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The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1904-09-27
GENERAL LOCAL NEWS


A marriage license was issued yes
terday TO Mr. John ID. Blades and
Miss Malinda Pastle, both OF. Cairo
The people who feared THAI sum.
mer had gone and that there would be
no fall and no Indian summer, but
that the overcoat season was setting
in for keeps" were agreeably dis.
appointed yesterday when the D, mer7
curry again took an upward shoot, aud
shirt sleeves again came into style.
The generous citizen who ha,h given
away his stras hat aud had hung his
summer clothing way up out Of reach
was the only man In town who did not
rejoice at the return Of summer
The vineyard can be summoned as
another witness in the contention
that we do not need intense heat. that
fairly shrivels up vegetation and
bakes humanity 20 produce the very
best of crops The grapes were
never SO full and plump as they arc
this season Each individual berry
has ma.ured fully and the grower is
well satisfied with the yield. while
the consumer is loud in his praises
of the quality Of the fruit.
The perfect weather tempted many
ont and away from business and Office
yesterday. They went forth with rod
and gun. but = was rather the baimy
air ami the sunshine that sooed them
forth, and the majority came back
empty handed bat none the less sat.
isfied with their outing A day in the
woods. when it is day like yesterl1y
is worn whole barrels % medicine.
toning mp both the mind and the
body. II is worth irving and IL j.
after all the reasonable thing 20 do.
70 throw aside dull care and the in
cessant toll tina. dulls the brain and
stoops the figure. and 10 go out in
to the woods and brace up in the
very best sense Of the phra e.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1904-09-27

Mr.: and Mrs. James Meehan re.
turned fast night from visit TO the
Worlds fair.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1904-09-27

DR.. and Mrs. G. H. McNemer have
EcsurneI from St Louis where the lat
ter has been confined in a sanitarium
Tor her health, She Is much improved.
Mayor Claude Winter and sisters,
Misses Jennie and Josephine Winner,
have returned from ST. Louis where.
they spent several days seeing the
lHif
iz& -
Miss Lucille Pennywitt and the
Misses Morris OF Paducah were .he
guests yesterday Of Miss Rose How.
ley. They have just returned from a
visit to the Norlds fair.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1904-09-27

A marriage license was issued yes
terday to Mr. John D.. Blades and
Miss Malinda Pastle, both Of Cairo
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1904-09-27

Miss Mabel Glenn of Paducah Is
visiting Mrs. Thos. Cotter of SIS Wal
nut street
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1904-09-27

Miss Charlotte Cslnan, who has
been visiting the family of Mr.. J. r.
Creehan, and Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd
Gates for the past two months, leaves
tomorrow for her home in Boston,
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1904-09-27

Misses Matte Belle and Lutte
Thornton have returned from visit
TO the fair.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1904-09-27

Miss Emma Hebsacker. register
clerk at the postoffce. is in st. Louis
visiting the Worlds fair Miss Re
phia Smith 10 filing the position dur.
ing her absence.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1904-09-27

Mr.. and Mrs. Seymour Antrim re
turned yesterday from a three weeks
visit with relatives at Denver AMI
LAKELAND Colorado.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1904-09-27

Mrs. w. 5. Dewey and sister. Miss
Eva, Killer, leave today for Houston.
Tex where they viii visit their sis
ter, Mrs. W. H. Pankey.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1904-09-27

Mrs. James Piersol, Miss May Low
EFT. Messrs stephen O'Lagghlin and
John Loyett returned this afternoon
from visit to. the Worlds fair.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1904-09-27

Mrs. L. II. Myers will leave today
for ST. Louis for a visit to her daugh.
ter. Mrs. C. H. Wilson, and the
Worlds fair.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1904-09-27

Mrs. James McManus returned yes.
terday from visit. with her parents
in Memphis, Tenn.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-09-03
PARkER's RESIGNATION.

