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The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-02-23
SHOaT TIME BONDS.
Should the Treasury Have Authority
to Issue Them:

WASHINGTON, Feb, 20-Secretary
Carlisle to-day sent reply to the
Senate resolution inquiring whether
lit is necessary or desirable that leg
islation should be had authorizing the
issuing of bonds, Treasury notes, or
other securities to realize moneys for
the purpose of paying current defci-
encies in the revenue" The Secretary
says he does not consider such author
ity now necessary. His communica-
ton is as follows:
at the close of business on the 18th
inst, exclusive of $50. IOI, 704 gold re-
serve, was S99, S75,2S
ut is my opinion that the Secretary
of the Treasury ought to be permau-
entity invested with the authority to
issue and sell short time bonds or
other Obligations OF the Government
for the purpose of raising money to
meet Deficiencies in the ordinary reve-
nues as may occur from time to time:
but do not think that there IS any
necessity at the presenG tins for the
exercise OF such authority Ii 1t existed.
1t IS not probable that such de iIc.en-
of the current fiscal year, as will ex-
ceed the available balance on hand
and it is estimated that during the
next fiscal year the receipts will ex-
ceed the expenditures.
The letter is accepted in the Senate
as having a direct bearing upon the
amendment to the sundry civil bill
proposed by the Senate Committee on
Appropriations providing for an issue
of certificate of indebtedness.
Many Senators who have given their
assent to the amendment have stated
from the beginning that they wers
agreed to the propoSitiCn only upon
the direct request of the Secretary for
such action. This has been especially
true of the silver Senators. Senator
Teller has been one of the most con-
seryative of silver men on this propo-
sition but he is understood to have
voted against it in committee because
there had been no declaration from the
Treasury Department that the certifi-
Gates were needed. 1t is understood
that the amendment was put forward
in the idea that it was liable to be
ruled out on point of order in the
Senate and that if it passed that body |
it would fail in the House.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-02-23
Two Ways with Headache.

After the barber had begun shaving
him the man in the chair said: 81 have
kind OF n headach this morning.
Would you please put cold cloth
across my forehead?"
Certainly" replied the barber,
but wouldn't you rather have the
cloth.hot?"
"Mv head's'too hot now. l want to
cool it off,
Very we'll. You know what you
want, but you have a head on you.
The hot towel will do more good than
a cold one"
$50 ahead, then, and try it; but it
seems to me that cold water would be
better.
''Some say one, and some another.
The man who wants a cold towel says
it sends the blood away from the head
and cools the skin. The fellow who
wants a hot towel says it draws the
heat to the surface and sort of relieves
the fever, and in a little while the head
feels cool and clear. It's a funny
thing that hot or cold water should be
used for the same purpose, but it's a
fact. Chicago Record.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-02-23
eAak4JRsrs DARK HINTS.
He InSinuateS That some of the
Clergy Are RascalS.

! NEW YORK. Feb. lS.-The Rev. DR..
Chas. H. Parkhurst caused sensa-
ton in his sermon yesterday by
practically labelling as rascals Il body
of clergyman unnamed.
Il, preached upon the subject of sin.
ana during the irst part of his dis
cOlrss KIP himself upon the theme OF
individual sins OF the ordinary style,
bL5 Ghere WAS nothing startling in his
remarks.
Tlen he branched of upon the sins
o, society AZ Large, aud it became ap-
parent to the congregation that he had
something concealed up his sleeve.
This was indicated when he declared
that ''crowds have no consciences.
Corporations are said TO have no
sous, 40 consciences. This is true,
and ii crowd has no conscience,
Az tins point he stopped suddenly,
as ii III doubt to continue on the lines
Intended. After brief pause, how
ever, he remarked, II will give you
an illustration of this" And again
h. hated and looked around. IF
you were to put IL certain sum-" ht:
weAt on, I'm the hands of one man.
ohs Christian man, for a particular
purpose, You could feel sure that it
would De used for that purpose. That
mIn mas "a conscience. He would be
res pons.bie To tine donor and to his
own cOIsclence,
AIu5her break followed in the dis
course and every ear in the congrega-
tIol H,lS strained 20 hear what follow
eli. i;aising his voice, the clergyman
Continued: But with a crowd it Is diff
f.rent. a crowd has no conscience.
To the point. a short time ago money
was raised and placed in the hands OF
a certain body of men, mostly clergy
men and elders. This body of men
voted 10 apply this money and it was
applied to Il purpose that was distaste-
fui to nearly all the donors. If one
man had done that he would have
been Il rascal, but no one man in that
crowd had done what was done, and
crowd has no conscience. Each
took refuge in that thought. The man
would have been rascal, but the
crowd has no conscience
The remaining references to indi-
vidual sins were lost upon the members
of the congregation. Elders and other
officials of the church looked at each
other with vague and puzzled express
sions. No one could tell what he
meant, and the Doctor declined to be
interviewed.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-02-23
In The window Garden.

