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The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1899-09-02

The St. Louis Republic says c. P.
Hawkins of Dunkiin county will be a
candidate for the Democratic uomina-
ton for Congress in this district.
W. ID. Vandiver will knock Hawkins
out in the first round. If the Demo-
Gratis expect to defeat Mr.. Vandiver
for the nomination they will have to
trot out a bigger man than Hawkins.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1899-09-02
Trustees Sale.

Whereas, John Grieb and Christina
Grieb. his wife. by their certain deed
OF rust. dated the twenty-ninth 18th
day of October. Eighteen hundred and
ninety-fOur 1854 and recorded in
Book ). page 2oJ OF the Recorder
Office Of the county of Cape Girardrnu,
Missouri. conveyed to the undersigned
trustee. the following described real
estate, lying and being in the county
of Cape Girardeau and Stat. of Ms
SOIri. tO-wlt:
Part Of lot NprRbcr thirty-right is
IN range b in thu city Of Cape Girar-
deau. described Is follows: Com
mencing sixty go feet north from
southwest corncr Uf said lot Number
thiity-eight i3sj III range g.: tneIi-c
run north along Ellis street forty ipj
feet: theme" east one hundred ard
eighty iSDl feet to an alley: thence
south along said alley forty 40 feet:
thence vest one hundred and cighty
$50 ieet 10 the place o. beginning.
y hcreaS. said note has long since
i"come que and payable according 10
tEc true tenor. date and eject Of said
3 a" and said not" rrEaaiu- 4upait.
Eo". therefore. /. :hc u2<rr-igIyr,
'.''. ~ The request u .!c !r@ai
q, 'rr Of said ncte ana oy .iy;ur OF
N -cr and authority in ~. vested
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.i,. ,.,yi-iO..- o. said decd =. :rt.~t.
viii Oh
l~-anaay x r'oJrth Day Of Sers~~""r.
1899.
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The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1899-09-02

benton's finger points the Il vest
ward and our boys in blue. ohcGient
TO his prophetic vision. are 3rcas,iny
the pillows OF the Pacific. sailing ON
their way 70 the garden spot OF the
orient Luzon, Uncle Sans tropicaI
garden. The ~fervent w~eli-wishcs Of
every patriotic heart go with them.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1899-09-02

The newspaper man who come. 10
Cape Girardeau and bucks against
the DEMOCRAT may be = nervy man.
but he is lacking in Judgment.
Twenty-eight Of these nervy fellows
have been here during the last twenty
three years, but most of them are now
dcad-pour fellows.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1899-09-02

Joseph Flynn is now editor OF the
st. Louis Times, Il weekly Democratic
paper. The editorial page OF the
Times bristles with the ear-mark, OF
the witty lrishman,
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1899-09-02

Ih" Foruii<t showed their treachery
IN the Eighth district As they always
show it at every election throughout
the country. Populists. like kissing
bugs, are dangerous critters.
The San Francisco call., 1899-05-14

played divinely on the fiddle and the
concertina; "Dago." a Spaniard, and my
self
We picked up "Dago'-as we called
him not because we cared about him,
but because we wanted an extra man to
make up the six necessary to apply for a
twelve-acre claim along the line Of our
reef, and Dago was loafing around doing
nothing. That's how we roped him in.
He was rather a sullen chap-dark, hand
some, with a black mustache, very white
teeth, and a trick of showing them when
he smiled, which wasn't often. He talked
a little English of a sort, not unsparsely
sprinkled with deities and "big-big-D's,"
and he camped by himself about a quarter
of a mile below the claim, on bend of
the Yugilbar Greek, where he had put up
a log humpy, thatched with sheets Of
stringy bark. l strolled down there one
Sunday, but he didn't make me welcome,
so 1 never went near him again. Dago,
my mate and worked IN the same shift
two of us down the hole and one on top
to wind up.
Dago and I had a difference of opinion
one night about a girl. 1t was Christ
mas and they had been having a.
jamboree in the camp ana some
dancing. The girl-there were only
two altogether on the reefs-gave me
a dance. and Dago didn't like It. So we
quarreled, Dago and I, and he gave me
some of his special brand of English" ."
/ slipped into him and hurt him. In the
middle of my forehead there is a scar
you can see it nowhere the haft Of
Dago's knife caught me in the scrimmagel
There were some words, but our mates
separated us and we went our ways But
Dago was never friends after that, and
l hated being down in the hole with him.
weeks went by and I had forgotten all
about it. l thought Dago had too-but he
hadn't; and this is what happened
We had sunk on the reef about 100 feet
when we came on water, which made so
fast that we couldn't work at the bot
tom of the shaft at all. There was moth
Ing for it but to build a floor about thirty
feet up from the bottom, and work at
that level until the shaft below US was
filled up. Then we would all turn to and
bale out the water. So we got on.
This floor was simply made Of young
saplings with the bark left on, laid loosely
on a couple of cross-pieces, one at each
end Of the shaft, which measured rhe
usual six feet by three feet
The country we were going through was
as hard as iron and we could do nothing
with IT with the gads and hammers. so
started blasting. It is necessary. in order
~ NAAuti obeA4ld piOPGIly WHAT IOitOWS, Tor
me TO describe our work and the way we
did ii.
At the top Of the shaft was windlass,
by which one of us hauled up iron buckets
from below while the other two filed
them with stone and mullock as it was
broken out The buckets simply hooked
on to an iron hook. which in turn was
spliced on to the end of a manila rope
working round the windlass barrel.
1t was our custom when the bucket was
full and hooked on to shake the rope.
The San Francisco call., 1899-05-14
H. W. Wilson
Gives His Opinion Of
Submarine Boats.


