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The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-12-26
The Bauk Wrecks.

The suspension of one large bank
the National Bank of Illinois) and
three small ones in Chicago and that
of big one 1.-THE Bonk OF Minnesota
and little one in ST. Paul will create
some uneasiness in. financial and bus
mess circles throughout the country,
but the situation need not arouse
alarm. The ''run" in Chiago on an
other bank is just what might be ex-
pected under the circumstances. Still
this ended after few hours duration.
Probably good deal of money will
be temporarily withdrawn from St.
Paul banks, too, but there is no pres
ent reason to suppose that further Sc
rious damage will be done.
OF course, the prolonged period of
depression is the primary cause of
these wrecks, but the weakness which
this condition brought was materi-
ally intensified in the case OF the first
and largest of these failures, that of
the Illinois National, by long contin-
ued bad management on the part of
its officers. 1t is hardly necessary to
say that this might be fatal to a bank
or any other sort of business insti-
tuition in the best of times. A very
large part of the business mortality
of ordinary years is due to this very
cause. Uuhappily some of the Illi-
nois Nationals irregularities seem to
have evaded the bank examiner at the
time of his inspection of its accounts,
which raises a suspicion that bank
examinations do not always examine.
But there is nothing in these wrecks
which warrants any serious distrust.
Undoubtedly the great majority of the
banks in Chicago and ST. Paul are
solid and safe, and nothing would
endanger them except a run" on
them by depositors, a stupidity which
is decidedly improbable. Outside of
those two points no fear will be felt.
Two thirgs, however, should be in
sisted upon by the people-that this
lsenseless and mischievous war talk in
and out OF Congress be stopped inn
mediately, and that the new Congress
be called in session to pass a tariff
and revenue Sill aud end the indus
trial uncertainty at the earliest pos
sible dag Ieenwhile il il the duty
OF the pabiic to be ealsn and look on
fthe bright side oi things = Gloae-
Democrat.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-12-26
How to Employ the Unemployed.

The ST. Louis Star very sensibls
says this is good time of the yea,
for manufacturers and other business
enterprises to scan their pay rolls and
to make judicious changes.
1t is q well-established fact that per-
sons are employed in this and other
large Cries that should give way tc
the unemployed.
Many young ladies of well-tO-do
people are employed when they do not
need the money they earn. Their
fathers are amply supplied with this
worlds goods to take care OF their
daughters.
Many married woman. whose hus-
bands have sufficient to take care OF
them. are earning handsome salaries.
1t is unfair 10 those deserving girls
VINO are seeking work to put them in
competition with those who do not in
reality need employment
Many girlswhose wautsare supplied
1T home present such good address and
appearance Jn shat account that girls
.7ho must earn al they have cannot
get positions, no matter what their
merits are.
No better charity ean 6e dispensed
by the business men than 6y revising
taeir list o. employees and putting IL
Tie place OF such who do not need to
work, those who do.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-12-26
HELPED TO MAKE HISTORY.
Death of SIias ID. Hudson, Friend OF
Lincoln, Greedy and Grant.

