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Little Giants Little G1gntsl Lit
tie Giants! are the pills that sIo the
work successfully, etfectually and
permanently. We warrant ever
bottle to give satisfaction. Sold be
A. MckeehRn.
Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1892-04-15

"Ayer's Hair Vigor is mcst
excellent preparation for the hair
| speak from experience. Its use
promotes the growth of new hair
and makes it glossy and soft The
Nigor is a sure cure for dandruff.' y
j. W. Bowen, Editor Enquirer
Macarthur, Ohio.
Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1892-04-15
Bucklen's Arnioa Salve.

Best Salve in the world for Cuts
Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Fever
Sores, Salt Rheum, letter, Cheu-
ped bands, Chilblains Corns, aGd
ali Skin Eruptions, and positively
curesPiles, or no pay required.
1t is guaranteed to give perfect
satisfaction, or money refunded
Price % cents per box. For sale
by B. L. Henry.
Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1892-04-15

ooh! how dreadfully yellow and
greasy my face is getting" Say
do you know this is all caused by
a disordered liver, and that your
skin can be changed from a dark
greasy yellow to transparent
white by the use of Beggs' Blood
Maker? Every bottle guaranteed
by w, A. McKeeban.
Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1892-04-15

The less religion there is III
church the more oysters and ice
cream it rakes to run it.
Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1892-04-15

Singular, but all actual fact
Every one using Beggs' Diarrhea
Balsam say they never tried q
medicine SO wonderfully adapted
to all bowel complaints, as it re-
lleves at once and no bad results
following. Every bottle warrant
ed. Sold by W. \. Mckeehan.
Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1892-04-15

Opposition to Christ is the
same thing whether in heart or
hand.
Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1892-04-15

"MYsTIC CURE" IN DEMAND-W.
A. Hardee d. Son, Druggist, Lee
banon, O., writes: "Send us sup
ply of the M, site Cure" for Rheu-
matlsm, as we are entirely out md
our customers are clamoring for
more. 1t has pcoysn such a splen-
did remeny for them. 1t radical
" cures in one to three days, Sold
by b. L. Henry, druggist, Kinks
vile. If.
Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1892-04-15

The Christian who negleets his
Bible will be sure TO backslide.
Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1892-04-15

A pessimist is g man who
believes .iat MI the chostnuts
have WORMS in them.
Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1892-04-15

1t is not the longest prayers
that attract the most attention in
heaven.
Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1892-04-15
A Sound Liver Makes Il Well Mau

Sooha LifVi nahcS u wei Hidu {.
Are you Bilious, Constipated or
troubled with Jaundice, Sick
Headache, Bad Taste in Mouth,
Foul Breath, Coated Tongue, Dys-
pepsia, Indigestion, Hot Dry
Skin, Pain IN Back and between
the Shoulders, Chills and Fever,
&c. If you have any of these
symptoms, your Liver is out Of
order and your blood is slowly
being p>isored, because your
Liver does not act properly.
Herbipe will cure any disorder
of the Liver, Stomach OF Bowels.
1t has no equal as q Liver Medi-
cine. Price IS cents. Free sample
bottles at Smith 81 Dunkins. 1y IA
Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1892-04-15

Nobody can he happy without
first being useful.
Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1892-04-15

True consideration is always
saying, Lord have your own way
with me-"
Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1892-04-15

No one can be truly polite
without the practice of self denial.
Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1892-04-15

Happy is ne that condemneth
not himself in that thing which
he alloWeth."
Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1892-04-15

The worst thing about some
business mems failures is the fail
ure OF cons cience'
Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1892-04-15

Religion that isn't used ever,
day won't keep very long.
Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1892-04-15

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

All sorts of stores sell it, especially
druggists; all sorts of people use it.
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

, Painful DigsI
| Rush OF Blood
|Sallow Com
| Rheum. ScaltI
ula, Sick Head
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Feeling.T Torpid
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Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1892-04-15
Sherif's Sale.

