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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-04-18
VESPER.

Miss Hanafan, of Kilbourn City, who
has been visiting her cousin, Mrs. Joseph
White, returned to Stevens Point last
Friday, TO resume ner studies at the
Normal.
Miss Neel Flanagan and brother John
attended church at Grand Rapids, last
Sunday.
Frank Menier and F. S. Brazeau, OF
Arpin, passed through here, on their
way to the Rapids, Sunday.
w. H. Birmingham made a trip to
DeXterville the first of the week.
The section men of the ST. p. R. r.
have been raising the track between the
"Y" and railroad crossing.
J. w. Cameron has plowed up about
80 or 40 acres of land near where the
sawmill stood and is going to start a
farm. AS soon as the frost is out of the
ground, he Will have posts driven ready
for fencing. Five or six men are en-
ployed.
Miss Tyler, of Centralia, came out
here last week TO spend the summer
with her grandmother, Mrs. Davis
Her health is not very good.
Miss Mess, of Marshfeld, is visiting
her brother Fred and family
Eric Brig, who has contract fol
getting i'll several hundred thousand feet
of logs for Arpin has about completed
| his Job. Three or four carloads are sent
up daily.
S. D. Brazeau visited Otto Roenius, Of
| Hansen, Saturday and Sunday.
Mr.. H. Vanderhei has constructed q
large hennery for Mr.. Pat Flanagan.
A young man in town put about five
| pounds ofdynamite under large stump
| expecting to blow it sky-high. When
the discharge went off, instead of hav,
ing the desired effect, it shot up about
| fifty feet in the air, through the center
of the stump which was completely
rotted.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-04-18
4 Letter from Miss Newell.

The following is taken from the
Indians Friend" and will be
found interesting:
"How we enjoy our room! We
have such pretty mating and
paper to match. Then we have a
little stove, and you cannot think
how coy we are after the children
have all gone to bed, with a little
fire, and our own things around
US. We are happy and contert,
and everything is moving finely,
and the children are making fine
progress, I think How we love
them, and how we long to see
them Gods children. Almost
every night after I come to my
room | think about some one who
has been especially kind and win
ming, and my whole soul goes out
for that child, and I pray God to
help me make the way plain to
them all. Oh! it is so fascinating
to see them develop so readily.
Since Christmas I asked the girls
one night when l put them to bed
if they would not like to say a
very own prayer They said
Yes So when they had on their
night dresses we all knelt down
together. prayed first, and then
called upon each one in turn. At
first | taught them a little sentence;
now they say their own, and make
them up themselves. A prettier
sight | never saw. Seventeen
white robed kneeling forms, with
their black hair falling over their
faces as they kneel, and so hushed
and quiet that you feel like hug
ging them all. And the prayers
are SO sweet. Nora always leads:
oh Lord! forgive my sins, and
make me good. Amen Then
come Roxy and Hatty, each with
a simple petition. Then Emma:
Dear Jesus, give me good heart.
Amen Then Dora: Dear Jesus,
make me kind girl. Amen and so
on until I feel glad and thankful
and amused all in one breath.
Then I play with them a little anG
tuck them in, and sometimes kiss
some of the little ones, and Good
night Goodnight rings in my
ears until I get to the foot of the
stairs. Dear girls, l never mag
ined I could love girls as I do
these. One night after they were
in bed I said: Now, girls, listen.
You don't keep quiet in prayer
time down stairs, and it makes me
feel badly to see my girls whisper
and move about. God looks right
at you all, and he feels badly too.
Now how many girls will promise
me that they will be good after
this? All who will, say T. Said
Nora, Yes Say T. So t. T. T.
rang through the room. Since
then they have been SO still and
quiet it has been a pleasure to at
tend. Then I had a talk with the
boys over at school about the same
thing, and they too do better now.
Lately we have been teaching
them Bible verses to repeat at
prayers. I wish you could hear
them, for L want verse, I want
verse we hear every night as soon
as we are through supper. Our
verses have given out, and we
would be pleased with quite col
lection of printed motto verses,
some long and some short ones.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-04-18
The Family Medicine.

