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The Cape Girardeau Democrat., 1895-07-13
HUMOROUS.

Just the Thing.-Morton-"W
do you intend doing with that mouse?"
Baldwin-"Use it for bait" Morton
(astonished)-"For bait?" Baldwin
''Yes. am going to try to catch some
catfish. Truth.
-"Owner-'I want you to sell these
horses for me-" Auctioneer-"I see
their tails are docked. Well have to
sell them at wholesale" Owner
what" Auctioneer-"Well, l can't
retail them. m."-Philadelphia Record.
-Financiers.-Dism Dawson-"How
do you stand on de financial question:"
Everett Wrest-"I am little bit pug
zled. / amt right sure whether it
means sixteen beers for dollar or six
teen gallons. indianapolis Journal.
-"Oh, children! You are so noisy
to-day. Can't you be little stiller
and better?" Now, grandma, you
must be little considerate and not
scold US. You see, if it want for us
you wouldn't be a grandma at ALL
Texas Siftings-
She-"Er-George!" He-"W-well,
Laura?" She-''I-I think we under
stand each other. George: but-but is
1t my place or yours to put the ques-
tion, and ought 1 to speak to your
mamma about it, or ought you to 60
and ask papa?"-Chicago Tribune.
-''Wot makes me tired" said Mean
dering Mike, lis desc here prosperity
howlers." II don't know EN-" replied
SsEnc n
desc here fellers dat keeps talkip'
bout good times an tellin' ye whur ye
kin git work. indianapolis Journal.
DO you find. that noved-writing
pays?" asked an unsophisticated friend
of modern novelist "Pays?" he re-
piled. Il should say it did. Let me
tell you how work it. write story
of mystery and sell it to some syndi-
cate. Then the newspapers that pub
lish it offer prizes to the reader who
will guess first how the plot is coming
out. And that doubles my profits"
How does it?" MY wife sends in
euesses and takes the prizes
Express
The Bird Could Talk.-A well.
known New Yorker, who shutters
dreadfullv, and who has an inordinate
fondness for practical jokes. was walk
ing along South street in company
with friend, when they encountered
a sailor who was carrying a saucy-
looking parrot in a cage. "W-watch
me-" said the joker. Il w-will have
some fun w-with this man." So, stop
ping the sailor, he inquired. 'M-m-my
g-good m-man, c-c-can that parrot
talk?" We'll" said the sailor, IF he
couldn't talk any better than you, I'd
wiring his bloomin' neck"
The Cape Girardeau Democrat., 1895-07-13

freight forwarded had all been en-
tered.
''Oh, l hope so. Well go on hoping
so to the end of the chapter, too, won't
we? Answer that call, will you,
Phebe?"
PHebe sat down at the telegraph
table, snapped the key, and wrote "ce'
see" ''ce,' signing ''oj." Then she
dipped the pen and took down the
message:
Large gangs of tramps are moving
eastward on freight trains. Denver re-
ports that more have left there to
meet CALIFORNIA; at Orival. Watch in
coming east bound freights and report
promptly any unusual number OF
'tramps at your station"
whats that-more trouble?" asked
Norman, catching word here and
there in the message.
Phebe sighed wearily. "Oh dear,
yes, it's more tramps; and it'll be just
pas luck to catch them out of here on
pol tonight"
Norman read the message and shook
his head dubiously. I've been afraid
of that all summer" he said. There
has been a bigger crowd than usual
from California this season. and. now
The Cape Girardeau Democrat., 1895-07-13