Sheriff Adair Co, Mo
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1892-10-14
The Great Thirteen-lnch Gun.

The last of the jackets was Tuesday
slipped over the breech OF the great
thirteen-inch gun at the Washington
navy-yard, and the immense piece OF
ordnance is now nearing completion
The work is one of more than usual
interest. and every step is being care
fully watched by Captain Simpson, the
inspector in charge at the yard. The
gun will be the largest ever made In this
country by the built-up process. hi
teeninch guns were made during the
war OF castiron, butthey were smooth
bores. and from any point OF view, eI-
cept in regard to caliber, they were in
significant when compared with the
gun now on the lathe at the navy
yard
This modern steel rifle is made OF
thirteen separate pices OF metal exclu-
sive of the complex carriage. Ii con
sists OF central tube over which are
shrunk bands or jackets of various
shapes. The joints are so exactly
matched that the gun appears 10 be
but one piece OF metal. Its total
length is nearly 80 feet, its diameter
at the breech is an inch more than 1
feet, and it tapers TO a thickness OF 81
inches at the muzzle When finished
the gun will weigh nearly 1884,
pounds. 1t requires more than
quarter OF a ton OF fpowder TO load this
rifle for one discharge, but that guam
tity is expected to hurl shell a. ia
as good sized boy and weighing
100 pounds a distance OF l2 or l3
miles at the extraordinary velocity OF
.. 100 feet per second. Close at hand
this shot would penetrate 26s inches
solid steel, and at u distance OF mile
and a half from the gun (Which Is
about as far as such guns can be
sighted and fred with accuracy In
marine warfare the shot would still
have vitality sufficient TO smash
through the side OF ship covered
with 2li inches of steel armCr. Very
few such ships are atloat. This is the
first OF twelve such guns that are in
tended for the new battleships, and,
with three others, will find n place in
the turrets OF the Oregon now build
ing on the Pacific cost When fin
ished its construction will have oceu-
pied six months, but better time can
be made with the other guns Of this
en- lihnr
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1892-10-14
Sick Children in Patagonia.

When Il child in Patagonia is i'll,
messenger is dispatched for the doc
tor. and never leaves him until he
comes. As soon as the doctor arrives
he looks mt the sick child, and then,
with much ceremony, rolls II up II.
piece of skin. He then orders clay
plaster, and by this time the child
has ceased crying, soothed by the
warmth of the skin, and so renders
still more solid his reputation a. a
wise mas. Yellow clay is brought
and made into thick cream with
water, and the child is painted from
head to foot, causing him to cry
again.
The evil spirit is still there, says
the doctor, sagely, and undoes two
mysterious packages which he car
ries one contains rhea sinews and the
other rattle made OF stones, in
yourd decorated with feathers. lie
then fingers the sInews, mutterlng
something for few minutes, then he
seizes the rattle and shakes it violent
ly, staring very hard at the crying
child, then wraps it in the skin again
and it ceases crying.
Again il is painted, ratified at, and
started at and again it cries. This IS
done four times, and then the cure IL
considered complete. The doctor
leave. the child quiet, EMBODIED in the
warm skin. and goes his way, having
received two pipefuls Of tobacco as
his fee.
Strange to say. the child generally
recovers, but if it does not, the doctor
gets out OF the difficulty by declaring
that the parents did not keep the
medicine skin tightly round the child,
and so let the evil spirit get back
again. This is the only treatment
that children In Patagonia, however
i'll, are ever known to receive.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1892-10-14
The Texans Pet Centipedes.

