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The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1894-08-25

The poverty stricken beneficiary with
whom he was talking noted the change,
and, awestruck, shrieked for help.
When it arrived, the heat deadly work
had been accomplished, and the poor
and the needy of the narrow, noisome
streets he was won't to visit had lost the
best friend they had ever had.
But the day was not ope Of misery
quite unmixea In fact, twas. n day Of
great hilaritJr % many persons. Some
padded about in the waters of the sea,
of lakes and of rivers. Some swung idly
in halnmocks shaded by trees or the
wide roofs of zephyr swept verandas
Others, with rods and flies, sought the
shade of forests, beneath which flowed
limpid and fish filled streams. Yet
others sailed the waves and sang and
shouted and laughed defiance 10 the tor
rid tyrant of the skies. But even these
We're fain to consult the mercury. end
even these bought evening papers eager
ly that they might scan the noonday
indications for the coming l2 hours.
The portly ice dealer. the acquisitive ice
cream vender, the smiling seller of soft
drinks, the ~barkeepers and those who
sold watermelons struggled and hustled
the whole day through, vainly trying TO
furnish their cooling wares fast enough
to meet the demand.
Sing Low and Wun Lung and laun-
dry men and laundry women laughed
with Joy as they took note generally of
whiting collars and cuffs and shirt fronts
and figured upon the extra profits that
would come to them because of the days
perspiration. The humorists of the
comic weeklies melted and wrote jokes
about Christmas and the north pole, and
the decks of the excursion steamers were
crowded with those who sought relief,
if only for but a few brief hours.
When the night editor got TO his desk
at 6 o'clock in the evening, the city
editor said:
1--WE had that new reporter, Snaps,
at work all day getting up a comic
special on wilted collars and other
timely heat topics. He'll have a column
and turn, maybe two, and Phabers, the
artist, has some corking pictures for it.
Then I've got four men out on the
drowning of 40 or so bathers down at
the beach. That ought to be good for
all we can get. And I've ordered a
3, 900 word special about n river excur-
sion boat capsizing with 100 on board.
Don't know how many are lost yet. The
police headquarters man telephones that
81 have been overcome about town, and
I've got men out for a general heat story
for what it is worth. Going to be an
other all fred hot evening, | guess. ]
hope You'll get through all right. Good
night. L D. MARSHALL
The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1894-08-25

Mistress-Hopkins, l saw a nursemaid
in the park this morning allowing a po-
hceman to kiss the baby. Now, | hope
you will remember that l have the
strongest Objection
Hopkins-Oh, ma'am, I'm SURF 10
policeman would ever kiss baby when ]
was there!-Pall Mall Budget.
The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1894-08-25
Y eneer.inU,

1t was Gail Hamilton who said that
civilized people were like an onion
peel them Off, and as layer after layer is
removed you find at heart the primitive
savage. Some people have no more than
Just one thin coat of civilization.
Scratch q Russian, and you will find a
Tartar" is an old saying. Crack the
%veneering of civilization which consti-
tutes society p%oliteness, and you will
find underneath the uncontrolled animal
who is looking out for himself and let
ting the fiend take everybody else.
Look at II party on a pleasure tour in
a railway train. They may be the cream
of refinement and politeness, the q%uintes-
sence of grace and courtesy in manner
They may be chatting in the sweetest,
merriest way. Let the dining car stew
ard put his head in the door and an
ounce dinner. Instantly the layers slip
off every one of the human onions. Each
man makes a dive to outstrip his neigh
Dor and get the first and best seal. II
another shoots in ahead of him in this
rush to the feed trough, he glares at him
as at his worst enemy, though a second
before you would have thought them the
dearest friends. There may be and usual.
ly is abundance of food to go around, and
at worst it is only half an hours wait
ing. But the exquisite gentleman is
transformed for the time into q ~ravening
monster. The man who gets left has
for a brief flash something very like muir
der in his heart. q
If carriages are provided for the party,
there is not even a pretense of assuming
the ~veneering. A rush. a jostle and a
jump, without 80 much as 81 beg your
pardon" Every gentleman and lady of
them makes a scramble for the best
places, for all the world-shall we say
it?-yes. come to think, we will-for all
the world like cattle at a drinking trough
on a hot day. Like cattle at a drinking
trough, too. the weakest and slowest get
left.
The immediate animal wants being
satisfied, the stomachs being filed or
good seats in the carriage once obtained,
it is truly astonishing how quick the
veneering slips on again. The animal
becomes nee more the gentleman, with
the manner of a Chevalier Bayard, when
good manners are nc longer especially
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1894-08-25

