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The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-06-08
HE SNAPPED.
Traded an Egg for "a Knitting Needle, and
Got the stOrekeeper to Treat

Traded an Egg for "a knitting Needle, and
Got the stOrekeeper to Treat.
Hello, ST."
"Mornin'. Reub" responded the pro-
prietor of the village store.
"How's all tew HUMP"
bout midlin'. Baby's got the
hoopin' cough. How's your folks?"
"Doin' nicely, thankee. CANT COM
plain"
A pause ensued, during which Farm.
er Wayback aimed at the stove a cou-
pie of times, and hit it. helped himself
to a handful of dried prunes and ate a
cracker or two along with a slice of
cheese.
The storekeeper made a mental note
of these items preparatory to getting
even on the farmers purchase. His in
ventory was interrupted.
Say, 81, want t trsde?"
Dunno; what We got?"
IAN aig."
"Only one?"
''Thet's all"
"Enything special about tn aig?"
Nope! Jes' n aig."
Didn't cum all way down here jes'
trade fer n aig, did yep
Yep, thet's all"
swell, I'll be darned! What We want
for yer aig?"
"'Whatu We give?"
"Knittin' needle"
"All right, here's tn aig."
Another pause.
Say, 81"
"Well?"
"Goin' t treat?"
"What FORE"
"Oh. nothin'! Only thought ye might
be goin' t treat. Sort of custom round
here. Eskerege allus treats when I
make a trade at his store"
"Jehosephat! l didn't make enything
on yer aig"
'Oh, never mind! Don't hev Z treat
f We don't want to-"
We'll, I'll be switched! Ye beat eny
man fer a trade / ever seen. What'll
ye hev?"
well, ST, If We don't mind, guess I'll
hev cider n aig."-N. Y. Recorder.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-06-08

.Carlisle's action in suspending the pur-
chase Of silver bullion on the plea that he
could not get it at the market price, was RI
diculous."
President Cleveland's message, demanding
the repeal OF the Sherman law, came in for q
round OF rough handling.
There are to-day in the world about 800
600. 900 in gold and a like amount IN silver"
said the speaker. If you place these two
metals side by side you can build up one OF
the greatest Systems OF credit money. but II
you try to build one upon the other. one or the
other must fall There must be an equality.
Secretary Carlisle said recently that there'were
SO Of credit money to each 81 OF metallic
money in the United States. The more credit
carried by metal money the more important is
that metal money and the more disastrous the
loss or depreciation Of the metal money.
In this case for each 81 in metal money lost
there Is a loss OF sl9 in credit money. Hence
the necessity Of increasing the amount OF
metal money. As there is not gold enough in
the country upon which TO base all currency,
silver must be used. and the sooner IL is adopt
ed the sooner will prosperity be assured.
Mr.. Bryan then gave Carlisle, Cleveland.
Sherman. ct al. q few parting digs, and then
szsnched OF on the question at issue. He de-
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-06-08

Mrs. Sauildig-It is too bad that.
Mrs. Sragg's little boy has the scarlet
fever.
Mrs. NcSwilligen-He is not danger
ously Ill, is he?
"Oh, no; but Mrs. Snaggs had just
got a Summing new gown, and now she
won't lie able to get out for at least six
weeks for fear of carrying the conta-
gion."- Pittsburgh Chronicle-Tele
graph.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-06-08

Two dollars and a folding bed"
said Mrs. Benton, with a comicaI
grimace. Il am glad have it for her
to sleep in. at any rate. And when
she has gone | will begin where l left
off, ripping up the Henrietta. food
housekeeping.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-06-08

THE silent watches of the night-those
that are run down.-Philadelphia Record.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1895-12-28

When the two water jars were flushed
the wise men called mp the people. the
tribes of the Pueblos and tho Navajos.
and commanded them to make
their choice of the two. Ths Navajoe
were permitted to choose first and they
seized upon the painted
jar which was worthless, So the other
became the only choice of the forum
ate Pueblos-
The wise men then said: Here is the
eternal fate Of the two nations You.
Pueblos, will enjoy m abundance OF
the good things Of life; you will live
plenty of floclzs and herds; but you,
Navajos, will be q poor and wander
ing race, destitute of comfort. and
greedy for showE rather than for
things - real value"
These traits are distinguishing traits
of the two tribes toIthis day.
The Indian legend of the origin Of
war is this: One hundred and eight
cen years after the creation of the
world. Kitchi Manitou, q great spirit
looked down on the earth for the first
time. and saw old men and women
coming out of their lodges, gray-haired
and STOPPING, and when they tried to
walk they fall to pieces from extreme
old age. The great spirit then thought
that he had made the Indians to live
too long. and that they increased too
rapidly. So he changed his first plan
and sent four spirits of thunder to tell
the Indians that they must fight They
obcyed, after which they decroesed
rapidly. The Indians who died in bat
tie were fortunate. as the great spirit
kept their souls near him. - Detroit
Free Press
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1895-12-28
pe.th Of the Growing Hen.

