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The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-07-24
4 Phone at the Toll Gate.

The President of the Cape Girardeau
County Telephone Company was in
town yesterday and he informed US
that his company has established an
Office and phone at the dollhouse out
side of the city limits for the benefit of
our merchants and lawyers. 1t is a
little inconvenient for business men,
but it is only pleasant ride on the
wheel to the dollhouse, where they can
communicate with Jackson, Burfords-
vile, Oak Ridge, in fact all the little
villages through the county.
We do not know who is to blame for
this foolish piece of business, but the
officers say they were refused perrniss
sion to enter the city and compelled to
take down their poles twice. That
some one has blundered there is no
shadow of doubt. Who was it?
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-07-24
Tax Dodging in Missouri.

Cape Girardeau county is not the
only county in Missouri troubled with
tax dodgers. This class of rascals
are scattered all over the State. We
have them here in Cape Girardeau.
They are on the streets every day
watching for chance to fleece some
poor devil out of his hard earnings.
They have thousands of dollars in
cash on which they do not pay one
cent in the way of taxes They are
big men with big bellies and big heads.
They are smart-that is they think
they are smart-and they are smart
enough to beat the city and county out
of their taxes. They live in the com
munity but they are no good to the
community. no good to the world no
good to themselves.
The Sedalia Democrat talks about
the dodgers as follows:
''VernOn County, like johnson, is
after several prominent citizens who
are charged with having made fraud
ulent atfidavits in their returns to the
County Assessor, and two physicians
and four other wealthy citizens have
been indicted. The Democrat-News at
Marshall maintains that tax-dOdging
is no new thing in Saline County, and
calls upon the next Grand-jury to in
yestigate the matter to the end, that
the guilty may be indicted and prose-
cuted. 1t is quite likely that Psttis
County is in the same list with John
son, Vernon and Saline, and it might
not be bad idea for the next Grand
jury to inquire into the matter.''
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-07-24
Lillibridge's Letter.

COLORADO, SPRINGS, COLO, July g..
H. P. Lillibridge, who was Consul
General from Hawaii to Japan during
the reign of King Kalakua, has writ
ten a letter to Senator Hanna, in which
he says:
please say TO both Mckinley and
Sherman that know whereof speak
when | tell you the designs of Japan
on Hawaii are exactly as intimated in
the editorials of the Japan Herald, ,
Notwithstanding all the denials that
Hoshi Toru Sami can make. Ever
since Japan captured the Lu Kiu Is
lands in 1915. the bee of conquest has
been buzzing in her headgear. Her
more recent success in Corea and
China and her acquisition of FormOsa.
as we'll as the submissive, undigniiied,
weak vis-a-vis which our government
of political joblots presents to them
and Spain. Kurdish all the incentive
and encouragement necessary to justi-
fy Japan idea that Hawaii will be an
easier conquest than any that have
gone before if she moves quickly.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-07-24
Life in Georgia.

The Atlanta ''Constitutien71 has
culled this absorbing bit of news from
one of its Georgia weekly exchanges:
"Scott Williams happened to rat
tIesnake bite on Wednesday last. an
it took half the liquor in the county to
cure him. The snake died, but Scott
lives"
"Bill Sperlin' found live frog in
the heart of a green pine tree. He took
the frog home with him, and all of his
family has since fell sick. 1t is be-
lieved the frog is the result ofhoodoo. ="
Dan Green cut down a bee tree last
Friday and got fifteen pounds of honey
outen it. Come to see us, Dan-we al
ways said you was good company"
"The preacher dinnered with us last
Sunday, and we learned before he left
that he had completely recovered his
health
Times is SO hard in this section
that we don't believe you could chop
daylight into 'em with a broadax;
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-07-24
Government Cur4epcy.

The reason bank circulation has been
decreasing through a term of years,
and why it is inelastic, remaining al
most without change from season to
season, is that the security for it is a
deposit of government bonds. The
bank capital is in the treasury instead
of in business. The profits on circula-
tion decline as the bonds increase in
value or the rate of interest declines,
and the redemption process is slow and
ineffective. The dangers of the gov
ernment currency and the deficiencies
of the bank currency are now pretty
well recognized, and every day shows in
creased earnestness in the demands of
business men for a complete and per-
uanent cure.-Iron Age.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-07-24
Lieut.. Peary Ready to sail.

