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The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-03-30
The Telephone ut Sea.

Precisely one week ago to-day the
first telephone message ever passed
between shore and ship anchored
out at sea was transmitted from Sandy
Hook to the crew on board the Scot
land'lightship. This triumph is due
to the ingenuity of Prof. Lucien L.
Blake. who occupies the chair of
physics and electrical engineering in
the Kansas State University. Un-
baffied by the seeming impossibility of
devising some mode of carrying the
electric current from the end of
vessels cable at the bottom of the sea
to the deck of the craft, the young
electrician has actually succeeded In
utilizing the ships anchor chain itself
as the connecting link. This new style
of "Blake trnasmitter" will prove an
extremely valuable agency of COM
munication, especially in stormy
weather. between the Government
lightships along the coast and the
shore stations.
A year ago Nicola Tesla asserted
that he would yet send message to a
ship at sea without the use of wires.
While his prediction still remains I'M
fulfilled, Prof. Blake is sanguine of
following up his present success with
the future discovery of an electrical
water connection between two ships.
Maria time electricity seems to be
dawning.-Philadelphia Record.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-03-30
OLD SOUTHERN MANSIONS.
They Had Dignified Air and n Dis
tinct Architecture.

The old mansions in Richmond.
Charleston, Savannah, Montgomery,
Mobile and New Orleans have an air
of distinction about them which the
newer architecture can never acquire.
They were built by men who desired to
live in comfort and to entertain their
| friends in an open-handed way, but
who did not find it necessaryto attract
attention and to advertise their wealth
and social position. The eXteriors are
still massive and stately, with their
unbroken, rectangular sides, their
doric columns and colonial porches:
and the interiors are unrivaled for
comfort and convenience of home life
and social entertainment. With these
fine models of classic simplicity in
town and country, it is to be regretted
that the new houses on fashionable
driveways and streets are not designed
by architects content TO follow the
old lines. The colonial architecture
was not without its effect upon the
character and tastes of the people who
lived in the houses. 1t taught them to
be simple in their social pleasures, to
be natural and unaffected in manner.
and to avoid meretricious display of
wealth and dignity. There has been a
reverSion to colonial lines in Northern
hn11SaS DaY.bar,S tbar.. n la
lar movement in the direction of purer
taste and more refined feeling in
Southern towns.
There are many fine things TO be
said about these Southern houses, but
the choicest tribute must be reserved
for the lovely old ladies who are to be
found in most of them. The young
ladies and the middle-aged wives and
mothers are charming. too. with their
sensitive. high-bred faces and their
soft, melodious voices: but the old la
dies are exceptionally we'll preserved
in figure and feature. anddelightful in
conversation. Montaigne said Of
CicerO's "De Senacute. 3" lit gives one
a good appetite for growing old" and
the same impression IS produced by the
cheerful, genial, yet calm and serious
talk of the best representatives of the
passing generation of Southern wom-
en-. They do not affect to be young,
yet have not lost their animation OF
manner nor their interest in life. They
are entertaining. womanly and bright,
and quick as their granddaughters to
perceive good point in a story, and
as fine as choice old lace in the thread
and texture of their homely simplicity
and cheerfulness. There aregood por-
traits of famous ancestors in some of
the old houses, but there are no better
studies of the lights and shades of ad
vancing age and of the compensations
attending increasing infiTmity in the
evening of life than are to be found in
the charming old ladies of the Caro-
linas, Georgia, and Tennessee
New York Tribune.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-03-30
TOOK HIS. CHILD.
A Charleston Man With
a Revolver
Cairo In spite of the Child's Plead
ing to be Left With its Rela-

