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The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1894-08-11
STATE SUNDAY SCHOOLS.
Meet in Annual Convention at Chill
lfcothe Aug. 4 toto.

The Missouri Sunday School AS
sociation is twenty-nine years old and
will hold its annual convention on the
above dates this year. This Associa-
tion has done vast amount of good
In this State, particularly in the last
few years. Several workers are en-
ployed and kept in the field. holding
conventions and institutes maintaining
an interest in Sunday schools, and
encouraging their increase and aiding
IN promoting their efficiency. The
State Association organizes no Sun
day schools, but keeps the movement
alive and thereby serves all the de-
nominations.
Some OF the foremost talent in Mis-
souri, will participate in the conven-
ton. Among the well-known divines
and educators of the State who are
down for addresses are Rev. John
Mathews, d. D.. st. Louis: Rev. Rob-
ert L. Laytield and Rev. VIM L. Suth-
erland, Kansas City: Rev. Z. G. Cor
don, D. D. Vice President Westmins-
terGollege, Fulton: Rev. NJ. ]. Breaker,
D. D., President of Grand River Col
lege. Gallatin: 5. NJ. Dick, Ph. D.,
President Missouri Wesleyan College,
Cameron: Rev. Duncan Brown. D. D.,
Terkio: J. I. Mitchell, NJ. d. Kansas
City. and w. H. Mclean. st. Louis:
The railroads have made rate of one
and one-third fare for the round trip.
Pesons going are required to get GER
titicates from ticket agents, to get the
one-third fare returning.
The State officers are sparing no
pains to make this the best convention
yet held.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1894-08-11
HEAT AND RABIES.
More Dogs go Mad in Mfdwinter
than in Midsummer

''Of course you know there is no
connection between the hot weather
and the canine madness. said a
Washington veterinarian. in speaking
TO Post man the other day. The
dog days are myth. for statistics
have shown that rabies in dog days or
any other animals does not depend on
the heat for its development: but, in
fact. there are more mad dogs in Paris
every winter, according to Government
statistics. than in the summer. But it
is true. nevertheless. that there have
been great many mad dogs in Wash
ington lately. The most of them are
not recognized as such. but they are
real rabies nevertheless. and every
time now that any one comes to me to
attend a dog with "a bone in his
! throat. l start out loaded to kill IA
mad dog. if necessary.
The most people do not know it. but
there are two sorts of rabies. the
dumb and raging. In the latter there
is no mistaking the disease. The dog
starts out to run amuck. and goes
swapping and biting at everything in
sight till he falls exhausted. But the
other variety is principally indicated
by paralysis of the lower jaw which
makes the animal vicious. but he gOes
around looking for sympathy, rubbing
affectiOnately against his master and
begging to be carressed. He will lick
the face and hands of his owner. if
allowed. and the virus is as easily
transmitted in this way as through a
bite. should the subject of the caress
have any cut or abrasion of the skin
that the poison can reach.
The animal will try to drink. but
can not owing to the paralysis of the
throat muscles. and the madness is
rarely discovered till the last stages.
have had several cases of this sort
lately among the owners of fine pet
dogs. but. of course. when the animal
is killed the matter is kept very quiet.
Madness does not seem to be as
common among the curs of the city as
with the high-bred specimens. Pound
master Einstein. when questioned. said
that he had not met with a case of
rabies this summer. but says it is hot
enough down at the pound office to
to give the POundmaster all the diff
ferent sorts of madness and brain
fever in the catalogue. and now he is
going around looking for some one to
introduce special resolution in the
House appropriating electric fans for
the relief of the pound man. Wash
ington Post.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1894-08-11
HON. A. n. LIVINGSTON.
He says the Race for Congress in this
District is Between Himself
and MOZely.

