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The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1894-03-01
NAME THEIR CHOICE,
Lazy Bend, Camden Co., Mo.


Lazy Bend, Camden Co., Mo.
Mr.. Editor-We have jist heard
about the bachelors that you are adj
vertising, and we girls out here are
tickled to death about it.. We have
always hankered for city f%ellers, and
we want you to please give the
names again so that we can write to
them. We are not very particu'
lar about taking bankers or lawyers
or sich. Several of the girls out
here have spoken for Willie Carter
and Jimmie Ramsey, il they are in
the list. Please let us hear from
YOU soon. ELIZA ANN S.
Dear Miss Eliza-We reproduce
the list and hope you will meet with
successes when you write TO them,
but you must be more respectful.
You must address them as Col.
Ramsey and Mr.. Carter. We only
have eligiblGs on our list, anil you
can't make a mistake in your selec.
ton. They are all good. I'D.
CAN THEY LOVE I
Mr.. Elitor-As the music of the
babhIing, brook awakens nature in
its winding path to the sea, so does
the springtimc of life bcckon 10 love |
t. come to its eternal home Of bliss !
and happiness. The lullaby that
puts to flight the shadows that cross
the paths of the little ones is like tie
love song Of eternal sprihgtime that
gives new life and new hope to us
all, and puts to shame all signs and
tears.
The pangs felt in tIe hearts Of
those whom Cupid's arrow claims
for It's own are felt but once on this
terrestrial sphere, and then for all
time. IL lives; its marks cannot lie
obIiJera,cd by human effort. | pray
for inspiration that | may fatlloin
the buchclr rs heart and know It.
Hath not Cupid's arrow pierced
many q, hole now healed and bar.
dened from the blow Dear Billy
+. has wea,hercd many a winter, and
Uncle Arthur has seen the mist Of
many II springtime, and dear old
us-wcll, let that p~ass-have they
not all felt the singing blow Of loves
sharp dagger? And there is Ed S.
and lev and DR.. Shave they any
thing but laccrated, bandaged and
hardened hearts to give? In the
language Of the poet "Love to
our imprisoned souls is q part Of
heaven. Less we could not give;
less should not be given -.
The sunshine of our lives shall
not be frozen by zero bachelors of
high or low degree, We have but
one world onc love, one life to give,
and until we satisfy ourselves upon
this point, our caution prompts us
to make further Investigation. Any
light, Mr.. Editor, that you may he
able to throw upon this question will
be appre ciated by
Yours sincerely,
NJ. +. L.
We don't know, hut will consult
some Of the boys about the points
and give YOU all the information we
The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1894-03-01
Eligible Bachelors.

