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$m&tr' ,BV t&Wmm PpMSP V pWt-'SWz " W--i" fvra w jsrit ITMI" r.- fe" pe & Ipjlil-j-w" rt?:?!i&&&f;'j!'' K and nrc 1 . THE WEEKLY GRAPHIC T. E. SUBLETTE. Proprietor KIRRRV1LLE, MIR80UKI. Cleveland's message belongs in the "last but not least" list. The message touched upon almost everything except the reason its author did not vote. The latest political inter pretation of the three R's is, Reason, Revenue and Republican ism. The next President of the United States wilk not talk for freedom and delay action for tyranny. Cleveland's message indi cates a double barrel pen, with nothing but paper in the Cuban Charge. American journals need not discuss Armenian atrocities. The Cuban article is just as genuine and much nearer home. Gomez micht have been more favorably noticed in the President's message, if he hau loyally procured a substitute for service in the field. Cleveland extended the Cu ban patriots considerable star- spangled sympathy and hope de ferred, but such articles are very airy in a lean knapsack. Bryan still attracts some at tention in certain places. But for that matter the stir that has gone out of business in Cygnus is yet interesting to some astronomers. An Atlanta paper com placently remarks, "The country is safe." This is perhaps the safest way for a Democratic sheet in Geonna to say. Hurrah for McKinley. People of the United States have about 50,000,000 invested in Cuba, and Spain is now laying their possessions waste under the India rubber privilege of a "friendly nation." Mr. Cleveland asks Con gress to be economical and Mr. Carlisle asks for $121,000,000 to run his department another year. Democratic "economy" seems to be an expensive article. Democratic tariff reformers are puzzling themselves to ascer tain how revenue will be raised by the next administration. Republi can mothods havo always been in comprehensible to statesmen with a deficit record. Populism has never regu larly developed in England, though individual cases have foreshad owed that political weakness among the British. Dean Swift once declared he was dying at the top, like a tree. Mrs. Castle, the beautiful kleptomaniac, recently underwent a surgical operation foi her morbid ideas of the rightB of property. Hope grows in the world. The Burgeons may be able to cope with the free silver hallucination next time. If it be tiue, as Brjanite leaders claim, that free silver has come to stay with the party it woefully misled this year, it is evident that Democracy has taken Greeley's advice and gone West to grow up with the sage brush and cayotes. The President has virtually dmitted that the Wilson Gorman -oil! is a great measure. Enemies hiB own party now have .nance to assert that he failed to Ign it because of its merits. Since they have begun to explore his career for faults, they would as well make the most of every in consistency. The Monroe Doctrine has been discussed a great deal the last year or two, and yet in one respect it is a puzzle to the aver age American. Nobody but an administration Democrat can un derstand how it completely covers Venezuela and yet at the same time bo utterly fails to reach as far as Cuba. Democrats who hungered consumingly for gold before the election now refuse it at the banks and prefer paper. It suggests the story of the Dutchman who, hear ing another who owed him was in a bad way financially, called on him for the money. When the debtor promptly produced the ready cash, Hans remarked, "You goto him I don't want him; you don't got him, I has him righ away quick.'' rr The Turkish muddle known as the "conceit of Europe" could be more aptly termed the tragedy in Armenia. Spain is the same "friendly nation'' that recognized the Con fideiaey forty days after the fall of Sumptcr. Cleveland omitted details in oider to be brief. It is well the reading public escaped his ideal of amplification. if the Populists desire a test of party strength in the Con gressional race, they should nomi nate their strongest man. Had Cleveland been Peck sniff enough to hint in his mes sage a sublime sorrow over election results, portions of his party might have loved him more. But "GroJ vcr isn't built that way " New Mexico aud Oklahoma effectually voted down their State hood for some years by going in favor of free silver. The country already has too many coercing Senators from the Wild and Wool ly. It has been announeed that Venezuela is not like.y to be satisfied with the work of the boundary commission. Perhaps little better was to be expected. Small nations seem to be incapa ble of gratitude. So far the sporting men have not been able to determine which was mote brutal in the Sharkey Fiizsimmons fight, the blows or the steal. A few more contests of the sort will knock the prize ring out. Give the bruisers room. Every good American citi zen is glad of course to note the progress of international arbitra tion, but it does not follow at all that he would have Uncle Sam disregard Washington's admoni tion to St. Clair: 'Beware of a surprise!" The President waited quite a long time to tell what he thought about the clap-trap of Bryau and Tillman in the campaign, but when he got ready he gave out his opinion with characteristic earnest ness. Any Democrat can easily commit to memory his words on the subject "Our national struc ture shows no signs of