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The Cairo bulletin., 1904-09-10

The front stairway az 81. Mary's
infrmary has been removed ana an
other bedroom viii be added, adjoln-
ing the parlors,
The Cairo bulletin., 1904-09-10

AfttFnOUN at LaTuba
Mrs. Max Kaufman entertained at
cards yesterday afternoon at her
home on Seventh street compliment
tary to Mrs, Ralph Parker OF Mime
apolis, who is the guest of Mrs.
William Cunningham Of Park Place
West
The Cairo bulletin., 1904-09-10
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.
GENERAL LOCAL NEWS

A marriage license was issued yes
terday to Mr. Samuel NJ. Lockridge
and Miss Georgia Nunley both OF
Clinton, Ky
The Cairo bulletin., 1904-09-10

month but few have become mono,
maniacs upon that scale, but coming
on down TO the scale of 81 400 year
many are so much have they talked
about it and thought about it. No
conversation ever comes up that they
DO not make the statement that they
got $4,000 a year on the Mississippi
river or Ohio river or Yukon river
They are sure to mention it. even II
they have told you several times be.
fore
1t is sad thing to see a man stand
still and live in the past and enjoy
a princely salary of the past, while
the world goes on and conditions
change, but it calls for greater pity
when he sneers al men who are fol-
lowing his craft for less than 81, 400
a year. 1t is bordering upon senility
and il he must be pilot, let him
come across and pilot the boats OF
today under the conditions Of today
His lunacy has method In it ard no
does come across, but he cannot rid
his mind of the one idea of $1,000 a
year. and therein he is either a mono
maniac or believing the story himself
from its frequent telling. thinks the
other fellow does.
The Cairo bulletin., 1904-09-10
THE WEATHER
Weather Yesterday.

Maximum temperature, 81 degrees.
Minimum temperature, G2 degrees.
Temperature al p. m, IS degrees.
The Cairo bulletin., 1904-09-10
Weather Forecast.

Indications for Cairo and vicinity
today:
Partly Cloudy.
The Cairo bulletin., 1904-09-10
POLICE NEWS


Geo. Stratton, arrested by Marshal
price for carrying concealed wea'
pons was fined 500 BY Judge Rosn'
son and given a stay OF thirty min
utos in which to get out OF town.
The Cairo bulletin., 1904-09-10

Cot Nellis is on the night watch Oh
some better but not able to be 81
work yet.
The Cairo bulletin., 1904-09-10
Personal.

Personal.
Capt. George Clark took the Annie
Russell 10 st Louis.
George Woodward came out on the
Margaret and returned TO st. Louis
by rail.
Cot Nellis is on the night watch on
some better, but not able to be al
work yet.
Col. Nellis is on the night watch on
the Morgan.
Capt Neyll is pilot on the night
watch on the Pacific. He Is a double
barreled river man like Andy Glynn
being an engineer as well as a pilot
Movements OF the Boats.
The Wright left for St Louis yes.
terday morning,
The Morgan was aground at Cairo
Point about one hour and a half yes.
terday morning.
The Paepcke got IN from below yes
tcrday afternoon with logs.
The Henry Harley arrived and de-
parted yesterday on time in the Fow.
Ier's place She has the Fowler's
aPa
The Cairo bulletin., 1904-09-10

linn Corcoran was arrested by or.
deer Cowell yesterday. charged with
being drunk He was found guilty.
and Judge Robinson fined him 81 and
costs, which were paid, and the pris-
oner released.
The Cairo bulletin., 1904-09-10

DR.. f. f. Gordon has announced
that he will be a candidate for the
nomination as coroner on the Republl.
can eicket this fall
The Cairo bulletin., 1904-09-10

Jeff Jones imbibed too much fire.
water and in consequence was arrest
81 by Officers Glade and Hofheinz.
IA was fined 81 and costs in the city
court by Judge Robinson. He couldn't
pay The fine and was taken in charge
by City Jailer SUSANNA.
The Cairo bulletin., 1904-09-10

