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The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-11-26
JUST ABOUT DIAMONDS.

There is no doubt that there are mure
diamonds in New York city than in any
other metropolis in the world.
To-day there are about 400 diamond
cutters in New York and Brooklyn ard
Amsterdam is an autocrat of the past.
Hollanders and Belgians do the work.
hut American apprentices are fast
learning.
Not more than ten years ago Amster-
dam was the only place in the world
where diamonds could be cut and pre-
Jared for market and a stone was not
considered a diamond unless an Am
sterdam merchant had fingered it
It is said the famous hohinoor and
other stones as noted lost many carats
through the clumsineSs of the Amster-
cam cutters. Through some means
most of the historical diamonds owned
by kings and rajahs to-day have lost
onehalf their value through poor cut
ing in the past.
The first diamond a girl gets is usual
y her engagement ring and she is no
vainer of it than is a man when he first
adorns his shirt front or his finger with
4 bit OF sparkle. They are both self
conscious and eager 10 take advantage
of any opportunity to show their new
possession.
Diamond cutters are divided into
three classes-the cleaners. who split
the stone in the rough into proper
shape: the shapers. who. with machines
and diamond dust. work the stone into
The most beautiful shape they can. and
the polishers. who give the gem the
iuster that dazzles.
Nearly all the diamonds to-day come
from the South African fields and Cecil
Rhodes practically controls the entire
output. The rough diamonds &C TO Lon
con 20 a syndicate which makes prices
for the whole world and the businessis
down to such a fine point that the
wholesalers do not make more than ten
per cent. profit.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-11-26
EFFECT OF A
IL Improves the Qua-.ty of MIX and
Butter Rather Than De-
tracing from IL.

Repeated experiments have shown
h a no fear is to be entertained as to
the effect of ensilage on the quality of
milk. Some OF the most progressive
dairymen in the country feed il. even
those that are shipping milk at fancy
prices TO thousands of customers. Good
silage fed properly is bound TO improve
the quality of the milk and butter
rather than detrart from it. If the
silage is kept in the barn with the COWS.
and parts of the silage refuse allowed to
pile up and rot in the corners of the
GOV stable till it becomes a fetid mass.
then very likely the milk will be affect
ed, for ii is believed that the odors of
such masses will readily impart them
selves to the milk. This is denied. we
know, by those who assert hat milk
will not take in odors when in the
warm state. but we are suspicious IF
that kind of reasoning. One dairyman
says that he began the feeding of silage
with a good deal of fear, but after he
had fed for some time his commission
nan wrote to him that his butter was
the best in quality that it had ever been
at that time of year. AS the seller of
the butter knew nothing about the
silage being fed. the letter was taken
as 4 proof that silage. rightly fed. i'm
proves rather than detracts from the
quality of the butter. Similar incidents
are constantly coming to light. and this
is only part proof that silage is one of
the best friends of the dairyman.-
Farmers Review.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-11-26
stockmen Are Pro.perous.

1t is said that. although preparing
for feeding in the approaching winter
On as extensive a scale as the available
supplies of stock cattle will admit,
western feeders are borrowing much
less money than usual for that pur-
pose. This is explained by saying that
they do not find borrowing as whole
,ale a necessity US for some years past
in short, that things are coming to-
ward the farmer of the ives: in a way
that makes him a most cheerful man.
He is certainly to be heartily congrat-
ulated upon such improvement in his
affairs as the circumstance mentioned
would indicate.-National StockmRn.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-11-26

than better. In consulting Mrs. Pink
ham no hesitation need be felt, the
story is told to a woman and is wholly
confidential. Mrs. Pinkham's address
is Lynn, Mass, she offers sick women
her advice without charge.
Her intimate knowledge of women's
troubles makes her letter of advice q
wellspring of hope, and her wide expert
ence and skill point the way to health.
al suffered with ovarian trouble for
seven years, andn 40 doctor knew what
was the matter with me. Ihad spells
which wouldlast for two days ormore.
1 thought I would try Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound. I have
taken seven bottles of it, and am en-
tirely cured."-MRs. JOHN FOREMAN, %
n. Woodbury. Ave-, Baltimore, Nd.
The above letter from Mrs. Foreman
Is only one Of thousands.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-11-26
Go south This Winter.

