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The Cairo bulletin., 1907-02-22
..parsifaI" Coming Aaain.

a PLAY as broad in its interests as
humanity itself ElabC rate and spec
tacular in production weird in its
portrayal OF the elemental passions
absorbing as a dream OF the highest
good yet keel and intense In its ap-
peal 10 The individual such is the de-
scription OF the Wagner wonder
drama which for the second time Is 20
see in It's nov English dress al the
% is gen rally conceded TO 30 a
condition of dramatic art that human
interests must be paramount. and this
condition has been complied with II
the transla ion Of "PaTsifal.'
The Cairo bulletin., 1907-02-22
The Vanderbilt Gun.

THE Vanderbilt Cup" name
which macks of mignihcance and the
swell mob generally, is the name
.of that much ralded automobile mu
.sical comedy which has had an eight
months run at the Broadway theater
in New York, and now. after amusing
Chicago al the Colonial for three
months more has been sent on tour,
and viii be presented ar the opera
hous Monday. Feb. 2Gth, in all the
entirety Of its metropolitan run. The
company is a big one. and includes the
majority of the original principals, be-
sides an umber of famous stage beau
lies who are arrayed 81 e. latest and
me a.,-i4 mote" "arncAts.
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snrsa'- "The Free Lance. /"

John Philip Sousa's new comic mil
ilary opera. The Free Lance" is to
be seen here at the opera house Tues
day, February 2Gth. II is return Ia
the comic opera Of other days and Is
said 10 b. an eminently successful re-
turn. This collaboration Of America :
famous band master and march king
with Harry Il. Smith. the limettist
who wrote Robin Hood" in said 90
contain all the rollicking fun and clev.
er wit and jest necessary TO laugh a
night away as if by magic. accompan-
led by the most stirring and spark
ling melodies eyer written by this
composer John Philip Sousa 4 COM
plete orchestra Is carried by this
company.
The Cairo bulletin., 1907-02-22
A HARD FOUGHT CASE.

After twenty-six hours of c0ntinu
DISQUALIFICATION the jury in the case
of the Steger woman charged with
NARROWING a girl under age for immor
III purposes was discharged last
night having failed 10 agree. A hard
flght.was made BY both sides in this
caseg but especially so by States At
torney Wilson. who deserves great
credit. for the earnestness and we'll
directed energy ne displayed. While
the law and evidence were strong
for the prosecution, it appears that
there were some circumstances which
induced some members of the jury 10
hesitate In rendering verdict OF
guilty. There was no middle ground
that the jury could stand upon. 1t
was either penitentiary or freedom
fer the accused, and some of the jury,
while admitting that the accused had
violated the law. were not disposed 10
infiict the extreme penalty. More.
over the girl who had been rescued
from the place had gone there as a
place Of refuge because she had been
east out BY her relatives on account
of her immoral conduct and the jury
believed probably that these relatives
were somewhat culpable in that they
did not have her sent 10 the reforma
tory instead of into the streets.
However. be all this as ii may, the
vigorous prosecution of the case. al
though falling short of its purpose.
has not been without good effect Il
has made the law clear upon an evil
which negds 10 be checked. and II has
brought the keepers of immoral re-
sorts TO realizing sense OF what
may be in store for them if they
permit themselves to 90 so far as TO
establish traffic in children in or
der TO- satisfy their lust for gold.
The Cairo bulletin., 1907-02-22

