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The Cairo bulletin., 1905-02-27
IS YEARS AGO TO-DAY.
From The Bulletin of Feb. 27, 1870

From The Bulletin Of Feb. 27, 1870.
The steamer mississippi sunk at
Waterproof below Vicksburg. and
both boat and cargo were said to be a
total loss. No loss of life was report
"a.
Over ten thousand tons Of assort.
ed freigh was shipped from Cairo
last week for New Orleans and way
points"
The inspectors at Cincinnati have
been taking testimony in tine case OF
the sinking of the Swallow by eollisi.
on with tie Champion No G. near Gin
cinnati. aud found that the Champion
had tw0 large bargcs in tow. without
signal lights. and also failed TO OBJ
serve proper caution in the snow
storm and which prevented her pilot
seeing the shores. For these reasons
the pilots license was revoked. The
Swallows whistle got out of order
below Menphls. and although it could
have been repaired OF a new one
bought a Memphis. Cairo. Paducah
Or Louisville, her mate concluded TO
go on and trust TO her bell as a sig.
nal in meeting boats. For this vio-
lation Of law both her pilots and en-.
The Cairo bulletin., 1905-02-27

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr,, son Of
the "Autocrat of the Breakfast Table"
who has since ascended to the high.
est legal position in the United States
that of being member OF the Unit.
ed States supreme court-and who
recently delivered the courts opinion
knocking out the beef trust-hRd itist
graduated from Harvard and had
been made Instructor in constitution.
al law at the university.
The Cairo bulletin., 1905-02-27
.M. M. & 0
W BULLETIN

Mardi oras Carnival, Mobile, Ala,
March az. 1905. =
si2jB5. cairoit 10 Mobile and return,
Tickets sold March 4 2. q, aud &.
limited TO return Afarch nth, zoos;
except an extension until March 25th
will be given under certain conditions.
The Cairo bulletin., 1905-02-27

The Huilstin 10 on sale at The FOL
lowing places:
coIsman's, 2i4 Eighth street.
Halliday Houise nevis s.snd.
Waker's. 10 sixth street. R
Union News Co., Union depot.
The Cairo bulletin., 1905-02-27
Presidential Inauguration Ceremonies
Washington, o. c., March, 4th,

1905.
21.50. Cairo to Washington and re
turn, tickets sold March l, and s
limited 70 return March Sth; except
original purchasers may secure ex
.ension of return lim,t to leave Wash
intgon not later than March 18th
1905, by personally depositing ticket
with joint agent, and paying $l.oo.
The Cairo bulletin., 1905-02-27

Mcr. Saddeet Words Of Tongue or
pen.
Tho shock was hard. indeed. to bear;
she said him nay, alack!
The boy became millionaire.
And tlcn-did not come back,
The Cairo bulletin., 1905-02-27

Seeond-elass one.way colonist Tick.
cts to California.
sSl.G5, Cairo TO San Francisco. Los
Angeles. San Diego and all other
points, taking the California common
rate.
Tickets sold March 1st TO May 18th,
and Sept. 18th to October 31sr, 1905.
The Cairo bulletin., 1905-02-27

A modest youth wrote to the Lon
lsville courier-Journal asking for the
situation on that paper made vacant
by the death OF George d. Prentice
The Cairo bulletin., 1905-02-27

Chas Summer, Horace Greeley and
Ben Butler had just been elected hon.
orary members of the French uni.
versal Peace league"
The Cairo bulletin., 1905-02-27
Mardi cras Carnival. New Orleans
March 2.7. 1905.

s14.25, Cairo TO New Orleans and
return. Tickets sold March 1st to 9th
inclusive. limited 10 return March
f1th, 1905; except an extension until
March 25th, will be given under Ger.
tain conditions.
The Cairo bulletin., 1905-02-27
| DR.. Morrison
DENTIST
Office 707 Commercial Avenue
CANNON PHONE Ts.
ILLINOIS CENTRAL R.R.CO

Winter Tourist Hates to Denver, Colo
RADIO Springs and Pueblo, Col.
s46.65 round trip from Cairo. Tick
cts sold daily to and including April
Both, limited to return June LIST. 1904
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-08-18
Old Man of the Mountain.

