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The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1899-08-19

The Veterans of sixty-one and FIVE aud
their friends, who are going to attend the
33rd G.. A. r. Annual E~ncampment at Phila-
delphia in September, could not select a bet
ter nor more historic route than the Big
Four, Chesapeake & Ohio, with splendid
service from Chicago, Peoria and 81. Louis
on the Big Four, all connecting at Indian
apolis or Cincinnati and thence over the
Picturesque Chesapeake & Ohio along the
Ohio river to Huntington, West Va, thence
through the foothills of the Alleghanies,
over the Mountains, through the famous
Springs Region of Virginia to Stanton,
Va, between which point and Washington
are many of the most prominent Battle
fields: Waynesboro, Gordonsville, Cedar
Mountain, Rappahannock, Kettle Run,
Manassas. Bull Run, Fairfax, and a score of
others nearly as prominent. Washington is
next, and thence via the Pennsylvania Line
direct to Philadelphia. There will be three
rates in effect for this business: LIST. Contin-
uous passage, with no stop-over privilege;
End. Going and coming same route with one
stop-over in each direction; Sd. Circuitous
route, going one way and back another with
one stop-over in each direction. For full
information as to Routes, Rates, etc, ad-
dress j. c. Tucker, G. n. A, 234 Clark St.,
Chicago.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1899-08-19

W.
SCIENCE OF
Preserving Hillsides Is Not rs For.
midnble a Task as Many Sup
pose 1t to Be.

The grading of undnlating lands, and
in fact amy soil that washes badly. is
not Il difficult task. Various preventive
measures have been adopted, such as
horizontal embankmcnt, liberal fertil-
izing, deep blowing. fiat culture, bind
ing crops and rotation, which prevent
washing. The graded embankment has
given good satisfaction in the south.
BY this method, as illustrated, the em-
bankment must be large enough and
strong enough to carry off all water
during the heaviest rains; must be of
uniform grade with equal fall in all
places, about ono inch to a rod. Where
to locate embankments, the grade to
give them, construction as to shape and
strength and distance apart must all
be considered by each mar doing the
work.
Before lines can be run an instru-
ment must he secured hat is strictly
accurate and perfectly reliable, one
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1899-08-19
SAGE OF SAWHAW SAYS

1t is generally agreed that torrid is
horrid.
Seldom be rash, but always be ra-
tional.
It's easy to be funny when you don't
want to.
4 man can get left when he can't get
anything else.
Squeaking shoes are louder than
checked pants.
People aren't like shears. They can
be too sharp to be paired.
1t isn't energetic men who are most
influenced by force of habit.
Lawsuits are carried up and decisions
are handed down and this is meet.
When you want position don't throw
mud. Get up and dust.-Chicago Dis
patch.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1899-08-19
Pain Conquered; Health Re.
stored by Lydia E. Pink.
hams Vegetable Compound.
LETTER TO MRS. pINKuAx NO. o2,6lol

LETTER TO MRS. PINKHAX NO. o2,oiol
81 feeli it my duty to write and thank
You for what your Vegetable Com
pound has done for me. 1t is the only
medicine 1 have found that has done
me any good. Before taking your medi-
cine, / was all run down, tired all the
time, no appetite, painsin my back and
bearing down pains and a great suf-
ferer during m~enstruation. After talk
ing two bottles of Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound l felt like a new
woman. am nov OF my fourth bottle
and all my pains have left me. l feel
better than l have felt for three years
and would recommend your Compound
to every suffering woman. 1hope this
letter will help others to find a cure
for their troubles - Mrs. DELLA
REMICKER, RENSSELAER,, IND.
The serious ills of women develop
from neglect of early symptoms. Every
pain and ache has a cause, and the
warning they give should not be disre-
garded.
Mrs. Pinkham understands these
troubles better than any local ply
sician and will give every woman free
advice who is puzzled about her
health. Mrs. Pinkham's address is
Lynn, Mass. Don't put off writing until
health is completely broken down.
Write at the first indication of trouble.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1899-08-19
COLD STORAGE PAYS
n Present Conditions City Merchaats
Reap a Big Profit Which Fruit
owe Should save,

