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The Cairo bulletin., 1906-10-31
TAFT SCORES TRUSTS I'm A
SPEECH Ar cANN0N'S HOME
Danyille, ILL.,, \

panviIle. H. n 80 Secretary
Fatt spoke 70 an overflow audience
in this cisy tonight The secretary ar
rived at Q O'Clock and left about 10
O'Clock for Omaha where he speaks
again tomorrow night Taft urged
the election of Speaker Cannon, dis
cussed the antiinjuncton bin. az
fined trusts and referred To remedies
adopted BY tho Republican congress
for their regulation. emphasized the
necessity of electns Republican
congress TO support the president in
carrying ont his policies and said:
Trusts are merely large business
corporations thar pursue methods
that arc illegal Corporation is an ar.
ihciaI entity and this element this
artificial entity, is one of the most
valuable we hoaye in building up the
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rne suiIctin lie on sale a. ths fol
lowing places:
coleman's, z14 Eighth street.
Halliday House News ataRs..
Walkers, 10 sixth street.
Blue Front Restaurant.
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ANNOUNCEMENT.
County Treasurer,

We are authorized to announce
Michael T. Cahill as candidate on
the Democratic ticket for the office of
assessor and treasurer of Alexander
county.
The Cairo bulletin., 1906-10-31
OFFICIAL DIRECTORY
Cairo, Alexander County, Illinois
Population 16,147.

Mayor, GEORGE PARSONS.
Clerk, II. A. HATCHER.
Treasurer, JAMES QUINN.
Comptroller, Il. s. DEWEY,
Police Magistrate, A, J, ROSS.
Chief OF Police. Nj. S. ,I1AGAN.
Alexander County, Population 22e63,
County Judge, WM :. DEWEY
County Clerk, JESSE y. MILLER.
Circuit Clerk, LEE n DAVIS
Sheriff, JAS. S. ROCHE
Coroner, DIR. JAMES McMANuS.
County superintendent OF Schools.
PROF. JOHN SNYDER
Assessor and Treasurer FRANK F.
DAVIS.
Board Of County Commissioners,
GEORGE PARSONS.
DIR. EDWIN j. CAUSE.
J. !. JENNELLE, Chairman
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For County Judne.

HUNTER BIRD authorizes his an.
nouncement as the candidate for
County Judge of Alexander county on
the Democratic ticket at the election
TO be held on Tuesday, November G.
1906.
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For School Superintendent.

MISS BI5SSIE NJ. TURNER author
ICES her announcement rs the regn
larly nominated Democratic candidate
for superintendent of schools OF Alex
ander county, at the election to he
held on Tuesday November 6, 1906.
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For County Clerk.

JOHN MULVIHILL authorizes his
announcement as a candidate for
county clerk OF Alexander county, at
the election to be held on Tuesday,
November 6, 1906.
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CIRCULATION STATEMENT.

Average daily and Sunday circ1l-
lation for the year 1905.. .2'2d
Average daily and Sunday circu-
luton for the month Of Septem-
,,ar .2O63
The Cairo bulletin., 1906-10-31

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bring results 4 30-word advertise
ment, published in this paDer three
times brought 23 replies This is
nothing unusual. A word to the wise,
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thing 20 rent, sell or trade 10 advertise
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Alexander
County National
Bank

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Accounts OF corporations and indiyi6-
uals especially collected. Exchangs
furnished tc any part Of the world.
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-09-18
President PaIma's Truce.

Cuba holds the center of the great world stage this week, and perhaps during the present week the status of the island will to a great extent be determined. President Palma certainly has read President Roosevelt's letter addressed to Minister Quesada be- tween the lines, for he has ordered a cessation of hostilities on his side, and will endeayor to patch up a peace that will prevent immediate intervention. He sees, as all others do that Presi- dent Roosevelt laid foundation in his letter for intervention provided Secre- tary Taft and Acting Secretary of State Bacon report that Cuba Hacks the self-restraint necessary to peaceful government"
 The insurgents will not lay down their victorious arms unless Palma consents to set aside his rotten con gressional elections, possibly his own election, and even if he does that he will but pave the way for another revo- lution inside of a year.
 Large American interests are in- volyed. A recent estimate says that condition of anarchy in Cuba would put in jeopardy S1O0,0000OO of Ameri- can investments in the sugar and to- bacco districts of the island. Credit is already impaired. Our imports of sugar last year from Cuba amounted to $60 0O00 000; of tobacco unmanufac- tured $13,500, ,000; of cigars and cigar cites, $4000000-a total of sS4,979 ,S31. Our exports to Cuba last year footed up $47,763,6SS. These large figures would be materially lessened by civil war.
 There is but one thing that can pre- serve peace among the half-breeds and negroes of Cuba, and that Is the Big Stick represented in American battle ships now hurrying to Havana harbor It is idle to talk about the freedom and independence of a people unfit for 1t. The island can become very pro ductive. In American hands 1t would soon become so Any settlement other than this would be temporary uncer. tain and unsatisfactory. Intervention would point to annexation, and inter. vention would therefore be a moment ous step.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-09-18
A Transformation.

