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The State of Affairs at Bevier. Bevier, Mo., Dec. 10. A number of frame business houses Lere burn ed Saturday night, causing a loss of 6,000 with little or no insurance. It is generally believed that the ori gin of the fire was accidental though some think it was the work of in cendiaries among the striking min ers. . Governor Morehouse arrived here yesterday afternoon to person ally investigate the condition of af fairs. After visiting and conversing with the different factions the gov ernor ordered a portion of the Third regiment of Kansas City to report at Bevier. They will arrive this af ternoon. It is believed that the miners'' troubles are in a fair way of settlement. This is the second time the militia has been orderd out under the Marmaduke and More house administrations. Old Chief to Die by Electricity. Cincinnati, O., Dec. 9. Old Chief one of the biggest and probably the most vicious elaphant in captivity, has been guilty of so many homicides that his owners, the Robinson Bros, of this city, successors to old "uncle John" Robinson of menagerie and circus fame, have decided that he shall suffer the death penalty. Old Chief is 25 years old, weighs 10,000 pounds, and is worth over $1 a pound. It has been suggested that he be executed by an electrical cur rent, and the Robinson Bros, have signified their willingness to have the experiment tried on Old Chief. California will have a monopoly of the total eclipse of the sun on Jan uary 1st. 'Tis the only Btate in the Union in which the total eclipse will be visible. EVER ON THE ALERT 1II1LEI Lead all Competitors in the Line of IMstiias Suitable for Presents, Such as Swinging Lamps, China Sets, Vases, etc. At the Same Time Have a Lare and Varied Assortment of Fancy and Staple Groceries. Soliciting an inspection, We are Yours Truly, HBAIDXRILKY MBflM. Shot Through the Heart. Holden, Mo., Dec. 6. Yesterday morning, Bud Kennedy's step-son aged, about 12 years, and living six miles southwest of here, took a shot gun and went out to shoot a crow. He told his mother he would be back in a few minutes and then go to school. He did not come back and she went to look for him. She found him in the fence comer, not far away, dead. He had climbed over the fence and attempted to draw the gun through a low crack muzzle fore most. The hammer caught on a rail and discharged the gun and sent a load of shot through his heart. The gun was partially through the fence with the muzzle right at the fatal wound. The editor of the Republic is far better informed as to Chicago and New York politics than the editor of the Chicago and Tribune as to "cotton States methods" in elections. To the be6t of his knowledge and belief, there are more frauds perpe trated at each and every election in Chicago or New York city than hare been perpetrated in Florida during its entire history as a terri tory ad state, except in 1876, when . the republicans stole its electoral yote for Hayes by f rands which were exposed and denounced by the republican supreme court. St. ixraia Republic. Wright & Walls, the popular gro cery merchants on the west hide, are offering their entire stock of glass and queensware at strictly cost, they have a handsome line and while you are making presents don't for get to call and see them and make your wife happy by buying her a set of.dishes and glassware. Their gro cery stock is full and they will also sell yoH groceries at bottom prices. They are clever gentlemen and will treat you right. Swallowed a Pin. Wichita, Kan., Dec 5 A 16-month old child of Mi-, and Mrs. Jas. Helen of Wicita, is lying at the point of death from the result of of swallow ing a safety pin. Last Saturday while the child was playing on the floor of the family residence it got the pin into its mouth. The pin was open and finally got lodged in the throat. The mother became fright ened and as the child choked fearfully pushed the pin down further with her finger. The pin will have to be cut out and the physicians attending do not think they can save the child's life. The mother is almost insane with grief. Almost everybody knows Lane, the boss merchant on the west side, who has made himself famous and his name a household word in Batts county, by paying the farmers such unheard of prices for their poultry and eggs. Since he opened out in this city, hia store has been made famous for low prices on goods and high prices for poultry and eggs. Mr. Lane is a wide-a-wake merchant and leads the procession, and in his new quarters he is better able than ever to accommodate the people that throng his store daily. To those persons who are seeking something elegant and nice in the present line, we will say go to the old reliable iewelry store of Franz Bernhardt, on the north side. Here you will find a handsome assortment of watches, gold and silver, clocks, rings of every description, and an elegant line of plated ware. Mr. Bernhardt has tried to please, and it will pay you to call and see him and look at his Christmas stock. The stories begin to come in of the men who were so much interest ed in the canvass at the polls. They forgot that a good part of patriotism consists in every citizen first attend ing to his own duties. We wish to call the attention of our readers to the advertisement of A. F. Hicckman, who has just open ed out a complete line of staple gro ceries three doors south of the Bates county national bank. Every pound of his stock is new and fresh and will be sold at the lowest possible prices. You can depend on getting goods at his store just as represent ed. Take our advice and go and see what he has for sale, and if you have produce to sell you ean get the top of the market from him. George William Curtis sounds a note of warning about Christmas. He says the occasion is being over done so much that people will tire of it 5 ' n loods GENIUS 15 INDUSTRY. ucceii I-tf" '" ' Hrl W'r!