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The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1906-01-02

SCOTTY. the plunger, has come to
life again. 1t is difficult matter to
lose Scotty.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1906-01-02
PLUNCERS MADE


the added value of Reading, but the
others were already abnormally rich
Charles M. Schwab has had the salts
faction of seeing steel stock rise t1
the level from which II collapsed four
years ago. He must have made tens
Of millions in profit. Samuel New.
house is another who controls mines
whose stocks are quoted higher than
Standard Oil His Boston Nj ming Com.
pany, with shares of IS par sell at
about s35, which is 700 per cent. The
Guggenheims as a family have pros
pered nightly. Their smelter stock
has been a perpetual sensation in the
stock market
Is Lawson a Winner?
Loserl-ithere are none. Thomas
w. Lawson claims to have lest mil
lions, but as he has not gone into bank
ruptcy there is well-grounded suspic-
ion that his celebrated stock market
instinct has not deserted him and
that he is secretly marching we'll up
.oward the front of the procession.
Colonel w. c. Greene, who went
TO Boston to shoot Lawson. has been
a favorite of fortune, as the rich
strikes in his Mexican mines are
among wonders of the year.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1906-01-02
Has Been At It Ever Since.

The first canary had di-covererd Il
had a voice and va. proceeding to use
il. ..tt.t
DO you think you can sing? sneered
the parrot .a.I
Well. should twitter, said the
canary.
Which. In order 10 make good. il
immed ately began 10 DO.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1906-01-02

Glasgow. Scotland. spends on drink
sls.oo0.ooO a year. an average Of ssi Is
. head.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1906-01-02

TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY.
Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets
Druggists refund money If il fails to
cure. Z. W. Groves signature is on
each box. sc.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1906-01-02

Alexander County, Population 22,965
County Judge, VIM. s. DEWEY.
County Clerk, JESSE K. MILLER.
Circuit Clerk, LEE B. DAVIS.
Sheriff, JAS. s. ROCHE.
Coroner, DIR. JAMES McMANUS.
Board Of County Commissioners.
GEORGE PARSONS.
DIR EDWIN J. CAUSE.
]. j. JENNELLE. Chairman.
Assessor and Treasurer, FRANK Il
DAVIS.
County Superintendent Of SchollS
PROF. JOHN SNYDER.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1906-01-02
OFFICIAL DIRECTORY
Cairo, Alexander County. Illinois, Pop
ulatlon 16,147.

Mayor. GEORGE PARSONS.
Clerk, r. A. HATCHER.
Treasurer. JAMES QUINN.
Comptroller, L. s. DEWEY.
Police Magistrate, A. J. ROSS.
Chief Of Police, M. s. EGAN.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1906-01-02
I RcuLATIoN STATEMENT

Average daily and Sunday circula-
X Hon tor the year 1904. 1876
Average daily and Sunday circula.
"a uCn Tor the first ten months Of
u 1905 Observation-Disclosures. .2f4s
Average daily and Sunday circula-
n ton for November, 1905. ...... .2074
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1906-01-02

Maxine Gorky is considering a tour
of the United States.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-09-01

trust laws. and my gratification is not
lessened by the fact that he has fol-
lowed the Democratic rather than the
Republican platform in every advance
he has made"
In respect to the tariff Mr.. Bryan, Of
course, demands revision that win
stop the enrichment Of monopollsts at
the expense Of the people. He believes
In the theory Of public ownership
where competition is impossible" and
from that standpoint he sees the time
when the railroads. particularly trunk
lines. will become public property and
be managed by public officials in the
interest of the whole community" He
opposes the sociallstic doctrine, how
ever, that "the government should own
and operate all the means of produce
ton and transportation"
The initial speech did not afford op-
portunity for Mr. Bryan to amplify
his views on leading political questions,
but that he promises to do in certain
other speeches soon to be delivered.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-09-01
A DISGRACE TO THE CITY

