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The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-05-28
APE G~IRARDEAU TOWNSHIP.
COURT HOUSE PRECINCT.

DELEGATES.-E. +. Blomeyer, Fred
Rage, Clay Phelps, jeff Williams,
Sim Miller. J.. y. Hartzell, J.. y. We
Der, J.. NJ. Morrison, d. y. Nichols,
Otto Hanny, John Bremmermann,
John L. Miller. II. Il. Juden.
Dave Pi~erceiield.
Louis Bender, Martin Vasterling,
Chas. Hunt. John Brown, John f..
Vogelsanger. Thos. Barber, Peter
Maui. Herman Rabich, H. A.. Pott,
John Kassell, Aug. Shivelbine, Thee.
Lind.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-05-28
ANNOUNCEMENT RATES:
ANNOUNCEMENT

FOR THE LEGISLATURES.
We are authorized to announce
ORREN WILSON
As a candidate for the Legislature.
subject to the action of the Republic
can county nominating convention.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-05-28
Delegates 20 the Republican County
Convention.
APPLE CREEK TOWNSHIP.

- -
APPLETON PRECINCT.
DELEGATES.-Theo. Sachse, !. w.
Boeller, Ernst Hudert. PhiilipKasten.
Hy. Wiikening. Wm. Woeltie.
ALPHABETICALLY. Markwort, II.
Il. Ludwig. VIM. Z. Thompson, iIy.
G. Schroiner. Hy. r.. Tuschhoff, Il. D,
Bedweli.
OAK RIDGE PRECINCT.
DELEGATEs.-Gco. W. Snider, L
D.. Lang.
ALrHRNAT@o.-Hy. .. #ruihl. Nm.
Englcr.
FRIEDHEIN PRECINCT.
DELEGATEs.-Chas. Bangcrt, II. w.
Hahs. Gol,licb Vogt. VIM. J. Dick,
mann. VIA. Zimmerman, Hy. Z,
SEWN.
ALTERNATEs.-D. {. H!~lderbrand,
VIM. Fricse' Henry Klaus, VIM. Kai,
ser, Chas. L. Hoppe, Fred Oehl.
BYRD TOWNSHIP.
COURT HOUSE PRECINCT.
DELEGATEs.-HenTy Steck, Jacob
Brennecke, Fritz a. Meyer, Carl Wal
lace. i. VI. Pickens, Alex. Gutenberg.
Duree Jones. +. Il. Welteche, lily. In
~gclmann.
ALTERNATEa.-JuIius Phillips, For
rest Lacy, Jackson Wade, l.. G. Hoff-
meister. VIM. Grohsmann. William
Hers, +. L. k.es. Chas. E~leckweadt.
I inns Snpfpri il,
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-05-28
FOR CIRCUIT CLERK

- Il candidate for the Office OF County
Collector. subject to the action of the
Republican, county nominating con-
vcntiUn.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-05-28

DELEGATES.-John g. H~einbcrg. D.
Il. Moore, Armstead Eulinberg, y. +.
Behrcns. Il. NJ. Tirmenstein. g.. W.
Denton, Frederick Sternbcrg.
ALTERNATES.-August Hers. Thos.
=. Rafferty,, y. d. Moore. Aug. H.
Covert, Chas. Guenter. Henry Wag-
ner, Major Criddle.
rnr- CIR, pnr,y- U.nIrSrrITI
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1898-02-02
Chalk from England.

Ono OF the few exclusively important
imported British products used in our
country is chalk. It comes from the
banks of the River Thames, being OBJ
tanned nowhere else in large quantities.
In it's crude form, remarkable flint fos-
sils are sometimes found, usually the
remains of fish. The process Of manu-
facture from the natural state to that
OF a form when it can be utilized is
simple
When received at the mill the chalk
is put into great machines and ground
in water, then floated off into vats of
water, where all the impurities and
foreign substances are precipitated. l.
the water being afterwards drawn on
by a series of filtering operations, and
the soft residuum dried by steam heat
and exposure to the air; the substance
is then reduced to a powder of differ
ent degrees of fineness by grinding in
burr mills and betting, when it is ready
to be packed in barrels and shipped for
use, among the largest consumers be-
ing the rubber goods manufacturers;
rubber, in it's crude state, being sticky,
unmanageable and available only for
very simple purposes, becomes vulcan
lied and hardened by adding to it
chalk while it is hot, thus rendering it
suitable for the various uses to which
it is put.
AS is also well known, a large quan-
tity of chalk is employed in the pre-
lparation Of paint and putty, being
termed whiting when in this form
Boston Transcript.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1898-02-02
Norway's Quaint Vehicles.