Death OF S1ias ID. HUDSON, trieno oi
Lincoln, Greedy and Grant.
BURLINGTON, To-, Dec. 20.-Late
last night there passed away from
life in Burlington a man whose name
will be recorded with those of Horace
Greedy, George D. Prentice. Abraham
Lincoln and Ulysses Grant. Silas
D. Hudson is his name, and his his
tory's record shows for him a promi-
nence in the Laffairs of our country
seldom accorded to one of so quiet
and unobtrusiye a nature.
Mr.. Hudson was 80 years OF age
when he died, Hecame to Burlington
in 1889. He was an ardent Whig, and
practically organized that party in
the Territory OF Iowa. He was Clerk
to the Territorial Legislature that met
in Burlington, and later Chief Clerk
to .he House under the State organi-
zatiou. He wrote the charter sof Bur.
lington, and drafted the ordinances
under which the city government was
conducted for space Of twenty years.
He served in 1855 and 1856 fas Mayor
of the city. During all these years he
co-operased with Horace Greely,
editor of the New York Tribune, y
and George d. Prentice, editor of the
Louisville journal, contributing for
a space of twenty years to their col
umns, and abort 1860, leading public
thought and attention to Abraham
Lincoln, he arranged with Horace
Greedy to have Lincoln 60 to New
York, where the liberator made the
great speech which practically Voc
for dim the presidential nomination.
Lincoln's nomination and election,
and denomination and reelection,
were largely contributed to by Silas
Hpdson's voice and pen, and his init
macy with him ended only with the
Iatter's. .msrtyrdom.
Mr.. Hudson was equally intimate
with Ulysses S. Grant, who was his
first cousin, and with whom he had
passed several of his boyhood years,
each having, at different periods,
been member of the household OF
the other. During the war of the re-
bellion he spent much time with Grant
on the field, at one time, near Vicls-
burg, narrowly escaping death from
the shots of some rebel lsharpshooters-
! In March, 1869, he was appointed by
President Grant to be United States
Minister to the Central American
States, and his services as diploma,
were of the highest utility to this Gov
ernment. In 1873 he resigned and
returned to his home in this city,
where he lived a quiet life till his
death, now chronicled. He was twice
married. His second wife still sur
wives him, with one son, Walter w.
Hudson.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-12-26
Peculiarly of Clocks.

There is one disadvantage about
very tall buildings which is just now
being noticed by the occupants. 1t is
perhaps a small disadvantage, but
still is worth considering, as it in
wolves some annoyance to those who
have not made provision for it.
The trouble referred to is the stop
ping of pendulum clocks by the vibra-
ton of the buildings. Many pendu-
lum clock that has kept accurate time
for years in old-fashioned low struct-
ures has refused to run at all when
moved into some one of the new tall
steel-framed buildings in the lower
part of the city On the lower floors
of the buildings the clocks run fairly
we'll, but when higher up in the build
ings they become more whimsical. and
on the top floors will not run at all.
Mr.. Dunn. OF the Weather Bureau,
has a fine pendulum cIoci; in the tower
of the Manhattan Life buildidg, which
has not done au honest days work
since the Weather Bureau has moved
into the new Offices. It has stopped SO
often that it no longer TO be relied up
on. The pendulum swings continually,
but only from the vibration Of The
building, as the clock has not been
wound up for weeks. The only reliei
is in replacing the pendulum clocks
with others that have balance wheels.
New York Times.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-12-26
Monument to Women of the War.

WASHINGTON, D. c., Dec. D.
Messers. Atwell, Noble and Brown,
introducing. themselves asartists from
New York, and agents for the
Women's Monument Association, of
that city, called upon the eCommission-
ers yesterday and announced that
they were here looking for a site upon
which to build monument to cost
So 900, 900, as a memorial to the
women who made sacrifices during
the civil war. They showed a photo
gcaph of pthe monument which they
proposed to build upon a site ten
acres square. The Commissioners
had an appointment with them, but
were compelled to break it TO appear
before the House Appropriations Com
mittee. 1t appears that the three men
want the Commissioners to settle with
them upon a suitable reservation. and
then they propose, they said, to pre-
sent a bill to Congress to secure the
property. The proportions of the
scheme they outlined are immense. In
fact. if the monument they have de-
signed is built it will be second only
to the Washington monument. AL
though the Commissioners said after
the gentlemen had gone that they did
not know their full names. or exactly
what association they represent. they
understood that the monument pro-
posed is to be built by subscription
from various woEaen's' organizations.
The gentlemen mentioned that they
were authorized to purchase a site. il
one could noU be secured from the
Cgypr77Trppt
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-12-26
EXIT OF THE 2oo-oENT DOLLAR