CAIRO, ILL, March pa man in
timidating a family with a drawn re-
volver and abducting his own child in
spite of her pleading to stay with her
excitement on Cedar street this after
noon. Ben Shelby, a saloon-keeper
at Charleston, Mo-, and his wife had
disagreed about what is not clearly
understood here. and yesterday she
brought her S-year-old daughter to
Cairo and left the child with her sis
ter. Mrs. J. H. Greer. Then Mrs.
Shelby departed for Centralia, but be-
fore going charged her sister to guard
the child carefully and be especially
watchful of Shelby, who she feared
would cause trouble. To-day, while
Mrs. Greer and family were at dinner
Shelby and two men, who claimed to
be deputy sheriffs, appeared on the
scene. and. while Shelby covered two
men who were seated at the table with
q revolver. one of the men seized the
child and bore her screaming from
the room. Shelby and party entered
a hack in waiting at the door and
drove rapidlytO the Mississippi River.
which they crossed in skiff before
Mrs. Greer could obtain help from the
police. Mrs. Shelby returned from
Centralia within an hour after the abb
duction. and, though wild with grief,
Immediately departed for Charleston
to attempt the rescue of her child.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-03-30
TRAIN ROBBERS.
They Secure Ten Thous-
and Dollars.
The North Bound Train on the Iron
Mountain Railroad Held up and
Robbed at tWilliamsvflle-
Five Masked Men
do tho Work

| do the work.
| WILLIAMSVILLE, Mo-, March 2S.-
Last night at 1l:20 the Texarkana
and St. Louis north bound passenger
train No. "a was held up and robbed
by five masked men just south of the
crossing of the Iron Mountain and
Cape roads at Williamsville. The
train came to a standstill south of the
crossing and was boarded by the five
men, one of whom covered the engineer
with gun and compelled him to get
down and uncouple the engine from
the train and run up to the depot with
his engine. After this was done the
robbers compelled the conductor to go
with them to the express car and
ordered the express messenger to open
it. The robbers then held up the ex-
press messenger and robbed the local
safe of all its contents. The through
safe could not be opened and was not
molested After this had been done
and without making any attempt to
rob the passengers the robbers took
to the woods and went in a sOuthernly
direction. 1t is stated that at least
S1O.000 was secured from the local
safe. The express messenger, how
ever. denies that the robbers secured
any money, but this is not believed
and judging from the efforts that are
now being made by the express COM
pany and the railroad company to
capture the robbers it is very certain
that they secured large sum of
money. Well equipped posses i'm
mediately started in pursuit of the
robbers but at this time no capture
has been reported. Conductor J. V.
| Webb states that the robbers were all
well armed with Winchesters and large
| Colts pistols. Thev were very much
excited and it is evidently their first
attempt to hold up train. They ap-
peared to be working men and talked
like natives. One of them is described
as being small, weight 105 pounds, dark
clothes, we'll worn, with broad SLOUGH
hat, two weeks growth. of beard on
face, slim build. had on heavy boots
or shoes, age about % or 80 years and
height about feet inches. Another
is described as of about the same
build, probably little heavier, sandy
complexion, gray eyes, had on gray
clothes, we'll worn, black slouch hat,
and from % to q years old. Was
masked with red handkerchief.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-03-30
/ In Less Than Forty Thousand Years
St Louis MAY Be Submerged.

According to the engineers of the
photographic Bureau the level of the
Gulf of Mexico is one foot higher than
it was in 1859, and, of course, the en-
croachment on the surrounding coast
has been greater or less, depending
on their character. In some places
where the marginal lands are COM
posed of some high rocky bluffs, this
change of level has gone on from year
to year without attracting attention.
On the other hand, many low lying
points some that were once inhabited
by the primitive inhabitants or by the
pioneer white settlers) are entirely
submerged.
The cause of this change of level
has not as yet been ascertained, but
it is reasonably certain that it is the
result of either a settling of the dry
land or general and uniform rising
or upheaval in the gulf bed. However
this may be, if this aqueous encroach-
ment is steadily maintained Keokuk
will be a deep water harbor and st.
Louis and the whole of Missouri will
be entirely submerged in less than
forty thousand years from Jan. l,
1895. 5.-Boston Transcript.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-03-30
Told Ii Twice.