Trout Lake, Ont, Jan. ,, 1894.
The W. H. Comstock Co.
Dear Sirs:-For number of years |
have used and sold your DR.. Morse's
Indian Root Pills. l consider them the
very best Tor Family Use," and all my
customers speak highly of them.
Very truly,
r. LAWSON.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-04-18
Catholic Knights Dance.

The Catholic knights dance party
given at the Opera House on Monday
April 10Th was largely attended and a
good time was had by all those present.
The music was excellent, the supper
fine, and the order Melted about $500
out ofthe receipts.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-01-19
4 Big Establishment.

The pork packing establishment OF
Mueller Il Cracraft at Jackson, is
the largest establishment of the kind
in Southeast Missouri. These gentle
men handle more hogs and pay out
more money than any other pork
packers in the State south of st. louis.
While at Jackson last week q repre-
sentative OF the DEMOCRAT was shown
through this big establishment and
given some pointers regarding the
business. So far this season the firm
has paid out for pork hogs a sum of
money that must reach nearly forty
thousand dollars.
Messrs. Mueller < Cracraft are
young. energetic men who understand
their business. They pay the farmer
every cent the market will allow for
his pork hogs. They treat every body
alike and they have the confidence
and friendship Of all who know them.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-01-19
Action of Mobcrly Mo-, Ripnblicans

MoBERLY. Mo-, January 16.-The
Republicans of the city of Moberly
met last night at the court house to
consider the advisability of drawing
party lines. A. B. Thompson was
chosen President of the meeting. and
VIM. Maynard. Secretary. The fol-
lowing preamble and resolutions were
adopted:
Whereas, As Republicans of Mob
erly. We believe the time has come
when n of the political parties shall
be held responsible for the city gov
eminent. and in order that all blame
for mismanagement or applause for
good government may rest where it be-
longs: therefore. be it
Resolved. That We. the Republicans
of the city Moberly in Convention as
sembled. do recommend that aConven-
ton be called of Republicans for Sat
urday. February Is. in the court house
at MobeTly, for the purpose of nomi-
mating a full Republican ticket for the
city of Moberly. to be voted for at the
coming city election"
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-01-19

Aug. Shivelbine and lady will re.
turn home from st, Louis Sunday.
John A. Hope. of Jackson. spent
Thursday in this city.
Theo Besel will not be a candidate
for city assessor. We have not talked
to him on the subject but We know that
he has a Job that pays him better and
the position he holds occupies all OF
his time.
The ice gorge has broken at ST.
Louis and steamboat men expect an
open river in a few days. May they
not be disappointed. is the wish of the
people along the river.
The political pot is beginning TO
simmer. and a few sunny days would
make 1t boil pretty lively. We hear
rumors of many candidates for city
Offices. at the April election but up to
the present writing the DEMOCRAT ha :
received no official" notice to give
names.
Holly Springs. Miss. Is the proud
possessor OF a negro m whose
hair is nine feet and ten inches long
md has not been combed for many
ears. She cannot perform the duty
herself. and her colored friends will
10: touch her. they believe she will
''hOo-doo" them. She is to 60 on ex-
hibition.
D. L. Hoffman has taken INTO him
self two partners. and he says he is
10Y going to take a long needed rest.
Leon J.. Albert is confined to his
room. He is afflicted with something
like the cramp collie.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-01-19
II Works backwards.

