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The Portland daily press., 1895-10-04

nor RENT-Two story house, No. 63 Gray
IL street, house has been newly decorated
and improved inside and outside: new bay
windows, good heating apparatus, sunny
exposure, large yard, healthy and com
Portable dwelling. BENJAMIN SHAW.
81 1-2 Exchange street. 3;2
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TNOR RENT-Lower rent OF house No. 43
IL Myrtle street eight rooms and bath
room: furnace and all modern con-
veniences: central location. Inquire No: 2l2
Cum berland street. 3-I %
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Vessel Owners Association.

The annual meeting of the Vessel
Owners and Captains National Associa-
ton was held in Boston Wednesday.
Jacob e. Winslow of Portland, president,
anfod oh
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EOR SALE-Suburban residence of 9
L rooms, fine stable, orchard, choice fruit,
! acres land. tons hay IL miles out, i've
minutes from electr1cs. high location, In
view Of Portland and While Mountains, a
great bargain to close an estate. ". Il.
WALDRON & CO., 1870 Middle street. ISL
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FENO LET-Two furnished rooms connected
L on second floor: also one large back
parlor furnished, hot and cold water,
furnace heat, with GARD, at OIL Cumber-
land street. OIL
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NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..

ITO LEI-F1rnished room with heat and
Il gas. at 90 High streeet. lift
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EASTMAN BROS. & BANCROFT.

EOR SALE-Near Union Station, a block
L of houses containing four rents, income
S672 per year; each rent has hot and cold
water, bath room and water closet. This
property is one Of the best invenstlents
ever offered in Portland. A. C. LIBBY.
AZ l-2 Excha nge street. ISL
The Portland daily press., 1895-10-04

NOR SALE-Elegant residence in Deer
+ ing, IA rooms finished in hard wood and
walnut; in first class repair and lighted by
fruit trees, three minutes to electrics: full
view of Portland; great bargain. ". 81.
WALDRON & CO., $50 Middle street. ISL
The Portland daily press., 1895-10-04

CT. BERNARD PUPS, full blooded and
- handsome. Will be sold cheap # pur-
chased at once from MIR. JOHN A.
CLARITY, United States Hotel. City. Al
The Portland daily press., 1895-10-04

EOR SaLE-First class ons family two
Il story Eouse. 2s Beckett street, contains
rooms. GENE nted cellar, furnace. etc, all
III good repair. Fine lot of OF land. Very
cosy home. .A...C. LIBBY, AZ LIZ Exchange
street. 2s-l
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-07-27
KANSAS NEGROES.
George II. Whites Plan for COloniZ-
ing Ali OF Them.

KANSAS CITY. Mo-. July To-
George H. White. President of the
Board of Trade OF Kansas City. and
one Of the wealthiest men in Wyan-
dotte County. i working out plan
for the colonization of all the negroes
in the State of Kansas. He is forming
a company to purchase 1000 acres of
land near POmerOy. Kansas. iust'Out-
side the old town of WyandOttc. 1t is
proposed to colOniZe the negroes on
these lands. Liberal terms will be
offered them and the lands will be
sold so reasonably that every cOlOred
family may have Il home. In con
nectiOn with the cOilniZatiOn scheme it
is proposed to build Il rapid transit
line from the negro colony to connect
with the metropolitan system of the
two Kansas Citys, thereby enabling
the cOlOred settlers to get to any
point of either the Missouri or the
Kansas city for one fare of five cents.
The plan has been carefully worked
out by Mr.. White and work will be
gin very soon. The colored people
take kindly 10 the suggestion and
there is every indications that it will
be Il success.
In Wyandotte county alone there
are 5000 colored citizens. Many of
them own valuable city property,
which they propose to sell that they
may become leaders in the new colOni-
Zation sheme.
As for Mr.. White he is amply able
to carry ont his plan. He owns. be
sides other property interests. 5000
acres of valuable bottom lands just
north of the city of St. Louis.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-07-27
Wages and Prosperity.