At . very recent date, in many parts
Of our country, it was sign of bad
luck for a hen to crow. Just why is
difficult to trace; perhaps because it
was considered the assumption by =
female of masculine prerogatives.
Whenever a hen dared attempt it she
was run down by the united efforts
Of all the children on the premises and
her head paid the forfeit. A recent
traveller In Kentucky writes that while
visiting at the country home of a friend
q hen was heard to crow. Instantly
the cry was raised: 'Catch her! Kill
her!" He interposed in the hens be-
half by reminding his hosts that this
was an age Of rights" and she was,
therefore, not guilty OF any y.rong-do-
ing. They scoffed at his hcterodoxy and
the clamor that followed prepared him
for the return of the purspers bearing
the head of the foolish fowl.-Lip.
pincott's.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1895-12-28
shoo,iuE starr or AIeteors.

When we get down to talking shoot
ing stars" We begin to rush around in
the realm of something which all know
something about-at least, q great deal
more than we do about supposed fiery
lakes in such gigantic worlds rs Jupt-
ter. While we may think that we
know all about shooting stars the fol-
lowing will show that there are by
paths in every branch OF knowledge
which even the wisest among the COM
MON herd knew but very little about
For an instance. Flammarion has an
nounccd that the visible number OF
shooting stars which 60 sizzling
through the upper strata Of our atmos-
phere every twenty-four hours is not
less than seven million Eve hundred
thousand, and that the telescope me-
teors increase this number to four
hundred million! Prof. Harkness. maxi
ing calculations on the same subject
estimates the average weight OF these
so-called ''burning stars to be only
one grainl Herschel says that their
average height above the earth is some
thing like sssenty-three miles and that
they disappear as soon rs they strike
the dense portions of our atmosphere.
St Louis Republic.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1895-12-28
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

I'm France it is believed that when
white pigeon settles upon . chimney
the incident betokens speedy death for
some inmate of the house.
Among the country people of En-.
gland there is an idea that to touch
food which has been nibbled by q
mouse will result in . sore throat.
Russia proposes to celebrate Jen-
ner's discovery of vaccination, the one
hundredth anniversary Of which oc-
ours next year, by offering prizes for
works on vaccination. and by publish
ing histories Of vaccination in Russia
and western Europe.
No member Of parliament receives
q salary in that capacity. II he he q
minister or public functionary, the
case is of course different Some of the
Irish members, however. are paid their
expenses from fund contributed to by
political sympat thizers.
-Great improvements have been re-
Gently made at the mouth Of the river
vistnla- The old branch into the Bal
tic has been Strengthened and short
ened from ten miles to four and one
half. and the channel Sroadened by
shifting . dixie ON the left bank, six
miles further west
Juan Fernandez will soon be in the
condition in which Robinson Crusoe
found it. A Chilian commission re-
ports that the population has sunk
from 1863 to twenty-nine. the inhab-
- Ac 1n~~ vu~n - ~v>A
other vessels no longer touch there.
Chilli wants to fortify the island.
-An entirely new departure has
been made ut Aix-la-Chapellc, where
women postman have been appointed
in the place of men who have been
discharged. The new ''postwomen"
wear q black skirt, . yellow belt, and
little glazed hat with 4 yellow rib
bon. They carry q little letter box
attached to . strap slung over one of
the shoulders.
-England's last turnpike road 10
about to be thrown open. 1t is the
portion Of the Shrewsbury and Holy
head road running through the island
of Anglesey. and was preserved by =
special act of parliament when the
other turnpikes were abolished in 1890.
Thirty years ago there were 1,O47 turn
pike trusts in England and Wales, col
lecting toll from %. .ls9 miles of road.
"A comparison of the national stand
ards of metric measures with the in
ternational prototypes is to be made
soon, according to the decision Of the
Medical congress which lately met at
Paris A beginning will be made with
the kilogram ind with standard ther-
mometers, while the meter will be
taken. up later, rs variations between
the standards of that measure are less
probable.
For nearly forty years there has
been = dogs burying-ground at the
north end of Hyde park, London.
Here people have been allowed to bury
their canine favorites, and many Of the
dead doggies have been honored with
small tornbstones Now the cemetery
being full. the duke Of Cambridge. in
his capacity rs the ranger Of Hyde
park. has closed it, and pet-lovers are
seeking q new cemetery for their dumb
friends
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1895-12-28
DEACON HoPEFUL's lDEE.

