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The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1904-01-12
Twentieth Century Medicine

Cascarets Candy Cathartic are as
FIR ahead Of ancient pill poisons and
liquid physic as the electric light Of
the tallow candle. Genuine stamped
c. c. C. Never sold ii bulk. A.
druggists, TIC.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1904-01-12

ststeni Illinois County 81 Alexander, So:
IL g. Aistherpe, cashier Of the shose qs'r-
81 h..k. do solefr-lv swear that the AboyN
s.i.e--se. Is true 20 re Best 81 ~ szesrie3es
2=d oe,ief
J. 5. A.srHokrr. Cssslef
Coftect--Attess :.
rf. TSsss.rTeeo.
.sfpszss roas -
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RESOIfRCEs.
ABII.fEtT -
STATE OF ILLINOIS,

IUUHIT J
/, J. s. Aisthorpe, president of the Enterprise
Savings Bank, DO solemniy swear that the
above statement is true, 70 the best Of my
knowledge and belief. J. :. AisrHoRPR
President.
Subscribed and sworn 20 before me this sth
day Of January 1891. EMMA =. RiLU,
lSRAL. Notary Public
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City Printing.

The Bulletin Co, eight point type.
s01iS per line
The Citizen Go, eight point type.
Fo0lF per line
The Cairo Telegram. eight point
type. 1910 per line.
Aid koehler moved to refer the
printinb bids 10 Finance committee
The motion was adopted
Feed.
Samuel Hastings. Good. sound shell
ed corn. per bushel, Sic; good white
OATS, tic. good mixed oats, i2c. good
No. | timothy hay. per ton, $500;
good straw, per ton. $500.
NJ. J. Pink g. Co: Mixed oats, 421ac
per bushel: shelled corn. 53kc per
hushel. No. timothy hay. $3.50 per
ton; pure wheat bran. 92c; wheat
straw. $40 per ton
bran. 92c: wheat straw, 81 40 per ton.
Aid. Fuller moved to refer bids for
feed 20 Police Jail and Fire Commit
tee. The motion waa adorted
Removal Of Carriage.
Peter Brown for ysa- t30s, 5000
7hc-zs Meehsa. f5f year 1884, SIS
= Z.a4san. sor 7ssr 1854 sl,0s0--
dsad saiIas.a s45 aG.iLlotsl
On tot.os. o. AID. Miller the ssds
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1904-01-12
CITY COUNCIL.
COUNCIL ChambeT,
Cairo, Illinois, Jan. 5, 1908.
First Regular Meeting.)