Don't forget to keep the plants clean
and the atmosphere moist by thorough
Swinging and spraying.
Don't forget tnat sudden changes OF
temperature are dangerous, and plants
that are slightly frosted must not be
subjected to strong heat Immediately.
Don't forget to have glass on hand
to instantly replace any broken, or d
valuable plant may be lost for the
want OF a few cents invested in Il pane
of glass.
Don't forget to watch for insects
while the plants are making but little
growth.
Don't forget to use the old-tested
remedies if they prove troublesome
water for the red spider, tobacco tea
for the pahis, and lime water for worms
in e soil.
Don't forget to give the blooming
plants the sunniest positions, and al
low the foliage plants to flourish in
the shady situations.
Don't forget to bring up all the bulbs
from the cellar, or wherever they have
been placed to form roots, as soon as
the sprouting leaf stalks show that
they are ready to be taken to the light
for blooming.
Don't forget that bulbs coming into
bloom will require plenty of water and
sunlight and a moderately cool tenn
perature.
Don't forget that the ivy leaf is
always good in making up floral de-
signs, and aim to have one or two of
the thrifty plants growing in the win
dow garden.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-02-23
Fast Time to the south.

The Mobile & Ohio Railroad has
put on double daily fast train service
between st. Louis and the South. This
makes the Mobile & Ohio the quickest
as it is now the shortest route to Mem
phis, New Orleans, Birmingham. and
all Florida winter tourist points. All
trains are equipped with Pullman
Palace Buffet Drawing Room Sleepers
and handsome easy riding day coaches.
The Mobile & Ohio has always been
popular with the travelling public, and
this fast train service will make it
still more so. feb22-1m
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-02-23
MCHII-=IIS S1OMoT.
Suffering in OniO <lievi.tted at the
Executives A>ersonaf Expense.

Suffering in Onio <Alievl.tted at the
Executives PERSONAL Expense.
COLUMBUS, o., February ly.-The
latest Information from the locking
Valley and ounudy Greek Valleys re-
celved by Governor Mckinley Is of a
startling nature. and Indicates that
the peopie must act promptly for the
relief Of the iam4su.ng poopIe.
Before leaving Ior Cleveland Gov
ernor Mckinley Was actively engaged
IN the work OF arranging for the ship
ment OF supplies to the distressed.
This rather startling telegram was
received from Chairman Coutrap, of
Nelsonville:
&C. Confere, Buckingham wires NE
as follows:
"'People getting desperate. Unable
to control them. Do something i'm
What can we do at once
for them:'''
To this message Governor MckiD-
ley sent the following reply to Chair
man Coultrap: supplies will be sent
to Buckingham at once. ii, in the
any one is suffering there,
purchase what is needed at Bucking-
ham at once and send bill to me-
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-02-23
The Gould Estate.

NEW YORK, February 19.-It de-
velOped to-day for the first time that
the Gould heirs object strenuously to
the manner in which the estate of tie
late Jay Gould has been appraised.
The matter was the subject of lengthy
argument before Surrogate Fitzgerald
this afternoon, on a motion made by
former Judge John F. Dillon to have
the report of Lawyer David Mcclure
as appraiser sent back for other con-
sideration. In March, 1893, Lawyer
Mcclure was made appraiser of the
estate, and early in January last he
made his report, estimating the estate
at $50, 934, ,530.79. The object in getting
the report sent back is to have the
commissions for the executors and
trustees computed at the statutory rate.
This sum the heirs want deducted from
the residuary estate before it is divid-
ed into six equal parts for the children.
The heirs, it seemed, had no fault to
find with the appraiser: they simply
wanted to get the residuary estate
down as low as possible. in order to
lessen the transfer tax. The executors
and trustees will go to court to get
their commissions. By the will they
were to get $4,000 year each, but
Dillon contended that they
should get more under the statute.
Anyway, it would be at least $40, 600
a year for the four trustees.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-02-23
BY HIS WIFE.
1t is Claimed Aged samuel Cowles
was Murdered.

