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Oakes Republican. (Oakes, N.D.) 1898-1906, 1905-12-21

Gopher Warrants Payable.
All gopher warrants prior to 1906
series are now payable.
Hans Lee,
County Treasurer.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-02-24
NO PEACE EFT.

Gentlemen may cry peace, peace, but as long as the gentleman at the head of the Russian government doesn't cry it there will be no peace. The talk now is that instead of crying peace he is going to cry more war. He is said to have been persuaded by the chiefs of his army that oyama cannot defeat Kuropatkin, and is in danger of defeat himself. It is further argued that the forces of criticism now directed against the government for having fought rath- CT than yield to legitimate interests, and for having failed to win victories, would be continued with added fury against the government that accepted war and then betrayed the country. "A government that would crave peace of Russia's enemy, while still capable of winning victory. would be giving the party of change genuine grounds for a revolution.
 And so forth and so on. The Czar may be a weak man, but he seems to be strong enough at the times when the world thinks he ought to weaken a lit- tie, .t...,....
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WOULDN'T BE A JUDGE.


 T was reading in the paper one morning this week that judges are overworked here in the East, and I guess that's true" said a prominent lawyer who was watching atrocious billiards in a club last Monday after noon. This article to which I'm re- ferring explained that the duties of a judge were more exacting, if anything, than those of a physician. .s5
 He has to be on time when courts in session, the soul of punctuality, whatever the soul of punctuality may be. Otherwise he couldn't consistently reprove jurymen who miss trains or are detained by croupy children.
 Then, again, the judge can't get out at noon or night until he adjourns himself, and he frequently forgets to
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FOOLISH LhGIsI41ORS..

Not in Connecticut. The legislators of Wisconsin have queer idea of fun They have been discussing bill in troduced to the legislature and report ed by the committee on ways and means, providing for the establishment of commission whose duty it shall be to investigate violent cases of women injuring themselves by wearing corsets too tight It is averred that this measure was a project of the lobby, or third house, and was made as a retaliatory measure against the women of the State, who secured the introduction of a bill to the legislature that bachelors over twenty-five years of age should pay an annual tax to the State of at least s5 annually. It was claimed in the course of the discussion of the measure that the women needed to be subjected to this protective meas ure, because of their killing way of wearing these garments, one speaker claiming that Chicago woman, who, 1t was supposed, had died from the bite of pet dog, had been gored to death by one of her steel corset-stays. In spite of all the energy and eio- quence. used in defence of the bill, the opponents of it won an easy victory.
 Now the Wisconsin women are say ing that the lobby, by getting up the anti-corset bill has furnished a good reason why it (the lobby) should be abolished. And right they are, too.
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adjourn himself in decent season. Be- sides, he must take papers home with him and study exceptions and hear arguments on the outside, so that on the whole I'm glad I'm a plain at- torney."
 Now we understand" interrupted a listener, why you refused a judgeship awhile ago. You're lazy and fond of those office hours of yours that stretch from 1l:SO to four, with long luncheon in the middle of them"
 No. you don't understand" continu- ed the. lawyer. That isn't it at all. I declined that appointment for another reason; it's what I call the judicial dignity reason. Here in this section of the country the moment member. of the bar aseends to the bench he feels it incumbent on him to. invest himself with a distant air. No matter how good a fellow he may be naturally, he's convinced that the proprieties of the profession demand. that he shall hold his friends and acquaintances at arms length. He's civil and court eous enough, of course, but he doesn't mix in. ...
 That's the whole story in my easel
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Wedding Presents.

As soon as May had named the day She issued invitations To all the crew our mothers knew Qneluding poor relationsl. We were aware they all would swear In language far from pleasant, ''ConfOund it! I shall have to buy The blessed pair present. Then boy and man in cart and van And motor ear came driving, With gifts galore, and more ana mere' And still they kept arriving. And housemaids flew, and postmeh' toO' Till all the terrace wondered, And night and day they rang away, Lord! how the knOckef thundefed! We worked in shifts upon the gltts; And when we had unstrung them, We'd tWentyseOre of forks and mofe' But not d knife among them' And as we two had scarce sou' There seemed to be a caret When silly mugs gave claret Jugs' But not drop of claret. Wed endless gongs and sugar tonss Of every shape and fashion, As if sweet tea was bound 10 pc Henceforth our ruling passion. We'd sachets, too, of pink ana piue With sickly perfumes scented, And, oh, the show or art nouVeaua, With which we were presented! Y And now we've got the little lot We're under obligation To every guest we most detest And every poor relation; And by the time the church hells chliiie' And Hymen ties the true knot' +o We find-too late--we ve all we ha'e' And nothing that we do not; oo,
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0RN4M EhI5L.'

