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The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-11-20
Absolutely Refuse to Arbitrat..

CHICAGO, Nov. 1S.-The coal operators
of northern Illinois have refused abso-
lutely to arbitrate their differences
with the striking miners, and the min
ers will hold Il convention at Streator
on Friday to consider what further &C
ton shall be taken.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-11-20
CoughtnE Leads TO Connumption.

Kemp's Balsam will stop the cough at
once. Go to your druggist to-day and get a
sample bottle free. Large bottles, 80 cents
and Sl.00. Go at once; delays are dangerous.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-11-20

An Expert ~Opinion.-"Great men," re-
marked the thoughtful youth. ARE fire.
quently misunderstood by the public"
That" replied Senator Sorghum. ~gravely,
"is very true. And mighty lucky it is for
some of Observation-Disclosures Star.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-11-20
FLOOD IN The NEVA.
Much Damage Done In the Vicinity CT 81
Petersburg.

PetersDurg.
ST.. PETERSBURG. Nov. I6.-All day
long a fierce wind from the sea has
driven the waters of the Neva up the
stream and flooded the canals, the
suburban islands and outlying portions
of the city. Several bridges have been
swept away, and the flood continues to
rise, threatening to assume grave pro-
portions.
At frequent intervals cannon are
fred at the fortress to keep the inhab-
itautS alert.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-11-20

a day. a week, a month, a year? DR.. Bells
ne-Tar-Honey will cure that cough. There
can be no doubt of it. 1t has cured many
others equally severe. Druggists sell it.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-11-20

A Yankee, in describing a gale of wind.
says: "A white dog, while attempting to
weather the gale, was caught with his
mouth open and turned completely inside
out."-Tit-Bits.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-11-20

The Crushed Worm.-Mrs. Henry Peck
Bah! | only married you because / pitied
YOU when nobody else thought ANYTHING
about you" Mr.. Henry Peck (wearily).
All, well, my dear, everybody pities me
now. "-Boston Traveller.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-11-20
Cruel Man.

81 cried ali DAY yesterday"
"What for"
"It was our wedding anniversary, n
Henry said: 1T seems to me that some
thing awful occurred ten years ago to-day,
but l can't remember what it was. DE
troit Free Press.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-11-20
Why Is star Plug Tobacco the Best.

Because IT is made from selected stock OF
the best grade of leaf that grows. The ingre-
dents used in its manufacture are absolute
ly p~ure-nothing injurious to the system en-
tiers into it.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-11-20

Where? Have pains and aches everywhere,
Cured by st. Jacobs Oil-they' re nowhere.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-11-20

The office never gets left when it starts
out to seek tR man.-Chicago News.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1897-10-14
NEGRO FELL FIFTY FEET.
He Expressed No Surprise, but Walked
on Hummfng q Tune.

He Expressed No Surprise, but Walked
or Humming Tune.
A negro up on New river, West Vir-
ginia, recently underwent enough to
kill white man, and certainly not
very many negroes could have stood
what he did and escaped alive.
The fellow was drinking good deal
and went into saloon at Thurmond
where he grew quarrelsome, and before
long he had gotten into general row.
Before the fight had ended some one
had given the negro severe beating
over the head with beer bottle, cut
ting his scalp badly in several places
The blows were enough to have crushed
an ordinary skull, but the fellow, stag
gering only from the effects of the
liquor he had drunk, started away from
the saloon and across the bridge Per-
haps because he was blinded with blood
which flowed from his head. perhaps
because of his unsteady gait, he had
hardly got midway on the bridge when
he fell over. Down distance Of about
so feet he plunged and fell among the
enormous powders of New river into
about two feet of water.
Those who saw him fall rushed to
the rivers edge, never expecting to see
him any more. But he fooled them He
had fallen, shins up, and, shaking the
water from himself like wet dog, he
picked his way among the rocks to the
top of the bank and started up the rail-
road track, softly humming to himself
the familiar bars of the song, "Al1
Coons Look Alike to Me. &c Charleston
CIV. Va Gazette.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1897-10-14
Marie Antoinette's Books.