chance for failure II she tried to start
the heavy train, Phoebe darted back
and pulled the coupling-pin between
the tender and the first car, running
forward again to climb into the engine
just as the first stragglers of the
crowd began to come up. They gave
her but moment, but that was
enough. Engine 800 had an easy
throttle, and Phoebe had opened il
more than once. The vanguard of the
tramp army saw futter of skirts on
the footboard, heard kissing of steam
in the cylinders and two or three sharp
coughs from the exhaust, and then
the big mogul dropped from the end of
the open switch and plowed into the
ties, blocking the track as effectually
as fifty tons of iron and steel could do
1t.
Phoebe did not wait to see what
would happen afterward. She had
done her part; there would be no col.
lision; and they could not blame her
father for something that he had no
hand in. She was safe in Mrs. Han
nah's kitchen by the time the special
whistled for the station; and when the
train ratified up and the sounds of the
fray foated across the tracks to her
refuge, she hid her face in Mrs. Ham
nah's apron and cried as any other girl
might whose father and uncle were in
the thick of a battle.
There, there, Phoebe, girl: don't
cry, dear; they'll be all right" COM
forted Mrs Hannah. and she was still
trying to console Phoebe when Tom
Norman ran in.
Where is she? Where's the little
girl that's got more sense and sand
than all the rest of US put together?"
Phoebe looked up quickly. ''Oh,
Uncle Tom, where's pa? Is he hurt?"
NO, he's all right; only they're
about to smother him with praise. Mr..
Johnson's over at the station, and he
wants to see you"
Five minutes later a shy little girl
with a tear-stained face was led into
the presence of the superintendent,
who sat at the telegraph-desk sending
messages right and left. He rose and
took Phebe's hands in his in a way
that made the little group of trainmen
forget for the moment that he was the
stern "old man" of the division.
And this is the little girl who
bitches our engines, is it?" he said.
What put such a thing into your
head, my child?"
''Oh, it didn't have to be put in; I
knew there would be head-ender if
didn't do something quick, and I
couldn't think of anything else"
Mr. johnson smiled at the ready re-
lapse into railway phrase, and said: ''Ii
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was bright thought; it has saved US
good many dollars, and probably
some lives, too. Now, if the company
were a good fairy, like those in the
story-books, what would you ask for
reward?'
Phoebe had a sudden inspiration.
"Oh, Mr.. johnson, there's one thing
that would make me happier than any
thing else; if pa could only have good
run, so we could live in a real town."
Mr.. johnson looked around at the
circle of friendly faces. II think your
father has earned that for himself"
he said, quietly. ''Is that the only
thing you want?"
"Oh, no, indeed" replied Phoebe,
candidly; but, you see, Il we lived in
town, perha ps 1 could get some of
the other things. We might happen to
get acquainted with somebody that
had piano, and then, maybe, could
learn to play, and" Here Phoebe
suddenly realized that she was chat
tering actually chattering to the man
of whom everyone on the division stood
in awe. and she shut up like an oyster
that had been caught mapping with its
she'll open.
The superintendent laughed at her
confusion and sat down to finish his
telegraphing. "When the general
manager hears that, I'm sure he'll be
sorry that the company doesn't run
piano-factory," he said; whereat the
men laughed, too.
Mr. johnson had little private con-
versation with Artley and Norman
that night after Phoebe had gone back
to Mrs. Hannah, and several things
came of it. For one, the engineer got
his smart "eight-wheeler" and pas
seng.r run with the promptness that
char lcterizes western railway promo
ton when the head of a department
makes up his mind; and, at the same
time, Norman found his way smoothed
for a transfer in a most miraculous
manner. A third event growing out
of the same talk concerned Phoebe, but
she knew nothing about it until one
day, af ter they were settled in com.
Portable cottage in the real town."
van drove up to the door with piano.
It was a gift from the railway COM
pany to Phoebe; and on silver plato
just above the keyboard was the in,
scription:
The Cape Girardeau Democrat., 1895-07-13
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

-Massillon. the great French preach
.r, had a singularly talented mother,
whose influence over his life was un-
bounded.
Mission work in New Mexico COM
menced in 1866. There are now twenty
five schools, more than forty ministers
and native helpers, and over eight hun
dred communicates There are about
forty missionary teachers on this field.
Rev. DR.. Amory 81. Bradford, the
well-known clergyman und writer,
says his experience as a preacher in
various colleges leads him to believe
that there is more skepticism among
college women than among college
men.
Rev. B. Fay Mills. asked an audi
ence of 1889 in Portland at what age
each one had begun the Christian life,
and found that 1,100 began before 20
years of age; $50 between 20 and 80; 35
between 30 and 40; IA between 40 and
so; between so and go, and between
so and 20.
"A Young Mems Christian associa-
tion for the young men among the
Iepers of Molokai has been organized
by the Hawaiian branches. A build
ing has been erected, and a paid secre-
tary, himself leper, is in charge. The
membership, nearly one hundred, is
made up of lepers entirely.
Castor Paris, who has Just been
appointed rector of the university of
Paris in place of NJ. CASTOR Boissier,
the new perpetual secretary of the
French academy, is the greatest living
romance philologist. He was one of
the first Frenchman to study at Ger
man university, a practice which was
rapidly spreading when the war Of
1870 broke out, and which promised
brilliant results from the adoption OF
German habits of thoroughness by
French minds. NJ. Maspero, the Egypt
ologist, was a candidate for the place.
During the French-English war
French people in New Haven pro-
claimed themselves absolute neutrals-
The students were then good tories
to a man. England was their father
land, and the revolution was not
thought of. Yale was then an English
college. Nathan Hale yale, 1873 was
about eight years old at this time.
The students threw rocks into the
Frenchmen's windows at night, plas-
tered their doors with mud, annoyed
the so-called neutrals in every way,
believing, as they claimed, they were
constantly assisting the French forces
in Canada. To be revenged, one of the
Frenchmen gained access to the COM
mons kitchen and put arsenic into the
hasty pudding. 1t is said that of those
who ate pudding all recovered but one
student. This led to an attempted at
tack on the French residents by the
angry students, and the French neu-
trails were compelled to leave town.
Whitefield utilized the situation for a
stirring appeal. and a revival followed,
in which half the college was con.
verted
The Cape Girardeau Democrat., 1895-07-13
SOILED LAMP SHADES,
Means OF Cleaning the Filmy Drape of
Chiffon and SILK.


