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Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1895-11-30

"That sort Of thing always touches me-"
observed Twain as he dashed drop from
his eye. "Don't mind my emotion; it's
always a relief to me to weep after reading
testimonial like that. Here is another
from little huddle of waits whose parent
and protector had been cut down and
whom they were about to file away in the
tomb 1t tells it's own homely story of
heartache and alial grief:
Gathers in heaven. His body is dead
And silent, cold and still.
When we orphans get back from the grave.
We're going to bust the will.
by His Children
"And here, continued Twain musingly
as he selected third, "is the prattling
innocence of childhood. Jimmy is dead,
and his little companions offer the follow
ing explanation. Dickens Death of Little
Nell failed to move me as this has done:
Jimmy ate an unripe pippin.
He knew it wasn't right.
The angels foated down to US
And collected James that night,
And since then all us boys have been
Behaving out of sight.
BY His Playmates.
his face with his handkerchief and prefer
ing the manuscript with the disengaged
hand, "you read The grief of artless
childhood outs me to the heart and I'M
mans me-"
Compose yourself" said the writer
"You will soon be able to go on"
''This," said Twain when he had again
grown calm, "comes from a stricken wom-
an. 1t is only four lines, but it tells the
whole sorrowful chapter:
"He died, and my life, which was sad before,
Beheld its tears increased,
For when Algernon sought the shining shore
My alimony ceased.
BY His Divorced Wife.
"There," remarked Twain, quite COM
posed now. ~ stood that better than
hoped. I feel stronger now. All, now
comes one which Is warm and instinct
with an unbribed solicitude. There are
few democrats to whose sympathies it
would not appeal. It is the little matters
such as this, fresh from the best nature of
man, which makes the green tree and the
fountain, the oasis II you please, in the
arid wastes Of human existence. Listen:
'Our hearts are sad and lonely
ro a,;,n% Su th sV ata;rs ~ nsar1 snd cold
And And eternal davs
He was an earnest worker
WIN snloas forever eN aly.
with the seraphs in the sky.
We hope the generals happy.
Still, unless the folks have lied,
Seraphs don't make gin rickeys
Nor rive seltser on the side
-By His Barkeep.
.,u, -.
ms 'rlpuee ~ eho nearU lhoan VI
began to cloud his eve. "When YOU hear
- ,o, ,y;ll aov a ,a a crv fron tho soul.
~ ~" -
Dear Henry 3 dead, and I'm borne down
BY an avalanche OF care.
Ans settI e' ,y ,. - ,raar "A
His pain il Ger. He's happy now,
would not call him back
won't seem bad as widow, and
look beautiful in black.
BY His bereaved Helpmeet'
"And now" said Twain, 1--WE come to
Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1895-11-30

say that the real and permanent grandeur
Of these states must be their religion.
otherwise there IL NO real and permanent
grandeur
(Ner character nor life worthy the name with.
out religion,
gion)
Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1895-11-30
Two Liy

A rose and thorn together grew,
And one was fair, the other vain,
Yet both were kissed by the summer sun.
And both by the freshening rain.
And two mems lives together grew;
The one was gentle, the other vain,
And one was blessed Ivy the glorious sun,
The other had naught but rain.
ALBERT Hardy.
Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1895-11-30

II suffering with piles, it will interest
you to know that De Wits Witch Hazel
Salve will cure them. This medicine is a
specific for all complaints of this char
acter, and if Instructions which are
simple) are carried out, cure will re-
suit. We have tested this in numerous
cases, and always with like results. It
never fails. Newton's drug store.
Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1895-11-30
LEGAL BLAN KS

We carry full and complete line Of all
Legal Blank, including those required
by the Brand Law enacted by the
last legislature.
Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1895-11-30

Mrs. Briggs: You remember that
organ grinder you gave penny to a
week ago if he would stop playing? Well,
he came arond to-day and wanted seven
pence.
Diggs: Great Scott! What for?
Mrs. Briggs: He said he hadn't been
here for week!
Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1895-11-30

We're you ever in America? asked the
great London editor.
Never.
Ever read newspaper from that coun-
trys
No.
Ever talked with anyone who has been
there? &.
Not syllable.
Ysu'll do. We want, you to write edi-
torials on the social and political condi-
tions in the United States.
Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1895-11-30

No excuse for sleepless nights when
you can procure One Minute Cough Care.
This will relieve all annoyances, cure the
most severe cough and give You rest and
health. Can You afford to do without it,
NeWton,s druu akora
Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1895-11-30
A FEW EPlTAPHS.
Mark Twain Unfolds Few Striking Spec
linens.

