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The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1905-02-05

he will excel Barney Petty who
graduated from. Cairo into the big
Leagues. He is friend of Pelty's
and resides at Sullivan, No. He is a
student at Christian Brothers college.
Eekstone is said TO be a wonder
and he was signed just in time to pre-
vent Paducah securing him, He has
been playing in the smaller leagues
and halls from Mississippi
Krick is recommended by Shannon.
who played with Cairo last season.
lie is said TO have plenty Of speed
and AL kinds of curves Miller is
also said TO be a promising twirler.
The fans already know what 10 ex-
pect from Bittrolff, Waggoner and
Weakley and there is no doubt but
that Cairo win have the best pitch
ing STAFF in the league.
Four catchers.
Watch Harvey will be the famil-
lar cry this season when HAT peer
less backstop is IN the game and it
win probably he t5es last ason he
will be with Cairo for the big fellows
are looking for such players as Har-
yey viii be at the end Of the coming
season if he improves like he did
last year Bittron will probably go
also.
Besides Harvey on the catching
staff there will be Ruledge. Bauer
and Edmonds. The latter two men
are strangers but Bauer comes recon-
mendcd by Otto Kruger, the Philadel-
pha fielder who graduated from
Cairo. Kruger says Bauer is can
didate for the big leagues and pre-
diets that he viii more than make
good Edmonls is aid 10 be a first
class catcher and ready first base
man. II is possible that he will be
tried out at the initial bag
Two First 8asemen.
Dummy Hughes is on the reserve
list and may hold the initial sack.
II win nave a rival, however. in the
person of a swift man named Hooien
who may prove "Dummy'sY superior
Edmonls may be given chance to
work at nrst.
-Four Second 5assnren.
Eichler Roland, FHl,z and McNerry
are names Of four second basomen
who will contest for a permanent
berth at that position. Eiehler is
said by Eek Secretary Farnbaker to be
a wonder, while it is claimed for Nc
Merry that DE can play around any
two second hasemen thar ever wore
Kitty league uniform. MeNerry comes
from No;re Dame. Ind. and is recon- /
mended by shannon OF last years
team OF tie other two players lit
lie is known at this time except they
are said TO be fast men.
Two Third 6ssemen.
The eight Tor rhlrd base VIII DE be-
tween O'CUnaer and new player /
named Thomas. The fans would like |
10 see O'CoRner back in the game /
lnd Il is hoped he will make good |
Thomas viii be given plenty of cp-
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1905-02-05
portunity to show what be can do
Two Shortstops.

portunity to show what be can do
Two Shortstops.
Kelly and Fehl will be applicants
for shorstop aud il is difficult 10 tell
much about them. Kelly is from the
Iowa league, and is said To be fast
anu good hitter Fehl rs an Indiana
lad and comes we'll recommended
Six Fieders.
There are six felders on the list.
Haas, Schwab and Larsen are known
quantities but there are three men
TO he tried They are SAVERS, Oreth-
bert and Bissel The prospects are
thar Eddie Powers will be signed.
A glance at the above list is suffi-
cient to convince anyone that Cairo
viii have a team second to none, as
there are enough old and tried play
crs TO beat any club in the Kitty
league.
Secretary Greaney. of the local as
sociation, spared no pains in search
ing for his mon and it = believed
every man on the team will prove a
gentleman and ball player. Rowdy-
ism and drinking will no more be toll
Grated than win poor ball playing and
there Is little doubt that Cairo will
have a base bali team of which the
citizens may feel proud.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1905-02-05
VIII rhev7

