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The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1905-08-11
Who Was Biuebcsrd7

"Who was the original Rluebeard,
after whom the Chicago murderer sen
fenced 10 death recently has been
nicknsmcd?" asks a writer ID the
London chrcnssie ile continues.
@We owe the familiar Eiaefeard nf
the pantamimo TO Charles Parrault.
the Frenchman. who published in
1907 his immortal stories Of Bite
beard, The Sleeping BEATTY. Little
Red Riding Hood and Cinderella.
But it is very uncertain wko. Il any
body, was Perrauit's model fer Blue
beard
Some have supposed that ii was
our Henry VIII. others tilat the tale
Is 4 lamnoon upon the castle LORDS Of
knight errantrg days in gennral Per-
haps the favorite candidate has been
Giles dc Rails, marshal Of France, who
was hanged and burned in lao for an
awful series Of crimes.
During fourteen years he was be-
lieved 10 have kidnapped about 15o
children, tortured tham, sacrificed
themsto the devil. burned their bodies
and buried their bones III his castle
grounds. But the resemblance be-
tween hts tale and Rlueb9aFa's y too
slight To I'D convincing.
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listen patiently to my explanation. |
am sure you VIII see that il was a
mere eager oyersight-the fault of
Observation-Disclosures, hardly the sin OF
covetonsness, and surely not a crime
am making this confession --'
The tender conscience Of the dear
hlameless little soul! She was actual
~ giving herself away Worse---she
was giving me away. too Bit |
couldn't stand that saw the sales
woman's puzzled face she was tall
woman with a big bust, big hips and
The big head all right, and she wore
her long-train black rig for all the
world like Cruelty girl who had
stolen the matrons skirt to "piay
lady" In got behind little Mrs.
Bishop and looking ont over her head.
| tapped my forehead Significantly
The saleswoman tunnhled That was
nll right Hut so did the bishops
wife; for she turned and caught me
al II
"You shall not save me from myself
and what ! deserve she cried II am
perfectly sane and you know II, and
you are doing ME no favor in trying to
create the contrary impression de-
mand an---"
IAN Interview with the manager"
interrupted sim sure Mrs Van
| Wagenen can see the manager lust
w with the lady, Mrs. Van Wagenen,
and I'll follow with the goods
| Shcldid II meek as lamb, talking
all the time, but never beginning at
the beginning luckily for me. SO that
he'd time 70 slip from enc dressing
room to the next with the lace up my
sleeve. out 70. the elevator, and down
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An OLD BOY At the Circus.


Congressman g, y. Lan;is OF Inds.
ana Is fcnd of the circ.s.
1.-THE price cuts no figure" be said,
In telling q story en- himself TO rFoye
his assertion. Il found rayself one
night in a country torn IN my state.
in which there was a onering circus,
"a rare attraction. After tho crush was
under canvas ! sauntcrcd down to
The grounds and laid q dollar bin on
the shelf of the ticket agents wag-
on. He issued the recsseary slip, and
Just then the hsnd struck up. For a
minute | wau Eoy again, ! made a
rush fur the door After ! was ahout
six feet away from The ticket wagon
heard the agent call cut:
Ferct Gene Dgck end got your
change
''Bnt kept Gil ! knew the cali was
meant fer ne, but concluded
wouldn't give the agent the satisfac.
tion Of thinking 1 YRS r sucker. Then
/ heard him say; There's another
hayseed who will come cut and howl
that he was robbed
III was a tea-eent show, but got
more than ninety cents worth Of fun
out of ii. II IT had been rotten
never should have rcercd. The Sun
day Magazine.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1905-08-11
GATES WAS NOT EXITING.
One Occasion When Mighty Plunset
Backed Gown.