be cleaned out and the gourd boiled in
water for an hour or more. A little
boraY or alum should be added.
No better receptacle in which to put
garden and other seeds away for next
years use need be desired than good
dried gourds, with the stems cut off,
and Il stopper of soft wood or cork fit
ted in like the stopper of a bottle.
When the end of the stem is neatly
sawed or cut off. the seeds or pith
should be removed with a wire or
sharp stick, and the gourd boiled tc
tougher it. Before fitting the stopper
a strong cord may be wound around
the neck which will prevent any liza
bility to crack when the stopper is put
in tight. The neck is dipped in melted
IA to keep the cord in place. A loop
of cord serves to hang up each gourd
on a nail. or they may be placed on
upper shelves, as the seeds are put in
them. after being well dried. The Ia
bells from seed packets may be pasted
on the gourds to represent the kind of
seeds contained in them, or the names
may be printed with pen and ink.
Gourds made into seed receptacles
are shown in Fig. .. For saving seeds
the small gourds are the best. Larger
gourds, with the stems cut off and the
seeds removed, make a neat mantel or
table ornament. in which small bou-
quets of flowers or wild grasses may
be handsomely arranged. Ornament
the gourd with brush and paint, or pen
~ IL .f,.- 1890, @.-, lo,- ..l
half fill with sand to give weight and
put in any pretty flowers or grasses
you have and see if the effect is not
tasty as well as inexpensive. Gourd
bouquet holders are shown in Fig. ).
If desired these holders may be stained
any color with the common dyes
Walter II. Garrison, in Farm anG
Home.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1894-08-25
KNOWLEDGE

Brings comfort and improvement and
tends to personal enjoyment when
rightly used. The many, who live bet
ter than others and enjoy life more, with.
less expenditure, by more promptly
adapting the worlds best products to.
the needs of physical being, will attest
the value to health of tine pure liquid
laxative principles embraced in the
remedy, Syrup of Figs.
Its excellence is due tc It's presenting
in the form most acceptable and pleas
ant to the taste, the refreshing and truly
beneficial properties of a perfect lax
alive; effectually cleansing the system,
dispelling colds, headaches and feyerss
and permanently curing constipation.
1t has given satisfaction to millions and
met with the approval of the medical
profession, because it acts on the Kid
neys, Liver and Bowels without weak
ening them and it is perfectly free from
every Objectionable substance.
Syrup of Figs is for sale by all drug
gists in SOC and 81 bottles, but it is man
ufactured by the California Fig Syrup
Co. only, whose name is printed on every
package, also the name, Syrup of Figs,
and being well informed, you will mos
accept any substitute if offered.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1894-08-25

great proportions for every mile covered.
hilly portions of this country, a wagon
usually has to climb an aggregate
height of a thousand or more feet in
going a distance of ten miles. an
amount of grade which could readily
have been avoided by adding two CT
three miles to the length of the way.
In the rough reckoning of the coun-
try engineer, it always seems to be
always advantageous to construct 4
road on the most direct alignment
which will be passable to loaded We
hicles. with all the power which can
conveniently be put upon them. 1t
is easy, however, to show that uLually
the only economy which is thus effect
ed is the cost of the first construction.
A close reckoning will always indi-
cate that this initial economy is
bought at a disproportionate annual
cost in the expense of use and main
tenance. The load which can be
drawn over the direct way is often not
more than half that which could be
taken over the lower route. and pro-
portionate wear on the draught ami
mails and the vehicles will often vary
in a similar measure. Moreover. the
expense of maintaining hilly roads.
under the wearing action of rain, frost
and locked wheels, will more than
counterbalance the cost of q longer but
less inclined route.
Many persons. particularly those of
small experience. are of the opinion
that they carry in the mind a wide
stretch of country SO effectively that
they may be able to design a route
which will fit the topography in a sat
isfactory manner This is clearly a
delusion as is shown by the fact that
no trained engineer, however wide his
experience, dares trust himself to
stake out a mile of railway without a
careful preliminary survey of the
ground. one which will enable him to
take to his Office the data by which he
can plat and compare the several pos
sible routes. This care as to the loca-
ton of 4 railway, though invariably
taken, is, in proportion to the magni-
tude of the interests involved, of
rather less consequence than that de-
mauded in the case of a common road.
The increase in the expenditure of en-
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1894-08-25