There never was a more explicit
demonstration of the fallacies of the
free trade theorists than that given
by the workings of the Democratic
tariff bill. The ultimate theory of free
trade is. 10 admit free competing ar
ticles. and raise the customs revenue
by duties on non-competing imports
The present tariff law does not go TO
that length. OF course: but il reduced
duties on a large number Of competing
products. and then sought to make up
the deficiency in the reyenue thus &C.
casioned BY a duty on sugar, which is
nearly non-competing. as We import 80
per cent of what We use.
The free trade theory is beautiful.
The people were told that by break
ing down the Chinese wall of protec-
ton" We should largely increase the
exchange OF products between our
selves and other countries. The farm
ers were promised the markets of the
world" for their grain and cattle. The
workingmen were told that the enor-
nous increase of trade would bring
prosperity. and hence increased oppor-
tunity for labor al r~emunerative
wages. The millennium was to dawn
speedily. and prosperous times were
to be perennial.
But the blamed thing don't work
that way" Thetheory does not stand
the test of practice. Look at the sit
uation to-day. and the utter fallacy of
the free trade claims Is manifest 10
every one. In place of opening the
markets of the world" the new tariff
law is closing them. The duty on
sugar-a square. out-and-out exempli-
fication of the most advanced free
trade theory-has aroused the nations
of Europe until they seem about to
unite in a tariff waragainst the United
States. The famers find the only for
eign markets for live stock and meats
closed to them. Spain claps a duty
on our -four which stops our exports
to the West Indies. The advantages
reciprocity gave us We're all thrown
away. with the increased trade they
brought.
Free trade theories, when put into
practice. work backwards. They do
the xac opposite of what they We're
expected to do. They cut down our
export trade in place of extending il.
Our farmers find that England buys
no more grain from Us than she did
before We lowered the tariff on her
products. They are learning the les
son that it is the cheap wheat of India
and Argentina that finds a market and
sets the price they must take for their
own grain. and thatlower tariffs don't
affect its price n whit. The voters
are in school these days. and learning
by costly experience thai the Republic
can doctrine is the true one. after all.
Toledo Blade.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-01-19

The snow Am on time according 20
Hicks prediction. Hicks is q gentle
man. who never-or hardly eyer lies.
Justice Sciyally canalways be found
a, his Office ready 10 attend to any
business in his official line
Farmers canao, do mach work on
their farms o ana they ind time to
come to
City Clerk Chappell i working on
the financial statement for the city.
He will soon have it ready for The
press.
The columns OF tn DEMOCRAT. are
at the seryica Of candidates VINO want
to make their wants known to the
voters of this city. II you want 4 city
Office next spring lei the people know
it, and let them know what Office You
want through the public print.
Capt. Hume is getting mis- supply of
coal now via ST. Louis.
~Shoveling snow gave a number of
men work lately who were not banker
ing after work.
William R~egenhardt, who was con-
fined to his room last week is able to
be out again.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-01-19
FRIDAY.

There i no danger of a street ear
strike in this city. The company Is
paying good wages 20 its hands and
they are satisfied.
Peter Lehaer. who was here collect
ing merchants license Went out to
Jackson this morning.
This i another of Hicks wet days.
Hicks said we would have rain-to-day
and the rain came.
Two colored men fought with pistols
on the streets OF Charleston a few days
ago. They succeeded in lodging a
bullet in the anatomy of each other,
and also wounding two white men.
William Oberheide returned home
from St. Louis yesterday
We turned ont anotherlaw brief this
week in the Hobbs-Alt case.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-01-19
Living Under snow.

i lived under the snow for two
months. said Tom Allen at the Bur-
net Talk about the present snow
being a deep one! 1t is nothing to
what l encountered in 1868 in what
were then the wilds of Minnesota. near
Albert Lea. Four of us had built a
hut in order to hold a homestead claim.
and fortunately had laid in a supply
of provisions sufficient to last TWO or
three months during the winter. One
night il commencsd to snow. and large
fakes fell constantly for two days and
nights. Then the wind began I blow.
the snow continuing, and the next
morning we could not open the door.
The windows were completely block
AIDED. and We could not tell thatit was
daytime except by our watches. We
built a big fire and stayed in the house.
supposing that il would pass of in a
few hours. but the weather turned in
tensely cold. On the third day We tun-
neled out through the window, but
found it impossible toremOve the drift.
which completely covered the hut. The
cold weather continued without a break
for w months. The top of the snow
became hard enough to bear ourweight.
and We could go out by the window.
returning at night, but it was two
months before the snow thawed suffici-
ent TO the hut. -.Cincirnati
Enquirer.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-01-19
They are IN Advertisement for
the City.

The t~wenty-three electric lights that
illuminate our city are an advertise
ment for the city that are worth more
than they cost. They show up these
dark nights as brilliant as :he noon
day sun and give the city the appear
ance Of a real live progressive city.
They are a convenience that all ap-
p~reciate. and they are admired by
strangers who visit our town as much
as by our home people. When our
water works system Is completed and
in operation we will have acity second
% no other city or town in the State.
and We know We are going TO have
better times for our people. for the
water works and electric lights will
he the cause of bringing enterprising
people here to invest in new enterpr;s-
e. that will help 20 make Cape Girar-
deau a booming city.
The Cannon Brothers are men of
enterprise and push. Their business
qualities commend them to men of
capital and they can command the
means 20 start up other enterprises
here that will BE- equally as beneficial
to our city as the water works and
electric lights. To such men our citi-
zens should extend every cOurtesey
and favor within their power.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-01-19
BUSINESS LOCALS.

