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The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-12-04
THE MODERN MANGLE.
Ironing Machines with a Daily ca
pacity of Thousands of Pieces

Ironing Machines with a Daily ca
pacity of Thousands of Pieces.
Mangles in n form and another
have been used for hundreds of years,
but the steam mangle of the present
day is essentially a modern machine.
Steam mangles are made Of various
sizes, with rolls ranging in length from
AZ inches to 12O inches. One of the rolls
is of hollow steel, and heated with
steam. The auxiliary rolls are of iron,
covered with cotton cloth ard blankets
or telling. Steam nangles are made
also with two hot rolls. In ironing
such things as sheets and table cloths
by hand, it is customary to iron one
side only. Steam mangles with a single
bot roll iron in that manner; with two
hot rolls the steam mangle irons with
n smooth finish on both sides.
Mangles are used only for fat arti-
Giles; for things without buttons or buc-
kles; for sheets and pillow cases, table
cloths and napkins, towels and hand
kerchiefs, and so on. Mangles of the
largest size will iron of Il hotels wash
ing, taken just as it comes, 14,OOO pieces
in a day; of small pieces, such as nap
kins, they will iron four times as many
pieces in a day.
From the washing machine the
things go to an extractor to be dried.
The extractor revolves at a high speed,
and the moisture is whirled out by a
centrifugal action. From the extractor,
just damp enough to work well, the
things go to the mangle. Such things
as sheets are fed into the great ironing
machine by two men, each holding a
corner. There is a fixed table, as long
as the rolls, attached to the machine
OH the other side; two men receive the
sheet there and fold it. In ironing
small pieces like napkins and towels
on such a machine they would be fed
III by Il row of girls standing on one
sioe, and he received by another row of
girls on the other side. On the largest
machines there would be six or eight
girls on each side. American steam
mangles are used not only in this u
try, but they are sold in all the
tries of Europe as we'll.
A great many mangles are made with
wood rolls of polished maple. Such
mangles are sometimes operated by
power, but commonly by hand. They
are used in hotels and laundries and
restaurants, and for household work.
Mangles with wood rolls are exported
tC the various countries of Spanish
America aud to South Africa and Aus
tralia.-N. Y. Sum-.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-12-04
TO HELP THEN THINK.
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IT is a well-known fact that many
persons who are subjected to nerv-
Gus strains or compelled to apply them
selves intently in their business or pro-
fessional duties find relief in some sort
OF unconscious muscular ex~ertion.
You have seen the man who rubS his
hands all the time or else cracks his
knuckles. Another man will tug at his
mustache while in deep thought.
1t is common for business men to
draw pictures or make elaborate scrolls
md scrawls on their desk pads while
they are discussing some important
proposition. 1t may be remembered
that the directors of the worlds fair
left their hall M day after deciding
upon a policy which involved the eX-
penditure of several millions of dollars.
A man went into the hall just after their
departure and found the long table COW
cred with rude drawings of men, cats,
dogs and houses, to say nothing of
elaborate Spencerian exercises, wagon
wheels and the like. The great men had
relieved the tension of the business by
making these childish figures.
There is one Chicago millionaire who
tears paper into small bits while he is
talking to a caller. Another whites
necessarily. One of his employees is
specially directed TO keep him supplied
with pine sticks of straight grain.
An office lawyer of considerable repu-
tation stretches Il small rubber band be-
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-12-04

after The convention convened for the
afternoon session. His measure pro-
posed that the legislature should be
asked to revise the present revenue
laws, which, he said, were manifestly
unjust in their operation to those who
were least able to stand the burden.
So far as the question Of imposing more taxes
was concerned. he was satisfied the people OF
his section would not be willing to vote any
more bonds for roads. They had already voted
thousands of dollars Of bonds to railroads which
had never been built, and their experience had
left such a bad taste in their mouths that he
would hate to be the man that would propose
the issuance Of more bonds for any kind OF
road. Other people, he said, as well as farmers,
used the roads and should help pay for them.
He was on the county equalization board
and knew Of an instance where
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tween his left thumb and second finger,
and, looking at it as if fascinated,
strums on it with his right forefinger
while he is debating to a stenographer.
lie cannot get to work until he has his
rubber band and begins to play on it.
Actors or public speakers are especial
" given to these nervous" habits.
There is a criminal lawyer in Chicago
who cannot address a jury unless he has
a folded newspaper in his right hand.
He grips this paper, bends it between
his hands and smites his left palm with
1t. When he finishes his speech the
newspaper is a rumpled wreck.
Some of the most peculiar instances
of this kind of habit are found on the
stage. Charley Case, the variety actor
who does a very funny monologue, car
ries a small piece of cloth in his hands
every time he goes on the stage. He
pulls at this bit of cloth and turns it
over and over every second of the time
while he is talking Or singing. He could
not do his speciality unless he had some
thing to twist between his fingers, for
he has a natural hesitancy of speech.
1t is related of John J. Burke, who
used to be the comedian of the Ameri-
can Extravaganza company at the Chi
cago opera house, that he could not talk,
except when he could turn a button with
his fingers.
Off the stage he suffered so badly
that he could hardly make himself IN
derstood. In fact, it was a matter of
constant wonder, among those who met
Linn off the stage, that he could master
his infirmitv when he was in front of
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-12-04

