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The Cairo bulletin., 1904-08-25


G. II. Grandstaff. chief clerk o
Trainmaster Barrett's office, Is on {
visit to friends at Tuscumbia, Flor
ence and Sheffield. Ala.
Rate Clerk Frank Block and famil,
are visiting the Worlds fair this
week.
Leonard Armstrong and William
Strohm made the usual visit to villa
Ridge Sunday.
Night Clerk Miles LESLEY has been
very sick for several days. es
Roy Plemons Is assisting on the
record desk at night.
George Hazel. night record clerk,
is doing the fair at ST. Louis this
week,
William Mertz of Mound City is as
sistant to Station Accountant Lu.
ther Hodge
: Roy Grandstafa of Villa Ridge has
accepted n position as seal clerk.
Ed Raul Is working nights during
the illness of Mr.. Leslie.
Erb Wilson, stenographer to Train
master Barrett, made his semi.week
ly visit to Mound city Tuesday night
The Cairo bulletin., 1904-08-25
Choice in Monkeys.

She had just accepted him. and they
were bissfully discussing the might
have-beens."
Darling" he inquired in the tone
of ono who knows what the answer will
be; darling. why didn't you accept
that little donkey of a fop?"
Because" she answered dreamily.
II loved another. STRAY Stories.
The Cairo bulletin., 1904-08-25
Many Blind In One Eve.

DR.. Ernest Clarke of the Central
London ophthslmic hospital in giving
evidence at an inquest not long ago
said that many person went through
HE with only one eye and did not
know 1t. A British judge had lately
found to his astonishment that he
was blind in one eye. having lived
more than forty years without sus.
pecting his infirmity.
The Cairo bulletin., 1904-08-25
GREAT RECORDS
Made by Hoistein and Jersey Cows
At Worlds Fair Dairy Test.
BY the Associated Press.

Dy lHF fiSSUUIdIeu TTtSS.
st. Louis, Aug. 24.-With the
Worlds fair dairy test for butter fat
and milk production but partly con
cfuded, in which Jersey. brown Swiss,
Holstein and Short Horn herds are
contesting, some wonderful results in
the production of butter and milk are
shown. In sixty days Is head of Hol-
stems gave 1929 pounds of milk
and produced 2,920 pounds of butter
fat. The largest amount of butter
produced by any one COW was 40
pounds, or an average of over 2S
pounds each day.
The Cairo bulletin., 1904-08-25
BIRDS POINT, MO.



Several OF the Birds Point peopl
attended church at Rnsll's Ridg'
Tuesday night, going out in a wagon
Among those who attended were
Mrs. j. j. Watson. Mrs. Sparks, Mrs
j.. ID. Griggs. Misses Wood Maine
NMayne Revelle, Jessie Perce ant
Mr., Fernandez. @
Mrs. Mcclure of I.utesville. Mo-, Is
visiting her sister, Mrs. w. H. Hens
ley OF Birds Point
Pay day took most Of our people to
Cairo this week. Among those who
went were Mrs. Spencer. Misses
Ruth and May Spencer, Mrs. ]. H.
Menefee, and Mrs r. Dodd and fam
ily. a
Miss Mabel Gadboies or Cairo is
visiting her cousin, Miss May Spen-
GER, N
Miss Ida Rodney left Monday for
a weeks stay at the fair.
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OLDEST ILLINOIS MASON.

Vienna. ILL.,, Aug. 24.-Elder Jas. l..
Morton died at his home in New
Burnside, ILL.,, yesterday morning,
aged nearly 95 years. He was prob.
ably the Oldest Mason in the state
and the oldest citizen of the coun
ty He had been prominent as
Baptist minister, beginning his min.
istry in Virginia in 1898.
The Cairo bulletin., 1904-08-25
Food. Not Form.

Assistant Attorney General Robb
while in a Washington restaurant sat
near a man from Texas who evidently
had not Travelled TO any extent. The
waiter said to the stranger from the
Lone Star state;
Here's the bill of fare. sir"
Say. look herel" shouted the Tex
an; Il haven't had a mouthful &C. eat
yet, and III be hanged IL I'll pay any
bin till | get the goods. Fetch on
your victuals first and I'll pay for en-
afterward."
The Cairo bulletin., 1904-08-25
SEVENTH DAY ADvENTlsTs.


BY the Associated Press.
Nortonville, Kan, Aug. 24--At the
national conference of the Seventh
Day Adventists which met here today
over 800 delegates were in attend.
ance from all parts of the United
States.
The Cairo bulletin., 1904-08-25
$500 FOR CHICAGO STRIKERS.
United Mine Workers of Americs
Make Small Contribution.

