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The Cairo bulletin., 1904-05-23
PERSONAL MATTERS
Notes Of Interest Relating to Citizens
Their Friends and Rel.
atives.

Mr. w. r. Huette went to ST Loui.
yesterday on business.
Mr.. G. NJ. Shaw went to Chicago
yesterday on business.
Mr.. Ray Abel spent yesterday Wis
iting friends in Anna.
Mr. Kenneth Wenger has returned
from visit to Paducah.
Miss Jessie Mol visited relatives
in Mound City yesterday
Mrs. Joseph Ezell has returned
from a visit to friends in Paducah.
Mrs. James McGrew. Of Lexington.
Mo, is visiting friends in Cairo,
Miss Mary Titus. OF villa Ridge
spent yesterday visiting relatives in
Cairo
Mrs. Halle Hill returned yesterday
from a visit with relatives in Jackson
Tenn.
Miss Camille Halliday returned yes
terday from visit with friends in
Carbonate
Mrs A. r. Robertson, Of Paducah
is visiting her daughter, Mrs Edward
Reno. Of Eleventh street.
Mr.. Milo R. clanahan Of East St
Louis, was in Cairo yesterday shak
ing hands with old friends
Mr. Thomas Moray and little son
of Mt. Carmel spent yesterday with
the formers mother. Mrs Clara HEIDI
ger
Mr. George ] Becker returned yester
day from French Lick Springs Ind
whore he spent several days recuper
ating.
Mrs, +. l.. Moore is visiting her
brother, Mr. II. NJ. Johnson. telegraph
operator for the Illinois Central ar
Murphysboro
Mrs. White and Miss Gertrude
Ward, Of Mt Carmel. were guests 81
Mr. Charles Hodge and family, Of
Seventeenth street yesterday.
Mr. G. n. Buchanan has received
word from Mrs. Buchanan. who is at
Los Angeles. Calf. for her health
saying she is greatly improved.
Mr. J. d plumlee. tolegrapher al
the Illinois Central passenger station.
has resumed his duties after visit
with relatives in Mulkeytown. III.
Mr. Percy y. Green. one Of tae
proprietors OF the Vincennes Capital.
was in the city yesterday and via
messed the defeai Of the Yincernes
baseball team by the Cairo boys
Mr. and Mrs John Messenger have
g-ne to Konnett, Mo- to attend a
meeting this week of the Southeast
Missouri Drummer's Association. OF
which Mr. Messenger is a member.
Mrs John Furey and two children
accompanied by her sister Miss Ma.
mic Powers, We're guests yesterday
of Mr. w A. English and family while
en- ronte TO Villa Ridge 10 attend their
father who is i'll at the home Of Mr.
VIM Powers.
Mr. and Mrs Y d Sanders aud Mrs.
John 7 Walsh went TO st. Louis yes.
terday where they viii make a short
visit at the worlds fair. From there
they will 80 TO Konnett, Mo, to at
tend meeting Of the Southeast Mis-.
souri, Drummer's association. of which
Mr.. Sanders is a member and which
is in session this week.
The Cairo bulletin., 1904-05-23
percenfsce of Wealth,

Forty years ago the farmers owned
% per cert Of the wealth OF this coun-
try. Such has been the advance OF
manufacturing and railroad building
nat they r0w own but q per cent,
though there mas been no decline In
Agricultural values.
The Cairo bulletin., 1904-05-23
AMERICAS OLDEST BELL
WcrIds Fair Exhibit Was Brought tc
New Mexico by Priest
With Coronado.

Fl Louis. Nay 20 The oldest hel
n the United States Is exhibited in
tho New Mexico building d, The
Worlds fair The relic was east Fin
1855 and was brought from Spain with
0r oil the lir expeditions 70 Mexico
DE- Father Juan de Padilla one OF TIE
franciscan Fathcss who ACCOMPANIED
Coiaua.o. It Bas first hung in ouc
OF the Mission church established
% emo of the seven cities OF Cibalo
From there 70 was taken 70 Gran Qui-
eer. where ID wa hang ia the church
ui 9bich the ruins are still visible
From Gran Qgiycra # was taken to
Alsoaoues. where &c has hung in the
parish church ever since. Gov ~. A.
O'efa. Of New Mexico ab aiaeI pes.
session oi The bell for exhibition at
fae I8ir Although the beil autalates
tIe discovery of America ~ 157 years.
! has been III alu0s- constant use
'nce the day Il was eas IL Spain.
The Cairo bulletin., 1904-05-23
Boys Of Newfoundland.