BoSTON, Mass. July l5.-Lieut.
Peary. with Mrs. Peary and the little
daughter, arrived in Boston this morn
ing, ready to sail for the north when
their vessel, the Hope, arrives. Lieut..
Peary is in good health and spirits.
In the course of conversation he was
asked what he thought of the balloon
expedition of Andree. He said that
he had no doubt that he was IA highly
intelligent and adventurous man, but
without experience. He declared that
the artic region was dangerous and
difficult enough for the person who
had Il footh0ld there on terra frma.
and that it was not place for any
startling innovation. He was of the
opinion that the balloon scheme would
not work
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-07-24
Can't ExDOrt Lsws.

No civilized country can confine its
citizens within its own territory or pro-
.hibit all commercial intercourse with
other countries. Every country, there
fore, needs money which can be used in
purchase from and in payment of its
debts to other countries. Yet, howso-
ever absolute may be the power of its
government, its laws can have no ex-
trs-territorial effect. No government,
therefore, can prescribe the standard
by which its currency shall be valued in
any other country, or compel the citi-
zens OF another country to receive its
currency save at the bullion value of
that currency in the markets of the
world.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-07-24
Old People.

Old people who require medicine to
regulate the bowels and kidneys will
find the true remedy in Electric Bitters.
This medicine does not stimulate and
contains no whiskey nor other intoxi-
cant, but acts as tonic and altera-
tive. 1t acts mildly on the stomach
and bowels, adding strength and Civ
ingtone to the organs, thereby aiding
Nature in the performance of the
functions. Electric Bitters is an ex-
cellent appetizer and aids digestion.
Old people find it just exactly what
they need. Price fifty cents per bottle
at Haman's drug store.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-07-24
Output SIO.OOO.eOO.

SEATTLE, WASH, July 20.-Hon.
G.. B. Mcintosh, Governor of the
Northwest Territory. in which is iu-
cluded the far-famed Klondyke dis
strict, is in Seattle. The Governor
freely subscribed to the truthfulness
of the stories sent out as to the rich
ness of the new diggings. He estimates
that the Klondyke and its tributaries
yielded over $3,O0O,0O in gold last
winter. OF this amount he says $1,000
900 and upwards came via the steam
ships Portland and Excelsior -IOre
than $1,000, 900 in dust: he says, is now
stored away in the cabins of miners
along the creeks being developed.
''The British Yukon yield of gold
for 1897, the Governorresumed,' will
not be less than $4,000, ,OOO."
He says surveyors are now at work
trying to ascertain the feasibility of
construction of railroads into the
Yukon. One route contemplates
line of steamers from Fort Wrangle
up the Styken River.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-07-24
WILSON CREEK REUNION.
Preparations for the Encampment
Practically Completed

SPRINGFIELD, Mo-, July 20-The
Wilson Creek reunion managers have
secured Light Battery a, of St. Louis.
for the encampment week and they are
now negotiating with Battery b, .of
Kansas City. The Captain of the Kan
sas City battery telegraphed the COM
mittee to-day that he would come for
$50 if Springfield could furnish the
horses for the artillery. he govern
ment has agreed to send the United
States troops at Fort Leavenworth,
Kan. to the reunion, and the COM
mittee had a conference with Messrs.
Lockwood and Washburn tonight
about the transportation of the sold
iers. The railroad officials would not
promise lower rate than Ic "A mile
for the troops, and this would make
the cost to the committee about $500.
The Secretary OF War has ordered 372
tents sent to Springfield and the COM
mittee hope to ret several hundred
from the state.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-07-24
Notice.