A NJ IIough J f Sothoron
Edwin Silver Morris Rosenbacl
j w Zevely DR. Phil L Mile.
w A Dallmeyer Ed II Hogg
G l. Lohman Otis Manchester
DIR c b Simcoc George Wagner
Capt w NJ Todd f b Ewing
Abe Helm Prof r + Oldham
II NJ Winston Jas l. Ramsey
VIM NJ Garter Robt w Morrow
w ID Fisher.
TIE BACHELORS CAUSE.
Mr.. Editor. pardoL-permit me to say
| approve and endorse the commendablo
way
You endeavor to serve both our city and
BY your manly support of the bachelors
cause.
a word to the ladies | wish to address
Oh, ladies, no language, no letters
express
The wundrous Importance of reading
these lines
OF making your hay while the sun
brightly shines.
Just think Of it now, what a splendid
array
OF chiva'rOus knights are awaiting your
say
The brave and the gay and the gallant
and WISE;
The weighty in brain and good
avoirdupuis.
Sly Cupid is ready and posing his DART;
And aimiig direct at the bachelors
hearts;
Why halt and delay thus between two
opinions;
eager to be cen your captiv,s
and minious.
In front Of til" column leads Gcn'l Il
He's been 20 the wars aud seen service
enough.
Iou Il tell by his mien and significant
glance
That ''Barkis is willin'," so now is
your chance.
The next in command is the bold
Colonel l.
Full many II fight have had Bacchus
and he.
Hes still in the ring, though disflguGed
in part.
But liable yet to q change Of the heart.
10, the Silvcr-tongued orator neal to
the front;
Hes granted a furlough aud now on a
hunt
For a wife TO partakc of his cares and
his joys;
For the past forty years he's been one of
the boys.
sturdy Jim r. stepping up into
line,
Ills commission as colonel about to
resign.
Ills actions, his bushes, his .ssmiles'
indicate
That jim Is in very much need Of a mate
Next M with a bow the redoubtable
Ralph;
i" is not f-ty-ouc by Il year and a
half;
\ soldier disciplined and brave to the
core,
Who liuds single life is becoming a bore.
\ veteran r@i'd, Billy F, is his name.
Presses closely behind shouting
nobody's claim"
For mum brrlc.S seasons he's posed rs Il
And I'll venture a wager he VIII not
say '.nu.n
With u th""'
.ucring stride aud leafcuing
din,
with an allcrman's girrh and u round
double chin,
Comes the gay DR.. s., aud the maiden
who Wills
Can help him compound all his nostrumS
aud pills.
4 warrior bold and II soldier is Phil,
The first in the battle, the fray or the
mill;
But now he's engaged in u hunt for II
wife
To help him to fight in the battle of life.
Just lately recruited is Gus; we are told
lie loves, adorcs, worships the standard
Of gold,
And golden-naired ~lassies. Gus, come
10 the scratch;
You've dallicd too long let's declare it
match.
Another recruits looming up through
the fog;
No need of my telling his name is Ed
Il
\ mar of good parts who will ne'er lie
forsaken-
Just lately converted his Hogs into
bacon.
Now, "a to myself, I am passing my
prime,
In a single-oared boat on the River OF
Time.
WIS n long. lonely YOYage with no ono
The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1894-03-01
NJ. X & l..

East bouLd passenger leaves North
Jefferson at l2:02 p. IN. West
found at $3.50 p. III. Bus line from
Jeffeeson City 10 train.
The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1894-03-01
NJ. E.. +.

We don't know, hut will consult
some of the boys about the points
and give you all the information we
can. 1t is a little on the high pres.
Ire order, and we are hardly pre-
pared to answer. But l can say
coufdcntially that l know some of
them are soft-quite soft.-[Ed.
The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1894-03-01

bachelor that can write such poetry
hasn't any excuse at all for remain
ing single. : Ed.
The evening world., 1894-04-05
HELP FROM HEADQUARTERS.
brotherhood Carpenters Executive
Bonrd After Delegates.

Workingmen or many buildings In
course of construction were In a state of
anxiety this morning over a rumor that
they would be ordered to strike. This
was notably true at the big buildings at
Front n Pine streets. two at Twenty
first street and Fifth avenue, and one on
Fifth avenue. neal Twentieth street.
The rumor seems, however, to have
had little foundation. The Board of
Walking Delegates disclaimcd any
knowledge of such a prospective strike.
n up to IL o'clock his morning the
men at the buildings mentioned were
still at work.
The fight between the Board OF Walk
ing Delegates and the Brotherhood Of
Carpenters. and the %latter's allies. the
steamftters, painters and elevator-con-
structors, is being waged with greater
bitterness han ever.
The recent victories OF the Board In
getting the Brotherhood carpenters laid
of from jobs at the Mutual Reserve
Fund Life Insurance Building, Duane
street and Broadway. n several other
large buildings uptown. have aroused the
Brotherhood to greater activity. The
1atter's General Executive Board. in
Philadelphia, has now taken a hand and
declares that 1t will empty its treasury
II necessary to win the fight against the
Board of Walking Delegates.
The evening world., 1894-04-05
TROTTER SPOILED by A BLOW.
A Mistake Once Made by Driver
Dan Mace.

