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The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-12-04
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

Some sort of plant has been exhib-
tied in Portland, Ore, under the name
of an Alaska rose, which is described as
looking like a big %sunfower, except
that in place of the petals of a sun
flower the Alaska rose" has a mass
Of small yellow blossoms, which lie
very close one TO the other.
A recently-designed cigarette case
has the box hinged in the center of the
bottom with sockets for the sigarettes
in the alternate sides of the box, so
that when it is opened they lie in op-
posite rows, crossing each other at
right angles, thus making each n
easily removable without interfering
with the others.
After many efforts the thickly-in-
habited quarters of Athens known az
Anaphiotika, lying Immediately under
the Acropolis, has been condemned by
the government and turned over to the
Greek Archaeological society for the
purpose of excavation. The inhabitants
will receive compensation and will be
settled in the suburbs.
A new potato-digging machine has
a steel-pointed scoop to raise the po-
tatoes and earth onto a slotted elevator,
over which a cylinder brush is revolv-
ing to separate the potatoes from the
dirt, after which the tubers are carried
to a screen, which allows the small po-
tatoes to fall into one box and carries
the large ones into another box.
When a newly-designed lamp is &C.
cidentally upset it is prevented from
exploding by means of a weight set in
the base, with a chain running to the
eNtinguisher, the device being rendered
imperative when carrying the lamp
by grasping the chain when lifting the
lamp by the hand, and the lamp is pro-
tected from fracture by pneumatic
tubes.
Cement pipes are made cheaply by
al ingenious process devised by q
French inventor. \ trench is dug and
the bottom filled with cement mortar;
on this is placed a rubber tube covered
with canvas and inflated; the trench
is then filed up with cement. As soon
as this is set the air is let out of the
rubber tube, which is then removed
and used again in another section. By
this method siX-inch pipes have been
made at a cost of % cents 4 yard.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-12-04
Early Pigs Are the Best.

Wherever a farmer has warm base
ment stables it is easy to make a hog
pen in one corner and use it for the
breeding sows. Every n admits that
pigs dropped early in March will prove
much more valuable than those born
a month or two later. 1t is some extra
trouble to keep them warm, and they
will also need extra feeding for both
sows and pigs while the cold weather
continues. But when the warm days
come the early pigs that have a run in
pasture and plenty of milk will be far
better fitted for heavy corn feeding
than will the late spring pigs. There
is often a difference of 50 to IS pounds
in hogs fed just the same, and whose
only difference is that the heavier were
born Jour to six weeks earlier than the
others.-American Cultivator.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-12-04
Testing the Seed Corn,

Testing seed corn is far too often neg
lected. Corn which has been thorough
ly dried and then properly stored will
lay in the ground for "a few weeks with
out ro;ting should a long, wet season &C.
cur. Corn which was well dried, but
was repeatedly frozen when moist and
its vitality injured, will very o o rot if
the soil is so wet and cold as to retard
termination. The person accustomed
to testing seed corn can determine
whether Il given sample comes with
strong or weak vitality and whether or
not it would lay long in the soil before
rotting. i little nice care in drying and
preserving seed corn materially in
creases the chances for a crop OF corn.
Western Piowman.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-12-04
New Distribution Center,.

The big shipping points or produc,
ton districts are now the big distribute
ing points of the country, and o the
large cities. as heretofore. Whether
this will work to the advantage OF the
producer or not is an interesting sub
ject for debate. The prices for a car are
autographed broadcast to every town
large enough TO consume d car of po-
tatoes, melons, tomatoes or any other
. oduct raised for distant markets.
The greatest losses to the distributors
come from the class hat orders the
goods and then refuses to accept them
on some preteXt when the mark ct fails
10 reveal a margin on arrival OF goods.
Fruit Trade Journal.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-12-04
Elephant Life I'm the JungIes.


