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Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1897-10-14

BETTER THAN ORTUOGRAPHY.-
The old man had given his son a
very fair education and had taken
him into his shop. The young fell
low was over-nice about q great
many things, but the father made no
comment. One day an order came
In from customer.
wish to goodness" exclaimed
the son, "that Gibson would learn to
spell!"
What's the matter with il ?" in
quired the father, cheerfully.
q" Why, he spells coffee with a
'k.'n
"No, does ne? l never noticed
it,"
"Of course you never did," said
the son, pettishly. "You never no.
tice anything like that"
Perhaps not. my son." replied
the old man, gently, "but there is
one thing l do notice, which you
will learn by and by, and that is that
Gibson pays cash."
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-05-22
Trencherous Cape Cod.

Nobody knows how many vessels
have been wrecked on Cape Cod since
the bleak December day when the May
flower rounded Race Point and sought
shelter in what is now the harbor OF
P~rovincetown. The number is very
great, however, and the loss of life on
this most dangerous part of the whole
New England coast has been something
appalling. A list, admitted to be in
complete, of the wrecks since 1873 shows
that ISL vessels, including three steam
ers, have gone to pieces on the pitiless
sands of the cape and had not the waves
always FASTENED to remove the evidences
of their work the shore all the way from
Chatham, ut the elbow of Massachu-
sets arm, to the crook of her bent
hand would be piled high with the ribs
and plankiDg Of shattered vessels. A
large proportion of the cape's victims
are coasting schooners, with only an oc-
casional bark or brig. These dis
asters, therefore, rarely attract muchat-
tention, but they are tragical none the
less, and almost every storm adds to the
number of dreadful stories which the
lighthouse-keepers and members of
the ~life-saving service have to tell
n. Y. Times.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-05-22
why the warehouse Bin shouId Pas,

For a number of years the tendency IN
prices of grain has been downward and the
intermediate charges on grain between the
producer and the consumer IN the way OF
commissions nave become of more and more
Importance to the producer. The reduction
Of such charges TO a minimum has become an
absolute necessity. The reduction has come
about naturally through active competition
by dealers in a half dozen cities which are
reaching out for the grain business OF the
west. The public warehouses nave been a
most important factor In furnishing to the
farmers of Illinois a broad and active mar
ket. This has been done without interior
ing with the business of the country grain
merchants. 4 system has been developed
which has proved entirely satisfactory to
the country at large, but apparently is not
satisfactory to q little coterie OF dealers on
the Chicago Board OF Trade. This coterie
has attacked the proprietors of public ele-
vators on every possible ground and has de-
MED them the right in common with other
grain merchants to buy and sell grain. The
public warehousemen for years have dealt
in grain and the competition stimulated by
their position in the trade has been most
beneficial to the interests of the farmer.
While the custom of warehousemen deal
ing in grain has been established by GUS
tom the Illinois statutes are silent as to their
rights and powers. The bill now in the leg
stature clearly Qenne5 their rights ana
meets any objection which could be raised
to their acting IN the capacity of grain mer-
chants and warehousemen at the. same time.
The proposed legislation is in the interests
Of the producers of grain throughout the
state and should be enacted. The opposi-
ton comes from the Chicago Board of Trade
people who have been persistently fighting
The elevator interests for years. They have
raised the cry of monopoly and arc attempt
ing to discredit the warehouse bills. They
have made the most reckless assertions as
to the prospective results under the pro-
posed law, while the fact is that the law does
not contemplate any new order of things,
hut simply a continuation of the system
which is familiar to the state at large. The
people leading the attack on the bill are
singularly inconsistent. Their objection to
a w-arehouseman dealing in grain is that he
is placed in a position to discriminate be-
tween himself and other owners of grain
stored in his warehouse to the prejudice
of the other owners. This objection is fully
met by the section which provides for su
pe-vision of the warehouse business by the
state. The Chicago Board Of Trade less
than two years ago made a demand on the
warehousemen for Just such supervision as
is now contemplated, but which could not
be granted without a change in the state
laws.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-05-22