'Iy the Associated Press
Indianapolis. Aug. 2l-The execu-
tive board of the United Mine Work
ers Of America today voted contri-
button of $500 to the support Of the
Chicago strikers
The Cairo bulletin., 1904-08-25
cLEANLY WOMAN.
Erreneously Thipis By scenripg Her
Scalp Tint She Cures Dandrsn.

cleanly woman has an erroneous idea
thai by securing tho scalp, which re-
moves the dandruff scales, she is curing
the dandruffl She may wash her scalp
every day. and yet have dandruff her
life long accompanied by falling hafr,
too. The only way in the world to cure
dandrun rs to kill the dandruff germ,
and there is no hair preparation that will
do that but Newbro's Herpicide. Herpi-
eide by killing the dandruff germ,
leaves the hair free to grow as healthy
Nature intended. Destroy tho cause
Won remove the effect XIII the dan
drhf germ with Herpfcide. Sold by
leading druggists. Send 10c. In stamps
for sample TO The Herpicide Co.. De-
troit. Mich.
fss A t44a s
Prnl G. Shuh l. 5ons. special
AgsntA
The Cairo bulletin., 1904-08-25
London's Fish Supply.

Last year the supplies OF fish al
Billirgsgate market. London. amount
ed to I63.s97 tons. as against 156. .357
tons in 1902 aud 1896 tons in 1901.
The Cairo bulletin., 1904-08-25

Leading Producers OF Iron Ore.
The leading iron ore states are Min
nesofa. with an output of $4,000. 600
ohs; Michigan. with 1000. 900. and
4lahsms. with s5000e0 tons.
The Cairo bulletin., 1904-08-25
Home Visitors"
Excursion
BIG FoUR R
OHIO, INDIANA
and KENTUCKY
Tuesday, September 6, 1904

Low RATES FROM CAIRO, ILL, TO
indianapolis and return. ... $500
Cincinnati and return ......... $500
Louisville and return $500
Dayton and return $500
Springfield and return $500
Sandusky and return $3.50
Columbus, o., and return ..,.. $3.50
Corresponding rates to intermediate
points.
RETURN LIMIT THIRTY DAYS.
Tickets must he deposited with tick.
ct agent at destination Immediately
upon arrival, and will be validated for
return passage on any day within thir-
ty days from date of sale. and will be
good for continuous passage only, In
each direction, the return journey to
commence on the date of valuation.
For tickets and full information call
on agents Big -Four Route. Warren ].
Lynch, Gen'l Pass. and Ticket Agt.,
Cincinnati, o. j. NJ Stone, T. p. A..
or Elmer Smith, Ticket Agent. Cairo,
Ill.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-08-26
Indictment of Aristocracy.

That the idle rich Of to-day are
worse than the French aristocracy Is
the opinion expressed by Lady Helen
Forbes in a recent number of an Eng
lish magazine. The French aristoc-
racy, she says, was Obliged by the
despotism of the crown to live in The
capital and grind down its dependents,
but the modern idle rich live the life
they lead from choice. And the wo'
men she finds are worse than the
men, at least in England. When the
South African war came to prove the
mettle of the country, many OF the
men of the idle rich stood the test.
They went out and faced reality. But
the women failed. Some Of them, too,
went out to South Africa with lie in
their mouths. and particularly black
and cruel lie, too. They made the
lifeand-death struggle Of the empire
an occasion for picnic, an assigna-
ton with lovers, under cover of a pre-
tended desire to be of use.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-08-26

The Tibetans have numberless
strange myths, one, the most curious.
pertaining to the sun, moon and stars
The sun is believed to be an immense
bali of yak meat and fat. wherein
the spirits of departed ancestors are
supposed to feast, the light being
caused by its heated condition. The
stars are portions of this immense
feast, which, dropping to earth, give
birth to animals for the sustenance OF
suffering humanity. The moon Is a
lesser ball of similar texture as the
sun, in use while the larger one IS
being replenished for the morrow.
When sun or moon fails to appear In
cloudy days and nights 1t means that
the deities are undergoing a period
of fasting and religious abnegation.
And the parched and sterile condition
of bleak regions is ascribed to the
fact that many thousand years ago the
sun ball slipped from the hands OF its
keepers, descended too near the earth.
and, before being recaptured, scorched
those parts with which 1t came In con-
tact.-Booklovers Magazine.
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R;;:EOlNDON::]
s ( EZSfl L!al
ESa1ZzZ Oo0asSA>Nz1SZ2

It was an old subject for discussion,
this pagan London, long before Arch
deacon Sinclair revived the problem
at St. Sepulchre's church recently.
Church or chapel" he said. "are only
attended by about IS per cent OF Lon
dons population. That means that
four-fifths of the people do not wor-
ship God at ALL"
Many clergymen ascribe the decline
IN London's church-going to weaken
ing of religious belief. But there is
no reason to take so pessimistic a
view There are many other causes
which affect Sunday attendance, causes
which directly arise from the growth
OF our vast city, from the strenuous
competition in modern business, from
the nerve flag and brain flag OF the
workers, and from alterations in the
manners and customs of all classes of
society.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-08-26
The EroIicsome ScaIlop.

