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The Cairo bulletin., 1906-02-26

eli has the authority 10 double the
license and should have sufficient in
diligence and regard for the public
welfare to exercise that authority The
81 0oo saloon license has to come and
the council ouEht not 10 Lose the credit
If putting It IN operstion-Chicago
Tribune.
The Cairo bulletin., 1906-02-26

II it did not hurt the city council TO
ignore the new primary election law
in the recent special election in the
First Ward, il will not hurt to ignore II
in the regular election to be held in
April.
The Cairo bulletin., 1906-02-26
FICTION VS.. BRAINS"

Under the above heading Golfers
Weekly If February 2fth touches edi-
icriallr upen the tendency in some
public libraries 10 cater TOO much to
The demand for light fiction. and cites
several instances where studious e
The Cairo bulletin., 1906-02-26
For County Commissioner.

We are authorized 10 announce DR.
e. j. DUNCAN of Tamms. as a candi
date for County Commissioner OF
Alexander county, subject to the decis-
ion OF the Republican Primary cleo
tion.
The Cairo bulletin., 1906-02-26

Elsewhere in this paper appears a
very fun statement from Mrs. Powell
librarian of the Cairo Public library
in answer to a series Of questions sug.
gested by the foregoing. in SO far as
they have a bearing upon the Cairo
library. and II seems evident that the
management of our institution have
been fully alive 10 the need Of the
proper guidance OF the youthful mind
in the matter of reading II must be
admitted, at the outset that, while
it Is within the province Of a library
board to guide the younger reading
public, as far as may be possible, by
Offering n high, substantial class OF
literature, il can not go beyond q
given point; for the youthful mind Is
romantic and must have It's light read
ing as well as the older mind, and the
public library management must not
assume the role Of the dictator If II
would gain and hold a degree Of con-
troll over The patronage of the insti
tGkfbtfs With Il view IL fNdAfstf5 ~ ~EFAtt
ing il Alright Much more can prob
ably be done in the direction Indicated
by teachers In the public schools, and
BY parents always and above every
one else by the parents, whose respon
sibility stands first and over all in
everything pertaining to the welfare
Of the youth Of the city.
From the statement submitted by
Mrs Powell 1t appears that about one
fifth Of the books in the library are
fiction five cases out of a total Of
twenty-five This looks like large
percentage, at iiri thought, but when
il Is considered that probably eight
tenlha d thg ,iieraiure III The day -
fiction or lis kindred, the percentage
in the Cairo library Of that class Of
reading is not large. though it is quite
large enough, doubtless. to comprise
all that is really worth having in that
line, II Is worthy of note, in this
connection. that fiction forms but a
small part of the list of new books
ready for circulation today. as pub
lished elsewhere in this paper.
The Cairo bulletin., 1906-02-26
CIRCULATION STATEMENT.

Average daily and Sunday circu-
latiOn for year 1905 ..,....... 2128
Average daily and Sunday circu-
lation for the month Of January,
The Cairo bulletin., 1906-02-26
ANNOUNCEMENTS.
For Sheriff.

We are authorized to announce r..
J. HODGES as candidate for sheriff
of Alexander county, subject to the
decision of the Republican primary
election. -
The Cairo bulletin., 1906-02-26

depended On TO continue the work be-
gun IN 1883 It viii promptly make
900 The minimum license in The cii-
lcs 0f thc state ~ not throughout tho
state u VIII make the minimum s.
500 g year IN the cities If asked 70 10
70 There should Be no occasion for
IN appeal 70 rre legislature. Tbe ooun-
The Cairo bulletin., 1906-02-26

4
forts 10 discourage this class Of read
ling particularly among the coming
generation whose habits Of mind are
in the formative state. have met with
good results. The editorial says.
Fiction has decreased in popular
lily among users Of the public library
In the District Of Columbia, for while,
during the Last year, the circulation
has Increased twenty seven Per cent
the proportion of fiction has decreas
ed twelve per cent. For this improve
ment the cause is to be found in the
use of their brains by The library en-
ployees and directors and by teachers
in the public schools, who have been
taking the trouble to guide the atten-
ton OF younger readers toward books
containing mental nutriment. The Chi
cago Public Library, which for many
years has shown uncommonly intel
legent management has also recently
been giving increased attention to
methods Of securing circulation for
books net fiction both through bulle'
tins about various classes of reading
and by inviting the public school
teachers 10 cooperate Whether a
child's thoughts are fed upon the |
empty romance Of which the world Is |
'ull. or upon books which can do for
he mind something of what noursh- |
ne food good mir, and exercise accom-
1ish for the body depends largely
,pon the sense Of the adults surround
ng him, and the choice Is no small
,art Of any teachers or parents re
Many of the books pro
nced and widely read, bear the same
elation 10 valuable literature that Pc
una bears 10 pure water or headache
owders to roast beef
The Cairo bulletin., 1906-02-26
a GUARANTEED CURE FOR PILES

