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The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1904-01-06

Harvard university has succeeded in
buying the library Of the late Geheim.
rat Karl Mauer, of Munich. The H.
brary contains a magnificent collection
Of scientific books. Especially vam.
able is the part thereof which relates
to the early history Of Scandinavia.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1904-01-06
From Washington.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Washington, d. c., Jan. 5.--Illinois
Increasing cloudiness Wednesday
with rain in south portion: Thursday
fair, fresh southwest winds becoming
northwesternly
Missonri-Snow or rain Wednesday,
Thursday fair.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1904-01-06
DEATH OF GEN. LoNGsTREET

The death OF General James Long.
street removes the last OF the great
generals OF the confederate army.
General Buckner and General Gordon
survive him, but though brave soldiers
and good officers they did not take
% prominent position In leadership
As General Longstreet. who ranked
among the ablest OF the confederate
generals.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1904-01-06

In order to allay the Fears of the
country that the Chicago hotel.keep.
ers will try IL rob the delegates who
attend the national Republican gather
Ing In that city. it is given ont
through the press that only conyen.
tional rates will be charged.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1904-01-06
WHAT THE COURTS HAVE SAID.

The right to challenge a Juror for
disqualification is held In Queenen VS..
Oklahoma (Okla. 81, l.. r. A. 324 not
to be a constitutional right which can
not he waived but to a statutory
right which may be waived by defend.
ant or his counsel if
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1904-01-06

Bids for the city printing this year
were opened in the city council last
night and were very close, In two in.
stances. The Bulletins bid was 1.4S
cents per line and the Citizens was
LAT cents. The kilograms bid was
LII cents.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1904-01-06
CITY council meets
Bids for puhlis Service for the Navx
Year-6onds for Liquor
Dealers, Etc

/ fear-0onos Tor Liquor
Dealers, Etc.
| The first regular January meeting
was held by the city council last
night, All the members were present
fourteen. The meeting was a very
good business meeting; there was no
exhibition of i'll will over any matter
md the proceedings were expedite.
s5gs.
The following, In brief, was the
business transacted
Bill and Julius Serbian for filling
street referred back to street com.
mittee.
Comptroller reported cost Of Ohio
Leyee street intersections TO have
been si79s7. and deficiency OF 1880
per lot
City treasurer reported money in
general fund s4.0G0.57. Center street
s639.s4. special Improvement s15O.6O,
special insurance $1,000. library ST..
1851. special levee 1896. 60: special
road s2,G23SO.
Police Magistrate Robinson report.
ed having collected sS72 in Zines dur.
ing December.
Justice ]. P. Jackson reported hav.
ing collected So.
City Marshal Price reported 1876
arrests in December
City Jailer Susanka reported having
served 81 meals before trial and AIS
after trial
Assistant Fire Chief Hagerty. of
station No. | reported s alarms, sta
ton No. 2 reported ii alarms and 80
trips with the police patrol.
Police jail and rre committee
recommended that a revolver taken
by the police from negro named
Amos Davis some days ago be re-
turned to him. Davis having paid
his fire for carrying concealed weap.
one for which he was arrested.
Petition Of W F. Morris for permis.
sion to erect cottage on Thirty
sixth street between Elm and syca.
more, was referred to the street com
mittee
Applications for dram shop licenses
were granted as follows: Jas Pow.
ers. 270l Commercial; T. A. Mansfield.
20f Commercial; sllas W. White.
Thirteenth and Commercial. Frank
sebllle, 1914 Sycamore, NicolIs &
Stegg, 5ii Commercial; Edward I.
Maley, 81 Ohio Leyee.
Bonds for A. B. Arey and Jno
Donahue were approved.
The application for dram shop H.
cense of A. b. Douglas, 405 Ohio
Levee, was refused.
Bonds for plumbers. runners and
we're referred.
Salary bill of 81. 1904 was allowed.
miscellaneous claims referred.
Attorney A. Leek was permitted
to address the council in behalf of
Benz. Michael, pawn broker, whose
application for license to do business
had been rejected at previous meet.
ing. Mr.. Leek said Michael had been
refused a license without being per
mitted an opportunity to meet any
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1904-01-06

As part of the efforts of the Brit.
ish to become independent of Ameri.
can cotton. something like 10000
acres will soon be under cultivation
on the West African coast.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1904-01-06

