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The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1899-01-07

EOR SALE OR RENT-A four-room house.
in first-class condition and conveniently
located. For particulars call on Philip Stoll.
dec1-d
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1899-01-07
FRIDAY.

For Sale.-A residence. three rooms
and a basement. just South of the
old Hanny homestead.
j5d1w j. c. HANNf.
For Sale-The entire fixtures of the
Clermont Meat Market, in the Mey-
stead block on Main street. Apply to
J. H. Lyons at ST. Charles Hotel.
Lost-A Veterinary pocket instru-
ment case. Finder will be rewarded
by returning the same to DR.. j. NJ.
Van DeervoOrt, V. S.
Henry Hopper and J. Z. Cotner are
| Sheriff Gockel's deputies.
Mr.. d. \. Drum eX-couuty treasur-
err, has moved back to Oak Ridge.
Mr.. Drum is a good mar and a good
citizen.
The case of Ilo Fullerton against
the Board of Regents and Faculty of
the Southeast Normal School is being
tried in the circuit court at Jackson
today.
E. w. Flentge is wearing a suit of
blue jeans-home spun and home
made.
Richard P. Fulenwider died at his
home in Dexter last week. The de-
ceased formerly resided in this county
and was we'll known to many of our
old citizens.
Leo. J. Albert left this afternoon
for ST. Louis where he goes to attend
the silver wedding of his brother
John F. Albert.
There is no school at the Normal
to-day. The whole Normal Faculty
went to Jackson as witnesses in the
case Of Fullerton against the Normal
Faculty.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1899-01-07
berIein's Cough Remedy.

Nocninger will sell sou shoes at
lanufacturer's prices.
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Hats Of tan or gray broadcloth are
high in vogue. These are not draped
hats. like the usual cloth touue, but ave
straight stiff brims.
A little later in the season fur hats
will be as fashionable as they were last
winter. Those thus far shown have been
trimmed with lace almost exclusively.
The prettiest hats for evening are the
shirred tulle toques in soft, bright color
ings.
The newest millinery ornaments are
buckles, slides and clasps of enamelled
flowers and Jewels in ~ombinatiOn A
spray of pansies, powdered with cabo-
chon emeralds. forms one bar of a big,
brilliant buckle, designed to hold a bunch
Of WOod-broNn plu,nes on q hat of hunt
er's green.
The question of color is one that home
milliners. and others, should consider
most carefully. When the hair is no
longer all black or brown, but is neither
quite white nor quite gray. a hat brim
faced with black, especially a rich black,
like Iat of velvet, should be scrupulous-
ly avoided. A facing of white ace-on
a black hat. is ~desired-will, by contrast
put color into the hair. The new shades
Of blue might be employed with advant-
age.
AS a rule, blondes are too fond of pink
and brunettes OF scarlet. 1t is only d
certain class Of dark beauties that can
afford to yea the bright poppy reds.
Yellow suits blondes and brunettes al
most equally, but with the darker woman
it should approach the orange shades;
with the fairer. the straw colors.
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when he died he left a 1it.ie money and
a coasting vessel to Yann's father, who
was also a seaman AS a child the boy
played about his grandfather's old sew
enteenth century wooden house in the
Rue du Boyer and there he listened tn
the stories of the Icelandic fishermen
until. as was perfectly natural for a boy
with such blood in his veins, he too be-
came enrantured with the witchery OF
the sea life. His thoughts by day and
his dreams at night wer. of the time
when he too should be able to visit the
Newfoundland banks or take his pace in
some great naval fleet.
Albert Robin-fOr that is the poets
name-Was a very small boy when re
Joined the naval training ship at Brest.
Three years later he had learned the
business of a blueiacket and was in the
signalling branch of the service on the
Ocean one of the vessels connected
with the Pacific station.
Yam had always possessed consider
able dramatic talent and as he was Il
good singer his songs and recitations PRO-
vided the Chief source of amusement for
, his comrades in the f~o'c's'le. There too
he officers heard him and they We're so
much impressed by his ability as an en-
teftalner that they encouraged him to
improve himself. Books were provided
for him and it was at this time that he
conceived the idea of composing his own
: songs and from that day it has been his
one ambition to appear as the spokes-
man of the sailor-folk. While his early
compositions We're crude as compared to
his later efforts they attracted inme-
diate attention aud especially because
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they struck a new tone in French litera-