AS every tourist Is aware, a cariole
Is a most comfortable little car on two
wheels for one passenger. The seat
is shaped like a. shell and nicely pad
ded, and the traveller goes along with
his feet resting in fixed stirrups at the
sides, unless he likes to tuck them up
in front of him, or dispose of them
elsewhere on the framework OF the
carriage. The driver sits behind on q
box, used for slowing away small pack
ages inside and for taking quite lot
outside.
A stolkjaerre is intended for two per-
sons and driver. 1t is rough cart,
and again the driver sits behind. Very
often these drivers are tiny lads. You
may get one about eight in some
places when the men are busy at the
harvest, and it is usual, when two con-
veyances are required by the same
party, to expect ono of the travellers
to drive the second conveyance.
AS the little yellow ponies know the
routes inch by inch, and as 1t Is the
custom wnen numbers of conveyances
are going the same way for them to
form a very long procession, there is
not much need for crack whip. A
trille is rarely seen. 1t carries four
persons, and is more or less like q
small English barouche. The way IN
which the driver manages to stow MS
person away in luggage-crowded We
hicle is one of the wonders OF Norway.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1898-02-02
THE czAR'S CURIOSITY.
he Destroyed His Daughters Doll to See
How the Mechanism Worked.


The heavy burden of autocracy has
not destroyed all the boyish instincts
in Nicholas II. s disposition, as the fol-
lowing anecdote, heard at dinner,
party given in honor of a gentleman
of NJ. Faure's escort in his late jour
ney, proves. The President, afte-I
having searched all of the best Paris
ian shops to find some toys worthy OF
the two little Grand d-duchesses' accept
ance, and, having bought the ever
lasting golden rattle for Miss Tatiana,'
was in despair for something out Of
the common to give Miss Olga. He
at last chose two wonderful dolls, ope
got up as an elegant lady, the other as
an overdressed little girl; and, after
much difficulty, most complicated
piece of machinery was inserted, thanks
to which, when wound up, the lady
and her daughter begin q ludicrous bit
of conversation, which is finished by
the little girl crying because she is not
allowed to ride donkey on account of
her gauze dress.
The baby Grand-duchess was de-
lighted, but not more so than her
father, who, it appears, spent an hour
on the floor with the child, listening to
the squeaky dialogue between the
dolls. But the time came when the
Princess had to go to bed, which she,
did very reluctantly. As for the EN-,
peror, he remained an instant in the,
boudoir after her departure with the
two clever artificial ladies who had
taken his fancy, while the Empress,
NJ. Faure and some ladies and gentle
men of the Court were talking in the
next room. Suddenly strange noise
likes,that of an internal machine was
heard, followed bya loud cry of dis.
may, and everybody rushed to see
what it was.
There was the Emperor, safe and
sound, but with dismal face, looking
at the dolls, which he had partly un.
dressed to find out the secret hidden
in their bosoms, while the dolls were
chattering away as if they would never
stop. The Empress, unable to re.
strain her temper, snatched up the
carpeted board on which were stand
ing and shaking the two precious
ladies, and, after having crushed her
husband with whitening eye, she said
to gentleman near her: "Please send
this away; it is too bad, indeed. The
Emperor spoils everything hetouches."
But Nicholas looked SO penitent and
the mishap was so funny that she
could not help laughing.-Philadel-
phia Times.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1898-02-02
E,c+e About Alaska.

Alaska is two and one-half times as
large as Texas. 1t Is eighteen times
rs large as all New England. 1t is as
large as the South, including Texas. 1t
Is as large as all the States east of the
Mississippi and north Of the ONO IN
Guiding Virginia and West Virginia.
It makes San Francisco east OF our
centre Its coast line Is 10000 miles.
II has tho highest mountain in North
America but one-Popocatapetl-ln
Mexico. 1t has the only forest-coVered
glacier in the world.
The Treadwell is one Of the greatest
gold mines. It has the best yellow
cedar in the world. 1t has the greatest
seal fisheries. 1t has the greatest sal
mon fisheries 1t has cod banks that
beat Newfoundland.
II has one of the largest rivers IN
the world. A man standing on the
hank of the Yukon $50 miles from It's
mouth cannot see the other bank. Inc
Yukon is twenty miles wide TOO miles
from its mouth. With Its tributaries
It is navigable $500 miles. 1t is larger
than the La Plata. 1t is larger than
the Orinoco. It discharges one-third
more water than the Mississippi. Inc
water is fresh fifteen miles from Its
mouth. It has probably more gold IN
it's basin than any other river. lts
color is beautifully blue to its junction
with the White River, 1,1O0 miles
above it's mouth.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1898-02-02
influence of Stock on Scion.