Opinion of n Democratic Paper OF
That Great Political Fake.
The result of the election has knock
ed Mr.. Bryan's gabble about the 2OOc
dollar into cooked hat. 1t was
shown on every stump OF the Union
during the campaign, by quotations
of the prices of commodities during
the past twenty-five years that no such
appreciation of gold had taken place.
But all in vain. Mr.. Bryan had an
nounced it as q fact, and if the angel
from heaven had come forth aud ex-
posed the falsehood Bryan's dupes
would have still stuck to it The re-
suit of the election has exposed the
fraud. and he who still believes it
must be too big a fool to recognize
the experience of his own eyes.
Gold is rapidly coming out of its
hiding; in fact, it is becoming a drug
on the market, and it now stands on
precisely the same basis as the silver
or greenback dollar. Amy working
man or business man who prefers his
wages or his pay in gold can get it
and be welcome to it. Just now We
have, for the time being at least, ig-
nored and discredited Mr.. Bryan's
financial ideas and system, and re-
adopt that of Cleveland and Carlisle,
and the consequence is that every
American dollar is on Il party each
with the other. We have no aristo-
cratic dollar and no paper dollar.
Each and every American dollar rep
resents SO much honest labor or so
much of a commodity ofa given value.
The poor mans wife can visit the
bargain counters and her silver dol
lar or her greenback dollar will be
worth just as much and bring just as
much as the gold dollar of The richest
lady in the land.
Mr.. Bryan thought the gold dollar
was too good, and he set up the gos-
pei of cheap money to bamboozle the
farmers and the workingmen. Now.
if any farmer or workingman wants
cheap money; if he wants poor money;
if he wants money for his wages that
will buy less for himself and wife and
little darlings than the gold dollar,
he can't get it in this great and free
country, where all honest men are on
a parity, as ali honest dollars are on
a parity. If ne wants money such as
Mr.. Bryan has sought to produce for
him, hemust import it from Mexico or
some other mosquito-bitten country
of South America, inhabited by a
few men of immense wealth together
with half-naked poems and paupers.
The American workingman wants
money just as good as that of the
American banker, ard under the finan-
cial policy OF Cleveland and Carlisle
and the true Democratic theory of
finance that is what he now gets.
New Orleans States.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-12-26
Popular Election of Senators.

There are grave suspicious that
senator's are not always elected as a
result Of popular choice, but rather
by methods produced only by fat
pocketbook. In other words, the
charge is frequently made that seats
in the senate are sometimes purchased
outright Were candidates for the
senate voted for as are our Cover
nors and other State officers we should
be very much nearer arriving at a
popular choice. The independent
voter with a mind of his own holds a
vast power these days. H'a nomina-
tion is made by fraud or by a rank
display of bossism he resents it at the
polls .-Phila delphia Inquirer.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-12-26

From = Lester written by Rev. j.
Geudanmau, OF DimUnGale, Mich. we
are permitted 10 make the extract: -
have 10 hesitation in recommending
DR.. Kings New Discovery. as ,he re
suits were almost marvellous III the
case OF ny wife. while ] was pastor
Of The Baptist Church ri Rives unc-
ton she was brought down with
Pneumonia succeeding La Grippe.
Terrible paroXysins ofcoughing would
last hours with little interruption and
it seemed as if she could not survive
them. \ friend recommended DR..
Kings New Discovery: it was quick in
its work and highly satisfactory in
results. . Trial bottles free at w c..
Haman's drug store. Regular size
soc and s1.00.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-12-26
AN OLD MAN GAN LOVE
Just as Hard as a Young One, Says
John Sander.

