The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-12-21
The school Board will hold a meet

The railroads are making holiday
rates so let those who are DESTROYS OF
taking a pleasure trip take advantage
of the cut rates.
It seems to Us that the establish,
ment of a nursery was spoken OF here
some time ago. What's become OF
the once proposed enterprise:
The new St. Charles Hotel will be
ready for occupancy early in the
spring. The work on il i being
neatly and rapidly executed.
The Cape Route i "etting ont con
siderable stone just south Of this city
and hauling it TO the Il. Francis river
whore they are building - bridge.
Mr.. D. \. GIcnn's little baby j. still
dangerously i'll. III" little sufferer :
being watched by two doctors and
everything known 70 medical skill :
being done for il.
Capt. H. L. Hum. purchased the
timber for II thousand cords of
wood in the swamp and hr wants Il
number Of wood choppers 70 begin
work at once to chop wood.
From present indications ii does not
seem as if we were going ia have Il
very severe winter. but old weather
prophets declare that from January
LIST to March lst We will have heavy
snow, followed by severe cold and
storms.
1t is becoming fashionable in the
east for the fair damsels to skate in
boomers, but the fair ones of Cape
Girardeau have not as yet condo
scended to display their beauteous
forms in such Il manner Neverthe-
less, is not from want of physical
beauty, but for reasons of their own.
From the German Christmas come
"Santa Claus" and Kris Kringle.
The latter is a corruption of Christ
kindlein, or Christ child. of whom
they have the beautiful fable that with
his own hands he places Christmas
toys in the stockings of good children.
while in the stockings of the bad ones
a birch rod is placed by n Pei
snichol," literally Nicholas with the
fur"-that is, st. Nicholas dressed in
fur. The dread of getting the rod
from old Pelsnichol on Christmas
keeps many 4 German child in order
the whole year round.
Cape Girardeau needs advertising,
and as a very small percentage Of her
merchants seem to have any faith in
their local paper as an advertising
medium, it is hoped the backward ones
will show that the spirit of enterprise
is not entirely dead within them by
helping to build up the town in some
other way. Anything. gentlemen.
anything-just so you let the outside
world know you are still alive and
ready to supply the needs of all who
may choose to come and abide with
us.
When you ask Il ma to subscribe
for your paper and he says: oh
never read much, and besides times
are so plagued tight" for Gods sake
apologize to him for the mistake and
leave him. Life 10 toe short to waste
time trying to teach Il jackass how to
sing soprano. All gentlemen now
adays read newspapers-and lots OF
them. Show Us a man who lives for
wears in a town or county and never
~subscribss for the papers published
there, and We will show you Il man
whose head is shaped like 4 piece OF
pie, with the point up, and whose
ignorance is only exceeded by his
gigantic gall. A country newspaper
is an institution that works day and
night for every decent man i'll the
community: therefore every decent
man in the community is i'll honor
bound to assist in its support. The
great trouble is hat some swellhead
galoots fancy they are making the
editor a present when they take his
paper. We have the prOfOundest
sympathy for the mar who lives in Il
county for years and never subscribes
and pays for his county paper. II
that poor fellow was to encounter an
idea in a lane. he would turn and fly
the other way with the tail of his gar
ment beating the atmosphere. Don1
waste much time on such cattle. One
of them has not enough common >enst
to keep warm in hades.
THURSDAY.
Where is the Santa Claus h was
in the habit of prOmonading the
streets Just before Christmas time.
Mat Morrison say he has one o.
the largeet saw mills in this part OF
country. 1t is situated on the Houck
road