(, I'atieno and l.'rfarrh. There is no respect of cl;ises with geniu. It eiitors the eotinge of iha poor and tin mansion of the rich. Unlike what wo call talents, it is in herits! by no oiu-: like virtue, it is a possession of tLc individual aud not of the family. Dr. Smiles in his "Life and Labor," prints a list of eighty-one names of il Iustroun scientific mi:n, philosophers, poets, novelists, dramatists, historians, reformers, statesmen and generals. Twenty-seven names belong to the aristocratic class, twenty-seven to the middle-class and twenty-seven to the working class, from which fact it seems to be true that groat men come from all ranks and classes. A great genias resembles Melehize dek, in that, intellectually, he is "with out father, without mother," without genealogy. ye js ,js own ancestors and posterity, for he begins and ends with himself. The Adams family, the Bayard family, the Breckenridge family and the Beecher family are illustrations of the fact that great talent may descend to the third and fourth generations; but from these four illustrious Ameri can families there has risen but one genius Henry Ward Beecher. Six of the leading representative statesmen of the formative period of the Republic Hamilton, Sam Adams, Jeffersou, Clay and Webster have no "genealogy." It is hard to define the word genius, by which Ave express the subtle, elusive something that makes a man great The word itself, coming from the Latin, emphasizes man's belief in the super natural origin of the something which dies with him. For the genius of the Latins was a guardian deity, which was born and which died with the person whose actions it directed. Buskin says that genius is the powep of penetrating into "the root and deep places of the subject." This definition recalls Newton's explanation of his achievements in science "always thinking of it" meaning his ability to concentrate his intellect on the subject of his search. But then Newton, it may be observed, was a very modest man. He was more. He was uncon scious of his great mind, and illustrated the remark of the physiologist who said "No man was ever a great man who wanted to be one." But John Dalton, the great chemist who developed the atomic theory, held with Newton that his genius was nothing but the power of patient in dustry laboring continuously at a sub ject until he saw through it. We com mend his words, when complimented at a public meeting, on his discoveries: "If I have succeeded better than many it has been chiefly, nay, I may say al most solely, from unwearied assiduity. It is not so much from any superior genius that one man possesses over an other, but more from attention to study and perseverance in the objects before them, that some men rise to greater eminence than others. This it is, in my opinion, that makes one man suc ceed better than another." Dalton's "unwearied assiduity" im pelled him to observe and compare un til his death, in his seventy-eighth year. On the last night of his earthly life, he wrote the day's record in his book of meteorological observations, of which he had made more than two hun dred thousand during half a century. One ean not promise himself, and keep his word, that he will be a geuius, but he ean be industrious, and he can train his mind to concentrate itself. "If it pleases God to take any of my children, 1 hope it will be Isaac," said a father. Isaac was a very dull boy. Bnt w hen the "dull boy" died at the early age of forty-seven, he was known as the great Dr. Isaac Barrow. He had filled the Greek and the mathe matical chairs at Cambridge, had writ ten several books on geometry and mathematics, and composed a series of sermons, which are still read because they are storehouses of thought, and enforce lessons of industry, godliness, prayerfuiness and truthfulness. He, too. ascribed his success to his indus try, and not to his natural parts. Youth's Companion. Senator Edmunds was given the degree of LL.D. by Trinity College, Hartford, Conn., recently. Mr. Ed munds at once sent the college treas urer a check for 100, saying that it was customary in England for the re cipient of a college degree to pay the cost of registering, engraving, printing and such other expenses as might per tain to the granting of the diploma. China sends to this countrv each year 220,000 dozen of eggs. Merchant (on collecting tour) "Mr. Brown, ean you tell me why my errand here this morning is like a well baked loaf of bread?" Brown "No, I cannot. Why is it?" Merchant "Because it's dun Brown." Brown paid the bill. An Abel discourse