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The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-05-01
GERMAN COURT BALLS.
The Waltz Is Still Danced at h
Court of Stuttgart.

\ few years ago the minuet and the
gavotte were the special dances of the
Berlin court, the kaiser himself having
taken a special fancy to them. Some
how they did not find much favor in so
ciety. as young people prefer waltzing,
and, after all, the old-fashicned dances,
like a good many o~ld-fashioned habits,
are all very well when the actors are
dressed in the clothes of the period and
resemble in mode of thought and car
riage of body their great-grandparents
But few young people are like their
fo~refathers. There was some reason for
the introduction of a fanciful and pic
turesGue dance at the grand festivals of
the imperial court, especially as very
special rules prevailed there. 1t is well
known that the late Kaiserin Augusta
strongly objected to waltzing, and so
does the court of Berlin. The conse-
quence is that a kind of gallop was in
vented for Berlin-a two-timed move
ment, danced to the music of the waltz,
but not at all resembling the old deux-
temps waltz. In Mecklenburg the waltz
is never danced at all at court, the rea-
son for this being, as it is said, that the
Grand Duchess Marie does not like dane
ing. Moreover, almost everywhere at
German courts the slow waltz was
looked down upon as bad style. Good
style depends upon the leaders of FASH
ion, and so the slow waltz has been pro-
nounced as the correct kind to be
danced at the court of Stuttgart this
winter. Both the queen and her step
daughter are very fond of Waiting;
her majesty has ordered that the waltz
is to be danced slowly at the court balls
now, as is the custom in Vienna.-Lon.
don Telegraph.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-05-01
UMBRELLAS AND CHARACTER.
Feminine Dispositions Revealed By
Methods of Handling Them.

of Them.
Two men who sat neal the window of
a downtown hotel a few days ago whiled
away the time by watching the women
go by and commenting on their umbrel.
las.
The storm had abated about an hour
before and the sun had peered through
q rift in the clouds, but for all that the
first pedestrian went stalking past with
her umbrella still held aloft
That woman" said one Of the men,
ais as patient as Job. She is not a stu
dent, absent-mindedly porting over book
lore, but a housekeeper whofis so taken
up with thoughts of what she is going
to get for supper that she doesn'tknow
it has stopped raining. People who for
get to lower their umbrellas when the
sun begins to shine always r That
girl just behind her who has already
taken time to fold her umbrella neat
~, even though it is soaking wet, is
going to be an old maid. She is narrow
minded. too. The next one has bound
the folds down, but it looks uneven and
bullying. That woman's children will
always look dowdy, but she will nurse
them successfully through innumerable
attacks of Group and rash, and no fam
lily in town will have better things to
eat.
THAT short woman with her um-
brella Topping this way and that will al
ways be poor, because she will give
away everything Is soon as she gets
it. Hers isn't altogether q commend
able generosity, either, for it is caused
more by lack of power to say no. than
by an inherent desire to help her fell
low-creatures. That dark woman with
the tip of her umbrella trailing down
ward and backward at an angle of As
degrees is malicious. 1 wouldn't trust
her out of my sight. She'd say some
thing mean about mt the first chance
she got. The one who carries her UNI
breila swung carelessly owe her Shout
der is a happy go-lucky individual who
will always have a good time, not be
cause she earns it, but because the
world owes it to her, and she is going
to have her rights.
bO YOU STE lldO NOuIdn WIN HOiIS
her umbrella at right angles to her
body and sticks the sharp point ahead
like a bayonet? She's one of the kind
that sets the world afire. She has more
energy in Il minute than most people
have in 4 year. a woman who swings
her umbrella as she walks is prone
to dilly-lally-she never knows her own
mind, and no difference how well she
may pretend to like a person, if IN
other speaks i'll of him in his absence
she will generally SHE in with the
~calumniator. At any rate she will say
nothing in his defense. She who trails
her umbrella along in her wake is IN
tidy and inclined toward low princi-
pies. The one that holds the stick up
right and keeps tapping it on the pave
ment every little while is n good person
TO tie to; she has strength and honesty.
There a woman carrying her
umbrella under her ARM. She's my wife
and 1 won't say anything about her"
His companion looked at the little
mans wrinkled, perpiexed face and
smiled. He fancied he knew what the
verdict would have been had the wom-
an only been somebody else.-Chicago
Tribune,
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-05-01