Col. Nellis is on the night watch on
the Morgan
The Cairo bulletin., 1904-09-10

The mussel shell industry is now
quite extensive in the Ohio from re.
ports. Between Evansville and Padu.
cab many hundred tons Of shells have
been dredged and are awaiting ship.
mCnt 10 Muscatine. Iowa. where ex.
;cnsve button factories are located.
This season is the best for mussel
shell dredging, as the water is low
As side issue pearl hunting has be-
come quite prosperous. ana many fine
pearls have been found by the drcdc-
crs. Clerk Lee Rhodes. of tho Dick
Fowler, has a pearl of fine lustrc
found at Brookport. three miles be-
low here. and set in ring. A few
pearls found in the Ohio and Wabash
rivers have sold for as much as sew
eral thousand dollars each.-Palucah
sun
The Cairo bulletin., 1904-09-10

Capt. George Clark took the Annie
Russell 10 st Louis.
The Cairo bulletin., 1904-09-10

George Woodward came out on the
Margaret and returned TO st. Louis
by rail.
The Cairo bulletin., 1904-09-10

Yesterday a motion was forwarded
10 Federal Judge Walter Evans at
Louisville, asking for a sale OF the
steamer Chattanooga to settle claims
aggregating $1,000.
The claim OF the Marine Ways
company is possibly the largest and
an answer to the claim was filed by
others holding claims, holding thar
their claims were prior. There win
likely be complications resulting
when the declaration of a dividend IS
made after the sale.
The date of sale is to be fixed by
court and II days notice must be
given. The local trustee recommend
ed that the terms of sale be made
half cash and the other half to be
paid within four months.-N cws-Dem,
ocra;.
The Cairo bulletin., 1904-09-10

Capt Neyill is pilot on the night
watch on the Pacific. He Is a double
barreled river man like Andy Glynn
being an engineer as well as pilot
The Cairo bulletin., 1904-09-10

Mrs Charles Luuiquis' OF Twenty
seventh street is very Ill with stom
ach trouble.
The Cairo bulletin., 1904-09-10

Mrs. Mary Corliss and daughter
Miss Mary. have gone to Indianapolis
on visit
The Cairo bulletin., 1904-09-10

Mr. f. w. Thielecke OF st. Louis,
formerly managing editor OF The Bull
letin. was in Cairo yesterday on bus,
mess. He is representing the A, n
Kellogg Newspaper company.
The Cairo bulletin., 1904-09-10

Mr. and Mrs. w T, Edmunds, Mrs.
Brehan and Fred Beehdel have gone
10 So Louis 10 visit the fair.
The Cairo bulletin., 1904-09-10

George Cruise. who works at the
Singer factory lost the first finger Of
his right hand yesterday by getting
ii caught in some of the mahcinery.
The Cairo bulletin., 1904-09-10

Mr.. and Mrs. G. Z. Anglen of Ash.
ley have arrived here and will make
their home with their daughter. Mrs
George T. Carnes Mr., and Mrs. j.
Leroy Mttenbuhler OF Chicago are
al o guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Carnes.
The Cairo bulletin., 1904-09-10

Miss Mary Potter of 22o Eighth
street is visiting the Worlds fair.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-03
GOOD FOR CHILDREN.

A lady of wisdom and experience
writes: Variety of exercise is quite as
essential to the mind as to the body of
a child unless we wish to give it a dis
taste for mental effort and to make all
such effort mere drudgery. There are,
I know still few people left who think
that the presence of pleasurable emo
ton in any degree is incompatible with
real instruction, but 1 am happy to
think that it has become generally rec
ognized that it is possible for the ac-
QUESTION of knowledge and pleasure 70
advance hand in hand.
Are abnormally clever children, those
prodigies of genius and precocity most
of US have at some time or another
come across, a matter for congratula-
ton to their parents or to be desired?
1 venture to think not. The mental de-
velopment of such children at an I'M
usually early stage of their lives has
generally been attained at the expense
of their physique. The very brilliancy
of their mental powers is out of all pro-
portion to their physical strength;
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-03

