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The Cairo bulletin., 1907-11-10
PILES CURED AT HOVE BY
NEW ABSORPTION METHOD.

II you suffer ron bleeding. itching, blind or
prOtruding Piles. send me your address. and
] vii tell yon how t. cure yours II ~ home BY
The new absorption treatment: ard will also
send so me Of a is home treatme mt free for trial
with references from your ogn locality II re-
quested. Immediate relief and rTauent
cure ssures. send no money. but tell ot1ers
% this offer. Write todsv to Mrs. NJ Summers.
Box p, Notre Dame, Ind.
The Cairo bulletin., 1907-11-10

Read the Bulletin and get an the
0ews while Il IL neEA
The Cairo bulletin., 1907-11-10

Miss Henry sars: "Tscf7re beran using Danlie-ine
my hair was falling ont n great handsfui aud al
pleased TO that DaufcrIue not only 6tOr-al ts Il
one bat has made ny hair grow more t1an twice
a. long as II was
Mrs cioise Afherf3n. Litfie Rock. ART SAYS: -
IL surely IHarsaoie tge waT bauaerlne illa-7rts
the hair. II has made nv hair grow ten inches
e. In I've months and IL u eetsirs ticzer aul g-s
al toe time. / believe n giving praise wlcrr
due. and You use rlg name IS reference y yeI
50 desire
The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1907-03-15
George w. Gable to Speak Here.

Everyone interested in civic i'm
provement will have an unusually good
opportunity to listen to a talk on the
subject next Wednesday evening,
March 20, when George W. Cable will
speak on Northampton Prize Gardens.
The Woman s club is very fortunate in
securing Mr.. Cable who is as well
known through his philanthropic work
as through his novels. He is the found
err and manager of the Home Culture
club in Northampton which has been
of such great advantage to the people
of that city, especially among the
poorer class. The Prize Gardens are
part of the work of the Home Culture
club, the success of which has been so
great that the idea has been adopted
in several other cities. This subject of
civic improvement is one in which the
board of trade hopes to arouse an in
terest through the lecture by Mr. Hart
man later in the month. Mr.. Cable s
lecture will be in Grange hall at s
clock and will be open to the public
upon payment of the usual small guest
fee
The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1907-03-15
PROFESSIONAL BALL?
There is Talk of Having Team Here
This Season.


This Season.
viii Brattleboro have a professional
baseball team this season?
Interest in this question has been
aroused this week by an invitation
which has been received in town to
have Brattleboro join the Northern
league which intends this season to go
in for /" organized ball" with a salary
limit of $1,000 or $1,000 month and,
if possible, maintain a league of six
teams, the season extending from Me-
mortal day to Labor day. The plan I'M
der consideration by the league man
agement is to have Burlington, Platts
burgh, Montpelier Barre, Rutland, Bel
lows Falls and Brattleboro, and meet
ing is to be held in Burlington today to
consider this matter.
While there are many baseball enthu-
siasts in town who are willing to con
tribute toward the support of a profes-
sional team this season, most of them
are of the opinion that it would be in
expedient for Brattleboro to join the
northern league for the reason that the
distances between here and the cities
in the northern part of the state are
so great that the expense of maintain
ing team would be more than this
town could stand. However, a number
of local men believe that we could sup
port a team in league composed of
teams representing Keene, N. H.,
Greenfield and Northampton, Mass,
- IN
cities have been written for the pur-
pose of agitating the question.
Greenfield and Northampton people
have stated that there was little pros
pect of teams in those cities this sea-
son, but the formation of league
might create enough interest to make
the project feasible. If $1,000 or ST.
500 could be raised bv subscription or
by the sale of stock in baseball asso-
citation and an efficient manager could
The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1907-03-15