Davenport Times.-Some newspa-
pers have attempted to make 1t out
that 1t was a manly thing for Judge
Parker to resign his position as JUS
tice In New York to become a candi-
date for president of the United States.
If it was done as a political trick it
will fall fiat of it's own weight. If it
was done as a matter of principle it is
a question whether it would not have
been more in keeping with hair
splitting conception of honesty to have
refused the nomination for the higher
office on the ground that he had been
elected by the people of his state to
teen years, and, having accepted the
position, the people had a right to ex-
pect that he would serve them during
that full time. There is suffiient pre-
cedent, too for a man continuing in
one high Office while he is a candidate
for another. Both Cleveland and TIL
den held the office of governor of New
York when nominated for the presi-
dency, but neither resigned on that ac-
count. Douglas and Garfield were
senators when nominated for chief
executive, and did not resign. Adams
Jefferson and Van Buren, were vice
presidents while running for the
presidency. Neither Taylor, Scott
Grant, Mcclellan or Hancock thought
it duty to resign military positions
when nominated for the presidency.
No one raised the point and no one
criticised them for so doing. After the
campaign is over perhaps Judge Par
ker will wish he had not resigned.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-09-03
A LESSON IN POLITICS.

Council Bluffs Nonpareil.-The rec
ord of commercial failures during the
years from 1880 to 1903 inclusive, as
given by Dun's Review, a wholly non
partisan publication, brings into con-
trast the condition of bthe usiness in
terests Of the country under demo-
cratic and republican rule. Those four
years from 1893 to 1897, with the pro-
tective tariff system undermined
stand out as a lesson to the public of
what 1t costs to experiment with the
democratic free trade idea. Tn no year
since 1897 has the number of failures
or the amount of liabilities been as
great as the lowest record Of the four
year period under President Cleveland
and low tariff. The annual average
of the liabilities of failing firms dur
ing the four years 1893, 1894, 1895, and
1896 was s23O,000,O00 and during the
four years ending with 1903 was $131,-
100000, In spite of the fact that popu-
lation at the end of the second period
was S0,000,000 against 100000 at the
close of the first period. Thus while
the population increased Ia per cent
the liabilities of failing firms decreas-
ed 40 per cent.
The following table gives the record
since 1880, showing the number of
failures each year, number of business
concerns and amount of liabilities of
those failing:
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-09-03

st. Louis, at the Olympic games,
America has won more than her
share of prizes and in the Marathon
race, that relic of grand old ancient
Greece, the first three prizes were
awarded to American runners after a
heart breaking contest with represen-
tatives of a dozen lands including
runners from Greece itself.
America, the refuge of the Cypress
ed of every nation, is, as we'll, the
abode of the greatest people in the
world. Having the advantage of in.
tercourse with natives Of other coun-
tries the Americans are able to sepa.
rate the good qualities from the un.
desirable ones and to profit by their
observations. One by one the Yankee
nation has taken from the older coun-
tries the wreaths of honor in one line
and another and now from Greece
has been snatched the crown of laurel,
the symbol of athletic prowess.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-09-03
MODEL PENlTENTIARY IN IOWA

George Luther Cady in the World
today: This state prison was founded
at Anamosa in 1872, for the purpose Of
being near the quarries there in which
the convicts could be employed. The
buildings themselves have been rear
ed by prison labor at cost to the
state of $61S,S06, but represent a value
of $1,646,056 They are models of con-
struction throughout. In no way Is
the contrast SO great between the old
and new prison as in the way in which
the prisoner is employed. In Ana
mosa a man can learn cooperage,
farming, stone-cutting, electricity,
blacksmithing, carpentering,, tailoring,
baking, etc. Some men have gone
from this prison enabled to earn not
less than 81 or SIS day In stone cut
ting, and that, too, although some of
them had never earned an honest liv-
Ing before. The state received, during
the last two years, over s150,000 in
return for the labor of the inmates of
the prison.
Every effort is being made to fur
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-09-03
Blood and Skin Diseases and
Diseases of Women. Consulta-
ton Free and Confidential.
Address,
DR.. B. A. STOCKDALE

