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The morning times., 1895-12-15

Thursday, December 10.
Mrs. Ennis, q dinner. ..,.
Mrs. Grant and Mrs. Sartoris, tea.
Representative and Mrs. Draper, a diuner.
Mrs. Francis Cotton, tea.
The morning times., 1895-12-15

Friday, December 20. ,,o,, ..,,.,.,.... -,,,,,
Mrs. Frank Anderson, tea. TO Z.
Mrs. Head of 2015 Z street, a tea, to Z.
Mrs. John an Rensselaer,. tea
Reception by the Vice President and Mrs.
Stevenson at the Normandie.
The morning times., 1895-12-15

- AND s. BoUCLE JACKETS, s4Sa 80
Ladies' Boucle Jackets, the
latest shOna Bile rough cloth. z u-r
and 4-buttons, Franklin style, bat
tons high: 4-button box styles, all
made With extra large sleeves and
ripple back. cloth and half satin
lined, all sizes, 80 to AZ. See them e. Qr
while they last at.....--.... Sf'OO
The morning times., 1895-12-15
AT tho BON MARcuK
AT tho BON MARcHK
Mems
Furnishings.

200 doz. Mems ALI silk Neck
wear, largest possible variety OF
designs. in Tecks, rour-in-hands.
band bows, and club ties, csc.
$50 doz. Mems ALI silk Neck
wear. in designs TO please the most
rastidious purchaser, at b0c. We
have them in Tecks. four-in hands,
Ascots. puffs, imperial Tecks, band
bows, club ties. and water falls.
VIII box each tie at soc.
80 doz. of the newest imperial
Tecks and adjustable puff, in the
richest effects. Put single in fancy
box ready for presentation, soc.
20 doz. Satin-embroidercd Sns-
pcnders, silk web ends, kid trimmed.
Each pair in glass box. 50c-
Mems Night Robes in fancy trim
med. silk embroidered. neat designs,
5Oc.. 75c.. 81, $1.25. $1.5O..
Gloves for workingmen. car driv-
ers. and gripmen. These gloves are
wool lined. with waterproof inter
lining, making pn absolutely water
proof glove. 600. to $1.5O.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-07-11
KILLED OLD PARNElu.
A Bull Easily Dispatches q Badly-Scared
Lion In the Arena.

A Bull Easily Dispatches . Badly-Scared
Lion In the Arena.
A most remarkable fight between a
bull and the man-eating lion Psrnell,
which took place at Monterey, Mex,
recently. resulted in the death OF the
lion. Parneu was the lion which killed
its keeper at the midwinter fair at San
Francisco and later on caused the death
of his trainer, George Rookie, in
Laredo. He caught Rockies arm as the
latter was carelessly standing near the
cage and mangled the man SO horribly
that he died of blood poisoning. Parneli
was also the lion which fought the
grizzly bear Ramidan, before the latter
was killed by q bull. The fight be-
tween the lion and the bull eft Mon
terey lasted one hour. Six DAYS previ.
Gus Parnell had killed and eaten 6
goat, and after he had digested this
meal he killed and ate q yearlins
heifer, thus getting into good condi.
ton for his fight with the bull. The
fight had been extensively advertised
and two Thousand people assembled at
the bull ring in Monterey TO witness
the spectacle. 1t was not quite as ex.
citiun as manH OF than AxnastA.A 49,
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-07-11

take the little horse cars IL City Island.
and the cat has made it point to be on
terms of great friendship with the fish
men.
The cat never comes out to meet a
train from New York, for he knows
that the baskets of the fishermen arc
then empty. But Tom is on hand at
every train for New York No sooner
does he hear the Jingle of the bell on
the little horse car coming over the hill
from City Island than he takes up
position on the station platform to
make it pleasant for the fishermen.
The horse car reaches the station
about ten minutes before the train
does. and this is the time the cat gets
in his fine work. He wanders about
among the baskets, rubs his back
against the fishe-Inen's legs, purrs most
beautifully, and the result is that every
fisherman opens his basket an presents
the cat with founder or small black
fish.
When he has more fish than he can
eat at one meal he carefully hides the
rest away under the station platform.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-07-11

