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The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1900-06-23
Growing Crcps in Orchards.

The disadvantage of having grass OF
growing crops in an orchard is not en-
tirely due to the chance of the crops
robbing the soil of fertility needed by
the trees. If it was It would be easily
renedied by the applied to the
hoed crops, of which the trees would
get their share. or by turning sheep
into the orchard to eat the grass and
the fallen wormy fruit, who would en-
rich the soil by their droppings. But
the greater trouble ome from the
summer and fall %droughts when the
trees need all the moisture to perfect
their fruit. If the grass OF other sur
face crop takes it there will be a large
amount of fruit fall which might have
been saved if there had been moisture
enough to carry it through to matur-
ity. Where water a be supplied by
irrigation this difficulty is not as great.
American Cultivator.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1900-06-23
HOMEMADE HAY RACK.

strips cut with an elongated circle and
bo.ted 10 the one by four inch strips
and covered with short pieces of thin
boards, keep hay or grain from coming
in contact with wheels. The front
guard or standard should be fastened
to side sills by means of n full length
rod and just back of front arm and at
tached so as to be raised up or down.
The stakes AT rear end fastened in same
This renders it more con-
v~enient to store away under some low
shed when rot in USER. Logan, in
Farm and Home.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1900-06-23
Some Reason. for Sprnying,

y correspondent of the Farmers Re.
! REV recently wrote that he had no
faith in spraying; that if the birds
were protected there would be no need
of spraying. The attention of the cor
respondent should be called to the fact
that the prime reason for spraying is
to prevent fungus attacks, such as
those producing the apple leaf scab.
Birds can have no effect in checking
troubles of that kind. Spraying with
Bordeaux mixture was first tried in
Bordeaux, France, to keep the boys
from stealing the grapes. The owner
of the vineyard found that it also saved
his grapes from mildew. Now, birds
have 10 effect on mildew. So it is evil
cent that the preservation of the Birds
does not remove the reasons for spray.
iEg.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1900-06-23
Supreme CourtSustains the Foot.Eaas
Trademark.

Justice Laughlin, in Supreme Court, But.
talo, has ordered a permanent injunction,
with costs, and a full accounting of sales, to
issue against Paul B. Hudson, the manufac-
turer of the foot powder called "Dr. Clark's
Foot Powder" and also against a retail deal.
er OF Brooklyn, restraining them from max
ing or selling the DR.. Clark's Foot Powder,
which is declared, in the decision of the
Court, a imitation and infringement of
"Foot-Ease," the powder to shake into your
shoes for tired, aching feet, now so largely
advertised and sold all over the country.
Allen S. Olmsted, of LIE Roy, n. Y, is the
owner of the trademark "Foot-Ease," and
he is the first individual who ever advertised
a foot powder extensively over the coun-
try. He will send a sample Free to anyone
who writes him for it. The decision in this
case upho.ds his trademark and renders
all parties liable who fraudulently attempt
to profit by the extensive 'Foot-Ease" ad-
vertising, in placing upon the market a spu-
rious and similar appearing preparation, la
bled and put up in envelopes and boxes like
Foot-Ease. Similar suits will be brought
against others who are now infringing on
the Foot-Ease trademark and common law
rights.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1900-06-23

make draft lighter and travel more
rapid and at the same time maintain
4 uniform and smoothnesS of
marks them as public benefactors.
Note in the accompanying illustration
the narrow tires hunting the bottom
of the EARTH" forming ruts that will
make travel rough and disagreeable
for weeks and weeks. Wide tires should
come into general use on country roads
and no heavy farm wagon without
them should be driven upon any thor
oughfare when the grounds saturated
with water. Oh after heavy rains
Farmers Voice.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1900-06-23
Marquette, on Lake Superior,

is n of the most charming summer resort:
Paul Railway.
Its healthful location, beautiful scenery,
good hotels and complete immunity from
hay fever, make a summer outing at Mar.
quette, Mich, very attractive from the
standpoint of health, rest and comfort.
For a copy of The Lake Superior Coun.
try containing a description CT Marquette
and the copper country, address, with four
~ cents in stamps to pay postage, Geo. II.
Heafford, General Passenger Agent, Chi.
cago, LII.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1900-06-23
WIDE TIRES D
They Make Travel More Pleasant Inc
Do Not Destroy the Surfaces
of Roads.