Every Newfoundland fsherboy has
to face the perils Of the rescuer at an
age when lads in other lands are at
school, and IL is this hardy unbring-
ing which makes brave man Of him,
Tor the rescuers face the same risk
OF death as those to whose aid they
90.
The Cairo bulletin., 1904-05-23

chioness dOssoli. born Savonarola.
In Chambersport. Mass, drowned off
Long Island 1850 Margaret Fuller be-
gan her independent career upon the
death Of her father as a teacher Iiay-
ing mastered French and Italian, she
made d notable translation of Erck-
mann's Conversations With Goethe,
She visited France and Italy in lSi6-45
and in the latter year married Marquis
dOssoli a liberal Italian nobleman
Husband wife and infant went down
I'll a shipwrecl1 while voyaging 70
America.
1S2i-Ambrose i. Burnside, eminent Fed
eral general, born at Liberty, Ind,
died ISL.
1900 Francis Bicknell Carpenter. noted
American portrait artist famed for hts
painting Of the Emancipation Procla-
nation, died in New York city; born
1880
The Cairo bulletin., 1904-05-23

Automatic shin,s pumn.

A ships pump has been invented.
1t consists of normally horizontal
lever with a vertical pump rod on
each end and a weighted pendulum at
the center. Inc roll OF the ship
swings the pendulum and drives the
pump rods.
The Cairo bulletin., 1904-05-23

The Cairo Athletics. the coming
champion baseball team of this city
went TO Golden yesterday to cross
hats with the team at that place The
Athletics have new grey suits win
blue stockings and caps The lineup
Yesterday was as follows: r Gregory.
~ J Bourgeois c; A Weldon. ID; ]
sheehan 2h H. Halliday, 3D. L
Backey S. g Weldon. If, J Kolb. q.
g. Richardson ri. w Langan sub
stitute The result of the game was
not learned. but the Cairo mon proba
lY won H.
The Cairo bulletin., 1904-05-23
INSANE MAN
FOUND HUNG
Was Suspected Several Months Au5
OF Having Designs Upon Presi-
dent's Life.


Minneapolis MINI. May g2-Tac
Iiieless body uf Peter o. Elliott. the
man who was arrested several months
ago in Washington. on suspicion of
being lnnatic with probably murder
ons designs on President Roosevelt.
was found this morning suspended
from the sirder Of a railroad bridge in
South Minneapolis
Elliott had been arrested few
days ago as an escaped inmate of the
81. Peter insane hospital. but had
been released.
The Cairo bulletin., 1904-05-23
Puhher prnalIotAn

The worlds production Of rubber
WA two years ago almost equally d.
yided between Africa and South Amer
lea now the Amazon region produces
thrte-iftbs Of it.
The Cairo bulletin., 1904-05-23

Considerable complaint is boins
heard about COWS being allowed to
run on the Streets Saturday TIVE
Of the milk producers worried The
residents on Washington avenue with
their attentions
The Cairo bulletin., 1904-05-23

IN Germany ass Piano factories
make 10000 instruments annuity.
Half Of them or abeut s6,000ee8
worth are sold abroad principally in
England
The Cairo bulletin., 1904-05-23
WILL DESTROY VILLAGES.
BY Associated Press.

COrstantinople. MAY 22-It Is said
the authorities contemplate destroy.
ing all Armenian villages in Sagsum
district Of Asia Minor in order to pre-.
vent the concentration OF insurgents
in the mountains and installation of
the villages on the plain where they
may be better supervised.
The Cairo bulletin., 1904-05-23

Prof William Deal, the band leader
and Mrs. Anna Berger the pianist
both Of Paducah viii Tuesday even
ing he married at Wallace Park in that
city. by Rev Baurquin, the German
Evangelical minister
The Cairo bulletin., 1904-05-23
GENERAL LOCAL NEWS
Brief Mention Of Events Concerning
the People of Cairo and
Vicinity.