Present: Hon. Claude Winter, may
or. and Aldermen Fuller, Hasenjae-
ger. June, Koehler, Magner, Meehap,
Miller, Mulcahy, Nordman and Wood.
Absent; Aldermen Egan, Fraser,
LAWYER and Nellis.
AID. Meehan moved that the min.
utes of the last regular and the in.
tervening special meetings be approx
ed without reading The motion was
adopted.
Unfinished Business.
The bills OF Julius and Andrew Ser
biaff for s73.51 for crossing filling
which had been deferred at last reg
ular meeting was taken up
AID Meeha moved to allow the bin
as rendered Aid Miller moved to
amend by allowing the amount aS-
elusive of the Goth street crossing
Aid Nelis appeared.
Ht dHleuuulSAb was lOSl NY the IOi-
lowing vote:
Aye: Hasenjaeger, June. Koehler.
Magner. Miller. Mulcahy and Nelis. Z.
Nay: Fuller, Meehan and Nord-
man, 3.
Aid Wood was excused from vot-
ing
Aid June then moved to refer the
subject mater back to Street Com.
mittee with instructions to report at
next regular meeting. The motion
was adopted.
Aid. Fraser appeared.
Reports Of Officers.
The report OF the comptroller show.
ing the condition of the annual ap.
preparations to November 30, 1908, was
read and referred to the Finance Com
mitee.
Aldermen LAWYER and Egan ap.
peared
The comptroller submitted report
showing cost of street intersections
on Ohio Levee street improvement to
be s479S7 Also that the city's ex-
pense on the said improvement, ex-
elusive of said intersections was $17.-
lG per lot above the amount of $4,000
per lot to be paid by the property own
ers.
Aid. Miller moved to refer to the
Street and Finance Committees
The motion was adopted.
The report of w P. Greaney, deputy
city treasurer, for the month of De
cember, 1908, was read and referred
to the Finance Committee. r
Nick Koen. street supervisor, sub
mittcd the following report:
Cairo, ILL.,, Jan. !, 1904.
To the Hon. Mayor and City Council.
Cairo. Illinois
Gentlemen. The undersigned sub.
mts the following list of persons hav-
ing paid their street taxes for the
year 1903, during the month of De
Gambler.
Nathan Anderson. James !, Green.
Louis Zealand. Ralph Thompson. Ike
Elliott, VIII Miller, Chas. Barber.
Vain Ross. William Sherwood. John
Soavers, E. S. Floyd, p. H. Hubbard.
G. "A. Van Vactor. Geo Styles, John
Turner Ed. Thomas
1G receipts a $3.50 each. - s24.0O
Treasures receipt attached :. 24.00
Respectfully.
NICK KoEN,
Street Supervisor
The report was referred 10 the
comptroller under the rules.
Report Of John Z. Robinson police
Magistrate, showing the amount Of
Ass e3..sotei n rscealoer t. have
bssa 5s72. Tra treas4sef'a X sip.s
aysae.e., 'sss .aad Az te.s..ed 70
tks city attorney aa6 comptroller.
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The finance committee reported
recommending that the following bonds
be approved: State and City Liquor
bonds of r. A. Mansfield, Edward r.
Maley. Frank Sebille, A. B. Arey (2),
Slas w. White. John Workman. Mich
ol G. Stegg. James w Powers.
Plumbers bond of Cairo Gas Co
Hotel Runners bond of Thos Brown
and Nathan Rodgers.
Police Cchstable's bond of Martin
O'Donohue
Second Hand Dealers bond of W.
n. Trescott
Aid. Meehan moved that the report
he received and the bonds be approved
as recommended Aid. Fuller moved
to amend by approving Jhe bonds only
on condition that the same be ac.
knowledged. The amendment was &C.
cepted by Aid Meehan. The motion
as amended was then adopted by the
following vote
Aye-Egan, Fraser. Fuller iIasen.
Jaeger, June. KoehIer. LAWYER. Mag
ner, Meehan, Miller. Mulcahy. Nells
Nordman and Woo,--1i
Nay None
ciaims and Accounts.
I'D Msshan moved that the fegI
ar sa,a-y ti,, tor The month q De-
cembsr. 1905, amounting e 81 33.0l
~ a..e7 Is -a= .s5t.ol was a4sss
Fl oJ TIA fe .llrs.a.. vote.
Aye-xsan, fraser, Fuller, Hsssa-
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REPORT OF THE CONDITION
OF
The Enterprise Savings Bank

At Cairo State OF Illinois. before the COM
mencement OF business on the goth day Of
December. 1903. as made TO the Auditor OF Pub
lie Accounts, for the State of Illinois, pursuant
to law.
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REPORT OF THE CONDITION
OF THE
City National Bank,


At Cairo. in the state o. Illinois. at the close
of business November 18th, 1908.
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same family the children differ. Give
a child room to grow, physically, men.
tally and morally. Kaye few rules. B Let
4 this atmosphere be sweet and Gtlie home
full OF charity and sincerity. The world
still moves, and we move with Il: but
we cannot do our best for our children
II we insist.f on shaping them allke,sIann nc
If we heedlessly sacrifice toursel yes. .
Incubator babies are not better han
babies rocked q in mothers arms. III Our
Sfranctici.hastes to get the children through
their childhood and nt9 the Busy
twentieth century's coming man. 5;ss
big question, said my mid de
aged friend. 9s Is; 3.
5 Cousin Araminta rose, slipped her Beye-S
glasses into their ease, and reached \ for
5herr umbrella, ii s .5
ist ""A1ys views are not changed in the
least she sntd firmly. .l3 sSssS
a neighbours squabbling brood were
sshriekng and screaming on the pa,v,e es-$
ment. 5 IN 5F3 n "a 81 Ss35s
declared ,gBs'.If r lived Y next door to Mrs
--- - I'd either sell my house HI or go
abroad Copyrig 1901 by Joseph T B..E
BoWles. ri sGGS&s
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manifest Itself as weight. wren any par
tlcular body Is regarded alone.
Weight rs O. characteristic OF ccsfnlc
bodies relatively only More than that
larize. the weight OF the earth Is relative
to the mass Of hctsum of the moon,
OF the planets. and OF the other members
and components of the solar system, no
matter how small or minute those mem-
bcrs and cotnponents may be.
Now, when lie says that at two ccr-.
tain moments OF every year the earth
loses It's weight. Professor 1larkin him
self has lost something--lc has lost mem
tai sight of certain facts. True. It may
be that~at those two moments the earth
loses It's relative weight relatively to
the sun. 1t does not lose It's relative
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as holding a higher trust than that OF
an agent OF the civil authority to cele-
brate the marriage for any parties whom
1t may permit him q to marry, and to
pocket the fee and be rid Of the whole
affair. gt
He ought to consider himself as trus-
tee for parents and guard Its interests;
n trustee for parents and relatives and
friends, as brought into relation with
their treasure, to watch overi It for them
and save 1t, perchance from fearful risk
II not ruin; and as q trustee for would
DO BRIDE, whose happiness and salvation.
'pcrchnnce. are for a few minutes placed
In his keeping.
am we'll aware that the answer will
be fby our brethren whom we address,
THE parties bring the license issued by
the State.Sand we do not feel called upon
TO 20 behind that certificate OF per1nis-
sion from the civil authority"
But Ireply, as bearing Christs name,
I, as acting Or assuming to act under His
sanction. and as Invoking His blessing In
prayer, behind tthe license of the State:
What does the State Know Of persons
or circumstances or life or morals? The
State Is simply responsiblef or compliance
with certain legal conditions, and when
these are ga tisfied the license is issued,
and then, SO far as the State Is con-
.cerned, all responsibility ceases"
But how Is It with you? There stands
before; you q young girl,ffresh. perchance.
from home, bringing into your view the
loneliness and innocence OF childhood,
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AND DIVORCE.

