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The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-10-31
The Letter Came, But Two Late.

Mrs. Kate Bascom, of Clinton, killed
herself and her four-year-old son.
George, at a clearinghouse in Kansas
City, by closing the door and windows
of the room and turning on the gas.
Mrs. Bascom went to the rooming
house several days before without
money, but said that she expected
money by every mail from her husband
at Clinton. Day after day passed, and
h money did not come, and she be-
came SO respondent that she resolved
to kill herself and her son.
The letter containing the money
came at last, but when the lodging
house keeper went to Mrs. Bascom's
room with it she found mother and son
lead,
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-10-31
MISSOURI A NEWS.
A Cure for Texas Fever.

In connection with the state board
OF agriculture the Missouri state uni.
versity experiment station has been
conducting some extended experiments
with the Texas fever. DIR. Connoway
has been signally successfulin the max
ing of an antitoxin from the serum of
infected cattle. This is injected into
the native cattle, thus immunizing
them from the ~contagion. A COW was
treated thus some thirty-five days
since, then turned into a lot and GOV.
cred with Texas ticks. She is still
alive, healthy and gaining flesh. Other
cattle thus exposed have contracted
the disease within IL days, and usually
die within Is. A full report of the ex-
pertinent is now being prepared.
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,cnuRcn DIRECTORY.

First Presbyterian Church, on Frederick 81
between New and Market streets, services
II a. m. and s p. m. Pastor. Rev. A. M. Fraser
Second Presbyterian church corner Freder
lex and Lewis streets. Services at II a. m
and 8. Pastor. Rev. VIM. Cumming.
Emmanuel Episcopal Church, worship on
West Frederick st. Services at IL a. m., and
p. M, Rector. Rev. R. G. Jett.
Trinity Episcopal church, Main street, be-
tween Lewis and Church streets. Services at
II a. M, and p. m. Rector, Rev. W. Q. Hull
linen sF&
United Brethren chrfel, Lewis street. be
tween Main and johnson streets. Services at
II a. m and p. m. Pastor, Rev. ]. D DON
ovan.
Methodist church, Lewis street, between
Main and Frederick streets Services at II a
m. and p. m. Pastor, Rev. J. H. Boyd, d. d
Christ Evangelical Lutheran church Lew
is street, between Main and Frederick streets
Services at II a. m. and 8 p. m. Pastor. Rev.
H. T. Shealy.
Baptist church, corner Main and W siing
ton streets. Services at II a. m. and p. m
Pastor, Rev. NJ. L. Wood.
st. Francis Roman Catholic, North Augusts
street, Mass at and 1890 a. m. vespers and
benediction Of Most Blessed Sacrament ut
p. M. Pastor, Rev. Father McVerry
Young Mems Christian Association corner
Main and Water streets. Services at D. m.
Sunday.
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bring her back to health and strength.
Most women do not understand their own
bodies, OF the things that make them well
or sick. The most frequent cause of sick
ness in women is the cause last looked for.
A women will go to doctor when she ha7
severe cold, OF some acute digestive dis.
turbance, but she hesitates and procrasti-
mates when the trouble is with the distinctly
feminine organism And vet the latter IS
Infinitely more serious 1t is the most seri-
Gus sickness that any woman can have. It
Is the most dreadful the most dangerous.
Its consequences are always serious, and
serious right at the beginning because il is
debi1itating. 1t saps the life and strength
and works on the nerves to such IN extent
that the whole body is disturbed. Appetite
leaves, the color goes from the face and
hollows sink into the cheeks. Irritability
succeeds good temper and fretfulness takes
he place of contentment. Little by little
life becomes more and more miserable.
The woman is killing herself with neglect
just as surely as if she were taking deadly
poison. Perhaps her husband cannot per-
suade her to 60 to her doctor, because she
naturally breads the inevitable examina-
dons and "1ocal treatments He can per-
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for the general public are invited to send
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only and receive a copy of DR.. Pierce's
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Medical Association. Buffalo, N. Y.
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The Problem OF Supplying BattIeshIps
With Coal In War Times.

