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The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1905-12-08

Fear Is expressed In some quarters
that the multiplication of public libra.
ries will lead to decay in home libra
rles aud that people will not read with
the thorOughness and profit of former
DAYS. 1t Is alleged that our fathers
paid stiff price for a book and read
it 10 pieces to get the worth of their
money, with the result that they learn
ed more than does the library patron
who skins through n volume only TO
sap the honey of interest. There is
something In this theory, but the mat
ter of cost is not enough to account for
that hunger and thirst after Informal
ton which make reading profitable.
The free library may be dissipation
to some but it is boon to many who
are too poor to buy the books which
will do them good One who appreci-
ates really good book will make
great sacrifice to own it, but that per.
son must first know the worth of the
treasure, and the library often points IL
out. Lovers of Shakespeare and the
Bible are not satisfied to let these vol.
umes rest on the library shelves, and
it will be the same in the case of any
loaned book, which the borrowers dill
gently read. From borrowing they will
pass to owning. In these days of com
lnIaX life IL iS seldom that one book
completely covers subject Each book
is one of series like the school text
book, and the student must fare or
from height to height until the top is
reached In point of fact, the public
library is a cooperative scheme-one
book serves many minds. Further
more, it gives free play to advance by
the law of selection.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1905-12-08
For Sale.

Five-room residence; well finished.
with all modern conveniences. One
and a half lots. Close to business
houses. Apply at Echo Office for price
and terms. 34tt
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1905-12-08
Cutting or the sinews of War.

AT it's recent session in Lucerne the
international peace congress took
practical step by suggesting that neu-
trail powers should prohibit the public
issue of war loans in their territories.
With the prospect of borrowing for
eign money cut off a nation will be
likely to keep its temper until the crisis
is passed. An authority was once ask
ed TO name the three things essential
to success in war. The answer came
swiftly, Money, and more money, and
still more money" The dictum is as
pat today as it was hundred years or
more ago.
Diplomats would be more careful
about acts calculated to disturb the
peace of nations if they did not see
their way clear to borrow money to
carry on a war. The forces which are
behind arbitration treaties undOubted-
ly act in good faith to put an end to
wars. Those same forces ought to be
potent to interdict the issue of war
loans or to outlaw their collection and
in this way advance the cause of peace.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1905-12-08
Criminals and Science.

The London Lancet is of the opin-
ion that the proposition for a revival
of the ancient custom of handing Grim
inals over to medical men as subjects
for experiment will arouse storm OF
disapproval The suggestion has been
made that the criminal should be per-
mitted to ransom himself from the
death penalty by voluntary submission
to experiments calculated to benefit
mankind. In other words, he would
be allowed to make atonement to socie-
ty for his sin against it and have
chance of coming out with his life and
liberty.
Shocking as Is the idea of degrading
the human form to the level of guinea
pigs and rabbits on the experimenting
table, it has more than the authority
of the past to favor it. In modern
times condemned criminals have been
reprieved and allowed to join fighting
armies with the prospect of dying an
honorable death. A man who had been
Il criminal by circumstance would be
grateful for the privilege and redeem
his fault by good conduct and bravery.
The average criminal deserves his fate,
yet many a one has not parted with
the last vestige of manhood, and the
thought that he could be of service to
the society which he once outraged
1, .N,af
not far removed from true heroism.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1905-12-08
Consolidation of Country Schools

Consolidation of Country Schools.
One remedy for the lack of trained
teachers and the dearth of scholars
where teachers can be found for the
small district schools is the consolida-
ton of sparSely peopled school dis
tricts. The consolidation is now going
on in states which represent over half
the population of the country and
stretch from the Atlantic to the Pa
cific. The plan is to unite two or more
feeble schools and provide transporta.
ton for children living at a distance
The advantages of the system of con
solidation are evident. 1t substitutes
for a mixed, ungraded school in poor
ly ventilated room with Il single, I'M
derpad teacher graded school in u
suitable building with modern appli
ances for giving instruction and com.
petent teachers. Wherever centraliza
ton has been carried out and given
time to develop it is found that it de-
creases the per capita cost of educa
ton and gives longer school years and
better teachers and equipments. The old
time district school was seen at Its
best where the inhabitants were set
tied in proximity. The extension Of
roads has distributed the population
and the modern Improvement of roads
makes it possible to gather the chill.
dren from widely scattered homes to
a central point for lessons.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1905-12-08
Church Services.

