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The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1904-03-30

In selecting IT'S candidates Tor lhc
presidential election the Democratic
party should pick them cut with
view to their availability. The com
mercial Appeal does not insist ou
Southern nominees simply because
they are Southern indeed It's posi-
ton is that geography should play no
part in he decision of the question
DO not nominate any man because he
Is from the south aud do not discrimt
nate against any man because he Is
from the South What is necessary is
To hnd the man, whether H. comes
from the North or the South who can
defeat Theodore Roosevelt Of course
liz il is apparent that no Northern
States would 20 for Senator Bailey or
Representative Williams, then it
would be idle 70 nominate either Of
them
The South is, Of course, more inter
ested in securing a Democratic prcsi
dent than she is in securing a Demo
cratic nomination for amy Of her sons
Her splendid development is meuacel
by the presence Of a taetlrss and reck
less reactionary like Theodore Ro1sa
welt III the White House She Is tged
niunching the husks Of defeat and
would Ike some genuine nu,riment
Who, then. is the available man tt>
president? Mr. Bryan has issued an
edict against Parker OlleE Cleye
land, hin and German The only oth-
or Democrats Who have been men.
toned for the Democratic nomination
are Judge Gray Mr. Hearst and Cx
Senator Wall, Judge Gray has yolun
tarly taken his name from the list Of
eligihles. Mr. Walls candidacy does
not seem to have spread beyond his
own backyard. but Mr. Hearst Is
positive and aggressive candidate for
the nomination. We do not think the
Democratic party has any idea Of ac-
cepting Mr.. Bryan'a view that all those
mentioned are unavailable eXeep. Mr.
fltdi st ne IA SAcl VIII 81 AAE Atttatt'
nation only by satisfying the national
convention that he is the most avail
able man. and that he COLL come
nearer victory than any enc else
/ What the party wants Is the man who
can win. no matter whore he com
\ from
The odds favor the selection Of a
I Northern man for the presidential
nomination. but it seems to us that it
would be an excellent idea to nomi
nate a southerner for vice reiident
and thus break the sectional hoodoo
There Is Joe Folk Of Missocrl Mai
colin r. Patterson, of Tennessee, or
John Sharp Williams, Of Missis sipp'
They are all men who have a political
future The South indeed teens with
excellent material, and we DO not
think the party would lose anything
by nominating a Southerner for vice
president aud thus announcing 70 the
country that the men of ability in the
South could once again entertain
worthy and patriotic ambition Mem
phis Commercial Appeal
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1904-03-30

Among nations there Is but one
way in which The possession Of the
pr,aes of nature can be determined,
and that is 10y force Arbitration can
ony serve where strength is evenly
balanced ana the matter in dispute IS
not worth the price Of the conflict.
Atlantic Monthly.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1904-03-30

a collection Of paintings valued at
@ora than $4,000 and q collection Of
'rukcts and souvenirs gathered dur
inS 2 two years suiourn in the lar
East, were destroyed recently by fire
in the studio Of J Ambrose Prichard,
an artist Of Boston.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1904-03-30

Quite evidently he parpasc ia the
foregoing is to bring discreiit upoa
the antiadmini traiion council whu.
one sw1ld think from this sereaA bad
sought to prevent the holding Of an
election nest month. fearing 10 glye
the people an opportunity q exprazs-
ms their approval or disapproyai oi
the coancils action on various mat
out calling the election, was proposed
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1904-03-30

Have y0n ever knawn wh1. 10 Is q
be encouraged to do right net E
being toid % do I'D. bpt by being near
q man stronger than yourself whose
mere presence helped ylu SO that yo1
were tbe stronger man because hc
was there? There are men l}Fiag l}
day Cn the strength Of other Mons
X. J Campbell
Sunday School Teacher Now
Tommy can Won tell me whose day
This ISL Tammy "Yeam it's Brid
geta Della had last sunday oat
Philadelphia Press
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1904-03-30
THE ARRIVAL or SPRING.

