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The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1899-09-23
WHEN THERE,LL BE NO DARE.
4 Prediction That In $50 All Work
Will Be Done at Night By
Electric Light.

"Within the next 80 years." said .
New Orleans architect, 'the people of
this and every other large southern
.ity will do most of their sleeping by
day. The transformation will be eff
fected by cheap lights. Inside of the
next half century lighting will be so
inexpensive, so excellent and so abun-
dant that it will wipe out the demarka-
lions of day and night. Darkness is
one of the forces of nature against
which civilization wages var 1t facili-
tates crime, it impedes travel, it puts
arbitrary limits on human exertion.
The time is coming when darkness will
be thoroughly conquered, and the great
cities flooded from end to end with
an effulgence hat will make every vo-
cation of life as easy and as practicable
at one hour as another. In this lati-
tude night is undoubtedly the best
time to work-especially during our
long m The temperature from
sunset to sunrise is cool and equable,
there is almost always a refreshing
breeze, and as soon as darkness is abol-
ished the people will gradually and
naturally reverse their hours of toll.
I venture the prediction that noon in
1850 will see the streets of New Or
leans deserted, except for a few mid
day roisterers and policemen with sun
shades. Respectable folks will be ahed
and asleep, enjoying that delightful re-
pose which we now associate with an
afternoon ~siesta, something, by the
way, that should have long ago given
US a tip that day was the proper time
for rest. Then, when the wonderful
incandescents of the future blaze forth
at dusk. everybody will arise invig-
GRATED and alert, and get ready to begin
the nights work. 1t is a beautiful vi
sion. Whenever 1 conjure it up l could
weep for vexation TO think that 1 was
horn a century too soon."-N. o. Times
Democrat.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1899-09-23
HE PRIZED DEWEY MEDAL.
Jack Tar Promptly Knocked Down .
Who offered
Him 800 for 1t.

The treasury department has been
notified unofficially of an interesting
Incident, which may be the subject of
a department inquiry, as it involves an
employee of the revenue cutter service.
Three of the sailors who served on the
cutter McCulloch in the battle of Ma
Mia bay are now attached to the cutter
Algonquin, temporarily stationed at
Baltimore. Each received one of the
handsome bronze medals voted by con-
gress to those who participated in the
memorable battle. One of these sailors,
whose name has not yet been ascer-
tanned, while enjoying shore leave in
Baltimore the other evening was APP
preached by an unknown nan who in
CURED what kind of a medal the sailor
was wearing.
"That's a Dewey medal" was the
proud reply.
The stranger examined the token
with enhanced interest. "I1l give you
500 for it," he said.
The response was Unexpectedly
prompt and forcible. The sailor shot a
swift blow straight from the shoulder.
catching the stranger square in the
face and knocking him across the pave
ment against the house, where he fell
in a heap. AS he was gathering himself
together a policeman hurried up and
was about to take the pugilistic tar into
custody, when the sailor volunteered an
explanation of the circumstances lead
ing up to the blow. When he stated the
facts the guardian of the peace was al
most as indignant as the owner of the
medal. Turning to the stranger. who
was nursing his battered face, the po-
liceman expressed the opinion that it
served him right, and if he did not move
he would run him in.-Washington Cor.
N. Y. Sun.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1899-09-23
which Wa. the Bigamist.

A prominent resident of Chicago spending
his summer holidays in the eastern PROV
inces dedicated to the memory of the IA
nous men and women who formed them:
selves into the philosophie workers and
dreamers of Brook Farm encountered IN
the residence of Emerson two other promi-
nent residents of the city on Lake Michi-
gan, both of them judges Of note akd both
living on the West side. The two jurists
were accompanied by three attractive ladies'
unknown to the solitary prominent resident
who first claimed attention, and after an
interval of exclamation and greeting one OF
the judges turned and with a sweeping ges-
ture introduced the ladies': NJ Dashs
these are our wives."-Chicago Chronicle.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1899-09-23
with Woe.

The gentleman with the red, red nose got
aboard the trolley car, which, by some mis-
chance, had stopped for a moment.
The silence was intense.
The little boy looked at the man with the
nose.
And the little boy didn't ask his father
anything.
"Merciful heaveni" muttered the fond
parent, Il am the father of a freak!'-In-
dianapolis Journal.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1899-09-23
Home seekers' Excavations vsa SDto
Eour Roate.0

To the North, West, Northwest, South
west. South and Southeast. Selling dates:
August 18th, September 9Th and 18th; ana
on October Sd and 18th, 1899, at one fare,
plus $500 to authorized points in the foi-
sas. British Columbia, Colorado, Florida,
Georgia, Iowa, Indian Territory, Idaho,
Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana. Michigan,
Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana,
Manitoba, New Mexico, Nebraska, North
Carolina, North Dakota, Oregon, Okla
homa, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas,
Utah, Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming.
Washington. For full information and par.
stop.over privileges, etc, call on Agents
"Big -Four Route" or address the under
signed. W. P. Deppe, A G. F, + 7. Agt.
Warren J.. Lynch, Gen. Pass. & Tkt. Agts
Cincinnati, o.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1899-09-23

