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The Cape Girardeau Democrat., 1897-01-23
spain's Proposed Concessions.


There does not seem to be any
reason to dO2bt that Spain has
practically agreed to grant certain i'm
portant concessions to the Cuban in
surgents in consideration of their ca pi-
tulatiOn, and to acknowledge the
United States as mediatoc and a
guarantor of the observance of the
treaty It is not definitely known
what these proposed concessions are
beyond the fact that they include the
provisions Of the reform law of 1885
with certain amendments, and free
pardon for all political offenses COM
committed since 1868. But it is i'm
material. so far as the main question
is concerned, what terms may be Of
fered- The significance of the matter
lies in the factthat Spain swillingness
to make any sort of a compromise is
a tacit confession that the war is d
failure, and that she is incapable of
maintaining her sovel eighty over the
island. This confession is virtual
giving away of her whole case. She
insists that the insurgents shall first
recognize her authority and resume
their allegiance as Spanish subjects,
and yet she admits that she has found
it impossible to subdue them. She
wishes to dictate terms to them. not
withstanding the manifest failure of
her attempt to coerce them, which is
to say that she asks them to surrender
the decided advantage they have gain
ed, and give up the hope and purpose
of independence when, according to
her own confession, she can not whip
them into subjection.
1t is reported that Gen Gomez and
other Cuban leaders are in favor of
this arrangement, but there is good
reason to believe that they are mis-
represented. They are not fighting
for reforms, but for freedom and the
right of self-government, and it is
hardly to be supposed that they will
accept anything less when the fact
that it is offered is the best ofevidence
that complete success is within their
reach if they continue the conflict.
That would not be human nature in
any controversy, and certainly not in
an instance where it has been goaded
to desperation by the most infamous
of cruelties. The Intervention of the
United States as a mediator and a
guarantor would be highly satis-
factory, of course. if the insurgents
cared to enter into any agreement in
vOlving tie continued sway of Spain
over the island: but that is just what
they are determined never to do.
They have broken away from the
mother country in sense that for
bids the idea of ever again going
back to their former condition. Their
hostility to the Spanish monarchy is
absolute and permanent. They have
their minds and hearts fixed on indie
pendence. and that is what it will take
to satisfy them. 1t is not likely,
therefore, that any scheme of con-
cession and compromise, even though
indorsed by the Washington admins
tration, will induce them to lay down
their arms and abandon their excel
lent prospect of securing separate
nationality, with all the blessings of
civil and religious liberty.
Democrat.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat., 1897-01-23
Two Lives saved.

Mrs. Phoebe. Thomas, of Junction
City. ILL.,. was told by her doctors she
had Consumption and that there was
no hope for her, but two bottles DR..
Kings New Discovery completely
cured her and she says it saved her
life. Mr.. Thos. Eggers, 139 Florida
St. San Francisco, suffered from a
dreadful cold, approaching Consump-
ton, tried without result everything
else then bought one bottle of DIR.
Kings New Discovery and in two
weeks was cured. He is naturally
thankful. 1t is such results. of which
these are samples, that prove the won
derful efficacy of this medicine in
Coughs and Colds. Free trial bottles
at Haman's drug store. Regular
size SOC. and Sl.00.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat., 1897-01-23
PROPOSED GAME LAW.
Sportsmen Meet and Agree Upon a
Draft of a Biz.

SpOrtSmen Meet anu agree Foh .
Draft of a BIZ.
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo-, January 19.
Pursuant to call issued by State
Game and Fish Warden Jesse W.
Henry sometime since, q number OF
gentlemen interested in the preserTa-
ton of the game and fish of the state
met in the Commercial Club rooms in
this city to-day. An organization
was formed by the election OF James
J. Russell, Of Mississippi county,
chairman and judge B. F. Bourne, OF
Scotland county, secretary. There
were about fifty of themost premirent
sportsmen of the state present. After
deliberatiug several hours bill wip-
ing out all of the existing game and
fish laws on the statute books was
agreed upon. The measure will be
shaped up and introduced.
1t will provide for a game and fish
commission, which shall appoint a
chief game warden, whose salary is
not to exceed $500, and who will be
powered to appoint deputy wardens,
The bill will ask for an appropriation
of $4,000. Briefly stated, the ssw
law will prohibit the catching Of bass
and crapple and other game ash in
Missouri between the LIST of April
and the lst of June. Fish can only
be caught with the Hook and line, an0
stringent penalties are provided for
seining netting and the use Of dyna-
mite. The open season on turkey is
from October to March /, and the
open season for quail and prairie
chicken is from October Is to January
Is. The handling or selling OF game
is prohibited, -
The bill will provide for a license
to hunt and fish. The license will be
issued by County and Circuit Clerks,
at a fee of 81. Farmers are exempt
from this provision of the law. II
will be unlawful to ship game or fish
out of the State. Messrs. Marshall
F. Mcdonald, Sam T. Rathell, George
Rollins, Jessee w. Henry, Judge Fl.
Clay Ewing, Alex. II. Smith, F. M.
Brown and j. ]. Russell we're ap-
pointed committee TO formulate and
present the bill.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat., 1897-01-23
HIGH HATS CRIED DOWN.
Scene in a Chicago Theuter Embar-
RAISING for Women III Attend
anCe.