A sermon on the first murder. He "Handsome woman, that Ma jor Bold's wife; but why will she wear such loud gowns?" She "Out of con sideration for the Major, I fancy. He is so shockingly deaf, don't you know." Life. Boarder "I don't know what's the matter with me, but I haven't been able to eat worth a cent since I came to this house." Landlady "Were you a museum freak before you lost your appetite?" Lincoln Journal. TIE Farmers I wish to inform you that I have moved into my new quarters two doors south of my former place of business, and I wish to imform you that I am now prepared to take your EOOS 1VI OHIOJKJSItS at the very highest market prices. I also wi6h to inform you that I have the Finest, Largest and most complete line of Ladies Gods Of any house in the city. I also wish to inform you that I will not be UNDERSOLD in anything in my line. Farmers if you will give me a call when in town I will convince you of the following Startling Facts 1st, That you can buy more Goods here for the money than elsewhere. id. That you can get the very highest market price for your Eggs and Poultry. 3d. That you will receive the best of Goods at the most reasonable prices. Jrtli. That my goods are just what I represent them to be. tli. And last, that we are always ready and will ing to wait on any and all customers. Thanking you for your past patronage and asking a continuance of your favors, I Remain, PETER LANE. Christian CoOperutlon Meetine. The third annual meeting of the Bates County Co-operation meeting of the Christian church met at But ler on Monday night, Dec. 3d, 1888. Preaching Monday night by C. A. Hedrick, of Sweet Springs, Mo. On Tuesday delegates and visit ors reported from churches as fol lows: Hume Mrs. M. E. Jones, Mrs. Bettie A. Miller, B. F. Senior. Sprague W. B. Miller, Mrs. A. G. Clark. Foster J. G. McPeak, Mrs. J. G. McPeak, Miss Lena McPeak, Miss Ella Petty, Geo. AVebb, tnd Mrs. Anderson. Rich Hill A. D. Goodwin, Miss Nellie Bussey, Mrs. Lee Beall Virginia Miss Annie Nickell, Mrs. H. P. Nickcll, C. H. Durrett. Elizabeth Chapel. Preachers in attendance, G. A. Hoffman, Cor. Sec'y., Clark, Mo. C. A. Hedrick, Sweet Springs; J. W. Randall, Appleton City; A. D. Good win, Rich Hill, Bullock, Lind- erinen, Mo.; W. B. Miller, Sprague; Geo. Webb, Foster; E. C. Brown ing, Butler. An interesting feature of the meet ing, Wednesday was the ordi nation of Geo. W. Webb, of Fos ter, to the Christian ministry. A very practical and interesting dis course Tuesday night by Bro. Hoff man. Wednesday night by Brc. Goodwin. About $130 was pledged for coun ty work during the coming year. The executive committee will have about $200 or $220 it collections are promptly made, to expend in the county the coming year. The committee is composed of Dr. W. E. Tucker, Chairman, W. E. Walton, Treas., E. C. Browing, Sec, and Al len Wright and J. G McPeak, vice president. The Sec. was in structed to notify all delinquents that the money was wanted for a rigorous prosecution of the work, aud that the first quarter .of the new pledges is now due. W. E. Tcckeb, E. C. Beowxixg. Pres. SecV. J. N. Smith of Archie was in the city Monday on business. mi Mi PERSONAL AND IMPERSONAL. The late Elizabeth Tabor, of Ma rion, Mass., bequeathed $187,000 to re ligious and charitable objects. Mme. Christine Nilsson is an hon orary member of the Young Women's Christian Association of New York. General Sherman says that of all the nuisances on earth, the shaking of hands by American people is the worst. The housekeeper of Warwick Cas tle, England, who died recently, left a fortune of $350,000, all of which had come to her in the shape of fees from visitors. The power of persistence in mat ters of love was well illustrated in the courtship of Browning's son. For four teen years he maintained a suit at first unsuccessful, but finally rewarded with success. The richest widow in this country, if not in the world, is Mrs. Moses Tay lor, whose fortune is estimated at $40, 000,000. She lives in New York, Long Branch and several other places, as the mood strikes her. Miss Emily Faithfull has com pleted the thirtieth year of her phil anthropic work. She received a por trait of the Queen, bearing an auto graph inscription, as a token of her Majesty's recognition of her services. When Bismarck is staying at Kis singen he goes regularly three times to be weighed, and, as the young girl in charge of the weighing machine says, "makes himself very agreeable and talks most friendly to me." At his last visit he weighed sixteen stone and three pounds. The richest Japanese outside of the royal family is said to .be R. Kondo of the Mining University of Japan.' He is the operator of sixteen gold, silver, and copper mines, and is about to visit the Lake Superior min ing districts in order to get a knowl edge of the mining machinery used there. David Crack, of Marlboro, Md., said to be one hundred and seven years old. was recently married to Susanna Oaks, a buxom widow of seventy-five years. The groom was an old slave of Major B. Bruce, then was bought by John B. Brooks. Crack says he took part in the war of 1812, at which time he was a robust young man. W. P. Taulbee, of Kentucky, rep resents the largest Congressional dis trict in the