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The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1900-06-16
A Problem That Puzzles Many.

Which is most profitable, to go into
poultry raising for the sale of flesh
and eggs to consumers, or to go into
the raising of breeders to sell to other
people? Well, that depends on a good
many things. The man with no cap
ital is not likely to make much trying
to raise fancy poultry, unless he is
more than ordinarily fortunate in Sc
curing customers for his breeding
birds and eggs. 1t takes money to
find customers after the eggs and
breeding birds are produced. But if
a man has the money he can find the
customers. Inc finding of a market
for fresh eggs is not difficult. and
poultry meat can always be sold At
market prices.-Farmers' Review.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1900-06-16

The nervous little man with the meek,
straw-colored whiskers had already
tackled everybody else in the ear, but he
walked past the bushy-browed old party
several times before he mustered up
courage to say:
"Excuse me, sir, but I'm taking q
straw vote"
STRAW! straw" snarled the old man.
glazing like the first heavy villain in .
cheap melodrama. well I'm no suck
er."-Detroit News.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1900-06-16
STANDS For HIVES.

canno: be given very much attention
it will be better to make them after
style b. The slanting projection viii
prevent the hive entrance from be.
coming INSTRUCTED, and the loaded
bees that miss the alighting beard
and drop in front of the hives car
crawl up to the entrance.-Orang'
Judd Farmer.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1900-06-16
City of Gold"

An ingenious project for the coming
Paris exposition, and one which has
chances of being accepted, is that of the
City of Coda historical exhibition
Of the progress of banking. One sec-
ton will show the processes for OBJ
tanning the precious metals, with mod
els of the different kinds of mines; an
other will show the conversion of the
metals into coin, and the workings of
the mint; still another the progress
of all kinds of commercial papers, with
reproductions Of historical banks, from
the Strozzi and the Medici to the Roths-
childs and the Bank of France. There
will be a gallery of portraits of great
financiers, and a reconstruction Of the
Tont au Change as it was in the middle
ages, connected with streets represent
ing various historical periods.-N. Y.
Sun.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1900-06-16
Persia.

The kingdom of Persia was founded
by Cyrus the Great. who reigned from
Il. c. $50 to b. c. 500. From his Access
sion 10 the present time there have been
four great d~ynasties, which, with their
collateral branches, have ruled the
country during the intervening time.
In all. Persia has had about 1ls kings
Persian, Tartar. Greek and MoguL-
Chicago Inter Ocean.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1900-06-16
DEVICE FOR
Which Has Annoyed Poultry Rails
ers for q Long Time.

Almost all the brooders, whether
factory made or home made, have q
lower story for the lamp and an up
per floor in which the chicks are how
cred. making necessary an inclined
board for the chicks to run up on.
They are constantly getting under
this board, and often become chilled
because they do not know enough to
walk the plank" properly. The cut
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1900-06-16
STANDS O. HIVES.
ponds Much of the Succex of
the Beckceper.

In making stands for hives, we
make them six inches high and the
length and width of the hive, using
common seven-eighths inch lumber
If the ground in front of the hives lie
kept free from weeds and tall grass
the style a will do. But if the bees
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1900-06-16
Fish Aids Science.

There appears to be no limit to SCI
entific curiosity, especially in Germany.
Recently Herr Regnard at Leipsic, wish
ing to ascertain whether fish are warm
er than the water they live in, stuck
a needle connected with a thermo-elec-
trio circuit into a living fish in an
aquarium. The needle formed N ele-
Dent of the circuit, while the other
element was immersed in the same
water that contained the fish. Tho
latter was not seriously injured by the
needle, and quickly became Indifferent
to it. Then, rs the fish swan about,
carrying the needle, the ingenious Ia
want closed the circuit and kept watch
of the galvanometer. 1t showed no de-
Election whatever, from which he con
cluded that the fish and the water were
precisely equal in temperature. for had
either been warmer than the other Q
current would have been generated in
the circuit.-Youth's Companion.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1900-06-16

Throw physic TO the dogs-if you don't
want the dogs-tut if you want good diges-
ton chew Beeman's Pepsin Gum.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1900-06-16

A sure way to attract people who want to
talk is to have a book you want to read
Washington Qa.) Democrat.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1900-06-16

."Did he prove to be a strong c~andidate?'
mo, the second assessment broke him.
Detroit journal.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1900-06-16
He Knew.

