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The Cairo bulletin., 1906-09-10
GRAND CHAIN, ILL.
September 8, 1906.

Mrs. j. II. Jones and daughter Miss
Lota, Of Cairo. H., are visiting here
Miss Mollie McIntire returned Sat
urday from a visit to Anna, III.
r +. Echols of Cairo, was up Sat
urday.
Prof Doty has returned from Chi
cago. III.
Mrs. Edith Roach aad children OF
Olmsted, are here visiting relatives.
Mrs II. Niemier of Karmak, H.,
was in town today.
Mrs Or. Tar went to Belknap Sat
ulday 10 visit her parents, j. r.
Evers and wife.
James Aliff wa. in Mound City
Tuesday.
Mrs. DR.. Woelfle of Cairo, came up
Tuesday for a visit with relatives.
w. ]. Davidson was in Cairo on bus
mess the first of the week.
Mrs. Mike Meyers Of Mound City,
lis visiting her parents here for a few
days.
j. b. Mcdowell of Belknap. was
down on bu.iness Tuesday.
Ms. JJ. r. Weaver and daughter,
Mis-, Susie. of Mound City. yisitec
friends here the eaily part of the
week.
Miss Flora Moore was in Cairo
Tuesday
Lawyers Caster & Martin OF Mound
City. were here Tuesday on business.
Miss Reese Thomaa is spending 4
few day in Eldarado, III.
Mrs.. Allie Sevens returned 20 her
home in Marion H.. Tuesday. after
a visit of several weeks here with her
parents. Mr.. and Mrs. Sam Wright.
G. w Gaunt. Jr.. was In Vairo on
business Thursday.
Mrs John Jones and daughter. Miss
Lota. of Cairo are visiting with Mrs.
J. NJ. Jones.
Chas. Gaunt of Mound City. wa on
our streets Thursday.
Mr. and Mrs. John r. Evers of Bel
knap. spent Friday with Mrs. DIR.
Tarr.
Leslie Roach. little son of Frank
and Edith Roach. died after a short
lines and was buried in the new
Catholic cemetery here last Thursday.
Mrs Captola Walker is on the sick
IL.
The Cairo bulletin., 1906-09-10
Illinois Central R. R.
Annual Stockholders Meeting at Chi
cago, October II. Personal
Attendance OF individual
Holders Desired.
Free Tickets to the Meeting

Public notice is hereby given that
the regular annual meeting Of the
Stockholders of the Illinois Central
Railroad Company will be held at the
Company's office in Chicago. Illinois
on Wednesday. October II, 1906, at
IL o'clock noon.
To permit personal attendance at
said meeting there will be issued
TO EACH HOLDER OF ONE OR
MORE SHARES
OF the capital stock OF the Illinois
Central Railroad Company. as regis'.
cred on the books Of the Company at
the close of business on Monday. Sep
TENDER "a. 1906, who is of full age.
a TICKET ENABLING HIM OR HER
"a TO TRAVEL FREE
over the Company's lines from the
station on the Illinois Central Rail
road nearest to his or her registered
address to
CHICAGO AND RETURN
such ticket to be good for the journey
TO Chicago only during the
Four Days Immediately Preceding
and the day of the meeting. and for
the return journey from Chicago only
on the day of the meeting and the
Four Days Immediately Following
when properly countersigned and
stamped during business hours on OF
before Saturday, October 20, 1906
that Is to say, between 900 am. and
500 D. MIN the office of the assist
ant secretary, Mr.. W. G. Bruen, in
Chicago Such ticket may be obtained
by any holder OF stock registered a.
above, on application, in writing. &c
the president Of the company in Chi
cago, but each stakeholder must in
dividuslly apply for his or her ticket
Each application must state the full
name and address of the stockhOldel
exactly as given in his or her certifi
cate Of stock, together with the mum
Der and date Of such certificate. NJ
more than one person will be carried
free in respect to any one holding Of
stock as registered on the books Of
the company.
A. q. HACKsTAFF,
Secretary
The Cairo bulletin., 1906-09-10
NELLIE OF
The ROSE
by JOSEPH BAuchER
Copyright. by Joseph B. sowles)

