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The Cairo bulletin., 1906-07-02

Scandalons Tmnndence.

Al the art exhibition indignant hus-
band points out 20 wife a study of a
picturesque beggar "This is shameful.
my dear What are We coming to?
Here's a man to whom Id give a coin
if ! saw hin. in the street. and yet he
'ar afford 10 have his portrait done in
l- ir Rive.
The Cairo bulletin., 1906-07-02


Scaled proposals for he construc
ton If the frs five and one half miles
OF the road bed approximately $50.
0o0 cubic yards Of grading, etc. he
tween Cairo. Illinois, and Beech Ridge.
Illinois. will be received by the Cairo
& Thebes Il. r. Co, mp to noon July
10th, 1906. Profile and specifications
may be seen al the office Of the Chief
Engineer Of the Company at Cairo, m.
inois, on or after July 9Th, 1906.
Payments viii be made on the 18th
Of each month of which satisfactory
assurance win he furnished bidders.
The right To reject any or all bids
Is reserved.
f. A. SMITH
The Cairo bulletin., 1906-07-02
sTATE OF ILLINnIs- Alevnnl

County. s..
In the Alexander county circuit
court. October term. A. D. 1906. In
Chancery Sitting.
Eva Moody, complainant. ". Ed
The Cairo bulletin., 1906-07-02
Reduced Rates to jackson. Tenn, Ac-
count Chautauuua.

witt tI3fIuN"VNuds
VIII be In effect via the Mobile and
Ohio Railroad throughout the Assem-
bly, June 29th TO July Sth On June
goth and July End, 4th and 9TH. tickets
TAINTED for return 10 July 9TH will
be sold at especially low rates. Call
on NJ. e. o. agents for particulars.
The Cairo bulletin., 1906-07-02

Cairo. H.. June 81. 1906.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-10-09
{CH0ozS
(oLLEGEs


There is revival of interest in Kansas
in consolidation of rural schools. Their
number has increased from six in 1908
10 twenty in 1906. A large number OF
communities are now considering the
question.
The Michigan State department of edu-
cation issues as Bulletin No. 10, The
law and proceedings for consolidating
school districts and results of consolida-
ton in the rural schools of Michigan.
Copies sent on request.
The board of education at Mt. Vernon
A city of 10000 people, declines to accept
teachers excuses for absence that are
signed by Christian Science healers or
osteopaths. The rule requires a ''regu-
larly licensed physician.
Claude E. Palmer, an employee of a
western railroad at Osawatomie, han.-
who has been working his way through
the university of that State, has been APP
pointed to a scholarship in the New York
School of Applied Sciences through the
influence of Miss Helen Gould.
From the first year of the Hyannis
Normal school there has been a students
loan fund and fully 10 per cent of the
graduates have made use of it. 1t is in
teresting to note that these same gradu-
ates have been among the most success
full. Principal Baldwin appeals for funds
10 mt it on a permanent basis.
An Illinois decision is that critic teach
ers in the practice department of a normal
school may not be paid out of local funds
The court held that the work of the critic
teacher is to teach pedagogy. and that
pedagogy has no lawful or proper 2 ace
IN the curriculum of the common schools
Cambridge. Mass. provides for privi-
Ieges of study and travel one year in
seven for the public school teachers. \
teacher draws part salary and has regu-
lar position upon return.
4 peculiar feature Of the new teachers
peusion Law for Troy. \. Y is that to
retire on pension the teacher must have
contributed to the fund al least one-fifth
of his salary at time Of retirement.
New Jersey has a new teachers pen
sion bill. Il provides for retirement on
one-haIf the average annual salary after
thirtv-five years Of service, twenty-five Of
which must BE- in the district where the
retirement takes place
The recently conducted eye and ear test
in Vermont shows that out OF 41.373
school children examined 1920, OF 34.5
per cent. were found defective. The ex-
animation covered 2.065 schools in the
State.
The japanese have adopted a compul-
sorry system Of national education. Boys
and girls must attend school as soon as
they attain the age Of six. and remain
there until the age Of fourteen. The first
four years they teach them the japanese
and Chinese languages. and the latter
four years they add English: when boys
and girls are graduated from the Jap
anese common schools they can read and
speak English
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-10-09
Short Personals.