Leading Broadway merchants declare
that the action Of the police commits
sion In suspending the rules and grant
ing a saloon license between Second and
Third streets, in Broadway, was des-
picable." A member of the city coun-
Gil said to committee of those mer-
chants, II agree with you gentlemen
that the action of the police commission
was outrageous"
The sentiments thus expressed voice
the feeling of probably nine-tenths of
the respectable citizens of Los Angeles.
The underhand and irregular method
whereby that saloon license was
granted, in face of the known opposi-
ton of business interests and public
sentiment generally. deserves even
stronger reprehension than is implied
in the adjectives used by the council
man and the merchants.
But the glaring outrage In question
is in keeping with the whole record of
the present police commission in con-
nection with the liquor selling interests
and it's allies. The commission, with
one honorable exception, has shown the
most fragrant contempt for the public
and for the welfare of the city. The
members of that body, barring the
exception, have acted as If the two
hundred saloons and their hackers were
paramount in the affairs of Los An
geles.
The city is disgraced and shamed by
the very official body whose special duty
it is to use every possible means to pro-
tect the good name of Los Angeles.
Instead of sense of confidence in the
efforts of the commission to that end,
there is growing feeling of suspicion,
at every meeting, that something will
be done warranting such fitting re-
buke as was bestowed by the council
man and the merchants.
A police commission of such char
acter is not only disgrace but a
positive menace to the material in
terests of the city. Strangers who visit
Los Angeles, and particularly investors
and homeseekers, are naturally i'm
pressed unfavorably by the spectacle
of a police board acknowledging the
paramount duty Of caring for the
liquor selling industry.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-09-01
"YoUNG HICKORY"

There is nothing but the soundest po-
litical timber in the platform material
contained in Mr.. Bryan's great speech
at New York. Not stick of deadwood,
not knot nor crack. 1t recalls the
positive, determined attitude of An
drew Jackson which gave him the So
briquet of "Old Hickory" w. ].
Bryan's vigorous attack on the weak
spots in the Republican party entitle
him to the Jacksonian distinction, with
the sobriquet of Young Hickory"
Only the salient, living issues of the
day were considered in Mr.. Bryans
initial speech of the next presidential
campaign. The money question, which
vocates of bimetallism-the former
campaigns. was dismissed with the
statement that 1.-THE unIooked-for and
unprecedented increase in the produce
tion of gold has brought a victory to
both the advocates of gold and the ad-
vocates of bimetallism-the former
keeping the gold standard and the lat
ter securing the larger volume of
money, for which they contended."
After brief expression of views in
favor of allowing the Filipinos to
paddle their own canoe at the earliest
possible date, followed by an argument
In favor of electing United States sem
ators by the people and advocacy of an
income tax. Mr.. Bryan takes vigorous
hold of industrial problems. He favors
arbitration for the settlement of points
in dispute between employers and
workers, under the operation of per-
manent, impartial boards. He does not
advise compulsory arbitration, how
ever. on this point he says: 'If there
is compulsory submission to investiga-
ton, it is not necessary that there
should be compulsory acceptance of the
decision, for full and fair investiga-
ton will In almost every case bring
about a settlement" And he expresses
confidence that the weight of public
opinion may be relied upon to enforce
the finding"
The eisht-hour system of labor, in
Mr. Bryan's Judgment. is sure to pre-
vail ultimately. He says the struggle
for it ''is an International one. and it
is sure TO be settled I'm favor of the
workingmen." That will be a logical
result. he thinks. Of the benefits derived
in industrial lines by labor saving ma
chinery.
The paramount issue In the next
presidential campaign. as Mr. Bryan
foresees II, will be the subordlnation
Of all trusts to government control.
On this point he pays a left-handed
compliment to President Roosevelt by
congratulating him upon "the steps
which he has taken to enforce the anti
Los Angeles herald., 1906-09-01

"The West Coast Magazine" of Los
Angeles, published yesterday for the
first time, will attract more than ordi-
nary attention, even in this city of
splendid publications. 1t is beautifully
printed, artistically designed, ably ed
tied and filled with reading matter that
will be entertaining and instructive to
all who have the favor of coming its
pages. The editor is Mr.. John S.
McGroarty, whose delightful poems
have cheered many hearts and given
their author a high place in public
affection. MacHenry Grafton is the
general manager, with A. K. Graf
ton as advertising and circulation
manager. The cover design of the
first issue is by that talented artist,
Hernando G. Villa, and represents the
spirit of the west coast facing the
orient with torch and pen, the continent
at her back. The contributions are
noteworthy, and the West Coast Maga-
zine will hereafter be feature Of liter
ary Los Angeles.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-09-01
JAPANESE MORALITY