A reporter escestly called at this famous
seat of learning aud was shown into hi room
OF the PresiGeEs, Prof. Alvin p. Barnaby.
When last seen BY the reporter Prof. Barn.
ably was in delicate health. To-day he was
apparently in the best of health. In re-
spouse to an inquiry the professor said:
"Oh, yes, l am much better than for some
time. l am now in perfect health; but my
recovery was brought about in rather a
peculiar way"
Tell me about Il" said the reporter.
"Well, TO begin at the beginning" said
the professor, Il studied too hard when at
school, e~ndeavoring to educate myself for
the professions. After completing the COM
mon course | came here, and graduated from
the theological course. | entered the min.
istry and accepted the charge of a United
Brethren Church at a small place in Kent
County, Mich. Being of an ambitious ma
ture, l applied myself diligently to my work
and studies. In time l noticed that my
health was failing. My trouble was indiges-
ton, and this with other troubles brought
on nervousness.
My physician prescribed for me for some
time, and advised me to take a change of
climate. l did as requested and was some
improved. Soon after | came here as a pro-
lessor in physics and chemistry, and later
was financial agent of this college. The
change agreed with me, and for awhile my
health was better, but my duties were heavy,
and again | found my trouble returning.
This time it was more severe and in the
winter L became completely Frustrated. l
tried various medicines and different physi
clans. Finally l was able to return to my
duties. Last spring | was elected president
of the college. Again l had considerable
work, and the trouble, which had not been
entirely cured, began to affect me, and
last fall l collapsed. l had different doctors,
but none did me any good. Professor Bow
man, who is professor of natural science, told
me of his experience with DIR. Williams Pink
Pills for Pale People, and urged me to give
them a trial, because they had benefited
him in a similar case, and l concluded to try
them.
The first box helped me, and the second
gave great relief, such as l had never expert.
enced from the treatment of any physician.
After using six boxes of the medicine l was
entirely cured. To-day / am perfectly well.
l feel better and stronger than for years. !
certainly recommend this medicine"
To allay all doubt Prof. Barnaby cheer.
fully made an affidavit before
LYMAN J. SCUDDER, Notary Public.
DR.. Williams Pink Pills for Pale People
are sold by all dealers, or will be sent post.
paid OF receipt of price, so cents a box OF
six boxes for $3.50 (they are never sold in
bulk, or by the 1901, by addressing DIR. Viii
liams' Medicine Co., Schenectady, n. Y.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-05-22
Agricultural Education.

Prof. Henry B. Armsby, dean of the
school of agriculture of the Pennsyl.
vania state college, says that the agri.
cultural products of Pennsylvania ex,
coed the total iron ore, coal and oil
products of the state by $3,OoO,00O. He
also makes a strong plea for agricul.
tural education. whether we like it OF
not" he says, 1--WE are face to face with
new problems and new conditions. In
this process Of evolution, by which agri.
culture is adjusting itself to its new
environment, as in every other process
ofevolution, the ittest will survive. The
community or the individual farmer
that an successfully ~redijust its agri.
culture to these new conditions will con.
tinue to prosper, while the farmer OF
the community which fails to do this
will be borne down by forces as pitiless
and as irresistible as ~grayitation."
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-05-22
FARM AND GARDEN.
VALUABLE EXPERIMENTS.
Dipping Is Now Said to Prevent
Spread of Texas Fever.

Dipping Is Now said to Prevent
Spread Of Texas Fever.
Elaborate experiments on Texas fever
nav been conducted during the past
year by the Missouri state authorities,
cooperating with the Texas Experiment
station. 1t is clearly demonstrated that
the Texas tick is the natural means of
communicating the disease from one
animal to another. Ticks Matched in
the laboratory when put on Missouri
short-horn COWS in lots free from any
possible infection, produced fatal cases
Of Texas fever in every instance within
from - to IS days after the young ticks
we're placed on the animal.
The Texas station dipped a carload
of Texan cattle, all of which were COW
cred with the Texas fever tick, and
shipped the dipped cattle to the Mis-
souri, Experiment station. These cattle
were dipped in Il West Virginia mineral
oil at a cost of less than five cents per
head. The Missouri station confined
-hese dipped Texan cattle in a small LOT
With a number of short-horn COWS from
the 18th of August until the 1st of No
vember, and made careful daily obser-
vations and temperature records, with
the result that no Texas fever was com.
municated. If subsequent experiments
confirm these results, the dipping proc.
ess will be regarded as entirely practi.
cable and feasible. 1t can be easily and
cbeaply done on a commercial scale
and would enable the farmers of the
Mississippi valley to purchase and bring
to their farms with perfect safety al
any season of the year cheap range
cattle to eat their surplus corn and
grass.
An attempt was made TO inoculate
cattle so that they would be proof
against this disease, with very promis'
ing results. These results are IN a meas.
IRE confirmed by experiments that DR.
Connaway has just concluded in Mis-.
sissippi, on a carload of dairy cattle
shipped there from Kansas. Twelve OF
these cattle had died Of Texas fever
before the animals were injected; none
died afterward. The method is neither
expensive nor difficult, and if it proves
TO be successful the entire Texas fever
district comprising a dozen s~tates) will
be opened as 4 market for the thorough
bred stock of the north and west, in
asmuch as these animals may then be
shipped to these states with safety
Country Gentleman.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-05-22
BEEF.
1t Is Sold in LondOn 40 Per Cent.
Cheaper Than Our Product.