The Metropolitan Industrial Benev-
olent Association of ST. Louis, Mo-,
has thrown open its doors for the peo
pie of Cape Girardeau and the ada
cent towns. Don't miss this chance.
It is a great protection through sick
ness, accidents and deaths. For full
particulars address Jas. E. Thomp-
son, Assistant superintendent and
Inspector for the Association at P. o.
delivery here or call on him at Car
roll House. Agents wanted.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-07-24
EVOLUTION OF MONEY.
ence Prevents Easy Transitien frea
One s1bstaHce to Another.

GnwaFFanted Government IRtePfef>
ence Prevents Easy Transition frea
One Substance to Another.
Money is simply commodity that is
generally recognized as a universal
equivalent, and its degree of goodness
or efficiency consists ill the unan.misy
of the recognition of the fitness of the
commodity used as money to perform
the essential functions of money. Many
commodities have been used as money,
and they have remained in use as long
as they met the essential requirements
of money among the people where used,
or until some other commodity aP-
peared the fitness of which commended
itself to the intelligence as being su-
perior 10 the commodity then being
used
Asseople have advanced in discriminat-
ing intelligence they have discarded in
ferior commodities ard adopted in place
thereof something that was superior;
these changes kept taking place until
finally gold and silver became the COM
moditieS that were recognized by the
people of most countries as being the
best for use as money. Sociological
transition is constant. Change is the
natural order OF th.ngs, and changes
come about naturally and are therefore
effected easily if the natural process is
allowed to so on undisturbed; troublous
friction ensues only when there is OBJ
structive governmental interference at
70, sIaI.,,- - Ha
order of things.
In our own day the stage coach has
been supplanted by the steam railroad
and stage coaches have practically be-
come thing of the past. The tallow
dip was succeeded by lamps filled with
burning fluid or oil, and lamps by IL
Eliminating gas, and gas by electricity.
These and many other changes were
accomplished with no serious disturb
ance whatever, and so it would be with
commodities used as money in the alb
sence of governmental obstruction.
There would be no threatening money
question in this country to-day, endan-
gering the continuity and perpetuity
of all business activity, if the United
States was not engaged in the banking
business.
Among the civilized people the days
of usefulness of silver as money, except
in subsidiary forms, are numbered, and
silver is going out of use as surely as
has the stage coach, and the tallow dip,
and for exactly the same reason; civili-
Zation has outgrown the conditions
which necessitated its use. No money
has ever come into use at the behest of
government, or because of statutory
enactments, but solely because of recog-
nized ability to perform the functions of
money.-Austin W. Wright. in Sound
Currency,
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-07-24
Daniel Boone's Brothers Grave Un.
disturbed for 100 Years.

For mere than hundred years the
remains of the Kentucky pioneer and
Indian fighter, Edward Boone, a broth
er of Daniel Boone, have rested under
the sward of bluegrass pasture on
the farm of Capt. Will Burris, of Cane
Ridge, in Bourbon county. The grave
has never been marked save by piece
of limestone rock, and time has OBJ
liberated any inscriptions which may
have been placed by friends in remem-
brance on the stone. The body of Ed
ward Boone was consigned to grave
made by his companions under buck
eye tree on the banks ofBoone's creek,
which sometimes covers the grave af-
ter heavy rains in the spring. After
interring Boone his friends placed a
limestone rock at the head of the
grave, and then carved on the buck
eye tree the single word, Boone"
which is yet discernible to visitors to
the grave.-Louisville Courier-Journs
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-07-24
A Thfrteener.

Those superstitiOus souls that shud-
der at the thought of being one Of
thirteen at table may be interested
in knowing that Capt. William Fowl
er, the founder of the Thirteen Club in
New York City, died last Tuesday at
the ripe age of 20. 1t is not SO bad
when a man can play familiar with the
unlucky l3 and live to be three score
and ten. Capt. Fowler closed his pub
lie school life at 13; he went into part
nership and erected 13 buildings: he
was elected Captain of a militia COM
pany in the 18th Regiment, resigned
April 13, 1861, and took command of
a volunteer company and fought in 13
battles. He was discharged August
13, 1863. In 1881 he organized the
Thirteen Club.-Nashville Banner.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-07-24
Good Money i. Good Anywhere.