Dear friends. when am dead an gone
Don't have no woeful takln's on,
Don't act so ta.nally bereft
As though they weren't no sunshine lefe
Don't multiply your stock o woes
By sorry looks an gloomy clothes,
An make the trouble ten tunes worse
By alters follerin' q he@rse.
When depart i:'s my icce
The most consolin thing to ms
Id be to hear the ones tried
To comfort here afore died
Saw. sort o. emflin' through their tears:
> Well, ennyhow. fer years an years
We had him here. so lets bo glad
An thankful fer the JOY we've had"
II amt no use to make fuss
When death comes after one OF ~
che wars Of Providence. low.
Are as they should be. ennyhow.
Things suit me purity midditn' well.
An even at funeral
ia sing. amid the grief an woe:
= Praise God from whom all blessin's dow
Nixon Waterman. In l. A W. Bulletin
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1895-12-28
DOMESTIC CONCERNS.

-Potted Veal: Chop cold nDoke.l
veal very fine. season to taste with
salt and pepper and mash to pnste.
Take an equal quantity Of lean eoc'sed
chopped ham or tongue and pees in
alternate layers in . pot or jar. Pour
liquid butter over the top and Cd =.
When served, cut in slices. s.-Pnatio
Farmer.
Snowfall Pudding: Wash two tea
cups of rice and boil until tender, Pare
and core leaving apples whOle) twelve
large, sour apples. Fill the apples
with the cooked rice and put it. around
the outside. Tie each one il . sepa-
rate cloth and drop in boiling water.
Cook until soft. then servo vthile hot
with cream and sugar or amp desired
sauee.-Western Rural.
-Fresh Fruit Jelly: Soakpone ounce
Of gelatine in little cold w9ter. Then
add to It one pint OF boiliog water and
half . pound of sugar. Put . quart or
three pints Of fresh fruit into . pre-
serving pan, and when 1t !. thoroughly
warm squeeze the juice through ;
cloth. Add the juice to The gelatine.
Mix we'll, strain through muslin. and
pour into . wetted mold serve with
cream or csstard-Leeds Mercury.
Yorkshire Pudding: Take two to-
blespoonfuls Of -four and oae teaspoon
ful Of salt; make = we'll in the -four
and break In one egR; do mot stir. but
beat all together. with half . cup Of
milk. and add water autil of the con-
sistency Of fresh, thick cream. At the
end Of m hour, bake twenty minutes
In hot oven. Have plenty Of drip
pings in the pan and turn like grid
die cake. when it Is half DONE
Houseleeper.
Apple Custard: Select ton medium
sized spples. with = small knife cut .
hole through the middle Of the apples.
thus taking ont tho core. Place in .
deep dish q cake tin will do(. Ill the
holes full Of sugar and bake In . hot
oven until done. Make . cu2tard Of
three eggs, one quart Of sweet milk,
four tablespoonfuls of sugar. and
spice to taste. Pour the custard over
the apples while hot. bake till the Gus.
tard is done, then set away to cool.
Eat cold.-Western Rural.
Baked Fish: Let the fish lie in
cold water. slightly salted. for IN hour
before cooking it Place the Rridiron
over the dripping pan, with . little
hot water In it; place tho flsh careful.
ly prepared for baking upon the grid.
iron, and bake In . hot oven; Just be-
fore done, butter 1t we'll ON top. and
- - ~
,pends upon the size of the dsh. A
small Ash generally requires halt
hours time; large one fully IN hour.
Make . saucc from the gravy In the
dripping pan; add . tablespoonful Of
catsup another OF some pungent
sauce. and the juice OF . lemon.
Thicken with brown -four moistened
with cold water. Garnish the Ash
with sprigs Of parsley and cu.rant
jelly.-Prairic Farmer.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1895-12-28
W. G. KENTZEL, Editor.