ing dOOuG Him, cACtpL Ills III
ability in the matter of stewta aspe.
So, leaping from the window to avoid
being deported from the country he
was fond of, he knew not what TO dc
next. He could only walk down the
railroad track, and walk and walk, hop
ing to arrive somewhere where help
would be given. He had broken a rib
and had fearfully plowed his face in
falling, but it was an unimportant rib
and he did not mind his facial appear
ance. The road through the desert
was long and gray and parched, when
the daylight came after a smothering
night, and afterward the two lines OF
rails flashed a %glittering invitation to
farther vistas of quivering heat, as
though it were the way straight TO the
home of the damned. The night was
beautiful on the far-away line of noun.
tains as he hailed the sun at ~daybreak;
at ten o'clock the sui was a furnace
dropping a neat that was almost liquid
upon him. His broken rib panied him
and his face smarted, and he staggered
on down the line, whittier he knew not.
By and by the sound of an approach
ing train came to him and he looked
ahead and saw the black blur at the
ends of the pointed lines of steel. He
dropped to his knees and crept off into
the desert like a poisoned dog and wait
ed in the sage for the train to pass.
Then, with the insufferable sun still
beating upon him. he resumed his weary
journey. At night he came stealthily
upon a village of three houses and he
wanted to steal water there, but he was
afraid, for a dog barked. He went
around the handful of huts, hungry and
burning within, but fearful of that
dread horror, deportation.
1t was thus that the aimless. rudder-
less Hong Fat travelled for a full week
hiding from trains, mourning for water,
and with fostering wounds. He began
to see things on the desert alongside,
and sometimes he lodged into the sage
when no train vas coming. He talked
to himself, too, and altogether he was
IN e~vil-fooking creature when Charley
Go Lee, turning an abrupt curve of the
railroad, came upon him sitting on a
fallen tree, for the traveller had now
reached the timber country, out of
which he had been sc ruthlessly hailed
the week before. Charley Go Lee looked
at the returning wanderer in vast sur
prise. He called to him in Chinese, for
he could hardly believe that this crazy
creature was the Hong Fat of the Cheer
full Heart, and asked him who he was.
There was a wild and maniacal cry OF
rage heard in the timber camp up the
mountain side, and Charley now knew
positively that Hong Fat had come back
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-05-01

Military journals express interest in
an invention by which it is proposed to
arm a self-moving car, driven by q
16 horsepower engine, with two rapid
fire cannon, mounted on pivots 30 as to
sweep in all directions. Having four
broad-tired Wheels it is claimed that
the car can run across L level country
earring fences, Of ~course) at the rate
Of IS miles an hour. Terrible pictures
are drawn of the Mavoc that such cars
could make ON q battlefield. Only one
man is needed to operate the car and its
cannon, and he is protected by strong
steel shields-Youth's Companion.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-05-01
A CHINESE FEUD.

HE L of the
enmity which sub
sisted bet w e e n
Hong Fat 4 d
Charley Go Lee
will pro b a b Y
never be known.
Hong Fat could
have told of it,
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-05-01
When smelt, Were Burned.

Recent experiments by the curiOus
at Portland, Ore, have revived recoliec-
tons Of a primitive light used in ths
early days of the settlements along the
Columbia river, when the residents
called smsIts candlefish. The dried
smelts burn as well as candles and gfss
OF an eppetixinR odor.-N. 7. SON.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-05-01

One cupful OF hickorynut meats
rolled to a paste and mixed with three
fourthso fa cupful ofsour cream Sweet
en- to taste and spread between the lay
ers. This is very nice.-Detroit Free
Press,
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-05-01
Our Modern Children.

"why. Frankie" said his mother,
what are you reading in that book
about bringing up c~hildrenP"
SIN Just looking to see whether I'm
being properly brought up."-Tit-Bits
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-05-01

"Dolan," said Rafferty,, "ye're gittin'
100 savin'. Did yez nivver hear thot
money is the root av all evil?"
"Oi how. An I'm doin' the little Oh
kin to pull it up by the roots an shpare
the rest az yez."-Washington Star.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-05-01
A Rnse Inflammation.

