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The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1893-09-30

For dressy dinner-gown come most
gorgeously striped silks and satins in
autumnal colors, of which the favorite
trimming is still the black silk muslin
ruches and the lace ruffles. Such a
gown, with a stripe of the red seen in
the cardinals flower has muslin ruch-
ings on the skirt The yoke is made OF
cardinal satin puffs set into black in
sertions and is finished with plaitings
of the muslin edged with lace. The
yoke, cut after the latest models, is so
deep on the shoulder that the plaitings
fall yer the ARM, and the sleeve,
plated down fiat on the top,
flows out broadly at the elbow
and is finished in a puff of lace and
muslin. An odd within Of the moment
is for the spiral fiouncing of skirts,
which are fiounced, as well, in festoons
and Vandykes, and all manner of odd
arrangements. This spiral, which may
be a fiounce or a ruche, begins with a
bow on one side, and in passing around
the skirt is gradually lowered until it
passes the point where it starts much
lower down, and ends with a bow on
the other side. Ruches of black silk,
muslin, either edged with lace or plain,
are much employed in this way, and
form the decoration Of the primrose
silk. The waist of the dress is formed
almost entirely of the lace, and has a
fold scarf of black satin for a belt.-N.
Y. Post.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1893-09-30
Protection Against vermIn.

A poultry breeder suggests that ship
pers of fowls dust them well before
sending them away to customers. Last
year we received fowls from expert
enced breeders and shippers, and on
their arrival was not impressed that il
was necessary to search them for
''stow-aways." A few weeks later,
luckily for his W coops, he took a 10
ton to examine them and found them
swarming. Shippers owe it to their
customers to clear their fowls of vermin
before sending them. Here is a fact
the like of which this writer saws he
has seen in print A neighbor,
showing him the large basement ruom
of his barn where his hens have COM
Portable quarters, pointed TO the large
heap of horse manure thrown in and
scattered about by the hens scratching,
and said he had seen no lice on his
fowls or about the premises since he
began to throw his. horse manure In
there. A hint for such as keep fowls
and at the same time are so fortunate
as to possess a horse. Farmers Voice
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1893-09-30
DREAM.lAND.

Though the years be ned. and the pain Is dead,
And the grief is over long.
Yet IN dreamland track doth the soul 20 back,
And loi the sound Of a song
That rings from q glade where the trees arc
green,
Where the wind Of SORROW never hath beenl
And out Of the night come back to sight
The forms and faces Of yore,
The old love wakes. and the old joy takes
Color and light once more:
There sounds q voice we can never hear,
A step that has left US for many a year.
The sunbeams creep over eyes that sleep.
And we wake with q start TO know
That in fair dream-land we have clasped a hand
Which held ~ours-long ago,
And we thrill 10 a touch that is lingering yet
To a passion OF love, and OF vain regret
And for many a day we wend our way
The unseen world around US,
For the soul has snapped the chain that
wrapped
The earthly links that bound US,
And the workadsy world around US seems
Less real by far than the land OF dreams
Mary Gorges. in Chambers Journal
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1893-09-30
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

After her conversion Eugene Foa
asked of the Able Ratisbonne: as il
. sin to be pleased when men say that
one is pretty?" Certainly" he re
piled; lone must never encourage 9
lie"
DIR. Pierre Emile Mignault and his
wife of Actonvale, Ont, celebrated
their golden wedding the other day,
and had among their guests the bride
maid and groomsman who attended
them at their marriage fifty years ago.
Miss Edith Darlington, author of a
volume on all sorts of animals (nclud-
ing the earwig) entitled Workers With
out Wage, has been asked by the En-
glish Society for the Prevention OF
Cruelty to Animals to write another
volume, to be published officially by the
society.
Santiago mabel, who was born in
the Philippine islands n~inety-nine
years ago, was married lately in Coat
~zacoalcos, Mexico, to a rich and good
looking girl of sixteen. belonging to
one of the first families of Minatitlan.
n irishy o'u lo'er vas oaP'ihe" "
Gov. William f. Russell of Massa-
chusetts was somewhat surprised the
other day to receive, among his mail
packages. a cigar sixteen inches long
ana TWO inehes IN iahe!er, WIN an
ancient steer INC INT lor iiEh'ihe P"r'
poses. lhey came as a present from
tne 'hlleo states consul at 'os'a hiea'
The sultan of DiOclokata is men,
toned as a probable visitor TO the fair.
HIS lowness Is about four feet IN what
Is m called helgnt' put thereH
hothihg snort ABOUT MS 'uli NAME
which is ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
ode: HIS name Is just pi Tor the conf
posit"r-
-Robert buchanan, IN a communion
tion TO the London Chronicle. remarks
1T Is not for my pen to proclaim what
the hand which holds 1t has done, but
could stake my oath That nave led
more mouths an heipea more strug.
gllng comrades IMAM All the socities Oh
authors put together. care little Tor
fame, and less Tor money
Sir Samuel Lewis, who has Just
been raised by Queen Victoria to the
dignity of a knight of the most dis
t~inguishcd order of st. Michael and st.
George" is a full-bloodcd. coal-black
negro, who. having taken his degree at
the London university. is now a mem
Der of the Legislative council of Sierra
Leone. II is the first time that a Brit
ish order of knighthood has ever been
conferred upon an African.
O,o H.. ,n,ho ,no An.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1893-09-30