japanese observers assert that at
present Buddhism has no influence in
China, and the statement is still more
true of Japan. The average Japanese
who has any conception of the diff
ference between one religion and an
other, feels that Buddhism has a scant
message for the twentieth century. The
real religion of Japan is Ancestor Wor-
ship-a reverence for and service of,
the departed ones whose spirits are be-
lieved ever to pour their mighty forces
into the life of today. To large num-
ber of the more intelligent Japanese,
this creed is no more satisfying to the
spiritual nature than the anniversary
of funeral would be to us; and as for
the masses, they are slaves to the most
blood-curdling superstitions, amounting
in many cases to a worship of demons.
In very able article in the Shin jim
New NAM Mr.. Ebina contends that
Notwithstanding it's philosophical ex-
celence, Buddhism is destined to be
overcome by the practical efficiency of
Christianity. Japanese Christians are
now exerting q powerful influence at
home and that influence has conspicu-
ously followed the flag into Formosa,
Los Angeles herald., 1906-09-01
Coon Hunting

The officers of the English squadron
prepared for their recent visit to this
country by an exhaustive study of so
called American slang, that they might
enjoy that delightful American hui
NOR over which the English have re-
Gently become so enthusiastic.
During their stay in Annapolis a
coon hunt was arranged for their bene-
fit, the officer in charge explaining to
them that it was a sport highly thought
of and native to the southern states.
AS they rode along one Of the Eng
lishmen remarked: "You hunt these
coons with dogs, 1 think?"
His host assented and the English
man continued: 'They are found in
the woods and are often caught in
trees, aren't they?"
''They are" replied the American,
"but how do you come to know so
much about coon hunting?"
"Oh," said the visitor with an air of
conscious pride, .'I've read Uncle
Toms Cabin you know, and all those
articles that have come out in thG
papers here lately, but to tell the truth,
1 didn't think it was allowed by the
authorities, no matter what the nigger
had done. e."-Lippincott's.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-09-01
THE WIFE,S RIVAL

There is one question that should
come to every wife who sees her hus-
band attracted by another woman:
Where does she charm where do moi? =?
Does she try to please him more than
have done? Is the suggestion i'm
moral only? What is the unconscious
need back of this outcome of 1t, the
thing that l have unconsciously failed
in? Why should any one have more
attraction for him, more power over
him, than his own wife?"
And one thing is certain--if his re-
gard is failing you under the conditions
of life that you are now both living
under, change them-never keep on un-
der any conditions that are futile Of re-
suit. BY some means, in some way, get
out of the rut. Give him some other
interest, other company, fad, any
thing to take up the mind or his atten-
tion SO that this other hurtful interest
may be crowded out. Plan for it as
you never planned before. A fishing
trip will cut out the dawning passion
for almost any woman. Even figuring
over an impossible canoe or an impos-
sible sailboat woth a yachting maga-
zine and couple of enthusiastic nauti-
cal friends will supply a counter at
traction through many winter evenings.
-Harper's Bazaar.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-09-01

COPENHAGEN, Aug St.-The Danish
congress Is in full swing. It provides
the visitor with a remarkable ex-
perience and a most interesting picture.
from Iceland In the north to Italy in
the south, women of all ages and of all
social positions, animated by the same
desire, working for the same end, have
gathered together to discuss their plan
OF campaign.
No time Is wasted in setting forth
rights" or wrongs" What now con-
cern them are the practical measures
necessary to obtain the right TO the
parliamentary vote which some of their
more fortunate sisters have already
secured.
Our colonial sisters have already, i'm
Tasmania and New Zealand, that privi-
lege which the women of England, Ire
land and Scotland have for forty years
asked for In vain. Delegates and Wis.,
itors alike are eager to attend the con-
gress and contribute their share to the
discussion and gain fresh stimulus for
work
Hospitality of the most pleasant and
cordial character has been found for
the ogreater number of ladies'. The
Danish committee have worked ex-
tremely hard and have made special
efforts to provide information for the
number of Danish lady journalists
who are taking notes at the meeting.
The president of the Danish Woman's
Suffrage association is Fru Louise
Norlund a prominent member of other
advanced Danish societies for helping
women. BY profession Fru Norlund is
a teacher in q state school. Froken
Sophie Albert, sister of the Danish
president of council, is the head of the
N. IL
bers Of the congress in the name of the
dent.
English Spoken
Froken Sophie Albert, like all the
Danish ladies who are taking a prom
inent part in the congress, speaks
English with fluency. Indeed, it is inn
possible not to be astonished, and not a
little abashed, at ones own ignorance
OF Scandinavian tongues, when we hear
the proceedings conducted throughout
In English, and find that the proposal
to translate all the speeches into
Danish is demurred to-, as somewhat
unnecessary, by many of the ladies
present.
Fru Louise Hansen, whom Lam for
tunate enough to We for by hostess,
also gave us an address Of welcome
written in first rate English. She
speaks on behalf of the Business Wom-
ems league, which has been founded by
her with conspicuous success, and of
which she is the president. The league
provides it's members with large club
premises, and instruction, not only in
commercial subjects, but also in sport.
The business girls of Copenhagen have
the opportunity of learning swimming,
fencing, tennis and. dancing.
Turning to the officials of the con-
gress, the president of this Interna-
tional Alliance of Women's Suffrage
associations is an American lady, Mrs.
Carrie Chapman Gait. who has taken
the place formerly held by Miss Susan
B. Anthony, the pioneer Of the move
ment in the United States.
Business Skill
Mrs Gait manages the assembly with
great skill, puts all the business in
Los Angeles herald., 1906-09-01
THE PRESIDENTS ENGLISH