Without elephants, jungles would be
virtually impossible. The great beasts
are a mixture of strength and weak
ness, of craft and simplicity. The paths
through the jungle from village to vii,
lage are merely tracks from which the
interlacing foliage has been cut and
thrust aside, and the virgin soil trod-
den into a black mud. After n rain.
this mud is many feet deep. and no liv.
ing creature except an elephant. a buff
falo or rhinoceros can labor through it
The elephant makes his way by lifting
one foot at a time, and inserting it deep
into the slough in front, withdrawing
another with n sound like the popping
of a huge champagne cork. Nothing
but a ride on an earthquake could be
compared with the sensation of being
u away with by an elephant. As for
stopping him, some one has well said
that you might as well try to stop a
runaway locomotive by pulling with
your walking-stick on the funnel as
seek to check an elephant at such a
moment with a goad.-Detroit Free
Press.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-12-04
DOCTORS DON'T DENY IT.
The frank testimony of a
famous physician.

When DR.. Aver announced his Sarsapa-
rilla 10 the world, he at once found the
physicians his friends Such a remedy
was what they had looked for, and they
were prompt to appreciate its merits and
prescribe 1t. Perhaps no medicine-known
as a patent medicines so generally ad-
ministered and prescribed by physicians as
DIR Ayers Sarsaparilla for blood diseases,
and diseases of the skin that indicate a
tainted condition of the blood Experience
has proved it to be a specific IN such
diseases, and sores of long standing, old
ulcers, chronic rheumatism. and many
other like forms of disease have yielded 10
the persevering use of DR.. Ayers SarSapar-
lila after other medicines had utterly failed.
The testimonials received from physicians
to the value of this remedy would NIL a
volume. Here is one leaf signed by Rich'd
II. Lawrence, NJ. D., Baltimore, Md.
at affords me pleasure to bear testimony
to the success which your preparation of
Sarsaparilla has had in the treatment of
cutaneous and other diseases arising from
a vitiated condition of the blood. Were 1t
necessary. 1 might give You the names of
at least fifty individuals who have been
cured of long-standing complaints simply
by the administration of DR.. Ayers Sarsa-
pa-rilla. One very remarkable instance
was that OF 4 quite old woman who had lived
at Gainesville, near this city. She had been
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-12-04
FARMING.
Less Acreage More to lie Desired
Than IL Burden of Debt.

Than Il Burden OF Debt.
Farmers are beginning to see that a
less acreage of land. free from the OPP
pressive mortgage, is more to be desired
than a burden of debt. r = = In
tensive farming is the basis of argu-
ment upon which our learned and Sci
entifc agricuiturisis build their esti-
mates of rapid development aud future
permanent wealth. The increasing
number of small farms, with better
cultivation and better improvements,
is certain to be followed by an increased
production, an increased number of
manufacturing industries, an increased
population and greatly increased wealth
OF the states
Economy IN the farm may be made to
mean more than the saving of the little
things. The reducing of the mortgage
q, bt by reducing ;he acreage of the
farm TO the actual capacity 10 till and
make productive Will be in the line of
economy. The changing of conditions
whereby 100 bushels of grain is made
to grow where formerly so grew is
economy; the building OF better homes
and the enjoyment of better home GEM
fcrts by the family on the farm is econ
omy: the independence of actual owner
ship in a business which recognizes no
rival in its seIf-sustaining attributes
is economy to mind and body.-World
Herald
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-12-04