1t Is Sold in London 40 Per Cent
Cheaper Than Our Product.
Dressed beef shippers in Chicago are
feeling the competition of Australian
frozen beef in English markets. For
years they have had no competitor ex-
cept English meats in London, but of
late Australia has built up the frozen
beef industry &c such an extent that
they r now underselling American
cent.
The exports of dressed beef to the
United Kingdom in January were 49,
9s3. s4O pounds, and for the seven
months ended January 81 they were
10, COO pounds. This shows the ex-
tent to which the American industry
has grown. The value of American
exports to the United Kingdom alone
for seven months was S13,2 900. That
country, however, consumes practically
all of the dressed beef we sell abroad.
p. D. Armour. discussing the export
trade, said: australian beef is now
affecting our trade. as they are under
selling US in London. The beef Is
frozen, and the people do not like it
as well as the American product, but
they r taking it. The Australians
have improved their system of handling
of late, and the meat is very good. We
feel the effect of the increased ship.
ments from that country. Most of the
Australian beef goes to London, but,
all the United Kingdom, one.
third more American beef is sold"
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-05-22
For a Permanent Pasture.

When practicable a permanent pas
ture is desirable. Fields that are adapt
ed to the production of titled crops that
are under a close rotation cannot be
pastured with profit. If a crop of clover
or timothy is removed in the rotation
there is nothing gained by grazing the
young grass nor the growth after tie
crop is removed. The soil needs more
of this organic matter than it gets at
the best, and this aftermath is worth
more as food to the soil than to stock.
The skinning Of the titled fields BY
stock and the tramping when the land
is wet are responsible for many fail
ures to get profitable crops. If less de.
sirable land can be laid down to per.
manent grasses and stock be confined to
this land, the plowed land of the farm
has a better chance.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-05-22
HUMOROUS

"A Woman's Question. -"Tflie
Brown had a dreadful bad fall from her
wheel Monday" "Was she dressed for
H?"@Chicago Plain Dealer.
Feminine EVasion.-"Julia, o said
you weren't going to wear any more
dead birds on your hats" 'Iknow; but
this redbird died a natural DEATH
Chicago Record.
-Resident-"Think of commencing
business, Ell? Seems to me you are
rathes young for a family physician"
Young Doctor-"Yes, but-er-I shall
only doctor children at first."-TitBits.
-She-"They say that the ones who
really appreciate the actors are those in
the top gallery" He-"I shouldn't Won
der. You see, they are high enough to
see over the hats."-Yonkers Statesman.
you remember Borrows?" DO
II" well he came in to-day, and paid
me ten dollars he owed me, and 1 hardly
knew him." well, l don't wonder.
That's not at all like him."-Yonkers
Statesman.
-Appropriate.-'You don't bring the
chickens out prominently in our pic
ture of farm life" said Rooster. "Um!
No." replied the artist; I've just made
them lay Observation-Disclosures North
American.
-Secondhand.-Mrs. Bricabrac-"Oh,
mercy, Bridget, how could you have
broken that precious vase! 1t was 400
years old" Bridget (calmly)-"Oh, if
it was an ould thing like that, yez can
take it out av me next weeks wages."-
Truth
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-05-22
CONVENIENT
lumber and Other Material Required
VIII Cost RS2.

