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Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1896-08-21
Weekly Crop Bulletin.

The Weekly Crop Bulletin is
sued by the Missouri Section, Gil
mate and Crop Service, Weather
Bureau, says:
The temperature during the past
week was not quite so high as
during the week Immediately pre-
ceeding but still there was an
average daily excess of from 6 to
s degrees. Over most of the north
ern counties the rainfall for the
week ending August 18th ranged
from 80 inch to 2 inches, and in
few localities the ground is too
wet to plow. Good showers also
occurred in a few of the central
and southern counties affording
temporary relief and greatly i'm
proving corn and pastures, but, as
rule, in those sections the rain
fall was too light to be of any
material benefit and the drouth
continued practically unbroken to
the close of the week. Late re-
ports, however, in,;icat th It good
showcis occurred curing tne nj 8 ht
of the 18th and morning of the 18th
in some OF the central counties at
least.
Special reports upon lhe condi-
tion of corn crop show rapid
falling off throughout nearly all of
the central and southern counties,
owing to the continued drouth and
high temperature. Early corn has
matured rapidly and in few To-
calities is being cut, while late corn
has been dried up and in some
counties will not make more than
half crop even with favorable
conditions from now on; in some
localities it is already being cut to
save he fodder. The early corn
has also been cut short in some
districts, and many correspondents
IN those sections report that the
crop will be considerably below
an average. In most of the north
ern counties the crop is still do
ing well and in many the yield
will be much above the average.
About 90 per cent. of the crop in
the northern sections will be safe
from frost by September LIST. and
the bulk of the crop will be out of
danger by September Goth. In
the central and southern sections
6O to 40 per cent. will be safe by
1st, and much of the
remainder will be out of the way
by September 18th, though there
is considerable late corn that will
require until October 1st to ma
ture.
Pastures, in many of the central
and southern counties. are getting
very dry; and water is failing in
some localities.
Winter apples are falling badly
owing to the hot and dry weather.
Cotton, in the southeast, is be-
ing injured by the drouth and
high temperature, and boil worms
are doing some damage IN Dunklin
county.
Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1896-08-21
ADVERTISED LETTERS

Letters remaining in the Post
Office, Aug 18th, '96, viii be sent to
the dead letter office at the expira-
ton of 10 days.
Annie Athbe, Charles Cassidy,
Sada Fam, Andy Gray, E. j.
Miller, Mrs. May Smith, Mrs.
Anna B. Stewart, VIM. S. Walker.
When calling for these letters
please say advertised.
ID. c. PIERCE, P. NJ.
Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1896-08-21
John Clark Ridpath. the

