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The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1894-09-01
The Art of Brewing.

| Africans on their native heath use
bread for the foundation of a very
potent beverage. The bread is broken
up. placed in a large vessel, quanti-
| ty of water is poured in also and the
mixture of bread and water is exposed
to the fiercest rays of the light for
fully twelve hours. The result is
called "Marissa. and is said to
greatly resemble book beer in taste
and potency.
The use of beer, which is in reality
nothing but bread in its fluid state
fermented, is on the increase in this
as we'll as in other countries. Beer
drinking and Germany have always
been synonymouste terms, while England
and the United States have been beer
consumers for yesrs, but now even
wine-producing France has fallen into
line.
The brewing of lager beer in this
country was begun about fifty years
ago in the outskirts of Philadelphia.
Before that brewery products were en-
tirely ale and porter. Now, however,
neaely all the output, which last year
amounted to SO, s22, 900 barrels. is of
lager. Each barrel contains two
hundred and forty-eight pints or four
hundred and ninety-six glasses: there
fore, according to the latest internal
revenue returns, there was made and
sold last year an average of glass
of beer for every working day to every
man, woman and child in the United
States.
In the production of beer. New
York leads and Pennsylvania, Illinois,
Wisconsin, Missouri, New Jersey and
Massachusetts, follow in order. New
York produces two-thirds as much as
all the other States put together.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1894-09-01
Not Hopeless Ignorance.

Some girls are too cute for any.
thing" remarked Boston drummer,
with his left arm off at the elbow.
LAS to how?" inquired the hotel
clerk, who was connoisseur.
I'm various ways" continued the
drummer, ''but in one particular way
which recently became a part of my
experience.
at happened out in Missouri, - said
the drummer. Il stopped over Sun
day in little town where one of my
customers had a rather pretty daugh-
ter, and to while away the time
asked her to go buggy riding with me,
which she consentented to do very
readily. AS we were about to get in
she hesitated moment.
What is it?' l asked.
"'I'll sit on the right side of the
buggy she said, jumping in.
What's that for?' asked, rather
quickly, feeling that she thought /
could not drive with this one hand of
mine.
well, if you don't know what
for she twittered, maybe you are not
too stupid to learn. Get in here and
move on
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1894-09-01
Debs Revealed Himself.

Philadelphia Times: Debs could have
done the public no greater service than
to reveal himself and his aspirations
in their true light. In his declaration
before the commission he ranks him
self with the class of haf-baked foreign
theorists, who have imported them
selves into this country with the
avowed purpose of trying to convince
lthe American people that their system
of government is all wrong. 1t is true
Debs just escaped being a foreigner
by birth. but he has inbibed the car
dinal principles of foreign socialism
and to all intent and purposes might
just as we'll have been born in Con-
tinental Europe. Real Americans will
be thankful that he is no longer
masquerading under false colors, but
that he stands confessed the real COM
munist that he is. And they will be
quite as thankful for his reluctant
testimony to the effectiveness of the
courts in defeating a well-organized
attempt to override all law and place
the business and convenience of 85,-
600, 600 of people at the mercy of few
enemies of all government.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1894-09-01
4 Kindergarten.

| EDITOR DEMoCRAT:-Our school
board has distinguished itself of late
by a careful management of our school
interests. something this community
appreciates. Now let them crown all
former efforts by comforting lasting
and real benefit on the patrons of the
school by adding Kindergarten to
our now prosperous schools.
When the new addition to the school
building is finished. they will have
ample space to spare one room for the
little folks, and it will be an easy mat
ter to secure the services of a practical
teacher to conduct the school.
The objection, that the law does not
admit any child under six need be no
obstacle. but on the other hand real
benefit. as the Kindergarten scholars
would be we'll advanced before they
reach that age and enter upon the
regular course. The addition would
be nothing more or less than a private
preparatory course under the super
vision of the school board, and they
would be justified in granting the room
and fuel for that purpose. There
would be no necessity for paying the
teacher out of the public school fund,
as every parent would most cheerfully
pay fifty or seventy-five cents a month
for the privilege of sending to such a
school. Then adopt the Normal plan,
of requiring the fee paid before the
child be assigned to a class, and the
funds arising would pay good salary
to a practical teacher.
The board will do we'll to give the
matter their early and earnest con-
PATRON.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1894-09-01
Worth TRYING.