At reading by George w. Cable
at Pittsburg. the other day, in his
conversational style he asked the
audience, Let's see, when I was here
before did l tell you the story of
Solongadou?" Promptly came the
answer, in a woman's voice, from the
middle of the hall, Eyes, sir" The
audience broke into peals of laughter,
and when the merriment subsidized Mr..
Cable said, alphabetically, "But l
want to tell that story again, " which
be proceeded to do.-New York Sun.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-03-30
How Free Wool Works.

a large Wholesale firm in New York
sent out circulars to various smaller
dealers in ditferentparts ofthe country
soliciting business, with the assertion
that the removal of the duty on wool
had enabled them to furnish goods at
considerably lower prices than former
ly. One of the answers received was
from c. S. Broadbent of De Rio,
Texas, and ran as follows: ''Yes,
your circular letter is true. Prices do
show the effects of the changes in the
Tariff. But this is stock country,
and, with wool selling at cents a
pound and hides selling at prices that
do not make it worth while to ship
them, if the Free-Trade statesmen will
tell us where we are to get 81 to buy
a boys suit that We formerly paid s6
fer they will do US favor and solve
knotty problem. Our people can
hardly get enough to eat, and have to
wear clothing carried over from the
days of lS-cent wool. In the days of
1S-cent wool they lived and dressed
we'll and had a good annual surplus.
We do not sell one-half the goods we
used to sell. and those we do sell are
at less than one-half the former profit,
and where there is such vast under
consumption the markets are bound to
be glutted.'' This is the way free
wool works.-Buffalo Express, Febru-
ary -, 1895.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-03-30
They are Not Working.

The candidates nominated for the
city offices by the Republican conven
ton are not working. There are no
chronic office-seekers on the Republi-
can ticket. They are all representa-
tive men-intelligent men, who have
the interest of the city at heart and il
does seem to us that they will receive
the support of the intelligent people
of the city without having to go out
hand shaking. The people of this city
want the city to grow and prosper and
they want the best men in Office to help
things along. The Republicans have
selected the best men and they expect
to have the assistance of every good
citizen in the city in the election OF
their ticket.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-03-30

Fritz and yourself for so much work
on your part, but remember that the
boys are at your service should an
opportunity present itself where we
can be of any service to you, please
call upon us.
We remain your humble servants.
and with God bless you and all. we
subscribe ourselves
Ex-Cape Girardeau Bricklayers,
J. H. DAUES. Sec.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-03-30
The Progress of Missouri.

AC Ao-lCSS VI -hlsSouEI-
The fact that Missouri has been re,
ceiving large accessions of citizens
from Kansas, Nebraska and the Da,
kotas during the last two years is moi
/ to be doubted: and it is fact of much
significance in its bearing upon the
| political and material interests of the
State. These new citizens are of al
intelligent and progressive class-the
class that is in sympathy with modern
doctrines and methods, and that is
I satisfied with nothing short OF the best
kind OF prosperity. They Travelled
across Missouri some years ago and
| settled in the newer States because
| those States seemed to be more desira-
BILE as places of residence. for reasons
which is hardly necessary to specify.
but they encountered misfortune and
disappointment there in their farming
operations. and their good sense
prompted them to turn back and take
advantage OF the opportunities offered
in this State. 1t is not definitely
known how many of them there are:
but it is manifest that they constitute
an element sufficiently strong to make
itself felt in pronounced way. Con-
gressman Crowther estimates. from
personal observation. that it repre-
sents at least 30. 600 voters: and the re-
turns of the last election go to show
that the most of these voters are OPP
posed to the Democratic party. That
is 10 say. they are against Bourbon
ism, which has been such Il detriment
to Missouri. and in favor of enlight-
ened theories and practices. which
have been such a benefit to neighbOr-
ing States.
This influx of new settlers of the
most advantageous class has already
had the good effect of increasing the
value of farm land in Missouri, while
in other States there has been a de-
cline. Congressman DOckery puts
this increase at So per acre in his
county, and the general average may
safely be estimated at not less than
So per acre. The Democrats claim, to
be sure. that the explanation lies in
the fact that the farming area of the
country is now practically all Occupi-
ed: but this theory will not answer,
because it does not hold in the con-
tiguOus States of Illinois and Iowa,
where the value of land is lower in
stead of higher than it was two years
ago. The simple truth is that the
prices of land in Missouri have here
tofore been kept down by Bourbon
influences and tendencies, and the
presence of these newcomers is bring
ing them up to their legitimate level.
They are energetic. resourceful, up-tO-
date kind of people, and the State is
profiting by their manner of doing
things. At the same time, il is proper
to say, a large proportion of the agri-
cultural residents have been gradually
acquiring improved ideas of the
philosophy of prosperity, and break
ing away from the outworn doctrines
and traditions of the past. In other
words, a new Missouri has been evolv-
ed by the logic of events, by the ex-
perience and reflection of the average
voters; and this recent addition to the
farming population has turned the
scale against the Democratic party
and put the State in the way of becom-
ing soundly and steadfastly Republi-
can. -Globe-Democrat.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-03-30
How the Democratic Tariff Works

