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The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1905-01-01
meut at the opera house on Monday.
Ian. ., for ma ince and night.
hioh Heels Barred.

Since the death of the neca of a
senator from Kentucky recently. Man
ager Kingsbury of ;he "A Girl From
Dixie" company has issued an order
forbidding the young women OF his or.
ganization from wearing high French
heels on their shoes either while on
the stage or in the street as long as
hey are in his employ. The young
woman's sad fate was brought to Mr..
Kingsbury's notice short time ago,
the reason having been assigned to
blood poisoning as A result oi wearing
extremely high heels. IN this latest
ukase Mr.. kingsbury net only enforc-
es measures of hygiene, but also
places the young women of his com
pany in a position whereby they are
the first to adopt new fad Of Dome
IA hion which, it is said by the boo.
and shoe manufacturers, will ultimate
" become universal.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1905-01-01
DYING MAN.
With Clothing Ablaze, Mounted His
Horse After Breaking Gun on
His Slayer's Head.

Owingsyille, Ky, Dec. 31.--James
Riddle, charged with the murder of
Odd Rogers last night, was lodged in
jail here today.
Rogers made a dying statement, in
which he said thai Riddle placed
double-barreled shotgun against his
body and fired The powder set Rog-
ers' clothes on fire. He jerked the gun
from Riddles grasp and broke it over
his head. Rogers then mounted his
horse, and, with his clothing ablaze,
rode some distance to tenant house
on his farm. where the fire was ex-
tinguished, and a vain attempt was
made TO save his life.
Riddle is badly injured from being
struck by Rogers. The Riddle and
Rogers families have been at outs
from trouble originating over a line
fence four years ago. Their families
are numerous and trouble is feared.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1905-01-01
ANNUAL BANQUET
GIVEN LAST NIGHT
MR.. {. A. RuDER. PRE- siDENT OF
ALEXANDER CoueiTY Ma
TiONAL BANK GAVE BAN
QUIET TO OFFICERS AND EN-.
PLOYES.

Mr. Z A. Buder, president of the
Alexander County National bank
gave a banquet last night to the di-
rectors and working force of that
popular and strong institution in the
cub 9 rooms OF AscaloV'lodge. No. 81,
About ten years go the custom Of
giving an annual ssnqnet 10 the Of
ncers, directors and employees Of the
Alexander County Rational bank was
established by the president, Judge
Fredolin Bross Since his death the
observance has been carried out by
his successor. E. A. Buder.
The feast last night was prepared
by Caterer Goeitel and embraced a
menu that would win praise from the
most iastidious. From blue points
on the half she'll to champagne and
cigars everything was served in the
most approved style and when .the
latter were reses.ed everybody was ia
a humorous mood
The banquet board was presided
over by MI. Builder and was surround
ed by Jas. II. Galligan. Mayor Glazed
Winter Frank Spencer Jr, Charles
Feuchter. Chas. 0. Pater. z. H..
spann, L. E. Ellis, John Fisher. Flank
Gossman. Peter Lind. Harry Hughes.
w. ?. Greaney William Kluge. Pat
rick Gieaney. Official Architect Dan
lei Kelly, Attorney David s. Lansden
and Thas. w Williams.
& Toasts were made during the even.
ing an everyone present made a
short tax There was little ceremony
about The pleasant affair. which ex
tended well into the new year.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1905-01-01
~The Curse of Drink"

at the opera houce Tuesday, Jan
G. win be presented Blaney's brillian,
and Accordingly Interesting pay
The Curse Of Drink, with rs intense
~ interes, ing scene showing the rail
read racks a full sized engine il
seen p,oughing its way through a
binding snow storm at the rate of
forty miles an hour Gradually the
storm subsidies. the clouds break and
clear away and the rapidly flying
landscape is seen bathed in moon.
light The engine dashes into a sun
mel and as it energies is sseen ruch.
ing down upon The helpless girl lying
upon the rails. The scene il q hair
raiser. and is n veritable triumph of
stage mechanism in the impression
J. gives of reality.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1905-01-01

East 81. Louis. wrench Frederick
}. Lemley. Chicago, clutch. VIM. G..
McHarg. Chicago, voting machine.
Frank Fl. Stolp, Chicago, machine
for making radiator tubes. Albert w.
Sullivan and NJ Renshaw. Chicago.
sliding car door. Emil G. Taylor. Chi
cage, automatic indicator connecting
snap. William Terry. Pearl City. lift
ing jack. James n Vesey. Chicago.
manifoiding check book. Joseph Will
man. Chicago, apparatus for heating
or cterilizing fluids. For copy of any
of above patents send len cents in
postage stamps with date of this pa.
per to G. A. Snow and company, Wash.
ington. ID. G.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1905-01-01
"Ghoats."

