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The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1894-12-08

from the nature of its claws to carry
its prey away.
In the air the condor presents q
beautiful appearance, with it's enor-
nous spread of wing, its perfect
grace and Ease of motion. Its pow
er of soaring is one of the most re-
markable phenomena in bird-life. 1t
appears to move about at will, rarely
using it's wings except to recover it.
self. and can pass owe great distances
in this way. The writer has seen the
condor in the Sierra Madre region of
southern California, where they &C.
casionally come down and alight in
the big live oaks of the valley. and has
observed them so far above these
mountains that they were but specks
of black against the blue sky, and
must have been nearly two miles above
the sea. Even at this extraordinary
height it is said that they can distin-
guish their prey. So unerring is their
vision that it has been supposed that
the bird sought its food by the sense of
SMELL; but sight is in all probability
the secret.
The great bird is yearly becoming
rarer. 1t is shot whenever seen, be-
ing valued at from fifteen to twenty.
five dollars for its skin. The herders
have a wholesome fear of it. So low
it is restricted to the high mountains,
and will soon be a story of the past
\. Y. Ledger.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1894-12-08
WOMEN.
Old Age, After All. May Be Only a Matter
of Imagination.

An Englishman said, the other day,
hat in America the elderly women has
disappeared. and this superficial OBJ
server ascribed her elimination to the
fashions. Not only, he declared. does
the mother dress like the daughter,
but the grandmother is gowned like
the mother. There Is no doubt that the
distinctions which used to exist be-
tween the dress of the mother of thirty
and the woman of sixty or more have
largely been abolished. But this is a
result, and not a cause. The fact is
that at no age are American women
any longer set aside as having out.
grown the period of usefulness.
Women of all sorts nowadays have
wider interests than had their grand
mothers or even their mothers. Also,
they understand the laws of health, of
hygiene and of rational dressing much
better. Thus the mind preserved and
constantly terminated. One is con-
stantly reawakened, while the body is
of the potent factors in the disappear.
ance of the elderly pima has been
the woman's club. Here she finds her
self in touch with the vital interests of
the day and supplements her early
knowledge with the latest current in
formation. Through it she has become
a notable influence in politics, and by
means of it organizes her activities into
various useful and diverting channels.
What wonder, then, that she continues
to be bright, CHEEKY and omnipresent:
In social gatherings and festivities
women of all ages c~ongenially mingle.
The up-to-date girl is invited out to
dinner with her elders by many years.
Each appeals to the opposite sex with
a charm of her own, and general socie.
ty is greatly the gamer. The placid
old lady by the ireside, in snowy cap
and sober garb, Is not to be forgotten:
but who shall say that the cultivated
and wide-awake woman who has sc
largely taken her place is not equally
well suited to the times we live in?-
n. Y. Press.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1894-12-08
PHILADELPHIA AS CAPITAL.
Monotony of Life In the City In the Early
Days of the Union.

Monotony of Life In the City In the Early
Days of the Union.
Life in Philadelphia during these ten
years-from 1870 to 1sO0-must have
been as delightful as provincial life
ban ever be to those who are bred in
capitals. There was a little gloss of
American women, which led to certain
international marriages, but there was
the eternal monotony of a new and
small society. Outside of this tempo
rary capital, in the woods where the
people were beginning to build an en-
pire, was to be found the real life Of
the new experiment. Civilization
had pitched its tent there, but
while the future glowed with hope
for the country and for humanity,
the present was crude and con
Portable. The few Europeans who
saw the hopefulness of the experiment
were men of broad and philosophic
minds. Most of these who came hither
on business or for pleasure complained
only of the barbarism of the back
woods. The representatives of foreign
countries who were forced to dwell at
the seat of government found life al
most unbearable. 1t was OF Turreau.
whom Napoleon SEN as minister to
the United States in 1904, that Heniy
Adams was writing when he sa id: "At
best. the position of a French minister
in America was not agreeable. The
mere difference in habits, manners,
amusements, and the want of a thou
sand luxuries and pleasures such as
made Paris dear to every F~renchman,
rendered Washington a place of exile.
Perhaps nothing but fear of the guillo-
tine could have reconciled even repub-
lican Frenchmen to staying in a coun-
try where, in the words of Talleyrand,
there was no Frenchman who did not
feel himself a stranger"
But what did jefferson or Madison
care for Turreau-Turreau of whom
Dolly Madison wrote: 81 have heard
sad things of Turreau-that he whips
his wife, and abuses her dreadfully;"
the wife who was servant in his Jail,
who rubbed out the red mark on his
door placed there as a guide
to the guillotiners, and whom he mar.
ried because she had thus saved his
life?-Henry Loomis Nelson, in Har.
per's Magazine.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1894-12-08
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