when you rise in the morning. u
says Sydney Smith. form a resolution
to make the day happy one to fell
low creature. 1t is easily done; left
off garment to the man who needs it, a
kind word to the sorrowful, an encour-
aging expression to the striving, trifies
in themselves as light as air, will do it
at least for twenty-four hours
BY the most simple arithmetical sum
look at the result: you send one per-
son, only one happily through the
day: that is three hundred and sixty
five in the course of the year; and
suppose you live only forty years after
you commence that course of medicine,
you have made fourteen thousand six
hundred human beings happy, at all
events for time. Now is not this
simple? 1t is too short for ethics, too
easily accomplished for you to say: 1
would if could.'''
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1894-09-01
Hired Girls Wages,

Competent servants are better paid
than they were ten years ago. In 1884
maid received $40 to IA month for
doing the washing, ironing, cooking
and cleaning in a small family. Now
the same girl gets from $16 to $40 a
month and doesn't care the shake of a
saucepan whether she stays or not.
Even the ''just landed" who know
nothing of the language and little
more about housekeeping, demand the
wages paid few years ago and get it.
Although there is a surplus of kitchen
help in New York, applicants resist
reductions of wages, preferring to go
to the laundries until ..missus" comes
to terms,
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1894-09-01
The West End.

We hear the above phrase used very
frequently here of late and many are
the inquiries of where is it," and
what is it," Take a drive out on
Good Hope street some afternoon, GO
ing west, and just beyond Haarig, on
that beautiful thourghfare, Bloomfield
road, you will find what is called the
West End.
This beautiful part of our city has
sprung into existence in the last year
and many are the dwellings that have
been erected, some now under con-
struction and many plans are being
made for erections of nice dwellings
which will be put up before winter.
Robert Gibony has made prepara-
tions for the erection of fine residence
which will cost several thousand dol
lars and J. NJ. Morrison is laying the
foundation for an eight room DWELL
ing.
With such prominent men as Messrs.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1894-09-01
KILLED HIS MAN.
A Dangerous Hatchet Did
the Work.
William Spaulding Kills Frank Laton
Near Benton-The killing said
to Have Been Done in
Self.Jefense

Near Benton in Scott county las,
Friday Frank Laton and two CON-
panions, who were on theirway TO a pond
where they were going fishing stopped
at the house of widow for, whom
William Spaulding, Jr.. was working.
They went to the well and got some
water and then started off. Young
Laton suddenly turned around and
telling his companions to wait for him
out in the road. He went back to the
house and when his companions saw
him again they saw him fall from a
lick on the head with hatchet in the
hands of William Spaulding, Jr.
Laton lived till the next day but he
never spoke a word after he was
struck with the hatchet.
Young Spaulding is a son of Will
liam Spaulding of near Benton and
grandson of Mr.. E. Spaulding of near
this city. He has the reputation of
being quiet, peaceable young man
and it is said that the killing was done
in self-defense. After Laton died
Spaulding gave himself up and was
admitted to bail in the sum of one
thousand dollars.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1894-09-01
Water as Fuel.

It may well appear to be the extreme
Iof paradox that the same element
which tempers the excess of both solar
and animal heat should become
source of supply for their deficiency.
and yet water in the form of gas is now
used for fuel. The principle of its
manufacture is to pass steam over
rsd-hot coal, thereby resolving it into
two infiammable gases, hydrogen and
|carbonic oxide. It is open, however,
to drawbacks. In the first place, it is
absolutely inodorous, so that its es-
cape can not reveal itself to the sens,
OF smell, and in the second place. one
of its component gases, carbonic
oxide. is an active and dangerous
poison. 1t thus requires great care in
use, as we'll as in storage, and it
seems hardly probable that for some
time at least it will come into general
domestic use. But it produces less
smoke, is more powerful and burns up
less air than the ordinary coal gas.
It possesses very little illuminating
power.-Brooklyn Eagle.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1894-09-01
\ Baby's influence.

