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The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1904-10-04

Mr. W. II. Lawson of the Three
States Buggy and Implement compa-
ny. left yesterday for Chicago. Kala-
mazoo and Detroit, Mich. and Cincin.
rati O.. In the interests Of his firm.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1904-10-04
cities Of eight Thoussns People.

Tho 2 are nearly 5tH cities in tn
"a RAT hc:e~c.eF s.oC0 people.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1904-10-04
PURELY PERSONAL

Mr.. F. Teichman went to St Louis
last nigh. on business
Mr. ". Morris went TO Chicago
last night on a business trip.
AR Armstrong Of Olive Branch. was
in the city yesterday on business.
Hon. Miles Fred'k Gilbert has gone
10 Boston to attend a meeting Of the
Episcopal diocese
Mr. c. c. Langsden Of st. Louis. Is
in the city visiting his sister. Mrs. r.
D. NeIiis Of Center street
Judge Wm- n Batter Is spending
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1904-10-04

Mi VIM H Lawson of the Three
states Buggy company, left yester-
day on a business trip connected with
the firm He will visit Chicago, De
troit. Kalamazoo, Cincinnati anc
Troy. O.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1904-10-04

Mr.. John A. Torch has gone to Gil
bertsvlle, Ky. where he viii be en-
pIoyed by the Illinois Central Railroad
company in the construction of new
bridge over the Tennessee river al
that place
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1904-10-04

Mr.. and Mrs Thomas j. Pryor have
gone TO st. Louis for visit to the
fair.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1904-10-04

AIRS. 7 W. Leahigh went to Vim
eennes, Ind yesterday. where she
was called by the serious illness o.
her sister.in-law, Mrs. T. r. weisher
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1904-10-04
BRIEF MENTION.

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The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1904-10-04

Mr. and Mrs r. A. Atherton Of
Mounds were the guests yesterday OF
Mrs. Waller Scherick, OF Eighth
street.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1904-10-04

5adse wm. n. Butler is spending
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1904-10-04

Mr.. and Mrs. G. l.. Barr left last
night for st. Louis TO visit the Worlds
fair.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1904-10-04

Mrs. Louis Blatteau and child have
returned to their home in Memphis
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1904-10-04

Mrs. w II. Lawson and daughter
Mrs. w L. Holt. have gone to ST
Louis for a weeks visit TO the fair.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1904-10-04

Misses Ethel and Erma Winter left
yesterday for a visit to the fair.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1904-10-04

Mr.. and Mrs. ]. NJ. Conkle and
daughter are in ST. Louis attending
the fair.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1904-10-04

Mrs. Frank Jacket and son. Frank,
left yesterday for a weeks visit to
the fair
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1904-10-04

Mrs. Virginia Vincent and daughter,
Miss Mercedes, OF Ninth street, left
yesterday for a visit to the fair.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1904-10-04

Mr.. and Mrs G. P. Eichenberger
left for st. Louis last night where hey
will visit the Fair a week.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1904-10-04

Miss Mary Casey has returned from
a visit with friends and relatives ar
Marion, ILL.,
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1904-10-04

Miss Florida Fitzgerald, of Thirty.
fourth street, is in st, Louis attend
ing the Fair.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1904-10-04

Mr. and Mrs. Phillip Lehning left
yesterday for ST. Louis TO spend Il
week seeing the fair.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1904-10-04

Mrs. Lloyd Gates is spending few
days In St. Louis, visiting friends and
attending the Fair
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1904-10-04

Mrs. w H. Lawson and daughter
Mrs. w. L. Holt, are spending week
at the Worlds Fair.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-12-26

the good name OF the city most at
heart. Some of the severest condem-
nations of 1t and most courageous appeals
for reform have come from republican
newspapers printed in the town. They have
laid about them. and spared not. Are we
reminded that nothing has come of 1t all?
What Is this but ditiona1 proof of the
fact that reform is a hard road to travel?
Should all effort at reform cease? Should
the democrats of the town be lulled to
rerose with the assurance that they may
control the situation some day, and that
then the usufruct of the lawlessness will
be theirs? Great argument
MIR. Bryan is naturally little fender on
the subject of suffrage in the south The
situation there. and the record in connec-
ton with it. appeal to his gratitude But
for the southern disfranchisement there
would never have been any menace of Bry-
anism in these United States. The multi
fication of the fourteenth and fifteenth
amendments to the Constitution gave him
his opportunity and inspired his voice. He
has twice accepted the south's vote OBJ
tanned on that basis. and his plans for
1908 are socketed in the hope that the
south's unconstitutional strength may not
be disturbed
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-12-26
The Christmas Turkey.
From the PHILADELPHIA Ledger