Harsh treatment. though 1t stop short
Of inficting physical pain. keeps a nerv-
u horse in a state of misery. on the
other hand, 1t is perfectly true, as a
besotted but intelligent st~able-keeper
once observed 10 me, "A kin word for
a hoss is as good sometimes as a feed
of oats
A single blow may be enough to spoil
q racer, says Youths Companion. Dan
lei Lambert, founder of the lambert
branch of the Morgan family, was
thought as a th~ree-year-Old to be the
fastest t%rotting stallion of his day. He
was a very handsome, stylish. Intelligent
horse, and also extremely sensitive.
His driver, Dan Mace, though one of
the best reinsman in America, once
made the mistake, through III temper or
bad judgment, of giving Dan,rl Lambert
a sever cut with the whip, and tina sin
gle blow put an end to his usefulness
as n trotter. He became wild ana un-
governable in harness and remained SO
for the rest Of his life.
In dealing with a horse more than
with mos, animals, one ought to excr-
else patience, care, and, above all. the
power of sympa ny. 50 as to know, if
possible. the real motive Of his doing or
refusing to do this or that. To acquire
such knowledge and to act dpon II when
required Is a large part Of the ethics OF
housekeeping.
The evening world., 1894-04-05
MAY CLOSE ON SUNDAY.
BARRIERS VIII Hold n Meeting 10
Decide the Question.

A mass-meeting OF journeymen bar
bers has been called for Sunday evening
at Clarendon Hall. The object Is to dis
cuss the Sunday-closing question. with a
view of obtaining suitable legislation to
compel all BARRIERS to keep their shops
closed on Sunday.
While the majority of the union Is In
favor of having shops closed all the
Sabbath day, there are many VINO thlnk
that such o law would seriously harm
uptown BARRIERS, as n great number or
workmen cannot get shaved on Satur-
day evening. In the opinion OF this lat
ter faction 1t would be better to alloy
the shops to remain open until noon
Sunday.
There are others. also, who think 1t
would be right to close all shops on sat
urday night at 10 o'clock.
At the meeting Sunday evening the
boss BARRIERS will subscribe IS and the
journeymen 81 eaeh for the purpose of
defraying legislative expenses at Alba
ny. Julius Gaebel, who for a Ion time
past has managed the business OF the
Union at headquarters. on Second ave
nue., will have charge Of the preparation
of a bill to be presented to the Assem-
bly,. 1t will provide for he punishment
Of any boss, journeyman or n~on-union
men caught working in their shops on
Sunday.
The evening world., 1894-04-05
WEAR SHOES TO CHURCH..
During the Rest of the WceiS ia
muicO Negroes Go Unshod,

In pours the black portion of the con-
gregation. says "A writer in All the Year
Around, In an article on Jamaica. 1t Is
cJHIpOsrd 10" tne most part OF women.
They are BOrgeOusly ar1ayei in silks and
cOttons Of INC most bewild ring brl.lianCy
With COL 'rn beahivc-shaped ornaments In
their ears and twists of gold about their
u"uks, and all are beanInB ana smiling
WAN the utmost complacency and self
g. J.slhCtiun.
Win a great many OF them the first
duty Is to tlkc off lheir boots or slucs.
small wonder, for half of them are in
the nIb.l OF trulEInB twenty or thirty
NIL g a day, barefJntsd, TO and from mar
NJ, ana the other half, II they do not use
their lcet 50 hardly. at any rdte neves
cualiDc them.
Poor or Santiu- in proper pI.dc indeed
must he 'Nlt wnmHn whu ClnUUt Ta!Sr
d pair of Boots or shoes for .undiy use,
- means agony. AZ you nav. conceive,
To- Keep pirCEcd Up in STIFF l"Nthor pair
90, feet used 10 free, untramn.ul i mlyt-
ment, but II has t. he O~orne-tJr a few
minutes. 1t Is managed thus:
ON ne road to church = hat IL made ut
about zoo yards distance from the hu!!l-
ing for tn" purpose OF pa.t;nE on tn
boots or shoes. which have been hitherto
in the hands. Church il then hob
BLEED into and the boots or shoes taken OF,
to be again put on as the service draws
to q Close, Church is then hohblcd out OF
and at a respectable distance from II the
Instruments OF torture are again got rid
OF. not to be put on again for u week.
The evening world., 1894-04-05
Industry's Revival.

