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Marble Hill press. (Marbel [sic] Hill, Mo.) 1881-1923, 1895-10-17
THE RELNION.


{ ONE in, old man, and take seat, and let
us have chat
Not bout hard times and politics, and cur
rency and that;
And when you thaw yourself we'll tax oi
times long passed away,
Before we wore our specs, you know, and
ere our heads were gray.
For somehow as we near the end IT'S pleas
ant and it's sad
To frd man who'll listen to the times that
we have had.
I've just come in from feeding STOCK and
milking of the COWS,
And, tell you what, it's pleasanter just now
within the house;
The fire a-roaring and the logs a-poopng
high and low,
lust like The guns on Shiloh field some thirty
years ago;
While 1inny IN the kitchen there is making
of the night
Smell sweet with ham and hattercakes, and
all that brings delight!
Old Shiloh field Well, I'll be blamed, i
that last April day
Was not picture of the place where saint
aren't said to stay.
For Grant and Beauregard, | think, ha'
made their minds to prove
That some vast hill would tremble some be
fore his side would move;
And in the fray my brother Joe was capture
by the foe,
And whether he's alive or dead, | don't pre-
tend to know.
He should have written me, think, if stl
alive and well,
For when but boys he'd come to me his lit
, wants to tell.
y And when we'd wander home at nigh
where mother sat and sewed--
| A-glancing oft to see if we were coming
the road
Toge ,her we'd sit round the hearth whe
naught Our pleasure marred,
F, Then in the trundle-bed Turn in'', Wi
y mothers prayers to guard.
n Excuse my silly tears, my friend-each BOSE
!. has its strife. J +.
s, And you are weeping too? By 10
it's Joe come back to life!
N Now this IS good. And how're you, Joe!
"a think that can say
d One thing never could before rum
much this way:
~ I've felt the gladness Of the saints, before
h life is DER,
~ When meeting those who're gone-but
" amt this the Golden Shore?
~ w. T. Hale, in CommerciaI-ApPea
Marble Hill press. (Marbel [sic] Hill, Mo.) 1881-1923, 1895-10-17
A Cape Girardeau special to the Globe

Cane G;rardeau special to the Globe
Democrat says: Major Brooks, chief engineer
Of the St. Louis, Cape Girardeau and Fort
Smith railway company, is organizing
CORDS for the purpose of making prellml-
nary survey of line from Hunter, on the
St. Louis, Cape Girardeau and Fort Smith,
to Harrison, Ark, and may be through to
For, Smith, tAe line passing through the
Ozark country, so graphically described 1e-
Gently in the Giobe-Democrat. AT meet
inc of the bondholders in New York, where
about $500, 900 of total of $3.50, 900 of con-
soldated bonds were represented. it was re-
solved to stand by the property and to re-
orqani-e and extend the same. Mr.. l1ouck ,
receiver, and Mr.. McCarty, general mana
ger, of the road, were present at the meeting.
Mr.. Houck was ordered 10 cause survey to
be made without delay, and accordingly Maj
Brooks next week will begin work. It was
also resolved to relay the. first forty miles OF
the present road with sb-pound steel rails, as
soon as litigation nov pending with the Mis-
souri, Pacific can be adjusted, and in orde
to adjust this litigation tendey vas made BY
Mr.. Newman Erb, chairman O. the reorsan
ization committee, Ct all amounts due tn
Gould interest, and also statement QaS
, that the road would be put in as good cond1
: ton as any of the roads with which the Cap
, Girardeau railroad connects. A copy OF tn
= letter rendering the money to Mr. Gould wa
g sent to Hon. NJ. r. Smith. representing tn
company, to he laid before the Suprem
G court. In any event it was determined th
n the property should not fall into hands no
. tile 10 the present management. In addiuc
!. to this the Wabash railway company W
!. very likely tun through trains from Chlca,
SO to East Cape Cirardeau. connecting, via Il
!, Cape read with the southwestern system
The possible extension Of the Cape road
Harri4on and Fort Smith is powerful lnce
n tive in drawing the attention of eastern I'm
,r TO the advantages of Cape Guardeau as
crossing point, Texas business can rea
III Chicago via Cape GirOrdeou on nearly
- miles shorter route, and the Wabash peoI
~ understand this. Mr.. Welles, vice preside
:, of the Wabash, passed over the new Chieo
- - and Cape Girardeau line in his special
" last Monday. and went from here VIA
Cape Girsrdeau line and Cotton BEL
Texas,
Marble Hill press. (Marbel [sic] Hill, Mo.) 1881-1923, 1895-10-17
ZALN1A.

