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Beyond the RIVER.

Beautiful summer weather.
There was & Sunday School
Convention at Golden Rule on the
24th.
Watermolons are plentiful this
season.
Mrs. Harman is preparing TO
build a new residence this fall
Mir. Jerry Sharp, tbs young
athlete, has just returned from a
trip through Iowa and is spending
few days with his father. He
has converted the yard into d
gymnasium where he performs
some very difficult feats on the
trapeze, il the rings and OF the
slack wire. lie is G. good per
foImer for his age.
We sometimes wonder what has
become of ali the road-overseers
OF Liberty township elected last
spring. Have they all died or
resigned? The roads have bitches
in the middle OF them as deep as
the wagon hubs SO that people
have to abandon the roads. ltis
much safer to not attempt to travel
on them at all, more especially at
night. We wonder what emf
grants think of the people when
they are passing Though. OF
course they would meyer think of
locating with us while our roads
are in their present condition.
J. 0. TRUITT.
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Order of Publication.
STATE OF MISSOURI,
rnrn4- tlo,

SOuuty VI auhIT, J 5. s.
In the circuit court of Adair county, Oc,
term, 1888. Catherine Bragg and 4 P Bragg
hei husband, Malinda Bragg and Albert
Bragg her husband, and Sadie Graham and
,lohn Graham her husband and Lizzie KOHL
myeT plaintiffs VS. Charles kohlmyer. Jacob
ohlmyer. John kohlmyer, Christeana Kohl
myer, Sophia Beeman and Abraham Beeman
llortha Cole and Diliin Cole her husband
Rosa ~ Lawdenbeck and Joseph Lawdah-
beck her husband and the uuknosn heiTs nj
Lena Funk and Funk her husband de-
ceased defendants.
At this day comes the Plaintiff herein, by
their attorney, A, ID. Risdon before the un .
dyrsig gned clerk in vacation and files their
petition and affidavit, alleging. among other
things, that defendants sophia Beeman and
her husband Abraham Beeman Dortha Cole
and her husband billin cole, Rosa Ann Law
denbeck. and her husband Joseph Lawden-
beck and the unknown heirs of Lena funk
and Funk her husband whose names plain
tins cannot insert because they are unknown
to them but who are entitled to the undivided
one twelfth interest OF said estate in fea
simple as the sole hairs OF said Lena Tunk
and Funk her husband now deceased are
n residents of the state of Missouri
WnereupOn II is oroered by the cI-rk afor -
said that said defendants be notified by pIbl.
cation thet plaintiffs hgys commenced a SUR
against them in tnls court by petition the OBJ
jeci an" genera! nature OF which l. to obtain Il
Judgment Of partition, of the following de-
seribed real estate situated in Adair Co ; Mo.
to-wit:
The south west fourth of the north west
quarter OF section sixteen tl6' tOWE ship sixty
one l5il of range fifteen u5), and that par
tition OF said premises be made in kind If the
same can be done, If not then for sale of the
premises and division of the proceeds thers.
OF among all 81 the parties according to their
rights and Interests and that
unless the sail defendants he and avpearat
this court at the next term thereof to be begun
and holden al the court house IN the city of
hirksVllIe IN said county, on the -5-d day OF
Oct mex, and on or before the sixth day Of
said term, answer or plead TO the petition in
said cause, the same will be taken as confess
ed, and judgement rendered accordingly.
And it is further ordered, Thata copy here
of be published according to law. in the " eek
" Graphic weekly newspaper published in
the SAID county of Adair.
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Walnut Items.

Wm. Il. Pentice anG Tiny VII
liams Will attend the Medioa
College at st. Joe this fall ant
winter.
Several of our teachers attend
ed the teachers institute at LIE.
Plata.
j. I. and Jo Garrett Of Pueblo
Colo, are visiting friends in this
vicinity.
John Gunnels visited the
Worlds Fair last week.
Miss Sadie Williams of Brook
ield IS visiting relatives in this
community.
Harry Prentice and Harry
Wickem, spent last week in Knox
county.
John Ross and Frank Wickem
started for Boon county last week.
Robert Boyd who speat the
summer in Rails county returned
home yesterday.
The new school house in the
Bell district is nearing compile
ton.
lIr. Miller and son, Eliza, and
\. L. and DR.. Prentice attended
the Masonic Lodge in Laplata
last Wednesday night.
The I. O. o. T. Hall in Elmer
S completed. ITis nice build
ing and one that the Odd Fellows
may Justly feel proad of. L.
Fierheilig and d. Banning did
the carpenter work.
Elmer is building new school
house.
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In any other than times OF

