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-a CAPE GIRARDEAU, MISSOURI, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1896. Vol. XXI No 33. DEMOCRAT PRINTING GO., Publisbers. mat - I FOUND DEAD. Patrick Queenan is No More. He Was Found Dead In His lied This Tuesday Morning. Patrick Queenan an old citizen of this city was found dead in his bed in this city last Tuesday morning:. Mr. Queenan was on the streets Monday apparently in good health. When found in his bed he was lying on his back and there was nothiug about his appearance to indicate that he had suffered. It is evidtnt that he died of heart failure and lureathed his last without a struggle. Tho deceased was alwut seventy- five years of age. He leaves no fam ily. He was a member of Justi Post No. 73. G. A. R. Typhus-Antitoxin. Washington, D. U., Nov. 3). Commercial Agent Suwter reports to the State Department -from Glaucha, Germany, on recent experiments by Profs. Pfeipper and Kallo with ty- phns-antitoxin." 5f the hopes of liie Professors are re!i;:edmedieai science will receive a raw valuable accession through their discoveries. The expe rimenters believ that typhus .germs, like -cholera germs, may be traced back to the existence in the Wood of anti-typhoid substances. The "typhoid bacillus is known to exist largely in well and spring water, and the fact that they are frequently Ice direct causes of infection is recognized by bacteriologist-. Consequently the exieriments, the report sets forth, tend to trace the existences of these germs and by locating them, preserv ing numberl-jss lives. It ist-nown that between the- ages of 2'J and 25 persons are most pre n-.- to the devcl jpment of the typhus erms. It is claimed that the 'typhue-aalitoxin" can easily and quickly be inoculated, proving of great benefit, especially in time of ep idemic. Tiie entire results' of the ex perinunts v.i!! soon be published for the benefit of 'he medical world. A. O. I. V. Mectins. Caps LroJgu No. l.'w, A. O. U. W., held a very interesting meeting on Tuvsday night. Frank L Bahn, Dep uty Graud Master Workman was present and presided. ar.d an unusu ally l.trg number of members were in attendance. The ::nnual election of officers re ulili -:d ;.. I:;.. iiio.l!ig oiiic -rs: i '. A . 1 . - i. k . Virg. F. Adams. Foreman. H. V. Wilier, Overseer. Go. E. Chap-pell, Financier. E. A. Siminel. Recorder. I. Be.3 Miller, Receiver. II. II. Juden. Guide, .las. Wilder J. W. C. Keureke, O. W. Jos. Merer, Trustee, A;i -lijrc.icans who are members of the Lolgf- were elected as Medical Examiners. The following delegates were chosen to represent this Lodge at a union meeting of all Lodges in the eounty at Jaeksoc on Thursday, December 5th, viz: W. II. Bohnsaek, F. A. Kage, J. S. MeGheo, H. R. Wilier, Jos, Meyer, E. V. Fientge, J no. W. Taylor, W. II. Huters, Alex. Ross Ben Schwab and Virg. P. Adams. STEPHENS TO OFFICE-SEEKERS. No .More Applicants lor Warden, Physician. Secretary and Adjus lant (general Need Apply. Hot Springs, Ark., December 1. Gov.-cIectLon V. Stephens stated to the. "Globe-Democrat" correspondent to-night at the Arlington Hotel that after careful consideration of the claims of the various applicants he had decided upon his choice for War den, prison physician, private secre tary ar.d Adjutant General. He stated emphatically that no further applica tions or reeonvnendations for any of these places would bo considered. Gov. -elect Stephens stated further that he had notified the individuals decided upon for the above positions by letter, but uid cot care just now to give their names for publication. lie said he had not yet considered the ciaicis of applicants ft).- Excise Com missioner of St. Louis, nor for any oth'.r positions in St. Louis orlvansas City. '"I am here for rest a;id recuperation, and my reasons for leaking tuaso ap pointments now is to dispose of them. so as not to hi further bothered with communications frem office-seekers that are pouring in upon aia by every mail. My health is improving, and 1 hope to bo all right in a few weeks." ART OF ELECTIONEERING. A Campaigner Writes l"p a Few i Notes from Observation I With some men electioneering is a ; fine art. They can shake hands with i the mother and kiss tho baby with j great unction and apparent relish, j There is Judge 'who will walk j through the streets at a rally before j he mai.e.s his speeca ar.d spcau to everybody he meets. He once im parted to tic in a low voice the pN' osophy of his conduct. "If these men don't know me. '' ho said, '"there is no Lam do:.