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The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1894-04-28

I "A bouncing big boy arrived a
the residence Of Charley Mcdonald
this morning at $50.
Now is the winter Of nv discon.
tent made glorious a spring by a suit
from Glenn's, aud don't you forget it,
and at such low prices.
The perfumery the young man
put on himself last night before he
went TO see his girl caused the dogs
to howl as the fellow went down the
street.
Say, do you know that the stock
of clothing of Gleun's will be sold at
"hard times" prices. and that you will
lose money if you dent buy of him.
Come and see and be convinced.
w. II. Hull, Chief of the Fire
Department at Murphysbero, Ills.
called on us this afternoon. Mr.. Hull
is q practical printer and an old news
paper man and he is at home in q
newspaper office.
sc. &. c. Certain Corn Cure"
removes c0-nS. warts, burions.
mOlcs mud ca:IoHsc.. Varr;,n-
ted. see that e. C.<. r. blc-:n
In ever bSt!ie. T.,isc no Oi,,cE.
For sale BY ". II. Coer:er. druggi>
The Board of Elncsiiou has de
cided TO build an addition 10 the pub
lie school buiiGiug. The addition il
be 6Ux42 tcct in the clear and is To
be provided with movable partitions
SO that it can be thrown iuto III room
for use for school exhibitions. The
plans and specifications will be made
in 3 few DAYS and the Work will Ec
10 the lowest bidder.
The croakin2 of the frog. the |
politician AMI spring STYLES in
hoes have all made their appearance |
II Humans.
-JackSnu merchants nrc reaching
Tor trade and they arr getting the
radr. too. \ gentleman rRme 10 our
'fiice this morning all rugged up in a
lew suit of clothes that he bought in
IarksOn. The gentleman resides
bout a mile from this city. put he
loes his trading ia Jackson, he SAYS.
because he reads a Jackson paper and
ees hv their advertisement. that the
Iscksun merchants want TO do bust
lcss.
Call at the ITEM Shoe Store" on
way AMI sce those Reindeer
kin siocs. W. II. Huter's proprietor
good tit guaranteed.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1894-04-28
Good word for Prunes.

The fact, stated the other day by q
contemporary in a letter to the editor.
of the writer's belief that the daily
eating OF prunes is a preventive OF
appendicitis, is an interesting one.
The letter cited the record of a trait
valley in California, whose $4,000
residents should be in constant menac
of the trouble because of the c%outinu-
Gus fruit season and the habit of eat
ing seeds. Yet not one, it was re-
ported, has ever had a symptom Of
appendicitis, aud the correspondent
as La. been said, ascribes this im-
munity to daily prune-eating.
The gently laxative property of
this fruit is well known. and il is
probably this action which makes it
Of value. Its action on the liver, too,
is beneficial, and it has besides a con-
siderable nutritive excellence, making
it a valuable family food. 1t is a goo3
plan TO prepare 3 or 10 pounds at a
saving time and having it always
r - ~. Let the prunrs S;ahd at least
,ar .Aoars il water enough TO cover
IL III. Then put on i'll Il little cold
,;cr--just capaEa to keep from
DIrning-and stew very slowly, close
s.. covered. Wacn done. aud they
b. plump aad tender at ihi>
tge, adj , pounds of sa-ar To ;
, 'unIs of irnit, and leave them on
he stove for perhaps fifteen minutes
onger. Pack in jars and serve freely
I. Times.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1894-04-28
In m Days of Oar Graudmotbers

Sulpher and molasscs reigned sup
RENE in the Spring time. Nowadays
we take HUMPHREYS SPECIFIC No. 10
for Dyspepsia. and all stomach
troubles. keeping the blood pure, so
that no Spring dosing is necessary.
For sale by druggist.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1894-04-28
Southern Facts Free.

All about the South. Complete
description eff the soils, climate, pro-
cheap homes aud everything
YOU waut TO know about the South
Beautifully illustrated. Issued month
" and sent free TO all applicants by
f. [. nosev. General Passenger Agent,
Mobile 4 Ohio Railroad, Mobile, Ala
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1894-04-28
ADVERTISING Rates,
LEAD JoTFINaa.
AemoranduLl5 Made in tie Re
porter's Wandcrings.