Calls for activity among the bust
nees men of the city and advertising
is one Of the needs Of the time. The
Cairo advertisers cannot afford TO lose
sight OF the fact thai the surrounding
territory offers rich field for him
and that The Bulletin makes nearly
every county within fifty miles Of
Cairo.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1904-03-30

Az The council meeting last night ma
ordnance granting riantufway 10 tap
&. Q & G. was amended $50 as 60 r..
strict them 10 one track on CONNER
clai avenue Alderman Andrew Lonr
submitted written protest. against
giving rightofW1y ON Commercial
aycnne angling that II be changed 20
Mississippi Le}ec,
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1904-03-30

Gray horses are hereafter TO he
exclusively used by the artillery IN
me Russian army The reason given
is that animals Of this color are
stronger and more enduring than
aTlrn Dr black oues
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1904-03-30

soar mill, aud moussos. one teaspoon
ml of baans powder dissolved IN half
emp III hat water mix thoroughly
and baked IN haItpound baking pow.
der tin cans 35 minutes with the lids
on ana then ton minutes Win the lids
OF 1h,s is au excellent bread tor
lysppdc and can bc eaten when or
binary white hre4d IL n4igestinl
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1904-03-30

Toalhayue draua may DC made Of
three ounces chlarolorm, one ounce
creoaeto half dram lImorpnil Mix
tne morphia with the cre5aote Iat
stand until solution IS clear chen add
che ehllroturm
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1904-03-30

The Cine Tine Native Wen weli,
woIt 81 you cont remember me, en-!
old tc)low2
rnc old mhabitaut don't remem.
Der your face hut your manner is eX
tessNcY familiar
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1904-03-30

While. rs before stated the Bulle-
Tin has no legal advice upon this sub
Ject. II feels safe in saying that there
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1904-03-30
4 rREposrERous CONTENTION

There may be some merit in two Of
the mayors objections T. obeying the
city councils order to make five
year contract with the lighting comp1-
Mics of the city. II may be true that
the requisite number Of votes were
not given Ia the order and that the
order for the contract could not legal
" be made until after the appropria-
ton ordinance was passed. Ii these
objections are good the question ma
tnrally arises why did not he mayor
raise them at the time the action was
taken? He should have called the
councils attention to them then, for
that was his chief duty as the presid-
Ing offlcer-t0 see that the proceed
ings are legal and parliamentary. In
stead of doing this, however he de-.
clared the motion ordering the con
tract carried" although he knew II
had received but nine votes.
However. these matters will be
passed upon by the city attorney to
whom they have been referred.
And. anyway, these two points are
not Of much importance, as the scope
Of their effect is limited to this one
contract 1t IL different with the
third objection raised by the mayor
which. Ii held TO be good, would be
widespread in its consequences dis
turb every existing contract the city
council has made, bring hopeless
chaos into all the important affairs Of
the people and place the city council
of Cairo in a most ridiculous position
Of helpessness not only for the pres
cnt bus for all time, in all things, The
mayor says
''Third--l am confident the con
tracts are Illegal, for this council
can not bind a future council by
making the Lighting contract you
want 10 make.
Commenting upon this the Tela-
gram Of last evening says in part;
"The points made by Mayor
Winter in his address to the city
council at last nights meeting are
well taken To an unprecedented
mind ii would seem unfair if il il
not positively Illegal, that future
councils. should be held response
BILE financially for the acts of pre-
yi0ns ones. Men may Dc
elected to the council who win not
approve the measure. All other
city supplies are purchased by
yearly contract why not the lights?
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1904-03-30

An Illinois Central, Mobile < Ohio
ANA Cotton Belt trains arrive and de,
part from Central station, corner Of
Second street and Ohio l.eyae.
An Big Four and Iron Mountain
trains arrive and depart from the
Union station. Second street ana Com
mercial avenue
Mail may be deposited IN the hoy ut
the transfer station located at Con
trail station. ~ minutes before the de.
mrture Of auy train.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1904-03-30


