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Wabesh Excursions.

Moberly Fair Sept. 22nd to 26tA.
One and one third fare for round
trip.
st. Louis Exposition Sept. 9th
to Oct. 24th. One and one-third
fare for round trips. On sale each
Tuesday and Thursday, beginning
Sept 9Th. Good 8 days.
Kansas City Fancy Horse Show,
Sept. 9Th to 18th. One and one
third fare for round trip. On sale
4th to u. Good till 18th.
Republican Rally, Moberly,
Sept. 10th. Prominent speakers,
fancy Zousv drill by Sedalis Flsm-
beau club,-9O men. Fireworks ct
night. Rate one fare e1.11 for
round trip.
Free chair cars aud eleepers
Kirksville 70 st. Louis without
9: auge. Through cosch and sleep
er Kirksville to Kansas City with
out change. Two fast trains each
way daily via "The Great VS.
bash Route"
W. e. NooNAN, Agent.
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n popnlist paper has fished

- popnlist paper has fished
up Tom Hoods celebrated apos
trophe to gold. AS the line occurs
i, it, "heavy to get and light to
mold" it is hard to see much argu
ment for silver about it. Even the
Populists admit a silver dollar
should be sixteen times as heavy
as gold one while down in Mex
leo it is generally known it is
twice as light to hold. Besides, it
is very naughty for Bryan paper
to be quoting the financial views
OF a hci rid Englishman.
Neither this country nor
any other has ever had absolute
imetallism. The double stand
ard has never riSel above the
plane of theory. Silver has al
ways been measured by gold-it is
an inexorable law of traffic. All
nations that have undertaken free
coinage of both gold and silver
have seen the undervalued metal
withdrawn. This country to day
has nearer approach to bimetal-
ism in fact than it had from 1892
to 1884 at 15 to | or from 1884 tC
1878 at 16 to 1 Theory and fact
are often widely divergent.
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Weekly Crop Bulletin.

The crop bulletin issued by the
Missouri Section, Climate and
Crop Service, Weather Bureau,
for the week ending Saturday,
August 29th, says:
The past week has been quite
cool, the temperature averaging
about 4 degrees below the normal
in all sections of the state.
Moderately heavy rains occur
red in few localities in the south
ern and western sections, but over
the greater part of the state there
was practically none, and in some
of the central and southern coun-
ties rain is badly needed.
Corn cutting has progressed
rapidly in the central and south
ern and has commenced in the
northern sections. In some of the
southern counties the work is
about completed. Late corn is
still suffering from drouth in some
localities, but in general is doing
very well, though retarded some
what by the cool nights The
larger part of the crop is now safe
from frost.
Pastures have improved consid-
erably during the week and are re-
ported in good condition, except
in some of the central and south
eastern counties where they are
badly in need of rain.
Fall plowing is still being re,
tarded by dry weather in a few
counties, but as rule has pro.
gressed well, with the soil in fairly
good condition, and seeding has
commenced in the central and
southern sections.
Cotton picking is in progress il
some localities. Potato digging
has begun and in a few counties
there is considerable complaint o
rot.
In many counties late peaches
are very inferior in quality ant
winter apples will be very poo,
crop, owing to the drouth and no
sun during the fore part tof th'
month.
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Resolutions adopted by the Adair
County Teachers Association.


WHEREAS the teachers in attend
ance at this Institute have engaged
in three weeks of work pleasantly
and protitably,
BE 1T RESOLVED that we extend
out hearty thanks to Com. Vaughn
for his kind and efficient manner
OF conducting the Institu e and
furthermore extend the same to
the instructors individually as
well as commissioner for their un-
firing efforts in teaching US not
merely text book knowledge, but
the latest and best methods of
training and instructing the young
RESOLVED, That we believe the
Institute one of the best means
for inspiring teachers to better
work and furthermore teachers
should support local organizations
devoted to reading, historical and
other educational works, for their
nutual improvement and associa-
tionS.
RESOLVED that we endorse the
course of study for Rural Schools.
believing it is step towards solv-
ing the problem of the grading of
the country schools.
RESOLVED that we oppose the
proposed amendment to the state
constitution changing the legal
school age from six to five for
which we give the following rea-
sons, permanent physical injury
is likely to result. Children at
the age of five have not the mental
development necessary TO derive |
benefit from ordinary school room
instruction owing TO the lack of |
means and time on the part of the
rural teacher.
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RESOLVED that we unanimously

