Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1896-03-20

The advance in sugar Is Oh
feature Of the war in Cuba that
several nations have to recognize
Major Brock has withdrawn
from the congressional race in IA
vor OF Hon. c. \. Clark, the pres
ent incumbent.
-Quoth Grover, sadly: FoTl-
ing now is dry as Kansas shueks;
I've killed my partA's boosters OF
and all that's left is ducks.
The most pathetic consider
alton with the Lincoln hat lately
discovered in Il Washington is that
there is no head in the city now TO
fill it.
Another fatal blow has been
struck at the Populists of Kansas
Gold has been discovered in pay
ing quantities near Sylvia in that
state.
General Weyler seems to
be capable OF some strategy after
all. He keeps the insurgents so
busy reading manifestos that they
have no time to plan an attack.
The Keptacky legislature
has adjourned without clecting a
United States Senator. Itdcesn't
matter. Another Senator could
not materially add to the incom
potency of the present Senate.
-One of Spain's urgent needs
at the present is military leader
capable of understanding that a
destruction OF window glass at
home is not the most effective
warfare against a foreign country.
THE War Cry, published in
the inte est Of the salvation army,
made $3.50. 600 for the publishers
last year, bat this year the army
has another war cry and it will
not be likely to prove 50 profit
able.
Between the gold and silver
wing of his party, the average
Democrat is ike the tramp who
studied the dog that was wagging
his tail while he grovled, leaving
the Weary Wililam in d5ubt as tc
which end be should believe.
One Of HE visible effects oi
all those rumors Of war is the dis.
position among Salvation Army
officers to recognize one another
as belligerents. Isn't it about
time for each one of these soldiers
to select his booth and retire til
he gets coolt
The Italian repulse at Ado
wa indicates that the f1icans are
now as highly civilized as the
Europeans. Having taught the
benighted races the great AIT ot
using firearms, the nations ot
Europe should consider their mis-.
sionary work ended and retire
from the Dark Continent
Tile papers are devotin.
space TO an account Of an Alaskan
miner who threw silver dollars al
the boys on the wharf as the
steamer he was on pulled out from
an Oregon port. If Cleveland had
not been throwing away dol
lars on larger scale or some
time. there would be more sensa-
tional features in the story.
The voters of the count!
will decide at the school election
whether the court house is TO be
built in the square or on some sit,
to be selected lay the county court.
If a majority vote to build il il
the square, ;he court viii abide by
that decision. If a majority is
against putting it in the square
the court Will select the site rs The
law directs. AS the matter NOW
stands there is no doubt that a
majority viii favor the square, as
the people viii then know posi-
lively where the building will be
put, while if the selection of the
site is left TO the county court.
there will be no certainty as to its
exac. location. The people want
to know positively in regard to
the matter, and win Therefore vote
in favor of the square.