route by which the canal is being built.
He used charts showing the topography
of the country and the elevations at the
various places.
After speaking of the climatic conditions
he told of the way things We're found
when the Americans first went to Pan
anna Thousands of dollars worth of ma
chinery was strewn about and in many
cases skeletons of laborers were left
bleaching in the sun, so hurried was
the departure of the French company
from region which they regarded as
lague-stricken. He stated that when the
sanitary work at present underway is
completed the country will be 1alrly
healthy, perhaps never useful as a sum
mer resort but by no means as bad as it
has been painted by some who have Wis
tied the country but once and left as soon
as possible. One of the greatest diff
culties in building the canal is the scare
ty of laborers. Men are unwilling to go
to the country and the problem is one
which has not yet been solved.
Tremendous feats of engineering arise
at every point. The Chagres river ne
cessitates one of these. This stream is
very unruly. When the torrential rains
fall for. days at time, often 10 inches
of rainfall coming without a let-up, the
stream which can be forded at dry times
by wading and which is not over 80 feet
wide, becomes raging torrent, miles
wide and as deep as it is swift. The av-
erage rainfall in some parts of the coun-
try is about 800 inches year. The land
holds the water like a sponge and were
it not for this latter fact it would be
almost impossible to build the canal
Other difficulties are the Culebra cut,
where g, ditch must be made one and one
half miles long and 100 feet deep and
locks must be constructed which will
raise the largest of the ocean liners and
freighters S. feet above the sea level.
In refutation of the statement that the
climate is unhealthy Mr. Darling stated
that 1900 United States marines had been
encamped in the canal zone for two wears
and on account of the good sanitary con-
ditins maintained in the camp, not a
single man had died.
Referring to the rate at which the canal
is being built he said that according to
the last monthly report 100000 cubic
yards OF dirt had been removed and at
that rate, according to the figures of the
engineers, the canal would be construct
ed in about 10 years more. There is no
way of stating definitely Just how long
the work will take, as difficulties NAV vet
be encountered but as in the past Amer
lean enterprise, ingenuity and skill will
succeed IN overcoming all obstacles and
the canal will be lasting monument to
the progressiveness of the United States.
The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1907-03-15

The truth of the old proverb that pos
session denotes nine points of the law
still remains mistaken as result of
the second trial Of the case of Creon
Miner of Guilford against his fellow
townsman, George T. Miller. The case
came from dispute over the owner.
ship of a skin which had been worn bv
fox which both the plaintiff and the
defendant claimed to have shot The
case was tried about two weeks ago
and at that time the Jury disagreed
being evenly divided between yer.
dict for the plaintiff and for the de-
| PENDANT.
At the second trial, of the case A
bubble was started as soon as the
court convened as to the way the iurv
should be selected. Attorney H. G
Barber for the defendant refused to
accept a jury from the town of Guil.
ford as the men in that town had dis.
cuSsed the case so thoroughly that it
was impossible to find men who had
not taken sides one way or the other
At last the attorneys agreed that tbav
would call Eugene Akeley, Warren
Gushing and M. I. Reed of Vernon w
j. Hawkins and George Wilder of emil,
ford and George Wilson of Brattleboro.
When 1t came time to summon the iurv-
men 1t was found that Mr.. Akelev was
out Of town, Mr.. Cushing was iii and
Mr.. Hawkins had heard the evidence
at the former trial. All were excused
AS the hour was $50 in the afternoon
the attorneys for the plaintiff decided
TO throw up the sponge and agreed to
settle the case on condition that No
new trial be brought and that each
party in the litigation should paw his
own costs, which amounted to about
S2o on both sides, and that the defend.
ant should keep the skin. The attor.
neys were H. G. Barber and H F.
Whitney for the defence and John r
"a, and A. F. schwenk for the plain.
The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1907-03-15
"THE BIG DITCH"
Interesting Talk on the Panama Canal
by G. H. Darling.

Interesting in the extreme was the lee
ture on Panama, given by Hon. G. H.
Darling in the Baptist church Tuesday
evening. The church was filed and all
listened with close attention while Mr..
Darling described the country of Panama
and the way the canal is being built. The
speaker was introduced by Rev. G. B.
Lawson, who stated briefly that Mr..
Darling had been assistant secretary of
the navy and was well qualified to speak
on the subject. When Mr.. Shonts and
the Panama canal commission visited the
sthmus Mr.. Darling accompanied them as
a guest of the expedition and had cnance
to see far more of the real canal than a
person in ordinary civil life would have.
At the beginning Of his speech Mr., Oar.
ling touched upon the different routes of
the canal. He stated that there were
10 different routes at first proposed and
after giving a short description of the
others, gave a vivid word picture of the
The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1907-03-15
Deaths

In Brattleboro, March 10, Mrs. Her
ry c. Liscom, 81.
In Brattleboro, March Is, Ms
Charles F. Brownell, 70.
In Brattleboro, March u, Mrs. Mary
A. Chiekering, 20. ,
= In Brattleboro, March IA, William
Guild, IA.
In Hinsdale, N. H., March 9, Ms
Nancy D. McCaughern, 95. :,
In Putney, March 6, Mrs. Belle u
Hougthon, 70.
Wilder.
In Northfeld, Mass, March Is, Nh
Ozro Doolittle. ,,
In San Francisco, Cal, March II
Miss Mabel E. Stowe, 3S.
In South Newfane, March Is, Inn
oOhHSO0.
The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1907-03-15
Births

