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Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1896-09-25
We have had an abundance

We have had an abundance
of politics in Adair county this
season, but we seem to be short
on potatoes. While talking pol
itics we should remember that
supplying the home demand with
home grown products has much to
do with prosperity.
A Popu,ist organ notes the
fact that Mckinley is entertaining
the people at home and Bryan is
orking himself down in swinging
around the circle to let them see
and hear him. Then the sage
conclusion follows that, since Bry-
an is taking the trouble, he must
in justice be given the votes. No
body will deny that Bryan wants
the Office worse than any other
man who ever ran for President.
but the country has not yet adopt
ed the Populist standard of dignity
and propriety.
"A small Populist organ
blunders into the following trut ::
GA goldbug correspondent sent
into Mexico finds that silver is the
only money there, and that wages
have not been affected by the Mex
lean silver policy" This is just
exactly what the honest money
men have argued all the time
that free silver drives gold out OF
circulation and that wages do not
rise when paid in 50-cent dollar.
The truth is abroad in the land,
and the great majority will not
make a false application of it.
line h0ardlng OF gOld by
the banks or people is all non
sense. Nobody wants gold in pre-.
feernc e to any other money of the
United States. Many banks are
now paying out gold as freely as
they do silver coin, or paper, but
the people as rule do not want
it, nor will they want it so long as
they have confidence in the finan.
cial administration of the govern
ment. Banks and people that are
Withholding gold from circulation
are doing themselves and the
country an injury.
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TRUSTEES SALE.
w. E. NooNAN, Ager

On Friday Oct. 2nd 1896 I will
sell at public auction at the court
house door in Kirksville Mo-, to
the highest bidder for cash. Lot
s in block l of Wilson's Sub di-
vision of the northwest forth of
the southwest quarter of section
4, Tp. 60, range 15. This sale is
made by reason of default in the
conditions of a certain Deed of
Trust given by Jos. T. Pevehouse
and Clara B. Pevehouse his wife
dated February Sth 1896 and re-
"orded in Book 81 Page 44S of the
r ,cords of Adair county Missouri.
JOHN L. PORTER, Trustee.
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| will sell for cash at public
auction, on my place (the old
Park farm) = mile North of La
Plata public square, on Thursday
October 1st, 1896, Sixty Five
head of Poland China spring and
summer pigs. These pigs were
sired by such noted Sires as U. s.
Chief, Lord Sunset, Tecumseh and
Corwin Blood, and are eligible to
entry. You will find no better
stock in North Missouri. Re-
member the date and come.
Will also offer for sale on same
day fine lot of pure bred barred
Plymouth Rock and silver faced
Wyandotte chickens.
III. P. ELLIS,
RUBE MEARS, AuctiOneer.
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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,
Sept. 10th, says:
From the 18th to the 18th the
weather was much warmer than
usual, except in the extreme
northern counties, but during the
afternoon and night of the 18th a
cool wave advanced over the state
and the mean temperature of the
10th was from to Is degrees be-
low the normal. Light frost oc-
CURED in some localities on the
10Th and late reports indicate that
frost was quite general on the
morning of the Goth, but little or
no damage was done.
Over the northern portion of
the state the rainfall for the week
exceeded l inch and in some To-
calities it exceeded 3 inches. 1t
also exceeded l inch over most of
the central, east-central, and a
number of the southwestern coun-
ties, but in the southeastern coun-
ties it was generally very light.
In many of the northern coun-
ties plowing and seeding has been
greatly retarded by frequent rains
and in some counties little or no
work was done during the week +,
while in a number of the central
and southern counties the ground
was too dry to work until the
showers of 1S-19th, which put the
soil in better condition, though
in many places much more rain is
needed. In other sections the soil
has been in good condition to work
and in some localities seeding is
about finished. Early sown wheat
in the central counties is up and
looking well
There is still considerable late
corn in the extreme northern
counties that would be injured by
a heavy frost but elsewhere the
crop is practically safe.
Pastures are rep 1rted short in
a number Of the central and south
ern counties but will he improved
by the recent rains.
Winter apples have continued
to drop and rot badly in many
places.
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l was not able to wait upon my
self fnr four years, and l want to
thank God and DR.. Sawyer for
his wonderful PastilIes and ad-
wise all sufi ing l..iies to use
them. Mrs. L Dorr, ClaJ ton, n.
V " NRD & FINLEY
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RUBE MEARs, Auctioneer.
To st. Paul and Minneapolis via
RuriinDtOn ROIIte