February ri, 1907.
Miss Myrtle Sullins has accepted 4
position IN The insane asylum at
Peoria and departed Monday for that
place.
Miss Anna Eddy is pe1dIng few
days this week with rela ives at Ma.
kanda.
Mrs T. e.. Stokes departed Tuesday
for Pine Blum Ark. for a witt with
her dauehte- Mrs. c. Z. Speaker. She
will also visit relatives in Luikin.
Texas. before ietufning 10 Anna
Rev. ana. Mrs. D. c. Hurst OF Hum.
boldt. Tuna. are the guests Of Mr..
AMI Mrs. Iesse Hileman.
Russell Tuthin returned Sunday
from brief visit in ST. LoM4.
The ladies of the In bcraa church
viii give their annual bazaar Friday
in the paTlors of tue church.
BoGu. Tuesday to Mr.. and Mrs. H.
j. Holloman. a ION.
Mr. aud Mrs. J. F. Dayault returned
SUNDAY & N an extended visit IN
FsSptt- Ark.
Chas. Chester has resigned has,
position at J. y. Dicinscn's clothjng.
store and departed Monday for Ola.
homa
Mss Lula Toicr returned SUNDAY
from weeks visit in 81. Louis.
Mrs J. J, DerInody. who has been
be gaest of Mrs. r. l.. shannon e
TUNED "Wednesday TO her home in
Mounds.
Miss Elsie Picqnet returned Mon.
DAY TO ST Marie after several
weeks visit here with Mrs. J. p.
Hynes.
Rev. end Mrs. II. L. MeGm we're
called TO Louisville. KY. "Wednesday
on account Of the lines Of a relq-
tive.
Miss Annie Policy spent part OF
this week In St. Louis with her sister
Mr. j. Klocky tts-
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CAREY HALLIDAY LUMBER CO
CHANGE OF NAME.

Notice is reby given that by reso.
hutton of the stockholders Of the
Carey-Halliday Lumber Co. adopted
at a pecial NEE ing held on the 18th
day OF February. A. D. 1907. and Ger
tificatc thereof filed in Office of the
crelary OF state Of the State Of Hi
nois on the 10Th day Of February.
1907. ami a like certificate filed for
record in the offie, of the Recorder of
Deeds in and for the County OF Alex
ander Illinois on the 20th day of
February. 4. D.. 1907. the name II
said Carey Halliday Lumber Co. has
been Changed 10 National Lumber 4
WoodAarc Co. and the capital stock
OF the company Increased to s25O.000
G. s. CAREY.
President II said Company.
Attest: Z. ID. CAREY.
Secretary Of said Company.
The Cairo bulletin., 1907-02-22
The coIlene Widow. ;"

Foremost among the attractions of
this season in GeCge AIDES brilliant
comedy THE Coll &c Widow" which
comes to the opera house on Saturday.
Feb. 23rd. This football comedy was
he particular success o fthe season
at the Garden Theater in New York
City, its vogue being that 1t did not
leave the metropolis until the sum
mer brought theatricals to a close.
The Cairo bulletin., 1907-02-22

sent White. He brought out that the
not2' asked Jerome.
No, | gave them to Mr.. Thaw"
Attorneys Clash Over Letters.
Jerome di-ec ed his assistant. Gar
van, TO have subpoena issued for
HarIridge and when this was done
and Jerome again demanded the let.
ters Hartridge said he had no inten.
ton OF complying as he had received
the letters from the hands of the de
tendant. Jerome appealed to Justice
Fitzgerald. He had neglected o have
an affidavit made as to the service of
the ryice OF the subpoena and Fitz-
gerald said there was nothing upon
which he could act Garvin was di-
rected by his chief to draw up the
affidavit There the matter rested,
however. as Jerome made no further
move.
Just after the luncheon recess the
district attorney wanted permission 10
discontinue the cross examination of
Mrs. Thaw long enough 10 take the
testimony of Drs. Deemer. OF Kittan-
ming Pa and Pingaman. of PiJt3burg,
both of whom are to testify as toI
traces of insanity in both branches of
the defendants family. Jerome said
he was informed the physicians were
about TO leave the jurisdiction of the
court
Wanted Specialists Called.
"Theey are returning 10 Pittsburg
tonight" said Hartridge, but they
will be back at any time they are
wanted Mrs. Thaw is under a most |
severe strain and her examination |
should be concluded al once
In view of the district attorneys /
statement, Fitzgerald thought Deemar !
and Bingham should be heard. They /
we're called to the stand and said /
that while they We're anxious to get /
back to their patients, they would stay /
If necessary. Jerome insisted their /
testimony be taken and Thaws coun.
sci insisted that Mrs Thaw's cross
examination should proceed.
We will settle the matter by sit
ing tomorrow and aSurday," said
just before adjournment for the
day. however Jerom. said he felt the
physicians would be available when
wanted aud asked recess over the
holiday and until Monday be taken.
The counsel for defense consented.
Mrs Thaw will again be upon the
stand all Monday and possibly Tues
lay.
The Cairo bulletin., 1907-02-22
For Confidential Messaaes.