Herbert II. d. Peirce, the newly ap-
pointed American minister in Norway.
has arrived in Christiania.
Charles Francis Brush, the noted Cleve-
land electrician, has on his office door
Office hours, II 80 to H." He is al
ways there promptly and never works
overtime.
Bishop Henry Y. Satterlee of Wash
ington, ID. c., has arrived from Europe.
where he spent six weeks inspecting the
English cathedrals with a view of adopt
ing al. that is good in them in the con.
s;ruction of the new Cathedral of st.
Paul and st. Luke, in Washington.
One of the few bells cast by Paul Re
we're now in existence is to be taken from
the belfry of the old Baptist church in
Warren, K. l., to be recaSt at Troy, n.
Y. A member of the church will oversee
the job and will write an account of the
undertaking for historical purposes.
Justice Brewer of the United States
Supreme Court says he spends the whole
vacation period loafng. From June to
Oct. l | am absolutely no account to any
body in the world and l don't make a
single unnecessary move from the time |
leave the Supreme Court till l get back
20 it."
Captain Sverdrup, the arctic explorer.
who recently added 100000 square miles
Of ice to the King of Swedens domin-
ions. spent his boyhood days on forest
farm.
Thomas \. Edison has planned a 2.5eO-
mile automobile trip for the coming
month. which viii extend into Canada,
where he viii extensively explore the CO
bait deposits.
John Jacob Aston is the largest private
owner OF automobiles in this country.
They number twenty-foCT: the average
cost of each IS about 5000. making a
total Of $4,000 invested in mis- ma
chimes.
Lord Stratheona stated al the annual
meeting Of the Hudson Bay Company in
London recently that forty years ago the
company's land in Canada could not have
been sold for cent an acre. Now the
average price IS $3.50.
Bowman Fl. McCalla. recently retired
a. rear admiral OF the United States
navy. was noted as the strictest disciple
marian in that branch Of the service. Dur
ing the Spanish war some marines from
the Marblehead signaled Come and take
rs of we are getting the worst OF II
here The only kind Of marines | will
take on nv ship viii be dead marines, -
NIcCalla answered, and the marines staid
and won
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-10-09
HOW DIFFERENT NATIONS SLEEP
Wooden Neck-Rests Serve rs Pillows
in Japan.

Wooden Neck-Rests Serve as Pillows
In Japan.
1t is evidently custom that makes
comfort, even in the way men take their
rest. The feather beds so necessary in
the last generation are little less than
actual torments to this, while the Jap
anese doubtless would find even our
firm, fat mattress too soft, after their
mating couch and wooden neck-rest
The AngioSaXon race, so far as its
sleeping arrangements and means of
rest are concerned, is the most luxuri-
Gus in the world.
The Egyptians had a couch of pc
culiar shape, more like an old fashioned
easy chair, with hollow back and seat,
than a bed
The Chinese use low bedsteads, often
deliberately carved, and supporting only
mats or coverlids.
A popularity of the German bed is
its shortness; besides that, it frequent
ly consists in part of a large down pill
low or upper mattress, which spreads
over the person, and usually answers
the purpose of all the other ordinary
bedclcthing combined
The ancient Greeks and Romans had
their beds supported on frames, but not
fat like ours.
In the tropics men sleep In hammocks
or upon mats of grass. The East In
dian unrolls his light portable charpoy
or mattress, which in the morning is
again rolled together and carried away
by him.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-10-09

U PFR rs Fl eHmHE RnOPI


for the of the venture rests with the wife, To
be there certain things demanded of the hus
band He must be built reasonably strong lnes-in
short he must be fairly decent fellow and not actual
y lazy
But the wife must be She must add to every
quality required Of the thousand and one little
accomplishments and bits of cleverness and tact Only
a woman successfully cope with poverty. Any man
will become squald unkempt, pitifu when the wolf be-
gins prowling But a knows thousand ways to
battle him. She knows how TO lay white cloth on the
table and make flower bloom in the window. She
knows to convert plain into daintes and
it in attractive STYLE she knows how to be fine and
dainty cheap attire and to give the look Of home to
plain utterly lacking in luxury.
1t is hard to bring woman to the point of unlove
illness daily lfe-have you noticed how seldom it hap
pens2 When does. it is dreadful thing thing to be
spoken of with bated breath and yet know what
supreme genius we demand Of a woman when we take
it as matter of that she shall be good and clean
and and under the terrible burden Of life
long poverty.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-10-09
CHINA TO THE FORE.
Advanced More than Amy Othe
Eastern Nation In Five Years


