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The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1900-08-18
southeast Missouri Lumber.

Labor Commissioned Rixey's report
gives the following figures of the lum-
Der production in the counties of this
congressional district for 1899: Penn
iscot. 81, SO, $50 feet: Stoddard. is, 0S0.
600: Dunklin. II, 524 600: New Madrid.
39. 325. $50: Butler. p. 269. 600: Ripley.
10, s63,5o0: Mississippi. 1897 .939: Cape
Girardeau, 1899, 600: Bollinger, 3, lOO,-
900: Oregon. 2,326. 500: Howell. 2.352,-
600: Scott. ,596. 600.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1900-08-18
How JnpIeasanI

it is 10 see q beautiful child's fac,
disfigured with vile humors, burstin,
through the skin pimples, blotche
and sores. and sadder still. when tt
young and innocent are laughed a
and twitted in all such cases. Parents
should give them that good and pa,
remedy, sulphur Bitters, which vi
search and drive out of the bloc /
every particle OF humor.-Haa,-
Gazette.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1900-08-18
GOATS CLEAN STREETS,
Residents Where they Operated Much
Pleased With their Work,

Residents Where they Operated Much
Pleased With their Work.
n story comes from Jersey City, n.
j., which may serve as pointer for
our own city:
Jersey City residents are preparing
vote of thanks to be presented to a
novel band of street cleaners. The
residents of the northern section of
Grove street in the above mentioned
city say that the streets have not been
cleaned so well for many a day. The
women especially are enthusiastic, for
a herd of goats have given a practi-
cal demonstration of what they could
do in the street cleaning line. As the
street had not been swept for some
time, the women one night organized
white wings brigade. They soon
had the dirt piled up and ready to put
in barrels.
Just then a herd of goats came into
view, and some one suggested that
they be allowed to eat the paper
scraps. The goats were ''shooed" to
the piles of paper and il a short while
they had devoured ali in sight. A
crowd of people looked on and en-
joyed the performance.
People on near by streets are now
seriously contemplating extending an
invitation to the owners of the goats
10 send their animals around if the
street contractor and his assistants do
not put in an appearance very soon.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1900-08-18
IN MEMORIAM.

To the young, lovely and amia BILE
Lizzie G. Plummer, who came to a
premature and violent end at the St
Charles Hotel in Cape Girardeau, Mo.
on the evening OF the 18th inst. in the
End year of her age by the accidental
discharge of a pistol in the hands OF
a loved brother-these lines are plain.
lively and tearfully inscribed by Ogil.
vie Byron Young. NJ. d.
At morn. watched young rose bud unfolding
Its leaves to the breath Of the warm summel
| air,
And deemed while itu seft tinted glories behold.
| ing
At twilight returning the rose would be there
At twilight came. but the rose had departed
Its leaves were all scattered, its perfume had
fed
Sad type Of The lovely, the young, the light
hearted.
50 lately they bloomed. SO early are dead.
heard thy sweet voice, and thy Laughter of
gladness
As first in the gone sunny hours they came
And, \
To baI,ow tbv vir,nas 90 ,.., - Sa"ess
Oh! tell us, fair girl, of that far distant region
To which on the pinion Of love thou hast flown
Hast thou counted the Angels whose name is
Legion
UT oAueh' OUT giInpse OF the Lamb and the
Throne?
Oh, say hast thou walked on the stres.s tho,
are goiuenF
~ v" WIG "oiie that are jasper anu
anu peariE
Diu 'ne voice Oh thy savior thy spirit embOluen
'o'A a' nis iace' anu De happy, sweet girl?
And music Oh, sneak of the musi. of u.ov.
The harp of old David. thatthriIled on thy aar
That sounded the link of humanity riven,
The triumph of faith. and the end of all ft ar
Perchauce il WAS midniybt xhs, Oh. r...,,
word was spoken
And by the Arch-An thy splri, swept in
Was the starlight serene. and the silence un-
pioken'
p'"e ''' "ie 'io'n oil SIM
e' no" on page In coos Book it is written
hs thor ~ "'pN' anu "o night Shall
The wounded in spirit. the weary tho smi,,on
Alike in the light of his glor;es shall share.
Sleep on, gentle girl. and tboupb spr;ny ,ims
returning
win oir"s ana blossoms shall bring thee no
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1900-08-18
CRISIS DUE TO RELIGION.
So Declares q Man who fs COnver.
SAINT with Affairs In China.