The night before the Frick commit
tee presented its report to the Equit.
able directors a party CT the warmest
sports in Wall street gathered about
one CT the tables in the Oak Room Of
the Waldorf-Astoria to discuss stocks.
horses and affairs in general. Before
long the Equitable muddle was
brought up. A broker who often IS
employed by Mr.. Frick ard the Pitts
burg steel crowd in their stock market
deals Nentured the opinion that the
committees report would exonerate
HYDE.
Not on your North American tin
type" said John w. Gates, as he
tapped the bell and motioned for the
waiter to refill the glasses.
Would YOU like to bet anything on
it?' asked the broker.
WELL" replied Mr.. Gates, Il read
In one of the papers today that ! lost
five millions in wheat, I'll have to
pinch my bets for q while. If you're
real modest, however. might be in
iuced to go YOU just once"
"Ill tell you what I'll do" said the
broker; IN just bet you City cents.
you are too sporty for me and I'll
have TO pass It up" replied the great
plunger. you surely must know
something"
Everybody laughed, for 1t was the
FIRST time on record that John W.
Gates had refused bet.
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on 10 schiIlcr,s Curves.

teacher in one Of The Bronx
schools found an excellent opportunity
the other day to give a little lesson on
schiller. The name had come MP ac
'cidentally during the courge of a read
ing Lesson. 80 Che said;
Now, Is there any one who can tel
inc who Schiller was and what he
did?y
There was silence fer d moment. and
then one boy slowly raised his hand
"Wcll, who was schiller?' asked the
teacher, encouragingly
Schiller youst TO pitch for Cincin
Safi," was the iinexre rtaa New York
9l'ess.
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Rlalne and sis l4ostess, Gle.


About twentgseven years ago tho
late James G. Elaine was invited to
dine in a certain city in eastern Maine
where he happened to be on business.
His hest had recently married sec
or wife, more noted for beauty and
wealth than for Intelligence. 1t was
rear the middle of March and a storm
was coming on, which, the husband re.
marked, would probably be the cqui
nnctial gale.
What do son mean by that? Is Il
the same as the line sale?H she asked.
The husband replied in TIE afiirma.
tive, and ID reply to further questions
told her II was nsual 10 expect a
storm twice year, when the sun
crossed the equinox.
"That day at dianer." said Mr..
Blaine, Il remarked upon t.s severity
Of the storn and my hostess, With an
engaging. smile. replied Yes. Mr..
RlaiFe, ISM it singular that we al
ways have such a FEARFUL storm wnen.
ever the sun crosses tha Penohseot?.
Before ! could frame d reply my host
ia a tone Of mild surprise eGclaimed
Vow don't mean the ponobscot, dear
and she at once said: oh, no. How
stupid Of me. ! meant the Androa-
coggin.' =" Boston Herald.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1905-08-11
Trout HATCHERY PAYS WELL.
Bright strcke in Ingenuity Of Yer
mont Farmer.


Bright strcke in Ingenuity Of Yer
mont Farmer.
That farmer can derive more pro
ct from raising brock trout for tht
market than from most any othe7
source OF like requirements Of money
ard time has been clearly demons rat
ed by Louis j. Johnson. who has q
fish preserve on his farm, two miles
ont of West Brattleboro, Vermont. BJ
utilizing the clear spring water run
ming through his farm, by his own
ingenuity, and with very little hired
assistance, within few years he has
established an inexpensive hatchery
where he has succeeded in Matching
and growing a large number Of brook
trout with which be has. partly al
least, supplied the local market, be-
sides furnishing thousands Of small
fish for stocking different streams in
the adjoining town. All these have
Melted Mr.. Johnson a handsome re-
turn upon his capital invested, aside
from the pleasure afforded and Incl
dental diversion from the usual farm
labor, which, however. it has not been
necessary to slight because Of his
fish culture.
From a modest beginning Mr.. John
son has gone on with his fish estab-
lishment adding new and inexpensive
ponds and miniature falls, dividing
and diverting the little spring fed rills
till today he has a succession of long
pools stocked with thousands of sport
'~e t-o"t Of az sizes.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1905-08-11
wHEnE MoNEY Is ncr oocp.
Natives Of the Philippine islands Have
No Use for Cssh.