For the present winter season the Louis
vile & Nashville Railroad Company has
improved its already nearly perfect through
Cars and elegant day coaches from Cincin,
natl, Louisville. St. Louis and Chicago, to
Mobile, New Orleans and the Gulf Coast,
Townsville, Ga. Pensacola, Jacksonville,
Tampa, Palm Beach and other points in
Florida. Perfect connection will be made
with steamer lines for CUBA, Porto Rico,
Nassau and West Indian ports. Tourist
and H~ome-SeekerS excursion tickets on sale
at low rates. Write c. z. Atmore, General
Passenger Agent, Louisville, KY, for par
t~Iculars.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-11-26
F O THE T

Since 1859 Berlin has had $50 per-
fcrmances of "Lohengrin."
Sandow. the strong man, is in train
ing TO become a bass singer.
Lille Langtry will not act this winter.
She has found that her racing stable
makes mor money than her plays and
will devote her entire attention to it In
future.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-11-26
True Greatness.

"Now," said the interviewer. las to your
method of working?"
Well" replied the great author, Il take
a writing pad
Yes"
And a pencil"
yes"
"Seek ont a quiet spot-grasp the pad
firmly in one hand and the pencil in the
other hand-and-"
Yes. And"
And write."-Philadelphia North Amer
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-11-26
The .Amertcan Box- BattIe.hip.

Every patriotic American hopes the school
boys Of the United States will succeed IN
their efforts to raise S3,Uuo,0 90, which will be
used in building a batt!eship 10 be called the
American Boy" Il costs great sun OF
money to build a warship, but you build up
four health with Hostetter's Stomach Bit
tiers at small expense. TINS remedy Is an ap-
petizer, tonic, blood purifier and stimulant.
1t Is for stomach, liver and bowel disorders.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-11-26
Social Distinctions.

Young Doctor find 1t hard to draw the
line between hay fever and influenza.
Old Doctor-It is hard, my boy, but social
distinctions have to be made; there's no help
for it.-Detroit journal.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-11-26

why is it the mind is brighter when a
nan Is past 40:' After that age the man
gets sense enough not TO eat too much."-
Chicago Daily Record.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-11-26

Moves the bowels each day. In order to be
healthy this is necessary. Acts gently on
the liver and kidneys. Cures sick headache.
Price - and Soc.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-11-26

81 didn't see the widow at the funeral
NO; her gown fitted so badly that she
couldn't restrain her grief enough to be
p-eSent.-AnSwerS.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-11-26

Our enemies point out our faults. else we
might never improve sufficiently to retain
cur friendS.-L. \. ". Bulletin.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-11-26

Piso's Cure is the medicine to break up
ehildren,s Coughs and Colds.-Mrs. NJ. G.
Blunt, Sprague, Wash, March s, 81.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-11-26

Deep down to the pain Epot. st. Jacobs
Oil roots out Sci2tIca.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-11-26

When 4 man sings his own praise Re in
variably gets the tune too high.-Chicago
Daily News.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-11-26

The use of his tongue is not what make:
a canine a lap dog.-Golden DAYS.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-11-26

Christmas coming. Use St. Jacobs for
pain. Have a happy one.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-11-26
To Cure n Cold in One Day

Dear me-" thought the new fence, ~
must get a new salt on me.'-Golden DAYS.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-11-26

When a man has troubles he increases
them by being cross.-Atchison Globe.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-11-26

Forget i? Toothache won't let you.
Don't forget St. Jacobs Oil viii cure.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-11-26
THE MARKETS.

The hardest work is trring 20 keep out Of
MorkAMa shInCton Ia DemcsEst.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-11-26

Billiards and frost-bites. St. Jacobs Oil
and 4 cure in 4 night.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-11-26

Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. Al
druggists refund money ii il falls to cure. 25c.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-11-26
CONSULTING A WOMAN.
Mrs Pfnkham's Advice Inspires
Confidence and Hope.