The unhappy Queen Marie Antoinette
possessed an important library of 4, ,712
volumes. consisting of plays and ro-
mances, little books a la mode, the
works of Pascal, Bossuet, Fenelon,
Bourdaloue, Massillon, Boileau, Cous-
seau, Corneille, Moliere, Voltaire and
many others. She loved music passion
ately and had large collection of
operas i'll SO numbers. The bindings
were by Blaizot and were uniform in
red morocco, with the arms Of France
and Austria stamped upon them. The
execution of the work was poor, and
the decadenoe i'll the art of binding evi
dent. The glories of the art of PadeIoup
and the Deromes had passed away, and
the revolution effectually killed what
ever knowledge remained of the ancient
skill of the bookbinders Half century
later saw its revival in France, and the
art has since hourished both there and on
English soil. Magazine.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1897-10-14
No More of 1t For Him.

He entered the shop of fashionable
bootmaker, look Of determination on
his face 1t was such look as one sees
on the face of man who is firmly re-
solved to carry out, at all hazards, a de-
cision which will change the whole
course of his life
"H'mp' he began as the assistant
stepped forward and politely questioned
him as to his requirements in feet
beautifiers. II want pair of shoes for
my wife, Mrs. Brown.
"Yes, sir, certainly" said the young
man briskly. Same style and size as
last week?"
Same style. Size, fives-wide fives, I"
replied Brown decidedly.
'But-er-excuse me. Mrs. Brown
only takes-that is, she usually has
81" exclaimed the assistant, who
knew the lady we'll.
Are you married, young mann"
queried Brown sternly, the look of de-
termination deepening on his careworn
features.
"Er-not yet, sir, answered the
shopman, blushing.
81 thought not, returned Brown.
81 ami l am not going to suffer half
an hours purgatory every morning,
watching woman trying to squeeze a
bushel of feet into peck of boots. I've
stood it long enough. and Pm going to
take her pair that will fit. Pear
sons Weekly.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1897-10-14
BEAUTY BY x RAYS.
New Process by which the Skin II sof-
tened and whitened.

New Process by Which the Skin Il soS-
tened and Whitened.
Mr. Edison and Professor Thompson
have recently discovered that the Z
rays are positive beautifer. Expert
ments recently made show that after
the skin has been exposed to the rays
for certain length of time it becomes
red and then fades In about nine days
it becomes sfrritated, shrivels up and
finally the outer cuticle peels off. Dur
ing the slow healing process which fol-
lows white, pure skin grows in its
place. An exposure Of 12 minutes will
produce this effect.
If magnet be placed back of the
hand or arm, the action of che rays will
be strengthened One of the theories
concerning the K ray burns is that the
mischief is caused by the ozone always
to be found near the tubes Some claim
that electricity has disintegrating ef-
feet. A tube may be considered min
iature battery. When the x ray strikes
the skin, little ray projectiles strike the
flesh like little hammers A few min
utes of this bombardment serves to de-
stroy the outer cuticle. It is the most
refined way of burning Chicago Inter
Ooean
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1897-10-14
Alfalfa win Grow In New York.

Last fall sowed alfalfa for an ex-
pertinent. and report as follows: Five
acres sowed with corn came through all
right Plat March 28 turned 40
sheep (ewes) and their lambs on. 1t
kept growing right along and kept these
sheep in good feed until May 2, when
they were ali taken of. It then grew
about eight inches high and was turned
under for silage corn. with a good coat
of manure, about June 10. Plat a.
July sowed about two acres in buck
wheat with alfalfa. This came up and
looked nice last fall, but died out some
during winter. July cut and had
three big loads of nice hay, not weeds.
Where the alfalfa died out red clover
came in. Cut second crop, fully as
good as first. From Allegheny County,
N. Y.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1897-10-14
Making Things Clear.

An old PEBBLES worthy and an Eng
lish lady were one day recently ocou-
pants of railway carriage in an Edin-
burgh bound train. The train had been
waiting long at certain station, and
there was no appearance of its starting,
when the worthy remarked, They're a
gey taiglesome lot here. -
II beg your pardon, said the lady.
''I'm sayin they're an awfu' daidlin
squad here, said the old fellow.
II really beg your pardon, sir, she
rejoined.
"I'm remarkin they're vera dreioh
lot here the nicht, the old gentleman
further ventured.
Really, / must again beg your par
don, I" said the lady, with marked en-
barrassment, ''but do not comprehend
you"
II was just trying to say the train
was late, he finally blurted.
Indeed, sir, it is very late," agreed
the lady.
And the conversation collapsed
Dundee News.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1897-10-14
WOMAN'S DELIGHT.