"WIl Bierkorite and Smeltz be fast
enough for the team Eddie kolh is
getting together" is the question that
is buzzling As Eddie is after a team
Of hitsers there is a chance that Meth
er will he much after the season
opens. Smeltz. however, is almost
certain 10 be given a trial at short,
aud If his batting has improved he
win stay there
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yesterday and even now it is impossible to say how
much he knows.
Il will find out" Orlopp said quietly. These
poor people fret upon deep thoughts. They are
cleverer in many ways than those who see. OF
course we must have no nonsense. He might
even recover his eyesight with l shall go
to him tonight as l return from the hospital
She thanked him with a touch of her hand upon
his and a look which he alone might read in her
eyes. That night he visited the Vicomte as he
had promised her. and found the stricken soldier
sitting before a writing desk trying to commit
of his thoughts to paper. But the lines were
crooked and the words illegible; and when Orlopp
entered he thrust the paper from him with despair
ing gesture much to say; "All that is done
with me forever!'
To Orlopps questions he answered calmly and with
manifestation either of grief or disappointment.
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the German legons entered the city to bring the
realities of humiliation and defeat to the very
doors of the conquered citizens.
A month had passed since the guns of Mont
Valeren ceased to thunder their shells at the Prus
slams across the valley; month in which families
returned with trembling steps to their shattered
houses in the suburbs and viCtuas carried into
the city by every road whereon wagon could pass
month of intense gloom and silent streets, with
unarned soldiers everywhere, and laughter rarely
heard even in the wine-shops. For the people, the
surrendered, the war lost, Germans at Longchamps!
Incredible this properly a of silent shame.
Men went about amid the ruins many specters
of dead nation Who would recognize the old
familiar scene? The very Bots de Boulogne seemed
wilderness since the fine and stately trees, shelter
Continued on page ~
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evening of the day found him still sitting by his
windows, asking himself why they had fired the
guns at Mont Valerien
Paris was full of the strife and stress of siege; but
Pierre de Rohan saw nothing except that murky,
crimson haze of light which flashed, as from his
own soul upon the witherad nerves of eyes forever
closed. Shells fell by day and night upon the
happy suburbs, destroying ruthessly shattering
alike the houses of the rich and the poor-the
Vicomte knew nothing of them, his servants would
tell triumphantly, Dolores alone among his few
friends guessed the truth, and this she shared,
as all discoveries were shared with who would
claim her wholly presently-Edmund Orlopp the
English Doctor
eve can deceive Pierre no longer" she said
one early day of January when Paris still talked
of a new sorte and of that wonderful army of
the South which would fight its way northward
presently and cut old Bismarck to pieces-''we
can deceive Pierre longer" she continued. Il
believe that he has guessed the truth: he knows,
Edmund, and what is worse he remembers
mot the silly talk at the Cafe RiChelieu before
the war! Surely not that, Dolores?"
q must believe it. He spoke of it again last
night. He will no longer listen to the old peoples
stories There is no sadder story of the war.
He has lived because we told him that France was
victorious"
And must live when France is victorious in the
years to come Of course, they will watch him.
These are the days when men may lose their mental
balance and be forgiven l shall go and see your
cousin Dolores, and have talk with that good
fellow Gilbert. He ought to write books. His
imagination beats Munchhausen."
She laughed at the recollection of it. He has
treated Bismarck horribly" she said-"twice as
sassinated and a prisoner at Belfort. The
King of Prussia is with difficulty restrained from
taking his life. Of course Pierre knew it was
nonsense and | do not think he angry. But
he has never guessed the real truth-never until
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Yes, he said a battle had been fought outside the
gates of Paris-so much he understood and was also
assured that the armies of the South victorious
He admitted that people had much misrepresented
things to him; but he forgave them because the
intent good His sympathy with all French
who suffered appeared to be real and intense.
He himself lived much apart from life and the
world that nothing mattered. A casual hearer
would have said that he continued in ignorance
of the true story of the siege and knew little
either of French defeats of German victories
Edmund Orlopp, however, too shrewd OBJ
server that these shallow words should deceive him
He is acting part" he said to himself If
the Prussians enter Paris, there is who will
remember his oath. We shall need all the vigilant
eyes we can find, and then the blind may
see the farthest in the end"
The problem interested him greatly, and he
returned to his rooms confessing its difficulties
He must this splendid soldier noble in patience
and affection, and he must save him for Dolores
sake. He little guessed that the Vicomte at
that very moment was planning in his lOney house
the last things he would say and do when the
Prussians entered Paris. What a jest it was,
that he, the blind man, should have rddled these
lies of triumph and of victory and learned the truth
by an instinct he knew to be unfailingi