If your piazza is a miniature Sahara,
change it to an alluring spot of shade
and GOODNESS by an awning, which you
can make yourself. Sew a sufficient
number of breadths of awning to reach
clear around and fall low enough to
cast 4 shade all across the floor of the
piazza. Scallop and bind the lower
edges and sew stout curtain rings every
few inches along the top to hang on
hooks placed below the root of the pi-
azza. Cut the corner breadths with a
bias seam where they join, so that the
awning may be extended at an angle
from the piazza. Fit round sticks
three feet long into sockets on the cor
ner posts of the piazza, and into the OPP
posite end screw a hook. which is to
fasten through a ring on the lower end
of the awning.-Chicago Herald.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1894-08-25
AGRICULTURAL HINTS.
PRACTICAL FARMING.


The Laying Out of New Roads Is a Task
of Great Importance.
Perhaps some may question the pro-
priety of treating such subject under
practical farming" but it seems to us
that good roads have very much to do
with practical farming. and one of the
best ways to have good roads is to
study the essentials of having them
good when laying out new ones.
The following is taken from a paper
by Prof. n. S. Shaler, which appeared
i'll the Atlantic Monthly: 1t seems
worth while for all intelligent people
to have some general notion concern
ing the simpler facts involved in the
science and art of roadmaking. With
such persons the study of these mat
tiers may we'll begin with certain
fundamental conceptions as to the es-
sential relations of these construc-
tions. All highways are intended to
afford a hard, smooth. and. as nearly
as possible, horizontal surface over
which that great instrument of civili-
ton, the wheel, with it's burden. can
be made to % with the least posi-
BILE friction. Every unit of friction
which is encountered is a measurable
element of cost, either in time, power
or damage to the road Inc carriage.
For every foot of distance he %traverses
the WAGNER is mourning a tau. If he
is conveying the weight of a ton to
market the amount of this tax for a
mile may. under favorable conditions,
not exceed five cents. From this mini
mum scale of expenditure. with the
advancing degradation of the way, the
cost may increase until it amounts to
ten or twenty times what it is in the
ideal though seldom realized state of a
highway. At a certain stage in the ac-
emulation of the tax even the more
adventurous, wisely, though without
clear reckoning, regard the way as
economically impossible. This con-
ception of a roadway tax and Il clear
idea as to the frequent enormity of the
imposition are the fundamental no
tons which we need to fix in the
minds of our people. With these well
affirmed we may hope to interest them
in the questions of betterment.
AS in most other matters. the details
connected with the construction and
use of roads are much harder to pre-
sen than the general considerations
of the subject. There are. however,
certain simple considerations which
will enable anyone to know the essen
tial differences between sound and I'M
sound practice in the construction of
highways. The first and most inn
pOrtant, though in countries the most
neglected, element of care concerns
what engineers call the profile of the
way: that is. the irregular line de-
scribed by its center across the com
try.
The ordinary roadmaster is in all
cases tempted to draw his proposed
line as directly Is possible between
his principal objective points. If he
makes a depression from a rectilinear
path, it is generally because he has
an insuperable obstacle,
because some landowner has effect
lively objected to having his fields cut
in twain Thus it comes about hat the
greater part of our roads are. from
their unnecessary uphill and down.
sorely taxing to the community which
they are supposed to serve. In many
parts of New England and the other
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1894-08-25
UPON c A RIVER.
How the Wonderful Invention of Capt
Smart Was Greeted by Capt. Kidd.