CONDUCTOR can't use a bill that Il
torn like this.
sPassenger-You might turn that ont
tDtr the company.-Brooklyn ISfr>
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-05-01

red MiIde dleu at ms hOme n
- son, April 26th. 1897. The de
Heart rsraurant ana was ed was a young man who had
IF the wooded country and int6. std. IN this citv
of the desert. The mar
,ented the advic. dye John A. Miller, of Bollinger
Although he had Knocked aA,y. was in the city this morning
Lee for being less advant he called on the DEMOCRAT.
himself, Hong Fat was really 4 ne Miller has many friends in this
ess and uninventive ChinaI1T who are always glad to meet him.
Ie W noInins msHgiaue auy a DAVIS work is lost by sick
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-05-01
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Daily Kennebec journal., 1897-11-01
What the Maine Central Did.

A gentleman from Vassalboro, was in
the city, yesterday. He was one of the
townspeOple that assisted in adjusting
the amounts which the Maine Central
paid to the losers by the great fire at
Vassalboro. last June. This gentleman
says that most of those burned out
have accepted the offers of the railroad
company but there are yet a few who
are holding out for more.
The gentleman says that General
Manager Evans, at the time of the fire.
stated that there was no evidence that
one of the locomotives of the road was
responsible for the fire, but that the
company would not stand in the back
ground in helping the people who had
lost. The. company did not wait for
someone to sue and attempt by long
trial to fasten the responsibility on the
road, but Mr.. Evans sent his agent to
the scene at once and, in many in
stances this agent offered people all
that their property had been worth.
There were a few who wanted to try
for more. The road has been more
than fair in the mind Of the gentleman
from Vassalboro, and if those who
hang out now get nothing they will
have none but themselves to blame.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1897-11-01
IN 18th ROUND.
Joe WaIcott Knocks Out George La
vigne at San Francisco.
Colored Man Apparently Not in Contest a
Any Stage,

San Francisco, Oct. 29.-While the even
ing's pugiistic programme was late in
opening. the prelimnaries between local
boxers at Mechanics Pavilion were cur
tailed and a $50 Joe Walcott stepped into
the ring, wrapped in a long gray bath
robe. He was followed by Tom O'Rourke,
George Dixon and Joe Cotton.
Walcott was warmly appauded. but it
was discounted by the roar of applause
which greeted George Lavigne as he fol-
lowed the"cOlored man into the ring. La
vigne's seconds were his brother Billy,
Tom McGrath and Billy Armstrong
LaVigne succeeded in drawing first
b.ood in the first round. In the second
Lav!gne had the better of the round do
ing all the forcing. The pace during the
first four rounds was terrific.
In the fifth and sixth rounds Lavigne
had matters pretty much in his own
hands. In the former he put a hard left
on the jaw and rushed Joe to the corner
George put in a terrific right on the body
and another on the jaw.
Joe stopped his man with left on the
face. Lavigne kept on hitting for the
body. Walcott's seconds finally threw up
the sponge in the 18th round.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1897-11-01
The Committee Will Consider,

There was large number of the peo-
pie interested in the opening of Bur-
leigh street, present at the hearing be-
fore the committee on new streets Of
the city council, Saturday evening.
There had been some feeling stirred up
over the proposed closing of the street
by the committee and when the doors
were opened at the rooms of the city
council, Saturday evening, there was
a good delegation of the citizens in that
section of the city where the street is
laid, ready at hand to stand up for the
street to the last ditch. E. r. and A.
r. Drummond and Hon. Nathaniel
Meader appeared for the remonstrants.
In substance the petitioners claimd
that the street had been laid out and
accepted by the city and that citizens
had builded in the vicinity. 1t would
be serious thing for those who had
built on the strength of the street go
ing through, for the city to close it
because question of damages had
come. The remonstrants did not be-
lieve that the city would be Obliged
to pay what had been reported would
be asked, in the way Of damages.
There was no one present who could
throw any light upon the matter of
Daily Kennebec journal., 1897-11-01
Mr.. Adams Wants His "Mon."

