid-
ringhaus Bros, of st. Louis.
James Clark, who has handled tin
from boyhood, says tn. tin is
better coated, truer, the quality of
iron better-in short, superior tin
in every way to any he has ever