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The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1905-11-09
COAL STRIKE PROBABLE,
AGREEMENT MADE THREE YEARS
AGO BETWEEN MINERS AND OPE.
RATORS EXPIRES NEXT APRIL.
Miners Will Then Demand Eight
Hour Day and Recognition Of Union.
Owners Will Vigorously Oppose.
Charles L. Kern.
With the coming Of winter many q

With the coming of winter many a
Id seholder has calculated upon the
probability Of a strike in the anthra-
cite coal regions and wondered wheth-
er he should take the precaution to lay
In a full supply OF fuel. The day
when the proyldent man laid up great
stores for the frozen period or the
year, filed his larder with good things
to eat and his bins with fuel, against
the inclement weather, has departed
so far as the cities of this country are
concerned. Now rich and poor alike.
the provident and the improvidcnt,
pok to- Sr,merchant to:keeQ.theiE lar,
ders- filfed .ssTheir only. pfositleffee~ Is
in laying up the money with which to
purchase supplies when needed.
1t is this change in the method Of
providing for the home, that has made
the strike in recent years so terrible
to the humble consumer, who may
live a thousand miles from the scene
of the industrial discomfort and know
nothing of its causes except that
which he reads in his daily paper, and
yet be the principal sufferer from the
shortage of supplies that follows.
| The effectiveness of the strike Is its
power to create such shortage In
supplies and to bring the country up
ON the verge of q famine as bad as
a food famine. Transportation, by
quickly distributing products over the
world, hasiroutedSth ~famiVeso Of old
that spring from the faifurezof crops.
Now the cessation Of labor produces
the same shortage Of supply that was
formerly produced by the uncontroll-
able elements.
| The chief protection against the re-
currence, of strikes has been found in
agreements made between employers
and employees, the present agreement
in the anthracite coal fields being
| effective until April LIST next. Until
after that date, according to the state
ments Of leading labor organization
1 officials. there will be no strike, as
| they propose to stand for the invlon-
bility of contracts made by any of
their affiliated associations.
The good Offices of the President of
the United States were used with
great advantage in bringing about an
agrecmcnt, between the coal opera.
tors and the miners three years ago
so as to make possible the production
of coal. The fact is the President
used only that indefinite power that
may be regarded as the influence of
his great office skillfully employed
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1905-11-09
Wields a Great Power.

in bringing the two sfaos to the con;
troversy together. -
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1905-11-09
CoNsUELo, DUCHESS OF MARLBOROUGH.

Only the hardest dared face the dis.
approval of the public of that day.
But now the army of stenographers,
clerks, physicians, preachers, social
workers and business women attest the
wonderful change in her status. To
day, given capacity, training and perse-
verance, there are few, if any, avenues
of legitimate endeavor closed to woman
If now and then a few overstep the
bounds of discretion and good taste,
and thereby call down the censure of
the better element, who knows but that
it is the pendulum swinging little far
"a rebound from the extremes of
former days. The real balance will
be maintained when woman is permit
ted to express her individuality and
to live her own life.
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THE HUMAN FLY.
REMARKABLE ExPLOIT OF AIM.
ING HANGER WHO CLIMBS
TALL BUILDINGS. e :
Witnessed by Gaping Multitude. He
Assembled and Descended the Tow
ering "Fiatiron."-Mifc and Child.
rem Among Nervous Spectators.