--: they do I mr.si not fail to recognize them.'' Sometimes a man whom he had been greeting would refer to a previovs conversa tion or a letter, or some other awk ward circumstance which he could not remember. In every case, however, he parried the stroke so skillfully that the ma n k ft without the stightest idea that he had not been recognized. The Judge's face was a perpetual smile. Sometimes whe& he saw a man approaching he would ask me that man's name, but from the greeting which followed, the inquiries about the family and the news of the neigh borhood, one would imagine tfiat the two had leen upon -ho most intimate terms since boyhood. The Judge could carry his State by a larger ma jority than any other man in it. Many of the old farmers lave great reverence for election day. I met one this year, a man SO years oid. who showed me with great enthusiasm a pair of boots which had been newly greased and blackened for the occa sion. He told me these sere his "elec tion boots." whu-li he had worn for twenty-eight years. There were little holes in them at different places to accommodate them to the corns of the wearer. He remarked that four years ago his feet were so tore he could not put them on. and that was undoubted ly what occasioned the doss of the ticket. This ye-ir they were all right, and he felt gaeat confidence in the re sult. Sometimes these farmers have a verv homely but clear way of putting things. Four years ago I spoke in a room over tho store in a small village in Indiana, The day was inclement, yet the farmers gathered in considerable numbers. One of the hardest looking men in the audience was a stont old fellow in canvass trousers begrimed wiih mud, who. in answer to an in quiry regarding his health, siid that he was "afflicted considerably with the rheumatiz. but could hardly ex pect anything better, since he was so years old." Turning the conversa tion to politics, he began to sum up the tariff question, which was then pending, as follows: "It seems to me that the Republicans is elaimin' that it is the duty of the Government to take care of the rich, in hopes that the rich may then take care of the poor" a statement which to a Imj lie.ver in Hio tnritt' reform represented by G rover Cleveland seemed to epito mise the Democratic argument as well as anything lever heard. I afterwards learned that this old fellow had by frugality and good management acquired a farm of some 500 acres inthe neighborhood, and that ho was one of the wealthiest men in the country. It does not do to count upon appearances in making an estimate of the men who attended these meetings. Correspond ence of City and State, Philadelphia Handsome Horses for McKlnlcy. Washington. D. C, Xovember 2J. President-elect McKinley will prob ably have two of the handsomest horses ever seen in Washington. The late (Jen. Joseph T. Torrence, of Chi cago, possessed as line a stable of horses as was owned in the Windy City. It was the General's intention before his death that v.o magnificent brown horses, tie best matched pair in his stables, should be presented to Mr. McKinley to lido behind to the Capitol on inauguration day, in the event of his election. The General left no written wii! to this effect, but it is said that his daughter, Mrs. Ma goun, who has come into possession of the estate, will probably carry out her father's wish and present the horses to the IVeside.-it-eljct, and that they will take their place in the White Houso ht&bies or. the 4th of March. l!uckk'ns Arnica Salve. Tho best salvc-in the world for cuts, bruises, sores, ulcers, sait rheum, fever sores, tetter, chapped hands, chilblains, corns, acd all skin crup tiins, and positively cures piles, or no pay required, it is guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction or money refunded Price 25 cents per boz. For saie a V. C. Hainan's. A NEW REMEDY. More Effective I han An titoxin. A Cape Glrard-.-au I.ajy Haa I)lscov cred a Remedy That Is n sure Cure for That Death Deal ing IJIsease Diphtheria. Lc..rat .i 2icii, scier.tis chemists, do"tr;v. Teat and small, the world over, have watched, have studied, have experimented with medicine, have searched jneuiea! wo'-ks, ancient' and modern, for a remedy, for a treat ment for that dreadful, that awful, that fatal disease diphtheria. They have brought forth this remedy, that remedy, this treatment and that treat ment. They have treated the disease with all the remedies, old and r.cw. They have experimented with ail kinds of medicines and all kir.ds of combi nations of medicines with -little effect and without the slightest reduction in the mortality where diphtheria made its appearance. The doctors have discussed diDhtheria and its treatment at their Association meet ings. They have argued the case in the consultation corner have ex changed opinions on the road to and from suffering patients, and still they have made no progress in tht treat ment of the disease. It is diphtheria yet the same old, sneaking fatal dis ease that has filled countless graves with the youth of the land. Until Prof. Bering', after years of research and arduous experimental work made the discovery that the no ble horse carried in his artrie the long looked for enemy to diphtheria, was there fany progress made in its treatment' The news of Prof. Ber ing's wonderful discovery was Hashed