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The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1907-11-24

to the Board at the time and piacf
first above mentioned or before that
time to the Secretary of the Board al
his office with the said City Clerk
No. I'LL Commercial Avenue afore
said; and at said time and place, the
said Board, IN open session win open
examine and publicly declare said
bids or proposals.
The contractor whose bid may he
accepted shall enter into q contract
with the said City OF Cairo for the
construction of the said Improvement,
or for such part thereof as NAV be
awarded to him, IN strict accordance
with the terms and requirements 81
the said ordinance. and shall also en-.
ter into a bond payable to the said
city In the sum Of fifty ((5O) per
centum Of the amount OF his bid
with security to be approved by the
said Board, conditioned for the faith.
full performance, in all respects, OF his
said contract and for holding the city
harmless, etc; and he shall bind him.
self, In his said contract and bond. 10
guarantee the sewer construction work
for the period of two GU years from
and after the acceptance of the same
by the said Board and It's confirma-
tion by the court
The contractor to whom the con
tract for the construction OF the I'M
provement, or any part thereof, is
awarded and who shall do the work,
will be paid In bonds OF the city bear
ing interest at the rate OF five CD
per centum per annum from their re.
spectise dates. Blanks for bids or
Will be furnished on appli.
cation to the said City Engineer at his
office aforesaid.
GEORGE PARSONS,
President OF The Board OF Local lni-
Of the City OF Cairo. illinois
Attest.
ERNEST WORKMAN
Secretary OF Board af
Cairo, Illinois, November IL, 1907.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1907-11-24
- ris5py Family.

A boy and a girl in Alabama xhasa
parents are named Ashmead have
gathered together a happy family con.
sisting Of a cat, rat. a dog. a mouse
and canary bird. The dog will brace
his feet and LET the cat jump on his
back Then the rat will climb on
her back. Then the mouse and the
canary will complete the pyramid
Then all will grab each other by the
tail the canary coming last. and
march around the room. They have
been taught to perform many other
tricks. and the young people ere quits
proud Of their circus.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1907-11-24
MISCELLANEOUS.

LOST AND STOLEN-From my
home near Elco between Septem-
Der II and 20, 1907. 1000 shares of
the Nevada Star Gold Mining Com
pany of Carlin, New. 100 shares of
the Kansas Cooperative Oil Refining
Company, the property of Calvin s.
Thomas and 200 shares of the Nevada
Star Gold Mining Company of Carlin,
New, the property of Mrs. Emeling
Thomas. reward will be paid If the
finder will return to the owners.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1907-11-24
NEW YORK GRAIN.

New York. Nov. WHEAT Re
ceipts $4,000; exports 10000. Spot
steady; No. red, 9Sla elevator: No
2 red, 94M fob. afloat. Options clos
ed ss@% net higher December l0l R
CORN-Receipts $4,000; exports
500. Spot easy; No. 2. 64A elevator
and 64A fob afloat: No. white,
G5% No 2 yellow. 64% fob afIoa..
Options closed MOL cents lower. De-
cember G4A.
OATS-Receipts $4,000; exports %
600. Spot steady: mixed So white 81
y m531a: clipped white 52m6ol5
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1907-11-24
CHICAGO LIVE STOCK.

Chicago. Ill.,, Nov. 23.-CATTLE.-
Nominally steady. Receipts only a
few hundred head. The market closed
weak but with a better tone than
shown last week
HOGS-Prices We're Isaac lower,
and prices for packing hogs APP
preached perilously near the 81 mark.
SHEEP-Sheep and lambs steady.
Conditions show some improvement
over last week
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1907-11-24
Handicapped.

Anstria's fishing industry suffers
from the handicap that the fishermen
are nearly all in the clutches OF
usurers They are compelled to bor..
row money when the catch is poor
and they are never able to get out OF
debt again
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1907-11-24
NOTICE 70 CONTRACTORS.
SEWERS.