divorce may be secured varies in differ
cnt States or the Union, and In some the
ambition seems to be - make the pro-
cess Of scvcrlng tbs marriage bond as
easy as possible.
The consequences OF thus making tho
word OF God 1T no effect by national de-
ctees, and invading and pollutlng the
Sanctions Of an institution which Is d.
S!ht. not hum;fn, and which God has
guarded with His cdict OF perpetulty,
iliesee consequences are not at once seen
III their Inmate results OF corruption.
degradation and ruin. Like God himself,
they are far above out OF the peoples
siRht, and. therefore, they rush madly
OH, counting all to be we'll so long as
Trey have their way and crafty their
ylUstsaand passions.
The sanctity and perpetulty Of the mar
rage bond are The palladium Of home.
and the safeguard Of society. Destroy
these, domestic and social life III their
Integrity and purity. and you relegate
mankind to anarchy, to a condition worse
than that of the brute One cannot easily
cSaggerate the, horrors which must follow
such a state of things where family ties
are broken and social bands are oosed.
Yer such is the fate which we as n people
ar, inviting to overtake us by the mad
ness OF our Legislation and the folly Of
our habits and the iaxity Q: public sen1i-
lrnent, Can there be no check put upon
this downward progress In life and
mcrnlsY Can We not cry, halt, some
where and to some parties. who are un-
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BY BISHOP GEORGE f. SEYMOUR,


Arc Gods ministers to ofTlclate ut such
1unhallowed alliances which God forbids-;
II makes one shudder to think OF such
things. 81
There are remedies which would lessen
tn, evil could they be vigorously ap-i
piled: {},i@'
4 .saiutary and definite instruction BY
mothers to daughters when they are
emerging from childhood to maturity,
and by fathers to sons upon society and
It's dangers, and marriage and Its risks.
and kindred subjects which concern their
welfare. Let parents invite the conf
deEce Of their children, as they begin to-
look out with wondering eyes upon the
world, and not frown upon them and
drive them from them to seek the inu-s
macy OF youthful companions or. oldeIS
persons untitled to be their guides and
tccunsellors. ia sas AZ J3ss SS455
Let mlnisters OF the Gospel be slow to
marry parties whom they do not kno
AMI sf the candidates be very young or
excite suspicion let them absolutely re-
fuse until friends are notified or ample;
satisfaction Is given that all Is right. n
5f A very efrectual help towards curing
the evil would be the requiring the pub
lication OF the barns Of .matrimony y In
the parish church or In the columns OF
some neiglrboring paper on three occa.
sions, at least q day apart, before the
celebration Of the marriage. - 2 5Bs
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OF lLl.lNOlS.

