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The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-11-12

Jove! l could not whistle that tune to
save my neck, and you will admit hat
| said neck needed saving right 1T this
moment.
Then / began to think how l was
to get past the feIlow-if there really
was a man over by the wall. You see,
= more than half convinced hat
my nerves and Imagination were at
work again. l determined on a detOur
around the other side of the piano,
and, stepping along briskly, with just
| as unconscious an air as | could mus
ter, passed behind the piano, and
| around by the door. The man never
moved from his position by the wall.
and 1 got out safely, with the conyic-
ton that trying to prove a thing to
cne's self isn't always a wise thing
to DO, as I had only succeeded in rem
Gering my nerves all the more erratio
by my second visit.
81 reached home and turned in for
the night.
Next morning | had hardly finished
breakfast when the doorbell rang fu-
riously and the senior warden of the
church was ushered in.
Were you at the church last night,
Robyn?' he said, much excited, and
without waiting for my answer went
on to tell me that thieves had broken
in, stolen the entire new carpet of the
Sunday school room, the communion
service, all the cushions they could
lay their hands on, part of the library
and, in short, pretty much everything
of value.
They were undoubtedly there dur
ing my stay in the church, and it is
mighty lucky for me that they didn't
brain me when 1 passed the fellow in
the Sunday school room. But he evil
IDENTIFY felt secure in the fact that l
could see hardly at all, and had l made
any motion hat would have betrayed
myself or the fact that 1 did see him,
it would have been all up with me.
But whistling is a great comfort,
there's no doubt about it. Only you
want to make SURE that your whistle
will work well at all times."-St. Louis
Republic.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-11-12
WRECKING THE WAR SHIPS.
The Work of Raising the Colon Practical
ly Abandoned-Outsiders May
Attempt 1t.

Washington, Nov. s.-Capt. Chester's
decision Sunday to abandon the work
of wrecking the Colon marks the end
of that undertaking on the part of the
government. 1t is said at the navy
department that the captain was di-
rected to stop the work when, in his
discretion, it was no longer p~rofita-
BILE.
Because the contract with the
wrecking company has been termi-
mated it does not follow that all idea
has been abandoned of saving some of
the sunken Spanish war ships. The
navy department is ready to engage
with thorough wrecking concerns, pro-
viding the latter absolve the govern
ment from payments unless the ships
are delivered in a United States navy
yard.
Already one of the greatest wreck
ing concerns in the world, q Swedish
organization, has opened negotiations
on the subject. 1t is willing to IN
dertake at once the raising of the
Reina Mercedes, which lies in the
channel in Santiago harbor, and it has
indicated a disposition to undertake
the wrecking of the Colon. This
concern has large experience in this
class of work, and if no American
concern able to do the work offers bet
ter terms, arrangements probably will
be made with it on the basis of a cash
payment for the ship delivered in the
United States.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-11-12
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

The late Nathan B. Warren, ofTroy.
bequeathed $4,000 to the Episcopal
churcL oil the Holy Cross in that city.
1t is said that in 90 different centers
in Turkey, American missionaries
are caring for more that 1000 orphans.
The recent census in Italy shows
that there are $4,000 Protestants
among the 81, 100000 inhabitants of the
country.
F~ifty-seven Cnautauqua assemblies
have been held this summer in the
United States, also an English Chau-
tauqua at Glasgow.
During the past year the Presby-
terrain church in the United States in
creased in membership 1853, and in
contributions S1S5,91
\ gift of 100000 has been made to
Barnard college, the woman's college
connected with Columbia university.
The institation is now self-supporting.
Prussia's expenditure for public
schools increased by 59.63 per cdht.
from 1856 t. 1896. In 1856 it was about
500, 600, 900, and in 1896 it was over S46,-
100000.
At the beginning of the seventeenth
century Spain had 100000 churches,
100000 priests, 81 bishops. 10000 monks
and 10000 nuns. The clergy of CASTLE
alone had an annual income that would
equal S25, 0O0, 900 to-day.
1t has been legally decided in Iii
nois that children may enter school
at any time after reaching the proper
age, regardless of local regulations re-
Guiring attendance TO begin at the
opening of a school term.
The receipts of the Americans board
(Cong.) from al sources for the L
months ending August 81, are $685.
2OS.9S, n gain of $S2,670.91 over last
year. The disbursements for the same
period have been S6S2, 369.4S. The debt
cow amounts to S40,291.36.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-11-12
HUMOROUS.