of a scoring chute. Every horseman
will at once perceive the immense q
vantage of this addition. NipII~tentns
of the accidental collision Oh 'he oid'
fashioned elliptical tr.-hs occur while
ro,na;,. ~ Ct drn. The reason is
nbn;nnn ny rSrd is given with per-
~ Uses lined up across the
-. lore they get fairly settled in
10; ;tride they are obliged to swing
""She left, like a platoon of soldiers.
1t is here that the utmost skill of the
most experienced drivers is frequently
insufficient to keep the horses from
breaking and swerving, and collision is
inevitable. With the track illustrated
the horses nave nearly a full quarter
mile after receiving the word before
they are asked to negotiate the first
turn. BY the time it is reached the
held Is more or less strung out and but
two or four are asked to make the turn
together, if that many. The turn is
short, and before the horse makes I'D
his mind TO break he is around IL and
sailing down a straight stretch with
victory ahead, if he trots fast enough.
The scoring chute can be made any
desired length. The horses are in the
care of the starter until the word Go"
Is given. From that instant they are
IN the hands of the judges until the
finishing wire is reached and the
drivers have ~dismounted. Every foot
OF the track can be seen by the Judges
and the spectators in the grand stand.
The timers are in line with both the
and the judges, also with the
half-mile and three-quarter
poles No flag is required at the three
quarter pole to enable them to catch
the m If the Terre Haute track is,
cou of its shape, the fastest in
the country, what will it be with tine
Of the str aight scoring chute?
The comparison has beer made with
the elliptical track for the reason that
kite track is already a back num-
Der. That it is n good track for horses
to trot over is beyond n question, but
they are so far away from the grand
SO large a part of the journey
hat people cannot see satisfactorily.
The idea of adding the straight scor-
ng chute is the product of the brain of
". l. ~Creveling, of St Louis, we'll r
throughout the west as "Clem" {
'reveling, me of the best trotting I
lorse starters in the country. 1t was =
While starting the horses at the late {
'erre Haute meeting that he conceived y
he idea of the chute" and all the G
Iorsemen. as far as heard from. enter
ain a very high opinion of its useful. z
ess.-St. Louis Republic. n
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1893-09-30

When the stage reached the Gulch
the parson who had come on from
DEVILS Delight was In it. bat, he
stopped at the tavern until il was time
to 60 to meeting. 1t meant nothing to
him that he was taking his life in his
hands to preach the Gospel of Christ
crucified to these men. What was his
poor, miserable gift of a dying life,
compared with these lost souls? Be
sides-then he coughed terribly, closed
his eyes, and wiped the cold sweat of
mortal illness from his face. All,
specious human nature! Sophistries
that keep it from the debasement of
overrighteousness! 1t was of one
precious sin-sick SOU he was thinking,
and that he hoped to reach through
this zeal for the brotherhood.
Poor SCARED Emma, She had given
her infiuence-and l have shown that it
was great-she had given her saloon,
which was also her throne, and now
she was shut up in q miserable, tawdry
room. partitioned off from the rest,
dressed in her Sunday finery, waiting
all the gang had assembled, when
she would walk in boldly and take her
seat with the rest Well she knew that
woman would be there. No other
woman would sit under the same roof
with her, and then she looked down on
her bedecked hands. 81 can
.uy and sell them all. am no mans
and my word is law. but" And
then a whole flood of tears came. But
NOON she dashed them away aud drisd !
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1893-09-30
HUMOROUS.