CHICAGO, ILL, January T.-Hun-
dreds OF excited and indignantthcater-
goers took the high hat question into
their own hands tonight at the Col
umbia Theater. By kissing and yells
that nearly caused a riot they com
pelled every woman who was present
at the first night ofSousa's IS Ell Captain
to sit bareheaded throughout the per-
formance, with the exception Of those
in the boxes and one woman in par
quet, who, in spite of the yells, kept
her lofty headpiece on all through the
opera.
The noisy demonstration began be-
fore the curtain went up the first time,
and continued after the play began,
drowning the music and threatening
to break up the performance. 1t was
finally quieted by theushers only when
there were practically no more hats to
come off. The theater was crowded.
The trouble began at the outset, and,
from the suddenness of the outburst,
must have suggested itself to a hum
d-ed persons at the same instant. 1t
began with yells OF 'tHats off," and
with Kisses and groans for the women
who did not show a disposition to
obey. When the hisses came the hats
in the parquet and dress crele came
off as if q gale of wind had struck
them, and hairpips fell into the aisle:
all except that of the woman in the
parquet, who defed the galleries.
Her hat was luxuriant in tropical
vegetation. Tall palms waved above
an expanse of roses and nodding
panlpas plumes tried their best to hide
from view a bunch of hollyhocks,
violets, snowdrops and dandeloins
nestled in the underground, and above
all, like the lighthouse on Anastasia
Island, lowered a cocoanuttree of ma
jestic presence.
AS result of the demonstration,
Manager Davis has set apart a room
where feminine headgear will be here
after checked during the performances.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat., 1897-01-23
RoENTGEN RAYS FRANKS.
William PaIcy Lost His finger Nails

William Palcy Lost His Finger Nails
and Got Gray E!aI-T.
NEW YORK. January I9.-The effect
of y rays upon human tissue is shown
in the peculiar case of William Paley,
an electrician. Of 2c3 East Thirteenth
street. Paley had been conducting y
ray exhibitions, and in every case he
held the object which the rays were to
penetrate. The most remarka bic con-
sequences followed. He tells the story,
as follows:
early in August my fingers began
to itch, and then little water boils ap-
peared under the skin. some of which
filled With blood. My fingers grew
red, az If they were scalded. In a
week the skin peeled from the fingers.
l tried to protect my hand as much as
possible, and used the right hand. l
had the same trouble with the fore
finger of that hand.
THE skin of my fngecs grew red,
and peeled off twice, while l was
working the X rays. Ny nails be-
gan to fall off month &fter the first
redness appeared, and soon fell off al
together. l am not 40 years old, but
see how gray my hair is. My wife
says it has become gray in the last few
months. and attribute it to the rays.
My eyesight seems poorer, and at
times have slight buzzing in the
ears, which think is the result of the
rays"
Paley stopped ha3ding the objects
before the rays, and his nails began
to grow anew, and they promise to re-
gain their full growth. Aside from
the grayness of his hair, the other un-
favorable symptoms also disappear
ed.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat., 1897-01-23
Mckinley VIII Attend.

DETROINT, MICH, January Ill
According to the announcement of d.
D. Woodmansee, president of the
National League of Republican Clubs,
President Mckinley will attend the
tenth annual convention of the league,
to be held in this city next July. A
movement was begun at meeting OF
the advisory council of the State
league, held to-day, to holdin connec.
tion with the July convention a reun-
ion of presidents and ex-presidents oi
of Republican clubs. who. it is now
expected. will be invited.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat., 1897-01-23
A College Grnduate I'm Is41.