do you want flower sir?'
She was poorly clad, a child OF the
people, but with "a face that a princess
might envy.
NARROW took no notice of the voice,
as he hurried through the street--lt
was a highway of the slums-but the
patter of the childs bare feet kept
pace with his own, tread.
They say they are made out Of
dead people" she persisted Offering
him tube-rose.
Thanks he said, as he paused to
take a flower. DO you grow theme
he added. R
Grow them?" she laughed with
wondering eyes. why, they are made
out Of dead people. | tell you
Indeed? Then, where did you get
this?"
From Nellies coffin. She was
buried from our court this morning..
All! And what is your name, lit.
tie one?'
My names Nellie, too
"Nellie-Nellie of the Roset
shall accept your flower, and shall
keep it always"
Laughing, the child bushed, and
ran
NARROW wondered at the young
girls beauty and grace, but not at
the floral gift, for he had alwaysf at
tracted children.
1t was twilight when NARROW ar
rived at his rooms. He placed the
flower upon his desk wrote his edi-
torial, dispatched it, and fell asleep.
A street piano was playing to dancing
children on the sidewalk below. The
air grew cold. He arose and closed
the Window Though the stiffness Of
the room came family the splash Of
dropping water An odor that sug-
gested death chilled him to the heart
On turning, he saw in the center Of
the room coffin, in which Nellie
rot child, but grown woman-lay
dead
Without understanding, a sense of
desolation appalled, him, and bowling
his head, he kissed the dead womans
brow, and awoke. The air was heavy
with the perfume of the flower the
child had given him, and her words
fingered in his thoughts
The Cairo bulletin., 1906-09-10
BIG FOUR SURVEY.
Through Massac county-About Com
pieted-Wll Tunnel Through
Hills.

A highly interesting meeting of the
Commercial Club, together with a
goodly sprngling Of outsiders, was
held at the National State Bank. Sat
urday afternoon. This meeting was
adjourned over from the regular
monthly meeting held on Friday after
noon to enable the members to hear
what eMsrss. Wymond and Reid. chief
engineer and right-of-way man, had
10 tell of the railway survey in pro-
gress for the past four months from
a point on the Big Four in Saline
county 10 Metropolis The gentlemen
appeared and told of the progress of
the survey, saying that surveys from
The Cairo bulletin., 1906-09-10
REACH AMIcAsLE SETTLEMENT

Topeka Kas, Sept. An amicable
division Of property valued at $601, 600,
belonging to The estate of the late
Charles j. Devlin. has been arranged
between the trustees Of the estate and
the receiver of the failed First Nation
al Bank. Of Topeka. The bank will
receive property valued al s300000 as
its share. which viii make possible
payment in full Of all depOsitOrs-
The Cairo bulletin., 1906-09-10
Meant Well.

Quite recently a London cabman
was engaged TO drive a very stout old
lady. and had great deal of difficulty
in getting her in and out Of his cab.
I'm afraid I'm a terrible bother to
you she said as. after strenuous ef-
forts. he succeeded in getting her oat
OF his vehicle.
Not a bit. answered csbby. mean
ms 20 be gallant Il alters likes q
fage what steadies the cab
The Cairo bulletin., 1906-09-10
FEMALE HELP WANTED
LOST.

the Big Four had been completed to
Metropolis and submitted to their
principals, who had ordered that an
additional survey TO include a tunnel
though the hills be made and that
the survey would be complete this
week. Metropolis Herald
The Cairo bulletin., 1906-09-10
ANOTHER BEDFORD MURDER.

Bedford. Ind. Sept 9.-Alva Gala
han shot and instantly killed john
Walters. q neighbor and Tenant on
his farm near here today. Callahan
surrendered to the authorities. There
had been trouble between the two
men for some tins.
The Cairo bulletin., 1906-09-10
GERMAN meTHooIsTs MEET

Clstonia. Neb. Sept. 9.-The Ger
man Methodist Episcopal convention
fer the western states IS in session
here. Bishop Luther B. Wilson is
president. Rev. James Demand, of
Cnpin. H. was reelected secretary.
The Cairo bulletin., 1906-09-10
Big -Four Route
l BEST LINZ TO
New York, Boston
AND ALL POINTS IN THE
East and Northeast.

indianapolis, Muncle, Cincinnati,
Dayton, Columbus, Cleveland and
points In ohio, Indiana and Illinois.
Through sleepers from ST. Louis to
New York, Boston and Washington.
Trains Leave Cairo as Follows:
No. 800 a. m. Eastern Mail and
express. Mt. Carmel, vincennes. Par
Is. Danyille. indianapolis. Cincinnati.
New York, Boston. Direct connection
with the famous Knickerbocker Spec
ial
No 300 p. m. Mall and express
Carmi, Evansville, vincennes. indian
apolis, Louisville, Chicago. Tsrre
Haute and Cincinnati. BUFFET Sleep
ing car Cairo to Chicago
No Sells a. m.--Local accommo-
dalton. Mound City. Grand Chain. W
emma and Harrisburg.
Trains Arrive at Cairo 40 Follows:
No 57-4 p. m.-Harrisburg. VI
emma and Cairo Accommodates.
No. 3-11:15 m. Chicago and
Cairo mail and express
No. 9-7:45 .. m. DanvilIs xns
Ca 70 mall and express.
No. runs daily, other trains 1nfiJ
except Sunday.
For full informatior and particular
as TO rates. tickets, limits. etc, <all
IN or write Elmer Smith, ticket sKent.
A. C. Thompson. 7. P. A., Cairo. m, c.
L. HILLARY. A. @. P. A 81 LoxiH Ma
The Cairo bulletin., 1906-09-10