nish the prisoners with as good school,
ing as can be obtained in the COM
mon schools outside. The library con-
tains $685. volumes, and during the
past two years $1,000 books and 24,213
ma gaines We're circulated among the
prison cells. At present one of the
most helpful of all the organizations
In the prison is that Of the Volunteer
Prisoners league, organized by Maud
Ballington Booth. There is also a
good Christian Endeavor society in
charge of the prisoners and a good
Sunday school. The discipline is Sc
we're. The prison is run on the graded
system. The first-grade men are Civ
en- better food, may write one letter
each week. receive visits from friends
once in four weeks. The second grade
men, in addition to having poorer fpoG,
can receive visits from friends only
once in six weeks and write only once
in two weeks. The hthird grade are
given poorer food than the second
grade, cannot receive visits from
friends or write or receive letters ex-
cept by permission of the warden.
Unfortunately, the state of Iowa has
no intermediate sentence law, but has
a parole law in its place. When a
prisoner is discharged he is given a
complete outfit In clothing at cost
to the state of 1856, but equal to $40
or $25 If purchased at outside rates.
He Is also given SIS as a gift and trans
ported to his home.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-09-03
PLANS FOR A STREET FAIR

Business men IN OttumWa are talk.
ing of a street fair for the first week
in October and although few have ex.
pressed themselves in regard to it all
who have been approached thus far
have looked upon the scheme with
approval. A street fair will, if man.
aged right, be of benefit to the bust.
ness interests of the city In several
districts of Iowa and other states such
affairs are held regularly. once or
twice every year. Keokuk has found
the street fairs so profitable that one
is to be held there every spring aid
every fall.
The plan of those who are behind
the movement in Ottumwa is to have,
in addition to the regular features of
the street fair. corn carnival, to in
terest the farmers and the residents
of the surrounding country and small
towns. The principal object of such a
fair is. of course, to bring visitors to
the city and corn carnival. with
prizes for the best exhibits of agri-
cultural products, is considered the
best and most practicable project. OF,
tumwa will profit if the plan is car.
ried out and the fair is managed
right. Rowdyism must be barred. i'm.
moral shows must be refused licenses
get-rich-quick games must be prohibit.
ed then a street fair that will find ia.
vor in the eyes Of the people can be
held.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-09-03
RRYAN,s POSITION.

Now that the heat of discussion has
Louis convention has cleared away it
is q good time to look calmly upon the
position of William Jennings Bryan
with regard to the democratic party.
Mr.. Bryan got Judge Parker's vote in
1896 and in 1900 although he represent
ed the champions of free silver while
the present democratic candidate was
an avowed advocate Of the gold stan
dard. This year. however, Mr.. Bryan
cannot bring himself to silently en-
dorse Judge Parker In fact, his Com
moner Of July 13, commenting upon the
nomination made at St. Louis, spoke
in plain terms of the candidate and the
platform. He said:
II shall not mis-represent the situa-
ton, or appeal for votes for the tick
ct upon false grounds. A democratic
victory will mean very little, if any
progress on economic questions so
long as the party is under the control
of the Wall street element. = y The
labor plank as prepared by Judge Par
ker's friends on the subcommittee was
straddling, meaningless plank y
The nomination of Judge Parker virtu-
ally nullifies the antitrust plank"
That he did not feel it incumbent
upon him to endorse Judge Parker aft
er the convention had nominated him,
is shown by another paragraph in the
same number of the Commoner, which
says:
81 have nothing to take back, have
M To 11yith Of hn ,iy,e
that have said against the methods
pursued to advance his candidacy. 1t
was a plain and deliberate attempt to
deceive sthe party. The New York
platform was vague and purposely so,
because the advocates of Judge Park
er were trying to secure votes from
among the people who have opposed
his views had they known them. s
The nomination was secured, therefore
by crooked and indefensible methods"
Mr. Bryan is nothing if not consist
ent. This, even his enemies will not
deny. His fight has been clear cut
one throughout. He has lost, but in
losing he has gathered about him fol-
lowing of men who admire him for his
courage and his oratory and his prin-
ciples He is not the man to vote or
work for candidate who does not rep
resent the principles he advocates and
his articles printed above, demonstrate
this fact. His failure to take the stump
for Parker again shows that though
beaten, he is still sincere and consist
ent. Though no longer the leader of
the whole democracy he is still at the
head of powerful wing of that organi-
cation, without which the Parker tick
ct must fall beyond any hope.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-09-03
THE PASSING OF A FAD.