q was waiting for street car to come along" said the man whose turn 1t was to tell a story, and while waiting noticed man on the opposite side of the street set down a can of paste and d bundel of paper.
 ''The wall was bare and blank, and presented a dismal appearance It was rough and considerably out of perpendlc- ular. It was decayed and dangerous and altogether a wall neither inviting to look at and not safe to stand near.
 The bili-sticker took no notice of all this, but proceeded to lay on the paste freely, and copiously. He then struck his brush against the bundle of paper and deftly tossed section of a large poster to the upper part of the wall Proceeding thus. section after section, was spread over the wall until, loi there was scene rivalng the palaces of Oriental magnifi- cence found in the Arabian Nights.
 "The transformation was complete. No magician's wand cauld have more effec- tualy changed the scene than did that unpretentious blll-sticker with his brush Ignorant of and indifferent to the effect of his simple labors the man proceeded on his way looking for another such suita- ble place to exercise his art"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-09-18
Iron Making in August.

The merchant furnaces produced iron freely in August, but the steel companies lost ground, and the ag- gregate for the month fell to 1922, TIT tons, as against production of 2.O13,- 402 tons in July. A larger output Is expected during the remainder of the calendar year.
 This district simply held its own. Outside of charcoal iron, the produc- tion in Alabama last month was 127,- 137 tons, as against 127,165 tons in July, and 124,606 tons in June. Our furnaces are still producing 10000 tons less per month than the production of May or April. At the present rate, the years output in the Birmingham dis trict will not largely exceed 1,500,0O tons, including charcoal iron.
 The labor and climatic conditions that have cut our production down about per cent have been operative also elsewhere, for nearly every dis trict shows similar losses. Consump- ton goes on at the old pace, but pro- duction does not, and this is why iron is in demand at advancing prices.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-09-18
New York's Primaries.

Today in the big metropolis of New York state will be fought out in pri- maries the control of both the old par ties of that state. On the republican gates will be between Lemuel Ely Quigg who stands for the continuance of the power of Odell and Platt, and Herbert Parsons who represents the President, but whose preference for governor is not known. Not much is at stake, for both sides are at sea so far as gubernatorial candidate is con cerned There are thirty-five assembly districts in the big city, but in only fifteen of them will there be primary fats'.
 will be for or against Murphy. How Congressman Sullivan will line up is not known. and the Congressman in question is powerful. Mayor Mcclellan is fighting against Murphy, and the primaries of today will decide who is to control Tammany
 If Murphy retains control of Tam many it is more than probable that the heavy vote of the New York county delegates will be cast for William R. Hearst for governor, and this would make Hearst governor and it would also make him a national figure, and a factor in the greater race of 1908. About twelve districts will be the scenes of primary fights, and the re- suits in them will turn more upon the leadership of Tammany Hall than upon Jerome or Hearst. If Murphy secures B plain victory no doubt he will sup port Hearst at Buffalo, and it is this that renders the New York primaries of today of national importance.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-09-18

that of Mn. Conner in this state, or that of Hoke s1l lith of Georgia. MT. Churchill has been d citizen of New Hampshire eight yearA but in that time he has published pAlitical novels, and has stir red up a biz feeling against railroads in politics-against corporation man. agement of the state.
 Two years ago the novelist-politician was member of the legislature, and when the Boston and Maine sent him pass he threw it into a wastepaper basket declaring he could not afford the two cents needed to send 1t back But the height of his offending came when he published "Coniston." The hero of the story is "Jethro Bass" a railroad political boss. In his cam paign MT. Churchill devoted his time to an expose of "the imperial regime" which Bass installed. The pass" has received due attention, and so has valuation of railroad property for taxa tion. and also the railroad lobby.
 MT. Churchill has secured f1fty-one pledged delegates, but the general inn pression Is that he will not secure the nomination. There are five candidates, and at the outset MT Churchill will not have more than 150 delegates out of S05. Only two daily papers in the state would publish his speeches, and the entire state machine headed by Sena- tor Gallinger is fighting him. Presi- dent Futile of the Boston and Maine is supporting Colonel Greenleaf, and the wise old heads say Greenleaf will defeat the altruist who has spent hot summer on the stump. It is fight within the republican party.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-09-18
GRAVEYARD OF BOTTLES.
Strangers Following Mountain TraIi
 Are Shown Odd Sight.