they struck a new tone in French litera-
ture.
The rules of French prosody We're a
stumbling block to the new poet. The
Breton seamen did not speak by rule and
they had a perfect contempt for he ST
lent G, so Yam resolved to break with
classic traditions and make his sailors
speak without convention. straight from
the heart, in their own honnely ongue
The result. while inspiring in the origj-
nal cannot be translated without a COM
plete loss of the original spirit that has
made the verses what they are. All this
however. does not worry the homely poet
He has no ambition to pose as an inter-
national genius. He is content to be
the poet of the sailor-flock and he feels
that in his present position he has achiev-
ed the height of his ambition.
During the past few years, most of
which he has spent in Paris. he has made
many friends. In the Quarter Latin his
songs and poems were received with an
outburst of applause that almost swept
the singer from his feet. In the more
fashionable salons the gaurft sailors
rough hands We're forgotten and the po-
ems of life on the sea. in which he de-
picted the life of his sailors. moved the
most cultivated audiences to tighter
or to tears at the will of the hoinely poet.
But love of country will not be his
only theme. He has shown that sea1nen
love the sad lays that appeal to their
humanity. He has been a pitiless rea-
list and a realist he will remain, but
whether it be in songs of sadness or in
the more merry airs of the fo'c's'le he
will still be the genuine poet of the sea
and his Interpretation of the life of the
sailor. his TRANSACTIONS of the emotions
and ideas born of that calling will con-
tinue to be the inspiration of the men
whose duty it is to defend the flag OF
France. What other effect the expert
ment may have is quite another story but
the innovation will certainly be watched
by the naval authorities of every land.
A few years ago "Lockroy's poet" would
have been greeted with ridicule by ev-
cry naval board in the world. To-day
men do not laugh at the idea. They adj
nit that the French minister may be
correct in his theory and if he can show
that song and verse makes better fight
ers of his sailors minstrelry will be an
official profession recognized by every
navy. In that case the name of Yam
Nihor will be given a place of honor up-
on the pages of history and the songs Of
the sea will become a literature in them
selves.
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Minstrel For French ArmV

Are songs to take the place of grog
in the navies of the future? Are the bat
ties of the next century to be won by men
whose patriotism has been aroused by
the rhythm and melody born in the
brains OF official minstrels? 1t is said that
the one great fault of the Spanish navy
was that the human fighting machines
who made up that body had no heart to
work.
AS the result the enthusiastic pa
triots who sailed beneath the Stars and
Stripes made short work of them. There
must be some truth in this theory for
1t has been accepted without question
py some OF the greatest naval officials
OF the world and in France the new min
lister OF marine has thought so well of
the suggestion that he has adopted tie
plan for the navy of thai country.
In the future. therefore, the men who
SAL the seas beneath the flag of France
Will be accompanied by Il poet-singer.
Who,like the bards of old, will compos1
both verse and melody of the songs with
which he will entertain and cheer them
during the hours of leisure.
strange as this innovation may seem
to such a practical human being as the
average American those Who are re-
sponsible for the do ton of the custom
are confident that they have made no
mistake. Already the official minstrel
has won the hearts of the French seamen
to whom he has sung and there has been
SO much improvement in the service since
his appointment that the naval authors
ties are already looking for other men
in whom the Gift of poetry and music
have been happily mated in a brain so
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average home milliner is honest and re-
sourceful, and is fully entitled to the
hints and helps she gets from the sellers
of ~untrinmed shapes and from the null
tiplication of made bows and hats that
need but a few g%arnishing touches.
The deepest pitfall in the path of the
amateur milliner this autumn is the mes
sfness of prevailing styles. Amateur mill
liners tend to messiness. end when the
professionals lean that way also. the re-
suit is something. to admire-"wonder
at is the original meaning.
In their search for the picturesque, the
new hats are piled so high and swathea
SO deep with superfuous ornaments that
all the symmetry of the head and figure
is lost in these monuments of misdirected
industry. P~egsy-say your worst of her
has taste. and the chances are she stole
twice as many hours of the amiable but
unhappy salewoman's time as might
otherwise ave satisfied her, because in
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VELVET AMI BRAID.