vice upon this subject as the mayor
presumably has had, but with all due
respect to him and to rs esteemed
contemporary, II cannot refrain from
pronmnclng his position as above
stated. as absurd superlatiyely abb
surd. ii the council of one year can
not bind the council Of the following
year in contracts made for the public
service what becomes Of the contracts
now supposed To he in force?
What of the printing contract?
What Of the lumber contract?
What OF the garbage contract?
What Of the mayors pet one-dollar
afoot hose conttlct over which
hangs the blighting pail OF the first
bribery scandal that has ever married
the fair fame Of a city administration
Of Cairo7
All these were made by the present
council which, according 10 the con
tention Of the mayor and his mouth
pieces, goes ont OF existence ait n
next month.
Are these contracts all null ana
void-not binding upon the so-called
new council?'
Il will be answered by way Of diver
sion that these things were all duly
advertised for as required By the or
dinances. But thai has nothing to do
with the point under discussion. That
relates to the manner Of making a
valid contract. The question by
which we are confronted in the point
raised BY the mayor IS whether or not
one council can bind another in con
tract legally made according TO ali thc
forms prescribed by the Law and tie
ordinances. and If the mayors posi-
ton en- this point Il correct. then, IN
deed. We have no city government
worthy Of the name.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1904-03-30

The fastest time recorded by steam
ship between Queenstown ana New
York is five days, seven hours ana
twenlythfee minutes 4 was made
by me Canarl Liner Ldc3aia, Oet3' er
2l.-G, lS5t.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1904-03-30
GIVE THE CHILDREN A CHANCE
By wILIAm T. wArT chicago School Principal

TTING in lad position all day, breathing cir contain
mated by forty or sets of lungs working there 10y
the hour and SCOfDED MORE OR LESS ONE
THIRD OF THE TIME the teachers are easy or
hard to please the school child gets used to submission
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1904-03-30
USEFUL INFORMATION.

IIn this department al manner Of useful in
formati IN wib ~ briefly ggrn every day any
question asked bg readers concerning any OF
the mnliiludinous affairs az daily life win re-
ceigp careful consideration
Today the sun wi. rise q : 70 and
set at G:2l The moon Will Set az
5.f3 q. M.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1904-03-30

lie sits quietly while he knows that wrong done all about him.
lie learns cheat in examination lie practices sly conduct lie
SOMETIMES DOES WORSE
Let bring children up they viii grou naturally Ic.
instruct them incidentally and primarily Lot the school
crcea he planned TO MEET TIE WANTS OF THE CHILDS
MIND rather than try make e mind conform with the pres
ranged SYSTEM.
LET THERE &c cAmpAlcn AGAiNsr THE LIAR the sNEAn
THE THIEF. IMPURE. UNDEVELoPgD THE ENVoue
AND MATURE HARD
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1904-03-30
OUR CIVILIZATION TEACHES
SUBMISSION TO OWNERSHIP
BY pr GEORGE HEBRON. Formerly Professor Of Applied
Christianity GrInner College. Iowa

HE PROBLEM OF LIFE HAS NEVER BEEN
ATTACKED ITS SOLUTION HAS NEVER
BEEN ATTEMPTED
1t is not true that the meek have inherited the
earth. The strong have gone out and TAKEN it.
This intangible thing we call government has made the
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-05-22
ART AND ART WORKERS.

Augustus ST. Gaudens has been asked to model
the statue Of Baron Won Steuben for Washing
ton.
A supplementary fund is needed to provide for
the care and maintenance of the monument to
President Mckinley, which built by popu-
lar subscription.
Attention is called by the authorities OF the
Boston Museum of Fine Arts to a projected
loan exhibition of early American prints in
Guiding engravings etchings, wood cuts. ETC..
to be opened next autumn.
Two large wall paintings for the Governors
reception room in the State Capitol of Mime
sofa have been assigned to Messrs. F. d. Mlet
and Douglas volk. Millet will show the treaty
at Traverse des Sioux. volk will paint Father
Hennepin discovering the falls of st. Anthony.
The Due de Dlnos collection of armor which
was recently purchased by the Metropolitan
Museum of Art for 500. 900, has been safely in
stalled in the museum and will be ready for ex-
hibition early next week. The cases in which
the valuable arnior was brought over were
labeled hardware"
The Society OF Oil Painters in London has be-
come weary Of reviewing of pictures
each year. which were submitted only to be re-
jected, and has concluded hereafter to cont:ne
its exhibitions to works of members. This will
oeen
successful at the exhibitions Of the society.
The old fight between the realistic and the
classical school has broken out afresh in Berlin.
and this time the quarrel is indirectly due to
preparations for the exhibit at the ST Louis
exposition The representatives Of the classical
school have demanded that the funds devoted
for art purposes be expended among the repre-
sentatives Of the various art tendencies accord
ing just principles
In the matter OF art the ST. Louis exposition
has been we'll treated by the Irish The Earl
OF Mayo and Drogheda. Lord Castletown the
lord mayor OF Cork Coils. Claude Cane and Poe
have lent silver pieces OF great value as samples
of the old siiversm.ths' work OF Cork and Dub
ln as we'll as for their historical associations
One is the punch bowl of the Hellfre Club.
Drogheda lends the silver presented by
William III and made in Dublin in 1896. There
is a large collection OF potato dish rings a
| form Of Irish table silver.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-05-22
Wages fs Porto Rico.