1t is we'll to state with just what
outfit left college in 184l. l had a
rather shallow reading knowledge of
six languages-English, French,
Spanish, Italian, Latin and Greek
and had been brought in contact
with classic books in each of these
tongues, may here add that picked
up at a later period German, Portu-
gese and Hebrew, with lirtle Swed-
ish, and that l hope to live long
enough to learn at least the alphabet
in Russian. Then 1 had acquired
ENOUGH of the higher mathematics to
have pupil or two in that branch;
something of the forms of logic, and
of Locke's philosophy, with the criti-
cisms of the French electics upon it:
a smattering of history and political
economy, some crude acquaintance
with field natural history, some prac-
tice in writing and debating, a pas
soin for poetry and imaginative litera-
ture, a voracious desire forall knowl-
edge and all action, and an amount
of self-confdence which has nowzs
more than half a century, sadly dimln
ished. 1t will be seen that this was
an outfit more varied than graduates
of the present day are apt to possess,
but more SUPERFICIAL; their knowledge
of what they know being often far
more advanced as we'll as more solid
ly grounded than was mine.-Col. T.
W. Higginson in the Atlantic.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat., 1897-01-23
HAS SIXTEEN LIVING WIVES.
Matrimonial Career OF Tom Lowe.
Aged 26, Now Under Arrest.

Matrimonial Career OF Tom Lowe.
Aged 2G, Now Under Arrest.
DENISoN, TEX, January I4.-Dep-
uty United States Marshal B. G..
Birchfeld. of Durant, l. T., arrived
in the city tonight, having in charge
Tom Lowe, 26 years of age, who is
wanted in this county under indict-
ment in two cases for disposing OF
mortgaged property. Lowe, in the
presence of Officer Birchfield and Po-
liceman James, confessed to being
the husband of sixteen wives, all of
whom he has married within the last
eight years, The confessionw was made
in writing. He married wife No. l at
Purcell, 1. T., in 1886: No. ,, in
Brownwood, Tex, the same year; No.
3, in Bolton; No. 4, in Hillsboro: No.
), in Ennis: No. 6, in Marion county:
No. !, in Galveston: N s, in Houston
No. Q, in McLennan county; No. 10,
in Denison: No. II, in Paris: No. u,
in Delda county: No. IL. In Mills
county: No. IA. in Milan county: No.
15, at Weber Falls: No. 16, in Young
county.
All the wives are alive, and, so far
as he knows, Lowe says they are un-
divorced. Lowe is from Arkansas,
and claims to have served as dep
uty United States marshal in the
Indian Territory. He confesses to
his multiplicity of marriages with
GOODNESS of a man making a boast
of accomplishing some heroic deed.
and says that occasionally he has
heard from the first of his wive, and
that so far as he knows nineteen child
ren have been born to them within the
last three years.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat., 1897-01-23
Notice to Stockholders.

4 meeting of the stockholders
of the Cape Girardeau Water
Works & Electric Light Com
pany is hereby called, to be held al
the Office of the company in the Stur-
divant Bank building. Cape Girar-
deau, Missouri, on Wednesday, Feb
ruary 10th, 1897, at 3 p. m, for the
purpose of electing directors and for
such other business as may come up
before the said meeting.
[Signed. THOMAS w. CANNON,
Presidents.
F. ]. FITDGERALD.
Secretary.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat., 1897-01-23
Denied by Gen. Harrison.

WASHINGTON, D. c., Jan. 13.-Ex =
President Harrison arrived in the city
this afternoon rather unexpectedly,
direct from his home at Indianapolis,
which he left yesterday. He is staying
at the Arlington Hotel, where he met
the Hon. w. H. H. Miller, Attorney
General in his Cabinet, who came on
from New York City to-day. The ex-
President and his former law partner
are here for the purpose of making
arguments in the Supreme Court in
an Indiana case, in which both are
interested. 1t is that of Caroline NJ.
Forsyth, VS.. the City of Hamond ct al.
and involves a question bearing on the
annexation of territory to the City of
Hammond.
Gen. Harrison's attention was call
ed to the published statements that
his name had been mentioned in con-
nection with the embassadorship to
the Court of st. James, and he
promptly said that he had not been
offered the position. AS to whether
he would accept the mission. ii tend
cred him. ne pointed out that it would
not be becoming in him to answer
questions of that character.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat., 1897-01-23
THE BRYAN FlASCO.
Lecture Manager Gives HIS side OF
inc Broken Contract.