over the wires throughout the civilized world. But medical men could not would not believe the story of the discovery. They waited, th'-y watch ed to see what would Vcoir.e of the new discovery. It was tried and it proved all Prof. Bering claimed for it. In cities where diphtheria was epidemic its use reduced the mortality nearly severity-five per cent. This introduction of antitoxin was a new era in the practice of medVire. The new remedy was discussed i; t';e medical journals and accounts .r its wounderful virtues filled columns of the big city papers ail over the coun try. Doctors liecsi me convinced that there was something in the medicine and in the larger cities its use was adopted b the most eminent physi cians with wonderful results. There was however a drawback. Antitoxin was too costly for general use among the poor classes. This caused many physicians to hesitate about introduc ing it in their praeth-e and that class of physicians cried it down. In th'dr own minds antitoxin was the remedy bat to their patients and the public they would not so express themselves. Men eminent in the medical profes sion were ready for any new remedy for tho treatment of diphtheria. They were ready to drop the books and adopt any new method that might be suggested, and when antitoxin was in troduced they did drop their books and as a result thousands of cases of the fatal disease were cured. But the country doctors were unbe lievers. They clung to the old books to the ancient remedies and to the old way of treatment, and many of them are still turning the lea ves of the old shelf-worn, moth-eaten books while the little fresh mounds in the cemeter ies mark the resting place of patient after patient. They cannnot will not get out of the old rut. There is nothing new in medical science for them. They are ' doctors have their diplomas from some medical college and there is nothing more for them to learn. Now we have a new diphtheria rem edy, discovered by a Can;; Girardeau lady, that has been tried on patients in this city and proved to be a speedy and certain cure. It has been admin istered to patients that the doctors pronounced incurable and the patients were saved. It is a remedy that can be procured without trouble and at a trifling cost in any community. It was used here last week right under a doctor's nose and th? sufferer recov ered. The remedy has beer, tried on patients in several families and it cured in every case. Doctors wi!! laugh at ttiis r.-v.- discovery as many of i hem did at antitoxin. The Uoston star Says Dr. Kauffmann's great book on diseases, its causes and home cure, with fine colored plates, is the Lest work ever published. A copy will be sent free to anybody who sends three 2-cent stamps, to pay postngc. to A. P. Ordw.iv & Co., Boston, Mass.' HEAVY ICE COMING. Preparations to Put River Craft In Winter Quarters. Sunday and Monday wero busy days for the Harbor and Wharf De partment. Word came that icr had left Kansas City in large quantities and the scavenger and street boats had to be got in shape for retreat to whiter quarters. f.f the department will be safely har-l-otvS and if the weather map indicates a continuance of the present snap all but two scavenger boats and two street bots A'iil be retired Tiic-suay. The remaining boats will be placed at the foot of Locust street and the foot of Chouteau avenue. Nearly all the packets are also go ing into winter quarters. Capt. Whitledgc, Acting Commis sioner,e.xpeet,s if all the predictions of a severe winter are realized, that the river will be frozen from four to six j weeks. The river has K-cn rather high and tho water, therefore, chills slowly, but if thepresentcpldcontinuesanother week, the stream will close. Post Dispatch. Cscs of Aluminum. it is claimed that aluminum plates are destined to become the universal material for lithographic printing, which means a revolution in tho litho gr:.phieart.,Of all the-metals that have been tried besides aluminum, says the Aluminum World," to replace the cumbersome lithographic stone, zinc is the only metal which has given any satisfaction, but U wasfound that zinc could not lie depouded upon. To in sure good work the zir.c plates must be absolutely pure, and even then many colors can rot lie printed from zinc with safety. Aluminum has been proven to be as good as stone. The metal approaches the physical prop erties of lithographic stone from its ability to absorb fats or slimy sub stances. Racing skates are now :.,adeoi alum inum, affording at the same lime ex ceptional strength ar.d lightness, a pair weighing only 2 ounces. Aluminum articles for the toilet are now made in rreat varirlv. amonir. other things, combs, razor handles and hairpins. Pens made of an aluminum is claimed write easily and alloy it do i.ot rust. A company has put on the market aluminum guitars, banjos, mandolins and iutinas. The instruments are nride out of one piece of sheet alumi num l'' -" rl pit. T!.y arc satin-liiiisiied, anil not only make a beautiful looking instrument, but give a rich tone. A Hoy's First C lrcus. A thud of unseen hoofs first set us a-quiver: then a crash of cymbals, a jangle of bell-i, a hoarse applauding roar, and Coralio was in the midst of us, whirling .ast. 