Paris is the center to which all the
world ooks for its fashions and the mod
istes of that city have given US a new
winter dress trimming which consists Of
a conSruous association of silk braid and
velvet. The decoration is limited to GER
tain Materials. however, being employed
only upon those with a smooth surface.
Among the new drap d'ete fabrics is
cloth weight Henrietta, which is much
heavier than ordinary Henrietta; and
though more expensive. comes in widths
aggregating a yard and a half.
A French mode OF this fabric, in au-
tomobile red, had a habit skirt trimmed
in yoke effect with black silk braid. Be
low the yoke were bands Of velvet in two
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CHINESE

London Globe: AS the Chinese lam
guaae is not alphabetic and as each
word in it is represented by a special
character, none of the telegraphic sys-
TENS generally in use can be employed
in China Tusually each character is
represented by a ulnber, and it is this
number which has never more than four
figures, that is transmitted.
To bring about this result a code of 40
| pages has been established, each page
having 10 columns of 90 characters, ~
that $500 characters are disopsed of, all
the words commonly used are inserted
and a few places are kept blank for new
ones.
When a dispatch is to be sent an en-
ploye translates it into figures, and at the
receiving station an inverse operation
| puts it back into Chinese characters.
OF course this is rather a long process,
but it is simply necessary to employ
enough persons, and in China the educat-
ed unemployed are numerous.
An obstacle in the way of the devel-
opment of telegraphy in China is the
Partially which the people display for
anneXing the telegraph poles. which
furnish excellent tirewood. The wires
are found useful for many purposes.
The authorities are slow to adopt re-
preesiVe measures, but when they do a3t
they reach excellent results very quick
ly: the excessive severity of the penal
code in China gives them an opportunity.
The following anecdote is told of an
event in the environs of Shanghai: The
lines there We're continually destroyed.
che taotai. who was in f~recIent rJsa-
tions with the Europeans and had be-
come tired Of hearing their complaints,
declared simply that for each post pulled
down a head should be cut off among
those of the inhabitants who lived in the
vicinity.
As DEGREES of this kind are executed
VERY literally in China the result was
tha III spite Of the fa:atistic spirit of
the th.nzsa and their Indifference to
death, thu posts in thai particular neigh
boThcoa We're afterUard left severely
alone
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siderable size, and along WITH them are
shown odd French bonnets. ; The poke
of the season is a somewhat short-back.
ed scoop shape, and is suited only 10 Ma
donna faces. 1t is often trimnaa al. in
congruously, with rolicking b9aChos Of
feathers.
While the large to4ue with roli5n" ilrim
of velvet comes neara" than AT. Uthsr
to being the prevailing mode. as a41a&o
invariably becoming to pretty il2iE, he
small, close-iraned velvet tocUH, 'Torn
over the face, is also a favorite to accom-
pany tailor dress. It is trimmed 18th
stitched bands cf cloth OF sii&, ami a
bird or an airy butterfly is aid.i for
garnitu"e.
Kid hats in brilliant c0lors-Wfite, tan
or scarlet-are other idols Of the tailor
made girl; they have brilns of white,
stitched kid and are faced with back
velvet.
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benS and Toreadors. The WAGNER is ,
nat with rather a wide. spreading crown
rather high, the Welsh crown, the mush-
room crown and the side-tiltea brims are
seen.
Peggy's hat-she has reacal,ed her pro-
phecy that it would not be trimmed be-
fore evening-has just been brought to
me. 1t has rather a picturesquely bent
brlm, curving down a trite on the sides,
and is OF black velvet, With a soft, bowl
shaped, sWathing crown. Two glorious
gray ostrich pluines are arranged on one
side, and are caught in front by a large
steel buckle. which also confines some
puffy bows of black velvet. There is
absolutely no other thinning except
some black ribbon knots behind, against
the hair, but | agree With Peggy that she
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constituted that it can think only of