Chiffon and SILK.
Compressed air is of great assistance
in cleaning lamp shades. Owing to the
delicacy of the fabrics a dry process
should be used, as silk, satin and lace
lose their luster when washed, and,
besides, the shade makers touch is
more or less lost when the shades are
taken apart. Procure an infants hair
brush, which is made of soft bristles
set in bone back. The brush is small,
and for that reason and also because
of its softness, is best adapted
for cleaning silk and satin. Lamp
shades which have been used
in suburban houses and are mere
ly discolored with dust may be
satisfactorily renovated by a careful
and gentle securing or scrubbing with
this little brush. To free lace-covered
shades from dust apply corn-meal for
light ones or Fuller's earth for dark,
and remove all loose powder by gentle
brushing and tapping, or by means of
compressed air if this is available. Fly
specks can generally be picked off with
the point of knife.
Shades that are used in the city soon
become noticeably soiled and black
ened, particularly about the collar, by
reason of the SCOT with which the air
is charged. The quickest way to clean
a shade that has been thus discolored
is to immerse as much of it as possible
in gasoline. which should be placed in
q clean dishpan, and move it briskly
about in the fuid.-Delineator.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat., 1895-07-13
A Bats Wings.

A bats wing is, in short, a hand
With very long fingers, and with the
skin stretched between them so as to
form a flying membrane. OF course
the exaggerated length in each joint
in fingers shows how very long time
the bat must have taken to develop
his hand into so specialized form,
but hand it still remains in under
living structure, and it still retains a
hand-like popularity in the separate
thumb, which forms no part of the
wing. but is used by the animal, in
many cases, as hook or bent finger
to hang itself up by. A thumb, once
acquired, is far too valuable a posses
sion to be readily given up, and the
bats have stuck to theirs with credit
able persistence, even when the rest OF
their hand has been practically lost
by conversion into an expanded flying
organ. One other feature, still more
strikingly displays the underlying
kinship between the bats aud our
selves, in spite of long divergence; the
female bat has her breasts in the same
position of our own race, which gives
her, small as she is, when looked full
in the face, a singularly human and
almost pathetic aspect-CornhiD
Magazine
The Cape Girardeau Democrat., 1895-07-13
THE HUMAN HAND,
What Some of Its Defects are Taken to
Indicate.

Indicate.
If one examines the hands of large
number of persons with nervous en-
dowment, he will find curious defects
in the length and relative proportions
of the fingers. The length of the
fingers is determined by that of the
middle one. If the index and mendius
are closed upon the palm, the ring and
little finger being left extended, the
middle finger will reach close to the
place where the so-called life line runs
down, between the ball of the thumb
and that of the little finger. 1t will
touch the palm just below the highest
part of the ball of the thumb. The
middle finger is taken as the standard
of length by which to gauge that of
the others. In normal hand the
forefnger reaches just to the root
of the nail of the middle finger; the
ring finger is longer, and should reach
nearly to the middle of the nail of the
medius, while the little finger should
reach to the last joint of the third
finger. Now, in inebriates, epileptics,
neurotics, and the degenerate general
ly, these proportions are often not OBJ
served. The most common defect is
shortness, especially of the third and
little fingers, though sometimes these
fingers are unna'urally slender, or the
little finger is slightly bent. The most
common abnormality of the thumb is
excessive shortness, with a defective
mobility. These peculiarities. well ac-
centuated, form what we may call the
''decadent hand"-the hand that
writes our sensuous novels, the Haupt-
mann drama, paints symbolic pictures,
and exploits pure atheism. Such
hands may be well formed to the ordi-
nary eye. and may be attached to slen-
der and graceful limbs. But this kind
of beautiful hand and arm is founu
quite as often among the children of
alcoholics and among those highly
cultivated families which have become
degenerate by vices and vicious cross
ing.-N. Y. Home Journal.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat., 1895-07-13
Amher Rice Pnddinr