'twi.xt carthand sky, now erect, H: sh, radiant, now crouch- ed to the ficrting mane; swung and tossed and molded bv tho maddenimr dance music of the band. The mighty whip of the count in the frockcoat marked time with pistol shots: his waf cry. whooping clear above the music, tired the blood with a passion for splendid deeds, as Coralie, laughing exultant, crashed through the paper hoops. We griptR-d the red cloth in front of us, and our souls sped round charged with going out of his juris aud round with Coralie. leaping with j diction to sell stamps and postal sup her. prone w ith her. swungby mane or ! 1''' s a3 to increase the receipts of tail with her. It was not only the rav- j his office and raise his salary and al ishment of her delirious feats, nor her i lowances. This is regarded as a cream-colored horse or fairy breed, j serious violation of the rules and loug-tai'.ed. roefooted, an enchanted j works to the detriment of adjacent of- prince surely, if ever there was one. It was her more than mortal beauty displayed, loo, under conditions never vouchsafed to us before that held us spellbound. What princess had arms so dazzling white, or icpnt ilnt iefi trt v clothed in such l.ink and spanglesr i Hitherto we had known the outward woman as but a drab thing, hour-glass shaped, nearly legless, bunched here, constricted there: slow of movement, and given to depreciating lusty action of limb. Here was a revelation! From henceforth our imaginations would have to be revived and corrected up to date. In one of those swift rushes the mind makes in high-strung moments I saw myself and Coralie. close enfold ed, pacing the world together, o'er hill and plain, through storied cities, past rows of applauding relations I in my Sunday knickerbockers, she in her pink and spangles. Scribncr's for December. Croub and Wlioopins Cough. Ballard's Horehound Syrup will promptly relievo Croupan:l Whooping Cough. It will euro the worst Cough or Cold. It never disappoints. Try it. Sold by Wilson Drug store AN ASSIGNMENT. J. T. Batts Turns Over. UisAssetts Will More Than Cover Ills Liabilities. J. T. Batts, dealer in gent3 furnish ing goods, assigned Thursday evening National Bank, was made the assignee Local creditors, we understand, caus ed Mr. Batis to assign. It is said that the assetts will more than cover his liabilities and in a final settlement j his creditors will get every cent due I them. Mr. Batts recently started up a dress making establishment and in doing so over-reached himself. We hope his business will not be long suspended. j POSTMASTER MASON REMOVED Mexico (Mo.) Official Charged with Pernicious Activity During tho Campaign. Washington, D. C, November 3t. The President to-day made the fol lowing removals and appointments of postmasters: Missouri Mexico, Luke W. Mor ris, vice John W. Mason, removed: La Plata, J. W. Ovcrstreet. vi-e Wil liam E. Cole, dead. Illinois Evanston, Charles Ray mond, vice David I. O'Leary, remov ed. During the late campaign in Mis souri the town of Mexico was disgrac ed by a series of incidents. Bryan Democrats adopted a systematiccourse of proscription and boycotting toward the sound money Democrats. One of the most act've promoters of this course was the Postmaster of the place, John W. Mason, or "Wick" Mason as he is better known. To-dav retri bution came in the form of the sum mary removal of Mr. Mason. In the charges filed against Mason numerous instances are given of his partisanship in the campaign. On one occasion, it is stated, when the sound money Democrats had engaged the lom-i tiouse anu weronoiuing a meet- t!,e drum C''"T3 d kePl u marching around the public square to make as much trouble as possible for the speak er of the meeting inside. Postmaster Mason was particularly conspicuous, fie stood on the corner and urged on the drummers to more vigorous effort to disturb the sound money orator. "That's right, boys, make all f the nn'se you can. " the Postmaster is said to have shouted. Mexico was a hotbed for Bryanism. The threat was made that if Trimble, the sound money candidate for Gov ernor, came there ho would be rotten egged. Mr. Trimble promptly an nounced that he would open his cam paign there, and did so. He was not molested. Sound money meetings were interrupted and sound money merchants were boycotted. Besides I Mr. Mason s political offending, tne ! department had for the removal other reasons, which will bv given if Sena tors Cockrell and Vest insist upon an investigation of tho case. In the course of a couple of days another presidential Postmaster in Illinois, who was perniciously active for Bryan, will be removed. The old Postmaster at Evanston was tiees. In the neighborhood of a hundred post offices are involved in charges of pernicious activity in politics now filed with Postmaster General Wilson. Thev include a number of big offices , ugawsi uue jieaus serious accusa- tmr,.