constituted that it can think only of
sailors hopes and sailors fears.
OF course it is not easy to find such
men but as soon as they can be found
they will be engaged and it is beiived
that it will not be long before A.ary
ss.adron of the French navy will have
its official singer. At present the only
minstrel is attached to the Mediter-
ranean fleet but the Atlantic and the Pa
cific scuadrons are to hav their own
singer as soon as possible.
The man who has the distinction of
being the FIRST official minstrel to the
navy that world has ever known is Yam
Nibor, a Breton sailor. whose natural
adaptabiiity for such a position Instant
ly appealed to NJ. Lockroy. That min
lister is one of those who believes that
SPANS failure on the seas was due to
the half-hearted work of her marines
and he was not slow TO see the same fault
in his own men. During his first trip
of inspection he noticed that they had no
heart for their work.
Something must be done" he said.
cor they will fail us at the time of need.
What they require is excitement. Not
the excitement that might be caused by
grog. Grog is bad 70, them ana they
must not have too much OF II. It makes
them heavy and what they need is some
thing to make their hearts light. They
want inspiration and'-one might i'm
agine that such an idea manate in the
brain of a Lockroy, Lockroy, the son of
an actor, Lockroy, the ~son-in-laW of Vic
tor Hugo-"I will send them a poet"
So instead of a dozen extra barrels OF
grog the new minister sent them Yam
Nibor and, while there was grumbling
at first, to-day the men of the Mediter-
ranean fleet would not exchange their
eaunt poet-singer for all the grog that
the national treasury cauld purchase.
Yam is a huge creature, nearer seven
foot high than six and great muscles
stand out in knots all over his body. He
was born in the old Corsair town of Saint
Nalo more than forty years ago for thirty
years he has followed the sea, first be-
cause he loved it and second, because it
was the most natural way for him to
make a living. His great-grand-father
Michael Robin. was the son of a seaman
and his life was made uD of battles on
the sea. Several times he was taken
prisoner. once he was to have been exc
cuted but he escaped with his life to
Boston and returned 20 France oi an
American vessel to do battle for his
country again.
1ann's grandfather was a seaman and
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has not had anything SO artistically per-
fect-for her-in many years.
Other large hats, easily trimmed at
nome but not recommended except for
picduant faces sure of their becomingness
nave wide velvet brims and Tam O'Shan-
ter Browns. made Of bandana velvet
handkerchiefs or else of soft surah silk
or Oriental satin b~andannas. Whole
toaues are made of these handkerchief
50 knotted as to leave coGuettish. ear
like ends sticking up at the sides, How
ever pretty in it's Inception, a fashion
like his is almost certain TO become v.i-
CARRIED.
DHaned turbars in plain and fancy VEL
vets an be managed by clever women
and will have a good run until spring.
Turbans, as we'll as tonues, are of con-
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her marauding expedition she found her
self confronted by mares nests of velves
and feathers that would have made her
forget her own name long before she
thought of induiring their prices.
Nevertheless the beautiful hat exists.
and with such notifications as con-
science may suggest. Peggy's system is
correct: the beautiful hat and the fash
ionable hat is, for every woman, the hat
that is becoming.
First as to shape. The most distin-
guished hats Of the season are without
doubt the large directoire and cabriolet
hats with strings. 10 women of many
and many ages these shapes are
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Miss COOdVilSFaSDiOl Letter
WINTER HATS AND HOW TO MAKE THEM. WITH A FEW H1NTsoN THE
ART OF COMBINING COLORs AND MATERIALS.