dark shadow: II Is the shadow Of the min
lister Of God. who lent himself to serve
the purpose Of some designing adventu-
rer. who stole the heart Of some guile
less girl. and imposed upon her. MS name
and his presence and squandcred her
wealth and deserted her when youth and
beauty and money were gone, and left
her In poverty and disgrace to bear the
burden lof IA family of children.
nave touched upon only one class OF
cases which swell the volume Of our d.
Vorces. I might go on and present In
dark array other classes, representing
all grades Of society and conditions Of
life, until we Should have before us a
large proportion or the divorces which
5disgra ce us as nomlnally a Christian pco-
pie, and IN many of them it would be
found that the evil began In hasty III
considered or runaway marriages, and
for these often, very often, the minister
OF Christ was responsible, since on his
part refusal to perform the service. II
word OF parcnta counsel to the girl. or
q message to parents or friends, would
have prevented the marriage. 81 81
SIS LII view of these facts, Is { not time to
call ".halt" to our reverend brethren, and
beg. them to considerSwhatEthey are doing
wher they seek to relieve themselves OF
all responsibility because the State al
lows them to celebrate u lnarriage :? Alas !
Tie State grants divorces for 81 many
zc;,;ses, and permits divorced parties to
s{na tract unions trarys to ], Gods law.
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It's future career. During the first year.
the mother takes Kindergarten course
and learns how to play with her child.
Not a thing Is overlooked. Children are
SrIt through a definite scientific training
from crib TO college and they are the
objects OF the most attentive. most earn
est, most conscientious study until they
are grown. Why, there are houses where
background and the hope Of the house
$revolves around them, but do mothers
bring them forward and present them
to guests !? Not thcy!' " a " 55}8
ms You cannot stop my cousin Ara1nlnta
once she started IN an argument She
gathers force as she proceeds. and the
volume of her voice pours on like NJ. :.
5agara. Araminta is q maiden lady, and
she has thr&usual setness OF her type,
an dage. which approximatcs fifty.
"a had rather stontly n,aintined my
,eths century child still left something to
be desired. and that certain old-fash-.
Toned virtues OF docllity and gcntlencss.5
certain habits Of Difference 10 elders and
obedience to parents and a certain fa-s
cilityg Of resource tending to make boys
and girls self-rcliant were wanting In the.
majority individuals OF course escape
the general enervation$ due to oveystlmu-s
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THE TWENTIETH CENTURY CHILD By

It Is a genealogy, and the story It un-E
folds is OF a sort to gladden. the soul,
OF our outspoken1 President. For the
household groups whose simple annals
arc there recorded seldom consisted Of
less than eight sturdy children, and often;
I there was a round .dozsn, following each.
other cheerily4 into this troublesome world
at intervals Of eighteen Of twenty months
The robust farmer folk to whom; this
perauous money on liSuries' and VISITED no
supernuous nerve tissue In needless anxi-s
cites. The children We're we'll fed lon
plain fool; hey led8simple, a,lstere lives.
r0mped out OF doors In every kind Of
wea ther, shared in the ia SKIS 81 Of Z the
housekeeping; shared, too, rs listeners
in the bright talk OF their elders to
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., 1901. when this entire world weighted
one ounce, then one-llalf, osle-fourth,
and so on, until instantly 1t lost ali It's
weight, but during the next Instant 1t
began to have weight again. On Octo-
Der q 1904, this earth Will lose all its
weight as completely as In April 1t
might have been without weight during
the onc-tifty thousondth ,of second, for
Al moves eightc.E and onc-half miles per
second. The path OF the earth around
the sun Is not a circle; 30 1t varies It's
distance from the sun continually, and
this changes the strength of the suns
attraction OIL 1t, which is weight But
In April and October each year the
earth ls at an exact aver5lgc distance
during a fraction OF second, at which
time It is without weight"
In writing these facts Professor Larkiti
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the moon, and the sim revolve about a
common centre which happens, from the
greater size Of the sun, to be within the
mass of tho sun, and that the moon and
the earth revolve& about a common cen-
tire, which happens. In their case, too, to
be within the mass of one of them
the earth. Hcncc, scientifically speals-
ing, the earth is not forever falling to-
wards the sun; nor Is the moon fbr-
ever falling towards the earth. Moon
and earth are, though, forever falling
towards q common centre OF revolution,
and moon and earth, regarded as one
body, and sun are forever falling towarus
a centre of revolution common to them.
In order that one coslnic body may,
scientifically mntliematlcally speaking,
fall towards--that is, towards the CEN
tire of--ano.herl eosmic body, either. Of two
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4 and the brightness and refinement which
education and culture hnve added as
charms to natures gifts. Years Of watch,
Ifulness and care have been bestowed
upon her and parental love has poared
its best and choicest offerings .llfto her
lap In garments and Jewels and possess
sions pledged In bequest, making her, in
expectation, rich.
There she stands in your presence.
away from home. without the knowledge
Of parents beside a stranger may say,
for she, artless. innocent creature, does
not know the world In its evil. its treach-
cry and deceit. There she stands, and
YOU, In any view Of your vocation, have
made yourself your brothers keeper.
u God made you such by nature, and you
have added to the obligation, by solemn
vow. voluntary responsibility for your
brothers safety and we'll being. There
she stands. and St. Paul bids you regard
her. as your sister, and you, forgetting
7 your sacred character, your holy trust.
YOUR duty to Cod. society parents and
1.-THE dear girl herself, you rest upon the
States permission and celebrate the mar
riage and become the agent Of bringing
\ misery upon the unhappy maiden and In
flicting anguish and disgrace upon her
family.
In the. sad sequel OF that ,wretehed mar
aried life there come woes which are un-
sutterable, and the end is often divorce.
I Behind that married pair, who are seek
Ing the dissolution of the nipti,t holla !
\ there Is a background, and omit rests g
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weight relatively to the moon, though.
ror5 to- the other members OF the solar
SYSTEM. Hence 1t does not at those
two moments become relatively weight
less" q
In another sentence Professor 1.arkin
makes another statement which Is not.
above criticism.
Every object" no writes, "in the ce-.
lpstial vault seen by the eye OF man,
lsa falling body. The earth Is body
forever falling toward the sun, and the
noon toward the earth"
OF course, again. Professor Larkin
knows perfectly that the earth docs
rot ,eroivc around nor tend towards the
sun, mathematically considered, nor does
the moon revolve around nor tend towards
the earth, automatically regarded. The
facts are, that the earth, together with
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evidently momentarlIy forgot certain other
facts with which he Is, OF course, us
we'll acquainted as he Is with tho alpha
bet. Newton Is the philosopher to whom
We go for fundamental knowledge OF
cosmic weights. II was he who made
the discovery that all celestial bodies
regarded alone are absolutely weights
less, and that they are weightful, or
ponderable, only relatively to other
bodies. The explanation Is simple. AS
weight Is the mental Interpretation OF
arrested centripetal motion or tendency.
and as all the centrlpetnl tendency OF
the matter In one hemisphere OF the
earth or OF any other cos'nic body we
know anything about IS counteracted
exactly by the ccntripetal tendency Of
the matter In the opposite hemisphere,
there is no general tendency which can
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whom the realities OF living meant much
New books doomed large as objects Of
Interest when books were few, and chill
sdren picked UP the crumbs from learn
5ing's table at home with an eager zest
routine Of the little red schoolhouse
to which they trudged gayly through sun,
dust, cold or snow as the calendar might
appoint for4Et hem. I. w f?,55f
35 N o Il grown person ingathe misty past
was pushed aside for theS5 convenience Of
IA child%61t might be that a. sensitive
child was thoughtlessly snubbed, and X in
some homes there was to much rigor.
But on the whole an even-handed JUS
3tice prevailed, " and implicit obedience
being. the rule, both children ana parents
were saved al, immense amount Of fric-.
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consciously helping to degrade and ruiz,