weakness." One-fourth of the letters mailed in the United States for foreign countries lack the postagi necessary, hence they fail to go. as they must be prepaid in full The shortage is said to be especial ly prevalent about Christmas, when the missives have additional significance and value. A little care in such cases would save much conjecture aud disappoint ment. The despicable methods of Spain crop out in nothing plainer than in the attempt to disparage Gen. Antonio Maceo as a man with mulatto instincts and guerril la tactics It is certainly bad taste to endeavor to belittle an officer who has repeatedly outgeneraled the ablest leaders of the enemy. Dead or alive, Maceo will con tinue the most brilliant figure of the Cuban strife. He learned the science of arms i the ten years' war, and was given the leadership of the cavalry in the present strife because of his distinguished abili ty. In dash and daring he some what resembles Sheridan, and the reference to his origin only proves that mulatto blood may be superior to that of Castile and Aragon on the field of battle. Outside of Spain, humanity will hope Maceo may again contradict the story of his death by wreaking summary vengence upon the tyrants who have been beaten to the level of traducers Something to Know. It may be worth something to know that the very best medicine for restoring the tired out nervous system to a healthy vigor is Elec trie Bitters. This medicineg is purely vegetable, acts by giving tone to the nerve centres in the stomach, gently stimulates the liver and kidney, and aids these organs in throwing off impurities in the blood. Electric Bitters im proves the appetite,aids digestion, and is pronounced by those who have tried it as the very best blood purifier and nerve tonic. Try it. Sold- for 50c or $1.00 per bottle at B. F. Henry's drug store. I suffered for thirty years with Rheumatism and had tried every thing. Dr. Sawyer's Family Cure cured me. Mrs. C. Young, Meno iniuie, Wis. Ward & Finley Letter From Old Hexico. TOL'OLOUAMVO, Si NALOA, AJF.X. nr, 6th, lSmJ.J" DfCCt-lH" Editor (Jiurmn: Ah I prom ised to write, I will now job down a fow thoughts pei tabling to my trip and to the country round about where I now am, and shall in so fining endeavor to keep in mind brevity. Larrived at. this place in due time; witnessed beautiful prairie and mountain scenery on the way, and arrived here leeliug better physically, and hence of necessity mentally, than when I left. Ivirks ville or home. My destination by rail toad was Guaymas, a place of about four thousand inhabitants, and located on the main laud of the gulf coast of lower California. remained in this place four days for the time of the leaving of the boat, as I had about two hundred miles to travel by water to where I now am. While in Guaymas I walked all over the place, besides riding from one end to the other in a street oar drawn by horses. A cleaner town for its size I have never seen. Not the least offen sive smell could I detect either in alley-or street, and yet so warm that I sweat in walking about to see tLe place Their streets and allcps I noticed were cleaned up dailv, and all refuse from the buildings taken away. Yet, out from the States would incline to the opinion, from the 'style and outside appearance of the build ings, that the people are of a dirty order. Not so. Yet one must not infer from this that none are dirty. I have seen a few in rags and dirt. Rags I suppose through poverty, and dirty apparel through dirty work. Begging is not allow ed there except two clays in the week. I saw but three begging, two blind and the other an aged person. Their buildings are most ly one story, and built mostly of dried brick, and somewhat resem ble brick kilns. Some are cement d over on the outside, and inside, lined off to represent hewn stone, and some have floors of the same material The walls of a few are wholly of stone and others wholly of brick. Avery little glass is seen and that in but a few of their buildings The openings in the store buildings, except the doors, have over them iron bars. iSo lass. Tightness agamec com is not necessaiy here. They guard more to keep out the sun or heat than to keep out the cold. Stores and counters are lengthwise or parallel with the streets. The hotel at which I put up is nearly directly across from a num ber of school buildings one and two stories high. They have separate buildings for the boys and gills. It was quite a sight to me to see the children at the close of the school march out in single file, the smaller children in the lead, aud all dressed in a variety of gay colors, and wearing shoes and stockings and looking nice and clean. I asked why the children wore shoes and stockings when it was so warm. The reply was that custom required this and also to go clean. Their playing aud laughing seemed the same as that of children in the States, though 1 could not understand anything they said in their talking one to another. And while there, in the midst of a people whose language I could not understand, I was somewhat afflicted with that ail ment known as the blues. I heard a man laugh, a dog bark, a roo.ster crow, a turkey gobble, a horse neigh, and a cat mew. These were familiar sounds and gave some relief. I was lucky enough however to sit by a man at. the ho tel table, a resident American, who could speak the Spanish language, aud