How the Wonderful Invention Of Capt.
Smart Was Greeted by Capt. Kidd.
Col. Aleck Smart, U. S. A., while not
a great inventor, has a creative imagi-
nation which he has applied to the or
binary affairs of life with remunerative
seSults.
Col. Smart conceived the idea of in
Producing the photograph to govern
ment fog-horns, by which ships many
miles out at sea should be made to
listen to official warnings.
Col. Smart recently induced the
United States to place an Edison pho
nograph in one of it's largest steam
horns located on the pier outside the
lake front at Chicago, in order to ena-
bic vessels to more easily make port
through the smoke which floats out
from the city.
The other day the good lumber-lug-
ger Star, Capt. Kidd, was feeling it's
way towards that port. Capt. Kidd
had previously made the harbor by the
odor, color and density of the Chicago
river water, which sweeps out into the
lake for miles. He had not heard of
Col. Smart's adaptation of the phono-
graph. Having entered the great
black cloud which hides the city, Capt.
Kidd was exerting his ~olfactory organs
to strike the trail when a distant voice
said in tones of thunder. Keep off the
grass"
lizard starboard the helm." roared
the captain. They've seeded the Chi
cago river."-Judge.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1894-08-25

ergy required to convey the loads of
ordinary wagons up steep slopes is
quite as great as it would be in the
case of a locomotive climbing like
grades. and the power which is applied
through horsefiesh costs far more per
unit than that used in a locomotive.
1t is therefore clearly important to
take the same kind of care in deter
mining the route t o be followed by a
highway as is taken in the choice of a
line for the newer kind of ~transporta-
ton.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1894-08-25
Warned-Over Eggs.

l am not a scientist, SO can't explain
it, but it is a fact that eggs that have
been cooked, boiled. three minutes or
less, car be reboiled the next morning,
and will not only be fresh, but as soft
and palatable as though cooked but
once. After an egg has been heated
and cooled you could cook it till dooms-
day and it would not get hard. Some
property in it resists the hardening
process after it is one heated, if only
20 the soft-boiled point. Some will turn
up their patrician noses at the idea Of
warr1ed-over eggs, but they will find
them even better than warmed-over
meath. Y. Advertiser.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1894-08-25
Honor aud Duty.

You car not go through life, no mat
ter how humble your sphere, without
being called upon many times to decide
whether You will be true or false to
honor and duty. Duty and honor
must go hand in hand-there can be
no divorce between these words. You
can make your lives useful. beautiful
and noble. You can make them worth
less and contemptible.-Detroit Free
Press.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1894-08-25
A Most Natural Inference.

They had just become engaged.
Herbert" she said, ARE you sure
that You love me?"
Absolutely" he answered.
"How can you tell?'
"By the fact that I am anxious to
marry you."-Washington Star.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1894-08-25
Very Cheap.

"Where did you go this summer"
asked business man of another.
"We boarded in the country"
"Was it expensive?:"
Not very. We got a good deal for
our money. My wife got the rheuma-
tism- My boy, Tommy, got his leg
broke, and little Mamie got poisoned
with ivy, and all we paid was ten dol
lars 4 week apiece. Texas Siftings.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1894-08-25
Pruning Grapes In Summer.

After the punches of grapes have
formed on the new vine profitable
work can be done by going along,
p%inching off the vines just above the
fourth leaf, or one leaf above the last
bunch of grapes. This will turn much
of the sap into the new vine which is
to come out. either at the ground or
near to it, to make wood for next wear
when the old vine is cut away. After
this years vines have been pinched off
a new branch will shoot out at the
base of each leaf. If these are also
pinched off when but a few inches
long. no more vines will start out
from them and all the sap for this sea-
son will go into the fruit and into the
new vine which shot out from the
ground.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1894-08-25

Caller-I've found that there dorg
reward fer.
Conformation have, eh?
Caller-Yep, an if yeh don't give me
ten dollars I'll take it to 'er.-N. Y.
Weekly.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1894-08-25
CARE OF THE ORCHARD.
After Planting Incessant Cultivation Il
Absolutely Necessary.