[Mr. Ziegenhein is mayor of St Louis, and
favors a broad, smooth highway connecting st.
Louis and Kansas City.l
press of high character and worth.
both in manner and appearance. Every
congressional district and nearly every
county in the state was represented.
The meeting was called to order by
President W. H. Moore of the Mis-
souri, Good Roads association, after
which Rev. w. b. Palmore. d. D.,
editor of the St. Louis Christian Ad-
vocate, made the opening prayer. To-
ward the close of his petition he
created a mild sensation among the
delegates by particularly asking that
the time might soon come when there
would be found no mudholes in the
streets. no old stumps of bad cigars,
aor old pipes. for which praise and
blessings would arise forever more.
Mayor ~Ziegenhein made an appro-
pirate address of welcome, in which he
said that both cities and counties were
equally interested in good roads, as a
great deal of the states future pros
perity depended on its having good
EOtuS ONcI "IlC W lEduSpOEJ us pTOu-
ucts. He thought it was among the
possibilities of Missouri in the near
future to have a broad, smooth high
way across the state connecting st.
Louis and Kansas City.
The following committees were ap-
pointed: Credentials, resolutions, ways
and means, finance, bylaws and con-
stitution. nominations.
On motion of Congressman A. NJ.
Dockery another committee was added
to the list. This was to be chosen by
the delegates present from each con-
gressional district. Each district was
to select it's member of this committee,
and the committees purpose was to
take under consideration the various
propositions. An adjournment vas
taken until two o'clock.
The afternoon session was called to or
der ut 2:30 P. m, and Hon. A. NJ. Dockery
took the chair, while President W. Ii.
Moore read the annual address.
He stated his belief that the first step should
be the appointment of q state highway COM
mission. and that the state constitution should
be so changed as to allow the counties or state
to build good roads. 1t now costs the people
go, 100000 annually to sit in the mud, and he
did not see why it would not be much less ex-
pensive to build good roads.
Secretary Z. C. Rowse then read his
annual report. after which followed
the reading of Gov. Lon. v. Stephens
address. which vas read by his proxy,
as the governor was unable to attend:
The address began by stating that the gov
ernor was heartily IN sympathy with the move
ment. but that good roads could not be built on
theories nor on the wind raised at a conven-
ton. and that it required q great deal of money
and Z great deal Of hard work. He suggested
that it would be well to have a state supervise or
OF roads. and that the poll tax should be paid
In money and not in labor. He also urged the
question of 4 constitutional convention
A vote of thanks was rendered Gov.
Stephens, and his letter was referred
to the committee on ways and means.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-12-04

