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The Cape Girardeau Democrat., 1897-01-30

In addition to all the news and the cream OF
pnbiie discussion, the Weekly Post Dispatch
contains the beat editorials In the Daily Peat
Dispatch, 5eort St,ries. . helpful woman q
Department, Gossip About Men and Women
Who Attain Prominsnee. Political Cartoons
and Plenty Of Fun and Humnr
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banks.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat., 1897-01-30

The little city of Poplar Bluff is in
Z. fix. The Police JUDGE Of thai town
tied some time ago ard the Mayor APP
pointed a man to fill the vacancy.
Now the Circuit Court has decided that
the business transacted by the APP
pointed Judge is illegal because the
Mayor had no power to appoint.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat., 1897-01-30
This is Worth Reading

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braska.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat., 1897-01-30

You will and the WEEKLY POST-DIs-
PATCH indispensable during the year lSs7.
The yesr 1897 is going 90 be b-Imiul OF interest
The incoming Of the Mckinley Administration,
with O new Congress. elected upon a GOLD plat
form. means legislation of . kind that will
Vitality Interest every newspaper reader in tn :.
country and especially in thc west aud south
Special attrntiOn will be paid in the WEELY
POST-DISPA rCH TO this news OF a national
character. and it will BE- discussed edlorially
from the point of view Of the West and South
as contrasted with that Of Wall street
The campaign for free silver will go on
in 1897 and nothing can do much to hep
along the campaign OF education a. q news
paper like the WEEKLY POST-DIsPATCH
This is shown In the tact that in Missouri and
In every other locality where the POST-DIS.
PATCH has large circulation, the gains OF
Democracy and free silver were Of sweeping
character.
The POST DISPATCH deserves the support
OF all Free Silver Democrats because Of the
great fRh' it made in the recent campaign FOL
Democratic principles and the Democratic
ticket; Hence the Free Silver men everywhere
should rally TO its support by sending In theiY
subscription and inducing Others to subscribe
The Cape Girardeau Democrat., 1897-01-30

Dolly Motley wants to be United
States District Attorney. There are
whole families looking for an easy
Job like that.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat., 1897-01-30
From the carrollton IN. Gazette

The St. Loais Republic fooled no one in the
campaign that closed on Tuesday last Its
milk sud water support fer Bryan was very
apparent to the most careless observer
The Cape Girardeau Democrat., 1897-01-30
SATURDAY, JANUARY 30. 1897.

Governor Stephens is an improve
ment on Bill Stone. His head is diff
ferently shaped.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat., 1897-01-30
"77" for GRIP.

Sold by Druggists sent prepaid receipt Of price
Sc for toe msy be assortsd, except Nos a - ana
81, put up in o. 90 size only.
Ds IIgxrnEEYs Enlarged Bevissd) nAnEDTnEE
HUxPHRRYs' NED. CO., III lIs william St, Ne" York.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat., 1897-01-30

The Post Dispatch is the only Metro
Polltan Paper That Chnmpfoned the
Free silver Cause in advance of the
Nominating Convictions. 1t Stands
Pat for Free silver. for Western
Men md Measures, for the People
Against the Political Bosses, Pluto
crags, Com bines, Trusts and Cor
poratIous Oppressed.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat., 1897-01-30
From the springfild (ko.) chroni

ID. r. Francis ear-marks will crop out in tn,
st. Louis Republic occassionly as long as b.
owns that slice of stock
The Cape Girardeau Democrat., 1897-01-30
Real Estate Sales.

nOv24 n2IT2 6mos.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-02-09
DINNER FOR A PENNY.
New York Man Who Makes "a Profit ON
Very Chesp victuals.