| would weigh perhaps five hundred
pounds, made . tremendous leap and
swirl and landed full length in the boat
his great jaws only two or three inches
from Meals feet as he sat in the stern,
while his tail extended out over the
bow. lie had been shot in the eve and
part OF the brain-pau was torn away,
but his other eye, wide open and blood
shot, CLEANED wickedly at Neal, while
his great jaws worked and snapped con-
vulsively.
Meals first thought was to turn .
back somersault into the lake, but, un-
fortunately, he could not swim, and for
awhile sat still. paralyzed by fright.
The alligator. however, except the
blinking of his eye, the jerky working
of his jaws and the slight waving of his
tail. lay quite and made no effortito at
tack; and Mt last plucking up}cour-
age Neal hegan padding backwards to
shore with the least noise and motion
possible.
In telling Of it Neal says that he was
afraid to draw long breath, and with
every motion Of his paddle he expected
to be seized by those terrible jaws
lying 80 close that the fetid breath
made him sick. After what seemed an
age he felt-the stern Of the boat CRATE
on the sandy shore, then he did tumble
out backwards and scramble up ON the
bank, where he fell in faint.
His plucky wife. seeing that some
thing was wrong, ran down with his
rifle and gave the alligator . finishing
shot, which, in it's death struggles, COM
pletely demolished the boat.
An even more exciting adventure,
and one in which a high degree Of pres
ence Of mind and ready courage were
shown, occurred not far from Mag
giore.
William Morton and party Of friends
were seining and Morton was dragging
one end of q one-hundred-foot net.
When in water about three feet deep a
large alligator padded up. curious, ap-
parently. to see what the commotion
and seine dragging meant.
Morton happened to have stout
stick in his hand and without thinking
of danger struck the alligator hard
whnck across the snout Instantly the
beast darted Mt him, and seizing him by
the right wrist attempted to drag him
into deep water. For second or two
there was pull and a struggle, Morton
yelling for help, and with his feet
planted firmly on the bottom trying to
hold his own. But finding that he was
at . standstill, the gator suddenly b.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1895-12-28
HORSE FLESH AS HUMAN Fooo.


u 8oeUoes
Now that the consumptien Of horse
flesh as food 10 an accomplished fact in
Chicago it Is not uuinterestin2 to In
quire into the methods Of its introduc-
tion ~ substitute for beef and other
meats In Paris. where il is more gen
erally used than elsewhere.
II Il well known to visitors In the
gay capital that broken-down steeda
are openly sold ut the horse market on
the Boulevard d. Italie and slaughtered
at the shambles near by.
Tho animals arc uniformly In GOOD
conditions. fat and sleek. and are main
II horses that have been dissbled in
feet and legs and sre always examined
and passed by the health inspector b.
fore permit for slaughter Is given
When killed these carcasses are ex-
posed for sale covered with an immae-
ulate white cloth. TO be purchased for
certain eatine-houses termed .'Restau-
rants Hippophagi," wherein various
toothsome dishes are prepared and
consumed without any concealment
being made - to the nature of the
tsurants coutend. however. that the
horses near relative. the donkey. makes
. more tender and far less striney
steak than the tanks Of the former
animal.
A cordon-bleu annually regales the
habitues Of the Grand hotel with .
'hippopha9i dinner" somewhat after
the manner Of the game dinners made
historic by John Drake at our own
Grand Pacific hotel.
At this yearly feast the gourmet may
order his donkey or pony 1lesh prepared
in ''bif-tek." fricassee. boiled, broiled
or a-la-mode. ~ appetite dictates. Ger.
tain OF having his taste catered to in
the best style Of French culinary art
But the sentimeutalist who would
fain partake Of this feast must refrain
from visiting the shambles near Boule-
ward d'Italie. else his aenaibilities will
receive tho rudest Of shocks, for the
butchery Of the horse is truly the most
pitiable Of spectacles.
The poor superannuated Or wounded
steed led forth TO meet his death seems
to realize impending doom. He trem-
b,es in every limb. utters cries Of fright
that sound almost human a he turns
his head looking from right to left ap-
pealin9 for liberty. in marked contrast
to the stolid bovine, who Is driven to
his fate with stupid uncoueern that
seems TO brand him as fulAlling the
purpose for which nature intended
him--Chicago Tribune.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1895-12-28
ANOTHER GAS FOUND.