average Of a wife and three children, were near
ly always dependent upon local charity for their
support, So far as Missouri vas concerned, he
believed putting these idle prisoners who are
in the state and county iails at work upon the
state roads.
Ex-Mayor C. P. Walbridge. of st.
Louis, spoke next.
He related the history OF the development Of
the desire for rapid transit into gigantic sys-
tenn Of railways, which, he said, instead Of be-
ing controlled By legislatures, more often
controlled the legislature. He spoke of the
politicians hobby of shaking the dry bones Of
the railroad skeleton, and instanced 1t by the
story Of a friend in Minnesota who ran for the
legislature and was elected through his
prImise that when he got to Minne-
apOlis he would take the railroads by
the forelock and shake them over
the very laws Of hell" After his term was
over he explained to q friend. said Mayor Wal
bridge, why he hadn't been heard OF as fighting
the railroads, and he had said: well, Jimmy,
do you know 1 did intend to do that, but when
1 got there I found ali the railroads were bald
headed and had no foretops to catch hold Of,
and 1 heard Bob Ingersoll. and found there was
no hell to shake them over; so what was 1 to
do:' Mayor Walbridge believed that good
roads would be the very means OF compe ting
with railroads.
Congressman A. NJ. Dockery fol-
lowed:
lie said he did not believe In the argument Of
Mayor Walbridge, for he felt that the peo-
pie OF the convention. OF the state legis-
lature, and Of congress not only had the
power, but that they would control the
great engines Of .civilization-the railroads.
He believed that all that was necessary for the
convention was to have unity of purpose and
action, and that it could not fail. The dele
gates must agree, and they must educate. He
did not believe in using the convict labor in
building the state roads The reform they
sought must not rest upon crime, but
upon the enlightened sentiment Of the
people. Statistics showed that under
the present bungling system. that OF
the 81, 900 o expended annually by the state on
its roads, that S632, 900 OF that amount went into
the pockets of road overseers. He believed in
the policy outlined by Gov. Stephens. He
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-12-04

lSpe8KeT OF the MISSOURI mousse Ol rcpTcScnId-
lives, who believes in putting idle prisoners to
work upon state roadsl
Ger. Roy Stone. Of Washington. D.
c., then spoke.
He ocnplimented the convention on the
character ind number of its delegates, and said
thai he felt certain the convention would not
find the work before them so difficult as many
people imagined. Other states had blazed out
the way IN pioneer road building, and the con-
vention could easily follow the beaten roadway
without risk OF paying for costly experience.
He advocated strongly the idea OF having Q
state highway commission, which, he said, was
always one Of the first important steps in the
direction Of better rosdways.
Hon. J. W. Farris, speaker of the last
Missouri house of representatives,
spoke next
He advocated the plan Of having the cow cts
in the state and county iails do the work neces-
sary to give good roads in Missouri. He said
that In the United States there were 100000
prisoners, and at least hal: of them were heads
Of families These families, consisting On sn
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-12-04
How x Rays Wou1d Look.

Prof. Roeutsen, the discoverer of the
X rays. describes the appearance they
would present if they could be rendered
visible. They emanate in all directions
from the air irradiated by them. he
says, so that. if they were visible, the
appearance would be that ct a room
filed with smoke and lighted NJ by q
eandle.-Youth,s Companion.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-12-04
SECOND DAY.
Permanent Officers Named, and the Gov
ernor Requested to Call an Extra Ses-
sion of the Legislature.
q night ses

Permanent Officers Named, and the Gov
ernor Requested to Call an Extra Ses-
sion of the Legislature.
st. Louis. Nov. 2+-The session of the
good roads convention Yesterday ran
as smoothly as if it had been placed on
rubber tires, and was going over a road
way as perfect as an enthusiasts dream
of the future. The principal business
of the day was the formation of a per-
manent organization and the selection
of permanent officers to take charge of
it. In this selection the services of w.
II. Moore received recognition by his
selection a. president.
The first business of the day was the
report of the nominating committee,
which was handed in, giving the names
Of the following permanent officers for
the ensuing year:
President-W. II. Moore, S Louis,
Secretary-T. p. Rixey, st. Louis.
Treas urer-ThomaS II. West, St Louis.
The following list of Is vice-presi-
dents was selected from the different
congressional districts in the state:
First-D. H. Shields. Hannibal.
Second-W. A. White, Moberly.
THRILL. c. Duncan, Osborn.
Fourth-R. NJ Abercrombie. St. Joseph.
Fifth-JohnB B. Stone, Kansas City.
Sixth Hon. J. y. Ballard, MOntrose. Henry
county.
Seyenth-T. o. Stanley. Sedalia.
~Eighth-Henry T. Wright, Lebanon.
Ninth-N. ID. DierkeS, st. Charles.
Tenth b. Brewster, ST. Louis county.
Eleventh-Henry Lucas, St Louis.
Twelfth-H. R. WhitmOre, st. Louis.
Thirteenth Henry Seckman, Jefferson coun-
ty.
Fourteenth-Joseph ]. Russell. Charleston.
Fifteenth-W. 7. LIE COmpt, Pierce City.
A resolution from the ways and
means committee was offered by DIR.
Shields, of Hannibal, requesting the 80
counties in the state that are author
lied to collect a 50-cent tax levy to set
aside one-third for road improvement.
This was vigorously discussed by L. P.
Rixey, of st. Louis; Col. Switzer, of
bonneville, and Hon.. ]. w. Farris, of
Lebanon. An amendment, offered by
Stephen Delacella, to the Shields reso-
luton. requesting the governor to call
an extra session of the legislature to
consider good roads was adopted.
Two resolutions, one recommending
to the general assembly an increase of
the appropriation for state charities,
and the other asking for the submis-
sion of the question of a constitutional
amendment to be submitted to the peo-
pie in order that the county courts
might be permitted to Increase the
taxes for road purposes, were both
adopted.
Ex-Mayor Walbridge offered a reso-
luton providing for the appointment
of a committee on city streets, with
power to recommend legislation con-
corning the sprinkling and improve
ment of city streets. This was adopt
ed, and the following committee was
announced later in the day: Hon. C.
r. Walbridge, st. Louis: Albert Young,
Kansas City; R. NJ. A~bercrombie. st.
Joseph; Judge Noah NJ. Gibbon, Cass
county; DIR. D. Ii. Shields, Marion. and
A. b. Lovan. The convention then adj
journed until 2 p. m.
Col. John b. Stone, of Kansas City,
introduced the FIRST resolution offered
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-12-04
HON. A. NJ. DOCKERY.