There are diners and diners in this
city of contrasts. Some men here find it
difficult thing to get satisfactory din
ner for $25; others get along nicely ON
a substantial meal that costs dime or
less. And there is at least one strange
little restaurant here where a full repast
can be purchased for cent 1t is with
out doubt the cheapest eating house in
the world. This cheapest dining room
Of all is huddled down in corner al
most touching the famous Mariners
temple of Oliver street, a block away
from Chatham square, where streams Of
people from all the four corners of town
pass and repass. 1t is little more than a
wooden hut, some Is feet long and per-
haps broad, with little addition tack
ed on to it, which serves as kitchen.
Small as it is, however, it feeds an
average of 1000 people in day, 20 be-
ing able to squeeze in before the counter
at one time; on some days as many al
1,400 have eaten there. Tramps, out
casts, Migrants and men who have fallen
so low that they will never get up in
the world again, come daily, sometimes
three times day, with the last copper
they have in their pockets, to drink cof-
fee, MUNICH the bread and eat the pea
soup that constitute the bill of fare of
this most lowly of eating houses It is
strange congregation truly that one sees
within its narrow four walls-a congre-
cation Of faces stamped with vice and
debauchery, of patched and rusty gar
ments and unwashed cuticle. Women
occasionally come to this penny dining
room, but as the proprietor doesn't care
for their custom, they do not annoy him
often.
You ask, What can copper buy?
Well, incredible as it may seem in these
days of lavish expenditure, three cop
pers expended at this tiny restaurant
will buy bowl of coffee, a bowl of pea
soup and four slices of bread. A bowl Of
coffee and q slice of bread. the slice cut
generously, costs but cent. For a cent,
too, large bowl of soup is served, with
another slice Of bread. A cent more will
buy two additional pieces of bread The
bowl of soup is full quart, the bowl
of coffee pint.
eff man wants TO eat more than
this at one time" the little proprietor
says, she must be a glutton. AT all
events. no vagrant should starve with
one of these cent dinners snugly
slowed away beneath his soiled linen.
The pea soup is rich, the coffee is cheap,
but as good as one finds in many pre-
tentious dining rooms here, and the
bread is so palatable that the proprietor
eats it himself. This cent eating house
has been running for over five years. and
during that time has fed hundreds OF
thousands. Some months the meals
served have reached the 30, 600 notch.
New York Letter in Pittsburg Dis
patch.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-02-09
WHAT A BULLDOG DID.
Bear Was Small Game For This Psrtic-
ular Canine.


ular Canine.
There were five officers from Fort
Reno and four from Fort Kearney, and
seven or eight citizens from the east who
had come out for a hunt, and we had
pitched our camp on the eastern base OF
the Big Horn mountains, at the head
waters of Clear Fork river. One of the
civilians, who hailed from Boston, had
brought along his bulldog, and though
he was guyed and ridiculed hundred
times over he insisted that the dog
should be taken along on the hunt.
"You Just waltz he replied to all sar-
castle remarks. IT want to see him
tackle BEAR and if he gets chance to
it's dollars to cents that he comes out
ahead.
One day six Of us went off up the
mountain, and the owner of the bulldog
was one of the party. His dog was at
his heels, as q matter of course, but as
we were out for the climb more than III
expectation of sighting game no one OBJ
jected. We had reached a point thou
sand feet above camp and directly over
it when big cinnamon bear which had
been snoozing alongside of a rock start
ed up with "woof - Before any one
had scarcely got sight of him or realized
what sort Of game it was the bulldog
rushed forward and tackled him, getting
q tail hold.
"Stu-boy Hang to him! Now's
your show'' yelled the man from Bos-
ton. and the bulldog got death grip.
Old cinnamon hadn his nerve with him
that day, and the first move no mace
was down hill. At his first plunge he
started good sized bowlder from Its
he'd. and 100 feet down he dislodged a
great mass of earth. That was the start
of an avalanche. Earth, rocks, trees and
powders began to move, and a strip 3oo
feet wide went booming down into the
valley. The men in camp heard and saw
it in time to escape. but 1t swept away
every tent we had and filled the bed or
the creek 80 feet deep with debris.
"Not an ounce Of provisions, q COOK
ING utepsil nor blanket was saved.
where our camp had stood was a mass
Of earth and rock 10 feet deep. We got
down as soon as possible, and men were
sent of to Reno to bring back new
outfit. No one ever expected to see that
bulldog again, of course, but three hours
later he walked in among us as II moth
ing had happened and hadn't go much
as a scratch on him. We looked ana
looked, but no one spoke for two or
three minutes. Then the man from bos-
ton suddenly remarked:
"'I told you he'd get away with
bear, but wasn't so sure about an ava
lanche. I've raised his price to w. oOo'
and don't care to sell at thatP de
troit Free Press.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-02-09
HOW THEY DlNED.
Ano methods OF the English mt Table In
the Seventeenth Century.