To st. Paul and Minneapolis via
Burlington Route.
Two splendid through trains
each day from Missouri River
points TO the north via the old es
tablished Burlington route and
Sioux City Line. Day train has
handsome observation vestibuled
sleepers, free chair cars, and din
ing cars (north of Council Bluffs),
Night train has handsome sleep
ers to Omaha, Council Bluffs and
Sioux City, and parlor cars Sioux
City north. Consult Ticket agent.
L. W. WAKELEY, G. p. Ag.
st. Louis, Mo.
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Vote Against Capital Removal.
There is neither merit, honesty
reason nor eXpedience in the
proposition to remove the Capital
from Jefferson City to Sedalia.
The public has not asked removal.
No one save the real estate specu-
lators of Sedalia will be benefited
by it.
Capital removal would mean
the placing of the tax payers I'M
der heavy burden of taxes. 1t
would mean the injury of Jeffer-
son City simply to satisfy the
greed of Sedalia. 1t would set the
precedent of removal of State in
stitutiOns and place every public
bnilding in Missouri on wheels.
What is to be accomplished by
the removal? Sedalia is no more
accessible to the general public
than Jefferson City. 1t is in no
respect better fitted for the site of
a Capital. 1t is not so picturesque,
so well drained, so healthy. There
are no historic memories of the
past clustering around the enter
prising prairie city.
Moreover, the removal would
not be in good faith with the people
of Cole county. The equity of the
case is with them.
Vote against Capital REMOVAL
Columbia Herald.
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To Chicago. st. Louis and East

" OAhASstSOs hSes s<OuhS esAA>s
VIA BURLINGTON ROUTE
The travelling public is sure to
lind the best fast vestibuled trains
to the east via the Burlington
route. Handsome new compart-
ment sleepers (same rate as stan
dard sleepers), chair cars (seats
free), Kansas City and st. Joseph
tc st. Louis; standard sleepers,
ch. cars and dining cars-"pay
for what you order'-to Chicago.
Take the 'Vestibuled Eli'-to
Chicago, and the 'vestibuled linn
itef to st. Louis Ask agent for
tickets via the Burlington route.
L w. Wakeley, G. P. A.
st. Louis, Mo.
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DR.. Sawyer-Sir. After suffering four years with
female weakness was persuaded by a friend to try
your Pastilles. an after using them year. can
say am entirely well. | can 10. recommend them
too highly. Mrs v. S. Brooks,
Bronson. Bethel Il anch Co. Mich.
ward & Finley
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Notary Public

edge your house and farm leases contracts and wills.
Also any pertaining the office of Justice of the
Peace will carefully attended Your business solicited
call upon me- Office of Savings Bank down stairs
j. c. LAROTfiERS,
KIRKSVILLE, MO.
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Abstracts

your title to the ,rm clear! Have ned and de-
cured there in amos very chain of
titles and these be best and easiest cured While you
alive and WE'LL and able to attend to such tiers. My IA
cty for examining title and making abstr is the very
best, and terms most reasonable.
Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1896-09-25
lands, Loans, Insurance.

