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The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-07-17
DAINTY COTTON MATERIALS.
Make Pretty Costumes for the Warn
Season.

Grass linen, in plaids, stripes, lace
effects, embroidered and plain, again
is prepared to lead all Transparent
fabrics. 1t is to be found for twenty
five cents up to five dollars a yard and
In several shades of the
color. The heavier linen crashes are
of an improved smoother weave, and
are gray and natural colored at Is to
go cents for odd skirts and jacket suits,
Striped and Powered dimities are IN
light green, blue. pink, yellow and Vio-
let shades at Is TO so cents for dresses
and shirt waists. Organizes are even
prettier than they were last summer,
in natural-looking blossoms over deli
cately-tinted grounds, and will retail
at from 25 to so cents. Their rival is
Swiss muslin with small or medium
dots and oil of the light tints for the
ground, which may be plain or in floral
figures. Plain-colored lawns will sell
chiefly for lining these transparent ma
t~erials. Piques will flourish in spite OF
the crash fever, in medium cords of one
or two colors, and are only intended for
jacket suits. Plaids in every material,
silk, wool and cotton, are among the
promised successes. Percale in stripes,
dots and small figures sells at from ten
to twenty-five cents for shirt waists
and morning dresses. A touch of black
in the figure is very stylish in cotton
fabrics. In white goods dimity, Swiss
muslin, nainsook, organdie and lawn
have the preference, and are ranked
among the cheapest as well as the most
expensive goods. Foreign and domestic
ginghams show plaid, striped, checked.
ETC., patterns, in which green is promi-
nent, as it is in all wash goods. Cling.
ham is not as popular as it was owing
to the craze for sheer goods, but it was
too useful a fabric for women and chill.
dren to be without. This is in medium.
sized plaids, stripes of immense variety
and checks of various kinds. Green,
red. strong pink, yellow and a touch OF
black are prominent tints introduced
in ginghams. Vivid colors predomi.
nate in all spring NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
Home Journal.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-07-17
A MOVE
Marvellous Feats of the Modern
Methods of Pushing.

Marvellous Feats of the Modern
Methods Of Pushing.
There are certain men working quiet
ly in various parts of the United States
who could if they chose to do it, move
the Pyramids, pick up the Egyptian
obelisks, or lift a modern s~kyscraper
from its caisson bed and carry it across
the street. There are not many such
men, yet few, if any, ponderous objects
exist in the world which they will not
attempt to move intact for a considera-
ton. In the directory these men are
called house movers, but they are en-
titled to a designation of far greater
dignity, for some of their achievements
are numbered amongt the great engineer
ing feats of the world. Within the past
few months the house movers have ex-
perienced an unwonted activity. Some
really creditable and in some cases stu
pendous feats have been performed.
The moving of Lowering hall at Johns
Hopkins university was n of these
feaIs, the moving of an upper New York
house 16 blocks along the public high
way was another, and the very recent
moving and resetting of a tall smoke
stack at Manhanset was a third.
One of these house movers declares
that there is no building, however
heavy, however bulky, which cannot be
lifted from it's foundations and con-
veyed any distance. This means, of
course, without any damage to the
building itself; hat the very ornaments
on the mantel pieces, the bric-a-brac in
the cabinets will in no way be disturbed,
that the window glass will not be even
cracked, that the home life of the fam
lily occupying the moving house will be
undisturbed. Such is absolutely the
fact. 1t is not necessary for the occu-
pants of the building to temporarily
change their quarters; to take the cas-
tors of the bedsteads, nor to pack uE
all the ~perishable articles in the house.
1t is on record that an old tall clock
which was in a house which was moved
in Westchester county, n. Y, never
stopped running all during the
progress of removal. On the other
hand there seems to be no limit to the
movers capabilities as far as weight is
concerned. The Brighton Beach hotel,
which was placed on $50 fiat ears and
moved 600 feet, weighed 5000 TONS. The
weight of the recently moved railroad
station at Mott Haven, n. Y, is LOO
tons. This building was composed en-
tirely of brick and stone and the weight
is very unequally distributed, a central
tower alone weighing 500 tons. To be
frank, these feats take all of the won
derment out of the raising of the pyra-
mids and obelisks, inasmuch as the most
primitive tools are used by the engi.
neerS.-Louisyille Courier,Journal.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-07-17
WHEN MOTHER TUCKED US IN.