Hon. A. II. Livingston. of West
Plains. Howell county. spent Sunday
forenoon in this city. He addressed
the POpulists at Jackson Saturday
and he came here to take the train for
Dexter. While here Mr.. Livingston
did not hesitate to answer all ques-
tions put to him. He seemed to be in
talking humor and he talked freely
to the Democratic statesmen who
gathered around him. He says he is
just as good a Democrat as he ever
was, that he has not left the Demo-
cratic party but the party has left
him. He says Cleveland is no Demo-
crat and the man who claims to be a
Cleveland Democrat is not Democrat
but is a big hard headed mugwump.
Talking about the Congressional
race in this District Mr.. Livingston
says the contest is between the Repub-
lican and Populist candidates. Marsh
Arnold, he says, is not in it.
He says he will carry a number of
the wester counties. and Howell county,
he claims. he will carry over Mr..
Arnold by plurality of five hundred
votes.
Mr.. Livingston is fine talker and
he has the reputation of being the
most eloquent of all the public speak
ers in this Congressional District. He
is young man of fine ability and if
he makes thorough canvass of the
District we predict that ne will make
converts of many voters who have
heretofore voted the Democratic ticket
from top to bottom without scratch.
If the little intellectual giant from
Scott county expects to hold his seat
in Congress he had better be getting a
move on himself.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1894-08-11
Hunting Murrell's Treasure.

a party of prospectors. claiming to
be from Clay county. Arkansas. last
week appeared at Pine City and OBJ
tanned permission to dig near the
Lone Pine tree for buried treasure.
They had mineral rod along and
claimed that it indicated hidden treas
ure of some kind and they intimated
that it was the hidden gold of Murrell
and his gang.
For a long time there has been a
legend to the effect that Murrell made
his rendezvous in what is now Dunklin
county. and that TO mark the spot
where he buried some of his wealth. he
planted a single pine tree. or shrub,
at place ten miles north of Kennett
Murrell may not have been here. but
certain it is that the Lone Pine" is
there. and it has been as far back as
the Oldest inhabitant can remember.
There is not another of its species in
the county. or even in this section. and
II may have started there from a seed
dropped by a bird. or carried there by
a wild animal. years and years ago.
The treasure hunters may have
heard of the Lone Pine. and concluded
that there was a chance for a treasure
to be buried there. Anyway they dug
a deep hole and at last accounts were
preparing to prospect further.
In the not very distant past alleged
gold bricks have been unearthed
from Just such holes. and in other
cases. ''prospectors have sold alleged
secrets as to the hiding place of lost
treasure for goodly sums of real
money: but We hardly think Dunklin
county has any suckers who will bite
just now.-Dunklin County Democrat.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1894-08-11
FELT SORRY
For the Man Who Knew None of the
Delights of Matrimony.

| For the Man Who Knew None of the
Delights of Matrimony.
One day on G. u Q. train which
leads or follows through red brush
Kentucky. a native came in at a small
station and took the seat in front OF
me. 1t was an accommodation train.
and therefore sociable. and the man
WASH long in striking up cOnversa-
ton. He ratified around a good deal
before he struck his gait. and at last
got onto personalities.
Are you married?" he asked
/ expressed my regret that ] was
not.
Don t know nothing about raisin
half a dozen children an gettin' EN-
often your hands,"
No.
"Ner how hard it is to make livin
fer so many"
No
Never trotted up and down half the
night with a squalin baby"
was glad to say / had not. and he
went right on.
Don't know what it is to have a
scoldin' wife,
No
Nor one that never give you a
minutes peace unless" and he
chuckled over the Joke that was COM
ing. unless it was 4 peace OF her
mind"
Never -
An you never WIZ widower:"
and this time the smile he gave me
had something seraphic in it.
Certainly not.
He reached over and laid mis- hand
atfectionately on my knee.
We'll. young feller. :. he said. you
don't know a doggon thing about the
delights Nv matrimony. you don't: an
you have my sympathy. Have some
think to drink. won't your" and he
passed me a bottle so black that it
almost startled me as l took il out of
his hand.-Detroit Free Press.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1894-08-11