lust as Hard as q ouDS One, SHts
John Sander.
"Some people think that an old man
can never fall in love, but don't you
believe it. know better"
This is what John h. Sander, OF
Cape Girardeau, Mo-, said to "St.
Louis STAR man this morning. He
had lust taken out a license to marry
Mrs. Maria Cross, of 1907 North Sixth
street. Mr.. Sander gave his age as
sixty-eight and Mrs. Cross is fifty
four. After the license was procured,
Mr.. Sander signed deed, giving his
wife-to-be enough property to make
her independent for the rest of her
life. The wedding will take place at
ST. Johns Catholic Church ats O'Clock
this afternoon.
Mr.. Sanders friends in Cape Cir
ardeau will be very greatly surprised
when the happy bride and groom ar
rive there tomorrow. He says he
thinks his family knows something OF
his approaching nuptials, but every
one else is in ignorance.
81 don't like to go back SO soon,
said Mrs. Cross. 81 knowthat all our
friends will give US the biggest chari-
vari that has been in Cape Girar-
deau for years. There are lots OF tin
horns left since the election, and they
will all be in use the night we get
home.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-12-26
Bucklen's Arnica SaIve.

The best salvein the world for cuts,
bruises, sores. ulcers, salt rheum.
fever sores, letter. chapped hands,
chilblains, corns, ard all skin erup
tins, and positively cures piles, or no
pay required. 1t is guaranteed to give
perfect satisfaction or money refunded
Price p cents per box. For sale
". G. Haman's.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-12-26

aEaulziua are the sport Of the eLe-
msrts, no matter how the weather
goes. For instance. here IS a mid
spell IN midwinter, causing coal prices
to grow shaky. Yet while the house
holder hugs himself ut the thought he
cannot forbcar 20 trernbie at The in
evitable turn which the iceman will
give to the screws next summer when
they declare that the December mild
ness caused short crop.-Milwankee
Wisconsin.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-12-26
Record Established by Young Tatum
and His Bride.

Married at II minutes before II on
Dee. Il ana parted in II hours. with
Ill. III subseqUentsightsi the record
established 5y young Thos. 9. Tatum
and younger Alma G. Coakley. who
ran away to Clayton yesterday. Mrs.
CoaEley telephoaed about it ut II
O'Clock. II minutes too late, and the
young couple reaehed the home Of
Talum's married sister at IL minutes
to T..
rhsy had dinner aud scme hours
later separated, The bride going hogle
20 wait until her boy husband gets a
Job. When he does. theparents OF the
twain viii set them up in housekeep-
ing.
Young Tatum is . son OF Join a.
Taturn, weigher of mails. The bride
is niece ofStation Master Jere Coax
ley, OF Union station, and lives AT
Jackson, Mo.-Post-D Dispatch.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-12-26
Notice 10 Il ockhaiaers.

Notica is hereby given thai the an
nual election of seven Directors Of
the FIRST National Bank OF Cape Gir-
ardeau, viii be held az the oifice Of the
bank the second Thosday in January s
1897. Polls open from 10 .. IN. to 9
p. M. L. s. JOSEPH, Cashier
Cape Girardeau, Mo-, Dec-.le, 1856. s
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-12-26
POWELL'S EXPERIMENTS,
The Missouri Doctor Fills Himself
With Disease Germs.

The Missouri Doctor Fills dlmsell
With Disease Germs.
Los ANGELES, Cal, Dec. 22.-Dr.
Thos. Powell of Missouri made some
remarkable experiments before party
of directors in order to prove the ef-
ficacy OF his remedy for certain dis
eases. He alarmed some of the physi-
clans present by injecting bacillus tu-
berculosis and bacilli diphtheria into
himself, appearing to take them with
out evil effect. He also injected some
bacteria into guinea pigs, which
promptly died. He says he will inject
sputum from a woman dying from con-
sumption into himself.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-12-26
nn,lnrLl,s snow I.fneme1,t

If yos nave q terrible pain In the
small OF the back, get. a bottle 9;
Snow Linemeni. It viii positively
cure ii and ct once. Try IT. and rec
omaHd Il TO yoar friends. Sold at
Wilson's drug store.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-12-26
aailnrl.s uars:.oI1na srrnn.