Let them tell him as many stories as they pleased
now. He would hold his tongue and enjoy the jest
the for doing it. Sometimes he glad that
he had sworn to kill himself if the Prussians were
victorious Who would live unnumbered years of
darkness touching the fingers of life with trembling
hands, but seeing nothing of its face, knowing
nothing of its beauties? 1t was right and proper
that the defeated should die. Such had been the
law since the beginning of the world He would
perish for France. But first he would kill the
King of Prussia, and history would remember his
name to the end.
This idea obsessed him to the exclusion of all
else. Before Dolores and the servants he appeared
to have become suddenly the most docle and
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Why should a chicken delight the heart of
French housekeeper? He did not understand her
allusion at all
One day, however (this early in January of the
New Year, he escaped the old woman's vigilant
eye and aided by good oak stick felt his way
and stood in the Champs Elysees, feeling delighted
a boy with his adventure, but afraid to carry
it further
There he heard the guns of Mont Vaerien for
the first time and struck dumb with the sound
returned with what haste he could and cried to
his valet to come and help him into the house
again.
What does it mean, Gilbert?" he asked "Why
they firing the cannon at Valerien2"
Its victory. sir" said the unabashed
want, "a great victory at Orleans
For once the Vicomte did not answer him. The
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as any of them that night at the Cafe R1cheeu,
when he swore to shoot himself the day the Prus-
slams entered Paris How odd the recollection of
such wild oath appeared when the glorious French
army stood at the gates of Berlin and some OF his
old comrades were already returning to Paris in a
blaze of flame and victory! Why should any
Frenchman talk of killing himself now? And
vet Rohan knew that, had misfortune Overtaken
his country and her armies returned vanqu1shed,
then would he have fulfilled that oath to the last
letter Prussians in Paris! Not thousand years
of conquest could atone for such humiliation as
that.
He sat at the window and on sunny days went
out little into the garden. Eternal night had
become his portion; but he visions surprising
the dreams of men, Of the siege itself, of the Ger
man armies grdling the city in a ring of steel, he
knew nothing Old Francoise the housekeeper
and Gilbert the valet suffered enough and carried
their share complainngly. How they to
feed him; how to find those luXuries to which
he had been accustomed all his life? Under other
circumstances the good woman's apologies for her
bread and meat would have been a comedy. Those
perncious butchers how she rated them What
a tale of woe she pitched Dolores when that brave
girl came over from the Latin Quarter to hear
how her cousin doing!
''There is not a bit of beef in all the city lady
no flesh at all. Such untruths | have told He
asks for this and that, and what | to say to
him? That the Prussians have taken all the meat?
Now, Mademoisele, would you have the heart to
tell him that?'
Dolores confessed that it better untold.
Tragedy appeared to be creeping upon the lonely
house as a cloud that presently must give tempest
Now for the first time she understood the wisdom
of Or1opps hesitation. Her cousin must know
the truth sooner or later His table would betray
them; or if not that then something terrible,
the guns of Mont Valeren, perhaps, laundering at
the German hosts. Dolores dreaded the day when
the guns must begin to fire upon the Germans
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credulOuS OF men, believing
everything, questioning moth
ing. His changed demeanor
and his apparent happiness
led them to revert to the old
habit of evasion and exag-
geration. When Paris sue
cumbed on January 20 they
told him that the German
armies were at length beaten
off. He answered that he
had expected nothing else.
If he was often at the garden
gate now, he never ventured
into the street-at least to
their knowledge. Gilbert
the valet he deceived so
completely that the worthy
fellow rarely troubled to ask
what his master was doing
or whittier he went. One
man alone shared his secret
rather had guessed it and
understood the whole trag-
edy of that make-believe.
When the Prussians en-
ter Paris, Rohan will shoot
himself" Orlopp said, and
added, unless the Germans
shoot him first
X
Paris, as all the world
knows, capitulated at the
end of January; but it was
the first day of March before
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almost as though pity was
a greater thing to her than
love of country or any
patriotic instinct. And she
became a beggar of fish,
flesh and fowl, that this I'M
happy soldier might not
taste the truth in the dishes
they set before him.
Herein her friend Edmund
Orlopp aided her with a
mans honest delight in a
sweet woman's mission of
love. Some of his most
reckless adventures within
the German lines attended
his quest of food for the
Vicomte's table. Daring
night rides amid Prussian
outposts, sublunar visits to
the larderS and the gardens
of deserted chateaus about
Paris, delighted old Fran
coise the housekeeper and
seemed to verify her most
astonishing stories. Every
capture moved her to new
eloquence. Hal" she
would cry as she carried
a plump chicken or whipped
off the cover from a savory
ragout, if old Bismarck
could taste this he would
be glad that he left Prussia"
The Vicomte, in his turn,
scarcely understood her.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1905-05-26