MONDAY.
The creamery is now turr;pg GU
lots of butter.
The breckenridge disease ha,
reached Cape Girardcau.
-Itussrll Judrn took charge this
morning Of the Street COMMISSIONER
Office.
-"Ge Whiz. what = big niger"
IS what a woman said the other night
when She met cur big coiored police
IMAM.
THAT part of independence street
between Main and Spanish streets
will be, when completed, the best
made street in the city.
Nearly every town In the country
rxrept Cape Cir ,rderu has furnished
some recruits 10 Coxey's army. w
have souie we could spare and we
would be glad to get rid of them.
Officers made a raid on Coxe,'s
army in this ci;v SATURDAY. uiyht and
live recruits AMI old CoxeY hinsslf
were captured.
Ef"C. {. G. Certain Chill Cure.
baot the best remedy you hnyc
cve used for t1hills and Fever
Your meney WIKI be refarCed,
kfcasa1lt To lake. Large bottles
- cents.
For sale bv W. II. C~oerrer. druggist
We arc in receipt OF a copy of
The Cherokee 4dr0ca:e. published at
Tahlrqush. Cherokee Nation. |. 7
One page is printed in the Cherokee
language. The rest ia English. Our
friend Joe Barber remembered us
with n cory.
A vrnier of proprietary medi-
rinc> was recently arrested AMI fined
in Omaha, Neb. for distributing
advertising, matter without q license.
lie appealed and the decision was
reversed. the rourt holding that the
nrdinance under which he was con-
rirted iufringes Oh a mans c1nstitu-
Iioual liberty.
Some people who vOtcd for the
wafer works are getting uncasy oe-
rsuSe work has moi bccn commenced.
Hccpp vnur shoes. on. gentlemen: the
wafer wnrks plant vii! be put in. and
don't Won forget il. The DEMOCRAT
will see 10 that.
Our taxes will he higher next
year than they are this year. The
Board of Equalization has been rails
ing some # our property owner out
of their boots.
Children like 10 take &c. &C.
Ccrtuin Chill CIrc," the pleas
ant und guaranteed cure fer
Fever, A=ac and Malaria
Price so cts.
fors 10 by W. II. Cocrver. druggist
-OtO llacnichen died at his home
In this city Sunday morning. April
22i. after an illness of two weeks.
The deceased was a baker by trade.
and during the few wears he resided
IN this city he had built up a splendid
business. lie was Il good man and
u good citizen. lie leaves a wife and
family aud a large circle OF friends I,
10 mourn his death.
The parties who were gathered
in Saturday night by the police should ,
hereafter remember the scriptural i
commandment: "Thou shalt not re I
caught in the act" |,
Cure your corns by wearing the
Seal skin shoe sold at the Gem Shoe
Store" on Broadway by W. ii, ~1luters
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1894-04-28
ruSiic-S?irItcd Women.

The ladies of the Women'S Health
Protective Association of BROOKLYN
are certainly interchangeable. | AIN
a busy man myself for the money
there Il in 1t. but when | sec the en-
crgy these ladies exhibit for nothing
at all except a pure love of humanity.
| understand the surprising value of
unseiilsh effort. Within four short
weeks they have aroused the ferry
companies into scrubbing out the
boats every other day. have worried
the Corporation Counsel into defining
the law which forbids the erection of
stables in residential districts, hayc
stirred up the Park Commissioner by
i%pstructing him how TO spend his AL
nual appropriation. and have badger
ed the Mayor into ordering the Police
Commissioner to strictly enforce the
law ferDiddins the throwing of paper
INTO ash reCrptacles in public places
During this period. moreover, nearly
200 members have joined The associa-
ton. and each II is pledged TO enlist
at least three more. Brooklyn is TAX
Ing on. in consequence, a look of rare
smsr;ness and ncatRcss, aud the in
flueuce of the work is %permeating
thousands OF households. When the
time ono that the streets shall be
properly paved, there vii! have been
sufficient public spirit aroused to keep
them reasonably clean. FOrpracticle.
sensible. unremittin" work and a LOFTY
civic spirit. the Women'> Health Pro-
teciIye Association of Brooklyn is en-
filled 10 a medal of the iirst-ciass.-
". Y. Pres.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1894-04-28
Far Seam nier suits

Phiipp Stoil would respectfully
remind his customers and the
public generally that lie has just
received Il large assortment OF sample.
OF goo.iS for gcntlemen's suits Tor the
summer season. The samples include
all the latest styles of goods. lie can,
he SAYS, furnish the material aud make
suits Tor from fifteen dollars up. ac-
cording TO quality of goods. lie takes
the measurements and makes the
goods up himself and he therefore
guarantees a perfect fit. No fit no
~apr23-2w
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1894-04-28
wNlSESpAS.