In Townshend, March 10, a daughts'
to Mr.. and Mrs. Earl Knapp
In Northfeld, Mass, March 7, SOD
to Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Brassor.
In South Vernon, March 10, a daagl
ter to Mr.. and Mrs. Eastman Dodg9
and granddaughter to Mr.. and AS
Calvin Stone.
The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1907-03-15

be found it would be possible to main
part of June to Labor day, and if an
evening south bound train service is es-
tablished this summer the expense of
joining a league with the cities men
toned would be greatly lessened.
The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1907-03-15
DR.. H. D. Holton will start Monday for

DR.. H. D. Holton will start Monday for
Maine, where, by invitation from the
commissioner of agriculture for that state,
he will attend series of farmers insti-
the subject of sanitation. He is likely
to be gone at least 10 days.
Robert Lincoln of Townshend, who was
injured in a railroad accident Jan. /,
and as a result was obliged to have one
leg amputated, is now at the home of
DR.. George Y. Roberts for treatment and
it is likely that he will have to submit to
a second operation since the wound is
not healing properly.
The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1907-03-15
Marriages

In West Dover. March 8, by julia
): Snow, esq, Orrin E. Hescock an'
Miss Minnie Pike of Halifax
In West Brattleboro, March 9, y
Rev. J. A, Mitchell, Earle Taylor ala
Miss Gladys futile.
The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1907-03-15

The January issue of The Vemonter
which is Just out, makes up for its tard;,,
ness IN the quality of its contents and
neatness of its appearance. II conta am,
articles on Charley TAYLOR, tbe oidnsf
hhorseman in the country, bv Charles p
cummings; The Charm of Willougbbv br nv;
May b. Ienney; The Community Of Pro-.
S S, Py David Z. Gale, and How to Tran
Sly Reynard, by George B. Stearns 'p
The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1907-03-15
CARD OF THANKS.

we, wish to extend our sincere thallS -,
TO all friends for their sympathy and Y
the many beautiful flowers and plan,
and all other attentions rendered to "
dear mother during her long illness, an Y,
also at the time of her death for U
beautiful flowers given by our relating
trends, Golden Rule chapter, Col W. y
greenwood W. r. c., the Congregation"
Ladies Aid society and Putney granga
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank S. Harris
Miss Lizzie S. Houghton.
L. ". Houghton.
A. G. Houghton.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-07-18
NEW YORK.

Continued favorable weather, coupled
with improvement in recorder business
with jobbers and in payments on past
business. give a more optimistic tone to
the general situation than seemed possi-
bic a month ago. That some trade was
lost for this reason is. of course, certain,
as is the fact that reduction sales ha
been necessary TO move some slow sellirg E
goods; but it is noted that cotton gooos
have again been advanced, that dress fab
RIGS are selling better, and mems wear,
more cheerful view of the outlook.
kilograms to Bradstreet's show the eff
feet of midsummer conditions on many
lines, but fall shipments have begun in
larger volume than year ago, and where
the crop outlook is defined there is a
slightly more pronounced disposition to
buy more freely for future delivery.
Manufacturers at the East are display
ing still more interest in the wool ma
ket. and sales are reported very large.
Demand is very general. however. for
long staple woods suitable for fine grades
of wooden and worsted goods Old stocks
are small.
Business failures for the week end.as
July II number 1S5. against 49, last
week. 143 in the like week of 1906. 166
in 1905, 203 in 1901 and 173 in 1903.
Canadian failures for the week number
%. against 16 last week and 10 in this
week a year ago.-Bradstreet' Commec-
cial Rcport
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-07-18
CHICAGO.