Every little while there appears
want ad. which is aimed 80 directly
at you that II It were 9 bullet Jos
would be bit -
New-York tribune., 1906-07-31

agency of the popular primary. Yet there is a
simplicity and finality about the method of di-
rect nomination which must be conceded. The
State Of Iowa is Just now In the throes of a bit
ter contest between two Republican factions
Delegates have been chosen TO 8 state convention,
which meets tomorrow, and though the fight
has ragged for months no one can say definitely
which faction has won. The seats OF several
hundred delegates contested, and neither side
will admit that the other has a majority Of the
Republican voters behind 1t. There are nc
positive and convincing data ON which to base
an opinion, and no means exist for determining
the lawful will Of the majority. A state pri-
mary, conducted under all the safeguards OF
regular election, would at least have shown how
the Republican voters were divided and would
have established by prima facie evidence which
faction was in the majority and which in the
minority. But the windings and intricaciec Of
the delegate convention system have made IL
possible to force deadlock, in which personal
ambitions and enmities will play a larger part
than true regard for party union and party well
fare. Situations like that in Iowa have had
much to do with spreading the popularity of the
direct primary method.
New-York tribune., 1906-07-31
DIRECT AND INDIRECT ELECTIONS.

Texas is the latest state TO abandon the ind-
rect for the direct method of choosing United
States Senators. The Primary Election law
passed by the Legislature In 1865 had its first
trial Saturday. and besides naming candi-
dates for state Offices the Democratic voters OF
Texas practically instructed the next Legislature
70 re-elect Senator Joseph ~. Bailey. The new
law provides that only the majority party shall
make popular nominations. the minority parties
being left free 10 follow the delegate convention
method But Texas is so Overwhelmingly Dem
ocratie that the exception in favor of the mi
nority organizations is unimportant Il can be
taken for granted that the next Legislature will
be Democratic. and the Democratic majority in
the two branches viii be bound 10 ratify a choice
Tor Senator made at the polls Texas thus Joins
the group Of states in which the constitutional
power Of legislatures TO choose Senators is being
nuliied IS effectively as the constitutional power
Of the Electoral College TO choose a President
and Vice President is now nullified the country
over.
This notification has been pretty generally
efHec5ed through the South. where conditions
prompted the spread Of the primary system as
useful device for settling all political questions
within The white Democratic household Sen
stOrs are now named by the voters in Virginia
South Carolina. Georgia. Florida, Alabama
Mississippi. Louisiana, Texas. Arkansas. Ten
nessee end Kentucky. In Maryland there is a
vigorous agitation afOot for the adoption OF the
direct method and the next Legislature is likely
TO sanction the experiment But outside the
South the idea is also spreading. Oregon has
gone 50 far as 10 instruct the Legislature 20
choose the Senatorial candidate having the Iarg-
er popular vote at a general election, even
though he may belong to the party actually in
the minority in the Legislature. In Illinois the
primary system extends 20 Senatorial nomina-
tiohs. and Wisconsin has pOpularized. or is on
The point of popuIarizing Senatorial elections.
IN states like Minnesota and Pennsylvania the
delegate convention and legislative caucus have
not been entirely discarded but the drift is
plainly in that direction. More power is being
asked for the individual voter AT the cost of
diminished role for the political manager and
manipulation.
We do not accept the theory that good govern
ment can be obtained by the mere substitution
Of one piece Of political machinery for another
II the voters want purer politics and better ad-
ministration they can get them under the dele
gate convention plan as well as through the
New-York tribune., 1906-07-31
SOCIAL NOTES FROM NEWPORT.