Whether we get a city building or
not, Mr.. Charles G. Adams of Law
renee. Mass, wants his pay for the
plans of the building that has already
cost nearly $4,000 without even rising
from the ground. The building COM
mission, instructed by the city council,
employed Mr.. Adams to make the plans
agreeing to give certain sum for
them. Mr.. Adams made the plans,
they were accepted and the price was
fixed at ,s2S92. Mr.. Adams has been
paid $4,000 non account, but he now
wants the, remaining 1892. 1t belongs
to him and he ought to have it, but the
commission has no funds with which to
pay.
The city cannot pay until the remon-
STRANGE has been acted upon. The
city is undoubtedly liable for the pay
ment- Of the, fee. but the injunction
prevents the, expenditure of another
cent for the building. if some folks un-
derstand the law Alright. How much
has the building cost to date? Well
reckon it up. There was the purchase
Of the Burleigh lot the moving of the
old hall, and the police station. the
excavations for the new hall, the foun-
datiOn for the new hall and the arch-
tect's fees, all of which will amount
to $4,000. Then came the injunction.
1t costs money of the realm to hire
lawyers, as most everyone knows"
The case was argued and reargued
and lawyers don't reargue very cheap,
the thing is still hanging fire in the law
court and no one knows but the judges
when it will explode and they will not
tell Probably the hall that we have
not yet attained has cost the city at
least $1,000 and not a brick has been
Ia ia
Daily Kennebec journal., 1897-11-01

Mrs. Sarah Holt of this place died.
carly Saturday morning, after a long ILL.,
ness from a complica ton of diseases. She
had been in very poor health for the past
two years, and for the past three months
had been confined to her room nearly all
the time. Mrs. Holt formerly lived in
Skowhegan. but after the death of her
husband moved to this place. where she
had since resided with her daughter. Mrs.
G. w. Goulding, on Main street. She is
survived by two daughters. Mrs. Could
ing and Mrs. Summer Boies of Boston, and
one son. Fred holt of Boston. The de-
ceased was about 70 years of age Notice
of the funeral will be later announced
Daily Kennebec journal., 1897-11-01
w. H. S. at Saco, Saturday.

The w. H. S. foot ball team went to
Saco, Saturday, and played the Thorn
ton academy foot ball team of that city
and was beaten by score of II to 4.
There are some things that can be said
about all ball teams, but there are
some things that w. H. S. wants to say
about the Thornton team in particular.
The boys of the W. S. H. say that they
have been in many towns and played
their game, but they never were in a
town where the enthusiasm ran SO
high, that even the police officers of the
city We're as willing to scrap in the in
terest of the local team, as they are at
SacO. Thornton started in to do some
slugging but because the w. H. S.
boys more than kept up their end in
the slugging match, the local team re-
fused to arrange a return date as they
had promised to do.
After the w. H. S. had repaired to
the hotel, the Saco house, crowd of
local bloods gathered at the hotel, fill
ing the office, and insulted the visitors
making propositions to fight. There
were, it is said on good authority, at
least rs people about the hotel and as
there were but Is of the visitors, the
Waterville boys deemed discretion the
better part of valor and remained
dumb.
Thornton promised to call the game
so that our boys could get away at
4.30 but it was not called until it was
too late to catch the train that they
| intended to take for home. AS soon as
the game commenced it was nothing
but kick, kick, kick, at everything but
the ball.
Waterville had the kick off and
Thornton advanced the ball about 25
| yards. Waterville got the ball on
downs. loest it on off-side play, then
Thornton took the ball down the field
| by steady gains, until a touchdown in
six minutes play. Bradford kicked goal
Waterville kicked off and Thornton was
| downed without gain. Thornton made
substantial gains through the line, Wa
terville got the ball on downs in a lit
tie while. Waterville lost on downs af-
ter a few short gains. Thornton pushed
the ball toward the opposite goal steadi-
| ly. Within four yards of their goal
Waterville got the ball. Thornton went
over for the second touchdown in Is
minutes play. Bradford kicked his
second goal.
Waterville made some good gains but
time was called with the ball in Wa
terville's possession and on Thornton's
| 15-yard line.
In the second half Thornton kicked
of and Bushey took it making a sensa-
tional run for 20 yards evading inter-
ference in mastery manner. Gains
were made at will until Waterville was
held at tthe Thornton 15-yard line. Wa
Daily Kennebec journal., 1897-11-01

Exceptionally fortunate in it's loca-
ton is the establishment of H. Crime.
the leading furrier of Boston at Is and
IL Avon street. 1t is situated in the
heart of Boston's retail shopping dis
trict, directly opposite the southerly
SIDE OF Jordan. Marsh & Co.'S and in
the immediate neighborhood of all the
large retail stores. Discriminating
ladies'. who purchase all other gar
ments at the dry goods stores, will in
sist upon purchasing furs and fur gar
ments of the furrier. Mr.. Crimes forty
years OF experience in the fur business
is at the service of his patrons, whether
on new furs and garments or the re-
pairs and alterations Of old ones.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1897-11-01