effective vessels. The Plunger is the larger
of the two and displaces 16S tons when
completely submerged She has steam as
well as electric engines. On the surface,
using the former she can cover sixteen
knots; submerged, using her dynamos, she
can do ten knots. Like most submarines,
she is cigar-shaped. She has a funnel for
use with her boilers, which burn petro-
leum, when cruising on the surface. The
funnel can be lowered inside the boat with
great speeds and ease.
There is a coming tower protected by
six-inch nickel steel Two torpedo tubes
are carried. The supply of air for the
Grey can be drawn through an india rub
ber tube connected with a float on the
surface of the water. or, If need be, can
be derived from reservoirs of compressed
air carried in the hull. The boat is sub
merged either by pumping water ballast
into the tanks or by setting vertical
screws in motion, when she can be
dragged down or up. A boat very similar
to the Plunger was designed thirty years
ago by Mr.. Holland, and was intended to
attack our ironclads, but somehow or
other funds ran out and 1t was never
completed.
Mr.. Wilson, as a practical naval archi-
tect, has no mercy for the Missionaries who
are always inventing naval freaks. One
OF the most extraordinary Of these
fapcies, he says, is the circular ironclad
designed by the Russian admiral, Popoff,
which obtained from him the name Pop
offka. Two of these vessels were built for
coast service In the shallow waters of the
Black Sea Their names are Admiral
Popoff and Novgorod. Both are perfectly
circular on the water line, but have pro-
tuberances at the stern under water to
enable them to steer. The Novgorod' S
diameter Is 100 feet. the Popoff's 12O. The
first has two 11-inch breech-loaders in a
barbette In the center of the ship, the
second two 12-inch guns on disappearing
carriages. The Popoff has an iron belt
running right round, 16 inches thick, the
Novgorod one inches thick. Each ship
is built with a forecastle to house her
crew. The Novgorod has six and the
Popoff four screws, but their speed is
miserable, not exceeding six or seven
knots in fine weather. Moreover, they
proved very difficult to steer or handle,
which is just what we should expect. They
have done no service at sea, and never
will, being now laid UP at Nikolaiev,
The San Francisco call., 1899-05-14