CoKGREG ATIoNAI-Ser every sunday.
Sunday school at 10 Goa. m.
Public worship at II 90 II. IN.
Evening service at 30 p m.
Meeting for conference, prayer and b1ble
study at The church every Saturday at 30.
The Ladies Guild meets every Thursday at
90 D. M at the home of MEMBERS AS announced
Everybody invited to attend all or any of the
w. S. BIXBY, Pastor
CATHoLIC-Sarvices At the Catholic church
every fourth Sunday in the month; mass at
7:3O a. m Sunday school at p M; vespers
/ 40 D. IN. ; low mass following monday.
Father II. Colin. Pastor.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1905-12-08
Cuba's Political Woes.

The little republic of Cuba has got
along so well alone since it was put on
its feet by the American guns at Santi-
ago that it is a matter for regret that
her political affairs should have ended
in a tangle and that the cry of fraud
with the talk of force is heard in the
second presidential campaign held in
free Cuba. But the situation is not sc
alarming to outsiders as it seems to be
to some of the amateur republicans
who are ON the ground and involved in
the mixup.
1t would be strange if the party in
power in Cuba should be free from
shortcomings. The republic is young
1t inherited bad models in governing
from the former government. Time
alone can cure the evils of party mis-
rule, and what new republic needs
above all else is stability and order.
Parties are essential in a republic, and
only one can rule at one time. Often
the party out of power, working active.
ly, but by quiet and peaceful meth.
DDS, may advance national progress
more than the party in power. In time
the Cuban patriots will learn that wise
opposition makes for reform and that
revolution destroys good and bad alike,
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1905-12-08

The best results in bread making are
obtained from using Peach Blossom
flour. Ask tor it and take no other.
You may be urged TO take something
else which is represented to be just as
good, at the same price. This is an old
trick. The reason for this IS that there
is larger profit on the other Hour.
Peach Blossom is sold at smaller mar
gin of profit, but at the same price as
Inferior grades. 1t took the prize over
all Other nours at the Worlds fair al
St. Louis. Always call for Peach
Blossom, and take no other.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1905-12-08

Longman's Magazine, which has been
in existence nearly a quarter of a cen
fury, has suspended publication be-
cause cheap Illustrations have driven
the old literary publications to the
wall The readers nowadays want to
take in the world at snapshots and
this is what the pictures do for them.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1905-12-08

There is a loud ring up" all over
the land for book ON the etiquette of
the phone. 1t is a wonder nobody ever
thought Of 1t before but after this
word to the wise it is safe to say that
the public will have the needed in
struction If It will simply "hold the
wire" Il bit
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1905-12-08

In casting about for a victory IL
peace which shall be as renowned as
any gained in war, the Japs have hit
upon worlds fair. As the advertis
ing has all been paid for out of the
war chest the event should come OF
with balance in hand, and that would
be a real victory of peace.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1905-12-08

The paymaster general of the army
thinks the man with the musket should
have an increase of pay. Meanwhile
the man chiefly interested Is saying
nothing. If the government is disposed
to do the soldier good turn it might
try the plan of teaching him some
thing which will be useful to him
when he returns to civil life.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1905-12-08

College rowdyism under the guise OF
college sport has appeared in certain
quarters with greater vigor than usual
this year, but the fellows who are
dipped in the pond or put under the
pump take their medicine with the
grim satisfaction that it will be their
turn next year, and the boom in high
er education doesn't halt an iota.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1905-12-08

There is always something to be
thankful for. A prominent railroad
man says that a train travelling eighty
miles an hour is in less danger of leav-
ing the rails than one running at thirty,
and that in case of accident passengers
are killed with promptness and dis
patch instead of lingering along for a
week or two.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1905-12-08

Once more the world is eXhorted to
take the all conquering Jap for
model because he is the greatest bather
and water drinker on earth. But the
Jap lives ON rice and fish, and it is a
small wonder that he has thirst
which needs an ocean to drown It,
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1905-12-08

Paris will soon have its first Moham-
medan mosque, really the h-st in
France, which is strange, considering
that thousands of Mohammedans visit
that country every year and that Ger
many and England have each one or
more mosques.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1905-04-01
MIND A BLANK
FROM OVERWORK
YOUNG MAN FOUND IN CAIRO
AFTER LONG SEARCH BY HIS
FATHER, is SLOWLY REGAIN
ING HIS MEMORY.