church is a slender woman, with a face
delicate and refined. 1t must have been
a trial to this lady to inspect slaughter
houses and clean city streets, yet she
has never shrunk from that or from
anything else, however repulsive, that
cried out for betterment.
Caroline Bartlett was born in Hud-
son, Wis. She was graduated from
Carthage college, Illinois. taking a
postgraduate course at the University
of Chicago. Then she was teacher a
year or two. After that she got
glimpses of very real life indeed as a
newspaper reporter. She could have
had no better training for a preacher
Newspaper people see enough to make
two or three sermons out of every day
of their lives if they are inclined for
preachment-
Miss Bartlett served on papers in
Minneapolis and Oshkosh. acting for
time as city editor. 1t may have been
that what she saw then of the needs of
the so called civilized race prompted
her to quit journalism, as she had be-
fore been prompted to quit teaching.
The teacher is bound hand and foot
by cast iron rules. The newspaper re-
porter or editor is fettered fast by the
conventialities and prejudices of the
community, and especially of his jour-
nalS advertisers. The only way for
one who has something to say of him
self is to strike out quite alone and sink
or swim.
Caroline Bartlett turned her face
away from all she had wrought at pre-
viously and in 1885 became pastor of
All Souls church in Sioux Falls. S. D.
There she remained till 1889, when she
was called to take charge of the Unita-
rian society of Kalamazoo. Then it
was that Miss Bartlett was first regu-
iarly ordained as minister of religion.
But the spirit who could not be content
as a teacher or newspaper woman was
irked by a UNCONVENTIONAL name. Out
of the Unitarian church to which she
had been called she organized and built
a society for everybody and named it
the Peoples church. She has persua-
sive powers that would move almost
the arch f1end himself. and she uses
them always for the good of the great
est number. She induced her congre-
cation to take up humanitarian and
educational work along broad and noble
lines. Soon she talked to them of a
beautiful edifice, one with room for
both religion and recreation, where the
society and their friends, young and
old, might gather. The church was at
length built. and the warm, pure spir-
it at the head OF the congregation was
the most untiring of all in doing the
good works she herself had Instituted,
which included the founding of the first
public kindergarten and the first school
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-03
"POOR JARRETT

An amusing story is told of the wife
of an English manufacturer who had
risen from the ranks to the dizzy emil
nence of mayoralty. On one occasion
she invited all the principal townspeo
pie to a grand ball and stood in re-
splendent attire at the head of the
stairs to receive her guests. One of the
last to arrive was a woman who had
years before worked side by side in
mill with the mayoress. Thrusting out
a large red hand, she cried in a loud
voice plainly audible everywhere: I've
said all through that 1 wouldn't patron
ize your ball, 'Arriet, lass, seem that
YOU were mean enough not to AK me,
but this mornin' over my second cup O
tea 1 says to myself, Happen poor Ar
riet, who never could dance any better
than an elephant, will want somebody
as honeIy as herseI' to talk to while the
fine ladies and gentlemen are in the
ballroom So for old times sake l
pocketed the insult, put on my best
blouse and comedi"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-03

In thirty minutes she was on a train
bound for Lansing. There, without
waiting for breakfast, she searched out
the leading opponent of the bill and
persuaded him to move its reconsidera-
ton. This had to be done within TWEEN
ty-four hours of it's defeat. 1t was
again brought forward, and Mrs. Crane
was allowed to speak in it's favor before
the legislature. When it was put to
vote again it passed by Sc to 10, a
splendid tribute to the woman preach
er's eloquence.
Her work was not yet done, however.
1t was necessary for each city to pass
an ordinance of its own to enforce the
state law in that particular locality
Mrs. Crane drafted a model ordinance
for the use of city authorities. The at
tention of state boards OF health
throughout the country has been drawn
to the Michigan meat inspection law.
Mrs Crane is devoted to outdoor life
and exercises of all kinds, summer and
winter A ten or twelve mile walk is
nothing uncommon for her. She loves
every object of natures great outdoors.
DR.. and Mrs. Crane have summer
home Brownthrush, on the shore of
Gull lake, Michigan, where they pass
the warm months rowing, swimming
and riding horseback.
Not long ago Mrs. Crane gave a col
lege commencement address entitled IF
l Were Twenty Again" In that speech
she told her student audience what she
would do if she were twenty again. 1t
is hard for mere outsider to perceive
how Caroline Bartlett could improve
much on her works accomplished even
if she could begin over again at twenty.
But one golden thought from the adj
dress is to be specially commended to
those individuals who expect to 're-
tire" and fossilize after fifty or sixty or
eighty or ninety, as the case may be:
Life is life all the way, and not sus-
pended animation"
ELIZA BETH LEE.
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WOMEN TODAY DO
NOT AGE RAPIDLY.

