Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1895-08-30

cltlZenS must not leaQ a mop.
The Democratic party now
presents a very serious case OF
appendicitis. Nothing but radical
treatment will relieve it.
The occasional cases ofague
reported by the doctors were not
at all necessary to shake the conf
dence of the people in the present
administration.
Since Democratic success
has become an uncertain quantity
in Missouri, some Democratic poll
hcians have wisely concluded that
bird in the hand beats whole
cnvey in the brush.
-Callaway is great county
for sheep, and since that lynching
carnival, which was enough in its
essential features to shame bar
barism. no doubt some of its "best
citizens look rather sheepish.
With their little deficit at
tachment to the treasury. the
Democrats have gotten up a time
piece about as regular as any in
vented. OF course it doesn't
strike-but the working men at
tend to that feature occasionally.
Perhaps it is easier for Gov.
Stone TO talk about the white met
al in Washington than to think
about the white outlaws in Gallo
way county. And man ofWilliam
Joe'S size must be permitted some
times to select his tasks.
"A bOut iIt usual dlllOuul vi
midsummer folly has been dis
played in suicides this season. The
thing chiefly to be regretted in this
connection, however, is the fact
that some of our public men have
not INDUCED in the grave error.
If the Cubans could only in
duce the Spanish soldiers to pre-
pare their rationS with gasoline
stoves and meantime be as care
less as our American women, the
independence of the plucky little
island would speedily be achieved.
An exploring party would
now seem to be in order to locate
a gentleman named William II d.
Wilson. Whether he is rafting
around in the place made vacant
by the death of Secretary Gresham,
or has gone off at tangent, it is
fitting that he be located.
The sound humping the
Democrats received in Missouri in
the last campaign, and the drub-
blng that is in prospect for them
next year, Will no doubt cause a
number of gentleman who have
had gubernatorial aspirations, or
aspirations of some other sort. to
declare that they are not now in
the race.
A traveller in Australia de-
clareS in a letter to a contempora-
ry that the Kangaroo is not a
success at running down hill. A
gentleman in New York familiarlv
known as David b. can testify that
there are several prominent Demo
cratic politicians in the country
who lack this characteristic of the
Kangaroo.
-Ihe newspapers would as
well leave the bloomer question to
adjust itself. 1t is piece of cool
presumption on the part of an
editor to attempt to dictate what
his wife, sweetheart or sister shall
wear. The women have a better
eye for the beautiful than the men
and the latter can show good taste
by attending to their own bust.
ness and suspenders.
The average farmer does
no practice that rigid economy
which is the basis of prosperity.
In seasons of abundance, like the
present, he becomes careless in the
face of his surplus, and lets the
lncursions ofwaste reduce his prof
It's. The farmer who practices
little OF the enconomy absolutely
Necessary last year will this wear
'ealize better returns than his in
iifferent neighbor.
-kirksville is not ready to