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The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1908-09-05
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF
VIII Go 70 Mounds.

Oriental Tribe No, G an auxiliary 70
the knights of Pythias has accepted
an invitation to go "A Mounds next
Wednesday night and initiate class
OF twenty candidates
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1908-09-05

Evans of Poplar Bluff, Mo- arrived
Yesterday TO visit Mrs. r. F. Robert
son Mrs John l.. Parham and other
relatives,
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1908-09-05

or account &C Labor Eay celehra-
tiCr af Paiursh the steamer Dick
Fou .rr wiii make special round triu
rate of - ceufs. Tickets aiil ~ good
leaving Cairo SUNDAY. sept eth. 70
tuning Tuesday. SEPT 9Th. Steamer
leave Cairo at zee ,. ID.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1908-09-05

Rev S. c 0hrum, pastor Of the
Cairo Baptist church and family ra-
turned from their summer vacation
soiouu in the hills near Makanda. al
The home OF J ] Patterson. Mr..
Oarum win occupy his pulpit SUNDAY.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1908-09-05

M and Mrs Samuel White and
son Chester returned yesterday from
New York, after an extended absence
While in the east Mr. White puF-
chased fall and winter goods for his
dr. goods store
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1908-09-05

Kiss Edith Hogan Of lower Walnut
street Viii leave SUNDAY morning for
=. Loris to fesCme her position with
ibc Strauss Strumer Millinery com
PAM.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1908-09-05

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The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1908-09-05

| Jr
The devotion of Mr.. Fox to Miss
Scheff last winter was open and IN
disguised He deserted the Cumber
land Mountains for New York and
was in Miss Scheff's company as CON
stanty as possible That they would
be married as soon as Miss Scheff
| could obtain her divorce from Baron
Fritz Won Bardelbea was taken for
granted
Miss Scbeh and Mr.. Fox We're mem
tecs of the same social set and spec
ial efforts We're made last winter by
friends to Miss Scheff and MIR Fox to
bring them together as often as pos
sible. Mr. Fox met Miss Schen four
years ago al a dinner in New YORK
and tie acquaintance has been con
tinued without a break.
They We're fellow guests at the
house parties Of Finley Peter Dunno
in York. Me. and Richard Harding
Davis in Marion Mass, frequently
and it was known at the time Miss
Scheff obtained her divorce from
Baron Bardeuben that she then be
came engaged to MI Fox
Miss Schetfs marriage viii not In
any fashion interfere with her con
tract with Charles Dillingham; She
will continue on the stage for several
years Her success in Mile Mod,
iste" was such that another produc
rion along the same lines is being
prepared for this season III which
Miss Schef will be starred
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1908-09-05

Mrs. II. G, Wilson and daughter
Naomi who have been guests Of the
formers parents, Mr.. and RMS, L. H..
Myers Ct Tenth street, will leave this
morning for their home in Kansas
CITY. Mo
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1908-09-05

Miss Fay Van der Piu,m who has
bced the guest OF Miss Ruth Easter
dsy o. Sycamore street. has returne q
10 hci home in Dongoia
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1908-09-05

Mrs. " B. Hays and Miss Bernice
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1908-09-05

Mrs. Z. %. Hisey has returned 70.
Ser h'~ne ~ Houston. Texts. after a
visit cf three months with her parents
SIR and Mrs David Johns.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1908-09-05

l.. T. Hrg of Indianapolis. Ind. was
in tlo city yesterday on business for
tic Rhodes Burfofd Furniture COM.
pany
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1908-09-05

Casper sender. o. Char'estDn No.
father 10 viii return home today.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1908-09-05

Fred Comiua- has returned from
Metropolis where he has been acting
a. sicrographef 10 the circuit court.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1908-09-05

Mrs. Otto Archibald OF Thirty-hfth
street is i'll at her home.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1908-09-05

Earl Snow has returned from
Nourd- where be spent two months
win Dis grandfather J. V. Walker.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1908-09-05

sMr and Mrs j. D. smith OF PaIu.
can, Ky are guests of Mrs. D. r.
Griffin ami Mrs james Simpkius
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1908-09-05