around like a med teetotum. Evidently
the bird was very badly ratified by the
experience, but he had not been seri-
ously hurt by the car, for after little
attention from the men he perked up
and pecl1ed at bit of bread offered
to him. The men then named
him Whitley, and fed him every noon,
when he came down and hoped about
the tracks. Only few days later the
same thing occurred again. Whitley
was surprised by a car, which passed
over him, but this time he got up and
flew away himself
After that second experience he came.
TO regard the cars with Indifference.
When the rest of the flock would scat
ter at the approach of the monster,
Whitley would face it until it reached
him. and then flatten down, head
tucked in. until it had passed over,
when he would fiutter about in reck-
less dance of bravado, twittering in ex-
ultation over his own intrepidity. The
stablemen grew to be as fond of him,
RS he was of himself and treated him
with the greatest consideration, feed
Ing him dainties until he became SO
fat that the process of crouching down
must have been sore trial to
him. Nevertheless he was on hand;
every day, and never day went by
that he didn't let dozen cars run.
over him. One day a mischievous con-
auctor stopped the car when it was
pnly half way over the sparrow. From,
beneath came a great and indignant,
protest, and presently Whitley, crawl.
ing out from between the wheels,
perched on a cross bar of the L road
pillar near by and blackguarded that
conductor as long as the car remained
In sight.
Whitey's death was sad one. 1t oc-
surred through an accident for which
hone WAS TO blame. A cable car came
speeding down the track and just be-
hind it was a delivery wagon. Some OF
the men who saw this endcavored to
shoe Whitley off the track, but Whitley
wouldn't be shooed. Then his friends
relied to the conductor to stop the car,
but the conductor couldn't see the
point, and the car went on over
Whitley. Before the unfortunate spar
row could fly up after the car was
pver the hoof Of the horse behind had
struck and killed him. The stablemen
took his corpse out behind the stable
and buried it with appropriate honors
Ind much mourning. Since then they
baye tried to bsguIle some of the other.
,parrows into doing Whiteys act. but
The others have no grit, and the men
have given up the attempt, and have
printed on the single that marks the
.ost ones resting place: I'VE ne'er
Jhal1 see his like again"
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-07-11

This was no easy matter, as the inven-
tor had 80 fred its internal arrange
,ments that robbing the box by a
curved wire or any pliable instrument
was deemed an impossibility.
One driver took live grasshopper,
tied his two hind legs together to .
piece OF thread so that he was helpless.
The ingenious cuss would then pry
open some of the slanting trapdoors
with small stick and slowly let Mr..
GrasShopper slide over one door,
through another, and so on down into
the bottom of the box among the tick
cts. The hopper had the use OF his
four small legs, and when his master
pulled the thread to which the insect
was attached the hopper naturally
grabbed hold of some of the tickets.
A grasshopper, when secured by the
hindlegs, will hold firmly with his
forelegs to anything that comes within
reach. As soon as the hooper reached
the tickets he was pulled around the
angles in the box and out, bringing
with him from one to five or six tickets.
The tapping was done at the end Of the
line or on some lonesome part Of the
road.
. If the fellow who hatchcd that scheme
had kept it to himself perhaps the rail-
road company would never have dis
covered his rascality. This chap had
long head and tried to make all he
could out of his lucky find. He went
into the wholesale grasshopper busi-
ness. He knew that grasshoppers were
not to be had in winter, therefore he
laid in a supply. He fed them and
took care of them. When Jack Frost
cleared the fields of the chirpers he
started out on tour among the drivers.
He was careful about sounding his
man first, and to those who were will
ing to be tempted he showed how the
trick could be done. He had the grass
hoppers and could furnish them at one
dollar apiece. BY taking care of the
hopper it would be good for a week, no
matter how cold the weather. He piled
his trade with some boldness, and it
eventually led to his downfall and a
wholesale discharge of drivers on the
several lines.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-07-11
WHITLEY HAD SAND
Story Of q Pet Sparrow Who
Would Not Be Shooed.
He Was . Bird Distinguished Tor Daring
Beyond His Fellows, But at Last
Was Killed By n Low, Every
Day Delivery Csrt.