ifC Use lot k2Sil.
Writing from one of the Philippine
Islands 10 the Wichita Eagle, John Z
Bnoa6es SAYS that one 81 the greatest
dificulties he has encountered is u
get the natives to understand anything
about money. He says:
Il talked With a Spaniard who has
II littlc store here. and he told me they
have never used money; that the only
thing they ever bought was rice and
clothing. and for it they always
brought copra in exchange. So now
re buy rice and trade ii for fish and
chickens. and pay our laundry bills in
the same commodity There is nc
baker here, and your bread comes
(when it does Gomez forty-five miles
by runner. who takes back the pay
TO the Chinese cook for a garrison 10,
Gated there Part of the time we eat
rice in its place.
A soldier just escorted in a native
carrying an article that looked like
the stump of a cocoanut tree. 1t be
ms about ten inches across, and nearly
twice as long, which he calls puiss
wang, and offered it to me for quar-
Of rice. called the captain, who has
spent six years in the Philippines, and
he said 1t was root. an edible root
and told me to trade. / gave the mar
the rice. and he went away, wrapped
in smile that reached to his waist
for he was dressed in a pair of trous
ers only, and | could see his stomach
shake. He must have been laughing
st the big price he received"
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1905-08-11
Copyright 1894. by The BObbs- Merrill Company.

anu NubH you SPOKE 10 NE II WdS
the first inkling had that had real
ly taken it without payingi You GER
tainly understand she pleaded in agi-
tation. Il have no need to steal-you
must know that-oh, that wouldn't
that couldn't If you will just
et me pay you-"
Here now. Mag Monahan, don't you
get to sneering She was straight
right on the level all right. You
couldn't listen to that cracked little
dice of hers a minute without being
sure of It.
was just about to permit her graz
siously to pay me the money-for my
friend, the dear bishops sake. of
course-when a big floor-walker hap
pened to catch sight Of us.
''If you'll come with me, Mrs Van
Wagenen; to dressing-room. I'll ar
range your collar for. you" said very
loud And then, In a whisper; "Of
course, | understand. but the thing
may look different to other people
And that big floor walker there gets
4 commission from the newspapers
every time he tells them"
She gave squawk for all the world
like a dried-up little hen scuttling out
Of yellow dogs way, and we took
the elevator to the second floor.
The minute | closed the door Of the
little fitting room she held out the lace
to me.
Il have changed my mind, she said,
and shall give you the lace back. |
win not keep it. | cannot--I cannot
bear the sight of It, 1t terrifes me
and shocks me, ! can take no pleas.
ure In 1t. Besides besides 1t will be
discipline for me to do without 1t now
that have found 1t after all these
years. Every day shall look at the
place In my collection which 1t would
have occupied and shall say to my
self: Maria Van Wagenen. take
warning. See to what terrible straits
worldly passion may bring one,
what unconscious greed may dot J
shall give the money to Mills for
charity and | win never never FIJI
that place in my collection Z
What good will that dor asked
| puzzled, while J folded the collar ur
into very small package
you mean that ought to submit
to the exposure-that deserve tbs
| lesson and the punishment-no fol
! stealing but for being absorbed II
| worldly things. Perhaps yon arr
right. II certainly shows that yot
have at some time been under Mills
spiritual care, my dear | wonder il
ne would insist whether ought
yes, I.snppose he would OH"
4 saleswoman's head was thrust II
the door Excuse me- she said {"
| thought the room WAS empty"
We've just finished trying on"
said, swcetly,
Don't go," The bishops VIII,
| turned to her, her little lutterint
hands held ont appealingly And Dc
not misunderstood me- The thing
may seem wrong in your eyes, as hi.
Young woman says, but If you viii
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1905-08-11

It has haeu found that pale. green
lighT used in the clock faces Of the
tower Of the English House Of Parlfh.
ment shows the figures and the hands
on the dials much more distinctly than
the whitish light hitherto used.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1905-08-11
Money Ii Motor Qmnihuses.

According to d statement BY the
chairman Of the London Motor Omni-
BUS Company, several OF The new omni.
BUSES have cleared s245 d week. while
the profits from a horse omnibus aver.
age between $50 and SIS a week.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1905-08-11

Mothers be careful of your children.
There is no baby medicine in the
world as good as HOLSTERS Rocky
Mountain Tea 1t makes the little
ones strong, healthy and active. IS
cents, 2. G. Schulz & Sons.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1905-08-11