The Rhymester-"Poets, sir, are
born The Editor-"Not in the last
so years."-Indianapolis Journal.
Finding Him Out.-"There's charao-
ter in the hat a man buys" There's
more character in the way he pays FOR
it."-Chicago Record.
$50 Alice has decided finally to MAJ.
~ an oficer%9" Yes, she captured him
in what she positively declares to be
Ter last engagement."-Brooklyn Life.
"Dickie doesn't like his school this
year" whats the trouble?" He
says his teacher lets all the other boys
except him sit by girls."-Detroit Free
Press.
Exchange No Robbery.-"No, Bobby,
be a good boy and let papa hear you say
your prayer" "All right; then you
femme hear you say yours."-Chicago
Record.
Some hired girls are very obliging,
don't you think 500" "Oh, yes. Ours
is so obliging, in fact, that she obliges
US to do just about as she Dictates
Philadelphia Bulletin.
War Fashions.-Laura-"Papa, they
are going to introduce military figures
in the german this winter Mr.. Figg
81 presume that means an increase
in your appropriation bills."-lndian-
apolis Journal.
Punctured.@Sprocke t-"Had my
tire punctured this morning" Crockett
You don't say so? How did it hap
penn" sprocket-'Ridingin strange
country and ran against the forks of
a road.'-Toronto World.
Student-"Suppose a burglar should
break into a lawyers house and get off
with some of his stuff" P~rofessor-"It
is a ~supposable case" Student
Gould the burglar be convicted of re-
ceiving stolen goods ?"-Town Topics.
Histon-"Hereafter I hope I shall
know enough to let well enough
alone" Wiston-"What is the trouble
now??" Histon-"I wrote a slashing
article for the paper and l was as hap
py as a clam. but I was fool enough
%afterward to read the reply to it. Then
l felt like a fool."-Boston Transcript
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-11-12
The Heaviest Man on Earth.

If greatest were the test of avoirdu-
pois the place of honor would be filled
BY Maurice Canon, a native of the
small frontier town of Stein, in the
state of Constance. This man is said
to weigh not less than so stone, and
may claim to be the heaviest man on
earth. He measures over 100 inches
around the waist and GA around the
thigh. His enormous weight does not
apparently inconvenience him, for he
Is active and in robust health. He is q
well-to-do, middle-ageG farmer, and,
though his gigantic proportions nat
urally make him an object of curiosity
to his ncighbors, he has declined all
offers to stray from his native fields
Humanitarian
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-11-12

The diamonds worn by the young
queen of Holland on the occasion of
her enforcement record a curious ep-
ISOLDE III criminal history. On the night
of September %, 1929, Holland and Bel
GUM being at that date still under one
crown, a party of audacious burglars
broke into the royal palace at Brus-
sells and carried oil the jewels of the
princess of Orange, then away at the
seashore. The most active investiSa-
tions failed to give any clew to the
identity of the thieves. y reward of
$4,000 elected no information until
more than a year later, when a Trench
man named Roumage called on the
Dutch minister at New York, and I'M
dertook, in consideration of a promise
in writing, to pay him the sum men
toned, to point out the hiding place OF
the Jewels. An Italian, Polarl by name.
had brought them across the Atlantic,
and had confideG 20 his mistress that
they were buried near Brooklyn. In
the place indicated the diamonds were
found, but not all of them. Roumage
and the lady had bolted to Europe, a
portion of the plumber being still con-
cealed in Belgium. Caught by the po-
lice, they gave up their booty, and so
Queen Wilhelmina appeared in the
family heirlooms.-N. Y. Home Jour-
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-11-12
! F.