john SlaTk hlupaun, tne
has come out for Con
gress in Indiana as a free silver
His whiskers had been
pointing to Populism for some
time, and since he was reported to
have eloped with another mans
wife not long ago, he was thought to
entertain the "Sweet sixteen" idea
more or less, hence his political
wandering was not wholly unex-
pected. But it is to be hoped Mr..
Ridpath will find time to explain
OH the stump why 5000 in colonial
currency was once the amount
necessary to buy new hat, also
why his standard history fails to
say anything about the "crime of
1872
An editor in ambush, who
no doubt mistakes enlargement of
the stomach for abnormal develop
ment of the cerebrum, attacks the
GRAPHIC in last weeks Advocate.
One of the verdant squibs simply
airs the Populist trick of dispu-
ting figures, the other is puerile
perversion of language and mean
ing to which no man of respecta-
BILE ability would stoop. 1t may
be as well to remark that the
GRAPHIC does not go to "Coin'
Harvey or Charles Henry Jones
for it's figures, but gets them from
reputable and reliable authorities,
and that it does not waste time in
searching for language to convey
its ideas unaltered through the
gloom of prejudice or dullness over
hanging the calamity playground
of certain minds.
The Adv ocate stated that
Browder pulverized Mills in their
discussion. Let us see. This pull
verizing is a small matter after all.
Browder once pulverized man
named Throgmorton, yet those i'll
hammered Baptists went round
smiling as of yore. Then the
same colossal preacher went down
to Texas and went to pulverizing
men and things that lay in his
way to Congress. But still those
headstrong Texans continued to
look knowing and wanted to bet
on Texas, and before the pulveriz-
ing process was over, Browder
came so near being pulverized
himself that his lusty yell for help
was heard away back in Kinks
vile, and it was Kirksville's rush
to the rescue that kept him from
being returned in powdered form
from the land of the magnolia.
Such pulverizing is comparatively
harmless, and if the sanctity of
the pulpit be not shaken the world
need be little sadder for it.
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Sewing Machine Office opposite
the post office. Needles, oil,
supplies for all kinds of machines,
the only place in town where you
can gel repairing done for sewing
machines GEO. c LEWIS
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Coroner-Cassius NJ, C Wilcox
-Bryanism and Populism are
the Siamese twins in politics.
"A judicial study of the cur
rency question is needed before
any man ought to feel that he has
a right to vote upon it.
All, yes, the Bryan platform
may be rightly called a straddle;
the West is now on Sewall's bar'l,
the South is in the saddle.
The opposition is saying a
great deal about Republicans now.
In fact there is no scarcity of that
favorite subject this year.
Silver was virtually demon
etized in 1853 under Pierce. The
calamity croaker should raise a
piercing yell about it at once.
The Bryan Democracy wants
to simplify algebra. That is to say,
it wants to iegislate an Y equal to
a V in purchasing power.
The Kansas City Times
thinks anarchists are becoming
Democrats. Thousands of men
beat that journal to the idea.
-Guiteau is dead and gone
and no man should countenance
the charge that Altgeld resembles
him. Say nothing but good of the
dead"
"A Democratic organ re-
marks, "Men do not die for tar
iffs." True enough. But some
times they 60 hungry for lack of
them.
The Republican financial
plank is a plain declaration Tor the
best thing consistent with oppor-
tunity. 1t indorses the best till
better is in reach.
1t would hardly do to call
Mr.. Bryan the comet of a season.
Some irrevrent wag would have
to say something about those two
tails to the combination.
Democrats have great af
fection this year for "Lincoln Re
publicans." Do they mean to ac-
knowledge they were wrong in
hating them from 1861 to 1865.
How many Democrats in
Adair county know that President
Jefferson once stopped the free
coinage of silver because it had
deprecated 2 or 3 cents on the
dollar?
Capital can take care of it.
self. The pensioner, the wage
Garner, the farmer and the man
with few dollars laid by are most
directly interested in the defeat of
Organism.
Ii is our duty as patriotic
citizens to become thoroughly post
ed on the issues now before the
people and vote for the policy that
we honestly think will be the best
for the nation.
George G. Vest has conf
IDENTIFY declared that Bryan will be
elected. Let us now admit the
deluded man is not what he once
was, and that he did not purposely
shake Bland at Chicago.
The Kansas City Times
says that Bryan's speech at Pitts
burg gained for him 1O,OOO votes
per word. This is nearly as rank
a fallacy in Democratic figures as
the monstrosity of 16 to l.
1t requires the Democratic |
arithmetic to figure out how Giles
is going to daylight Clark, when
Hatch defeated Giles twice in pri-
maries and yet Clark beat Hatch |
the first time he got "a chance al
him. However, Democratic fig
ures are equal to any desperate |
effort. We have all heard of the |
Alabama county with 1000 voters
and 1000 majority.
A sound money Democrat
has discovered that Thomas JET
ferson was the first bolter, when
he said, "If l can not go to heaven
but with some party, l will not GO
1t ALL" The gentleman should
the immortal Thomas
vas speaking of contingency
Numerically opposite to the ten /,
ency of the Chicago platform.
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Coal Pit Their Tomb.