Pa. April 5.-The famous
old Lanark mills In frankfort. which have stood
Idle for fourteen years will resume operations
about May l. making ribbed underwear for
women. About one hundred hands Will be EN-
ployed.
ID Pa. April Frank Zuber. OF
Lar denviile, has leCsed the hamburg shoe fac
tory, and will give employment TO about 100
men an1 women in addition To the old force.
The shoe factory Of Curtis, Jones 4 Co, uf
this city has so many orders that employ ecs
are working on double time.
W~lLMINGTOS, Del. April THE cardlng,
spinning and beanling departments Of the Ar.
lington mills started to-day, and next Monday the
weaving department Will resume operations The
whole mill Will then be In operation. giving
work to 300 hands. There will be no reduc.
tion in wages.
The evening world., 1894-04-05
PRODUCE BROKERS EXCITED.
A Petition to Admit Customers
! to the Exchange Library.
Majority Say II Would BE Turned
Into u Bucket Shop.

A majority Of the members OF the Pro-
duce Exchange are excited over what
they term an attempt on the part OF
some members to turn the library and
reading-room of the Exchange into a
general Office and l~ounging-room for Their
customers.
These customers. in the main, now
spend their time on the sidewalk or in
bucket shops, where they make their
ventures, the proprietors of the latter
dealing with members of the Produce
Exchange.
AS a rule, the transactions of these Gus.
toners are limited 10 the smallest amount
and by many brokers they are con.
sidered undesirable clients.
Now n scheme has been sprung to give
these small fry Spectators possession OF
the best room In the Exchange.
a petition has been quietly circulated
on the floor for the past two days asking
ne board Of Managers to authorize
non-memb,r "a of the Exchange the use
or the library and s~mdking-room upon
the paymen- OF a nominal sun semi
annually.
This appears innocent enough on the
race of 1t. but If put through and sane
toned BY the managers the library of
the Exchang" would be, 1t Is alleged,
crowded by curbstone spectators.
The library is connected with the
main floor by doors within a few feet
of the wheat pit, and in this lies the
meat in the c%ocOanut, so to speak, as the
brokers favoring the scheme could
place their customers in the library, and
practically give them all the benefits
of the floor, and knock the value of
seats in the Exchange into smithereens
The library would soon be one big bucket
shop.
The petition is sanctioned by a num-
Der of brokers, but opposed by the ma
jority, and many requests are being
made to President Evan Thomas and
the Board of managers to squelch the
petition when 1t is presented to them.
The evening world., 1894-04-05
WROOPING-COUGH CURES.
Some SupcrstitiOns That Find
Credit in PenusyI>anin.-

The wh~ooping-cough epidemic that is
careering through this region, says the
Allentown Leader, brings with it other
evils besides its baleful whoops. 1t car
ries a CARLOAD Of superstition in its
train. And the credulity of the suffer
erS and their readiness to trust in all
sorts OF potions and charms Is rather
more pathetic to the intelligent observer
than the frogs in their threats.
Round about Bath they essay to cure
their whooping children by cutting a
lock of hair from the head OF an indi-
vidual who has never seen his or her
father, and hanging it by a string about
thought to be n sure cure.
The Bucks County remedy Is to have
medicine-it matters little of what sort
never changed her maiden name. The
patient is sure to recover II this custom
IL observed.
In Lowhil they say that a goose's
egg, laid on the first Friday of the new
moon and eaten raw. will drive off the
dread cough In terror.
1t Is absurd that people should cling
the State couldn't dissuade them from
their faith. The weird hexa's charm has
more weight with them than the wisest
word from a modern Aesculapius.
This dense ignorance may be laughed
at, but 1t should be still more pitied.
There is actually a pathos in these stupid
superstitlons that dulls ones foreign
missionary enthusiasm and makes him
eager to enlighten the eyes of his foolish
neighbors. The barbarism of Hottentot
and kafiir seems insignificant beside the
heathenish creed of such believers as
these. And yet they are not the only
heather.
Superstition permeates every station
of society. The silly schoolgirl who
won't sit with n dozen others at the tea,
start Upon a journey on a Friday are
but samples. by clinging to their rldi-
Culous notions they encourage simpler
folk to go much further. The untutored
can scarcely be blamed for their whoop-
Ing cough theories so long as the wise
cherish pet foibles about spilled salt,
broken mirrors and seventh sons.
The evening world., 1894-04-05
A MAGNETIC WONDER.
French-Canadian Who Is Gifted
with Strange Powers.