So Declares q Man who Is Conver.
SAINT with Affairs in China.
In speaking of the responsibility of
missionaries for the present situation
in China, Sidney Brooks, an English
traveller, and an authority on affairs
in the far east, says:
''One of the first and most notice
able problems confronting the powers
when they set about the work Of re-
construction in China will be the
missionary difficulty. Perhaps it
would be going too far to say that the
present crisis is due to a revolt from
the evangelical propaganda we have
forced China to license. Missionaries
may plead with some force that the
political pressure of the west upon
the east. the seizure of KiaO-Chou.
the alienation Of Port Author, Man
chura. Wei-HaiWei and the endless
demand for concessions are the real
occasion of this semi-natiOnal rising.
But we have to get down beneath the
superficial and transitory causes into
the permanent reasons for the Chinese
hatred of foreigners. And that mis-
sionaries have great deal to do with
that is shown by the unanimity with
which they and their converts are
singled out for the first violence Of
attack.
To the Chinaman the missionary is
at once a mystery and a menace. His
presence Is a mystery: what can he
possibly want in the country is
mystery: his preachings seem aimed
at the foundations of all Chinese
morality and social organization, of
all that has made and kept the empire
as whole. He is obviously support
ed and protected by foreign arms. A
being therefore at once unaccountable,
inexplicable, formidable and aggres-
sive, he attracts not only the .instinc-
tive antipathy of one race for another
race, but whatever more can be en-
gendered by fear and ignorance and
superstition, and ceaseless suspicion
on the one part and blundering pro-
vocation on the other. The evangelists
are maintained by foreign arms; they
live within call of the avenging gun
boat, and they are not backward in
summOning it's aid. Christianity,
therefore, wears the aspect of a
political conspiracy, hatched and
supported by the foreign DEVILS
against the social and political fabric
of China.
THE suspicion is confirmed by the
attacks of missionaries on the chief
observance of Chinese life, the link
that holds China together. r. c.
Gundry describes ancestor worship
as the keystone of the Chinese polity,'
the supreme observance and ultimate
law of the Chinese social organiza-
tiOn.' 1t is the one true national
cult. The modern missionary, Profess
tant or Catholic, will have none of it,
rOundly cOndems it as heathenish and
idolatrous, as an unclean superstition
with which it is impious to parley.
And in doing SO the modern mission.
airy has earned the contempt and un.
dying hostility of all classes and
rallied all Chinese patriots, to the de-
fense of their ancient faith
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1900-08-18
BRADFORD RESPITED.
His Execution stayed I'LL sept. IA.
Was to Have been Hanged Aug.If


The Charlottesville Democrat says:
Another chapter was tackled onto
the already long overdone I'd tire
some Jack Bradford story yesterday
when Lieut.. Gov. A. H. Bolte granted
another respite of thirty days, or un-
til September IA.
The stay this time is for the purpose
of allowing the Sheriff time TO sum-
mon jury to enquire into Bradford's s
mental condition to determine if he is
a fit subject for the gallows. In case
he should be adjudged insane, he
would be put into an asylum to await
until such time as he should recov-
er his reason. if he ever did, when the
execution would take place.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1900-08-18
An Old Letter.

The DEMOCRAT is permitted to pub
lish the following letter from Rev j.
VI. Peck to Sam'l NJ. Green of this
city. Rev. John Mason Peck. D. D.,
ar eminent Baptist minister. was born
Oct. 81. 1883 in Connecticut. and was a
pioneer missionary IN Illinois and
Missouri in 1877 and many years
later. He was the co-laborer of the
early Baptist preachers of Southern
Missouri, and like John the Baptist"
preached the gospel IN the then wilder
ness. The following letter explains
itself.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1900-08-18
\ Good Investment.

10 acres of good land for sale near
East Cape Cirardeau. Ill. Thirty acres
in corn and ten acres in timber. All
good land. For particulars see or
address Mrs ). y. BOWMAN,
Cape Girardeau. Mo.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1900-08-18
Rock Spring,
O'Fallon Depot p. o. Ill
April IL, 1857