Another message ~ due from ahe
mayor to the city council reviewing
the municipal history of the year just
closed and recommending action upon
various subjects for the present year
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1904-01-06
O "A - II @ II IA.
Bear, the -, Tho Kind You llare ANsls Bought
'''' Of &1NzzlMx

a cook who had numerous receipts
For serving fish, poultry and meats.
Exclaimed in surprise
When asked to make pies:
why | wasn't engaged to make
sweipts,"
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1904-01-06

There's over eleven thousand dol
lars in the special levee fund and in
the road tax fund, more than would
be necessary to build the proposed
Sycamore street subway.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1904-01-06

The figure Is as easy to write
as the figure :. yet many people who
want to write the former persist in
writing the latter.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1904-01-06
To Cure a Cold in One pav.

Take Laxative Bromo Qu.nIne Tab.
lets. All druggists refund the money
II 1t falls to cure. E. w. Groves sig.
nature is on each boy. CSC.
many OF his hearers:
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1904-01-06

II Japan and Russia do not get at
il soon lot OF people who have been
watching for the performance to be
gin will demand their money back.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1904-01-06
NEWS OF THE WEATHER
Results of Government Observations
with Prospects Fer Cairo ana
Vicinity To-day.

Indication for Cairo and vicinity
Today: Rain or snow: rising tempera.
ture; brisk southefly winds
CTrT Nh
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1904-01-06
DON'T WORRY OVER

LOST OPPORTUNITIES.
Good resolutions are now in order.
II In the past your business has shown
a decrease II is because you are not
progressive. The most successful firms
are those who advertise.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1904-01-06

sFrozen.
Stage at Cairo January S. 1908,
27S
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-18
MENIORY,s LANE.

l know a lane, where the brier rose
Leans DER the old stone wall;
And the scented leaves from an apple
tree
There's turnstile. too, 'twixt the wind
ing lane
And the meadow with blossoms white:
Blossoms of daisies spilled by the moon
From her silver boat one night,
Here cornfiowers open their blue eyes
wide,
And peoples flirt with the sun;
While all of the glasses are glittering
That fairies from dewdrops have spun.
All, yesi there's a brook-it rippfes and
smiles.
Past banks where the blue gentian
peeps:
But the song that it sings to the violet, 1
ween,
She deep in her little heart keeps
All this is the lane that memory paints,
Where loves fairest blossom grew:
For down by the stile 1 met maid
With eyes like the cornfowers blue
Her cheeks were flushed with the pink of
the rose,
Her lips were the poppy's red,
And sunbeams were playing at hide and
seek
Midst the curls on her golden head.
Lightly she tripped through the meadow
sweet,
And softly the breeze kissed her brow:
Then she Iaughed-and her laugh was the
song of the brook
Methnks 1 can hear it now.
But alas for the passing of summer
dreams,
We met and we parted for aye;
Now / walk alOne-here in memory'S lane
While she rides the worlds highway.
Agnes Lockhart Hughes, in Boston
Transcript.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-18
QUEER THINGS ABOUT SAWS.
Those of Orient Cut One Way, of Oc-
cident Another.