Mark Twain Unfolds Few Striking Spec
linens.
"Here Is something" observed Mark
Twain to The Post writer when the latter
visited that great humorist at his home in
Hartford" here is something to which
when life's hour is darkest often turn for
relief"
Twain held up handful of manuscript
which he took from the drawer at his
right. M
ssThis little nest Of mortuary senti-
ment, ;" continued Twain, "came to me
bit by bit during my career as city editor
in San Francisco. did not at the time
have the heart to print any Of it, for the
slope was rude region and too busy with
gold to have time for moe appreciation.
But always preserved these little contri-
buttons and have frequently cheered blue
moment by their perusal. There is a frank
ness which touches and sincerity which
dazzles me In every one of them, and
would not part with the collection for the
world. To me they are priceless will,
however, read them to you should you care
to listen. You may If you please, copy
two or three They will serve to uphold
your spirits hereafter at times when life's
burdens seem more than you can bear.
Evidently Twain was in his most oblig-
ing humor. The writer eagerly besought
him to read these somber gems by all
| means.
THANK you" replied Twain. "It will
give me pleasure Here''-he went on
picking up leaf of manuscripts be-
lated chant on the part of the near admir-
| ers of a youth who evidently passed away
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-04-13
How the Women Voted in Ohio.

The champions of woman. suffrage
throughout the east must have receiv-
ed fresh courage for the work they
have in hand. from the reports of the
splendid work done by the women of
Ohio on Monday, when the State
elections took place. But for the fact
that women were going to vote, the
elections would have had no special
significance. AS it was, all interested
in the school question, in which women
now take part, were eager to know
how the women's votes would go. AS
events proved, they were equal to the
occasion. The women were out in
force. So enthusiastic were they in
some cities and towns that after cast
ing their own votes they entered the
contests like old electioneers, employ
ing carriages and themselves going
with the drivers from place to place to
fetch to the polls many who would not
otherwise have taken the trouble to
F6COru GllclF FOucS. lucTc WcTc " uluc
a number of women candidates for
school boards in different parts of the
State, and several of them were elect
ed.
That the women of the West are
deeply interested in the school ques-
tien is shown by the numbers who
voted. Report has it that 5000 women
voted in Cleveland, 5000 in Columbus,
200 in Youngstown, 1000 in Dayton.
In Taledo three-fourths of the women's
vote was polled before 9 O'Clock, and
women were at every precinct with re-
freshments for those who had to cast
the votes during the intermission from
work for dinner. The utmost en-
thusiasm prevailed everywhere. The
eyes of women suffragists were turned
toward Ohio, and the result agues
we'll for the future of the movement
throughout the country at large.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-04-13
Railroads West of the Mississippi.

| How many realize that of the 16l ,OOC
miles of railroad in the United States
in 1889, 1,6O0 miles, or nearly one
half, are west of the Mississippi, and
/ that of this IL 40 miles are west of the
Rocky Mountains? The railroad
building of the East has been of steady
growth, but that of the West has leaped
into existence almost within a decade.
The pony express" and the ''prairie
schooner" of Stewards day have given
place to six great transcontinental
lines of railway, which penetrate from
the East to the Pacific Coast. all of
them constructed since 1869. The rail-
road building of the East is compara-
lively at a standstill, but it is con-
tinuing in the West on a scale which
will soon give it a preponderance.
Already California stands third on
the list of value per capita of railroad
property, owning S741 per capita, be-
ing surpassed only by Rhode Island
and Massachusetts, and being follow
ed by New York with s549 per capita,
Ohio with S433 and Virginia with s24S,
those States being the highest in their
respective sections. California alone
mined one-third of the gold product
of the United States in 1893. During
the ten years from 1884 to 1894, the
shipping owned in the Atlantic and
Gulf States decreased 40 in number
and $4,000 in tonnage. During the
same period the shipping owned on
the Pacific Coast increased from 1221
with tonnage of 334, ,669 in 1884, to
1920 and a tonnage of 456, ,359 in 1894,
an increase in number of 466, and in
tonnage of 121, 500.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-04-13
Absolutely Free.