why II summer the pride OF tn,
! year? Why, because it goeth before /:
fall.-Minneapnlis Tribune.
-"She's engaged to him, isn't she?'
NO; she doesn't put it hat way
She says he's one of her gentlemen il
waiting"
-Burglar-"Your money or YOU
life" Head of Family-"For God,
sake don't shoot. You'll wake the
baby. -DetrOit Tribune.
-Hc-"Don't you think Miss High
heels is a perfect dream of beauty
She-"Oh, yes; a perfect dream, which
never m true."-Vogue.
lie Couldn't Say ate a piece
of mince pie last night" How did
you feel when You awoke. this MORN
ing?" Il haven't been asleep vet
Life.
What Is Observation-Disclosures.
what is parvenne?" dramatically,
daughter, don't know. It's something
or other, though. that never had a
grandmother. "-Detrois Free Press.
-He-"Wifey, love, | am taking part
in a balloon ascent tomorrow" She
81 have no objection. love, only don't
forget to bring me something nice'whcn
You come back."-Flicgende Blattcr.
One of Them.-Stranger-"Do YOU
suppose | can get any whisky in that
drug storc?" Native (prohibitionist)-
"Oh, yes. | presume they keep all
kindsof poisons there. "-Yankee Blade.
A Narrow Escape .-Parker-.Are
you enjoying Your rest at the seaside?'
Robbins-"ies , immensely. Here's a
letter just received from my wife say
ing that her mother is visiting her
Truth.
"A sea captain was asked by the
committee of a religious society: "Dc
the subjects of the king of Dahomey
keep Sunday?' Yes" he replied, land
everything else they can lay theiI
hands on
Happily Averted-"Wil there be a
meeting between Brown and Jones?"
No" Isn't there a question of vera
city between them?' "Nc. They each
called the othera liar. and the referees
decided both were right."-Puck.
IF Mr.. and Mrs. Hawkins had been
poor instead of extravagantly rich.
they would have got along splendidly."
well, | suppose now that they have
spent all their money getting divorced.
they'll marry each other again and be
happy."-Harper's Bazaar.
The Police We're Not in It.-First
Thief-"How did you succeed in steal.
ing that bag unseen by the police?"
Second Thief-''There wasn't any DO
lice around" First Thief-"Why not?"
Second Thief-''There was a fight near
by. See?"-Yankee Blade.
Too Late.-Mr. Finnigan-"Yez
kin charge thot drink to me. DENIM.
Bartender-"Hold on,
(Raising his voice.. Say, is Finnigan
good for a drink" Proprietor from
inside room)-"Has he had it veto"
Bartender-"Yes-" Proprietor (sbort-
ly)-'He,s good for. it."-Life.
For two hours the fashionable LADY,
Kept the draper exhibiting his goods,
md at the end of that period she
'weetly asded: Are you quite sure YOU
shown me everything you have?"
No, madam" said the draper, with an
nsinuating smile. 81 have yet an old
recount in my ledger which | shall very
'ladly show you."-Tit-Bits-
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1893-09-30
HOUSEHOLD PRETTIES.
Suggestions for the Dainty Decorations OF
Our Homes.


Our Homes.
A pretty dinner table has n center of
white and silver bro ,ade, with vases
and candlesticks of silver. The whole
scheme of color is in white, silver and
green 50 flowers are excluded. and
only dthery fern fronds and aspara-
gus n are disposed in the silver
vases. For Il luncheon table YOU see
nothing more effective than dafrodils
bending over from long. slender glasses
of Nuremberg green. At larger ban
quets You see a lake of mirror glass,
with perhaps n fountain of jet spraying
the flowers in the center and ms of
Venetian glass floating about on the
surface.
Chair cushions as well as sofa pill
lows are steadily growing in favor.
Corduroy is not particularly expensive
in its first cost. 1t comes in some beau
full shades, and it wears like iron. For
all OF which reasons it is much in de
mand as a cushion covering. Wicker
chairs are charming with seats of rich,
dark green corduroy and the ordinary
mouse color is equally effective in a
pile OF brighter-hued pillows, serving,
as it does, to throw out and acccntuate
the rest.
Every season something new and
pretty comes IL for a home decora-
ton, a thing of beauty and comfort.
BY collecting together all the rose
petals You can gather you will soon
have the envy of your neighbors and a
pillow you would not dispense with.
Take all the petals You can get and
put then in a case made of thin white
muslin; sprinkle them with a little
fine salt. Make the outer cover of the
pillow of delicate pink or blue surah.
embroidered with roses. Add n large
ribbon bow on n corner aDd YOU
have an ornament fit for any loom.
A pretty way to renovate a rattan
chair which has become soiled is to
have it painted black and then var
For a decoration run ribbon
any bright shade through the open
work border and place a cushion of the
shade in the seat Burnt orange
or any shade of yellow makes a lovely
with the black.
A new sort of dessert spoon is in
favor just o with the smart set. II
has a squirming lizard in silver or
gold for a handle and is called the de-
lirium-tremens spoon. The joke lies
n the assertion that the handle is a
perfectly straight one and that those
who see it otherwise are suffering
rom an optical delusion.-Chicaro
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1893-09-30
A SIGHT,
Some Of the More Remarkable Geysers Of
the Yellowstone Park.