If. sitting with his little, worn-out shoe
And scarlet stocking lying on my knee,
L knew the little feet had battered through
The peaTl-set gates that lie 'twixt heaven
and me,
1 could be reconciled, and happy, too.
And look with glad eyes toward the
jasper sea.
If. in the morning, when the song of birds
reminds me of music far more sweet,
! listen for his pretty broken words
And for the music of his dimpled feet,
/ could be almost happy, though 1 heard
No answer and but saw his vacant seat.
j could be glad If, when the day is done
And all its cares and heart-aches laid
away,
I could look westward to the hidden sun
And with a heart full of sweet yearnisg
say:
"To-night I'm nearer to my little one
By just the travel of a single day."
If 1 could know those little feet were shod
In sandals wrought of light in better
lands,
And that the footprints of 4 tender God
Ran side by side with his in golden sands,
1 could bow cheerfully and kiss the rod.
Since Bonnie was in wiser. safer hands.
If he were dead I would not sit to-day
And stain with tears the wee sock on my
knee;
/ would not kiss the tiny shoe and say:
Bring back again my little boy to me-"
I would be patient, knowing twas Gods
way,
And that He'd lead me to him DER deaths
silent sea.
But, oh, to know the feet once pure and
white
The haunts of vice nave boldly ventured
in,
. The hands that should nave battled for the
right
Have been wrung crimson in the clasp of
sin,
--And should he knock at Heavens gate to-
night
/ fear my boy could hardly enter in.
--Oshawa (Ont) indicator.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-11-12
LOOKING AHEAD.
VIII Avoid the Horrors Of War by Ample
Preparations for Its Success
full Prosecution.

st. Johns, N. F., Nov. s.-The Brit
ish government telegraphed the colo
NAL ministry yesterday asking the
number and tonnage and capacity
of steamers available at this port to
convey coal from Sydney for the use
of british war ships.
The cruisers Cordelia and Pelican
via be held at Sydney to capture ST.
Pierre and protect st. Johns in the
event of war being declared. The
cruisers are also instructed to break
the French cable between st. Pierre
and Brest, France.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-11-12
NEWS FROM SANTA R q
The Convention to be Presided over ~
Calisto Garcia should be Now
In Session.

Havana, Nov. THE latest advices
received here from Santa Cruz del Sur
fixed yesterday as the definite date
for holding the convention to be pre-
sided over by Gen. Colixto Garcia.
The general opinion is that the con-
vention will be limited to two or three
sessions, at which the message of the
so-called Cuban government will be
unanimously approved without discus
sion. 1t is further said that the in
structions to be given to the commits
sion which is to go to Washington will
be discussed secretly.
The convention will then adjourn to
Playa Marianao, near here, and await
the result of the work of the commits
sion which will be sen to Washing
ton. 1t is reported that this commits
sion will consist of Gen. CaliXto Gar
cha, Senior Gonzales Lanusa, who is q
lawyer, and a Cuban general who has
not yet been chosen.
President Bartolome Maso will af-
terward retire to private life, and will
take part in improving the condition
of the property which he owns near
Manzanillo.
Col. Williams, the chief quartermas-
ter, and Chief Clerk Caldwell, who
have been suffering from fever,
show slight improvement, but F. I.
Stewart, of the quartermaster's de-
partment, is very i'll.
Capt. Foraker has taken up his old
quarters at the Trocha Hill, and is
again among his comrades. He came
to town yesterday to do some shop
ping, and will leave for home ON
Wednesday, via Tampa.
The French steamer Los Andes
sailed yesterday evening for BARGE
Iona, Spain, with rs Spanish officers
and 1866 soldiers on board.
The Spanish steamer Satrustequi
sailed for Spain yesterday, via Gibara,
with 2S1 soldiers on board.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-11-12
Col. Bryan Has "MImtarx Lockiar."

St. Louis, Nov. 7.-Col. William J.
Bryan of the Third Nebraska spent
an hour in the city Ell route to his
home at Lincoln, Neb.,o a two weeks
fuTlough. In answer to a question by
a reporter the colonel said:
Don't ask me to discuss the polit-
ical situation. Don't intimate an in
quiry as to prevailing conditions in
the army. Excuse me from discuss
ing what is termed the i~neficiency of
the var department relative to mill
tary matters or Secretary Alger's pol
icy in the late war. Why? Because ]
have military lockiaw."
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-11-12
Inns in Switzerland.