u CURIOUS chapter of matrimonial
"a woes was lately recorded. A.
husband, a withered, tottering,
little old man of seventy, made a dis
turbance because his wife, a gay and
beautiful young woman of sixty three
went to theaters. parties and receptions
and otherwise amused herself abroad,
leaving him alone nights to chew the
cud of bitter and decrepit fancies in his
desolate home. The matter would not
have exasperated the old man so if his
wife had chosen companions among
withered old people like himself, in
whom all the springs of warm, fresh life
had dried up. But this was exactly
what she did not do. No dyspeptic and
rheumatic old hunkers for her! Her
associates were merry young people.
and of these she was one of the mer-
riest and most active. When the pair
appeared in court in consequence of the
trouble it was said the husband looked
and acted his full age, seventy, while
the wife appeared no older than forty
at most.
The incident is an illustration of an
actual situation. In the matter of the
comparative aging of the sexes a revo-
luton has been proceeding before our
eyes SO silently for a genera ton that
few have noted it. The moment one
apparent. We seem to have come to
the point in race evolution where men
grow old faster than women of the
same age.
Perhaps the reader is a club woman,
broadening her acquaintance among
sister members, pleasant, youthful
seeming women, alert and alive, inter
ested in everything that interests any
body. After awhile, maybe on gentle
mems night" at the club. she is intro
duced to the husbands of these young
ladies and finds, to her establishment,
the husbands are old men, either of the
dull and heavy, apoplectic type or of
the skinny, cracked voiced, lean and
slippered pantaloon' kind.
So completely, without our noting it,
have the tables of the past been turned
into the tables of the present that now
in perhaps the majority of cases middle
aged men are older than middle aged
women. Any day you may see in a
street car a lady, erect, graceful, well
dressed, with a blooming complexion
and brilliant eyes, probably handsomer
than she was at twenty, though she is
not a day under fifty. Beside her,
sunken down in heap, sitting upon his
spine, his knees sprawled apart V
shaped, occupying a full seat and a half
of the car, is her husband, His teeth
are discolored and repulsive from to-
bacco, his face is puffed and apoplectic
from over eating and drinking. His
chest has slumped down upon his stom-
ach, and he is so stiff and clumsy that
his joints fairly creak when he attempts
to rise. In all that pertains to real life
he is twenty-five years older than his
wife, though they were of the same age
when they started on the road together.
When woman friend meets woman
friend after some years of separation no
longer now is heard that villainously
mean utterance, You amt a-gittin' any
younger, are you?" On the contrary,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-03
The Piano students.

nobly refusing the only offers she has
received to go on the road with third
rate companies. Meanwhile she makes
her own clothes, which are simply
stunning works of art. She cuts them
out anyhow, on pillow, on the floor,
even in the theater, and they always
come out right. Some one sees a spec
linen of her handiwork and offers her
the post of designer in a large estab-
hshment at $40 per, and she refuses.
Why, seamstress is written all over her,
in the very lines of her face, and yet
she slaves as an extra at SIS a week and
waits for her chance. Her chance!
Good heavens, what chance has she?
1t isn't only in the theater that you
see these types. You find them in the
art schools, girls who ought to be type
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-03
A FETCHING Gown.

Now, if have not tired you, want
you to look at the dress in the sketch.
1t was worn by celebrated singer at a
concert. The material is white chiffon
velvet, and it is trimmed with Irish lace.
Notice the long shouldered effect which
broadens out into the capelike upper
sleeves. These reach to about the ell
bow and are filled out with puffs of
chiffon. The yoke is entirely of Irish
lace. The girdle is very wide and of
black satin. The full skirt falls in soft
folds broken only by an irregular band
six inches wide, also of the Irish lace.
The hat which the blond artistic wore
with this was of black velvet and black
ostrich tips. I forgot to mention that
the gown was collarless, and rope of
pearls was wound twice around the
neck. KATE CLYDE.
New York.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-03
Dissscts the Woman
Who Fails by Reason
of Undiscovered and
UnsOught Fer Causes.
The Selection Of Ve-
cations Fer Which One
Is Entirely Unsuited