John j. Roche. who lis engaged in
the jewelry business in this citv and
we'll known aIhong the members OF
that trade, is the man who originated
the idea of engaging William ]. Bry-
an to deliver fifty lectures for $50, 900.
He makes his headquarters at the
Hoffman House. When met in an
Office downtown dhy or so age. he
was found willing to talk about the
Bryan fasco.
81 firstwent to Atlanta and arranged
the matter with Mr.. McBee, and then
went on tc Lincoln and conducted the
negotiation with Mr.. Bryan.
1.-THE first proposal was to give him
$50, 600 for fifty lectures, but the con-
tract as drawn provided thathe should
recsive $40, ,0O0for the firstten lectures,
and for the remaining ones the ar
rangements was that, after taking out
81 600 for the lecturer, the expenses
and $500 for the manager, the re-
mainder was to be divided beteen Mr..
Bryan and Mr.. McBee. II it had
turned out we'll there would have been
a good deal of money in it for both
OF them. 1t WAS my idea to bring him
out at st. Louis, Chicago, Cleveland,
Buffalo and so on in the large cities,
where I believed that large audiences
would be drawn out of curiosity. sBui
Mr.. McBee thought it would be a good
thing TO open up in Atlanta, and that
programme was decided on. One OF
his ideas, suppose, was to boom his
railroad.
'Well, the thing was doomed for
three weeks. The city was extensive
ly billed. Capt. Evan P. Howell, OF
the Atlanta Constitution, did every.
thing in his power to help on the
cause, Special rates were made on
all the railroads for handred miles
around. But the people were too
poor, and there was not enough OF
them. The hall secured was very
large one, seating $500 or 1000 peo-
pie. but an ordience OF not more than
2, 500 was got together. Then the lec-
turewas not a success in ITSELF For
one thing Bryan's voice was not in
good shape. He had made6OO speeches
in the campaign, and his voice had
not recuperated, as was expected. For
another thing, it appears that when
You take him on any other subject
than money and politics he isno good.
"At the close of the lecture Mr..
McBee offered him a certified check
for $40, 600 to cover the first ten lee
lures. He refused to take it, and
would only accept 81 900 for the first
one. As far as Atlanta was concerne,
we just about cleared expenses.
1t was thought in the beginning
that the managers of the defeated can
didatc for the presidency might make
800, 600 by bringing him before the
country in a new role. Now they
probably count themselves lucky in
coming out of the venture without
losing much. if anything. New York
Tribune,
The Cape Girardeau Democrat., 1897-01-23
SMnmp Iand DrainaUc.

DEXTER. Mo-, Jan. 20. 1897.
EDITOR DEMOCRAT:-There will be
a meeting at Dexter, Missouri, on
Both inst. of the parties in Southeast
Missouri. interested in land drainage,
for the purpose of formulating amend
ments which experience seems to indi-
cate are necessary to perfect the drain
age law. and to consider the advisa-
bility of urging an appropriation for
the completion of the Typographical
survey. Addresses Will be delivered
on the principal subjects OF interest.
Very respectfully yours,
OTTO kOCHTITAlY,
Secretary invitation Com.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat., 1897-01-23
ON THE EVE OF PROSPERITY.
President Fish Says All thnt Is Need
ed Ia a Financial Leader.


LOUISVILLE, KY, Jan. 16.-Stuy.
vesant Fish, President of the Illinois
Central Railroad Company, is in the
city on a tour of inspection. Mr..
Fish. in an interview this afternoon
on the business outlook, said:
"This country is standing on a
pivot; that is, the country is Just
evening itself or leveling itself off,
and now stands ready to be turned.
1t is quite certain, however, what the
movement will be. All the country
needs to-day is a Ieader-financial
leader-a Moses of the business world,
who will make a start. The capital
of the country is ready and the peo-
pie themselves are ready; they are
waiting for some financier or business
man who will start the ball rolling.
Then the fOodgates of investment will
be turned loose and this broad land
of ours will be swept over by a great
wave of prosperity snch as it has
never yet SEEM
Mr.. Fish is also encouraged at the
outlook for the South. After the in
spection of the Illinois Central's in
terests here he will proceed southwark
to important points on his line. Mr.
Fish is pursuing his plan of striving
to encourage industries located on
his line and to secure the location of
others that are needed.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat., 1897-01-23
Col. Richard C.Kerens

The acti IN OF the Republican mem
bers of the Legislature in indorsing
Col r. G. Kerens for United States
Senator meets with the approval of
the best element of the Republican
party throughout the State. Col.
Kerens is business man as we'll as a
patriotic Republican. He is a politi-
clan because he believes in Republi-
canism and not because he wants to
help himself. He is pure clean man
and is always ready to lend his infiu-
ence and give his time for the ad-
vancement of the party If we had
a few more men like Col. Kerens in
Missouri we would not be to-day
groaning under a burden OF Demo
cratic misrule in Missouri.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat., 1897-01-23
Lonr Political Careers.