Wages are lower in Porto Rico than in the
United States. In the rural districts coffee-pick-
receive from 20 to 60 cents per day. many
children being employed; coree-cleaners and
sorters 30 to 70 cents: tobacco workers. 90 cents
81; laborers in general so cents to 81 90 In the
towns bookbinders are paid 80 cents 10 81 q day:
carpenters 81 10 $780, cigarmakers. 81 20 10 81 so;
printers 60 cents TO 81 50: seamstresses IS cents
to $50 (often including meas) clerks. 81 to s. 10
tbut government clerks often from $1,000 10 $3.50
a year,; cooks. Sc to - a month. including meals
and lodging: other servants. 80 10 IS a month.
with meals and lodging. Public school teachers
receive $40 TO SIS a month. according TO grade.
In most industries the working day consists OF
ten to twelve hours. but the productiveness Of
labor is naturally not as great as in the United
States. the Porto Rican artisans proh-
cient according to our standards words Work.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-05-22

1t was another canny publisher who sang 9
song Of American royalties.
Inflated literary values are as bad IN their
way inflated stock values" he said. and IL
strikes me that a slump is about due. We arc
paying too much for mediocre work.
"A young author through merit. accident OF
advertising. achieves considerable success with
his first book Up goes his ideas Of suitable roys
alties until ons can hardly touch them with p
tsn-foot pole. Publishing competition is strong
that some firm 10 likely. a speculation. te
meet his demands.
I'VE publishers are to blame for overpayine
and nattering young writers Of promise and
urging them to work faster than they should,
but the young writer's doing their best to Kill
the geese prolific of golden eggs 1t is bad bus
mess to demand excessively high royalties.
UNLESS book makes great hit. the pubs
Usher can't pay such royalties and make an
money. He has to get even somewhere. and
the chances that he takes the extra royalty
out of the advertising or the books makeup So
that the author loses in sales booming wha;
he gains in per cent"-New York Sun
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-05-22

A few days ago a dispatch from Fair
that place of the well-preserved remains OF
a mastodon. They were found in the bed Of
a small creek, where they had reposed for
untold centuries to be partially uncovered
at last by a spring freshet to the wonder
ing gaze of countrymen, who dug them out,
and, in their crude fashion, perhaps not
altogether unsl'llful. joined them together.
The finders and exhumers of the skeleton
have about concluded to pool their interests
and sell ii TO a museum. Meanwhile, the
tenants Of the farm on which 1t was found
Smith brothers-have placed it on exhi-
bition in their woodshed. charging 10 cents
admission fee, and it is said that on last
Sunday more than four hundred persons
paid for admittance.
But mastodons are not found in Indiana
every day. and they have Inoney value.
The owner OF the farm has been turning the
matter over In her mind, and has concluded
that the skeleton belongs to her and not
to the tenants. and has therefore decided
to bring suit for it's possession. This would
raise a nice question of law. Ordinarily
the tenant of a farm, without a special
contract providing TO the contrary, is only
entitled to what he may produce from the
soil. 1t is not customary in this State in
renting farms to provide that the tenant
shall be entitled to whatever mastodons
he may find. In this case the tenants might
claim that they raised the mastodon, but
a court would hardly admit that exhuming
a skeleton from soil where it had been
buried for centuries was raising it in the
sense of raising a crop of corn. Yet, as
long as the skeleton lay buried it had no
commercial value, and its unearthing is en-
tirely due to the tenants.
These are questions of law for the courts
to decide. Other questions beyond the Ju-
risdiction Of the courts are. where did the
going? What induced it TO take the future
State of Indiana in its journey? How did
1t happen to become mired and buried on
the banks Of Barren creek-then perhaps a
vast lagoon of tropical vegetation-and how
many thousands of years had it lain there
to be finally exhumed by Smith brothers
and exhibited in their woodshed at 10 cents
admittance? The history of the world
since the animal formed part of it's living
assets until it was placed on exhibition in
Smith brothers woodshed would be an
in fer esfing story
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-05-22