The Problem OF Supplying BattHeships
With Coal In War Times.
A few years ago, to the astonishment
of many people, Admiral Sir Michael
Culme-Seymour demonstrated the pos-
sibility, provided the conditions OF
weather and sea be not especially unfa-
vorable, of coaling battleships in mid
Atlantic. Trouble, anxiety and a certain
amount of risk are involved, but all
these disadvantages might be notably
lessened if instead Of employing ordinary
tramp colliers Of small tonnage we built
class of '4fleet colliers'' specially de-
signed for the service Of the navy in war
time, and il attached to them we main
tanned corps OF officers and men all
specialists in the arts and mystery of
coaling ships.
The features desirable in such vessel
are great coal carrying capacity, high
speed, well protected stern, a moder-
ate1y heavy gun mounted as stern
chaser and all the latest and best appi-
ances to facilitate rapid coaling from
her. No navy as yet possesses vessel OF
the sort. Her value and usefulness
would, nevertheless, be enormous. For
in most seas a greater proportion Of
moderate than rough weather is en-
countered. In many seas there are is
lands or rocks the lee afforded by which
might be utilized for coaling purposes if
only colliers happened to be upon the
spot, and if it were standing rule in
any squadron to which effect golfers"
were attached that ships should I'll up
with coal at every possible opportunity,
even if at the moment they did not ac-
tually need it, the ability of our vessels
to operate effectively at long distances
from their regular bases would be enor-
mously furthered.
As for the effect collier herself,
when cruising with fleet she would
have no difficulty i'll keeping up with it,
and could therefore be protected by it,
and when detached her speed-22 or %
knots-would enable her to outstrip all
but the very fastest of the enemy S
cruisers. Her armored stern would
shield her from the shells even Of them,
and her heavy stern chaser would enable
her to return at least as good as might
be sent after her by her fee. She might
be built to carry 5000 or 10, 600 tons Of
coal in addition to supplies fer herself
II opportunity offered, she might dis
| charge her cargo at some temporary
! base and return hero fer more She
would be neither an impeachment nor an
anxiety to any fleet to which she might
be attacked, but rather a source of com
fort and security, ard in The event Ct q
fatal accident occurring to che cf The
! other vessels in company shc could re.
ceive the homeless crew, and even wait
about in the vicinity Of the catastrophe
for time without delaying her corsorts
for an instant. So many advantages, in.
deed, would result, especially in war
| time, from the employee -tof vessels
Of this nature that it is astonishing that
! nothing of the kind has up to the pres
ent been constructed. It is not too nucl
| to say that the most serious p1e6ccrpa
| tion Of the modern admiral during &C
tive operations is the question Of Goa
sunnlies Nineteenth Century
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1896-06-03
Perfumed Flannel.

This is the latest fad with the wom-
en- of the smart set. In appearance it
resembles ordinary scarlet flannel Of a
fairly good quality. lis prepared by
some secret process known only to the
manufacturer, SO that it emits deli
cious perfume, a small piece serving to
scent every article in a bureau drawer.
tits sold by the yard, but is only to be
had OF the man who makes it and who
is in Paris, but will forward it by mail
The perfume is said to be far more en-
during than any Of the sachets common
" in use.-New York World.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1896-06-03
DIRECTORY OF LODGES.
MASONIC LODGE.