Samuel Nj. Green Esq
Dear Sir
Your letter of Feb sth postmarked
the 14th got into my hands yesterday.
Where it has wandered | know not.
Where is Pocahontas p. o? What
county and what route from ST Louis?
l was intimately acquainted with
your father from 1915 till the period
of his death. We were often together,
& in ls29-'30 he resided at Rock
Spring & printed the .PIoNEEROF THE
MISSISSIPPI VALLEY" | am an old,
wor1-out & broken down man, subject
to frequent attacks of congestion of
the Liver, and all l can do is write a
little for the periodicals.. have
enasged to prepare during this season,
a complete Memoir of the life and
labors of your father. 1 have a
supply of materials, among my files
of papers, correspondence &c; but it
will take me two or three weeks to
prepare the article in the manner
nessary. 1t will be published in tie
CHRISTIAN REPOSITORY at LOUIS
VILE, KY. This is a large & elegant
ly printed pamphlei monthly, ~ PIP at
$2.00 each volume er year. 1t contains
both steel and lithrQgraph plates,
especially prominent Baptist Ministers
of the Mississippi Nzlley. 1t cOEtains
a variety of the best kind of rea1ing,
of which historical sketches Of the
early churches * ASSOC iations, IL
biograpbica sketches Of departed
ministers are prominent. The Editor
N publisher is REV 5. e. FORE
very able, enterprisiag y successful
man in getting SCARE " valuahle
materials.
Do you know of any Dag,hsrreotyye
likeness Or portrait of your father in
existence. IF a correct paguerreOtvpe
car be obia med. Mr.. Ford wG,lld pub
lish an engraving in the same number
WITH the memoir. | reeeamenf you TO
subscribe fer this work, and il
p royidence spares my life 81 health,
yor will get Ike memoir before ,Becem-
ber, and that will be a huadred times
better for your purpose. tk2I the few
isolated facts | might send you in
Letter. | have j2st written TO Rev Mr.
Ford what you want X suggested that
ke send you specimen number of the
Repository that you may sse it. 1t
has an extensive circulation in keE-
tuekr, Missouri. Illinois, Mississippi
N other states. Over 5000 copies are
MONTHLY. 1t il no
epheneral publication, liable-tO break
down, hut Is rapidly Increasing every
1t has Female Department, under
the head of Family Yisitant" con
Quoted by Mrs. Ford, Il sery talented
female writer.
My 2. o. address il ''O'FallOn !
Depot ?. o. on the Ohio AZ Missis- |
.ippi Rail Road. - miles from my !
residence. Can you give HE any ac- |
seunt of Baptist preachers ~ churches
IN your range? /
Yours Respectfully,
J. NJ. PE,k !
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1900-08-18
\ Lie for soc.

Many people nave been cured of
Kidney diseases by taking SOC bottle
eoy's Kidney Cure
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1900-08-18

See the new five dollar kodaks at. l..
Ben Miller's.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1900-08-18
Lynch -Ryes are Defea5ed.

A small crewd witnessed the -gamt
.of ball Sunday between the Ca-pa4ha
.of this city AID the Lynch Ryes ,ot St
Louis. The game was very interesting
throughout and outside of ere Or
two errors on she part of both team
would have been exceptionally scleve
game. The players of the teams wsp'
as follows:
LYNCH RYES. CA-PA-HAs
Cummings, c. f. Seitz, |. f.
iFraney. 5. $ Lawler. C.
j. Reynolds, Bird b. Frissel, Ind b.
p. Reynolds, lst b. Scivally, lst b.
Riley. lad b. s;chwab, C. f.
Kennedy, c. lamson, :. $.
Luton p. Cochran, r. I.
Stunke!. :. f. Frenzel, Bird b.
McCort, f. Connor, p.
INNINGS.
1924 ) 67 SO
Cs-pa-has- 2O00.92 203 lie
Lynch Rves-l lOO3G 020 4-q
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1900-08-18

The King of Italy old He barely five feet
childhood He we'll
decidedly
of
greater
The age-herald., 1900-03-19

tween home pleasure and other interests of life. During the last months he suffered agony from a disease of the jaw, and his voice was reduced to a hideous croak, but he kept on working feYerishly at his devils job of breaking up homes and hearts,
 The eight months which Gordon spent in jail when starting in on his usurlous ca- ieer ruined his health and embtttered his life. Among his victims he numbered clergymen, widowA orphans and spend thrifts of all classes in England, and he frankly said in court that neither the tears of the widow nor of the orphan would have the slightest effect on him in pressing clatm Though his interest generally ex- eeeded the principal, and though through agents, or directly, he rendered homeless hundreds of people, he never charged in- terest to his eo-reHigionists, Jews, and once ne took fancy to a six-year cid boy to the extent of sending him candies regu- larly Few dead men have eyer received the merciless obituaries that appear every where on the death of this millionaire.
 Nossiloff, the well-known Siberian con- trlbutor to the Novoe Vremta of St. Peters, burg, makes bitter complaint against the inroads American trade is making into
 