hope. to the abandoned. the broken
hearted. to those who are only rem.
nants and fragments of men and
women. how consOling. how enchant-
ing is the thought of death. And
even to the most fortunate. death al
last is a welcome visitor.
Death is as natural and as merciful
as life. When we have journeyed
long. when We are weary. when we
wish for the twilight. for dusk. for the
cool kisses of the night. when the
senses are dull. when the pulse is faint
and low. when the mists gather on the
mirror of memory. when the past is
almost forgotten. the present hardly
perceived. when the future has but
empty hands. death is as welcome as a
strain of music.
After all, death is not so terrible as
joyless life. Next to eternal happiness
is to sleep in the soft clasp of the cool
earth. disturbed by no dream. by no
thought. by no pain. by no fear. un-
counsious of all and forever.
The wonder is that SO many live:
that. in spite of rags and want, in
spite of tenement and gutter. of filth
and pain. they limp and stagger and
crawl beneath their burdens to the
natural end. The wonder is that so
few of the miserable are brave enough
to die. that so many are terrified by
the something after death" by the
specters and phantoms of superstition.
Let us be merciful in our judgments.
All we can say is that the good and
bad. the loving and the unloving, the
and the vicious. the edu-
Gated and the ignorant. actuated by
many motives. urged and pushed by
and conditions. some
times in the calm of judgment. some
times in passions storm and stress,
in whirl and tempest of in
sanity raise their hands against them
selves and desperately put out the
light of life.
Those who attempt suicide should
not be punished. If they are insane
hey should. if possible. be restored to
.eason. If sane. they should be
easOned with. Gained and assisted
r. G.. ENGERSOLL.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1894-08-11
Let the Taxpayers Watch their
Money.

There is little deal on foot where.
by to squander four or five hundred
dollars of the taxpayers money for
a thing that there is absolutely no
need for. The Street and Wharf Com
mittee of the Council have got the idea
in their heads that it is necessary for
,he city to have an immense roller to
roll over our streets and We under
stand they are now negotiating for a
roller of this kind that will cost four
or five hundred dollars.
Now any man with common sense
knows that we have no use for street
roller in this city. Our streets are
made..of material that requires no roll
ing. : McAdam. silica and gravel are
the material used for streets here and
this material packs down as compact
and as hard as solid stone without be-
ing rolled with an immense and costly
iron roller. Then why spend the peo-
pies money for a thing that We have
no earthly use for. Tell the head of
the. Street and Wharf Committee-if
he has anything in il TO make him
Understandable he IS not the custod-
ian of the citT's finances and that he
must keep his hands off.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1894-08-11
ADVERTISING A TOWN.
simple and Effective Way of Telling
the World You Are Alive


Business firms that are progressive
in these days advertise their business.
Those who do not remain unknown
and eventually cease to exist Buyers
must be informed where goods are
on sale. Sellers must look for the,
purchaser. and he expects them TO.
Uuquestionably the advertising of a
town or city furnishes splendid me
dunn for acquainting the outside world
of its individual business enterprise
Advertising a town is a most effective
way of calling attention to the wares
of its business men. because those who
visit the town will easily find ont what
its merchants have to sell.
One of the great cities of the Allan
tic seaboard has recently formed a
trades legue. and this organization is
now zealously at work calling the at
tentiOn of the country to the many ad-
vantages their city offers. One of the
latest methods adopted by the league
is for each member to have printed on
its letter heads and envelopes a list of
the attractions of the city. its popula-
ton, its business facilities in the way
of railroads and water transportation.
its buildings. schools. parks. death
rate. market territory and system.
churches and their denominations. in
dustrial arts and manufactures. also
tax rates, water rates. costs of rent
and living.
This is cheap and effective way of
telling the business world that their
city amounts to something. and that
its residents invite strangers 70 come
and see and buy. This plan can be
profitably worked in any town. and in
no other way can so much ne accom-
plished at so small ar outlay. The
newspapers of the town should also be
placed in the hotels OF the cities and
towns of sections OF the country that
are likely in no other way 20 know OF
its advantages. Books Of the town
may be put in railway depots. hotels
and public libraries OF adjacent and
faraway towns and cities.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1894-08-11
We VIII Have to Quit You.

A number of persons have beer
reading the DAILY DEMOCRAT fol
quite a long time without paying fol
it. and now We will have to quit you
and hereafter the paper will be sent
out TO only those who pay for it. We
cannot afford to carry any dead-heads
and We will no longer try to afford to.
So you may make up your minds that
to read the DEMOCRAT. daily or week
ly. you must pay and pay in advance.
too.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1894-08-11
WADE HAMPTON,
The Southern statesman Advocates
the Restriction of immigration.

