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The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1900-11-03
SCHOOL N R

A returned missionary says that the
Chinese emperor, in giving out an or
der for 129 books some time ago, Sc
lected 81 that dealt with the Christian
religion.
The youngest of all professors al
the University of Germany is DR.,
Siegfried Rietschel. who was recent.
ly appointed to a chair in the law
department at Tubingen. He is only
10 years old.
President Charles Kendall Adams,
of the University of Wisconsin, will
temporarily retire on half-pay and
travel in the Mediterranean to re.
cover his health, which has been bad
for two years.
In the chapel of the Marble Col
legiate church, New York, Rev. Don.
aid MacDougall, a native of the Scotch
Highlands. who was educated at Yale
and Princeton, conducts a service in
Gaelic every Sunday afternoon.
Rev. William LennoX Mills, who has
just been elected coadjutor bishop
of Ontario. Canada. was born in
Woodstock, Ont, and was educated
at Trinity university, Toronto. He
has been for many years a pronounced
figure among the Anglican clergy of
Montreal.
\ remarkable instance of faithful
pastoral service is that of Rev. Sher-
man ID. Taylor. of South New Lyme,
o.. who at the late meeting of Cleve-
land presbytery was, at his own re-
quest, honorably retired from the
ministry at the age of sc, after ear
ly GO years of service.
Syracuse university has adopted the
plan of placing scholarships in the
high schools of her p%atronizing terri
tory. These scholarships represent
the gift of $1,000 or S1.5OO. This
money is to be collected of friends in
the community where the high school
is located. 1t is hoped TO establish
500 OF more of these scholarships in
New York state and bordering states.
Max S~choenfeld, a former Philadel-
phian but now a resident of Ror-
schach, Switzerland, has given S10,-
600 to the national farm school at
Doylestown, Pa, to be used in the
purchase of farms, which are to be
rented 10 graduates of the school.
thereby giving them an opportunity
of practically demonstrating the val
ne of the instruction they have re-
ceived and the capability of the He
brew youth to support himself by
means of agriculture.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1900-11-03

feeling himself strong, even in his
weakness.
"As to feeding a sick husband, I
don't think there is a bigger mistake
than to poster him with requests as
to what he would like, to wall at his
loss of appetite and to get up I'M
tempting invalid dishes. Men are So
ciable creatures, and if John is taking
any solid food at all l dine and lunch
and tea and breakfast with him. If
| eat with him he doesn't feel as if he
were being dieted, and. to tell you the
truth, barring n few really injurious
things that the doctor may put on the
menu eNpurgatorious, l always feed
my sick mar on the best and most
various the market can afford. We've
had some really jolly meals on the
counterpart.
The last and most precious sacri-
fee a wife can make to her i'll or con-
valescing lord is to yield her point in
argument. Now. l don't mean a high
and noble fortitude when he grows
%absurdly angry over some foolish
trife, or a panied Christian silence
when he contradicts or stiffens him
self to refuse his medicine. That at
titude i%rritates, but l mean when he
takes some strange but harmless no
ton in his head. contrive if possible to
let him have his way, and when any
thing must be talked over yield to him
the rich and rare delight of accepting
his view. Yield slowly, for he will
want to thoroughly enjoy the sweets
of victory, but yield nevertheless, and
in after days you can resume your old,
original, obstinate position, and he
won't contest it with you"
Its a pity" remarked Miss Emily
Lonely, as the lunch gong roared
through the hall, that you couldn't
give some of that really sensible ad-
vice of yours to our little friend out
there moping so tearfully under the
lawn tent"
"Oh, she will find it out by and by"
assured Mrs. j. NJ. Bliss, rising with
hungry alacrity. There is no school
for sharpening woman's wits like join.
ing the big class in matrimony."-
Globe-Democrat.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1900-11-03
HOW LINCOLN HUSKED CORN.
He and His Mates Got Up an Appetite
by Work of Exceedingly
Nature.