There is a man who climbs the outer
walls of the highest buildings and
who uses neither rope, tackle Ior seal
ing ladder. This man does not tell of
his daring feats, nor has he a press
agent to exploit his dizzy achieve
.ments, He performs this work in view
of gaping multitudes who cheer and
shudder as this man goes up sheer
walls, digging his tough and nimble
toes into the interstices of the stone.
catching a cornice or window sill
and Ginning" himself up AMI do,ag
other most venturesome acrobatiC
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Few people understand what an i'm
mense power is welded by the Presi-
dent of the United States when that
Office is filled by a mau oil good judg-
ment. The President, by issuing an
invitation to the men on both sides of
the coal controversy under the circum-
stances that existed three years ago,
practically forced them to agree to an
arbitration of their differences, be-
cause, had either party to that contro-
verSy declined to enter the agreement.
it would have so fully lost public SYM
pathy as TO have been eventually.driv-
en- TO surrender wholly to its opponent.
In that case the power behind the
President was the power Of public
opinion. Not only is public opinion,
when focused by so skillful a hand
as that of President Roosevelt, capa-
BILE of forcing arbitration, but 1t is a
satisfactory guarantee that the agree
mcnt when made will be kept faith.
fully by both sides to the controversy,
More Drastic Measures In Reserve.
But while the office of the Prcsi-
'tisss xi. sp .s,l
| was used in. that case, it is a well
known fact that the President was
considering other means for forcing
an arbitration, had the mine opera
tors declined to agree to lay their
differences before a board of arbitra-
ton. The President not only has well
defined powers that are constantly ex-
crcised, and with which the people are
| fully acquainted, but he has other still
more important powers which he can
exercise at his discretion in cases of
great emergency. and which 1t was I'M
dcrStood at the time of the great an
thracite coal strike he considered
using in order to bring relief to the
Shiverlng multitudes of the land. lie
may do many things for the public
good" That is an i Indefinite term
allowing u wide Interpretation, but
there are many people who believe
that had the coal strike Of 1902 contin'
ued little longer the President would
have declared martial law in the
1aHthraeit feggieHs, and not only woHld
have thrown troops into that section
but would have ordered the mining OF
the coal and its distribution to rcllcv,
the distress of the country.
But, according TO assurances thai
have been given to the public, the
country is safe from a coal famine. Al
least until April LIST. 1906. Then there
will be another meeting between tn,
miners and the coal operators and The
miners will demand both an cigh
hour day and the recognition of thcil
union. The recognition of their union
will be resisted by the mine owner,
to the last, and while it seems but
sentimental issue it will be inSistc,
upon by the miners, and it may event
ually be made the cause of anothc
strike. One thing which may b,
borne in mind is that in case Of :
strike, the public. in the last analy".s
pays all the costs.
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tempted to speak at a temperance con-
vention recalls to mind the old story
of Lucy Stone. of Massachusetts,, a
pioneer suffragist, who, after her grad
uation at 0berlin, Ohio 1.-THE only col
lege admitting women at that time),
desired to speak In one Of the Mass
achusetts churches. The announcement
Of the address was made by the min
lister of the church in the following
words:
"a hen wishes to crow like a rooster In
body liking that kind of music Is in
vited to attend"
1t seems almost incredible in these
days that time was, and only half a
century ago, too. when woman's activ.
ity was limited to so small circle.
AS a means of livelihood she had but
three vacations from which to choose:
Homework, sewing and teaching; and
all poorly paid, at that. Marriage was
supposed to be the chief end and aim
of her existence. This state she sought,
sometimes as refuge from greater
ills. A girl single at % or % was con-
sidered an "old maid" No woman.
except among the Society of Friends,
could be ordained to preach the gospel.
The -wpssNF Nbfsician or 'xYyer was
an uIffhuwff Fddntity. s4~S---.|~
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made his climbing skill pay. Though
married five years his wife has never
seen him at his work of scaling the
outside Of tall buildings until he I'M
dertook the removal of awnings from
the windows of the towering Flatiron
building. Until that time" said the
lady to reporter, Il never saw him
at the work. | knew he was removing
awnings from the Flatiron building.
SO | went over 10 Manhattan to meet
him yesterday, afternoon, and | took
our two children. Lawrence, two and
half years old, and Hazel. four years
old, and waited for John in front OF
the Bartholdi Hotel. OF course
never thought John would climb that
IriShtfully tall building. l was stand
ing there when one of the workmen,
who Knows me, came over and said:
Your husband will be with you soon,
he's just coming from the ninth story
now | thought he meant John would
be coming by the elevator, so | didn't
look up 10 the windows.
The workman told me to look up.
did, and | nearly tainted, for there
was my husband with his hands on the
sill of window on the ninth story
aud his toes in the groves between the
grew dizzy and wanted to
turn away.
Something held me fascinated,
though, and | watched him coming
down in sort of criss-cross fashion
as quickly as a man would run down
ladder. said to Lawrence, There's
your papa and the baby laughed and
clapped his hands with joy. He didn't
understand the danger, but Hazel did.
and she began to cry. couldn't look
any longer and | turned my head
away. but could hear the noise of
the great crowd that was watching
him. | looked again, thinking he
must be on the sidewalk by this time.
Imagine my horror when saw he had
started climbing upward after had
turned away, and was then just up to
the cornice. He looked like a little
black fly against the white stone. He
waved one hand and then began to
move down | watched him, but some
times closed my eyes when it seemed
that he had made misstep. The
crowd was so great That When he
swung down to one of the store avn
ings could only see him drop off and
disappear into the maze of men gath
cred about"
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The Women Held Aside Their Skirts.