Since its first production in 1881,
Ghosts" The masterpiece of Henrik
lbsen's genius, has been translated
info nearly every known language
and staged in all the intellectual cen.
tiers of the globe After an interval
of several years 1t was revived in
New York on Jan. 80 1903, for Sc.
ries of matinee performances at the
Manhattan theater. Its success there
was so pronounced that itw as decid-
ed TO transfer it to Mrs. Osbornes
play house for an extended engage
ment This season Claus Bogel, who
has long held assured position on the
stage, will be seen in ID.
sens masterpiece, playing an engage
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1905-01-01
WITH ONE HAND.
The sixteen.Year-old Boy Swan and
Saved Two Women.

Huntington, W. Va. Dee. al-Jas.
Collins. a sixteen-year-old hoy. saved
his mother Mrs. Louis Il. Collins.
and his aunt. Mrs. Cynthia William
son. by pulling them from house
boat as IL heated from the river hank
into the 10y wafer of the Ohio here.
Airs. Coll as. who could swim, struck
ont an ! al almost reached the bank,
when sac was seized with cramps and
sank. lios- son. who had already res
cued his aunt By swimming with one
hand whfe he pulled her through the
water WITH the other, returned and
also sarea rs mother The boat was
draw n fFJm the ohore into the river
by the rapid rise.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1905-01-01

A M Il S E M E " Z s..


"The Mummy and the humming Rird's
That gem Of theatrical literature
THE Mummy and The Hummingbird"
viii be presented at the opera house
on Tuesday, Jan. 3. 1t aboGnds in
speeches that are not only witty and
full Of epigram but that furnish food
for thought as well. as they are in
deed the result OF thought; but it is
in the novel and striking situations
Of the pay that great and unusual
cievernees is displayed
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1905-01-01
ELolN GUTTER.

BY the Associated Press.
Elgin, Ill.,, Dec. 3i.-Bmter was firm
at % cents. Sales for the week. 447,-
Gas pounds. Holiday MondayJ
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1905-01-01

opera Eouse here with many pretty
girls, dainty costumes, funny comedi
ans and clover specialIies on Wednes.
day, Jan. 4.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1905-01-01

Some big surprises in the way Of
picture dances, gorgeous mechanical
and electrical transformations are %
be seen with the Lyman Twins at the
The Washington times., 1905-10-01
The Manufacture of Brains.

Most O the cases " read aho,t
where some great surgickle operations
vas performed reads thisaway: The
patient was sufferin' severely when he
was placed on the operatin' table. He
was soon overcome with the anise-
tnetick and the operation was perceeded
with. The right oracle of the heart
was took out and placed in the cavity
meant fer the lower lobe of the left
lung. which had been removed fer the
purpose. Tre-panning was resorted 10.
and the lower lobe of the left lung
which had been took out was placed I'm
the skull and labeled brains" The
operation was intirely successful. The
funeral was one of the largest ever seen
in this community. Science has made
wonderful strides
That's how they read mostly. and IT
keeps a pracktickle-headed feller Won
derin' whether it's better TO die I'm bed
or on a board. Mebby that done teev
give the victim makes death easier.
''Yit TO s'pose mebby that feIIer did
sit weli-the paper didn't say, as l re-
member it-wouldn't that be great if
peoples hearts could be took out and
fixed and put back2 ] know some fellers
hearts that ought 10 be took out and
pumped up. The inner chube's busted
er they's a puncture. Anyways thev,s
fiat and ruinin the rims every reyolu
tion. And some of ems not only little
but nasty. hard and bitter and sour.
Wy, / know some fellers that If they
hearts they has was took out and
persimmon er a crab-apple substituted
fer EN-. they'd come to a-feelin' like
they'd swaIlered punkin er a football
they would that. And il some of fen1
had glass marble In their chists
pumpin blood fer 'em. it's feel soft as
a bail o. warm taffy compared to the
fiinty dornic'- they've been wearins.
The Washington times., 1905-10-01