In the big cornfields of the west it is
the custom to husk in the fields and
from the standing stalk. Some of the
the big wagons that bring the corn
from the field hold from so to IS bush
els of ears. On one side of these wagons
is a high "fanger board" which en-
ables the man working beside the wag-
on to throw the husked ears in with
out looking up. The horses walk
astride one row, bending it beneath the
axle. This is called the down row.
and invariably set aside as the boys
row." Hamlin Garland in his Boy Life
on the Prairie" tells how his hero, Lin
coin, Jared at the husking season.
Lincoln took the down row, while
Jack husked two rows on the left of
the wagon. The horses were started
and stopped by the voice alone, and
there was always a great deal of sound
and fury in the process. At first this
work was not devoid of charm. The
mornings were frosty, but clear, and
the sun soon warmed the world; but as
the days passed the boys hands became
chapped and sore. Great painful seams
developed between the thumb and fore
finger, the nails wore to the quick and
the balls of each finger became tender
as boils.
The leaves of the corn, seaselessly
whipped by the powerful winds. grew
ragged. and the stalks fell, increasing
the number of ears for which the husk-
er was forced to stoop. The u rose
later each day and took longer to warm
the air. At times he failed to show his
face all day and the frost hung on till
nearly
Husking gloves became a necessity,
but this by no means preserved the
hands. The rains came and fiurries of
snow; the gloves, wet and muddy,
shrank at night and in the morning
were as hard as IRON. They soon wore
out at the ends, where the fingers were
sorest.
To husk so or 100 bushels of corn dur
ing one of the short days of November
means making every motion count
Every morning long before daylight
Lincoln stumbled out of bed and
dressed with numb and swollen fingers
which almost refused to turn a button.
The frost was white on everything and
made the boy SILVER as he thought of
the thousands of icy ears he must husk
during the day.
Sore as his hands were, he had his
cows to milk before he could return to
breakfast, which consisted of home
made sausages-"saussingers," the
boys called them-and buckwheat pam
cakes.
You won't get anything more until
noon, boys" said Mr.. Stewart, warn
ingly, $50 fill up"
Mrs. Stewart Topped the big. brown
steaming disks into their plates two or
three at a time, and over them each
man and boy poured some of the deli
cious fat from the sausages. cut them
into strips, and. having rolled the strips
into wads, filled his stomach as a hunt.
er loads a gun.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1900-11-03
HUMOROUS.

Il hear Bond IS up a tree" "Yes
the bulls got after him."-Town Top.
les.
81 can't sleep these days" "Hov
is that?" Il sleep at night" = St
Louis Republic.
Bessie-"Harry tells me all he
knows" Flo-"Indeed! Isn't the 81.
lence dreadfully oppressive? - Glas.
gov Evening Times.
do you believe that one man can
love two women at the same time?"
'Yes; if neither of them notices it,"
-Unsere ~Gesellschaft.
"Would you run away" asked Will
lie Washington. eff 1 was to kiss you?'
"Do you mean elope?f whispered Miss
Sweetlips, shyly.-Town Topics.
II could never be a detective" why
Is that?" Il have been vaccinated."
"What has vaccination to do with
your being a detective?" Il couldn't
catch anything."-St. Louis Republic.
Dumleigh-"Hector is trying to be
funny about my poem because ]
rhymed stone and 'one.' There is
something in poetry besides rhyme,
you know" Synnex-"Generally, yes;
but not in yours, Dumleigh."-Boston
Transcript.
Its been four years now" said the
deserted lady, 'since he left me and
his happy home. 1 remember it just
as well as yesterday-how he stood
at the door, holding it open till six
flies got in the house.'-Indianapolis
Press.
Jack Huggard-"Miss Pechy's IA
Their made a surprising statement to
me last night" Dick Danser-'That
so? What was it?" Jack Huggard-
HE sneaked into the parlor and
cried: Aha! That's the time l caught
you kissing my daughter. '"-Phila-
delphia Press.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1900-11-03
COST TO CLOTHE A CHINAMAN
As a Rule the Natives Are Extremely
Frugal in Their Habits
and Dress.