CONGRESSMAN. who does not believe in using
convict labor in building state roads. The re,
form must not rest upon crime. but upon the
enlightened sentiment of the people."1
thought all taxes should be collected in money
that a road commission should be appointed
and that a constitutional convention should bt
seriously considered.
Anote from President r. II. Jesse Of
the University of Missouri was read,
regretting that, owing to sickness, he
was unable to be present to make his
address.
On a vote, it was decided not to hold
q night session.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-12-04

Oregon Indians complain that they
are sentenced to 80 days in Jail for in
.toxication, while a white man guilty
of the same offense only gets five days
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-12-04
GOOD ROADS IN MISSOURI.
Representative Men Of the State
Meet at st. Louis.
The Question II Good Roads Thoroughly
Discussed, Permanent Organization
Effected, and an Extra Session of
the Legislature Asked For.

ST. LOUIS, Nov. 23.-About 800 dele
gates assembled at ten o'clock yester-
day morning in the Masonic building
to take part in the first days session
of the Missouri Good Roads and Public
improvement convention. They were
representative men. who bore the i'm
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-12-04

We shall be judged hereafter not
by what we have felt, put by what We
have done.-Robert Rau.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-12-04

Col. John b. Stone, of Kansas City,
introduced the FIRST resolution offered
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-10-27
Names We Missed.

From the New York Press
1t was intended that MARYLAND should he
called "Crescentia," but Charles l changed
it to Terra Mariae,' in honor of his wife.
and we made /: "Marys Land" hence
Maryland. (Home pronunciation MERRY
lon.') William Penn wanted to call his
state New Wales,' but afterward decided
upon Sylvania. to which the king prefxed
the word Penn. In 17A an ordinance was
drawn up follows: The territory north
ward o. the 10Th degree. shat is TO say Of
the completion of the 10Th degree from the
equator and extending to the Lake of the
Woods, shall be called Sylvania." See what
We missed The territory under the 18th
and 44th degrees wi lies westward of
Lake Michigan was to be called Michi-
gapia, while that to the eastward, within
the peninsula formed by the lakes and
waters of Michigan, Huron, St Clair and
Erie, was to be called Chersonesus Heaven
forbade!
OF the territory lying under the AID and
42d degrees. that to the westward, through
which the Rock river runs, was to be called
Assenisipia; that to the eastward, in which
are the sources of the Muskingum, the two
Miamis of the Ohio, the Wabash the Hi
nois, the Miamis of the Lake and the San
dusky rivers, was to be called Metropo-
tamia. The country through which the
Illinois river runs was to be called lllinoia,
the next joining 20 the eastward Saratoga
and that between the last and Pennsyl-
vania. extending from the Ohio to Lake
Erie, Washington. All that region adjacent
to which are the conf1uenceS of the Wa
bash, Shawnee, Tanisee, Ohio, Illinois, Mis-
sissppi and Missouri rivers, was to be
called Polytamia, and that further up the
Ohio, Pelisipia. Verify a watchful Proyi-
dence seems to have guarded us from these
Affections.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-10-27