Boil one-fourth of a pound of rice
until tender in plenty of salted boiling
water. Drain and press into we'll
creased border mold while hot Let it
stand until perfectly cold. Drain Q
can of peaches from their liquor and
press through a sieve, add one tea
spoonful of lemon juice and one cupful
of cream whipped to a stiff froth.
Turn the rice out on fiat dish and
pour over it q sirup made from one
fourth of a pound of sugar and one
half of cupful of water, favored with
lemon juice Put the peach mixture
in the center of the rice border and
serve with or without the garnish Of
The Cape Girardeau Democrat., 1895-07-13
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

Sidney always attributed his love
Of poetry and his skill in verse to the
training of his mother. 1t was her
practice TO read him passages from the
best poets.
The duke Of Wellington said that
the first thing he learned from his
mother was the Lords Prayer. Late
in life he said: ut is the most sublime
of compositions"
Mrs Phil Sheridan is said to be one
of the prettiest of the numerous young
widows in Washington. She was mar
ried when only nineteen. and she is
still of slender and youthful appear
ance. Mrs. Sheridan has four chill
dren, the eldest of whom. his fathers
namesake, is a fine boy of fourteen.
Jose de Heredla. the Cuban poet,
has just been formally received into
the French academy. He should have
eulogized his predecessor, Charles de
Mazade, but as the latter had written
life of Lamartine, he branched of
into glorifcation of the great poet.
Francois Coppee delivered the address
OF welcome.
The empress of Austria may be
queer" but she retains sufficient fem
mime vanity to spend two hours over her
toilet each day. her beautiful hair hav-
ing special care bestowed on it. After
a lunch of strong broth and some ht
meat she starts off on fve-hour walk,
wearing a short black dress just reach
ing the ankle and carrying a dark
parasol and dark fan.
-Alphonse Daudet has been greatly
impressed by the size of things in Lon
don. Everything, particularly the
Tower bridge, seemed colossal to him,
and in comparison Paris appeared like
delicate and artistic jewel. He went
to England with a detestation of the
English race, but now finds himself
'in spite of the horrible cookery of big
joints and the tea, which he could never
bring himself to like, completely bro
ken in"
M. Lobin de Lalaive, a venerable
but robust French gentleman, says of
his longevity: 81 have always Stunned
strong drink and reveled in sea bath
ing. 1 used to be an even more intrepid
swimmer than Lord Byron, and never
had to call a doctor in until I was
eighty-nine. As regards tobacco.
have consumed veritable mountain
of cigars. My two greatest passions
have been reading and poetry, and
still write verses at the age of ninety
eight"
Capt. Gardner, who died at North
allerton, England, recently, was q
veteran of Balaklava- In the famous
charge of the Light brigade, Capt.
Gardner got as far as the mouth of the
Russian cannon when a ball struck
che chest of his horse and threw the
rider into the air. When he recovered
he found himself across a Russian
cannon. He scrambled down and ran
for mile and three-quarters through
a storm of shot and shell before he
reached his comrades.
Mrs. Amelia Barr, who is proba-
bly, the most prolific woman writer of
the first rank in America at present,
lives for the greater part of the
year at her beautiful home near Peeks-
kill. She has one daughter at home,
who relieves her of all household
cares, and another living in Boston,
who is married to Kirk Munroe, whom
all small boys know and adore. 1t is
rumored that Mrs. Barr is going to
write novel about Cambridge. Ifshe
gives to it the local color that Is the
charm of THE Bow of Orange Ribbon"
she will add another gem to American
literature
The Cape Girardeau Democrat., 1895-07-13
PHGBE'S EXPLOIT
By FRANCIS LYNDE.