wN.SEspAY.
Mrs. John Jcannin is going &c
move to Florida.
-Lslics Doug. pat. TIP spring heel
button shoes Sl.225 al Hamau's.
The school children of both ouI
public schools vii! have picnics the
, day after the closing OF school.
.-Shoe polish. black, tan AMI red
at Humans.
We understand That Willer>
Garden will be opened by a home
dramatic company soor for two or
three enter. ailments 4 week during
the spring and months.
Right of WAY ~ been secured
bv &. J. IIanan "a sill shoes cheaper
than can b. obtained al ::ns ether
place iii the city.
Steamboat business srcms to be
picking up and more boats are run
ming. The b,ltS for New Orleans all
GO down the river well loaded with
freight.
A fact worth know. that Glenn is
selling his big stock of clothing at
greatly reduced prices.
MANY of our citizens went out
to-day to see the decorations IN the
Lutheran church. They say Mr..
Holm has done the finest job of
decorative painting they ever SAW
here or anywhere else.
Miss Fortune. and not misfortune.
will follow the man who buys his
shoes at lIamau's. Main street.
The New Madrid county murder
case will come up for trial at the May
term Of the Circuit Court at Jackson.
If Won can afford TO he annoyed
bv sick headache and constipation.
don't Use DcWitt's Little Early Risers
for these little pills will cure them. |
Ben Miller, Druggist.
If something don't turn up TO
make business there are some people
i'm this town who will have to go to
the poor farm bef,.re six months from
now,
Ignorance of the merits of De
Wits Little Early Risers is n mis-
fortune. These little pills regulate
the liver, cure headache, dyspepsia,
bad breath, constipation and billions
ness. l.. Ben Miller. Druggist.
The coal shovelcrs in hell are OH
a strike and she poor sinners who are
being roasted there for their wicked
ness on earth are getting = little re-
lief. Let the strike continue.
All that honesty. experience and
skill can do to produce a perfect pill
has been employed in making De
Wits Little Early Risers. The result
is a specific for sick headache. bilious
ness and constipation. l. Ben Miller,
Druggist.
John Hutchin. who has been in
the employ OF the firm of Fentge Il
Wood for quite a while. left this
merning for ST. Francis. Ark, to work
for the 5. Albert Grocery Company.
We could not improve the quality
if paid double the price. DeWiti's
Witch Hazel Salve is the best Salre
that experience can produce, or that
money can buy. l. Ben Miller, Drug
gist.
We wanted 10 and we didn't
want to. That was the condition we
we're in this morning when a gentle
man wanted to purchase the DEMO
Graf.
One word deserves it-"perfec-
ton We refer to DeWitt's Witch
Hazel Salve, lures obstinate sores,
burns, skin diseases and Is a well
known cure for piles. l. Ben Miller
Druggist.
Some Murphysboro parties are
thinking of making this city a propo-
sition to put in an electric Light plant
here.
The coal miners over at Murphys-
boro are all on a strike and that
makes business in that town unusual
ly dull.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1894-04-28
IeuIcn-t Keep Him Down.

Did John get that place i'll the
Government service"
No: turned down on spellin' an
geography"
Poor fellow. Whats he doing
now
Hes a-tcachin' of a school, an IL
runn!n' fer superintendent of eddica-
ticI.--!IdEtd tORtttaticn.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1894-04-28

Face cured. sulphur Bittcrs will
cure the worst Ca-c of skin disease
tea = common pimplc on the face TO
that awfi! disease Srrofula. it is the
best medicine to Use in all cases of
such stubborn and dccp-seated dis
ease. DO not delay: Use sulphur
Filters ard drive the huinor from
yGur blood.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1894-04-28
Notice.

II. Steinbach desires to inform his
customers hat he has the patent
right for manufacturing the Cork
Faced Collar in the following counties:
Scott, Bollinger. Stoddar'l, Perry and
Cape Girardeau. Gall aud examine
this new patent collar. Win
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1894-04-28
List or Hail Matter
April 23ri.