A pretty story is told of baby's in
fiuence over fallen women in Russian
Jail: The gaoler was Colonel ".
and he and his wife had just arrived
to take charge of large prison in one
of the central provinces. The colonel
was terrible disciplinarian. but a
kind enough man in his way. His
wife was a gentle little enthusiast. who
had made up her mind to reform all
the women prisoners. This particular
Jail had very bad reputation, and the
women especially were often in mutiny.
Colonel V. got along famously with
the men, but the women were too much
for him, and he meditated fogging and
and all sorts of terrible measures.
Once Madame v. took walk through
the prison yard when the women were
exercising. Behind her walked nurse,
with her baby. The prisoners as soon
as they got sight of the baby, flocked
around, and Madame W, at first fear
floIcLCc. Wdc rClicNcu W SOC tildL
only babyolatry was the matter. First
one and then another of the women
begged to hold the child moment;
some laughed with joy, and many shed
tears. Madame v. had a happy
thought, and she spoke it out. THE
best conducted woman of you all at
the end of the week will be allowed to
tend the baby for half an hour"
Never was cha12efo instantaneous
ly wrought. The women became amen
able to every word of the warders,
and at the weeks end it was with the
utmost difficulty that Mademe v.
could decide among so many well con-
Quoted prisoners. which had the best
claim to the promised reward. The
baby's visits were afterwards frequent,
and the woman's wards were COM
pletely reformed"
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1894-09-01
some Evils in Railway Management,

Some Evils in Railway Management
The floating debt of the seventy
three roads (which defaulted in 1893
with capital of 1858, 549, ,OOO) does not
fall short of $500, ,OOO, 600; when we add
to this the companies which had been
already in default, and the few failed
since. about one-quarted of the i'm
mense capital invested in railroads
has become unavailable. The longer
it remains SO the greater will be the
suffering of the holders of the securi-
ties. Years elapsed after the panics
of 1851 and 1873 before confidence in
our investments was restored: We may
look for similar period of stagnation
now. An examination of the causes
leading to this state of affairs sug-
gests to an impartial observer the
necessity of adopting measures of re-
form which may hereafter alleviate
evil.
The capitalization of our roads sell
dom represents their actual cost. To
allure capital to the establishment of
a new line terms are offered which pre-
clude the possibility of success except
in rare cases. When a number of
men organize to build a road they
usually sell bonds at about 80, throw
in debenture bond and stock, and then
construct the railway in a slipshod
manner, often for less than they real
ize for the bonds. There are founders
with an honest purpose who await
development of the property and the
prosperity of the country opened by
their road; but majority sell bonds
and stocks as soon as they find mar
ket, not seldom making inaccurate
statements about the condition of the
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1894-09-01

of them have been celebrated since tn
war, some of them been Representa-
tives, others have been Senators, ant
two have been Cabinet officers. Cali
fornia furnishes Leland STANFORD
and F. F. Lowe; Connecticut, W. A.
Buckingham; Delaware, William Ben
ton and William Cinnon; Illinois,
Richard Bates and Richard Oglesby:
Indiana, Oliver P. Morton: Iowa, S.
j. Kirkwood and w. NJ. Stone: Kansas,
Thomas Carney: Kentucky, B. Magof.
fin and T. E. Bramlette; Maine, Irael
Washburn, Jr., A. Coburn and S.
Cony: Maryland, A. w. Crawford;
Massachusetts, John A. Andrew:
Michigan, Austin Blair and Il. H.
Carpo; Minnesota, Alexander Ramsey;
Missouri. Il. r. Gamble: New Hamp-
shire, Icabod Goodwin and N. S Ber-
ry: New Jersy, Charles S. Olden and
Joel Parker; New York, Edwin D.
Morgan and Reuben E. Fenton: Ohio,
William Denison, David Tod and
John Brough; Pennsylvania, Andrew
G. Curtin: Rhode Island, w. P.
Sprague: Vermont, Frederick Hol-
brook: Wisconsin. L. P. Harvey, Ed
ward Solomon and J. T. Lewis.
The war Governors of the South
ern States were John G. Shorter and
Thomas H. Watts, Alabama: H. NJ.
Rector and Harris Flanagan, Arkan-
sas: John Milton and A. K. Allison.
Florida: Joseph E. Brown, Georgia:
o. Moore, Louisiana: John
Peters and Charles Clark. Missis-
sippi: II. T. Clark and Zebulon Vance.
North Carolina: F. w. Pickens, NJ.
L. Borham and A. 6. McGrath, South
Carolina: Isham G. Harris, Tennessee;
:. r. Labback and Pendleton Marrah,
Texas: John Letcher and William
Smith, Virginia.
From Stanford to Letcher there are
many famous names, and the death of
,x-Gov. Blair recalls the fact that the
war Governors" both North and
south, will soon be nothing more than
! ,memory.-Columbus, Ohio, State
Journal.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1894-09-01