In proportion to its size Switzerland
has more inns than any country IN the
world. The entertainment of tourists
has become the chief industry of the
land. No less than 100 hostelries,
stationed for the most part on noun
tain tops or near glaciers, are on the
list, and the receipts of the hotel keep
ers amount to $685. 900 a year, SO It
cannot be such a bad business.-Cai-
cago Inter Ocean.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-11-12
PROOF TO THE CONTRARY.
He Was Too Fresh for a Man Who
Had Been bathing In the
Great Salt AXE.

The prematurely bald young man
with a downy white mustache had been
doing his best to make a profound i'm
preston on his rural relatives. There
was no reason why he should do this
except in obedience to a natural ten
dency which is second only to that of
self-preservation, the desire to show
off. The old gentleman with heavy
soled boots and a black string necktie
had listened silently for a long time.
He broke in on the series of travellers
tales. with the remark:
1T kind o beats my time that the
west end o. this continent should be
so different from the east"
"Oh, if you haven't travelled much
and don't know the difference, this
part of the world is all right" was the
answer.
Eyes. But it oughtn' to be so mis-
represented. They ought not TO COM
plain that the east has gone an or
ganized m~onopolies to gobble every
thing worth havin' when the west has
all the geysers an the petrified forests
uhu tLc llCSS lhdl Ou L hOASS
and wagon through, if you can find an
auger big enough to make the hole. l
know it's all true, too, fur I've seen
pictures of those things in the geog-
raphies. But this lake you was tellin'
about can't help thinkin' you got
imposed on somehow there"
You mean the Great Salt Lake in
Utah. It's there. Isaw it with my OWL
eyes"
1.-THE lake that's so salt fish can't live
in ito"
Certainly"
"An when you went bathin' you
found the water so salt that you
couldn't sink if you tried?'
"Yes. indeed. And what's more"
Hold or. I'm not doubtin' your
veracity. 1 don't say you don't tell
every bit of this in good faith. I've had
the same kind of experiences. One time
l was in a room where breakfast had
just been set, and although l was a
stranger in the house, 1 walked up and
took a fried egg off the plate with a
spoon and put ii in my mouth. Imagine
my surprise when ] Immediately be-
gan to raise up and toward the ceilin'.
1t was amazin' how fine | floated. My
wife an the girls was just as surprised
as l was when they came in, and III
rever forget how funny they looked
hopping up into the air. trying to do the
same thing. After while l wanted to
! get down, but l couldn't make it. be-
pan to get worried. l started to call
for help and accidentally bit into the
egg. As soon as 1 did so ! was gently
lowered till l had the use of both feet
as usual. And it all seemed so real that
when l got up the next mornin' L
thought eatin' breakfast an feedin'the
rigs must be a dream"
But, my dear sir"
Its all right. 1 don't attach any
blame to you. 1t can all be explained
by science. But you can't make me be-
lieve that anybody could battle in water
as salt as you say that was and come
home so uncommon fresh. 1t couldn't
be done."-Washinpton Star.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-11-12
A Preventive of Fire.

To prevent fires where fiues and.
chimneys pass through infiammable
partitions water jackets of tin or light
metal are placed around the openings,
the solder of the pockets melting in
the heat and ~discharging the fluid on
the fre.-Cincinnati ENQUIRER.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-11-12
Chick Postal Delivery.

It is said that letters dropped in the
post office at Paris are delivered in
Berlin in one hour and a half, and
sometimes within IS minutes. The
distance between the citiesis $50 miles,
and the letters are sent by means of
pneumatic tubes. - New England
Magazine.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-11-12

ITS all right. I don't attach any
blame to you. 1t can all be explained
by science. But you can't make me be-
lieve that anybody could battle in water
as salt as you say that was and come
home so uncommon fresh. 1t couldn't
be done."-Washington Star.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1898-12-26
POULTRY as A SOURCE OF
REVENUE.