Tho Methods Of the English mt Table Tn
the Seventeenth Century.
The old English had three meals n
day, OF which the chief meal was taken
when the work of the day was finished.
Inc hrst meal was at 8, dinner was
about O'Clock, and supper was taken
just before bedtime. The Normans dined
at the old English breakfast time or n
little later and supped at Z D. m. In
Tudor times the higher classes dined at
III and supped at 8, but the merchants
seldom took their meals before l2 and
O'Clock.
The chief meals, dinner and supper.
were taken in the hall both by the old
English and the Normans, for the parlor
did not come into use until the reign of
Elizabeth. Breakfast did not become
regular meal until quite lately, and DR..
Murray. III the Oxford Dictionary. gave
l4o3 as the date Of the earliest Quota.
ton in which the word occurred. The
meal did not become recognized until
late III the seventeenth century. for
Pepys habitually took his draft of
half a pint of Rhenish wine or "a dram
OF strong waters in place of a morning
meal. Dinner was always the great
meal of the day. and from the accession
OF Henry " to the death of Queen Eliza.
beth the dinners were as sumptuous and
extravagant as any of those now served
Carving was then fine art Each
guest brought his own knife and spoon.
for the small fork was not introduced
into England until Thomas Coryate of
Odcombe published his "Crudities" in
1911. Pepys took his spoon and fork
with him TO the lord mayors feast in
1868. The absence Of forks led to much
stress being laid upon the act of wash
ing the hands both before and after
meals and to the rule that the left hand
alone should be dipped into the com
mon dish, the right hand being occupied
with the knife.
The perfect dinner at the best time CT
English cookery consisted of thren
courses, each complete in itself, and ter
minated by subtlety or device, the
whole being rounded off with ypocras,
after which the guests retired into an
other room, where pastry, sweetmeas
and fruit were served with the choicer
wines. The English were essentially
meat eaters, and it was not until the
time of the commonwealth that pud
ding attained its extraordinary populari-
ty. Indeed, the first mention of pudding
in the menus of the Buckfeast" at st.
Bartholomew hospital did not occur
until 1910, and in 1712 is an item of 3
shillings for ice. London Times.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-02-09
Christian Endeavor Notes.

One Chicago Junior society furnished
ten tons of coal for its own church.
The Wilmington tDel.) union has
solved the problem of union socials by
having the individual societies enter
tain the union three or four times a
year.
30. E., Comprehensive Evangelism.
is the way Rev. Charles Roads interprets
our motto, 1.-THE world for Christ. p"
At the Indiana yearly meeting of
Friends SEQ Endeavorers Of that church
were present.
Better not sing "Speed Awayi" until
you are doing something definite for
missions.
The Baptist Christian Endeavor So
ciety of Ellsworth, Me-, has record Of
which it may we'll b. proud. Not one
of the active members has ever been
known to leave the church before the
preaching service.
Thirty-three denominations are re-
ported in Illinois ASA Christian En-.
deavor societies
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-02-09
Heroes For Their Faith.

So they have marched Of old, the mis-
sionaries of all the ages of the religion
of the incarnation aid the cross, ideal
lists, believers, magnanimous and brave.
the heroes Of our faith. They were all
this because they were missionaries.
They could not have been missionaries
and not have been all this. You cannot
picture mere machines or disbelievers
or selfish men or towards doing what
they have done. y n They have been
heroes because of their faith. because
their souls supremacy believed in and
their lives were supremacy given to
Christ. Bishop Brooks.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-02-09
NO LONGER "TRleD ON"
The New Invention That Saves Women
From Hours at the Dressmakers'.