Misses Alice and Ruth Peterson re-
turned yesterday from a visit with
friends al Cincinnati ONO.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1908-09-05

Mrs. ". l.. Holt went to st Louis
yesterday to spend few days.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-04-02
Something Easier
A8k<eetSekeseeesEeesss

The six men in the wardroom were
waiting. The tense silence told it. the
nervous flip of a book leaf, the stealthy
sidelong blink to the door.
Outside, the water talked against the
keel. crashing loud, or dying in the
murmurs as the vessel heeled. From
the deck rang a yolley of laughter that
rocketed forward to the mems quar-
ters. Wallace fidgeted his canvas shoes
on the carpet, and giggled uncertainty
at nothing. Then the doctor opened
the door, shifting his keen glance round
the room.
THE Boy on decl?" he asked.
Yes said Arthur, CURLY Don't
you hear him playing the fool?'
"Ah!" said the doctor; and the men
looked up suspiciously at the CRATE in
the voice. Then some one spoke from
a corner where the shadows were
dusky.
THAT means"
at means death. Yes"
The rush Of quick, light feet sound
ed overhead, where the Boy and the
second lieutenant were practicing cake
walks
Il can be certain. I've seen too much
of that sort of thing down in the is
lands. I knew the spear had been
tipped with diseased human bone be-
fore l got the splinter out of the
wound Because all Solomon Islanders
use human bone. And knew that the
poison on 1t would be taken from a
putrid human body-because the Sol
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-04-02
POIiCQ| Comment.
Rural Free Delivery.

The annual report OF the Fourth As
Sistant Postmaster General DeGraw
deals chiefly with the rural free deliv-
cry service, and the postal appropria-
ton bill shows how that service mas
developed in recent years under the Re
publican party.
Nothing so well illustrates, perhaps.
the character of the two predominant
parties in the United Stotes as does
tire development of this rural free de-
livery system. Year after year it was
turned down" by Il Democratic admin
yet under the operation OF Republican
administrations it has developed in
every way successfully and most adyan-
tageously TO the agriculturists of the
country Where only a few years ago
most of our farmers were able to get
their mail but once or twice a week it
is now daily brought to their very
doors. giving them the advantage of the
daily paper and of market and weather
reports, enhancing not only labor, but
the pleasure OF living.
The system itself needs no defense
The result of its working is its own
vindication, and the farmers of the
country are indebted wholly to the Re
publican party, which had the courage
as we'll as the sense TO put the system
into practical operation and constant
development.
During the year it will require an ap-
preparation in excess of $35,0OO,0O0 to
carry on the service There are nearly
10000 routes in operation, and some
100000 people enjoy its benefits. On
less than 1000 of the routes service is
performed tri-weekly On nearly all of
the remainder the service is daily
There is perhaps no Republican legis.a-
ton of recent years that has carried
so great benefit to so many of our
people. OF course it is exceeded by the
pension legislation, established and de-
veloped by the party, but that has been
Il matter covering over forty years,
while the rural free delivery service has
been in operation only ten years. There
is no doubt that it will be developed
still further as requirements demand,
and s. long as the Republican party re-
mains in power the rural districts of
the country can be sure of having their
mail delivered at their doors, and it is
possible that in the near future this
mail, consisting of letters and papers,
may be augmented by the delivery of
parcels and miscellaneous matter SO
that the farmer will not only have his
mail, but his purchases, brought to his
home.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-04-02
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The Institute of Mining and Metal
lurgy of London has suggested and rec
commended the adoption of the follow
ing definitions: That the ton be a
weight of 1000 pounds avoirdupois !;
that the miners inch be a flow of 1.5
cubic feet per minute that the gallon
be the gallon of 10 pounds; that all
temperatures be expressed in degrees
centlgrade; that gold and silver returns
be stated in terms of fine metal and
not as bullion; that the gold contents
of ore be expressed in the Troy ounce
of fine gold. worth $2O.67 or 50 shil-
lings.
Much trouble has been experienced
with lightning on the power transmits
sion lines, carried on steel towers, in
the states Of Michoacan and Guanajuato,
Mexico, but recently the difficulty has
been largely overcome by the use of
lightning rods and the device of sus-
pending steel cable above the trans
mission lines, the cable being brought to
earth at each tower. Before these
| means of diverting the lightning were
employed, the insulators were often
bored with holes an inch in diameter
by bolts Of lightning. The shielding
cable IS regarded as affording much
more protection than the lightning rods.
In Poleozoic times, then, writes Prof.
Lowell in the Century, it was with the
earth itself, not the sun, to which plant
and animal primarily stood beholden
for existence. This gives us most in
structive glimpse into one planetologlc
process. To the planets own internal
heat is due the chief fostering of the
beginnings of life upon its surface
Thus a planet Is capable of at least be-
ginning to develop organisms without
more than modicum of help from the
central sun. We talk Of the sun as the
source Of life: and so it is to-day in
the sense Of being it's sustainer; but the
real source was the earth itself, which
also raised it through it's babyhood.
Studies by Miss NJ. C. Slopes of the
fossil 1ora of Scotland have shown that
the gingko, or maidenhair, tree, ma
tive of Japan and China, which is Gull
tivated in Europe and this country on
account Of its remarkable foliage, be
longs to an extremely ancient family,
of which it is now, apparently, the last
surviving representative. At one time
it seems to have been widely spread A
singular fact is that the fossil speci-
mems of the gingko, found in the rock
beds of the Inferior Oolite series, at
Brora, Scotland, are so similar to the
living trees that at first sight no differ
ence Is apparent. Only an examination
Of the structure of the cells reveals a
variation.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-04-02