Il was going to New York some
time ago, said II. G. Forest, as he took
seat In n little experience meeting
which the drummers were holding In
the corridor OF the Lindell AT n
way station In Indiana little old
man entered the sleeper. carrying n
wooden box bored full OF small holes.
The car was crowded and nearly ev.
erybody had gone to bed. The new
conner ordered his berth made mp and
retired to the smoking compartment
for few whifs on black brierwood
pipe that was strong enough to curl
the hair on "A wooden Indian. When
he started 10 retire he picked up bis
perforated box. The cover had come
of and the little man stood staring at
it with such look Of hopeless, help.
less despair that | ventured TO ask
him what was the matter"
Matteri' he shrieked In his thin
falsettO that went through the cor
like the note OF n baRpipe, 'matterfI
had siI centipedes I'm that box which
was taking home from Texas, and
the last mothers son OF 'em has got
outr
We'll, sir. II you had exploded
pound OF dynamite In that car you
would not have created greater con
sternation. Men and women came
tumbliDg out OF their berths In their
nightcaps and short stop clothes. One
woman scratched herself on a pin. de-
cIared that a centipede was 10 her
clothes and got rid of her scant babil-
iments in one second and two motions.
a fat man, who was n victim OF
prickly heat, imagined that he could
feel eeDtipede making its way down
his spinal column and could with dif.
fculty be restrained from jumping
out OF the window. Mosquito bites
were inagnified into deadly wounds
and the whole train ransacked for
doctors. The colored porter stood On
the rear platform and shook a. though
afflicted with palsy. Everybody crowd
ed into the next car. shook out their
clothes gingerly and made hAsty,
but fearful toilets la the presence Of
half a hundred borrifed passengers.
There was no more sleep that night.
! had forgotten my meerchaum pipe,
and in fear and trembling went back
to recover H. / found ths wretebed
author Of all our misery poking around
with his box looking for his lost pets
and mourning because he found them
not. He said he paid 81 apiece for
them in Cisco, Texas, and the very
thought OF being si2 loser nearly
broke his heart
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1892-10-14
Small Feet Of Chinese.

A pecaliarity Of Chinese maiden
hood, says the Philadelphia Call. is the
famous custom OF producing small
feet by compression. The origin OF
this deformity is not known; even the
most educated know nothing OF IL. It
is said that the Empress Takki, OF the
Shang dynasty, had club feet and i'm
plored her husband TO order the court
ladies to produce a similar deformity
Of their pedal eItremities.
According TO another authority, a
favorite OF the Emperor Ting Hahn
Chic Tang dynasty, 800 4. D. had
the idea OF COMPRISING her feet, which
was quickly initiated.
These versions are both Improbable,
for the ruling race OF the empire, the
Tartars, never disfgure the feet OF
their daughters, and girls with de-
formed feet are excluded from the im-
perial harem and are not even per-
United 10 enter the palace. An un-
usually small foot is looked upon,
however, as an evidence OF refine
ment, although not always as an in
dication OF wealth.
The diminution OF the feet is gener-
ally produced In very simple man
ner. The growth OF these extremities
is usually checked in the fifth or sixth
year The foot is so firmly bandaged
that the circulation almost ceases,
aud the toes are tightly compressed.
After being bandsged the foot is put
in short, pointed shoe, In
which "A little block OF wood Is often
used 10 support the heel. This makes
il appear as though the girl walked
upon her toes. The ankles always re-
tain their natural size
Thereupon the shoe il again wrapped
in bandages, which give ii All awk-
ward appearance. Stockings are not
worn. \ foot that is 80 treated AS
Sumes the fashionable form in two or
three years by "A gradual atrophy.
The poor, deluded victims. OF course,
endure terrible pains during this time.
The skin and part OF the flesh often
uIcerate, and, in case OF neglect. in
durable diseases not infrequently re-.
suit.
The idea current Ia this country
that iron or wooden shoes are EN-.
ployed for this process Is erroneous;
only cloth bandages and leather shoes
are used. The soles OF the latter are
from 3 TO ~ inches in length. Girls
with these deformed feet cannot walk
naturally, but possess mincing gait
and wadGle. The steps are short.
No matter how strong, II is impossi.
bile for girl with such feet TO carry
any burden or to perform any work
that necessitates locoInotion. The
parents OF girls with small feet only
marry them TO men whose mothers
and sisters likewise posses. dinlnutivs
feet, thus forming a sort Of caste-the
only one ia China
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1892-10-14
THE DAYS THAT ARE NO MORE.