The fruit farm is the proper place fol-
the cold storage of fruit. This is ac-
knowledged now by the best autheri-
on cold storage. The reaso for
this is that the fruit must of necessity
be injured and wasted in handling be-
fore it reaches the cold storage in the
cities. In order TO keep fruits for a
long time in cold storage they must be
raised and packed especially for this.
Dealers who receive a surplus of fruit
in hot weather send part of it in cold
storage for n few days to prevent its
rotting on their hands, but this is very
different from the cold storage of fruits
for a long period until all of the other
fruit is off the market. Thus grapes,
pears, apples and similar fruits are
put away in cold storage until long
past middle winter. Then they are
brought out and sold for fancy prices.
The loss which the dealers suffer in
handling this fruit is due to the de-
terioration of the fruits while in transit
to the city. In the great lake grape dis
tricts in western New York the grow
ers have their own cold storage. and
they have found hat the grapes picked
from the vines and carried direct to the
cold storage house keep much better
and longer than any put in cold storage
in the cities. These grapes can be mar
keted in the middle of winter without
much loss from waste.
The possibilities of cold storage on
the farm will be appreciated by an
other generation. and every large fruit
farm will have its cold storage house.
The ordinary ice house is used on some
farms where ice can be easily obtained
in the winter season. But the farmer
situated inland from any body of fresh
water is not rendered helpless. The
ammonia and dry air process of freez-
ing and making cold storage is even
cheaper than using ice. 1t costs more
at the beginning to start an ammonia
co~ld-storage plant, but after it has
once beer erected the cost of main
tanning it is cheaper than using ice.
The dry cold air hat comes from one
of these cold-storage plants is better
for the fruits than the damp air that
prevails in an icehouse. The construc-
ton of such a cold-storage house by a
number of farmers in one locality
would prove a feasible plan. and in the
end the cooperative work would pay
The lack of cold-storage facilities has
caused thousands of dollars worth OF
lose on nearly every fruit farm of anv
size in the country. Not only would
such a storage place be of inestimable
value in keeping the fruits a few weeks
to take advantage of the markets, but
it would serve as a place to keep Ger
tain fruits for out of season markets
when prices always rule high. At pres
ent the merchants in the cities reap al
this profits. ". Chambers, in Ameri'
can CultivatOr.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1899-08-19
NAVIGATING LIONS
ing Their Prey in Their Ma.
tive Jungles.

when lions become maneaters these
inert and treacherous brutes take no
unnecessary trouble to catch men, and
while human beings r plentiful none
of them undertake perilous enterprises
or proceed on any haphazard eXpedi-
tons. They know what to do and where
to go that prey may be procured with
the least amount of risk or eXertio1.
Such n lion is well aware of who tills
this cornfield or that mealie patch. He
has informed himself of how Many men
accompany the village herds, where
any outlying camps are situated, and
how they are guarded. There is no
route by which travellers proceed or
traffic is carried on that such animals
have not studied with reference to the
facilities for attack they afford and
their own bodily powers. If otherwise
good strategic positions present natural
difficulties the lion not only considers
how these can be overcome, but per-
haps practices his part beforehand.
at all events. he has been watched
while engaged in exercises that can
only be explained in this way.
$50 puny a creature as a man is when
]unprovided with effective implements
for offense stands little chance against
such a foe-an assailant having 40 times
his strength, backed by marvellous ac-
tivity and an intense passion for car
rage. Under these circumstances saw
ages can only shut themselves up or as
sault their enemy in large masses. On
the other hand. those precautions taken
by a murderous lion might not seem to
comport with hat bold and often reck-
less temper attributed to this species.
But such a discrepancy has no real ex.
istence; it only appears when a judg-
ment is made without taking all the
facts into consideration. This animals
intelligence. developed in maneatec to
its highest point, together with an or
ganic stealthiness of nature and strata
gems, fully accounts for everything a
lion does in the way If guarding against
failure."-Outing.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1899-08-19
T FROM ALASKA.