don, in spite of the fact that he was a
nephew of the reigning Emperor, and set
sail from Liverpool for South America. in
a ship which he bought and christened
after his wife.
The vessel was reported from Monte
video, but since that time nothing has
been either heard or seen of the Arch
duke. He has disappeared into space,
and though repeated searches have been
made by order of the Austrian Emepror
and the Hungarian Government. no news
has been received of his wherea bouts
since, many years ago, his ship was seen
at Montevideo. His mother, who died not
long ago, believed at the time of her
death that her son was still alive
There have been several missing NJ.
P.'s. Sixteen years ago Mr.. Powell, the
Conservative member for Malmesbury,
disappeared in a balloon. The ascent was
made in England, but neither balloon nor
balloonist were ever heard of again, and
1t was assumed that both were lost in the
sea. Mr.. Douglas Pyne, at one time mem
Der for West Waterford, also disappeared
at sea. He was last seen alive on n
steam packet, crossing from Dublin to
Hoyhead, and though a handbag and
some letters belonging to him were found
on Doard they were not claimed, and Mr..
Pyne was never seen again.
Another members seat was once de-
clared vacant because the member could
not be found, but happily he appeared in
time to stop the election. 1t will be re-
membered, too, that Mr.. Carvill, an Irish
Nationalist member, was supposed to be
missing year or two ago. He turned
up in Australia.
The circumstances surrounding the dis
appearance of Sir Arthur Curtis, Hamp-
shire baronet, are very peculiar. He left
England with gold mining party bound
for Klondike, and disappeared from the
camp after some trifing dispute about
the cooking. He left the camp on loot,
without food or weapons, at place fifty
miles from any other habitation. A thor
ough search was made, but no trace
could be found of the missing baronet,
and Lady Curtis has obtained leave to
presume that he is dead. But it is quite
within the bounds of possibility that the
baronet may walk into his house one of
these days.
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= Then, whoever was at the windlass i'm
mediately wound up, and when the bucket
reached the top emptied the contents into
paddock and then sent 1t down below
again.
In the shaft we were obliged to blast,
as I said before. This was done by drill
ing holes in the rock, which were then
loaded with blasting powder, the fuse in
serted, and then the whole tamped down
hard and fired. The firing was done by
lighting a bit of candle over the flame Of
which we bent the fuse. While the casing
of the fuse was burning through. who
ever fired the shot would have plenty of
time to put his foot in the hook, shake the
rope and be hoisted UP out of danger
Then off would go the blast, and when the
smoke cleared away we went down the
hole again and sent up the rock broken
out by the shot.
After we put in the sapling floor over
the water hole, we began to drive along
the face of the reef, and had worked in
about foot, when my gold-mining days
were almost brought to a sudden stop.
My mate, the army man, had injured
his hand, and knocked off work for a spell
to get well. So Dago and 1 had to shift
for ourselves. 1t was my turn down the
hole, and l had succeeded after great
labor in putting in two shots about eigh-
shaft where we were driving. The labor
of this was terrific, as, being single
handed, 1 had to swing my hammer-an
S-pounder-with one hand and turn my
drill with the other. However, 1 got
through loaded up the two holes, bent
my fuses over two pieces of candle which
I lit, and then shook the rope as the
signal to hoist away.
Just as l put my foot into the hook.
however, l noticed one of the fuses had
buckled up with the heat and turned out
of the candle flame, so l stopped down to
bend it straight again. The casing of the
other fuse bazed away merrily, and 1
knew that in a few seconds the fuse
Itself would catch. There was no time to
lose. l turned to grasp the rope, but it
was gone!
Looking up the shaft saw 1t dis
appearing high above my head
shouted to Dago out he didn't seem to
hear me.
The hiss of the fuses, which I had timed
for half minute, attracted me-fascinat-
ed me. l remember looking helplessly at
them, and thinking L could, perhaps, drag
them out.
/ tried; but, no. 1 had tamped them in
so tight that they wouldn't bulge My
God! What was 1 to do?
The San Francisco call., 1899-05-14