How the Democratic Tariff Works.
! The official statement of the British
Government with regard to the trade
between that country and the United
States during January and February
of this year presents some facts which
show in practical way how the new
tariff law works. 1t appears that our
sales of cattle in England decreased
over S9l3.000. as compared with the
same months of last year, and our
sales of dressed beef fell off to the
amount of over S164,000. The sales of
American flour were over $500, 600 less
! than in the corresponding period of
/ 1894. the sales of butter decreased from
! Sl65. 900 to $50, 200, and the sales of
salted fish fell off over one-half. rep
resenting loss of 100000, while, on
the other hand, England sold us over
| 500. coo worth of fish, signifying gain
of 80 per per cent forheron thatarticle
of commerce. Our sales of raw cotton
decreased over 81, 600, 600: there was a
loss of $3.50. 900 in sales of unwrought
copper, and $500, 900 in sales of timber:
and the exports of many other articles
fell off in like proportion. These
statistics tell at a glance the story of
lost trade with this one country under
law which was passed for the osten-
- Il of
sales: and the same result has ensued
as to other countries in which our
products have heretofore found ready
purchasers at good prices.
There is another feature of the mat
ter that is equally disappointing and
unfortunate. Not only have we sold
much less to England, butwe have also
bought much more from her. In other
words. the new tariff law has worked
to our disadvantage both going and
coming. The increased imports from
this one country in these two months
include: Worsted goods, 81, 400, 900:
cotton goods, $500, 600: wooden yarns
and tissues, S537 200: and linen goods,
81, ,OOO, 900. During the same period,
we bought S267 900 worth of English
wool. and over S2,300,000 worth of
Australian and Canadian wool, lessen
ing the sale of thehome productto that
extent. There is nothing intricate or
ambiguous about such figures. The
average person easily comprehend
them, and see the lesson that they
teach. They mean that we are selling
less of our products abraod than we
sold before the Democratic tariff law
was passed, and that foreigners are
selling more of their products in our
markets. A man need not be an ex-
pert in political economy to under
stand that this situation is a losing
one for US. The increased imports in
the line of manufactured goods de-
prive American workmen of the en-
ployment and wages involved in the
production of such goods, and diminish
the profits of our own mills and
factories. This is the way III which
thetariff reform policy affects domestic
industries. 1t reduces the chances of
the labor element to earn a living,
discriminates against American capi-
tai invested in manufactures, and tends
in every way to benefit other countries
at the expense of the United States
Globe Democrat.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-03-30
LANGUAGE TOO PLAIN.
kentucky Postal Authorities Object
to an Article by Mrs. Harris of
st. Louis.