Look at Flentge & Heinberg's ele-
giant line of holiday presents
P. H Hook pays the highest cash
price for second hand goods in Haarig.
janlS-lm
Begin the year right by trading with
Hannah and hold fast to that which
is good. lis Main.
G. W. Mefford. broker Haarig. is
a fifty cent piece is as big as a cart
wheel these days. You'll have more of
these wheels in your pocket and less
wheels in your head if you trade this
year exclusively with C. J. Hannah. lis
Main.
Go to G. W. Mefford's bargain store
in Haarig for all kinds of cheap
goods. febS
Permanent corn cure. found at last
II is a pair of Humans comfortable
shoes. 115 Main.
Buy your dress goods, dry goods.
clothing, boots, shoes, hats. caps, ETC.,
at F1entge & Heinberg's. They deliver
them promptly.
What a queer state of things: Ham
ans winter weather shoes are all 'soled'
and yet there are plenty left.
Ernest Hobbs has opened a second
hand store at the old Bonney stand
on Main street where he will buy and
sell all kinds of goods.
The newest thing out, next to the
New Year, is Humans ) Button Con-
gress gaiter for ladies. 115cMain.
All orders for groceries will receive
better and lore prompt attention at
Flentge & Heinberg's than anywhere
else.
Canvas leggins at Haman's115 Main.
Five pounds good green coffee for
one dollar al Flentge & Heinberg's.
Cash paid for furniture, etc, at
Ernest Hobbs on Main street.
Just received a large lot of fresh
groceries at Flentge & Heinberg's.
The largest assortment of Rubbers
in the Cape at Humans, lis Main
If you want to buy anything in the
second hand line call on Ernst Hobbs.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-01-19
Not as Brilliant.

The twelve hundred candle power arc
lights contracted for by the city do not
give the light that the two thousand
candle power lights that Mr.. Hartzell
furnished, but they are to burn all
night and on hat account they will
give satisfaction. There were no bet
ter lights in the country than the lights
that Mr. Hartzell furnished for street
lighting. and the onlytrouble was that
the city could not afford such lights to
burn all night. They gave a brilliant
light but they were too expensive.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-01-19
rrof. NandIxer.. Lecturc.

Prof. Vandiyer. President of the
Faculty OF the Southeast Normal,
delivered q very Interesting lecture at
the Methodist Church in this city Sun
day night. The church was well filed
with an audience OF our best people.
and the audience was well pleased
with the lecture. The Professor Is a
man 81 ability and our people are
always glad of al opportunity to get
to hear him lecture.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-01-19
List OF Mail Matter

Remaining uncalled for in the post office of
Cape Girardeau, county of Cape Girardeau,
state OF Missouri, for the week ending
January Il, 1886
Austen. Frank Anderson. David J
Byrd, Oliver CsTlise Brown, In
Baerkle, Mis- Augusta Canett. Miss Emer
Darkah. Charles Green, Wm
Penn, OR Kelly, Miss Minnie Bell
Rissicn. SCear Wells, Miss Jennie
Williams. Miss Meurlindy
Persons calling fOz any of the above letters
will please say Advertised. giving date of
the list. II not called fo1 within two weeks
they will he sent "a the Dead Letter Office at
Washington City o CRAAER-
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-01-19
THURSDAY.