property. remember reputable
clearinghouse which placed in Frank.
fort bonds on a line before the road
was completely surveyed; it failed
disastrously.
A pernicious system also is in vogue,
VIZ. borrowing money at usurious
rates of interest. as long as bankers or
wealthy directors can be found willing
to assume the risk, in order to bridge
over what is supposed to be tempo
rary embarrassment, which often re-
suits in receivership, accelerated by
the sacrifices thus made.-Louis Wind
muller in Harper's Weekly.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1894-09-01
THEY ARE PASSING AWAY.
The War Governors VIII Soon b
Nothing More Than a Memory.

The War Governors VIII Soon be
Nothing More Than a Memory.
The death of ex-Gov. Austin Blair,
OF Michigan, removes the last but two
of the famous war Governors oi
our time. The other exceptions are
ex-Gov. W. P. Sprague, of Rhode
Island, afterward a United States
Senator, who still survives, and holds
the dignified position of policeman at
Narragansett Pier, and ex-Gov. A. G..
Curtin. of Pennsylvania.
The late ex-Gov. Blair entered poll
tics when the Republican party was
formed, in 1854, and in 1860 he headed
the Michigan delegation to the Chica-
60 convention, voting for William II.
Seward all the time. He was Governor
of Michigan from 1861 to 1865. and
gave active support to the National
Government.
What list of distinguished men is
found in the war Governors!" Many
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1894-09-01
The Wealth of Nations.

An estimate regarded as reliable
places the aggregate wealth of leading
countries at the following figures:
United States, $50, 475, 600, 600; Great
Britain, s43, 600, 900, 600; France, $4O,-
300, 600, 900: Germany, s3l, 800, 600, 600;
Russia, s21, 7l5, ,OOO. 900; Austria, sls,-
O65, ,00O, 600; Italy, s11, ,755, 900, 900. No
other nation credited with more than
$40, ,000, ,0O0, 600. The next in rank to
Italy is Spain, with 81, 965, ,OO0, 900, while
Greece, the last and lowest in this
classification, is given but 81, ,055, ,0OO,-
600.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1894-09-01
Where is Hes

An old man by the name of Teson,
living about mile from East Cape,
came over to the city last Saturday
morning and has not been seen since
noon Saturday. His absence is some.
what mysterious, as it cannot be &C.
counted for. Ais wife has had several
parties looking for him, but at present
all efforts to find him have failed. II
is suggested that he might have gone
to the ferry boat about twelve O'Clock
Saturday when all hands were at
dinner and probably fell over board
and was drowned.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1894-09-01
RANDOLPH AND sIppLE.
The English Statesman Is Made the
Victim of Philadelphia testers.

