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The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1905-06-24
NEW swlNpLE IN PARIS.
Even Runaway Horse Put to Use by
Quiek.Mitted Roaue.

eNSH nuHdWay F1cfSe Hut 10 use py
Quick-Witted Rogue.
Honore Palmer was talking in New
York the other day about Paris. Said
he.
Il was strolling. on a sunny morn.
ing. along the avenue, stopping nov
and then to look in the interesting
shop windows. when heard great
roar and gathering behind me. and
turned TO see a runaway horse tear
ont OF the Place de rOpera and come
at breakneck speed down the crowd
ed street toward me
Suddenly policeman appeared
lie stood In the path Of the approach
ing horse. AT the proper moment
be leaped up, caught the bride firmly
and, after being dragged a rod or
two, brought the runaway to "a stop
4 "A crowd gathered about the heroic
fellow His hand was shaken. Con
CALCULATIONS were showered on him
Then down the avenue, with dis
ordered dress. young man came run
ming.
THE ownerl The owner." the PEG,
lie shouted.
And the young man, painting, thank
cd the policeman warmly, and after
getting In the carriage, took the Of
ficers name and number, 80 as to send
him suitable reward. Then he drove
away.
He had only been gone about five
minutes when second young man
appeared. His attire was more dis
ordered than the others, and there
was q cut over his eye,
Where is my horse? he said.
They told me policeman stopped
my horse somewhere iii this neighbor-
hood. Was It you. officer?'
Shamefacedly the policeman ad.
United that it was. and admitted also
that he. an officer Of the law. had
been tricked like provincial BY one
OF those ingenious, daring and alert
swindlers who infest Paris. - New
York Tribune
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1905-06-24
NEITHER FISH NOR BIRD.
Jed Brooks Finally Found Proper Def
milton of Osteopath.

milton of Osteopath.
The following story comes from
York Harbor, Me,
Say yer know tibet literary chap
tibet he'd the Furness cottage up on
the hill two years ago last summer
Mark Twain, | blieve they called i'm.
Gee, ye'd never think ter look at I'm
tibet he could write books!
Wal. he ulster come over ter my
house an set fer hours to time while
! spun yarns an told i'm abaout York
folks an things. Seemed ter be reel
socible like liked TO ter smoke an
talk, an joke with an old fool like
me.
Wal, one day he comes ter me look
In kind d worried like, an his hair
was all rufFied mp like he'd been aout
iE q stiff nor easter. an he seq: Capt
Brooks. can YOU tell me if there is
an osteopath at the harbor? Wei,
Asez sB the mebba, but amt never
ketched one on EN-, an I've been
fshin here nigh onter forty years
He looked at me kind O queer, an
then sed he guessed he'd go up tel
the drug store an enquire.
Wal went nome an told the Ole
woman abaout 1t, an she seq: Yoy
big fool, Jed Brooks, faint no fish
It's bird So then went inter tn,
best room an took doown the cyclic
/ pedium my boy Steve had when h
vas Ger Harvard college, an I'll b,
burned If it want no fish at all, nor n,
/ bird, either, but a new-fangled kind 0
la doctor -Hafper's Weekly.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1905-06-24

Yes, said the old mathematician.
with CLEAN in his watery blue eyes.
I've always looked at II that way
Marriage Is addition; wien the listls
ones come its multiplication; when
dissensiou looms up 90 cloud the hori
zou Of Il cir happiness us divisions;
and wher the final parting comes It's
subtraction. IN London TitBits.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1905-06-24
flusterInn tie 1eacher.

Nov in order to subtract ex
Claimed the teacher to the clnss IN
mathematics, things have to be al.
WAYS Ct The same denomination. For
instance. we couldn't take three apples
from four pears nor six horses from
nine dogs a hand went up in the
back part of the room. Teacher,
houted small boy, cant you take
cur quarts 81 milk from three cows?
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1905-06-24
Brazil Needs Americans.

The Brazilian Review says that
Brazil needs American methods and
energy 10 make use of its splendid for
ests Of hard wood, 10 construct ports
and harbors, to build railways 90 de-
yelop mining 70 enlarge agriculture
ana cattle breeding IN short 10 con-
trll ami run the entire range Of the
republics resources.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1905-06-24
american Press Holds Canadians.