"He's the most disagreeable fellow | ever played poker with in all my life, You don't say Hard loser, ! sup pose." No; an easy winner" fn'ia- delphia Press. ..5 4,ss.
 Cholly-"Let's be two souls with but a single thought" Maude-"I don't want to knock, Cholly, but fear you couldn't furnish your half of the thought" t."-Indianapolisi Star
 Harry-"What an ignoramus Charley is! He speaks of the woman he IS go' ing to marry as his 'fiance. Dick That's all right. She's got lots or money and Charley has none, ,"-Boston Transcript. '<. |.
 Black-"You take great interest i'll that young nephew of yours, don't your" stone-"only about 6 per cent. That's the rate I am charging him for the money he has borrowed. "--Detroit Free Press. ' ,.
 It's a mans shortcomings that keep him short.-Philadelph Record, ss
 The Lord-"Our stock is Al Moth ing better in Burke's.'' "Yes, father said he had remargined so often that he had better buy you outright. Life.
 Jack, you see, was getting on 50 fine ly as an amateur chauffeur that ia ther promised hom much larger ma chine-'' "Oh, how splendid!" Wait! And put him in charge last Monday morning of one of the firms big auto trucks. Puck. - s,., |
 q. should think Dr. Ranter's sermon on The Faults of the Average. Man would offend the members of his con gregation.'' Not at all. No man would take his remarks to himself, because every man believes himself more than an average man. Phila- delphia Ledger. .. .".: ~.,: :~..t'''
 Mistook the Punctuation.-The Young Woman (surprised and indignant)-- How dared you kiss me, sir!
 Penitent Young Man-Why, you said you'd like to see me do it.
 The Young Woman-But you knew as we'll as L did that I said it with an exclamation point at the end!--chica- go Tribune.
 In Wall Street.-Broker-"W see some very strange cases in the street. That seedy-looking chap over there used to be worth million dollars" !" Friend-"Gad! And now he is busted, l suppose?" Broker-"Oh, no. Now he is worth two million dollars. It wouldn't be a strange case at all if he was busted Judge.
 Say, Doe,'' insinuated the man who was trying to get a little free medical advice, suppose you had a case of chronic dyspepsia, now; whatd you consider the best course to pursue?" Well, sir, if I had such a case, should treat it according to my pro- fessional ability, and then charge what believed to be fair fee. Do I make myself plain ?"-Cleveland Leader,
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-02-24
4 BIC LTGHT.

All the schemes to draw visitors to world fairs are not exhausted. A big sight is promised those who go to the Lewis and Clark fair at Portland. ore- gon. A huge searchlight, said to be the biggest ever constructed, will be mount ed on the summit of Mount Hood at an altitude of 11,255 feet above the sea. 1t will project beam of light through an eighty-inch lens, and the men who are putting it in place declare that it will be visible two hundred miles away. From the exposition grounds, forty-six miles from Mount Hood, it is expected that theSlight will show very plainly. From the exposition grounds four snow-capped peaks, Mount Hood, Mount Rainier, Mount St. Helens and Mount Adams, are visible any clear day. When the rays from the monster searchlight on Mount Hood are directed upon one of the other peaks it will make the mountain stand out in bold relief, it's very cleft and crag visible much more clearly than in brightest sunlight. It is calculated that the flash on Mount Rainier, which is one hundred miles from Mount Hood, will be seen plainly on a clear night from Seattle, Tacoma and other cities on Puget Sound, and that vessels one hundred and twenty. miles off the coast will make out plainly the wide beam in the sky. The whole western side of the mountain--the side that is visible from the fair grounds-will be illuminated. A hundred powerful electric arc lights will be distributed on the slopes until
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-02-24