Inc Jolly OF prejudice l. frequently
shown by people who prefer to suffer
for years rather than trya advertised
remedy. The millions who have no
such notions. take Ayers Sarsapa-
rilla for blOod-diseases. and are cured.
So much for common sense.
Thos- W. Cannon left for his home
in Cairo. Illinois. this afternoon.
The electric lights are improving as
the new machinery in the power house
limbers up. We are proud of our city
when she is in her night robe Of spark
ling beauty.
William Burgess has been confined
to his room all this week.
The Mississippi River is blocked a
few miles above Cairo. and the block
ade At St. Louis is still holding fast.
: Richard Oliver and barber Sutten
had a little tistic exercise this morning
and the old man got the worst of it.
Capt. Hume received a a load of
coal to-day via St. Louis.
The last of the machinery for the
water works plant has been received
and 10Y there is nothing to do but the
work OF putting in the balance of the
mains. the constructing of the crib and
the placing OF the machinery. The
works will be in before the
blue birds begin to sing.
Buckingham's Dye for the whiskers
IS the best. handiest. safest. surest.
cleanest. most economical and salts
factory dye ever invented. 1t is the
gentlemen's favorite.
The first steamboat that lands at our
wharf after the ice gorge breaks up
and runs out Will draw a large crowd
of people 20 the rive front.
Oar real estate agents are expecting
a boom in real estate as soon as the
water works are completed and in OPP
GRAFTON.
Henry [. Siemers. of near Gordon
vile. called on the DEMOCRAT to-day.
The closing of river navigation al
ways makes dull times for river towns.
and especially those towns that have
no railroad outlets.
The night train service on tie ST.
Louis. Cape Girardeau and Fort
/ Smith road is a grea: convenience 20
the people of this city. and especially
since the ice blockade in the river. It
gives us our ST. Louis mail at twelve
o'clock every day and it takes our
mail into ST. Louis AT an early hour
caca morning.
\ large audience faced Mr.. b. Z.
Davis at the Presbyterian church last
night. and they were highly pleased
with the lecture. Mr.. Davis has never
visited Japan himself but he has a
brother. and sister who spent years in
that country and from them he has
learned more than we can learn from
the public print about that country.
His lecture was very Interesting.
Hirsch Bros. received acheck to-day
from the agent of the ST. Louis Mutual
Fire Insurance Company. in payment
for their loss b. FIRE on October 31st
last. VIM. II. Huters also received
check from same company, in payment
of his loss in the small fire 4 few days
ago. The terms OF the policies allow
the company ninety days in which TO
pay losses. and these were both paid
before due.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-01-19

The Sta5e Normal School at Cape
Girardeau. Mo-. is having a prosper
Gus year and about 30 young people
have already enrolled for this Session
4 large increase in attendance is ex-
pected altar the holidays. The Third
Term viii begin January 18th. 1895.
Tuition is free and other expenses are
light. For Catalogue address:
w. d. VANDIvER. Pres.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-01-19

There is consolation. however. for
the iron manufacturers Inc knowledge
that while the building Of steam rail-
roads has come practically 20 3 stand
still. the energy with which street rail-
road building has been pushed has
made the demand. for sJselraiIs active.
Cincinnati Timas-Star.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-01-19
Come settle I p.

/ would respectfully request allthose
knowing themselves indepted to me
that the time of yearfOr settlement has
arrived. | have Accommodated many
of YOU at a time when you were in
need and when no one else would ac-
comOdate you. Now you can confer
a great favor on me in return by call
ing and settling up. l need the money
that i due me and | must have ii. so
come along and settle up and save
yourselves trouble and cost.
Respectfully.
WILLIAM BURGESS.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-01-19
They Think the Idea a Good One.

We are pleased to know that many
of our leading citizens are favorable
TO the drawing of party lines al the
next city election. There is not a city
in the Union as large as Cape Girar-
deau where party tickets are not NOM
mated. and the time has come when We
should get out of the old rut ard do
like other people do. Some few of
course Will object to the nomination
OF party tickets, but when asked to
give their reasons for so Directing
they are at their ropes end. They can
give no reasons
The DEMOCRAT will insist on the
Republicans putting a straight ticket
in the field.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-01-19
Violin Instruction.

Violin classes are now under con
sideration. forming at the Spanish
street Conservatory Studio. for young
gentlemen and young ladies especially.
Nothing shows of the we'll formed
figure OF the latter If she has any
than standing erect gracefully holding
her violin artistically and using her
bow : perfection 10 catch a beau
This is the highest ideal of d musica.
accomplishment FOR . young lady
Other branches OF music taught.
PROF. DECIMAL ID. NJ.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-01-19
Good Time.

The street car Is ROw making quick
time around the big square. Themu!es
are changed every second round and
they are using ten mulesin the service.
-eople who want to ride on the car
do not have to wait long at any ross
ing 10 catch a ear.