An Englishman In Canada writes
acme In considerable excitement as
follows. The majority of Canadians
aever read an English paper OF any
kind whatever; all their literature Is
American All the booksellers shops
ire filed with American books, Ameri.
can reviews, American papers And
With what result? There can be only
ono. sresult- Canadians will think
Americanly.'
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1905-06-24
Originals Of Jack and ill.

a writer IN Norway says. "Our
familiar nursery friends Jack and Jill
are descendants of Fjulsi and Bill, the
ebbing and flowing tides, the tumbing
crests Of which, breaking one over an.
other as the waves wash the shore.
are rather aptly described In the nurs.
cry rhyme"
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1905-06-24
William Marren,s 80 ohoat.

Those who remember william War
rem at the Old Boston museum during
the sixties viii recall the Warren
Farce" so popular at that time after
the play The writer remembers one
Of those most mdicrous scenes when
Warren, after a seemingly friiiless
search after a ghost, exclaimed ID his
manner I'm die before I'll
give up the ghostl"- Boston Herald.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1905-06-24
Getting Bid Of seeseeh Owl.

Screaming Of a screech owl three
nights In succession in or about the
front yard Is a sign that some ono m
he house is in danger Of death TO
ause the owl to leave stick the shovel
n the fire
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1905-06-24
shins Cars 10 Farmera.

Marshal Van Worley has gone into
A new business, VIZ, the shipping Of
cats out Of Tiutsyille He has ship
ped about twenty to the farm Of Mr.
Ell Walker al Quay There were all
sorts Of cats large and small, and all
shades Of color, some with ears and
tails and some without Titnsyilie
(Fla) East Coast Advocate
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1905-06-24

The Illinois Central railroad viii
run the first excursion Of the season
to 81 Louis Sunday, June rs; fare for
round trip $500 Train leaves Central
Union station 500 a. m, returning
leaves St Louis 1880 p M
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1905-06-24

"I've always piticd The poor things
who have no one belonging to them.
When you have got son cone, why. Of
course, Won are an&ioua~-l don't deny
that-rtut, then, yoa are not al BY
yourself n the world"
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1905-06-24
Ninth cnniurx Rihle.

The exposition Of rare old hooks
and manuscripts now being held In
the British museum includes the old
est known manuscript OF the Bible OF
'ha ninth century
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1905-06-24

An Indian chief, ia an unimpasslon'
"a effort TO tell something of Indian
pecnliaritles, said Indian great
smoker Smokn' great help 70 lazi.
ness - Cheyenne (Wyo) Sun
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1905-06-24

Because he had received notice 70
quit his lodgings, Berlin locksmith
committed suicide by standing in the
srcket Of 4 well and dropping to the
bottom
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1905-06-24
Keep the Road.

Don't you ever VERY
Bout &c tunin ei Dc lane--
Keep ae road iii sunshlno,
Keep dc road 10 rain.
Ell you'll reach d. an' er promise,
Cross de hilltop EN- dc plain,
In Dc glory cr De sunshine
la DC dancin M DC rain.
Atlanta Constitution.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1905-06-24

Sscond-class onc-way co'onIst Tick
cts TO California.
ss1-6s. Cairo to San Francisco, Los
Angeles. San Diego and all other
points. taking the California common
rate
Tickets sold March LIST to May 18th.
and Sept. 1btn to October s1st. 1906
ANY further information regarding
the above rates will be furnished upM
application to the undersigned
mo. M. BEALL. G. p. A..
St Louis. M0I
] n. JONES, Ticket Agent,
Cairo. TIL.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1905-06-24

Engiand's "Poor Mans Court"
Nearly 100000 new cases were
brought before the county courts Of
England the So called poor mans
court" last year.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1905-06-24
The DOG Objected.

I'D Mother Hubbard
Vent to her cupboard
o get poor doggie bone.
Gee what mcnui"
aid the dog DO uain You
.rn 90 Mother Hrbhnrd fell nr"ns
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1905-06-24

- assssEa c0sssss nsRs 90
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-03-21
FAMOUS DIAMONDS.
The Latest South African Discovery
Eclipses All Other Stones in Size,