afflicted with the rheumatism for three
years, and had taken as she had informed
me, more than one hundred dollars worth
OF medicine to obtain relief, yet without
any beneficial result. i advised her to try
a bottle OF Dr. Ayers Sarsaparilla and told
her that If 1t failed to do her good, / would
refund the money. A short time after
ward, ] learned that it had cured her, and
a neighbor OF hers similarly afflicted was
also entirely relieved of his complaint by
its use. This is the universal result of the
administration of your Sa%rsaparilla. 1t
IS without exception, the best blood puri-
her with which l am acquainted"
There is no other similar medicine can
show a similar record. others have irli-
tated the remedy. They can't initiate the
record. DR.. Ayers SarsapaTilla has the
friendship of the physician and the favor
of the family, because IT cures. 1t fulflls
all promises made for it. 1t has healed
thousands of people of the most malignant
diseases that can mutilate mankind
Nothing has ever supe TCeded il and MOTH
ing ever will until q medicine is made
that can show a record OF cures greater in
number and equal IN wonder to those
wrought by DR. Ayers SaIsaparilla. Dr.
Ayers Curebook, a story of cures told by
the cured, is sent free on request by the
J. c. Aver Company, Lowell, Mass. Write
for IT.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-12-04
Deep and Shallow Flowing.

Forty-five tests have been made at
the experiment stations to determine
the relative value of deep and shallow
cultivation. Shallow cultivation gave
best results in 81 tests, deep cultivation
gave best results in IL tests, and seven
tests were inconclusive. In estimating
the value of those tests it should be re-
membered hat three inches was called
deep tillage. Chasing all under three
inches as shallow tillage, changes mate
rally the complexion of the results.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-12-04
BUNKO MANS LATEST SAME.
a New Trick That He Is Working on
u


To an honest man it would appear
that the field of bunko had been pretty
well worked out; but every little while
some ingenious and crooked gentleman
contrives a new method of making 9TH
er persons pay for his ingenuity. Just
at present the street railway men are
looking for the deviser and operator
of a very slick game of which the car
conductors are made victims. The
requisite for this game is six dollars
"a ~five-dollar bill and a one-dollar), and
its working does not require great
nerve, as the bunkoer, if caught, can
always declare that it was a mistake,
and to prove the contrary with legal GER
tainty would be almost impossible.
The crook gets On the car and tenders
the conductor a ~five-dollar bill. Now,
no conductor wants to give up all his
change and leave himself short, and
no conductor will take a ~five-dolIar bill
if there is any way of getting nut of
it. Therefore he looks at the crooks
bill and says:
rs that the smallest you've got"
Il think it is" says the crook. wait
a minute and I'll see"
Crumpling the bill up in his hand
the game is usually played with crisp
new bills, as they crumple more OBJ
viously-he goes through his pockets
in search of change. Not wanting to
find any, he doesn't find any.
Sorry, but that's all I've got" he
says.
Thereupon the conductor, with in
ward wrath, seizes the crumpled bill,
jams it into his pocket and gives change.
Not the original crumpled bill. how
ever, for during the search for change
he has contrived to substitute a new
o%ne-dollar bill, equally crumpled. for
the five dollars, and the conductor in
nine cases out of ten doesn't think to
unroll and examine the bill which he
has just seen to be five dollars. At the
end of the days work he discovers that
he is five dollars out. Should he dis
cern the substitute, the crook simply
says:
why. that's queer, Thought it was
a five hat 1 had all the time"
And what can the conductor do?-
\. Y. Sun.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-12-04
FEEDING PEN FOR PIGS.

ed. Build a feeding floor several inches
above the surface of the ground and
inclose with a tight board fence sur
mounted with pickets a foot or more
long. Make one or more openings near
the ground for the hogs and hang a
door, a, from the top so that it will
swing pretty freely either way. Leath-
er straps or hinges that work easily
VIII answer. The hogs will soon learn
to GO back and forth, but fowls will
not enter. If there are two sizes Of
hogs, make a partition and in it con-
Btruc; d small swinging door just large
CROUCH to admit the smaller pigs.-Or'
aLge Judd Farmer.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-12-04
Costly Suits Over Trine..

A hog out in Missouri caused a lit.
CANT a loss of $4,000 in costs. Now d
Nebraska man has had 10 pay $500
for a ten-dollar horse. Such cases are
very old. Lady Anne Clifford used to
assess her tenants for contributions OF
chickens. One tenant refused In send
a hen and IA sued. Lady Anne got
the hen, but it cost her over e2On.-Chj
cago Iprer Ocean.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-12-04
STRONG BEEF HANGER.
Description of a Rig That L. Cheap
and Easily Made.