Some Of the More Remarkable Geysers of
the Yellowstone Park.
From the porch of the little lunch.
house the tourist sees a strange sight.
To the right and front of the house.
across a little interval of verdure and
pine-trees, there is a great plain OF
formation which is seemingly covered
with active geysers. From one end %
the other are waving feathers of steam,
while now and then one of the hot
fountains shoots its column of water
high in the air. There are twenty-six
geysers and four hundred hot springs
in the basin. 1t is a wonderful place.
Vegetation has ceased to exist The
barren contents of the earth's interior
have been spurted out and have covered
and killed the soil. 1t is a great extent
Of white, brown and black desolation.
Here and there are skeleton trees, dead
and hardened with the deposits that
cover the surrounding country. Lord
Dufferin has said hat the place gave
him the impression of some modern CITY
that had been overwhelmed and had
SO lately sunk amid flames into the
bowels of the earth that the smoke of
its ruins was still ascending through
heaps of smouldering ashes" and Prof.
Whitwell has said: Nowhere else, |
believe, a be seen on so grand a scale
such clear evidence of dying volcanic
action. We seem TO witness the DEATH
throes Of some great American Encela.
dus"
The geyser that is of most interest to
the tourist is naturally that whose
eruptions are most regular, and can
therefore be depended ON. This is Old .
Faithful, that beginning after the man.
ner of the Fountain Geyser, throws a
of water straight into the air
a height of about hundred and
City feet. The most noteworthy attri-
butte of this geyser is its regularity. BY
actual and careful observation it has
been found that the eruptions occur at
IN average interval of sixty-fve min
This geyser is on the left bank of the
On the opposite bank is the
Beehive, which throws a stream more
han two hundred feet high. This Is
me of the few geysers hat do not
hruw out any rocks, while the water is
% hot that it evaporates in the air. 1t
S safe, therefore, to observe it close at
land, while the absence of overflow
caves it without terraces at its base,
which are characteristic of Old Faithful
nd other geysers. The Giantess.
Thich is very near the Beehive, is a
cry powerful geyser. Its eruptions oc-
ur after intervals of about fourteen
avs, and continue with slight inter
options for about twelve hours. Rum
lingc, roarings, and earthquake shocks
company its breakings out while the
three hundred feet distant is
fected by its activity. Harper's f,
]
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1893-09-30

The late Col. Jerome Bonaparte
was so thoroughly a Bonaparte in ap-
pearance as TO startle many who sud
denly confronted him for n first time
at Washington entertainments. He
vas tall, well built. with Il military
air. The strong Napoleonic counte-
nance and figure marked him in n
assemblage, and he was never seen
without Il b%outOnniere of ~violets. This
grandson of Betsy Patterson was a
West Point graduate. and was tried in
frontier Indian fighting before he en-
r the army of his cousin, Napoleon
I'LL. and served in the Crimean. Al
Eerian and Italo-Austrian wars. With
tho fall of the empire he returned to
America, and made his home first at
baltimore, and then in Washington.
where Colonel and Madame Bopaparte
were social leaders.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1893-09-30

A bit of old crepe is a useful nipple.
ment for the necessary process of dust
ing h gown. The ordinary brush
means destruction TO silk, passemen-
terie. pretty trimmings, and embroid-
cries. Every speck of dust may be re-
moved with the crepe the corrugated
surface of which makes the job not
difficult. If much beading is used in
the trimming place between sheets of
tissue paper, where nothing will rub
against 1t; for passementerie with some
of the beads missing or with the gloss
gone is a mostdetressing spectacle. If
a brush must be used get a soft camers
hair one and use it with a light, quick
motion. as sparingly as possible Chi
cago Mail.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1893-09-30
book on BIoo!s.
Rcyers, Etc.
in the armholcs ar.