A clever New York dressmaker has
done away with the ordeal Of trying
on" and the gowns that come from her
establishment are no longer WEAKNESS
of the flesh or spirit to the woman who
orders them, for they fit without being
fitted" and there is no System" Of
measure and tape about the matter what
soever. 1t is merely an ingenious device
patented by this same clever woman of
the needle whereby any clients figure
can be copied from perfect fitting waist
lining or waist and expanded into an
exact mold of every curve, every angle,
every popularity, of the original flesh
and blood form.
This woman discovered that dress
makers systems and trying on were the
trials of womankind She forthwith
reasoned that the lay figure had not been
useful except for skirt draping, because
of the manifest inaccuracy Of it as ap-
piled to any and every figure. Some wo-
men with "a inch waist had "a inch
bust measure and length of side seams
out of all proportion. Other little wo-
men were short wasted and broad back
ed. Still others were higher in one
shoulder than the other and had unac-
countable hills and hollows in their
anatomy. 1t was manifestly impossible
that conventional machine lay figure
should be able to assume all the shapes
Of all the women. No, each woman
must have mold of her own, and an
exact mold, over which bodices could be
as perfectly fitted as on the flesh and
blood woman.
The invention consists Of an artistic
and perfectly fitted waist lining of can
vas, strong, but flexible, and shaped to
every line Of the bodice. Into this lining
is inserted a cunning device which ex-
pands it into the exact shape it was
while upon the woman, just as rigid,
just as solid, as II there was the real
anatomy inside Of it, true reproduction
Of the figure. -Jenness Miller Monthly.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-02-09
Light Infantry to Pre-
sent an Opera This
Month.
Gov. Pingree Has Accepted.
.. y,u Deliver n Welcome Address
a,tne Annual Meeting Of the
Michigan club.

The opera. "Mikado," will Represented
the latter part OF the month at the Ar
mory Opera House, Houghton, for the
benefit of the Houghton Light Infantry.
The cast will be made of local talent and
will be trained Mr.. A. l.. Baker, OF Chica-
90 with whom the company has entered
into a contract for the purpose and who
arrived in Houghton Sunday evening.
Unless suitable person for the part OF
Koko il found Mr.. Baker will assume
that character. That there is plenty OF
talent TO make success At the command
of the Light Infantry and its ranks s
evidenced by past Efforts at entertain
ment.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-02-09
SOME PECULIAR ACCIDENTS.
An Oculist Tells How the Sight of Several
Persons Was Destroyed.


A prominent oculist of this city gives
the following list of queer accidents
that have come under his observation
recently:
A little boy, 10 years old, was stand
ing in front of a bird fancier's shop
when an aged parrot seemed to take
sudden animosity to the child and dart
ed at him, pecking out one eye before
he could get out of the way.
Some linemen left lot of short wire
lying on Euterpe street after repairing
the telephone connections in that dis
trict. An old negro woman who was on
her way to market early the next morn
ing stepped OH one end Of bit of this
wire, when the other end flew up. strik-
ing her in the eye and binding her.
A mixer employed at one of the
dairy farms near the city was milking
cow that had got her tail matted and
tangled with cockleburs. In the course
Of the milking the COW switched her
tail into the mans face, the mass of
burs striking him in one eye and COM
pletely destroying the sight of it.
A lad shooting at sparrows with an
airgun hit his little brother in the eye
and blinded him for life.
Tommy Peats, the handsome, bright
eyed 7-year-old son of widow, fell
down stairs backward. When his moth
er got to him and picked him mp, the
boy was asleep, the shock having affect
ed him in this singular manner, and in
an hour after, when he opened his eyes,
they were badly and irrevocably crossed.
A poor lad who is affected with cpl
lepsy during recent attack fell against
the steam coils in his fathers office,
burning and blistering his eyes so badly
that the sight is gone.
AS the Louisville and Nashville pas
senger train was coming into the city
some ruthless person threw stone at
the day coach, SCATTERING one Of the
windows. The particles Of glass flew
into the face of man sitting by the
window, as many as 40 of them embed
ding themselves in his eyes alone. Most
marvellous to relate, every bit OF glass
has been distracted and the mans eye
sight remains unimpaired. New Or
leans Letter in Philadelphia Times
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-02-09
CHRISTIAN ENDEAvOR.
Topic For the Week beginning Feb. Ia
Comment by Rev. =. III. Doyle.