In any other than times of
such distrust as we are now wit
Messing, the rapid additions to
the circulating m edium made in
the last few weeks would give 8
new impulse to business and q
new lease Of confidence to the
public mind.
With public sentiment hos
tile to any contraction of the cur
rency, the increase of the nation
al bank issue is about the only
way out of the present dilemma
on a gold basis. With money as
scarce and high as it is now, and
with the privilege secured of adj
ding and maintaining one-ninth
more circulation, or 81 of circula-
ton to 81 in face value of the
bond during the life of the bond,
a tremendous increase of their is
sues might be relied upon as IN
evitable, beside which late in
creases would appear infnitesi-
NAL.
As at present developed,
conditions warrant a reasonable
hope that if Great Britain and
America would join hands in a
monetary plan, the rest of the
commercial world, with or without
Its will, would accept the situa-
tior. We have evidently reached
point IN finances where some
thing like a permanent and fair
system of money should be mat
ter of international concerD
and a concert of effort to the end
of avoiding friction. Financier-
ing as science has passed, or is
passing the line, where the inter-
ests of any one nation is q decid-
ing factor and the sooner this fact
IS recognized and acted upon the
sooner the best interests Of the
Industrial and commercial world
will be broadly served.
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FoE SALE-Forty acres, oue-
half mil2 east of city; house six
rooms and two lots, one block
south of Normal; house six rooms
one lot, block east of Normal; !;
house two rooms, two lots, block
east of Normal; house eight rooms
two lots, tSo blocks south of the
square. hoNEGHY Bros,
Agents.
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l. IS 4 fact lot generally known
says sn exchange, that if one holds
his breath, wssps, bees and hor.
nets crn handled with impuni-
". i kin becomes sting proof
and Loldlng the insect by the
feet and giving her liberty of ac-
ton you can see Der driye her
weapon against the jmp6ners5 BILE
surface with u force which lifts
her oo9g at each stroke, but let
the sms|ies; quantity OF sir escape
from tie lungs and tha sting viii
penetrate ct once. This is given
for what il is worth yet trial
might prove Interesting.
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WASHINGTON LETTER.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 2S, 199;

WASHINGTON, Aug. IS, 1898,
From Our Regular Correspondent
The all absorbing silver fight
has now been transferred to the
Senate, the House having passed
the Wilson bill for the uncon-
ditional repeal of the purchasing
clause of the silver law, as it has
been plain for a week that it would
do. The Wilson bill now goes to
the Senate where it Will be heard
from again. The reason why this
bill will be shelved by the Senate
committee is that the majority of
Senators who favor unconditional
repeal prefer the Vorhees bill for
the same purpose. with its tail
piece declaring it to be the policy
of the Government to maintain a
b metallic currency. As a matter
OF fact this declaration carries no
weight without additional leglsla-
ton, but it implies that there will
he future legislation and that i'm.
pllcatlon is relied upon to gain the
votes of Senators who would other
wise not vote for unconditional
repeal. Whether this will prove
to be true only time can tell.
There are many rumors Of de-
fectlons among the Southern free
coinage Senators, and the claim is
boldly being made that number
of them will, after making free
coinage speeches, vote for uncon-
dltlonel repeal. Senators Call
and Pasco, of Florida, are said to
have made positive promises to
that effect. So confident are the
administration Senators that they |
can get enough votes from the |
South to pass the bill, if they can
only get 1t to vote, that propo-
sltlon has been made to republi-
can Senators to try to get them to
use their influence with the re-
publican Senators who favor free
coinage, not TO vote for uncon- |
dltlonal repeal, but merely to
agree to allow a vote to be taken.
1t was stated to them that if they /
would secure that agreement the
democratic Senators would agree
that the tariff should not be dis
turbed at this session of Congress.
The proposition was declined. l.
the proposition the ad
mlslstratlon men showed that they
realized the difficulty in getting
the bill through the Senate, even
# they can get the promise of the
votes of majority of the Sena.
'ors. Under the present rules of
he Senate, which will not be
twenty Senators can, i'll +
10 disposed, stave off indefinitely !
he taking Of a vote on the bill.
md that more than that namher
re at present so disposed there !
'an be no doubt. The outcome of +
his matter depends upon whether !
he men who now stand for free /
oinage or nothing can be per-
uaded or coerced into allowing q \
ote to be taken. Mr.. Cleveland
Iill return to Washington this
'eek for the purpose of adding !
is personal influence to those
lready being brought TO bear on
le Southern Senators to vote for
,peal. S
Here is one good piece of news, E
lat ought to please every man I
lterested in the welfare of the 9
,untry. There will be no wild IS
It money authorized at this ses- I
OH of Congress, the House COM i b.
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NOTICE.