Oh-Mag! Shame on you not to
know the name even of the bishop Of
the great state of--yes, the lean, short
little bishop with little white beard,
and the softest eye and the softest
heart and--my very own bishop, Nancy
oldens bishop And this was HIS wife.
Tut--tut. Magl OF course not. A
bishops wife may be a kleptomaniac;
tie only Cruelty girls that really steal
from stores
Tive met the bishop, Mrs. Van
Wagenen" | didn't say how-she
wouldn't appreciate that story "And
he was once very kind to me. But ne
would he the fret TO tell me to do my
duty now. I'll do 1t as quietly as |
can for his sake. But you must come
with me or | must arrest
She put UP shaking hand. Dear
little old guy!
Don't don't say It! It's all a mis-.
take, which can be rectified In a mo-
ment I've been trying to match this
piece u lace for years / got It at
Malta when--4when Mills and Ion
our honeymoon. When saw It there
on the counter was SO delighted
never thought intended taking II Il
the light to be sure the pattern was
the same, ny eyAight Is SO wretched
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seyenty-NIne Times a nerky.

Robert peale an eignty-seven-year-
old tradesman at Epson, witnessed
the annual race for the Derby for the
seventy-ninth time recently.
The Saint Paul globe., 1905-01-22
A. c. KNEREL

in Brooklyn, Rochester and Waterbury,
as well as at several of the branches in
New York city.
Such schooling as he received he
picked up while employed as a stable
boy on the estate of wealthy family
at Port sJerviS, N. Y, whittier he had
run away from his home at Franklin
Furnace, N. j. He was the son of a
poor miner, and the drunken habits of
his father and the unkindness of a
stepmother had driven him away at
the age of ten. With the first extern
sion of the railroad to Port Jervis
young Keenan, soon developed a fond
little more than fourteen when he got
mis- first job on the Erie as loiler.
Was Heavy Drinker
From the time he was fourteen until
he was forty he was a heavy drinker,
and led a rough and riotous life He
was such a good engineer that his en-
ployers of long ago overlooked many
sprees that would mean instant dis
charge to an engineer or fireman today.
Besides, Keenan, was SO popular with
s.the boys" that, they did everything in
their power to cover up his shortcom-
ings. He had married soon after he
reached his majority, but the devotion
of his wife and children, boy and a
girl, could not keep him straight for
long. A little, very little, of what he
earned went to support his family, but
a great deal went for liquor for him.
1t was the death of one of his friends
that first made him think or feel seri-
ously.
Il had just brought freight train
in one morning" is the story Keenan,
: tells when one of the boys told me an
old pal of mine named Jim was mighty
sick in a hotel across the street. 1
went over to see him, but before going
The Saint Paul globe., 1905-01-22

The strong personal interest which she
takes in everything connected with the
welfare of the men engaged on the
Gould system is we'll known. Hearing
of Keenan, she decided to hold her car
there for the night and see for herself
what manner of man he was.
She heard him sneak After tbe
meeting she invited him To- sl1pner in
her car. He told her the story of his
life: how intemperance and hard living
had kept him back and almost de-
stroyed his home. He told her of the
The Saint Paul globe., 1905-01-22