 not articles of luxury, but just what are most urgently needed by the population. The Americans put on the market in huge quantities everything conceivable.
 The United States has set out upon an industrial andw commercial conquest of Siberia. As hitherto Siberia has been lack ing in men of capital in mills and in iron works, the enterprisng Americans will have everything ready to their hands and in order at no distant date to become the real masters of the situation this purvey- ors of goods needed by Siberia. The mer- chants and traders speak of petitioning for a prohibition to be placed on American m- ports, but while the discussion continues the Americans will secure the market, and 1t is also quite possible that even China, where Russia is constructing a railroad, will fall into the hands of the Americans before the railroad is completed, and be- fore Russia is in a position to profit by the riches of China. Shall we, who, as to owners of the east have undertaken to in- troduce culture and civilization and now actually hand over Siberia to foreign capi- tai and enterprise and make it forever a vassal and black slave of foreigners?
 Incidentally Nossiloff treats British com petition as being of no importance.
The age-herald., 1900-03-19
ExrRAoRDINARY ENTHUSIASM
St Patricks Day in South Africa Kip
 ling Writes Poem

Capetown, March 1S.-St Patrcks day was celebrated with extraordinary enthus- iasm throughout South Africa. In reply to a message from the Irishmen of Cape town. the queen sent the following:
 "I have always felt confident that the spirit, courage and allegiance which have distinguished the Irish soldiers in the face of the enemy would be shared by their brethren in the colony in support of the au- thority of my government"
 On the invitation of Lord Roberts a news. paper has been started at Bloemfontein foI the edification of the troops. Rudyard Kip ling contributed to the inaugural edition yesterday the following lines:
 70, Torrance. dear, and did you hear
 The news that's going round?
 The Shamrock, Erins badge by law,
 Where er her sons are found.
 From Bloemfontein to Balibank
 Iris ordered by the queen:
 We've won our right in open fight
 The wearing of the greeni''
The age-herald., 1900-03-19
SOUTHERN PROGRESS
The New Industries Reported in the
 South in Week

Chattanooga, March 17.-(Specal.)- Among the more important of the new in- dustries reported by the Tradesman during the week ended March r include basket factory in North Carolina; $3O0,O00 bleach cry and cotton mill in North Carolina brick works and a broom factory in North Carolina; cement works in South Carolina; coal mines and coke works in West Vir- ginia; two cotton mills in Alabama one in Arkansas, two in Georgia-capitalized at s30o000 and s1,000,OOO respectively-two in North Carolina, three in South Carolina and two in Texas; a cotton and woolen mill in North Carolina; cotton seed oil mills in South Carolina and Texas; electric light and power plants-in Georgia and West Vir- ginia; fertilizer factory in South Carolina Touring mills in Kentucky and the Caro- linas; foundry and machine shop in Ar kansas; gold mines in Georgia; a guano factory in North Carolina; ice factories in
 North Carolina and Texas; knitting mill in Alabama, three in North Carolina and one in Virginia; lumber mills in Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky and Texas; phosphate
 mines in Tennessee; rice mills in Louisiana {;
 a rope mill in Georgia; a soap factory in Texas; a s4OO,OO0 textile machinery works and wadding and batting mill in Georgia.
The age-herald., 1900-03-19
NINE PERSONS INJURED
Serious Accident on New York Ele-
 vated Railroad

New York, March 1s.-Nine persons were injured this morning in an accident on the Ninth avenue elevated road near Rector street. The most seriously hurt are:
 David A. Findlay, fracture of the skull.
 Richard B. Barker, Yonkers, engineer of the train; scalp wound and shock.
 Thomas Shelvy, an engineer, internally injured.
 Alfred Alexander, salesman, internally injured and taken to the hospital un- conscious.
 James Manning, laborer, injured about the head.
 coal chute dropped down as the train reached the station, wrecking the roofs of the engine and two passenger cars The dozen passengers in the cars were thrown in every direction.
The age-herald., 1900-03-19
The Sheldon Experiment