The Latest South African Discovery
Eclipses All Other Stones in Size.
The news of the finding of a dia-
mond near Pretoria which weighs
more than 5000 karats (about one
and one-half pounds avoirdupois) ex-
cites interest all over the world. as
it is by far the largest diamond that
history has known. What weight will
remain when the stone is cut can not
be known. In the rough, the stone
IS valued at from $3,00O,000 to So
100000
The Kohinoor. the prize jewel of
the English crown, was in its original
form only fourth of the size of this
new wonder, weighing only 794
karats. 1t is an Indian diamond, of
Golconda, and the legend is that it
was worth 5000 years ago. A French
traveller, who saw 1t in the early sey-
enteenth century, describes it as of
the shape of half egg, and weighing
$50 karats, it having been thus re-
duced by an unskilled cutter. Later
it was still further reduced to 1876
karats, and later to LOG. It's under
side being fiat and corresponding with
the cleavage, it is conjectured that it
and the Russian Orloff diamond are
portions of the original stone that the
French traveller saw.
This Drloff diamond weighs 1914
karats, cut in the rose form with fiat
surface below. 1t was sold to Count
Orloff for the Empress Catherine for
title, an annuity and 100000 rubles.
There are legends of many sorts at
tached to these large stones. The
finest stone of them all perhaps is the
Regent or Pitt diamond, so called
from Governor Pitt, of Madras, who
bought it for 100000. It was sold to
the regent for Louis XIV for G130,000,
and is said to be worth twice that
1t originally weighed 40 karats, but
was reduced to 1876. The Florentine
diamond, anothef of the famous large
stones, belongs to Austria. It weighs
1873 karats. Among the legends that
cluster around it is that 1t was lost
by Charles the Bold at the battle of
Granson, and found by a peasant who
sold it for a few pence as a piece of
rock crystal
A recent consular report showed
$31 100000 worth of precious stones
was imported into this country in the
fiscal year of 1908, and of this sum
diamonds constituted $26,500,0 900
worth. being the largest amount ever
imported into this country in one
year The commercial condition OF
a country has much to do with dia-
mond buying. In the year mentioned
Americans bought rather more prec-
ious stones than London did. In the
last few years the value of the dia-
mond has steadily been rising. 1t is
said that waves of prosperity can be
measured almost exactly by the inn
ports of precious stones.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-03-21
The Service of Publicity.

Recent events in other lands as
well as here have put beyond reason
able dispute the value of the press
as an agent of publicity. In New
York we have seen newspaper discus.
sion force the city government to exc.
cute complete right about. 1t IS
safe to say that but for the inquiries,
the proddings, the exposures, the re-
monstrances of the press, Comptroller
Grout and Commissioner Oakley, with
the Mayors approval, would have
gone joyfully on their way, and the
lighting monopoly would have been
firmly strapped upon the city's back.
And if We lift up our eyes to troubled
Russia at this moment, how signiti-
cant is the instinct of tyrannical re-
preston in muzzling the press! Ma
poleon ILL., did not make greater or
more tell-tale haste in suppressing
Chariyari after his coup d'etat. 1t
is a French writer and publicist. M.
Bonal, who has put the truth in con-
else form: Grant that a state may
be disturbed by what newspapers say,
yet it perishes if they are allowed to
say nothing" The press, like every
other human institution, is open to
criticism: if it is wise, IL will give
heed to intelligent objections AID
complaints. and will mend its man
ners and its morals alike; but it will
receive the objurgations OF de-1quent
officials as a welcome sign that it
is rightly playing the part which
Romilly assigned to an untrammelled
and plain-spoken newspaper in free
country. Evening Post.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-03-21
MISTAKEN OPTIMISM.
seIf-satifaction Perhaps Not Always


The Best Attitude for Americans.
Charles Frohman lately announced
that in future he will produce no
plays that satirize Americans-or, as
ne expresses it. hold them up to ridi-
cule. George AIDE, already one of our
leading playwrights, announces it as
his mission to make his countrymen
think well of themselves.
On business grounds the purpose of
both is to be commended. Nothing
that he reads or goes to play to
de amused, and who objects to works
of art that, as he expresses it, leave
a bad taste in his mouth. Lately, two
very able plays by Clyde Fitch have
failed, the one largely because IL
satirized the foibles of women shop
ping, and the other largely because it
showed the seamy side of marriages
in which wholesome American girls
sell themselves for foreign titles.
The public of the veracious and sati-
rical Mr.. Howells and Mr.. James num-
bers thousands, while novels that deal
with commercial drummers who
make themselves kings sell by hun
dreds of thousands.
But is the purpose proclaimed by
the manager and the playwright as
patriotic as it sounds? There is
much, of course, in educating ma
tiopa1 saIfracneo+ b,,+ ;e 49, ,otl,
ing in the gift which Burns wished
the gods would "gie u.s.? Isn't it
rather that most of us lack the in
tellectual faculty of enjoying veracity
m art? Time was, and no so very
long ago, when honest folk loudly pro
claimed that there was more beauty
IN Home, Sweet Home" than in all
Beethoven. and Wagner An opti-
mist might hone that those who now
abhor the bad taste in the mouth will
some day be just little ashamed of
.proclaiming their preference for
crude art-even if they still prefer it,
which they probably will.
The criterion of a play or a novel
is not whether it makes us think we'll
of ourselves, but whether it makes us
think truly and deeply. No one en-
toys the bad taste in his mouth or if
he does, his taste is quite perverted.
But all who have real minds enjoy
thinking real thoughts. There ought
never to be more pain" said Cole
ridge, speaking on very similar sub
ject, than is compatible with a CO.
existing pleasure, and to be amply
repaid by thought" A false satire or
brutal tragedy is the worst of art;
but true satire and intellectual or
spiritual tragedy is a mental tonic to
all who have Enthusiastically Eve.
ming Post
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-03-21
forty Years Ago.