weemin love the same man-rich hates
as bad as poor, and terry firmy.
But one of the wonderfulst things
I've heard of fer years boy, Is that
surgickle case where the dipIomied
oarvers took out a mans heart and put
IL oack again without KILN the feller-
SO 1ur as the feller himself knowed
about 1t. At the last report the feller
what had submitted to the operation re-
fused to be interviewed He wouldn't
talk to the reporters. He couldn't. The
old sayin' that dead men tells no tales
has been changed to 'surgickle patients
tells no tales. Means the same.
The Washington times., 1905-10-01

shaven, untidy man, land don't
bother me-"
You're on" said kid Mulialy.
Fifty dollars to s25 / take Annie
to the dance. Put up"
The Kids" black eyes were snap
ping with the fire OF the baited and
challenged. He drew out his rolf
and slapped five tens upon the bar.
The three or four young fellows who
were thus taken" more slowly pro-
duced their stake. The bartender.
ex-officio stakeholder, took the
money, laboriously wrapped it, re-
corded the bet with an inch-long men,
Gil, and stuffed the whole into n
corner OF the cash register.
And, oh, what'll be done to youu
De plenty" said bettor. with an
ticipatory glee.
That's my lookout" said the
Kid" sternly. Fill 'em nm all
round, Mike"
AFTER the round Burke, the Kids"
sponge, sponge-holder, pal. Mentor
and Grand Vizier, drew him out tn
the bootblack stand at the saloon
corner, where the official and i'm
portant matters of the Small Hours
Social Club were settled. AS Tony
polished the light tan shoes of the
clubs president and secretary for
the NTH time that day. Burke spake
words of wisdom to his chief.
Cut that blonde out, Kid" was
his advice. cor therell be trouble
What Go you want to throw down
that girl of yours for? You'll never
find one that'll freeze to You like
Liz has. She's worth a hallful of
Annies.''
m no Annie admirer," said the
Kid dropping a cigarette ash on
MS polished toe and wiping It off
on Tony's shoulder But 1 want to
teach Liz lesson She thinks I
belong to her. She's been Dragging
that / daren't speak to another girl.
Liz is all right-in some ways. She's
drinking a little too much lately.
And she uses language that a lady
oughtn't."
You're engaged, amt your" asked
Burke.
Sure. Well get married next
year, maybe"
Il saw you make her drink her
first glass of beer" said Burke.
That was two years ago, when she
used to come down to the corner of
Chrystie bare-headed to meet you
after supper. She was a quiet sort
of a kid then, and couldn't speak
without blushing."
she's little spitfire, sometimes,
now" said the Kid. "I hate ieal-
ousy- That's why I'm going to the
dance with Annie. I'll teach her
some sense"
The Washington times., 1905-10-01

''Well, you better look little
out" were Burke's last words. IF
Liz was my girl and / was to sneak
out to dance coupled up with an
Annie, I'd want a suit of chain ar
NOR on under my gladsome rags,
all right, all right"
Through the land of the stork-
vulture wandered Liz. Her black
eyes searched the passing crowds
fierily but vaguely. Now and then
she hummed bars of foolish little
songs. Between times she set her
small, white teeth together, and
spake crisp words that the east side
has added to language.
Liz's skirt was green silk. Her
waist was large brown-and-p pink
plaid, well fitting and not without
style. She wore a cluster ring of
huge imitation rubies, and a loeket
that banged her knees at the bottom
of a silver chain. Her shoes were
run down over twisted high heels.
and were strangers to polish. Her
hat would scarcely have passed into
flour barrel; at sight of the broken
plume in it the ostrich would have
betrayed no emotion.
A girl passed dressed in plain
gray, without wrinkle, a fiounce.
or a streamer visible. On her head
was little turban of black straw
with close band and bow of black
ribbon. Her smooth, closely braided
hair shone in the sun.
Liz looked at her long, with a sui
len doubt clouding her eyes. Then
she turned and surveyed her own
smart frippery in a show window.
Her eyes sparkled again. "Oh,
don't know" she said, confidently.
and picked her way on through the
fruit carts. heaps of Goals. and shout
ing children toward the lower end
of Avenue B.
The Family entrance" of the Blue
Jay Cafe received her. At a table
she sat, and punched the button
with an air of milady ringing for
her carriage. The waiter came with
his large-chinned, low voiced man
ner OF respectful familiarity. Liz
smoothed her silken skirt with a
satisfied wriggle- She made the most
OF 1t. Here she could order and be
waited upon. 1t was all that her
world offered her of the prerogative
OF woman.
The Washington times., 1905-10-01
The Sage Of Poke Root Re-
fuses to Indorse the Theory
That All Sich Women Are
Bound to Destruction II y
T was the first real chilly evening
Of late September and Uncle Eek
had hiiilf a log fire In tha 1irine