Ii YOU want to sell buy city property am in
position you having bought and sold real estate In
county than twenty years Ii you want 10
borrow lend money facilities for aiding you are hrst
class Directly and indirectly, my time and attention have
been given business in this community for quarter
of century it IL policy of Insurance you need Will
write up the strongest and best company IN the world
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Coron er-Cassius NJ c. Wilcox
The country will not cruelty
Its credit on cross of dishonesty.
The Republican party is op-
posed to the contraction of con-
tracts.
The "silver headed" men
of the country are largely against
the boy orator.
The Wilson German bill
flooded the country with shoddy
craftsmanship as well as shoddy
clothing.
The cartwheel dollar is not
big enough to carry the exploded
doctrine of States rights into the
White House.
Most nations have expert
mented with cheap money and all
of them have found it the costliest
of moneys.
Bill Wilson proved a coun-
terfeit, Bill Bryan is the same,
but Bill Mckinley stands for bills
nc marts on earth defame.
Mr.. Bryan will be tried for
libel against the best country on
earth November 3, and the YER
dict is foregone conclusion.
-Cleveland's last administra-
ton will be remembered as the
thing that made necessary the
discovery of the "crime of 1873"
There is no hope in Teller's
schemes, no cash in Bryan's
promise; we want the business
boom again that Wilson wheedled
from US.
No candidate who election
eers by telling his country how
vile and despicable it is will ever
be elected to high position while
human nature remains as it is.
The. talk of coercion of
employees by railroad companies
and the like comes with very bad
grace from party that has shot
negroes and white men in order
to pile up big majority.
The manner in which the
official returns reduced the Bryan
lite lead in Arkansas indicates that
the party of the forlorn hope be-
ieves in a 200 per cent plurality
at the same time it demands 80
per cent dollar.
When the Bryanites. claim
they have lost nothing by the
sound money bolt, they display
the mathematical fatuity of Words
worth's "little cottage GIRL" who
contended "we are seven" Well,
the boy orator gives this cam
paign juvenile flavor anyhow.
The More Money party is
the same one that proposes to
drive all our gold out of circula-
ton ahd cut in two the purchas-
ing power of all our silver and
paper money now afloat. Shoddy
craftsmanship is capable of any
absurdity.
If Mr.. Bryan is trying to |
make the most of the sectionalism
to which his platform commits
him, he should recognize in his
verbs the eternal principle of
straddling. He should be careful
to say "the United States are" in
some places and "the United
States is" in others.
-"Whoever attempts, under
whatever popular cry, to shake
the stability of the public currency
stabs your interests and your
happiness to the heart" These
are the words of Daniel Webster
but he lived before the law OF
gravitation was suspended in a
convention at Chicago.
In New York Bryan argued
that free coinage would raise the
price of his darling white metal t.
Al. % per ounce throughout the
world. In the West he cultivates
the opinion that under free coin
age the debtor could pay off his
with silver dollars
worth only So cents. Time has
long had sectional divisions, hut
this is the first step in the direc 1
lion OF an Eastern and a Western
philosophy. II
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DR., A. p Sawyer-Being troubled considerably
with neuralgia and was advised by friends OF mine
10 use YOUR Family cure which have given trial.
has greatly improved my health. give you per
mission to publish my in any OF your circulars
Yours Truly A. {. Schant. New London. Wis.
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ADVERTISED LETTERS

Letters remaining in the Post
Office, Sept. 81, '96, will be sent to
the dead letter Office at the expira-
tion of Ia days.
Charley Burns, Fred Gardner,
Frank Halery, Susan Jasser, John
H. Morgan, Joseph Myers, Clint.
Newton, Harry Shelton, A. J..
Smith, jesse Smith, Miss Agnes
smith.
When calling for these letters
please say advertised.
ID. G. PIERCE, P. M.
First Annual Sale of Poland
ChinaS.
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To Colorado, Montana. Puge
Sound, Hot Springs and
Poetic Coast
VIA BURLINGTON ROUTE


Take thc shortest and most de-
sirable line to the far west; com
plete trains from the Missouri riv-
er. Daily train leaves Kansas
City at 1910 a. m, arrives Bill
ings, Montana, 1,050 miles dis
tant, 6:45 next evening; free
chair cars Kansas City to Billings;
sleepers Kansas City to Lincoln:
through sleepers Lincoln to Bill
ings. Connects with fast train be
yond to Montana and Puget sound
Ten to twenty FIVE hours shoriei
than other lines from Kansas Civ
Through sleepers and chair ca
Missouri River to Deover; Rio
Grande scenic line beyond for Col
orado, Utah and California.
Ask agent for tickets over tn"
established through lines of the
Burlington route.
l.. W. Wakley, G. P. A.
st. Louis, No.
| have used DR.. Sawyer's Pas
titles and find they are really su-
perior to what is claimed for them
[ sincerely believe they will cure
any case OF female weakness. Mrs.
W. Ii. Darden, Lexington, Tenn.
WARD & FINLEY.
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Columbia Herald.