The following special dispatch
from Wabash, Ind, TO the Chicago
lnter.Ocean will be read with much
interest by the readers Of the Bulletin
which yesterday printed the story of
the finding Of the young man in Cairo
by his father
Wabash. Ind. March Soils mind
blank since he disappeared from Win
field. Kas., Oct. ;, Guy Gardner. found
n Cairo. was yesterday brought back
aere by his father, who has become
bankrupt searching for him.
Gardner formerly was ticket agent
of the Big Four in Winfield He went
to the theater with his wife on the
night Of Oct 8 left her there, and
went to bis effice explaining that he
would return for her
His wife waited in van. and becom-
ing alarmed went home. and then
% his office.
A systematic search was begun.
His accounts were straight and mis-
domesi c life vas happy The mys-
terry completely baffled h. friends
until Wednesday, when his father
found him in the B e -Four Office in
Cairo. I'D
lie willingly accompanied his faith
er to- this place.
He declares he does not know what
has happened since the night he dis
appeared from Winfield, but the phy-
sicians say that his memory is gradu-
ally returning. They give overwork
as a reason for his strange malady.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1905-04-01
CASES DISMISSED
BY JUDGE BUTLER
AGAINST CAIRO DEMOCRATIC
LEADERS AND OTHERS FOR
THE TROUBLE AT THE JONES.
BoRo CONVENTION.

Judge W. S. Dewey returned from
Jonesboro yesterday, where ne went
to petition and argue to Circuit Judge
Butler for a change of venue in the
cases Of the indictments against b.
McManus Jr.. Richard Powers, Chief
Of Police Ben Price, of this city, Judge
Hart of Benton, w H. Warder, W. 5
Pope and s. P. Espy of Marion, for
alleged rioting in the Democratic sen.
atorial convention held at Jonesboro
last fall
Judge Dewey, who represented the
defendants made the plea on the
ground Of the political feeling which
hal been engendered in Jonesboro,
and Union county. The petition was
granted and the case was transferred
to Murphysboro in Jackson county.
After Judge Butler announced his
decision, States Attorney James Lin
gle, of Union county. entered nolle
prOsequi in all the cases and they
were stricken from the docket and
the bondsmen released. Mr.. Lingle
said he did not feel like putting his
county to the heavy expense which
the transfer of the cases would entail.
Judge Dewey was assisted in the
defense by Hon D. w. Karraker of
Union county
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1905-04-01
COHEN DESERVES
TO Be MENTIONED
WHEN LOOKING FOR THE PRIZE
SWiNoLER OF THE YEAR
MADE WAY WITH s25o.ooo HE
SAID He LOST GAMBLING.

Springfield. H.. March 31.-Judre
Humphrey today granted a petition nj
directors of the Jacksonville National
bank. asking that Jacob Cohen of that
city, be adjudged a bankrupt From
the testimony it was shown that Co
hen during the four months previous
70 March 9 when 2 petition in bank
ruptcy was filed against him. had ship.
ped goods 10 the amount of Sl40.0uo
from his stock in Jacksonville ana
that on March 9Th. he had decided 10
members Of his family real estate 10
the value Of s5o0o0 and that few
days previous 20 that date he had
taken chscks aggregating $50 e0a.
which he had received from shin
ments Of goods TO Chicago. and cashed
them He claimed on his examination
few weeks ago that he had lost all
this money in Chicago gambling
houses. HIS Indebtedness TO directors
Of the bsHk Is Sz1.00o.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1905-04-01
THE SPAN ACROSS
THE MISSISSIPPI
AT Thebes Now Connects I'LL.
nOis and Missouri
WORK is ALMOST DONE
AND BRIDGE WORKERS ARE SAY.
ING GET AWAY MONEY!
PLAN BIG TIME AT OF
FlciAL OPENING.