Crepe de chine In the loveliest tints Inn
nginable will have high place among ele-
CANT dress textiles for two seasons to come.
White belts look well only on slender
women, a conclusion one reaches daily as
they are beheld circling the ample waists
of oyerstout persons.
There will be great vogue during the
fall and winter seasons of repped silks Of
every description and color, corded silk
and wool and all wool materials.
But very recently mixture of many
opposite, colors in gowning was the rule.
Parisiasas from whom we take our initia-
tive in fashion, are now declaring in favor
of harmonies.
The hardy Scotch tweeds and cheviots
hold very favored place in the season be-
fore us among popular dress fabrics de-
signed for travelling, shopping, walking
and similar uses.
Ribbon belts with loops and ends are
still in high favor, and many fasten on
the left side at the back, with two long,
slender standing and falling loops on the
right in front, the standing ends reaching
up we'll on the waist.
Among autumn skirt models are many
finished with three very deep founoes, the
three wholly covering the closely gored
foundation, or there are many rows of
tiny frills set on from belt to hem, and in
this case the sleeves and upper portion of
the waist are likewise trimmed.
Overdresses appear caught up at one
side, or in regular pointed apron style,
some very long, the point reaching to the
skirt hem, Others in laveuse fashion, the
lower edge faced with a bias fabric con-
trasting in kind and frequently in color
with the material forming the oyerskirt
The latest fiat of fashion is that only
when they accompany toilet or costume
in black and white effects are white gloves
stitched with black any longer indispensa-
BILE for day wear. Doe color, biscuit,
mushroom, almond and pale brown and
tan shades are, strictly speaking, more
fashionable. New York Post.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1897-10-14
NV Klondike Girl.

A mine of sweet delight is she.
never can displacer.
An aureate phantom to my sight,
in fancy still chase her,
Yet she eludes me like vein
In rocks securely hidden,
Though golden dreams Of her dear self
Forever rise unbidden.
"Those dreams are o'eri'' often cry,
And seek thus to forget her,
But then. again. bless the day
The golden day met her.
was minor then, but now
My heart has grown much older.
All, in those callow days found
Some quartz in every bowlders
Twas then thought had a claim
In her rich, fond affection.
Prospecting only brought to me
Discouraging detection.
My peace of mind found at stake,
My silence seemed to task hor.
Twas then / sought my Klondike girl
With this one thought. ''I'll ask herfs
called her all endearing terms
My precious one, my nugget
She had form-oh, such form
And how longed to hug It'll
Ny Klondike girl is mine at last,
She wields the kitchen ladle,
While l, as any miner should,
Stay home and rock the 'tcradlel"
New York Journal
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1897-10-14
cantnred bv consc,ence.

Bernard Kline, carpenter, entered
Essex Market court, New York. the
other day and branded himself thief
He said he stole an overcoat from his
landlord, Christian Wollbold of 1853
Lewis street, pawned it for 81 and
bought rum, but that he preferred
prison to walking the streets with
troubled conscience.
Wollbold was sent for, and he said it
was the first news he had had that the
coat was gone. He said he didn't regard
the taking of it as theft.
"It was an old one, and I intended to
throw it away anyway, he said
The magistrate discharged Klein, and
he and Wollbold left the courtroom
with arms linked together. Exchange
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1897-10-14
BUTTER FOR EUROPE.
A Kansas Farmer Sends 1t In Carload
LOT to the Great Metropolis.

A Kansas Farmer Sends 1t In Carload
Lot to the Great Metropolis.
State Senator George w Hanna is
known as one of the butter kings of
Kansas. He is now shipping carload
Of butter every week to the markets of
Europe. Since May 26 he has sent 10
carloads from Clay county to Liverpool,
and every pound has been sold at fair
margin.
A car of Mr.. Hanna's butter averages
about So, 400. His butter is first placed
in cold storage, where it is frozen solid,
then it goes into ammonia piped re-
frigerator cars to Chicago, from which
point it is carried by boat to Liverpool.
The freight rate ON Kansas butter to
Liverpool is only few cents more per
hundred than the rate to New York
city. It is this exceedingly low freight
rate which enables the Kansas butter
producer to make profitable sale in
the markets of Europe. - Kansas
Farmer
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1897-10-14
CURTAIN RAlSERS.