/ send a description of a rig l use to
hang a beef with. 1t is cheap and east
ly made. One man can hang up a beef
that will weigh 600 pounds. Get a piece
of good timber three feet four inches
long and four inches in diameter. and
round it. Then cut spindles on each
end five inches long. Bore one-half-inch
boles in ends to put rod in TO keep beef
from slipping off when quartered. Bore
two 1H-inch holes in center. opposite
directions from each other. for your
levers. Ash or hickory saplings will
do for levers. which should be four feet
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-12-04

long. Then bore two 1H-inch holes n
inch from shoulders. Use three-quar-
ter-inch rope in them. and tie to a beam
ten feet high. Stand behind your beef
and use your levers. When you want
to stop put one lever between lever
and ropes.-L. o. Lining, in Ohio
Farmer.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-12-04
There 4. a Class of Peopie

Gently there has been placed in all the
grocery stores a new preparation called
GRAIN-O, made of pure grains, that takes
the place of coffee. The most delicate stonl-
ach receives it without distress, and but
few can tell it from coffee. 1t does not cost
over as much. Children may drink it with
great benefit. Is cts. and % cts. per pack
age. Try it. Ask for GRAIN-O.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-12-04

"You ought to give up trying to sing
Don't your %neighbors smash your windows
when you sing of an EVENING"" said Gilhooly
to a vocalist.
They don't do that because my singing
is bad; on the contrary, they smash my win
dows SO they can hear better Tammany
Times.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-12-04
Trains to the south Resumed.

Information comes from the passenger de-
partment of the Louisville & Nashville Rail-
road company that all their trains have
been resumed and schedules restored. These
include a double daily solid train service
from Cincinnati, Chicago. Louisville, Ev-
anston and st. Louis to Nashville, Memphis,
Birmingham, Montgomery, Mobile, Pensa-
cola and New Orleans. Also a double daily
service of Pullman Buffet-Sleeping carsfrom
the Northern cities to Jacksonville, Florida
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-12-04
NEAL FEEDING PEN.

low TO Protect the Pigs Rations
from Greedy Fowls.
Where hogs are fed near the house
Or barn, the fowls are apt to go among
them and eat a large portion of the feed.
1 finally solved the problem by con-
structing a feeding pen so that the hogs
and pigs could go in and out at pleas
ure but fowls of all kir5s were exclud
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-12-04
Why?

Patron-Why do they call it impression
list art, anyway?
ArtiSt-Oh. because the fellows who do
it labor under the impression that it is art, 1
suppose.-Somerville Journal.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-12-04
Farmers Are Not Penurious.

1t is mainly by what city people cali
petty economies that farmers have al
ways made their money. Their bust
ness is one that has as many details as
that of the retail merchant to whom
every penny is important, as its posses
sion may mean profit to him, or the
failure to possess it may mean loss and
possible bankruptcy. The farmer. in
selling his products is obliged to get all
he can so as 10 meet his expenses. Yet
farmers are not at all niggardly. Most
of what they make over and above ex-
penses goes in better methods of liy-
ing, which make prosperity for every
body else.-American Cultivator.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-12-04

The Missionary-My friend, what wouIi
you do if you expected the end of the world
in ten days.
The Tramp-Wait for it.-Puck.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-12-04