Hist! Don't repeat 1t, on your life,
1t would be awkward very;
But there's a scandal brewing in
The nations dictionary!
The president discovered II
While recently undertaking,
And every word ESQ we have heard)
In guilty fear is quaking,
These grating words ESQ we are told,
Though II seems very funny)
Have been for years a-wasting of
The peoples hard-earned money!
And Roosevelt has set about.
In manner most compelling,
To turn the wicked letters out,
And thus reform our spelling.
The silent letters. though they shrek,
Will be investigated;
The naughty diphthongs (neyer wed)
Will soon be separated
And all words be made moral as
TO give a diagram
The wicked m" cut on, why then,
There's nothing wrong with dam"
But--shade OF Noah Websterl
(Inyoked by DIR. Funk.
Your unabridged" you'll never know
Whenas Il has been shrunk
But when you think OF what well save
AS without doubt you shall
You'll not Ob1ect-thuS we expect
2 bid that dam'd kanal.
--st. Louis Globe-Democrat.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-09-01

The Washington Cd. CO Star. reply
ing to the Los Angeles Herald's ar
raignment of President Roosevelt for
having descended to the active per-
sonal direction of this years Republic
can campaign, declares that ''the oceu-
pant of the White House. whoever he
may be, is still his partys leader COM
mltted to it's policies and within his
rights In speaking for them" Nobody
has controverted that point. The Her.
aid contends that IT is unseemly on
the part OF the presldent to literally
and actually take charge of cam
paign by addressing open letters to
the managers. directing the Republic
can forces IN the field and personally
making the fight for his party, The
country expects the president to COM
mune with and advise his own party,
but It does not expect him TO lead the
open charge In person. That's what
The Herald objects to his doing,
Los Angeles herald., 1906-09-01
ARE TooTHPIcks BAD FORM?

''I ran over in May for the London
season." said globe-trotter "On the
boat was pretty widow from Altoona
who disguised and amused all hands
one day by saying:
I am surprised that a fast and ex-
pensive boat like this should fail to
supply us with toothpicks'
"She thought toothpicks indispensa-
BILE, like napkins or forks. For think
ing so we set her down as a hecker.
But wait
''I dined during the season at Princes s
in Piccadilly, and at the Savoy, in the
room that overlooks the embankment
and the river; and at the Carlton,
where 1 paid 81 for a plate of soup.
And at all these restaurants, which are
admittedly the finest and the smartest
ard the most fashionable in the world
at all of them there were toothpicks
on the table done UP in sterilized
envelope.
This taught me a lesson. 1t taught
me that 1t is narrow and provincial to
deSpise people for their disregard of
certain small rules of etiquite. The
things wedespise them for, which may
be glaring errors in Seattle or New
York, may be again, as like as not, the
correct thing in Paris and London"
Los Angeles herald., 1906-09-01
KILLING CATS A SPECIALITY