Itching. Blind, Bleeding, Proruding
Piles Druggists arc authorized 10 re-
fund money if Pazo Ointment fails to
cure in to ii days soc,
Los Angeles herald., 1906-11-07
DOESN'T PAY TO BE RESCUER
One Hands His Coat to Strange
Woman, Who Deeamps With
His Watch.
Special to The Herald.

Special to The Herald
PITTSBURG, Pa, Nov. Gone man
was killed, one seriously injured and a
third miraculously escaped with a
slight bruise when the floor of a bin in
the Iron City grain elevator in Wset
Carson street collapsed under the
weight of 10000 pounds of grain stored
in 400 sacks this afternoon.
The dead:
ADAM RHOGUS.
The injured
Jacob Thayer. 65 years old; will prob
ably die.
John Welsh, slightly.
The three men were at work cleaning
out an empty grain bin on the second
floor of the elevator when, without
warning, the floor gave way under the
weight of the 400 sacks stored upon it.
The floors remained fast at one side,
but the three other sides were torn
loose, allowing the whole structure to
swing down like a hinge.
The moment the accident occurred a
call for volunteers to rescue the men
was sounded.
M. ]. e. Connally, one of the rescue
party, pulled off his coat and handed it
to a woman, whom he had never seen
before, to hold. His gold watch was in
the pocket. When he came out the
woman was nowhere to be found.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-11-07
MAN GOES INSANE
READING ABOUT CANAL

CLEVELAND, Ohio, Nov. 6.-Read-
ing reports of the Panama canal con-
troversy is claimed to have driven
Charles Scanlon temporarily insane.
Scanlon had the opinions of senators
and representatives on the canal ques-
tion on his finger tips. and eagerly de-
.voured every article relating to that
subject. He was regarded by his
friends as the best informed man of
their acquaintance on the subject of the
canal.
Scanlon was found today wandering
around the streets. He said that he
was endeavoring to get men to finish
the work on the canal.
He was laboring under the hallucina-
tion that he was Theodore Roosevelt
and vas greatly troubled as to whether
he should go down to the peninsula
himself or send Taft there.
He was taken to the county Jail by a
patrolman and a charge of insanity
placed against him.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-11-07
SMALL BOYS TAKE BIG RISK
Go to Church Tower to Bag Pigeons,
and One Falls Thirty Feet and
Is Badly Hurt
Snecial tn The Herald.


SPRINGFIELD, Mass, Nov. 6. -
While catching pigeons in the tower of
the North Congregational church VIII
liam Sullivan, aged 13 years. son Of
Elisha Sullivan of 80 Franklin street,
fell thirty feet inside the tower, frac-
turing both wrists, breaking an arm
and sustaining bad bruises on his face
and possible internal injuries.
A number of boys had climbed by
means of a ladder to the chapel roof,
from there up the steep incline of the
church roof to the ridge, and thence
by means of the ladder, which they had
taken with them, to the lower window
Four entered the tower and collected
a bagful of pigeons.
All returned safely the way they had
entered except young Sullivan, known
to his companion as "Knocko," who
missed the window and fell to a hori.
zontal board below. He was knocked
unconscious, and his companions, fear
ing that he might be dead, ran away.
| A second crowd of boys tried to res
cue Sullivan. They mounted the lad
der as the other boys had done, but
while one was climbing to the tower
window those holding the ladder be-
came frightened, let the ladder slip, and
all rolled down the church roof to the
chapel, which stopped their fight.
The sexton of the church and two pa
trolmen entered and lowered the boy
to the stairs below with a rope.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-11-07
TALE OF OLD ROUND SHOT
Cannon Ball Works Its Way Out Of
the Trunk Of Tree-Hid From
View Fiftyssix Years
sneoIal Ia MD Herald.