Papa-Perhaps you don't undertand
what pro-Boer is.
Johnny-Oh, yes! He's a man that
roots for the Boers.-Puck.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1900-06-16

A good many failures are due to the fact
that the so-called opportunities in . mans
life are not labeled.-Atchison Globe.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1900-06-16

1t is a good plan to 60 over the
fences at once and see that they are
in good repair.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1900-06-16

Piso's Cure cannot be too highly spoken q
Ave, n, Minneapolis, Mimi, Jan. 9, 1900.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1900-06-16

Low, is ike butter. If of the melting sort,
. Little goes q long way.-Ally Sloper.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1900-06-16

Thirty minutes Is all the time required to
dye with PUTNAM FADELEss DIES. Sold by
all druggists
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1900-06-16

True courtesy is of the heart. = Rams
Horn.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1900-06-16

Lots of people standing up inside q crowd.
ed street car simply means so many riders
are strapped for room.-Buffalo NewA
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1900-06-16

Prof. Chas. P. Curd, St. Louis, Mo-
writes: We unhestitatingly attribute tho
recovery and continued good health Of our
little boy to Teethina (Teething Powders).
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1900-06-16

WHITING TO ADvERTI9ERl
please state that you raw the Advertise
Aent In this paper.
Daily inter mountain., 1900-11-24

American millionaire whose doings mad
set the boulevards of Paris agog had be-
come self-confldent in his newly acquired
fame and no request was considered too
bold for him to make He negotiated for
the services of the musicians and Sc
cured them. and King Leopold listened at
Mr.. Walsh's dinner to the wierd, delight
full music Of the czar's own band and ate
of the dainties prepared by an American
chef.
Probably the item that commands most
attention in the history of Mr.. Walsh
next to his becoming associated with
real king in business, is the one that
places his income at 100000 a year. 1t
explains his eXtravagances satisfactor-
lily. With 100000 d month. even in Paris
at the exposition season. one may be law
ish.
HIS LIFE STORY.
1t is just fifty years ago since Thomas
Walsh was born in Tipperary, ireland.
Twenty live years later he was labor
er in the sewer department in Worcester,
Mass.
Just a few months ago he refused $S5,-
COO, 600 for his Camp Bird mine in Colo
rado. He thinks it is worth more.
Away back during the great Leadvllle
rush Tom Walsh became proprietor of
the Grand Celtral hotel there. Even in
those days he was an ideal host. He
acquired the reputation of always being
athletic put up friend. even if that
friend didn't happen to have the price
Of a nights lodging.
In spite of his generosity the hotel
proved a bonanza. Between his duties as
host he was busy prospecting to such
good purpose that at the end of year or
two he had made discoveries of gold In
the Black Hills which he sold outrighs
for 100000
This was the first real start of his ul-
innate millions.
He now had seventy-five men at work
for him on his claims far and near. and
he was not infrequently among them in
flannel shirt and overalls trying his
hand at the pick. He became an adept
at the study of ores.
When he announced his belief that val-
liable deposits were to be found in the
Camp Bird region the old miners laughed
at him. They We're accustomed to looking
for gold in low attitudes.
He let them scoff at him and went to
work in an altitude of 1900 feet, a spot
where his claim was perpetually threat
ened with the danger of being utterly
obliterated by avalanches. His persist
ence won it's reward. Today he is sole
owner OF what is considered the largest
gold and silver mining property owned
by one person in the world.
I'rti. three years ago Mr.. Walsh lived
in the west and was constantly at Camp
Bird looking after the welfare of his men.
He built a hotel fitted to accommodate
400. He equipped it with porcelain tubs,
steam heat smoking rooms, reading
rooms, and made it all over to his en-
ployes al minimum cost
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considerable amount in the aggregate.
The greatest amounts expended have
been at the three big displays made at
Madison Square. While l am not prepared
to say just what they cost, the aggre-
gate will be in the neighborhood of $685.
600, and it probably went beyond that
amount. Some of the set pieces We're
very costly, and the people who fur
nished the display had practically carte
blance in the use Of bombs. mines, cam
non cracker and everything else needed
that each successive display might ex-
ceed that which preceded It, When one
thinks that in addition to the chemicals
he saw burned at the Square there was
each night continuous display all along
the lines OF march, he can easily see
how the expense ran up. The campaign
was a little late in coming, but it was
red hot when it did come, and you can
bet that it spelled prosperity for dealers
in fireworks, whoever the candidate they
We're being burned for might be-"
Daily inter mountain., 1900-11-24
GOSSIP ABOUT PLOPLE.