1621-Plymouth colony concluded treaty
with the Indians.
162S-Plans for the Massachusetts col
ony completed
1676-Attack on Groton, Mass. by In
dams
liU9-Ihe thermometer, measurer of the
strength and velocity of the wind,
invented by Wolfus.
1176-American Congress issued letters
of marque and reprisal against Eng
land.
11II-British force landed at Peekskill
and seized the military stores.
1779-Gen, Benedict Arnold resigned his
command in the American army
17S1-The planet Uranus discovered by
HerSchel.
stroyed by fire.
1S01-KingdOm of Etruria created by
Napoleon.
1S04-Duke of Enghien shot by order of
Napoleon.
Military operations on land in the
war between the United States and
Great Britain came to an end.
1S22-The United States acknowledged
the independence of the South Amer
lean government.
1S31-The celebrated bill for parliament
airy reform read for the first time in
the British House of Commons.
1S36-Texans and Mexcans engaged in
battle near Goliad, Texas.
1S42-Montreal Board of Trade incor-
porated.
1S55-First train passed over Niagara
bridge. 49,. Investigating COMMITTEES
reported that the Kansas elections
were carried by fraud
1S5S-Lucknow captured by the British
force under Sir Colin Campbell. -.
Senate passed bill to admit Kansas
as a State under the Lecompton con-
stitution.
1S61-Kingdom of Italy established. -.
Title of King of Italy conferred
upon Victor Emmanuel.
1S64-Gen. Grant assumed command Of
all the armies of the Union.
1S65-Gen. Sherman arrived at Colds.
boro and joined the armies under
Gen. Schofield and Gen. Terry. -.
Confederates attacked Gen. Slocums
division of Sherman's army near
Bentonville, y. G.
1S6T-Cession of Russian America to ths
United States.
1S6S-The High Court of impeachment
opened for the trial of President
Johnson.
broke out among ths
troops in Paris.
1SS1-xAlexander III. of Russia killed by
the explosion of a bomb thrown by
Nihilists.
1SS2-Many lives lost by earthquake in
Costa Rica
1S91-Steamer Utopia sunk in collision
off Gibraltar with loss of nearly 600
lives.
1S94-Walter Wellman Arctic expedition
sailed from New York.
19OO-Lord Roberts entered Bloemfon.
tein.
1907-Great floods in Pittsburg; water
the highest in seventy years. $3.50
American marines landed in Hon
duras.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-04-02
A SPANISH LAD.