Midsummer conditions are now entered
into. but trade in the aggre gate dis
closes less decline i'm activity than usual.
The volume of iistributive trade remains
exceptionally wide and the leading indus
tries show no disposition to curtail pro-
duction. the full employment of machin-
cry and available workers being impera-
tive TO sustain prompt deliveries. Some
plants are Yet considerably behind on old
contracts and the pressure here involves
much extra effort and overtime to in
crease outputs.
Heavy hardware machinery. furniture
and footwear demands average favOrably
with those of a year ago. and the prices
obtained afford a fair margin of profit a
slight falling off in building permits does
not interfere with current operations in
construction.
Leading retail trade has advanced to
seasonable proportions, and the clearance
sales make substantial inroads upon
stocks of lightweight apparel. boots and
shoes and headwear Conservatism in
selections of merchandise is confined TO a
few points where harvesting is poor, but
the outlook for business in fall and win
ter goods appears to be improving
Grain markets disclose further contrac-
ton in prices and buying of the leading
breadstuffs, due mainly to the government
crop report indicating probabilities of
adequate results under normal weather
conditions.
The total movement of grain az this
port. 7.SlS,947 bushels compares with
$3.50. 132 bushels last week and 5.5S6,-
:3S22 bushels year ago. Compared with
those of last year receipts decreased 12.2
per cent. while the shipments gained Ia
236.39S head, against 246,157 head last
week and go, Al head in 1906.
Other receipts increased over the cor
responding week last year in -four. wheat,
rye, dressed beef, lard butter, eggs. wool
and sheep and decreased in corn, oats,
barley, seeds. broomcorn, pork, cheese,
cattle and hogs. Compared with the
Blessings a week ago. prices advanced il
oats x cent, cattle and sheep cents
lard ~ cents. ribs 1919 cents and pork
81 cents. and declined in corn Is cent and
wheat As cents
Bank clearings. S261, 200. exceed
those of corresponding week in 1906 BY
| 24.S per cent.
| Failures reported in the Chicago dis
trict number %. against 26 last weeE
and Is year ago.-Dun's Review Of
| Trade.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-07-18
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Chicago-Cattle, common TO prime.
$500 to $3.50; hogs, prime heavy, S4oo
to S6.05; sheep, fair TO choice. $500
to 5000; wheat. No. =, soc to 90c;
corn. No. .. 53c to Die; oats, standard,
Ale to 43c: rye, No. z. SIC to S5e; hay.
timothy $14.00 to 5000; prairie, $500
to Sl200; butter, choice creamery. l9c
to 24c; eggs. fresh. 12c to 1fc potatoes,
new, per bushel. 55c to soc.
st. Louis-Cattle $50 to $7.15;
hogs, 500 to S6.10 sheep, 500 to
$500 wheat, No. ?, Soc to 9Oc; corn,
No. .. SIC to Soc oats. No. 2, 43c to
44c; rye, No. >. Sic to S3c.
Observation-Disclosures. S4.00 TO 5000;
hogs. $500 TO $3.50: sheep, $500 TO
S465; wheat, No. =, 93c TO 94c; corn.
No. 2 mixed, 55c to 56c; oats, No. ,
mixed, 46c TO 47c; rye. No. ,. Sic to SSc.
- Detroit-Cattle, 500 to 5000; hogs,
S4.OO to 5000; sheep. $3.50 to $500 I;
wheat. No. =. CSC to Ole; corn, No. 3
yellow, 55c to sc; oats, No. 3 white,
Acc TO 47c; rye. No. ,, SAC to Soc.
Wheat, No. = northern.
Csc to S1O0: corn, No. 3, 52c TO 53c I;
oats. standard. 45c to 46c; rye. No. /,
Soc to &c., barley, standard, 69c TO zoe ;
pork, mess, $1,000.
Buffalo-Cattle. choice shipping steers,
800 to $3.50; hogs. fair to choice, Sa.0o
to 1923 sheep, common TO good mixed,
$500 to $5.25; lambs, fair to choice,
$500 to $3.50.
New York-Catile. 500 TO $3.50 {;
hogs. $500 to $500; sheep. $500 to
$3.50; wheat, No. > red. 97c TO Csc I;
corn. No. 2, Gle to 62c; oats, natural
white. Sic to 52c; butter, creamery, pc
to Doc: eggs. western, 13c to Ice.
Toledo-Wheat, No. mixed, 92c to
93c; corn. No. mixed, 54c to SOC I;
oats, No. mixed, 44c to 45c; rye, No.
>, zoe to Soc; clover seed. prime. $3.50.
Indianapolis-Ca Cattle shipping. $500
to S6.75; hoe. choice heavy, 500 to
S6.1O: sheep. common to prime. $500 to
1928: wheat, No. ,, soc to DOC; corr.
No. 2 white. 52c to 54c; oats, No. ,
white 4-1c to 4.c.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-07-18
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Senator Allison of Iowa has made
known his purpose to ask for another
term. and his friends are busy denying
age and failing health.
In a recent interview Mr. Bryan was
asked what is the most important princi-
pie to be applied at present in American
politics. His reply was quotation of
the Jefferson maxim: Equal rights TO all
and special privileges to none"
Pennsylvania '.favorite son." Senator
Knox. took his stand on the question of
federal and State powers, in delivering
the annual address to the graduating
class of the Yale Law School, his special
theme being THE Development of the
Federal Power TO Regulate Commerce"
He replied particularly to the PROPOSE
ton advanced by Senator Beveridge. in
support of the child labor bill, pointing
ont that production is in no sense COM
merce. and holding that Congress may
legislate only within the scope of its
constitutional powers. He says that
Legislative discretion extends to the
means and not to the ends" In support
eff this position, Senator Knox cited a
long line of judicial opinions. including
the recent decision of the Supreme Court,
delivered by Justice Brewer in the Colo
rado-Kansas case. In this view it was
maintained that the desirability or popu-
larity of a measure was beside the ques-
tion so long as Congress had no power
to enact it.
w. j. Bryan told the Oklahoma Dem
ocratic convention at Oklahoma City,
that the new State constitution, in his
opinion, was the best of any State IT. the
Union, land better than the constitution
of the United States" lie went on TO
Compliment the cornfield lawyers of
Oklahoma upon having puttied up all the
holes shot into the constitutions of other
States by trust and constitution lawyers"
He suggested as their campaign motto,
LET the people rule" and added that il
should also be the keynote of the national
campaign.
The New York Legislature adjourned
without having passed either the reap
portionment or direct nomination bills,
which the Governor in special messages
had demanded in the name of the people
and a call for an extra session an
ticipated.
Secretary Taft gave the commencement
address at the University of Minnesota
His subject was ''Tbe College Graduate
| as a Political Asset of the State and
Nation" He not only advised the stu
| dents to get into practical politics. but
| he even showed them some of the vari
Gus ways in which political slate could
| be smashed.
Secretary Taft says that there will b'
| no war with Japan and that the two ma
! lions can be trusted to find a way t.
| pursue their respective paths in harmony
| He tells us not to mind the news tina
continues to come. at does not Away:
/ mean what it seems TO mean on the sur
face. We shall have no war with Japan.
| President Roosevelt and Mr.. Cannon
are on the best of terms personally, how
ever many are the political matters upoI
| which they do not touch The Speake
| calls at the White House nearly ever.
| day when he is in Washington, and SOM
| of the Presidents best stories are thos
invented, or otherwise acquired, by MI
| Cannon.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-07-18
The Standard OH Company Monday