upstairs stopped at the bar for a drink,
as usually did those days when had
"a chance. / may have stayed there for
four or five drinks. Then I went up
stairs. reached the top just as an
otner engineer was coming out of Jim s
room He looked very grave and kind
OF scared, and he stopped me when
asked how Jim was.
Tom he said, you ought to have
been here sooner, Jim is dead, and you
have missed him; and if ever man
called on God for mercy at the last,
Jim did
That broke me all up, for Jim and
Il had been chums, and l hated myself
for having waited to take those drinks.
And I could not forget either about
Jim having prayed to God for mercy.
He had been hard liver, and often
had heard him say that he did not fear
either God, man, or the devil, and that
if he was going to hell he wanted a
fast engine that would take him clean
through I sat by his dead body for a
bit, and it set me wondering what I
would do if it were my turn. I kind of
feared I would do as poor Jim had
done. l tried to quit drinking and
brace UP, but the boys in the rounds
the better or happier for it, so soon
gave it up and went to drinking harder
than ever.
About two months after this there
We're several of us at a bar. and I,
more out of drunken foolishness than
anything else, dared some of the other
boys to take the pledge with me. Three
of them took me up, and right there in
the bar, with the others as drunk as I,
took the pledge which I never have
broken since.
but would not have kept it even
for the six months for which we origin
ally took it under forfeit of $50 If it
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presence, or there are variety of rea-
sons, any of which might have brought
them there. They were of the well
dressed variety, with outward signs of
inward comfort, and apparently stran-
gers.
Having a common purpose they over
stepped fornlality, and finally a few
scattering remarks led to a general
conversation of reminiscent nature.
They told of hills in Vermont, York
state, Ohio, of hills wherever the snow
falls, and the experiences that fell to
their lot, when in the company of
sleds.
They were fast growing Intimate in
their retroSpection of boyhood when
the native of st. Paul shook his head
sadly at the decadence of modern times
and assured the circle that its noth-
ing like what it used to be here" Then
and there he launched into the glories
of ST. Paul in the days when the fame
Of its ice palaces rang from coast to
coast.
Gentlemen he said, 'T don't wish to
make you discontented with your recol-
lection of your coasting days, but right
here in ST. Paul the sport fourished
like no other place in the world. why,
| right back of us stood a hill that a
goat couldn't climb. 1t was called the
! Wabasha hill, and it certainly was a
hill. Plain, ordinary hills, no matter
what their natural merit may have
been, were beneath us at that time.
Hills wouldn't do at all. Back in s82
we had a slide, where you started at
Dale street and went to the Fifth
ward flats.
Never Minded the Walk
Long walk back? Not a bit. AS ]
| remember, the walk back was fully as
pleasant as the ride down. It was all
brilliantly lighted, and the continual
stream gave it the appearance of a
promenade Then every club had diff
ferent colored uniform, and the whole
made picturesque sight, as they woye
in and out
Cold? No, not at all. 1t wasn't any
The Saint Paul globe., 1905-01-22


colder than it is now. Perhaps the
Temperature didn't go up and down
quite as frequently as now. All we
needed was steady weather without
any thaws. Some winters it did thaw.
and then coasting was variable. The
fact is our ice palaces and toboggan
slides became too famous. People
would go back home and tell of the
great mountain of ice we had here, and
| everybody believed that we were like
| ESkimoS. AS a matter of fact, all
| the ice was hauled in from Lake Como
and a contract let for the building of
the palace, the same as stone busi-
ness block. 1t wasn't particularly cold
but we knew how to get great deal of
| enjoyment out of what there was, and
| soon ST. Paul was referred to in the
| glacial manner that now applies to
Medicine Hat. Our reputation for fri
| gidity went over the world, and we had
to reform, or guess they would have
| been sending polar expeditions out this
| way.
"Then we sort of grew up and got too
/ busy, and it all died out. / see roller
skating is starting up again, and like
/ wise ski running and jumping. Ii there
| is going to be any resurrection of tobog-s
/ gaming, | for one am going to be in
with it from the start. With the prop
er surroundings and moral support of
/ persons somewhere near my own age, /
1 think I can show that youngster of
| mine a thing or two about coasting.
He's got the natural ability of all kids,
but I fatter myself am graduate of
the greatest school of tobogganing that
ever fiourished.''
It was growing late, and one by one
| the exiled boys gathered in their prog
1 eny reluctant to quit the HILL and
/ made starts to go home. In a brief
1 hour the memories of days with the
sled had drawn the strangers closer to-
| gether than years of business inter-
mingling. With just the least bit of
| sadness each grasped his young hope
| full by the hand and betook himself
| homeward.
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ma NHILE the glories of st. Paul as
WhM hill coasting center have
W long since faded away to be-
come only memories, 1T is yet
a snowclad paradise for the small boy
with a sled and disregard for his ap-
pearance.
Gone are the toboggans and the gaily
decked men and women of generation
ago, but the small boy and his red sled
can be seen any afternoon in any sec
tion of the city skillfully lodging OBJ
struction to the great detriment of at
least one shoe.
There was time when st. Paul was
coasting mad, and the impartial OBJ
server spending a few months in the
city would have had reason to suppose
that the entire population was gath
cred together for the sole purpose of
participating in this most exhilaratlng
sport. Men, women and children from
every walk in life doffed their conven-
tional garments to sally forth arrayed
in multi-colored mackinaW with up
holstered toboggan for a night on the
slides. The keen invigorating air, the
music and the myriads of lights all lent
their effects to a polar fairy land, and
the city rang with laughter.
By and by the fever ran it's course
and the toboggan was stored away
with other lares and penates that
had seen their best days. There came
longer built, at cost of many thou-