We frequently have pointed out in
these columns the injury to public
roads resulting from the use upon
them of narrow-tired vehicles, p~articu-
larry heavy farm wagons of great bur-
den. 1t has been proven that wide tires
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1900-06-23

Billings-"You are the last man to play
the races. What do you know about horse
flesh, anyway" Stillson-"I ought to know
a good deal about it. l was in the army and
lived on salt horse for months at a time
Boston Transcript.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1900-06-23
The Cool Debtor.

The Dun-I called to see if you could settle
that little account to-day.
The GeDtor-Really, do you know, 1 think
you are the most curious man | ever knew.
10 think you should take 50 much trouble
ton transcript.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1900-06-23
Successful in One Way.

A Paris physician tried on himself a long
life elixir he had compounded, with the re-
suit that his life in the other world will be
longer than he anticipated.-Boston Globe.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1900-06-23

Once Enough.-"I notice that lightning
struck the Chicago river last Thursday
I'll bet that's a case where lightning never
strikes twice in the same place."-Cleveland
Plain Dealer.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1900-06-23

Robert Flournoy, Brickyard, Ala, wrote:
| consider no remedy equal to DIR. Moffett's
Teethina (Teething Powders) for the irri-
tations of teething and the bowel troubles
of our Southern country.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1900-06-23

The attention of readers of this paper is
called to the Benne Plant advertisement of
the J. & G. Mcguire Medicine Company.
1t will interest you.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1900-06-23

The Best Prescription for Calls
and Fever is a bottle of GROVES TAsTELEss
CHILL Tonic. It's simply iron and quinineir
atasteless form. No ure-no pay. Price, SOC.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1900-06-23

Shade trees about the house are
desirable. and elm and hard maple
are among the best varieties for the
purpose.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1900-06-23

Mrs. Grogin - Pats got a job in the
tube-works up on the Bronx.
Mrs. Dugan-Arrah! Owe aften rid ay
thin bronchial tubes.-Judge.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1900-06-23
Mrs.
PznkhaEaa

The one thing that quail
flies a person to give a6-
vice on any subject is
experience - experience
creates knowledge.
No other person has SO
wide an experience with
female ills nor such a
record of SUCCESS as
Mrs. Pinkfan1 has had.
Over q hundred thou
sand cases come before
her each year. Some per-
s0naNy others by mali
And this has been going
on for 20 years, day after
day and day after day.
Twenty years of ION.
slant success - think of
the knowledge thus
gained! Surely women
are wise in seeking adj
vice from a woman with
such an experience, es-
PeciaHy when tits free.
II you are III gez a bottle
Of Lydia E. Pinkhan7'S
Vegetable Compound at
0nce-fhen write Mrs.
PiAkhan,, Lynn, Mass.
Gilpin observer., 1900-07-19
Wreck In Ration Tunnel.

Trinidad, Colo, July 17.-Engineer G.
f.. Davis and Fireman Porter williams
of the Santa Fe We're instantly killed
in wreck near the east end of the
Ration tunnel at o'clock this morn
ing. While there has been no inves-
tigation as yet, 1t appears that the re-
sponsibility for the accident rests with
the dead engineer.
Freight train No. "a with two en-
gines, Nos. 952 and $40, had just come
out of the tunnel and passed onto the
siding, the meeting place for No. /
passenger train, west bound. Engineer
Davis. in charge of engine 952, had
either forgotten that he was on the
siding, or that he was to meet the
passenger train there, and failed to ap-
ply the air. AS result the engine
passed on to the derailing switch. The
two engines and several cars were
piled up in Il wreck. The engineer
and fireman on the second engine real
lied the danger in time to jump and
save their lives. Davis and Williams
were caught in the wreck, the former
being badly mangled and the latter
scalded to death.
Both men lived at Ration with their
families, and as soon as the bodies
could be taken out of the wreck they
were removed to that place. The rail-
road was only blOckaded about an
hour, but little damage being done to
the main track.
Gilpin observer., 1900-07-19
COLONEL LISCUM
KILLED AT TIEN TSIN.