Topic For the Week beginning Feb. Ia
Comment by Rev. =. III. Doyle.
ToPIc.-what our denomination is doing
Zech. iv, LA. "a birtseyo view OF denomi.
national activities.)
In this chapter the flourishing condi-
tion of the Jewish church as restored
after the captivity is represented under
the symbol of golden oandlestick.
This is the symbol used in Revelation
to represent the churches Of Christ.
Joshua and Zerubbabel. the anointed
ones, leaders in the restoration, are rep
resented under tho symbols of olive
trees. These symbols may not only sug-
gest UNCONVENTIONAL activities, but also
our part in them.
Christian Endeavor stands for inter-
denominationalism, but it emphasizes at
the same time the Importance of denom-
national loyalty. This is manifested in
no better way than by its constant effort
to influence the young people to seek a
thorough knowledge Of the workings OF
their denominations in all particulars.
knowledge makes us more loyal to our
denominations and more interested in
them. Many members Of religious de-
nominations know nothing at all about
them, and it is not, therefore, to be won
dered at that they have little or no IN
terest in them.
The activities Of our denominations
have special attractions for Endeavor-
ers because they stand for activity, for
work To know what our denomina-
tons are doing is to insure our interest
and our assistance. We might suggest :
/. What are our denominations do
ing along mission lines? All our de-
nominations are actively engaged i'll
missionary work, both home and for
eign. Do we know all about this work?
Do we know the names Of the countries
in which our missionaries are and the
names of the prominent missionaries
and the character of their labors? Per-
haps if we knew more we would be
more interested in this important work.
2. What are our denominations doing
along good citizenship lines? Our
churches are awakening more and more
to the necessity of making men good
citizens and TO the Importance of having
! christian men lDVereSteu III Une audlrs
of the government. What are we doing:
3. Along temperance lines. Intern
perance is one of the greatest evils of
our day. The saloon educates and fos-
tiers intemperance. What is our church
doing against both?
4. Along educational lines. Where
! and what are it's schools, colleges and
theological seminaries?
8. Along philanthropic lines. What
is it doing to show its love for men
practically by trying to ameliorate theil
condition in life and to make life hap
pier and nobler?
Along these and many other general
and specific lines Of work we may prof
itably study the activities Of our dc
nominations.
Bible Readings p cxxii, Ia
cxxxvii, 1-6; cl, 1-6; Math. v, 10 16
xvi, $780, xviii, 10, 20; Acts ii, AZ
AZ; Cor. XIV, 90; Rom. xii. l, Q; Gal
vi, o; Eph. vi, is; / Pet. ii, 10; Rev
ii and iii xii, II.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-02-09
Rainbows That Can Change Sex.

In many parts Of the world 1t Ia the
general belief that the rainbow has the
power to change sex. This queer belief
obtains in such widely separated dis
tricts as South Africa and Norway and
China and Australia. The Zulus have q
long folklore story Of the young man
who was changed into wrinkled old
woman by touching the many hued arch.
The Scandinavian peasants have sim
liar story, and in Greece they say that
anybody who runs against the end Of
the rainbow will have his or her sex in
stantly changed. In France and India
to pass under the rainbow has similar
effect. Louis Republic.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-02-09

Governor PiDgree has accepted the in
yitation to deliver an address Of welcome
at the twelfth annual banquet OF the
Michigan club in the Auditorium, Detroit,
February %. There will be a reception
at the club that day from IL to 5 o'clock
and the directors have also accepted an
invitation from Gen. Alger to reception
at his home on the same day from
3to5. With the acceptance OF Mark A..
Hanna to attend the list OF speakers IL
complete. Northumberland Dun
stan is particularly anxious that this
county be well represented and it is GER
tain that "A number Of leading repubh-
cans will attend from here.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-02-09

II an attorney appointed by the court
to defend a prisoner Ghosts upon his
own motion to appeal the case the
supreme court has recently decided that
the county is not liable for the costs OF
the appeal or for extra compensation OF
the attorney. The right OF appeal in
civil or criminal cases the court says is
statutory and there ia found no authority
in the statutes for an attorney appointed
to defend a prisoner in the circuit court
to appeal the case upon his own motion.
That is, the statute provides for the pris-
oner's defense in the first court OF juris-
diction, but goes no further.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-02-09
disappointment.

A Washington paper says that young
lady Of the Capital City met gentle
man from far western state at party
in Washington. "You are not from the
far west, sir?" she said doubtfully.
Eyes. have lived there all my life. I"
"Oh, I'm so glad to meet you'll"
"Thank YOU"
"But-excuse me-you see, I've read
ell the western stories, and it seems to
me that you've forgotten something.
Nothing that can call to mind"
"Why. you don't say thar and look
hyar, stranger, and use all sorts Of bad
grammar. and wear a pistol so that it
bulges out your coat"
81 have never done those things"
"Oh, dearl Then my idol is shatter-
ed ~