rfoh Tnildueipnld LeuXer.
The fathers made a mistake when thew
adopted the imperial eagle as an emblem
in the arms of the United States 1t was
borrowed from the Romans, upon whose
military standards 1t appeared The demo-
cratic turkey is our national bird, the true
bird of freedom Three turkeys 'in their
pride proper" are found on armorial bear
ings of the time of Edward ILL., so that the
strutting monarch of the barnyard has not
been altogether unhonored in heraldry
Why should not the effigy of the majestic
turkeycock dsplace the eagle in the arms
and on the coin of the republic?
A sage newspaper man inStructing a neo-
phyte in the art of journalism advised him
to write about what Is uppermost in the
public mind. Just now mankind is think
ing mostly about the turkey, the crown
and glory of the Christmas feast. His mu-
tilated and fragmentary remains, surviving
the onslaught of yesterday, will abide with
us through the week, frankly as hash or
disguised under mysterious but alluring
name devised by some high and mighty
chef. Much of Charles Lambs rhapsody
on roast pig expresses the popular APP
prevail of roast turkey. This excerpt at
least will serve as an epitaph for the
Christmas turkey: HE hath a fair sepul-
chre in the grateful stomach of the judi
cious epicure-for such a tomb might be
content to die"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-12-26
The Smoke Problem Brought to Focus

If any further demonstration of the ab-
surdity of the present state and admins
tration of the smoke law in this District
were needed it is furnished by the Presi-
dents letter to the Commissioners printed
in Saturdays Star, some time after its
writing In that letter the President calls
attention to one conspicuous violator of the
law, whose chimneys are in close view from
the White House windows, and asks to
know why it is not more vigorously prose-
cuted. He asks, in short. why the law is
not enforced.
1t appears that the offending corpora ton
of which the President complains has been
hailed to court already no less than fifty
800. It's officers are the most frequent of
all defendants under this charge. And it is
common knowledge that this is not merely
because these chimneys emit dense smoke
fagrantly and frequently. but because they
are most conspicuously in evidence. not
only from the White House. but from the
watch tower on the District building, where
the lone smoke inspector is stationed.
The law as IL stands permits an offender
like the electric light company to claim that
it is only one among many violators of the
law; that the latter go unpublished, and that
nothing which it can do will prevent 1t from
being a lawbreaker in the light of the law s
sweeping prohibitions. Under the Police
Courts construction of the clear words of
the law any degree of dense smoke ennis
sion is punishable offense and practically
every business chimney in Washington is
subject TO its application. For experience
has proved that it is impossible, in the
state of the art of furnace making and fur
mace today, to comply with this statute
as 1t is drawn, and virtually impossible, as
practical conditions run, to comply with it
as It is arbitrarily and unlawfully inter-
preted and partially enforced by the health
officer
A thorough enforcement of the law, even
in its Enthusiastically amended form. is i'm
possible in present circumstances. While a
few chimneys conspicuously In view
from the vantage point of the District build
ing smoke-emissions Inspector, others.
equally Objectionable in their conduct, are
hidden from view. But even with all in view
from the official observation tower in any
earnest attempt to apply the law to all of
tenders there would be daily great inequai-
ity In it's enforcement as the administrative
force Is now constituted. With one inspect
or on watch. who must ais, be prosecuting
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-12-26

witness whenever an offender is hailed to
court, the sky must be left unobserved at
certain times daily, while smoke emissions
after Office hours and at niht, which are
quite as objectionable as others, go unde-
tected and unpublished.
The plain truth is that the law as it
stands is at once imperative for lack of
sufficient corps of inspectors. unjust in the
requirements of its letter. arbitrary in its
administrative Interpretation. unequal in its
application and above all Total failure
as far as the cure of the worst of the local
smoke evils are concerned, those caused by
the public buildings and the railroad loco
motives and other street engines. If ever
a statute needed amendment by Congress
before being more vigorously enforced it is
this one, and it is to be hoped that the
Presidents letter, bringing the case to a
focus, will result in a submission of the
whole matter to Congress Immediately af
ter the holidays.
When thus submitted an effort should be
made by all who wish to see the smoke
nuisance abated in Washington Justly and
equitably and effectively to secure the
amendment of the statute to attain three
results: First. that this law shall apply to
all the real offenders, including the depart
ments and the railroad locomotives; second,
that it shall apply only to the real offend
ers and shall cease to declare lawbreakers
all business men whose chimneys emit
dense smoke for inconsiderable periods at
long intervals in spite of their efforts to
obey an impossible command of the law;
third. that it shall punish adequately the
real offenders, which is the proposition the
President has brought specifically to the
attention of the Commissioners, who are
now empowered. under the statute to pun
ish any business man or corporation amc2g
the universal offenders so heavily that
bankruptcy will surely result
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-12-26
Mr.. Bryan on the surface
Mr. Bryan makes this suggestion in II
Commoner:

