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The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-03-23
SAM JONES ON WORK.
Extracts from the Georgia Reuivlist's
Surmon.

Sam Jones held his regular morning
servicer in Entertainment Hall Expo
sition Building, this morning to a
large audience. He preached from the
subject, The Fields Are White for
the Harvest" Following are a few
extracts from his discourse:
The population of your city is esti-
mated at 100000 souls. Only one in
100 can possibly get into this building
to hear me. The press is doing a
noble work by spreading broadcast
the seed. Some falls upon good
ground. A man came to Bro. Stuart
and said, II was awakened and con-
verted by reading the sermon in the
papers.
Some men say they have no influence.
If you go and ask that cigar man over
there what he has that Indian out in
front for he will say for his influence,
and if you have no influence you are
of less account than wooden Indian.
If walked up to you on the street
and said you are no account, you
have no influence, you would resent it
and want to hit me.
There is Parkhurst, only one man,
He told them Tammany Hall must hit
the girt, that police corruption must
be remedied and everybody said it's
lie: he can't do it! Now, did you ever
notice when IA man calls a preacher
liar he gets left. DR.. Parkhurst kept
on while people called him liar and
did what ne said he would do. Only
one man. too.
If a tadpole is the only thing in a
mudhole, why. he is the biggest thing
there, but you put frog in there and
he looks little. Put a frog beside an
elephant and you can't see him at all.
II there is a preacher in this town
who has never been called a crank he
is no account.
Every pulpit in America needs a
firstclass crank to turn it to make
things go.
Enthusiasm in the pulpit is what
steam is to an engine.
The devil don't care for those people
that are going to do something to-mor-
row or next week. It's the people
that are going to do something to-day
he fears.
If every Christian in st. Louis
should start in right now TO do their
duty We would have the greatest har-
vest in history here this week.
We are purfectly willirg to make
sacrifices for the Lord. like the boy
who, when asked what he was going to !
give up, said well, mamma. I'll give |
up mackrel. meyer liked it no how.
There are lots of you Christians in tae |
same FIX.
At my meeting last night over 1000 |
young men came up to grasp my hand.
IN not here to find fault; I'm only |
here to do good, but l will state that /
ii man comes into my community |
and leads my boy right and exerts
good influence invite him to my home |
and give him three square meals a day i
and if he needs any money I'll divide |
my last cent with him.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-03-23
A Remarkable southern Winter.

"A fellow hates to be always COM
planning, but. declare, it's coming
in double doses when we have snow
knee-deep one week and then have a
storm of dust blowing in your eyes
the next remarked a visitor from
the North as he strobe into his hotel,
wiping the Peachtree street dust out
of the corner of his eye. Il have
never seen anything like this in all
my born days" he resumed. ''It
seems only a day or two ago that
was sliding around on the greatest
snow they said they have ever had in
the South. and here l am with q great
big handkerchief trying to keep the
dust out of my eyes. What kind of
snow was that to have melted so
rapidly, and what kind of dust is this
to have been blown up by the warm
breath of a single springtime day
right out from under the deep cover of
snow that was with US so recently?
surely, this is a great old climate
you have down here in the South. 1t
puzzles Inc to see how you can get
your slice of winter in such sudden
dose and then so quickly get over it
and go on about your business in the
brightest sort of a spring day. Such
cold weather as you Southern folks
have doesn't give you time to get used
to it before it passes off and you find
the overcoat you have just been wear
ing burden of life. Think of it
last week all went to sleep to the
sweet concord of the sleigh-bells'
serenade and here we are going to
sleep to the tune of the guitar and
darkies as they stand in the streets
without the slightest sign of an over
coat and with their shirt fronts open
fairly reveling in the balmy breeze
that makes your Southern nights sweet
and Observation-Disclosures Constitu-
ton.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-03-23
Observation-Disclosures 5onds.