where they are likely to remain until bro
ken up for old iron.
1t is scarcely to be believed that so
ridiculously unseaworthy type of ship
could ever find favor in England. Yet a
few years after these naval abortions had
appeared a British admiral projected a
fearful and wonderful craft as his ideal
battlehip. She was to be nearly cir
cular, to be driven by turbines to displace
163OO tons and to carry six 10O-ton and ten
S0-ton guns a modest battery, revolving
on two turntables. This is perhaps the
absurdest ship that was ever designed by
an inventor.
A less egresious freak is the curious
torpedo-ram Polyphemus, laid down at
Chatham in 1878. the first real ram to be
constructed. She is torpedo shaped, but
has a light superstructure built upon her
hull. This carries a number of turrets for
siX-pounder guns, which resemble pepper
pots and give her altogether a very sim
gular appearance. She is protected by
two and three inch steel armor plating on
her curving sides and when sunk to battle
trim by means of ballast tanks lies prac-
tically flush with the water. Her ram is
very strongly built, and projects twelve
feet from her stem. She has also five tor
pedo tubes, all submerged. In case she
of her compartments she can expel her
water ballast and drop cast iron ballast,
which is attached to her keel in sections,
to the total weight of 300 tons. Service in
her is not very comfortable, as her sea-
men have to exist on what Is known as
potted air-that is, air artifcially pumped
into the hull.
In battle she would be safe enough,
being thoroughly protected. She has seen
much service in the Mediterranean where
she is now in commission. The Americans
have a not very successful copy of the
Polyphemus in their ram Katahdin, built
from Admiral Ammen's designs. She is a
ram pure and simple, having no torpedo
or heavy gun equipment. In general out
line she resembles the British ship, but
has a dnIerent shaped ram, chisel bladed
instead Of pointed. She has also no su-
perstructure, but has thickly armored
ventilating shafts, coming tower and
funnel base. Her speed is only sixteen
knots. as against the Poyphemus' 17.S
knots, and it is not very obvious how she
is going to overhaul the ships she intends
to ram.
The San Francisco call., 1899-05-14
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|" HE past few weeks have been very
remarkable for the large number
of disappearanceS reported in the
newspapers. Within a very few
days two princes and baronet
were declared to be missing and
there were at the same time several cases
in which less notable people We're con-
cerned
One of these-the disappearance of a
Chester governess-bears a striking re-
semblance to a famous case which oc-
Cured in the middle of last century. A
domestic servant named Elizabeth Can
ming suddenly disappeared from her home
at Aldermanbury about o'clock. on the
first night of 1853. There was not the
slightest clew to her whereabouts, and
every search made for her was in vain.
Special prayers were offered in churches
that the girl might return to her home
Four weeks passed, and then, on January
29 hungry and half-clad, the girl knocked
at her mothers door. She told an amaz-
ing story to the effect that she had been
carried off by gypsies to a lonely house,
where she had been starved and cruelty
treated by an old woman; and at length
two gypsies were arrested. They appeared
before Henry Fielding, the novelist, who
was at that time a magistrate at Bow
the Old Bailey-one to be~hanged and the
other to be burned in the hand.
The Lord Mayor was, however, by no
means satisfied as to the truth of the
girls story, and caused fresh inquiries to
be set afoot. The whole town was moved
and the people were split up into Can
ningites" and "Gypsyites" just as France
is now divided over the Dreyfus case. II
created as much excitement throughout
the country as the Tichborne case, and
ultimately the girl was tried at the Old
Bailey for perjury. The gypsies were set
free, and after a trial of eight days, in
which thirty-seven witnesses on one side
contradicted twenty-seven on the other
Elizabeth Canning was transported for
seven years. But nobody ever found out
where she had spent those four weeks
The disappearance of the Archduko
Johann of Austria is, perhaps, the
strangest story in the strange annals OF
the Austrian court. There are those who
believe the Archduke to be alive to-day
but his fate will probably remain mys-
terry. He married an opera singer in Lon
The San Francisco call., 1899-05-14

n NE of the greatest of modern naval
experts, II. w. Wilson, has recent
ly been expressing his views with
J regard TO the possibility of sub
marine navigation. The submarine
boat, he does not hesitate to say, is sim
ply a freak of enthusiasts.
at is easy enough" he writes, with
the resources of modern engineering. to
build boat which shall move about flush
with, or just below the water. The diff
Guilty is experienced in directing 1t. If
flush with the water the horizon is linn
tied, and an observer in the boat will
have his field of vision cut Off by the
smallest wave. Below the water nothing
can be seen. It has been suggested that
the boat should be steered by a special
sounding apparatus on the bottom which
would automatically denote changes Of
level. Yet, obviously, for this to be of
anv use extremely accurate charts OF the
bottom must be prepared, and this would
be a work of years. Another defect Of the
submarine is her low speed"
The chief submarines now afioat or
building are the Gustave Zede, belonging
TO France; the Delfino, belonging to Italy,
and the Holland and Plunger, belonging
to the United States. The construction
and method of working the first two are
kept religiously secret. ] have seen the
outside of the Delfino, but that told me
nothing. She was red-painted, cigar
shaped craft of some size, and, when
saw her, was lying in one Of the Spezzia
basins. She appeared to have an armored
coming tower. I was told by an Italian
officer who was showing me the dockyard
that she is a complete success in every
thing but steering Her speed below the
surface is S12 knots.
The Gustave Zede is one of the largest
submarines that have been constructed.
On the surface, with her rather tall con-
ming tower projecting above the water
she can steam or mote" for her engines
are driven by accumulators-A knots. I'm
der water she goes 6 knots. She carries
one torpedo tube and nine men. Service
on board is said to be both dangerous and
disagreeable. The fumes from her accu-
mulators affect the health of her men,
and there have been curious explosions
when the current was being run into her.
The Holland and Plunger are boats con-
structed in the United States from the
drawings and designs Of Mr.. Holland, and
If they realize half what the inventor
claims for them should be exceedingly
The San Francisco call., 1899-05-14