81 never was SO mortified in my life"
said Cholly, in speaking of it next day.
"After / had got on the elevated train
1 found 1 had put on a pair of tan shoes
a shade lighter than nv gloves."-Chi.
ea2o Tribune
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1899-09-23

Teacher-"What do you know aboae
jonah" Scholar-"He was the first man
to take a trip in the vicinity of the oil re-
gion."-Yonkers Statesman.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1899-09-23

81 cannot understand re language" said
the despairing Fenchman. Il know how
to pronounce re word t~hydrophobia,' and
zen l learn Eat re doctors sometimes pro-
tAounce it fatal."-N. 0. Tines Democrat.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1899-09-23

Pi.o's Cure for Consumption is an A No.
l Asthma medicine.-W. r. Williams, An
tioch, ILL.,, April ii, 1894.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1899-09-23
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 25 and Soc.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1899-09-23

The Rest Prescription for Chills
and Fever is a bottle of GROVES TAsTELEss
CHILL Tonic. Its simply iron and quiniT Elm
atasteless form. No cure no pay. Price SOC.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1899-09-23

In her apologies to her husband, a WON.
an lays the blame of her fault on either her
affections or her nerves.-Atchison Globe.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1899-09-23

Money talks-and poverty has Q way Of
telling.IChicago Daily News.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1899-09-23

"Hello," exclaimed the fsh. "Here to
stay" NO." replied the worm; Il just
dropped in for . bite" - PhiladelphI
Record.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1899-09-23

Some men work hardest trying to accom-.
plish useless things.-Chicago Daily News.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1899-09-23

To Cure q Cold In Ono Day
Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. AL
druggists refund money if it fails to cure. 25c.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1899-09-23
Dreyfus' Probable Course.

Paris, Sept. I'm. de Blowitz, tho
well-known correspondent. says that
Capt. Dreyfus will shortly withdraw
his appeal for a revision of the Rennes
trial, which will leave the ground clear
for the government TO take immediate
steps to pardon him.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1899-09-23

Men are men; the best sometimes forget.
Shakespeare.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1899-09-23

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The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1899-09-23

"Now,is there any practical remedy that
this conference can Sugscst that can be
put in force tomorrow by any legislature
hat happens to be in session? My friends.
it seems to ne to be a very simple matter
The remedy is simply to define a prac'1cai
for publicity and provide the proper stat
ute of publicity, and you need not en-
force the penalty. An officer of a cor
poration granting n special favor to any
person who has a right 10 use that pos
session on equal terms with everybody
else. ought to be held guilty of a serious
felony. t~ApplauseD
No fines, no judicial rebukes, no de-
nunciation from platforms, no legislative
enactment declaring things are reprehen-
sive will touch the subject, but a specific
anV one NOT showed DIV he Others 10 =
felony. and proper means to punish 1t will
DO something toward checking it. 1t is a
crime OF the first magnitude. The public
The San Francisco call., 1899-08-03
DIR. LYNCH LAID TO REST.

DR.. Oscar Gilbert Lynch, the young in
terne at the City and County Hospital who
died Sunday morning from typhoid fever
contracted at the hospital, was buried
yesterday from the residence of his
brother-in-law, DR.. 7. 1. Mahoney, 1903
Polk street.
Dr. Lynch was graduate of the Cooper
Medical College of the '9S class and was
assigned as an inferno to the City and
County Hospital Immediately after his
graduation. While at the hospital he en-
deared himself not only to his medical
associates but to all who came in con-
tact with him. He contracted typhoid
fever about twenty-six days ago, and al
though receiving the united attention Of
Dr. Thomas ]. Crowley the assistant resi-
dent physician, and Inferno DR.. Arthur M.
Smith who succeeds him as inferno, he
succumbed to the disease and closed mis-
professional career regretted by the mem
bers of his class and a wide circle of &C
uuaintances. DR.. Lynch was the son of
Dr. Gilbert Lynch of London, England
and son-in-law of William P. Pyne of Los
Gatos, whose daughter he married a short
time previous to his death. At the time
of his passing away he was twenty-four
wears old A requiem high mass was cele-
brated at st. Brigid's Church yesterday
morning, after which his remains were
borne to their last resting-place at Mount
Calvary Cemetery.
The San Francisco call., 1899-08-03
A CHRISTIAN HOME FOR
UNIVERSITY WOMEN