The scallop takes life less seriously
and servilely than his cousins, the
clans and oysters, says Country Life
in America. The oyster can't move
from his place; the clam can. but
rarely does. The scallop is as free as
a bird, almost, to the end of his days.
Then, again, the scallop has tempera-
ment. He exhibits the frolicsomeness
of childhood as higher animals do.
We see little scallops by tens and doz-
ems, darting swiftly here and there in
the water, by a quick opening and
shutting of the two valves Of their
shells. They are as graceful as flock
of snowbirds, and as vivacious. Cap
ture one, lay it on the sand. and it
snaps it's valves. impatient of the in
terruption if we interpret the signs
Alright. 1t is altogether happy If put
back in the pool.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-08-26

late the rush and whirl of workaday
existence by leaving shattered nerves
as a legacy for those who serve 1t
faithfully.
Sunday! What blessed name 1t
is to London. 1t is day Of rest, but
not in its religious significance. To
rest from labor is to leave the smoky
old town and fly to the country for
breath of fresh air that can give STAN
inc and endurance to the body for an
ether week Of toll.
And thus it is that Sunday trains
pour forth their golfers, that Sunday
roads throb with motors by the hum
dreds and cycles by the thousand.
Those who cannot afford such trips
do the best they can for their tired
to6ies by staying in bed until noon.
How can you get these people into
church? 1t is a problem that no bench
of bishops can answer. 1t would al
most seem that you must first reform
the system under which we live. Yet
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-08-26
FREE TO rs LADIES.

The Defiance Starch Co. will give
rs ladies a round trip ticket to the
st. Louis Exposition, to five ladies
in each of the following states: ILL
nois, Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas and
Missouri who will send in the largest
number of trade marks cut from a ten
cent, 16-ounce package of Defiance
cold water laundry starch. This
means from your own home, any.
where in the above named states.
These trade marks must be mailed to
and received by the Defiance Starch
Co., Omaha, Nebr., before September
LIST. 1904. October and November will
be the best months to visit the Elk.
position. Remember that Defiance Is
the only starch put up 16 OF. Ia full
pound) to the package. You get one
third more starch for the same money
than of any other kind, and Defiance
never sticks to the iron. The tickets
to the Exposition will be sent by regis
tered mail September 5th. Starch FOR
sale by all dealers.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-08-26

The village church was the center
of the village life a half century ago;
ana III many parts of the country 1t
remains in this respect unchanged.
The chapel shared, and still shares, its
position. The children are taught
their religion in the Sunday schools by
whatever branch of the Christian creed
these establishments are conducted
and maintained. They grow up to as
sociate Sunday with the old place OF
worship, to reverence those who lead
and conduct its services. Few, even
of the youngest, are absent, for the
parents, should they stay at home
themselves, like to get the children
away for the morning.
AS in youth, so in the ripper middle
ages The church and chapel become
the meeting ground of the villagers,
separated by scattered farms and
lonely cottages during the working
week. They gather before the doors
after service, greeting each other and
saluting those above them in station.
Should a well-known figure be absent,
II is understood that he is i'll, and in
uuiries are made concerning him.
The squire and his family regularly
attend. They may be modern enough
in their views, careless enough in
their religious observances when in
London for the season. But on their
own land, among their own people,
they fill the great pews under the
ancestral coat-of-arms just as their
forebears filled it, for an example, il
for nothing else.
Are there sports to be held, the
clergyman is on the committee.
There are suppers for the bellringers
excursions for the choir, treats for
the Sunday school; there are mothers
meetings and clothing clubs. The
Non-conformists hold their social gath
erings and concerts. Church and
chapel still remain the hub OF the
social wheel in rural England.
Are they so in town? The question
would be laughable were not the an
swer a subject for regret to many OF
us.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-08-26
Could Afford Philosophy.