JV. Sl,nkard went to Idlewild
Sunday.
News is scarce in our town again
this week.
Charles Watkins was in Bloom
field Monday.
Deputy Sheriff Manning was in
town Monday.
Sheriff D. S. Mann was in town
the first of the week. ,
Rev. Williams Of Hale's college
Fpreached here Sunday.
| A patent fence man been exhlo-
ING his work on our streets.
A great many of our people took
in the show at Lutesville last Thurs
day.
A few of the Zalma boys, | am
told, took in Marble Hill Thursday
night.
Charles King and wife left Sun
dav for an extended visit to rela-
~NJ
tives. :.
Our photographer, Mr.. Anthony
is doing lots of good work, both at
| his tent and the hotel table.
Miss Ollie Watkins, who has beer
visiting several places in Cape 81
rardeau county the last five weeks
returned home Thursday.
t "We wander what fool has beer
! guessing who Shaun Rhue is. w
5 would tell for postage stamp an(
agree to lick the stamp 'mesel1. -
r Nj. Quad, in Banner. Zounds. bu
(, doesn't he mix good old English
t bad orthography and bloody Iris
J. well? Say, fellow, l don't care VIII
d YOU are.--the fact that you have tn
e Cheek to play yourself over the nol
n de plume of the best humorlst
= the world let's you entirely out $
far as [ am concerned; but you q
e serve patent for your originate,
e And if YOU ever had a mother, an
a. | doubt it, you would better hay
is her send you to school awhile.
the meantime, if | should feel tn
10 the sympathy of an idiot would {
&, me any good I'll drop you a not
,eY seer SHAUN RHUE.
Marble Hill press. (Marbel [sic] Hill, Mo.) 1881-1923, 1895-10-17
Uncle Johns Proposal.

He came into the car Juggling
hulging BIC satchel, says the De-
troit Free Press, and the only va
can't seat was beside woman who
had been riding for an hour or so'
It was two or three minutes before
he turned to his seat-mate ana
blurted out:
"Gosh-all-fsh-hooks, if this haln,t
Mary Ann Jordan! Wall, WALL
Howdy, Maryp
Pm glad to see you, Mr. John,
SON. she replied as she extended
her hand. oc
"Sboo, Guess I'm glad too. VI
course | be. Wall, | swan, but L
never expected to meet you here
Whar' ye goin', Mary?"
, "Down to Nenia."
"Be YOU? Pm goin' down to
Clvde to visit my SON Dan Heard
ali about Aunt Sue, didn't YET"
:, Eyes, heard she died last year
poor thing"
: "Died on The Sd day Of July,
o about seven o'clock in the evenih
!. and was lynn dead in the parlo
: 9 bedroom when the hull town wa
! holdin' the glorious Fourth
- didn't even get to see the tre'work
>. from the chamber winder, though
~ contributed fifty cents ard they wa
=. the incest fireworks our town ma
- ever seen. | hain't blamln' Aun
VI Sue fur it, though. Folks hev
Il die when thar time Gums, and hel
pc cum Jest at that date"
he "Then she went sudden"
as "Powerful sudden. Yass, Au'
he Sue was scourin' the milk-pal
ne when the fell destroyer cum "ton
'o' She dropped a pan and keeled owe
'S- and was lvin' dead when | cum
o" ,', fur milk fur the calf. She All
"" VI" had Il noshun she'd 60 that way,
~ she was trouble with heart d
'' m ease. When | saw her lyin th'
w. +, it gin me such Il shock that had
49, sot down on the doorstep and "a
nss fur breath, | allus kind O thoug
g a she'd die in bed, you see"
ach MANY at the fanerol! asked
Too woman as she wiped away tear
pie Everybody fur five miles srou'
ent I guess" answered the old m
agc with ring of pride in h's tom
car .aThc purceshun reached Som {
the front gate to Jackson's sku'c hou
" 10 and that's good hall mile \
Marble Hill press. (Marbel [sic] Hill, Mo.) 1881-1923, 1895-10-17
CAPE GIRARDEAu.