got t0 pricing full sets of silver plate. After the young clerk had run through the list, he said:
 |" Is that the best you've got? The young clerk remembered then that the firm had begun the nlanu- facture of a specially extra heavy set of plate for rich New York family. The order had been cancelled. but some of the pieces had been fin- ished for show. He trotted out that set.
 The old man figured out on the back of an envelope every frill which could be added to a set of silver plate, showed his list at the clerk, and asked how much it would cost. The clerk consulted the manager, and answered that it would be fifty thousand and some odd dollars and cents. "'All right. have it made for me- said the old man. ,
 How much do you want to de- posit?' asked the clerk. - .~ "'Oh,' said the customer, I'll pay the whole thing and get it off my mind So he drew a check for the amount. "The clerk didn't recognize the sig nature, he'd never heard of Charles Loekhart, so he took it to the manager and asked if the latter thought it was good. -l.t
 Good for a-thousand times fifty thousand said the manager. - 'Lockhart came back to that store in the Christmas season that year. The clerks knew him that time, for the s50.000 purchase had become tradi- tion of the store. He went past them all, though, and asked for the clerk who had sold him the silver plate.
 When he found his man, Loekhart bought $30,00O worth of Christmas presents. -.... This story ends the way it ought to end for the Sunday School library. The clerk with an $S0,000 a year. GUS toner on his string attracted the at tention of the firm, and now he's a big man in the silverware business. Sounds like a chapter from Thrift by Samuel Smiles, doesn't it?'-New York Sun. " a" -
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-02-24
RAY OF HOPE.

This paternal government attacked the mosquitoes in Cuba, and Repre- sentative Scudder of Long Island wants to know why it can't attack them nearer the center of things. So he has introduced bill providing for Fed eral aid in externinating mosquitoes in the swamps and marshes of Long Isl- and and New Jersey. MT. Scudder's measure provides for the appointment of commission, to be appointed by the President of the United States, to consist of not more than ten members, who shall serve without compensation from the government. It shall be their duty to investigate the question of the redemption of swamps and marshes in the vicinity of Arthur Kill, the great Newark and Hackensack meadows and on Long Island. and devise means for the sanitary improvement of them, with a view to the destruction of the breeding places of mosquitoes. This commission shall cooperate. with the authorities os the States of New York and New Jersey, and report it's recom- mendations to congress.
 If this bill goes through those inter- ested in the prosperity and comfort of New Haven's east shore will do well to take notice. If the government can ex- terminate mosquitoes let's ask it to help us. 2, r
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THE COURTEOUS CLERK.

He Was Kind to the Countrified Gus toner Whom the Other Clerks.
 Neglected.
 T am not surprised the late Charles Lockhart cut off one of his daughters with a measly $SO0,00o be- cause she didn't name the baby after him." said 8 Philadelphia man. He was always doing things which rich men are supposed to do only in novels.
 For instance about 10 years ago., he gave family dinner. All his five chill dren were there. After grace was said -Lockhart was a strict Scotch Pres byterian, you know-they turned over their plates in the good old family style. Under each plate was check for $1,0O0,OO0
 "'A little dinner souvenir said Lockhart
 Something happened to him in New York which would make a plot for a Sunday School book, if the same plot hadn't happened so often in Sunday School books that it is getting trite. There was new silverware and jewelry establishment struggling along in New York. Not small shop, you understand, but big concern which was not yet recognized as a leader in fashionable trade. One very hot sum- mer afternoon a tall, sad and rather Addressed old man entered the shop and said that he wanted to buy we'd ding present. ~,
 Now, it was hot day, the clerks were tired and irritated, and the stranger looked like visitor from the remote farming district with s1.49 to spend. He passed from counter to counter, pricing things.
 '"The clerks were not at all cordial. At last, down at the end of the silver ware department, he bumped into a young fellow, a new man in the shop. This clerk was trying to make good. Also to do the situation justice, he hadn't been there long enough to know the difference between promising customer and an unpromising one.
 The old man went higher and higher in his examination of silver-ware. He
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SOMETHING oN HIs woRKs.