RESOLVED that we unanimously
favor some appropriate legislation
providing for county supervision
and concur with the report OF
committee on county supervision
submitted by State Teachers
Association, and furthermore that
we use all available means for Sc
curing such legislation.
RESOLVED that it is the senti
ment of this Institute that every
teacher should take number of
educational papers among which
should be the Missouri School
Journal.
RESOLVED that we, recognizing
the Normal Schools as one of the
greatest facts in our educational
system, favor increased appro-
priations for their support.
RESOLVED that we extend our
sincere thanks to DIR. Richardson
for the literary feast furnished BY
his lecture.
RESOLVED that copy of these
resolutions be presented to the
Kirksville papers and Missouri
School Journal for publication
COMMITTEE.
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"Ihe chicago brand OF Pop
ulists are now condemning the 200
cent dollar which they imagine is
roaming over the country seeking
victims. In 1892 those same fell
lows were denouncing the tariff be-
cause a dollar would not buy
enough Of the necessaries of life.
Anything for Office
Handy single new spaper
reader can have failed to see in
some representative of the Bryan
lite press the alleged extract fro'e
the London Financial News
March 10, 1896, which has boon
indUstriously circulated. The ira
of the article is that free silv,i IN
this country would have Il de-
pressing effect on English trade,
hut would make the whole u tied
StiteS rich. OF course the trick
could not pass unchallanged. IL
reply to inquiries the publishers
of the Financial News say in III,
issue of August 13: ''No su,n
article was ever printed by Us and
its whole tenor is directly OPP
posed TO the view we have taken
of The fleet of free silver in the
United States" The Bryanites
seem to have fcrgers as well as
repudiators.
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WANTED

HORsEs, MAREs AND MULES.
We will be at T. e. Graves
stable In Kirksville, September 9,
10 and II, for the purpose Of buy
horses. mares and mules, any
kind, 80 they are fat and we'll
broke. Don't forget the date and
place; We want to buy.
JOHNSON & HALDERMAN.
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For Exchange.