One hundred miners were caught under
q fall Of rock In the Twin Shaft mine at
Pittston, Pa. 1t Is believed that oil per-
ished instantly. If it prove that the men
are dead sixty three women will be left
widows and 200 children be fatherless.
This Is the most terrible mine accident
which has occurred in the anthracite re-
gion since the great disaster at Avondale,
In 1859, in which 120 lives were lost.
The Twin Shaft operated by the New
ton Coal Company, the principal stock
holders Of which live In Philadelphia, u
an old mine, but the output has always
been large. Some two weeks ago II was
noticed that the mine was "squeezing"-
that IL to say, the surface was pressing
hard on the props and pillars. Steps were
at once taken to stop 1t. Heavy timbers
were put In and every precaution was
taken to prevent a cave-in. Friday II
was thought that the squeeze" had been
arrested, but Saturday 1t began to work"
again. The principal trouble was In the
red ash or lower vein of coal 1900 feet
from the foot Of the shaft. There were
two heavy falls on Saturday afternoon
and 1t was thought dangerous to enter
that part Of the mine.
At y o'clock In the evening Inside Sup
srintcndent Langan concluded that some
thing would have to be done and done
quickly II 1t was hoped to save the inside
workings from destruction. Accordingly
he Issued orders to get. party of the
most expert miners together to make an
effort to prevent further damage to the
mine. Calls we're sent out and at o'clock
that night about 100 men had gone down
the mine. Nearly all Of them knew the
great risk they were running, but they
argued thus: "The superintendent and
foreman are with us; If they do not hesi-
tate to go In, why should weY'
The men worked hard and faithfully
until little after o'clock. when, prob
ably without warning. the roof on the
1,OOO-foot slope where the men were at
work fell In. The concussion was 80
great that it was felt for. distance Of
four miles. The foundations Of nearly
every house In Pittston were shaken, and
tho citizens first thought q violent earth
quake had taken place.
Immediately after the accident occur
red there was call for volunteers. Two
hundred men responded at once, and, de-
spite the great dangers sure to be encoun-
tered. entered upon the work of rescue.
The men were divided into relief gangs Of
forty each, for the work IL very tedious,
a. the roof has to be propped as fast az
tho men work their way through the
debris.
The greatest excitement prevailed
about the mouth of the shaft all day. The
relatives Of the imprisoned men gathered
In large numbers md their grief was MIR
liable. "Oh, my dear husband" "Oh, my
poor papa" were the cries of anguish
heard. Many of the women swooned and
had to be carried away. Some kneh on
the wet ground and prayed that their
loved ones might be brought out alive. At
last the excitement became so great that
a special police force. was sworn In to
keep tho crowd back. People from all
over the valley went to Pittston by train,
trolley cars, carriages and bicycles.
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include the expenses of the sergeant-at-
arms Of the convention, various printing
accounts, the cleaning Of the hall, its
lighting, fees for police and fire protec-
ton, big postage bills, and n thousand
other things. Take 1900 men as repre-
senting delegates, alternates and their
following, add the assistant sergeants-at-
arms, the doorkeepers and the messen-
gers, in all about a thousand, and the
newspaper correspondents and reporters,
and the total shows 1900. If each one of
these men spends 500 in addition to his
railroad fare-and this is very small
average-the total reaches 100000. In
clude the expenses borne by the telegraph
companies and the big press associations
in getting ready to spread the news, the
total expenses of the Business Mems
League and those directly interested will
not be cent less than round half mill
ion Of dollars.
Allowing 100000 as a fair estimate of
the number of strangers thronging to the
convention city, and railroad tickets alone
for such crowd mean something like
$750,O00, and 100000 a day follows for
board and lodging. The cost of main
tanning headquarters, music, decorations
and literature cannot come under $780,
GOO. This is not all however, for neither
the expense of sending the news from st.
Louis to the thousands of daily papers in
the various States nor the cost Of the
thousands of private telegrams-a small
er, but still a considerable sum-has been
counted in. 1t is not easy to estimate
either of these sums, but it is not going
too far, perhaps, to assume that all the
expenditures due to the convention used
up almost $4,0OO,000.
If the S4,OOO,OOO were to be paid out in
dollar bills, and these bills were to be
made into a carpet, it would be 1000 feet
long and $50 feet wide, covering an area
of about fifteen acres, and the capitol at
Washington, if placed in the middle Of the
carpet. would appear like toy house set
on big rug. -Four million dollars in gold
piled in a pyramid four feet each way at
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Washing Lacc Curtains.