special TO The Herald.
BALTIMORE, Md, Nov. SAN old
twelve pound round shot, the kind the
American gunners fired from their cam
non at Fort McHenry to drive the Brit
ish away in 1914, has, after working It's
way down for fifty-six years, dropped
from the trunk Of an old pear tree N
the back yard of house at Biddle
street and George alley.
The tree that had held the cannon
ball so long Is old, those living in the
neighborhood crediting 1t with an age
of at least 1876 years. It's highest
branches overtop the roof of the house.
The house is vacant, and when the
ball fell II was picked up and kept by
Mr.. Towson, the watchman who takes
care of the property. In its slow, grad
ual descent the sphere of iron has rot
ted the heart of the old tree away. The
base Of the tree has decayed until the
lower trunk for several feet up Is hol-
low. When the ball had finally worked
its way down to where the good wood
ended It fell into the hollow and rolled
partly out, and It was there It was
found
There are two stories as to how the
shot got into the tree. The late Lewis
McMurray, who was a packer and can
ner for long time in that neighbor-
hood declared that a shot had struck
the tree and had staid there. 1t was
his theory that when the British at
tackled Fort McHenry te shot from one
of their guns, fired high had hurtled
over the intervening ground and had
struck the trunk of the tree, where 1t
lodged.
This story is contradicted, and the
argument Is put for tn that in those
days the range of cannon was not eight
miles.
Henry Lancaster, prominent Demo-
cratic politician of the Seventeenth
ward, has another idea that he declares
Is the only solution of the mystery.
In the days when the city was young
and there were few houses where Bid
die street is now, the late Mr.. McMur-
ray kept tavern on the spot now oc-
cupied by the house where the pear tree
grows. Mr.. Lancaster was a lad then,
and he worked around the place setting
up tenpins.
In those days they had at the Me-
Murray place a lot of cannonballs of
about twelve or fifteen pounds, and men
tried to pitch them.
| One day, Mr.. Lancaster's story runs
he, then a lad Of Is years, picked up one
Of the balls to try his strength with It
He threw it and it landed in a crotch
of the limbs of the old pear tree. He
said nothing, and no attempt ever was
made to look for it and recover 1t.
That was fifty-six years ago. Gradu-
ally the weight of the twelve pound
shot, constantly pressing down on the
tree at the place where 1t had landed
started the tree to decaying. Then
given start, the ever pressing weight
made the fibers of the tree trunk give
way, inch by inch, until the ball had
worked its way well down into the heart
of the trunk
Meanwhile the ravages of time were
working at the roots and the base OF
the tree. and at last the trunk began
to decay from the base up. When this
shot had reached the place where the
tree could not old its weight it crashed
through and fell to the ground.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-11-07
NEWARK FAMILY SOLVES
THE SERVANT PROBLEM
Special to The Herald.

NEW YORK, Nov. GA family of
Newark, N. j., has hit upon a solution
of the servant problem. 1t is contained
in the following advertisement, insert
ed yesterday in the Newark Evening
News:
HOUSEWORK-Wa by small
family, girl to assist in general
housework; no washing or ironing;
mistress will do all chamber work, in
Guiding sweeping and dusting; four
nights a week allowed also one whole
day; night key given; private bath
connected with girls suite of rooms;
no piano, but will get one If required;
salary 500 per month and perquisites;
will give references. Address Refer
ence, box 81, News Office.
The purpose of putting the wages at
$29 a month is to make it easy for the
applicant to say zone dollar more"
thus raising her wages to $50 before she
has begun her round of pleasure. The
family have overlooked none of the de-
tails of the plan OF salvation. Owing
to the cost of newspaper space they
did not enumerate the perquisites but
applicants will be told that they in
clude liberal allowances of butter, cof-
fee, sugar, cold chicken, bottled beer,
cakes, the boss's cigars and such other
staples as by time-honored custom go
to the housemaids friends or relatives.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-11-07
TO PLANT EASTERN LoBsTERs
Big Shipment Received at Seattle in
the Care Of q Government
Employe
speolal 10 The IIerald.