Holman Hu.. has Just been up
pointed Romanes lecturer for 1895 a
Oxford.
The largest salary that any Baptis'
minister receives in Germany is 800
marks, about $3.50, and the church thai
pays this salary has between 500 ani
600 members.
The Pennsylvania supreme court
has confirmed the decree of the lowe,
court that school boards have the right
to exclude from the public schools
children who have not been vaccin.
ated.
Judge Oliver Wendell Holmes, OF
Boston, the son of the poet. was a lieu.
tenant-colonel In the civil war, and
was wounded at Antietom and Freder.
icksburg. After the war he became
professor in the Harvard law school.
"A writer in the Living Church ana
lyzes the returns of the Protestant
Episcopal church, and shows that there
are 1866 churches with less than 100
communicates each, 1,506 having be-
tween 100 and 209, "a with 1000, two
with over 1000 and one with over 5000
communicates.
Mrs. There sa Viele, formerly a
Miss Griffin, has just been decorated
with the grand Gordon of the chefekat
by his majesty, the sultan of Turkey,
in reward for services rendered to the
Ottoman empire" by the paper read be-
fore the literary congress at the Column
bian fair at Chicago, on Turkey and
the Religion of Islam"
Probably the first provision fer a
free school in America by a direct tax
or assessments on the inhabitants of
the town was in Dorchester, in 1859,
four years after the general court had
granted Thompson's island to the peo-
pie of the town of Dorchester. The
town voted to tax the proprietors of
this island twenty pounds ''for the
maintenance of a school in Dor
chester" and the rem was paid by one
hundred and twenty persons, including
the principal part of the adult male in
habitants.
The Montreal aldermen have be-
lolC IhCIt q ICoLol LIZ dlA
property in the city now exempt to the
taxable list. to be taxed on a basis of
half it's value. The city is heavily in
debt, and its ven are unequal to
the demands upon the treasury, and
more money must be raised in some
way. This scheme of taxing exempt
property promises to add quite a sum
to the revenue, for there would be some
S2O,O 900, 900 to be taxed. The greater
portion of the exempted church prop
ertv in Montreal is owned by Roman
Catholics, while the Protestants are the
richer in proportion to their numbers.
The Roman Catholic population Of
Montreal is said to be 165, 900, and the
value of the exempted property owned
by Roman Catholic churches is S11, 645,-
$50. There are So, 600 Protestants, who
own church property worth So, 710, 9s4.
In addition, there is school and other
property TO be taxed.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1894-12-08
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