Abraham Lincoln was inaugurated
President for the second time,
Col. B. NJ. Anderson, one OF the al
legged conspirators from Chicago, on
trial before court martial at Cinein-
natl, committed suicide.
The Treasury Department reported
that seventeen national banks, with n
capital of $3,523,O0O, were authorized
during the week.
Confederate deserters to the Union
lines at Richmond brought report of
the capture of Waynesboro by Sheri-
dan.
Gov. OglesBy OF Illinois issued
proclamation urging the citizens to re-
spond in filling a deficiency of 1900
in the States quota of troops.
Reports from Washington, ID. c..
stated that 1000 deserters from the
Confederate lines had reported and
taken the oath of allegiance within a
month. Forty of these were officers
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-03-21
Fifty Years AGO.
arantine station

Fire destroyed the quarantine station
at Staten Island
The government hospital for the in
sane of the army and navy at Union
town was opened
The law excluding from the Califor-
mia courts negro and Indian evidence
was amended by adding Chinese.
President Pierce vetoed the French
spoliation bill, and it failed in the
House of the requisite vote to pass
over the veto.
The House of Representatives receiv-
ed President Pierce's veto of the ocean
steamer bill and attempted to pass 1t
over the veto, but failed.
Ratifications of the treaty of alli-
ance between Sardinia and the western
powers were exchanged. Sardinia
transmitted to other governments the
declaration of war against Russia.
The first steam fire engine built for
the city of Boston was exhibited in
Baltimore.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-03-21
JAPs MAKE GOOD sALLPLAYERs.
Show Great Skill on tire Diamond
Are Death on Fly Balls.

One of Uncle Sans naval officers,
just returned from a cruise in the
East, has this to say OF the Japs as
ball players:
THE Japanese are great ball play
ers, and they are true sportsmen
Even the umpire is safe over there
They never dispute decisions, and
when the game is over they treat
their opponents with great hospitality.
Teachers in their schools. at least
many of them, have been educated in
the universities over here, and prob
ably introduced the sport over there.
And the people have taken to it
readily.
They are not good at football be-
ing too light, but they are much bet
ter than would be expected on the
diamond. At fielding they are fine If
ever a fly is batted out the player
might as well go TO the bench. They
are fairly good at the bat. and the
great weakness is in their pitching.
Somehow they haven't caught the
trick.
When the Japs play they don't
wear shoes, and their headgear is a
long Japanese towel worn like an old
nanny wears a bandana. Their
masks and their gloves are made in
Japan. At Tokyo 1 have seen 10000
people at game and every time a
good play was made, no matter by
whom, they would all applaud. After
q game we would be invited to join in
d regular feast. at which the Ameri-
can and Japanese flags would be
crossed and everybody would be made
to feel like hero.
The Japanese are good ball play
ers, but they are not as good as the
Hawaiians. When our fleet put in at
Honolulu a picked team from all the
fleet went ashore and played the ma
tives, losing the game, though there
were some good players in the naval
club, particularly those coming from
the Kentucky and Wisccrs:.i. Bal
timore Herald.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-03-21
Lillian RusseIps Debut.