Prof. 0. NJ. Schpbel was in the
Cape the first Of last week.
The class in surveying at the
Normal have been doing some field
work the last few days.
The fogs on the Mississippi these
mornings afford some fine scenes to
those so situated as to get full
view of them.
| hear 1t rumored that J. z. Nc
Manus has sold his farm near Glen
Allen and that he contemplateS
moving to this place.
MANY thanks for your excellent
premium, the Dream City" which
was received in due time. 1t IS
very beautiful and realistic.
Prof. D. NJ. Brewer. q former
pupil and graduate Of the Normal
rave an elocuicnary entertainment
at the opera house Saturday night
J. NJ. Sites of Buchanan. and
Misses Mamie Zimmerman and susie
Bowman Of Glen Allen have beer
visiting friends at this place re
Gently. ],
Onite an addition has been made
to the Normal laboratory hy TIT
p1rchase Of a lot Of new and I'm
proved apparatus for experiment
in chemistry, physics, etc "A
Another effort is being made u
establish daily paper the Cape
The Morning Call, published BY tn
Call Publishing company is the la
est. Isssa@ well-printed little shce
7 understand that the steam}e
Mary Morton is tied up at st. Low
and that the Gray Eagle is,runnln,
in. place of the New Idlewlld, tn
river being too low for the latt'
and the former is involved in ina
cial trouble.
The lvnohing at Jackson Frldi
night was an unusual occurrence
southeast Missouri. While the GRIN
was no doubt heinous and calculate
to stir up the ndignation OF all go'
people, 1 think it much better
all concerned to let the law ma
its course. Such occurrences, VIII
they may detera certain class
people from committing CRIME
verify believe, tend to lessen resp
for law and to start young men
Il career Of crime. JAY "A. hI1
Marble Hill press. (Marbel [sic] Hill, Mo.) 1881-1923, 1895-10-17
OUR CORRESPONDENTS.
PATTON.

PATTON.
Sickness, sickness, sickness, lots
of it.
Mrs. Nancy Hawn is very sick Of
typhoid fever:
Joseph Hicks is building an ad-
dition to his mill.
A little girl of H. F. Yount's is
very sick with fever.
Johnson Smith viii ship two car
loads of cattle this week. + =.
William Dunlap and wife of Bar
ton county are visiting relatives
here.
William Schells family, which
has had typhoid fever, is improv'
inc now. =. 49,,
John Grindstatf and Block Smith
are lust recovering from an attacF
Of fever.
Andrew Smith of Patton wa
married to Miss Stella Swan o
Fredericktown last week.
NJ. F. Bollinger and IL. T. Bol
linger are going to Cape county t
run the farmers saw mill.
A good mast il this section make
the hogs look fine. Pork will b
tat without any corn at all.
R, L. Robinson and wife and ae'
eral others attended the circus
Fredericktowp last Wednesday,
B. Il. Masters and Miss Nol
Whitebread O. Marble Hill wei
visiting here Saturday and Sunda
Marble Hill press. (Marbel [sic] Hill, Mo.) 1881-1923, 1895-10-17
GLEN ALLEN.

Thinking ~ few news items from
an, oniet little hamlet may be OF
some interest to Your readers
Shall try to write few for them
Mr.. Pile, our clever hostler' Is
moving this week
Avery Watts was among inc Wis
;+ors to our town last Monday
Mr.. Lett, our postmaster Is W.
sisting Berry & Son when not en-
gagged in helping Uncle Sam ,,.,,.
While shaving last Sunday VINE
Reilly struck at u yellow(acke1 ant
rut his hand badly. Let them grow
Billy. -, Aha, pov
4. L. Piunell has been returned u
Marble Hill press. (Marbel [sic] Hill, Mo.) 1881-1923, 1895-10-17

A woman won't lie for her own
sake nearly so easily as she will for
the sake Of somebody else. 49,
Cupid shoots bis arrow through
n pocketbook when he doesn't take
aim.
A woman caR'tbc any more con-
slant than Il mao but she can keep
! il up much lonscr..
Educationis an acquired habit.
Marble Hill press. (Marbel [sic] Hill, Mo.) 1881-1923, 1895-10-17

ty" ANTrD.-S Several Trustworthy gent'~
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The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1895-07-20
DEBATE ON MONEY.