LEXINGTON, KY, March 26. On ac-
count of letter from Mrs. Jennie A.
Harris of st. Louis published in the
Blue Grass Blade, in which the author
speaks in very plain language regard
ing the marriage relations of the
present day, the postal authorities
here are trying to have it refused ad-
mission to the mails, and Inspector
Moore has just left for Washington
with copy of the paper to lay before
the authorities there.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-03-30
Samuel Bucklew Is Down With the
small POx.

Samuel Bucklew, the man who
brought suit against the city officials
of this city is down with the small pox
at Camden, Arkansas. Mr.. Bucklew's
suit against the city officials of this
city is set for trial at the April term
of the United States Circuit Court al
St Louis, but we.are informed by MIR.
Sam NJ. Green, City Attorney, who is
party to the suit, that the case will
likely be dismissed.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-03-30
Keep footing.

You can tell live business man by
his advertisement in the paper. Peo-
pie should patronize those who show
willingness to patronize other indus
tries in town. A man who does not
advertise is like the boy who went to
town with a sack of fish to sell.
When he returned home in the evening
his father asked him how he had done.
Didn't sell darned fish," said he:
nobody asked me what l had in the
SACK. Another boy, much brighter
boy. went to town the next day. He
took big horn along, and first he
blew a deafening blast and then he
would yell, "Fish, fish for sale, and
soon he had sold them all and went
home with an empty sack and pocket
full of moeny. A live merchant always
toots his horn and yell.-Exchange.
Votes offered to the Highest Bidders.
A card was published yesterday the
meaning of which could not be mis-
construed. There are some fellows in
this city who want to auction off their
votes to thehighest bidders. They say
they want to better themselves. The
truth is they want money, and the man
who will give them money is no better
than they are.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1895-04-04

over the face Of the~child. Hes
Amelia's. You start, boys But It's so
hes Amclia's. sure crough.'
And then we remembered that the
well-to-do merchant who married
Hanks love had failed several years
before and committed suicide. Amelia
had left the city with her infant child.
and was heard Of no more.
well, boys said Hank, utter musing
few moments, Il was at the home
when Amelia was dying in little vii
lage, She had consumption m II took
her of quick Somehow she got wind
that was up In the Maine home; so
she wrote me an told me she was poor
an dying, an that her boy-she had
named him Henry, after me-was
parlyzed little shaver, an that he
would be sent to the county house or an
orphan asylum after she was dead As
soon as got the letter sat down an
,rrata hor ,st4or-o,, cnoss shn
could read it. They told me she died
awful easy when she heard from me-
; s,,.;. , s,'in'nisb II n. nl,sarroos an,
TT 1T =, 49, sar X H.. ,,,ro IN,
s'''''N' ~ ~ -
sad, ieepiY' tod o'ess you, tlank'
fes suppose she dieu easy, like that,
80 came 70 town WIN inc shaVes' an
sofa shoes'rlhRs' an BOYS
hanks eyes were Sparkling ~ nc
stopped over IN oia tF'liN' r'llnmagea
about the depths tor moment and
drew out somath'ng
see mere ne sand I've earned az
TINS ior 'he little cnss-two hundred
and tlity uollars' that's to pay the
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1895-04-04
Weak Nerves

"With pleasure I vim state that Hoods
Sarsapafila has hlpsd me wonderfully.
For several months Icould not lie down b
slesp on account Of heart trouble andako
prostsatIon 81 the Nerves.
For three years l had been doctoring, bat
could not ct cured. Irecsivsd relisi for .
while, but not permanent. Soon after b.
ginning to take Hoods earsaparilla there
va . change for the better. In short
time was feeling splendidly. now rsst
well and am able to do work Of whatever
kind. II had not tried Hoods 6arsapa.
rilla l do not know what would have be.
come Of me. keep it in my house Ill tho
time, and other members Of The family
take It, and all say there u
Nothing Like heed's
Sarsapsrilla. Ihavs highly recommended
itand oneoi my neighbour has commenced
taking 1t. / recommend Hoods SArsspa.
rillA 1t every opportunity" Mrs. 8.
paddock, 4N Erie Av., Williamsport,
Pennsylvania. b sure to get