An Eastern contemporary recently
estimated the wage list of the United
States in a prosperous season at SSi
coo. 900, 900 a year. 1t gave this as
the probable amount of the wage lis
in 1892. and it forfeited its estimate
/ by details that none of the many
journals that are interested in cOntro,
verting its conclusion has dared tC
question.
Now. it may be affirmed with safety
that eight-tengths of the wage list is
spent almost as fast as it is earned.
1t is prOba BILE that far less than two,
tenths represent the amount lodged in
bank as savings. and even this al
most instantly finds its way into the
channels of commerce. But at least
eight-tenths of wage list is representa-
tive of money spent by the wage earn
ers for food and drink, clothing. house
rent. fuel, light. furniture, books and
newspapers and amusements. The
wage fund is the controlling factor OF
the business Of the country.
The uncertainty that prevailed as
to Democratic intentions concerning
the tariff reduced the wage fund be-
tween November. 1892. and January.
1895, to an extent that hardly can be
estimated as less than one-half. re-
duction of working forces being ad-
ded to reduction of the wage rate. 1t
is amusing to reflect that grave men
were prating of a currency panic at a
time in which the reduction of the
wage fund was a self-evident cXpla-
nation of the dimished purchasing
power of the people. To the Tariff
tinkering policy of the Democratic
party. and to no other cause. the
long continued adversely of the coun-
try is attributable.
Partly because OF the failure of the
new Tariff TO accomplish the purposes
for which it was devised, and partly
because of conditions. peculiar to this
country, there is partial recovery of
the wage fund. But it will be long
ere it reach the proportions that it
assumed prior to the disastrous cleo
tion of 1892. The point to be insisted
upon, however, is that every step to-
ward restoration of the wage fund
to the high status that it held during
the era of Republican administration
of Tariff policy is a step toward re-
turn to the marvellous prosperity of
that era. Compared to this currency
issue seems to be inconsequental.-In
ter-Ocean.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-07-27
BURIED AS A PAUPER.
81. Cloud, Mimi, Has No Claim
Against Uncle sam.

WASHINGTON, July 23.-Assistant
Secretary of the Interior John NJ.
Reynolds to-day decided that a muni-
cipal corporation which cares for a
sick soldier and buries him as a
puper in potter's field has no right to
reimbursement under the pension laws.
Had the corporation cared for and
buried him decently, then the claim
would have been allowed. The case
in point was that of Edward Haskins.
of Company f. Thirthythird New
York Infantry, who died in Jail at St.
Cloud. Mimi, where he had been con-
fined as the result of a spree. He left
no property and the city buried him
as pauper and asked the Interior
Department to reimburse it. Judge
Reynolds disallowed the claim.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-07-27
Electric Bitters.

Electric Bitters is a medicine suited
for any season, but perhaps more
generally needed in the Spring, when
the languid exhausted feeling prevails,
when the liver is torpid and sluggish
and the need of tonic and Alternative
is felt. a prompt use of this medicine
has often averted long and perhaps
fatal bilious fevers. No medicine will
act more surely in counteracting and
freeing the system from the malarial
poison. Headach, Indigestion, Con-
stipation, Dizziness yield to Electric
Bitters. Only fifty cents per bottle al
Blomeyer & Haman's drug store.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-07-27
VERY DELIBERATE.
The killing of Ex-Sherif Grain by
Marshal Ray.

SPARTA, Mo-. July 23.-The murder
of eX-Sheriff \. c. Cain by Marshal
Ray here at & 6o'clOck last evening has
caused the greatest sensation through
out Christian County. The shooting.
according to accounts given. was very
deliberate. The men had pledged
each other their friendship after a
quarrel about some trivial matter.
Grain was sitting on his own porch
playing with little grand-child, when
Ray, mounted. armed and prepared
for flight, rode up. and without say
ing word To his defenseless victim
fired. y score of turkey shot riddled
the unfortunate mans head and scat
tered his brains over the door facing.
Grain never spoke and his slayOr gal
lopes away into the woods south Of
town. Sheriff Thompson and large
posse are in pursuit OF the murderer,
but his capture is not expected to-day.
This is the fourth homicide that has
occurred within a few yards of the
same spot since 1850.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-07-27
SENT TO JAIL.
A State Officer Behind
the Bars.
The Prosecuting Attorney of Butler
County is in Jail for Contempt
of Court.