New York, Oct. 27.-Peggy was telling
me this morning about her winter hat.
She said:
1T is the most delicious thing l ever
wore. I took with me a comb and brush,
and all my different side combs. | picked
out the best saleswolnan-that tall. SLIM,
dark girl, and you know, that has so
much patience; and made her find me a
comfortable seat in the quietest little
showroom.
Then l had her bring me hats. 1
don't know how many I tried on. l be-
lieve there We're twenty-three different
shapes, and l tried them all without trim
ming. and then two or three of each
trimmed. OF course there We're cheval
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shape ben and wired just like the one I
liked best. and bought my own mater
ials."
| am used to Peggy's ways of reason
Ing, and, / make no comment on them.
l have another friend, Who-not being
able to turn milliner-takes the owner
of a little neighborhood shop with her to
one or two of the most elaborate open
ings,' picks out the Paris CONNECTION that
suits her, and has it copied by the small
neighborhood hat-trimmer aforesaid at
about one-fourth the price, on an average
OF the imported creation.
The soaring prices of millinery are
largely accounted for by these and other
curious feminine devices: and yet the
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sessed by almost no other trimming. An
expenditure sufficient to secure really
good ostrich feathers results in the pos
session of ornaments, not permanent in
the sense that lace is permanent. but
certain to do duty for many seasons in
many different ways. The new shad-
oW plumes showing bright tints below
and the natural hues above, are welcome
novelties to those who are tired of the
standard blacks, whites and grays.
Marie Antoinette hats have moi gone
out, any more than G~ainsberoupbs Ru-
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widths. At the foot the yelvet trimming
Was repeated but between the bands was
an applique of braid.
The bodice had a bolero effect outlined
With the velvet bands which We're piped
with tiny folds of the dress goods. 1t was
also trimmed with the braid.
A small automobile red velvet toque
completed the costume, trimmed W it'll an
immaculate white plume which emery
ed from under the briin and waved
j%auntily in the front.
HELEN-GREY PAGE.
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glasses and hand mirrors and first we
had them down. l made her get me all
the new styles of wells to trv with them,
and"
with the window shades?' 1 sked.
Yes, Of course: I tried the wells and
the hats with as much light as possible.
and with as little. And the girl was
SO nice. She helped me with my hair.
I had to see the best shapes with my
hair low and with it high. l never was
so tired, but it paid"
You got a hat that suited you:"
"Perfectly: I shall never trade any
where else: they do have the best styles"
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May I see the hate l
why, yes, tomorrow; l shan't make
it until this evening""
You won't make it? But / thought
Really. Ellen. you are the most stu
pid-You hadn't an idea hat / meant
to pay SO for an imported hat. when l
have my winter hat and all the child
ren's dresses to see to? ! always trim
my own hats, but how am I to know
what to get unless l go and see the
styles? OF course those girls are hired
to show things. To be sure l did take
her whole morning"
And afterwards-'
And afterwards I went to Blanks
they are cheaper, you know-ana got a
The daily sentinel., 1899-01-13
New York In xndsl A. II.

How the people will live in 1000 A. d.
it is Impossible to guess, but it is not
likely that they will live in the closely
huddled habitations of the present day.
The indications are these: The tene-
ment house will be unknown. and no
man, rich or poor. will live in house of
which every room does not open freely
to the outer air. The present tendency
TO aggregation and conglomeraiion will
lead to heaven knows what method of
free. easy and cheap transportation. He
would be a bold man who. recalling the
short interval of time between the days
of the ubiquitous omnibus and the rapid
unpleasant trolley car of to-day, would
venture to predict what will be our
means OF. urban travel. A quarter of
century ago no one would have be-
lieved that old and young, rich and
poor, would be flying about our streets
and over our country roads on rubber
tired bicycles. 1t would have been as
absurd to predict then what we are now
so familiar with as to predict now that
there will be some safe and universal
method of aerial or subterranean mode
of conveyance.-Munici Affairs.
The daily sentinel., 1899-01-13
HE'S A LOBSTER
An Expression Now Popular That
Originated In Jersey's ALI
Winter Race Tracks.

The expression "he's lobster" which
has become SO general in colloquial use
about town as to convey "A clear. cut
message of contempt or derision, has
a somewhat peculiar origin, says the
New York Sun. There is nothing about
lobster, which the elder Dumas. it
may be recalled. described as 1.-The car
dinal of the sea-" to invite derision;
but few years ago when all winter
racing was a customary thing in the
vicinity of New York, especially in
neighboring New Jersey. IA mud horse
that failed to realize the expectations
OF those who bet money upon it was
called lobster" an allusion to its
mode of progression. Horses which had
been generally defeated were lobster
horses. and as this colloquial express
sion got to be more general in use on
IKE race tracks, it began to be applied
not only to horses but to men and
things as well. A lobster car was car
that made slow time; a lobster boat
was boat in which rapid time could
not be expected. A lobster calculator
was "A man who took too long, in the
judgment of his critics, to add up an
account. and so gradually the name lob
ster has come to be accepted as desig
nation of sloth or inferiority and "he's
a lobster" has come to be regarded as
phrase of disapproval.