+ consciously helping to degrade and ruin
ns?
I will make the attempt, and I address
the clergy. my brethren In the sacred
ministry, first. to whom have n right
I to speak, and all others to whom my
words may come, whom ertreat IN the
Of the various denominations Of Chris
tians are, to some extent, culpably re-
sponsible for a proportion-we cannot
say how large a proportion, but still a
sproportion--oft the divorces which disgrace
s us as n nation.
Let US see how this comes to pass. d.
avorcc implies marriage. and marriage
raises the question: How was the mar
rias,e brought bout? Where was It
celebratcd? When. under what circun-
stances, and by whom? The answer to
these Inquiries frequently brings the min
ister of the gospel into view, and pre-.
scnts him In avery unenviablc light.
The minister Of the gospel. maintain,
ought to be n custodian of public morals
and an uphoder Of parental authority
and protector child life in It's inno-
,cence and purity. He ought to be sen-
try TO challenge every stranger who APP.
proachcs and seeks admission to the init
macies of home the best and holiest
ahospltalities which our poor earth has
to offer.
In the absence Of natural parents and OF
accredited guardians, the protector Of
the woman. Ho ought to regard himself
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Bv HENRY HAMILTON HARDWOOD.

conditions must exst-either ono body
must first be brought to rest in contact
with a moving body, or both sodies must
be brought to rest at distance from
each other. Ss
& L once heard man who called him
self merely student Of astronomy.
say that 1t was his opinion that the
perpetual endeavor OF the substance OF
the sun to adjust itself to the numerous
necessarily shifting centres OF revolt
ton within itself. common to itself ana
the planets was a sufficient explanation
of s,ir-spots, s,in-storms, and probably
other solar phenomena He based his
opinion, he said. on Lord kelvin's ealcu.
2lation that the earth must have rigid
ity at least equal to that Of steel In
order to withstand the dstorting force
of the moons full. ls III