The Dlscoverer OF ArEon Has Obtained Il
from . Mineral.
Lord Rayleigh. who has recently
added to our knowledge another ele-
mcnt in our air, the gas argon. has
made another discovery only less inter-
esting. He has detected in rare min
eral from Norway the subtle gas
known as heliun, which heretofore has
leen supposed to exist only in the sun
Ind in few OF the greatest stars. in
whose spectra it has been discovered.
1t was named helium because it was
regarded as peculiar to the sun. being
one of those few elements indicated in
the solar spectrum. and not at that
time recognized in terrestrial matter.
1t was found in the upper layer Of the
chromosphere, and from its position in
relation to hydrogen it is looked upon
rs one of the lightest of the gases, pos
sibly as light as hydrogen, while some
are inclined to think that it may be. like
c0rOnium, another solar element as
yet not known to exist on carth-even
lighter than that gas The especial
interest residing in the discovery of
helium in the Norwegian mineral is
that it increases the already great
probability that the whole universe is
one in composition. one in law, and
therefore one in origin. Tie New
York Tribnnc's account of the discov-
cry Of Lord Rayleigh says:
''One OF the principles on which stars
are classified is that Of resemblance
and difference between their spectra.
And in such classifcations various at.
tempts have been made to indicate the
stage OF advancement attained by each
particular orb in its life history. DR..
Scheiner. whose book on stellar spec
troscopy is not only the latest but
probably the ablest Of its kind extant,
puts those stars whose spectra contain
the bright lines OF helium and hydro
gen in the first subdivision of the first
class, in point Of evolution. BETA Lyric
and Gamma Cassiopei@ are two such
stars. lie fancies that they have
atmosphere composed of those gases,
enormously extensive rs compared
with those OF other stages. and pos.
sibly hotter than tine gaseous envel.
opes of their older companions. In
view of these theories one can not but
ask how long it is since our world was
in the condition of Beta Lyre, whether
any helium now floats in our outer At
mosphere, how that particular portion
which is now imbedded in the earth'a
crust got there, and other similar ques-
tions"
~ In connection with his new achieve.
meat it Is well to note that, according
70 the Washington correspe~a.aA-of
the Boe1pa Transcript, it is probable thes
Lord Ray3eig will Eet the ton thousand
as. - o2ered by the 6mithsonian
'rnsa1nsios kkoA The uQAelstna fund.
devoted - s'the ins=eaaeeand ~ hhsbQa
Of more exact knowledge Il regard e
the nature and properties p1 atmos-
pheric air in connection with the WDee
fare OF man."-Spring6eld Mass J Re-
vHsy lean
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1895-12-28
THE SENSE OF SMELL.


How IL IL Trained by Men In Dl6ereat
Llncs Ut business.
1t is remarkable how well . perfu.
mcr learns to recognize q scent In
testing = sweet-smelling liquid he
vets the base OF his left thumb with
little of it Then he rubs the place
rapidly with his right hand. The al
collol in which the essence is dissolved
being the moro volatile. is ut once
cvaporatcd aud the substance which
emi.s the. odor remaining he can smell
it in its purity.
OF course. it 10 m easy thing 70
recognize the principal odors that are
in use. but when several sre mixed. rs
is common. his task become more diff
cult Yet . skilled man can not oply
tell you what three or four perfumes
snsos into the composition Of the one
1I bot also. roughly. the
relative osuDogo1Aof each.
It = eesy t. tell SoSeaa&ive amount
q weol and cottoa In = pieSss Of col
EH0sed an4efwsaf VIXEN ron knQw how.
Meu who have made tkasnbj& 8vne.
reality can do thls bysholdiug c1eh
sDsthe light aAd leoking slone e. -
cott0n and wool en- Be -aisl Rguis1Q
by the di6cfesae In fAeiy color. .Whf2
exists. although the snrs1 dye was used
for both. The uptxained eye could
hardly detect the fact that the cloth
had two shades. but the skill that
comes from long practice makes the
thing simple.
There are many men, too. who are
able to tell an English book from m
American book by the smell. The
books printed in England in nearly
every case have . plessantcr odor than
those made in America. The kind oi
paste, ink. paper and binding used has
probably something to do with It
There are ways Of telling who the
publishers Of = given book are besides
looking ut the title page. Somehow
every firm gives . certain characteristic
look to every volume which it issues,
and skilled man. in nine cases out ol
ten. merely by looking at the binding
and one OF the pages. can tell from
whose presses and bindery work
comes This, Of course, applies only
to the larger firms and TO books print
ed comparatively recently.-Pearson'a
Weekly.