When Antoinette Brown Blackwell.
the first woman TO graduate in medi-
cine in this country, appeared on the
streets the women she met held aside
their skirts for fear Of contamination
from so unwomanly a creature. The
bars Of prejudice were high and strong.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1905-11-09
When Efforts Began.

these were the beginnings Of the
activity Of women in public movements,
involving social reform, which now are
having their full development in all
lines Of endeavor. When one reflects
that the hardships faced by women
speakers in those days ranged from hos.
tile and rude Interruptions to measures
Of even more active discomfort and un-
plessantness, reminding one Of an un-
popular Political campaign. and yet
that they have persevered in their ef-
forts, one cannet help being proud Of
their pluck and perseverance which
has had such splendid results"
Reference to the woman who at
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BIRDS POINT, Mo.
EEI. guIy s, sso5. J.

WI ~ N~~~H
3irs. Maxwell and Miss Kittie Vow
ellis Of Wyatt. Mo. visited Mrs. Albert
Blattan Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Grant Piper of Cairo,
visited relatives here Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jewell Deaton OF
Jonesboro. Arr. arrived Monday TO
visit parents anu friends
Mrs. w. Beckwith and Mrs. Wood
Wayne departed for Louisville. Ky,
Sunday.
Miss Addie Byrnes OF st. Louis, is
visiting her brother, ]. d. Byrnes
this week.
Mrs. Dora Woods of oran, Mo, Is
visiting Mr.. and Mrs. J. d. Byrnes.
Mrs. Geo. Styles and children visit
ed relatives here Monday and Tues
day.
Prof. j. w. Revelle and daughter,
Miss Minnie. and Waldmar and JAG
que. returned from Lutesville Monday
night
j. T. Curran Of Cairo. was on oar
streets Monday.
J. A. Rhodes Of Charleston, Mo, was
In town Monday writing fire insur
ance
A. b. Sinks Of Charleston, Mo.
proprietor OF the Charleston Star
spent the Fourth here.
The Baptist ladies will give an ICE
cream social at their church Tuesday
night, July 25th to raise balance Of
pastors salary. Everybody cordially
invited
/ The two picnics given by the NJ
w. OF A. and w. o. w. boys were
well offended and success financial
III. Numbers OF visitors from ths
neighboring states and cities were
present. A more orderly crowd O
picnicers never assembled here.
hey. q P. Rooney. wife and littl,
daughter Of Wyatt, Mo-. visited friends
and relatives yesterday. Rev. Rooney
has accepted call to the First Bap
list church at Wickliffe, KY, and viii
move there this week.
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WICKLIFFE, ky.

JuIx S. 1905.

Mr.. and Mrs. Joe Davee, DR.. Hobbs
and wife and Misses Lou Byrn and
Clemmie Simmons Fourthed in Cairo
and Birds Point.
Mr.. r. Evans says that while every
body else was celebrating yesterday
he bougat about 5 900 bushels Of wheat
for market
Mrs Hugh Oyerstreet took II upon
herself rD entertain b lot OF the little
tots on last Saturday. They adjourned
to ashady grove near the school heuss
where they spread picnic dinner afif
spent most of the day enjoying them
selves hugely.
Most everybody except the tele
phone people. spent the day out d
town Yesterday
There seems at this time to be LITTLE
hope a the recovery OF Tom Somers
who N very iii AT. his home on Ten
\: nessee street E8
Miss Emily Marshall of BIandville
who Isl PROSTATE with sciatica, 10 re
ported to be no better.
IA child OF Mr.. Ben Rogers, OF Bar
low. Is very Ill, they having called ii
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SCHOOL ELECTION.