Examination by a male physician Il
q hard trial to a ~delicately organized
woman.
She puts it of es long as she dare,
and is only driven to it by fear of cam
Ger, polypus, or some dreadful i'll.
Mos tfreouently such a woman leaves
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-11-26

This condf-
ton of the
minddestroyS
b effect Of
advice; and
she grows
worse rather
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-11-26

q physicians Office
where she has un-
dergone q critical
examination with
animpression m
or less, of discour
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1898-10-29
Eddie iiiyds' Nests.

The birds build i'll great numbers on
the precipces and in the cayerns of the
steep islands OF TIE limestone series
which form one of tho characteristics
of the gulf. and fragments OF which oc-
cur at Mergui, CT the west coast, in the
Malay archipelago and in Tonquin-
Each CT the islands under Pr;lya Chat
va has a guard OF men upon it, living
i'll small cottages high up in some nook
Of the limestone rlck, like q Norwegian
hut, or down on the spotless sand of
the single little cove, beneath palm
or two. The collecting of the nests is
effected by these men three times in the
year-in the hot season and at the be-
ginning AID end Of the rains Great
care has to be exercised that the nests
should be taken at the moment when
the birds have Just finished building
and before any eggs are laid, for if this
has happened the birds are said not to
build again
The collection of the nests is risky,
owing to their inaccessibility, but it is
profitable, owing TO the high prices they
fetch (about sos. Il pound for white and
25s. to eos. for the inferior or red col
ored nests), and not little poaching is
INDUCED in by the crews of boats nav
jgating the gulf. The consequence of
this is that the guards are all armed
and open fire on any boat they see APP
preaching their islard nearer than 100
yards without further explanation being
needed.-Geographical Journal.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1898-10-29
Fax Malice.

Notice is hereby given that the
State Tax aud County Levy for the
wear 1SaS, are now due, and that in
pursuance Of law, the treasurer or
his deputy will be at the following
named places in said districts at the
time herein specified, for the purpose
of collecting said taxes and levies, viz:
Appointments of Edwin T. Powell:
Pupgoteaguo, Oct. 1st ED eth. 2Sth,
Goth and November l2th and Goth.
Marsh's Store, Nov 4th, afternoon
and night.
Keller. Nov. 3rd, afternoon.
Harborton. Oct 2Sth, at night.
Tangier. Nov. 18th, Sth and 9th.
Ouancock. Oct. Sth, 23d, Nov. 5tb,
fifth, 18th aid 18th.
Wachal,reHgue, Nov. l4th, 18th and
Aecomac C. H., Nov. god, 23d, cath
and 3Oth. First day OF County
Cunrts and first days Of Circuit
Court.
Al Home NIGHTS when not otherwise
posted.
Appointments of John H. Hopkins
NappsvilIe, Oct. aCth, 21st and aod.
TemperancevilIe, Oct 27fh, 2oth and
2g5h.
New Church. Nov. Sd, 9Th and 5th.
Sanford Nov Sab, 101h and 11th.
e;axis. Nov 9Th. at night.
Cattail. New. 18th. morning.
Mearsville. Nov. II, afternoon.
Greerbuckville, Nov 18th, AT night.
CLiucotea@ue, Nov. 18th, 10th and II.
HOMETOWN. Nov. 18th, at night. !,
Hallwood, Nov 18th, AFTERNOON and
night.
Modestown, Nov. 10Th.
Hopeton. Nov. 23d. morning.
Newstown, Nov. 23d. afternoon.
L.eemont, Nov. 25th, Afternoon.
Hunting Creek, Nov. 18th, morning.
Parksley, Nov. 2GJh.
Accomac G. H., first day OF every
court.
Due notice will be given of other
appointments.
Those failing to pay their taxes and
levies before the first day of Deem.
Der next will have per cent. added
TO their bill. as the law directs. We
hope all that can will avail them
selves OF this opportunity and save
per cent.
If you have not paid your 1897 tax,
es, please meet US at the place most
convenient 10 yourself, and do SO.
AS we are compelled TO enforce col
lection on ali that ;.re in arrears, in
order TO meet the demands On US, we
hope those that are in arrears Will
save US this trouble.
EDWIN T. POWELL,
/ JOHN H. HOPKINS.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1898-10-29
KNACK IN BURNING COAL.
If You Know How to Do 1t, It Pays to
TRY Pen COnI I'm Your Furnace.