''The Standard Designer" for
October is id itself small library
of information interesting to wo-
man kind. No department of
moment to feminine readers of all
ages is left untouched-Practical
Dressmaking, Household Hints,
Cookery, Horticulture, House Fur
nishing, Instructions in Art, Toi-
let Recipes, and up-to date Fancy
Work all receive their due share
of attention in it's columns. The
literary portion of the magazine is
of the highest order, and its
Fashions and Millinery are Illus
trated and described in the most
and lucid manner. Bright
are offered for Hal
low Fen Party, and a most inter
esting paper is given on "Carpet
Designing for Women," which
opens up new field of employ
ment for many. The young wo-
man contemp lating matrimony will
find some useful hints regarding
her trousseau in this number, and
the bicyclist is by no means for
gotten.
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NATIONAL TICKET.

NATIONAL TICKET.
FOR PRESIDENT
WILLIAM MCKINLEY
VICE PRERlpENT
GARRETT A. HOBART.
CONGRESS
CHAS. N. CLARK
COUNTY TICKET
Representatives.. M. PlCKLER.
Sherif-RoBr. |. BLAcKIERoH
Collee.or-wiLuAm F. ESolEHART
Treasurer-CAPT. W. d. SIoLHR
Prosecuting Attorney-JoRN c. STORM
Assessor-THos. A. HuLsH.
Surveyor-TYLERp PAINE
Judge First Dlstrie-Joseph hiekmsn
Judge Second DIs.riet-Abel F. BumIus
Coron er-Cassius NJ. c. Wilcox.
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suffered for thirty years with
Rheumatism and had tried every
thing. DR.. Sawyer's Family Cure
cured ME. Mrs. G. Young, Memo
mimic, Wis. WARD & FINLEY.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1896-07-21

all those who receive, or are received
by. any royal persons
The noted novelist maintains that
the snobbism of aristocracy is not as
harmful as that of royalty, but not
withstanding this say so" the arts
tocracy of American life doesn't prove
it. AS a rule, aristocracy is built on
fortunes of gold coin, and stands a step
lower, if anything. than the social con-
ditions resulting from the fortune of
birth. In nine cases out of ten the at
tempt of moneyed aristocracy TO imf-
tate royalty is more disgusting and
more conducive to snobbism, tOadyism
and flunkeyism than royalty itself. 1t
was only during the reign of Jeffer-
sonian simplicity that the Americans
in their official circles came anywhere
near reaching the acme of republican
Throughout all the Amerf-
can republics the same social pandering
to official forms still continues. and we
do not wonder that Ouida asks, When
will these forms be seen to be as demor-
alizing as they are grotesque?" Within
our own little nation we have prac
hced of late years the simplest of So
cial forms and wiped out the idols of
sham devotion and mock enthusiasm.
God grant that our people may ever
to hold to the liberal social
which they have recently laid
down.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1896-07-21

A German institution has just lost
its oldest student, a man seventy years
of age, who has been studying theology
since he was twenty. Fifty years ago a
rich relative left the young man a lib
eral annuity to be paid him until he
had finished his studies. He thought
theology was a subject that could be
studied forever, and consequently has
beeen drawing his yearly stipend regu-
larly. What good this student has ever
done in the world is not stated He
furnishes a good example, however, of
rather than work for a living. Too
many men of the present day will sell
body and soul for coin.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1896-07-21
OUIDA ON ROYALTY