lBy Telegraph 90 The Tribune
Newport. r. l.. July So.-To-dey minstrel day
In Newport. IL being the annual visit OF Lew Dock
stader and his show, and. usual the cottage coll
Ony turned out in force. not only 90 attend the
performance in the evening az the Opera House.
but 20 gather In front OF the Casino at the noon
hour 70 watch the parade and hear the concert
which the band always gives for the cottsgeEs
benefit. Women and men alike lined Up the
curb and applauded the mfnstrels passed after
rendering several popular songs.
Tonight there little going IN che cottage
colony but this afternoon a large number OF the
cOttageTs gathered az the golf club invitation OF
Mrs. Royal Phelps Carroll and Miss Mauds Wet
more. The object 20 try TO revive the game OF
gOf which some years ago was 50 popular here.
The afternoon was spent az bridge whist. and tea
served by the women.
Late this afternoon the cottasers attended Trinity
Church for the funeral services OF the late George
Tucker Bispham. who died suddenly from heart
disease Saturday at the villa OF T. Mexican, his
sOn-in-law. The services were conducted by the
Rev. Walter LoWr4s rector OF the church, after
which the body taken 20 the station and placed
on board a private for Philadelphia The fOrel
offerings sent by the CottageFs were nunleroUs-
Payne Whitney arrived at Newport this afternoon
from New York on his new power boat ArtfuL
New-York tribune., 1906-07-31
About People and Social Incfdenrr.

which he will use In Newport waters this ,,,w.
The ArtfRi is a speedy boat. making oes- -,
four knots on her trial trip. and IL ia ,,F.'.s
that Mr.. Whitney viii race her whenever o--.li
nifty presents. q
Mr. and Mrs Alfred G. vanderbit r.,,,-,
day from their trip % Long Branch vh.-. ''-
went 20 attend the Horse Show On Woo .l-y
this week Mr.. and Mrs Vanderbilt an o-s q 2.
the children OF the Thames Street sT.,r-s-
Church az a picnic. as has been their cn-so--
SONS years. =
Mrs 5tuyvesant Fish sntertained a t.-,
os women at luncheon this afternoo, os r'
Ways. and this evening Mrs. Harry s Ios. - -.
dinner after which they took their Fusor- - -
open air vaudeville at Freebody Park
Frank j. Otis arrived az Clover Patch eo,.,
the season. after trip abroad -
The women who had charge OF the vA,,.f.- =.
on Saturday last at the Casino reuorf go 80 80
have netted about $500 Sor The fund "a, ,s- ' '-'
and Navy Young Mems Christian As.oc,a.- 80
This does not represent all the money r,,-.s =
several booths have yet 20 turn in their rses,,- =
Miss Evelyn Blight arrived a. NewDort ro-S.- a
the remainder of The season.
Miss Janet Fish Is the guest OF Miss Nrs-,o, -.
az Cross Ways
Mrs. Royal Phelps Carroll has gone 70 Ven ".
on brief visit -A
New-York tribune., 1906-07-31
POLITICAL LYNCHERS.

We read great deal these days in the Demo-
cratic press about the popular determination 20
turn the rascals out' at the next state election
and place I'm power the candidates. whoever they
may be, of party which does not know IL ii
has virtue enough not 20 surrender TO what it is
aware is incendiary demagOgy, on the chance Of
getting some offices. SuppOSing there are some
rascals TO turn out. the sane voter might be
inclined as he looked at those to be turned in,
TO share the view OF EsOp's fox which was
caught In the river and pestered by a swarm Of
flies He did not want the friendly bird to drive
them away in order to make room for larger
swarms with keeneF appetites. The voter who
would turn from present Ills even If he believed
selfish and partisan Outcries. to embrace Hearst
on the one hand or some sane and safe" can
didate Of the Ryan Belmont Democracy on the
other would be a marvel OF unreasOning folly.
But where are the rascaIs to be turned out and
what rascality have they committed?
The last two years have, indeed, brought
many revelations Of business and political
abuses. But the very men who have revealed
and worked TO correct those abuses are at pres
ent the principal target Of the sensational cam
paigh based on the discoveries. The state ad-
ministratiOn in the last two years has been
c0nspicuOusly dominated by honesty and con-
scientiOus devotion 10 duty. There is not the
slightest suspicion Of grating by II. The great
canal work is being conducted with uneXampled
efficiency and economy. BY careful and business
like methods the administration is getting a
larger canal for the money appropriated than the
engineers most interested In making low esti-
mates and commencing the enterprise to the
peoples authorization dared TO predict. The
Republican administration prObed insurance
passed the necessary remedial laws and is
strictly enforcing them. The last Legislature is
admitted, even by Democrats, to have been the
best in many years.
The state was never better governed than it
is to-day, or with more independent devotion TO
the peoples interest On the one side the party
is assHiled by few dlsgruntled Republicans
who object to the prevailing independence and
honesty and want 10 subject the party TO the
domination IF the lobby and Of monOpolies
which are nOre closely affiliated with the De
mOcracy than with Republicansm. On the
other It is ass&led by the hungry politi.
clans who are equally ready TO shout for social
ism or reactionary sanity, for Ryan and Jerome
or for Hearst. and sure OF only one thing--that
their only hope is by taking and claptrap to
arouse popular prejudice to the point of pun
ishing somebody" regardless Of his guilt or In
nocence. just the Southern lynching mubs
are aroused after some crime TO burn the Negro
most convenient for the purpose, not because
he is guilty. but just TO work off the passion OF
the lynchers.
New-York tribune., 1906-07-31
SECURITY OF SuBMAPINE BOATS.