About the old cathedral door
The beggars clustered, like the bees
Upon a honeycomb. our store
OF coppers eagerly to seize.
Nothing to them the sacred towers
Like the old gargoyles, to our search
They seemed-sad sport of evil powers.
Those dark souls fleeing from the
church.
One on his clutches leaned apart.
Crippled and dwarfed il back and limb
We beckoned, and with melting heart
We held some silver out to him.
With ancient Spain's chivalric grace,
The broad sombrero dotted, he bowed,
The dark curls tumbling round a face
As beautiful as it was proud
Refusing largess. yet a smile
Flashed in his eyes like flames that
burn
And in moment fall, the while
Il do not beg" he said. II earn :"
Youths Companion.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-04-02

The truth of history demonstrates
that the great organization, the great
power that saved the Union, was the
Republican organization | remember
q few years ago when my genial friend
from Ohio, James z. Campbell was a
member of the House he took the floor
to prove that there was no Republican
party in 1864 when Lincoln was re-
elected. and he brought in copy or
the Tribune Almanac which showed
that the votes for Lincoln were given
under the caption of Union Republi-
cans" and, he claimed, showed there
was no Republican party. The argu-
ment of my colleague the other lay
brought back the fanciful argument OF
James E. Campbell, / think, way back
in the Forty ninth Congress. The Re-
publican party in behalf Of Abraham
Lincoln appealed to the Union to strike
down that party. which in their plat
form declared the war failure. Mr..
Chairman, from the sixties down who
can name an important piece of legis-
lation for the good of the people Of the
United States that was not written on
the statute books by the Republican
party ?-Congressman Payne.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-04-02
ALL OVER THE STATE.

In order to give employment to the
unemployed the Racine common council
will endeavor to pass an ordinance for
| the issuing of $4,000 street Improvement
| bonds and pave several streets during the
| coming season.
One of the most horrible tragedies that
| Manitowoc county has ever known took
| place at the Manitowoc county asylum
when one of the insane patients, John
| Herrian. committed suicide He blew his
| head off with shotgun.
Edward Wager of Wilbaux. Mont.
| makes application to Chippewa Falls for
a shipment of women of manageable age
TO Montana. saying that there is scare
ity in that State. He and 100 others at
Wilbaux are looking for wives.
Acting under instructions from Mayor
Anderson. Chief of Police Webber has
| ordered all proprietors and inmates of
disreputable houses in La Crosse to leave
| the city by April -. 1t is possible that
all gamblers will also be forced to leave
the city.
Wilson Miller and David johnson, pro-
prietors of the largest cigar store and
| billiard hall of Racine. were arrested by
Deputy United States Marshal Vebber
for selling lottery tickets. They were
taken TO Milwaukee The arrest created
a sensation.
Nina Johnson the woman who stepped
on match and set fire to the Webster
chair factory in Superior. last August,
has started suit for personal injury dam
ages. alleging that she sustained great
injuries in the fire. The blaze cost the
Webster Manufacturing Company over
100000.
Albert Barta and Mrs. Anna Kadel. an
| clipping Chicago couple. were arrested and
locked up in the county Jail at Ashland
Mrs Kadel arrived there recently with
her two small children. Barta arrived a
day later. His grown-up son and daugh-
ter arrived Sunday and assisted in locat-
ing them.
Miss Nettie Plaschek. aged II years,
daughter of Mrs. Ida Plaschek, 147 Tenth
avenue. Milwaukee, died from strychnine
administered by her sweetheart, Leo Wo-
jeinski The fatal drug was mixed with
ice cream When Wojeinski learned of
the death of the girl he FASTENED to make
the tragedy double one by taking a dose
himself He died an hour later. The
crime was probably inspired because the
mans parents had objected to a proposed
marriage to the young girl.
Sewers in some parts of Chippewa Falls
are gradually being clogged by certain
kind of fbrous growth. which, when it
has grown over the interior of the pipes
makes an impenetrable wall.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-04-02
CHASED BY AN EXPRESS.
Why Train Got on Wrong Track
and Had to Make Quick Time