BERKELEY, Aug. 2.-The old Hoffman
house at 1922 Shattuck avenue, formerly
occupied by the Delta Kappa Epselon
Fraternity, is to be turned over this year
into a home for women students who are
members of the University of California
Young Womans Christian Association.
This move has been under consideration
for some time past and it will be tried this
year as an experiment. The house will
be under the care of Mrs. F. H. Robin
son, wife of the Rev. F. H. Robinson,
pastor of the Westminster Presbyterian
Church in West Berkeley. 1t will be
opened as home to all women who be-
long to the Christian Association, the un-
derstanding being that 1t is to serve as
the HEADQUARTERS for all the receptions 9ti
work The charge for board has been
placed at d nominal figure.
Miss E. NJ Bunnell. president of the Y.
w. c. A. in an interview to-day, said
that before long the women hoped to
and used by themselves exclusively. If
the experiment this year proves success
ful steps will at once be taken to bring it
about.
The San Francisco call., 1899-08-03
SON AGAINST MOTHER.

OAKLAND, Aug. 2-There promises to
be an exceedingly interesting contest over
the property of John Krytser, located at
Eighth and Union streets. John Krytser
is an incompetent, and to-day Judge
Greene appointed a son, Charles Krytser,
as guardian. Late this afternoon the lat
ter filed suit in the Superior Court against
his mother, Elizabeth Krytser, whereby
he seeks to have Cancelled and annuled
deed of the property. In his complaint
the son and guardian ad litem alleges that
his father for the past year, has been in
ill-health, and that on or about July Is,
1897, Elizabeth Krytser, for the purpose of
wrongfully depriving John krytser Of his
property, and well knowing his feeble
Condition and that he was mentally in
competent to manage his property and to
transact his business, by threats and per-
suasions fraudulently induced and coerced
John Krytser to execute a deed of the
property to her, and which was recorded
on the same day"
The guardian alleges that there was no
consideration paid for said deed, but 1t
purports to be upon consideration of love
and affection.
The San Francisco call., 1899-08-03

day to recover the possession of a pair
of diamond earrings, valued at $125, which
she alleges are in the Nevada Loan Or
flee, 214 Grant avenue.
Shortly before Judge Campbells death
James Heating, a well-known thief a9d
husband of Mabel Heating, the pick
pocket, called at the Judges residence to
get bond signed for a friend. Mrs
Campbell had lost one of the stones from
her diamond earrings and Heating nap
pened to observe it on the floor and pick
ed it up without saying a word. SHORTY
after he went to the Judge and told MIN
that he knew who had found the missing
stone and if Mrs. Campbell would give
him her earrings he would get a new
stone put in the setting and make her
present of it. He got the earrings ana
pawned them. After the Judges death
Mrs Campbell attempted to get the ear
rings back from Keating without success,
and Campbells subsequent death put an
end to the matter. -
riDps are In the Nevada Loan Office ana
wants to regain possession of them
The San Francisco call., 1899-08-03
TREADWELL REFUSES
TO LOWER THE BAIL
JUDGE IS TOO ILL TO TRY
"BRICK" MCPHERSON.

Hearings in the cases against Brick
Mcpherson, Thomas J. Clisham and E. n.
Smoot were postponed again yesterday
afternoon, Police Judge Treadweu an
nouncing from the bench that he was too
III to hold court.
Clisham was present with his attorney,
Arthur Mack. SmOOt was also in court,
Thomas Madden representing him as le-
gal adviser. Brick" Mcpherson did not
put in an appearance, his attorneys,
Harvey Brown and J. n. f. Wilson. acting
IN his stead. Mr.. and Mrs. William w.
Carroll, who claim to have been victim
lied by Clisham and Smoot, and Isaac n.
Thorne, who preferred the charge against
Mcpherson occupied front seats.
on taking his seat shortly after 2
o'clock Judge Treadweil announced that
by reason of serious illness induced by
the ill-smelling courtroom in which he
had been compelled to transact business
he would be unable to go on with the
hearings He said ne did not know when
he would be able TO set the cases.
Attorney Wilson said he was satisfied
that when the court heard the case
against Mcpherson as a matter of law
he would be ready to dismiss it.
why don't you get some other Judge
to try it?'
We're anxious for trial" replied Will
son. and ought to have this examina-
ton at once. There ought to be some
order made whereby we could get Nc
PhersOn out on bail
If I sit here another half hour" said
the court, you'd be talking to dead
man."
On motion of Prosecuting Attorney Car
penter and al the suggestion Of the court
the Mcpherson case went over till Friday,
with the understanding that some other
Judge should be secured to try it.
win your Honor" asked Wilson, ad-
dressing the court, reduce that Nc
Pherson bond to a thousand dollars?"
Il can't do it, replied the court. II
made that order"
made a statement TO the effect that he
understood the prosecution was willing
TO dismiss, the only intention being to
hold him as a witness. On that plea he
asked that the charge against his client
be dismissed promising to have him on
hand when needed.
Prosecuting Attorney Carpenter stated
that the understanding of Mr.. Mack was
incorrect, whereupon the court ordered a
postponement in the Clisham and Smoot
cases till Friday.
The San Francisco call., 1899-08-03
MARRIAGES Of
CHILDREN END
WITH SORROW
Little Laura Graham
Is Now Free.
Welded FOUR MONTHS AGO
BUT FIFTEEN WHEN SHE WAS
LED TO THE ALTAR.
Another Wife Who Was Married as
a Child Must Produce More Evi-
dence Before Being
Given a Decree.
Oakland Office San Francisco Call,