The Commissioners today ordered that
proposals for constructing sewers opened
October %. 1897, be accepted follows
Proposal of 3. ]. Coyie. for constructing
sewer on the schedule; proposal of F.
q. GumIrel, for constructing sewers Il, d.
G. and II of the schedule; proposal of Lyons
Brcs-, for constructing sewer c of the
schedule; proposal of Adam McCandlish
for constructing sewer of the schedule
proposal of John Jacoby. for constructing
sewers + and l of the schedule.
The above are the lowest bidders in each
case.
1t was also ordered that cement side
walk be laid, under the permit system in
front of 1905 10th street; estimated cost
si4
Construct sewer, under the permit sys-
TEN. 10 serve lots l and 2, square 1909
estimated cost, 500.
Re-erect lamppost at southeast corner OF
ID and CStreets northwest.
That the lamp on Florida avenue opposite
Gurley Memorial Church be moved west &c
the northeast corner of Florida avenue
and Rohrer streets.
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Transfers of Real Estate.

Twenty-third street northwest between G
and H streets-John Carroll ct Tx. to Basil
B. Earnshaw, north III. feet of lot 15
square A.; $40
Florida avenue northwest between LIST and
Sd streets-Jas. C. Fox to Anne L. Lamp
ton. lot 172. square 551 $40.
Edgewood-Theo. A. T. Judd ct ux. to
Theresa NJ. Zell, lots Il and 13. square g.
$40.
Myrtle street northeast-Geo. T. Kip
stein to Abbie H. Phelps, lot 164 square
615; $40
Eckington-Amelia A. Lane to Scion c.
kemon, lot "a, square %; so.
d street northeast between 1st and I'd
streets-Eugene Leger ct TX. to Dean
Swift, lot II. square 72S; so.
street northwest between 1st and Sd
streets-Arthur NJ. Mccormick ct al &c
Edw. J. Stelwagen. lot 112. square 555; $40
2 street northwest between 18th and 18th
streets-Carroll Mercer ct ux. to Frances
X. Newbold, lot Al. square 157: $1,000.
street northeast between 18th and 18th
streets-Chas. w. Proctor ct Tx. to Geo. w.
Havell, lot 14i square 1913: $3.50
Third street northeast between f and +
streets-Geo. w Eushenberger ct ux to
Diller F. Croft lot 81 square T54; SO
Chillum Castle Manor-Saml. T. Stott ct
| al. to Walter f. Stott, part; so.
n street northwest between LIST and I'd
streets-Edw. ]. Stellwagen ct TX. to VIM.
r. Engel. lot 112, square 800: 80.
New Hampshire avenue between and T
streets-Julia A. Thompson to VIM. l.. Ar
| que. lot c, square III; so.
Seventeenth street northwest between S
and I streets-Asbury r. Taylor to Sidney
| Foster. lot 139. square 1872; $4,000.
Florence court northeast-Albert w Ward
ct al to Joseph Royal, lot 40, square
| 1851; 1890.
Third street southwest between NJ and \
streets-B. H. Warner ct ux. to George Ma
son. LOT 40, square 545; ST.
Nineteenth street northwest between G
| and r streets-Annie L. Wlllet to Geo NJ
kober, part lot II. square 1874; so.
L street southeast between 9Th and 7tt
streets-Norman r. Jenner ct Tx. to JoE-
r. Taliaferro. part original lot 5, square
SS1; so.
No. 81 Myrtle street northeast-John r
Taliaferro ct TX to Norman K. Jenner, lo
2sO, square 615; $40.
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Mark TwEin's Debts Paid,

A letter received from Mark Twain by a
personal friend in New York, within a
few days, brings the pleasant news that
the eminent humorist is now "out of the
woods financially. He has succeeded in
paying all his debts by money which he
has earned during the past two years. This
success shows what Mr.. Clemens can do
when he feels that he must. His actual
earnings since he went abroad amount to
So, 600, of which about $4,000 has been
received for lecturing. and the remainder
has been paid to him for his writings. He
has now the comfortable prospects of a
very large income from his books during
the remainder Of his life, and the certainty
that his family will be well provided for
He is naturally in very happy frame of
mind, and, although he has been suffering
somewhat from the govt since he has been
in Vienna, the removal of the burden of
debt from his shoulders makes the world
seem vastly pleasanter to live in. The
rapidity with which Mr.. Clemens has paid
off his obligations by his own efforts shows
that there was absolutely no justification
whatever for the attempt of a New York
newspaper to get up public subscription
recently for his benefit.