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and to the young girls and the invalids."
Then I took some of that money and
gave it to the San Francisco pastors
and said: you distribute this money to
the suffering poor of the household of
faith. Do not distribute it now, but
within a few weeks. Then 1T will be
sorely needed. Within f1ve weeks there
will be a hundred sufferers in San Fran
cisco where there are only ten now"
Thus l beg and implore the big-hearted
people of these United States not to
halt in their contributions for the San
Francisco sufferers. Do not feel because
you have tided them over the first few
days that this is all the help that will
be needed.
As I was riding home in the train a
gentleman said to me: There have
been more fortunes lost in tbs fire than
have ever existed l know of a dozen
men who claim they had lost thousands
yet who l know never had a dollar in
the bank" Thus when fire starts like
this there are scores of men who come
around begging for bread, claiming that
they are refugees from San Francisco
and have been thrown out of work and
lost their all The simple fact is they
were tramps before the fire. they always
have been tramps and always will be
tramps. But because we are now and
again imposed upon by bad men let us
not refuse to help the thousands and the
hundreds of thousands who are needy
and who always have done right and
who will try TO do right in the future If
we only put them on their feet at the
present time.
But the earthquake has disclosed a
bright side In still another sense Sad
was 1t to hear the awful news of the
suffering. But no sooner did the news
come than all over the land our churches
and our people went to work. Our chill
dren gave. Fathers and mothers and sis
tiers and brothers all gave. The churches
were turned into receiving stations. And
some men and women who never knew
what it was to help another turned in
and went to work. Then, strange to say
not only did our work bring happiness
to others, but our sacrifices have brought
happiness to ourselves. AS we worked
and labored for others we found the
Christ joy, the heavenly joy, coming to
ourselves. In giving our lives for others
we felt the rewards in our own hearts
a hundredfold. May we continue, with
Gods help, to find a gospel joy in help
continue to be food for the hungry,
clothes for the naked, medicine for the
sick and homes for the homeless. Then
not only will we bless others, but Christ
will smile upon us his divine benediction,
as he has done for many during the
past few days as we labored for the
San Francisco sufferers.
Copyright 1906 by Louis Klopsch)
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At the New York State Assembly of
Mothers, prominent New York doctor
told the 500 women present that healthy
American women were so rare as to be
almost extinct.
ment of the condition of American
women. Yet how many do you know
who are perfectly well and do not have
some trouble arising from derange-
ment of the female organism which
manifests itself in headaches, back
aches, nervousness, that bearing-down
feeling, painful or irregular periods,
pelvic catarrh, displacement of the
female organs, indigestion or sleepless-
ness? There is a tried and true remedy
for all these ailments. Lydia e. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound has re-
stored more American women to health
than all other remedies in the world.
1t regulates, strengthens and cures
diseases of the female organism as
nothing else can. For thirty years it
has been curing the worst forms of
female complaints.
Such testimony as the following
should be convincing.
Mrs. r. c. Willadsen, of Manning,
Ia, writes:
Dear Mrs. Pinkham:-
81 can truly say that you have saved my
life and / cannot express my gratitude to you
in words For two years | spent lots of money
in doctoring without any benefit for female
irregularities and had given up all hopes of
ever being well again, but was persuaded to
try Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound
and three bottles have restored me to perfect
health Had it not been for you | would
have been in my grave to-day
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POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
M the Chicago News.