Justice j. NJ. Harlan, who is ''men-
toned for the republican presidential
nomination in 1896, is a physical giant,
being the largest, and, next to Gray,
the tallest man on the supreme bench.
He is sixty-one years old, bald and in
fine health. He is bluff, hearty, very
popular, and greatly in demand at din
ner parties.
Miss Bacon, a young Englishwom-
an, enjoyed a most fascinating and ex-
~hilarating outing last summer. She
cycled from London to Scotland, re-
turning through Wales and the lake
district, a distance, in all, of twelve
hundred miles, alone; was gone two
days less than q month, and the total
cost of her holiday was fifty dollars.
When the timid colonial clergy
men were afraid to criticise Aaron
Burr's treason, they asked Lorenzo
Dow what he thought of Burr's mean
ness. He raised both hands like q
great V, and shouted: aaron Burr,
mean! Why, I could take the little end
of nothing whitfield down to a point,
punch out the pith of a hair, and put
in forty thousand such traitor souls as
his. shake 'em up, and they'd rattle"
Mrs Jessie Benton Fremont has
been elected president of a new chap
ter of the Daughters of the American
Revolution which has been formed in
Los Angeles, Cal. The fourteen char
ter members of the chapter represent
many famous colonial patriots. At the
opening session, tea was brewed in
complexities that are heirlooms in the
Darsey family, and were used by WASH
ington and Lafayette in the revolu-
tionary war.
The personal appearance of Jean
Richepin, who is described as the most
versatile genius in all France since the
death of Victor Hugo, must impress the
stranger who meets him for the first
time. He is pictured as a tall, burly
man, handsome in a brutal style, with
a low brow, a thick neck, dilated nos
trils and a general air of athletic calm
and intellectual vacuity. A personali-
ty of the John L. Sullivan kind such as
this is unusual in a famous author
Philadelphia Press.
The late F. w. Bird, the distin.
guished paper manufacturer of Wal.
pole, was a believer in a somewhat n-
usual cure for sickness of all sorts
For nearly forty years it was his prac-
tice to remain in bed all one day every
week. He would read and sleep, and
when it was absolutely necessary for
any caller to see him, he had to see him
in bed, and only a few were permitted
to do this. When Mr.. Bird was forty
years old he was an invalid, yet his
practice kept him alive nearly ifty
years longer.
-Shelley's monument at Viareggio
has at last been unveiled. The Italians
were the principal contributors to the
work, but besides the names of De
Amicis, Bonghi. Cavalotti and Menotti
Gariba!di as constituting the commit
tee in charge, were those of Mr.. Glad
stone and Mr.. Swinburne. The follow
ing inscription is ON the monument:
''To Percy Bysshe Shelley. Heart Of
Hearts. Drowned in the sea; cremated
on this spot, where he composed
Unbound A posthumous
page wherein every generation will
have a token of its struggles, its tears
and it's redemption"
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1894-12-08
HUMOROUS.

The hardest work any man can
undertake, is to try to manage HIM
self.-Ram's Horn.
THE men will find a woman's
pocket if she gets to running for Of
fee" says the Frankfort sage.-Phila,
delphia Record.
There Is a difference in the way
A modern maiden's heart will soften:
To this young man come of" she'll say;
While to that one it is come often"
Buffalo Courier.
-"What do you understand by the
term 'platonic affections" sit usually
means that the young man feels that
he can not afford to marry."-Indian.
apolis Journal.
Observation-Disclosures m~illiner bill?
Why, I paid one only day before yes
terdayI' Wife-"Day before yester-
day? Goodness, how time fies!"-
Fliegende Batter.
How is your daughter getting
along with her piano." Splendid"
replied Mr.. Pinchpenny, "She bought
it on the installment plan an hez got
it most paid fur."-Washington Star.
-Tom-"Why, Bessie. 1 could kiss
you right under you mothers nose"
Bessie with dignity)-"I should very
much prefer. sir, that you'd kiss me
under my own nose."-Scottish Amer.
lean.
Patron Ito laundryman)-"John,
how did it happen that the Japanese
killed so many Cinnamon in the last
battle?" John-"Notee know. May.
bee bigee rain makes bad runnee."-N.
Y, Weekly.
rs it true that Houser is hustline
for the post Officer" "Guess it is. ]
heard hiswife tell him if he didn't get
her letter mailed inside of twenty min
utes she'd know the reason why."-Buf.
falo Courier.
-"Have you a time table here?" asked
the seedy stranger. Our terms" re-
piled the restaurant keeper, 'are cash
in advance" "Foiled again." Missed
the seedy stranger between his useless
teeth.-Indianapolis Journal.
First Lobster-"It's getting lone.
some here now, with all the society
bathers gone" Second Lobster-"Never
mind; we are liable to meet them after
supper this winter, and then we'll get
the rest of our fine work in."-Syracus<
Post.
The Daughter-"Can't you let mo
have that one hundred dollars, father?
l once heard you say that you would
give your last cent to your children"
The Father-"Yes, but 1 haven't got to
my last cent yet."-Munsey's Maya.
zine.
An irish judge had a habit of beg.
ging pardon on every occasion. One
day. as he was about to leave the
bench, the officer of the court reminded
him hat he had not passed sentence
of death on one of the criminals, as he
had intended. "Dear me!' said hin
Lordship; II beg his pardon-brine
hin up."-Tit-Bita
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1894-12-08
Sweetening In His Toll.