Cur little bedroom, way upstairs" was
heated by the sun,
That did its duty grudgingly when sum-
mer days were done;
Ye. modern room steam-heated meier win
be so coy, quite,
As ours was, when mother came and tucked
US in at night
How long the winter evenings were before
the open fire,
With rosy apples roasting there and sput-
tering in their ire;
The popcorn swapping blithesomely above
the rudy bed
OF Goals, that glowed right furiously. with
good rock maple fed;
While father read the paper through. or.
when our ~neighbor came,
Discoursed at length of church and state,
dispensing praise or blame
1mpartially; and mother sat, with needles
clicking fast
That helped the staid old clock to count
the moments as they passed;
While ftful freight flashes fell upon her
gentle face
That shone with steady lfght-the outward
sign of inward grace.
And so the happy moments ran till brands
began to fall;
The neighbor donned his well-worn coat,
and tramped out through the hall;
Then father brought the Bible worn, and
read. with reverent voice,
Some portion" of the Sacred Word, to
chasten or rejoice
Our hearts. Oh, while with him we knelt,
how glowed his face
As his petition humbly rose up to the
throne of grace.
The slow sonorous stroke of nine made
Lion lift his head
From shaggy paws: and mother said:
Come. children-now to bed"
We left our sturdy 'copper-toes" the shin
ing hearth before,
Our daytime clothes" in tumbled heaps
beside them on the floor,
And. holding up our trailing gowns, we
scampered up the stairs;
Past the big chimney, where, we made be-
lieve, lurked polar bears;
Across the floor that creaked with cold
then into bed we hoped,
Drawing the homespun blankets close
about each head closely cropped;
And there we listened, still as mice, for
mothers gentle tread;
Right well we knew that she would come
to tuck us up in bed.
Was ever such a tender "knack" for max
ing life all rosy
A touch SO deft, a loving pat, and we were,
oh, so cozy!
The wind might rack the rafting sash and
twist the elm trees tall,
The storm rage at the pane-to us ii mat
tered not at all.
It seemed a shame to go to sleep and lose
the dear delight
We had when mother came upstairs and
tucked US in at night
Minnie Leona Upton, in Good House
keeping.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-07-17
STORY OF A CAPTURE.
Wit of a Wife Saved Her Husbsna
from the Officers.

"If 1 hadn't seen it with my own
eycs," said the old forty-niner, 81
wouldn't be a tellin' it. In u camp we
had got kinder civerlized and unless q
Teller was strung up immediate fur lift
in dust what didn't belong ter him, or
ridin' off with a boss not havin' title ter
tn same. we locked him up and held
him fur a fair trial. We had a reg'ler Off.
GERS an guards an the ~convicts had ter
work gettin' in wood an cleanin' up
round camp.
Zone f~ne-lookin' Teller came in there
with his wife, an she war finer lookin'
nor he was. l never knowed yet
whether he done it or not, but it war
charged that he was caught crawlin' out
from a tent with his PARTNERS swag.
We caught him an put him inter tn
workin' gang till the gran jury could
set on him. He had a mighty fine boss
that a lot of us wanted ter buy, but mis-
wife wouldn't sell an took care OF him
as good as a man could do.
ION a Saturday night that Teller
broke guard. While we was chasin'
round a Chinerman Motorized US as now
tn man was at home with his wife.
They must have heerd US comm, fur
there was a rush from tn back door,
there was as purity a spring into the
saddle as you ever see an all of us went
clatterin' after tn big boss while his
rider waved a hat an Knocked at us. We
follered fer miles, droppin' out one by
one till me an tn sheriff had tn trail.
We could change bosses, but fur ten
hours that there big black kept tn
road an showed us his heels. Then his
rider jist coolly got off and set down on
a log ter wait fur us. We galloped up
with guns in both hams an ordered a
surrender. Durn me if it wasn't tn
purity woman, an we never see either
OF 'em again."-Detroit Free Press.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-07-17
HER sIxTY-NINE-cENT SMILE.
That Was What He Called 1t and HI,
Told the reason Why.

