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The sun., 1897-11-10
SAMUEL H. BAYNARD,
A Successful Jeweler of This City'
Who Designed the Gift.


procuring special rates OF transportation
could only report progress. The rail-
road companies would have to confer be-
fore stating what rate Of transportation
would be made Mr., Hopes fur her stated
that the committee had not heard any
khing from the Wilmington Steamboat
Company. .f.. -. 'f' ;,
Mr.. Iawton, treasurer OF the commit
tee reported 81 ,sO6. so as the amount con-
kribted so far to the fund. ...
Jesse X. Baylis kindly offered the use
pf his Opem House in which to hold the
presentation services on the afternoon OF
November 23, and the committee ac-
ceptcd his Offer :,
On motion Of Mr.. gertolette the order
given to engage the Auditorium for the
Exercises was rescindsd,
1T was suggested By Mr.. Bertolette'
The sun., 1897-11-10
This Gun Was Loaded.
Special to THE SuN.

Special to TIE Sun.
CMAMBERsBuRG, Pa, Nov. 9.-While
out cunning for rabbits to-day John
Eberly's gun accidentally discharged.
The shot penetrated the abdomen OF
David Burkholder, who now lies at
deaths door, and the leg of Joseph
Eberly, u son OF Mr.. Eberly.
The sun., 1897-11-10
ACCIDENT NEAR CAMBRIDGE.

Engine Derailed by Tree Falling in
Gaze.
Special to THE Sun.
HARRINGTON, DEL, Nov.o, lS97.-Thc
high winds this afternoon blew Il tree
down near Cambridge, Nd, on the {. 4
S. Branch, striking the cab OF engine SO,
attached to the pay car Of the p, W. u
b. r. r., knocking the engine off the
track and slightly injuriny fireman, JOS
eph BARLEY, the rest Of the crew cScap-
ing unhurt.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-06-05
SCHOOL AND U

The highest church (not cathedraa)i
Steeple in this country is that Of ST.
Walburg's. Preston, which is so3 feet
in altitude.
AS many as $4,000 people have been
accommodated in St. PauI's cathedral,
cut that has been with temporary gall
lerieS. etc.. erected. On festivals only
between 6,oOO and 1000 peohe find
seats. At an ordinary service about
1000 people will make the cathedral
Sok quite full.
The average attendance at places
of worship in England and Wales is
computed to be between 10000, 900 and
1 100000 persons. There is a place Of
worship for every 500 individuals, TAX
ing the country all through. and q
stated minister for every 700. About
$4,000 sermons are preached every Sun
day.
The only spot in the world where
women are paid the same salary as men
for identical work in the state schools
is Wyoming. where they have had the
vote for nearly 30 years, and an agita-
ton for the same equalization of pay
is now presenting hopeful activity in
New Zealand. where also women vote
for members of parliament
Blessed Peter Fourier de Matain-
court. who in the sixteenth century re-
formed the Premonstrntentian order
and founded the Notre Dame congre-
cations of teaching nuns, is about to
be ~canonized and made into a full saint.
Pope Leo has sent out 40, 1000 invitations
for the ceremonies, which will take
place in st. Peters. The last survivor
of the saints family, N. Fourier de
Baucourt, will be present. He wa for
merly French charge d'affaires to the
vatican.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-06-05
WeaseIs Dodge Bullets.

A friend and 1 were out after ground.
hogs. 1 had a Winchester .22-15, he
my Ithaca shotgun. We saw what we
thought was a chipmunk with its head
out of n knothole in a log, and he fired
at it. When we got to the log 1 saw
something run, and also found a dead
weasel. Dunkle began poking in the
log, and a weasel stuck it's head out of
the knothole, and 1 fired at it from, I
should think, about 20 feet. Dunkle
called: you never touched him." l
tried several times with the same re-
suit, the weasel always disappearing
into a hole in the log right where his
head had been. Finally Dunkle moved
while I was taking aim, and the weasel
turned it's head and I killed it. We got
five, four of which 1 killed with the
rife, but 1 did not kill one with its eyes
turned toward me. One got out in the
bark of the log. and a small hole af-
forded a fine peep hole for it. l put
three bullets in that hole, which was
hardly large enough to let the weasel's
head out, but never touched him.-For-
est and Stream.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-06-05
China's Famous Criminal.