AFTER flantlflg lncessant CULTIVATION 40
Absolutely Necessary.
Without a good, sound healthy tree
or vine to start with, the best efforts
of the planter will avail nothing.
Then we have i very severe and
changeable climate to contend with,
which is often very disastrous to the
very best trees. In apple, plant moth.
ing but the best root-grafted trees, and
be careful that the roots are not GOV,
cred with root aphis, which are Otter
the death of newly-planted trees. After
your orchard is planted with good
healthy trees, cultivate, says a Ne
braska fruit grower. 1t would do ne
harm to plant some hoed r in the
orchard. such as garden truck. pota.
toes, buckwheat and possibly corn.
but sweet corn would be best. Then
leave Il space of six feet between the
row of trees and the first row of corn
then keep up 4 thorough cultivation
until trees commence to rear, remem.
boring all the time to keep the ground
level between the trees. When trees
come to the fruiting age. SOW the or.
chard to red clover, cutting the first
crop and letting the second fall down
and lie on the ground, with an occa.
sional top-dressing of stable manure.
1t will pay to go through the orchard
occasionally to see that the trees dc
not get to leaning to the northeast
While trees are young it is an easy jot
to prevent this. This gentleman be-
1sa-ac thof - p-D,Il mood -1,-
when fruit trees are planted to put a
board on the southwest side and keeI
it there until trees are well established
to prevent what is called sun scald.-
Farmers Voice.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1894-08-25
How Jolly!

Ehl who said that2 Tit answer is as
prompt as the question from thedear chappie
who has c~heckmated the rheumatism with
Hostetter's Stomach Bitters, u~nequalled as
well for dyspepsia, liver complaint, ~inactivi-
ty of the bowels or kidneys, nervousness,
lack of vitality, appetite or sleep. Use the
great tonic and you will be ultimately happy
if now afflicted.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1894-08-25

First Politician can say this, hat
our party conducted the campaign in
an honest, fair and straightforward
way. What more can you say of your
party?
Second Politican-We won.-Boston
Transcript.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1894-08-25

Hicks-If a certain business man
doesn't let up sending letters to my
wife, there is going to be a row.
DiX-Why, what n the old repro
bate have to say to her?
Hicks-Keeps inviting her to his mil
linery openings.-N. Y. World.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1894-08-25
Very Likely.

Mr.. Grutfly-It is very disagreeable
to me to tell people unpleasant truths.
Mr.. Candida expect it is unpleasant
for you to tell truths of any sort
Tammany Times.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1894-08-25
No Objections at All.

Have you any objections to me as q
son-ip-law?"
NO" replied the father, none at
ALL"
do you mean t?"
Certainly. In view of the fact that
you are not my son-in-law, and are not
going to be, 1 don't see how / could
have any objections
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1894-08-25
Ecstasy.

There's a ring around the moon"
He whispered in lovers glee;
She sighed and murmured, dreamily:
How happy the o must be-"
Boston Courier.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1894-08-25

"Who's your friend?" asked Wilburn,
as his companion paused and lifted his
hat to a lady who drove by.
THAT isn't a friend" said Mosser,
absent-mindedly. That's my wife,
Chicago Record.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1894-08-25

Hccker-What has become of Rog-
erS?
Decker-Didn't you know he was run
over by 4 Broadway car?
Hecker-I thought he recovered.
Decker-He didn't; but his wife did
the full legal damages.-Brooklyn
Life.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1894-08-25

UNREHEARsED EFFECT.-Aged and Veneer
able Retainer-"Here, noble sire, is the leg
acy of your great ancestor; this chest has
not been opened for o couple of genera
tionsI" Don Diego-'Open it" when tho
lid is raised a live cat jumps on to the STACEY
Old Servant "Drat those mischieyonS
chorus lads r"-Humoristische Batter.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1894-08-25

Mr.. Brush-"Have you enjoyed the
art exhibition, Miss Giddy?' Miss
Giddy-"Well, 1 should say not. Half
the bonnets the visitors wore were last
season ones. "-Inter-Ocean.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1894-08-25

JoSEs-'So Smith gave you a cigari'
Brown-"Yes, but l was in luck; neither Of
US had O match. life.
HaI's Catarrh Cure
Is taken internally Price 75c.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1894-08-25

Tommy think sister Lucy is going
to play Indian.
Mamma - Why do you think SO,
Tommy?
Tommy-Why, because l just saw her
painting her face.-IIarper's Young
People.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1894-08-25

-"How's Chappie to-day. improving
any?" Doctor-"Yes." How about
his appetizer" Good. Yesterday he
took Cruel and to-day ten, toast, and
his cane" -Inter-Ocean.