The Sioux City Journal says tina
the South Dakota capitol commission
made a bad start in getting it's plans
and specifications from outside the
state. In that a big share of the
stationery used in the municipal and
county offices OF South Dakota has
been coming from Perkins Bros. Co.
since Gale was a pup, remarks from
the Journal are in wretched taste
The capitol commission went out to
Montana and got stuck on that con.
monwealth's state house, and it was
good business judgment to employ the
same architects to furnish similar
plans and specifications for South Da-
kota's building. There is such a thing
as being too blamed squeamish about
some things-for effect.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1905-05-26
Aud III Wind B.ew

ChaS. b. Wolf, the Alton Democrat
editor went out to TT. Pierre last
week to hold down his claim. He
! claims that five of his friends took
him along us ballast. 1t was Il good
thing for the rest of them evidently
iudging by this vivid pen picture
drawn by the great humorist:
cit was past midnight and darker
than Il rathole in hades when we
reached III destination. Two of us
blew off the sidewalk into a mnd-
puddle upside down ankle deep and
and my hat lit in Nebraska. a friend
writes from n of the Colorado
mountain valleys that the air is so
still there that n stacks up fifteen
inches on a wire clothes line. But it's
different around Fort Pierre. The
atmosphere is always moving. Lots
of it has never been breathed and
never will be till some man inyents a
set of lungs run by electricity. A man
layed down or the prairie out there
with his feet to the wind and it blew
his boots up his legs till his feet
punched through the scles. A friend
of mine blew back and forth in front
Of the p~oStotfice for half q day trying
to mail a letter. On many OF the
gumbo hills there is a mat of HAIR a
foot thick that has blown from the
livestock and tourists. Nearly every
body is baldheaded,
~.
When they want to tan a hide out
there they nail it to the prairie with
the hair pointing to windward and
the breeze does the rest. One Of our
party tried to open a beer bottle and
the wind blew the kinks out Of the
corkscrew. You have got to hold
a corkscrew with the point to the
wind and then it curls up tighter
We set a case of beer outside our
shack and the wind sucked the corks
out of the bottles and blew the beer
all to the next shacks. The fellows
over there slept with their mouths
open and they were too drunk to get
up for breakfast. An old timer told me
that once the wind hit a Deadwood
freighter loaded with beer and the
people in the next county were all out
with tunnels drinking IN the atmos-
phere. One man got a megaphone
but after three or four prairie dogs
and a bunch of hair and a mud turtle
blew into 1T he threw it away and got
a funnel with a piece of wire netting
over it to screen out the scenery.
x**
When we got to u hotel there was
just M bed and a cot left. One Of
the boys said he could sleep in the
bed If the other four could arrange
themselves on the cot and somehow we
got along till morning. You have to
get used to the beefsteaks you get out
there for breakfast before you like it.
ICattle never get fat-they just get
robust and muscular and athletic
This is due to the activities of hunt
ing grass on the gumbo hills. | saw
several little CALVES with wire baskets
on their noses and a fellow told me it
was because they got over the hills
more nimble than the older cattle and
were libale to eat up the seasons
grass crop all at one meal if not muz-
zled. Another fellow told me on the
quiet that when a man wants to cut
hay out there he frequently has to
take a bale of hay along to prime the
mower.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1905-05-26
II KlMBALLG RApHIC
r1NAN
Official Paper Of the CITY and County
TAXING MORTGAGES