That Was What He Called 1t and He
Told the Reason why.
They had been quarreling vigorously
all evening, and although they had os-
tensibly made up" again, it was evi.
dent from the chilliness Of her man.
ner that the reconciliation process had
been more shallow than thorough. Her
smile in particular, icily sweet and pal
pably forced, annoyed him beyond
measure, and he presently resolved, be-
ing himself yet a little angry, upon re-
yenge.
With this end in view he leaned de-
votedly toward her, as the elevated train
in which they sat slackened up &C a sta
ton, and asked gently:
do you know what your smile re-
minds me off"
NO. she responded expectantly, the
aforementioned smile thawing a little
in anticipation of a compliment, what
is it,"
"Of the basement of a cheap dry
goods store" he responded sweetly, his
clear voice travelling all over the silent
ear, and attracting the attention OF
every passenger in it; "the girls in some
of the State street Easements keep a
different smile on tap for every Gus
toner, and they regulate it by the
amount of your purchase. Twenty-nine
cents, a tiny smile; 40, and it grows
wider; 60 and a touch of sweetness
creeps into it; 80 cents and it spreads all
over the face. Your smile tonight re-
minds me of the 69-cent variety"
An impressionable man sitting right
behind the couple, burst into a loud
and hastily suppressed guffaw, and
more than one passenger smiled. But
the girl addressed banished every trace
of a smile from her face, and her subse-
uuent manner toward her triumphant
but trembling escort was so icy that
conductor buttoned his coat quickly
and turned up his collar as he passed
their seat, and the policeman across h
car evidently meditated following them,
as they left the train, for the express
purpose of protecting the rash young
man from sudden death by combustion
or explosives.-Chicago Times-Herald'
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-07-17
EuSSY WOMEN.
They Are Not All SiendeF-Don't Be
long to Any Particular Caste.

They Are Not All S-lender-Don't Be-
long to Any Particular Caste.
Of what use is a fussy woman in the
Emergencies of life? She loses her
head fguratively, in an accident;
6dgets the patients nerves to fiddle
strings in a sick-room and becomes SD
pine and hysterical in a domestic cata-
clysm. Does the fussy, idgety woman
ever enjoy herself on a pleasure trip,
or, Is important, does she ever allow
members of her party to enjoy them
selves? Rarely, 1 think. 1 took a bank
holiday excursion trip to Margate this
year in search of "copy," and the full
| significance of the fussy woman was
borne in upon me by n of the occu-
pants of the third-class carriage that I
elected to honor with my company.
She was a large m with a large
party. She upset n of my precon-
ceived notions that fat women never
fuss, for she vas very large and she
fused very conspicuously.
I had watched her on the platform
before the train came in sight. She was
making spasmodic dives after her purse,
her tickets, her children, her lunch bas-
kets; she was evidently possessed with
the notion that she was about to lose
them. When she had cackled all into
the carriage her fussing was not fin
ished; she fused because she could
not see where the am sandwiches 'ad
got put to; she fused because George
had lost his penny; she fused because
she couldnot make UP her mind whether
it would be better to have the window
up or down; she fused because some
body Thought as 'ow it might be rim
ing in Margit," and she omitted to bring
the "macs."
The climax of her fussing was seen
when the departure bell sounded and
Sandy" presumably her husband, had
not come back from having a "arf-and-
arr" with his mate in the resterong."
She was a specimen of the lower-class
"fusser," but 1 have encountered quite
as bad fidgets among women of a higher
grade, and l am not sure that their fuss
ing is not more trying than the fusslng
of the ~lower-class woman, who may
perhaps be pardoned for not knowing
n better.-Daughter.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-07-17
HUMOROUS,

-!Nu, z never talk to an inferisAS
But have you ever met one?"-Courrier
ies Etats-Unis.
You protest that you love me,
Emily, but I am still waiting for the
first kiss" "Well, why do you waltz
-Fliegende Blaetter.
II have here a neat and pretty little
letter opener" began the agent. $50
have L at home" said the business man,
sadly; al am married."-Cincinnau
Tribune.
II have bitten off more than 1 car
chew" remarked the boa constructor,
as tie young gazelle disappeared within
its ~capacious jaws; but thank fortune,
I don't have to chewi" And it curled
itself up for a six weeks nap.-Chicago
Tribune.
Stern Party-"Well, sir, I don't
know as 1 am particularly DESTROYS Of
becoming your father-in-law, young
mani" Cholly Seeke-"E-eh-In-ne
never thought of that. You w-wo-would
b-be my ~father-in-law, wouldn't you?
I g-guess Wen l-let the-er-m-matter
drop; g-good d-day."-Truth.
How 1t Came About.-'I have been
wondering" said Champion Abdul
Hamid to his grand %vizier, whether we
had better follow the example of u
fellow-champion Fitzsimmons and go
on the stage" Twenty thousand can
die power arc light of the university re-
piled the ~vizier; 81 fear you would be
unable to square the critics. I have a
better plan. We can force the Greeks to
pay well for the show we have given
them And forthwith the claim for the
earth was framed.-Philadelphia North
American,
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-07-17
For the Bicycle Girl.