"Put yourself in my place. young
ran. Would you want your only
daughter to marry penniless YOUTH"
Put yourself in my place, sir.
Would you want to remain a penniless
youth when there were rich mems
daughters to marry?"
you confess that you'd marry my
child simply for her fathers wealth."
"And you confess that you'd with
hold her from me simply because OF
lily poverty?"
What other reason do need?"
what other reason could influence
you?"
This talk is quite useless"
quite"
1--WE have nothing to gain by It,"
Absolutely nothing"
"You take it philosophically." ,
"Why shouldn't l? Your daughter
and l were married month ago.
Stray Stories.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-08-26

if we give more leisure through the
week, less ardor to commercial and
professional existence, how are we to
Lold our own as nation against
America or Germany?
There can never be that reverence
and affection for London church that
the country people feel for the gray
old house of God perched upon the
hill and ringed about with whispering
elms and melancholy yews. Their
fathers and grandfathers were married
there, and now lie buried there under
the waving grass of that peaceful
acre.
In the old pews they sat as children,
fretful under the eye of the clerk as
the sermon droned into tedium; there
were they married, and at the ancient
font their first-born were christened.
The greatest joys and deepest sorrows
of their lives are bound up with the
village church and it's graveyard. And
as it is with them, so has it been with
their forebears through the genera
tons.
But in London we change too quick
ly. From one parish to another we
fit with no regret for broken associa'
tons. Where were you christened,
where married? Almost will some o,
tho true-bred cockneys forget. Where
will be your burial? Some well-kept
dismal park, where you will lie with
thousands of the other forgotten dead
who in ten years have none left to lay
a wreath upon the marble slab above
them, or to stand and think upon theiI
memory.
In the village those who knew the
good man or gentle-hearted woman
whose tombstone rises beside the
walk to the church door will speak OF
them for many years. even pointing
out their graves to the children. thai
they, too, may remember some one
who did his duty in the little com
munity in which he dwelt for while
The clergy of all denominations are
working harder in our greatest OF
cities than ever before. 1t is not theil
fault that pews stand empty of morn
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-08-26

Yes! Hurrah! Monica had sneezed!
Halfway up the lane they came to
cottage.
Five years ago they had been wont
to take tea at that cottage. The old
lady who made the tea was still max
ing it and they stayed there for quite
n hour.
Doesn't this remind you?" whisper.
co Monica.
"It's the very same blend" said
Jack, peering into his cup with sen.
timental eye.
Monica's heart sank. There was
nothing left for it but the wood.
At the top of the lane they climbed
a stile, and followed narrow, wind.
Ing path that led between two banks
of following corn. The sun was set
ting. Monica was glad of that. Jack,
on the other hand. looked at his
watch.
"Thcres plenty Of time" Monica ex.
postulated.
"The evenings are apt to be chilly"
said Jack.
Anyhow. you've got to wait until
dusk. You promised"
"All right, but it's not very sport
ing to ask favors after dinner"
81 won't ask any favors at all In fu.
ture."
They had come to the edge Of the
wood. Monica paused irresolutely.
perhaps we are making a mistake
after ALL" she observed. Her eyes
were very wide open. for she was
looking down a Pickering glade that
| led to a dell. 1t was in that dell that
| the primroses used to grow. Incident
ally. too. Jack had proposed to her
| there.
Lets chance it," he suggested. and
| began to make way for her through
the brambles.
They wandered about the wood for
rather more than an hour. Here was
the curious little knoll that Monica
had called her throne; there the ditch
that Jack had fallen into because he
would look at Monica instead OF
where he was going. To-day he was
picking his way with the utmost care
A. last it began to grow dusk. Jack
knocked the ashes out of his pipe
aho buttoned up his coat. Monica
pretending not to notice him, led him
to the dell.
Better not climb down." said Jack
"It's sure to be damp"
Never mind. Come ont" She
eeized him by the hand and dragged
him down.
"Pretty little spot" said Jack, filling
another pipe.
""I love it." She paused moment
and then added. do you remember
Jack"
"Stop! Don't speak to me for {
moment" His mouth was open, hi
ewes screwed up. de sneezed
You hateful" cried Monica.
"How could help it? l told YOU
this place was damp"
Don't speak to mel III neve
try ~
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in undertaking this pilgrimage. You
know that l am. You know, Jack,
that l want to get back, If only for an
hour, to that sacred time when you
and I"
She stopped abruptly. Jack had
seated himself on the bank and was
now busting his boots with his hand
kerchief.
go on" he murmured.
81 shan't go on. l shall go back to
the station and take the next train
to town. l was a fool ever to come.
| might have known that man like
vou-"
"Its no use struggling. said Jack.
And he kissed her.
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There's the church," cried Monica.
"Where?" asked Jack, little indif-