POPLAR BLUFF, Mo-. July 22.
Prosecuting Attorney Renfro is in jail
for contempt of court. This afternoon
as Judge Wear was charging the
Grand Jury Mr.. Renfro arose. and
addressing the Court. said:
Your Honor. l wish to make a
statement. You have misstated the
facts
The Judge motiOned the Prosecuting
Attorney to sit down and resumed his
instructions to the jury. He had said
but a few words when he was again
interrupted by Mr.. Renfro. who reit-
Grated his former remarks. Thereup-
on the Court fined the Prosecuting
Attorney $50 for contempt and ordered
that he be committed until the amount
was paid. Mr.. Renfro refused to pay
the fine and was committed to Jail.
Prosecutor RenfrO took exceptions
TO that part of the Court ; instructions
to the Grand Jury in which he charged
that body that the court was informed
that certain saloon men were openly
violating the Sunday laws by selling
liquor on the Sabbath day: that the
Court was informed by the City At
torney that the city ordinances We're
detective and under them no convic-
tiOns could be had. and that, although
duly informed of the state of affairs.
Prosecutor Rerfro refused to prosecute
these eases under the State law.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-07-27
MISSOURI! FRUIT CROP.
Every Indication that the Yield VIII
BE Above the Average.

COLUMBIA. Mo-, July 22.-From re-
ports received here at the Missouri
State Experimental Station it seems
that the fruit crop this year, all kinds
considered. will be considerably above
the average. The apple crop promises
to be one of the best that the State has
ever produced. From the Iowa line
to the Arkansas and from the Missis-
sippi River to the Kansas State line
the reports come continually that
wherever the orchard was not too full
last year and wherever the trees have
been taken care of the crop will be
good, better than for years. In some
instances hail has done slight damage
to the apples: in other instances there
has been some injury by late frosts,
but the injury is local only. and the
damage is not severe.
The peach crop will be a general
one. but. strange to say, along the
line of Neosho. Carthage, and nearly
or quite to Springfield. the crop will
be very light. while as far north as st.
Joseph, the crop will be a full one.
In some few locations the trees are
slightly injured. but where they were
cut back properly they have shown a
wonderful vigor and growth. Peaches
will be plenty, however, in the State,
and the prospect is fair for good
prices.
The pear crop will reach the usual
average. The prospect for plums is
not so good, and they will not be as
plentiful as last year. Cherries will
be better and more abundant than
usual: grapes will reach the usual
average.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-07-27
Next session of Congress.

WASHINGTON. d. c.. July D.
Public men in Washington are al
ready beginning to discuss the prOba-
bilities as to the length of the next
session of Congress. Opinion is gen.
orally favorable to short session,
and is based largely on the belief that
both parties will be desirous of get
ting away for the campaign at as an
early date as possible. 1t is now
believed by some that Mr.. Reed. feel
ing practically certain that he will be
elected to the speakership, has already
virtually completed the House com
mittee list, and that at any rate he will
be able to announce his appointments
very soon after the convening of the
two houses on the I'd of December.
Should the House committees be an
nounced soon after the beginning of
the session and that body get its work
we'll under way before the Christmas
holidays. it would be decided inno-
vation. Few Congresses in recent
years have begun the session without
this plan as part of their programme,
and few have succeed in putting it in
to execution.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-07-27
Marvellous Results.

From letter written by Rev. J.
Gunderman, of Diamondale, Mich.
we are permitted to make this extract:
Il have no hesitation in recommend
ing DR.. Kings New Discovery, as the
results were almost marvellous in the
case of my wife. While Twas pastor
of the Baptist Church at Rives juno
ton she was brought down with
Pneumonia succeeding la grippe. Ter
rible paroxysms of coughing would
last hours with little interruption and
it seemed as if she could not survive
them. A friend recommended DR..
Kings New Discovery; it was quick
in its work and highly satisfactory in
results. Trial bottles free at Blomey-
er & Haman's drug store. Regular
size SOC and s1.00
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-07-27

=
e. see. :" remarked the wide-awake
farmer, that wheat has gone up to
zoe in Chicago, and there's a report
that it will keep goin' till it gets to
dollar. Now I'd like to contract to
sell you my crop for I0c. Seventy
cents will do me. I'd rather have
sure thing while it's goin' than to
take my chances of dOin' better by
waitin.
"But, - replied the commission mer-
chant. Il can't agree to contract for
your wheat at Zoe
"Why not? It's goin up to dol
lar. an you'll make 3Oc bushel.
Amt that enough:'.
''Oh yes: but you see, that 7Oc is
only a speculative price. 1t amt
what they pay for real wheat.
Don't pay that for real wheat:
What in thunder do they pay it for.
them"
why. for options.
well. what in blazes are optiOns?"
Why. they're promises to get
wheat and sell it for snch and such a
price
We'll then, they got to get the
wheat amt they"
No; they sell the promises again.
according as the market rises or
falls
AN don't they buy an sell any
real wheat at all:"
Not much. -
Just buy an sell wind at zoe a
bushel:"
That's about it. "
Thunder an Mars. wish | knowed
that last fall. l wouldn't sowed any
wheat. I'd tied my grain bags to the
back o. my fannin wheel an kept the
boy turnin' it all winter, till I'd filled
all the bags I could get hold of. But
it amt too late yet. By gosh, if it's
wind they want stead of wheat, can
supply the market for the hull coun-
try right off my farm. ''-Buffalo
Express.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-07-27
A Strange Freak.