While government can within its
territory define that which shall con.
stitute a legal tender in satisfaction of
contracts past and future, it cannot by
legislation fix the purchasing value of
its money, for money is a commodity,
and its value is determined in the mar
kets of the world under the laws of
trade, and the laws of trade, like the
laws of nature, are stronger and more
far-reaching than any constitutions or
statutes. The best money is the money
Of greatest purchasing power, and that
money has the maximum of purchasing
power which is eXchangeable at par,
not only in the country from whose
mint it is issued, but also in the mar
kets of the world.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-07-24
News service Extended.

The st. Louis Republic recently
companies, whereby direct news from
all the civilized world are received.
1t now prints more authentic foreign
news than any other paper andcontin-
ues to keep up its record for publish
ing all the home news. The outlook
for the year is one of big news events,
fast succeeding each other and they
will 'be highly interesting to every
one. The price of The Republic daily
is St a year, or sl.JO for three months.
The Twice-a-Week Republic will re-
main the same-cne dollar a year, by
mail, twice-a-week.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-07-24
Senator Gorman's Big Wheat Crop

ELLICoTT CITY, Nd, July 15.-
Wherever two or more Howard Coun-
ty farmers are gathered together, this
years extraordinary wheat crop is the
main topic Of conversation. The yield
is not only very abundant, but the
quality of the grain isexcellent. "Fair-
v1ew," near Laurel, the farm of which
Senator Arthur P. German is the
owner, produced this year the enor-
nous crcp of 5000 bushels from 100
acres. The Senator sold $500 bushels
of his crop as it came from the thresh-
ing machine at 72!c per bushel. 1t
was shipped by the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad to the Orange Grove
mills of the C. a. Gambrill Manu-
featuring Company. "Fairview" farm
isAmanaged by James L. Hobbs, one
of the best of the soil in Howard Coun-
ty, but the Senator rhimselfisno novice
at the business of farming, and takes
much delight agricultural pursuits.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-07-24

The breweries are in popular favor
at the ratio of II to | with the teachers
at their recent national convention
held in Milwaukee last week. At least
this was what a test showed on a
Wells street car. There were fifteen
teachers on the car chaperoned by J.
w. Bass, local Board ofTrade man,
who tookan interestin the convention.
The teachers got into an argument as
to whether they should go to the con-
vention or visit brewery. A vote
was taken, and the resultwas that there
were fourteen teachers in favor of the
brewery to one who wished to go to
the convention. The fifteen went to
the brewery.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-07-24
REFLEcTsPRosPERlTY.
Demand for small Notes Growing
Money Wanted for Circulation.

WASHINGTON, D. c., July 20
Business throughout the country is
booming according to reports received
at the Treasury Department. The
demand tor small notes, an excellent
Indication of cash sales, is still in
creasing. Nearly all the calls are for
s. bills. 1t is a remarkable fact that
gold is being deposited in the sub
treasures in exchange for silver GER
tiiicates. Merchants and others who
make the demand say they do not care
what sort of money they get, as they
want it to put in circulation and not
to hoard. For that reason silver cer-
titicates are quite as desirableas notes
redeema bic in gold.
The Treasury Department has taken
time by the forelock, and a large
quantity of small bills sufficient To last
for a long time is being printed. The
gold reserve gained $254. 40 to-day by
deposits. principally at San Francisco
and ST. Lonis.
Reports from st. Louis Indicate that
business there is improving rapidly,
and that the demand for small notes
is very great. Yukon River gold is
being shipped East, and it is expected
that much of it will be deposited at the
sub-treasury in New York and the
mint in Philadelphia in exchange for
small notes.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-07-24

Up in Iowa they have given up silver
and have a softer snap They make
S41, 500 900 in Iowa from their cows
alone. That beats free silver, doesn't
it-beats it all hollow? They make
s41. SOC, 900 selling milk, butter. cheese
and calves, and at the end of the year
they have the same old Bossy and Speck
and Spot and Brindle and Bess that
they had the year before. The Kansas
COW is sticking her hAad over the pas
tEre fence, lowing and mooing, with her
beg swelling with 1,o0o,o 900 worth Of
milk, while the old man is downtown
tearing his shirt because the plutocrats
went coin 5000, 900 worth Of silver.
-Emporia (Kan.l Gazette
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-07-24
Prosperity in Pacinc Coast states.