Why Train Got on Wrong Track
and Had to Make Quick Time.
Through the fault of a signalman a
way train which left Paris the other
night at 8 o'clock for Amiens got on the
wrong track and was chased by an ex-
press train for over an hour at the
imminent risk of a collision, says a
Paris cable to the New York Times.
The mistake took place where the
northern line branches after leaving
the bridge at Creil. There, through
the momentary absent mindedness of a
sgnalman, the way train was sent out
on the track going to Compiegne in
stead of the one going to Amiens.
Knowing that he was followed at a
short distance by the fast express
which leaves the Care du Nord at 6 20
O'Clock the engineer Immediately sent
his train ahead at full speed for the
station of Pont-Saint- Maxence, where
there Is a siding. The track was clear
for the express, so there was no dan
ger ahead.
The passengers, many of them com
muters used TO a leisurely pace and IA
miliar with every inch of the road, soon
discovered that something was wrong,
and the report spread that the engineer
had gone mad. This seemed verified
when the train passed station after sta
ton at dizzy speed. Conductor and
brakemen were as terrified as the pas
sengers When Observation-Disclosures was
reached the train came to a sudden
halt and was then run safely on the
siding.
The express dashed by-on time and
without mishap. The way train with
its agitated commuters then returned
in peace TO Creil, where it was switched
to the line it should have taken two
hours before.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-04-02
NUBBINs OF FARM NEWS.

Montana stockmen are preparing for
| extra heavy shipments of cattle to the
early markets. The excellent condition
| in which the cattle went through the
| winter is the cause.
Register Schmit of the Helena, Mont.
| State land office, has deposited S192,710
as a result of half months business in
the sale of State lands. The money is
placed to the credit of the State educa-
tional institutions.
At Iowa Falls, Iowa, action has been
brought against the Peterson Heat, Light
and Water Company. a Des Moines COM
pany, doing business in Iowa Falls, and
Alden, to force the company to furnish
electric lights to two or three farmers
living along the high tension line between
the two places.
At durnm wheat convention in Grand
Forks. y. D.. composed of delegates from
various commercial clubs of North Da-
kota, resolutions were unanimously adopt.
ed in which it was set forth that millers
and elevators have been unjustly discrimi-
mating against durum wheat in the mat
ter of price, and it was recommended
that durum wheat growers organize by
counties to protect their own interests.
J. L. Cashel was elected president of the
association to promote the interest OF
durum wheat, and 7. X. Atkinson OF
Bismarck was made secretary.
During the past winter the State OF
Minnesota had section SO. in Itasca Park
cleared of dead and down timber Ths
contractor banked 100000 feet, which
sold for S11 per thousand.
The La Crosse County (Wis.) Agri-
cultural Association, operating the county
fair, voted to donate the fair grounds to
the State for the establishment of an
agricultural school and domestic science
department. John Berg of Holman was
elected president of the association. An
appropriation of $1,000 will be made
by the county supervisors to assure this
establishment of the school.
In the federal court at Sioux Falls,
S. d., w. f. Brigge is suing the Chi
cago and Northwestern Railroad Com
pany for $4,000 because his wife was
killed by one of the company's trains at
a crossing.
In sending the skin Of an albino deer
to a taxidermst TO be mounted, Elias
Ahola, farmer living near Maple Ridge,
Mich. got into trouble. The deer being
placed on exhibition, investigation of the
records disclosed the fact that Ahola was
not provided with a hunting license at
the time be shot the animal. The farmer
was arrested and fined and his white
deer was confscated.
Paul f. Fossbaken. one of the bonanza
farmers of northern Minnesota, was burn
ed to death in his large barn near Foss-
ton. Fossbaken saw smoke coming from
the NOW of his barn, and on running out
to investigate he found the upper por-
ton was afire. Leaving his wife and one
of his men TO get the stock out of the
building, he climbed into the loft to fight
the fire.
Montana stockmen report that the past
winter has been the best in twenty years
for, live stock Ranges have been good,
less than % per cent of the hay put up
having been fed. Losses, have been prac-
tically nothing, and the lamb crop will be
tie largest in the history of the State.