Charles A. Bigelow will have promi-
nent part in ''The French Maid"
Frank Perley will manage the Bosto-
mans and ''The Sporting Duchess this
season.
Paula Edwards will play the leading
role in 'sThe Whirl of the Town" when it
goes on tour.
Harry Bagge had only good things said
of his performance in "The Privateer" by
every critic in New York.
Lillian Burkhardt, Charles Dickson IS
talented wife, is seriously considering a
proposal to head a fine stock company.
James O'Neill will make special fea-
ture of "The Dead Heart this season,
which he will revive in spectacular form.
If the New York Baseball club wins
the pennant, Frank Mckee will be rich
man. The odds he obtained are tremen-
dous.
Fanny Davenport begins her season on
Oct. IS at the Boston theater. 1t will last
25 weeks and embrace only the large
cities.
Jacques Kruger and Clara Palma have
been specially engaged by Rich & Harris
for important roles in "Courted Into
Court. 2
1t is not generally known that Oliver
Byron once was a pretty good tragedian.
He played Richard III, Hamlet and
"Othello'' when young man.
Charles B. Hanford, who accompanies
Thomas W. Keene as leading man and
manager, will appear at the Wednesday
matinees in "Ingomar' and sVirginius. !"
r. II. L .-A... - A
Virginia Courtship, and it is said to be o
prototype of Lady Gay Spanker. Eugene
Presbrey, the author, has strengthened
the role in view of Miss Irish's engage
ment by W. Fl. Crane to originate the
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1897-10-14
HONESTY THE BEST POLICY.
If You Are Dead Broke, Own Up Like an
Honest Man.

If You Are Dead Broke, Own Up Like an
Honest Man.
Dead broke is not an accurate term.
1t is relative. A millionaire considers
himself dead broke when he finds that
he has only V in his pocket. Men of
less means think they are dead broke
when they can find but quarter or
half in their pockets. But with the
mass of people who haven't very much,
even when at their best, dead broke
means that condition in which a man
finds himself without nickel in his
pockets. Pennies don't cut any ice.
Even three or four of them won't pay
car fare, and when a man hasn't car
fare the walk to Cumminsville at mid
night seems long--awfully long.
That's what allied me the other
night. said a resident of that suburb.
II didn't have nickel to my name
not nick. So tried to work the con-
ductor. When be struck me, I felt in
my pockets, first one, then the other
and then looked dazed
I had nickel, / said, but blame
me if / know where it is.
"'Too thin, old man, said the heart
less man i'll blue. You'll have to walk
little just for change as you haven't
got it. Think of man getting off
joke like that.
II walked, but not far. Tried an
other conductor with the same racket
Didn't work. He was heartless also. /
knew I'd get home if the cars kept COM
ing, but the last car would be due soon.
Then thought of the old motto, Hon
esty is the best policy. I'll try it on.
81 got on the car and held up my
head When the man with the badge
came along, said:
"'I'm dead broke, old man. Let me
take sneak home, will your
''That worked to charm He was
the best conductor ever saw. He knew
/ was telling the truth. The others
thought was lying, and was, but not
in the way they thought All he said
was:
"'All right, old fellow. Don't give
me away though
Not on your life, I said. Then /
curled up and slept the sleep of the just
and the righteous. Hereafter I'm going
to tell the truth, cost what it may. -
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1897-10-14
SCHMIERcASE.
A Creamery Man Who Finds Profit In NAL.
ing Cottage Cheese.