]. ! ] !: !. ! !. ! !. !; !. ! ! !: .
HE was the daughter
w OF hn Artley,
~G whose run on the
.<OHNS Western division be-
~AM gan and ended at
YA NMV 0rival Junction. The
#0MM junction n sisted
OVV of a around-house, the
w ~ railway station,
few S b n les, q
H. dreary boar ding
" house and a choice
collection of future possibilities; but
Phoebe, being motherless, spent much
of her time on her fathers engine, or
SO got larger view Of life than the
junction itself could give.
At fourteen she had two ambitions.
One was for her father, reaching out
to the time when he should have
smart ''eight-wheeler" and a passenger
run. The other dated from a trip to
Cheyenne with her father when he
was member of the grievance COM
mittee
You'll have to put in your time
around the hotel while 1 go to the
meeting" he had told her; and Phoebe
betook herself to the parlor, where
smartly-dressed young woman was
playing upon an ancient and some
what ''tin-panny" piano. The music
was of the kind called popular" aud
the performer played as the Irishman
blew the cornet-by main strength and
awkwardness-but Phoebe went back
to Orival Junction that night with
conviction that life was scarcely worth
living without piano and the ability
to play it.
She said something of the kind to her
uncle the next day when she was
helping him on the coal report, and he
laughed at her.
II thought you were beyond such
things" he said. "A girl who can run
a locomotive, figure bills of lading
and telegraph the arm off half the
operators on the line to be wanting
such a fine ladys plaything as
piano."
''Oh, but, Uncle Tom, you just ought
to have heard her! She played and
played till 1 forgot who l was and
where I came from. You can't think
how beautiful it was!''
"Yes, I can. ! was night operator at
Cheyenne once, and actually lived in
the house with that piano for six
months. And 1 hope every body who
kept me awake with it when l was
trying to catch up on my sleep will be
forgiven" he added, taking the
Freight Forwarded book from the
safe.
Don't you like music, Uncle Tom?"
she asked, getting the bunch of abb
stracts to call off to him.
''Oh, music, yes-but that's different
We used to have music back at the old
home in Ohio; your Aunt Phoebe
played the organ in church. and we
sang in the choir, first and last"
did ma play?"
"Yes."
"Well, l mean to learn, and I mean
TO have a piano, too, sometime. wish
pa could get a run so we could live in
a town; then might hear music once
in awhile anyway"
"But what would become of me? /
couldn't get along without you"
You'd come, too. AS if l didn't
know that you keep this job just SOS
TO be with us.''
That was the fact. Tom Norman
had transferred his love for his favor
ite sister to her child, and he had fol-
lowed John. .ArtIey's shifting fortunes
from one desolate division station to
another, for the sole purpose of watch
ing over and caring for Phoebe.
.Do you believe pa ever will get
good run?" asked Phoebe, when the
The Cape Girardeau Democrat., 1895-07-13
That Settled IL.

Dick-And you will not marry me?
May-Naw.
That settles it. If you had said
No. might still hope; but 'Nawr-
good-hy forever. Truth.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1895-08-22
Got Their Moneys Worth.

American naval officers who were in
China during the late war tell of a day
they spent ashore looking for sport. Fo,
a few yen, amounting to about 4 cents,
they secured the services of two Chinese
to fight for their entertainment. The
first fight went on ~bravely, and as fights
go in China, not being up to the Ameri,
can hippodrome style, one of the Chi
nese was whipped. But he was angry.
As he moved away from the scene of
combat he found a stone, and, turning
upon his late antagonist. struck him a
blow that killed him. The murderer
was speedily beheaded, but the authori-
ties decided that it was no concern of
the American officers if a murder result
ed from their plan Of amusement One
OF the younger officers remarked: 1--WE
not only got a fight, but a killing and
an execution, all for 4 cents. You
couldn't beat those rates"
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1895-08-22
SERGEANT FLOYD REQUIRED.
Recollcctions Of and Addresses Z pom TN,
Lewis md C!ara- Expedition.

R-co,,"ction- at AMI Addresses Upon the
Lewis mud C!ara- Expedition.
SIOUX CITY. Ia, AHg. - Sergeant
Charles Floyd, IA In>lnoa: Of the Lewis
and Clark expedition, vino Led in 1904
on his way to the heatwaters Of the
Missouri, near the present site of s u
City. was reburied with elaborate cere-
monies. The body has been tw ce
moved since its Original burial. ice
because of the cuttiu ; OF the bank near
the grave, and this lass time that the
grave may be nearer the city, where it
can be suitably cared for. Addresses
We're made by DR.. Elliott Cowes Of
Washington, the Lewis and Clark his.
tor!an; Professor James Butler OF Mad
ison, Wis, the discoverer of the Floyd
journal, and many members of the
Floyd Memorial association. A mass
meeting was held in the evening, at
which DR.. Cowes and Professor Butler
spo&2e on the history of the expedition
and the circumstances Of Floyd's death.