To the Editor of the New York Tribune
 Sir-If you will pardon the paradox, I would say that Sheldons experiment is a combination of sensational and stupid sac rilege It is neither tract nor a newspaper Its leading features have been threshed out by the daily press. With the Sermon on the Mount available in every Christian home, the intrusion of Mr Sheldon as a divine censor between the news of the day and the reader is presumptous, impertinent and blasphemous. H. H. KOHLSAAT,
 Editor Chicago Times-Herald.
The age-herald., 1900-03-19
Hard on Roosevelt

From the Columbian.
 General Roosevelt is always glad of a portunity and paid for it.
 The incident happened while he was visit ing Cornell university during convention The students, glad of a chance to display their enthusiasm, entertained the governor al one of the fraternity houses Just as he about to leave one of the staff said to him:
 Governor the boys have the foundation of a capital library, and I think they would appreciate a copy of your Rough Riders |"
 "Al right, boys,' said the governor, heartily, "I'll be glad to send you copy with my compliments. The book would be but small return for your hospitality
 Whereupon one of the students broke in excitedly:
 That's so, governor I've read it."
The age-herald., 1900-03-19
Who's whoY

From the Detroit Free Press.
 At last the hotel clerk permitted the guest on the far side of the counter to speak to him.
 May inquire,' said the guest difidentdy. "who that modest gentleman was you were talking to a moment ago?"
 Cert" replied the clerk; "that was the old man."
 And who is the old man, pray?'
 The owner of the house, of course" ''Is that so?'' was the astonished remark. "Well, l never would have thought he was"
 ''W1hy not?"
 "Because l was dead sure in my mind that you owned the whole shelbang."
The age-herald., 1900-03-19

men. impedlments to marriage, and all forms of chronic, nervous. blood aud pri- vate diseases.
 EVERY FORM OF PRIVATE DIsEAsE5 POSITIVELY CURED UNDER PLAIN GUARANTEE.
 Consultations at office or by mail are in- vited free
 Treatment by mail to parties who cannot visit me No written prescriptions; We fur nish all medicines.
 Birmingham Daily News: '"rhe New. comments him Or. Dozieg) most cordially to all those in need of his services"
 Age-Herald: His long record and ap- proved abilities entitle him to the proud distinction of standing at the head of his profession"
 Alabama Christian Adyocats. "Hls pro- fessional standing Is unlupeachdS.e, and his char ar as q genueman and citizen Is above reproach.'
 Office and Dispensary corner Ti::r1 ave- nue and Nineteenth street. Birmingham.
The age-herald., 1900-03-19
Mrs. WinsIow,s Soothing syrup

Has Lt,n used for over FIFTY YEARS by MILLIONS of MOTHERS for their CHILL DREN WHILE TEETHING. with PER FECT SUCCESS. 1t SOOTIES tho CHILD. CURE WIND COLO. and is the best rem edy for DIARRHOEA. Sold by druggists In every part of the world. Be sure and ask for Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup" and take no other kind Twenty cents a bottle
The age-herald., 1900-03-19
Satisfied

From the New York Tribune.
 A visitor at the Columbia (Mo) school the other day asked one of the lower- grade classes this question: "W7hat is the axis of the earth?'
 "An imaginary line passing from one pole to the other, on which the earth revolves, proudly answered a pupil.
 'Yes," said the examiner, well pleased, 'and could you hang a bonnet on it?'
 .'Yos, sir
 sIndeed! And what kind of bonnet?" An imaginary bonnet, sir"
 The visitor asked no more questions that day. .-s -s..s
The age-herald., 1900-03-19

THE ALABAMA HOME has s25,OOo per month to loan to build houses on vacant lots; the limit of cost Is smaller In this association than in any other company. 1st avenue.
The age-herald., 1900-03-19
Port Gibson Compress Burned

Port Gibson, Miss, March 1s.-The Port Gibson compress, in which was stored B. 900 bales of cotton. was burned here this afternoon. Loss, $1OOO0O; fully covered by insurance,
The age-herald., 1900-03-19
AGENTS WANTED

AGENTS-Booker T. Washington has writ ten the story of his life and work; he gives his views of the negro problem, all of his best speeches. White people and colored are giving advanced crders: ft is a bonanza to agents. Write to-day. J. L. Nichols & Co.,, Publishers, Atlanta, Ga. 3-17-eod&W-2Wk
The age-herald., 1900-03-19
From Thtir Point of View

From Puck.
 First Cow-I hear there's an awfully nice man living down the road.
 Second Cow-What's nice about him? First Cow-Why, he's a vegetarian