WEST PLAINS, Mo-, Feb. 19.-The
story of a peculiar murdercomes from
Marion County, Ark. Samuel Cowles.
an old man from Illinois, who entered
a homestead in that county IN 1885, and
had lived on the place with his wife
ever since, on the morning of the 3lst
day of January last was found dead
nearly a mile from home. 1t is alleged
that his wife had chased him from the
house with harrow-tooth with which
it is claimed she inflicted several
wounds which caused his death. The
bloody instrument and other signs of
murder were found in the house. a
coroner's jury brought out the fac
that Cowles had killed hiss wife's cat
the day before. Other evidence was
adduced discriminating his wife, who
was arrested and lodged in the Yell
vile Jail. Cowles was II years old
and his wife is 73.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-02-23
REFORM ASSOCIATION.
Populists Divided on the Financial
Question.

KANSAS CITY, Mo-, February 49,
A lively time is expected here in the
Convention of the National Reform
Association, February %, when itmeets
in annual session. The future policy
of the Populist party in regard to f.
nancial and other national questions
will be decided. The two factions of
the Populist party, the one which is
loyal to the Omaha platform and the
other, which would like to make new
departures, will be we'll represented,
and they are expected to clash and
make things lively.
The old line Populists claim that at
a conference of the party leaders in
st. Louis in December last an attempt
was made to sidetrack the Omaha
platform and adopt one radically diff
ferent in nearly all respects except the
free coinage of silver. They say this
attempt was made by traitors who
want the party to fuse with either OF
the great political parties which may
declare for free silver.
DIR. 5. c. McLallin, editor of the
'.Kansas Advocate" has promised a
sensation. When the National Com
mittee of the Populist party recently
made an appeal for funds. DR., Nc
Lallin warned the PopullsEs of Kansas
to make no contributions. He said he
would attend the national meeting IN
Kansas City, and would make start
ling revelations there.
The meeting will belargely attended.
There will be discussion on the ques-
ton of establishing national reform
press bureau in Washington. Ii. e.
Taubeneck, Of Washington, Chairman
OF the National Committee OF the
Peoples party, Will speak on heproD-
lem of getting independent telegraph
news for Populist papers. j. II. Me-
Donald, of Nashville, President OF the
press, Gen. J. B. Mcdonald, of Nash
vile, President of the association, Will
speak on the power of the press, Gen.
J. B. Weaver Will speak on the neces-
slty OF unity of action by all Populist
papers.
The annual meeting of the National
Industrial Union meets at the same
time.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-02-23
CONCERNING MISSOURI.
Resolutions and Petitions Introduced
in Senate and House.

WASHINGTON, D. c., Feb. 1S.-Mr.
Dockery to-day introduced a resolu-
ton coming from Kansas City, re-
questing Missouri members of Con-
gress to vote to foreclose themortgage
on the Union Pacific Railroad, and
for the Government ownership of the
same. The document bears the name
of II. S. Julian.
Mr.. Vest introduced in the Senate
petitions from Kansas City. St Louis
and Cornelia, Mo-, for consti-
tutional amendment prohibiting
union of State and church, and
prohibiting aliens from voting, and
also resolution of the Missouri
Legislature to foreclose the Govern
ment mortgage on the Union Pacific,
and from Bee Hive No. l Peoples
Institute at Osceola, Mo-, opposing
the issue of gold bonds and the con-
tinuation of the national banks as
banks of circulation.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-02-23
1t should be Extended.

The people of Scott county are still
talking railroad. They want the Com
merce and Morley road extended to
this city, and we understand that there
are some men in Scott county who are
willing to subscribe money for the ex-
tension of the road. The distance
from Commerce where the road would
tap the st. Louis, Cape Girardeau &
Fort Smith road is less than fourteen
miles and the road could be construct
ed in a short time. If our people
would lend helping hand We could
get this road and with it we would get
the trade of vast territory that now
goes elsewhere. The business men of
this city can afford to do something
for the extension of this road. Will
they do it?
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-02-23
ORIGIN OF COLD WAVES.
A Mountain Valley in British Coll
umbia Where They Take Their
Rise.