No eastern nation, not even excepting
Japan, has made greater advances toward
western civilization than has China dur
ing the past five years. A recent imperial
decree makes some mastery of western
learning incumbent on those who hold
office. More than 5000 schools have been
established to enable the youths of the
land to comply with this decree This
creates a strong demand for American
teachers. Eleven thousand Chinese stu
dents are now in Toxic striving to obtain
from the government institutions and
schools the western learning. At least
2,OOO or 5000 of these students would
have come to America to study had it not
been for our immigration laws. Another
sign of the times is in the increase in
postoffces and the multiplication of news
papers. -Four years ago there were only
100 postofices; to-day there are 1900
In the city of Tien-Tsin four years ago
there were three newspapers. To-day
there are %. An imperial decree has for
hidden parents to bind the feet of their
girl babies. The New Testament has been
ordered into all the schools of at least
one large province, thus putting Christian
ity within reach of at least $4,000. 900
persons. A recent royal decree makes the
Christian Sabbath a holiday. The only
danger now in sight is from the reaction
which may follow these tremendous
changes in the policy of the government.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-10-09
TAKE MILLIONS FROM AMERICA.
Records Show that Immigraz.ts Send
Earnings to Home BANKS

Records show that Immigra7.ts Send
Earnings to Home Banks.
Millions of dollars in American gold
is being boarded annually in the banks
Of Italy by temporary Italian residents Of
the United States. This is news that
has just reached the government, along
with statement from the general COM
missioner of immigration at Rome that
The total immigration to the States from
Italy in the year 1905 approached the
100000 mark.
The idea of most italian emigrants,
says the immigration commissioner, is to
accumulate something like a fortune in
the States and return with it to Italy
The intimacy of the home connection is
shown by the exhibit of the Bank of M
pies, which, having advertised that sort
OF business as its speciality, has more than
$4,000 accounts opened by Italian emil
grants in the United States and placed to
their credit during the fiscal year Just
closed more than $500,000
During the same period Italians in
Argentina sent to this single bank $685.
900 and S425,000 came from Brazil.
The total receipts from such sources
at the Naples bank were 100000 above
those of the year before. And that is
only one bank among dozens in Italy.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-10-09

her. Then she comes back in an in
slant, scared to death, an she sort O.
stage-whispers to him, He's comm up
here. Put me somewhere, quick
Ridley pointed to a closet an she
jumps in an pulls the door to.
In walks a young man and says
Is this Mr.. RidleyY
1.-The same says Ridley. Have q
chair
Mr.. Ridley says he, slttin' down
opposite an assumin' a confidential
tone, my names Harder, and 1 live at
Glover's Flats. l amt been but two
years out O. Harvard, an it may be
I've got more money than brains, for
my gunner left me enough to live on
if l don't do a stroke o. work the rest
o. my days. But 1 won't farm it. Jour
nalism is my long suit, journalism. /
worked two years on the Crimson and
I've reported for the city papers, an
I've got the writin' fever I've been
watching the Clarion right along, an
you're all right, but you amt gettin'
on. You've got to quit, independence.
l kin see you've got Dimmycratic lean
ings, an it's easy to flop. Do that
an We'll win. l say we, because you're
goin' to take me in as a workin' part
ner. I'll pay the bills tomorrow an
We'll start her off on a new tack. /
kin git into the kind O. work love, an
we'll have her up to 5000 a week in
a years time. Is it go?
They was a haze in front O. Ridley S
eyes, an he didn't say nothin' for a
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-10-09
CITY HALLS HIDDEN OVEN.