Disappearing paper IS novelty for
use by those whose correspondents
forget to burn the letters after their
utility has ceased. Ii Is stepped in sui
phuric acid, dried and glazed. the acid
being partly ueutralized by ammonia
yspor. 1t tails to pieces after a given
time.
The Cairo bulletin., 1907-02-22

greater number OF pa sengers. who
subsequently lost their lives The
steamer should have reached the
Hook of Holland at O'Clock this
morning and than would have pro.
ceeded to Rotterdam.
A great gale was blowing in the
North Sea when the Berlin starte :
As the Berlin was entering the water
way at thu entrance of the River
Mas she apparently became unman-
agable on account of the force of the
wind. ami was driven ashore.
Life Boats Were Useless.
The alarm was given and life boats
from the shore went 10 the assist
ance of the stricken steamer. but the
seas we're so heavy that the boats
were unable TO approach the Berlin
close enough 10 take Of any of the
passengers or crew and the lifeboat
meu had 10 ST helpless while the
81 amer pounded until she broke in
two aud every soul on board was car
rled down. The steame: apparently
struck about amidships. as her fore
part broke on and sank Immediately
while her afterpart could be seen for
n considerable p riCd Of time.
The waterway in which the disaster
occurred is a new one. on the north
side OF which are the pier and rail-
road taiion. The steamer must have
been within a minutes OF tying up
after her roagh passage across the
North Sea when she was overtaken
by the disaster. Land was but few
yards away and except in the rough
east weather thosa on board the Ber-
In could have been hescued without
difficulty. especially as the waterway
is navigable At all times
The Cairo bulletin., 1907-02-22
Engadine.

The Engadlne is famous valley in
the Swiss canton OF Grlsons. and one
OF the lof-'est inhabited regions OF
Europe. 1t extends northeast for about
10 miles along the banks OF the I'm,
river and is lakes. from the foot o.
Mount Maloia to the village or Mar
Innsbruck
The Cairo bulletin., 1907-02-22
Railroad suildinn In Canada

Railway construction was active IN
Canada last year. s.314 miles Of new
road having been buih. while no less
than s6Z.0O0000 were spent In the
construction and equipment Of add
tional lines 10 thread the nine prov
inces 81 the dominion.
The Cairo bulletin., 1907-02-22

The Bulletin is on sale at the fol
lowing places:
coIeman's, 214 Eighth street.
Halliday House News Stand.
Walkers, 10 Sixth street.
Blue Front Restaurant.
The Cairo bulletin., 1907-02-22
January Circulation.

The above IL a correct statement OF
the number Of copies printed Of the
Cairo Bulletin for the year 1906 and
for the month OF January 1907.
CLYDE SULLIVAN,
Business Manager
Subscribed and sworn TO before me
this first day OF February. 1907,
(Seal) LEO J. KLEB.
Notary Public.
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1870 cHlkAMEN DROWNED

London. Feb. 2t.--In q dispatch
from Hong Kong the correspondent OF
the Mail says the West River steamer
Hong Hing struck a rock and went
down and that 1870 Cinnamon were
drowned.
The Cairo bulletin., 1907-02-22
ADDITIONAL CITY BRIEFS.
Will Meet Tonioht.