If You Know How to Do 1t, 1t Pays to
Try Pen Conl In Your Furnace.
An old railroader from the coal re-
gions said to your correspondent: Most
people who burn hard coal in the kitch-
en- and in the cellar heater have great
deal to learn. They don't keep up witt,
the times at all They burn coal lika
their grandfathers did. Now, that's all
wrong. You never hear of old and eX-
perienced railroad men or miners in the
coal regions burning egg coal in their
cellar heaters There was a time when
most everybody had the idea that that
was the only size of coal to burn i'll a
heater Egg coal costs from SAT- TO
$3.50 ton, according to the distance
the buyer lives from the mines Pea
coal costs about SO. Is per ton. Now, l
use pea coal III my kitchen range and
in my front cellar heater, and l save a
good deal in the winter.
Being asked how be could use such
small coal in large cellar heater, he
replied:
'The secret is in the ralling. If you
use small coal in your cellar heater and
rake it down too closely, you will lose
your coal-that is, all the fire will be
likely TO drop through the CRATE bars
into the ash pan. What you want to do
is to keep bed of ashes on your CRATE
Don't rake down your fire too sharp.
The bed Of ashes YOU keep under Your
fire Will prevent the hot Goals dropping
through the CRATE and it will also pro-
tect your CRATE bars. y great many poo
pie who use big coal rake down their
fires too muck until the redhot Goals get
down, ard then they wonder what has
warped their CRATES. By using small
coal and keeping bed OF ashes On the
CRATE ell the trouble is avertcd.
''To fire cellar heater with small
coal takes q little more trouble than
with big coal. II using large coal q
heater may he charged in the morning
to carry all day until evening. When
pea coal is used, the heater must be
looked after at noon. Sometimes, On
real cold days, the fire will need Il shovel
or two of coal at noon. Other times it
will not, but it is well to put on some.
This will give your house a smooth,
even heat all Gay.
"At night just shake the CRATE lit
tie. Be very careful not to rake too
hard. This will keep heater dust from
the house and furniture, keep a bed of
ashes on the CRATE and give you plenty
of draft in the heater. You can get rs
much if not more heat from a ton of
pea than you can from ton of egg and
save $1.50 ton, which is an item. 1t
is subject worth considering by house
keepers. Most everybody knows how to
burn pea coal in the kitchen range.
Don rake the fire too hard. A good
free burning pea is better, in my opin-
ion, than any chestnut coal. New
Vorlr C,,r
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1898-10-29
HOY the Hor Felt Under Fire.

One of the junior officers of the Bat
tleship Iowa was describing one day
chow you feel when under fire the first
time He said you" felt like lying
down, your" knees weaken, you arc
tired-oh, so tired and if no one was
looking you would just drop and lio
there till it was all over.
''Fow the deuce does he know" asS-
ed one Of the men included in the sweep
ing word you" after tie ensign was
gone. Hes never been there, has he::'
Yes, said another, of the coast
Of South America, during one Of those
little wars down there, he was sen5
ashore in a boat while fight was Oh
between two ships and a shore battery.
The fight was just around Il point, and
tie ensigu's crew, pulling hard, sent
the boat right into it before he was
oyr..7c. =. icy were nnder fire for about
three minutes.
We'll: what did he do:'
He told the men to obey his instinct
to lie down, while he stood up and
steeled the boat on Its momentum
through the firing. New York Com
mercial Advertiser.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1898-10-29
uis Question Answered.

