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 '
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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.