1t Was Used Long Ago to Cook Hot
Pies for New York Aldermen.
Back Of one oak panel in the west
ern wall of the committee room adjoin
ing the Aldermen's chamber was found
yesterday bakers oven of long ago
Alderman Frank Bowling was chatting
with some friends in the room when he
happened to notice that the upper parl
of the panel was fitted with hinges.
There must be something behine
there; none of the other panels has &
hinge" Mr.. Bowling remarked after be
had gone on an exploring tour around
the room. 1t was suggested by one OF
the group that it might be another Sc
cret stairway, one similar to that found
when the city hall was renovated two
years ago, leading from the old Council
chamber down d winding way to &
small outlet on the north side of the
hall. Tradition has it that the stair
case was used by Aldermen who aftei
voting against the interests of theiI
constituents escaped by this staircase.
Curious to learn what was bidder
behind the panel Mr.. Bowling and his
friends began to pry it open. So many
coats of paint had been put upon it tn
tools were necessary to force it, and
when it was finally raised there Wa!
found an old-fashiOned oven built into
the threefOot brick wall, with small
chimney running to the roof. The oven
is about two feet deep by two feet wide
and it was half filled with ashes. II
has a heavy antique iron door fitted
with big fastening clamps.
Some of the discoveries were mysti'
fed as to how the oven was heated
There was no sign of place for build
ing fire. Marty Reese, the custodian
of the city hall for over quarter of a
century, was sent for and he delivered
this lecture, which explained every
thing:
"The city hall dates back to 1908
This room in which you are now stand
ing was in the early days of the history
of this building popularity known as the
Aldermen's tea yoom, although its off
cial designation was the members
room. In those times the Aldermen got
no salary. but the city allowed them to
spend its money for refreshments They
were served with tea and cakes and
pies, and in order that the cakes anC
pies might be served hot cook was
employed and the cooking was done II
this oven, which must have been closed
up for about seventy years, because
the panellng on these walls is that old.
New York Sun.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-10-09
DATA OF DEATH DEALING
GULF COAST GALE,

80 Ia foStimatedl 200
MOBILE-Whole city inundated; sew
enty-fve lives lost and many people IN
iured. Mobile is in need of provisions
property loss, $4,500,OOO.
PENSACOLA-Loss of life among fish
ermen and seamen heavy. Damage to
property estimated at $5000,0OO. The
navy ward is cut off and several warshlps
which were there may have been de-
stroyed.
NEW ORLEANS-Damage done to
the Trailer buildings, to gardens, tropical
plants and shade trees; wires down and
traffic at a standstill.
FORT MORGAN-Isolated and may
have suffered heavily. Two companies
of coast artillery are stationed there.
ELSEWHERE damage was
done to buildings and crops all along the
gulf coast. the loss being estimated at
hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-10-09
WOMAN TAUGHT CARPENTRY
From Saw and Hatchet She Al
vanced to Wood Carving.

FROM Saw and Hatchet She Al
vanced to Wood Carving.
When Hortense Tafel, daughter of 4
former mayor of Cincinnati. proposed
to teach carpentry and joining in the
manual training schools of Philadel-
phia. educators here simply hcoted,
says the Cincinnati Enquirer's Phila-
delphia correspondent When last week
she exhibited a most wonderful and ar
tistic collection of wood carvings and
cabinet work at the exclusive DreXel in
stitute, all the town sat up and took
notice. No such wood work has ever
before been seen in Philadelphia repre-
senting the hahdiwork of a woman,
Every piece in the comprehensive eX-
hibit was sold on sight
The DreXel Institute is unique
proposition in the world of education,
1t teaches dressmaking, but the stu
dents who come there to learn the art
must have money enough to pay for an
elaborate wardrobe. The tone OF the
place is registered in high c and above,
50 tHdI every tHiIS HAS SOSldl SiSulu-
canoe. 1t was in this place and amid
rich ultra exclusive surroundings that
Miss Tafel took up the work OF car
penter and seriously undertook 10 learn
the trade. For her it was only a step
from the saw, Ratchet and nails to the
art work of the old masters of machin-
cry and then came the skill and the
conception of wood carver.
No sculptor working in marble ever
lavished more interest upon his crea-
tons than did Miss Tafel upon the soft
lumber first given her to waste. She
spoilt nothing, she wasted nothing She
just worked and studied and studied
and worked and the plank of yesterday
was the carved pastel of tomorrow.
Then came the major pieces and no
mere furniture was evolved. Works of
art were produced and finally the great
est display of sloyd ever collected by
one artist in Philadelphia was put upon
exhibition. Each success led to another
and yet greater effort and finally a
space was cleared in the great rotunda
for the display of Miss TafeTs work.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-10-09
Disseminating the Habit.