r T was the first real chilly evening
Of late September and Uncle Eek
= had built a log fire In the living
room fireplace. AS the blaze leaped up
and threw the shadows Of the family
against the wall in fantastic dancings,
he grew reminiscent over the news Of
the day that Cousin Elmer had been
reading aloud up TO the time that the
OIL had burned out OF the lamp
II take notist they's a feller in Saint
Louis says all tn rich weemin-foTzs OF
TN country's steerin' straight FOR hell,
with both ferrerd speeds on an tn
brakes broke. I guess mebby If tn
weemin IS a-goin' thataway SO rapid.
they's fist one good reason fer it-that
they's lots O men there. They're great
fer bcin' with the men-folks; but this
here thing OF goin' to tophet jist be-
cause the men does is carryin' equal
rights a leetle fur and risky. Z my
thinkin'
IT guess mebby there's Helen Gould
and a few more OF 'em is kind o. got
their beaks p'inted t'other way some.
and it's 5ist possible that a whole lot
OF the weemin-folks of this country
haint seen fit & take Mister Perfesser
Armbuster. er whatever his names
called, int their confidence and blab
TO i'm jist what they're dOin'. Fer
weemin-folks kin keep a sekert jist as
well as men-folks kin. Even II it's so.
that weemin is so weak they can't keep
guilty sekert on 'em? A man. you
betchy.
The Washington times., 1905-10-01


clouds with great satisfaction. He
had removed his shoes and donned
pair of blue, faded carpet-slippers.
With the morbid thirst of the con-
firmed daily news drinker, he awk-
wardly folded back the pages of an
evening paper, eagerly gulping down
the strong, black headlines, to be
followed IS a chaser by the milder
details Of the smaller type.
In an adjoining room a woman
was cooking supper. Odors from
strong bacon and boiling coffee con-
tended against the cut-plug fumes
from the vespertine pipe
Outside was one OF those crowded
streets of the east side, in which, as
twilight falls, Satan sets up his re-
cruiting Office. A mighty host of
children danced and ran and played
in the street Some in rags, some
in clean white and beribboned, some
wild and restless as young hawks,
some gentle-faced and shrinking,
some shrieking rude and sinful
words, some listening, awed, but
soon, grown familiar, to embrace
here were the children playing In
the corridors of the House of Sin.
Above the playground forever how
cred great bird. This bird was
known to humorists as the stork
But the people of Chrystie street
were better ornithologists. They
called it vulture.
A little girl Of twelve came up
umidly 20 the man reading and
resting by the window, and said:
Papa. won't you play game of
checkers with me If you aren't too
tired9"
The red-haired, unshaven, untidy
man sitting shoeless by the window
answered, with frown:
Checkers, No, won't. Can't
man who works hard all day have
a little rest when he comes home?
Why don't you go out and play
with the other kids on the side
wa1k?"
The woman who was cooking
came TO the door.
john" she said, ''I don't like for
Lizzie to play in the street. They
learn too much there that amt good
for 'em. She's been in the house
all day long. 1t seems that you
might give up a little OF your time
TO amuse her when you come home"
Let her go out and play like the
rest of 'em If she wants to be
amused, said the red-haired, un-
The Washington times., 1905-10-01