who was of aid to me there and elsewhere outside. Aboard the boat there was but one person who could speak the English language, an American, the engineer. Topolobampo can hardly be call ed a town or village, as there are but three or four rudely built builldiugs there, except the cus 'om house, which looks well as compared with the others, and is built of hewn stone. There are a few things kept for sale in the warehouse at the landing. This is a Bite intended for a city. The water in the bay is deep, and the entrance to it such that the harbor is protected on every side by hills or mountains from storms of the culf. The arable land back of this is quite extensive, and when, cul tivated, to Bay nothing of the min eral prospects buck in the moun tains, would no doubt support a large place at this point. "The State of Sinaloa i8 said to be liter ally covered with silver mines." This is from the history of Mexi co as found in thu American Cy clopedia. I am a number of miles back from the bay. The soil is excellent, and of great depth. In sinking a well it was found to be sixty five feet deep, an.d under it sand with salt water, and this saud no doubt is a layer forming the original bottom or bed of the gulf. The soil is of a reddish col or, aud I believe is mixed with fine volcanic matter. The moun tains are seen in nearly every di rection in the distance, and appear of a deep blue color. No doubt this vast expase of land . as form ed in past ages by washings from the mountains, and in past and later ages the.process in filling up no doubt ceased by the forma tion of rivers. All mountains I believe to have been volcanic or thrown up sometime iu the long past by heat. The variety of products here to quite an extent are the same as in the States, with an addition of other kinds making the variety here greater than there. To item ize upon what is and evidently can be raised here would lengthen out this article too long. I will state, however, that sugar cane needs planting but once in fifteen or twenty years, and cotton but once in four or five, and that sweet potatoes are perpetual. Of corn, beans, Irish potatoes, grapes etc., two crops a year are raised. Stock have green feed the year round, though corn fodder is not wasted. Mexicans aud Iudiaus, from their color, I am unable to tell apart. The higher class of Mexi caus are in general more intelli gent in features and some are lighter in color. The Indians here are not a wild and savage people as some would suppose. They work like other people, and are a means of wealth to those who em ploy them. Their standard wages is thirty seven and a half cents a day. They care not for more than a bare living, and aresatisfied with the cheapest order at that To give them greater wages stimulate, ihem to idleness, for then they will work but a pert of the time. In passing houses of Indians and low class Mexicans I noticed a cross erected in tlreir yards. I inquired the object, and 'was told that it was to keep out the devil. I did not learn whether it was to keep the devil out of their yards, out of their houses, or out of them selves. These people, though de luded, are no doubt sincere in their belief and mode of worship. They have their religious en tertainments (Fiesta's) where they have their sports, dance, drink, and gamble, aud have fire works at night. These entertainments continue sometimes lor two or three days They do not consider these things to be antichristian or wrong. When drunk they are in no way dangerous or quarrelsome. The stores in this country are kept open on Sunday the same as on other days in the week. Indeed it is the merchant's best day for business, as the masses make this a day of recreation and pleasure, and a day in which to make their purchases. This is no country for a common 'laborer from the States depending upon others than him self for employment, for such would place themselves on a level with the Indians, and would have to work for the same pay. There are now no Peons in this country, the law has lately been abolished, so I am told. Skilled labor or mechanics, obtain coou wages here wherever needed. I con versed with an American, direct from a gold mine near by, and employed there, and from him learned that wages in and pertain ing to the mines was from seventy five cents to ten dollars a day, ac cording to position, ability and responsibility. The land here is something like a vast extent of plane. It has very nearly a gradual slope from the mountains to the gulf, and a pitch of from one to three feit to the mile, and hence in excellent shape for irrigation, which is necessary here except in places along the river. Rain falls here, at cer tain periods. The water sup plied to the community in which I am is lifted from the Fuerte river into a canal by what is called a pump, properly. It is a device lor I lif tling water rapidly, and is oper atcd by Bteam power. It produces a stream something like a little river. From the canal mentioned laterals arc run. The pump (brought from the States by Ameri cans) I am told is sufficient to water four thousand acres of land. When the water in the river is high it runs into the irrigating canal and then the pump is not needed. There are other pumps of the same kind in the vicinity. The Mexicans here have become m satisfied of the utility of these pumps and are already beginning to use