The title "Old Man of the Mountain"
was first applied to Hassan Ben Sab
bal, who founded formidable dynas-
ty in Syria A. D. 1890. He was the
prince or chief Of the sect Of the Mo-
hammedans. Having been banished
from his country. he took up his abode
in Mount Lebanon. gathered around
him band Of followers, who soon be-
came the terror alike Of Christians,
Jews and Turks. They paid the most
implicit obedience to his commands
and believed that If they sacrificed
their lives for his sake they would be
rewarded with the highest joys Of
paradise. For 200 years these "Assas-
SINS" as they called themselves, con-
tinued to be the terror of the country.
Whenever their chief. the "Old Man
Of the Mountain" considered himself
injured he dispatched some Of his as
sassins secretly to murder the aggres-
sor. This is the origin Of our use Of the
word assassin for secret murderer.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-08-18

sanely expect to buy peace for notn-
ing beyond what Japan has already
in possession. If Japan were content
with what it has already gained in
the way of ports, possessions, rail-
ways, control and enhanced influence
it could very comfortably end the war
on it's own account. To the victor be-
longs the spoils, and Russia must
recognize the principle.
Japan palpably has left room for
compromise in making her demands.
Yet, as they stand, they are not >al-
together out Of reason. They are of
such a character as to impose upon
Russia the necessity of making rea-
sonably fair counter proposition.
Russia cannot, with the worlds ap-
prevail, stop with submitting to the
demands which are inevitable and a
matter of course and denying all
others. Peace or war, Russia has
lost irrevocably some of the posses
sions which Japan proposes to retain.
If Russia would reasonably negotiate
for peace it must compromise as to
other considerations.
Russia is apparently willing to
yield up the spoils of war already
won, but beyond that it's attitude, at
this writing, seems to be Pecksnif-
fan plea for sympathy on the ground
that Japan is cruelty unjust. Russian
diplomacy never made a straight
forward move in it's history. In the
present case it has shrewdly at
tempted to use publicity as a club to
hammer down Japanese demands and
to work the sympathy racket" even
before the demands were communi-
Gated. Indeed, the general bearing
of Russia mas suggested rather poig-
nantly that it was not animated at
Portsmouth by genuine purpose to
effect peace, but was taking advant-
age of the opportunity to play some
melodramatic world-politics and es-
pecially to cultivate sympathy.
An insincere exhibition, a cfarac-
teristic exhibition, of Russian diplo-
macy will disgust the world, and If
Russia energies from the Portsmouth
parleys to resume the war, having
given evidence of bad faith and UNI
reasonable obstinacy, she will be vast
ly the loser both in world esteem and
in the ultimate settlement with Japan,
when public opinion must inevitably
be with the victor.
The world desires peace, but not at
the expense of justice. Russia must
pay a just price for peace or take
the consequences.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-08-18
MENTALLY DEFICIENT CHILDREN

An investigation in New York
SHOWS that from to per cent of the
children in the public schools are
mentally deficient. There are thus in
New York alone from 500 to 10000
children that are handicapped by
present methods of teaching, and that
need the care of specially trained
teachers.
The causes of this mental deficiency
are numerous. 1t may be hereditary;
it may be due to improper food; or
to physical defects, originating in
abuse of tobacco, liquor. tea and cof-
fee. There are a great many cases,
but it is not impossible to remove them
by the right kind of training.
The stupid child does not get the
proper sympathy. AS our schools are
now conducted, he is always at the
tag end of his slasses. He retards the
progress of his classmates and an
nOys his teachers. He is different
from his fellows. He can't keep up,
and he is dropped from class to class
until he loses hope and gradually
drifts into the life of the truant or the
criminal. For criminality is due first
of all to lack of imagination-i.e., in
telligence. No one would be criminal
If he had mind enough to realize what
the vicious man loses. If the New
York and Boston leaders of education
al work can devise some practical plan
of uplifting deficient children-ordi-
nary class teaching will not suffice
they will deserve the gratitude of the
country.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-08-18
Mr.. ROOSEVELT AS A CRITIC.