The Standard Oh. Company Monday
refused Judge lands invitation to
submit testimony to show that IL never
had violated the interstate commerce
law prior to 1903. Judge Lands there
upon set Aug. 3 as the date for the en-
tering of the final order, at which time
he will impose a fine upon the COM
pany of not less than S1,O00.O00 and
not more than $29,240,O0O The attor
neys for the defense replied to Judge
lands invitation in bitingly sarcas-
tic statement. which openly criticised
his attitude in asking for the informa-
ton
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-07-18
JAP INSULTS UNCLE SAM.
Official Washington stirred by SIurs
or MikadO's Admiral.

Official Washington Stirred by Slurs
OF NIikadO's Admiral.
The highest officials now in Wash
ington have been stirred to strong in
dignation at the gratuitous insult hand
Ell out to the United States by one of
the chief officers of Japan's navy and
man who stands close to the Mika-
do, in an interview printed in the
Hochi ut Tokyo. The slurs expressed
by Admiral Sakamoto on the American
navy in this interview are angrily re-
sented by the military and naval chie<s
and, it is believed. will add force to
the ill-feeling that is being engendered
against Japan all over the United
States.
Both military and civil officials of
high rank, who, of course. refuse to be
quoted, admit that the insulting utter
ances of one of the Mikados chief Off
GERS have greatly intensified the gray
ity of the situation between the United
States and Japan and Increased the
possibilities of war between the two
countries.
The text Of the interview as printed
in the Hochi is as follows:
SHOULD hostilities break out between
Japan and America, the result would
be indecisive, owing to want of proper
bases of operations. Such bases as
exist are too far distant for practical
purposes.
Even the nearest bases-namely,
the Pescadores, Cavite and Manila
are at a distance of 600 miles from one
another. Even if the Washington gov
erament should decide on a war, it is
doubtful If the Americans serving in
the navy are sufficiently patriotic TO
fight.
american naval officers are brill
liant figures at~baiis and social gather
ings. but they are very deficient in pro-
fessional training and experience 1t
IS too much to expect burning patriot
ism In the American naval service in
case Of war with Japan. 1t is very
likely that most of the crews would
desert and leave the Ships
Admiral Sakamoto commanded the
Inflated battlcship Yashima when she
struck a mine and sunk off Port Arthur
in May. 1904 Subsequently he was
made naval commandant at Dalny for
the Port Arthur operations.
The transfer of the American battle
ship squadron to the Pacific coast has
caused a storm. \ significant feature
o. the affair is that all of the vessels
will be stripped as though for battle.
and will be supplied with a full supply
of ammunition and Srms