Tears, idle tears. l know not what they
mean:
Tears from the depth of some divine despair
Rise in TIE heart and gather in the eyes
In looking on the happy Autumn-felds
And thinking Of the days that are no more.
Fresh as the first beam glittering on sail
That brings our friends up from the under
world
Sad as the last which reddens over one
That sin ks with all we love below the verge;
SO sad, SO fresh. the days that are no more.
All, sad and strange as in dark summer
dawns
The earliest pipe OF half-swakened birds
TO dying ears. when unto dying eyes
The easement slowly grows a glmmering
square;
SO sad. So strange. the days that are no more.
Dear as remembered kisses after death.
And sweet as those by hopeless fancy
feigned,
On lips that are for others; deep as love,
Deep as first love and wild with all regret;
Death in Life, the days that are no more.
Aired TenHyyOH.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1892-10-14
Where Pepsin Comes from.

Not one man in a hundred who uses
pepsin as an aid TO digestion has any
idea where it comes from or how IL Il
obtained, says the st. Louis Globe
Democrat. Ii is really prepared from
the gastric juice found in the stomach
OF hogs, and the ability OF the hog TO
digest anything at all that will pass
down It's throat is probably what led
TO the somewhat peculiar idea OF
concentrating the fluid which makes
digestion so easy in the porcine race.
Hogs that are kept without food and
water for twenty-four hours before
being slaughtered yield an immense
quantity Of gastric juice and cores
pondingIy OF pepsin. The fact that
this article il so peculiarly procured
and prepared should be very com
forting to those who find IL does not
act upon their digestive organs in the
manner prescribed.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1892-10-14
Trees Which Bear But Once.

The sago palm tree bears but one
crop Of fruit. Its load OF nuts is its
first and final effort in the way OF
fruit bearing. The nuts become ripe
and are strewn in thousands around
the tree until the great stem stands
up by itself, empty and bare. The
branches turn brown and drop one by
one to the ground. Inside the trunk
the work Of decay is going on until
what at one time was a mass OF white
sago and pith becomes nothing but II
collection OF rotten brown fibers.
One day the trade wind blows more
strongly than usual and the leafiess
column OF the trunk falls with Il
crash, destroying in its fall many OF
the young palms that are already
springing from the nuts scattered
some months before. The talipul or
Palmyra palm, native OF Ceylon, is
another tree which flowers and bears
but once When about eighty years
old, which is when it has attained its
full growth, the flower spike bursts
from its envelope with a loud report.
In the course Of fifteen or twenty
months it showers down an abuLd-
ance Of nuts, and this effort to pro-
duce numerous succession proves fatal
to the parent. The fruit is round and
very hard, about the size a cherry.
and so abundant that one tree will
produce sufficient to plant a large
district
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1892-10-14

An exchange says that a wagon
maker who had been dumb for years
picked up a hub and spoke" Yes,
and blind carpenter on the same day
reached out for his plane and saw; a
deaf ranchman went out with his dog
and herd; e. noseless fisherman
caught barrel OF herring and smelt;
a defunct halter was tenderlY deposit
ed on a pile of hair and felt, and
a forty-ton elephant inserted his trunk
into a CRATE and flue.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1892-10-14

Jenny-"Jack, you ought 10 make
some sacrifice to prove that you love
me. Come, now: what will you give
up when we are married.
Jack-"Jenny. rll-Pll give up be-
ing a bachelor"
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1892-10-14

Young Woman Ito naval officer
What was the last engagement that
YOU were in, Lieutenant
Lieutenant (frankly) -"Oh, with
Chicago girl"
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1892-10-14

There, knew I'd forgotten some
thing" remarked Jaggs, after bis
sixth drink. "Boggs told me to take
whiskey and gIycerine for my cold,
and declare I've forgotten all about
the glycerine."
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1892-10-14