From The Chicago News.
Farmlife is the only life-in novels.
slanderous story is the gossip's spice
of life.
Those you ridcule may forgive, but
they never forget
jealousy is a tree that bears the most
bitter of all fruits.
Most people who congratulate you on
your success do not mean it.
Many a man is brave only because he
is sure the other fellow is a coward.
There are so many ways of lying that
few people are able TO tell the truth.
It's the easiest thing in the world for
a man to find an excuse for his thirst.
Any man who sticks up for his friends
only when they are present is a sneak.
There's something wrong with the fool
who neglects to boast of his wisdom.
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carriages and automobiles and electric
cars which go rumbling down Broadway
in New York city. The average country
man who goes to the great metropolis
for the first time stops at the curbstone
and looks on that steady line of vehicles
in amazement. He stands on the curb
stone. as l have often seen him stand,
waiting for a cessation of those revolv-
ing wheels; but like Tennyson's brook.
men may come and men may go, but the
vehicles of Broadway, New York, seem to
go ON forever. Not thus does the old
New Yorker do. He wants to cross
Broadway He does not hesitate half
minute at the curbstone. He steps out
into the street at once He lodges this
way; he runs that way; he grips hold of
the bride of a horse here, and in few
seconds he is over the street. That is
the way | got into San Francisco, only
a few days after it was burned People
said [ could not get in, but I went ahead.
l lodged this way; I pushed that way;
| showed a little here and begged farther
on until I not only crossed the ferry, but
by Monday night following that catastro-
phe had tramped over every nook and
corner Of the burned district. From the
encampments in Golden Gate park into
the burned out district of old Chinatown
I went. Thus | am able today to render
an account of my visit and teach "A few
gospel lessons from the bright side of
an earthquake
Bright Side of an Earthquake
oh" you say, there is no need of
talking about the bright side of an earth
quake unless you are going to talk about
the lurid flames which, with their fam
ished tongues, licked up nearly ten square
miles of as fine buildings as any city
ever had. Three hundred million dollars
worth of property was certainly destroy
ed A friend of mine, on the morning
that San Francisco burned, was coming
from Honolulu. Away off at sea they
saw the blackened clouds. They could
not make out what was the matter. Near
or and nearer they came, until suddenly
some one cried out San Francisco is
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.os ANGELES. Cal, May BIN this


sermon the reacher records his OBJ
IL servations during a tour of the
wrecked city of San Francisco after the
disaster and draws timely lessons from
the experience. The text is Psalm civ,
83-'He looketh on the earth. and it trem-
beth: he toucheth the hills, and they
Smoke"
Yes, I have been in San Francisco.
have felt the earth heaving beneath my
feet With my own eyes l have seen the.
blaekened. smoking ruins, l have walked
under the tottering walls. I have heard
the exploding dynamite razing the ruins
10 the ground. Some people said l could
not get into the city if l went there and
some said / might be able to get into the
city, but if I did I would certainly be put
to work cleaning the streets and piling
Up bricks. And some people said that if
/ got into the city I would be auaran-
tined and not allowed to come out be
cause the smallpox was raging there.
And some people said / would get killed
by the falling walls if ! entered the burn
ed district. And some said l would have
t. drink water out of the broken sewers
and get typhoid fever if 1 ever entered
the ruined city. What some people said
of course did not happen. King Solomon
understood this fact thousands of years
ago when he wrote the proverb, "He that
observeth the wind shall not SOW" The
man who simply goes ahead doing his
work as God gives it to him to do will
accomplish that work. And the man who
Is always looking for obstacles and dan
gers ahead will find these obstacles by
the hundreds and thousands if he will
Only turn his timid ears and listen to
Wi at other people may say
=. Obstacles ahead always have impressed
mo like tho StpadN efr,ean1 ~ wagons and
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in the history of Birmingham for ladies'
when they can get the benefit of taking
baths and massage treatments and they
are not letting this opportunity slip; the
cry from the ladies is, why can We not
have two days instead of one?
BATTLE CREEK TURKISH BATHS,
Bell phone 1856. 1910 Fifth Ave.
Jim Parsons Place.
Every Thursday from 1880 to $50, baths
of all kinds Chiropodst in attendance.
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burnfng!" Then as they came nearer and
they saw the awful flames in their work
of death no one spoke. All was silence
except the surging of the waters as the
PROV of the boat cut through them, and
the steady painting and puff, puff. puff
of the machinery. Oh, do not talk to me
about the bright side of an earthquake
Is there a bright side to Dante's inferno?
Is there a bright side to streets strewn
with corpses? Amid the ruins which
YOU ~there-must. have been hundreds
of unknown dead. Talk about wrecked
fortunes of this holocaust if you will, but
not about Its bright side" Yes, my
friend l am going to talk about the
bright side of the earthquake even
against your protest. For in all my
trampings about this ruined town, and in
my intercourse with these noble people.
/ found more brightness than sorrow
more joy and congratulations than heart
sobs and complaints. This is why I have
taken for my subject the sunrise of the
morning, instead of the dark eclipse.
Not One Complaint.
The most natural course for me to pur-
sue, in the first place, is to tell you that
from the. moment | put my feet into
San Francisco TO the time that / stepped
aboard the ferry to start back for Oak
land | did not find one tear or one COM
plant from all the multitude of people
I saw and conversed with. And when |
speak thus remember that | am not in the
least minifying the awful ravages of this
earthquake If you have been to New
York and could imagine a fire starting
al Forty-second street. burning clear on
down to the Battery and sweeping away
every hotel, every palace of Fifth ave-
nue.. every store and factory and office
building and leaving practically nothing
standing, you can imagine what this fire
desolation means. OF course New York
Is a larger city than San Francisco. but
the proportions I have drawn are about
the same, Now all through these burned
districts all through the parks where
the homeless are encamped, all through
the resident regions where the homes are
still standing, | saw not one wet eye nor
one face denoting sorrow. Yes, | mis-
spoke myself. | did find one woman
seemingly in tears. | turned to physi-
clan in charge of this district and said,
That is the only person 1 have seen
crying in all this city" He replied:
Yes, but she is not crying for the loss
of property. She is recovering from an
attack of epilepsy and she would have
had this attack whether San Francisco
burned or did not burn"
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Harder Times to Come.

