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Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1892-04-15

DIR. Levin is in our city, and
meets with good success.
Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1892-04-15
CONTINGENT FUND.

Robert Clark Z perch and 240
ID rock 95c per sheriff 6.74
E A Policy board of prisoners
confined in Jail 31.50
Geo d Barnard & Co blanks
county clerks Office 220
P j Relger postage, express,
ink etc. S25
Henry Bestman rept on Office
chair circuit court $50
j j Spencer rent co clerk offi15 90
V Miller lum ber floor for jail 625
L B Smith postage schl com. 2.25
H Nichols appraising glsndered
horse of James Anon 80
j Parker l.5O
Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1892-04-15

For the April Term, 1892, for Adair
County, Mo-, commencing April 25th,
1892:
Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1892-04-15

repI SlanQereu HoTse, tue prop
perty of \Vm Bolen rept apprvd
and Jasper Woods, James Briddle
and VIM Mathews were ordered to
appraise said animal and rept to
this court. 1t IS further ordered
that the sheriff proceed with the
appraisers herein and kill said an
imal and order the same burned
or buried.
CJ Pollock motion to correct
erroneous assessment, sustd.
G " Shsfer resignation at ] P
Pettis tp. accepted and Jacob
Wait appointed to fill vacancy.
James L Conner ct al appraisers
rept glandered horse OF j Anon.
ap proved.
Amos B Wilson application for
patents to east half northeast or.
sec. 9-61-16 approved and patent
to issue.
j J Clark ct al pet asking that
A. Lowe be appointed coust OF
Polk tip pet appryed.
Ordered that A r Bowman ov.
erseeer dist 6 S r TIP. open within
sixty days from this date 3 road
located and established by this
court, same road was petitioneG
for by @ l. Beily ct al.
e A Policy sheriff rept killing
glandered horse of James Anon
approved.
Steph Hall contract Byon Zeig
Ter repair BiIley creek bridge
Liberty tip. approved.
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1892-05-24
How a Piano Suffers from Heat.

You know the sounding board-the life
of piano-is forced into the case when it
is made so tightly that it bulges up in the
center. The wood is supposed to be as dry
as possible, but of course it contains some
moisture and gathers a lot more on damp
days and in handling Now when you put
a piano in an overheated, dry room, all
this moisture is dried out, and the board
loses its belly" and gets fiabby and finally
cracks Even if it does not crack the tone
loses its resonance aud grows thin and
tinny, and the felt cloth and leather used
in the action dry up, the whole mechanism
rattles and the piano is blamed.
How can you prevent it, Easily enough.
Keep growing plant in the room, and as
long as your plant thrives your piano
ought to, or else there is something wrong
with it. Just try it, and see how much
more water you will have to pour on the
flower in the room where your piano is
than on the plants in any other room.
Some people keep huge vase or urn with
a sopping wet sponge in it near or under
the piano. and they do this as long as their
fires are kept up.
Sudden changes from cold to heat will
cause moisture, which is injurious to the
finish and will rust the strings and pins of
your instrument. But piano in room
that is freezing cold, even 40 degs. below
zero for that matter, can be gradually
warmed and receive less harm in five years
of such treatment than it viii during one
winter in the same climate if subjected to
a continuous heat of 70 degs.-Interview
in New York Sun.
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1892-05-24
POET RLeYs FAST LECTURE.
Compelled TO Print His own Posters and
to Admit the Audience Free.