Cape Girariesu, county Of Cape GiraTieau,
ssats q Missouri, fur tie week endiH-
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1894-04-28
Gilllspic Bird,

April 2Sri.
Tount Adams, Gilllspic Bird.
Maggie Gibboncy, Charley Piic.
Francis Wagner, Fannie Weiss,
Persons calling for any of she above letters
will please say Advertised, =" giving date of
this list. II not called for within two weeks
they will be sent to the Dead Letter Once at
Washington City. y. CRAMER,
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1894-02-16
A Test of Bravery.

A custom like this has spread, of
course, among neighboring tribes under
various forms. That of the Abyssinian
braves is described by Mr.. Mansfield
Parkyns. The girls themselves play an
active part there.
When young people are gathered for
amusement, after a church festival, for
instance, one of them will begin peel
ing straw of green millet, which is
full OF pith. Her lovers blood runs
cold probably, but he must smile or
own himself carve. When she has cut
the pith into bits an inch long, he
stretches out his bare arm. The exam-
pie set, every girl who respects herself
and has lover follows it. The young
men form a circle, with their arms ex-
tended
Blithely, then, with many a jest
doubtless, the maidens arrange their
bits of pith, upright, in some tanciful
design, on the bare flesh and set them
alight. They are nearly an inch thick,
and they burn very slowly, but the
hapless youth must stand and smile as
we'll as he can till the blood and juices
of the scared flesh extinguish them
London Standard.
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1894-02-16
A Troublesome Word.

How much better it would be if the
past tense of the verb read could be
changed to red. The verb read would
then form the past tense red) analogous
ly with the verb lead, and that tense,
as in the case of led, would then be
spelled as it is pronounced, red. When
person is reading aloud and comes to
the word read, he is often unable to tell
whether it should be pronounced reed
or red and after mispronouncing it read
when it should be pronounced red, or
vice versa, he is obliged, after getting
into the midst of a sentence, to go back
and set himself right. Take, for exam
pie, the following sentence, and nobody
can tell, when he reaches the word read,
whether it is to be pronounced reed or
red Those who read Sir Walter Scott S
novel of Edward Waverley' when it
first appeared did not know by whom it
was written" In this example read is
to be pronounced red, but nobody would
know this till reaching a subsequent
part of the sentence, and the reader is
just as apt to mispronounce it reed as
to give it the correct pronunciation of
red. In the sentence given as an ex-
ample the reader learns soon after pass
ing the word read how it should be pro-
nounced, but in many cases one has to
proceed quite distance after reaching
the word before the context shows how
it should be pronounced. Boston Tran
script.
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1894-02-16
Artificial Purlflcatlon of wnter.

A notable example is furnished by the
city of Berlin, in the interests of public
health, III its treatment of water by ar
tificial publication, the present system
being, as stated, the result of extensive
experiments for Is years past. 1t seems
that the attempt was first made to es-
tablish plan of natural filtration by
digging deep wells near the river and
lakes from which water was obtained,
and allowing the water to drain through
the soil from the source of supply to the
wells, from which it was then pumped
to the city reservoirs, but this plan was
abandoned on the fact being demon
strated that the water thus supplied re-
NAMED impure. Artificial filtration
was consequently substituted, the water
being filtered through sand, large
number of filter basins meeting this re-
quirement. They are covered by roofs
of stone, earth and sod, in order to pre-
vent atmospheric contamination and the
formation of ice in cold weather as
well as to facilitate the frequent re-
movals of those impurities which gath
er upon the surface of the sand. The
careful examinations of the water con-
stantly made by official experts show
that, while there is small reduction in
the quantity of organic matter in the
filtered water, the important fact also
appears that there is a retention of solid
impurities and of large percentage of
bacteria. New York Tribune.
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1894-02-16
The Thinnest Sheet of Iron.

A triumph of mechanical ingenuity,
unsurpassed in its line, is recorded at
the celebrated tin works, Swansea,
Wales. The iron from which the sheet
was rolled was worked in finery with
charcoal and the usual blast afterward
taken to the hammer to be formed into
regular fiat bottom. thence conveyed
to the balling furnace, and when suffi-
GENTLY heated taken up to the rolls,
heightened and cut by shears into prop
er lengths, piled up and transferred
to the balling furnace again. When
heated, it was passed through the rolls,
back again into the balling furnace,
and when duly brought to the proper
pitch taken to the rolls and made into
a thorough good bar. Subsequently,
at the tin mills, it was rolled till it was
supposed to be thinner than % grains,
afterward passed through the cold rolls
to insure the necessary polish, the re-
suit being the thinnest sheet of iron
ever rolled--that is, the sheet was 10
by 5% inches, or 90 inches in surface,
of only 20 grains weight, which, being
brought to the standard of 8 by 5 Z
inches, or A surface inches, is but Is
grains, or 30 per cent less than pre-
vious attempts, at least 4, 800 being re-
quired to make one inch in thickness.
New York Sun.
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1894-02-16
Explosives That Must Be Shocked.

Some explosives, such as dynamite,
nitroglycerol, gun cotton, picric acid
and the new German military powder,
when simply heated, burn. quietly if
freely exposed, or, if confined, explode
only at the spot where heat is applied,
without the whole mass taking part in
the explosion. According to II. Blitz,
this is probably because they are bad
conductors of their own explosive wave.
If, however, the same substances are
subjected to violent shock by the ex-
plosion in their midst of initial charges
of mercury illuminate, the shock appar-
emily affects all the molecules of the ex-
plosive at once, and the whole mass of
the latter explodes with a violence that
is enormous and destructive. Journal
Of Commerce.
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1894-02-16
The Ruling Passion,

He loved the winsome lass with a
love none the less ardent because she
was IA clerk in dry goods sore, and
he had met her there behind the coun-
ter when he had come in to make pur-
chases.
But she was no ordinary girl, and he
knew that if he won her as his own
it would be no easy conquest.
For weeks and weeks he had been to
see her. and for weeks he had hesitated
on the brink of a proposal which in
volved all his happiness.
Yet the girl did not seem to realize
how near she was to him, nor that any
moment might precipitate the final
question.
However, these things cannot con-
tinue forever, and one Sunday after
noon as they were walking his voice
became low and tremulous, and she
looked up shyly into his face.
Christine, he whispered, may
ask you question:"
Certainly, George" she assented
frankly. What is itY"
Twill you be my wife?''
She turned as if shelf were behind
her.
Pm very sorry" she said softly.
lis there anything else today Ode
troit Free Press.
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1894-02-16
Under the Wrong Flag.

The following amucing story is told
of the late DR.. Wilkinson, formerly re-
corder of Hartlepool: He was an ell
thusiastic advocate of the first great re-
form bill. One day, walking out in the
street with an equally jealous friend a
highly respectable gentleman like him
self, he saw approaching great pro-
cession headed by band and a ban
ner. The latter, as it streamed in the
breeze, was seen to bear an inscription
This could not be quite made out, but
the word reform was conspicuous in the
midst Of it. This was quite enough for
DR.. Wilkinson and his friend. Without
a moments hesitation they joined the
throng and marched proudly along
with the rest. But presently the
wind dropped little, and the legend
on the banner became fully legible.
Great was the horror of DR.. Wilkinson
and his companion to find that the pro-
cession they had SO eagerly joined, and
in which they had proved such promi-
nent figures, was one of Reformed
Drunkards. London Figaro.
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1894-02-16
WHY HOODS WINS.

President Lincoln said: "You cannot
fool the people a second time" They
are too quick to recognize real merit or
lack of it, and cling only to those things
which they find to be what is claimed
for them.
1t is especially gratifying that the sale
of Hoods Sarsaparilia increases most
rapidly in those sections where it is best
known.
The inference is plain. Hoods Sarsa-
parilla has proven that it possesses genu-
inc merit. 1t maintains high standard,
which others cannot even approach. 1t
is the peoples favorite blood purifying
and building-up medicine, and is more
popular this year than ever before. All
this because HOOPS CURES.
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1894-02-16

The fact is we'll known that a mix
ture of tungsten with steel imparts to
the latter SO great degree of hardness
that it readily scratches glass and
quartz. Recent investigations have
thrown light upon this somewhat re-
markable phenomenon-that is, a def
initely crystallized compound of iron
and tungsten is announced as having
lately been discovered, the crystals be-
ing SO hard as to be capable of scratch
ing topaz. Tungsten is a brittle white
metal, almost as heavy as gold, and the
crystals formed by its combination with
iron, in the proportion of one atom of
iron to two of tungsten, are silver gray
and very brilliant. The conclusion ar
rived at by experts in this line is that,
on tungsten being alleged with steel,
some of the compound just described is
formed in the mass, thereby producing
the remarkable increase in the hardness
Of steel and adding to its usefulness.
New York Sun.