It may be interesting to note. apro-
pos of the trouble in China. how ex-
tremely frugal the natives are in their
! habits and dress. OF course the rich
Chinese wear more expensive garments
and live in n manner BETTING their
| purses, but the ordinary ~Chinaman, in
his native land can and does live
on as much per year as we spend each
month. The Celestial and his wife can
clothe themselves more than comfort
ably for the small sum of S. per year.
Their clothing is made in two pieces,
from cotton. Only two measures are
taken-one from neck to waist. and
one from waist to feet. The garments
have no especial shape conforming to
any figure. Underwear is unknown,
and in winter the garments are padded
with cotton. and once a year they are
ripped apart and washed, says the Bal
timore American.
The following figures serve to illus
trate the great need they have for the
strictest economy: Common laborers
are paid from six to seven cents per
day; masons s~tonecutters and carpen-
tiers are paid from IS to so cents per
day. and by day is meant from sunrise
to dark. They waste nothing hat can
possibly be put to any use. Small splin-
tiers of wood are glued and nailed to-
gether to form posts or boards; scraps
Of paper serve as shoe siles and even the
roots of grass and wheat are pulled up.
cleaned and used in fires. The beauti-
full straw plated work and weaving
that we see brought from china was
all made by women who were paid two
cents per day for their labor-and still
strikes are never heard of, and the
Chinese laborer is. perhaps. as happy a
member of his class as is found in the
world.
The enormous demand for cotton
makes it necessary even to import that
article into the Flowery Kingdom, al
though a great deal is grown there.
Unlike the United States there is no
such thing as the gin, all of the cotton
being picked over by hand. and the on
sequence is that a great amount of
labor is employed; whereas. if the'gin
were used thousands would be
thrown out of employment. An abom-
ination of the Celestial is bare feet. If
he is so poor that he cannot afford to
wear another stitch of clothing, his
feet will always be encased in shoes,
and a hat will be jauntily perched on
his head. But of course. as everywhere
else. there are well-to-do Chinese, who
spend the most unheard-of amounts
upon food and dress. Tea sells all the
way from a few cents to $50 a pound,
which latter price is often paid by the
rich mandarin.
A certain Chinaman came to this
country several years ago to go to
school. He was the son of a very
wealthy merchant in Shanghai, and
when he got to Washington walked
down Pennsylvania avenue. and had
not gone five squares before he had
bought $500 worth of the most useless
foppery which pleased his eve. One of
his purchases was a very fine meer-
schaum pipe, for which he paid SIS, and
a few moments later snapped with an
Irish hod carrier for a short clay pipe.
Having never handled money before,
he did not know its value.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1900-11-03
He Was willing.

Johnny Green came home from school
the other day with the following note
duly signed by the teacher:
"Mr Green-Dear Sir: It becomes
my duty to inform you that your sou
shows decided indications of astigma.
tism, and his east is n that should
be attended to without delay"
The father sent the following answer
the nex. day:
"Mr. Kershaw-Dear Sir: Whip II
out of him. Yours truly, John Green
IN. Y. World.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1900-11-03
Not Too Fast.

The Devoted Wife - Oh, hurry,
please! This rubber plant tub has
fallen on my husband and I'm afraid
he's smashed
Chorus of rescuers as they grasp
the tub-Now, all together!
Wife-Gently, please, gently! Don't
lift it too suddenly. It's got a new
leaf just cunning out!-Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1900-11-03
No Need to Go.

$50 the ant. thou sluggard!" quoteo
;he ambitious one.
81 don't have to-" replied the man
who had been lying IN the ground, as
he jumped up and began reaching for
things down his back; "the ant has
some to me."-Chicago Post
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1900-11-03
No American Merchant. There.

In the whole of Venezuela there il
not an American dry goods store. this
branch of business being controlled al
most exclusively by German, French or
native VenezuelanS
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-07-03

with the Boer plank of h Philadelphia
platform. saying: ID
The Boer plank does not express any
can republics. No one could teiF from
reading 1t whether the party sy~mpathized
with England OF the Beers. 1
The plank referred to expresses symp-
athy for all patriots struggling Dor h4-
erty, but it does no commit the sepubli-
can party to an unwarranted interior
ence in European affairs nor a possible
declaration of var against Great Britain
to suit a few voters whose support is de-
sired to carry elections in this country.
This government has no more right TO
interfere with the British policy HI South
Africa beyond the friendly tender of. its
good Offices than Great Britain had to in
terfere with the American policy in Cuba,
Hawaii and the Philippines.
Mr.. Bryan's entire criticism is a play
to the galleries. 1t is not the sober judg-
ment of a man deep and broad enough to
be president of this republic. It Is the
criticism either of a very shallow man or
one who is willing to play the d~emagogue
and pander to the ignorance and vice and
prejudice of the country in order to
arouse feeling against the republican
party and it's patriotic policy and plat
form. Nc man with the sense of dignity
which a presidential candidate should
possess would indulge in such a vapid,
empty. illogical and manifestly unfair
and insincere criticism. The very weak
ness of it fully establishes the great
strength of the republican declaration of
principles. It is easy to criticise, but the
critic must not expect to escape a meas
urement at the hands Of the people he is
trying to instruct.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-07-03
William B. Curtis Perished in a Storm
on Mount Washington.