A certain old darky preacher, who boarded round'' among his parishion- CTS, awoke one Sunday morning feel ing far from well. He made one or two efforts to rise, but his head swan and ached, and he felt "'the misery in every bone.
 "Br'er Johnson, Br'er Johnson" he called to the worthy deacon with whom he was then domiciIed. "Br'er John son, I 'clar' to goodness. II jes' cawn't preach dis. heah mo'non', nohow Is SICK. dat's wat I is You-all jes' go up to the meetin' house and tack up a
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-02-24

Mount Hoods outline is distinct on the darkest night.
 And yet how little impression man, with all his might and his lights. is able to make on the great darkness.
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thought it over and said to myself: How'd you look as judge playing pin pool every Saturday night and breaking your cue on the floor to rat tie your opponents? Mo- said I, I'm too young. Pin pool and the things that go with it for mine. Let some body else wear the ermine. Providence Journal.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-02-24
ADVERTISING RATES.

Situations. Wants. Rents. and other small advertisements. One Cent Word each insertion. Five Cents a word for a full week.
 Display advertisements. per inch. one insertion, s1.20; each subsequent inser- ton. 40 cents; one week. sS.20; one month. s10; one year, $40.
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Babu Matrimonial Advertisement.-- War1ted--A match for an independent, beautiful young widow of thirty-six years, of respectable and very rich family. Possesses handsome amount of thousands and numerous golden or naments of his previous wife.--Labore Tribune. :.
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Asked why California's two universi- ties-State and stanford-had granted So few doctors of philosophy degrees only twenty-five in seven years-Presi- dent Jordan of Stanford said: By wid- CT introduction tof the trading stamp principle in higher eucation the num- Der Of degrees could be increased, but with no gains to science and art"
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Hundreds of starving bears are raid- ing the towns and villages on the east coast of the Kamchatkan Peninsula in Siberia. ..... f
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DELIVERED BY CARRIERS IN THE CITY, F CENTS A WEEK, 50 GENTS A MONTH, ss FOR SIX MONTHS. ss 4 YEAR. THE SAME TERMS BY MAIL. SINGLE COPIES, GENTS.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-02-24

THE WEEKLY JOURNAL, Issued Thursdays, One Dollar a Year.
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The size of the Atlantic waves has been carefully measured for the Wash ington Photographic Bureau. In height the waves usually average about thir- ty feet, but in rough weather they at tain from forty to forty-eight feet. In storms they are often from 800 to 500 feet long, and last ten or eleven sec onds, while the longest yet known measured half mile and did not spend itself for thirty-three seconds.
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lContinued on Fifth Page.)
The Cairo bulletin., 1905-04-08
ELECTION NOTICE
Office of the City Clerk of the City
of Ca 70, Illinois.

:
of Ca ro, Illinois.
Cairo. Illinois, March 2S. 1905.
Public notice is hereby given thai
on Tuesday, the Eighteenth day o.
April, A. D., 1905, a general election
will be held in the City of Cairo. HIN
dis, Alexander County, for the lection
OF Mayor, City Clerk. City Treasurer
CITY Attorney, Police Magistrate ane
one Alderman from each OF the sever
wards of the City.
For the purpose OF the election
polls will be opened at the following
places, viz:
In the First Ward, at the store
room of f. A. Kuhn, No. 210 SIKH
street, being situated on north side
Of said street between Commercial
and Washington avenues.
In the Second Ward, at the ware
room of II. Blooms, No. 7O2 Washing
ton avenue, being situated on the
east side of said avenue between Sew
enth and Eighth streets.
In the Third Ward, at the barber
shop of Charles Anderson. No. 11O5
Commercial avenue. being situated on
the west side of said avenue between
Eleventh and Twelfth streets.
In the Fourth Ward, at the store
room of the Rumley Company, No.
1871 Washington avenue. being situ'
ated on the west side OF sad avenue,
between Douglas and Fourteenth
streets.
In the Fifth Ward, at the Corr
house of Alexander County.
In the Sixth Ward, at the Hose
House on south side of Twenty-sec-
ond street, between Walnut and Pine
streets.
In the Seventh Ward. at the ware
room of G.. A. Swoboda, No. 27l4
Commercial avenue, being situated
on s. w. Corner of Twenty-eighth
street and said avenue.
Polls for said election will be open
ed az 200 O'Clock a. m, and continue
open until 500 o'clock p. m. of the
same day.
Nomination papers for the said
election can be secured at this office,
and must be filed in this office on or
before April 3, 1895.
BY order OF the City Council OF the
City Of Cairo, Illinois.
r. A. HATCHER,
City Clerk.
The Cairo bulletin., 1905-04-08
BOTH OF THEM
ARE 'DELGHTED'
[Contlnued from first page.I