Tien Tsin, July 13, via Che Foo. July
10, and Shangai, July 16.-At 2 o'clock
this afternoon 1000 of the allied troops
We're attempting to storm the walls of
the city. The attack began at daylight.
Its success is doubtful. The Chinese
on the walls are estimated conserva-
lively ut 10000. They are pouring a
terrific hail of artillery, rifle and ma
chine gun fire upon the attackers.
The Americans, japanese, British
ana French troops are attacking from
the west and the Russians from the
east.
The Americans suffered terribly.
The chief surgeon of the Ninth infan
try said conservative estimate was
that twenty-five per cent. of the Ameri
cans We're hit Colonel L. H. Liscum
Is reported as having been mortally
wounded as he was walking in front
of the troops. Major Regan and Cap
tains BOOckmiller, Wilcox and Noyes
are among the wounded.
The marine losses include Captain
Davis killed. and Butler Leonard and
several others. wounded.
Officers declare that it was hotter
than Santiago.
When the correspondent left the
Americans We're lying in the plain be.
tween the wall and the river, under an
infilading and direct fire. 1t was
equally difficult for them to advance oil
retire.
The correspondent counted 300
wounded men of all nationalties.
Gilpin observer., 1900-07-19
ALLIED FORCES AT
TIEN TSIN SUCCESSFUL

London, July 1S.-The Shanghai cor
respondent Of the Evening News, tele-
graphing July 18th, says:
."The allied troops resumed the at
tack upon the Chinese walled city of
Tien Tsin on the morning of July 14th,
and succeeded in preaching the walls
and capturing all the forts.
'The Chinese We're completely routed
and the allies took possession of the ma
tive city and its defenses.
1.-The total losses of the allies in the
engagements of Thursday, Friday and
Saturday were about 800 killed or
wounded. The casualties were great
est among the Russians and Japanese.
THE guns of the allies did immense
damage to the native city, causing
many large cOntiagrations, and finally
silenced the majority of the enemy's
guns simultaneously. Then 1,5O0 Rus
slams, assisted by small parties of Ger
mans and French, assaulted and cap
tured eight guns that were in position
on the railway embankment and the
fort. the magazine of which the French
subsequently blew up.
"A body of American, British, Japa-
nese and Austrian troops then made
sortie and attacked the west arsenal,
which the Chinese had reoccupied. At
ter four hours 0f the hardest fighting
yet experienced, the Chinese fed.
when the arsenal had been evacu-
ated by the Chinese the Americans,
French, Japanese and Welsh Fusiliers
advanced toward the native city and
Joined with the other attacking force.
The Japanese infantry and mounted
battery advanced to the foot of the
walls. supported by the Americans and
French. Despite valiant attacks. the
allies Were only able to hold the posi-
tions gained outside the walls. prepar-
Gilpin observer., 1900-07-19
Shanghai and Canton Alarm.

Shanghai, July 1.-THE danger at
Shanghai is very grave. Thousands of
Chinese, fully armed, are in the vicin-
lty of the town. Trouble may ensue at
any moment. The powers are awak-
Ing to the gravity of the situation, but
only few troops can be spared in any
event. The anti-foreign rising is gen
orally and rapidly spreading in central
and southern China
News has reached here that a mas
sacre took place July 9th at Yai Yuon
Flu. capital of Shansi province. Forty
foreigners and hundreds of native con-
verts We're killed.
London, July Iii Hung Chang
has already left Canton. This causes
the utmost anxiety for the safety of
the Europeans there. as there are only
two gunboats, one British and one
American, mt Canton, pending the ar
rival of a French gunbOat.
LII Hung Chang is said to have ac-
cepted full responsibility for any dis
turbance in Canton during his absence.
He takes the vice regal seal along with
him, thus preventing the issue of proc.
lamations while he is away.
Ii Hung Chang is expected to reach
Hong Kong to-day, and will see the
governors tomorrow. Afterward he
Will proceed northward The black
flag chief, Lin Yee, is moving his fore
es preparatory to marching overland to
Pekin. The Chinese are glad of this,
as they think Canton will be safer
without Lin Yee while Ii Hung Chang
is away.
Gilpin observer., 1900-07-19