One hundred native girls attend the
school at Holy Cross mission.
Men working claims al Cape Nome
are said to be taking out S1OO a day.
The Treadwell mine earns from
100000 to 100000 q year clear
profit.
Rich finds of gold have been made
near Cape Nome. $50 miles north Of
St. Michael's.
All along the Koyuk river boats are
stranded, having been overtaken by ice
before reaching the promised land.
\ large majority Of disappointed
prospectors are chopping wood for the
steamship companies to earn their pas
sage home.
One of the buildings Of the Treadwell
mine is as large as was the Manufac-
lures building at the Worlds Column
bian exposition.
From north to south Alaska stretches
1900 miles, or 300 miles further than
from the great lakes to the Gulf of Mex
leo. Its width is greater than from
Chicago to London.
Recent surveys of the United States
fish commission show that Alaska's cod
fish banks are thousands of square
miles greater than all those on the At
lantic put together.
A favorite dish with the Eskimos is
an ice cream made Of seal oil, into
which snow is stirred until the desired
consistency has been obtaincd; then
frozen berries of different kinds are
added. with a little of the fish egg for
fiavoring.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1899-08-19
RIack Teeth in Pigs.

Frequently young pigs come into b
world with teeth so long mai trey
reach out over the tongue, lacerate the
teats of the dam, make her angry, and
raise Cain generally. Frequently these
teeth are black. The thing to do when
Won find this kind of trouble brewing
in the pig lot is to get a pair of pinchsrs,
get RE little fellow under your left
am. and with the pinchers in your
right. break every one of these teeth
OF short, says Wallace's Farmer. 1t
* a short. easy job, and should not be
neglected. This will restore peace and
prevent the young fellow from getting
q backset at the time of life when any
backset is a serious matter.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1899-08-19
Roads of the Future.

This nation must sooner or later turn
its thought seriously to the problem of
road building. The Anticipated and
stupid methods which now prevail will
no longer do. Those who undertake
to build our roads must have the neces-
sary understanding of the work before
them. The primitive plan of having
the farmer work out his tax by doing
his share of work for which he has as
little fitness as he has for doing any
other form of skilled labor outside of
his own calling must give way.-St.
Paul Globe.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1899-08-19
HOMEMADE SURVEYORS LEVEL.

HOMEMADE SURVEYORS LEVEL.
that can be run up grade OIL down. Set
the spirit level, b (see illustration), at
one inch drop. The side boards, a, a.
are fastened so as to be just one rod
apart on the ground. The c~rosspiece or
which the level rests must be perfectly
horizontal. With the level at one-inch
drop. go to a point half way the length
of the intended e~mbankment. This
point should be three or foul feet low
er, vertical. than the highest part of
the field. In setting up the instrument
two boards IS inches long and four
inches wide will be required to set I'M
der each foot of the instrument in
operating and each must rest perfect
" level. The raised end of the spirit
level will always be the ~down-grade
END. Set the level at one-inch drop and
the raised end of the level always to the
left hand as the instrument is faced;
smooth the ground where each foot OF
the instrument will rest. put down the
boards and set the instrument on them
and see how the bubble in spirit level
is. If not level, then move foremost
foot of the instrument up or down hill,
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1899-08-19
THE SECRETARY OF WAR.

III Secretary Root ard Gen. Miles get
along wei together I will be to the p~ar.icu-
ar credit Of both. since the military head
Of the army and Ike civilian head of the
war establishment seldom appreciate each
others talents.l
Secretary Stanton was cool toward
Gen. Grant from Fort ponels,a to the
end of the war.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1899-08-19
Like the Admiral.

Mrs. Stubb-John, is that you coming
home at such an unearthly hour?
Mr.. Stubb-Yes, M-Maria; the club had
a little D-Dewey toast tonight.
well, YOU remind me of Dewey"
"Ir w-what way, M-Mariaz"
"A long time coming home.'-Chicago
Evening News.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1899-08-19

One size smaller after using Aliens Foot
Ease. a powder for the feet. 1t makes tight
or new shoes easy. Cures swollen, hot,
sweating, aching feet, Improving nails. corns
and bunions. At all druggists and shoe
Stores. 25c. Trial package FREE by mail.
Address Allen s. Olmsted, LIE Roy, n. Y.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1899-08-19

Generally slow growing grape vines
like the Delaware should not be cut
back. 1t will suffice to rub off some
of the buds, when just starting. But
vigorous growers should have the ends
of the runners pinched of-St. Louis
Republic.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1899-08-19
Lanes Family Medicine.