In his article on Mr.. Edward Arling-
ton Robinson's book of poetry, Mr..
Roosevelt's leading thought is that you
don't have to understand poetry in
order to appreciate it. By the same
token you wouldn't have to know any
thing about it in order to write an
article on it, either. Courtesy, how
ever, forbids a strict application of
this logic to the case Of our versatile
president, who is admirable for so
many other things.
AS a matter of fact, Mr.. Roosevelt
is perfectly right in suggesting that
an understanding of poetry is un-
necessary to appreciation. 1t is true
that the less you know of it the better
you like it. If Mr.. Roosevelt will go
that far we will concede that he is a
critic in the highest sense.
Poetry is warped expression. 1t
cannot be literal, because Of the me-
chanical necessities of verse or rhyme.
Meter and not meaning is the essential
of poetry. Prose poetry" there may
be which conveys accurately thought
or emotion. Blank verse or rhyming
verse proceeds at the sacrifice of mean
ing, inevitably. If poetry cannot artic-
ulate it's meaning, people of the high
est intelligence who disiain to bother
with it or take it very seriously are
not to be condemned. Nobody is to be
blamed for a want Of the deviation
to arrive at the vague intentions of
affectation-and versiication is af-
fectation.
Mr.. Dryden and Mr.. Pope with their
decasyllabic epigrams, came nearer
being worth while that most rhyme
sters and versifers. Their caustic
snappy, satirical observations lent
themselves to the form of expression
somewhat, but even would have been
better worth attention and a more
stimulating intellectual tonic had the
extra pains been spent on the mean
ing which was expended on the man.
ner. Poetry exists for it's own sake;
prose, for the sake of expression.
Poetry destroys expression.
Mr.. Roosevelt laments the fact that
poetry is not what it used to be. Many
other people of intelligence and taste
are glad, or will be, if they reflect
upon it, that poetry is out of date and
becoming more so. Which is by no
means an indictment of art. Painting
and sculpture, music and the art OF
prose composition are developing and
expanding. Poetry is dying natural
death as knowledge multiplies and
culture increases.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-08-18
MIKE AS A LOVER.

Although love is always the same it
is infinitely various, strange to say,
and therefore ever interesting. Love
is always love, but you can never
behaved rather divertingly Wednes-
day in New York harbor, when Annie
O'Shaughnessy, an humble slavey but
an exalted votary of Cupid, jumped
overheard from an Erie ferryboat.
Miss O'Shaughnessy made the leap
fully Of a mind to end her life,
because ner steady, Mike, who was
railroad man, had failed to make
good his promise to wed. But no
sooner had the lady struck the Helles-
pont than she changed her mind and
struck out vigorously. She swan
about until some men on a lighter
threw her a rope, when she consented
to be dragged ashore. Before jump
ing, however, from the ferryboat, she
had left her handbag in the cabin. In
the bag were number of letters from
Mike, which ended thus:
ITO my loving love, from her low
ing love, with lots of love, from Mike"
Mike certainly speaks the language
of love. He is poet and a sentiment
talist as we'll as a romancer. He sings
out of the very ecstasy Of love, with
a shepherds tongue. He carols. He
is as eloquent and musical as the lau
No wonder the lady swan back to
hear more of it. His music bound
her to life as a poor prisoner in
twisted gives. She could not go from
his loving love, while her loving love
was singing about lots of love. Mike
has babe her love; he has babe her
live. Mike ought to make good at
once, and sing to her in the words of
the immortal Ben King:
20 Love, let us love with a love
that loves,
Loving on with a love forever"
Ben describes both the disaster Of
misplaced or misfit affection and the
joys and beautitudes of a properly
adjusted and harmonious pair of
hearts:
For a love that loves not the love
it should love
I wot such a love will sever.
But when two loves love this lovable
love,
Love loves with love that is best,
And this love making, lovable, love-
lasting love
Loves on in pure loves loneliness"
Mike probably knows his own busi-
ness and is not asking for any ad-
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-08-18
THE MUD DAUBER WASP.
She Entombs Living Spiders ~ Food
For Her Young.