Division Street, Center Street anc
Twenty-First Street, Cairo, III
nois.
Public notice is hereby gwen that
until ten 10) O'Clock A. NJ, Monday
November, 25, 1907, at the city coun
Gil chamber OF the City OF Cairo, Iii
nois, the Board OF Local Improve
ments Of the said city will receive
sealed itemized bids for the construct
ion OF vitrified tile pipe sewers, house
connectios and inlets and brick man.
holes in Division Street, Center
Street and Twenty-First Street, in the
said City OF Cairo, Illinois. in accord.
ance with the terms and provisions
Iof Ordinance No. 1876, approved May
IS. 1907. now of record in the office
of the City Clerk of said city, No. I'LL
Commercial Avenue, where printed
copies Of the ordinance may be OBJ
tainca on application to the said
clerk The specifications OF and for
the Improvement will be found and
may be examined at the office of the
City Engineer of said city in the same
building The bids or proposals must
be for the construction of the inn
provement in strict conformity to the
terms and provisions of the said or.
dinance.
All bids must be accompanied by
cash or by check payable to the or
der OF TIE President of said Board In
bis official capacity and certified by
a responsible bank. for an amount
equal to ten (10) per centum of the
amount of the bid. and, without such
cash or check no bid will be consider.
I'd The bids or proposals may be de-
ivered to the Board at the time and
1lace first above mentioned or before
hat time to the Secretary OF the |
Board at his office with the said City
Clerk: and at said time and place. the
aid Board, In open session. will open, |
Examine and publicly declare the said !
lids or proposals
Tho contractor whose bid may be
ctpted shall enter into a contract |
With the said City OF Cairo for the |
obstruction of the said Improvement
0 accordance with the terms and re
of tire said ordinance, and
hall also enter into a bond payable
. the said city In the sum Of fifty
500 per centum of the amount of
is bid. with security to be approved
y the said Board. conditioned for the
aithfnl performance, In all respects,
/ his said contract and for holding
ne said city harmless. etc, and he
hall also bind himself in his said
ontract and bond to guarantee his
aid work for the period of two ~
ears from and after the acceptance
the Same by the said Board and its
onfirmation by the court
The contractor to whom the con
act for the construction Of the I'M
rovcment shall BE- awarded and who
hall do the work, will be paid In
onds Of the city bearing interest at
lie rate of five 60 per centum per
lnum from Their respective dates.
lanks for bids or proposals will be
on application to the City
ngineer at his office aforesaid
GEORGE PARSONS,
resident of the Board OF Local In.
'ovcments of the City OF Cairo, Illinois
test:
ERNEST WORKMAN,
Secretary OF Board.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1907-11-24
Blind Librarian.

Miss Jennie Winslow Bubler. who
has charge Of the room Of happiness"
In the Lynn Mass public library. is
said to be the only blind librarian in
the world. Besides performing the
duties Of Librarian. Miss Bubler
teaches the blind patrons OF the H.
bIary to read.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1907-11-24
NEW YORK MONEY.

New York, Nov 23.-Money on call
nominal. Time loans nominal sixty
days Is per cent; ninety days IL; six
months 8. Prime paper nominally 3
010 per cent. Exchange fairly steady,
demand $4.s7@4S725; sixty days
$4.70.50m4 $50. Bar silver 5SA.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1907-11-24
New Mobility.

-Four peers, IL baronets and 80
knights we're created by the king OF
Great Britain on his last birthday.
Nominally the king did it. in reality
the liberal ministry did II. the birth
day honors" being one Of the per
quisites Of Office.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1907-11-24
HAD HIS OWN IDEA.
And II is Very Probable the irishmsn
Was Right.

A Cincinnati doctor who thinks
that all the ills Of the human race can
be traced to the drinking of coffee and
Tea. entered restaurant recently and
seated himself opposite an Irishman
who was busying himself trying to
dispose Of a steaming cup Of coffee.
How often do you use coffee?"
queried the doctor.
4 drink it morning. noon and night.
sir."
Don't you experiences . slight
dizziness OF the brain On retiring at
nfghf7"
zRsSss 4 AZ. Al. xs,x frsQusaug.-
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1907-11-24
ST. LOUIS cATTLE.

ST. Louis. Nov. z3.-CATTLE-Re
oeipts 1900 Steady. Beef steers 3m
coo; stockers and feeders 2m410;
cows and heifers PISA 500: Tevas
steers 250d 800.
HOGS-Receipts 5000. 25 lower.
Ranged 390G 440.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1907-11-24
New Yerk Restaurants.

New York city possesses very
small proportion Of restaurants be-
tween the many first-clsss ones that
have no superiors In the world and
the more numerous extremely poor
ones that are hardly pzralleled N The
great cities.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1907-11-24
Our Greatest Land Thieves.