Now, what did do? I said to myself:
San Francisco is having a hard time
now, but the. hardest time will be those
days that are ahead. In few weeks
this free distribution of food and clothing
will stop Then the laborers will go to
work, and there will be plenty of work
for every able-bodied man who can work
In the streets or at other manual labor.
Then the hard pinch is to come. 1t will
come to the widow and the old folks
who cannot work with their hands. 1t
will come to the boarding house keeper
The Cairo bulletin., 1906-08-25
JACOB BAUER DEAD
Well Known Cairo Jeweler Died AZ
lnfirmsry Following Operation
for Abeess Of the Brain.

Jacob Bauer died Yesterday after
noon at St Marys In1rmarv. follow
ing an operation for abcess If the
brain. Mr. Bauer had been no only
since "Wednesday when be was A.
tackled with a violent headache The
deceased wa 60 wears old. He Was
born In Rafe. Switzerland and was
married in March Of 1863. az Rail. 10
VI IS dAele Roberts. In 1881 they came
10 This country and settled in Cairo in
the same year. For 70 years he was
employed As a ieweler by Z. A. Binder
H left there 10 embark 10 the iewelry
business for himself. establishing @
store at 2o23 Washington avenue Sew.
eral years ago he moved his store to
el5 Commercial avenue but a year
ago removed 10 2T05 Commercial ave
nue. He resided with n folly oveF
the store
Besides his wife he IS survived By >
daughter, MIS-. Otto Tsubsr. 81
The Cairo bulletin., 1906-08-25
ATWASTOOMUCH
For Miss Mccain and She tainted on
Stage When Curtain Dropped
Opening Bill a Good One.

Miss Mahle Mccain, prima donna, In
His Highuess. the Bey. was over
come by the intense heat last night AZ
the close If the second act and tainted
Just as the curtain fell. Miss McCaia
was carried to the stage door and re
5toratives applied. She was weak ami
extremely nervous but pluckily went
IN in the last act and played her part
o the finish. Mrs. Amos Judd, \
member OF the chorus also tainted
from the heat in the last act.
In spite Of the hot weather the open
ing of the amusement season at the
Cairo opera house last night was
fairly well attended. Those who Dc
fed the heat were well repaid and for
got all about their willing collars
and ringing wet shirtwaists in their
laughter over the clever lines. funny
comedians and catchy songs. The
was a most enthusiastic one
and almost ever ysong was encorel
a number of times.
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PALMA PRISONER
Continued from First Page)

make no statement regarding the pres
ont revolt unless the independence Of
Cuba be menaced by such actions Of
reyolutionists OF the government as
would be likely 10 bring outside in.
reference
He admitted that the majority Of
The insurgents are liberals. but claim.
I'd that there are also moderates and
that Nuneztas is among them. The
liberals, ne said always had been op-
posed TO arms and don't countenance
the present method of protest against
he last election
Reports from the country districts
say that the people are generally dis.
trusiinl Of the motive of President
Palma government and sympathize
with the insurgents. In cities there Is
a nearer approach TO genuine patriot
ism hut the government offers g 90
per day for recruits which meets with
low response Many arc only inter
csted as onlookers, but the genuine
desire TO feht for the government IS
lacking
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WORK WILL GO ON.