She Entombs Living Spiders ~ Food
For Her Young.
When summer warmth has awakened
the maternal instincts Of the insect
world the mud dauber wasp may be
seen gathering mortar at the margin Of
stream, pool or puddle. Filling her
mandibles, which serve as both spade
and bod, she bears the load Of mud to
some rough surface, rock or wall or
board or beam. She spreads and shapes
her mortar until, after many visits to
the mud bed, she has built tubular
cell about an inch long and three
eighths of an inch wide.
Then her huntress instinct awakens
and her raids upon the spider realm be-
gin, for within this cylinder the moth
er mason will put single egg. In
course Of time this will hatch into
ravenous larva whose natural food is
living spiders, and these the mother
proceeds to capture and entomb within
her mud daub nursery. On this errand
she may be seen hawking over and
near cobwebs Of various sorts, ventur
ing within the meshed and beaded
snares that prove fatal to most incom-
ers and sometimes even to herself. If
the occupant, expectant Of prey, sallies
forth to seize the intruder, it finds itself
a captive, not a captor. The wasp
shakes the silken filament from wings
and feet, turns upon the spider, seizes
and stings it, bears it to her cell and
thrusts it therein.-H. c. McCook in
Harper's Magazine.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-08-18
RUSSIA AND WORLD-OPIN

1t will be cold day when American
sympathy goes out to any mere game
of bluff played by the Russians, ana
if Russia's only object at Portsmouth
is to play to an American gallery it
may as we'll fold up it's theatrical vest
ments and HE back home to the more
serious game of war. A bonafide and
straightforward effort on the part of
both belligerents to negotiate peace is
what the public opinion of not only
this country but the world demands.
Universal prejudice would be against
either country which attempted to i'm
pose unreasonable terms. Genuine
universal sympathy would go out to
the whipped country if the victor show
ed an unbending exorbitance. Were
Japan disposed to be wholly unjust
Its course would be intolerable.
On the other hand Russia cannot
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-08-18
Ills We Might Have.

A famous writer said: Man in gen
eral, or, as it is expressed, on the aver
age, does not live above two and twen-
ty years, and during these two and
twenty years he is liable to two and
twenty thousand evils, many Of which
are incurable. Yet even in this dread
full state men will strut and figure on
the stage of life. They make love at
the hazard Of destruction and intrigue,
carry on war and form projects just
as If they were to live in luxury and
delight for a thousand ages"
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-08-18
WIT AND HUMOR.

If we haven't the intuition which
instantly recognizes wit and 1aumor
1t Is vain to consult the dictionary for
the difference between them. What
ever our definitions, we Americans
are always ready to appreciate wit
and humor Although the English
press, when it tries to be funny, bor-
rows its jokes from us, this should
not blind us to- the fact that there is
such a thing as English humor.
Why Should we doubt that Lord
Bacon. for example, was a prodigy of
a courtier when as a small boy he
answered Queen Elizabeth's inquiry
as to his age: 1.-Two years older than
your majesty's happy reign"
1t is to the eighteenth and nine
teenth centuries that we turn for most
Of our gems of repartee.
1t was Swift who warned a friend
who was extolling the air of over
taxed Ireland: Hush! If they hear
you say that, they'll certainly tax the
air." s
That pea will never come to per-
fection," remarked a young woman
walking through a garden with Sid
ney Smith.
Then let me lead perfection to the
pea," and he CALAMITY offered her his
arm.
Marriage" said Smith, 'is like a
pair of shears, so joined that they
cannot be separated, moving in oppo-
site directions, yet Furnishing every
thing that comes between them'
Charles" asked Coleridge of his
old friend Lamb, did you ever hear
me preacn?"
Il never heard you do anything
else," was the answer.
It's a shame to spoil two good
things" said Charles Lamb, when
someone spoke of mixing brandy and
water.
Have you sufficient confidence to
lend me a guinea?" asked Dibdin the
younger, of Jerrold.
'Oh, yes, I've all the confidence, but
haven't the guinea"
Il hear you can make a pun on any
subject" said woman to the ire
sistible Fox. Make one on King
King is no subject" promptly re-
piled the joker.
Il don't see why that tune haunts
me constantly" complained a dull man
who was always 7numming.
Because you are forever numbering
it," came the quick reply from Foote
How can the blind be happy ."
asked someone in the hearing Of
Charles Matthews.
Because they see no reason why
not"
Theodore Hook replied to someone
who asked him to contribute to a So
ciety for the conversion OF the
neathen: Il have no money, but bring
along some of your heather, and I'll
convert them"
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-08-18
TOURING IN RUSSIA.
The Difficulties Of One Who Cannot
Speak the Language.