Noticeis hereby given that lettaFg tsstamen
tary upon The estate of w. Ia Sohn, decease {
lAse Of Adair County. Mo, have been granted
to the undersigned Margaret A. Sohn by
the Probate Court of the County of Adair
bearing date the 18th day of August 1888. All
persons having claims against aid estate
are required to exhibit them to me for al.
lowance within one year after the date o.
said letters, or they may be precluded fsan
any benefit of such estate; and il such claims
be not exhibited within two years from tn;
time Of the publication of this notice they
Will Will be forever barred.
MARGARET A. SOHN,
EXECUTRIX.
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I, A. p. Hibbs clerk of the cir
cult court OF Adair county aforesaid, hereby
certify that the above is true copy ofthe orig
inal order of publication, in the cause therein
named. as the same appears in my office
Witness my hand as clerk. and the seal OF
said court. Done at office in kirksville this
2bth Day of Aug. 1888.
SEAL A. P. HIBBs, CLERK.
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c. a. r Rates BY q. Q. & K. {. Ry.

We viii sell tickets tar the O..
A. II. Encainpneli5 ut lpdianopo-
lis, from August 80 10 september
1. inclusive, Tor $S SO the round
trip. All tickets good for return
up TO and ircludlug september
16. W. Il. PHALEN, Agent.
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The c. Ar. Special Train by tie
c. 0. *. c. ny.

Sunday Sept. Sd we viii rnn a
special train direct without change
from Anksyille to Indianapolis.
The train VIII leave kirksville at
9 q. m. and reach indianapolis
same night. No change OF cars.
The rate for the round trip will
be IS SO. ". Il. PHALEE, Agt.
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Cannot remain such without the
blooming look aud radiant oom-
plezion which health alone i'm
parts. Parks tea, by clearing the
blood OF Impurities, makes the
complexion regain the hue of
youth. W G. Fout, druggist.
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FULKERSON'S
BLACKBERRYBALsAM

There is no remedy known to the
medical profession that is so sure
a cure for diarrhea, cholera, chol-
ere-morbus, d5seutery, fux,
chronic diarI hea, asiatic-cholera,
cramp collie, summer complaint
and ell relaxed conditions Of the
bowels, "a f'uikerson's BIackber-
ry Balsam. 1t has never been
known to fail in curing the most
stubborn cases. Price % cents.
For sale by all druggists.
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Matt Halla3ay carries the larg-
est stock of flour III the city and
MS prices are the lowest.
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Always ask for FulkerGon's dead
shot headache ours. Take no 9th
eG. II viii cure your headache
tsny form }. What others say SO
will you. % doses 25 cents. For
sale by all druggists.
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Some people are raising colts
worth $4,000 and bringing up
children worth three for a dol
lar.
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G 4 i. Excursion to Indiapano
lis Indiana.

For the above occasion we vii
sell tickets to Indianapo!is Aug
30th to Sept. 3rd via St. Louis a
$50 for ronnd trlp good return.
ing until Sept 18th.
". Z. NooNoN, Agent.
hirksvilie, no.
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Matt Halladay's ptices on flour
are very low.
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Go to Fout for school books.
,es, pencils. pens, INKS and all
Q her school supplies.
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STATE OF Missouri,
County of Adair. IS.

\ p. HIBBS, CLERK
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MARGARET A. SOHN,
EXECUTRIX.
The record-union., 1893-01-30
THE DAILY
ECORD-UNION.
The Leading Paper of the
Interior of California.