The Academy of Science, Paris,
France, sends out a report of the effect
of the stock on the scion in the case Of
two pear trees, fifteen years old, which
had grown side by side in a garden
where they were apparently subject to
the same conditions, with the excep-
ton the stocks into which they
were grated. The variety was the
Triomphe de Jodoigne, and one was
grated upon seeding pear, the other
upon ounce. Each tree bore about
800 fruits each year, and for three
years the fruits when mature were col.
lected, compared and analyzcd. The
color of the fruits was very different,
those upon the pear stock being green
and those on the ounce stock golden
yellow, with q decided rose blush on
the side toward the sun.
Ten fruits from the ounce stock
averaged to weigh 406 grams, against
$50 grams on the pear stock. Both
fruit and fruit juice on the ounce
stock had greater density, and 1t also
exceeded that on the pear stock in
acidity and in contents of sugar. The
sugar was in the proportion of eleven
kilogrammes of the ounce stock to
seven on the pear stock.
These observations were in tt main
confirmed by others made some years
ago on Winter Doyenne scions on
seeding pear and ounce stock.-Bos'
ton Cultiyator.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1898-02-02
Tho Habit of Saving,

Now that the good times are march
ing upon us, filling the farm and the
factory, and making the people cheer
full and the country glad, it might be
well for all to remember that the best
way to profit by the depression is to
save something out of the new pros.
perity for any other possible season Of
ldleness and distress. With the vast
abundance that this country has
known. the habit of economy has
come slowly. Many have seen the
wisdom of it, and they are our rich
people and the owners of our lands
and industries and banks and various
profitable properties. But the great
majority of the people have lived up
to their incomes, and when the wages
stopped OF the salary ceased, grim
want stalked in. And so good men
and well-hred women had to 60 to
charity to keep from starvation; had
to sacrifice their pride and accept OF
the public bounty, because in the
days of prosperity they had forgotten
the future.
Saving comes easily when it is once
begun Do not spend more than you
earn. When Peter Cooper earned 81
he lived on fifty cents OF it, and the
other successful men will testify how
hard the struggle was to save the first
money and how easy it was after the
habit had been formed. We are 60
ing to have some OF the greatest years
the world has ever known, but no one
should let that prospect delude him
into spending all he gets. There is
safety only in saving.-Leslie's
Weekly.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1898-02-02
Farm and Garden Notes.

fowls 90 nOG wear oSefcoutS.
Only n little crack or nail-hole-
but?
Only small head roosting near said
little crack OF nail-hole-but?
Only little cold contracted from
the little draught-but? It's roup.
Clear, cold water is great thing in
butter making, but hot water is quite
as essential.
Better cover the sides and roof of
the poultry house with tarred Tor
other roofing paper, then there will
be no cracks.
Don't let the animals become poor
by trying to winter them too cheaply.
Judicious feeding and care the year
round is what we are after.
The pigs will, if given the oppor-
tunity, do much cleaning where
threshing was done out doors; SO will
the chickens, and without tearing the
ground up so much.
Let those who are building up their
focks and herds not neglect to head
them with the best animals obtainable.
These can be bought right, while
scrubs are dear at any price.
When it comes to quality, there is
far less difference in the best butter
made by deep and shallow setting and
by centrifugal separating than dairy.
men were formerly led to suppose.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1898-02-02
The Farm n Training School.

If anyone will take the trouble to
INQUIRE into the early life of the most
prominent business men of the
South, he will find, with scarcely m
exception, that those who have been
the most successful started life with
out fortune, surrounded by the con-
servativs, healthful influences of the
country; laboring upon the farm in
summer and attending school in win
ter; taught in early life how hard it
is to make dollar and how easy it is
to spend it; cultivating habits of sys-
tematic industry: accepting the labor
of life as one of its duties, to be per-
formed with promptness, vigor and
cheerfulness.
There are barefooted boys who to-
day follow the plow, clad in coarse
garments and living on the plainest
food, who will in twenty-five years be
the leaders in the business world and
the presidents of our great railways
and the directors of the policies OF
this Government. Such boys are
having their hardships in early life, to
be followed by great achievements and
triumphs and wealth and honor in
later life. They are going through a
severe training, but time will demon
strate it's wisdom.-Atlanta Journal.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1898-02-02
Oric.n of tho Name.