"There's the church," cried Monica.
"Where?" asked Jack, little indif-
ferently.
There! Can't you see the spire
Just peeping through the trees? Put
your head out of the window"
mo, thank you. | might get
spark or something in my eye."
Monica sighed deeply. Il think you
might try" she protested.
II am trying. I've been trying ever
since we left Baker street. | am
hound to admit, however, that up to
the present"
"Thatll do. If I'd known you were
not going to play the game, L"
Jack rose hastily. took off his straw
hat, and thrust his head out OF the
window.
Gan you see it?" asked Monica.
mo. Oh, yes! Quite reminds one
-Damn" He flung himself back onto
the seat and CROPPED in pocket for his
handkerchief.
Don't say it's a spark" pleaded
Monica.
81 shall call it something worse
than that in minute"
I'm so sorry. 1t was my fault. Let
me see if I can get it out"
She sat down beside him, took the
handkerchief, wetted one corner and
screwed it into point.
Nov. open your eye. Is it at the
TOD or the bottOm?"
II dunno. It's hurting most co
foundedly, wherever it is"
Poor boy! Try to keep quite still.
Look down."
am looking down. Don't keep on
jabbing me like that"
I'm not jabbing, Jack. It's no use
in getting in temper about it. I'm
doing my best"
Better leave it alone and let 1t
come out by itself"
"Then it may go on hurting you all
day. Keep still a moment! l see it,"
Look out!"
Got i'm! It's only a tiny little
speck, after ALL
"You wouldn't think it so tiny If 1t
had been in your eye, I'll bet"
81 expect not. Halo! Here we are!"
The train slowed down and stopped
with a jerk at small country station.
Jack and Monica alighted.
That's a new porter" whispered
Monica. as they descended the steps.
"Verylikely. They don't generally
keep them at stations like this for
FIVE years. you KNOW"
Give years isn't so very long"
Isn't it,"
Jacks tone was significant. Monica
said nothing.
They turned the corner rather shy
ly anC walked through the village as
carelessly as might be.
II wonder il any one will remember
us?" said Monica.
II hope not"
"Why?"
"Oh, I don't know! Only we used
to be so frightfully-what d you call
IT."
~ didn't know you objected so
strongly to being in love-"
81 don't. l mean, didn't. No,
l don't"
They were outside the village now,
md a few minutes would bring them
to the lane that led to the wood OF
many memories. Monica stopped,
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-08-26
INTERRUPTED.

He was in the society Of many GU,
rates and old maids at tea party.
The conversation had turned on the
question raised by the Leeds Physi-
cal society, Does the Wearing Of
Hats Make Men Bald?" and he took
u, his parable. mot hats. dear
friends, but shirts. Now you will have
noticed that man takes off his shirt
over his head, thereby dragging the
hair out by the roots, whereas wom-
an
Here three teacups dropped.-Lon-
CON Sporting News
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-08-26
The World.

THEW tell us in our childhood days
The world Is round. and we,
With youthful heedlessness. accept
The doctrine easily.
When we are grown to mans estate
We are so overweight
with toll and trouble we've no time
To give it's shape thought.
At last when we approach the end
And look back through the years
OF disappointment and of loss,
OF trials and of tears.
What we were told comes back, and WI
Are ready to declare
The world must certainly be round.
Because 1t isn't square.
William ]. hampton.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-08-26
TAUGHT sunday.schooI Many Years.

The officials of the Wesleyan Sun.
day-school, Swinton, England. lay
claim to having upon their register
the oldest Sunday-school teacher in
England, if not in the United King.
dom. Mr.. George Doxey, who Is now
IN his eighty-eighth year, has been a
teacher sixty-nine years, and holds
the remarkable record that for half a
century he was never absent from
school, and during forty years he was
never once late. Though eighty-sev-
en- years old he is able to read with
out the aid Of spectacles.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-08-26

London is mass of humanity pitch
forked together by careless fate. To
sneak unpalatable truth, there is no
city in the world that possesses less
of a corporate entity. What percent
age of it's people record their vote in
a county council election? 1t is abb
sLrdly small. There are thousands on
thousands who do not know what
parish they live in, nor do they trouble
to inquire.
AS competition grows Eeener SO do
working hours lengthen and leisure
hours decrease for all classes To the
professional and commercial men mas
come new disease-brain rag. so
ciety, apparently inspired by tfe Gus
tom of the times, endeavors toy emu
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-08-26
Retort Medical.

An Atchison man went to doctor
and said: Il want to be cured OF
dyspepsia" Whereupon the doctor
said: IF knew how to cure dys.
pepsia, wouldn't have it. "-Atchison
Globe.