The wife of our esteemed citizen,
Mr.. John Boswell, while suffering un-
der severe attack of the blues, tried
to commit the infanticide, but was
prevented by the opportune arrival oi
a neighbor. Her case has been con-
sidered by the best doctors incurable,
but her husband was highly pleased,
after using course of Sulphur Bit.
ters, to find that she was entirely
cured.-Kingston Herald.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-07-27
Ignorance Nota Valid Defense.

BY a recent decision reported in the
american Lawyer" "a person who
signs an instrument without reading
it. when he can read. cannot. in the
absence of fraud. deceit or misrepre-
sentatiOn, avoid the effect OF his sig
nature, because not informed of the
contents of the instrument. The same
rule would apply to one who cannot
read. if he neglects to have it read, or
to inquire as to its contents. This
well settled rule is based upon the
sufficient reason that in such cases
ignorance of the contents of instru-
ments is attributable to the party's
own negligence. But the rule is 9th
erwise where the execution of an in
strument is obtained by a misrepre-
sentatiOn of its contents: where the
party signed paper he did not know
he was signing, and did not really in
tend to sign. 1t is immateriai, in the
later aspect of the case, that the party
signing had an opportunity to read
the paper, for he may have been pre-
vented from doing so by the very fact
that he trusted to the truth of the rep
resentation made by the other party
with whom he was dealing.
This is the clear-cut manner in
which the Supreme Court of Alabama,
in the case of Beck x PAUL. LithO-
graphing Company vs.Houppert ct al.
t16 So. Rep. 525) J, reiterates the whole
some doctrine that person cannot
take advantage of his own wrong or
NEGLIGENCE.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-07-27
The Missouri OIeo Law.

The presumption is that the bill
passed by the Legislature to regulate
the sale of oleo in the State will do so
the moment it is put into force. Our
copy of the laws passed has not come
to hand: we are, therefore. unable to
determine its terms: but as said. the
presumption is that it only awaits the
executive work of an intelligent and
effective officer to make it operative.
The State Board of Agriculture is,
we understand, charged with the duty
of appointing this officer. AS ne is
so will the work done be; effective and
desirable, or the reverse. There are
millions in it, and the work done will
either help the farmers make the mil
lions, or so construe the law and di-
vert the work as to make it inure to
the good of half a dozen millionaire
butcher -butter-makers at the stock
yards. We are watching and waiting,
and taking notes.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-07-27
WHITE HOUSE BABIES.
Six Have Been Born in the Presiden-
tial Mansion since 1890.

t1aI Mansion since $50.
It was 1880 that the first White
House baby was born. This was a
girl. the daughter of Mrs. Andrew
1 Jackson Donaldson. niece of Presi.
| dent Jackson. Mr.. Donaldson was
the president private secretary. The
first White House baby is clerk in
the Treasury Department, old and gray
headed. Strange as it may seem. on
that September day in 1893 when little
/ Esther was born. the first White House
/ baby was sitting at her desk in the
Treasury less than 100 yards distant
from the scene of the birth of the last
White House child. Miss Donaldson
married Mississippi Congressman,
Gen Wilcox. who died before the war.
Her father was foreign Minister
once, and also candidate for the
vice presidency. What money and
property she had was lost in the war.
This first White House baby had a
brother and lister. 10 h n
Samuel Donaldson and Rachel Jack
son Donaldson. born in the White
House, but they died in infancy.
The fourth White House baby was
Richard Tyler Jones. a grandson of
President Tyler. and a son Of his
daughter, Mary. who marrieda South
Caroliua. Capt. Jones The child en-
tered the Confederacy. serving as
Captain. andr died a short time ago in
Washington. poor and unhappy.
After the war he came to Washington.
where his uncle. President Tyler
son, was In the Treasury Department.
Capt. Henry Lightfoot Jones. the
fourth White House baby. secured
his uncle's position when the latter
became paralyzed. dividing the salary
with him. 1t is the irony of fate that
this child. born in the White House.
should have been compelled only a few
months ago to accept a position
in the Post Office Depart-
men as labOrer at so month. at
the hands of Postmaster. General Will
son of West Virginia. He was only
able to work one day. and then went
home and died in poverty.
His aunt, Mrs. Lititia Tyler Semple.
who was once the first baby of the
land. " now lives in the Louise Home.
built by Mr., CorcOran 5 generosity
for decayed gentlewomen. and she has
s. month as a pension as the widow
of soldier of the Mexican. war.
It was not until President Grants
term that another White House baby
was born. when Col. Fred Grant : wife
bore Julia Dent Grant, who was
christcned in the blue room.
Little Esther was the sixth babyto he
born in the White House 1t appears
that two of these we're boys and four
girls. The fact that child is born
in the White House apparently
does not make its fate any better.
for it appears that the first White
House baby is clerk in the Treasury
Department: that Tyler Jones, anOth er
one. died the other day in.poverty and
that two of the three Donaldsons died
in infancy.-Pittsburg Commercial Ga
zette.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-07-27
Meeting of the American Pharma-
ceutical Association.