A novel word contest is now being
waged in Chicago, between Roswell G..
Horr, ex-congressman from Michigan
and William 81. Harvey, author of
"Coin's Financial School," The de-
bate is to continue three hours each
day for ten days. After three-min-
utes' rest one speaker will follow the
other, and thus the fusilade will con-
tinue until the time is up. If the
voters of the nation could listen atten-
lively to this discussion it might do
good work in convincing some and
converting others regarding the
opinions they now hold on the
financial question, as we believe every
point for and against free coinage will
be brought out by these gentlemen.
Everyone who has read Harvey's pop
ular book know that he is ingenious
in his methods of stating what he and
others may deem arguments in favor
OF unlimited coinage; but which, after
analytical scrutiny, dwindles into the
worst sophistry. Mr.. Horr is equal to
the emergency, and Coins Financial
School will be left in very dilapidated
shape after he has had the opportunity
of firing some of his broadsides of
logic into the structure. But, it is
reasonable to suppose, that many will
read the report of the speeches
with their preiudiced views, and
whatever argument is produced will
not be convinced that they are wrong.
1t is a waste of time to argue with
such, and the better plan is to let
them alone until some practical
demonstration points out to them the
error of their ways. There are many,
however, who are open to conviction,
and these will be benefited by a
reasonable discussion of this question.
If this debate had taken place few
months ago there would bave been
more interest taken in it; but the silver
craze has been on the wane for some
lime, and will never again occupy
prominent position in politics.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1895-07-20
LIBERALS DEFEATED.

The Conservatives are carrying the
elections in England by large majori-
ties, and it is presumed they will have
full control of the next house of COM
mons. This will be regretted by the
friends of reform everywhere, as moth
ing in This line may be expected from
the Conservatives, as they appear to
have more consideration for the great
ness of the Empire than for the free.
dom of the people. The Liberals have
had noble record in the past, and
nearly every advancement made dur
ing the last half century can be traced
to them. They could have retained
power for considerable time longer
with skilful management; but this they
lacked, and were defeated because they
could not unite on the great questions
agitating the people. With compe-
tent leader this would not have hap
pened, and the promised reforms in
the British constitution would have
been inaugurated. But now the de-
mocracy of Great Britain must wait
until some opportune time, and this
may be many years. Under Conserva-
tive rule the empire will be strength
ened, and vigorous foreign policy
may be expected. In the meantime
the people will be waiting an oppor.
tunity to make change, and as soon
Is they see some competent leader, un-
der whom they can unite, the party |
hat fayors advancement will again be
to power.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1895-07-20
CROP PRORPECST.

The crop outlook in this county is
very encouraging, and the fears of a
month ago that drought would dimin-
ish the yield of grain fully one-half
will not be realized. Eastern Oregon
has had many drawbacks in the last
few years; but, it is expected, there
will be an average harvest this season.
This county is not subject to the same
unfavorable conditions in the matter of
wheat growing as other portions of the
Inland Empire further east, and, to-
gether with grain, our producers do
good export trade in fruit. During the
last few years in Wasco the conditions
have changed very materially, and the
rainfall has been much greater. At
one time it was thought this was not
an agricultural country; but the expe.
rience of recent years has demonstra-
ted the fact that cereals attain fine
growth, and can generally be relied
on as producing good crops. The re-
sources of this portion have not nearly
been developed, and productions will
be marketed in the future on a large
scale that has hardly been attempted
yet. With cheap water transportation
to seaboard, and abundant crops of
fruit and grain, and her salmon indus
try, there is no doubt that Wasco is the
banner county of Eastern Oregon and
will always remain so.
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each year,

These figures are corroborative of
Marshall Fields verdict, published in
the Inter Ocean of a recent date. "Busi-
ness may have improved, but those in
terested in booming things evidently
are trying to make them out as better
than they are"
Facts are enduring, and the facts are
that during long depression caused
firstly by apprehension of Democratic
tariff tinkering, and, secondly by the
act OF such .tinkering, mills and facto-
ries either closed totally Or partially.
This led to depletion of stocks in the
hands.of jobbers and retailers. There
now is a demand for replenishment,
this replenishment is large in itself,
for it is to meet the requirements of
$4,000, 900 of people. But it is not
large in the ratio of 1s9O-92, because
the purchasing power of the people is
not as great as it then was.
Inspired by this partial revival of
business, and, perhaps, encouraged by
the foolishly false Democratic predic-
tions of quick resumption of univer-
sal prosperity, a number of enthusi-
asts have rushed upon undertakings
for which the country is not ripe.
Hence the large list of failures Busi-
ness is reviving slowly and steadily,
and is likely to improve, but the i'm
provement will be slow until proper
protection again is assured Industries;
and this, as we take tits the true state
of trade. ----. =
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1895-07-20
NOT HYPNOTISM.