Compelled TO Print His own Posters and
to Admit the Audience Free.
"James Whitcomb Riley never will
forget his first experience as platform
lecturer !" remarked an old Hoosier at the
Grand Pacific the other day. 1T was
good many years ago. Jimmy was eking
out an existence as a painter at that
time, and when times were dull and he
was out Of a Job he spent his leisure mo-
ments in stringing together verses. Some
of these Were so good, in his own esti-
NATION at least, that he sometimes re-
cited them at little gatherings about the
neighboFhOod.
But, unknown even to his friends,
the embryo poet had rather lofty aspira-
tons and burned to launch out as pub
lie entertainer So he began quietly
casting for an eligible opportunity to
try it on the dog.
"He was poor then-poor is no name
for it. In fact, he was generally in
debt, and though he worked hard never
seemed TO have any money or fair pros
pect of getting any. 1t will readily be
seen that it was not an easy matter for
Riley to realize his hopes under such
circumstances. At last, however, he
raised little money on job Of paint
ing and with it invaded neighboring
hamlet, whGrs his fame had not preceded
him.
after considerable red tape he Sc
Cured the privilege of using the school
house for his entertainment. In fact,
the school house was the only available
place in the village for such gathering.
Then he hung up a lot of posters an
nouncing that James Whitcomb Riley,
the Hoosier poet, would give one Of his
unique and inimitable entertainments at
the Hamtown school house on the fol-
lowing Saturday night. These posters
were blank paper, decorated with char
coal instead Of printers ink, and Riley
spent one whole day in printing them.
"At the last moment, however, per-
feet deiuge Of cold water was thrown
over the young poets aspirations by an
unexpected announcement from the
Hamtown school board. On the after
noon of the eyentful day the president
of the board waited on Riley, who was
nervously pacing his room at the little
excuse for a hotel, and informed him
that by an agreement entered into when
the school building was erected no en-.
tertainments We're to be given in it un-
less they were of public character.
"'But mine is to be public enter
tainment, insisted Mr.. Riley.
"'Oh, no, it isn't asserted the town
dignitary. You are going TO charge an
admission fee. That doesn't look like a
public affair-does itY
"'It isn't free entertainment, to be
sure; but it is certainly to be public,
maintained the poet.
"'Not as we understand the term
said the official. In short, the only
way you can go ON with the show is to
throw the doors OPEN
"Here was a pretty state of affairs,
but the question must be settled at once,
and Riley promptly accepted the horn
of the dilemma nearest him, and said
that the entertainment should be given
at all hazards and that no admission fee
would be charged, Chicago Mail.
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1892-05-24
The Mile of All Countries.

Did you ever stop to think that all coun-
tries do not use the same standard for a
mile" and what a jumbled mess we
would have if they did? Not only the mile
of the separate countries differ widely in
the number of feet and yards they contain,
but those of the same country may vary
greatly in different provinces. Thus, the
English mile differs from the statute"
mile, and the French have three sorts of
leagues"
The English mile is $3.50 feet, or eight
furlongs. The Russian "verst" is about
three-quarters of an English mile. The
Scotch and Irish miles are about IL Eng
fish miles.
The Dutch, Spanish and Polish miles are
about 81 English.
The German mile is four times the
length of the English.
The Swedish, Danish and Hungarian
miles are from 3 to 81 English miles.
The French common league is three
English miles. And the English marine
league is three English miles.-Philadel-
phia Press.
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1892-05-24

One of the leading residents at Raincy,
in the department of Seine-et-Oise, was
the Widow Tardiveau, wealthy, fat, fair
and forty. Among her special favorites
was young Raoul Gaullin. He was not
enamored of the widow, but found it
profitable to allow her to suppose that he
was. In time she set him up in bust
ness. Raoul fell in love with Rosalie
Bertol, and an engagement and be-
trothal soon took place. The widow at
first was furious, but by degrees she
grew more calm and then professed her
self heartbroken. She soon fell into a
decline and died of rapid consumption
after a brief illness.
On her deathbed Mime. Tardiveau
granted full and free pardon to the
two amorous young people, and in her
will left the prospective bride a small
gift of money, accompanied by pint of
rare old Malaga, with yellow seal.
The bottle was not to be opened until
the wedding day, when it was to be
drank to the memory of the dear de-
parted.
During the joyous festivities, and at
the end of the supper, the wine was I'M
corked, and the bride and groom, to-
gether with the best man, drank the
contents. In a second they had fallen
to the floor, dead. The wine had been
mixed with prussic acid. The widow
was avenged.-San Francisco ArgOnaut.
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1892-05-24
Ancient Chinese Bridges.