lumber and Other Material Required
VIII Cost $SS.
This building is II by 20 feet and IA
feet high to the caves. The lower part
is ~ feet high. The bins are slanting
as shown. Grain is put in above and
irawn out at S S. The steps of stair
way S W, are seyen inches high, so that
it is easy to carry grain up and empty
It into the bins in each side. To get the
grain out is always hardest, but in this
granary it is the easiest work, as all you
have to do is hold the bag under the
spout (S), turn the shut-of, and the grain
does the rest. 1t is only play TO sack a
load of grain. One man can do it as
fast as two with a h~alf-bushel.
There are three bins on each side in
my granary, each of 200 bushels capac-
ity. The space IN upper floor between
bins, back of the stairway, is five by
eleven feet, and high enough for any
man to walk and work in. Lower floor
mostly used for storing seed and grain
in sacks, such as fiaxseed, clover, tim
othy, etc. They are packed under til
slant Of the bins, out of the way. The
middle space is used for cleaning grain,
and a good tanning mill is always in
readiness, and good platform scales
upon which everything is weighed.
The carpenter says this style of bin
is easier on the building, as most of the
pressure is on the inside, drawing the
frame together instead Of pressing it
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-05-22
HABITS AND HEALTH.
Peoples Instincts Are Usually q Goo.
Guide.

Guide.
Almost all nIen have certain ''ways''
of living which they have found con-
ducive either TO health or work, and 4
very large section of them suffer great
ly from a torrent of criticism for those
ways. There are men who never need
exercise, or, as Mr.. Chamberlain says
in his case, do much better without it,
and if they escape the minatory lee
ture once a week they are greatly IA
vored by fortune. There are other men,
quite numerous, who benefit by exer-
else in big draughtS but not in homeo-
riously once a week, or during an an
nual holiday, but for the rest of their
time benefit most by bodily torpor.
They + not scolded, for, as a rule,
they are considered too far gone for
that operation to be beneficial, but they
are habitually and very openly disbe-
lieved. They are talking nonsense, it
is held, on a matter they know nothing
about.
There are thousands of Englishmen
who are never at peace if they are not
warm, and are told by all sincere
friends that they T killing themselves
with "coddling;" and tom of thousands
who can neither think nor work unless
they are cool, and who are pestered by
everyone who knows them about wraps.
We used to lecture one old gentleman
ourselves because he would ride on
omnibuses, wanting, he said, "full air."
and the lectures did not stop when at
"a he was more hale than the lecturer at
As. Modern biographers are particular
ly impervious to reason on this point
They note at once the smallest depart
ure from the usual in the habits of
daily life, as If it were an alteration,
never thinking that their victim prob
ably knows himself a great deal better
than they can know him, or is obeying
an instinct as deeply planted and as
beneficial as that which induces a dog
occasionally to eat grass There are
mer, Scotchmen and Scandinayians, no
doubt, mostly, who simply must get
into the cold" for o few weeks every
year, who thirst for it like a Swiss for
mountains; and there are thousands of
women who would live to 100 if only
they could have a month Of q year in a
Place where they were warm all
through. To condemn such instincts
as self-indulgence, unless they conflict
with clear duties, is foolish.-Londop
Spectator.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-05-22
The Future.

Truth determines our status. Goo
does not determine arbitrarily the fu,
ture whereabouts of men-the man
himself determines it. The associations
of the future life will be according tc
the bias and deliberate choice Of this
life. Birds OF a feather flock togethe,
in the other world as in this. There is
a truth that is always true, and a right
that is always right.-Rev. S. G. Ander
son, Congregationalist, Toledo, o.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-05-22
whitewa.h for the Farm.

Whitewash can be prepared as fol-
lows: Take six quarts of nice lime,
slake it with boiling water, then cover
1t till it cooks a little, whereon strain 1t
and add a quarter of q pound Of alum.
burnt or powdered, one pound of sugar,
three pints of rice -four boiled to a thin
paste with water, and a pound of clean
glue dissolved. When all these ingredi-
tents are thoroughly mixed. add five gal.
Ions of water. This whitewash is excel.
lent for ceilings, and if applied to the
outside of buildings while it is hot it
will last for a long time; and as it may
be colored, it is a very cheap and services
able paint A little copperas as large
as a hickory nut viii impart to 1t .
nice buff color.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-05-22
Bean straw for sheep.