Any reader of this paper can get the
st. Louis Globe Democrat absolutely
free for three months. Read the offer
in this issue and take advantage of it
at once. The Weekly yGlobe-Democrat
is issued in Seni-Weekly sections,
eight pages each Tuesday and Friday,
sixteen every week, making it prac-
tically Semi-Weekly paper, yet the
price is only one dollar a year. In
politics, it is strictly Republican, but
it gives all the news, and is absolutely
Indispensable to the farmer, merchant,
or professional man who has not the
time to read a large daily paper, and
yet desires to keep promptly and thor
oughly posted. Sample Copies will
be sent free on application to
GLOBE PRINTING Co.,
st. Louis, Mo.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-04-13
Burglars Get Into a saloon.

Burglars broke into the cellar under
August Shivelbine's saloon Saturday
night and helped themselves to all the
best bottled goods they could carry
off. Mr.. Shivelbine does not know
how much he is out, but he does know
that several bottles of his highest
priced whisky are missing. They got
into the cellar by opening CRATE on
Main street. Had the night watchman
been on hand he could have easily
captured the burglars, for the CRATE
they lifted up to get into the cellar
was within thirty feet of an arc electric
light and the burglars could have
been identified from a block away.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-04-13
The Old City Administration Throws
up the Sponge.

The old City Council met this morn
ing and after transacting its regular
business adjourned sine die. Then
the new Council organized by electing
August Bierwirth, president pro tenn
of the Council.
George E. Chappell was reelected
city clerk by acclamation. Russ Juden
was elected Street Commissioner:
Henry Hauenschild, City Auditor; Jas.
McKenna, Port Warden and Dave
Pierceield City Sexton. William J.
Penn was made Deputy Marshal and
the list of Special Policemen appoint
ed by the Marshal with two exceptions
was confirmed.
The new administration started off
smoothly and harmoniously, and we
believe the new administration will
get along nicely.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-04-13
Business Outlook Frightening.

Evidence multiplies on every side
that the business of the country is on
the sure road to recovery. The worst
symptoms of commercial and Industrial
disease have disappeared, and all that
the patient now seems to require is
time and quiet. The struggle with
Clevelandism has been severe one,
but the Republic will undoubtedly be
wiser, and it is to be hoped sounder,
in the long run, for the ordeal through
which it has passed.
Several of the metropolis foremost
business men lately declared through
the columns of the Morning Advertiser
that marked and growing improve
ment in trade and industry was per-
ceptable. Their opinion is now con-
firmed by "Bradstreet's," which re-
ports that the total liabilities of the
business failures in the United States
for the quarter ended on March q was
$50, 81, ,643. This is nearly per cent.
1903 Oldh lldp1llllCS loI lLO COT-
responding period last year, and,
more suggestive and gratifying still,
only about SO, ,00O, 900 more than those
of the like period of 1892, the crowning
year of business prosperity in this
Republic. 1t is to be noted also that
most of these failures took place dur
ing the early half of the quarter just
expired. Since the first of February
there has been steady drop in the
total number of failures, and unless
something untoward occurs meantime
which is not now foreseen, the close of
the present quarter should show a sig
nal change for the better in all
branches of trade and production.
The public, therefore, should take
courage. With the Democracy driven
from power in Congress its opportuni-
ty for assaulting the national credit, |
American industry and the currency
system has ceased and producers and |
are now able to count with |
a fair measure of certainty upon the
future. The buzz of the loom and the
roar of the furnace are already begin
ming to be heard again, railroads are
making preparations for increased
traffic, farmers are turning their at
tention to spring sowing and there has
been an apparent check in the down.
ward tendency of the wages of labor.
A little more patience and pluck and
the nation will be out of the Slough of |
Despond.-Boston Advertiser.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-04-13
Twenty Years Litigation Settled.