Miss Susan Alice Judd, teacher OF
Mayfair, ILL.,, makes a speciality of kill
ing cats. She is rich, highly educated,
and a noted and beloved charity worker.
For twenty years she has taught Greek,
English and German in the famous
Jefferson high school, where many OF
Chicagos leading men were her pupils.
She is an active member of the Chicago
Woman's club, pillar of the Irving
Park Sorosis, and the mainstay of the
home missionary society. Her hobby
is the painless killing of sick or suffer-
ing cats. She often buys victimized
cat, II she can get 1t in no other way.
She has with her now three cats that
she rescued from vivisection in a labor,
atory. Miss Judd says: I have been
killing cats for eighteen years, and ]
have put so many to death that now,
with my automatic pail and pan, have
perfected way by which can drown
them in warm water and have all oi
their nine lives extinct within thirty
seconds without pain"
Los Angeles herald., 1906-09-01
cIeARs Like LEAD pENolLs

THE latest fashion in cigars" said a
dealer, "is a shape that resembles a
lead pencil In length and thickness. All
the cigar manufacturers are getting
them out, and the longer and thinner
they are, the more people like them.
1T seems as n the smokers were
trying to get as little for their money
as possible. There's a popular belief
just now that the less tobacco there is
In cigar the better the tobacco must
be in quality.
There's no getting away from the
fact that the new lead-pencll cigars
have a lot of style to them and are
more attractive than the big kind that
bulge out i'm the middle. / notice that
most of the men who buy them are
particular about their personal appear
ance and want everything they use to
have character to It.
vYour middle-aged man would never
bother with such short smokes as these
new-fangled ones. One old chap came
in the other day with a younger man,
who tried to get him to take one of the
'epicures,' as they call them. They are
just as expensive as the big ones, by
the way; sometimes more expensive.
Not on your life,' said the older
man. I'd have to keep the band on
that toothpick to show L wasn't smok
ing a Pittsburg stogie. When smoke
cigar 1 want a mans size, not
cigarette made to bring up babies on
And he picked out an imported cigar
black as ebony.
"A lot of men who have stuck to one
kind of cigar for years don't know that
there are fashions in cigars, but the
styles in them change just as the
styles in shirts do.
"a while ago 1t was the petit due
size. the opposite extreme from the
present fashion. The petit due is very
short and very fat, coming suddenly to
a sharp point at the lighting end. It's
oddity made 1t popular for time, but
1t fell out of favor because 1t is hard
to hold between the lips, and Its short
ness and thickness make 1t an uncom-
Portable, hot smoke.
Another shape that has lost much
Of it's popularity is the rough looking,
loosely rolled breva, wh ch orig nally
came bundled in lots of fifty wrapped
in corn husk tied at both ends The
tying bent the cigars so that they
usually had the curve like a tallow
candle on hot day."-Detroit News
Tribune.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-09-01

The New York Nautical Gazette re-
headed New Port on the Pacific Coast"
with evident pleasure The editorial an
nounced that "all conditions are ripe
for beginning in the development of
trade relations between San Pedro and
the Orient and also between that port
and the ports of Central and South
America" 1t was an announcement
of special interest to every port in the
world
Los Angeles herald., 1906-09-01

The sudden death of Editor Rose
water of the Omaha Bee recalls the
urgent appeals made to him by his
best friends to refrain from the ex-
citement of a personal campaign for
the senatorship. His end came as
they had antieipated-sudde and
swiftly. Mr.. Rosewater was in many
respects an able journalist, courageous,
unyielding and active, and he made
a great and profitable newspaper out
of the Bee.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-09-01
Perverted Proverbs

Be sure you are right. then consult
your wife.
Any bonnet is in style If it costs
enough.
What man pays, not owes, keeps
him poor.
Some men advance step by step till
they become step fathers
Not every woman who harps stands
a show of angelhood.
You don't gain anything by borrow
ing money to pay your debts
Some girls are so poor at keeping
secret that they tell their right age
The empty heart is also the heaviest
They also skin who only lie in wait.
He who has nothing to regret has
little to remember.
A man would rather have fool who
fascinates than wise woman who
wearies
You can't really manage an auto till
you can prevent it's running you into
debt. w. H. c.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-09-01

Korea and Manchuria When the main
points Of the ethics of old Japan, 10y
atty and filial piety, are consecrated by
the social service of pure and noble
character, a great and lasting leader
ship will be assured to japan, not only
in statesmanship, but in religion and
morality.
In this most vital point of all-moral-
lty, Japan is weakest, and so long as
she continues so, she will lack one of
the most essential requisites of assured
success. In assisting her to feel rightly
on this question, Christianity must
prove a potent factor. But at present
Japan's social morality is the greatest
menace to her advance.-Harper s
Weekly.