Cycling golf stockings are being
adopted universally. At last women
are waking up to the fact that leggins
are uncomfortable and everything but
neat looking after they have been worn
two or three times, and that the bicycle
boot is next to impossible in hot wealth.
er. This boot is even warmer than the
leggin and destroys a perfect ankle mo-
ton, which is the secret of easy riding.
The golf stocking is both comfortable
and good to look at. One of the prettiest
patterns is a dark brown and red mix
ture. Instead of having a cuff at the
top it has a simulated cuff about where
a walking boot would come on the leg.
Then there are quite rich looking plaids
and stripes in blues and green's, blacks
and browns, grays and blacks, and so
on. Brighter colors are also coming
into favor. Golf stockings are all woven
ofwooi, and for this reasonmany people
cannot adopt them. For such there is a
footless stocking intended for wearing
over the ordinary kind. 1t has the adj
vantage of not increasing the size of the
foot.-Cincinnati Enquirer.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-07-17
The CLIMATE of Greenland.

During a series of observations made
last summer by a professor of Cornell
university, it was discovered that there
had been a most amazing change in the
climate of Greenland since the first rec
ords made concerning that region. It
would appear that there are, on the
Greenland coast, unmistakable evidence
of submergence of the land. Whether
this has caused q diversion of ocean
currents is not yet determined. The
explorers found OF the Greenland coast
poisoning flowers, transforms, fresh,
balmy air and birds and insects in
great abundance. On the American
shore thousands of miles to the south
the conditions were reversed, and there
was every evidence of wintry weather,
the shores being covered with heavy
s~nowbanks and with great foes Of ice
in their vicinity. The professor, in dis
cussing this subject, makes the follow
ing interesting inquiries: is Green
land now passing through the stage
of ice withdrawal from which the Amer
lean, Labrador and Baffin Land have so
recently escaped? And is there any
relation between the d~own-sinking Of
Greenland and the uprising of Labra-
dor and Bafin Land? Is the ice with
drawal directly due to the land move
ment, and is the load of ice really the
cause for the sinking which allows its
withdrawal? That is, does the ice in
crease in area and extent with no other
result than its own destruction by de-
pressing the land, and hence removing
the cause of supply?"-N. Y. Ledger.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-07-17

When awaking in the morning do not
rub the eyes; indeed, one ought never
to rub or press the fingers against the
eyes. If they feel at all irritated, sponge
them with cold water. Cold water has a
most beneficial effect upon the eyes;
and the strongest will find it good to
daily battle the eyes in cold water.
This invigorates them and helps
to keep them in good working
order. But it must be remem
bered that quite cold water should only
be used when the body is at a moderate
temperature. When one is very heated
or warm, the chill must be taken off the
Louis Republic.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-07-17
Falling Walls mt Fires.

There are several kinds of falling
walls, and the fireman of expert
ence knows them we'll, and what to eX-
pect from each. There is one kind that
breaks first at the bottom and m
down almost straight, somewhat like a
curtain. This makes a big noise, but
is not very much to be dreaded Then
there is another that bulges or buckles"
in the middle at first, and makes a sort
Of curve as it descends. This is a little
more serious than the first, and has
caused many fatalities. Then there is
the one that breaks at the bottom and
comes straight out, reaching clear
across the street. and remaining almost
solid until it strikes, and. as an old fire.
man once remarked: That's the kind
you want to dodge" This kind of 'fall-
ing wall" has caused more of the deaths
in the department than any other
danger the firemen have to contend
with. 1t has killed horses as we'll as
Enen, and destroyed apparatus; and 1t
is so rapid in its descent. and covers sc
much space. that to escape it the men
have to be quick, indeed-Charles T.
Hill. in St. Nicholas.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-07-17
THE sULTAN'S MOTHER.
Fulhllment of n Martinique For
tune TeIIer's Prophecies.