1t always pays to have a frame Of
light wooden strips to dry curtains on.
1t should be the exact size Of the cur
tains, so that they may be stretched on
1t when wet, and dried In this way.
Tack strip Of long cloth on all sides of
the frame, and pin the curtains evenly
to this strip at the bottom, top and
sides. Or IL you prefer, they may be
basted to 1t, though this Is more trou-
BILE. Almost any variety Of curtain can
be washed by the method given. Ex-
pensive Brussels curtains had better
be cleaned by regular French scourer
who understands how to handle real
lace. Before touching the curtains
make a strong soapsuds of hot water
in which a tablespoonful of borax has
been dissolved for every gallon Of
water, and half bar Of soap shaved
and melted for every tubful of water.
Put the curtains in this water. Souse
them up and down and let them soak
well covered over night. The next
morning examine them, put them
through wringer and throw them into
fresh soapsuds. Souse them repeatedly
and scald them In a clothes boiler and
rinse them as carefully as possible in
two or three rinsing waters. If they
are white blue them little, but bleach
them, laying them on the frames on the
grass. If they are creamy in color dcy
them in the house, and use few table
spoonfuls of strong coffee to preserve
the yellow tint-New York Tribune.
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WHAT 1T ALL COSTS.
PRESIDENTIAL NOMINATION S
TAKE A PILE OF MONEY.
Total Expense Of the National Con-
vention at at. Louis Probably Be-
tween s3,OOO.OOO and $4,OOO,OOO-
Where the Money Goes.
An Euormous Expense.

An EnOr nous GxpCnoCs
Few people have any idea Of the cost of
great national convention. Time was
when 100000 would have been thought
pretty high figure. In the old days.
when Baltimore was the great national
convention city, and half the delegates
were represented by proxies from Con-
gressmen and others in Washington, and
when the convention met in theaters or
halls and the members and visitors lodg-
ed in low-rate hotels and boarding houses,
no doubt conventions were held at much
less cost than even the half Of 100000.
But things are vastly different nowadays.
Millions now figure where tens of thou
sands were once thought big.
Col. II. l.. Swords, sergeant-at-arms of
the Republican national committee, esti-
mates the total cost Of the st. Louis con-
vention at over $3,O00,0O0.
First Of all should be counted the
straight expenses Of the convention, borne
by the Business Mems League Of ST.
Louis. These expenses amounted to
about $150.OOO at Minneapolis in 1892
The cost of the hall alone at st. Louis is
not far from $4,000, including cost Of
repairs after the tornado. Other bills to
be footed by the Business Mems League
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Dairy Notes.


The cow should have all the food that
she will assimilate.
A COW that is heated and worried will
not milk well and her milk will not
make good butter
You cannot feed scrub calf into
good one, but you can easily stint a
well-bred calf into a scrub.
1t is no use to say that dairying does
not pay, for 1t does pay those who know
how to conduct the business.
The dairyman should not only breed
up his cows, but by proper course Of fer
tilizatio increase the bearing capacity
of the soil.
The latest thing for the deception OF
the dairy farmer is bogus cottonseed
meal. 1t has been analyzed and detect
ed by two of the experiment stations.
Cows drink from four to FIVE gallons
of water daily on the average. This
should be as free from all impurities
or surface drainage as the water used
in the family.
Not every farmer can feed his cows a
wide ration, because II is sometimes
too costly to be available; but whatever
the feed there should be plenty Of 1t,
and It should be accompanied by plenty
of water.
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are almost hidden from view behind Con-
federate and national colors