Sometime ago Ouida made the an
nOuncement that she would devote her
time to writing essays instead of no
vels. She has held steadfastly to her
promise and in the Forum for June
she gives Study of Royalty which
puts those who are so unfortunate as
to be born peers through a course of
trenchant criticism which voices the
spirit of the age, at least, in countries
where the common people have come
to know what true liberty is.
She looks upon the royalty of the
barbaric races as logical and the roy
atty of the middle ages with it's ac-
companimen5, loyalty, as beautiful,
but the royalty of the present period
is neither logical nor beautiful She
speaks of the despotic monarchy as
monstrous, the constitutional mon
archy effete, an hereditary monarchy
as unjust and an elective monarchy
perilOus. She believes that all that
monarchial government inspires at the
present period is a greedy, mean and
fulsOme insincerity based on the de-
sire to be advanced by royal favor. 1t
is admitted, however, that the princi-
pal interest in the Study of royalty is
not so much the political influences,
good or bad, as it is the social infiu-
ences.
''The political influence of all Euro
pean monarchies, except those of Rus
STA and Germany, is nil; the social in
fluence of them all is immense Is it
beneficial? l think l am justified in
saying that it is not. The sovereigns
and their scions may be all that is
good, well-meaning, painstaking, ami
able, or what you will in their own
characters; but the snobbism which is
engendered by them and which is in
separable from their proximity is most
injurious 10 human nature. The fic- /
tion which sets them apart as some .
thing superior, intangible, exalted. is .
a degrading and a foolish one for their
peoples. The language and the atti-
tude of men and women toward royal
ty is entirely wanting in self-respect.
1t may certainly be said that no one
who respected himself, or herself.
would PROSTATE himself with the sv-
cophancy which is to be observed in
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1896-07-21

In these days when religion is play
ing prominent part in the politics of
both Canada and the United States, it
is interesting to note the hold which
the different church organizations
have upon their communicates. The
Catholic church has been accused of
directing the votes of it's members and
in the recent Canadian election an at
tempt was made to force the parish
toner's into line with the Conservative
party. The bishops of the province of
Quebec issued a mandate command
ing all Roman Catholics to vote for Sir
Charles Upper and his party. Many
of the parishioners disliked this form
of priest rule in politics, and in several
churches dissenting members walked
out of the churches while the mandate
was being read. When the people went
to the POLISH province generally known
as one of the most bigoted Catholic
communities elected forty-six members,
out of a total of siXty-five, pledged to
resist the policy of interference by the
heads of the church. In this instance
is given a clear trial of the strength of
the priestly power. 1t is but one of
many that will probably follow in the
next decade, but nevertheless shows
that as people are given opportunities
for liberal education, they look more
to their own consciences, their own
ideas of justice, than to the opinions
of church leaders.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1896-07-21

Our evening contemporary says that
there is no board of appeal of officers,
or labor bureau of officers, in the Ma
tional Guard. We are pleased to have
this assurance. But when our other
wise very sensible officers take up the
discussion of labor matters we would
ask, what's in a name? The result is
the same 1t is to be hoped that the
suggestion that such matters be elimi-
mated from military circles has been
made in time for change in tactics to
be brought about. Confine yourselves
to military tactics, gentlemen.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1896-07-21

The ox-eye daisy, which bothers
American farmers, is now spreading
IN many agricultural districts in Aus
tralla, being introduced with hayseed.
1t causes damage to grass lands.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1896-03-13

Telling stories Is a fad now. ASlaF
writer heard one spoiled by an inquis-
tive listener at Willard'a
II was mp in Maine last summer,
said one OF the louugers, "whore I
had most exciting chase after
moose"
What part Of MainoT" asked the
listener.
"old Orchard" was the prompt
reply
"Tho nearest moose ia 800 miles on
an air line from Old Orchard"
II said an old orchard, " said the
story teller. at was north Of Water
willie. Iwent hunting, not expecting
to find anything lorger than jack
rabbit"
Hold on, said the listener, 'there
are no jack rabbits in Maine"
"Well, by jack meant a male, just
as We speak Of male mules Well, as
! said, l did not expect to see any
thing bigger than a he rabbit and had
gone down into stubble when 1
heard something squeal, and, looking
up in an old apple tree, I saw a big
moose sitting in the forks Of a limb,
ready to spring"
"See here; do you mean TO say that
a moose was in a tree2 Don't you
know that a moose is bigger than a
bull and wears horns2"
Certainly. As said, 1 saw in
what I took to be an apple tree, a
moose, aud as I approached it, I saw
that what looked to be the trunk Of
the tree was the animals body, he
sitting on his launches, and the limbs
of the tree were the moose's horns,
while in the crotch of the horns was
his mouth, which was open, showing
his teeth, and he was squealing."
But the mans audience was gone,
and the story teller went away, NUT
tering, 81 seem to be kind of off on
mooses. I've got to try some other
animal. "-Washington Star.