Suspension bridges which were built
in the time of the Han dynasty (209 B.
c. to eco A. d. are still standing, strik
ing examples Of oriental engineering
skill, According to historical and geo.
graphical writers of China it was Shang
Lieng, Kaen Tsus chief of command,
who undertook to construct the first
public roads in the Flowery Empire. At
that time it was almost impossible for
the province of Shense to communicate
with the capital. Lieng took an army
of 10, 900 workmen and cut great gorges
through the mountains, filling up the
canyons and valleys with the debris
from his excavations At places where
deep gorges were traversed by large
and rapidly flowing streams he actually
carried out mis- plan of throwing suspen-
sion bridges, stretching from one slope
to the other.
These crossings, appropriately styled
"fying bridges" by early Chinese writ
ers, are high and dangerous looking in
the extreme. At the present day bridge
may still be seen in the Shense which is
400 feet long and is stretched over q
chasm more than 900 feet deep. How
those early engineers erected such a
structure with the tools and appliances
at their command is a mystery which
will probably never be explained
Louis Republic.
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1892-05-24
Adobe Houses,

The adobe houses of Arizona and New
Mexico are not built from ignorance,
but from a regard to comfort. They
are, for that climate, the warmest in
winter and in summer the coolest that
can be constructed. The adobe is only
mud made of the loamy clay; the bricks
are about sixteen inches long by nine or
ten in width and eight in thickness.
They are sun dried, and after the house
is begun and the walls are reared to a
height Of two or three feet they are left
for week in order to dry, the process
of building and waiting continuing till
the house is constructed.
Then the walls are plastered within,
the roof put on, and the house left for
two or three weeks before the occupants
move in. The small cost and little
trouble with which an adobe house can
be built, together with its superior COM
fort, render it the favorite structure in
tropical North America, and long time
will elapse before it is superseded either
by wood, brick or stone.-Lnterview in
st. Louis Globe-Democrat.
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1892-05-24
A Neat BIT Of Police Work.

On that corner Of Clark street in Chi
cago where the Grand Pacific hotel stands
one day toward the midle of October | saw
a policeman try to arrest Il maniacal vic
tim of delirium tremens. 1t was at 8
O'clock and the streets were crowded. Had
the case occurred in New York our public
would have witnessed a brutal and sicken-
ing clubbing match" for in no other way
than by stunning the man could one of our
officers have handled him. If the police
man would have preferred help he would
have beaten the sidewalk with his club
and waited, while the maniac fought like
a tiger until another policeman arrived.
Ringing club on a pavement is better
than springing rattle, as our police did
century ago-but that is not saying much
in its favor. However, this was in Chi
cago.
There they have discovered the advan-
tages of perfected electrical system of
communication between the police stations
and the patrolmen on duty. In this case
the policeman stepped TO one Of those
patrol boxes that are so numerous as to
seem always at hand, and flashed a signal
to the nearest station for help. In jiffy
a wagon load of policemen dashed up to
the spot, the men leaped out, the crazed
offender was bundled into the wagon, and
it was driven back to the station. A neat
er, cleaner, more admirable bit of police
work never saw; but the frequent sight
of these wagons flying through the streets
assured me chat such work, in such cases,
is the rule with that force.--Julian Ralph
in Harper's
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1892-05-24

As the waste in animal food in those
who lead INDECENT lives is carried off by
the kidneys, it is very desirable that
they should be kept well flushed with
plenty of water, for pure water is to the
kidneys what fresh air is to the lungs,
and taken in the early morning, prefer
ably as hot as it can be slipped, it washes
away the unhealthy secretions that have
accumulated in the stomach during the
night, and stimulates it to healthy ac-
ton, and then, passing on through the
system till it reaches the kidneys, carries
away by their aid the uric acid, govt poi
son and other impurities that should
have no fixed habitation in the body at
all. and would not have if the sufferer
were properly dieted for even two or
three weeks each year.-Gentleman's
Magazine.
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1892-05-24
Breaking Up the Drummer.s Business