Moves the bowels each day. In order to
be healthy this is necessary. Acts gently on
the liver and kidneys. Cures sick head
ache. Price % and soc.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1899-08-19

There Now,-She-"If l were to die you
would never get another wife like me-"
He-"What makes you think I'd ever want
another like youg'-Wasp.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1899-08-19
An Exclamation.

at strikes me this ice water is dirty"
said a Cincinnati hotel guest.
"Hully gee" exclaimed the bellboy, as he
looked in the pitcher, Il betcher de porter
forgot ter wash it."-Chicago Evening
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1899-08-19

Lost His Case.-Citizen-"So my dog
tore your clothes. did he? Where:' Hun
gry Higgins-'Tve forgot which one of
them tears is his. "-Indianapolis Journal.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1899-08-19

The best Prescription for Chills
and Fever is Il bottle of GROVES TAsTELEss
CHILL Tonic. Its simply iron and quininei in
atasteless form. No cure no pay. Price, SOC.
The evening times., 1899-09-22
Americans in the TransvaaI.

A new feature of the Transvaal difficulty
is more than interesting to the people of
this country. The Boer legislature has
passed a law, making it obligatory upon
the Outlanders, whose governments have
not made contravening treaties with the
South African Republic 10 take up arms in
defence of the state, under penalty of death.
About one thousand Americans are thus put
in jeopardy. The State Department has been
notified of the situation and will do what
ii can in the circumstances, but that, at
best, is very little.
1t may be expected that this contem-
plated outrage on our citizens in South
Africa viii destroy the last symptom OF
sympathy with the Beers that has existed
here and there in the United States. Our
consul at Pretoria has been using every
effort for months to induce the local gov
ernment to concede the neutral rights OF
Americans. but without avail. 1t seems to
be the settled purpose of President Kru-
ger and his council to force our people into
the ranks. and 1t is probably too late tc
effect anything for their relief through di.
plomacy. There is no way open for us Il
resent or punish the contemplated affront
10 our national dignity and flag. We car
only hope that Great Britain may be able
speedily, to wipe the pestiferous little re-
public" from the map.
The evening times., 1899-09-22
Massachusetts Democracy.

II is impossible to read the reports of
the proceedings at the Massachusetts State
Democratic convention without reaching the
conclusion that there is well-defned pur-
pose on the part of the Aguinaldo minority
in the party TO capture the national conven-
tion next year, many months in advance
OF its meeting.
To insist upon the election of delegates
TO that body now is certainly peculiar poll
tics; but the George Fred Williams faction
which controlled the Boston convention
has succeeded in doing that and, coinci-
IDENTIFY, if We may judge by the riot and
disturbance which marked the session in
Mechanics Hall, in pretty thoroughly dis
rupting the party in the Bay State.
We are greatly afraid that the leaders Of
the anti-expansion element, in concentrat-
ing their efforts upon the complexion OF
the national convention, are losing sight
OF the Presidential election which is to fol-
low il. They may very possibly succeed
in manipulating State delegations enough
TO force an anti-American plank into the
national platform. But, in doing so, they
will make the work Of the convention SO
much wasted breath, and render the print
ing Of tickets an unnecessary and foolish
expense. Jockeyed conventions may, II
they will, declare against the faith, histo-
ry. precedents, and policy of the Demo-
cratic party; but they cannot compel free
and independent Democratic voters 10
march TO the music of any such band of
brass and wind.
The evening times., 1899-09-22