New York, July 3.-Wm. B. Curtis, the
veteran athlete, who persisted in a storm
on Mount Washington, N. H.. was often
the father of American athletics
was universally known as Father
Bill" Curtis. He was in his Gath year. Mr..
Curtis was a conspicuous figure at most
Of thel leading amateur athletic meets. He
was probably the best posted man on
amateur sport in the country. He had
records at his finger tips, was thoroughly
conversant with the rules that governed
the sports and did a great deal for the
Improvement Of amateur sport.
His impartiali&y and honesty and abil-
ity made him much sought after as q
referee and he filled that important post
at the intercollegiate games given at
Manhattan field last May. At that time
the students presented him with a low
ing cup at a dinner in the Fifth avenue
hotel as q token of the esteem in which
they held him
Mr.. Curtis was connected for a long
time with The Spirit of the Times.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-07-03

There are men who will a the mis-
sionary business in China ought to be
stopped. It costs millions of dollaFs year
ly and accomplishes little good. We rauch
doubt whether any Chinaman was ever
really converted to Christianity, but 1t is
certain that all who have been converted
will be killed by the Boxers. The mis-
sionaries, therefore, will be indirectly re-
sponsible for the death of their converts.
There Is not much consolation in that
thought. It may be better to be a live
Pagan than a dead Christian.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-07-03

The loss OF the battleship oregon
would almost be to the American navy
what the loss of h state of Oregon
would be to the American union. 1t
would be irreparable. Think Of the
grand old. ship that travelled nearly
5000 miles at a speed which az snip
ver equalled before, In order TO per-
form it's part on behalf of the cause of
liberty, and getting to the scene of bet
tie in time to win a full share of the
glory. The Oregon is a floating Bunker
Hill monument. It's loss would be a ma
tional calamity.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-07-03
SEARCHING FOR BODIES.
GREWsoME WORK GOES ON AT
NIGHT WITH LANTERNS.
Waiting for the Tide to Bring Corpses
to the Surface-Investigation
of Tugman.

New York, July 3.-After dark last
night the boats Of h searchers for
bodies in the vicinity of the burned North
German Lloyd piers were provided with
bulIs-eye lanterns and electric hand
torches and the force at work was
doubled so that no bodies might escape
up or down the river. The turning of the
tide Is the time when bodies are started
from the bottom and come to the surface.
The bodies began to appear Monday af-
ternoOn When the tide began to run ebb
and they continued to rise until the tide
had fallen almost to dead slack. On the
river toward the Thingvalla rocks to see
that no bodies floated up the river The
guard will be maintained for several
days. Many of the fOrty-seven bodies
found during the first days search rose
to the. surface of the water between the
long lines of partly burned piles which
are now the only remains Of the four
great piers. The other bodies wers
dragged from the mud at the bottom of
the river a the bulkheads and some
nearer the river ends of the piers.
Scores of men placed about the docks
all day in row boats were dragging the
mud with grapplin girons or pOking with
long boat hooks.
Some of the boats would come to shore
with two and some with three bodies.
Men were stationed down at the Ham
burg piers to. watch for any bodies that
might float down the stream and be car
ried toward h bay. The searchers for
bodies were volunteer workers. They
prosecuted the search without promise
of reward.
The New Jersey naval reserves on the
training ship Portsmouth, to the north
of h Valencia clubs boathouse. saw
the body of a woman floating in the
river and made attempts to recover 1t,
but it was lost while they were lowering
a boat.
A grocer named Boxbeegan of Brook
lyn went to Hoboken with the idea of
Identifying a friend. He viewed several
bodies in the morgue and soon after
dropped dead.
Supervising Inspector General Dumont
of the steamboat inspection service,
Washington, has forwarded a letter to
the local inspectors in this city directing
that a n investigation be begun at once
boat Dandy refused to take men from
the steamship Bremen because they had
40 omney. In his letter the supervisor
general says:
while it seems almost Incredible that
any license officer could be guilty of
such charges as are alleged against the
master of the Dandy the charge is SO
circumstantial it seems hat your office
should take immediate notice Of it, SO.
if true, such misconduct may be pun
ished to the extent of our lawful au-
thority"
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-07-03