The pioneer journal, which,
from early years in the history
Of the coast, has maintained
the FRONT RANK OF JOUR-
NALISM, having every news
facility with the San Francisco
leading 6ailies, and sustaining
the fullest public confidence.
The record-union., 1893-01-30

his contemporaries, Cromwell and Charles
H., took the meal at l. In 100 the hour
was advanced to 2, and in 175l the Duchess
OF Somerset's dinner time was 3. In 1860
Cowper speaks of 4 o'clock as the then
fashionable time. After the battle of
Waterloo 6 P. NJ. was the time at which
the beau monde took their substantial
meal, while at the present day many of
nobility do not dine until or 9.
The Romans, in the time of Cicero and
Augustus, took breakfast from to 4 in
the morning, a luncheon at Il or l, and
at about 3 o'clock the coena or principal
meal of the day. corresponding with our
dinner, COncurrently, we read of some
not dining until sunset. A Roman din
ner at the house of a wealthy man con-
sisted chiefly of three courses. All sorts
of stimulants to the appetite were first
served up, and eggs were Indispensable 20
the first course. Among the various
dishes we may instance the guinea
hen, pheasant, nightingale and the thrush
as birds most in repute. The Roman
gourmands held peacocks in great estima-
ton, especially their tongues. Macrobius
states that they were first eaten by Hor-
tensius, the orator, and acquired such
repute that single peacock was sold at
fifty denarii, the denarius being equal to
about seventeen cents of our money.
The record-union., 1893-01-30
CRUSHING GIRLS FEET IN CHINA.
A Freak of Fashion That Tortures Its
Victims for Many Years


Victims for Many Years.
An English paper quotes from writer
in the Japan 1IGiL who appears to have
special knowledge of the well-known
Chinese custom OF COMPRISING the feet of
female children of the better classes in
China. He hopes that few of his readers
have been so unfortunate as TO see the
naked foot of an orthodox Chinese lady.
But many have looked at photographs of
this terribly twisted and distorted mem
Der, and the sight must have suggested
thoughts of barbarous suffering inflicted
on particularly sensitive part of the hu-
man body.
Year by year hundreds of thousands of
little girls throughout the wide empire of
China are subjected TO a ruthless process
which crushes the bones and wrenches
the sinews of their tender feet, until at
last revolving defOrmity is produced
and the foot. crumpled into a shocking
monstrOsity becomes almost valueless as
means of locomOtion. The wretched
girl emerges from her period of feverish
torture mutilated cripple, condemned
to hobble through life on feet which pre-
serve no semblance to natures beautiful
mechanism, having become as hideous as
they are useless.
At intervals the missionary cries out,
the traveller writes and the charitable ag-
itate, but the poor little children never
benefit. For them there remains al
ways the same ruthless bending of bones,
the same agoniZing application of tight
ligatures, the same long months of Bit
ter pain and unavailing tears. Perhaps,
he suggests, it is to this singular contrast
between the general refinement and cul-
tivation of the Chinese, on the one hand,
and this callous cruelty, on the other,
that we must attribute the periodical ap-
pearance of apologists for the appalling
custom.
Some people say that, though the foot is
ultimately deformed, though the woman
is indeed condemned to be little better
than cripple, yet the process is not very
painful after all. The bones are soft,
they say, i'll early youth, the sinews sup
pie. Twisting crushing and wrenching
are operations that may be performed
without much suffering on baby feet,
whereas adults would be maddened by
the torture. To this The writer replies:
LET no one talk of the yielding charac-
ter of the young bones or the pliability of
baby sinews. We have listened with our
own ears to the cries of a little girl un-
dergoing the torturing process. Such
agonizing walls never before fell on our
ears. They were the shrieks of a child
absolutely wild with suffering. When
the igatures were loosened and the
shocking succession of breathless screams
ended in long-drawn walls of exhaustion
and misery, the listener turned almost
sick with horror and sympathy. Yet
mother was the deliberate tOrturer of the
poor baby and d father callously listened
TO its heartbroken cries.
Think that this fiendish barbarity is
being practiced daily and hourly through
out the length and breadth of land con-
tanning 300, 600, 900 inhabitants. Not alone
are tender bodies of the poor little girls
ruthlessly racked and tortured, but the
The record-union., 1893-01-30

purest sentiment of humanity-the love
of parents for their children-is perpetu-
ally outraged. Such unnatural cruelty
could be tolerated only in the presence of
the worst kind of decentralization. How
much can survive of the moral beauty of
the parental relation when fathers and
mothers, i'll Difference to mere freak of
fashion, consent to intiict on their daugh-
ters, day by day, torture that well-nigh
maddens the baby brain and wrings
shrieks of excruciating agony from the
little lips? This is one of those facts that
makes US marvel when we hear great
destiny predicted for the Chinese nation"
The record-union., 1893-01-30
Trademark Case.