The Board Of Local improvements
will meet this evening at the council
chamber for the purpose OF consider
ing further the bids on the big sewer
upon which City Engineer Thistle
wood ami Alderman Sayder will
make report. II Is believed that all
conditions will be complied with and
That The lowest bid viii lie accepted.
The Cairo bulletin., 1907-02-22
NJ q o. From South
plr Four From EMHl
TIME CARD CAIRO ELECTRIC RYS

BELT LINE cars due to leave second ST. 90
ing north on Commercial Ave. Every Is min.
ut.s from u. m. TO ! p III
Goirg orth or Walnut It every ID minutes
from 6:C8a m. to /, IS % m
POPLAR ST. LINE Holbrook Ave, car due
to leave secon IT g.ing ner h on Hol rfok
Ave, at 6;5T; 6 81; 642; 6:b7; -;12 a. M. snd on
same inmates every hou; until 1912 and 1872
p M.
Going west on Twenty Eighth st. ct $40;
6l9; 6:3i $40; and 7:04 a. m and on same min
utss every hour un il I0;3i and l1;n4 p. m.
Poplar st cats due 20 pass st Mary's rark
minutes sfte leaving Sec nd st.
BELT LINE OWL c RS north on walnut
II $50 p, NJ. 1874 a. M; l,3l .. m; 2.30 a. M;
8 80 a. M; 80 a. m /; 5 30 a. IN.
North On @. mmerc alp 90 p. M; 20 a.
M. 90 NJ, 90 n. IN, 4 SEQ u m Il. IN.
Helt aud Owl cars are due to pass West
Thirty fourth 1T. IL minutes after leaving
second st
The Cairo bulletin., 1907-02-22
p,.oy. Germs IN BATS and Mice.

The efforts 70 exterminate the
plague in New Scuth wales led 70 the
killing last year Of over 1880 mice
and rats Plague germs we're found In
l23 rats and rs mice.
The Cairo bulletin., 1907-02-22
About the Eyes.

Light CcloreI eyes will stand the
s-~ rain on tie sight. Light
BIZ re generally most power
-'-l -s. .-.t 90 lose are gray.
The Cairo bulletin., 1907-02-22

Ever. little while there appears .
wGBJ al Which II aimed 50 direcSs
= yes hat II It sers . bullet JOI
- - All
The Cairo bulletin., 1907-02-22
OFFICIAL DIRECTORY

Cairo, Alexander County, iiilnois
Population 1917.
Mayor, GEORGE PARSONS.
Clerk, r. A. HATCHER.
Treasurer, JAMES QUINN
Comptroller, ERNEST WORKMAN.
Police Magistrate. A. j. ROSS.
Chief of Police, M. 8. EAGAN.
Alexander County. Population 22sSa
County Clerk, JESSE n. MILLER
Circuit Clerk. LEE b. DAVIS.
Sheriff. FRANK II. DAVIS.
STATES ATTORNEY-Alex NJ
Wilson.
Coroner, DR.. JAMES McMANUB.
County Superintendent Of Schools.
PROF JOHN SNYDER.
Assessor and Treasurer, FRED d
NELLIS.
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CIRCULATION STATEMENT.

Average daily and Sunday circu-
laion for the year, 1906. !. POPS
Average daily and Sunday circu.
Iation for the month of January,
1907 49,. 2043
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ONLY One MAN SAVED

concluded from First Page,
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Board Of County Commissioners.
J. J. JENNELLE. Chairman
GEORGE PARSONS.
DIR. EDWIN J. CAUSE.
HOW THE TRAINS RUN
TRAINS DEPAR~
fRkIrs ARRIVE