The long pending litigation of the
estate of Amos r. Phillips was, on
Saturday, March Both, 1895, settled for
the benefit of creditors by compromise
between the administrator and the
creditors, by proper judicial proceed
ings before Judge James ID. Fox, in
the Circuit court of Madison county,
which was attended last week by some
of GU" leading men the Hon. VIM.
Dawson, Hon. J. II. Howard and
Albert B. Hunter.
The compromise is set forth in the
petition to the court and states that
the agreement was made that certain
lands belonging to the estate are to
be sold and the proceeds applied to
the payment of debts, pro rata pay
ment to be made on all demands
against the estate. Proceedings will
now be taken by the present admins
traitor, Mr.. Murray Phillips, to sell
the lands for the aforesaid purpose.
The deceased. Amos r. Phillips, we
are informed, died about y years ago
and the large and valuable estate has
been in litigation about 20 years. The
case was taken to Judge Fox's circuit
on a change of venue, where it is now
announced as compromised to the sat
isfaction of all concerned.-New Mad
rid Record.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-04-13
SCARCITY OF BEEF CATTLE,
The Advance in the Price of Meats
Choice Cuts Beyond the Reach
of Ordinary Consumers.

| PHILADELPHIA, Pa, April =
"You see," said one of the prominent
cattle dealers of Philadelphia, "good
stock will be high until the Fourth OF
July. if 1 know any thing about the
market, for just now out of the hundred
carloads of steers. all are picked up
from the interior of Pennsylvania,
save, perhaps dozen cars full. Cat
tie are scarce all over the country Just
| now, and. as the farmers raise stock
to make money, when it does not pay
they quit raising, and that's the secret
of the present high prices. The great
cattle raising States of Kansas, Ne
braska and Iowa were scourged with
drouth last summer, the corn crop
was short, and grass proved fail
ure, so cattle began getting scarcer,
until now if a dealer only looks at a
steer broad grin passes over its face,
followed by a genuine look of pity
So we dealers have to hustle, and all
OAAS SOou olN ldIHllLlS SouHtlcS luaaUlllS
State, like Lancaster, Lebanon and
Berks. are secured from end to end,
and the result is that Philadelphia Just
now is eating lots of corn-fed cattle of
its own Commonwealth.
Said one of the veteran dressed
meat dealers: Its beginning to come
up to the times of 1881, when we paid
1Oc pound for live cattle, and they
were hard to get at that, but the cause
then was the war demand in Europe
I've been cutting up meat for twenty
five years. and when | first began
some of the best folks in the city were
satisfied with choice piece of brisket
where now even the poorest mechanic
must have his sirloin, and as there is
not much more than enough genuine
sirlOin in stock here to supply the
hotels and eating houses, there is
lot of people in this big town who are
getting cuts of all sorts of steak and
it choice sirloin. At present
prices the butchers are not making
much, for out of every whole beef,
there is not more than one-third of it
choice, salable meat
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-04-13
The Figures are Not Correct.

The retiring Mayor of this city says,
in his farewell address to the Council,
that he goes out leaving two thousand
five hundred and fifty-six dollars and
sixty-four cents in the general revenue
fund. His way of figuring will not
add up right. He failed to deduct from
the amount he claims to have left in
the general revenue fund the bills that
were allowed at the very meeting at
which his address was delivered. He
failed also to mention the fourteen
hundred dollars the city owes for
fire hose and hose carts which was
contracted for under his administra-
ton and which has to be paid for out
of the general revenue fund. Foot up
the hose bill and the bills that the old
Council allowed at its last meeting
and the figures will show a very small
balance in the city treasury to the
credit of the general revenue fund.
We mention these facts for the in
formation of Mayor Coerver. He may
some day want to say something about
how much money he found in the gen.
eral revenue fund when he took charge
of the Mayors Office.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-04-13
Pension Decisions.

WASHINGTON, D. c., April S.-As-
sistant Secretary Reynolds, of the In
terror Department, has recently rem
dered several pension decisions OF
more or less interest. In sustaining
the decision of the Commissioner OF
Pensions in the case of Hannah Chap
man, widow of Samuel Chapman, who
claimed enlistment in the Goth Indiana
Volunteers, he holds that the question
whether a man is enlisted rests with
the War Department, and where the
War Department shows that soldier
was not enlisted it is final: also,
that an offer of enlistment by soldier
must be completed by its acceptance
by the Government.
In the case of Susan Landgraff,
widow of John Landgraff, of Illinois,
the Secretary affirms the decision of
the Commissioner, rejecting her claim
for a pension under the act of 1890, on
the ground that she had an income con-
siderably in excess of the pensions
allowed widows.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-04-13
1t Makes a Difference Which.