Farmers in good many portions of
the country are beginning to under
stand the Importance of poultry as a
source of revenue and have abandon
the notion that flock of hens is to be
allowed to live on sufferance because
the women folks need some money
occasionally.
They begin to understand that the
flock of hens is valuable in more ways
than the production of eggs to trade
for groceries. They know now that a
flock of hens is valuable as insect ex-
terminators, keeping many pests in
check, besides devouring large guam
titles of the seed of weeds that grow
up in neglected corners and ripen,
where they would furnish seeds to in
fest the whole farm, where it were
not for the industry of the hens in
picking them up and turning them to
good use by using them for food.
The principle trouble with farmers
has been that they do not keep as
much poultry as they might. They
keep from so to 100 fowls and turn
them loose to forage for themselves,
by lining their feed in the hog yards,
corncribs and around the grain racks
and straw piles. By thus neglecting
poultry they fail to make the flock pay
as much as it should. The time is
coming when the care of the poultry
will be as much one of the regular du-
ties on the farm as feeding the hogs
or cattle. When this time comes the
poultry industry of this country will
be great enough to prevent import
ations by the hundred thousand
dozens from foreign countries, and so
much more of the money of the coun-
try will stay home.-Farmer's Voice.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1898-12-26
THE INFLUENCE OF THE BABY.

II was in one Of the big department
stores. Two women stood near each
| other before the counter where the
belongings of very little children
| are sold. Both looked with visit
full yet widely different expressions
at the tiny garments displayed. The
one woman asked to be shown knit
ted undervests for a baby. The sales
woman drew out a box and took
from it some absurdly small gar
ments, soft, creamy, feecy, the most
delightful combination of silk and
wool. The woman-a young woman,
she was; almost girl-took them in
her hand with evident delight.
'How much are they?" she asked.
The saleswoman named a price that
was twice the size of the tiny shirts.
"Api9ce?n askedthe wonld be Gus
toner timidly.
'Yes,' answered the saleswoman.
The customer put down the little
garments. She looked tired and weak
and bitterly disappointed. It's heart
breaking not to be able to buy what
you want for yo1r baby.
"Show me something cheaper" she
said, swallowing lump in her throat.
The other woman, who had been
looking into the showcase, had seen
it all. She spoke to the saleswoman
brusquely:
IT can't wait any longer,'' she said
tTell me the price of that bonnet
over there"
The saleswoman FASTENED to obey.
One doesn't keep a chinchilla collar
and an imperioGs manner waiting if
one knows ones business. There
was moments whispering, and the
saleswoman returned to her waiting
customer. From another box she
produced some garments precisely
similar to the expensive ones.
"Here's some shirts" said she, "that
we've marked down to close out. We
have only few left. They're only
-" And the ''only" was exactly
half the price she had named before.
1t wasn't cleverly done, but it deceiv-
ed the tired woman. She went away
with the wistful look gone from her
face. The chinchilla collar went
down in the same elevator with her,
and the face above the collar wore a
look almost wistful, I fancied, though
it's folly, of course, to imagine that
women with chinchilla collars and i'm
perious manners ever envy tired
little women who have to ask for
something --something cheaper
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1898-12-26
THE INDIANS FAREWELL SPEECH

We give below the speech made by
to find the ssWhite N ans book" He
arrived at fort and the commander,
being Catholic, had no bible. After
| remaining there some time and fin3-
ing nothing of the book he delivered
the following at a banquet given him:
81 came to you over trail of many
moons from the setting sun. You
were the friends of my fathers who
have all gone the long way. I came
with one eye partly open, for more
light for my people, who are in dark
ness. go back with both eyes clos
ed. How can go back blind to my
blind people? made my way to you
with strong arms, through many enc
mics and strange lands that l might
carry back much to them. go back
with both arms broken and empty.
The two fathers who came with US
the braves of many winters and wars
we leave asleep by your great water
and wigwam. They were tired in
many moons ana Un61r N OCCaSlnS worn
out. My people sent me to get the
white mans book of Heaven. You
took me where you allow your women
to dance. as we do not ours, and the
book was not there; you showed me
the images of good spirits and pic
lures of the good land beyond, but the
book was not among them to tell US
the way. I am going back the long,
sad trail to my people in the dark
land. You make my feet heavy with
burdens Of gifts and my moccasins
will grow old in carrying them, but
the book is not among them. When
I tell my poor, blind people, after one
more snow in the big council, that I
did not bring the book, no word will
be spoken by our old men or by our
young braves. One by one they will
rise up and go out in silence. My
people will die in darkness, and they
will go on the long path to the other
hunting grounds. No white man will
go with them and no white mans book
will make the way plain. I have no
more words"