Whitley was small English sparrow,
OF ordinary appearance, except for q
snowy tail feather that gained him his
name among the stablemen Of the cable
line stables at Fifty-fourth street and
Ninth avenue, New York. He was also
distinguished for daring beyond his
fellows, and It was this that finally
brought about his demise last week
under narrowing circumstances. The
stablemen, who were wont to feed him,
still mourn their loss.
How long Whitley had lived In the
vicinity of the stables isn't known, but
he first came into prominence early
this spring accidentally. 1t was fine
day, and the employees of the road were
eating luncheon outside the building In
the sunshine Over on the track
some sparrows were hopping about,
pecking here and there among the cob
blestones and among them was Whitley.
From time to time one Of the men
would roll up pellet of bread and toss
it out for the birds to wrangle over 1t
happened that while the other SPAR
rows were scrabbling over one piece,
dHOtuer anu very large peIjcG Iell
near Whitley. he made for it with
eagerness just as a cable car came rat
ting around the turn, causing the rest
OF the flock TO whirr away with great
chatter of complaint. Now, whether
Whitley. in his greed, had failed to no.
tice the approach of the car OF whether
he was weighed down by the piece of
bread which he was unwilling to relin-
quish, the fact remains that the car
went over him.
That's the first sparrow ever caught
by a car" remarked the man who threw
the bread Lets see what there is
left Of him"
He walked ont and picked up a little
fluffy bunch of feathers which he car
ried back to his curious companions.
To all appearances the sparrow was
dead, and the body was laid on the
window ledge. Presently, however,
distressful chirp came from the sup
posed corpse, which presently fell from
the ledge and whirled around and
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-07-11

from fear, but the ferocity Of the bull,
as described by eye witnesses, was
quite sufficient to put an end to his
career when once he had him in the
open. Col Boone, who was the owner
of the lion. expressed surprise that the
animal put up" so poor a fight. while
advocates of the Mexican bull were
accordingly elated at the proves OF
their favorite, upon which they had
bet considerable money!.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-07-11
THIEvISH GRASSHoPPERS.
khey Had Been Trained to Steal Car
Tickets Out Of the Box.

Tickets Out of the Box.
Bobtal cars were all the 60 IN ST.
Louis at one time. They were not so
popular with the people as with the
companies, as they were small and in
expensive affairs, the driver acting in
the dual capacity of driver and con.
ductor.
The farebox at the forward end, with
its series of trap-doors and front and
back OF glass. was supposed to be an eff
ficient device for the protection of the
company's interests. At that time car
tickets passed everywhere as currency.
,Ihe peanut stands. the saloons and all
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-07-11

retail stores accepted them at their
face value for purchases.
The drivers knew this, and some of
them would evolve schemes to abstract
the coveted tickets after they were de-
posted by the passengers in the box.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-07-11
TOMS FOOD SUPPLY.
He Secures 1t by Making Himself Agree-
able to Fishermen.

able to Fishermen.
Right in the midst of Pelham Bay
park, a resort near New York city,
there is situated a little German res
taurant and saloon. Among the in
habitants of the place is a big black
tomcat.
The saloon is opposite the station
where the fishermen leave the train to
Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1895-08-23
GreencastIe Graphics.

Z S. King of Kirksville is in
town this week on business
Everybody invited to attend the
A. O. U. w. picnic the 26th.
The Sticklerville band will dis
course music at the picnic next
Monday.
Quite number of our good peO-
pie are i'll at present, Mrs. Il. B.
McNeal, southwest of town, dan
gerously so.
Our young folks who expect to
attend school away from home
this year are making the necessary
preparations.
Edward Bishop, who lived with
his mother southeast of town, died
Monday night after painful ill
ness of several months duration.
A number of our people who
started to the camp meeting at
Greentop, last Sunday were scared
out by the rain and returned after
getting to the Charlton.
The A. O. e. w. Lodge of
Greencastle viii give. basket
picnic in the grove near town,
next Monday, Aug, 26. Grand
Master Workman, VIM. H. Mil
Ter will be present and deliver the
address.
w. A. Scott's house, five miles
southeast of town, was struck by
lightning early Monday morning.
The main tlue was shattered from
top to bottom, and much of the
siding was torn off the house, but
the inmates got off with only a
slight shock.
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Wilson Items.

A fine rain Sunday which was
needed to mature the best corn
crop this county ever had.
Miss Mintie Davidson returned
home Saturday from Brewer.
Trennie Woods and sister are
visiting in Audrain county.
G. H. Malone delivered f3S hogs
to the Gibbs buyers at &c per lb
last week.
Al Woods is hauling lumber
preparatory to building a large
barn.
VIM. Mcconnell and wife are
visiting his father near here this
week.
j. B. Carlton and wife visited
relatives near Sioux City, Iowa,
Saturday and Sunday.
Mrs. y. W. Clotfelter and daugh-
ter Flossie are ON the sick list.
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Beyond the River.