Judge Thayer, of the United States Cir
cult Court at st. Louis, recently granted
perpetual injunction, and reference
to a master to assess the damages
sustained by the plaintiff in a
suit against Joseph Tegethoff, insti-
tuted by the Hostetter Company of Pitts
burg. Defendant Tegethoff is restrained
from making or selling imitation Hos
tetter Stomach Bitters in any manner
whatever, either in bulk, by the gallon,
or by. retilling empty Hostetter bottles;
and from the use of the word 'HostetteT'
in connection with any article of stomach
bitters, thus protecting the plaintiff in
the exclusive use of the word "Hostetter"
as "trade-name"
The record-union., 1893-01-30

Here we find that one-fifth of the mar
ried women of Massachusetts are child
less. 1t is said that in no country save
France can similar condition of affairs
be found. On the other hand, instead of
over 20 per cent. only 1927 per cent. of
the foreign-born women of Massachusetts
are childless. What is true of this State
is in greater or less degree true through
out the country. The time has come
when we must face the fact that the in
crease of population by birth is decreas-
ing = that the tendency of the times
among well-to-do Americans is to small
families, and that one-titth of our native
married women are childless.-Chicago
Tribnna
The record-union., 1893-01-30
They Never Fail.

]. n. Harris, Fulton Market, New
York City, says:
Il have been using BRANDRETH's
PILLS for the last fifteen years. There is
nothing equal to them as Blood Purifiers
and Liver Regulators. But | wish to
state how remarkably they cure rheuma-
tism, and how easily: L was affected by
rheumatism in the legs. My business
Wholesale fish DEALER naturally leads me
to damp places. l could not walk, and
at night l suffered fearfully. L tried bal
sans, sarsaparillas and all kinds of
tinctures, but they did me no good and
was afraid of being cripple. L finally
commenced using BRANDRETH' PILLS.
took two every night for ten nights,
then l began to improve. 1 continued
taking them for forty days, and 1 got en-
tirely well. Now, whenever sick, take
BRANDRETH's PILLS. They never fail"
The record-union., 1893-01-30
Berlin Cough Cure.

For coughs and colds and all lung and
throat affections this article has superior
merit. 1t is perfectly harmless. gives i'm
mediate relief, and cures the worst cases
in from two to three days. Indorsed by
our best physicians. Try a bottle and
you will always keep it. Price, so cents
q bottle.
Q. c. Liniment, the best remedy for
aches and pains.
Compound Sulphur Powder, the most
perfect laxative and cathartic known.
Gives instant relief in cases Of constips-
ton, indigestion, piles. biliousness, liver
troubles, rheumatism, gravel, etc, etc.
great blood purifier and pleasant to the
taste. The w. H. Bone Company. San
Francisco, sole proprietors. Kirk, Geary
d Co.. Sacramento. sole agents.
The record-union., 1893-01-30
DINNER HOURS.
Time at Which People DIned In the
Past.

1t is believed by some that the word
dinner springs from a corruption of the
word 'dixheures,' indicating the time
at which, in the old Norman days, this
meal was taken. The mere idea of hav-
ing dinner at the barbarous hour of 10
O'Clock in the morning would in all prob
ability send a modern chef into a fit, vet
it was at this early time that persons of
quality. both in England and France,
partook of the meal. Froissart mentions
waiting upon the Duke of Lancaster at
o'clock in the afternoon, after he had
supped, and during the reigns of Francis
/. and Louis XII. of France fashionable
people dined at 1890 and supped at the
latest at 6 o'clock in the evening. And
again, from Northumberland n household
book, bearing dote 1872, we learn that the
family rose at o'clock, break tasted at 7,
dined at 10, supped at and shut the
gates at P. NJ.
Louis XIV. did not dine till II. while
The record-union., 1893-01-30
WOMEN WITH NO CHILDREN
A Large Per Cent. of the Wealthy
Women Do Not Have Them.

The fact that the total population of the
United States has fallen below the popu-
lar estimate of 64,000,000 is likely to call
attention to the fecundity of American
women. Not long ago sensational
newspaper took census of the children
in certain fashionable quarters in this
city and brought to light the fact that
comparatively few children gladden. the
spacious homes of Murray Hill, and that
the birth rate there was alarmingly
low. The last State census of Massachu-
sets brings out some interesting facts in
relation to the percentage of married
women having no children. Here is a
table compiled from the Massachusetts
census showing the percentage of native
and foreign-born women having no chill
dren: