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The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1894-11-03
CULLINGS.

vernon county farmer enjoyed the
institute held at Richards.
n. F. Kilgore was the first white per
son born in Audrain county.
Wm. Collins, aged o.. the oldest maj
in Clay county, died recently.
The lumber output at GrandiD, Car
ter county, is ITO, 600 feet a day.
Rev. Green Carey. the oldest preacher
in Boone county, died recently, aged "a
Business men subscribed $1,000 t.
build and equip a cannery at Colder
City.
The Pettis county farmers will hold
an institute at Lamonte November {
and o.
The school of mines at Rolla has
more students than at any time in its
history.
Larkin Dewitt. of Clifton City,
Cooper county, was mysteriously muir
dered and robbed.
John c. Carstarphen, n lumber mer-
chant of Frankfort, Pike county, is
nearly Z feet tall.
John Moss, of Rails county, has a
Jersey COW which yields $50 pounds of
milk in seven days.
The Southeast Missouri Press asso-
citation will hold it's winter meeting at
Bismarck December 1.
A committee of ladies asked the Sc
dalia city council to appropriate 500 a
month to maintain the city hospital.
Squire Geo. Reed, of Eagle Rock,
Barry county. owns up that he is a
brother of Car Tom Reed, of Maine.
The thirty-seventh annual meeting
of the Missouri State Horticultural So
ciety will be held at Trenton, Deem
cember 81.
The post Office at Rucker, Boone
county, was robbed while the postmis-
tress, Miss Saran A. Douglass, was at
prayer meeting.
Jim Hines, the negro who stabbed
and killed William Ida at Liberty,
October IS. was captured at Oskaloosa,
Ia, the the day.
The case against Bill Adler, charged
with the murder of Jesse Mcclure, a
post Office inspector, at Kansas City.
has been continued to December.
Malta Bend challenges any other
town in Saline county to show an equal
amount of money invested in new
buildings and improvements this year.
Samuel j. McCluer, of Springfield,
was arrested on a warrant charging
him with ~embezzling. The warrant
was sworn out by his sister, Mrs. Ros-
back.
The Missouri Methodist assembly
committee met at Warrensburg and
made provision for a ministerial ALI
ance, Sunday-school, normal classes
on educational features of the Sunday
school, and other conferences, and a
three days Epworth League conven-
ton during the assembly from July rs
to August 6, '95.
Daniel Wilson and Maria Wilson
were remarked at Macon, having been
divorced twenty-five years ago., during
which time they had not seer or heard
from each other. Leaving his wife.in
Illinois in 1877, Wilson moved to Ore
gon, but recently came east in search
of her, finding that she had moved
from her former home to Kansas,
where she had gone with her daughter
and son-in-law. Upon arriving in Kan
sas, Wilson found hat another move
had taken them to Clinton, Mo-. and
then he traced them to a farm 5 miles
south of Macon. Upon making a trip
to the farm, he found his wife, and,
past differences were adjusted
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1894-11-03

John Lewis was arrested at Column
bia charge with whipping his 7-year-
old boy to death. The coroner's jury
reported the boy came to his death
from wounds inflicted by his father.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1894-11-03
Stole Thirty-Five Watches.

Burglars entered L. j. Ryan's store
at Hannibal and stole thirty-five
watches, fifteen of which were gold
and the others silver. The thieves
made good their escape and left no clue
behind.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1894-11-03
A SANDER Suit.

Rosy NJ. Roades, of Humphreys, Sui
livan county. has begun a SANDER suit
in the Sullivan county circui. court
against Sarah j. Stringer for 5000.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1894-11-03
Struck His Brother.

Chas. Gallup, a blacksmith at st. Jo-
seph, fought with his brother Bert,
thrashing him. Bert soon after struck
Charles on the head with a stone, in
hictinp a fatal wound.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1894-11-03
A Dairy Meeting.

The Missouri State Dairy association,
cooperating with the state board of
agriculture, will hold a dairy meeting
at Higginsville, November a6-2s.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1894-11-03
Died In a Fishing Camp,

John r. Wallace. a Pettis county
farmer, of near Smithton, died in a
camp on the Nianqua river, in Camden
county, where he and a party of friends
had gone for a two weeks fishing trip.
He was 65 years old.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1894-11-03
Remembered Their President

Clara Hoffman, president of the Mis-
souri, W. c. T. u, was given a cash
present of $500 at the convention of the
union held at Brookield.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1894-11-03
A jail Delivery.

Frank Huffman, the noted Cooper
county train robber and highwayman,
sent to Fayette recently to be confined
in the Howard county Jail for safe
keeping, and Charles Brown and John
Kelly, confined for burglary and lar
ceny, escaped the other day. TIE keys
to the Jail were found in the cell door
where the prisoners were confined. 1t
is a mystery how they got possession of
them, as they were in the care of Sher-
iff Crigley's family, in his absence from
town. After making their way out of
the Jail, they secured two of the sher-
ifs horses and made off, closely pur-
sued by a posse of deputy sheriffs.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1894-11-03
For Public Roads.

One of the most important amend
ments to the constitution to be voted
on in the November election, and one
which has received practically no at
tention from the press or politicians,
is that authorizing county judges to
increase the rate of the county taxa
ton from fifty cents on the 500 vaIua-
ton to siXty-five cents. The sole OBJ
ject of the amend ment is to provide a
large fund for the Improvement and
maintenance of public roads.
Condition Of National Banks I'm Missouri.
Abstract of the condition of the ma
tional banks in Missouri, exclusive of
st. Louis, st. Joseph and Kansas City,
October .:
Average reserve. 36.77 per cent, against 3i.92
cent. on July IS. Loans and discounts decreased
from s., l37. Az to 1914, 121: stocks and securi-
ties increased from S6s9. 100 to ST.. S6I; gold coin
decreased from 1881. 81 to s315. Ssh: lawful money
reserve decreased from $40. osl to s7s4.4s5: in
dividual deposits increased from 1921, 094 to
k6, 636, 995.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1894-11-03
Mrs. Rosetta Sexton, Aged 1Oa.

Mrs. Rosetta Sexton, aged 1O2 years,
died at her home, } miles out of st. Jo-
seph. of old age.
She was the mother Of the late multi-million-
aire and banker, A. NJ. Sexton. She was born
in Syracuse, N. ", October 12. 1192. and en-
ioyed excellent health almost up to the time Of
her death. Fifty years ago she moved from
New York to Rochester, Wis, where she re-
sided twenty-five years., removing to St. Jo-
seph upon her husbands death, twenty-five
years ago. Mrs. Sexton was q financier, hav-
ing accumulated $4,000 by her own invest
ment Her son. Alba Sexton. died five years
ago in st. Joseph. leaving a vast estate to his
mother and brother, Cyrus Sexton. who resided
with his mother on the farm, east of the city.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1894-04-09
ABBREVIATED 1ELeGRAMs.

The wiseacres in English politics are
predicting the early fall Of the Rosebery
ministry.
Mr.. and Mrs Merrill, of Sioux CITY, la.
were both badly burned trying to save an
other persons s-year old child which had
fallen into the fire, and the child itself
died of its injuries.
Mrs. Sarah Daken, bride Of two weeks
at Emporia, Kan, has applied for divorce
on the ground of threatening her life,
drunkenness and brutality. The appli-
cant was war widow and gave up a
handsome pension to marry Daken.
Judge Parlapge, of the United States
circuit court at New Orleans, has decided
that cities are not responsible for the muir
der or damage done by mobs which the
authorities fail to control. The Judge
held that in such cases the city could not
he sued, having the rights of a sovereign.
j. j. Clancy and his wife, both noted
writers for the New York press, Tell into
bad luck on account of i'll health, and pro-
ceeded TO drink themselves to death. The
woman is dead and the man will probably
die.
1t has been discovered in Germany that
Indian corn makes excellent beer
Hamilton, Ills, claims the Oldest resi-
dent in the state. She is Mrs. Lucy Alex
ander, who was born SO long ago that she
remembers the closing scenes of the Revo-
lu:ionary war, but how old she is cannot
be definitely settled. She is negress.
Six persons Were poisoned at Danville,
Ills, by coffee that had been doctored wit b
arsenic. One of the victims, DR.. James
Gaskell, of Saltwater, Mimi, is dead. The
poisoning appears to be criminal and &C.
CURED at boarding house.
Anarchists paraded at Brussels. carrying
the black flag, and continuously shouting
Death to the bourgeois" until they ran
up against the police.
Herr Nost'S paper, Die Freiheit, has sus-
pended and New York anarchists have one
organ less.
Owen ". McPhillips, late a switchman,
stole $500 Lake street Il" tickets al Chi
cago to buy food, he says. All except $40
OF the tickets We're recovered
Albert johnson, night Waterman of the
Linwood Furniture company, Cincinnati.
was shot and killed by Lewis Broadu,.
who says that in the darkness lie mistock
johnson for dog that he had intended 10
kill.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1894-04-09
Close Contest i'm Discussion,

ANN AgBoI, Mich, April Fifteen
hundred persons attended debate
between three Of the university stu
dents and three students of the North.
western university. Governor Rich pre-.
sided. The question was, Resolved that
it onght to he the policy of the federal
government to bring about the annexa.
ton Of the Hawaiian islands" The af.
frmative was argued by the Michigan
men. Tine Northwestern students won ON
u record of 1914 To 1910
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1894-04-09

IL case in Texas, brought against
the Western Union telegraph COM
pany. IL has been decided by a United
states judge that mental anguish is
not an element OF actual damage and
that no indemnity can be recovered
on that plea. In other words the
leaden-footed messenger boy can go
on innicting the refinement Of sus-
pense upon the public with none to
modest or make him afraid.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1894-04-09

EARLY one recent morning Frank
Wyatt. q Chicago newspaper man.
riding in a street car drew his re-
volver aud made two thieves give
back the goods they had just taken
from a fellow passenger. In doing
this he was guilty of carrying con-
cealed weapons. breach of the peace,
assault with intent TO kill. and, so
far n the thieves are concerned,
with grand larceny and highway
robbery. Which illustrates one
difference between law and justice.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1894-04-09

a FIRE in q museum At Passaic. y.
j.. last week. caused panic among
the freaks. The "three-legged man. -
in making his escape. forgot his
third leg. The principal damage
done was 20 the complexion of the
tattoocd Circassian princess She
waited to rescue some OF her belong.
ings. and the fremen Inadvertently
turned the hose on her. with the re-
suit that most Of the tattooing was
washed of.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1894-04-09
College Republican League.

SYRACUSE, \. u, April 9.-Theodore
Cox of New York was elected president of
the National College Republican league
after "a shap competition. James j. Sher-
idan, president Of the University of Michi-
gan Republican club, was unanimously
elected first vice president, Mr.. White Of
Cornell secretary, and ID. Wendell Hub.
bard of Pennsylvania university, treas.
0rer.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1894-04-09

The servant girl OF the future will be
what the qualities and requirements
OF her mistress make her This is
substantially all that can be sifted
out OF all relations Of employer and
employed. First ability TO do ones
task. and then the personal character
that is equal to the problem of mu-
tual concession. restraint RESPONSE
bility and justice.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1894-04-09

THE soubrette whose song. dis
pleasing Theodore McVeigh of
Gotham. induced that gallant to hit
her behind the ca with an orange
ought 10 thank her stars that il was
not the missile more familiar TO
players and singers OF an earlier
date. Projectile criticism is grow
ing efeminatc.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1894-04-09
MONDAY, ArRIL 3. 1894.

A SACRAMENTO woman put 800 in
o satchel and placed il under a seat
in a railway car. 1t is pleasant to re-
mark as an instance of Difference to
her sex that when she got home she
still had the satchcl with the addi-
tion Of large and lucrative opening
in the bottom of il.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1894-04-09

PRorTT sharing is TO have another
trial in Chicago along the lines OF
the Bon Marche of Paris The sue
cess Of that great concern is due
largely TO the self-interest created
for employees by allowing them a pro
rata OF the profits after a certain
number OF years faithful service.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1894-04-09

WHAT is known as the West End
railroad in Boston does not have its
rails looped together as are most of
the single trolley railroads of the
country. They are welded together
and welded. too. b. electricity. l, is
said the West End railroad now
practically has one rail eleven miles
long.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1894-04-09

THERE are many men in these
times who cannot pay their bills,
and they are excusable. But those
people who take advantage of the
times and say they cannot pay their
bills. when they can. are one of the
most powerful agencies in keeping
the times hard, and are utterly with
out excuse.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1894-04-09
THE TRAVELLERS GUIDE.

( HICAGO, ROCK ISLAND & PACIFIC
Railway-Depnt corner Fifth avenue and
Thirty first street, Frank ii. Plummer, Agent.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1894-04-09

Cure for rheumatism or neuralgia.
Buy 20 cent bottle Of Salvation Oil
ana use it according to directions.
Ii will cure the worst case.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1894-04-09

Young or rniddie-acei men, suffering from ner
vous debility or kindred affectiors, should al
dress with 10 cents in stamps 20. l4r-e Treatise
Worlds Dispenssry Medical Aesoci zion, to
Main street, Bu9olo, Y. Y.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1894-04-16
THE RIGHT USE OF TOBACCO.
There Is Only One Way to Get the Full
Benent Of the LuNnry.

There Is Only One Way to Get the Full
Benefit of the Luxury.
Tobacco consists Of the leaves and stalk
Of plant charged with an aroma purify
ing, sustaining, exhilarating and fragrant
to the human being. Like the aroma of a
rose, this aroma should he inhaled in the
form of cool vapor by the human nose. The
ehewer, like the cab horse eats the leaves
and stalk. He uses the tobacco at the right
temperature, but in the wrong form, and
puts it into his mouth.
The snuffer reduces the leaves and stalks
81 powder and puts it into his nose He
uses the tobacco at the right temperature
and puts it into the right place, but con
verts it into n wrong form. The cigar
smoker gets the tobacco into the right
form, but puts il at a wrong temperature
into "A wrong place. The cigarette smoker
blends the filthy rags and other materials
out of which paper is made with the to
bacco. The pine smoker puts his tobacco
into a receptacl which is used for an in
definite time, is very difficult TO clean and
tends to produce cancer of the tongue and
lips.
Moreover, in all forms of smoking the
tobacco become saturated with the smok-
er's breath. This seems to be almost poi
.
! half of half smoked cigar, if left on a tn.
| BILE for few hours, to become indescrib-
ably rank. 1t is this which makes the
smoke of tobacco in a foul pipe noxious
and the smoke Of tobacco not pressed down
to the bottom of a clean bowl nauseous,
even to the smoker himself.
Nature protests against this abuse of her
beauty. She tweaks the incipient snuffer's
nose. She weakens the cigar smokers
heart and sometimes threatens him with
paralysis. She inhicts cancer OF the lips
and tongue upon the pipe smoker. A child
who sucks foul pipe she sometimes strikes
dead What is the lesson she is trying TO
teachf What is the right mode of using
her delightful gifti
Obviously to reduce it in vapor, to cool
the vapor and to apply the pure cold vapor
to the nose Fo' his end combination of
the hookah and odorizer is all that is need
ed. If you stand on the grating of snuff
mandatory, how delicious is the odorl
Such would be the contents of tobacco
scent bottle, equally exhilarating to both
sexes, disinfectant, restorative and a
perfume in onel-Gentleman's Magazine
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1894-04-16

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m N f M poe Ittl"
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t.I HIn an nH Ut h.I i.I' you
' .Hi|fIN '. '..IIN
tIi Nr IH frr "II Do In'.nN.i Dol IH'
nI And i.u '' lN mrf'Il I1NrIt,
tnr n.N bI D0. r ~ it fiNun..' "Nh.
h..i tI the rr..l. WuIk % finished. bnt h
iluE.n over fu itI tNl YOU n'''i. even
In ihn wont .Is OF hieh 'niai'. u't''
tO.uN ni tn hiHN'I. tNN'l 'I i'.Il''i'
Bot to r'u.r Iur c'a'r. io h.e'n "llh'
ns % is wound I'. II-'- lh your running
soul HIl s1ft o. memories OFT torture hn.
chimes lhr immaculate tower ntAi pinned
drf.N under your chin goes iw 20 ulsseil.
note what NIilD COURAGE You may nave lri,
DOB 'hc remote tHd. OF your anatomy ana
whom your hrld i- finally hlied hhch ai Hh
impossible nn uud the dentist begins
u.g.Ug over Oh t.} or goukes, saws, Mes,
scruNs. shcwcr. an. 'hisels' You give one
frantic gasp of o.. "or relax your tcnsc.'
surrender
lhr operator -m les blandly' picks up o
cold steel punc %. though Do were iali} 2
wHnd aud pro- .gdi TO search Tor ine sas
pc'iel CAVITY. ID. succeeds. ne uoe~h I
leave the least on.i ci d.
The assistant fixture IN nll dentists
office, she lnN' ri' by eats onions a. You "
no doubt learn ~ She has bent over you
m tender symp hl Tor lo minutes, ana hei
hands she IRE 'illy thfns's INTO your
mouth lh auu De- To an the doctor lh
gers ana sever ."'y lnslt uheuls. Ut '
assistant has al.o acquired lhai ghastiy re
assuring slnlle OF her employer Mhloi
f shows itseii more"nd more broadly as inc
cause LOB grlnhlhB grows more ana more
remote
Another uhparuohaDle irall OF lhe FESTIVE
dentist Is MS proheness 10 pun, ana hl'
stock IN trade Is used hour after hour' day
after day year hiter year, with the same
unNarylng smile 10 give II tine sehblahc'
Of freshness hen one comes to mediate
upon u, there is something almost aulnlfa
bic IN the heroic way IN Whlch the operator
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1894-04-16

Life is perfected by death" and it is also
revealed. A story told in the Life of Sir
Richard Burton" illustrates the clearness
with which death reveals man to his com.
rades.
lieutenant in British regiment was
honest, steady, quiet and full Of sterling
qualities, but he was dull, reserved and
religiOusly inclined. His brother officers
laughed at him and associated but little
with him Though well born, be was poor
and had no powerful friends. He therefore
remained without promotion or society, but
he never complained and did his best.
A battery was TO be taken in the Crimea,
and the lieutenants regiment was selected
as the storming party, 1t assaulted and
was driven back. The lieutenant rallied his
own company, and with a laugh flung his
shake before him and rushed through the
breach into the battery, followed by hand
full of men They never came out again.
That night at the regimental mess there
was not man but regretted that he had
not better understood the officer whose gal
liant death had revealed his super GRITTY All
remembered a thousand good qualities and
incidents which ought to have endeared him
to them. They were ashamed of the con
tempt with which they had treated him and
Of the fact that they had never shown him
the least kindness Youths Companion.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1894-04-16

A. ms ON
'ArANhsE hoi'NlN' '"" ~ ''' no
with surface IKE twisted grasses nm
Cling green and white and yellow an III one
mass like faded hay ana green herDage. III
deed ] find It difficult TO describe, It is so
very curious. The whole hat is made TINS
way. To trim It handful OF ribbon grasses
and a few field iiowers are careles'ly iasteh-
ed upon the crown ana allowed 10 tfall
around the brim. The Duchess zes shape
Of hat obtains favor rapidly. The brlm
bends down over the forehead ana rolls up
at the sides like an accumulated DERBY buI
the crown is very low All around the
crown there may be curled feathers or
wreath of flowers. There are some VINO
look better IN tins style OF nat tnan any
other. There are big mats ana lttle ones,
close ones and haring ones and no END OF
colors to choose from. The small JET, metal
and lace coronet bOnnels Tor visiting ana
evening grow lighter ana more DAINTY an
the time The tea caps are larger lhough
quite as dainty.
Talking OF hats reminds me oil mon
strosity ! saw IN grand broadway WIN
dow. III was IN men haU store, anu IL
was white SILK stoyeplpe hat, with a reg
ular bell crown and dipping bnm. There
was white ribbon around 1t. The shape
was NN"Sbi9 VIC ''aAAN ~ nm " 80 '''NN'N
Paris style OF black stoveplpes nave not
seen any one wearing one yet, but doubt
less there are men brave enough 10 FISK IT,
Dld mention the newest styIe LOT pIac-
ing diamondsf II did NOT l WI now,
Those VINO nave plenty OF Vhese tIlles nave
their waists made so that they hrape sur
pllce fashion, ana along uo"h Ihe outer
SIDE they set row oil stars or suhoursVs OF
mar moons the Top ones the larsesT anu
the lower ones diminishing gradually III
size. On the other side rlNIeIe Is Ioopeu
or colled' or perhaps some pms Oh aGllerehU
shape are set Young women VINO nave
pretty necks prefer 10 lasIeh 'helr Je"els Oh
their corsages' DuI elderly ones are PrINi-
ieged 10 mae the Ta'aseS Oh tluIe Dy as
large necklace as the huspaLus can aloru'
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1894-04-16
GINS IN VERSE.

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Nr understand NIri n.I each Uihcf' sresrh,
NuI ttsf. ar. Ia.ti.f lauu H1f BOO urrek
N1fr us. uuI VERSE Ihu lauguase that they
tUa.H
IsuuIttraI ,Ieariras cheek
Ihel derkrd with rehrls u0 richer than from
tHrI
Uf oarI's Inuumcrahlo mournefs fall
lusiuuI,U. 500 rurtDli classical
Tear. Hfa tIe oldest and ihc cuumOucst
UfaI Things upon earth. and yel how new
Iho tale each umc told by them How un-
blessed
Wore li,s bard Why without their heavenly
uHN'
Jo, lnr0us tb,m from Grief Faith ucmblea
IDt
Sl, bose Them. Even HOPE herself smiles
through
The rU.uhoN They make round her as they fall
And death. thai cannot weep, sets weeping all
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