A good large two-story brick
business house situated in one Of
Iowa's best county seats, for .
good house and lot in Kirksville,
For full information see Farm mer &
Son, east side OF square, Kinks
vile, Mo.
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Coroner-Cassius N c. Wilcox.
One meaning of 16 to l is
anything for Office.
One history is more reliable
than sixteen calamity speeches.
The Democrats can not use
free wool to hide the naked truth.
Those populists are tickle
lot. They love England only when
it comes to free trade.
will the pensioner who is
now getting s12 month vote to
reduce it in purchasing power to
&6!
The Democrats put ticket
out at Indianapolis to put Nc
Kinley in in November. That is
all.
Bryan boasts that the peo-
pie are with him. Yes, it is an
American practice to watch the
boys.
The leaders of the Bryan
Democracy think a fifty cent dol
lar acceptable along with good
fat Office.
will the artisan who is now
getting $40 week for his work
vote to have its value dwindled
down to S5i
-Bryan's figures of speech
are just about all the figures the
Western Democracy is using in
this campaign.
The Chicago platform stands
for free trade, but also for frte sill
yer that would shut out imports.
Anything for Office.
The Bryan Democrats claim
this country is Independent, but
can not get on without the English
markets. Anything for Office.
The boy orator continues to
prove he is Populist, not less by
the number of his speeches than
by the contents of the same.
A Chicago man lately
bought s50,O00 of Mexican bonds
for s13, 900. This speaks volumes
on the prosperity" of Mexico.
1t is impossible to argue
with the political clan which Till
man and Teller seduced. The poor
ellows have nothing with which
to argue.
"A platform gave way under
Bryan the other day in the East.
Another may cause him some an
noyance and disappointment about
November 3.
The muddle that has grown
out of the nomination of Bryan,
Sewall and Watson indicates the
Populist arithmetic is wanting
even in the .rule of three"
Cleveland is a man of re-
sources, and when he sees the
postmasters breaking for the
Bryan camp, he can either 90
a-fishing or sit down and quote
from Cardinal Wolsey.
The debtor who shall vote
for free silver to defraud his credi-
tor will be playing parallel to
Haman's stupid drama in erecting
for Mordecai a gallows on which
he was hung himself.
The anti silver sentiment is
very surong in Texas. 1t will be
remembered that Mexico is just
across the Rio Grande from the
Lone Star State. A mans nearest
neighbOrs may be expected al
ways to discover soonest that he
has the leprOsy.
The golden blossom of the
Spanish needle now dots the land
scapes on every side, but the most
snperstitious Populist has not yet
declared it means the triumph of
Mexican money this fall. 1t is
strange as the Populists 60 by the
rule of contraries.
The Post Dispatch says
Bryan stands for the right of the
American people to govern them
selves in their own way, at their
own expense. Col. Jones said a
great deal in that phrase, ''at their
own expense" and the people will
readily understand it, as they are
having some experience in that
channel just at this time.
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The steady accession to the
IcKinley ranks prove that many
oters planned through the dog
lays to keep the wolf from the
loor.
Tom Watson insists on be-
ng notified in a formal manner.
Tommy will get notification good
and hard the first week in Novem:
ber.
There is after all some soci
ability among Missouri Democrats
Trimble is perfectly willing to help
Stephens fail to defeat Lewis for
Governor.
The supply of Bryan's
speeches is about to exceed the de-
mand. This matter should have
been regulated in the Chicago
platform.
The Western Democracy is
devoted to civil service reform, but
wants to put the Supreme Court
at the mercy of partisans. Any
thing for Office.
Surely Candidate Bryan is
not telling all he knows in his
speeches. Perhaps he thinks OF
making a lecture tour over the East
after Mckinley is elected.
The worst thing about Bry-
ans having nominated himself by
that Chicago speech is the fact that
after the election he can not lay it
all on somebody else.
The political party in this
country that has to defend the
financial blunders of China and
Mexico will hardly prove able to
defend itself before the intelligence
of the people.
-Demagogues with alderman.
ic physical development should
not encourage the West to resort
to bullets to win free silver. They
are like Great Britain; they have
too much territory exposed.
The sound money Demo,
Gratis of Illinois nominated John
G. Black for Governor August %.
This will probably cause John P
Altgeld to remember a Black
Tuesday in his political history.
Jones, of the Dispatch,
turned to free silver for readers,
Bryan went onto the platform fol
votes. The former has already
enjoyed a fair harvest, but the lat
ter will find his crop out in the
November blizzard.
-Eastern papers should cease
to call it the "Wild and Woolly
West" OF course the allitera
tion is pleasant, but since The Viii
sonGorman treasury loot it has
lost too many sheep to sustain it:
wooley reputation.
Those Southern Democrats
who think the United States Cal
by legislation double the value o
the 81, 900, 600, 900 worth of silver
in the world, evidently have great
er faith in Uncle Sans strength
now than they had in 1861.
Somehow Mr. Bryan's po
tential questions are not "drivins
Republicans from the field" a
rapidly as might have been ex
pected. He should either grint
his CHASTITY interrogation point VI
to a razor edge or else call Tillmal
in with his CORY pitchfork.
-Breckinridge's speech 70
sound money at Louisville wa
one of the most honorable acts o
his life, yet it seems to have con
vinced the free silver men he i
worse than he has been painted
There is no accounting for tn
moral or financial views of tn
Bryanites
The Chicago brand of Pop
ulists are now condemning the 20(
cent dollar which they imagine i
roaming over the country seeking
victims. In 1892 those same fel
lows were denouncing the tariff be
cause a dollar would not bu,
enough of the necessaries of life
Anything for office
Handy a single new spape
reader can have failed to see il
some representative of the Bryan
lite press the alleged extract frot
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NATIONAL TICKET.