An innovation which is spreading
alarm among travelling men is the ease
with which business men may secure
passes from railroads. A business man
goes to a railway manager and announces
that he is thinking of visiting the eastern
market. Although nothing may be said
about it the railway magnate takes it
for granted that his caller will order his
goods shipped over the line granting the
pass. Pasteboards are accordingly is
sued, not only for the merchant, but for
his entire family and one or two cousins
and aunts thrown in. The practice has
grown to such an extent that railway
men tell me it is becoming serious
question for the management to decide
where to draw the line.
The merchant goes east and makes his
selection of goods instead of patroniz-
ing the man who is on the road. The
railways have thus stepped in and inter
fered to a large extent with the business
of the commercial traveller. As the
passes are issued as often as asked for,
the larger buyers are getting farther
and farther away from the drummer.
For this reason younger and less ex-
perienced men are sent out at a compar-
atively small expense to the house. In
terview in Denver News.
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1892-05-24
The Monkey Puzzle Tree.

AT meeting of the Royal Botanic so
ciety DR.. r. c. A. Prior presented ripe
seeds of Arancaria imbricata, the mon
key puzzle tree of Chill, collected from a
large tree growing in the open air at
Corsham, Willis. He mentioned that in
England the plant, though common, sell
dom ripeRs its seeds. It was first intro
duced here 100 years ago by Mr.. Men
zies, Scotch botanist. who accompa-
MED Vancouvers expedition in search
of passage between the Atlantic and
Pacific oceans. In returning from their
attempt they put in at Valparaiso and
were Hospitality entertained by the vice
roy of Chill.
While dessert was on the table Men
zies observed some nuts he had not seen
before. Instead of eating his share he
saved them, and taking box of soil
back with him on board ship succeeded
in raising five plants, which he brought
to England, and these formed a stock
from which most of the large trees now
growing in various parts of England
have originated. Philadelphia Ledger.
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1892-05-24

Lord Palmerston was very little Of a
courtier, IN the ignobler and more syco-
phantic sense Of the term, whether of
the crown, the mob or the house of COM
mons. George w could not endure
him. In the controversy with the crown
which led to his dismissal from the for
eign secretaryship he was as wrong,
both in form and substance, as it was
possible for a minister of the crown to
be. In the house of commons he occa-
sionally mistook buster and swagger
for genial playfulness. But on the
whole he was marked throughout his
life by the qualities which he showed in
his school days, when he earned the de-
scription of "the best tempered and most
plucky boy at Harrow. London Satur-
day Review.
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1892-05-24

Here is a telephone reply which may
OF may not have pleased one of the
speakers;
lis Mr.. K inY" asked man after
he had ''got" the other man-only it was
an Office boy.
''No, he isn't in, Mr.. W" was the
answer in a thin but clear voice.
show do you know it is Mr.. W."
asked the other, who may have been
pleased 10 think that he had such good
Telephone voice" that even an office
boy could recognize it,
"Cause you're the one what no one
can ever understand came back the
prompt reply.-New York Tribune.
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1892-05-24

Charles Ioyt has produced his latest
piece, "A Temperance Town." with sue
cess, 1t is said that when the company as
sembled for rehearsing Mr.. Hoyt ended
some advice with, ANY one in this COM
pany who is caught trying to act will be
Immediately fred"
Modern London occupies only one-half
the area of the great city of Nineveh when
the latter was the capital of the ancient
Assyrian empire.
Measurement of weight by the stone
arose from the old custom farmers had Of
weighing wool with stone. Every farmer
kept large stone at his farm for this pur
pose. When dealer caine along he bal
anced plank on the top of wall and put
the stone on one end Of il and bags of WOO
on the other end until the weights were
equal
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1892-05-24

He was faultlessly attired and was wait
ing at the street crossing for an opportu-
nifty to get through the stream of vehicles.
A cab driver turned his vehicle out Of the
car track, and as it passed close the curb
stone it struck a loose paving block, throw
ing shower of mud over the dude.
"What do you mean by that" cried the
despatched young man. "ff you will
climb down from that seat will knock
your head off. "
The driver stopped. Can you do iti" he
inquired.
YES, can, and I'll prove it, too, If you
will get down"
"Well, If you're sure you can do it
guess I'll stay where l am, If it don't
make any difference to you" replied Pat,
as he drove on, smiling broadly. Chicago
Mail.
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1892-05-24
ACROSS THE WASTES.