Pierre Hubert Giguere, a French
Canadian. who lives, here. says the Lew,
iston Journal, was born IN Canada, and
early enlisted in the English army, and
was sent as lieutenant to India, where
was always said of him that, while he
was i~mpregnable. This was, no doubt.
caused by the fact that he possessed then
as ne does now, Il remarkable power, the
like of which a man in the eastern part
of the State is said to possess. He seems
to be a magnetic person.. and can allay
pain by the laying on of his hands-viz.,
he rubs gently the parts affected, and
pain ceases for some time: He does not
understand the cause of 1t, but uses 1t
freely upon every occasion when he can.
once, he says, in India, an officer high
up, in the service was wounds by a rifle
mans abdomen. Peter offered to tell the
doctors where 1t was, but was declined
the chance by the stiff-necked ,physi-
glery than that of the Sepoy magicians.
II can make one of you tell where the
ball Is" said Peter;
Peter walked up to a young physician,
who was half inclined to believe him,
and placed his hand upon the lads
head. The young man sank ino a chair
and slept. Peter stood over him awhile
and said Tell the doctors where the
rifle ball is"
1T is in the cavity of the abdomen,
where II has fallen from the ribs. Open
the abdomen and you will find it on the
left side. None of the intestines Is in
jured."
" Am I a fraud ?"
No, you are a magnetic person with
mesmeric powers"
Peter says that they found the ball as
indicated n hat after that his pres
tige was great. 1t was in India that he
learned the fluent use Of the English
language.
Returning to Canada later in life, he
was engaged on a whaling ship as har-
pooner, and made money there. He has
been in the United States ten years,
though he came here from Fall River
only last Summer. He is about eighty
years old and goes about but little. His
power to cure headaches, toothaches and
all minor kinds of aches and pains is
simply wonderful. He cannot heal his
own woes, nor can he cure his own ills.
And yet his fame as a magnetic healer
has scarcely gone beyond his own neigh
bOrhod II the shadow of Bond Hill.
He has no education and cannot read or
write English, but in his knocks about
the world he has picked up considerable
The evening world., 1894-04-05
SOME MEDIAEyAL REMEDIES.
The Strange Prescriptions Founa
in Old Medical Works.

This doctrine of like helping like was
of universal application. and in medlcui
works of the middle ages we meet con-
stantly with such prescriptions as these
says an exchange:
TAKE the right eye of a Frogg, lap u
in a peece OF russell cloth and hang u
about the neck; 1t cureth the right eye II
1t bee ennamed CT bleared. And, If the
left eye he grevei, do the like By the lelt
eye of the said Frog" 49,,
Again: The skin Of a Ravens heei
Is good against the govt. but the rishas
heelskin must be laid upon the rlsns
foot If that be equity. and the LETT up0n
the left" -
IF you would have a man become Pola
or imputent, let him carry about NH
the skin or eyes OF IA Lion, and ne Wv Nh
be fearless of his enemies; nay, he WIN
be very terrible unto them, II SSI Tu
would have him laxative, give MN
tongues, and seek out those of water
frogs and du Ks and elch creatures NJ
.nc,"
On the same principle we find /, pre-.
scrlbed as "A cure for the quarthh aEHss
TO lay the fourth book, of Honlsr .
edy which hal ct least the neshtN'
MORT OF not being nHllssous. o,1
For th,ac we are very WeaKR III
feeble; "Hartes' fotC, no"s, tctG' s hd,iIi
oftc be eaten; the same comfort the Hln-
ewes. The eide" these baaatcs be, Lie
ilrrr thIV strengthen" ,
II Is strange lint, OF nil these rug
bcastS, nome SHOULD row have Their lsa,i
recommended. Grl that The vortnin'
calf's alone should be held in estimation,
"Somctyme IL tho aus Of tae palsye
tina the two strings co.nin'nie .i9Nue
from the brayrc through H." baci2hne
into the feto-through the one Eoeth ~.
natural hete and through the other ta:s
~coIde-that the same strlnEes s,'!e aFs
stopped, either the II or botn,"
The evening world., 1894-04-05