Staunton Lodge No. 49, A. F. and A. NJ, meets
every second and last Friday night in each
month, in Masonic Temple, Main street. Jas.
M. Lickliter,W. M; B. A. Eskridge, Sec'y.
UNION ROYAL ARCH CHAPTER.
No. 2, meet third Friday in every month, in
Masonic Temple, on Main street. W. W. Nc
Guf1n. High Priest A. A. Eskridge, Sec'y.
ODD FELLOWS LODGE;
Staunton Lodge, No. As, I. o. O. F. meets
cry Thursday night in Odd Fellows Hall, owe
Wayt's drug store, on Main street. John, &
Fretwen Noble Grand; c. A. Grafton, Sec
KNIGHTS OF HONOR LODGE.
StauDton Lodge. No. 756, Kr .Shts of Honor
meets every first as,d third Tuesday in each
month, in Pythian Hall, Main street. W. L.
Olivier, Dictator; W. A. Burnett, Recorder.
MOUNTAIN CITY LODGE.
No. l16, 1. o. G. T., meets every Friday night
in their lodge room over Wayt's drug store on
Main street. A. s. woodhouse, Chief Templar
F. B. Kennedy, Sec'y.
DISTRICT LODGE.
No. q, 1. 0. G. T.. meets every three months
G. c. Shipplett, D. G. T.; 8. II. Bausermap
District Secretary
ROYAL ARCANUM.
Augusta Council, No. 400, Royal Arcanum
meets every second and fourth Tuesday in the
month, at Pythian Hail, Main street. W. W
Robertson, Regent; Jos. B. Woodward, Sec
retary.
SONS OF TEMPERANCE
Charity Division, M. A., Sons of Temperance
meets every Monday night at Odd Fellows
all. W. A. Rapp, Worthy Patriarch; John
B. Cofrelt sec'y.
UNIFORMED RANK, KNIGHTS OF
PYTHIAS.
E. B. Stuart Division, No. 10, meets second
and fourth Mondays each month at Pythian
Hall. Sir Knight Captain, F. B. Berkley;H
Knight Recorder, s. II. Rosenbaum.
KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAs.
Valley Lodge, No. Is, K. of p, meets every
Monday night at Castle Hall, on West Main
street, over DIR. Wayt's drug store. G. 7. Ham
mond, Chancellor Commander; Albes
Keeper Of Records and Seal.
KNIGHT TEMPIARs.
Staunton Commandery, No. 8, knights Tenn
plar, meets first Friday night In every month
In Masonic Temple, on Main street. W. B.
McChesney, Eminent Commander; A. A. e T.
ridge, Recorder.
ONEIDA TRIBE. NO. SO, 1. o. r. NJ.
Meets in their wigwam, in valz Building
every Wednesday at Sth run 30th breath
setting of the sun. ]. D. Anthony, sacher-
James W. Blackburn, chief OF records. III
visiting brothers welcome.
| AMERICAN LEGION OF HONOR.
| Valley Council No. 1856 meets on the first and
third Mondays in each month. Commando
A. S. Woodhouse; secretary, DR.. J. M. Hange
collector. Isaac G. Morton. Jr.
| CATHOLIC HIBERNIAN BENIFICAL
SOCIETY.
| 1 Meets first Sunday In every month in tbelr
! hall on the church lot. NJ. T. B presf-
dent; ]. j. Kilgalen, first vice-president; j. ,
Murphy, second vice epresident; D.J. O'Connell
recording secretary.
'STONEwALL" BRIGADE BAND.
Band meets every Monday and Thursday
orchestra, every Wednesday, at s p. M, in City
Hall. Mr.. J. M. Brereton, director
J. A. Armentrout. president. and G. Harr,
Haines, secretary.
Il CHAMBER OF COMMERCE..
q Monthly meetings, Fourth Tuesday In tn
month at7:50o o'clock. Room n City Hal bull
/ 6 IaacWifa, PRECEDENT; J. Q. Shields.
Il T
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HochspannunSsakkum
The Electrical World wrestles with
the above German compound word in
the following festive fashion:
The above is another little German
gem we notice in a contemporary. To
solve it, it must be taken in INSTALL
ments; the real beginning is near the
end, and the real end is the beginning,
but this rule is not followed strictly,
for, if it were, it might be more con-
venient to read it by means of mirror.
Begin near the end, then start again
near the middle, and continue this oscil-
lating process until all the letters and
syllables have been interpreted, being
careful to get the right combination.
The interesting part Of the solution is
to find the correct separation between
the individual words, which are not
separated by hyphens, presumably to
save trouble Gin writing, not in read
ing). For instance, this word has moth
ing to do with the following, although
they form parts of it: Ochs German
for ox), span, pan, SAX, oren, (German
for ears) rem (running), bat, batter or
Erie, although these words taken to-
gether might suggest an interesting lit
tie story. The correct solution is as fol
lows: A battery Of accumulators whose
voltage is high"
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NoRAn M'GiLL.

Tie ways Of q woman,
Solomon said,
Would puzzle a wise man
Alive CT Gt ad.
An, faith. I'm thinkin
He'd s2y SO still
If ever he'd met with
Norah McGill.
The wilcs OF a woman.
Antony said.
We're past believin
An better fed.
An, faith. I'm thinkin
He'd say SO still
II ever he'd looked on
Norah McGiH.
The word of woman,
Malachi said,
Was as easy snapt
As spiders thread.
An, faith, I'm thinkin
He'd say so still
If ever he'd talked with
Norah McGill.
=
An yet there's nothin
That can compare
With the blue Of her eyes
And the black of her hair.
An, faith, I'm thinkin
She likes me still
The while she's plaguin me
Norah McGill.
Lena Gyles in Temple Bar
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The man who
- s.i1