There is no occasion for discourage
ment in the fact that the bids for
street paving received by the Board Of
Local improvements are higher than
the estimates that were made. Prob.
ably all that the people want is that
the work shall be done as cheaply al
1t can be done consistently with good
quality. II stands to reason that no
property owner expects to get any
thing for nothing, in the way of street
and side walk improvements, and he
does not expect to get any work done
for less than it is worth, the value
to be fixed by fair and open com
petition. The excess In the bids over
the estimates is satisfactorily ac.
counted for in the advance in the
price Of materials, and the eXtraor
binary activity in improvements Of
this character elsewhere which en-
cages the attention of contractors
and there is little reason to doub'
that the property owners concerned
will, at the public hearing called for
next Thursday afternoon. approve the
proposition to meet the excess rep
resented in the lowest bid, in order
that the work may go on.
Attorney Leek states that. under
the law. the lowest bid may be &C
cepted and an assessment made for
the extra cost, If this shall be ap
proved at the public hearing which
has been called and no time need be
lost at ALL for It will not he necessary
In that case. TO go through all the
preliminary formalitieS which have
been passed through in these cases.
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5tagr Onutltg III
Il prfualrnt Eutl
By EVELYN VAUGHN,
Leading Lady in The College Widow"

best heaters.
wondered what thoughts pass through the minds OF
pay good money in the hope of receiving genuine
treat when they the artist and her support efcctua
play by this guying system.
In musical such thing part Of the fun and
overlook dramatic bete by the frivolous conduct
gushing of nights audience.
and do think for that
audience Of their smiles and guyinga least cannot be-
voluntarily payyet quite that the
average audience which witness hgass production has
enough intelligence detect false ring the Interpretation of roles
offered explanation that has played
part so often become mechanical but believe
that the great feels the character forget
great deal about the future of dramatic America.
We great deal about the mushroom growth OF leap
popularity month We listen burning criticisms
French the comparison OF the highly educated and
trained the French with those OF America
clubs managers themselves talk the need
Young actress who take her seriously what
blow can there OF the future than having budding
face face with the dstorng sighting
Of artb the very idols of the stage themselves?
duty only dramatic itself and the
seek inspiration from the fountain heads acting
the general intelligence well eliminate guyng
system.
and who have attained greatness something
OF the profession they adon instead writing
decryng print the condition dramatic art of
to-day they would endeavor stimulate dramatic art
would receive its best incentive
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STARTS PAYMENTS
Continued from First Page)
New York.


| New York.
Trailed to Liverpool.
In New York il was learned that
Stensland had remained but a short
time. He Is known 10 have commun
lcated with persons in Chicago and
after receiving a reply, TO have sailed
for Liverpool. There the trail was lost
and the detectives believe the man
visited Norway, remaining there sew
eral days Evidently fearing to re-
main in the country he returned to
Liverpool and sFled from there for
India.
The Chicago police also learned
about the same time that Stensland
was on the way to India This is de
clared to have caused the activity of
Chief Collins, who through Governor
Deneen and the secretary Of state has
prepared arrangements for the ex
tradition of Stensiand when captured.
Director La Buy said the informa-
ton in the possession Of the private
would eliminate question
as TO Stensland's identity if he is
The Cairo bulletin., 1906-08-25
LAST NIGHTS TRAGEDY.