HE fills men with dread They quail
before him. They can't call their souls
their own in his presence said Secre-
tary Taft, speaking Of a certain doml.
neering statesman. "He makes NE
think OF a writer / once met in the
West" and he went on to tell the story,
which is quoted in the New York Trib-
une:
In a small Western town, many years
ago, l put up at the Palace Hotel. /
was assigned to a room. There was nc
water In the room, and no towels. /
rang. There was no reply. 1 rang
again. Still no reply.
Again and again and yet again /
rang, and finally a waiter appeared.
He was a robust man Of stern and for
bidding aspect.
did you rlng?" he asked, in a rum
bling base voice.
Il did" I answered.
well, don't do it again." he an
swered, with menacing scowl, as he
withdrew.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-10-09
HOW HE KNEW HER.
' A~%~~~@~%&%~%~~~~&~~~N~


Miss E. Gertrude Thomson, the artist,
tells the following anecdote of the au-
thor of Alice in Wonderland" In
1878 she received a letter written in a
singularly boyish, legible hand. sent
from Christ Church, Oxford, and signed
by Z. l.. Dodgson. The writer said
he had come across some fairy designs
of hers, and he should like to see more
of her work. Some one Informed her
that the writer was Lewis Carroll. He
asked to be allowed to call upon her,
but when he came she was out; so they
arranged a meeting in South Kensing-
ton Museum.
She wondered how she could recog-
niZe him in the usual crowd, or he her.
She watched carefully, but saw no one
she thought could be the author of her
favorite book
Finally she heard high, vivacious
voices approaching and the laughter OF
children. A gentleman entered, two
little girls clinging to his hands. She
knew him instantly. He stood for a
moment, head erect, and glanced swift
ly round the room. Then he bent down
and whispered something TO one of the
children. After a moments pause she
pointed straight at Miss Thomson.
He at once came forward with ex-
tended hand.
Il am Mr.. Dodgson. I was to meet
you, l Think"
How did you know me?' she asked
My little friend found you. | told
her l had come to meet a young lady
who knew fairies, and she fixed on you
at once. But l knew you before she
spoke"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-10-09
Something Lacking.

One of the richest gold finds in Aus
tralia was made By a boy who picked
M a stone to throw at a crow, and no
ticed that there was gold in the stone.
When he reported the fact TO the To-
cal government officer. says the author
Of .The Romance Of Mining" the
warden endeavored TO notify the Gov
ernor By telegraph. He was, however.
too excited to be rational.
"A boy picked up a stone 10 throw at
a crow" he wired, and the amazed Of
fetal. unable 10 guess what there was
of significance in the event replied:
YES; and what happened to the
crown
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-10-09

we have endured, anguish which we have expert
enced love which has covered with smiles and tears
Our past it is ourselves, that which and that
which shall become; our past, it Is our secret pro-
mugaed by the mouth of the years. 1t is the most
terious image of being overtaken and guided by
Time.
To him who would paraded before him the divers
pasts of human assembly,, 1t would be most difficult to
designate which Of those pasts he would wish to live.
Perhaps he would deceive himself MORALLY in choosing
existence which overfows with enormous joys,
while his glance would light with Indifference upon
other apparently deserted but peopled with serene emo
tons and with redeeming, lofty thoughts Because
know we'll that thought sufices to overturn pro-
foundly would grand victory grand defeat that
which destiny has given to and that which it has
served for 1t makes noise 1t dashes pebbles
on the illusory route which see but TRANQUILITY 1t
raises ndestructbe pyramid at the turning of the
road real because it is secret and suddenly all that
has happened to the phenomena of the earth
and of the heavens takes a direction.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-10-09

spell. Then they just clasped hands
across the table and looked at each
other hard.
After a pause Ridley says, in a low
tone Harder, you're an angel. How
about the girl
The grill" says Harder, surprised.
What girl? On, yes, he continues,
there's a girl. I'll confide This is all
for her. Six months ago, after she had
been naggin' me to go an do somethin'
and be somebody she says, Have you
the maxim of a real man in you. any
wayg" Yes, l have" l says, but if
that's the way you feel about it the
less We see of each other the better for
both of US" An I've kept out of her
sight from that day to this. But she's
there yet, an l know she's true blue,
an if the Clarion wins
Ridley had his eye on the closet
door.
six months without words rather
rubin it in, don't you Think says be.
1T is says Harder But on the
1 strength or our prospects, by George
/ l can break the Ice when l get home
/ to-day, Eth? Why notT
Ridley points to a printed card over
his desk which read. DO 1t Now
Eth? says Harder. lookin' puzzled
/ But her arms was about his neck.
by the way, says Harder, with 8
I miSchievouS smile, as FIVE minutes later
/ the two rose 10 so. I've been kind o
leadin' up to this, as you may have
noticed In last weeks Clarion
"'How's that% asks Ridley.
why, you ought TO know. says
Harder. that for three months w,
been your correspondent from Glover,
Flats. Chicago News.