terville recovered the ball quickly on
downs. In one end play and the buck
ing of the line. twice carried the ball
over for Waterville. Goal was at
tempted from the 35-yard line. from a
punt in from the side line but the goal
was missed. Waterville outplayed the
local team in every way during the re-
mainder of the game.
Repeated line plays bucks and around
the end plays brought the ball to the
center of the field for Waterville. By
round the end plays Waterville carried
the ball for substantial gains but it was
lost on tumble. Fall wavered back
and forth until time was called with
the ball in the possession of Thornton
on their 3O-yard line. Thorntons best
work was done by Dow, Giles and
Boyker. Waterville's work by James
and Reynolds, Levine and Warner was
of the first water.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1897-11-01

Pants Fine Cashmere Pants made up with French Waist
Bands double sewed and stitched with silk for and $o8
All Wool Pin Stripe Pans Sawyers Goods warranedo wear
we'll worth $3.50 for $175 Genuine Reading, Hair Lined
all Wool Pants, worth $500 for S9S. Mems fine Dress
Pants worth from $500 to $500 for $I9S to $348.
OVERCOATS AND ULSTERS.
Mems Heavy Overcoats Chnchla and Tweeds worth 81
will go at $3o8 Mems Fine Beaver Overcoats, elegantly
lined worth $ooo price $50 Mems Fine English Ker
seys strictly all Wool warranted fast color handsomely lined
and trimmed easily worth ST $780, price u.s. Mems Fine
Overcoats made up with strapped Silk and Clay Dago
na lined Blue Black; they well worth $500, will go
975 Special custommade Overcoats elegant heavy satin
for $4,000 will go 1000 listers and Reeers:-Mens
long and heavy weight Ulsters good durable material Set
Daily Kennebec journal., 1897-11-01
GREAT EXCITEMENT IN WATERWLlE

Over the wonderful cures that Prof.
Cowan is making. After all other
powers and remedies have failed he
has taken cases and restored them to
health. He makes speciality Of
chronic diseases, such as brain, eye,
heart, stomach, nervous prostration,
and all weakly troubles; spinal, kid
ney and rheumatic. All having any Of
the troubles mentioned. should call or
send for circulars. Permanently To-
Gated at the Bay View hotel, Water
vile. Me.
Office hours A. NJ. to 8 p. NJ.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1897-11-01

Miss M. A. Hanson of Vassalboro, is
building a store for the post Office and
her own use as dry goods store, on
the lot occupied by the building that
was burned in the great conflagration
at Vassalboro, last June. The Odd
Fellows, who were burned out at the
same time, have bought in" with the
Masons and are comfortably situated
near the chapel Waterville.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1897-11-01

Yes, it will be hot game on the
Colby campus next Wednesday and you
want to turn out and see it. U. of M.
will send a delegation over to root for
the Bowdoins, Colby will be well along
the lines and Bowdoin will not be left
out in the cold. BowdOin has a strong
team and we are not ashamed of Colby.
By the way, Bates and Bowdoin have
had no difficulty in getting on games
with Colby as you may have noticed.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1897-11-01
The Somerset Hotel, North lnson. Ne.

has for many years been the home ~.
sportsmen and the commercial man when
IN this section Of the State. The hotel is
put a snort distance from the best fish
ponds Ir and hunting grounds in the State.
ample and the very best, The cmis,ns
speaks for itself and the terms are MOST
reasonable. When making plans for
yocr summer outing remember the SOM
erszt hotel. Geo. H. Charlie, proprietor.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1897-11-01

The Woman's Literary Club will
meet with Mrs. A. Z. Bessey of Oak
street, Wednesday afternoon. There
will be a paper Some April Days" by
Mrs. Bessey: ITO Kineo with the
Botanists,' by Mrs. S. w. Hall; Sum
mer at Harpswell," by Mrs. S. W.
Crosby. This will be followed by re-
ports from State Federation and col
lection of fees.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1897-11-01

Considers is "a household necessity" :"
Mr. A. j. Whiting, Newton, Kansas, ac-
centuates his opinion thus: Il have
used DR.. Bulls Cough Syrup in my
family for the last eight years and con-
slider it a household necessity.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1897-11-01

The new Skowhegan Electric Light Co.
building is pretty well along toward COM
pletion. The large Corliss engine is set
up nearly ready for operation Two new
dynamos have arrived and are nearly
ready for business. 1t is expected that
the machinery will start by steam in
about two weeks