A nice rain Sunday.
Farmers are blowing for wheat.
Threshing is all done in this
neighborhool.
Mrs. Eta Truitt is visiting rela
tives in Macon county this week.
Edward Shoop and wife of Will
mathville are visiting relatives
here.
J. G. Shott recently sold his
land to Edward Lininger, of
Novinger.
There are two farmers from Hi
n lis here looking for farms.
Thos. Vanlaningham, Jr., is
building a new residence.
Frank Gloss will build an ad-
dition to his dwelling this fall, al
so some out-buildings.
Robert Samuels and wife. started
for the Indian country last week.
There is rumor of a wedding or
two to take place here soon.
The frame of the new school
house at Novinger is up.
Bicycling is getting to be a great
fad here in the country as well as
in the city.
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Republican Hollow.

Everyone is making preparation
to attend the Sunday school picnic
at Kirksvllle, 30.
Several persons from this place
attended camp meeting at Green
top Sunday.
Henry Stephens and his able
corp of road workers have done
some very effective work in this
vicinity.
Geo. Winn, and family of near
Gibbs, Mo-, are visiting his pa
rents at this place.
Miss Lucy Winn was the guest
of Miss Clara Davis Friday
Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1895-08-23
Brashear Items.

Mrs. Henry Barnhart is very ill.
J. M. McCreery is in Quincy
this week.
John Drake has a new baby girl
at his house, weight IL pounds.
Uncle John Trasher is very sick
at his daughters in Monroe City.
VIM. Mclaughlin and family
are visiting his father in Lewis
county.
Mrs. Jessie Davis returned Mon
day from an extended visit at
Barry, III.
The brick work on d. L. Nc
Clay new block is progressing
finely.
Miss B ssie Fuga e of E ina,
visited Brashear friends from Fri
day till Monday.
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for all concerned if he would at
|, asst fo,heat to call Cleveland
kmg Grover.
The city'S outst. nding war
rants now amount TO $1,000, and
these draw interest at the rate oi
six per cent. This is not high
rate of interest, but many of the
warrants now issued are so drawn
that the rate is as high as l6 to %
per cent 1t is done in this way
If A does a piece of work for $50,
he looks about for a purchaser for
his warrant. If he finds a purchas-
er who is willing to take it at %
per cent. discount, the city issues
a warrant for S25 so that a can
draw his $40 in cash. To issue
warrants at all when there is no
money to cash them is violation
of the statute, and to issue war
rants for % per cent. more than
the debt calls for is an outrage.
in the lynching of Divers,
the negro rapist and murderer,
Galloway county has again fasten-
ed upon herself disgrace that
will take years to obliterate. 1t is
true the crime commit ed by the
negro was most diabolic one, but
this does not excuse the officials
who perm itted, nor the men who
engaged, in the work, as, in this
instance there was every assurance
that the tiend would have received
speedy justice at the hands of the
law. But there is another thing
for the good people of Galloway to
consider, and that is men who en-
gage in mob violence usually be-
long to class in wlose hands and
keeping i: would not be safe to
trust the purity or virtue of homes.
The Indignation so feeely express
ed by the law abiding people OF
Galloway should not subside until
every man engaged in the mob is
brought to justice, and thus show
TO tie people of the State and the
country that the execution of law in
that coun y has not been turned ovel
to men ho are not to be trusted
in any honorable walk of life, and
whose actions have shown that
they belong to the dangerous,
hoodlum element.
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Weather-Crop Bulletin.

The following is a synopsis of
the weather-crop bulletin issued
by the Missouri Weather Service
for the week ending August 18th:
The past week has been hot and
dry in nearly all sections of the
state, the temperature averaging
from 8 to 6 degrees above the nor
NAL except over portion of the
southwest section where the aver
age daily excess was about one de-
gree. A very few stations in the
west-central and nerthwests sections
report rainfalls ranging from so
to 1.50 inches, but as a rule the
precipitation for the week was
less than % of an inch, and over
a considerable portion of the state
there was none.
Early corn is maturing rapidly
and is generally out of danger, but
in many counties, especially in the
central ind northern sections, late
corn is now suffering for rain and
unless good rain comes soon the
yield will be cut short In a few
of the extreme southern counties
early corn is being cut.
Cotton is reported light crop
in portions of Dunklin county,
owing to rank growth and she'd
ding. In Pemiscot county its con-
dition is somewhat improved.
Millett and stock peas are gen
orally heavy crops.
There is considerable complaint
in number of the southeastern
counties that peaches are rotting,
but as a rule fruit continues in
good condition,
In a number of the central and
northern and few of the south
ern counties pastures are getting
short and are needing rain badly,
and rain is also needed to soften
the ground for fall breaking.
Threshing is still in progress but
is nearing completion.
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DIR. PRETTYMAN