Eighteen thousand acres OF farm.
lands are now washed downstream
each year By The Missouri and MIssIs-
sippi rivers. This amounts to about
the area Of q small county OF 80 miles
square Of fertile land.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1907-11-24
ILLINOIS CENTRAL
Corrected to November I, 1907.
THE FAST MAIL ROUTE


1882 a. m. Daily Chicago yestibule
Limited. arriving Chicago IL: 80 a. m
2:32 a. m. Daily st. Louis Night
Limited. arriving st. Louis 1908 a. IN.
Sleeping car open at $3.50 p. m.
5:ooa. m. Chicago Daylight Express
except Sunday.
500 a. m. St Louis Morning Elk
press, except Sunday.
f1:t5 a. m. st. Louis FIST Mail.
ff:t5 a. m. Chicago Midday Special
2:35 p. m. Daily st. Louis Limited,
2:35 p. m. Afternoon Express for
0din, Effingham, Nation.
$40 p. m. Thebes Accommodation.
7:t5 p. m. Chicago and Eastern Ex.
press.
3:15 a. m. Memphis and New Or
leans Limited.
500 a. m. Paducah and Louisville.
f:4t p. m. Daily Memphis and New
Orleans.
1:4f o. m. Daily, Nashville. Chatta-
nooga and Atlanta.
4:3o o. m. Fulton Accommodation.
$50 p. m. Paducah and Louisville.
500 p. m. Memphis and New Or
leans Special.
For through tickets, sleeping car
accommodations and further informa-
ton apply at Illinois Central Passen-
ger Station, Cairo. III.
J. n. JONES, Ticket Agent.
s. A. HATCH, G. p. A,
A. II. HANSON, Pass. Traffic Mgr.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1907-11-24
II Was LOST. Anyway,

Hubby tfnmblng in his pockets)---
Ish funny hic- but can't hic-re.
member in just what pocket hic--I
put Eat keyhole sF as4ssgf
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1907-11-24
coEEEE.

COFFEE-Optlons closed steady
net Eve points lower 10 10 points high.
e. Sales 135.250 bags. November
$3.50. Spot quiet. No Rio s. mild
CordOva -. dl3A-
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1907-11-24
FLOUR.

Chicago, Nov. 23.-FLOUR-Steady
Winter patents 430GSo; straights AZ
n As; spring patents 520@4o;
straights 450m80: bakers 340m425.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1907-11-24
sucAe.

SUGAR-Raw quiet. fair refining.
s3-1eG s3o. centrifugal sc: test 1881
H3s7. molasses sugar s2.s0dz.s0; re
fined quiet. confecfioners' a. $3.50.
neuld a SIS, Gu. loaf $780, crush
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1907-11-24
MINNEAPOLIS whEAT.

Minneapolis, Nov. 23.-WHEAT.---
December 10oA@h; May 1o7A No.
] hard 104A; No. northern 102A "a
l03A; No. northern 99A @%.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1907-11-24
AGENTS WANTED.

WANTED-County agents; exclu.
sive territory. Man or woman no
experience necessary Can make SIS
10 $40 every day. Only $50 capital re-
CURED to carry on clean. profitable,
permanent business. National Agency,
154I Unity Bldg. Chicago. I'll.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1907-11-24
NEW YORK BONDS.
DAIRY PRODUCTS.

BUTTER-Irregulsr. creamery 23d
271z.
CHEESE-And eggs firm. IN
changed.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1907-11-24
Good Name.

Pip-a Pipp is the name Of a Filipino
boy who will be educated at Port
Hope. Ontario, for the Episcopal. min
istry
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1907-11-24
A Good Customer.

The United States government Is
the largest individual purchaser OF
electric lamps in this country. II buys
$4,000 annually
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1907-11-24
No Fri.nd Of I.ddx.,.

The Queen OF Holland diseourages
cunning SO far as she Is able. She Il
an ardent lover Of al animals
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1907-11-24
Plaque Of the West.

Tons Of Grasshopers have been
found imbeddcd In an ancient glacier
Of Montana.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1907-11-24
MALE HELP WANTED.

Learning to write advertisements,
YOU can positively earn $25 to 500
per week. Prospectus sent free. Page
Davis CO.. 102 Wabash Ave, Chicago
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1907-11-24
FOR SALE.
WANTED.

WANTED-Three or more room.
ers; free bath and telephone accom-
modations. Alb Eighth street. If.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1907-11-24
Reoeints and SHIPMENTS.