In the window of a hardware store
was a curious saw, with a narrow,
crescent shaped blade a foot or more
in length and toothed on the concave
side 1t was somewhat like a sickle
with saw teeth in place of a cutting
ssThat?" said the dealer. "That is
what is called a California pruning
saw, and it is sold almost wholly, if
not altogether, on the Pacific coast.
The pruning saw commonly used in
this country is a straight saw.
''It is in reality Japanese pruning
saw made in this country. 1t was in
troduced into California by japanese
gardeners.
This saw. besides its odd shape,
has another popularity that perhaps
you have not noticed. 1t cuts drawing
toward you instead of pushing from
YOU: and that is a characteristic of all
the saws of Japan and China Our
saws, like those of Europe, are all
made to cut as you push the saw from
you, with the downward motion me
saws of Japan and China are all made
to cut as you pull the saw back toward
you, with the upward motion; exactly
the reverse of ours.
(Which sort of a saw can man do
the most work with? Well, l should
saw that might depend more or less
on the man. but it is certain that the
Japanese with his upstroke saw, can
saw as close and true to line as the
man of any western country can saw
with his down-stroke saw.
How long has this difference be-
tween the saws of the eastern cOun-
tries and those of the western existed?
Well. as to that I could hardly say,
but saws taken from the ruins of
Pompeii and now preserved in the
museum there, cut with the down
ward stroke, just like the saws in uni
versal use in Europe and America to-
day, while in Japan and China they
still use their old-time saws which cut
with the upward stroke.
Are there any American saws sold
in Japan and China? Yes. some, these
being made, of course, to cut like
those of their own make, with the up
ward stroke. but more of the foreign
saws now imported into those coun-
tries comes from Germany, the Ger
mans making a cheaper saw than we
do.
but while the Germans are SELL
ing saws in China and Japan we are
selling American saws in Germany in
direct competition with saws of Ger
man make. Ours cost more than
theirs. but they are better and do bet
ter work, and are in every way more
sa tisfactory. American saws are, in
fact, now sold all over Europe and
in other foreign countries as well. be-
cause like American edged tools and
American machine tools and Ameri-
can machinery generally they are the
best in the world. New York Sun.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-18
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
From de Chicago News. ]

From the chicago News
All spinsters are single from choice
they say
How good a few barrels of silence
sounds the day afteri
The good man who goes wrong is
a bad man just found out
1t is up to a man to pay his rent
or get a move on himself.
ParadoxicaI though it may seem, a
spoiled child is always fresh.
Any judge has one advantage over
the lawyers; he gets the last guess.
Nothing makes a girl so weary as to
have a young man threaten to kiss
her.
No. Cordelia, a poet doesn't neces-
sarily dwell in an attic for the sake
of the view.
When a man begins to take whisky
as a medicine he soon becomes a
chronic invalid.
Never smoke a gift cigar~ in the
presence of the donor unless you have
wonderful self-control.
If a man doesn't acquire the refor-
nation germ when he is sick there
isn't much hope for him.
When a young man places a girls
picture in his watchcase, he expects
her to marry him in time.
An Ohio spinster has been arrested
for abducting a 3-year-old boy. Next
time she'll know enough to take one
of her size.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-18
SPENCER HAS AN ORDINANCE.
With 1t Chief StahI Will Regulate the
Drug Stores.

Business is likely to pick up rap
idly now for the whisky drug stores.
City Attorney Spencer, at the request
of Chief Stahl, has drawn up the
drug store complaints, and the Hall
Printing company is printing lot of
copies--enough to last the city for
some time.
The first two counts in the COM
plant are for sales contrary to law
The third and fourth counts are for
allowing sales. TO be made and liquor
TO be drank ON the premises. The
fifth count is for sales made by a
clerk who is not registered pharma-
cist. The sixth count is for sales made
to minors, to persons under the influ=
ence of liquor, or to those who are
likely to become intoxicated. The sew
enth count is the nuisance count with
the search and seizure proviso at
tached.
Mr.. Spencer says he did not put in
nearly all the things of which
druggist might be found guilty under
the Hurrel law, but merely some of
the things which were most likely to
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-18
GLOBE SIGHTS.

IFrom the Atchison Globe
A worthless man always has his
sign out
Somehow kissing pictures never
look very we'll
We would hate to be rich, and
know just why every one is nice to US.
An Atchison rich man gets down
to work every morning at o'clock.
That's the reason he's rich.
We never yet saw a good healthy
appetite that believed in the super
stition about thirteen at the table.
Think what the farmers wives suf-
fer these rainy days: the men folks
sitting around the kitchen stove,
grumbling.
Here is a kin situation: An Atchi-
son stepmother is said to be better to
her stepchildren than she is to her
own.
After the children come. their
father finds when he gets sick that
their mother hasn't enough worry left
to go round.
BY the time brakeman learns the
numbers of trains. he is able to walk
on top of cars while they are going
at full speed
We saw a man eat pie for break
fast this morning Still. nothing hap
pened. Lots of unusual things occur,
and nothing happens.
When a man fools his wife, and is
ashamed of it. it is not so serious; but
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-18
JAYHAWKER JOTS.