Mr. Bryan makes this suggestion In tho
Commoner:
Those eminent republican congressman
who are endeavoring to reduce the so,,th's
representation in Congress- because of the
small number of votes cast in many south
ern dlstrlcts. should be careful. Especially
is this true of the republican congressman
from the districts included in the corpo-
rate limits of the city of Philadelphia.
Some curious southern congressman
might take notion to investigate the
causes of such a large vote in the CITY of
brother1y love. Philadelphia, with a popu-
lation scarcely more than one-third that of
New York city. has voting list of nearly
Island
This strange state of affairs may be in
yestigated IL strenuous protectionists like
Representative Morrell of Pennsylvania in
sist on pushing the Morrell bill to appor-
ton representation in Congress according
to the number of votes cast rather than
according to population"
Internationally but very forcibly, Mr..
Bryan gives away the case of his friends
in the SOUTH He links it with fraud on
the suffrage perpetrated elsewhere. Fraud
is fraud, no matter where or by whom it is
committed. There is no more Justification
for swelling the polling lists unlawfully
than for reducing them by that means. In
both cases the public Is injured, and cor
rection should be made. The repeater who
marshals his gang of scoundrels at the
ballot-box Is as much an enemy of law
and good government as the bulldozer who
stands there and drives cSetitutional
voters away Why not put the screws on
both, and make them desist? All should
welcome and support such policy.
Fraud on the suffrage In Philadelphia Is
notorious and cannot be defended 1t
is not defended by those, who have
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-12-26
Colorado,

The question of who shall fill the office of
governor of Colorado during the next two
years is of small consequence in comparison
with the disclosures affecting election prac-
tees in that state. If half of what is
charged in that connection is true there is
no commonwealth in the Union where con-
ditions are so appalling. The ballot box
has become the plaything of thieves. Rob-
berry at the polls has been reduced to a
system Stuffing the boxes, or changing the
count where stuffing has been defeated,
shows the touch almost of artists. There
are politicians in the centennial state who
could take up night schools in the slums of
New York and give instructions to some of
Tammany's brightest pupils
There is no condoning situation in the
state comparable with what existed in the
lower south in the worst of reconstruction
times. 1t is not pleadable that property
and intelligence must come into their own,
and that to accomplish this lawless RENE
dies are necessary. In Colorado we find
white arrayed against white, and cheating
simply for its own frowsy sake INDUCED in.
Officers of election in some cases are chosen
with an eye solely to their nimble fingers
and nimble consciences, and for the eXecu-
ton of plans already laid by scoundrelly
conspirators. 1t seems to be a regular de-
pduCh VI us hluu DIT the eApcLSe VI tHe
people and their highest interests.
Moreover, Colorado is no mining camp,
Inhabited by the heroes of Bret Harte's
stories, or the leaders of real lynch life. Its
population in the main is composed of men
and women of education and refinement, who
have built beautiful cities, and opened up
the land to great industries. Some of the
choicest spirits of the east have met there
some of the choicest spirits of the west,
and together they have shown high
capacity for organization and the conduct
Of public business. They have given to
our national political life in a quarter of a
century Henry NJ. Teller and E. O. VOL
colt, both men of commanding talents, who
have impressed themselves ON affairs.
What, then. is the matter with Colorado?
Why has her name become a byword in the
matter of election abuses? What explains
her outdoing of even Tammany Hall in all
that goes to make honest voting difficult
and frequently futile?
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-12-26
Railroads and the Government.

Commissioner Garfield invites criticisms of
the plan for extending the power of the
general government over the railroads, and
the invitation is certain to be accepted 1t
is, upon the whole, the most interesting
proposition of the day. Everybody is dis
cussing it, and, so far as the deliverances
go, everybody hopes and expects to see
something in that line effected. We may be
sure, however, that when Congress takes
up the subject opposition will develop and
be ably presented. The lawyers in that
body will find the subject very much to
their taste, and even an outsider and a
layman may congratulate them on the OPP
portunities that will be afforded for draw
ing fine distinctions and reveling in diff
cult and Opaque terms.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-12-26
Is Justice or Victory Sought

FrOm tht SpfIHgHtIu hepuDIlcaH.
Are truth and justice the primary quest
in these criminal trials which arrest an I'M
usual degree of public attention, or the
bubble reputation for the lawyers engaged
The autobiography of a noted southern
criminal lawyer makes record of the salts
faction he felt, even in the years of his re-
tirement, that he had never had the mis-
fortune" of having my man hanged" Does
the same kind of ambition enter also into
the side of the prosecution, so that the peo-
pies attorney may say that he never had
the misfortune of seeing a defendant es-
cape-no matter about his guilt or inno-
cence? Devious indeed may be the course
of blindfolded justice under such leadings
as these.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-12-26
Boy Weather.