a GEcsSt1IttJ luf8u w no E1uQS FRONT IN Nk&HSs
ing Cottage Cheese.
Schmiercase is the German name for
what is known in English as cottage
cheese aud likewise pot cheese It got
the last name because the sour milk to
make it used to be heated in a pot
swung over a crane in the good old
times. In brief, it is the soft curd
cheese made from sour skimmilk. Il is
found in stores where dairy products
are sold and is very good indeed when
made right and when it has rich new
milk and some sweet cream stirred into
it. 1t is a most healthful dish, too, and
very good for hot weather, but it is not
fit to eat when made from bitter, moldy
old milk.
@. B. Lawson tells in The Creamery
Journal how to make it ct creamery:
In a recent issue of the New York
Produce Review made the statement
that if the skimmilk was made into cot
tage cheese it would be more profitable
for the creamery man and patron than
to feed the skimmilk to calves and
hogs, and offered to send a receipt for
making it to any buttermaker who
wanted it, but / have received SO many
inquiries concerning it that I have con-
cluded to answer them through the
dairy press SO that they all will be an
swered alike. To show that there is a
demand for cottage cheese, / will state
that received reply from creamery
man who has opened a retail store in
Buffalo. He says that he sells five or
six barrels some days, and that he
makes roo or 800 pounds at time,
using 800 gallon tank to scald the
milk. So, you see, he makes it on a
large scale, but he does not say what
price it sold for. It depends on how
large scale you intend making it and
how you go about it, but beginner had
better commence on small quantity,
so will give the recipe for making it
on small scale. Take ten gallon can
of skimmilk and let it set until it gets
thick and sour. After it reaches that
stage set the can in a tank of hot water,
turn on your steam and let the water
heat until the milk in the can separates
the water from the casein, and the low
er the temperature the milk will whey
off the softer and better will be the
curd and the hotter you heat your milk
the drier your curd will be. After the
curd and water have separated strain all
through cheese bandage and hang up
for "a hours to drain, but do not press
it any. After it has drained dry. mois-
ten with new milk or sweet cream, SO
that it will stick together when it is
ready to mold into bricks or press into
balls and be marketed. OF course you
can scald the milk in larger quantities
if necessary and strain through large
strainer, but / have found that the
cheese bandage makes the most conven-
lent strainer, as it is easily handled and
oil NC VOC s1xy fr,. .7co
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1897-10-14

On the covers of a popular tract I
find the quotation, Hell is a city
much like London If this were SO,
I would cheerfully accept sentence
which should doom me to he'll and
would play my part as citizen to the
best of my power, for it would be city
full of pathos and humor, where much
that is bad is mingled with all that is
lovabie, where the very fiends who are
represented as tormenting the lost are
really engaged in works of mercy and
brotherly love; city, above all, where
justice and straightforwardness and
manly effort never fail to make their
Influences felt Rich and Poor, by
Mrs Bosanquet.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1897-10-14
TURKISH CUSTOM HOUSE.
The Troubles Travellers Have. Especially
With Books and Maps.

With Books and Maps.
Many amusing stories are told of the
trouble American travellers have had
with the custom house authorities in
Turkey, especially with books and
maps In tie old days one's baggage
would be dumped down ON the landing
place at Constantinople, and a turbaned
old Turk, tchibouk in hand, would go
through a pantomime of examining
brought to an end by the application of
an appropriate coin to the palm of his
hand. But the political troubles that
began some years ago in the Ottoman
empire caused the government to insti-
tute more stringent system, and there
is now at Constantinople a custom
house more after the American style,
where a number of effendis, in fezes
and STAN bouli coats of the regular off
cial cut, pry into ones luggage with
particular care in search of papers and
books and maps of revolutionary tend
ency or in which words forbidden to
be printed in Turkey may be found.
During the height of the Armenian
agitation especially close search was al
ways made for nything with the word
Armenia in it, and whatever it was
found in was summarily oonfscated.
On the occasion of my last visit to Con-
stantinople ] happened to have map
of Asia Minor among my papers, the
discovery of which greatly agitated the
examining effendi, who spoke in Ian
guage he thought was French. "Ah,
Azeea Meenoor!" he exclaimed as he
spread it out, continuing in his Turko-
French, Show me Erzerum. Having
pointed out to him the spot where that
city was to be found, he began running
his finger over the map until he struck
upon the letter A. This seemed almost
to take his breath away, but when a
short distance to the right of it he
found the letter R he fairly gasped.
The detection of the letter M following
it was like an electric shock, and
bomb explosion could not have startled
him more than the discovery of the let
ter r. By the time be had deciphered
the remaining letters, MA, saw that
the game was up, and as he folded up
my precious map and in stern and
measured syllables announced to me
that it was "de-fon dew, con-fis-kay,"
I knew that it was lost to me forever.
A Review with an article alluding to
the disturbed condition of affairs in the
Turkish empire followed the map, along
with some foreign newspapers. -Har-
per's Round Table.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1897-10-14
Important Factor Omitted.

ST jist been readin one of them daggone
stories, said Farmer Haicede, 'sabout one
Of them rural cottages all covered with
vines and rosebushes. .
"Well?" said the summer boarder as the
old man paused.
'sWell? / been readin that sort of thing
all my life, but never come acrost the
story of the cottage all covered with mort
cages. Cincinnati Enquirer.