are almost hidden from view behind Con-
federate and national colors.
When the convention of former Confed-
crates was called to order Tuesday in the
great Auditorium building, erected espe-
cially for this occasion, Gen. Gordon
faced 10000 persons, mostly grizzled vet
Grams. There went up such shout as
has not been heard since the Southern
army was winning battles in the war.
Gov. O'Ferrall delivered an address Of
welcome and Mayor Taylor welcomed
the visitors to the city. In the evening
the Confederate Memorial and Literary
Society rendered reception to Mrs. JEFF
ferson Davis and her daughters at the
former White House of the Confederacy,
now the Confederate Museum. There
were also bivouacs at the various camps.
The reunion ended Wednesday evening
with a reception by the Governor Of Vir-
ginia, a reception to Mrs. Davis and her
daughters by the Sons of Veterans, and
bivouacs in camps.
Thursday the corner stone Of the Jeffer-
son Davis monument was laid. The
great parade was headed by band of
1000 uniformed children, and there were
25,O00 men on foot and horseback. In
the parade were the Worshipful Grand
Lodge of Masons, escorted by Command
cry of st. Andrew, Il. T.; Governor Of
Virginia and staff, with corps of cadets
as escort; the military, commanded by
Brig. Gen. A. L. Phillips, of Virginia
the orator of the day, Gen. Stephen ID.
Lee; Davis Monument Association, and
Mrs. jefferson Davis and family. At the
site for the monument Bishop John G..
Granbery, of the NJ. +. Church, south.
offered prayer. The Grand Lodge Of
Virginia laid TIE corner stone, and Gen.
s. ID. Lee delivered the grafton.
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that the house was occupied from Oct.
Fl to Nov. 10, 1776. Within this period
the battle Of White Plains had been
fought and lost, and after his retreat to
North Castle the American army under
went such privations from lack Of food
and other necessaries that the steep hill
that rises to the east of the headquarters
is known as "Mount Misery" in memory
of the sufferings endured by the patriots
within the breastworks that crowned the
eminence. Remains Of these earthworks,
overgrown by tall trees, are still to be
seen.
At the present time the house Is unoccu-
pied, and a sign upon the premises an
nounces 1t to be for sale, together with
ninety acres Of land.
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spayks from the Wires.

Henry Mitchell Smith, colored, was
hanged at Lexington, KY, for assaultins
a white woman.
Rev. DR.. William Adams, pastor Of the
West Green Street Presbyterian Church,
Philadelphia, is dead at his home in that
city. He was formerly pastor of large
congregation in Louisville.
Hugh Sproston, Jr., the leading figure
In business circles of British Guiana,
drowned himself by jumping from q
steamer into the Demarara river. He
was short in his accounts S3,0OO,0OO.
Philip Oppenheim, who was ordered by
the Sacramento Call Superior Court to
turn over to T. NJ. Yates, as receiver,
100000 which he held as trustee for his
mother, has disappeared and is supposed
to be in Toronto.
During the game Of baseball between
the teams from Allegheny College and
Grove City College at Meadville, Pa, the
grand stand containing 200 persons col
lapsed and caused a panic. The injured
were hastily taken from the wreck and
the fortunate discovery made that no one
was killed, although many were badly
bruised.
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Brief Hiuta.

Meat and fowls may be made more
tender If, when they are boiling, tea
spoonful Of vinegar be added to the
water.
The addition Of a little salt to sweet
foods helps to bring out the flavor, and
acid things are improved by the addi-
tion of little sugar.
White suede slippers may be cleaned
with equal parts of powdered alum and
fullers' earth. Apply to the slippers
with dry brush and rub them until
clean. For glace kid slippers use gas
oline and apply it with flannel cloth.
Kerosene oil may be entirely removed
from light carpets, rugs or woolen goods
by covering the oil spot thickly with
buckwheat -four and letting 1t remain
twelve hours; then brushing 1t of and
applying fresh -four until the oil has
entirely disappeared.