It's boy-time when it freezes,
It's boy-time when 1t SHOWS;
The youngster is the one whose lot
Is happiest when it's snow.
It's rough on rheumatism,
And it seriously annoys
The dignity of grown folks,
But it's pretty good for boys.
It's just another instance,
When nature makes it plain,
That in the mighty scheme of things
There's nothing made in vain.
So lets forget our sorrows,
In a fellow-being's joys,
The weathers hard on grown folks,
But it's pretty good for boys.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-12-26
Economy.

From the Romney (W. va.) Review.
A bridge built before the war collapsed
at Charleston last week, carrying down a
number of persons and teams Two school
children lost their lives, and the county will
doubtless have to pay heavy damages. A
little attention on the part of the proper
authorities would have saved the lives that
were lost and saved the county money All
over the country horrors of this kind, or
worse, are occurring because of official
neglect or overworked economy.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-12-26
The Curse Of Nicotine.
From the London Globe.

The Spanish cortes Is about to become the
scene of remarkable experiment in social
legislation The minister of the interior has
drafted a bill absolutely prohibiting the SELL
ing of tobacco cigars or cigarettes to any
person under seventeen years OF age. The
penalties vary from f2 to EGO. with impris-
onment In exceptionally bad cases. The
measure Is justified as imperative, for the
arrest of racial degeneration tuberculosis
makes great ravages among Spanish labor
ing youths, who, for the most part, UNDER
nourished and already enfeebled by this
and overwork, aggravate matters by spend
ing much of their scanty wages In tobacco,
generally cigarettes.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-12-26

The man who invented a thinking ma
chine will have little encouragement from
Governor Odell. The machine part may be
all very well, but the governor will insist on
doing the thinking.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-12-26
DISQUALIFIED.

Amt you gwinter invite Miss Simpkins
to you airs Christmas party?"
mo, indeed" answered Miss Miami
Brown. Her feet is so big dat dar ain
room fob nobody else under de mistletoe'
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-12-26

The car does not explain what his gov
eminent has been doing to keep his people
from attaining a degree of intelligence suf-
ficient to exercise the public rights enjoyed
in other nations.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-12-26

When a jury divides evenly in opinion,
after hearing the same testimony from the
same people. it is small wonder that there
are such radical differences in political
views.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-12-26
True Philanthropy.

A true philanthropy he showed
The world should gather and admire it.
From his front walk he cleaned the snow,
Fen though the law does not require it,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-12-26
Monotony,

ANY news?" asked one Asiatic war cor
respondent.
None whatever" answered the other.
Then 1 suppose we'll have to be content
with sending along the usual report Of an
other Japanese victory"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-12-26

AS in the case of all large enterprises, it
will be necessary to do a great deal of pre-
liminary typewriting before actual work on
the Panama canal is begun
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-12-26

The land and timber people in Oregon are
doing what they can to dispel the impress
sion that, the Secretary of the Interior en-
joys placid existence
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-12-26

Raisouli declines to subside into an in
action which may foster the impression
that the Sultan of Morocco is a bigger man
than he is.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-12-26

Iom Lawson has found more excitement
than lie would even have gotten out of a
race with Sir Thomas Upton.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-12-26

IF you hasn't got de merry Christmas in
yoh heart" said Uncle lEben, "dar aim no
use O. nobody tryin to reach it to you out'n
his pocketbook.'
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-12-26

The man who exceeded his income in
celebrating Christmas thinks he knows
something about how frenzied finance
feels.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-12-26

The Mormons fail to see why people
should make so much disturbance. about
little matters like treason and polygamy
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-12-26

1t appears than the excursion disaster re-
fuses even to confine itself to the regular
season.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-12-26

Tom Johnson must admit that as an anti
capital asitator Tom Lawson holds the
record.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-12-26

Many a price tag turns over new lea
just before the new year.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-12-26

Mr.. Bryan is convinced that Santa Claus
will know his business better four years
from now.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-12-26

Judge Parker did not wait for the New
Year to make a resolution to let politics
alone.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-12-26

DIn order to avoid delays OF account Of
personal absence letters to THE STAR
should not be addressed to sny individual
connected with the office, but simply to
THE STAR, or to the Editorial or Bosi-
ness Departments, according to tenor or
purpose.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-12-26
SHOOTING STARS.
No Sense Of Humor

"a woman has no sense of humor," said
Mr.. Hawhaw.
What makes you think so?"
when she sees man fall off a street
car she wonders if he's badly hurt instead
of laughing at him.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-12-26

Christmas in Tennessee.
From the Nashville American.
The jug trade Is immense.