The excursion on the Bic Four from
Viuconncs yesterday hrought $50 nor
sons no Cairo
The Cairo bulletin., 1904-05-23
CHRONOLOGICAL
MAY % In History.

l4eS-Glrolamo iJerOmel Sa-
vonar0la executed IN
Florence.
i7S2-James Otis patriot or
ator Of the Revolution.
killed by lightning at
Andover, Mass born
1725.
iSl0-Sarah Margaret Full
Ter, author and Mar
The Cairo bulletin., 1904-05-23

A youg man in an intoxicated state
picking his way down Ohio Levee
street and swinging enc of his shoes
tn tits hand attracted considerable
YESTERDAY He was The sub
jec- OF much Jest and ridicule when
he gave a drunken larch and stumped
his bare zoe against a pr0truding
stone in The pavement.
The Cairo bulletin., 1904-05-23

IN crate of strawberries a. A.
Eberle's store in Murphysboro, the
following was found on card Sat
urday morning | would like to cor
respond with some nice Young man
Della Ford Wicklihe Ky w q.
Gordon OF Wicklitfe, is also hunger
ing for love II he is not mistaken
he would be a mighty good catch for
some one. His card reads The lady
that gets this crate will hit the nail
on the head If she writes me Muir
physboro Independent
The Cairo bulletin., 1904-05-23

A pistol Shot. fired at the court
house yesterday afternoon, caused
considerable excitement ana for a
ime il was thought q jail delivery
was being attempted X appears
however. that some Of the prisoners
got into a quarrel and that jailar Rig
Gle fired The pistol to frighten them.
The Cairo bulletin., 1904-05-23
MENU FOR TODAY.
Monday May q.
Breakfast.

Monday, May g.
Breakfast.
Fruit
Nl'os Sugar and Cream
Gravy Toast Fried Poiatocs
Pop Overs Coffee
Lunch.
Welsh Rarchit
Mcllhennv's TabascO
Waters Tea
Dinner.
Tomato Bisque
Gold Roast Beef
Potatoes HOllandaise
Satisfy Fritters
Cold SlaW
Waters Cheese
Queen Pudding
Coffee
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-11-02
Bread of the Ancients.
From the Philadelphia Post

Loaves of bread thousands of years old
have recently furnished an interesting
study to scientists abroad. Professors
Brahm and Buchwald have analysed a
number of specimens found in Egyptian
tOmbs, and DIR. Lindet has examined some
Christian era. The Egyptian bread was
more than $500 years old, but was still
recognizable as a cereal product prepared
by baking. Nay, grains still retained their
peculiar structure, while dead yeast cells
were plainly discernible. The grain of
which the bread was composed was emmer,
which Is related to our modern wheat
These ancient Egyptian ioaves had the ap-
pearance of being charred as If by fire-a
circumstance due to slow oxidation by the
atmosphere, going on through thousands of
years. 1t was ascertained by experiment
that the same effect would be produced
upon new bread by exposing it for forty
eight hours to a temperature of 22O degrees
Fahrenheit. In either case the process was
one of combustion.
The yeast employed in making the ancient
loaves was probably of the same kind as
the Israelites in the days of the great
Pharaoh the Oppressor used, calling it
heaven" This was what is known now
adays as Wild yeast its germs or spores
being afloat everywhere in the air. A bit
of dough was preserved out Of each batch
prepared for the ovens, and when this was
added to the next dough the yeast con-
tanned in 1t quickly spread through the
whole, only little being required to
Heaven the whole lump But when the
people of Israel were wandering in the
wilderness they did not always have yeast
handy, and so were obliged to eat UNI
leavened bread.
The best examples of old Roman bread
have been found at Pompeii, which, 1t will
be remembered. was destroyed by an erup-
ton of Vesuvius in the year ID A. D. Forty
eight loaves were dug out of one bake-shop.
These specimens markedly resenbled those
taken from the Egyptian tombs and were
originally composed OF ground barley. The
ancient cliff jewellers Of our own southwest
raised Indian corn and made their bread
of 1t. Once in q while a loaf Of It Is dis
covered in one Of their deserted houses, and
speculation Is naturally INDUCED as to the
degree Of its antiquity. Perhaps It ts 800 Or
l5OO years old. In that extremely dry cli-
hate 1t has not decayed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-11-02
Homogeneous Animals.
N the Contemporary Review.