what naughty lady who does the emo
tional stunts. This part, by your leave,
she always takes for herself; no one
else viii ever have a chance to be
naughty on the same stage with her,
and, my goodness, do you blame her
when it is the naughty lady who has all
the chance to do the acting? Then
there is the respectable married person.
mother of a family. Well, she can be
taller if she wants to be, but it's pretty
much of an old woman's part, as a rule.
Then there's the ingenue. the young
girl part. But 1 put it to you-how
would it do to have the ingenue taller
than the central figure in the play :?
There are also maid parts. and ask
you again, is it possible to have a
strapping maid who outtops the mis-
tress of the household?
Now. the girl who wasted two years
in this company is a good two inches
taller than the star, and, although she
is a young girl, she wants to play ad-
ventures parts and scorns the ingenue,
which she couldn't act anyway if she
were the right height. And yet she
complains!
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here and there the first thing she knows
some editor will want to keep her work
entirely for himself. She will be up
against a contract and a nice little liv-
ing.
Just remember this: If you don't
succeed at one thing it is perhaps the
sign that you can do something else,
for we can all Of us do one thing well.
The great object is to find out what
that is. Some people never find it out
in time; others never try to find it. But
it's there, it's there. 1t may be way off
from what you are doing now; it may
not be so ladylike or so "dignified," but
isn't it better, isn't it really more digni-
fed, to do the thing you are fitted for
and to do it well than to be at the tail
end of the procession in something else
in which you don't belong?
It's very fine to be able to do this or
that or the other thing, but it's finer
still to do one thing well, and the most
unfortunate people in this world are
the SO called versatile, the sort that
can do a little of everything and not
one thing at it's best.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-03

in these days we hear, you don't look
a day older than you did ten years ago.
Woman herself changed the old fash
ion so soon as she began to cultivate
her brains. She saw that everything
worth having depended on her retaining
her good looks. her physical strength
and activity and her intellectual powers
so long as she lived. Did she desire 70
shine socially? Society had no use Tor
an old woman. Maybe she had to earn
her living in salaried place. Retain
ing it depended on her keeping every
one of her intellectual faculties alert
and perfect, her physical activity and
endurance steadily up to the mark ana,
more than all, holding fast to her come
ly appearance. Scores of girls. raw and
less competent truly. but young ana
full of life and cheerfulness, were wait
ing to take her post. So she had to
brace herself and keep young.
The result is seen on every hand In
the lengthening out of youth in the
feminine sex. Pluck, determined sweet
temper, cheerfulness and physical and
mental culture have achieved it.
MARY GOULD LYTLE.
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writer's or teachers who can't draw
anything but a straight line-and a
very straight one at that-the sort of
stiff line that isn't wanted in art at all
They have no more idea of color than 1
have of mathematics (and that is say
ing a good deaD. And they put forth
on the world wretched, half starved
color schemes and compositions as
prim and as frigid as the thoughts in
their narrow little brains. Then they
wonder that, after years, they fail.
And the piano students. oh, glory!
I saw about 200 of them at a Gadski
recital, lank haired and unkempt and
nearsighted. The sight of them pre-
vented me from enjoying the concert,
for how on earth, reasoned. was it
possible for them all to succeed or even
obtain bare living?
Oh, yes, I hear some one utter the
platitude that success cannot be gagged
by whether one earns living or not.
that some of the greatest geniuses have
starved.
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remain content with that, whereas
there is always really a very good rea-
son. and in nine cases out of ten If she
had studied the question carefully in
the first place she would have seen the
cause ahead without the modification
of failure.
Here is a case in point: a girl with
good deal of talent recently spent two
years in a dramatic company as an eX-
ira, after which she received her notice
because the play about to be put on did
not require extras. She complained bit
terly of the injustice of fate. Why
shouldn't 1 get a part after working
hard these two years when Miss So
and-so. who has been with the COM
pany only two months. gets a little role
in the new play?
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TOPEKA JOURNAL SATURDAY evenings DECEMBER

sell them to a magazine. and the ed
itors will love her to death, because
originality is cel tainly at a low par in
Magazine row at present If there
isn't room for her some one else will
be put out some one who is not orig
NAL. H1a
s. The young person who can draw so
that people want to look at her draw
ings twice won't have to send a letter
of Introduction to the editor and then
get down on her knees to him. He will
not only see her, but he will buy her
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hence their lack of staying power and
the reason why in later life the prodigy
of tender years is hopelessly outdis-
tanced by the lesser light of fair ability
Unframed in a strong and healthy body.
1 would advise mothers who wish
their sons to develop into handy men"
about the house to guard them vigor-
ously against having too many or too
elaborate toys when they are very
young. The importation of numerous
and deliberately constructed toys into
the nursery is destructive of all initia-
tive in construction. On the other
hand, small children cannot have too
much raw material such as paper.
wood, ETC., with which to indulge their
constructive inclinations.