From the Washington Post.
 Two men. spending the summer in the region, following a mountain trail. They came at one point to a cabin beside the trail in the woods.
 Two men visible at this cabin, one q man of fifty or whereabouts with a cheer. full countenance and brown mustache, sitting on his porch and the other a younger man. of thirty maybe, also amiably disposed, and with a black mus tache and closely trimmed vandyke beard of the same hue, sitting on stump about ten feet from the cabin, in front.
 The man on the porch, pleasantly. to the men on the trail, as they come along abreast of the cabin:
 Want to see a mountain graveyard?.
 Why. yes,'' says the leader of the two men on the trail. a man with no particular fancy. really for any sort of graveyards. mountain or otherwise, but still not wishing to seem impolite. ives. we'd like to see the graveyard"
 Well, just step around here in front Of the cabin says the man on the porch; right around to the other end"
 And the two men from the trail do step around as directed, and look about them, but without seeing anything; when presently they hear again the voice of the cheerful man on the porch:
 Look up on the end of the house."
 And as the strangers duly look thera they see the mountain graveyard; in the form of seventy-two empty bottles Of various shapes and sizes and colora of glass, wired in pretty nearly uniform rows to the boarding in the gable and In the end of the house. the bottles ex- tending across, so, from the peak of the roof half way down to the ground Sev- enty-two of them.
 But the two men at the cabin, the two sextons of this mountain graveyard of empty graves, sitting one on the cabin porch and the other on the stump in front, seemed to be all right-perhaps 1t was the bracing mountain air that enabled them to withstand the effects of the mountain dew.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-09-18
We'll Known vlrainlan.

Edgar Currier of Petersburg, Va, who travels for eastern houses. is at the Ho- tel Hillman. He Is one of the best known commercial travellers in the country.
 T have Just come from Florida" said Mir. Currier. land marveled at the pros- perty in evidence there. As for that mat ter, prosperity is the rule everywhere these days. Every section of the south is prosperous.
 Being Yirginlan I am naturally great ly interested in the Jamestown exposl- ton. I carry large quantities of James, town buttons with me and distribute them freely. We will have next year at Norfolk the largest and grandest naval display ever seen in America The naval features of the Jamestown celebration alone will be worth trip to see"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-09-18
Says She's Glad East Accepts Her
 Estimate of Bill Bryan.
From the Anaconda Standard,

From the Anaconda Standard,
 Some of the newspapers deem 1t re- marlkabie that man whose chief distinc- ton is two defeats for the Presidency should be, years afterward. the hero of popular demonstration like the one which is to be this week MT. Bryan's greeting.
 It is. indeed, rather strange: and Mon tana may contemplate that fact with generous amount of self-gratulation It amounts to this The east Is a good bit slower than Montana was in sizing up a good man and doing 1t right Butte, Ana conda and several other communities in Western Montana once welcomed Bryan in manner that was made remarkable by It's intense enthusiasm. This region never witnessed the like of 1t. In his Presidential touring Bryan became &C., customed to tremendous outbursts of popular approval; but, mind you, the Montana demonstration occurred the year following his defeat of 1S96 It Is nine years this present month since Bryan came to Butte.
 The change of hostile sentiment to friendly feeling throughout the east dur ing these intervening years is one of the most remarkable things within the expe- rience of any American citizen Of course. Bryan is still out of favor with masses of citizens who would not now vote for him for President But, almost with one accord, the newspapers and the political speakers who used to denounce him as a lunatic or a cheap and dangerous dema- gogue have so radically changed their estimates of him that all of them speak respectfully of him, while some of them are warmly complimentary In their com ment respecting his quality as a dstin- gushed citizen. Montana's estimate was right in the first place.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-09-18
Cotton Crops of All Soris.