PORTLAND, ORE, July 16.-The
farmers of Oregon, Washington and
Idaho, owing to the good price Of
wheat, have been enabled to pay off
most of their mortgages, and this year
will get almost entirely out of debt.
In Washington loan agents find their
business greatly restricted this yearon
account of Populist legislation. The
late Legislature passed anact increas-
ing the amount Of property exempt
from execution, and abolishing the
personal judgment clause in all mort
cages, so that only the property mort
gagged can be held for money loaned.
In Oregon loan agents are not hinder
ed in this manner, but they report a
very slack demand for money at the
present time.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-07-24
stole Orchard of Fruit Trees,

The man who stole red hot stove
must now take a back seat, and give
his place at the head of the class to
this fruit tree agent, concerning whom
the Metropolis Journal-Republican
tells the following:
Sometime ago Amos Reynolds sold
a bill of fruit trees to Judge b. ..
Jones. Mr.. Reynolds claimed that
Jones never paid the account and
would not do SO. Aftercalling for the
money several times Mr.. Reynolds
just dug upthe hethrivingyOung orchard.
as he claims, by broad daylight, while
Judge to the contrary claims the dig
ging to have been done at night. The
Judge has simply arrested Mr.. Rey-
nOlds for theft and the trial is set for
Saturday morning.-Cairo Citizen.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-07-24
Cooperative Banking for Farmers.

Oo0RtEANlNc DahA LeE aEHCEo.
The American Agriculturist, of April
4, again discusses editorially the 'en-
tire feasibility Of cooperative banking
among farmers" This can be done,
it says, "by slight notifications of the.
system of cooperative savings fund and
banks, which has proved so remarkably
successful in American cities. These
institutions now hold over $500, 900 900
of deposits and are thoroughly demon
strated practical success. The Saxon;
Land Credit association "a report upon
which can be obtained by writing to
the secretary of state, Washington is a.
modification of the Raitfeisen system,
which in Prussia and Germany has
achieved the same success among the.
working farmers of those countries that
the cooperative banks have achieved in.
our American cities. The peoples banks
of Italy and neighboring countries,
based upon much the same plan, have
had marvellous success. y report Civ
ing further particulars upon the Saxon
Land Credit association has been pub
lished by the department OF state for
free distribution. in which Consular
Agent Peters says with a truth that
can never be questioned:
What American farmers require to re-
lieVe them of the present financial strain
under which they are living is the power to
borrow at the lowest possible interest con-
sistent with their securities and the t1nan-
eial conditions in the great centers OF the
world. So long as they must borrow from
the local money lender they must pay
high rate of interest for accommodation.
1t is this high rate of interest under which
our farmers are now striving and failing
that IS responsible for the general unrest
and dissatisfaction. Remove the high rate
of interest, give them the same opportunity
to use their credit as men engaged in other
business, exchange the present mortgage
o. the farm for one with a reasonable in
terest. which the farmer can pay and have
something left for the savings bank. and
We will restore happiness and prosperity.
THE question has been solved by the
farmers and landholders of Europe, and
the solution of the problem did not con-
sist in the issue by the government of a
mass Of Ge52sed currency circulated
among the people at a fictitious value. The
end was reached by the farmers and land
holders Dy their own force and coopera-
tion, by the founding of associations which
In time became power in the land and
whose financial strength was measured by
millions of undoubted securities which
the public was only too glad to invest in.'
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-07-24
1t May Do as Much for You.

Mr.. Fred Miller, Irving, ILL.,, writes
that he had Severe Kidney trouble
for many years, with severe pains in
his back and also that his bladder
was effected. He tried many so called
Kidney cures but with out any good
result. About a year ago he began
use of Electric Bitters and found relief
at once. Electric Bitters is especially
adapted to cure of all Kidney and
Liver troubles and often gives almost
instant relief. One trial will prove
our statement. Price only 80 cents
for large bottle. At W. G. Haman's
drug store.