The man who
stands idly by and
sees the life fading
out of his wi6's
face, sees her health
going, sees her BE-
co ming old and
faded and wrinkled
when she should
still be in the perfect
enjoyment Of Wig.
orous, useful health,
is either less than Z
man or else does not
know of the one
remedy which will
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1896-06-03

The wood rat of the western slopes OF
the Cascade range is curious creature
that loves to steal SO we'll that it is
known to many as the camp robber. 1t
carries off anything it can lay its lips
to, and is besides jolly. reckless fel-
low. It does things which rodents are
not given to doing.
Forest and Stream tells OF some OF its
favorite spoils It will take knives,
forks and tin plates, cartridges, cups
and ANYTHING it can handle in the line
of clothing, towels or gun rags, which
make soft Innings for its nest. 1t is re-
lated how pair of these rats staked OH
a claim Oh tel Of a hunters camp stove
and put ND the most curious rat house
arvtody ever heard cf. About 200 yards
away was railroad shanty, where the
section men kept their supplies, and
among otber things was keg OF rail
read spikes such as are used to faster
the rails to the ties. The rats took some
spikes to their claim, built up an lror
wall and lined the interior with sof'
stuff. It is curious fact that all thu
points of the spikes were directed out
ward, and they were laid with grea
regularity and firnnness.
The habits Of the rat are study 10
naturalist, and it makes things SO u
,erestine tor the natiyesit that they ka
II on sight
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1896-06-03
HOW DUFFY STOLE a JAIL.
It Was . Box Car, and He Coupled It to
Way Freight.

It Was . Box Car, and He Coupled It to
Way Freight.
This is the narrative Of Duffy's theft
of Jail and the prisoners therein. Mr..
Duffy, from the core of the nations in
tellect balloonist, manfish, tourist and
orator, had found a friend who had in
dulged him to the extent Of the follow
ing items, to wit: Three free drinks, one
supper, one cigar This story was his
payment therefor. He unbuttoned his
vest, for he had consumed a large, thick
steak, two dishes Of potatoes, two plates
of bread, two cups Of coffee, three large,
heavy flannel cakes and a glass Of milk.
'sThrue oratory an me gintlemanly
instincts often lead me into pleasant
fields an the company of conganial COM
panions," he began. II oncet commit
ted most shameful larceny in the state
Of Indianny. Twas tourin with friend
an we had journeyed as far as Jay coun-
ty. Now, ye can't tell me that the peo-
pie Of county with such a name can
cope with q set Of brains from Boston.
We had reached the town Of Portland.
Me friend committed the indiscretion
Of becomin hungry an was arrested. I
brought me intillict to bear upon the
sitooation an kept well fed an free.
CHOW, Portland was the county safe,
an the jail had recently been BURNED to
the ground. The sheriff therefore KEEP
his prisoners in box car down on the
~cSI.oo5 kJr,,ooI, tho oov,n<, |o;v, 1ooro1
by a conservative company, the which
didn't want the prisoners beatin their
way on its trains. Me friend was dump
ed into this jail. Me an me intillict
staid on the outside.
ST agitated me thinker all day an
by nightfall had planned the deliver
ance Of me friend an his fellow incarcer-
ates. At supper tonne the gyard went
away home, 1eavin his lantern by the
trackside. It was me intintion to prise
the door off the car, an I was lookin
about fer prise whin I heard a train
comm. Me intillict was equal to the
emergency. took the gyard's lantern
an tagged the train, which was Of the
way freight species, the hardest Of all
fer tourist to travel under.
''The train stopped an the conductor
says kind of impedint like, 'What'n'll
die shtop this train fer?'
Me frien, says I, this car is bound
fer Tiffin, O., an me instructions was to
shtop yez an hitch it on to yer train.
He grumbled a good deal, but hitched
the Car on, me hangin to the brake
beam.
1T was along about O'Clock in the
mornin when we crossed the Ohio 1oine
an shtopped at a station. I crawled out,
broke open the Jail door wild a couplin
pin an all me laddybucks come foorth,
free as the air. An that's how shtole
the Jail in Indianny. My, but I'm dryl"
kansas City Star.
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The Collar Button.

''The literature of the collar button
is voluminous, said the middle aged
man, "but it does not begin to equal in
bulk that which was written about the
simple shirt button of the days before
the blessed collar button came into
vogue. The jokes that were written
about the woes of the bachelor who
found his shirts without buttons or with
buttons hanging only by a thread would
fill barrels. In fact, the young man of
today who frets over missing collar
button, which he can readily replace,
should rather rejoice that he lives in
this enlightened age when he doesn't
have to sew his buttons on. New
York Sun.
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The Point OF Similarity.