Unless the weather proves remark
ably unfavorable the big bridge
across the Mississippi river will prob
ably be completed within a few days,
says the Thebes Star There is no
more conclusive evidence of this fact
than that the bridge workers are
saving what they term get away"
money During the months of work
here many Of them saved nothing of
their earnings, but now that they will
soon be compelled 10 leave they are
preparing for such a trip as may be
necessary to reach a place where they
/ will find employment at their danger
Gus though fascinating calling. 1t is
aid some will &c TO point in New
1 Mexico where a bridge is in course Of
1 construction.
The travellers, used for adjusting
and temporarily supporting The mass
/ i've pieces of iron forming the bridge.
have been placed for the last time
and only a short space now remains
/ between the two closest parts of the
structural work The traveller on the
Illinois side was put in place Monday
/ evening at o'clock and the one on
the Missouri side Tuesday morning at
o'clock
4 The first man TO cross from one
side to the other was George w.
Brown, foreman on the Missouri
side. When the travellers were placed
! he made his way across the tops,
gaining the distinction of being the
/ first man to cross the Thebes bridge.
There is considerable rivalry among
/ bridge men in this respect and Mr..
Brown has frequently been first 10
/ cross new structures.
Just what date the bridge will be
opened cannot be determined, but it
will probably be about April 20, al
though the main work will be complet-
ed before that time On the opening
day several trains of excursionists
will be run into the city and special
cars filed with prominent railroad Of
feials will visit the bridge,
Il is said that the first test of the
big structure will be the pulling of
eighteen large engines across. and it
Is reported that Engineer McCracken
Of this city will be assigned the duty
Work on the bridge was slightly re-
tarded this week on account of high
wind and rain Tuesday and Wednes
day. The contractors are expecting
fine weather and, under favorable CON
ditions, the building OF the bridge
will soon be thing of the past.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1905-04-01
HAVE AN EYE ON
GLASS PLANTS
Commercial Club May GO on
promoting Expedition
A CHANCE FOR CAIRO
BIB CONCERNS TO LEAVE INDI-
ANA OWING TO HIGH PRICES
OF COAL AND SAND
CAlRoiTES INTER
ESTED.

If the plans now on foot are carried
lut this summer a committee from the
Cairo Commercial club will pay Wis
i to the large glass plants and other
Institutions in central Indiana in
hopes of interesting them in Cairo,
With the view of inducing some Of the
7ormer factories, which ii is under
TODD will soon leave that region, ow-
ng to the scarcity of coal and sand,
0 locate in this city
In Grant county there are numerous
glass plants which employ from 80 to
800 people daily, the year round. The
managers of these concerns have real
zed that their profits would be great
ar If located in region where coal
nd sand could be secured at lower
igures. The coal now used is mined
in Ohio and Pennsylvania and the cost
If transportation by rail has made Il
quite expensive.
Mir r. c. Allen of the Hotel Illinois.
formerly lived in Paramount, Ind, and
personally acquainted with a num-
per Of the manufacturers and he has
Interested a number of the prominent
members of the Commercial club in
he matter. which will probably come
lp in a definite shape at the next
Meeting
A committee representing Greater
afro, we'll fortified with advertising
natter and literature telling Of the
treat advantages that Cairo possesses
ma holds out to all industrial lines
might influence a great deal of good
n Cairo's behalf among the Indiana
capitalists
1t has been announced that a large
majority of these glass plants are
soon TO seek new locations and II is no
more than probable that with the
proper promoting Cairo can secure
A reasonable amount of them. Both
coal and sand can be secured here at
a much lower figure than the plants
are now paying.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1905-04-01
ARRANGE FOR THE
SCHOOL ELECTION
Judges and Clerks Chosen at
Meeting Yesterday
MAY Be CANDIDATES
FOR REELECTION TO BOARD OF
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS M.
r. GILBERT TO BE ASK
ED TO MAKE RACE.

At meeting Of the board of cdu-
cation yesterday afternoon arrange
ments for the coming school election
were made. The election viii De held
on Saturday. April 15tn. at which time
a president for one year aud three
members for three years viii be elect
ed
G. b. S. Pennebaker and James Cal
ligan were selected TO act ats judges
and Ed Carey and f. L. Gilbert chosen
as clerks. The meeting was attended
By President ~ r. Gilbert and mem
bers Gaiiigan, Carey Pennebaker
stuart. Mrs. Martin. Mrs. White.
Routine business was transacted and
claims and accounts were allowed
Al the school election on the 18th of
April Messrs. Jones and Stuart and
Mrs. Martin. the retiring members.
will probably Doe induced 90 stand for
reelection Hon. NJ. F. Gilbert has
expressed a desire NOT 90 stand for re
election for president of The board
bat there is committee endeavoring
TO induce him 20 allow his name TO be
used again
Mr. Gilbert has served on the board
Of education for the past ~ wears. For
the past 20 years be has been the
president Of it and has always render
ea Invaluable service to the city's ed.
Vocational interests
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1905-04-01
FIRE DESTROYS
THREE COTTAGES
Houses al 1906, zoos and 1910
Poplar Street Burned
HOUSEHOLD STUFF LOST
TOTAL LOSS ABOUT $t,2oo-SuF.
FERERS WERE PIERCE
QUINN, HENRY LANG
AND NEWT HOWARD.