No more progressive action has
been taken by the Chicago board of
education in years than the movement
now on foot to abolish vertical writ
ing. Not only Chicago but several 9TH
er cities. are considering the advisable
ity of returning to the oblique style of
penmanship. No fad SO useless, so
senseless and utterly Objectionable has
crept into the public school curriculum
in many years. as the vertical style
of writing. 1t is pretty, in the opinion
of some, but that is almost the only
feature that recommends it. Against
this are the facts that vertical writing
is slower than the oblique style, takes
up more room and unless the work of
an EXPERTS harder to read than the old
reliable, oblique hand.
How it first became introduced and
adopted in so many schools is hard to
understand. but now chat it has been
tried and found wanting the best plan
is to do away with it and to do away
with it at once. 1t is too slow and too
bulky for business writing and for that
reason if for no other it should be
abolished Boys, and many girls, too,
go to public schools to learn the rudi-
ments of business as much as to obtain
a general education. Writing is includ-
ed in the curriculum almost entirely
for business purposes and it should be
taught in the most beneficial and SEN
sible way. The vertical hand" is fad
that became popular for while in a
small way but it is passing as have
other fads and as they should.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-09-03
AMERICA IN THE LEAD.

The supremacy of Americans is a
theme of which Americans, whether
the simon pure article or adopted chill
dren of the land, never tire of talk
ing. And it is right this should be
SO. Truly, of all that is good Ameri-
ca affords the best, and the other ma
lions of the world are learning that
this is fact. The ship builders and
the gun makers of Europe acknowl-
edge it, the agriculturalists of the
most fertile valleys on the eastern
world bow to America and learn from
her. Yankee machinery penetrates into
almost every corner of the globe and
American grains and meats find a
ready market in the old world. But
the latest victory won by Americans is
a proud one, not because of it's com.
mercial significance but because it
shows that the country has not be-
come SO engrossed in the search for
riches as to forget that any success
depends upon physical well being. In
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-09-03
THE WAGES OF SIN.

The case of Milton M. Carson, of
Chicago, who has been sentenced to
life Imprisonment for OBTAINING a
young girl for immoral purposes, has
attracted wide attention. Carson, who
seems from the evidence introduced
at his trial to be one of the most in
human fiends the present decade has
produced, stands almost alone in the
field of crime. In nearly all criminal
cases the damage done can be esti-
mated in financial way, but not so
Carson's. The lives of two young
girls have been blighted by his inhu.
man act. An innocent young woman,
MS wife, is believed to have been hyp-
Noticed by the man and to have done
his bidding in assisting him to detain
the unfortunate girls.
How many ruined lives may be laid
at Carson's door may never be known.
Perhaps he himself does not know.
He could not have reached such a
stage in crime without many other ex-
periences before hand which blignted
his nature and dulled his conscience
and his knowledge of right and wrong
to such an extent that he would com.
NIT the outrages charged to him in
the cases in which he was defendant
this week. If he is guilty, and twelve
men show no hesitation in declaring
him to be, life Imprisonment is a mild
punishment The law provides moth
ing too severe for him. Families
broken up, homes turned from happy
centers of love to the abode of sorrow
and disgrace. aged parents lives short
ened by the knowledge of their daugh-
ters' dishonor-all this and much
more may be charged to Carson.
The story of the connection of his
wife with the case is but one chapter,
and sad one, in the tale of crime in
which Carson is the center. The
young woman came to Chicago few
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-09-03