Corrected to February G, 1907.
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THAW AND HIS WIFE
CONCLUDED from First Page.l

sent White. He brought out that the
not?" asked Jerome.
HN1 / ryo,-n thor, err Ar. sT1z,.x.
Connecticut western news., 1907-02-14

ried two passengers at Dover. New Hampshire.
 Then the United States congress be- came interested. By special grants Professor Page of Smithsonian insti- ute was aided in the construction of several forms of motors. One of them was used as locomotive and. driven by a battery of one hundred Grove clements, was tried April %. 1851, on a railroad running from Washington to Bladensburg. A speed of nineteen miles an hour was developed. so great that it destroyed the batteries.
 Numerous other experiments fol- lowed, all commercial failures because the motors were crude and the source of power primary battery. The de- velopment of the wonderful modern dynamo was necessary before electric rairoading could become a commercial success. The first great step was in 1860. when an Italian named Pacinot- Ii invented a continuous current dy- namo. Three years later the first practical commercial machine for con- tinuous current operation was made by Gramme.
 Still the modern electric car was i'm possible. The ''reversibility of func- tion" had yet to be discovered. inyol- wing electrical transmission of energy through two machines, one driven by power and generating electricity; the other reversing the operation, receiy- ing electricity and developing me- cnanical power.
 Like many other important discov- cries. this is said to have been the re- suit of accident. A workman couplesl machine to live circuit by mis- take and was greatly astonished to see
Connecticut western news., 1907-02-14

natural. over an invention which threatens to relegate them to a sausage factory"
 That was less than twenty years ago. Today the New York Central Railroad Company is expending $50,- 100000 in the identification of the first tnlrty-five miles of its system, and the car horses were long ago relegated to the bc ward, if not to the sausage factory"
 ''They" have done marvellous things since the increasing knowledge of electricity opened up a new world of acnlevement. and we have scarcely crossed the threshold. Tn 1880 the cleo tric car was a dream; in 1890, an ex- pertinent; in 1900, great and wonder full fact which is reyolutionizing pas senger transportation and will enable human beings to move from place to place twice as fast as they do at pres ent.
 Born in Old Vermont.
 When in 1884 Thomas Davenport, of Brandon, Vt, ran toy motor mounted on wheels on a small circular railway, the modern electric railroad with it's possible speed of over one hundred miles an hour was born.
 Tn 1888 Robert Davidson, of Aber- deen, Scotland, built an electric loco motive which actually reached a speed of four miles an hour on the Edin- burgh Glasgow railway. Nine years later Professor Moses G. Farmer op- erated an experimental T which car
Connecticut western news., 1907-02-14

my opinion it is an entirely feasible scheme from the commercial point of view"
 At any rate, the world seems on the eve of great things, and no scien- tist dares say today as was said twen- ty years ago, "a man is knave or fool.' The attitude of the American public is one of faith ana expectancy, best expressed by q recent remark of an old lady in her last sickness:
 II don't want to die" she said, "1 want to see what they are going to do'
Connecticut western news., 1907-02-14