All 2:30 o'clock this morning fire
which originated from a defective nue
in the home of Price Quinn, at No.
1905 Poplar street, destroyed that
building and the two buildings adjoin-
ing, Nos 1908 and 231O and occupied
respectively by the families of Newt
Howard and Henry Lang. The house
at 230S was owned by Tom Fuller,
While Messrs. Quinn and Lang owned
the houses they occupied.
The houses were each worth about
5000. The Quinn ana Lang homes
were insured, but the Fuller cottage
was total loss. The buildings were
one story frame structures.
Mr. Howard lost everything he had
in the way of household furniture, be
sides a large number of chickens in
coop near the house, which were also
burned.
Messra Quinn and Lang also suffer
ed heavily on household effects, but
each saved "A considerable amount
The total loss will be something
like $1,000 not including the loss ON
household goods
The water pressure was said TO he
unusually strong, but the hose bursted
in several places a number Of times,
greatly handicapping the fremen in
their efforts.
The flames had gotten under such
Roadway before the fire company
could arrive that the buildings could
not be saved.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1905-04-01
River Forecasts.

The Ohio at Evansville will con
time falling for an indefinitely per
iod The rate of fall viii be rapid
daring the mex several days. At
Mount Vernon. will commence fall
ing within The next 10 hours. and fall
for an indefinite period At Paduc
very little change during the next
hours. then commence to fall At Ca
iro win Sc slowly during TIE next q
hours. then remain prac ically alton
dry for a day or two The TENNESSEE
from Florence to the mouth will con
t.nue to fall slowly during the next
Sc hours The Mississippi from ches.
ter 10 Cairo. no material change dur
ing The next Sc hours.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1905-04-01
FLASH LIGHT PHOTOGRAPH
Killed One and Injured Gathers AS il
Was Taken.

Omaha Neb. March 31.-While TAX
ing q flash light photograph in a sa.
loon this afternoon Albert W.. Butler
was instantly killed and William Cof-
fee, w Ja Murray, NJ, Levy seriously
Injured by an explosion Of powder
used by the photographer. Butler hal
set his grip containing large supply
of powder, near the tripod and when
he touched off the powder in the flash
pan the fire spread to the grip and the
explosion followed. The force of the
explosion threw Butler and his com
panions against wall, the formers
breast being torn away. The injured
men will recover.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1905-04-01
CHRONOLOGICAL
April l In History.

1405-Suitan Timour, or Tamerlane, con-
queror Of Persia died.
1878 William Harvey. who discovered the
circulation of the blood born at Foike-
stone. died 1857
1876 Reginald Heber bishop OF Calcutta
and author of From Greenland ley
Mountains and other hymns, died at
Trichinopoli: born 1873.
lSSs-Dr Emile Bessels, arctic explorer
died born 1877
1885, Baroness Clara de Hirsch de Cen
reuth. who left 500 100000 20 charity.
died in Paris American and English
forces ambushed near Apa; 3 oIhcers
and 4 sailors killed.
ioO2-Thomas Dunn English. poet and poli-
tician. author OF ben Bolt, cled At
Newark, n. j.; born 1873
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1905-04-01
THE GIRL AND THE BANDIT
MAKING BIG HIT IN ST. LOUIS

The Girl and the Bandit which is
the attraction at the Cairo opera
house next Monday, seems to have
made a hit in ST. Louis this week az
the Century as may be seen from the
following article in yesterdays St
Louis Star:
Numerically vocalIy, tHnefully
seenfcally. IN fact from almost every
view point, "The Girl and The Bandit'
is the moneys worth. Especially so
can tbs be said for the personnel Of
the company, for one has but 10 run
down the cast and renew old and
pleasant acquaintanceshlp and recall
former successes.
Eddie Foy is nor with The show
but his double is Neil Mcneil. play