- ...... ....win 'IK.-. j-.F ,1.. tl.t. l.l.ll.t.. A UQ jCtlC l'l iltT Postmaster General has been to act as leniently as possible and make re movals ociy where necessary, and ac cordingly all the charges, says half a dozen, have so far been ignored, ' though action on a number of the others will shortly follow. J.eave I'olitics Out. - EDITOlt Demockat: We sec by your issue of yesterday that you say there are many prominent Republicans in this city who favor dropping poli tics out of the city election. Now I am glad to hear this. We docot want to make fools of ourselves any more. We have tried politics in two or three cityelectionsand polities will not work. Let us go backto the old way of choos ing candidates for the city offices and we will get good men and have no hard feelings. REPUBLICAN. WEARY OF HUSKS. . One of Bryan' Reluctant Supporters j States Its Reluctant Platform. j Mr. Bryan and others are telling us how to save the Democratic party and down the Republicans in 1900. One man's opinion is as good as another's in this regard, and we are entitled to express ours, which is to this effect: The Democrats of this country will have to learn ;v truths th'ngs before they can ever again hope to control tho Government of this repub lic: That bimetallism, or . the concur rent xtse of gold and silver coin at a party, is a myth. That there are never two monetary standards in use at the same time. That there is no possibility of keep ing two metals at the same valuation. That no Government can keep any one metal at a valuation, much less two metals at the same valuation. All the nations on earth can not do it. That the stamp of the Government creates no value, but merely certifies to certain conditions. That there is money of final pay ment, called primary money. It is one thing only. All other mediums of exchange are token money not real, money, but conveniences. That that money is primary money which is hold in highest value by cus tom of the merchants. All other me diums of exchange are measured by it. Laws can not change this, al though laws can force the acceptance of a depreciated and less valued me dium, and thus rob the recipient of his due. That old is the world's improved machinery of exchange. It has come to stay. That legal-tender laws are obsolete. That greenbacks are promises to pay, and the sooner the promises are redeemed the better for the country. That it is the duty of the Govern ment of the United States to retire froia the banking business. That there is no natural antagonism between labor and capital. That socialism is negation of prog ress, and that progress is the keynote of the republic. That the Federal Government has tho right to execute its own court pro cesses. That the credit of the United States must be sustained. Mobile (Ala.) Register. WORD "MUGWUMP" DfcrlNED. Pennsylvania Judge Holds That It Is Complimentary, ot insulting. Wilkesbarke, Pa., Nov., 2S. The word "Mugwump" has been defined in a -court of justice here. Thomas Johns, a well-known resident of the city, and a Republican, became a convert to the silver craze in the last campaign. Ue wrote a number of articles for the newapsf .-. V'sH-rday Johas iaet Editor i lick, of the "Daily Times," Flick said, "Hello, Mugwump." This angered Johns. He upbraided Flick, and then had a warrant issued for the editor's arrest. At the hear ing there was much discussion as to the meaning of the word "Mugwump." Justice Donohu finally decided that it meant "a respectable Republican in clined to kick over the traces." The editor was discharged, and the costs put on Johns, the justice claim ing that Flick's salutation was com plimentary, npt insulting. World's Most Kjtpenslve Product. Washington, D. C, December 1. United States Consul. Morris, at Ghent, in a report to the State Department, says the European newspapers have been much interested of late in a Ques tion propounded as to what is the most expensive product m the world. The answer given by Wilfred Fonville is charcoal thread, cmployedas filaments for incandescent electric lamps, which in the shape of filaments for thirty candle-power lamps is worth 12,000' per pound, and it requires l.fiOO.OOO of these filaments to make a pound, and tLelr total length would be 1ST miles. On Cr.riieid's Tomb. Dr. Ed ward Kazen Parker, who died in Pouphkeepsie lately, was a promi nent physician of that city. But hi3 greatest fame rests on the fact that ho was the author of the following lines, which were inscribed on the tomb of Garfield: Life's race well run. Life's work well done, Life's victory won, Now cometh rest. These ara the opening lines of a short poem written a score or more years ago on the death of a friend.