The Point OF Similarity.
''That poem of yours, remarked the
f1ippant person, reminds me Of Spen-
ser's 'Faerie Queene. -
"But, said the aspiring writer, ''you
told me yesterday that you had never
read the 'Faerie Queene. -
eyes. That's why your poem reminds
me Of it Washington Star.
Played Poker In Poorhouse.
There has been pronounced stand
taken against gambling in some quar-
ters at Portsmouth recently. The fire
and police departments have been or.
dered to abandon card playing, and 8
full grown poker game has been broker
up at the infrmary.
It appears that several Of the inmate.
receive small pensions and others carr
q trife occasionally for tobacco money
by outside work They have lately beer
losing most Of it to some of their fellow
unfortunates who are skilled in the
manipulation Of the cards They usec
crackers and grains of coffee as chips
and played in the basement of the build
ing. A poker game in a poorhoust
might be considered sufficiently urusua
to be worth permitting to proceed as {
curiosity, but Superintendent Mersho1
thought not and placed the participants
under discipline. Columbus Dispatch
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-01-18
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

UNKNOWN men called at the home of
Ed. Welsh, at Holton. Kas., on the
night of the 7th, b%lindfolded him.
threw him to the floor, cut off his left
hand with an AK and robbed him. The
community was aroused and blood
hounds were put on the trail of his as
sailantS. who carried away the severed
hand with them.
A PRIVATE bank at Fayette. O.. was
entered by burglars on the night of
the 9Th. the safe blown open and every
thing of value taken. The robbers
probably got ten thousand dollars.
THE delegation OF the Cuban repub-
lie. Gen. Thomas Estrada Palma, Sec
rotary Gonzala Querada and Treasurer
Horatio RubenS. reached Washington,
on the eth. after an absence of ten
days. to resume their efforts to secure
recognition and an accordance of bel
ligerent rights to their government.
SEVERAL men We're injured in Win
terset. Ia. on the It'll. by the collapse
of a building occupied by the {. d..
Beverington Hardware Co.. on the
south side of the square The stock
and building were ruined, as was the
stock and building next west, also car
ried down by the crash.
THE republican senatorial caucus, on
the Sth. decided to have the tariff bill
reported to the senate as it came from
the house. without amendment.
On the sth, Acting Portuguese Min
lister Senior Taveir, al Washington re-
ceived a ~cablegram conveying the in
telligence of the capture of Gungun-
hama and his son Guida, by Portu-
guese troops.
THE Akron, Bedford & Cleveland In
ter-Urban Railway Co.'S bridge which
spanned Tinker's creek. just southeast
of Bedford, O.. went down under the
weight of 4 1OO-horse power motor and
a heavy carload of coal on the 9th
Three trainmen went down with the
bridge. one of whom was killed out
right and the other two fatally in
jured.
IN the tank of the steamer Her.
mann. which arrived at Hull, England,
found fifteen stowaways. Six of them
were dead, and the remaining nine
were in an insensible condition, and
would have died in a few hours.
Mr.. E. b. WIGHT. for nearly a dozen
years correspondent in Washington of
the Chicago Inter-Ocean and Boston
journal, died suddenly, on the 9th. of
heart trouble. Mr.. Wight had been a
Washington correspondent for many
years. having been, at different times,
connected with the New York Times,
Chicago Tribune and the two papers in
whose service he was at the time of his
death.
UNITED STATES DISTRICT ATTORNEY
MCFARLAND filed a bill of complaint in
the United States circuit court in New
York city, on the 9th, against the 80
railroads forming the Joint Traffic as
ISOLATION. He also gave notice that,
on January l., he would for an
injunction restraining the assoc ltion
from operating under its agreement.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-01-18

In st. Louis Circuit Judge Russell
has handed down an opinion in the
case of the business Mems league and
Others against James r. Waddell, su.
perintendent of the insurance depart
ment of the state of Missouri. in which
he held hal the new insurance law
was unconstitutional. The ground of
the decision is that the law delegates
Legislative powers to persons other
than the general assembly.
He did not pass upon the constitu-
tionality of the three-fourths clause. as
that was not directly involved in the
present action. This clause declares
that hereafter no property shall be in.
sured in this state for more than three
fourths of its value. and that no com
pany shall question in any court the
value it has placed on the goods and
property insured.