Denver. Colo, August 14th-2lst,
1895. The Mobile x Ohio will sell
tickets for the above accession to Den,
yer, Colorado Springs, Manitou, and
Pueblo. Colo. at one fare for the
round trip, good till August 2Sth,
1895. Coupon ticket stations between
Mobile and Columbus, KY, will sell
August 10th, and 1lth, and coupon
ticket stations from Red Bud to Cairo
inclusive will sell August 11th and
18th
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-07-27
WHAT DREAMS ARE MADE OF.


hleHl I duSt ItGulh.
Many Il queer argument is to be
heard in the cafes of uptown hotels in
the evening. In 4 cOngenial party re-
Gently the conversation drifted to
dreams. One Of the party said:
Il think that the most awful sensa-
ton one can imagine is to dream that
you are falling. | had Il dream like
that the other night and woke up
with a start. | was bathed in cold
perspiration and almost scared TO
death
1t is lucky 70" you. said the quiet
member OF the party. that you didn .;
dream that You landed"
why" asked the first speaker.
Because. said the other, If you
had you wouldn't be here now.
What do you mean" the first
speaker asked.
Il mean that had you dreamed that
you fell. and continued to dream until
you struck. it would have killed you
just as surely as If you had actually
fallen"
There was dead silence for few
moments. The quiet man silently
puffed at his cigar. while the one he
addressed stared hard at him a. if
trying to grasp the details Of the new
idea. Finally: he said; What
makes you think that
We'll replied the other. lit is only
a pet theory Of mine. and it is not iau-
thenticated by any tangible evidence.
When one dreams. the mind runs riot,
and the impression left'upOn the'phys-
icaI body is as strong as if one We're
awake and the occurrences dreamed of
were an actuality. While one dreams
the mind is dominant. The body is
simply factor and responds to each
impulse of the mind. What causes Il
somnambulist to get up and walk
while asleep: 1t i the mind. Your
body had simply responded to the
of the mind. The body be-
comes a machine1and the mind pow
er that operates it. Now. suppose
you dreamed that you fell long dis
tance and struck. The impression of
the collision between the body and
substance which you struck would be
conveyed TO the heart as if it had
really happened. The shock would
cause the heart 20 stop. or to become
so deranged that it could not perform
its function, and death would be the
result. Sometimes you read of peo-
pie dying while asleep. The physi-
clans say it is heart disease. My
theory is that it is not heart disease,
but in reality some dream of vio-
lence has deranged the heart. People
do not die of heart disease while quiet
ly resting, and sleep is complete rest. "
This argument dazed his listeners
for few moments and then the first
speaker said:
Il don't believe it. 1t is a pretty
theory, but how are you going to
prove it?'
lean not prove it, but l know Lam
right"
Il can prove it, but know you are
wrong" was the reply.
\ few days later the same men met
again. The first speaker said:
"Do you remember saying a few
days ago that if a man dreamed
hat he fell and struck it would kill
him."
The other replied that he did.
"Well," said the first speaker ''you
are wrong. 1 dreamed that 1 fell and
I hit hard, too-yet l am
all right
How are you going to prove to
me that you dreamed that you struck,
and
So another argument was precipta-
ed and the question has not been
settled yet.-New York Tribune.