Dt in the armholcs are very
md are usually two or three j N
Ger, each about four inches deep
m top, tapering to nothing under the
arm. Shoulder frills are not aban-
doned, but are varied, some having all
their fulness in a box plat at the top
of each sleeve, others consisting of a
succession of bias folds rather than
ruffles. Revers are pointed sharply,
and are very broad in RObespierre
fashion. \ single long leaf-shaped
point falling over the top Of a full
sleeve from armhole to elbew is very
effective. Crosswise bands of inser-
ton of velvet, satin, or p~assementerie,
or else of fabrics of hayadere weaving.
are the trimmings for round waists.
of ourse such waists fasten invisibly
on the left side. and are alike in front
and back. The collar and belt are
soft" that is, n bias stock and girdle
fastened at the back with meeting
frills or chOuX, precisely as they ARE
now worm, or else they have a bow of
upright loops and long hanging ends
of ribbon.-Harper's Bazaar.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1893-09-30
August
Flower"

have been troubled with dyspep-
STA, but after q fair trial of August
Flower, am freed from the vexatious
trouble. B. Young, Daughters
College, Harrodsburg, KY. l had
headache one year steady. One bottle
of August Flower cured me. 1t was
positively worth one hundred dollars
to me-. w. Smith, PM. and Gen.
Merchant, Townsend, Ont. l have
used it myself for constipation and
dyspepsia and it cured me, 1t is the
best seller l ever handled-C. Rugh,
Druggist, Johannesburg, Pa. Q
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1893-09-30

Miss Hannah X. Clapp, a teacher,
left Michigan in May, 1859, with a
party of seven men and two women to
cross the plains to California by team.
They arrived at Placerville in Septem-
Der. After a years work there she ac-
cepted a school in Washoe, now Ne
vada, and has taught there ever since,
being at this time of the state univer-
sity faculty.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1893-09-30

I'm British India the ancient Brah-
manic religious belief still counts ELL
0O0. 900 in its different sects. The Budd-
hist form of belief is held by 1000. 900
in Farther India (Burmah), not in In
dia proper. The ancient faith of 10
rooster, dating back to the time of
Cyrus and Darius, is professed by 3d.
900, who bear the name of Parsi or
Persian. The followers of Mohammed
number 81, 1000, 900; the empress of In
dia has a far greater number of Mo-
subjects than the sultan or
the shah. The ancient pagan or nature
worshipers number 1900, 900.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1893-09-30

II you have lost your appetite it will re-
eral dealer who sells Hostetter's Stomach
Bitters. When you are in possession Of this
helpful tonic, you have q restorer Of appe-
tite which is unfailing and prompt. More
over, it restores digestion as well rs ap-
petite, and regulates the bowels, liver and
kidneys, and protects you from malaria and
rheumatism.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1893-09-30

and will begin operations as o as
admitted to the field. >. Its elevator
has a double back-action. raising the
tubers and earth with perfect Ease and
separating them perfectly. 3. The
gearing is so ingeniously covered that
it cannot be worn out or clogged BY
gravel, weeds or vines. 4. Its adjust
menti is automatic, and the point of the
digger is self-sharpening. 1t will fol-
low crooked rows and dig deep or
shallow in hard-pan or sandy loan,
never missing a hill 5. 1t will pick
up the potatoes, carry them to market,
and get as much for small as for large
OneS.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1893-09-30
Prof. Max Muller;

Prof. Max Muller and his wife have
lately been GA a visit to Constantinople.
where they seem to have won the heart
OF the sultan. They were invited to
partake of a farewell luncheon. DURING
when various scientific matters were
.nily discussed. Before parting with
his guests the sni!an gave Prof. Muller
the golden med the order of merit
n his wife also received an honorar,
order.-N. Y. Evening Post
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1893-09-30
AGRICULTURAL HINTS,
NEW TRoTTIN0 TRACK.
A Scoring Chute That Is Expected -
Lower Records.

A Scoring Chute That Il Expected -
Lower Records
The illustration of q new trotting
track herewith presented will prove of
absorbing interest to the ems of thou
sands engaged in the breeding, train
ing and racing of trotters and PAGERS.
Several tracks throughout the country
are claimed to be the fastest in exist
ence" by the respective associations
owning them, but the evidence of the
fastest performances points to the
Terre Haute Qnd.) track as the king
Bee" of them all. Over this track Queen
Nancy trotted to her record of 2:04,
which time is also the pacing record
for PAGERS in harness. and Champion
Mascot made this record in a ICE over
the Terre Harfte track. Records count
with trotting tracks as well as with
trotting horses.
The track illustrated is virtually the
Terre Haute track, with the addition