The height of luxurious travelling has
been reached by the czar and czarina.
The empress private car is upholstered
in pale blue satin. The electric lights
are all in the form of lilies, and the car
contains writing and tea tables made OF
mother of pearl. The nursery is the next
compartment, and is as comfortable and
handsome as the same rooms in any of
the cars palaces. There are dining
rooms and drawing rooms and several
sleeping apartments; in fact, this train
is miniature palace. The wheels are
covered with india rubber tires.
1t will possibly startle the Emperor
William to learn that he has been found
guilty by an Industrious enumerator, of
the delivery of no fewer than 700
speeches in the course of the last ten
years. This works out at an average Of
nearly a speech and a half for every
week of the decade, and is a decidedly
liberal allowance even for a sovereign
whose extraordinary f1uency is said to
be more embarrassing to the stenograph-
ers than it has occasionally been to his
ministers.
The duke Of Richmond and Gordon
holds strohg views about gambling, and
will not allow card playing for high
stakes in his houses. The younger men,
bers of his family. however, are more
up to ldte and On the occasion of large
house party at Goodwood, the duke hay
ing, as they believed, retired early a
game was proposed, Just to give an
usual accompaniment, Just to give an
interest in the game Play went on
merrily for some time. The party had
warmed up to considerable excitement,
| when suddenly the door opened and the
host appeared! In his usual courtly, yet
pleasant, way he smilingly observed that
let was getting late, made few tactful
but firm remarks about his rules, and
the party quickly dispersed bedward.
Daily inter mountain., 1900-11-24
MISCELLANEOUS
"PYROTECHNIC YEAR."

This year will go down as the 'pyro-
technic year in our political history"
said one of the Park Place fireworks deal
ers on Saturday afternoon. as he was
figuring up the profits for his house for
the month OF October Never in any
political campaign in this city has there
been such a demand for fireworks OF all
kinds, but particularly for the costlier
sorts, as in the one now coming to a
close. While there has been a good de-
mand throughout the whole country.
there has been no such increased demand
as there has been right here in town.
During the last two weeks very many
thousand dollars worth Of fireworks
have been burned in what now coEsti-
tutes the City of New York. Every por-
ton of the city has seen burning rockets.
roman candles, and red and green lights
in enormous quantities as sideshows TO
the cart-tail and district meetings that
have been held about every assembly
district in town. The greatest amount
of powder has been burned on the lower
east side and in the borough of the
Bronx. While these have been inexpen-
sive displays individually, they cost a
Daily inter mountain., 1900-11-24
TAKING PICTURES
OF The HEAVENS

To photograph and map out the en-
tire heavens-to search with the cam
era. the profoundest depths of space
to bring to light all the heavenly bodies
far beyond the vision of the most pow
erful telescone-to tabulate and cata-
logue millions of stars--iS the stupend
Gus task which the International Astro-
graphic congress set itself to perform
when it convened in Paris. April is, 1887.
The work of this congress is nearly
completed. and already sections OF the
star charts are being printed and sent
to the eighteen different ohservatories
Interested in the undertaking.
Mapping the entire heavens Will prove
an epoch makinS enterprise. Future
generations will chronicle the achieve
ment as one of the greatest Of this cen
tury, and each astronomer aiding the
work will hold Il charter 10 fame.
Forty-fiye delegates. representing the
fifteen most enlightened nations. delib-
Grated for nine days in Paris in 1887, de-
ciding to make the great star map, and
eighteen cbesryatories We're appointed TO
do the work. The meeting was the re-
suit of suggestion made on June 4, 1885,
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THE "MOP" AT srRATFoRD.