Hypnotism is becomming quite pop
ular, and particularly so since Du
Maurier published his story about
Trilby being under the hypnotic influ
ence of Svengali, and it has been fro
quently used as an excuse for crime or
questionable actions. Holmes, the
man who defrauded the insurance
company and who is suspected of mur-
dering the Pietzel children, is said to
have hypnotized Mrs. Pietzel, and to
have continued that influence from
last August until very recently. This
is the story given to the associated
press by Mrs. Pietzel, and the public
are at liberty to believe as much of it
as they desire. 1t may be that Holmes
being man of prepossessing appear
ance had certain influence on the
woman, for a smiling, smooth exterior
is always more attractive than a rough
face and an honest heart; but this is not
hypnotism-only lack of proper dis
elimination on the part of the gentler
sex. Perhaps Millie Davis, at Cor
Wallis, will claim that it was hypnotism
that induced her to marry the man
who attempted to kill her and served
a year in the penitentiary for the
crime. But in either of these cases it
will be difficult to make the public
believe that anvthinp horderir1p nm
hypnotisin or mesmerism was used.
The mind does not act consecutively
in many instances, or follow, what
some would term reasonable methods;
out is governed more often by i'm
pulse than by careful deductions. No
'ne can use mathematical rules in
Judging human actions; neither can
hey be explained by hypnotism.
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pened. 1t is we'll known that when
hard times begun, at the assumption
OF the reins of government by Presi-
dent Cleveland and the Democratic
congress, no great misfortune had hap
pened to the people or the country
that caused the widespread distress.
The crops had been abundant. and
there-was no drain on our resources
by foreign wars or other causes. The
conditions were those of prosperous
nation; but in the midst of these fac
tories closed down, laborers became
beggars on the highways and all
values deprecated. There was no ap-
parent cause for this great change eX-
cept in the lack of confidence on the
part of capital by reason Of the change
in the economic policy of the country,
and this has continued until quite re-
Gently. As there have been no change
in the natural conditions this partial
revival must have been caused by the
re-establishment of confidence, and by
considering the circumstances of the
past year or two we may arrive at logi-
cal reason for it. The recent elections
have been overwhelmingly Republican,
and there is every indication that
the next congress will restore protec.
tion to American.products and Ameri-
can industries. While the dark and
threatening cloud of free-trade hung
over the land capitalists boarded their
money, manufacturers ran on short
time, and no new industries were
inaugurated. But the clouds are
rapidly passing away, and confidence
is being instilled into every produc-
tive industry. Employers have increas-
ed the wages of labor, values are appre-
citing, and the prospects are very en-
couraging. AT no time since Presi-
dent Cleveland occupied the executive
chair has there been a scarcity of
money, and there is no more money
now than two years ago during the era
of bank failures; but the people are
more hopeful and are encouraged by
the result of the recent victories of the
Republican party at the ballot box that
twill soon be restored to power, when
America will be considered the best
place for Americans and American in
dustries and products will have a wall
of protection thrown around them
against the competition Of the pauper
labor of Europe.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1895-07-20
THE CANAL.

A New Orleans dispatch says that
the concession to the Maratime Canal
Company by the Nicaraguan govern
ment is fort he second time in danger
of being cancelled, and if this is done
it will be otherwise disposed of. This
trouble is caused by the promise to
build canal at point called Tipitapa,
which would connect Lake Nicaragua
withLake Man aqua. 1t is to be hoped
that the Nicaraguan government will
not cancel the concession to the canal
company, as that would necessarily
delay the work. But our govern
ment has been too dilatory in
giving aid to this great enter
prise, and its Importance does
not seem to be fairly understood by
congress. Years ago the amount re-
quired in its construction should have
been appropriated, and the canal would
have been finished by this time. In.
stead of effective legislation the matter
has been called up almost every ses-
sion, and few favorable speeches
made and the subject dropped. At the
last session bill was drafted; but it
did not pass both houses. AS chan
mel of commerce a waterway across
Nicaragua would be of incalcuable ben.
eft to the Uuited States. and every
year the matter is delayed is loss to
this country. If something is not done
soon, some other country may inaugu-
rate the project and carry it to compile
tion. We cannot act too quickly in
this matter, and when congress con-
venes again, among the first acts
passed should be one appropriating a
sufficient amount for the completion of
the Nicaraguan canal with the neces-
sary provisions for carrying it into
oHonf