-hNNoCdttc
the Restriction of Immigration
Hon. Wade Hampton, Uunited States
Commissioner of Railroads, in discus.
sing the lessons of the strike in the
current number of the North Ameri.
can Review. lays the baime in a
large measure at our own door for
allowing the nations of Europe to
make this country their dumping
ground for all their dangerous and
criminal classes. He says:
The public press has stated a very
significant fact in connection with some
of the recent riots. and it is one preg.
nant with grave and far-reaching con-
siderations. It was announced that
in some instances the mob of rioters
who committed gross outrages was
composed entirely of foreigners, none
of whom could speak our language.
There has been of late a strong con-
viction growing up among thinking
men of both of the great political par
ties in the country that our immigra-
ton and naturalization laws are too
lax and that the United States were
becoming the dumping-ground of the
worst elements of foreign population.
While this telling is quite widely en-
tertained by many of all shades
of political opinion, neither party
has had the courage to grabble with
this question nor to take action to
avert the danger which threatens our
institutions by the unre stricted influx
of people ignorant of our system of
government, entertaining in many
cases hostility to all forms of govern
ment. and driven from their native
lands. come hither as communists and
Immigrants Of this class
have proved most perniciOus contri-
button to our citizenship. and they
have been in many. if not in most.
cases responsible for the riotous out
breaks which have inflicted such meal
culable injury on the country. OF
course no reflection is meant on those
honest immigrants who have linked
their destiny with ours. and who by
their labor and their character have
done so much to promote the best in
terests of the country: but il seems TO
me that our land should no longer be
the refuge of the scum of Europe. and
that every man who makes this his
home. whatever his nationality may
be should. while holding his father
land in tender memory, become at
heart an American citizen. with all
his hopes, all his aspirations, all his.
centered in the land of his
Our country will then be
peopled and governed by true and
loyal American citizens, native and
adopted. and a homogeneous people
will work in harmony to build up. to
guard and to honor the land of their
choice.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1894-08-11
Three Hundred Dollars "a Car Load

a Scott county melon raiser informs
us that he shipped a car load of
cantaloupes to Chicago two weeks ago
for which he received three hundred
dollars. The gentleman tells US that
from five acres of cantaloupes he can
make three shipments OF one car load
each and he says car load of canta-
loupes never bring less than two hun
dred dollars. This beats raising
wheat al fifty cents per bushel.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1894-08-11
Crawling Ont.

Teacher-What did you mean, sir. by
speaking of me as IAN old cow?''
Bad Boy-Please, only meant that
you Is the boss. GOOD News.
-She-'I hardly know what to say.
George. They tell me that you want
to marry me for my money" He
But. darling. you do not doubt my
devotion? Pray, how is it possible tor
me to get your money without marry
ing yOu?'-Boston Transcript
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1894-08-11
-Mrs Iinnie (to procer,-..Ta1, ,

Mrs. Lippie Ito grocer)-"Tell Mr..
Allspice I'm going to trade elsewhere
if he doesn't give me better measure"
Boy-'Why, what's been wrong?7 Mrs
Lippe-'The last butter he sent me
was half pound short" Eoy-'Oh,
yer mustn't mind little thing like dat
It's only his weigh Judge.
Oakes weekly Republican. (Oakes, Dickey County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1898, 1894-11-30
NICHOLAS AND ALIx.
Marriage Ceremony of the Gar Dul,
CelehrntGd Mt st. Petershurr

Marriage Ceremony of the Czar Duly
Celebrated at st. Petersburg.
ST. PETERSBURG, Nov 27.-At 1:15
p. III. the guns from the fortress an
nounced that Gar Nicholas II was
married to Princess Alix of Hesse-
Darmstadt. AS this dispatch is sent,
the newly married couple are receiving
the congratulations Of the wedding
guests i'll the palace.
The czar's manifesto was issued dur
ing the evening. His majesty, in honor
OF his marriage, RENTS various debts to
the crown, including the repayment of
tho grants made to the peasants on ac-
count Of families. He also wholly re.
mits arrears of taxes and fines, and
mitigates or shortens sentences of i'm
prisonment, public supervision and de-
portation at hard labor. The prosecu-
ton for treason Of offenders, who have
remained undiscovered for fifteen years,
will be abandoned. The indul-
gences to political prisoners will
be decided upon after report
has been submitted to the czar
by the minister of the interior AM
nesty is granted to the participants of
the Polish rebellion of 1868, and they
will be permitted to reside anywhere in
Russia. Their civil rights, but not
their property, will be restored to them.
In honor of the czar's wedding, 4O, 900
poor people of this city will dine at the
expense of the car. All the schools
have been closed for three days to give
the children a holiday and enable them
to celebrate the imperial marriage.
Oakes weekly Republican. (Oakes, Dickey County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1898, 1894-11-30
GOLD COMING IN.
Secretary Carlisle Accepts the Syndicat
Offer For Government Bonds,