Ful6llment of n Martinique FOr-
tune TelIer's Prophecies.
The present sultan of Turkey is par
Tally French by descent, a curious fact,
from which hangs a romance.
Every l~oiterer in the pleasant byways
of history will recall the charming
story told anent Empress Josephine
and her friend Clara Bazillais of how
a mulatto fortune teller prophesied that
each of these young beauties of Mar
Unique should marry an emperor. jose
phine, who was then merely Mile. de la
Pagerie, laughed at what she deemed
q piece of idle lattery; and so did the
equally incredulous Clara Bazillais.
But nevertheless the prophecy came
true in both cases. Josephine became
empress of the French, and Mile. Ba-
~zillais, by as strange a turn of the wheel
of chance, ended her life as the first
consort and only actual wife of Sultan
Mahmoud II.
The late Sultan Abdul Madjid, while
in Paris in 1867, told Napoleon III. the
full story of his mothers romantic ad-
ventures. Mile. Bazillais was on her way
from Martinique to Marseilles when
captured by Il piratical galley off Malta
and carried to Constantinople. There
she was exposed for sale in the slave
mart, but Sultan Mahmoud, happening
to pass that way. fell in love with the
fair maid of Martinique, and bought
her for a very large sum Mile. BAIL
lais acquired an extraordinary influence
over the grand Turk-so great a one,
indeed, that he married her formally,
having divorced all his other wives. She
remained a Christian to the last, and
after her consort's death in 1889 she
retired to a beautiful villa on the Bos-
phorus, where she spent her widowhood
under the name of mime. de Martini
que" Her eldest son became Sultan
Abdul Madjid, and her grandsons were
the late and present Sultans Murad v.
and Abdul Hamid II.
Mahmoud IL, consort Of the ci-devant
Mile. Ba~zillais, was one of the best and
most energetic sovereigns that modern
Turkey has known. he it wa wko first
introduced the customs Of civilized
courts at Constantinople, and placed
the Turkish diplomatic service upon Q
proper footing. May we not ascribe
some, ali least, Of these tendencies
toward civilization to the influence Of
Clara Bazillais, girl friend of Josephine
de la Pagerie, whose hand the mulatto
fortune teller read so skillfully in far.
off MISUNDERSTANDING Journal.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-07-17
The wearing of Tucks.

To be really fashionable one must
wear tucks. They + seen on every
thing, and the work on some OF the new
blouses and bodices is enormous. Not
only are quarter-inch tucks closely set
in groups all over the bodice and up
the sleeves, but these are frequently
supplemented by a tucked bolero and
by groups of tucks on the skirt. Even
low cut evening bodices are arranged
with tucked draperies of lisse. Some
times the tucks are horizontal, but more
frequently they are arranged to run
ground the igure.-Philadelphia Press
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-07-17
Took IL.

ST didn't know that your folks took
the How1er, Johnnie"
"Yes. ma'am. we've been taking II
.ver since the Poolers moved away"
"Did you subscribe for it then?"
$40, ma'am; the Poolers forgot %
stor .t."-Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-07-17
Fruit Jumbles.

One cupful butter. two cupfuls sugar,
one cupful rich buttermilk, Az cupfuls
-four. three teaspoonfuls baking pow
der, one teaspoonful each cloves and
cinnamon, one cupful stoned, chopped
rasins. Mix soft as possible, lay a large
spoonful for each tumble on buttered
tins and sprinkle with sugar.@Isaiss'
World
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-07-17
A Device.

Young Husband-Dear, what was
that white powder you dropped into
the fire?
Young Wife (cooking)-That wa
baking powder, stupid! I'm ready to
put the cake into the oven.-N. Y.
World.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-07-17

Weary Watkins-Dis here newspaper
says that half the cause Of de hard times
Is de ~overcrowdin' of de professions
Hungry Higgins-It's gittin' that
way in our profession, to a dead GER
Embellishments Journal
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-07-17
Feline FeIicitations.

Debrtante-I wonder If I shall lose
my looks, too, when I get your age?
Seasoned Sister-You will be luclVM
you doi--Punch.