schooling and his bad grammar; he
was particularly well informed. on the
other hand, on the history of his coun-
try and affairs of the day. He knew
personally all the leading men of the
day who Travelled to any degree forty
years ago. He used to narrate anec-
dotes of games of cards in which Hen
ry Clay and he were both participants
in 1S4S and 1S49, when White was be-
ginning his career as a gambler. He
had a genius for faro, and his winnings
one night. He was employed at a sal
airy OF 5000 week for several years by
a club In New Orleans simply to deal
faro every night in the week. At last,
when he grew weary of that, his sal
ary was raised to $400 week. He
made 100000 In 1857 by gambling on
the Mississippi river, and there were
aggregated $4,000 and $4,000 in IL
months. But he spent his money with
reckless hand. He had n crowd OF
friends constantly about him. and he
was always giving $50 and 500 to less
fortunate gamblers.
As he sat In his big easy chair one
day, before his death, he chatted a
long time about his memories OF the
palmy days Of gambling and particu-
larly OF the wonderful games he used
to participate in on the palatial Mis-
sissippi river steamers before the civil
war.
"The most wonderful gambling days
this country has ever known were
from about 1890 to $780," he said.
That was when poker and faro be-
came the games they are in America,
and when poker was developed. Lit
orally every man. except clergymen, In
the Mississippi river valley used to
gamble in those days, and have
known reputable clergymen at that
time TO bet on horse races. All the
statesmen and orators OF the west and
Gilpin observer., 1900-07-19

timely warning is sounded against
any wholesale rush OF fortune seekers
to South Africa. The ending OF the
war and. the absorption OF the Boer
,tates into the British Empire will
doubtless stimulate migration to those
regions and will also increase the op-
portunities of profitable settlement
there. But 1t will not be prudent tor
any one to go thither without some
capital, or at least sufficient resources
to maintain him for some time In inde-
pendence of anything he may or may
not do there. 1t is an expensive coun-
try to live in. aud the gold mines and
other sources of profit can be worked
only at considerable expense. II is a
country in which capital will find prof
table investment. but not one In which
the penniless adventurer is likely to
pick itp fortune.
Gilpin observer., 1900-07-19
4 DEADLY Wind.

The Samiel, or Sirocco. from the sa-
hara is the most deadly wind known.
When 1t blows the air is laden with the
finest specks OF sand. which instantly
sufYocate anybody who is foolhardy
enough to face II. At its approach.
which is indicated by a thick haze in
the horizon, travellers wrap their heads
In their turbans and cloaks. and throw
themselves on their faces with feet
toward II until II has passed. Too
often. however. whole caravans are
overwhelmed and buried by the Siroc-
co. A remarkable feature OF this dead
ly wind is the quick succession OF hot
and cold puffs. which differ In tenn
perature as much as twenty or thirty
degrees Fahrenheit. and greatly inten-
sify its terrible effects upon animal
life.
Gilpin observer., 1900-07-19
HE DIED IN POVERTY.
BECAUSE 1T IS THE USUAL END
OF GAMBLERS.
Maj. George NJ. White ''Cashes His Chips"
for the Last Time-His Varied Ex-
perionces on the Mississippi River In
the Flush Times."

One of the oldest and most expert
enced gamblers in the country died in
comparative poverty at his daughters
home at Orange, in Orange county Cal,
the other day He was Major George
M. White. For fifty years he made
gambling his sole pursuit. He knew
all the old-time ante-bellum sports of
the south; he travelled all over the
country and to the Bermudas, to Mex
leo and to Honolulu, for gaming rea-
sons, and. first and last. he won tens
of thousands of dollars. At one time
he was worth some $4,000 in racetrack
stock at st. Louis and water company
bonds of Memphis, Tenn, but he left
an estate of less than $500. Even that
was sent as gift to him in his old age
by circle OF young gamblers in New
Orleans. AS boy in the old St.
Charles hotel in New Orleans he saw
between rich planters, United States
senators and southern orators that
were ever played. Before he was 20
he was an adept at poker, and before
he was 25 he was rich and famous by
his remarkable success as faro deal
er. In 1897, at the age of 72 years,
he played his last game Of cards, and
with the few thousand dollars his de-
voted Wife had saved from his enorm-
Gus winnings in other days the old
couple came to live in California.
From that time he never touched cards
again. But he lived in the memory of
the old days when he sat about the
green table, and he was always glad to
chat reminiscently of all the big games
he participated in. He had remark
ably accurate memory for details.
There can be little doubt that he was
the best known faro dealer and round
table poker player there was on the
Mississippi river steamers in the last
years previous to the civil war. The
late Attorney General Garland once
said that the originator of many of the
fundamental principles OF draw poker
as 1t is known today was Major White.
The old gambler was fine type of the
old-fashioned gambler. He was prodi-
gal in his living, ready to bet on any
proposition, quite absteminous in his
habits, courteous to women, seldom ex-
cited and never ashamed of his calling.
He often introduced himself to strang-
ers as an ''honest, gentlemanly gam
bier" just as if there is such thing.
He was as famous for his reckless
extravaganza as for his unusual win
nings in his younger days. When the
First Louisiana regiment was formed
in 1861 to go to the civil war, Major
White dined the commissioned officers
at the old St. Charles hotel in New
Orleans at cost of 81 400. He never
quarreled and seldom raised his voice
He was sensitive about his meager
Gilpin observer., 1900-07-19
COLORADO'S
REVENUE LAWS.