From the Contemporary Review.
While all forms of union are to be found
among birds and animals. an overwhelm-
irgly large majority of these are monoga
nous. I am we'll aware that this statement
will be received with a good deal of incre-
dulity, as the impression appears to prevail,
in most circles outside of biological that
either promiscuity or polygamy is the pre-
vailing form. I can only account for this
impression by the fact that most of our
domestic animals are, as rule, polyga-
nous. or even, as in the case of the dog.
promiscuous. How much of this looseness
OF morals is due to their aSSociati ton with
man. or the changed conditions under which
they are placed, 1 shall not attempt to say.
But it is precisely this free interfertility and
recklessness of mating that has had more
to do with determining the question, what
animals were capable of domestication,
than almost any other. The power to breed
freely and under all circumstances in cap
tivity is. in my Judgment, the most import
ant single qualification for domeStica ton.
How few animals possess this quality is
clearly shown by the exceedingly small
number of species which have ever been,
taking the whole world over brought into
really domestic rela tions with man. The
fingers Of the two hands would almost cover
them. 1t is in no way because they are
fiercer or more intelligent, or stronger
beasts of burden, or have better flesh, or
fatten more readily stand climatic
changes better. The one thing which alone
has prevented the domestication of magnfi-
cent forms like the zebra, Gland, elk, giraffe.
tiger bison and hundreds of others, is that
they either refuse to breed in captivity or
rapidly become sterile after few genera
TONS One thing is certain, that almost
every animal that walks or flies has at one
time or another been captured by man and
attempted t. be domesticated, but out of
the total number mere handful survives.
So that we should be ehary of judging the
natural habits and tendencies of all animals
%Io w
fertility and unlimited capacity for promis-
cuous interbreeding have fitted them for
survival under domestication.
Further, In the case of certain animals,
notably the Dig. from an exceedingly close
monogamist with a union lasting probably
for life. and one OF the best and most at
tentiye OF fathers, he has become as pro-
miscuous and Indifferent as modern CLUE
nan A similar change has taken place in
the dog, IT, as seems almost certain, he Is
q civilized wolf
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-11-02
I Administered, 1329F St.; s;; ices:
NARCOTIC POISON.
Producing Blindness, Paralysis and
Death.

From the New York Herald
The arrest of proprietor of a cheap sa-
loon on 10th avenue, who is charged with
selling whisky adulterated with wood alco-
hol, and thereby causing the death OF many
of his customers, will call attention to a
new danger of the drinking habit among
the poor If the promises by the coroner
and the health department to make thor
ough investigation of the matter properly
materialize the public will doubtless be as
tonished at the extent to which this danger
Gus adulterant is used not only In spirituous
liquors, but in many of the fruit extracts,
cosmetics, domestic and proprietary rem
edies and essences that are openly sold In
the general market.
The numerous deaths from such causes
that have been reported in recent years
have been due to the fact that the so-called
''deodorized methyl alcohol, being untaxed,
sells for 50 cents a gallon, while the pure
grain" or taxed. alcohol retails at $3.50.
Wood alcohol made by the old processes
served useful purposes in the various arts
in which 1t was employed. and it was only
with the new methods of eliminating its alb
horrent taste and smell that it's internal
consumption as a stimulant was possible.
So Skfllfully are these deodoriZed products
now prepared that it is extremely difficult
for ordinary consumers to distinguish them
from the standard varieties of alcohol.
VI course, lies the greatest danger
of widespread harmfulness from the adul-
teration. Its cheapness is also the greatest
of all temptations to the poor, who so nat
urally desire to get the most for their
money.
Wood alcohol as such is we'll known to be a
vlrulent narcotic poison, acting with great
rapidly by paralyzing the respiratory and
heart centers, producing violent stomach
symptoms and often causing death with
great suddenness. In the case of relatively
large doses, equaling those of an ordinary
drink, the victim is apt to be seized at
once with fatal symptoms. In some cases
death occurs almost instantly from the
overwhelming influences of the poison:
Under other circumstances the patient may
nnger Tor hours and sometimes for days of
agony, and finally succumb while in a com
paratively few cases only has recovery
taken place. The poison spends its first
force upon the lining membrane of the
stomach, causing intense local congestion:
then upon the kidneys, and in rapid sue
cesslon upon the susceptible nerve centers
Death Is thus caused by a general collapse
from systemic toXaemia. A most curious
Phase OF the general effect of the poison in
d majority OF instances is a sudden, abso-
lute and 1ncurable blindness of one or both
eyes ~
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-11-02
A PROFESSIONAL sCRIvENER.
Occupation of Mime. Verlaine, Cousin
of Well-Known Partisan Writer.
pondence London Telegraph.