There were about twenty seconds be-
tween me and eternity!
I heard nothing but the Internal kissing
of the fuses; and it seemed to get louder
and louder.
Suddenly an idea struck me. If could
climb up the shaft I might get above the
worst of the blast
put my back against one face OF the
shaft and my feet against the other and
tried to work up that way.
1t answered at first. I had got a few
feet above the level of the drive when I
slipped and came down with a thud on the
The San Francisco call., 1899-05-14

floor Of the shaft.
| heard the saplings crack, but the noise
was almost drowned by the awful kissing
of the fuses. AS L scrambled to my feet
sapling broke under me and my leg
went through the floor.
With an inspiration I thought of the
well beneath
Still that awful kissing!
knew L had only few seconds now
between me and utter annihilation. I tore
away at the saplings like a madman. My
Cod how hard they had been jammed
downi [ saw the water below me; the
bright light from the top of the shaft was
reflected in it.
Was it my fancy, or did I see Dago's
face, reflected there, or was it my own?
The water was about ten feet down be-
low me. There was no time to hesitate
The only chance of safety lay that way
made one wild plunge, and as I fell
heard the splitting, hurting, laundering
roar of the blasts as they both went off
above me; then I knew no more
They told me it was days afterward
when L woke up. L was lying in my
humpy, conscious of great pain. My
head was all bound up; my left arm was
strapped to piece of wood, and I felt
awful.
Dago's girl was sitting on a wood-heap
in the big chimney of the humpy, heating
something over the flre.
She came up presently beside me. and
saw 1 was awake.
Dimly the remembrance of something
happening in the mine dawned on me-
What has happened?" 1 murmured,
feebly.
She bent down over me.
Hush, you mustn't talk"
where's Dago?" 1 wondered. I must
have said it aloud, for she answered.
"Gone!'
''Where?"
"God knows!"
The tears welled up in her eyes.
Then it all got dark again.-Wide World
The poet sat with his head resting in
his hands.
Upon his face there was seated look
of deep detection.
His cheeks were sunken.
He eagerly eyed the door into the grill
room of the bar beside which he sat.
BY and by friend happened in and
slapped him on the shoulder.
Whats the matter, old man?" he
asked.
: Matter 'nuff'' was the melancholy re-
ply.
''What?"
Last week the warm weather inspired
me and l wrote lot of verses about
spring and violets and balmy breeZes,
and now look at that
He pointed toward the window beyond
which the snow was piled in drifts.-De-
troit Free Press.
Cripple Greek is great on etiquette. A
man out there met little girl with whose
family he was very intimate and said
Hello, Edith! How are you?"
The little miss drew herself up and re-
piled:
Use very well. but amt no tele-
phone. Boston Globe.
The San Francisco call., 1899-05-14

Waggle--Yes, sir: a man never knows
what happiness is until he marries-
Mrs Win glad to hear you say that
"And then it is too late"
The San Francisco call., 1899-05-14

Cripple Creek is great on etiquette.
man out there met a little girl with whose
family he was very intimate and said:
Hello Edith! How are you?"
The little miss drew herself up and re-
plied
Use very well. but amt no tele-
phone. Boston Globe.
The San Francisco call., 1899-05-14

| NE of the greatest of modern naval
experts, II. w. Wilson. has recent
ly been expressing his views with
regard TO the possibility of sub
marine navigation. The submarine
The San Francisco call., 1899-05-14

tn HE past few weeks have been very
remarkable for the large number
of disappearances reported in the
newspapers. Within a very few
days two princes and a baronet
Irern declarod a no eli,
The San Francisco call., 1899-05-14

UsTRALIA again! Well, what
does it matter how many years
had PASSED?
Sandy Magee Cthe coach driver1,
I. t.tr 90 -.,-- q lftfln mora frr-