Denver, July 16-As an Offset to the
muddied financial condition of the
state, Governor Thomas hopes to leave
as a legacy from his administration u
revised revenue law. From the begin
ming of his term of Office the governor
has insisted that new and better sys-
tenn OF assessment and collection of the
states revenues was needed. This has
been emphasized to him time and again
when controversies arose over the
funds in which the several ,appropria-
lions made by the last Legislature were
classed. Under the present system of
assessment, the auditor cannot tell
what will be the amount of revenue
until the returns are all in from the
county assessors September list and
the institution which received ap-
preparations must wait until then, to
Know whether there will be funds to
pay the amounts set apart for them.
There has been repeated controversy
between the heads of institutions and
state boards and the executive officers
over this state of affairs, and threats of
suits to mandamus the officers to pay,
wherether there was money or not,
have been made.
Yesterday Governor Thomas took tho
first step toward effecting a remedy
when he appointed commission Of
seven members to frame bill for the
assessment and collection of revenue
to meet and defray the necessary ex.
penses of the state, the bill to be sub
mitted to the next session of the Gen.
eral Assembly. The commission con
sists of Clay b. Whitford, Il. u. Whited.
Judge e. L. Wells, Lafayette Twitchell
and Joseph Israel of Arapahoe county;
Benjamin f. Montgomery of Teller
county. and William S. Buckley of San
Miguel county. The governor, in issu.
ing commissions to the appointees, re-
quests that they meet Immediately and
organize for their work.
AS the Legislature has made no pro.
vision for compensation for work of
the nature that the commission will do.
the governor will recommend in his
message to the next Legislature that
an appropriation be made for the pur.
pose.
Governor Thomas leaves the commits
sion free to exercise its own Judgment
in framing the law he desires, and no
plan of the work has yet been made.
Members of the commission said yes
terday that meeting of its members
would be called Immediately, at which
the work would be outlined and the
necessary subcommittee appointed
There will be sessions at stated inter
walls thereafter. Therevenue laws of
other states will be the basis of work
Governor Thomas said yesterday that
his reason for appointing a majority
OF the commission from Arapahoe
county was to insure quorum at
each meeting.
Gilpin observer., 1900-07-19
Workmen Fight on n Roof.

Chicago. July 1.-THE exciting spec
tacle of two men fighting iicrcely 175
feet above the ground. with constant
danger of being plunged to certain
death below, was witnessed by great
crowd about the new Coliseum build
ing.
Richard Collins was distributing cin-
ders about on the roof of the big struc->
ture. while j. Il. Howland was ut work
on the ground. 1I5 feet below. A brick
from above dropped and grazed his
head. Angered he went to the roof
and accused Collins OF dropping 5 1t.
They soon began to fight.
The roof Is only twenty -four feet
wide and slants Mt an angle of twenty
degrees. The fight took place on the
west side of the apex OF the roof A
misstep would have hurled the combat
ants to certain death on the stonework
below. Charles Wilson, foreman,
rushed to the scene In time to seize
the fighters as they were In imminent
peril of falling together over the edge
to waiting death. The men were sep.
aarted. and Wilson sent for the police,
who arrested the fighters. Howland
was seriously Injured.
Gilpin observer., 1900-07-19

According to the annual report of
the British comptroller-general of pat
ents, number of new acts have been
passed in Japan to amend the law of
patents, designs and trade marks. I'm
der these acts the duration of patent
is fixed at fifteen years, and of the
copyright of design ten years, sub
ject to the payment of annual fees.
The term of protection obtained by
registration of trade mark is fixed
at twenty years, except in the case of
trade marks previously registered
abroad, where the term is the same as
that for which the original registra-
tion is valid.