The origin of the name "doll' has
bafied some of the wisest and most
learned, the majority of whom have
at last come to the conclusion that 1t
comes from Dolly" the diminutive
of Dorothy" o favorite name for
girls in England two hundred years
ago. The word "doll" is not found in
common use in our language until the
middle of the eighteenth century, and,
as far as one can discover, first appears
in the Gentleman's Magazine for Sep
tember, 1751, and the following quota
tion: "Several dolls with different
dresses, made in St. James street,
have been sent to the Czarina to show
the manner o: dressing at present in
fashion among English ladies'" Prior
to this, the word used to describe the
favorite playtIing of all girls in all
countries and n all ages was "baby,
which is to be found together with
s'poppet" or "puppet" in this sense in
the works of most of the great earliest
writer's.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1898-02-02
Successful Woman Farmer.

Miss Mary E. Cutler, of Holliston,
Mass, is one of the most successful
sgriculturists in that State. tits now
almost thirteen years since she under
took to manage Winthrop Gardens, o.!
her place is called, and, while she still
retains active supervision of it, he1
hardest work has been done.
She had been her fathers right hand
for some years in his struggles against
rocks and weeds, which were the prin.
cipal product of the land when he
bought it, paying $3.50 for the whole
Bizty-eight acres. When he died sud.
denly she left the little schoolhouse
where she was teaching and assumed
the entire management of the place.
Her brothers had left, one to become
lawyer and the other physician in
distant cities. She bought out theil
interest, and, contrary to the advice Of
ber friends and relatives, undertook
to be practical farmer.
Miss Cutler was rot afraid of fail.
ing, but she took no risks. At first
she raised only those things that had
already been grown with success upon
the farm, aud she retained as her
superintendent man who had been
employed by her father for number
ofyears. Affairs turned out well. The
woman farmer fanliliarized herself
with every bit Of the land she pos:
sessed and studied its possibilities.
She practically directed the men and
worked with them when necessary and
she was equally active and alert on the
road and in the markets disposing Of
ller -crops.-Ohicago Chronicle.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1898-02-02
Wonen's Pockets.

Ladies fifty years ago, when going
on a journey by stage coach, carried
their cash in their under pockets.
There were no railways opened in
Wales then, and people who had not 9
closed carriage either went in the mail
coach or i'll o post chaise. Farmers
wives and market women wore these
large under pockets. 1 remember my
Welsh nurse had one, wherein, If she
took me out cowslip picking, or nut
ting, or blackberry gathering, she car.
rieda bottle of milk and lot Of bis.
cult or a parcel Of sandwiches, often
clean pinafore as well. Her pocket on
these occasions was like a big bag. ]
was very proud when she stitched up
q wee pocket for me to wear under my
frock out of some stuff like bedticking,
similar to that of which she made her
own big pockets.-Notes and Queries.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1898-02-02
As Rnro Now as tho podo.

What has become Of the woman who
ussd to. feast on chocolate eclairs al
noon and drink ice-cream soda at q
O'Clock in the afternoon? She is as
rare as the dodo.
Vanity, undoubtedly, is partially
responsible for the diets and regimes
adopted by the modern girl. She is
logical, thinking creature with more
than q superficial understanding OF
the laws of cause and effect, and know
ing that beautiful complexion, fine
figure and repose of manner are
synonyms of good blood, perfect di-
gestion and calm nerves, she acts ac-
cordingly.
This tendency to bo 'sstrong-mind-
ell" in the choice of her food is dis
played conspicuously at the hotels and
restaurants which the modern woman
makes her own at luncheon hour.
These "tuck shops" as Little Billee
would call them, are all in the shop.
ping district. Tho hotels in Fifth
avenue and in Broadway below Thirty
fifth street, the famous pink and purple
Tea Room, q certain English bun-shop
and Viennese cato are the principal
haunts of the hungry shopper. Sew
eral Of the big shops have q restaurant
in the same building, but the average
woman likes brief respite from babies
and bundles and fees to Broadway for
her noon-tide bite.
Her luncheon is usually out OF all
proportion to her size, which shows
that healthy ideals have not been able
to eliminate feminine perversity from
the logical woman's character. A big,
broad shouldered girl will eat q slice
of rare roast beef and drink cupful
of hot water with the same cheerful
heroism as would her brother, when
in training for O football game. The
fragile little person with the aureole OF
curls, whom one would expect to dine
off o butserAys wing, thinks nothing
of demolishing big English chop, q
baked potato and salad.
Soups and oysters, patties of oil
kinds and rich salads are indulged in
by the less Spartanesque women, but
the old-timc feast of meringues md
cream-puffs, ices and ice water has
gone the way Of faintinstits, Mysteries
and other uncomfortable things.-New
York Commercial Advertiser.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1898-02-02
Hints on DntrYlnC.