K'Ang, whose many crimes in China
have kept parts of that country in ter
ror for years, has at last paid the pen
atty of his misdeeds. Mail advices
brought by the steamer Rio Janeiro the
other day say that, emboldened by his
long immunity from capture, K'Anglaid
siege to the heart of the daughter of
a high Manchu official of the imperial
court, whom he succeeded in inducing
to elope with him early in January.
There was a great commotion following
the fight of the couple, and the Pc
king police bestirred themselves so n
e~rgetically that he was captured late in
the month. KADg was taken to Pc
king, where he was tried before a spe-
eial tribunal, and although cruel tor
lures, such as kneeling OF heated iron
chains, being pricked with red-hot
needles, ETC., were inflicted to make him
confess to 90 robberies, with murder in
each case, of which he was accused,
he would divulge nothing. NeyeTthe-
less, he was condemned to suffer death
by the slicing process. On the day he
was led to die K'Ang sang songs all tho
way to the execution ground, and kept
singing even after several cuts had been
inflicted. A stab with a dagger in the
region of the heart then silenced the
~desperado's voice, and the rest of the
slicing and the final severance of the
head from the body were carried out in
silence.-San Francisco Cor. New York
SIM
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-06-05
CUPID'S CORNER.

Away up in the attic where the wind says
"woo-oo,'
ana the boards are warped and shrunken
and the breeze steals through,
We were seeking after treasure in a rainy
day in June,
That her sunny smiles were changing IN "A
golden afternoon.
i loved her, yes, 1 w~orshiped her, but really
did not dare
To summon up my courage and declare Il
then and there,
And of my beating heart 1 asked: "Oh,
what am l to do
Away up in the attic ?"-and the wind said
"woo-oo!"
She heard the winds low whisper and
within her smiling eyes
1 seemed to read the hidden words: HE
only win who tries"
My heart sprang up to tell its love, and
kneeling at her feet
won the cherished vow that made my hap
piness complete.
And now l say to lovers who are eager to
possess
A promise from the dear ones who their lot
in life may bless,
If you would gain the happy prize you ar
IDENTIFY pursue
Go linger in the attic where the wind says
"woo-oor"
Nixon Waterman. in L. A. W. Bulletin.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-06-05
HUMOROUS.

Tho person who is afflicted with
kleptomania always feels that he ought
to take something for it.-Tit-Bits.
--Hazel--"Why don't you like the
stories Mrs. Talker tells?" Mute
They have no terminal facilities."-
Truth.
-Sprocket-"Did your wife run into
anything when she first got her wheel?"
Bloomer-"Yes; she ran into debit
Brooklyn Life.
-May-"Oh, 1 hate these magazine
serials!" Edith-"Why?" May-"You
can never tell how a story ends until it
is finished."-Brooklyn Life.
Nothing Observation-Disclosures
is the matter with you this morning?
You look as though you on your
last legs" Lowe-'Oh! I'm not myself
at ALL" High-"Well, that's nothing to
feel SO bad about."eBrooklyn Life.
81 suppose you may say the honey
moon is at an end when the husband
begins to stay out late at night?" Not
exactly. 1t doesn't really end until the
wife can go to sleep again without be-
lieving what he has to say for himself"
Truth.
MY daughters are making very sat-
isfactory progress with their music" re-
marked Mrs. Snaggs to Mrs. Noomoney.
"They play four-handed pieces On a sim
gle piano." Indeed" replied Mrs. Moo
money proudly. my daughters don't
need to play on one piano. Each of
them has a piano of her own."-Pitts.
burgh Chronicle-Telegraph.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-06-05
ARE WE MICROBES2
A Theory That Human Beings und All
Life Are AggrcEatiOns of Then.

A Theory That Human Beings and All
Life Are AEgrcEatiOns of Them.
NJ. Paris, who succeeded to the seat
OF the great Pasteur in the French acad-
envy, referred in his inaugural address
to the interesting theory that human
beings and ali life are aggregations of
microbes.
"The microbes" he said, "were known
before Pasteur, but the part which they
played in nature was not clearly dis
cerned. They penetrate into the It's
sues of the human body and produce in
fictitious disease; they people the air;
they fill the water; they sabIrate the
soil; dwell in animals and plants; they
develop us, serve our purposes, and
threaten us from all sides.
"Nay, they are perhaps ourselves.
The life of superior beings appears to
science as the result of myriads of these
elementary e~Xistences. Their colonies,
more and more populous and differen-
tiated, composed from the merest in
sect to the rose, the cedar, the eagle, the
whale, the man, the immense and daz-
cling network in the meshes of which
they ceaselessly circulate, destroyed
and yet renewed, ever since there has
been produced and without doubt pro-
duced by them on this globe of ours
h mysterious dawning of life. This,
therefore, is what the study of microbes
has revealed to amazed humanitv."-
Y. Y. Journal.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-06-05
TREES THREE INCHES TALL.