Public notice Is hereby given that
on Saturday, the eighth day of July, A.
ID. 1905, an election will be held az
N. 800 Washington avenue. tThe
hardware store of Mr. A Haley in
the city Of Cairo, Illinois, between the
hours of eight o'clock a. m. and four
o'clock p. m. Of said day, for the par
nose OF submitting to the vote of the
people the following propositions.
/. For the purchase Of a site for
school building tobe erected by the
board Of education in township No
IL. south, nnge /, west, in Alexander
county in the district knewn as Future
City.
Q. For the erection Of a schoc
building on said site.
Against the erection Of q schoo
building on said ste.
3. For the purchase OF site for q
school building to be located by tht
board OF education IN township No. AZ
south, range 1, west, in Alexander
county Illinois, tn either SECTION II
z, 3 or 10.
Against the purchase Of a site for
school building to be located by th'
board Of education in township No. II
snmth, range 4, west, In Alexands
county, Illinois, in either section II
2, or 10.
4 For the erection Of " schoo
building on said site.
Against the erection Of schoc
building on said site.
Dated this 9th day of June, A. D
1906.
ri u. HALLIDAY, President.
| EDWARD l.. GILBERT, Clerk.
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THE LEGEND or EVILS.

This Is the sorrowful story
Told when the twilight naiIs
And the monkeys walk together
Holding each others taiis.
Our fathers lived in the forest,
Foolish people we're they;
They went down to the cortland
TO teach me farmers to play
"Our fathers fslsed in the millet,
Our fathers skipped in the wheat,
Our fathers hung in the branches,
Orr fathers danced IN the street
-Then came the terrible farmers.
Nothing Of play they knew,
Only they caught our fathers
And set them to labor too!
"set them to work. m the cortland
| With nlows and sickles and fails
Put them in mud-wAlled prisons
And cut Off their beautiful tailsl
Now we can watch our fathers,
Sullen and bowed ami old,
Shopping over the mllct1
Sharing the silly mold.
l"Driving foolish furrow,
Memling muddy yoke,
Sleeping In mud walled prisons,
Sleeping their food in smoke.
1--WE may not speak to 0ir fathers,
For II the farmers knew
They would come up to the forest
i And set us to labor too"
This Is the horrible story
Told as the twilight fails
And the monkeys walk together
Holding each others tails
--Rudyard kiplinx
The Cairo bulletin., 1905-07-06

The Ohio-~From Evansville No Pa
ducah will continue falling during the
next several days AT Cairo will rise
slightly during the neXt Do hours.
The Tcnnessee-From Florence to
The mouth, will continue failing dur
ing the next several days.
The Mississippi From below 81
Louis TO Cairo. will continue rising
during the next iS hours.
p. IA. SMYTH, Local Foresaster.
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NEWS OF THE RIVERS
Business Brisk at Sixth Street Wharf
Expected That River Has
Reached Highest Point and
VIII Fall Within Two
Days.

River business has been decidedly
brisk for the past few days, the many
arrivals and departures being due,
perhaps, TO the present rise in the
river. The stage yesterday afternoon
read S1.5 feet, or rise of but OIL of a
foot in twenty-four hours, and it is
expected that within The next two
days fall will set in and bring with
it slump in business at the Sixth
street wharf
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ELCO
July 5. lee.

Mr. P. L Bonner has sold his farm
east Of this place.
The ice CLEAN supper given by the
NJ. r. church was a success.
Quite a large crowd went to ullen
yesterday 10 spend the Fourth and re
ported good time.
Mr. |. Cauble is doing a fine business
Ia his new store which he bought from
Goodman a 0ller.
The wheat crop in this part of the
county is very poor but the corn looks
fine.
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Just Rccsived.

Fifty handsome willow rockers,
worth $3.50 each Will be sold at
special price OF $e.49. Southern store
Company, III Commercial avenue.
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For Half a. Century.

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AND MALARiAL DISEASES,
OUCH AS
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Headache, Worms, Neuralgia, Swamp
Fever, Jaundice, ErysIpeIas, Renal
and General Dropsx Ague Cake, La
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AS female regulates, blood pnri.
fer and in rousing torpid liver they
have no equal.
Malarhl Rheumatism always bene'
fitted and generally cured.
When your brain refuses to work
and your whole nervous system n
on the ragged edge OF utter prostra
don, and your very vitality seems
oozing away, take Woods FeveI
Pills and shout Eureka.
soc a Box. II Your Druggist Don
Keep thom write 70 ~.
DIR. WIN. WOOD & SONS,
CAIRO, ILLINOIS
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NsM Steamer 5. 5. RroMn.