BelOits a poor town for society
folks to live in It's almost impossible
to find hired girl.
An Anthony gardener brings daily
to market cabbages which average Sc
inches around the girth.
Eskridge's idea of economy is to
cut down the school term two months
and vote bonds for a park.
Goodland Episcopalians have $50 in
the treasury. If they can raise 81, $50
more a church will be erected
Stealing cigars is silly occupation
of some Axtell boys that will cause
them to smoke up later on
The boast of a Beloit hotel is that
it's beds are full every night and a fly
has never been seen in it's dining room.
Cutting ten acres of grass a day
with a scythe is bringing a NOrtonvflle
man fame and a winters supply of
hay.
One of the most patriotic cases Of
devotion to party on exhibit is the
starting of the morning Democratic
daily at lola
Editor Hanway of the Horton Com
merciaI has faith enough in his town
to think that ii borrowed" umbrella
viii be returned.
a Phillipsburg man was declared
insane because he talked all the time
and wanted things. That's good
community for the women to move
out of.
One of the greatest obstacles
spoony Howard couples have to con-
tend with in their evening saunterings
is the ropes of lariated stock trailing
across the sidewalks
This hot weather makes the Horton
boys pretty thirsty. A refrigerator
car was emptied of twenty-six cases
and six barrels of beer the other night
by unknown parties
The Topeka baseball team should
have hope. Their chariot hasn't yet
been upset in the Red sea and some
lucky pitcher may yet grease the
wheels and set 1T running trl-
umphantly.
The greed of the packing trust in
Armourdale is bringing their chickens
home to roost. 1t is simply a con-
tinuation of the policy of Pharaoh,
which hundreds of years ago drove his
Egyptian bricklayers to revolt
a topeka man returned this week
from the Worlds fair without a clean
collar or enough money to buy
sandwich Did you take in the
Pike" inquired a friend NO"
growled the excursionist, 1T took me
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-18
Education of a Doctor.

The layman who reads the proceed
ings of a medical congress in these days
will be impressed with the fact that the
practice of medicine has become a very
serious business, and the preparation
of it an arduous undertaking. He will
recognize also now closely it is united
with the general well-being of the
public. The old-fashioned doctor, who
got what training he had from vol
untary attendance upon two terms of
didactic lectures, aided by the reading
of a few text books and a possible as
sociation with an older practitioner,
started out upon his professional career
with everything to learn, and his sue
cess or failure depended mainly upon
the personal qualities which he brought
to his work. Many good doctors We're
the failures were more numerous, and
what the community in which they ex-
perimented suffered in the process is
past computation. Personal character
and fitness are no less essential now
than before, but it is simply impossible
at the present time for man to start
out upon the practice of medicine with
the slender equipment allowab a gem
GRAFTON ago. 1t is not merely that the
colleges require more preparation for a
degree, they require more because the
practice of medicine has developed into
a science, to be acquired laboriously. 1t
is no longer possible to trust to intui-
ton, the old doctors did, and, in
stead of turning out lot of students
to find out for themselves whether they
can learn to practice medicine. the COL
leges must give them opportunity to
determine their fitness in a long graded
course before they are let loose upon
the public.-Philadelphi Ledger.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-18


when he thinks he has a right to fool
her, that is serious.
When anyone past 20 admits that
ne is not well, everyone who hears
him gives a silent guess as to how
many months he will last.
Contractors should get out of the
habit of taking their time. If it be-
comes necessary to have an ark in a
hurry, we Will all drown.
Remember that your neighbor is
constantly taking an inventory of
your blessings, and wondering wha [
you can possibly have to worry
about.
An Atchison woman who has a
mother, five aunts, four sisters, three
brothers and two cousins has Joined
a lodge 80 she will have someone to
take care of her when she is sick
ION the wall of a room where 1
once slept there was a picture of a
very plain farmhouse, a stable and
three trees. Nothing else in it. The
artist no doubt had an 'dea.' but the
idea is not apparent to the ordinary
observer. So many Ideas fail to be
Watson.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-18
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR,

IFrOm the New York Press.
It's queer what contempt women
have for the use that suspenders can
be above the waist.
The average girls choice is first a
rich husband. next a handsome hus-
band, then any husband.
Summer girls are mighty nice things
to have photographs of. letting some
other fellow have the original.
There are good many ways of
convincing a girl she ought to like
you, but the surest is to keep on tell
ing her how beautiful she is.
The very best poker players look as
if they were caught stealing sheep
when they go to explain to their
wives how sorry they are they've got
to go away on business.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-18
SOME ODD CoURTsHIPs.
How Field Marshal WaIdersee Got His
Wife.