The cost OF construction OF seawall at
West street and Nesey to the city was
SiOi. q per lincal foot. Many contractors
would have CsIc the work for S229 per
lineal foot, saving to the city sl7g,2l per
lineal foot. or considerably more than 10
per cent. OF their cost. by carefully GO
Ing over what the Department pays for
It's material and It's labor and the way 1t
is handled, MI. Monks says IL Will be
found that work can be lone in all OF
the Departments branches at "A saving to
the city Of rom 40 to CD per cent. by
doing all the work BY contract and let
ting II to the lowest bidder.
The city Record" said MIR. Marks.
Shows that for three months prior to
March IL there were some thirty Urea
%snrers. orders given out, amounting to
where they gave from lG cents to %
cents per cubic yard for dredging.
Among, these orders there were three
parcels advertised for bids. They were
saving 10 the city OF more than one
half, when II the above had been let
out by contract the city would have
"Dn June ~. 1893, the Dock Depart
mcnt purchased 1900 900 feet of yellow
pine timber Of WheebriEht e. Co, pay
and paying half cost OF inspection and
for rope and towing, and the employ
ment OF men to supervise and take care
OF the same, making the total cost Of
the timber to the city when delivered
while the work was In progress $50 per
! 900 feet, board measure.
This same timber could have been
purchased by a contractor and delivered
upon the pier for S22 per 1000 feet, show.
ing a difference In the cost to the city
OF 81 per 1000 feet.
Can save at Least 30 Per Cent.
THE same general difference may be
found In most purchases by the city.
Thirty per cent. saved upon the millions
1t Is proposed to spend upon the i'm
provement Of the docks will amount to
a very large sum.
THE dock-builders employ from $500
TO 1850 men and have about S4,GDJ.OpO in
vested, which will lie idle unless some
thing Is done. 1t the bill passes we will
employ two-thirds more men than now
employed; we Will do the work quicker
and we will save the city a large
AMOUNT while doing the work better.
while Tammany controls the De
competent men employed and other
grave abuses permitted and encouraged.
This bill is In the interests of labor, In
the interests of economy and in the In
terests OF good government.
II may say that | am In favor OF the
bill providing for the payment of union
wages on all State and municipal works.
1t completely does ava with the argu-
ment used by the Tammany henchmen
at Sundays meeting that we would en-
ploy cheap labor. We want the best
labor we car get and will pay the high
est rate OF wages. but we will insist
that the present system of c%orruptio be
put an end to. and that speedily"
The evening world., 1894-04-05
SPOILED THE BOUT.
Levy Arrested Will
Dressing In Miners Theatre.

George Levy, a u aspirant for
ugilistic honors. was arrested at Miners
Theatre last night while dressing for a
boxing bout by United States Deputy
M%arshals Trautfeld and Solomon on in
formation from Troy, N. Y, where he is
wanted on n charge of perjury.
Levy was brought before United States
Commissioner Shields and held in $1,000
bail for examination next Tuesday. In
default Of bail he was taken to Ludlow
Street Jail.
false testimony In the trial of an Illicit
distillery case at Troy.