He-I have decided 10 ask your
fathers consent by letter, Pauline.
Now, what sort Of letter would you
advise me 10 make it.
She-I think, Horace, that would
make il an anonymous letter.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1892-10-14

This is a crazy sort OF safe, " raid
one Of the burglars, after they had
blown ii open.
Yes" replied the other. iii ad.
NIT it's little cracked"
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1892-10-14

When j go back TO the
city, will you think OF met
Farmers Daughter--Yes; every time
| feed the calves.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1892-10-14

my mamma says we can't play
with you cause you have the mumps."
"Ah, 90 on! Tsin't so, fer ] give
'em to Sammy Gibbs, day afore yis-
tedy."
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1892-10-14

Bunker-How much did your visit
to Cincinnati cost your
Hill visited friend, and ! can't
tell yet until be comes on TO visit me.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1892-10-14

WifeGmpatientIy)-''This new dress
dosen't fit well. know"
HusbsDd-''What makes you think
sou
Wife-..It's too comfortable.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1892-10-14
Erected 10 the memory or
John Phillips


Firearms appear to have been the
cause OF the death Of numerous peo-
pie. In New Hampshire the following
epitaph, somewhat deficient in rhyme,
relates the doings OF a heathenish
lover with the Christian name OF
Henry:
So fell this loving. blooming daughter
BY the revengeful hand OF ofmslicious Henry.
When on his way TO school he met her
And with a six self cooked pistol shot her.
No less minute as to the character
of the weapon is the inscription on Il
grave in California:
This year is sacred to the memory
OF William Henry Shraken, who came
to his death by being shot with a
Colts revolvers-one of the old kind,
brass mounted, and of such is the
kingdom Of Heaven
Another instance OF the deadly
work OF firearms is afforded by poor
photographer who shot himself
through the heart aud his facetious
friends composed the following me-
mortal
PETER SMITH.
Taken from life by the instantaneous process.
A certain Mr.. Munday who brought
his life to Il close on the end OF a rope,
suggested the following expression Of
grief
Hallowed be the sabbath
And farewell all worldly pelfe
The week begins on Tuesday now.
For Mundny hath hanged himself.
DR.. Walker, who wrote on English
particles, has this epitaph:
Here lie Walkers PARTICLES,
which is however, no better than the
well-known one on Dr. Fuller, in West
minister Abbey:
Here lies Fulers earth
A locksmith whose reputation does
not appear to have been Of the best is
thus immortalized:
A Jealous looksmith died OF late.
And did arrive at heavens gate.
He stood without and would not knock,
Because he meant to pick the lock.
The character mentioned in the fol
lowing apparently had no character
at all to excite the admiration or NAL
ice of any one:
Near to this stone John Barnett lies,
There's no nan frets and no man cries;
Whe. he gone or how he fares.
There's no man knows nor no man cares.
Thus it seems to be difficult task
for man to determine what the
worlds opinion will be OF him, and
for those who are TO have fun poked
at them after death it would be bet
ter had they died young, for then
there is no opportunity offered for Of
fensive remarks, although sometimes
the source OF very ungrammatical
ones, as we find in n little church
yard in Ohio:
Beneath this stone lies our dear child,
Who's gone away from we
For ever more into eternity,
Where we hope that us shall 20 to he,
But him can never come back TO we.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1892-10-14

A goose farm has been started In
Alabama. 1t will be managed by
Michigander.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1892-10-14
LADIES' ID CHILDREN'S
w r A p s!

The Latest Styles in Russian Coats,
Jackets and Dolgoruki Wraps.
Mantel Capes, short, half, three
quarter and extra long jackets and
coats, with and without fur trim
ming. In Cheviots, Diagonals, Cork
Screws, Beaver and other cloth, in
mixtures and light shades and Blue
and Black.
Latest Styles in Furs, Military and
Long Capes, Muffs and Trimmings,
Dress Goods, Dry Goods, Underwear
and Notions. All the Popular Nov
elites at popular prices.