What are your rates?" was the
lone interrogatory borne to this Office
on a postal card this morning. If il
meant subscription, the rate for the
daily is fifteen cents a week. But il
il had reference to advertising, then
it delves down into a yawning abyss
of differences, uncertainties and
doubts. Aside from straight legiti-
mate advertising matter, the rates de-
pend altogether upon circumstances
in the following: Death, birth and
marriage notices free, where no poetry
is included. For speaking of Miss
Blank as lone of Cape Girardeau' s
most charming young ladies'" free
for the first insertion, but ten cents a
line for each subsequent insertion.
For mentioning the merchant who
never advertises as lone of the lead
ing business men of this city," one
dollar per line, owing to the fact that
a lie of that kind requires a pretty
strong balm to ease up the conscience.
For mentioning a doctor as lone of
the most prominent physicians of this
county," fifteen cents line for each
insertion, with an additional rate ad-
ded when he insists upon writing his
own personals. For speaking of ''our
efficient and accommodating county
officials - free if they are on the right
side of the political fence, otherwise
reasonable rates will be given if taken
in large quantities. Homemade poetry
ruled out, and not accepted at any
price. Church notices, scandals,
births, dog fights, sociables, drunks,
marriages, horse races, temperance
meetings, prize fights, lodge matters,
murders, suicides, divorces, elope-
ments and all other items of interest
to the general public will be gladly
published free of charge.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-04-13
Changed His Business,

On the 31st of December, the Racket
store of this place changed managers.
J. c. Morrison, who has so faithfully
and successfully held that position in
the past, severed his connection with
the business on that day, E. S. Aim
stead successor, who we are quite sure
will make the Racket in the future
what it has been in the pasta perfect
success.
We are not informed as to Mr..
Morrison's future plans, and while we
would very much regret to lose him as
a citizen, he will carry our best wishes
to any locality in which he should
locate. He is a live, wide awake
business man, possessing the qualifi-
cations of making friends wherever he
goes.-Current Topics, Beebe, Ark.
January 1895.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-04-13
THE INCOME TAX.
Landlords and State and
Municipal Bonds
Exempt.
This is SIC, 200, 900 Loss-An Other
Features of the Law, 1t Is
Thought, VIII Be Sus-
tanned by the Court.

WASHINGTON, D. c., April 6.-Tht
income tax law, according to high
authority, will probably be sustained
in all except one or two of its features
by a divided Supreme Court. Thai
the Bench is tied on the constitution.
ality of the statute was announced in
the dispatches on Tuesday last. Sew.
eral conferences have been held since,
but the deadlock has not been broken,
and the formal announcement of the
Courts position will, it is expected be
made on Monday. No official intima-
ton of the exact terms of the decision
that will be rendered can be obtained,
but it is the impression based upon
hints from officials in the confidence of
the Justices, that the two features
likely to be pronounced unconstitu-
tional are those including rents and
interest on State and municipal bonds
in the returns subject to the tax. To
this extent the findings of the lower
court will be reversed, and the other
provisions of the statute will be thus
indirectly upheld.
AS has been asserted, the entire law
will not be nullified by an adverse
ruling in the two instances named. 1t
has been foreshadowed in these dis
patches that the act in its entirety
would not be upheld, but there has
been considerable doubt as to which
feature would be eliminated.
The Supreme Court Justices held
another long conference to-day at
which the rough draught of the de-
cision was discussed, and it is posi-
BILE that notifications of the informal
decision, holding the two provisions
indicated unconstitutional were agreed
to, but so far as can be ascertained
from reliable sources, the presentment
will be substantially as stated. The
Court is understood to stand 5 to on
the unconstitutionality of the features
that are expected to be stricken out.
One or two Justices are known to en-
tertain objections to other parts of the
statute, notably the exemptions, ac-
corded to building, loan and other CO.
operative associations, but it is the
best understanding, that the law so
far as it relates to corporations of
this character will be left undisturbed.