The case of John Sherman shows
that even In the United States, where
the strife for public Office is fercer
than it H. any other country, long
careers IN politics are not altogether
infreque1t. True, GIadstore:s sixty
years o. service has never been equal
ed in dsgration by that of any AmeIf-
can, ard few other English1nen are
also ahead of the American record in
this respect. Still, several careers in
this country have been notably long.
Forty-six years, for example, elapsed
between the beginning and the end of
Clay's public service forty-seven
years between the entrance OF Cass in
TO political Office and his final exit
from it, while gulf OF tifty-foEr years
stretches between John QGincy Adams
entrance on his duties as Minister to
to the Netherlands and bis death in
the House of Representatives while a
'member of that body.
OF course, the actual service of these
statesmen did not reach the entire
number of years covered by these
figures. Several times between the
beginning and the end of their career
they were out of ofsos- Sherman,
however, on March wiR have been
continuously in Office fer forty-two
years, with the exception of one day
at the end of the Hayes administration,
when he resigned his postas Secretary
of the Treasury. but nobody would
ever have known of this missing day
if he had not divulged 1t IN his book,
''Recollections of Forty Years" Six
wears of this period were passed in
the House, four in the Cabinet and
thirty-two in the Senate. Justin S.
MOrrill's service is exactly equal to
this in duration--or. rather, is one
day ahead of it, allowing for that gap
of twenty-four hours in the continuity
OF Sherman's service. Senator Har-
ris. of Tennessee, and Representative
Grow, of Pennsylvania, entered Con-
gress earlier than Sherman and Nor
rill-Harris six years and Grow four
years earlier-but botn of these were
ont of office after their first entrance
into it for years.
Even more remarkable than the
length of Sherman's is the duration
of his prominence. His membership
on the Kansas Investigating committee
appointed by Banks, the first Repub-
lican Speaker, made him a national
character more than forty years ago,
and he has been potent figure in
politics ever since. None of his con-
temporaries have had this measure of
distinction. Fame did not come to
Harris or Grow so early, while Nor
rilI was but little known until the
tariff bill which bore his name be-
came law, in 1861. Grow was elect
ed Speaker in 1861, but Sherman was
nominated for Speaker in 1859, though
his radicalism, or supposed radical
ism, beat him. the Republicans at that
time not having a clear majority in
the House, and he withdrew, and
colorless candidate. Pennington, of
New Jersey, was put up in his place
and elected. Sherman's forty years
of national distinction has not been
equaled in this country except in the
case of Clay. whose potency in poll
ties began with his election to the
speakership in 1911. and extended to
his death, forty-one years later
Globe-Democrat.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat., 1897-01-23
A Dog Who Knows a Thing or Two.

a physician who resides in a neigh
boring town has adog which heclaims
can beat the canine world for agility.
intelligence, and all-around useful
ness. The animal is massive black
fellow, and has never been known to
enter a gate to reach Il place if he can
obtain his ends by jumping fence.
He acts as mail carrier for the doctor,
and when he gets letter from the
postman, whom he always meets upon
the pavement, he will clear the high
iron railing in front OF the house, and
make for the front knob, which long
practice has enabled him to turn with
a dexterous twist of his paw. He will
never deliver letter to any one but
the physician, who thinks so much of
him that he almost believes the dog
might be taught to compound pills
Elmira Advertiser.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat., 1897-01-23
Ten Years for Abernathy,s Murder

BENTON, Mo-, January 19.-In the
Circuit Court of Scott County to-day,
Thomas Fike and Sis Fike-Aberrathy
were given ten years in the peniten-
tiary. They were charged with the
murder of John Alternately, husband
of Sis Fike-Abernathy, who is sister
of Thomas Fike. Abernathy was kill
ed in July, 1896, and they were allow
ed to plead guilty to murder in the
second degree. The evidence against
them was circumstantia1.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-10-13
Do Not Re Deceived.

; All steamers Of importance go
; ing 20 Alaska start from Seattle
All railroads IN the United States
connect AZ Chicago. St Paul 81
, Louis or Denver with the great
transcontineHtsl lines running d.
rect 10 Seattle only.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-10-13
Seattle.

The steamer cry ~ Nxreka
watch satee from Seattle the lst-
ter part e &ay. carried thirteen
neu bola3 fer che interior 81
Alaska j cast rny fortune wl-h
party & four ycusg usn from
MortanS. NhCFa z mex o. Board
Robert CE.es5y &c Tas Cos
wopol3tan. sept. 1yss.