AS rule, with any kind of setting
now practiced, the cream will all be
at the top as soon as the temperature
stops falling. 1t will, if the tempera-
ture is run down to forty-fve degrees
or below. The more rapid the cool
ing the more rapid the separation. 1t
is not we'll to go below freezing.
It is best to remove the cream
while the milk is sweet, so that the
milk can be fed sweet to the pigs or
calves. No good dairyman fayors let
ting the milk more than slightly be-
gin to change before skimming. TO
let the milk Topper is positively bad,
MS it renders it impossible to remove
the cream without taking too much
Gaseous matter with it. When cream
is added, thoroughly stir and mix it
with the mass. Add no cream for
twelve hours before churning, as it
will not ripen and churn, and will
therefore remain in the buttermilk.
The cream should be churned as
soon as it becomes slightly acid. If
souring goes beyond this, the acid be-
gins to cut and waste the butter fats.
Some, however, let the cream go so for
as to even Topper. This gives a posi-
tive lactic-acid flavor to the butter,
which many like, while the extra
amount of caseine retained in the but
ter makes up in weight for'the loss OF
some of the finer fats.
It was claimed by the elder
voelcker, chemist OF the Royal Agri-
cultural Society of England, and by
the late Professor L. B. Arnold, that
the .fnest-favored and longest-keep-
ing butter is churned from sweet
cream and is free from Gaseous matter /;
while some claim that such butter is
insipid in flavor and does not-keep
well.
But sweep cream must be ripened
by oxidizing before churning, and ex-
perimenters say that it must be
churned at lower temperature than
sour cream in order to secure the best
yield. The best temperature in
which to ripen cream is about sixty
degrees. 1t should be kept cool, not
below forty degrees, and the tempera.
ture be slowly raised to the desired
point of ripening and churning.
The oxidation requires shallow set.
ling or some other method of expos
ing the cream to the atmosphere. In
all deep setting, sourins the cream
becomes necessary to develop favor,
as the oxidation is only partial.
The natural butter flavor, developed
by oxidation, is milder than the
lactic-acid developed by souring.
Hence it is that many consumers pre-.
fer the latter, which they are used to,
rs nearly all the butter is made from
sour cream.
The contradictory opinions in re-
gard to sweet-cream butter appear to
come from different ways in which the
cream is handled, only few knowing
how to do it. But if one only makes
good sweet-cream butter it demon
strates the fact that it con be DONE
Colonel T. D. Curtis, in Farm, Field
o,,J 1T;,oe;5o
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1898-02-02
Why Lead" Pencil 2

Once pieces of lead were used fol
marking, and we continue to use the
word, though lead is no longer a part
of various pencils. History has failed
to record the name Of the genius who
gave the world those most useful little
instruments. We have heard all about
the discovery of burnt snuff, and the
sewing machine, and the typewriter
and all that, but the inventor of the
lead pencil has evidently gore down
into the shadow of oblivion, "unwept.
unhonored and unsung."
"I have to laugh at the queer ideas
some people have about pencils" said
one manufacturer. "You will scarcely
believe it, but the opinions of people
who know nothing about it seem to be
divided between the melting of the lead
and pouring it into the hole in the
wood, and cutting out the lead to Mt
the hole.
"I know" continued the manufac-
turer, "that not one out Of ten thou
sand persons has the least idea Of what
this lead is. See, here is fine black
powder; that is graphite, and costs
somewhere about twenty-five cents
pound. This white substance Is Ger
man clay. 1t comes as ballast in YES
sells, and all 1t costs us is for freight.
We mix clay and powder together and
grind them in mill, moistening the
mass carefully during the process, un-
til the two are thoroughly assimilated
and reduced to a paste that Is about
the consistency Of putty. Here are the
dies for the leads, into which we press
this paste of graphite and clay. These
leads are dipped in hot glue and are
placed in the grooves as the blocks are
made ready. When the lead is put in
there snugly and forever, the thin
block is glued to the thick one and
left to dry ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS and
Stationer.