1t is frequently asked, Where do
cold waves originate? The coolest
portion OF the North American conti-
nent is, in all probability, in the Sas-
katchewan Valley, east of Mount
Hooker and Mount Head, both of
which are situated in the Rockey
Mountain range that divides British
Columbia from this valley and the
Alberta country. The height of this
mountain range prevents the eastern
trend or flow OF vapor from the Pacific
Ocean from crossing over into this
valley, as it would were it not for the
presence of this high range of monn-
tains. Yet it must not be supposed
that extreme cold always prevails
here, because at certain intervals the
vapor from the Pacific flows east by
way of the Alaskan Peninsula, through
the upper Valley of the Athabasca
River into Alberta and the Valley of
the Saskatchewan, and there meeting
WIZ a iiiol Q oOutllCIi anu OdoUCEH HO"
of vapor that flows through the gap in
the mountain range, made by the Bay
OF San JUN. it warns a1d expands
The atmosphere, crosses the path of
the cold wave, and warmth of from
20 to 40 degrees is the result, as we
often see graphically marked on the
weather map by red dots, here and
there on it's surface. But this does
not satisfactorily answer why it is that
the cold wave leaves its home in the
aforementioned valley to go junket-
ing on southern tour. at this time of
the year. when the normal temperature
should be sutfic, entity cold to meet the
demands Of the most eXactlng plumber.
To find the cause Of those successive
cold waves which we are experiencing
from time to time this winter. We will
have to look in quite another direc-
ton, down to the northern tropical
latitude. where the great evaporation
of those warm currents and ocean
surfaces is carried westward from the
Atlantic OCEAN by the trade winds.
and is massed together between those
winds of the eastern o!f-shore winds,
blowing SON times from Florida,
and other times from Texas. but in
either ease promoting cycionic
action, which has tn effect OF enlarg-
ing the area OF the storm. and the i'm
mediate result is al enormous eXpan-
sion OF tn atm D5D lrr' usually de-
nominated ''low." AS this low moves
across tha surface - the Middle or
Eastern States it pours down large
quantities OF water in the shape of
rain. and is constantly receiving ac-
cessions ofcioud matter to replenish its
energies: and thus in this manner it
creates more or less OF vacuum into
which the air from the Northwest S |
drawn with more or less momentum.
and the cold wave is completed
McCabe. in the Washington |
Post.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-02-23
USE OF DRY GOODS,
An Increased Consumption Now as
Compared With Former Years,

1t should be remembered that sixty
years ago the market for dry goods,
taking the words in large sense, was
much less extensive than at present.
A great deal of linen, cotton and
wooden cloth was made in families,
and mems clothing was largely pre-
pared by domestic seamstresses. Home
spun was still much worn. Men and
boys who were not afflicted with rheu-
matism did not wear undershirts and
drawers, and the corresponding gar
ments were not used by other sex till
after 1925. Carpets we're unknown
among the poor eighty years ago,
even in the rustic form of those made
of rags. 1t was after this date that a
parishioner of DR.. Lyman Beecher,
seeing a neat and gay rag carpet in
the parson' s house, inquired solemnly
if he thought he could have this and
heaven too? Ingram and Brussels
came into use among the middle and
lower classes in cities about 1880. and
in the country ten or fifteen years
later. Cotton goods were very dear
in 1920, but have steadily been sinking
ever since, as the facilities OF manu-
facture have improved. iieady-made
clothing fifty years after the Declara-
ton of Independence was only to be
found in seaports, or in places where
there was likely to be at any time an
influx of backwoodsmen, boatmen or
miners. The stores were then familiar
ly known as ''slop Shops" and the
garments made very little pretense to
fitting. Countless varieties of ciogh
and IA multitude of accessories in tn
dry goods trade have como up within
the half century. Before that the sup
ply was scanty. Men and women I'D
society in Jeferson's time were we'll
dressed; their velvets, their lac9, their
satins and their gloves would compare
with those of to-day, or were even
finer, but the great mass of the people
had few varieties of material to choose
from, and made no pretense of follow
ing the fashions. They could not
N. Y. Price Current.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-02-23
ARRESTED THIRD TIME.
Milton sweet Again in Custody at
Festus, Mo.