NATIONAL TICKET.
FOR president
WILLIAM MCKINLEY
VICE pRKRipINT
GARRETT A. HOBART.
CONGRESS
CHAS. n. CLARK
COUNTY TICKET
Representatives.. N. PlCKLER.
Sherif-Robr. I. BLAcHtHRon
cellector-WiLliAa F. ENGLEHART
Treasurer-CApT. w. D. SIGLIR
Proceeding Attorney-JoHN c. STORM
Assessor-THos. A. HuLsE.
PAINE
Judge First Dlstric-Joseph Hickman
Judge Second Dis,rict-Abel F. BumIus
Coroner-Cassius N. c. Wilcox.
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ADVERTISED LETTERS
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Office, Aug 3lst, 80, will be sentto
the dead letter ofice ct the expirs-
ton Of 15 days.
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Nathan G Holden, r G johnson,
Rev. T II Phipps, Henry Quaker.
When calling for these letters
please say advertised.
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Two splendid through trains
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and handsome new compartment
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Ask agent for tickets over the e.
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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-07-17
In A CUBAN PRISON.
Letter from Owen Milton, the Amer
lean Captured on Competitor.
How the Spanish General Tried to Intimi-
date Him-Would Give His Right
Arm for Sight of His
Country's Flag.

A New York Herald special from Key
tional scene in the Cabanas fortress,
Havana, on June %, in which Owen
Milton, the American captured on the
Competitor, and Gen. Olivera, governor
of the prison, were principals. Gen.
Olivera had received an anonymous let
ter from Key West for Milton contain
ing ten dollars and had summoned the
prisoner to his Office. Describing what
happened, Milton, in letter to a friend
here, says: Gen. Olivera showed the
letter and money and said Consul-Gen-
eral Lee wanted to know the name Of
the writer. I refused to disclose the
writer's name, and Gen. Olivera threat
ened to run his sword through me.
Again he demanded the writer's name
told Olivera would furnish it to Gen.
Lee in person.
"The Spaniard saw that I had pene-
trated his purpose, and stormed in a
terrible manner, swinging his sword
about my head. Finally he ordered me
back to the prison, telling the guard
not to let me escape. Olivera used Lees
name without authority, and I have
learned he has tried to trap other pris-
oners in a similar manner"
Milton says new prisoners are being
thrust into the Cabanas daily. Almost
every new prisoner has a story of al
legged Spanish atrocities to relate.
Ciprian Perez, one of the late arrivals,
tells of an alleged massacre near Guiana
jay. Spanish guerillas, the prisoner
says, raided an estate near that place
on June 20, burning buildings and
shooting Jose Gonzalez, Serafin Ca
ravaja, Pedro Hanero, Jose Castro, Juan
Gonzalez, Meregito Perez and Julian
Castaneda. Perez also reports that two
women were killed.
Milton says he fears he will never
live to return home. 81 would give"
= he says, zone of my arms for sight
of the United States flag"
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-07-17

nc mao been a cabin-boy upon an
American steamship. For some misbe-
havior, as temporary punishment he
was headed up in an empty water cask,
and left to reflect upon his wickedness,
with only the bunghole of the cask to
breathe through. On the following
night terrible storm came up, and
the vessel went down with all on board,
excepting himself, the cask having
rolled over into the sea at the first
lurch of the sinking ship. Fortunately
for its unhappy occupant, the cask
ftoated with the bunghole free from
water, and in the course of day or
so was cast upon the coast, where the
lad, after making various vain at
tempts to release himself, settled back
to die. Some cows, however, he said,
came strolling along the beach, and
one of them, while switching its tail
got it into the end of the cask. The boy
Immediately seized upon it; the cow,
electrified, jumped, stood still, and
jumped again, and then rushed below
ing down the beach. Finally, as the
boy had hoped, the hoops of the cask
were loosened, and the boy, striking
upon a rock, the whole thing was shat
tered, and the boy, letting go of the
cows tail, found himself free once
more. After wandering about for sew
eral days he hailed vessel, and was
carried to Plymouth, where his won
derful experience first became common
talk.-Harper's Round Table.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-07-17