AS her eyes rested upon the patient
igure of her husband her heart smotf
her.
Dearest"
He started timidly, seemingly discon.
certed by her unwonted manner.
Dearest" she repeated, tenderly.
s'those biscuits We're better than mother
used to make"
He was silent, but, as he finished
washing the dishes and proceeded to
sew a button on her boomers, a glad
smile irradiated his c~ountenance.
A kindly word had lifted his burden
Detroit Tribune.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1894-12-08
FLOUR Anp BREAD.
q Statement Throwing Light ON the Cest
of q Loaf.

-
Statement Throwing Light on the Css,
of a Loaf.
A statement made by one who has
served many years in the army as a
commissary sergeant furnishes some
interesting facts pertinent to the bread
question.
During my term Of service in the
army l have been from Pembina to the
gulf, and wherever 1 have been 1 have
found bakers glad to take a barrel OF
-four from us and furnish bread as an
equivalent, pound for pound, we re.
ceiving 1856 pounds of bread for a bar
rel of flour. The increase with water,
yeast and potatoes land good -four
needs nothing else to make good bread
is computed at 33b per cent. The
Washington bakers decline to use po-
tatoes, as a rule, as it makes toe
much work; but it improves the bread
and keeps it moist. In the army
the company to which l belonged was
stationed for about a year at, Libby
prison, Richmond, Va, and during that
entire period Mr.. John Bagna1l, a we'll
known baker of that city, furnished
bread for the company, receiving nc
other compensation than the 33E per
cent. m~entioned: and it is from that
source and on that computation that
the various forts and garrisons of the
United States are enabled to keep up a
post fund with which to meet con-
tingencies for which congress makes
no appropriation.
$50 far as my experience has gone
and l have had a large one-there is
not a city of the size of Washington in
the United States furnished with poor
er bread. = = \ Less than five
bushels of wheat will make a barrel of
clear flour, and pay for the milling.
But bakers do not use clear flour; they
use what is left of the wheat after the
patent process (starch) has been ex-
tracted frcm it, because, having more
gluten in It, it absorbs more water, and
gives a larger percentage of bread to
a barrel Of flour. Wheat was selling
at Baltimore the other day at 54s4
cents and SAX cents. These figures will
show that flour such as bakers use can
be made, barreled and laid down
in Washington at S2.75 per barrel, and
which the Washington bakers sell in
the shape of break for over SIS. You
will clearly see the rapacity of these
men, when, as 1 have shown, other
bakers all over the country have been
not only willing, but anxious. to fur
nish bread for the profit of 33h per
cent. on the barrel of flour. / forgot
to mention, too, that in purchasing a
barrel of flour the purchaser has a
barrel worth % cents, which brings the
price of bakers flour down to 81. 80,
which, l do not doubt, is exactly what
they pay for it. You may also have
observed that the Bakers association
purchases flour for all of the associa-
ton, and hat it is furnished accord
ing to the needs of the members. BY
this means all are forced to use the
same quality Of flour, let it be good OF
bad, and the next time you get
poor bread, examine some other
bakers product, and the chances are
that the quality will be the same. This
will indicate that the flour is bad
Washington Star.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1894-12-08
MY cHILDHoop,s SUNDAY.

Ny NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
whose heart through mine is beating,
Believed-good Puritani-'twas sin
OF sins to stay from meeting.
On each Lords day they gathered twice,
A patient congregation,
And heard Two long discourses through
As food for meditation.
But oh. what rest from Saturday,
How brisk q start for Monday
Those grave old Pilgrim fathers had,
With their old-fashioned Sunday!
"a vanished day" you say: and yet
Fond memory's tears bedew 1t,
For In my old New England home,
Achild, how well I knew it,
II colored all my early thoughts,
Ny life was built upon it:
always said my Sunday gown"
My go-to-meeting bonnet"
Mere common. bustling workadays
Were Saturday and Monday;
But oh, my very best belonged
To that old-fashioned Sunday.
Once more the great green box-like pew,
Its high wall round me closes:
sit, a nosegay on my breast
How sweet the damask roses!
I softly wave my painted fan,
And. by my side, my mother
Meets mine with look, half smile, half prayer,
More sweet than any other.
] loved the strollS of Saturday,
The merry romps of Monday:
But oh, I felt the holy charm
OF that old-fashioned Sunday.
They haunt me still. the many texts
And hymns 1 then committed,
And never knew in learning them
That l was to be pitied.
Time changes all; yet we would trust
Though change the world grows better;
But oh. to the remembered past
How much I feel a debtor,
And oh. how hopeless Saturday,
And wearisome we're Monday,
Without the quiet rest between
OF my old-fashioned Sunday,
Marian Douglas, in n. Y. Independent.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1894-12-08
Not That Kind,