SUo bTOduWdy, &. Il
Two wives, who married at the romantic
age of 10, have sought the aid of the di-
vorce court to set them free.
Laura j. Graham has been granted a
divorce after about four months of mar
ried life. In the early part Of the pres
ent year she met Graham, and after an
acquaintance of two weeks they were
married. She was but girl of Is years.
and knew nothing Of the world or OF the
responsibilities of housekeeping. Her
dream of happiness soon vanished. For
one week after her marriage she and her
husband lived together pleasantly. Dur
ing the next week they began to quar-
rel, and after seven weeks of living un-
der the same roof the little girl went
back to her mother and told her that she
was tired of married life.
The child recited many instances Of be-
havior on the part of her husband that
appeared to be almost cruel Apparently
his love for the child died out as fast as
that of the young wife's, for at the end
of two months he was quite willing that
somebody else should keep her and that
she should apply for a divorce. He de-
clined to support her or supply her with
a home, and three months after the we'd
ding an application for divorce was filed,
anI now Laura is at liberty to try mat
rimony again.
Mrs Francis Clafin, a very handsome
young woman, was married some years
ago when she also was a young girl. For
a few years affairs were compare lively
smooth in their home in Massachusetts,
but when she arrived at the age when
young women are generally supposed to
be turning their thoughts to matrimony,
conditions were so unpleasant that she
was forced to leave her husband. Jeal-
ousy was the great difficulty, and Claf1in
tried to school his wife in the belief that
her proper place was pre-eminently the
kitchen, and that parlors. drawing rooms
bands and their friends, but not for a
wife. This behavior drove Mrs. Claf1in
from home. and after residing in Oakland
some years she told her troubles to the
court. AS she left her husband and there
is no proof that he is not willing to pro-
vide her a home, and as Mrs. Clafin al
legged desertion and failure to provide as
reasons for being granted a divorce, the
court has seen fit to delay the issuance
of the decree until such time as she can
produce more positive evidence that the
separation was the fault of her husband.
The San Francisco call., 1899-08-03
SAYS JEALOUS
WIFE TRIED TO
SHOOT HIM
Morgan Spears Files
Suit for Divorce.
HAD TO SEEK ANOTHER HOME
ORDERED HIM AWAY AT POINT
OF A PISTOL.
Nettie J. Spears of Sanger, Fresno
County, Is the Defendant in a
Rather Sensational
Divorce Suit.
HAD TO SEEK ANOTHER HOME
ORDERED HIM AWAY AT POINT
OF A PISTOL.
Oakland Office San Francisco Call.
A


90S Broadway, Aug. q
Morgan c. Spears, an employe of the
Oakland Transit Company, filed rather
sensational divorce suit against his wife,
Nettie J. Spears, in the Superior Court
this afternoon, charging her with cruelty
and desertion.
Back of the simple statutory grounds
given in the complaint, however, are alle-
cations of an experience that might easily
have terminated in his untimely death.
The plaintiff husband charges that his
cruel spouse during November, 1895, in the
city of Fresno, drew pistol on him dur
ing a fit of extreme jealousy and pulled
the trigger, after ordering him to seek
home elsewhere, but the weapon missed
fire.
II am not an expert at lodging bullets
says the suing husband, "and though l
thought I might avoid a row she pulled
the trigger before I was aware of it.
Luckily l escaped, and l have never re-
turned to her since.
THE defendant has a hasty. violent
temper" continues Mr.. Spears in his COM
plant "and an intensely jealous dispos1-
ton; and she has, though without cause
or provocation, become very jealous of
plaintiff in regard TO his attentions to
other women. Since he left home she has
at various times and within few months
written letters TO him accusing him or De-
ing untrue.
HThe plaintiff believes that she still en-
tertains a like feeling toward him.. and
that If he were to live with her again ne
would be in imminent danger of violence
and great bodily injury at her hands
Spears alleges also that his wife ire
uuently, in the presence of their four chill
dren. accused him of having improper re-
lations with divers women at Sanger,
where Mrs Spears resides.
Though Mrs Spears version of the mat
rimonial tribulations and differences of
their household has not been heard 1t is
understood she will appear to contest the
suit most bitterly.