Cornell Secures Several Good Speci-
mems from the Arctic Regions.
The most interesting feature of the
forestry and herbaceous collection of
Cornell university is n recently added,
consisting of specimens of perfect for
est trees less than three inches high.
They were brought to the university
from the Arctic regions by a party Of
explorers sent put by the institution
itself. The most notable features of the
collection are the Arctic birch and the
crowberry.
The specimens which Cornell has were
found on the Greenland coast, some at
Godhaven, on the Isle of Disko. Others
were discovered at Wilcox Head, where
the exploring party that secured speci-
mems did most of its work.
A curious difference between this
liliputian birch and the ordinary forest
tree of the same species is that the
Arctic specimen bears fruit The trees
on the island of Disko were covered
with fruit when the explorers found
them. What is more, this fruit is edi-
BILE. 1t has a taste not unlike the juni-
per berry, and is said to be exceedingly
healthful.
The second notable specimen is known
as the crowberry, or, as the scientist
terms it, the Emporium Nigrum.
A third specimen of the dwarf trees
which was brought back by the Cornell
party was the Arctic willow. There is
the Arctic willow proper, and then what
is known as the "bear' willow.
These little trees which have been
described are of exceeding interest.
apart from their rarity and place of dis
covery. from the exact resemblance in
every slight detail to the great trees
of the same species found in the forests
of the United States. For instance, the
leaf is precisely the same, and the gen.
eral appearance of the wood exhibits
no difference. With the willow it Is
curious to note the leaf formation and
the quality of sap that exudes from a
twig when the bark is removed there
from. The texture of the wood is pre-
cisely the anne One can make a very
fair whistle out of the trunk of any Of
the Arctic willows equal in quality to
that which the youngster evolves from
the branch of the willow of ordinary
size.-N. Y. Herald.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-06-05
eERM-PRooF DR.. BURGESS.
Guards the United states Against
Enidemica from Cubn.

Guards the United states Against
Epidemics from Cuba.
DIR. Burgess is a remarkable man. He
has been in Cuba for many years. He
has sailed through epidemics of all sorts
cholera, yellow fever, and smallpox
without the slightest fear or nervous
ness, and insists that he was born to be
hanged. Disease has no terrors for him.
With a disposition as kindly and a
ners as gentle as those of Florence
Nightingale or Clara Barton, he can be-
come a roaring lion if anyone attempts
to interfere with him in the perform
ance of his duty, and he has the courage
to defy the captain general and all the
armies of Spain if his official rights are
infringed upon, because he realizes
that the public health of the United
States depends upon his vigilance. Just
now Cuba is suffering from an epidemic
of smallpox. In several places ON the
island the disease is raging, and in Ha-
vana the death rate from that cause
alone averages 1G0 n day. When the
rainy season begins, and the summer
heat comes, yellow fever will break out
again, and DR.. Burgess stands between
those epidemics and the people of the
United States.
The harbor of Havana is a cesspool
which for years has received the drain
age of the city, and is virtually n Guide
sac, with no means of being secured by
tides or fresh water streams. The
docks of the cityside of the bay are no.
torious as foci of infection. Under one
of them the sewer from the military
hospital, where contagious diseases of
soldiers are treated, discharges its filth
and germs into the bay. 1t is said that
no ship has ever tied up at that wharf
without disease breaking out among
the crew, and the sailors call it dead
mans hole" DIR. Burgess compels all
vessels bound for the United States to
anchor as far away as possible, at the
extreme end of the harbor, where the
currents from the ocean keep the water
in motion, and no person is allowed to
board n of these ships without a per-
init with his signature. No steamship
agent is allowed to sell a ticket until
the applicant produces such n permit,
and none a be secured until DR.. Bur.
CESS is satisfied that he is in good health
and has not been exposed to . con-
tagicus disease.
During the smallpox epidemic he has
required all persons desiring to sail for
the United States to show evidence of
recent vaccination. If they cannot do
so he vaccinates them and compels them
to remain in Havana until the virus
takes" This is often annoying, but
DR.. Burgess is memorable. During the
last winter people who have gone to
Havana for a two days stay have been
required to prolong their visit for IL
days. But he argues that the incon-
venience of one person is not to be o n
sidered when the health of q whole ma,
ton is at stake.-Chicago Record.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-06-05
New Odors for Flowers.