It has been well attested that bear
straw is a valuable food for sheep and
that they are fond Of it. The bean. like
clover, is q le~guminous plant, and many
farmers say that the straw, though
coarse and harsh, has nearly as much
nutrition as clover hay. 1t makes a very
rich when fed to either sheep
or cows. This is shown by its rotting
very fast when piled and giving off the
strong smell of ammonia, which
from feeding any manur rich in nitro
genous nutrition.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-05-22

Theosophy teaches a man to know
himself, to detect the finer forces of ma.
ture and his relation to all that lives,
and to obey the laws that govern him
is the path to happiness and progress
here and hereafter. There is but one
authority for belief that is the indi.
vidual conception of truth. Each ones
belief and conception will differ from
those of others, hence t~heosophy
teaches liberation toward all.-Dr. Al
len GrifRths, ~Theosophist, San Francis
On, Cal
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-05-22
HANDY T PEN.

ntes the gates d C andf e. Another man
gets into the pens and drives the hogs
out, one at a time. The man at the gate
turns them into the pasture, 6. or into
the pen. a, as desired. If the hogs are
coming in a string three feet apart
they can be put where wanted by simply
swinging the gates. Recently we start.
ed in with a bunch of about 100 and sort,
ed out Sc in Is minutes without a mis-.
take.-Orange Judd Farmer.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-05-22
~cENrENNIAL.
The owes Rates Ever Made to an
ExpOsition In This

The Exposition in commemoration Of tina
hundredth anniversary of the admission Of
Tennessee into the Union is not a local af-
fair by any meaAs. 1t far surpasses in ex-
and home attractions any exhibition eyer
held In this country, with the possible ex-
eeption of the Columbian Of 1893. Located
as it is on the main line of the Louisville o
Nashville Railroad it is in the direct lima
of travel between the North and the South,
and can be visited en- route with loss of bus
little time. The extremely low rates that
have been established make it cheaper to 60
this great show, while its own attractions
will well repay a special visit. Write Mr..
C.. P. Atmore, Gen'l Pass. Agent, Louis
vile, KY, for matter concerning it.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-05-22
Deafness Cannot Be curea

by local applications, as they cannot reach
the diseased portion of the ear. There Is
only one way to cure deafness, and that Is
by constitutional remedies. Deafness Is
caused by an infamed condition of the mu
vi lining of the Eustachian Tube. When
this tube gets infiamed you have a rumbEng
sound or imperfect hearing, and. when it Is
entirely closed deafness is the result, and
unless the Inflammation can be taken out
and this tube restored to its normal con.
dition, hearing vii be destroyed forever;
nine cases out OF ten are caused by catarrh,
which IS nothing but an inflamed condition
of the mucous surfaces.
We will give One Hundred Dollars for any
case Of Deafness (caused by catarrh) that
cannot be cured by Halls Catarrh Cure.
Send for circulars, free.
F. j. Cheney & Co., Toledo, o.
Sold by Druggists, 75c.
Halls Family Pills are the best.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-05-22
Unlucky.

Sympathetic Lady-So your husband
was killed?
Mrs. Rooney-Shure, an he was, mum,
Lnd It was from the 18th floor he fell.
FAN unlucky number for him."
at was that; but I'm thinking II
would have been Just as unlucky for
him, poor man, II he had fell from thu
p6th.-N. Y, Tribune,
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-05-22
A SCIENTIST SAVED.
President Barnnby. of HartsyilIe Col
lege, Survives n Serious Illness
Through h Aid of DR.. WiIIiams'
Pink Pills for Pale People.

From the Republican, Columbus, Ind.
The Huntsville College, situated at Harris
vile, Indiana, was founded years ago in the
interest of the United Brethren Church,
when the state was mostly a wilderness, and
colleges were scarce. The college is well
known throughout the country, former stu.
dents having gone into all parts of theworld.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-05-22

Frances-Yes, he is pursuing liters
cure.
GertrudeIndeedi And is he very
successful?
"No. It is still a long way ahead Of
him."-Cleveland Leader.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-05-22

Hardly any of us like people who talk SC
much about their own troubles that. they
can't listen to ours.-Washington Demo.
crat.