The sullen day drags on, my dear,
The breeze blows cold,
And like a weary child who strays
From home and fold,
So like weary, wandering child,
Meath lowering sky,
cover to feel the chilly blast
That rushes by,
Bereft OF single CLEAN of sun
Before my face,
All restless, all forlorn change
From place to place
Could but have you by, my dear,
To clasp your hand,
To hear you speak, my pains would cease.
My woes disband.
But thick and faster falls the storm,
The darkness grows,
Like foam on tossing wave float;
The end, who knows?
And mid the tumult and the dread,
And darkness, too,
Across the barren wastes, my dear,
long for you.
Arthur $. Kimball in Chicago Inter Ocean.
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1892-05-24
FAIRHAvEN PosToFFIcE
Corner Of Larrabee Avenue and Twelfth
Street

Corner of Larrabee Avenue and Twelfth
Street
Arrival and departure OF mail from Fair
haven; wash Postoffce, taking effect March
q, 1892:
NAIL CLOSES FOR
Port Townsend, Orcas, Friday Harbor,
Monday, Wednesday and Friday at i:45p.m.,
via boat, and Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday
ana sunday at l2;I5 p. m. via Seattle.
Sedro, Anac0rtes, Seattle, Tacoma and
Eastern mail at 1915 D. m daily.
West Ferndale, Blaine and British Column
bia at " :4j p. m. daily.
New Whatcom Electric Street Railway at
80 a. m. and 4'45 p. m. daily except Sunday.
MAIL ARRIVES FROM
Port Townsend, Orcas, Friday Harbor,
Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday at 500 a.
m, and at 500 ID. m.
Blaine. West Ferndale and British Column
bia at 1:95 p. N. daily.
Seattle, Tacoma and Eastern mail at las
d. m. daily
New Whatcom via Electric Street Railway
at $500 am. and 500 y. m. daily except Sunday
fairhaven TO Beach closes closes at 8 a. M,
and arrives at p m: daily except sunday.
Fairhaven TO Chuckanut closes at D. m.
Monday, Wednesday and Friday, and arrives
at y. m.
Office Hours, a. m. to 8 D. m. Sunday
from TO D. IN.
g. H. KELLER. p. M.
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1892-05-24
where woman.s Knowledge Fails.

Mrs. Wattsname-This paper says
that silver is to gold as one to twenty.
What does that mean, Phrastus2
Mr.. Why, that one dol
lar in gold Is equal to twenty dollars tn
silver. You women know nothing of
finance. Circular.
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1892-05-24

The high state officials and the rich
people Of Egypt have peculiar aversion
to riding the horse, their fsvorite mount
being species of white ass, which is
held as being semisacred animal
Fine specimens of these snow white
creatures are seldom sold for what
would be less than $1,000 In United
States cur ency.-St. Louis Republic.
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1892-05-24
French Tansv WATERS

Ladies will find these waters just
what they need, and can be depended
upon every time to give relief Safe
and Sure. Can be sent by mail sealed
securely. Price, $500 per box. For
sale by Engberg q Darling, druggists,
Eleventh and Harris.
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1892-05-24

Alexander, CIV Nelson, Mrs Louis
Aylesworth, A II Osterhout, WE
Cutler, John Parker. WIS
Fairhaven Pottery Co Pieti, August
Kelly, John Reese, Miss Lena NJ
LurdstrOm, Miss He'd Thompson, Thorn
Wig Wal Herr J
Naming, NJ J WafkIe, Miss Edith
Micetich, Joe Wisterlund, @ A
Office hours from s q. M. toGp m. Sunday
from to p. IN.
Persons calling for any of the above de-
scribed letters will please say they are
advertised. s. II. KELLER, p. NJ.
Try the Victoria, new Key West cigar,
at Bateman's
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1892-05-24
LETTER LIST

List OF letters remaining uncalled for in
the Fairhaven postoffice for the week ending
Nav n, 1892;
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1892-05-24

When she was Child, she cried for Castoria.
When she became Miss, she chung to Castoria
When she had Children, she gave them CastoriA
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1892-05-24

Arrival and departure OF mail from Fair
q, 1892:
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