49, your husband is sick?" said n
sym pathetic grocer co 4 regular GUS
toner.
"Yes, poor man." answered the wife;
hes pre- ;ty badly Off"
"What's the matter with him, hey;
Fever?"
mo, it amt hay fever or grass Fever;
it's regular old fever'n ague," snapped
the woman, and the sympathetic grocer
held his peace Detroit Free Press
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1894-12-08
duke of Orleans intimates tha-

The duke of Orleans intimates that
he will hustle for the crown of France.
The duke is quite a hustler. 1t will be
remembered that he hustled into
France, and then the French govern.
ment did some hustling on its w ac-
count. He was hustled into jail, and
then, after he had cooled down he was
hustled out of France. The duke known
all about hustling.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1894-12-08

Mrs. Brown-Considering the trouble
you have with dyspepsia. 1 should think
you wouldn't insist IN eating every
thing!
Brown-My dear, the only time ]
don't feel miserable is when I'm eating.
Puck.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1894-12-08

The name of Prairie du Chen,
is French, meaning dog prairie. from
the abundance of prairie dogs
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THE LASSTTER PARHAM co.
A LETTER
10 My Friends and Enemies
and the Public Generally.

As the fall season is now drawing near,
and we are preparing to clothe every
body who is willing toilet us, take great
pleasure in saying that we will carry
THELARGEST STOCK OF CLOTHING
this season that has ever been carried in
Henderson, and will sell them % per
cent less than any would be competitors
Flrst-Our Fall Stock will all be this
seasons goods.
.Second-We haven't any old goods to
carry over.
7hrd-Clothing is % per cent. cheaper
this season than it was last fall.
Fourth-We buy all our goods for SPOT
CASH direct from the manufacturers.
FIfth-We sell for SPOT CASH and don't
charge you an extra profit to help pay
for the suit that was sold on time and
never paid for, which you would have to
pay if you spent your cash with mer-
chant who sells goods on credit.
Sirth-We do the work ourselves and
do not employ a dozen clerks for you
to pay.
All this goes to show why we can sell
you goods % per cent. cheaper than our
would-be competitors.
BY the first of September our stock
will be complete.
Our buyer will be in New York the most
! of this month buying our new fall stock
of CLOTHING AND GENTS FURNISH
ING GOODS, &c.
We will carry the very latest styles in
| Getaways and Sacks: and in fact the
| latest styles in every line. We will be
able to sell you n suit from - cents to
price suit you want.
Ii the Quality, Style and Price will be
any inducement to you to buy, we will
certainly sell YOU. We will have the fin
est line that has ever been shown in this
country We will handle fine Tailor
made Clothing from following houses
Hammerslough, Sons & Co., New York
Hamburger Bros & Co., NJ. II. LOuch
| heImer and SchlOss Bros, Baltimore, l.
Adler, Bros. 4 Co., New York, and 8
great many others we could mention.
Now all we ask is a look and YOU vii
be surprised to find such fine goods at SC
low prices WE ARE THE CLOTHIERS
and YOU will say the same if you vii
look through our stock. Make up YOU
mind that YOU will lock through Barnes
Clothing Store before YOU buy from an,
one. 1t will pay you. 4 dollar saved il
dollar made, and We are the people t.
save it for You. SO give us a call exam
inc our goods, consider the quality, com
pare prices and be convinced.
Yours to Please,
LEWIS W. BARNES, Manager
HARNESS. CLOTHING STORE.
Henderson \. {.