children all the love possible. but IL is
not right 10 mistake folly for affection.
When you spare the child that which
alone will enable il to conquer in after
life. you are not doing ii a blessing;
you are doing it the greatest wrong
in your power. Bring up the boy and
girl alike with the understanding that
life is not generally easy, that there
will be plenty OF rough times, and that
what they have TO show Is not a spir.
It that avoids difficulties and finches
from them, but a spirit which over
comes them.
Respect For Mothers.
There is only one of my fellow citi.
zens to whom will touch my hat
quicker than to soldier and that is
the mother. because think she has a
little harder time of IT, The mother
who has brought up as they should be
brought up a family Of young children.
is entitled to such respect as no other
person in the community Is entitled
TO. When the end OF her life comes
there has been any amount of hard.
ship; the sitting up by the beds OF
sick children, the taking care of them;
AMI a mother is nor allowed TO know
the difference between night and day
so far as the ending of the days task
is concerned. but after all, when 1t is
done she can look back with a prouder
sense Of qualification than any one
else can have If he has done her duty
for her children and her husband shall
rise up and call her blessed"
Another Banquet
The president was given a banquet
in the Manager hotel this evening by
he Business Mems club. AT its con-
clusion he was presented with hand
some pair of liver spurs with gold
buttons and ornaments. His train left
for Fort Worth at J. tonight
The Cairo bulletin., 1905-04-08
MOUND CITY IS
FORGING AHEAD
THRIVING NElGAsoRlNo CITY AT
THE HEIGHT OF HER PROS.
PERlTY -- PEOPLE URGED TO
GET UP AND DO SOMETHING.

The following from the Southern
Illinois News, of Mound City. viii
be especially interesting to Cairo
readers because many are interested
In the growth and prosperity Of our
thriving neighborlng city and second
Iy because ideas that might be read
with advantage by Ca.roites:
Mound City is today in the heighth
OF her prosperity. Never before has
she had so many manufacturing con
Germ of various kinds that are employ
| ing all the people who are able and
DESTROYS OF working, These factories
are paying out each week many thou
sands Of dollars which, to a large
| extent are pHt into circulation N the
lcity or deposited in the banks, .Mer-
chants report that trade at this sea.
son was never better with them than
now. and he numerous business and
| residence improvements are conclu-
| sive evidences hat the city is now
/ enjoying her most prosperous days
While this condition continues it
behooyes the city TO exert herself In
all pos bile ways 10 become an i'm
proved AMI larger city.
Cairo is making FOCAL demonstra-
ton Of her greatness; Paducah has
raised large commercial body to nd
vance her interests. and many other
places south and southwest of us are
placing themselves in a position TO at
! tract some of the many concerns,
! and thousands of ind yiduals of the
northern states who have bad their
attention at racted this way for the
/ first time.
From an able authority we learn
that the several railroads operating
| In Southern Missouri, Arkansas. Okla.
homa and Texas are lOca ing from
! fifty thousand TO one hundred thou
sand families from The northern states
each year.
This great tide of people means that
the trend of migration has at last been
diverted from the northern and north
western states and is fast com ng
THIS way.
The people Of Mound City and the
county should realize and keep con-
stantly in mind that now, each day.
each week and month are the times
that they should work to build up
this community.
Cities are not built 5y some UNI
seen magic Rivers, railways and
good climate, while quite essential.
DO not. for they have been here these
many years: but the forces thar W II
40 50 are toe forces hat have built
up Chicago and dozens of other cit
les throughout the world--and they
are the people. ambitious, liberal,
broad-minded, constructive people.
Let this class of men come for
ward and unite into an active pro-
gressive organization to push Mound
City onward and forward.
The Cairo bulletin., 1905-04-08
MAN WITH LARGE FAMILY
DIED FROM SMALL Pok.

Mr.. J. W. Sites of 521 Thrty-sixIh
street. died yesterday ofasmallpox, af,
ter an illness OF about shree weeks.
The decealed was a lumber inspector
for the Singer company. His death
was especially deplorable as he is sur
y,ved by his wife and six children.
The house has been quarantined and
nearly all the members of the family
have the smallpox. Mr.. Stiles was
about 40 years of age and devoted
husband and father. The funeral ar
have not been completed