NOW when / am drawing the larg-
est salary I have ever had, It seems
odd to remember that for my first
appearance drew $50 a week. It
was Tony Pastor who met me at
friends house and to whom con-
flded my desire to go on the stage.
He said he'd give me a position at
once. Then / thought of my mothers
disapprova1; but Mr. Pastor sug-
gested that I come down in my crdi-
nary attire. sing a few ballads, and
even then ! could get back home be-
fore anyone missed me- II was a
great temptation and I agreed. In
order to keep IL a secret, I took the
stage name Of Lillian Russell-my
own was Helen Louise Leonard: but
there was mother 10 be considered.
For two weeks ! went unsupported,
and then a newspaper man said pleas
sntly TO my mother: You ought to see
Lillian Russell. hat English girl down
at Pastors Can YOU see me in
cold sweat2 Ny mother went down
TO the performance; I hurried home.
and reached there before she did
then waited in terror until she ar
rived. Shs came in. locked me over,
and said: We'll, ] think you can af-
ford 10 paw for your own music les
sons. and after that had to. I got
$50 a week. and my first weeks wages
was advanced to get me the gown !
wanted: and I paid it back. $50 each
week. Now. when my salary Us forty
times as much I haven't anv more
left. Lillian Russell in National
Magazine.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-03-21
POTATOES BEAT A RECORD.
They Are the Fourth Largest Crop
in the United States.

The potato crop of 1904 beat a
record being 40,000,Cs0 bushels more
than the banner crop of 1896. The
three years totals are: 1902, 2S4,000,-
900 bushels; 1908, 247 ,000,O bushels;
1904, 3S2 100000 bushels, twenty
bushels for every family in the coun-
try.
New York is the champion potato
State. The east end of Long Island is
all one potato patch. Potato schoon-
ers haul up at little docks anywhere.
Michigan and Wisconsin tie for sec
ond place. Then, in order, come Penn
sylvania, Iowa, Maine, Ohio, Illinois.
Colorado has come to be quite a
factor in the potato market. She sup
plies the Southern and Southwestern
markets, principally Texas, Oklahoma
and Indian Territory, also Kansan
and Western Nebraska.
Potatoes are the fourth largest farm
crop in this country, and are a very
important article of commerce, an ar
ticle found on the tables of rich and
poor every mael.
Low prices are likely to prevail be-
tween now and spring because of the
big crop.
st Louis is an important potato
market, being distributing point for
Northern shipments during the fall
and winter and Southern shipments
during the spring and summer. st.
Louis is located in one of the import
ant potato-growing districts Of the
country, the American Bottoms, just
cast of the Mississippi River in Hi
nois, where large quantities are
raised aech saeson.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-03-21

from Europe. 1t has also been dem
onstrated of late years, especially, that
despite the higher. wages manufac-
tured articles could be produced here
more cheaply than elsewhere and put
in successful competition on the mar
kets of the world. The reason lies, of
course. in the greater productive abil-
ity Of American workmen.
A number Of American manufacture
ers are now demonstrating, to the sur
prise and indignation Of English en-
ployers, that it is largely from the
very fact that American workmen re-
ceive better wages that they derive
their greater productive ability. The
American Electrical Works at Man
chester, England, have tried the ex-
pertinent of better wages with benefi-
cial results. The rate of wages in
Manchester for the class of labor they
employ is nine cents per hour. The
American company paid - cents and
asked their men to earn 1t. The result
is that the higher-paid employees do
double the work of their poorly paid
fellows.
One result of the experiment is that
the other Manchester workmen are
now demanding that the American
system be put in operation generally.
They want better pay and are willing
to give better service. They say the
American plan encourages a man to do
his best, while the English plan, with
domineering foremen and a blacklist,
discourages them and renders them
unambitious to excel.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-03-21
thirty Years Ago.

Fifty lives were lost by the burning
OF a factory in Gottenburg. Sweden
The FOrty-third Congress adjourned
after putting a damper on the force
BILL
OF an original population of $1,000
in one district In Asia Minor. 10000
had died of the famine then prevailing
The German government issued a de-
cree prohibiting the importation of
American potatoes.
4 snow storm with a precipitation
ranging from two to eight inches o.
Cured along the Ohio river.
4 bill to admit Colorado as a State
was approved. aud a similar measure
concerning New Mexico was defeated
in Congress.
The Pope ordered the Austrian bish-
ops to comply with the civil law re-
quiring reports to be made II the State
of the roster Of priesthood, IT was
taken as an unusually conclliatory
move.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-03-21
An Easy Creditor.

In a certain town of Connecticut
a deacon of the church charged with
soliciting subscriptions for a charity
recently experienced considerable diff
ficultv in getting the townsmen to
contribute.
To one of his neighbors the deacon
said;
"oh, come. Richard. do give some
thing
~Sorrv. deacon answered Richard.
"but / don't see how 7 can
why not? Isn't the cause a good
one9"
~Oh. yes. the cause is good enough.
but owe too much money"
But, Richard. you owe God a
larger debt than any one else
That's true. too" drawled Rich
ard. shut God siut pushin' nue.
Harpsr's Weekly.