FEsTUs, Mo-, February 19-Sheriff
Rariden, Of st. Francois County, ac-
companied by A. B. Abernathy, Pros
ecuting Attorney of the same county,
came to Festus this morning and ar
rested Milton sweet for the third time
for completely in the murder and rob-
berry of Saloonkeeper Price Ditch,
November %, 1894. The officers claim
to have the confession of three parties,
which duplicates seven parsons. A
preliminary trial was given Milton
and Bazile Sweet, John Cole and
Stewart Hampton about a week ago,
in Festus, at which the evidence was
insufficient to indict the parties, and
they were discharged, with the excep-
ton of Hampton, who was returned
to Jail at Pennington, where he is
under Indictment for forgery. The
officers are sure of their work this
time and are elated over their success
30 far. Sweet was taken to Farming
ton to day. Prosecuting Attorney
Williams, of Jefferson County ac-
companied to investigate the confess
sions. The names of the parties were
not given by the officers, but they said
they have man and boy of about
IL years, who held out to the last, but
finally confessed after the others had.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-02-23
BY HIS DAUGHTER.
Cordelia Hill Sends Il Bullet Into
Robert HIPS Brain.


CHARLESTON, w. VA, Feb. 90
Cordelia Hill, residing at Rippon, six
miles south of this city, shot and in
stantly killed her father, Robert Hill,
yesterday. He was numerically chas-
tising one of his sons, who tore away
from his grasp and ran to the mother
for protection. Then Hill assaulted
and beat the mother, throwing her to
the floor and choking her. 1t was at
this juncture that the daughter ran in
with a revolver, placed it near the
back of her fathers head and fired.
The ball pierced the base of the brain
and death was instantaneous. The
child was taken before Justice Heffle-
bower, who committed her at once.
An indictment for murder was found
against her within few hours after
the homicide.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-02-23
The Marquand Rate Grievance.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo-, February
l9.-The State Board of Railroad and
Warehouse Commissioners to-day
heard the complaint of shippers and
merchants of Marquand, Mo-, againt
the st. Louis, Iron Mountain and
Southern hallroad Company. The
complainants, represented by Hon. NJ.
Il. smith, Claimed that the company
has been charging them exorbitant
rates on merchandise snlpped from st.
LOUIS. The company Was represented
by Col w. Ii. Phelps. After hearing
the case 1T wds ordered by the board
tnat after March rates for the trans
pOrtatlon of merchandise and COM
moditles in all classes between 81.
Louis and points on the Belmont
branch OF the Iron Mountain, north
OF Lutesvllie, shall in no case exceed
the rates as nov charged for such
from 81. Louis to
Lutesvilie.
The compiainants also claimed
damages 100 overcnarges, but these
wete nos allowed by the board ana
We're dismissed.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-02-23
NEARLY A CENTURY.
Christian Leonard Celebrates his
Eighty-First Birthday.

Christian Leonard Celebrates his
Eighty-First Birthday.
On the 18th of February Christian
Leonard, of near Daisy, this county,
celebrated his eighty-tirst birthday at
the residence of his son-in-law, Henry
W. Hahs. Mr.. Leonard has eighty
six grand children and thirty-seven
great grand children. On the day of
the old gentleman's eighty-first birth
day, his daughter, Mrs. Henry w.
Hahs, gave a grand dinner, and
twenty-five of his relatives were pres
ent.
1t does not often happen that man
lives to eat his eighty-first birthday
dinner with his children and be able
too to go to the table and enjoy good
dinner, but Mr.. Leonard did, and We
hope he will live to celebrate many
more anniversaries of his birthday.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-02-23
The Man who Is Cool and AmiabIe

The Man Who Is Cool and Amiable.
The Superiority of those men who
keep their tempers in public bodies is
SO apparent that GOODNESS should be
one of the first virtues to be cultivated
there. The discreet member will re-
gard public life of this kind as a
school for such purpose. There are
trials for nervous OF impulsive men
often in these positions, but part of
their tactics must be to resist them if
they are to have hope of success.
Nothing can be clearer than that it is
for their interest to do so. The de-
batter who keeps cool is sure to have
his opponent at a disadvantage. The
cool man is usually master of sar-
casm, which is an effective weapon in
annoying an adversary, but adanger-
GUS one, also, because there is always
the temptation to carry it too far. The
men who have the widest influence are
the good-natured men, whose words
leave no sting behind them.-Boston
Herald.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-02-23
a Mean Trick.

Some heartless wretch cut the tail
off the Albert Grocer Co.'s cat last
Sunday, and the poor little animal
is now deprived of the pleasure of sit
ting on its tail. 1t was a mean man
who would thus torture an in offensive
Office cat.