Is the best known remedy for Con-
sumption. Coughs, Colds and all
Throat. and Chest troubles. Every
bottle is guaranteed II is the best
remedy for children. Sold at Will
son; s drug store
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-12-26
KILLED AHAN.
So
Fred Heinberg Held for
Murder.
He Killed a Man In ST. Louis and
4 then Surrendered Himself TO the
0d3cers

John Heinberg, of the firmof Flentge
Il Heinberg of this city received q
telegram from st. Louis this Wednes-
day morning which read: Your
brother Fred killed a man this morn
ing" Mr.. Heinberg took the HIS
train for St Louis. He had ne par.
ticulars of the killing, more than was
given in the telegram and he went up
to learn heE the killing happeusd and
to assist his brother in giving bond.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-12-26
Thesouestion OF C.ban Recognition

1 Question OF Caban RecOgn1tion-
1r his contention that the power to
rsoegnize the independence of new
nation rests with theExecutive exclus-
lively, Secretary Slney seems to stand
,on solid ground All the precedenas-
or NEARLY all of than, which have a
rbsaring on this question, appear to
sustain his view The Secretary Lacks
tact, perhaps, in his way of putting
ths Administrations position on this
matter. Congressman, that is to say,
may take offense atsais Haunting OF the
presidential veto IN their faces on a
tCaestion which is jEst coming before
tSaem. Still, it is sNell for Congress
and the country te know beforehand
Fahe precise attitude which the Presi-
dent will take On rthis issue. Tbsse is
Enot the faintest eseom for doubt that
Ftlne Secretary gsaioes the Presidents
r1iew, and that the Batter will maintain
kkis position ia the face of all the pres
Esure which Congssss may bring against
shim.
| What will Congress do in this eS-
Eigency? Probably many of its MEM
Fisaers will be dispoeed to resent what
they may consider the Executives at
tempt to coeroe the Legislature, and
thus 70 rush the recognition resoFa-
ltions through moth branches nm
nediately. Undoubtedly, however,
they will fail in this purpose The
resolutions may possibly 60 through
the Senate before the holiday recess,
but the chances are decidedly, over
Nxhelmingly against that presumption.
They will be discussed with a deliber-
kation commensurate with their lmpor-
lance, and when the recess is ended
Everybody will be in calmer mood.
and the respective preregatives and
Functions of President and Congress
ia matters of this sert will be under
stood. In any case several weeks will
p2ss before the resolutions go to the
President, if they 'ever go to him at
aN
This is we'll. These is no need for
haste in this matter. Indeed, in the
settlement of an issEe on which war
may depend there is an imperative
need for intelligent deliberation and a
due weighing of the consequences of
words and acts. NobOdy doubts that
the public sentiment of the United
States is in favor ofCnba inner strug-
gle. Spain's expulsion from the is
land by the Cubans would cause re-
joieings all over this eedntry, recall
ing, in some degree at least, those
seen in the Northern States on the sur
render of Lee. Still, the United States
has some obligations which would be
violated by precipitate action such as
the Cameron resolutions propose. a
decent regard for international usages
constrains us to withhold the recognl-
ton of independence to the insurg-
ents until they have some semblance
of a civil government TO treat with,
and whiee is capable of enforcing its
DEGREES in tie territory over which its
agents claim sway. SO far as the Ad-
minisaation has been able &c learn,
the Cubans have no such government
at presents nor have they had any Yet.
Possibly they may have one within a
few weeks or months. When they get
one the United States viii quickly
learn ths fact and then recognition
talk will BE tinalE E.--Globe-DeInO
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-12-26
HE "GuEssED NOT"
Prot. Vandfver Hardly Thinks He
VIII BE Bounced.