Nav Steamer S. S. Brown.
'Rie s. S. Brown is che name select :.
ed by the directory Of the Arkansas
River PackS Company for the new
steel hull passenger ru& freight steam
.er now under construction for that
company at the James Rees & Sous
Company works at Pittsburg. All the
meeting Of the directors in this city
yesterday the name was adopted. Sew
eral names were suggested, and dis
cussed but the name of $. s. Brown
was presented by Capt Ed Rowland,
vice president of the company, and
was unanimously adopted. Capt s.
s, Brown of Pittsbnrg In well known
In Memphis, as he was for years a
prominent coal operator and president
of the Pittsburg Coal Company He
| is also well known on the turf, having
| been the owner of fine string of rae
ers for several years. He is presi.
dent Of the Arkansas River Packet
Company and will ne doubt appreciate
/ the honor conferred upon him by his
business associates The S. S, Brown
| Is 10 be big steel hull passenger and
4 freight steamer, 225 feet long, with a
44.foot beam. and is 10 be equipped
with modern compound machinery
u viii have a full length cabin anC
I Texas, and IL to he one of the fines
boats on the river. II Is for the Mem
phis and Eicksbarg trade. Work ha'
Just started ON II, and 1t will require
alomst agyear to construct II. TIL,
construction OF the boat is beinI
hooked after personally by Capt. Jane
Rees, one Of the best known boa
+ builders In the country emphi
r Commercial.Appeal
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A Hard Test
or a Range.

We viii submit the great MAJESTIC to test
that no other range that we know of stand
During baking we will place four thermometers
Id the oyen one in each corner, and when taken out
they will not vary in the least. We can show you
how this is accomplished any time you can.
So often we have shake their
heads when mention this fact, but
it's true nevertheless, ask any user Of
Majestic and she'll tell you the same.
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Rogers. OF this place. Mr. Rogers and
tho doctor are brothers.
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The passenger business Is better on
the Ohio river packets this summer
than Y has been for years. One rea.
son Is that the boats are better. clean.
er and present a frcsher appearance,
are better advertised and, therefore,
are deserving Of the patronage Of tray.
elers Next year there should be fur
Their landings and in Ave years river
interests expect TO see the packet
business In as splendid condition AS II
was IN ante-bcllum days.--Louisville
CONFECTIONERY
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this city at O'Clock yesterday morn
ing and departed for Paducah at 4:15
O'Clock to resume her regular trade.
The government towboat Patrol de.
parted at 5:ss O'Clock yesterday morn
ing for Memphis after her officers had
made an inspection Of the government
river stage here.
The Harry Brown departed for Lou
isyille at 6 o'clock a. m. yesterday with
/ II empty coal barges. Her tow Of &c
loaded barges was left here for the st.
Louis boats to deliver,
The w. w. O'Neill arrived from
Louisville yesterday morning at 7;45
O'Clock with a tow Of n GOAL and .
model barges- She departed for New
Orleans with the same tow at 12:3e
O'Clock in the afternoon.
1 The Ghisca Ihssed from Rose Clare
| for the lower Mississippi with four
harGes of stone at o'clock yesterday
irhofffing
/ The Stacker Lee, on her regular
"trip from St Louis to Memphis. ar
i rived at 10: 80 o'clock d. M. yesterday
and departed al 1 o'clock In the after
Inoon
il The City OF Memphis, bound for the
ETennessee river from ST. LnAis came
in at noon yesterday and departed at
IL o'clock.
H The Herman Paepcke left for the
| Mississippi light at l O'Clock yester
day afternoon
The Dick Fowler arrived on her reg
lular trip from Paducah at 4 o'clock
Inearly three hours late ON account Of
her excursion to Hickman. She de
parted on her return trip at 5:SC
O'Clock
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Alexander
County National
Bank

Commercial Ave. and Eighth Street,
CAIRO. ILLINOIS.
----------
Capital ...... ..8.a..... ...,.- 100000
Surplus and undivided profits, $4,000
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The Dick Fowler arrived from HIGH
man with her excursion party from
this city at O'Clock yesterday morn
ing and departed for Paducah at 4:15
O'Clock to resume her regular trade.
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Accounts OF corporations and individ-
nails especially solicited. Exchanges
furnished To any part of the world.
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officers


\ Interest paid on time deposits at the
rate d three per cent per annum.
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The government towb0at Patrol de-
parted at 5:ss o'clock yesterday morn
ing for Memphis after her officers had
made an inspection of the government
river stage here.
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River Forecasts.

Stage at Cairo brly 6, 1905, "a
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Why Some Ovens
Don't Bake.

Sheet iron will not rust near as quick
~ as sheet steel.