Special to The Herald.
SEATTLE, Wash, Nov. 6.-Plans
for 250-acre lobster bed and later
the construction Of big hatchery for
the propagation Of Holsters, crabs and
eastern fish, has been planned for
Puget sound by II. r. Childs, formerly
Of Boston, Mass. At this time a car
load of eastern Holsters is on the side
tracks at West Seattle awaiting trans
portatlon to their new home, which will
be an inclosed bay Off the San Juan
islands For several years past Mr..
Childs has been interested I'm the pro-
position OF transplanting eastern lob
sters and fish i'm the western waters
and many thousands of the crustaceans
have been shipped here. For want Of a
proper place to plant them II has been
impossible to learn whether or not
they have thrived and this has led Mr..
Childs to adopt his new system.
"The United States government has
taken an interest In the work and Is
aiding me in the enterprise" said Mr..
Childs last night.
1.-THE consignment just received Is
In charge of an employe of the govern
ment fisheries bureau and the Holsters
will be transplanted in a few days. A
bay has been leased among the San
Juan islands which contains $50 acres
and is nearly inclosed. Piles will be
driven across the entrance and screens
placed so that the water may flow in
and the Holsters still be held captive.
These piles will extend from the low
water line deep into the mud so that
the prisoners will be unable to burrow
their way to freedom.
"There is no reason why the eastern
shellhsh will not do we'll here, and as
soon as I have completed the first ex-
pertinent hatchery is to be construct
ed on the sound for the purpose of
propagating all sorts of eastern fish.
1.-THE Holsters in the consignment just
received average ten inches in length.
but many of them are eighteen inches
long. They have been something over
eight days on the trip from the east
ern coast, but seem to be in good con-
dition. AS soon as received here they
will be placed in living tanks and there
they will be fed until they are strong
enough to stand being moved again"
Mr.. Childs declares he has no doubt
that In relatively short time he will
be supplying the western people not
only with all sorts of eastern Holsters
and crabs, but also with all sorts of
eastern fish. The construction of the
hatchery. he says, will probably be be-
gun within few weeks.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-11-07
WOMAN RUNS OLD GRIST MILL
She Keeps the Mill Wheel Spinning
All Summer and Far Into
the Winter
Special to The Herald.

special TO Inc fteTdlu.
BECHTELSVILLE, Pa, Nov. g.
When Miss Lydia Lands of Huff's
church became the wife of Mahlin Reit-
nauer of Bachtelsville, Pa, eight years
ago, she and her husband took charge
of the Red mill of BechtelSville and
the farm adjoining. The property at
that time needed repairs, and the farm
was run down, which meant that a
great deal of work naturally fell upon
the shoulders of Mr.. Reitnauer.
"Oh, don't bother about the mill! II
you will see to the farm work 1 will
keep that mill in good trim and keep
the water wheel. spinning from morn
ing to night" was the reply.
what about the mill?" asked Reit-
nauer one evening, while the pair were
enjoying their supper.
She not only said it but has kept her
word, and even since the Red mill has
been entirely in her hands during the
busy summer season and half of the
time during the cold winter days.
She rapidly acquired a thorough
knowledge of everything pertaining to
the grinding of grain.
When the sturdy, broad shouldered
Pennsylvania German farmers arrive at
the mill they are met by Mrs. Reit-
nauer. She is strong and muscular too,
and when she swings out the long rope
! to hoist the heavy sacks of grain to
one OF the~upper floors she Is equal to
the occasion, and with one short twist
of the rope she hurls the burden
through the open doorway with great
ease. She loosens the rope and pulls
the bag to the hopper, and with another
turn of the arm the open end of the
| sack is thrust half way into the hopper,
and the task is completed.
While she has everything convenient
| ly arranged with pulleys, so that she
need not shoulder the three bushel
sacks, she, however, is able to do it,
and has on occasions flung a 120-pound
sack of chop across her shoulder and
carried it to a farmers wagon.
She has mastered her work in every
respect. She even cuts the millstones,
chipping from twenty to thirty little
burrows in an inch, a task which many
male millers have great difficulty in ac-
complishing.
When she makes flour she is always
very particular that the reel Is in
proper condition. She has mastered the
needle part of the milling industry, and
when the fine sieve-like fabric that
encloses the reel gets punctured she
gets to work and closes it up in a very
systematic manner.
she is very particular about the
cleanliness of her establishment. Her
floors, while not as clean as her own
Kitchen, are. however, as clean as the
mill dust will allow them to be kept.
She always has a broom handy, and
the minute some substance falls upon
the floor 1T is swept up and put in a
particular cattle feed box.
Mrs. -Reitnauer is 33 years old and is
the picture of health. She is, the daugh-
ter of a carpenter and was born on the
farm, where she learned to do outdoor
work.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-11-07
GET A UNIQUE PUNISHMENT
Girls to Join the Salvation Army as a
Penalty for Mailing Improper
Postal Cards
Special TO The Herald