Prot. Vandfver Hardly Thinks He
VIII BE Bounced.
CAPE GIRARDEAG, Mo-, Dec. ls.-
A correspondent of the Post-Dispatch
called on Prof. Vandiver this evening
and showed him the dispatch from
Washington announcing that the Re-
publicans in the Board of Regents had
planned to oast him from his present
position as president of the school,
because he had been elected to Con-
gress, the specific charge being that
he had neglected school duties while
engaged in the campaign.
The professor only smiled and said
he guessed not" When asked If he
had heard of the matter beforehe said:
'Yes, understand that tive members of
the board have filed complaint against
me and will reply to it at the proper
6lae ard place. At present l will only
say that ] do not think this narrow
and partisan spirit controls a major
ity of the board and expect to re-
main IN charge of the Normal School
until the 4th of March. unless choose
to resign earlier"
Der Nordstern. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1874-1931, 1896-11-12
Nu bic iaumielisen 3abler.

Sm Qauie Der leBten Monate u~nterSo'
gen mir unS Der Wtlbe, allen u~nieren Se'
fern, Die mebr ais orei Sabre nit Der
3ablln9 oeS ,Woroliern" im Hldltanoe
limb, Rebmungen fiir Die uns Sutommen'
Den Setr69e su;uIenoen NIT Der ernltllben
Wabnung, ibren 0erphibtun9en gegen
uns balo mo9liblt nabSutommen. Ser'
artise IuSitdnbe belaufen iib in Die
3auienoe bon Dollars troB aller Wab'
nungen. gSir piiIen, Dab Die Utel'ten,
Die ms iiber orei Sabre lhuloen, wenn
aud nibt Den gonieu Setro9, 10 bod Ell
nen Sbeil oauon be,ablen fonnen, wenn
lie ernitlit mollen. Ton pielen wuroe
oieier quite Wille iogar ~ Yopier ge'
broht nit einem an inns er9angenen DE
iube, nod 8eoulo bis nab Der Grnte 81
| iiben, m6breno Nnoere iib aber nm Die
ibnen su9eionoten Hebnuneen anihel'
neno nibt tiimnVrten, wenigItens lieben
lie bis ieBt aui uniere Warnun9 nibts
pon lid boren gnoere aber giu9en nod
meiter, lnoem lie, nahoem ihuen Die Heh'
nun9 iu9e9onoeu NOR, uns ourb Der
Yoitmeilter ein'ob wi'en lteBer, oaB IL
ibre 3eitun9 Don Der Yoitoiice obslneb
men niht ierner be.iebten. Der Serlub
iib aui bieie Weiie ieiner Sbulo entbe
ben ,i pollen, 1T einfob elm ihwinoelbaf
ter uno iolte mau einen lol6en einen
Seutiben nidt ;umutben. 6egen Die leB
tere wie Die j%ueitleBtere SloI'e Don Wteh
iben weroeu mir obne Grbarmen uertab
rem uuo iollte oieie lebte gSarnin9 bel ib
nen nlhtS iruhten, peroen oieielben oll
geieblibem gSege SIR 3ablung 9e,luun
gen weroen, woourb ben GinSelnen mie
Der neue uno u%nliebiome Soften erpab
len. Seit l%leberuabme oeS ~WoroItern
iino mir 0emib teinem 0eier ourb Dab
munoen uno 3ablun0s Auiioroerungel
sur Gait geialen; mir baben groBe @e
bulb geiibt uno unS nit Seriprehunae,
aller Nrt abipeiben lalIen-mas nn'er @t
itait aber peiter niht mebr uertra9e
fam. Jeoer, Der iih oemuab 3eieBlit
llnannebmlitteiten eriparen mill, thu
leBt feline Nfibt. auh lene Seier, 81
unS nm NuSitauo boten, mo caran erin
merit, oob Die pon ibnen erbetene Jrit at
9elaufen 1T, uno mir oih pom lbnen VI
~iillluna hires Seriprebens erwarten, wlt
ori0eniollS mir audi gegen lie ern'ter
Saiten %oufipannen mll'ien. Nuh oiel
iino allen Grnites eriuht, jeBt lhre Efid
III tbun, oamit aud mir Der unlrigen mad
tcmmen tonnen.
Die Woroitern Fubliibine 50.