Why should the world be involved In a
war because of an attempt Of the Chris
tian denominations to introduce the BIZ
BILE into China against the will OF its
people? The doctrines Of Confucius are
moral and beautiful enough for any ma
ton. They are replete with grand truths.
Had the missionaries expounded them
there would be no war.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-07-03

Fred Dubois a gone to Kansas City
to prevent the adoption of a Occur
d'Aaene plank by the democratic commit
upon his own senatorial candidacy in
Idaho. But what does the democracy
care for Dubois? If he expects to have a
pulp he should join the democratic
party. ~
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-07-03
RRYAN'S CRITICISM.

Mr.. William Jennings Bryan has COM
mitted the indiscretion of making a pub
lie criticism of the republican national
platform and has made a sorry mess of
the effort. Says he to the New York
Journal:
The Philadelphia platform is the best
illustration that we recently have had of
the desire of the republican leaders to de-
ceive the people as to their plans.
, That is a dishonest and inexcusable
misstatement which every man who can
read knows to be untrue. Every plank
in the republican platform is plain and
frank, every utterance is direct and un-
m~istakable. The platform is too fresh
in the public mind to warrant Mr.. Bryan
in misrepresenting it's character and he
only Injuries himself in so doing. The
American people will always insist that
their president hall possess the homely
virtue of ~truthfulness. But Bryan goes
on:
The only position taken in the platform
which is positive and free from ambiguity
DIS the declaration in favor of the gold
standard. but even in this case the failure
of the platform to commend the effort
made by the president to secure bimetal-
lism shows that the platform on this
question in 1896 was a fraud.
That is very lame logic. The conclusion
which Bryan draws is not warranted by
the fact that the effort to secure bimetal-
lism was made. The fact that the politi-
cal future of Senator Wolcott was in
volved in the result of the commissions
work is evidence enough that while the
effort may have been and was a failure,
fraud. Besides had other nations been
willing to adopt bimetallism the most
pronounced American gold bug, even
Cleveland himself. would not have OBJ
jected to it's adoption by this country. Mr..
Bryan continues:
The trust plank means nothing when
taken in connection with the fact that
there is no condemnation of trusts thai
have grown up under the republican adj
ministratiOn.
There is not a democratic in
Montana idiotic enough to reprint the
antitrust plank of the republican plat
form and then assert that it's ~languag
1%ustifies the above declaration. BRYAN is
sore because the republican convention
did not indorse trusts and because the
democratic antitrust plank itself can be
made no more severe in condemnation of
trusts than that adopted last week at
philadelphia. Bryan's statement that
the republican plank means nothing be-
cause it did not cite specific instances of
trusts that have grown up since McKin.
aey's election is another CHARACTERISED
sample of democratic logic. Suppose !,
had cited the ice trust of New York? Ru,
specific instances of trust organization
within a certain period could not hav,
added to the strength of the republica,
plank, nor does the lack of them max
the plank meaningless as Bryan states
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-07-03
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Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-07-03

Anti-imperialism as an issue Is sim
ply a stupid and meaningless express
sion. There is no Imperialism In mis-
country. To fight something that does
not exist Is now the quixotic purpose OF
the democratic party. Bryan, on une
democratic ass, is a fair representation
of DON Quixote on Rosinante. making q
frontal attack on a windmill.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-07-03

In China the Americans and English
seem to be in close sympathy; to be
be helping one another. and to be per-
forming together deeds of valor which
compel the admiration of the other in
ternational forces. A plank denouncing
this friendly sentiment may be expected
to be adopted at Kansas City this week.
Is it not evidence of a secret alliance?