II y
Roosevelt. President of all the people,
stands out among men, a leader and
diplomat. scholar and a statesman,
typical product Of grand republic,
with no false vanity, no lordly ways,
simply one of the people chosen from
among the millions as leader.
1t is folly to talk of Roosevelt as
unsafe" The very fact that the demo-
cratic party has seized upon circum-
stances to class him thus proves that
it has nothing tangible upon which to
base its opposition to the republican
nominee. The record of the party and of
the President is beyond any reproach,
Certainly the party which has put at
its head Parker and Davis after de-
throning Bryan and his followers, must
have some argument to present to the
voters in behalf of its cause. Its can
didates do not inspire confidence and
in order to draw public notice from it's
own weakness 1t grasps at a straw
and calls Roosevelt unsafe" AS if a
man who has safely guided the Ameri-
can government through more varied
and perplexing affairs than has any
other president could be unsafe. AS if
a government headed by Roosevelt,
Hay, Shaw, Moody, Knox and the 9TH
ers, clear down the line of official life
could be unsafe. The charge is laugh
able.
But this is the sole claim of the dem
ocratic party for support this year. Dis
regarding the fact that the nation is
now experiencing almost unrivaled
prosperity, the opposition crys Hard
Times Admitting that democracy has
been wrong in the past the platform
asks confidence now because change
of heart. Is it any wonder that it was
hard to induce man to take the NOM
ination for congress in the sixth dis
trict as the representative of such a
party? Is it any wonder that when one
was found, he should serve notice that
in all probability he will withdraw be-
fore election? Is it any wonder that
the republicans regard Major Lacey's
election as assured?
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-09-03
THE FACTORY BESIDE THE FARM.

Keokuk Gate iCity.-The republican
campaign textbook makes a showing
with figures from the census of what
protection has done thus far toward
the development of the United States
industrially The manufacturing sec
ton, par excellence, spread over but
ID per cent of the TERRITORY. turns out
II per cent of the value of the annual
product. The same section also holds
a large proportion of the banking capt.
tai, savings bank deposits, real estate
values, newspaper circulation, and so
on.
The New York Times regards this
showing as something to enrage tho
manufacturing section. 1t la
ments that the factory is not set down
beside every farm or at least evenly
spread over the entire country. It
sees little hope for the farmer unless
he has factory hands to buy the farm
surplus. 1t asks what has the tar
If done for the people of the agricul-
tural states? What are the republi-
cans doing to establish the factory be-
side the farm"
Proner answer to this is made by ths
Buffalo News which recalls that the
first thing the fathers did when they
began work under the constitution was
to establish protective tariff. Jeffer-
son was lust r,,,rh in favor of 1t as
was Hamilton, and Madison as Adams,
while Washington backed that policy
stoutly and successfully. The situation
and its result are thus clearly stated:l
when protection began Its mission
the American farmer had practically
no market in his own country. Now
he has confessedly the largest and best
market ever known In the world, and
besides having 1t to himself, he is en-
abled to go into the foreign market
with the largest volume Of exports Of
his surplus that has ever been known
of any single country in the annals Of
the race.
Some newspapers are like some
men. They are always impatient, of
ultimate results. To hasten the
building Of factories beside farms the
Times. like the rest of the free trad
ers, would tear down the tariff en-
trenchments and admit the products
of foreign factories, with the effect to
drive American factories out of bust
ness and release vast army of oper-
atives to return to agriculture This
is about the way in which the free
trade scheme helps the farmer"
The Times and the free traders gen.
orally are the enemies of both the
factory and the farm. They would
cripple the one and lessen the demand
for the products of the other. If they
continuous repetition of the hard
times experienced under the Cleveland
regime. Loyalty to both factory and
farm involves support of the republic
can policy of protection.