SPRINGFIELD. No, March 1S.-
Twenty years ago Dallas County voted
bonds to build the Laclede and Fort
scott Railroad, which, with interest,
have now rul up to over Sl.0G9, 900
the roau was lever built and all the
State courts decided that they weae
illegal, but the Fedral courts decided
otherwise, and for years the county
officials have btel dodging service. A
few Gays ago another suit. on few
more of the bonds was filed and the
Officers have just obtained service. a
Wat OF mandamus was also served a
week ago, compelling the Judge to levy
a tax to pay off the Judgment, and
CRISIS is expected when Judge Philips
court meets here in April. The dept
of the comfy is greater than its asses
sed vaiutIon, but the bond attorneys
are ready TO compromise. W. II. Salyer
.tnd Jun Edwards, two special Federal
Jtficers, returned from Buffalo to-day.
In.y did not attempt to conceal their
ldentity, but d. owe into town, and,
fading 20 lind their man, drove away.
Dae OF TIE Off, ers, however, dropped
o vi the wagon, and, quitely return
IL to the County Clrek's office, found
lls miI aad served the papers.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-03-23
Anna Gould's Fortune.

The Countess de Castellane. nee
Anna Gould, has fortune of SO, 900,
900 in her own right. She has the use
of the income, amounting to about
$500. 900 a year, but can not touch the
principal. She may, however, be-
queath the principal by will to her
children in such shares as she may
like. but if she has no children the
money will revert to the Gould estate,
to be shared by her brothers and sis
ters. Since she came into possession
of her princely income, there have been
large accumulations, and it is said
she has 81, 900, 900 which she can do as
she pleases with. and it is this sum
which has been the subject of mar
riage contract. Under the French
law, without a contract. there is a
community of fortune between husband
and wife.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-03-23
A Worthy Man Deservingly Honored.

The Board OF Trustees of Lexington.
( Mo. Female College by unanimous
action haye rendered the Presidency of
that justly popular and long famous
institution to Prof. j. B. Tate of the
departments of Science and Mathe-
mates OF Hardin college. Mexico. Mo.
1t is probable that Prof. Tate will ac-
cept and enter upon the duties of the
position at the experation of the pres
ent year. Ee is u brother of Rev.
Tate of the Baptist church of this city
and is one of the William Jewell
Col ege boys" also a graduate OF. the
Kansas Cigy Commercial college.
Previous to his tlree years professor
ship in Hardin college and FIVE in
Stephens college, he was twelve years
urefintendent of some of the best
public schools in the State, viz: Slater,
Miami, Liunens, Pleasant Hill and
Fulton. His energy. qualifications
and successful experience show the
wisdom of the Board in rendering him
the position. Their school has done
successful work for forty years and
has been presided over by some of the
ablest educators in the west. Its stu
dents and graduates are famed in
highest rank amid teachers, musicians,
artists, elocutionists, scientists, lin
gusts, and mathematicians. The
coming session promises to fully sus-
tain the popular reputation of this
school.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-03-23
shiloh Battlefield Association-Sec-
ond Annual Reunion.

The second annual Reunion of the
Shiloh Battlefield Association will be
held at Pittsburg Landing Tenn,
April 5th, 9th and 9TH, 1895. The
Mobile * Ohio Railroad will sell
tickets to Bethel, Selmer or Perry
vile, Tenn, or to Corinth, Miss, at
one and one third for the round trip.
The fare for the round trip on the
boat from Perryville to the Battlefield
will be 81 so including meals. Round
trip rate by stage from Bethel 500
and from Selmer $50, from Corinth
s1.50. The stage lines and boats will
make close connection with the Mobile
and Ohio trains. There will be ample
accommodations for all. Ask your
nearest ticket agent for further par
ticulars. apr6
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-03-23
Toward or Backward.