''Oh, that this too too solid flesh would
melt" was doubtless the appropriate line
culed from him whom our Gallo negh-
bors delight to honor as tine divine
Williams" present to the .iinds of rcsi-.
dents and many thousands Of excurs-
ionists to Stratford-on-Avon, as. huns
CRY eyed, they watched the slow process
of five oxen and about a dozen porkerS
being roasted whole on spits at a fire.
places erected in the streets. 1t was the
annual Mop" or statute fair. dating
from a remote time several centuries
back, which successfully withstood the
efforts of the local clergy to abolish it
some years ago, and has since gradually
increased in extent and popularity.
Numerous special trains from the Mid
lands and two from London ran into tho
town for the Mop" and the historic
footways were for hours made impass-
able by the largest crowds ever recorded.
London Telegra phi.
Daily inter mountain., 1900-11-24
The QUESTION OF HEREDITARY GENIUS
By Franklin Sylvester, N. D.

During the past week. one OF our great
American orators, lawyer laid down
the following startling proposition:
"thhldren who are descended from illus
trious ancestors are invariably delicate
and require the best of care and nour-
ishment."
From the standpoint of the medical
profession a great deal may be said in
favor OF this lawyers statement.
1t is common saying that clever peo-
pie seldom have clever children, just as
it is often remarked that the children Of
ministers grow up Wild
There Is very good foundatio in
fact for this belief, not so much because
the laws of nature SO order it, but be-
cause of series of CO. ordinating causes
For instance, as Sir Francis Galton
has pointed out. in his "Hereditary Ge-
MUS clever men are frequently led to
apply themselves to study because Of
physical weakness in childhood.
When boy is SO delicate that he can
not join in the games cf the playground
he naturally takes to some purely in
tellectual occupation and pursues it un-
til talent buds and blossoms into genius.
Thus his physical weakness was the ni-
tial cause Of hi Intellectual strength.
Ine children of such a man would very
probably be even more delicate than the
father and would be forbidden to indulge
in any sort of vigorous work or recrea-
ton.
Again, it is often the case when boy
has celebrated father that he banks too
much upon his fathers name and reputa-
ton. He finds it is easier to do so than
to set TO work to make a name for HIM
self. His personal ambition is sated with
his fathers achievements, and he allows
Daily inter mountain., 1900-11-24

said a wholesale dealer in gems to the
writer yesterday. 1.-The name topaz gen.
orally suggests only a yellow stone, yet
there are light blue, brown and green
varieties, which are Frequently sold as
aquamarines. The genuine aquamarine
may, however, be easily distinguished
from topaz. as the former stone more
closely resembles the color of green sea
salt. Besides. the topaz admits OF a high
er polish. and is extremely slippery to
the touch. Strange no say, the yellow
topaz, when slightly heated, becomes
pink; heated further, the pink grows
paler, and by long heating it is entirely
expelled. leaving the gem colorless. The
sherrycolored or brown topaz is bleached
in a very short time by the rays of the
sun or strong daylight, and all the white
topazes found in nature have been color
lied in this way. The topaz is found in
granite rocks in Siberia, Japan, Peru.
Ceylon. Brill andMnndie, taoisndrultaoi
Ceylon. Brazil ana Maine, and in volcan-
ic rocks in Colorado, Utah, and New
Observation-Disclosures Star.
Daily inter mountain., 1900-11-24