Spec1al TO The Herald.
PITTSBURG, Pa, Nov 6.-The pic
ture postal card fad is directly re-
sponsible for Flora Nedemeyer and
Francis Kugler, two pretty Mount
Washington girls, about 18 years old,
getting into the tolls. The girls are
charged with mailing some of the illus
trated cards containing some pointed
statements to a friend, who did not
appreciate their humor and reported
the matter to the postal authorities.
Postoffice Inspector George v. Craig
head, after Investigating the case,
made the information against the girls,
charging them with violating the pos
tai laws, which forbid the sending of
mail upon which is written anything
of a libelous nature. They were taken
before United States Commissioner
William T. Lindsey for hearing.
The fair defendants seemed to take
the whole proceedings as a huge joke,
and refused to be serious, even when
threatened with JAIL
Mr. Lindsay finally told them that If
they would join the Salvation army as
a penance for their misdeeds he would
not prosecute further. The girls then
went away to carry out the courts
order, and the hearing was continued
until Monday, when proceedings will
probably be dropped.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-11-07
WENT TO SLEEP
TWO YEARS AGO
REMARKABLE RESULT OF A
FALL IN THE STREET
Science Puzzled by the Case Of Ger
man Whom Doctors Have Been
Unable to Awaken After
Many Efforts
Special TO The Herald.


BERLIN, Nov. 6.-German specialists
in nervous diseases are puzzled by the
case of a man who has been asleep for
two years and four months.
The man is a former civil service off,
cial named Arnheim, aged 45, living in
Wilmersdorf, a western suburb Of Ber-
lin.
During two years and four months
Arnheim has never once opened his
eyes, never uttered syllable, and me-
yer shown the least signs Of conscious
ness.
Before falling asleep Arnheim was a
healthy, vigorous man without any alb
normal characteristics. II is stated.
however, that he belongs to family
whose members have shown a decided
tendency to nervous diseases.
Arnheim was descending from tram
car on June 10, 1904, when he slipped
and fell backward. striking his head
on the curbstone. The doctors were
unable to discover any injury to the
brain, but from the moment Arnheim
showed an uncomfortable desire to
sleep.
Sleeps Since June, 1904
After slumbering, with interruptions.
for ten days, he fell asleep on June 20,
1904 and has not been awake since.
Arnheim is lying on his back in his
bed in a modest fiat at Wilmersdorf,
his head turned slightly to the right,
and his forehead wrinkled as though
the sleeper is troubled by bad dreams.
He is not merely asleep, but in such
condition that his body remains indif-
ferent to all outside Influences. All
sorts of attempts have been repeatedly
made to arouse him. Prof. Gutenberg,
the eminent specialist, thus describes
his experiments: n
"The limbs can be freely moved. The
skin has lost it's sensitiveness; deep
needle pricks have not produced the
slightest effect, and other incisions in
the flesh, painful for normal beings.
have not succeeded in awakening the
sleeper.
"Deafening noises made close to the
ears have failed to arouse him, and daz-
zling light turned on the eyes has like
wise been Intellectual
1.-THE sleeper is regularly fed-he
chews the food placed in his mouth
slowly, and swallows instinctively."
Like Wax Figure
When Prof. Gutenberg last visited
Arnheim the patients wife removed
him from the bed, clothed him and
placed him in an armchair near the
open window.
"Thus l found him." says Prof. Eu-
lenberg, land / must say he had sur
prising appearance. The ghastly pale
man, sitting there with closed eyes.
had something uncanny about him.
The sleeper reminded me irresistibly of
those wax figures placed In natural po-
| sitions in waxwork shows to deceive
visitors into the belief that they are
real human beings"
Prof Gutenberg considers that sud-
den awakening is possible.
Many medical experts have visited
Arnheim and watched the sleeper for
lengthy periods without coming to any
definite conclusion as to the cause Of
his long sleep.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-11-07
FINDS BROTHER UNDER KNIFE
Nurse Aids Surgeons In Dressing the
Crushed Limbs, Then Falls
in Faint
Speclel 10 The HeraId.


CUMBERLAND, Md, Nov 6.-En-
tering the emergency ward in the local
hospital here to assist in an accident
case, Miss Jane Schroll, trained nurse,
was confronted with the spectacle of
her brother upon the operating table
with both legs crushed off just below
the hips. He was Henry Schroll 80
years old. telegraph operator of Pitts
burgh, who had fallen under car when
leaving a train on his way to visit his
sister.
Miss Schroll had no idea her brother
had been injured. and reeled under the
shock, but a second later her schooling
as a nurse came to her assistance
Without a word she performed her
duty during the half hour the surgeons
We're making the necessary amputa-
tions and dressing the wounds.
Wben the operation was completed
Miss Schroll tainted and she had to
be carried from the room. Schroll
may not recover.