Secretary Carlisle Accepts the Syndicate
Offer For Government Bonds.
WASHINGTON, Nov. %. Secretary
Carlisle has acted in the matter of the
allotment of the $50, 900 s per cent
bonds, bids for which were opened at
the treasury department. Saturday. He
accepted the proposals submitted by the
syndicate represented by John A. Stew
art of the United States Trust company
of New York and others to take the
entire issue at l17.077. 1t is the ex.
pectation of the treasury officials that
the deposits of gold for the payment of
the bonds will be made very promptly,
and as the understanding that none of
the gold is to be taken from the treas
ury an early restoration of the gold re-
serve to above the 500, 900, 900 mark
will be the result. The bonds, includ-
ing premium, will realize to the gov
ernment about SOS, 500, 1000.
Oakes weekly Republican. (Oakes, Dickey County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1898, 1894-11-30
FINISHED HIS MESSAGE.
President Cleveland Is Guarding the Doc
,,,a-k Nv;<I, Co,,

President Cleveland Is Guarding the Docu-
ment With Care.
WASHINGTON, Nov s7. -Presidens
Cleyeland's message is all but finished,
and within the next As hours all
finishing touches will have been put
on. The document is being guarded
with great care and all intimations as
to its contents are only guesses, accord
ing to Private Secretary Thurber.
The message will go to the govern
ment printing Office OH Friday and will
there be taken in charge by the public
printer himself, who will guard it with
all possible care.
This message is looked upon by poll
ticians and public men as the second
most important document of Mr.. Cieve-
lands career, ranking next after his
tariff message of 1887. Certain it is
that Mr.. Cleveland has worked unusu-
ally hard upon it, and the supposition
is that most of the work has been put
on the financial portion.
Oakes weekly Republican. (Oakes, Dickey County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1898, 1894-11-30
They Like the New Gar

LONDON, Nov. PA st. Petersburg
dispatch to The Standard says that at a
meeting of the state council Wednes-
day the czar created a highly favorable
impression by display of unexpected
oratorical fluency and his masterly
grasp of the political subjects sub.
mitted for his Judgment. His majesty
is winning golden opinions OH all sides
by showing himself equal to his oner.
o,1S noSitio,,
Oakes weekly Republican. (Oakes, Dickey County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1898, 1894-11-30
Dan a Suitable Channel.

BERLIN, Nov. 27.-It is officially an.
nounced here that Japan recognizes
that the United States minister at
Toxic, Mr.. Dun, is suitable channel
through which China can open up me-
gotiations for peace. The powers will
not take any part in the negotiations.
They will simply remain spectators. 1t
is considered that China is in a position
to pay the japanese demands if the war
ceases now, Japan to hold Port Arthu,
until her demands are satisfied.
Oakes weekly Republican. (Oakes, Dickey County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1898, 1894-11-30

ending June 30, 1894, shows very ma.
terial falling off in the number of i'm
migrants arriving in this country. He
estimates that since October, 1898, the
exodus of foreign steerage passengers
from the United States has been greater
than the number arriving and there.
fore concludes that numerically there
are now fewer foreigners in the United
States who came as steerage passengers
than there were at the end of the fiscal
year for 1893. From the tables accom-
panying the report it appears that dur
ing the last fiscal year 2SS, O2O immi-
grants arrived in this country.
Oakes weekly Republican. (Oakes, Dickey County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1898, 1894-11-30
Kicks Inquiry Begun.

CLEVELAND, O., Nov. 27.-The house
subcommittee on judiciary, appointed
to investigate the charge brought by
the Central Labor union against Judge
Augustus J. Kicks has begun its in
quiry in the federal building here. The
subcommittee consists of Representa-
tive Joseph w. Bailey of Texas, chair
man; Hon. Edward Lane of Illinois
and the Hon. Case K. Broderick of
Kansas.