1t is a fad in Paris to perfume flowers
srtificially. Experiment has proved
that it is possible not only to take away
the natural odor of a flower, but also
to make it yield a perfume derived
from some other vegetable product.
Some ~violets, for example, are perfect
In form and ~coloring, but without fra
GRANGE, while others, very insignificant
to look at, emit n delicious fragrance.
The transfer of the odor from one spe-
cies to the other has been accomplished.
Those who have been most successful
in this branch of horticulture refuse
to tell their secret. 1t is said that the
African marigold has been robbed of
its disagreeable odor and endowed with
o perfume that makes it much sought.
The fad has been carried to the extreme
nf giving to the sunflower the odor of
the rose and to the chrysanthemum
that of the violet.-N. Y. Sun.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-06-05

Billings-Bosh! Don't tell me that
Banks doesn't care for his wife. Why,
that man is completely infatuated, and
I have proof of it.
Rockwell-What is your proof?
HE consented to take her for his part
rer in q rubber Of whist tbs cthez
night"-Cleveland Leader.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-06-05
The Deacon Gave Up.

The Observation-Disclosures ike
: very persistent man. He doesn't
look as if he would give up anything.
The Deacon-WeIl, I've been passing
the plate for hard on ten years, and ]
never see him give up anything yeA-
Yonkers Statesman.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-06-05
Amending II.

Cumso Ito Threds)-Not counting
you, how many clerks are there in this
store who can tell the truth?
Threds (highly indignant)-Sir?
Cumso-Oh, well, don't be cross aboul
it. How many are there, counting you
then?-Harlem Life.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-06-05

Witness-Your honor, 1 can't read or
write.
Judge-As the witnes can't sign his
name, the clerk will fill out q blank set
ting forth that the undersigned pro-
fesses to be unable to sign his name, to
read or write, and declares himself ut
terly illiterate.-Journal Amusant.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-06-05

II can't see why they speak of the
wisdom of the serpent" well, you
never hea,d of a serpent getting its leg
pulled, did you?"-Truth.
Warren sheaf., 1897-07-01
AMONG THE POULTRY.

Do not let ducklings bathe until well
feathered. y f: s5
Do not set hens in the laying part of
the poultry house. b. I. ). ls.:
q In order to have poultry tender and
Juicy fatten it quickly. ==s.3..s =ss.3.stt5@= t{5@:
Weight and size are important fea-
lures in market fowls. %4s
To maintain health keep the drinking
and feeding places clean. 49,. 5
Better results in whitewashing will
be secured if it is applied hot.
Hens not kept with roosters will lay
longer and sit less than others.
II well fed and watered a good hen
will hatch out ten good broods of chick
ems. rs 8 S sS3 sssss %.
Lime Is needed by all fowls for the
growth of bones and for egg-shell ma
terial. 81 # =,g s.
Sell all the early Matched ducks as
soon nasready, and keep the later hatched
for breeders and layers.S st. Louis Re-
public.
Warren sheaf., 1897-07-01
She Missed Him.

a poor woman who kept a shop in north
ern, village, and who was troubled with a
credit to the family, one day found herself
a widow through the sudden demise Of her
spouse. A lady, who frequently made
small purchases at the shop, called to see her
and to offer her sympathy, though knowing
that the mans death must in certain sense
come as a relief. as the wife had often suf.
ever, quite prepared for the stoical way in
which the wife took her bereavement.
Said the lady: I'M. -. -
your husband" 1 = = :,
/, Well, mum, it do seem queer to go into
sne s1.e shop and find something in the tiH!"'-
Warren sheaf., 1897-07-01
] ABOUT kAlFFIR coRN.