not to git up in the air about things,
and not to git carried away by a lot o.
gas.
Then. speakin' again o. science and
its progress. they say that stuff called
-rajum' will cure insanity. The way
they tell sure whether feller's crazy
enough go TO the expense OF tryin' IL on
him. is to ask IL he thinks that'n euro
him. If he says he thinks so. he's crazy
enough fer anything and they perceed
with the treatment"
You forgot the feller out in 500 City,
put in Cousin Elmer with a yawn.
Him that done the insurance COM
pany. Not much I didn't. not for
minute. he was the slickest ever. He
was the feller that skun the life insur-
ance chaps a ieetle bit smoother'n they'd
ever been skun er skun anybody He
waited until he was 50 near dead that
the doctors give him up. Then he sent
fer the insurance companies. and showed
them how bad he was-ex-hib-it A.
He got 'em TO compermise his s, coo poll
icy for $500 and them agents went
away feeiin' fOXy-ex-hib-it 3. Then the
feller started slowly TO mend and de-
terminedly got Wei, shown 'em how
he's fooled 'em-ex-hib-it c.
Il reckon he's the only feller In this
country walkin' around payin' his own
doctor bill with his own life insurance
money and the insurance agents no.
dcin nothin' TO him but hatin' day and
night. The only explanation / can
fgger out is that he fooled OF Death
llimself-he's no harder TO fool than
Insurance agents. But don't you bet
hrs wiGder is mad? Skinned out o. $500
and the privilege O. wearin one o. them
big wells, The feller must not a-had
no heart in him at tall.
II bet." hegan Cousin Elmer yawning-
~ 0or the hands of the clock pointed
10 late bedtime. which is half-past
eight, sun-time)-
IT'S a cinch. er you wouldn't be o.
ferin' to bet.' said Uncle Eek What
is it2''
II was just goin' TO say that l bet 8
lot of the old gray-headed chaps in the
Rolled Arcanum would seriously con-
slider tryln' that 500 City mans plan
% cashin in when The story gifts GEN
eral circulated
'Humph," snorted Uncle Eek, rs he
reached for the bootjack. II guess
when Information gifts to Poke Root
it's purity we'll spread.
Copyright, 1905, by S. S. Clina.l
The Washington times., 1905-10-01

weemin. only the poor ones haint got
the same chanst TO do what they want
in good many ways that the rich ones
has
In fact. weemin is weemin, and when
y find a good one she's all heart and
a lot o other things-mos,ly good-that
no man ever understood, exceSs some
The Washington times., 1905-10-01
CAS- 3: }S|ESE{ 2zz22z22z3

take cried all night at home, and
got lickin' for maxim nojSe
A little unsteadily. bur with
watchful and brilliant ewes vjz
walked up the avenue. On the door
step of a brick tenement a cur,v-
haired child sat, puzzling over tho
convolutions of tangled string Is,
topped down beside her. with
crooked, shifting smile on bar
flushed face But her ewes had
grown clear and artless of a sud
den.
Let me show you how to make
a cats cradle, kid she said. tuck
ing her green silk skirt under her
rusty shoes.
And while they sat there the
lights We're being turned on for the
dance in the hall of the Small Hours
Social Club. 1t was the bi-montblv
dance, dress affair in which the
members took great pride and be-
stirred themselves huskily to fur
ther and adorn.
AT 3 O'Clock the president.
Kid Mullaly, paced upon the floor
with a lady on his arm. AS the
Loreley's was her hair golden. Her
yes" was softened to yah" but
its quality of assent was patent to the
most Milesian ears. She stepped
upon her own train and blushed. and
she smiled into the eyes OF Kid,
Mullaly.
And then, as the two stood in the
middle of the waved floor, the thing
happened to prevent which many
lamps are burning nightly in many
studies and libraries.
Out from she circle of spectators
in the hall leaped Fate in green
silk skirt, under the nom de guerre
of Liz" Her eyes were hard and
blacker than jet. She did not scream
or waver. Most unwomanly, she
cried out one oath-the Kids" own
favorite oath-and in his own deep
voice; and then while the Small
Hours Social Club went frantically
to pieces, she made good her boast
to Tommy, the waiter-made good
as far as the length of her knife
blade and the strength of her arm
permitted.
And next came the primal in
stinct of lf-preseTvation-or was
1t decentralization, the instinct that
society has grated On the natural
branch?
Liz ran out and down the street
swift and true as a woodcock flying
through grove of saplings at dusk.
And then followed the big city's
biggest shame, its most ancient and
rotten surviving canker. it's pollu-
tion and disgrace, its blight and per-
version, its forever infamy and guilt.
fostered, unreproved. and cherished,
handed down from loEg-ago cen
tury Of the basest barbarity-the
Hue and Cry. Nowhere but in the
big cities does IL survive, and here
most of all, where the ultimate per-
lection of culture, citizenship, and
alleged superiority joins, bawling, in
the chase.
The pursued shrieking mob of
fathers, mothers, lovers and maid
ens-howling, yelling, calling, whist
ling, crying for blood. Well may