a certain number of things and places in
that time, he does not at all relish being
Obliged to pay in tips" the money which
he has planned to spend in a journey to
the Tyrol or a jaunt through Norway.
And this he sometimes has TO do. when
an Englishman or a Frenchman could trav-
ell much more cheaply.
Something like this may happen in the
case of noblemen who visit America, II
this Austrian count has establishei PEE
cedent In that case 1t will cease to be
practicable for impecunious aristocrats 10
cross the Atlantic in the hope Of securing
American heiresses. The father OF the
heiress may invite her titled acquaint-
ance to his country house, entertain a.m
Iuxuriously, and try to make him happy
during his stay, but when it comes to pro-
viding pocket-money 10 be scattered by
the wayside like the leaves Of Vallombrosa,
the average American father viii d aw the
line. ~
II seems as if. in this emergency, ii
would be well for the foreigners to adopt
American customs to the extent of forming :
union, in which a rue shall be laid
down against reckless expenditure. Ii
would be quite easy to punish any member
who transgressed. and the system would
be economical and effective.
The evening times., 1899-09-22
A Curious EIopement.

There IS Detroiter who was a principal in ons
of the queerest elopements on record He was at
a resort In the upper lake regions. Among the
guests was beautiful girl from the South, edI,-
Gated in convent and unsophisticate ted as to the
ways OF the world. The Detroiter found her one
day vaiRiy trying to cast q fly and taught her the
trick 1t took time; he did not believe in crowd
ing her education, and they became very friendly.
A natural result followed and when he presented
his case to her father the old gentlemen, meta.
phorically speaking, tore up the sod His daugh-
ter was engaged, this lover knew it. and
if he didn't drop the matter just where it was he
would either be thrown into the lake or pumped
full of lead.
The maiden thought good deal ef the man
she had left behind, but the new infatuation was
stronger, an elopement was planned. When
they went stealthily to the boathouse at night
every craft was securely locked up except an In
dian canoe. He was not artist in propellinp
such boat, but they sailed, away. They kept
close to the shore, but he grew. overcontident.
leaned suddenly toward her to renew some of his
VOWS, and ever they went. He managed to keep
her a1oat and shouted so lustily that the guide
at nearby camp rowed to the rescue
She soon slowed away between blankets
and he made the acquaintance of DOT of South
erners who had lust arrived for hunting and fish
ing. He told his story all were sympathetic. and
a messenger was hurried eff into The country for
a parscn, as it was thought best to put ain in
sperable tarrier in the way Of the wr-tlfy father
When the bride stepped forth for the ceremony,
ere OF the Southerners, pale and excited, rushed
to her. She hesitated but moment before falling
into his arlne. The Jarson did his work. but her
s-st lore was the bridegroom. The Detroiter
admits that he made up his mind In fash that
he would rather lie bachelor than foQd for fishes.
The evening times., 1899-09-22
A Joke on the Detective.
(From the Detroit Free Press.)


81 suppose the joke is on me- said the de-
tective and if it wasn't for the fact that others
are telling the story would say nothing about it.
/ was called into the chiefs office the other day
and given burglary case to look up The only
possible clew that existed a description of
a suspicious character who was seen the
house where the burglary committed shortly
before it happened. The party who had seen the
suspicious character had been able to give a
good description of him, and / was instructed
by the chief to visit the shady spots in the
city and if l couldn't run him down and
make him give an account of himself. i,
81 have tackled worse cases than that, and /
started out with the idea that would have the
man wanted behind the bars before the day was
out.
''But it was not as easy had anticipated.
The descriptions did not fit any old crook that
knew, and was positive that was on the trail
of a and dangerous man.
81 spent the day making the rounds of the low
joints and dives where the thieves gathered, but
without finding '1anyene that answered to the
description given me-,
'Along about night, when was tired and dis
epuraged, / Glanced, to catch glimpse of my
own reflection in a mirror behind the bar and
1 was thunderstEuck to see that my own irefec-
ton answered to the description of the party
that was looking for. Like flash. 1t dawned
rpon me that l had passed the house where the
burglary had taken 'piace shortly before 1t hap
pened With a horrible suspicion of the truth
of the matter I~looked up the party who had
furnished the description and readily, identi-
fed as the man he 4Ad seen.
81 had been chasing about town all day in a
vain attempt tosirm m9myself down. But then
succeeded, ard that is some satisfaction. . -.