Students from seventy-one counties
in the State, now attending the, War
rensburg Normal School, are anxious
ly watching the Legislature to see
whether the will continue to foster and
encourage our normal system, or
whether they State will about face on
the advancing column of education and
return to the conditions of primitive
Missouri. City Tribune.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-03-23
4 Coincidence,

When Stuart Sinclair, Ol York,
Penn, put his autograph on the regis
ter of the Lafayette Hotel recently he
dropped the pen as if paralyzed. y
blank expression spreed over his face
a Id thea ne strobe across the office to
the Big mirror and intently scrutiniZed
his reelection as if to gain assurance
that ne was really himself Then he
looked through his pockets, and pull
ling out every letter he could find he
carefully read the addresses. The en-
velOp9s had all been directed to
"Stutr SinclIir," Id so the gentle
mai from York seemed to be satisfied
that there was no mistake and he was
really the man he had supposed him
self to be. When Clerk Videtto sougth
to find a reason for his guests strange
conduct he glanced at the register.
and here. directly above Mr.. Sinclair's
name was the signature of Sinclair
Stuart, of New York. The man from
York hunted up his counterpart from
New York, and they smiled.-Phila-
delphia Inquirer.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-03-23
Cross-Examinfng a Woman.

A dialogue about heaven took place
few days ago between a member of
the Baltimore county bar and lady
g years old, who was under eXamina-
ton in an equity case. The lawyer, to
test the lady's faith in the hereafter,
asked her if she thought we would
know each other in heaven. She re-
piled by asking him another question
as TO where heaven was. His reply
was not satisfactory to the old lady,
and she told the lawyer that if he
wanted to question her about any
place he must locate it. Then she ad-
de1: ''Of course, we will know each
other in heaven, for our bodies will be
the same there except that we will not
have any blood in u.s." The lawyer
next asked her if she thought people
would have teeth in heaven. She said
she could not answer that definitely,
but she thought they would. One thing
was certain, she added. People
would have teeth in the place allotted
to the wicked, and she could prove it
by Scripture. " How can you prove it,"
said the lawyer. Why" she replied,
"the Scripture says the wicked shall
be turned into utter darkness, where
there shall be weeping, wailing and
gnashing of teeth, and how could they
gnash their teeth, if they did not have
any?" The attorney did not proceed
any further on that line of examina-
tion.-Baltimore Sun.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-03-23
Central Kansas Wheat.

ABILENE. KAN. March I9.-The
farmers of the golden belt wheat region
of Central Kansas, including dozen
counties of the north central section
of the State, famed for their wheat
production. are becoming alarmed at
the condition of the wheat plant, which
is not showing the anticipated recup-
Grafton from the severe winter. In
such portions as had heavy local
showers last October. packing the soil
around the roots of the plant, it
lessened the injury both from drouth
and high winds during the winter. But
these rains affected only a compar-
atively small portion of the wheat sec
ton. and in those parts not reached
the winter has been unusually severe
on it. Not only has the hard freezing
affected it. but there has been high
winds which blew the soil from the
roots. Farmers in the southeast of
this county, section where wheat has
seldom been known to fail. say that it
does not now seem that there can be
more than half crop. Rain is need
ed very bad in Central Kansas, and
lots of it, to bring the wheat ont in
good shape. 1t will take exceptionally
favorable weather to make a full crop.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-03-23
Beware of SwtndIers.

We have exposed, during the last
year, many swindlers who advertise,
under the name of medicine, vile COM
pounds which only increase human
suffering. To all who need a pure
medicine and blood purifier, we can
honestly recommend Sulphur Bitters.
Editor Sun.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-03-23
Fast New Train.

Commencing Sunday, March oath,
the Chicago & Texas Ry., will put on
Sunday train, leaving depot at a.
m, connecting with NJ. & o., Cairo
Short Line and Illinois Central.
Il. r. WnLRR, Agt.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-03-23
What They Were For.

Chance visitor lin Council Chamber J
And this is your City Council, is it?
Are there many business men in it?
Observation-Disclosures men? They're all
here Observation-Disclosures for Jour-
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-03-23
Annual Meeting of stockholders.