speak the Language.
Mini Novgorod, where the great Rus
sian fair is held, far on toward the
frontier of Asia, found the most diff
cult proposition in all Europe from the
standpoint Of the traveller seeking rest
and refreshment. knew only one
word in Russian, vodka" and one can
pronounce that too often. Nobody
seemed to speak anything but Russian.
Lcould not get cabman to take me to
a hotel. One isvoschic after another
would pick me up, seem to understand
and then take me to shop. a steam
ship pier, private residence. was
reduced to the numiliating necessity of
making pictures Of hotels, beds and
food of all sorts-and quite without
avail. At last, bethinking myself that
the trade of Russia was in German
hands, l started out afoot in search of
any mercantile looking person with
close cropped blond beard and spec
tacles. Such a man l found, and he
directed me in German to a traktir.
where had breakfast with the aid of
more crude cartooning. Coffee" is
good Volapuk, and the waiter under
stood me at once. but had to sketch
a number Of elliptical figures in my
notebook and finally make a spirited
drawing Of the common or garden hen
before he knew l wanted "eggs."
For dinner that night went to res
taurant overhanging the Volga. 1t is
one Of my most battling memories Of
travel that when in my thirst l made
the sign Of drinking and pointed to
the river the waiter lowered bucket
brought it to me filed with rich brown
water.-New York Mail.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-08-18
A Need In Schoolmasters.

We should like to see regulation
that every schoolmaster before the age
Of thirty should for one full year at
least be banished from the school world
and from the academic life even If for
that year he had to work as a navy, a
sailor or a commercial traveller. The
man who, being educated, only knows
what life is will never take too mar
.ow q view Of the school course.-Lnn-
don Post.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-08-18

vice, but something may be said on
behalf of the public in this affair. If
Mike doesn't look up Miss Snaugh-
messy and do the right thing by her
at once good many people will be
disappointed.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-08-18

There are shady rumors afloat to the
effect that gambling is being gradually
revived in this city and that it is only
a question of a short time when it will
again be running in full blast. With an
increased police force it is not likely
that such evasion Of the law would
escape detection or that it would be
long tolerated.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-08-18
Enjoy What You Have.

Don't worry about your health.
Keep in good condition and get as
much fresh air as you can. People
who are always puttering over them
selves are like misers-they don't en-.
Joy what they have.-Boston Traveller.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-08-18
Boy of Seventeen Kills Himself.

MARYSVILLE, Calf, Aug. 1S.-
John F. Hixson, aged II. son of E. w.
night blew off the top of his head with
a shotgun. No cause is assigned.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-08-18
A Hard Worker.

Slimson - Willie. they tell me yo,
have the reputation Of being the worst
boy in school. Willie-Yes. father. and
I can tell you I didn't get it without
struggle.-Life.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-08-18
NOTICE TO ADVERTISERS:

NOTICE TO ADVERTISERS:
Copy Of change Of advertisement
must be delivered to the business Of
Zee by tho hour Of 10 o'cIoek'a. m. to
insure insertion in the issue Of even
late.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-08-18

An Englishwoman married to a for
eigner takes the nationality Of her bus
band.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-09-03
Economy Even in Charity.

The newspapers provided there little plot OF
the charmed which is known one side 10 put
them easily made both philanthopc and domestic
The supplements put with the magazine
mutation until postal card take call to the
hospital the public wards of which lack OF reading
matter great enough to keep a hospital busy.
Domescaly the of newspaper endless little pile
of the kitchen table and sink to be
half unfoded protect the Oicloth
every bit of work which performed Especially they
bet than a In peeng and preparing
vegetables because of the trick doing
all into little wad and dumping Il into the
Newspapers the soaking and wrapped thick
layers around lettuce will keep fresh and almost
indefinitely More thick layers Of them laid the ice in the
viii Il fun one-thrd
existence Wet papers torn and used I'm sweeping
keep the dust and brighten the percep
wrapping for furs and winter clothing they
almost preventive Of moths. When fashion does
the cook and everybody else trail around in
tEaned layers Of papers invaluable for
kitchen floor besides the endless Innings closets
shelves In ironing have their
both rubbing of the iron ana In rolling large
quantities them for slipping inside sleeves TO
treating this subject from the view point Of Of