N1ctim OF fh1iadeiphfR Testers.
When Lord Randolph Churchill wa.
last in America he visited the city o.
Philadelphia, and while there SCI
about collecting statistics relating tc
the State prisons of Pennsylvania.
He was referred to the head of the
State Prisons Board, a gentleman re.
joicing in the somewhat singular name
of Cadwalladle Biddle. Before call.
ing upon Mr.. Biddle, however, Lord
Randolph fell into the hands of some
wags of the Union League Club.
You've got the name wrong" said
one of these merry testers. Its not
Cadwallader Biddle. Bidcallader Wad-
die. :"
Don't mind what he says, Lord
Randolph exclaimed another; ''the
real name is Wadbillader Caddle.' -
A third member took the ex-Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer aside. and i'm
parted to him in confidence that he
was being gulled on all sides.
What, then, is the actual name of
the Prisons Board chief" anxiously
asked the noble lord.
The actual name,' contided his
false friend, lis Widbollader Diddle. -
And when Lord Randolph drove 70
the Prison Board that evening he was
so upset that he stammered, viii
you take this card into Mr.. Bid-cad-
wid-wid d-dollader Whatshis-
name?-I mean the chief of the board.
but l forget his extraordinary NOM
enclatural combination.
Mr.. Cadwallader Biddle himself.
who has been recently staying in Lon
don, is the amused narrator of this
story. Westminster Gazette
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1894-09-01
Frenchified Bills of Fare.

In winter, as we'll as in summer, the
proprietors of restaurants and hotels
put up their bills of fare names which
convey no idea of the delicious dishes
or dainty delicacies. apd willfully
pervert the language of two countries
into meaningless phrases.
Ask them why the habit is condoned.
and a variety of answers are given.
but the gist of them all is that the
American public likes to be hum
bugged.
Said one innkeeper: ''Do you sup
pose l could get 15c for dish of Irish
potatoes if on my card 1 printed the
name in that plain way? No, indeed.
l put down as 'Pomme de terre Irlan-
daise. and the price is cheerfully
paid. -
Here are few of the many names
that puzzle the uninitiated, and the
first one generally leads the list both
in order of dinner and in degree of
favoritism: ''Huitresen en- demi coquille. "
When translated it means only oysters
on the half-shell, but is little difficult
for the unfrenchifed Yankee to under
stand. ''Potage tOrtue" has nothing
to do with torture. 1t is simply de-
licious soup of turtle. ''Homard la
puzzles one until we learn
that it is only way of cooking
Holsters named after the man who in
vented it.
Thus through the Vaccinations of
the French menu we are developing in
TO a set of beef-eaters
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1894-09-01
He is Wasting His Wind.

The editor of the Jackson Cash. Book
continues to howl about bosses and
ring rule, but he is wasting his wind,
for the people know that there is no
such thing as ring rule in this county.
The men who are designated as bosses
are as far from being bosses as the
editor of the Cash-Book is from being
an angel, and if the Lord attends
strictly to business there is a poor
show for Frank Mcguire slipping by
St. Peter.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1894-09-01
Good Value In an Old Carpet.

A very much worn and sadly dilapi-
dated carpet covered the floor of the
cashiers Office in the mint. A new one
involved the expenditure of perhaps
S76, and for weeks Superintendent
Townsend has endeavored to secure
permission from the department at
Washington to buy one. The mass
OF red tape and the difficulty of obtain
ing money for any purpose baked
him. but he pegged away patiently
and a day or two ago had the salts
faction of gaining permission to buy
the needed carpet, which cost him a
little more than $40. The wretched old
covering was burned. The ashes were
refined, and they yielded 800 of gold.
Record.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1894-09-01
AN OLD CITIZEN GONE.
William E. Alexander Aged seventy
Eight Years, Passes Away.

William E. Alexander. one of the
Oldest citizens of Cape Girardeau, died
at his home near jackson last Sunday.
The deceased was for many years
prominent as a man and leader in
politics in this county. He was several
years Public Administrator of this
county and in that capacity he per-
formed his duties well, and faithfully,
and did what few other Office holders
do-went out of Office with no enemies
left behind.
William E. Alexander was an honest,
honorable man. He lived to raise a
large family and then lived to ripe
old age, and now he has quietly fold
ed his arms in silent sleep, where pain,
sorrow, suffering, hardships, toll and
trouble are unknown.