OF the late Field Marshal Count Wal
dersee it is said that he proposed to
Princess Noer, who became his wife I'M
der the following circumstances: The
princess had been shopping and had a
small parcel in her hand when he met
her, saluted and turned around to ac-
company her to the door of her resi-
dence. The princess held out the par
eel to him. He looked distressed. She
affected not to understand why. He
reminded her of the severe rule prohib-
iting military men of every degree from
carrying in the streets parcels or even
ladies' wraps. She told him that the
rule was absurd, and that in this in
stance it must be disregarded or else.
He laughed, took the parcel and called
next day to know what penalty he
would have incurred had he not broken
the rule. She made a saucy reply. Both
banded words half gay, half sentiment
tai, with the consequences that the Wis
it ended in an engagement.
Among the Yao Midos, one of the
many Burmese-Tartar people, the
young men WOO their wives absolutely
without words, but to the sound of
music. On the first day of winter they
have a great feast. at which all the
manageable girls gather and listen to
the music made by the bachelors, who
sit under the 'fdesire tree each play
ing his faVorite instrument. AS the
maiden he loves passes him the youth
plays louder and more feelingly. II the
girl ignores him and passes on he
knows that she will have none of him;
if she steps up to him and lays a flower
upon the instrument he jumps up,
grasps her by the hand, taking care not
to drop the flower, and they go away
together
When a Dyak of Borpeo makes love
he helps the girl in the hardest portion
of her daily toll. If she smiles upon
him, no matter how sweetly, he does
not. Immediately respond but waits un-
til the next dark night. Then he steals
to her house and wakenS her as she lies
asleep beside her parents. The par
ents, if they approve make no sign,
but sleep on, or pretend to. If the girl
accepts she rises and takes from her
lover the betel and SweetmeatS he has
brought her. That seals their betrothal
and he departs as he came neither
speaking nor being spoken to.-Chicago
NpNNS
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-18
The Primitive Book.

The Oldest books in existence are,
doubtless, those of the Babylonians;
but the great permanency of these is
explained by the material of-which they
are composed. and it does not necessar-
lily follow that they were the first books
to be made. We know that the Egyp-
tians employed a papyrus roll from the
earliest historical periods, and that the
Hindoos made their palm-leaf books at
a very early day. In short every civil
lied nation is discovered, a tthe very
dawn of it's history, in full possession
of a system of bookmaking.
1t is impossible to decide the ques-
ton as to whether one nation borrowed
from another in developing the idea of
bookmaking.
Limiting our view strictly to the his
toric period, we find, as has been said,
the five types of books in general use.
We have now to consider briefly the
distinguishing characteristics of each
of these types before going on to note
the steps of development through which
the modern book was evolved. First let
us give attention to the papyrus roll of
the Egyptians. AS has been said, this
type of book was employed in Egypt
from the earliest day of the historical
period. AS is we'll known, papyrus is
species of primitive paper-the word
paper" being, indeed. derivative of
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-18
LOCAL MENTION.

Ernest r. Simon. who was operated
upon at Christ hospital last Thursday
for appendicitis, is recovering rapidly.
The Y. P. S. c. z. of the First Bap-
list church will give a lawn social on
Wednesday evening. July 20, at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. F. G. Hubbell,
720 Clay street.
H. L. Nudge. general manager of
the Santa F'e, is away from Topeka
today. He is on a trip of inspection
over the lines in the Panhandle dis
trict.
This evening the city council will
have a special meeting at 1880 clock
for the purpose of considering the
report of appraisers on the West and
Lane street opening.
A building permit for a $4,000
house has been taken out by H NJ
Cline, who will build at 1441 Van
Buren, street. The house will be COM
pleted November 1.
P. L. Wise, president of the KAN
sas Cement Construction company
will ask the city council for some
changes in the building ordinance
which will permit the use of the
cement block building stone under
more favorable conditions within the
fire limits. The present ordinance
calls for heavier stone walls than is
deemed necessary by those who con-
Struct with the cement stone.