Paris Correspondence London Telegraph.
An interesting old dame. who is one of the
last of the ecrivains publiques or profess
sional scriveners. who write and address
letters for concierges. workngmen. servants
and Others has been discovered in a street
near Montmartre heights. She is a Nine.
Ferlaine, and is a cousin of the poet OF that
name who died in poverty few years ago.
Nine. Verlaine prides herself not only on
her fine hand writing. but on her superior
epistolary style. She writes not merely
for servants and persons of no educations.
but also for those who find a difficulty in
putting their thoughts into words although
they are quite well able to keep accounts
and to use the pen for ordinary everyday
purposes. These people sometimes send
rough drafts of letters to the lady scriv-
ener, requesting her to touch them up and
to throw the words and PIN asses into good
literary form. In this way Mime. Verlaine
mas had to deal with all sorts of epstles.
She writes or tuches up love letters by the
score. applications to ministers or other
public personages, petitions and requests
for assistance.
For each missive turned out by her the
lady scrivener receives one franc. and a lit
tie more should the letter be q long one or
OF special Importance. She says that she
mas made a not incOnSiderable amount of
money by writing love letters. In which she
excels. She refuses to indite anonymous
letters. and If asked to pen an insulting or
TIL Catching epiStlt she puts the applicant
off for a few days, just to let her-or him.
when it happens to be a man-cool down.
Nine Verlaine has communicated the fact
that for the past fourteen years she has
been writing letters to man for a genuine
lady who Is unable to form sentences on
her own account, or as may be said ''ofr
her own bat" Somestimes this lady makes
Nine. Verlaine write in the full amatory
strain and at others in the slightly vitu-
perative vein, for the two correspondents are
lovers who break off and then afterward
renew their amorous pact.
Occasionally the lady for whom Nine.
Verlaine acts makes vigorous appeals to her
lover for money, and scolds him il he does
not send her enough of that commodity. If
the lover proves liberal in his gifts his gen.
crosby has to be iauded in lyrical strains
and the scrivener has to assume her finest
style Nine. Verlaine does not work in a
booth or hut nor near a church or a
courthouse, like the common tribe of pub
lie scriveners. She has rooms of her own
and IS soon to retire from active exercise
OF her profession. being aided by the liber-
atty of the Duchesse d Uzes, to whom she
has rendered some services.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-11-02
Cured by Half a Second Sleep.
From the World Magazine.


A well-known man in England had among
his ancestors number of men and women
who committed suicide. He himself became
melancholy. and his children! who knew the
hereditary faint, were mich worried about
him. physiciin told him that mental
fatigue was his trouble. and persuaded
him to try an experiment The man was
very busy. mani and sctnfedr ats the idea
OF taking nap in the middle of the day.
he hnaiiy agreed to the. following: He
noon with his hands overIa1is knees, hold
ing dinner bell in both his hands. If
he lost consciousness apd went to sleep
he would be willing to sleep for so long
a time as 1t would take for the dinner bell
to fall to the floor and wake him up.
The doctor who suggested this arrange
ment declared that heorsiA mental relax
alton OF gong to sleep, ri only for few
yited his patient to study activity of the
brain by noticing how 1fnany things he
We, would dream aa while the dhisr bell was fall
Every day for several IhYonths the man
with the suicidal heredity sat down after
luncheon with the dinner bell In his hands.
Every day he went to sleep, slept for half
second. while the bell fell to the floor,
and his mental condition improved steadily.
partly because of the rest which his mind
got by losing consciousness for second.
and partly because of his interest in the
extraordinary dreams which passed through
his brain while the bell was falling These
dreams carried him all over the world. and
seemed to last indefinitely. A dozen or
more human beings were mixed up In them.
A long succession Of events. which were
perfectly clear, passed before his eyes.
gradually interrupted by a sound from a
distance. which at first would mix In with
the dream. and ultimately would prove to
be the dinner bell striking the floor. The
ordinary person who says he has been
dreaming all night probably does not re-
alice that he actually dreamed about
second and Q half while he was waking