5Experience FsiIs 10 Sustain Many 81
the Claims Made FOR 1t.
~ Some enthusiasts declare that Kafirl
corn is destined to supersede both wheat
and Indian corn in Kansas, but the
Kansas authorities and the department
of agricult do not sustain this claim.
Kaffir corn, an Egyptian millet, is q
sorghum, and as crop possesses these.
advantages: The yield is larger by from
20 to so percent. than Indian corn; il
win grow and yield q crop-not a large.
one---on e very poor soil; 1T is injured
much less than Indian corn by drought,
and even when withered by the hot, dry
winds Of the prairies, it will recover un-
der moisture.
1t forms an excellent food for cattle
and pigs All the experiments, OF which
many have been made by scientific agri-
culturists, show that it is inferior in
fatening power to either wheat or
corn. Nevertheless, asa surer and
larger crop than corn, it promises most
important results for regions like Kan
sas and Nebraska, where scorching
winds frequently wither the corn and
destroy the crop. = .=
AS food for man, it is nourishing,
wholesome and palatable. But the lat
est conclusions of the national depart.
ment of agriculture are that it's use will
probably be somewhat like that of buck.
wheatIt will form an occasional
rather than q staple article of diet. In
nourishing power it stands at 81, where
zbolted cornmeal stands at 81, wheat
flour at IS and oatmeal at 81. Is.
Heretofore it has been difficult to
grind this corn fine enough for use as
human food. It IS said that this diff.
Guilty has been overcome lately. If So
there will soon be an opportunity to
test its food value on an extensive scale.
Farmers Voice. Z
Warren sheaf., 1897-07-01
HER LlFELIkE STATUE.
SfgnaHzed Her Departure from the
ii World of Artists, ~, Il

signalized Her Departure from the
World Of Artists. H
Before her marriage she had been fa-
nous sculptress. She had made several por.
traits Of well-known men, and everyone pre-
dicted for her still more brilliant future,
when she suddenly set all predictions at
naught by marrying wealthy man who dis
approved of her keeping up her professional
work: She was very quiet under this re-
striction, but was supposed to rebel inward
". Therefore when, at dinner party one
evening, she asked her old friend, Gen.
Bashar, to come and see her on the follow
ing evening and inspect her last piece of
work, which she thought the best and most
ifelike she had ever executed, he sup
posed he was to use his influence to prevail
upon the husband to permit her to resume
her place among the working fraternity of
artists. - gs.s 35z 35zs - 81 I -
II am sure you will like it, general, she
said, with a winning smile. 1t fairly lives
and breathes. confess ! am in love with
it myself" rs ~
On the appointed evening the general,
with some misgivings over the delicacy Of
the task intrusted to him, presented him
self. Instead of inviting him to the studio,
his hostess, to his surprise, offered to bring
her last bit to him. Eazz z-. ga
HOh, it's statuette, is it?' he asked.
( Well, yes, you might call it go" she an
swered, as she went out of the ROOM In a
few minutes she returned, bearing in her
arms-a baby Chicago Times Herald.
Warren sheaf., 1897-07-01
NEW ROTATION THEORY.

Its Adoption Might Improve the Con.
ditiOn Of Western Farmers.
When the farmers of the west see
their way clear to abandon the idea OF
devoting the land to corn as the prin.
cipal crop and substitute clover, sheep
and the sugar beet as the trinity neces-
sary to the redemption Of the producers
from the depression resulting from low
prices for farm products progress will
be made towards better conditions:
Clover and sheep produce good mutton
while enriching the land. Sugar beets
are good for sheep and produce the best
of sugar at good profit. Let every farm.
or who can and who has not already
done SO make start in this trium.
virate theory of rotation which is cer-
tain of success if properly conducted,
in restoring the prosperity which is SO
much wished for. There is an increas.:
ing demand for good mutton, an arti.
Gle which but few farmers know how to
produce to perfection: The large profit.
IS only possible where the best is pro.
duced for market. Give the people good
and desirable food products and con.z
sumers will pay literally for the same.
Mutton, # properly grown, is the most
nutritious and wholesome of the meat
diets. The mutton breeds of sheep are
the most desirable and satisfactory OF
the domestic animals for the farm and
can be cared for with the least labor,
The profits in sheep are also the most
assuring for the future of any of the
other domestic animals. Devote less
lands to the cereals aud prosper
Farmers Union. 55s -