The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1900-12-15

Central came in on the 2::3O train to-
day and will go over the Houck road
to Gray's Point where they intend to
make necessary preparations to put in
a telegraph line from that place here.
Exchange: A. Bible and a news
paper in every house, a good school
IN every district-all studied and ap-
preciated as they merit, are the prin-
cipal support of virtue, morality and
civil liberty.
Hon. j. NJ. Seibert, of Jefferson
City is in the city. Mr.. Seibert's term
of Office as state auditor will expire on
the first of next January and he will
be a private citizen then for the first
time for more than twenty years.
Hon. Louis Houck addressed the
people of Oak Ridge and Jackson last
Saturday on the subject of the extern
sion of Houck's Missouri and Arkan-
sas Railroad from Cape Girardeau
through Jackson and Oak Ridge.
William Paar, Bob Tirmenstein,
William B. Schaefer and Claus kerst-
ner, of Jackson, were in the city last
night. They came down to attend the
annual meeting of the stockholders of
the Cape Brewery & Ice Company.
The we'll at the brewery is now six
hundred and ten feet deep, five hundred
and six feet of that depth being
through a solid rock. The boring
machine runs day and night and it is
the intention of the men who have
charge of the work to bore through
that rock if it takes all summer
A. o. Genung, of the Southeast
Gazette has concluded to abandon
Cape Girardeau and remove his paper
to Ava, Illinois. He says in his fare
we'll editorial that Cape Democrats
have failed to sustain the Gazette as
they should. Bro. Genung published
a good paper, and deserved better
support, but Ben Adams still survives.
BLOOMFIELD indicator.
A preacher out in Kansas who had
charge of two churches in the same
city, one in the west end and the other
in the east end, in making his an
nouncements one Sunday for the fol-
lowing Sunday said: 81 will preach
at eleven o'clock in the morn
ing at the West End, and at four
O'Clock in the East End; children will
be baptized at both ends"
People kiss their dead who never
kiss their living: they hoverover open
caskets with hysterical sobs, but fail
to throw their arms about their loved
ones who are fighting the stern battles
of life. A word of cheer to struggling
souls in life is worth more than all
the roses in Christendompiled high on
casket covers. The dead cannot smell
the flowers but the living can; scatter
; them broadcast in their pathway,
therefore, and pick out the thorns be-
fore it is too late.-EX.
There is no better place in South-
east Missouri to buy holiday presents
than in this city. Almost every house
that handles this line of goods has this
year put in an exceptionally large
stock. The goods sold now vary con-
siderably from the goods sold a few
wears back. Time was when the
cheaper articles we're in more demand
and sought after by all classes, but
now the higher grade article. that
which is substantial and useful is de-
manded by the public. This year has
evidence of being a prosperous one for
our holiday dealers.
1t has been agreed hal newspaper
subscriptions are IN iGfallibie test OF
a mans honesty. The will discover
the man. If he j. dishonest, he will
, cheat the printer in some way-de-
clare he has paid whca he has not
sent ;he money by mail. which was
iost-wiiI take the paper and not pay
for it. on the ground that he never
subscribed for it-or move oil and
leave it coming to the Office he left.
Thousands of alleged Christians are
dishonest in this particular, at least,
and the printers book will tell some
fearful tales at the final Judgment
Excelsior Standard.
]. T. Schwepker, proprietor of The
Boston has just returned from the
city and is to-day receiving a large
lot of Apples, Oranges. Bananas,
Grapes. Nuts and Candies which he
is going to sell cheap-all a No.
new goods-the best the market af-
fords. There's your chance to get
something good to eat for the Christ,
mas Holidays. Opposite Post-Oflice.
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