country. It is composed of twenty-one counties, and extends fron the famous Blue Grass region o Cumberland Gap, a distance of over two hundred miles. It is a backwoods district, without railroad or telegraph communication, and is canvassed on horseback by the candidate for Con gressional honors. ML THE HOT SIROCCO. Where It Originate and now it . Northward to Europe. Most of the hot winds of the fta World are modified forms of tk7 moon. The sirocco originates la tu Sahara and travels northward to tk! Mediterranean and Southern Com! but it is not so deadly as itaprot It brings with it great quantiUi the desert sand, and the air becoaZ so dense at times that the sunU? scured as if by a London fog. rvtT it remains on the African mainlaaj! is characterized by a very marked jJJ ness, as there are no extensive surfaces to supply it with nyiiw As soon, however, as it is launch over the Mediterranean it beru take up, copious draughts, bo &m when it reaches Malta, Sicily a&dtb southern shores of Europe as a from between southeast and souQtVMt it has undergone a change from a a dry wind to a hot damp wind, result of this alteration is that It ba comes most enervating to the hasut constitution. Indeed, while it previik from one to several days at a time,m is scarcely worth living, so depreash and burdensome is the wind. It 152 piumbeus Auster or Horace, Ba man energy is quite dissipatst under its fatiguing influence, and wit, a temperature ranging between IS d grees and 110 degrees the street of Ut towns affected by it are deserted. A cording to the Italians a stupid book is put down as "era scritto in taapt del scirocco." To the Sicilians iha a pressive wind is a Derfect nlavn u. although naturally indolent, they ck not siana tne iunner loss of energy b duced by it During its prefabs iron rusts, clothes spoil with mildst, meat turns putrid, grapes and frts) ' leaves wither, wine will not fiMtsJ paint will not dry. Sicily experlsissj the sirocco about a dozen timet but it is not so frequently met wfck is other parts of Europe. There km mistaking the origin of the wind, m the reddish snnd is still present Wis it arrives on the northern 10911111 the Mediterranean and causes a Mk atmosphere. In Turkey the strooco b Known as tne bamtel, or Sumyal, name identical in meaning with imy It is supposed to have some conaeetki with cattle disease in the south 4 Russia. On the Spanish Mediterrana coast the wind draws more to the mr and is known locally as the solans, ft damp wind, sometimes accompanied b rain, causing feverishness, ifl and restlessness, and people are "done up" under its debilltatiaf fat ftuence that we must "ask nofavott during the Bolana" According to tkt Spaniards only a pig and an gifr man are insensible to the wretchsi breeze. Comhill Magazine. HARD ON BACHELORS. Bow the Earlier Bates Looked Vpom Vs I married Men. , Although hardened bachelors art treated with more respect than thej deserve in these degenerate days, they were not in favor with the earlier races of men. In the time of Moses, with only rare exceptions, marriage was obligatory among the Jews. Lv curgus treated bachelors with in famy. They were excluded from civil and military positions and even from spectacles and public games. On cer tain solemn occasions they were ex posed to the jeers of the populace and paraded naked around the public places. The lashing of bachelors was an annual ceremony, publicly per formed in the Temple of Juno by the women of Sparta. In other republics of Greece there was established penal laws against celibacy. Demosthenes in pleading against Lescharia says that certain emblems were placed upon the tombs of bachelors, which were not honorary to the deceased. It was the custom for voung men to rise and surrender their seats to But no one found the young man who courtesy to Ducvllidas. their elders, fault with refused this saying: "No child of yours will ever make room for me. Plato exclaims against celibacy, and imposes a penalty upon it in the sixth book of laws for his imaginary "Kepublic" He wished no deference to be paid to the unmarried. Diony sius of HalicarnassuB mentions an ancient law by which persons of ma ture age were obliged to marry. At Rome a penalty called the aes uxorium was imposed, and after the siege of Veii, Camillus forced the single men to marry the widows of those who had fallen in defense of their country. In B. C 18 Augustus enacted a law (it does not appear, however, to have come into operation until B. C. IS), which was known originally a the Lex Julia de Maritan dis Ordinibu and afterwards as the Lex Julia et Papia Poppoea. By this law various penal ties were imposed upon those who lived in a state of celibacy after a certain age. An unmarried person could not take a legacy, unless he altered his condition within one hundred days after the death of the testator. Notes and Queries. A certain Georgia preacher says that the lowest cannibal wHi not eat tie flesh of a roan who chews tobacco. This being the case, a fine scheme it. would be to make missionaries of to- baceo-ehewing preachers. Bronioood (Go.) Reporter. m Polite conductor "Your fare, madam." Miss Cons? Cobb (from Stamford) "You'd orter see me be fore I got sun-scorched at Aunt Ban ner's clam-bake.' Time.