Chicago. Nov 23.-The following
car loads represent the days move
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1907-11-24
Stocks = Bonds !. Cereals

ed $3.50; powdered $49O, granulatel
$3.50; cubes $505.
fife 305 90
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1907-11-24
OFFICERS
BIRxcTpHs

interest Paid On Time pspssiis
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1907-11-24
OFFICERS

Accounts Of corporations and indivfd.
uals especially solicited Exchange
furnished to any part Of the world
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1907-11-24

Division Street, Center Street and
Twenty-First Street, Cairo, III
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1907-11-24
Alexander County
Savings Bank
STRICTLY a SAVINGS SANK.
CAIRO, ILLINOIS.

cspItai.... ......... -. -. .pss.oos
surplus $500. 1880. ...... sOy00s
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1907-10-03
LINING SOILS.
Make Tests With Blue litmus Paper
Before Applying Lime.

The acldity or alkalinity of the soil
may be tested by the use of blue lit
mus paper, which can be secured Of
any druggist. The litmus test may be
made by moistening portion OF the
soil so that IL will stick together, and
inserting the litmus paper in a cut
made with a knife, and closing the
soil together compactly around the
paper. If within half hour or less
the litmus paper turns pink the need
of lime is indicated. Where tests are
not made, and the soil has not been
lined for years, 1t is much safer to
lime than to run the risk of the alfalfa
or other crops being killed out by
the acidity of the soils. The amount
that should be applied varies with
different soils, clay soils requiring
heavier application than sandy soils.
On clay soils which have not been
lined in many years about one ton
per acre should be applied, while
soils in which the acidity has been
partially corrected should receive a
proportionate amount. On sandy or
humus exhausted soils 1t is not adj
visable to put on more than one thous-
and pounds at one time, for lime is
an indirect fertilizer, and liberates
plant food by Fastening decomposi-
ton of the organic matter in the soil,
and thus reduces its fertility. Clay
soils are more retentive of plant food
so that less is lost by this decomposi-
ton, and, furthermore, the clay soils
are improved greatly in texture by
the collection of the smaller particles
of the soil into larger ones.
oyster shell lime or stone lime is
generally used, though other sub
stances, such as mari may be used
more economically, where they can
be obtained on the larm for the ex-
pense of digging. The lime should
be applied on the surface, and worked
In with the surface soil, and 1t should
be put on in as active a condition as
possible. To do this the lime should
be slaked with water, and as soon as
slaked should be spread as evenly
as possible. 1t may be applied with
a shovel, or with the lime attachment
which comes with fost manure spread
ers.
Ground stone lime, which has re-
Gently been put on the market, says
the Journal of Agriculture, is a finely
ground lime, which is easily distrbut-
ed. and is thought to be better than
the burnt lime, as 1t can be applied in
the active state, 1t can be applied
through the fertilizer attachment OF
the ordinary grain drill.
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concealed. Furthermore. the sheets
are drenched in alum as a protection
against fire. All spare wood has been
iettisoned. and fire and collision par
ties stand to quarters. Watertight
doors are closed and at each man Is
stationed, and collision mating is
prepared-'Upper deck quarters; out
collision mating would be the order
Steam pumps are also in readiness.
Each ship has been marked by dis
tinctive band of color round her fun
mel for in the smoke OF battle, you
know, it is good to know your friends.
Gunnery instructions have taken
charge of the barbettes, which contain
the great 12inch guns. and the cap
tains of the smaller weapons are at
their posts
Whether by quickflrer, shell room,
or torpedo tube, every man. through
months of training has learned his
place. Even the band knows its sta
tion--it Is to collect the wounded.
Guns are loaded and the ammunition
hoists seem to be in order; and sup
plies of drinking water are arranged
along each deck.
THE coming tower is the brains of
the ship, and the captains place of &C
tion is there. 1t is the cynosure of the
enemys guns; the post OF signal honor
and acutest danger. Beneath him is
10000 tons, mainly steel, and before
him is the something he has either to
burn, blow up, or sink.
Sight for 5000 yards" wings down
the tube. and the game Of long bowls
Commences The two great forward
guns eoar out welcome, and the
sighting lieutenant bends forward to
mark the damage. First shots, how
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needed and a corner Is just as east.
ly turned with 1t as II you had no. wire
On at all, writes a correspondent OF
The Farmer. 1t. can be made Of two
2x6 inch pieces two feet eight inches
long and Ike inch pieces, one foot
eight inches long and 1x2 inch pieces.
three feet one half inch long. An old
fork handle can be used to put
through the spool. The spooler goes
in the back end of the wagon box in
stead of an endgate. The 1x6s are
nailed on the ends of the 2x6s.
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1907-10-03
NOT WAR, BUT MASSACRE.
English Sailor Describes Conditions as
They viii Be on Sea.