The Navy Department does well to disregard
the protests of the builders of submarine torpedo
boats against making special provision for hoist
ing such craft to the surface in case they become
disabled while submerged. The attention OF the
designers and constructors ef these boats is
centrated almost exclusively on enhancing e6lci-
ency in action. OF course the government wants
to secure the largest usefulness in time OF war,
bnt its responsibility does not end there II would
be guilty of grave neglect II il showed no regard
for the lives of its officers and enlisted men I'm
time of peace were Indifferent TO the pOSsi-
bility OF an unnecessary loss OF It's property.
Not year goes by without a number OF acct
dents on naval vessels They are steered ON
mud banks or drift rocks in the fog. Boilers
burst or powder eXplOdes during target practice.
Since submarine boats have come into vogue q
new class OF miShaps has been recorded Fort
unately none of them has happened on this side
of the Atlantic but there is no telling when this
cOuntry's turn may come. To ignore the expert
ence OF England and France would be foolish, if
not criminal. 1t was wise precautiOn to
quire the addition of eyes cleats to which
tackle for lifting could be readily attached and
To equip tender with derricks and windlasses
for emergencies during peaceful man9uvres
After all, such measures do not necessarily
reflect on the builders. Helplessness when under
water may arise from a variety Of causes and
u iHHs uCAOSlS III OOIiSIi USNiOA are duAOuS IAcuA
Trouble is much more likely TO result however,
from some oversight on the part Of a member Of
the or the man in charge of the boat. The
fact that a submarine was in perfect condition
when she went into commission would afford no
guarantee that she would never misbehave after
ward. Least Of all, should American builders
worry about the sale Of their boats abroad. The
expedents which the United States Navy De
partment has adopted should commend the sub
marine more than ever to favor in Europe since
they promise to minimize danger materially.
Moreover, though the argument may be specious,
it is nevertheless true that the only serious acct
dents which have been reported in the last few
years have happened 10 foreign built boats.
New-York tribune., 1906-07-31
An OBSOLETE RITUAL.

The other day a delicate golden brOwed East
Indian woman appeared at Ellis Island, shed
ding the light of her pathetic story before her
to the effect that she was a widow flying from
the suttee rite, which, as our readers know
hinges on the burning up of a widow on the
same funeral pyre with her deceased husband
That business was all put a stop to something
like seventy or seventy-fve years ago. as it
shocked the British sense of humanity and viO-
lated British ideas of the proper etiquette of the
conjugal relation No such rite has been per-
formed in Hindoostan during that long interval
unless in secret and to satisfy some impulse
of piety in wives to when the custom had
come down with all the sanctions of the eighty
thousand, more or less, gods in the HindoO pan
theon, and who wanted 20 go the way their
mothers went-a thOroughfare blocked up by
churlish government with no sound ideas of re
ligion and its accompanying rites. But it is
quite clear that there cannot have been many
such cases. The custom wen - TO permanent
desuetude long time ago. and can only be
restored by the lapse OF the great Oriental
peninsula, if such retrOcession could be con-
ceived, into its Oldtime conditions.
The repOrtOrial chronicle in which the tale
was given TO the public said that the lady had
been the wife of a Parsee merchant but the
Parsees are not burned up after, nor their wives
before or after, death. On the top OF Malabar
Hill, near Bombay. the chief seat of the sect.
which in all the world amounts to only a hand
full there is a Tower OF Silence, open to the
upper air. 20 which the remains of the dead
are consigned, and the vultures which hover
about in clouds their generations reaching back
to Zoroaster and the Ach@menian dynasties, in
a short time leave nothing OF them but the
bones. Such funeral customs did Zarathustra
decree in far-Of days near TO the morning Of
the world. But In the faith OF which he laid
.h,aH
and Siioam's brook that flowed fast By tho 0rac!e
OF God, there has never been ANYTHING Ike tht.
suttee ritual, and, OF course there never will
be- The reporters tale was more likely that
Of the tadpoie-out OF his own head The young
woman may have many legitimate reasons for
coming over here, and a gentle and generous hos
pitality may be invoked for her wherever she