New York state has recently put into
effect a new law taxing all mortgages
recorded in the state one-half Of one
per cent per mum. This is some
something like it, and on Il more ever
basis than most of the harum-scarem
attempts to get at this class of proper
ty.
If all property was listed with the
assessor at its true valuation there
might not be much injustice in taxing
all securities upon the same basis
though the practical workings of such
a system is open to serious doubts.
1t is we'll enough for the average
land owner-the average holder of
realty-to talk, but when he under
stands that no system OF taxing mort
cages at their face value will hold
water IN the courts a minute unless
his reality and personal property is
listed accordingly, he'll yell good and
long for the old state of things.
The average farm in Brule county,
for instance, is assessed at less than
$500 per l6O acres and on which all
Improvements, no matter how valu-
able, go scott free. 1t frequently hap
pens that that there is a mortgage of
$1,000 on that farm. Would 1T be JUS
tice to make the holder of the mort
gage pay a tax on that amount, and
the owner of the farm a tax on $500
more-three times the assessed valua-
tion of the farm?
IT, on the other hand, the farm was
assessed at 50, 1000, then the improve
ments would come in for anadditlonal
assessment, and with it live stock and
all implements at the going price, al
together boosting Mr.. Farmers as
sessments to four times the present
levy-even though the $1,000 mort
|gages was deducted and placed on the
money loaner.
Money in itself possesses no value.
1t is only what it will bring and the
uses to which it a be put. Lying in
an old stocking, in a tin box under the
kitchen floor, or in the bankers's safe,
it is as so much waste paper. The
man who takes it and puts it to use
pays a tax upon what 1T brings, wheth.
er a piece of soil or a team or a stock Of
tgoods and when he pays a tax on that
property be virtually pays a tax or
the money he borrowed. Any addi
tional taxation is double taxation, anC
il the difference is split up between
the borrower and the loaner, then thu
man who controls the money is going
to fix a rate to compensate him. AL
the laws in the world can't beat hin
out of it. He will either have hi
own way or invest his money other
wise and let the borrower whistle.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1905-05-26

This is a great countrY-though not
like ADMINISTRATIVE, upon being
asked by a traveller to account for tile
of children at every shack, the
woman replied: tits the muskeeters
they bother so O. nights, Cap, that we
'uns can't sleep.' The Chamberlain
Democrat tells of a final proof case
before the local land office in which
three witnesses out of the four failed
to show up because of a case of confine
ment in their household. The Gam
valley Chief tells this in it's last issue;
A fair sample Of a spring day on
a South Dakota farm can be form
ed from what transpired on April
90 on Frank Margenau's Eden
township farm, made famous by
its productiveness in all lines, The
browning event OF the day was the
arrival of a bouncing baby boy,
and when the returns were all in
for the day they included the
birth of two colts, three calves,
six pigs. one lamb and five kittens
and it's a cold backward spring
at that.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1905-05-26
i Pierre is to have a real circus June
1! That, settles it. We lay down.

The Catholics of Glen and Crow
Lake are building a new church about
half way between the two postoffices
on Peter Rendl's farm and expect to
nave 1T completed in about six weeks.
Father O'Flaherty will have charge
Of it.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1905-05-26
Strictly Pure washington Springs,

W%oonsocket News: The Springs
is greatly taken with a new card
game called jumbo or some
thing like that. 1t is as close to
whist as it is possible to get, without
the regular euchre deck and they are
marked with numbers instead of spots.
otherwise it is the same as whist.
Those intelligent enough to under.
stand it-and the Springs is an lntell-
ectual community-are just wild
about the new game. The good, relig-
ious people, who wouldn't touch an or
binary card, stay up late nights playing
this nice game. 1t reminds one of
what a witness called the chop tean
of prohibition ii mes. He said it was
"a substitute for beer" "Jumbo" IS
a nice clean game and a fair substitute
for whist. BY marking the cards with
figures instead of spots it unquestion-
ably is possible to get the same
amount Of fun and still fool the Devil
as to what is going on.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1905-05-26

A valuable Jersey COW belonging to
an Iowa man broke her leg and it was
necessary to amputate it. But was she
too valuable to lose and her owner had
a wooden leg made for her.It took the
COW some time to get used to the arti-
fetal limb, but eventually she got so
She could use it to projection. But it
was noticed that the milk began to
taste of pine and it was concluded
that the taste was due to the milk cir
culating through the pine leg. So the
COW had to be killed after all.