During the past week the dispatches have
carried accounts of various great church
gatherings. aud from nearly all Of them,
in one shape or another, comes encouraging
word of the tendency toward Christian
unity of endeavor This may never come in
the shape of church unity, merging of
denominations and consequent wiping out
OF the variations of creeds. All these have
their traditions and property to be con-
able difficulties of detail to be overcome
before the churches processing Christianity
could be placed under central ecclesiast-
ical government.
But Ii is the substance. rather than the
form of unity, toward which all are rapidly
drifting. that is really important. Corpora
ton in a large way is the order of the age.
and the church organizations are feeling
the impulse keenly. The way has been
clearing for years through the decadence
of UNCONVENTIONAL controversy and the
gradual disappearance of the popular re-
gard for niceties of creed. 1t has become
common practice for a minister of one
denomination to occupy the pulpit of
friend processing a different creed, and
union services for churches of varying
creeds have become regular thing.
All this leads up easily and naturally to
cooperation in various lines of church
work, and for this the way has been further
cleared by the frequent contact of ministers
of different creeds in such undenominational
effort as public charity organizations and
kinds. There is a commonsense disposition
to avoid duplication of effort. to conserve
the entire strength of the churches for the
work to be done in various fields that fits
in well with the spirit of the time. Even
In the foreign missionary field one can note
a tendency TO concede spheres Of influ-
ence," as it were, that prevents both dupli-
cation of effort and confusion of the heath
en- mind. 1t goes almost without saying
that in time the various missionary boards
will begin to hold joint meetings and dis
cuss ways and means for pushing the
propagation Of the faith as one body
All this is distinctly in the direction of
rationalism in our religious work. The
sincerity and the right intention of all is
conceded. The same Christ. the same P,ble,
the same Sermon the Mount belong to us
all. and these are the things of first i'm
portance. The rest are secondary. and
should not stand In the way of giving TO
Christianity the strength of united effort
for the uplifting. the salvation OF humanity
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-05-22

The Hearst boom acts upon oratorx like a fer.
ment IN a mash tub. That is one OF it's most
pleasing effects Wherever it appears orator.
Of the deepest dye is heard making adjectives
sweat like a harvest hand in depicting the vir-
tues and greatness Of Mr.. Hearst For proof
of what say need only refer our reader,
to the columns of Mr.. Hearst's papers But III
the Des Moines convention the followers oil
Parker. outvoted. outclassed and outlawed re.
sorted to ribald interruption Whenever nj,
boom struck the rock of oratory and produced
afiuent fountain of beautiful paeans. tbs
Parker parties damned the pactolian stream by
totally irrelevant inquiries as to the amount ths
orator received for the vocal boutonnieres hs
was pnnng on Mr.. Hearsts coat. This pain.
full species of old-blooded interruption was
varied by referring to the orators collar a.
brass and speculations as to its cost, when
probably 1t material than cellu-
loid.-San Francisco Call.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-05-22

A story is told OF domestic in a Duluth fam
fly who had been long time In her situation.
and who gave notice because she was going
to be married The girl who engaged to
take her place sent word TO her mistress-to-be
that she would not be able TO begin her duties
for at least fortnight after the date which
her predecessor to be married The maid
was asked by her mistress whether she would
agree to postpone the date OF the wedding but
she declined TO do so. bearing in mind the old
adage Change the date. change the fate
She said. however. that she didn't mind getting
married and coming back for time. until the
other girl could assume her duties and this was
finally agreed upon. the young man offered
no objection. Half hour after the ceremony
the girl was performing her customary duties.
and her mistress said to her. smiling:
And 1 suppose your husband has gone back
TO his work. too. MatidaT'
'-Oh. no. indeed. am" replied the girl.
He bane gone his honeymoon. "-cleveland
Leader.