Colonel Hester of the New Orleans cotton exchange puts the crop of the last cotton year at 11,345, ,9SS bales, which is about a million bales more than the department of agriculture had said 1t would be- The government put the figures too low, but 1t should not be forgotten that the commercial crop marketed in the cotton year Is not the same as the crop grown in calendar year. The crop grown in 1904 was a very large one, really about 14,000,000 bales, and not a little of 1t was held over and was marketed in the cotton year just closed Something like this occurs every year, and this in part ac- counts for some of the differences between government estimates and actual crop never agree, neither do the final statements of Colonel Hester and the New York Financial Chronicle
 Secretary William " King of the New York cotton exchange says that fully 300,000 bales were brought over from the big crops of 1904 to be mar keted in the last cotton year. The acreage figures of the government were too low. MT. King presents this comparatiYe table of the two years:
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-09-18
REPUBLIc-TENN. COMPANIES.
Merger of the Two Properties Has
 Been Finally Taken Up.
Il Street Journal says |:

The Wall Street Journal says
 Initial steps looking toward merger of the Republic Iron & Steel company and the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad company, controlled by the same inter ests. have been taken. and 1t is possible the deal will be closed in the near fu- ture
 Approximately 90 per cent of the se- curities of the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad company is held by single group of men. and the same group Is in possession of a large proportion of the stock and bonds of the Republic Iron and Steel company.
 However the present earning power and supplies of raw material underground of the two companies are so much at vari- ance that some difficulty may be experi- enced in fixing upon a basis of exchange satisfactory to all stockholders,
 The Republic Iron and Steel company will show net earnings in excess of $4.- OOO,0OO this year, while the earnings of the Tennessee company are much smaller. It is pointed out. however. that when the extensions to the Tennessee company, now under way, are completed, the earn 
 ing power of the company will be close to that of the Republic. The most val uable asset of the Tennessee company Is it's iron ore supplies which are estimated anywhere from 5oo0oo,ooO to 100000, 900 tons.
 Among the largest holders of the stocks of the Tennessee and Republic companies are Grant B. Schley. John w. Gates, O.. H. Payne, E. J. Berwind, C. S.. Guthrie estate. Leonard O. Hanna. J. B. Duke and E. w. Oglebay.
 Early in the year the working forces of the Tennessee and Republic companies were combined, which resulted in a ma terial saving. It is stated that an actual merger will result in still further re- duction in operating costs besides facili- tatng the operations of the two com- panies.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-09-18
WINDING ONES BUSINESS

the rank of president, the employe who has knowledge or suspicion of 1t should report 1t to me. If it Is perpetrated by the president 1t should be communicated to the directors"
 On that our Louisville contemporary submits these comments:
 The soundness of this is obvious. IA has the savor of high morality and com mon sense. If everybody accepted the view in every walk of life and acted upon It, there would be less suffering among the innocent as the result of the crimes of others. There would be fewer collapsed banks, among other things"
 It seems to us that nothing more need be said in reply to the Posts correspond- ent
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-09-18
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
From the New York Press.

From the New York Press.
 A girl knows an awful lot to be able to make men think that her knowing nothing is better than If she did.
 When a woman doesn't approve low neck gowns, it's like finding money to bet she doesn't have to take anti-fat rem- edes.
 No woman is ever so sympathetic with 6 widow over her loss as to forget to ex- anime carefully the kind of mourning she is wearing.
 If man ever got up early enough to eat his breakfast without swallowing it all at once, he might think the cook earned her wages.
 There's hardly anything makes hu- morist madder than to read a joke some where and have you get 1t of on him A-s~-> hA roli-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-09-18
APoTHEosls OF THE coRNcos.

From the Washington Post.
 Secretary Wilson's discovery of great commercial and financial possibilities in the hitherto humble and neglected corn cob will send a thrill of gratitude from one end of the country to the other, It is pleasant enough to know that alcohol can be extracted from corncobs That of itself would make bulletin of general joy. But when Secretary Wilson assures us that the liquor can be produced at a cost not exceeding cents per gallon, thus bringing the once expensive jag with in reach of the most attenuated purse, we can see the aurora borealis coming our way with a speed of at least million miles second
 What Secretary Wilson says about a slump in the price of canned corn in con- sequence of this astounding revelation, we confess, does not concern us. The price of canned corn Is less than nothing in our philosophy. But when the secretary sings to us of Scent whisky, then he fills a large and yawnlng ear with ecstasy He describes boon for which countless millions have been waiting long. He puts luxury within reach of the very hum blest citizen. He opens up a vista of wet picnics, of joyous huslSing bees and harvest homes, of Christmas merry-malS- ing, and of fireside delights. He brings a message of incalculable import to the thirsty and the grooming masses.
 But Secretary Wilson Is just a little bit mistaken when he says that the corn cob has never been of any use to man. There Is not real farmer In the land who will indorse the allegation. Among all tooralooral circles, the corncob has long been solace and a friend It makes good fires, 1t serves to cork stone jugs and keep the odor in, one makes service able pipes of it, and in various other ways it contributes to the comfort and the happiness of the generation. Of course. the secretary's discovery overshadows all these minor considerations. It will not do, however, to forget the corncob alto gether We owe it much for valuable uses in the past.