Some sporting men from chicago, VINO
became interested in pony riding, and
the men gave them an exhibition of
their skill in that direction. This led to
wager between their Chicago friends
and Milwaukee parties, among the lat
ter being p. V. Deuster, editor.of the
Seebote, German paper published in
Milwaukee, that the men could not
make the trip from Milwaukee to San
Francisco on horseback in stated time.
Arrangements were at once made for
the ride, and on May % Saeger and
Levy mounted their ponies and started
on the journey, each to receive $500 if
they and their ponies reached San Fran
cisco before sunset on the 5th of Octo-
Der next. They must ride or walk the
entire distance. The route laid out is
about 3,400 miles. At their present
rate of speed they will reach San Fran
cisco about September IL or Is. From
Pierre they will cross the Missouri river
and follow the stage route to Casper,
Wyo., thence to Pocatello, Idaho, from
which point they will follow as nearly
as possible the Southern Pacific rail-
way to the end of their journey. They
will cross the Rocky mountains at
South pass, and the Sierra Nevadas at
Truckee, New. At each point where
stop is made the men are required to
procure a certificate noting the time
of their arrival, the condition of them
selves and ponies and time of Departure
which is forwarded to headquarters in
Milwaukee,
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-07-17
MUST APOLOGIZE.
Colombia Insults "Old Glory on
an American Schooner.
Government Has Twice Presented the
Case and III Prompt Action Is Not
Taken VIII Send a War Ship
to Force Satisfaction.

A New York Herald special from
Washington says: The United States
may find it necessary to compel Colon
bia to make an apology which was de-
manded some time ago. That South
american republic has failed to make
satisfactory reply to Secretary Olney's
note requiring an apology for an out
rage committed on the schooner George
r.. Whitford, of New York, and another
communication has been addressed to
the Bogota government more forcibly
impressing upon it the necessity of
complying with the original demand.
If display of naval force should be
settled upon, the government is in a
splendid condition to make it, both on
the Atlantic coast and the Pacific coast,
But 1t is not at all desired by admins
tration officials to go to this length,
and the hope is earnestly expressed
that Colombia will lose no time in COM
plying with the demand which the
United States has now been compelled
to twice present to her.
The administration is determined,
however, not to permit the affront to
the American flag which was given by
Colombia officials in the case of the
Whitford to go unnoticed. This vessel
is engaged in coastwise trade and on
reaching Porto Bello, Colombia, March
%, discharged her cargo. From this
point she took out clearance papers for
Cartagena, leaving for her new
destination on the 31st. When six
miles off Manzillo Point on the even
ing of the same day she was overhauled
by the Colombia gunboat, the General
Cordova, and ordered to lay to, not
withstanding that the flag had
been hoisted and was floating in plain
sight of the Cordova. A Colombia Off
Ger came aboard and Capt. John Hen
bricks, the master of the vessel, showed
him the ships papers. This failed of
its purpose, for he was ordered to sail
his vessel to Colon, in the event of re-
fusal being threatened with broad
side from the man-of-war's guns. When
the vessel arrived at Colon, Capt. Hen
bricks made an attempt to go ashore
TO visit the American consul, but per-
mission was denied him at the time, and
1T was not until after considerable de-
lay that he was allowed to leave the
vessel.
1t is expected that the department.
will also require the Colombia govern
ment to indemnify the owners of the
Whitford for her detention, but this
matter will not be pressed until an
apology is made.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-07-17
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