There have been several boy babies
born in Atlanta this past spring and
GUNNER. This is not intended as star
Ting piece Of news, because their ar
rivals have been duly and appropriately
chronicled, but it is only stated as the
basis of little joke.
Some days ago four of tho happy
young mothers, all of whom had fine
boys at home, met in one Of the dry
goods stores. All of them completed
their purchases about the same time.
As they were all leaving the store, in
speaking distance of each other, fresh
young clerk, in an effort to be pleasant,
fired the stereolyped question at one of
them, GLOW is the boy tcday?''
In an instant four beaming faces were
turned toward him, and four pleased
voices answered in chorus ooh, he's
all right, thank you. The clerk faint
ed.-Atianta Constitution.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1898-10-29
ABOUT RAILROAD CARS.
what Some or Them Cost and What
They Weigh.

An ordinary passenger car on steam
railroad costs from 81, 600 to 50, 600
and weighs IS, 600 pounds, or . tons.
a mail car, which costs from So, 600 to
So, 500 and is shorter by about ono-quar-
ter than tho ordinary passenger coach,
weighs 32, 600 pounds, or lG tons. n
baggage car without tho baggage III 1T
weighs 2S, GEO pounds, or ii tons, and
costs about us much rs Il mail car. ~
sleeping car is moro expensive than any
of tho others, and it weighs q good deal
more too. y plain, simple, but durable
sleeping chr, with observatory attach
ments, literary annex and culinary de-
partmcnt, costs anywhere from $40, 900
to $40, 600 The average weight of q
sleeping car is from 20 to % tons.
A full train in motion, as little fig
uring will show, is no lighG affair. Tho
ordinary weight of the railroad locomo-
tive for passenger service, inclusive Of
tender, but not of fuel i'll the tender, is
40 tons. One baggage car weighs II
tons and one mail car IL tons, bringing
up the weight of tho locomotive aud
the baggage and mail cars to 70 tons.
Six passenger cars at an average of 10
tons, weight of baggage Of the fuel car.
ried and eight cars would be Isl tons,
OF 36S, 900 pounds, exclusive of the pas
sengers and mail matter.
Pulling ISL tons along rails at tho
rate of 90 miles an hour or moro is an
achievement which has not been easily
brought about, and tho more the prob
lem is studied the moro clearly it is I'M
derstood how far tho mechanical work
on railroads has been pushed. There
were ty the last figures reported Sc, coo
locomotives in use on tho American
railroads. 10000 passenger cars and
5000 mail and baggage cars. These
figures seem large until compared with
tho number of freight cars on American
railroads, and then they seem insigniti-
cant for the number of freight cars III
use is $50, 900.
Freight cars among the railroad men
are divided into four classes-fat cars,
such as are used for the transportation
of stone, machinery and lumber; box
cars, such as are used for the transporta-
ton of grain, fruit and ordinary mer-
chandise; stock cars, such us are used
for cattle. and coal cars, such as arc
used for the transportation Of coal and
oil, those used for oil being supplied
with tanks. Tho average weight of q
flat OF gondola car is seven tons. Tho
car costs from $500 to 500. Box cars
weigh ton more and cost 500 moro
each. Stock cars weigh eight tons each
on the average. Ccal cars weigh three
tons each. lt costs about 5000 to build
coal or oil cars, and they arc designed
to carry five tons apiece. The weight
of 80 coal cars is 100 tons and of their
contents, if all filled. $50 tons which,
with locomotive aud caboose added,
make 1870 tons as the weight of 4 train
II may be added roughly that the weight
of loaded trains-passenger, coal or
freight-rauses from 200 to 800 tons
The lighter tie train the greater the
speed. That's the railroad rule.-Bos-
ton Traveller
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1898-10-29
+. Hawaiian Custom,

There is pretty custom in the Ha-
waiian Islands of decorating popular
resident or visitor Oil leaving the island
with wreaths and streanlers of flowers
which are hung around the neck and on
every available pant of the frock and
hat. These wreaths are composed prin-
cipally of carnations, of which large
quantities arc grown for the purpose
A native yellow flower With a powerful
scent is employed to this end. These
wreaths, or "leis," as they are called in
the vernacular, are also presented to
women on every possible occasion by
their men friends.