The annual meeting of the Stock
holders of Houck's Missouri & Arkan-
sas Railroad Company will be held at
the Office of the Company in the city
of Cape Girardeau on Monday, the
sth day of April, 1895, at the hour of
nine O'Clock in the forenoon for the
purpose of electing Directors for the
ensuing year and transaction of such
other business as may come before
the meeting.
LOUIS B. HoUCK, President.
E. F. BLOMEYER, Secretary.
Cape Girsrdeau, Mo-, March q, 1895.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-03-23
V. II. HARRISON.
KENNErT, Nd, March 10. 1895.

KENNETH, Nd, March 10, 1895.
DR.. w. &. PaJtoA-CLpe Gira ,'deau,
Mo.-Dr. Harrison to-day showed me
your letter alI tn clipping from
DEMOCRAT Wa lie / dII not see patient
Mr.. McCArty yOI mt, say for myself
that while your Eiitor. Mr. Adams
may think We are "BackwOods Doc
tors" If he would Just come to Ken
nett and let us put him with Young
Slater Who volunteered as nurse for
McCarty) about SIX hours. l would
guarantee him a we'll developed case
OF small PoX unless he had already
had it: or been vaccinated since young
Slater has been sick about five days
a al has | am informed a well marked
eruption, That is one way of convinc-
ing such simpletons who run little 2x4
newspapers and imagine that they are
judges OF things generally. While l
have not seen these patients l have
baen WIN some Small FOX myself and
feel certain that DR.. Harrison g. your
self could not well both be wrong.
And from description given me feel so
certain as to the disease that | used
the precaution to revaccinate myself.
Yours Fraternally
J n ROSENTHAL n d
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-03-23
Seed Oats and clover Seed.

For seed oats and clover seed call
at theoffice of G. T. Lewis Wednesdays
and Saturdays.
C. T. LEWIS,
Agent for Louis Houck.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-03-23
The Kenneth Doctors Talk.

The following letters from two Ken
nett Doctors will explain themselves:
KENNETT, Mo-, March 10, 1895.
w. c. Patton, NJ. D.-Cape Girar-
deau, Mo.-My attention has been
called to the following, from the Cape
DEMOCRAT of the 18th:
1T is now reported that Charley
McCarty, whose sickness and deatn
caused all the small pox scare at Ken
nett and Throughout Southeast Mis-
souri, never had ths snLll pox at al,
but erysipelas, and died of sheer
neglect. The whole thing Was fa.s
alarm caused BY the erroneous dIa.
noslS OF a backwoods DOCTOR
presume | am the bdckwoods doe
tor referred TO. | deem 1t my duty to
make tie following explanation:
When called to McCarty, from HIS
appearance and previous history and
his own admission, [ suspected sma.l
pox, and l Immediately told Mr.. l..
>. McCarty, who suggested that he
would call you from the Cape, as you
had had consIderab Die experience witn
small poX. When you came you co.
tirmed my diagnosis ald approved
what [ had dOhc. a I'd m4Ie such su :
gestions as you thought leceSsIry. 4
further confirmation Is necessary |
can say one of the nurses has va
ioloid.
As for McCarty dying of ''sheer
neglec5' [ cannot think 1t true, as Mr..
E. 5. McCdrty had al experienced
nurse sent down with You, as you re-
N smber.
L think the patient died from ex-
hAustion following the superat,e
fever. Yours fratsrlally,
IT Il
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-08-20

The West Point military college has
set a splendid example for other col
leges in sentencing Cadet Wallace B.
Scales to two years of punishment in
hazing Cadet Roberts, 'plebe, % until
the latter tainted. Unfortunately the
law does not allow college faculties to
impose sentence of punishment, tech
nically speaking, upon refractory stu
dents, except in such institutions as
those at West Point and Annapolis; but
it lies within the power of colleges of
all kinds to expel students for hazing.
If every college in the land would take
a firm stand in this matter and adhere
rigidly to the rule it would not be long
before hazing would be an institution
of the past in this country.-Troy
Press.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-08-20
LOCAL MENTION.