them. There is sufficient water for all purposes, and to spare. Depending upon rain is uncertain. Depending upon ir rigation is positive. Here, aud around where I am, my son aud daughter counted up sixty-three American families. A. J. Sfreeter, of New Windsor, 111., once candidate for President of the United States, has purchased seventy - five thousand acres of laud here, and the Kansas and Sinaloa Investment Co., seventeen thousand, and one Mr. Johnson, from the States, manager here of a sugar mill, forty-five thousand. Land is not Burveyed here as in the States. The lines run in various directions, and hence the number of acres as mentioned is by ap proximation. It is the object of the owners, I am told, to divide this land jip into suitable tracts and sell it off at from two to four dollars an acre. Here will be an opportunity for one even with but little means to bring himself into a position leading to prosperity, wealth and happiness.. The coun try here, as one mights-infer from the above, I like; and thus far the climate has been delightful. I ex pect to remain here until the first of April, and then to return home. If a river ran out from here, "and from thence parted and be came into four heads,"' I should think this the veritable place where was the "Garden of Eden." I have drawn this article out longer than intended, and am re minded of my promise in keeping in mind brevity. To all acquaintances greeting. War. Hart. Wanted -To rent a good faim. Address Box 2JU, Kirksville, Mo. Jones & Taylor, the west side druggists keep a full line of drngs and druggists sundries, paints, oils, stationary and everything usually kept in a first class drug store. They solicit a share of the public's patronage. The Gicsekc Boots best in the land; formerly sold by Doneghy, now for sale by Reliable Shoe Co. South E-ide Square. Betore purchasing presents call on w. h. druggist. XMAS Smith Bibles, Albnms, card cases, bas kets, match cases, shaving sets, collar boxes, toilet sets in new aud beautiful designs at Font & Mc Chesney's. Closing Sale Till January 1st, 1897, of our entire Big Stock of Dry Goods, Clothing, Boots, Shoes, Capes, Cloak?, Blankets, Dress Goods, and everything else. Our stock is too large Goods must bo sold Prices regardless of cost. Now is the time to save money at Pjckler's Famous. ADV13 UTISEI) LETTERS Letters remaining iu the Post iflice, Dec. 11. '9(5, will be sent to the dead letter office at the expira tion of 14 days. Dr. G. V. Bennett, Mrs. T. N Buckhead, Lena Dowell, Hon. W P. Holliday, Mr. McCully, Miss lenuie Phillips, T J. Pickler, L. L. Sheets, Robert Scyoc, Theodore Swigert, Eliza Jane Wright. When calling for these letters please say advertised. D. C. Pierce, P. M. CLOSING SALE Till January 1st. 1897, of our entire Big Stock of Dry Goods, Clothing, Boots, Shoes, Capes, Cloaks, Blankets, Dress Goods, and everything else. Our stock is too large Goods must be sold Prices regardless of cost. Now is the time to save money at Picexer's Famous. Don't purchase your Christmas presents until yon have seen Mc Keehan & Reed. I - s- . sm. mM zim mmsm S'l.:- ..'?-foSrS"-. THE NEW BAPTIST CHURCH The New Baptist Church was dedicated last Sunday at 11 o'clock. The dedicatory services were conducted by Rev. Brown of Kansas City. At the morniug service $1200 were raised and the church was dedicated free from debt. The church cost $S,G00. GkEAT CLOSING SALE Till January 1st, 1S97, of our entire Big Stock of Dry. Goods, Clothing, Boots, Shoes, Capes, Cloaks, Blankets, Dress Goods, and everything else. Our stock is too large Goods must be sold Prices regardless of cost. Now is the time to save money at PlCKLER'S FAMOUS. Win. Rogers aud Rogers Bros. Silver plated knives and forks, Nickel-silver spoons etc. for sale at Helnie Bros. IF YOU HAVEN'T OUR DISPLAY OF PLATED TABLEWARE You have missed something good and something worth going out of your way to see. Can't you come in and look it over before the choice pieces are all gone? We have some beautiful newpaterns that look just like solid silver and will wear for vears. We want you to see the be?utfnl: Berry and Fruit Sets Butter Knives and Sugar Shells Salad Sets, Childrens' Sets, Orange Sets, Berry Forks, Cream Laddies, Pickle Forks, Gravy Ladles, Cold Meat Forks, Oyster Laddies, Cake Servers. Soup Laddies, Toast Forks; Preserve Spoons , Tomato Servers, Nut Spoons Pearl Tea, Desert and Table Spoons Fish Knives, I j Select your Presents and have them laid asida until you want Them. Open evenings until 9 o'clock Thomas Jewelry House. I was not able to wait upon my self fnr four years. and I want to thank God and Dr. Sawyer for his wonderful Pastilles and ad vise all suffering ladies to use them. Mrs. P. Dorr, Clayton, N. Y. Ward & Finley. WANTED Faithful men or women to travel for responsible established house in Missouri. Salary S7S0 and expenses. Posi tion permanent. Reference. En close self-addressed stamped en velope. 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Our fellow fjcitizen, Mr. B. F. Henry has again shown his pro gressiveness by securing the agency for Putnam Fadeless Dyes. This dye not only colors more goods than any other, but each package will (olor any and all kinds of clothes. Price 10c. THE NEW YORK TRIBUTE FOR I- RAIERS AND VILLAGERS FOR FATHERS AMD MOTHERS, FOR SONS AND DAUGHTERS FOR ALL THE FAMILY". THE GRAPHIC i J-c