But for astronomical purposes the hu-
man eye is a thing Of the past. The cam
era has taken mans place at the eye
end of the telescope. The order of the
stars the secrets of the sky, unveil them
selves before the patient stare of the
photogra phic plate. AS Herschel has
said, the camera is the retina that for
gets not It discerns stars beyond the
range of the best telescopes. In the at
mosphere of Paris the satellite of Nep-
tune was never seen by the telescope:
every part of its orbit was measured on
a Photographic plate.
The lens of the camera is of more as
trronomical value than the lens of the
finest telescope. More accuracy obtains
i'll measuring a plate than was possible
in visual measurement. One five hum
dred thousandths of an inch and less on
a Photographic plate furnishes data
for accurate star measurement: where
the telescope will show but $4,000, 900
stars, the sensitized plate exhibits more
than 160 000 600.
Again, owing to the great sensitive
ness of modern plates the images thrown
upon them may be highly magnified
while the exposure is kept very short.
LITTLE TIME REQUIRED.
Five One-thouSandthS of q second is all
the time required to photograph a star
of the first magnitude. Stars visible TO
the naked eye may be photographed in
half a second those of the fourteenth
magnitude requiring thirteen minutes.
By exposing a plate for an hc).r all the
stars down to the fourteenth magnitude
| inclusive will be marked on the plate
each in proportion to it's power and the
! duration of the exposure.
| Though light travels at the incon-
| ceivable velocity of 1S7. 900 miles second
! yet light from some stars in the range of
the telescope takes $3.50 years to reach
| the earth. We may see on the photo
graphic plate pictures Of stars. not as
| they are, but as they We're perhaps half
a million years ago: light is still reach
| ing us from stars which have long since
become extinct
1t is possible that the plate of the cam
era is today catching from stars light
which has been travelling earthward
million of years-which may, indeed.
| have set out toward the earth before this
| planet came into existence.
The first star photograph was a da-
| guerrotype of Vega taken at Harvard
College, July Il, 1850. The younger Bond,
by the collodon process, obtained in 1857
| photographs of stars of the first magni-
| tude.
No serious effort was made in stellar
photography until after 1882, when DR..
Gill photographed the comet of that year
Daily inter mountain., 1900-11-24

mosphere. climate and season have rem
dered necessary the spending of a num-
Der of years.
VOLTS great map of the PieladeS,
whereon but 6Il stars are shown. took
many years of the closest visual obser-
walton to complete. Today, photography,
in an hours exposure. shows l.42l stars
of the same group. furnishing accurate
data for calculations unattainable by
visual means. Telescope observations
during eclipses are now subordinate 10
rhotogra phic records. Rapidly chang
ing objects in the heavens-objects too
tieeting to be observed by the eye-are
caught on the sensitized plate and stored
VI. for leisurely study.
The photographic plate is accumula-
tive and permanent. whereas the retna
Of the eye only retains its impression for
& tenth of a second at the most.
Beyond that effacement and renewal
continually go on.
For ordinary purposes it is well that
this is SO. Did not our eyes possess the
faculty OF obliteration past occurrences
only would be ever before our vision.
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at the Cape of Good Hope Observatory.
He attached an ordinary portrait lens
with Il two-inch aperture and focus of
eleven inches to the telescope. using the
instrument as a finder to the camera.
Photographs lasting from half an hour
to two hours and twenty minutes We're
taken.
The new Photographic map is preceded
by a visual map commenced quarter of
Il century ago by Bonn and completed
by Argeander. It's subject was a great
star census. 1t was begun in the North
ern Hemisphere and brought by Schon-
field to within 20 degrees of the equator.
This 'Durehmusterung,'' or roll call of
the stellar army" is divided into two
sections. and tabulates $4,000 stars.
Stars not entered in it have no official
existence should they vanish the fact
cannot be attested: should they brighten
into conspicuousness they must be re-
sarded as new for lack of previous &c
Quaintance. Whatever is known of the
distribution of stars is taken from that
enumeration. Il
The photographc map proposed by DR..
Gin will extend from SChonfeld's S zone to
the South Pole. and will include all stars
up to the fifteenth magnitude. The tout
teenth magnitude stars are on the I1hltt
Of faintness. Beyond these stars photp-
graphic images are vague.
In connection With the Photographic
map is a catalogue which will prove of
more Importance. Plates showing four
teenth magnitude stars are over exposed
for the more brilliant ones. and are use
less for minutely accurate calculations.
Short exposure plates reaching to the
eleventh magnitude have been taken
with view to cataloguing 100000 stars
as reference points for the S0,0oo,o0O
crowded on the big chart plates.
The magnitude of the stars can be de-
termined from the photographs by COM
laring the size of their image on the
plate. or by measuring the time that
elapses before they produce sensible
! impression. T.
The photometric range of the eye-its
| capacity to measure the intensity of light
| competence below the eleventh and
| twelfth magnitudeS. The sensitive plate
| measuring light by the clock. records
| the gradation between faint objects more
! precisely than between bright ones be-
! cause the intervals of time are longer.
| Stars of the first two or three magni-
tudes can be photographed in the frac-
| tion of a second; stars of the thirteenth
teenth eighty minutes and so on.