peared wllI the iron horse. me great
 steam locomotive, be supplanted also?
 This question occurs to all who can
 see the significance of passing events.
 Probably not for many years to come.
 as far as heavy freight traffic is con
 cerned. because steam is especially ap-
 plicable to the hauling of freight. But the action of the New York Central in
 electrifying thirty miles of its road leading out of New York, and the , popular agitation for similar improve ment in ~nicago and elsewhere, would seem to point to a time not far distant when electric railroads will connect distant cities and greatly shorten the hours of travel.
 Chico go to New York in Ten Hours. In fact such a railway already IS
 being built between Chicago and New York by the Chicago-New York Elec- tric Air Line Railroad company, of
 Cnlcago. This company, headed by Il
 group of practical railroad men. pro poses to run limited trains, making not
 more than three stops, through to New ork or Chicago, in ten hours. The thought fairly takes ones breath away
 at first, but the project considered
 soberly seems practical enough, and certainly is a consummation devoutly to be wished" The work of grading began Sept. 1 near LaPorte, Ind. As the new road will be an air line, with few curves, the route surveyed is 160 miles shorter than the Pennsyl-
 vania "Short Line'', and 23O miles
 shorter than the Lake Shore and
 New York Central, each of which runs trains covering the distance in eighteen
 hours. Taking into consideration the shorter route of the Air Line, this IS equivalent to fourteen-hour service. With low grades, straight track and no grade crossings, the seventy five niles an --our average necessary to a ten-hour service ought easily to be
 maintained. Even on the first class steam roads of today ninety miles an
 hour Is not uncommon for short dis tances.
 The Scientific American of Feb. IS. 1905, speaking editorially of the New ork Central experiment, says, "The success of this installation, of which there can be no doubt whatever, marks
 the first step in the gradual subsd- tuition of the electric for the steam locomotive in tho operation of long dis
 tance express trains" The Chicago
 New York project may be regarded the
 second step
 MT. Sprague himself says that speed
 is "a matter of finance" What then will determine the future?" he asks. Chiefly the financial factor, as 1t must
 the future of any other great industrial
 problem. When savings in operation
 and the increased return for traffic
 will more than pay fair dividend on
 money invested for electrical equip
 ment, will trunk lines be operated by
 electricity
 Professor Charles P. Steinmetz, one
 of the greatest authorities on cleo
 tricity. is quoted as saying, '"rhere is
 no limit to the speed that may be de
 veloped in electric traction-that is, there is no limit up to 150 or 200 miles
 an hour. Higher speed than that the
 car wheels could not stand. They
 would fly to pieces from centrifugal force. Not only can a speed of 120
 miles an hour he maintained on a
 train equipped with electricity, but in
Connecticut western news., 1907-02-14

IhlS change was not accomplished without oppositioE, Encouragement and financial difficulties. MT. Sprague hin self, who was so potent factor in working this change. has told the story of his first important contract. In the spring of 1887, the Union Passenger Railway company of Richmond. Va, engaged him to build an electric rail way. The first car was run out one night while the skeptical people slept, to make sure it could climb the hills. It started out in a blaze of glory and ignominiously was lowed back again by four big mules. But Sprague per sisted until on Feb. ?, 1888, in q drizzling rain, the road opened for business.
 From that time forward the future of electric ralroading was assured and events moved rapidly. City after city adopted the new motive power; horse cars became things of the past; in- terurban roads began to gridiron the country everywhere, and in each in- stance a commercial success was scored. Electric interurban lines have been money makers from the start.
 The greatest development has been in the east; but the west is not far benind. The Aurora, Elgin and Chi cago Electric railway (the third-rail system) which has been in operation several years. is famous. From one central power station over two hum dred miles of road are onerated, or will be as soon as the line to Belvidere is completed. Electricity at wholesale is sold to cities and villages along the route for lighting purposes; electricity for power is sold to farmers. Trains of elegant cars run into Chicago at a
Connecticut western news., 1907-02-14

two-thirds, in length. The train con- sisted of a small locomotive and three small cars, capable of carrying twen- ty people. It reached speed of eight miles an hour.
 About this time Stephen D. Field md Thomas Edison in the United States began experimenting. In 1880 Eulson was operating at Menlo Park an electric locomotive which pulled two cars.
 The First Electric Railroad.
 The first regular electric line to be established was at Lichterfelde, Ger many, near Berlin. It was only a nile and half i'll length and opened for traffic i'll May 1881. The trains car mum speed of thirty miles an hour.
 The first electric car to be operated regularly in the United States was in- stalled by Delft on the Hamden branch N' the Baltimore Union Passenger Railway i'll August, 1886. That was barely twenty years ago. So great as the skepticism of the public and railway men generally that the con tract under which the road was built withheld payment one year so that it might be determined whether the cars would run. No one but a knave or a fool would undertake such thing" said q well known scientist at the time. Scientists sometimes have trouble keeping up with the procession. About the same time small cars were oper- ated by Van Derpoele at South Bend, Ind followed by other small roads in