Miss Ella Seaman of Lawrence, who
is visiting Miss Turrell on Lane street,
is seriously i'll.
Miss Ida Craigmile, who has been Wis
ting Miss Edith Packard on Harrison
street. has returned to her Lawrence
home.
The grand secretary of the L o. O. F.
has received word of the installment of
q new lodge at Englewood, Clark county,
with fifty members
Capitola lodge No. 219, Daughters of
Rebeccah, installed officers last night
J. A. Evarts was chosen noble grand and
Miss Laura Packard vice grand.
John Nelson, employed in the Rock
Island yards. seriously sprained his ankle
while making flying switch and will
be confined to his house for several
weeks.
Shawnee camp No. $500, NJ. W. A,
have ordered new uniforms for team aud
degree work. They will go to Bismarck
grove on Labor day to compete for a
number of prizes.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-08-20
THE BABY on THE FARM.
To ROmp and Play with the Little Ones
a Religious Duty.

To ROmp and Play with the Little Ones
Religious Duty.
Even If the baby's coming interferes
with all sorts of thrifty plans to help
the husband pay off the mortgage on
the farm, an acute fnancier once gave
large sum of money to endow col
lege upon the ground that he consid-
cred boys a better investment than
land, writes Helen Jay in the Ladies
Home Journal. In the childless home
the money may come in more quickly
than 1t goes out until the whole farm
is paid for, but what does it profit II
there are none of our own to enjoy 1t
with us, and no one to receive it as
sacred Inheritance when we are gone?
AS a class, farmers wives identity
themselves more closely with their hus-
bands financial interests than any
other class of women. They are will
ing to work hard and sacrifice them
selves to help to buy home and to edu-
cate their children. They feel that
If they cannot earn money they can at
least save it. It becomes a problem
sometimes how to steer between legiti-
mate thrift on the one hand and unnec-
a woman works so hard in trying to
Increase the bank account that she
ruins, not only her physical health, but
her disposition as we'll. A nervous,
WORKOUT, fretfuI woman is not fit as
sociate, even on hygienic grounds, for
sensitive, impressionable child, who re-
fleets the passing moods of those about
him as in a looking-glass. If it is
question then of bank accounts, i'm
maculate closets and well-filled store
rooms on the one hand, and a bright,
cheerful mother on the other, I would
unhesitatingly choose the latter. The
children whose mothers have not time
to pet them are to be pited. To amuse
the baby and to romp with it is some
times quite as much a religious duty
as to pray for it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-08-20
MAY GET MAD.
Ohio Silver Democrats Are
Ready to Fight
If They Are Denied Their Rights
in the Convention.
RICEIS PACIFIC.
Will Probably Give Silver Men
the Candidates
If He is Allowed to Make the
Platform.

SPRINGFIELD, Ohio, Aug. 20-The dis
trict and other preliminary meetings of
the Democratic state convention are held
here today preparatory to the assem-
bling of the convention at 10 a. m. to-
morrow.
Senator Brice is making the fight of
his life for a platform in harmony with
the views of President Cleveland, Secre-
tary Carlisle and himself, on the finan-
cial question.
He is believed to have a majority of
the 500 delegates with him, but the free
silver men claim BOA of the delegates, or
enough to make trouble if no concession
is made to them.
Senator Brice is the temporary chair
man of the convention and his keynote
speech is sure to be for 'honest money"
without regard to the outcome of the
fight tonight for the organization of the
convention. His speech will be con-
servative.
Immediately after his delivery tomor-
row morning comes the report from the
committee on credentials, the majority
for seating contesting Brice men, and the
minority for seating the free silver con-
testants. In considering these reports
the senator may have some close ruling
and the silver men may get mad. 1t is
at this juncture of the proceedings that
the contest between the free silver and
the Brice men is expected, although the
latter had things their way today.