1t is very easy to convince a man of what
be already believes.-Washington Demo
:rat.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-01-24

sjabotof creamy lace covers the vest. and the
collar band is OF rose pink velvet. Gray cash
mere cloth forms the next Rown. made with
jacket handsomely braided with gray and black.
and the unique little vest is Of plaid. primrose.
mauve, and black silk, with n tucked yoke OF
plain primrose silk. One Of the new princess
dresses for matron is made of purple MORE
velour. The narrow vest which continues down
the skirt Is of black satin pipcd with cream
color. and tho front Is Of black chiffon over
purple silk.
a pretty costume for a young woman, n
novelty in its way. has n skirt Of Hne black
CLOTH ACCORDION plated. worn over q pink elk
underskirt. The new ACCORDION. plated skirt is
very graceful. haring out at the bottom like q
fan or the rays of the sum- and the style Is some
times called sun plating. It is first cut in a
complete cfcle and then plated, so all super
fuous fulness at the waist 10 avoided. Tho
waist Of this particular skirt Is Of pink silk
tucked all around below the bust. like the
sleeves below the short pun. while three hand
some studs fasten the box plat in front Tho
belt and stock collar are OF black satin; q narrow
turnover collar completes the costume.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-01-24

then carefully sift into the vase by means Of q
funnel sufficient sand to ill II nearly IN the tor.
shaking II so that the sand will settle down
among the stems. Gradually add water until IL
stands n very little above the top of the sand.
and repienish the water AS often rs needed.
Vegetables that have been little touched by
tn. frost may frequently I've restored by soaking
them for a time In cold water.
To remove grease spot from woollen or silk
thoroughly Saturatc the place with turpentine,
and place n soft blotting paper beneath and an
other on top Of the spot. and press very hard
The fat Is dissolved. then absOt bed by the paper
and entirely removed from the cloth.
Patent leather shoes require care to look we'll
They should be wiped with a damp sponge and
afterward with n soft. dry cloth, and OCCASION
ally with n cloth dampened with a little sweet
oil. Blacken and polish tho edges OF the soles
In the usual way, but do not cover the patent
leather with the backing. A cloth mostened in
q little milk may be used on patent leather with
good effect.
Leaf mould Is needed for potted plants and
good method for supplying tho earth with It Is
to save the withered leaves and make use OF
them. Whenever a leaf or seed pod Is required
to be removed from plant, instead Of throwing
IL away make 1t OF use. Press these savings
well into the soil containing the plant from
which they have been removed Leaves are
natures fertilizers: they absorb tho elements
from the soil aud atmosphere which are essen
tial to the sustenance OF their parents life.
A new fashion for teas or evening entertain
ments, where sandwiches are terved, IL to have
the filled plates decorated with little sandwich
flags. These flags are made OF pretty colored
silks with the kinds of sandwiches en-. broidcred
upon them. They are attached to pieces OF
wire for poles, and finished at the top with
rosettes Of baby ribbon.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-01-24

FIRE until smooth and rrothy; stir In
little OF the hot soup before adding this to the
whole. Gov er the pan and let the soup simmer
two hours. When II 10 almost time to remove
the soup from the fire. take the white meat OF
the fowl and chop It very fine and put over the
fire in q double boiler two cups nj cream TAKE
MP the soup and strain II through a. sieve re,
turn to the fire again and season with salt ana
cayenne pepper; add the boiling cream and
chopped chicken, and rs soon as IL Is heated
through the soup 10 ready to serve.
To make noodles for clear soups. take one
beaten egg and put to IL as much sifted flour as
II will absorb. Add a small SPOONFUL OF clear
soup; mix with the fingers until It IL made into
o soft. smooth dough, adding -four "a " Is
needed. Roll this dough out as thin ~ possible
leave II q few moments. and then roll II over
and over In q long roll and cut thin slices from
the end OF the roll. Leave the slices upon the
moulding board until q few moments before the
soup is taken from the fire and then put them In
Meat balls for soups are made thus: Chop one
pound Of lean beef. veal. or chicken very hne
add one tables poOnful OF bread crumbs. =
dessertspoonful of melted butter, and one
beaten egg. Mix the ingredients together and
moisten with little stock or milk. Make those
into tiny balls and fry in butter TO 4 golden
brown. Add them to hot, clear soups at serving
time