The tragedy at Maley's saloon last
night calls for the most earnest in
quiry by those in authority. II is the
third that has occurred there and the
place has long had an unenviable rep
utation. Maley himself is something
of a political boss who has lately
welded a larger personal influence
in elections in the First ward than
the people should submit to from an.
saloon man. least of all from one who
has as his henchmen the class of peo-
pie that Maley has and uses at his
will. 1t is because of these circum.
stances that this case will be closely
watched by the public and every cir
cumsianee bearing upon it will be-
scrutinized
The evidence in the affair of las,
might seems to indicate that the shori
ing of the river man was not JUST
fable. The evidence Of the barkeeper
who was the only eve witness would
make il to appear that the dead mar
did make a threat and a motion to
draw weapon. but this T. fatty con
tradieted BY other testimony of a very
positive character and by circum
stances for the dead man had n
weapon of any kind and those who
knew him state he never carried Z
weapon; and the young country man
who was in the restaurant and heard
all that was said declares that the
man who made the threat to kill was
the man with the coarse voice and
this was Maley.
The Cairo bulletin., 1906-08-25
TWINS.

When he wrote to Representative
Watson that the question of revising
the tariff stands wholly apart from the
question of dealing with the so-callac
| trusts" President Roosevelt merel,
expires sed what he wished to be true
and what was not actually true
Thus, the president sacrificed frank
ness 10 speciousness, put aside candor
and took up deception and said what
might have been expected from a
mere politician.
If he just had TO write campaign
document, ii h. just had TO mix him
self up in the political war, the presi
dent could have afforded easily to
omit a statement so discreditable to
him as a president and thinker, and
so offensive to the intelligence of I'M.
biased Americans He could have
stood pat" on the tariff without say
Ing the tariff question was distinct
from the trust question. BY saying
what Is sd palpably wrong he weakens
his entire argument.
That the tariff question Is INSOFAR.
able from the trust problem, is appar
ent TO all who have examined the ma,
tons trade statistics and observed he
habits of the trusts. The statistics
show that the American trusts are
able to sell their wares in foreign
at prices lower than those
by the home manufacturers
If those countries, but. since the for
eigners are kept out of America by
the protective tariff, sell to American
at prices greatly in eXces
Of those charged abroad. One of the |
habits of the trusts. is to contribute |
heavily to Republican campaign funds
n order 10 insure the retention of the I
tariff Would the trusts be |
Ible to rob the American consumers 1
With high prices if they were no.
ided by the protective tariff? Would /
he trusts chin in so generously for
he retention of this tariff if it was
OF such good thing for them that
hey wished it pushed along? Would
ley be able to combine and shut on
,reign competition if they could not
itrench themselves behind a prohibi
on tariff?
The tariff and the trusts are not
part. They are the Siamesa twins of
odern politics.-Courier-Journal
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bate theory, the handspring of which
is a paralyzation Of the peoples en-
crgy.
The people of this country are look
ing TO Mr. Bryan as the probable lead
er of one of the two practical and
progressive parties. In this position he
viii be kept busy enough attending to
legitimate business. without flying
after any Of the willie the wisps
brought into being through unprae
teal idealists on the one hand and dis
demagogues on the other
Memphis Commercial-Appeal.
The Cairo bulletin., 1906-08-25
GUERRA DESERTS TOWN

San Juan de Martinez. Cuba. Aug
2l.-At $50 this evening the gov
eminent troops arrived here from Pin
ar del Rio. but the news - their com
ing preceded them by several hours
and by noon The last ~ Guerra's men
had left. taking all the horses they
could gather. The town is quiet
Guerra has probably 2.G00 men and
was well supplied with money. His
movement westward was not wilh thr
purpose. II occupyinE GaaBes which
Wa already in the possession Of the
resident Insurgents bat 70 effect =
junction with several hundred insur
gents coming from the vicinity q
euznes
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Twenty eighth street, and two sons,
Karl and Paul Bauer. The former was
In Fon du Lac. Wis, yesterday and IL
expected here today to attend the
funeral. The remains Of Mr.. Bauer
were taken to the home of his daugh-
ter where the funeral services viii
be held. Arrangements for the funeral,
however, will not be completed until
his sons arrival.
The deceased was a member OF the
Cairo Casino and the German Maen
nerchor and was charter member OF
the local lodge of the A. O. Il. w.