Is a graduate of the College of
Physicians and Surgeons, New
York City, the most notable insti-
tuition of It's kind in America. He
has made a special study of eye,
ear, nose, throat and chronic dis
eases, in the great Bellevue and
Charity Hospital, New York City,
and has had several years expert
ence in special practice. His sue
cess has been exceedingly good and
numerous are the cures recorded.
He treats
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Adair County Sunday School
Rally to be held at KirksvilIe,
Aug, 20th, 1906.
PROGRAM.

PROGRAM.
1000 a. III. Procession will form
and march to grove.
1880. Music.
1875. Prayer and Scripture
reading by Rev. s. II. Morgan.
Music.
1910. Address, Mrs. Kelso.
Music.
1855. Address, "Old Time S.
S. in Adair county" Prof. w. p.
Mason
11.55. Annual Address by DR..
j. H. Poland.
1900. Music, announcements
1905. Dinner.
200 p. IN Music.
2:O5. Recitations by represen-
tives from the different Townships
and songs by each school in the
county. Three minute reports by
Township Presidents.
1915. Chalk Talk hy Prof.
Proctor.
$3.50 Song by Primary Scholars.
3:35. Presentation of Prizes by
Prof. Scarborough.
400. Adjournment.
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All Around Us.

Putnam county expects the big
gest crop of corn in its history-and
that's saying great deal.
The old 21st Regiment of Mis-
souri, Volunteers will have a re-
union at Memphis, September IS
20.
Burkhart Bros, are making ar
rangements to assist Queen City in
taking the cake' by putting up a
new and first class bakery.
The Putnam county fair will be
held August 2S 81, at which
time Unionville proposes, as usual,
to do the fair thing with visitors.
Charles Self, evidently lacking
in self love, attempted suicide in
Scotland county the other day,
but failed and was taken to the
asylum.
A Knox county farmer is in
clover, figuratively speaking, in
consequence of having threshed s
bushels of timothy seed per acre
from a large meadow.
A gentleman named Cash fre
quently figures in Cottonwood
Chips in the LlPlata Home Press,
thus exemplifying the enternal fit
ness rarely found in names.
A Putnam county farmer was
recently fined So and costs for
working on Sunday. He will per-
haps conclude it is cheaper in the
future to go to Sunday School.
A Grundy county man has been
exhibiting 16-foot cornstalk tha
grew on land which has been in
cultivation 30 years That Grand
river soil seems to improve by
practice.
Toughs recently took some
Trenton whiskey and then under
took to take the town, but the
"Weary Williams" were them
selves taken and Jailed to the num-
Der of II.
A lump of coal was mined near
Trenton last week that weighed
l410 pounds. 1t would probably
have been larger, only it is to be
taken to Sedalia as part of "Mis-
souri, on Wheels"
Two brothers in-law got into
trouble over a bride at Knox City
the other day, a1d finally one shot
at the other and a case in law re-
suited. Brothers in : law should
have better way to bride their
passions.
An Edna paper mentions a
.'stock of millet" that Is : feet and
8 inches long, which can be seen
in that town. The editor should
have warned the purchaser not to
lay in too large a ''stock" of that
sort of millet. as it must be a little
too coarse fer good feed.
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DLANlNG MILLS. A. l.. Holmes variety wood
works. Dealer in ornamental and plate glass,
paints. oils. varnishes. sash. doors. moulding,
stair railing. balusers. fly screens. scroll saving.
and wood work Of every description ! make
specially of fine store fronts
Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1895-08-23
BBA0BEER DIRECTORY.

GENERAL MERCHANDISE. Milstead Payre &
~ Black. dealers in General Merchandise. drv
goods. groceries boots and shoes and clothing.
full and complete stock of everything in our line
and with prices at rock bottom We desire
your patronage.
Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1895-08-23

PHOTOGRAPHER. Henry Moore the leading
photographer n. E. Cor. square Kirksville Mo.
would like for you to visit my studio and examine
my work. Prices ranging from 75c per dozen up
wards.
Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1895-08-23

DESTAU RANT. Bee Hive Restaurant Luuch at
N all hours. Meals 75c. Best cup of coffee in
town. Oysters AMI ice cream in season. Cigars
tobacco confectionery etc, south west corner
square. w. E. Ely.