Naval warfare to-day resolves it
self into a problem of mathmatics,
and death is gagged by the figures of
Euclid and matter of revolutions to
the minute; it is cultured massacre
The speaker was Admiral Sir AL
bert Hastings Markham, X. c. b., of
the British royal navy, who arrived in
New York recently, en- route to Can
ada on a visit, In the course of chat
at the Metropolitan club. The admiral,
who has seen much active service in
the British navy and held many i'm
portant commands in it, besides Incl
dentally accomplishing valuable sery-
ices in Arctic exploration and writing
several books, was asked to give a
mental description of life on board a
battleship as he knows it during the
progress of an actual fight. In view
of the great increase in naval strength
which is taking place in every nation
and the immense warships that are
being turned out, Admiral Markham S
vivid description of a sea fight gives
some idea of what the horrors OF the
next great naval battle will be like
LET us consider ourselves, then, on
a first-class battleship as spectators of
the next naval fight" began the adj
miraI. land that the time has arrived
to prepare for action.
Boats are filled with water and
surrounded with splinterproof ma
terial: or to follow the example of the
Japs, they must be thrown overheard.
Sacks of coal are placed round the
funnel. About the smallest machine
guns, unprotected by armor, canvas
sheets are hung, and in this way the
precise number of men and guns is
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ever, are a pure speculation, and too
high or too low is generally the YER
dict. But before the ammunition hoists
has decreased, and $500 yards will be
the sight. By that time the work is
warmer, for some of the smaller guns,
the siXinch and 12-pounder quick
Y g, are being worked by sweating
crews. Already, too, the Via Dolorosa
to the cockpit is marked by its sig
nificant trail Ammunition is being
flung up 20 rounds at a time to be
spent as fast as guns can speak, for
to a ship in the midst of the work
everything has ceased to exist but the
enemys hull in front of 1t. By this
time small casualties have overtaken
the ships. With the best of good for
tune she cannot hope to escape being
hit somewhere, The mighty, yet deli
cate mechanism of a battleship is vul
nerable at hundred points. Batteries
are working with diminished crews,
hydraulic ammunition hoists are
smashed, and consequently supply par
ties are passing up shot by hand and
forward a stoker fire brigade is ex-
tinguishing small fires.
THE fleets are now but 500 yards
apart, but the best gunners being dead,
accuracy of fire will have diminished.
Possibly, too, the fighting line will
have been replenished by staff addi-
tons from stokehold or magazine, for
serve of men. Now, though the range
is hazardous, the luck of the torpedo
might be attempted by the enemy.
Rendered desperate, the losing bat
tleship must now resort to it's last
weapon of oifense, the ram. On the
first bugle, Prepare to ram, all guns
are laid on the bow and made ready to
pour a broadside on the opposing ship.
Every man not working the quick.
firers must protect himself from the
enemy's projectiles and take cover.
Granting your opponent, however, I'M
impaired engines, ramming is a con-
summation infinitely difficult TO
achieve. Niscalculate your distance by
a score of yards, and, missing your
mark, your adyersary's 40 tons of steel
itself must be showing into you. And
further as a fact, the torpedo will
even prevent navigable ships coming
too close together, Nor is it fair TO
say will many ships surrender. For,
though its vitals be torn and bare.
only absolute destruction can put all
its weapons out of action. Defeat
must mean not retreat. but annihila-
! ton"
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ABOUT THE FARM.

The COW should be turned dry
month or six weeks before the arrival
of the calf is expected. Never milk
COW up TO the time she is expected
TO be fresh.
Under no circumstances should any
thing be added to milk to prevent il
from souring. Such doings violate
both the laws of God and man. Clean.
liness and cold are the only preserva
uves needed.
Keep only healthy cows. Promptly
remove from the heard any animal
that is suspected Of being i'll. In par
ticular add no cows to the herd un
less it is a proven fact that they are
free from all kinds of diseases.
1t is Just as easy to raise the best
OF everything as It is to raise inferior
products, BE satisfied with nothing
short OF the best that can be produc,
ed in your neighborhood. II you are,
you will soon be classed a second rate
farmer.
People rarely respect the farmer
who does not respect his business
enough TO keep everything in proper
condition. The farmer with the poor
team, the broken harness and tumble.
down buildings rarely has the unquali-
fled respect of his ne,shbors.