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The Cairo bulletin., 1908-12-23
CURE FOR HYSTERIA
RED-HOT IRON APPLIED TO
FLESH is MOST EFFECTIVE.
II Is the Opinion OF Physicians That
Too Much Sympathy Is Usually
Given to the Victims Of
Nerves"

A red-hot iron applied to he flesh
| tive cure for hysterla. The physicians
have concluded that too much sym
pathy is usually given in cases of
hysteria, and that realistic shock
sometimes accompishes more than
medicine. In fact, one expert at the
recent meeting of the American Asso
citation of Obstetricians and Gynecolo-
2ists asserted that physicians practice
more Christian Science than do the
Christian Scientists. The principal
paper was read by D. A. Morgan
Vance of Louisville on the subject
'Hysterla as "a Surgeon Sees It,"
Some of DR.. Vance's ideas follow:
"A physician asked me to go to
place 100 miles from Louisville to see
his sister, who was bedrdden and had
worn out her family and other rela-
tiyes being waited on | refused TO go
and said she would have to be brought
to me Some time later the physician
asked me to so to a hospital in Louis
she was going to die and that she
couldn't turn over when | told her to-
The devil you can't | said roughly,
and grabbed her by the hips and threw
her over. had her taken away from
lot of sympathizing old women, and
in short time she was walking
around.
was called to treat young WON
an whose leg had drawn up. Her
mother gave her trashy French novels
and wrote her 40-page letters; besides,
she was surfeiteG with sympathy from
mothers. The leg was put In a plaster
cast for effect and when was cutting
it out later she said: I know my leg
is going to draw up-T know it, EAST
as was about 10 remove the cast
sprang at her and shaking my fiat in
her face | growled: If that leg draws
mp I'll break your d little neck!'
She was a refined and cultured girl, |
and the shock cured her Immediately" |
DR.. John A. Lyons OF Chicago told |
an amusing story OF how he furnished |
an infant to a hysterical woman. who
imagined she was about to become a
mother The womans friends and rel
itives had been busy making baby
clothes for months, and when the
woman learned from the doctor that
she had case of Imagination she
went on so that the doctor had to get
/ baby to wear the clothes that had
,een made He got one at hospital
md the neigbbors don't know any
,etter he said
The Cairo bulletin., 1908-12-23
How He Reuistered.

A travelling salesman. finding him.
sell In strange territory. sought the
only tavern In the small settlement 10
put mp for The night Mach to his sur.
prise and chaerin, The proprietor DE-.
manded five dollar
What calculated the salesman.
why, that is robbery I ean stop AZ
the largest to,els 10 Chicago for that
sum"
'But. yeou air't in Shce-cago now.
stranger drawled the rropricto,.
and besides We have some of the bl +.
gest people IN this state as our guests.
Take Isaac NJ Bung, the creat lumber
man. lie vas here yesterday aud
there is his name Oh the register T.
NJ. Bung"
The salesman looked from the regis.
ter 10 the coming darkness Then be
took the pen AID wrote beneath tie
name
H. NJ Stung
And iorking over the five dollars In
advance be- assembled the breaking
stairway To- his room.
The Cairo bulletin., 1908-12-23
GIFTS ARRIVING
At WHITE HOUSE
MANY FROM PERSONS UNKNOWN
TO THE PRESIDENT ARE
SENT BACK ROOSEVELT
CHILDREN ARRIVING.

Washington, Dec. 22.--All of the
Roosevelt children are expected at
the White House to spend Christmas
with their parents. The younger
children are home from school and
Mrs Nicholas Longworth and her
husband also are in the city for the
winter. With congress adjourned
and the usual cabinet meeting called
off, the present week will be truly
holiday season for the president,
Christmas boxes for the Roosevelt
family are arriving at the White
House in goodly number Express
wagons roll into the grounds at fire.
quont intervals and deliver boxes
ana packages to servants or attaches.
Since the unwillingness of the presi.
dert to receive gifts from unknown
admirers has become pretty well
known the number Of such presents
has diminished. Nevertheless. a
number of such gifts have been re-
ceiNed at the White House during
the past few days. The most of
them We're articles of apparel and
equipment intended by the
senders TO he used by the president
and his son on their African tripl
next year In all cases where the
4tlcles were of any great value
they were returned to the sender |
with courteous note explaining his |
attitude i'm regard to gifts from per. |
sons personally unknown to him.
The Cairo bulletin., 1908-12-23

My voice cries out of gray antiquity
And brands you Slayers OF earths price.
less things
We Devastators of the Forest Kings
That held their seepters by this West
ern sea.
Ere We were born-base Ingrates that ye
be-
We brazen Spoiers 10, the future brings
Gods gathered wrath, for still the
woodland rings
With piteous death-throes of tbs
slaughtered Tree.
. shameless tVandals of mammon age
Hear ye my words: Where fruitful
fields now bloom
Deserts shall stretch whose lords are
Drought and Sand,
And on those wastes Famine and Death
shall rage
While starving Peoples, blighted by
that doom,
Shall curse you for the desolated
Land"
Lloyd Miffiin
The Cairo bulletin., 1908-12-23
Three Views of the unemployed


All the world over, the voorhees,
workman Is tasting OF the bitterness
OF hope deferred or OF despair only too
we'll justified New York, Paris. Ber-
lin, London, are full OF the cry of the
voorhees, Freeman's journal. Dublin.
There is no doubt that the thriftless
habits OF the working classes in Eng
land-Scotland is much better in this
respect--are greatly 10 blame for the
extreme destitution that prevails. As
a rule. he English wsrkingman IN.
creases his expenditure with every I'm.
crease made in his wages--Town and
Country.
state employment brings Ms no near
err a solution OF the unemployed prob
lem. The bootmakcr wants bread and
the baker wants boots. and some unex
planned defect la the industrial ma.
chine keeps them apart. The socialist
remedy is 10 set them both to plant
trees upon windswept moor. and to
plumber the butcher and bricklayer 10
provide for the cost Of the experiment.
Spectator.
The Cairo bulletin., 1908-12-23
Balancing a Fiyinu Machine.

The balancing of a flyer may seem,
at first thought. TO be a. very simple
matter, yet almost every experimenter
had found In this the one point which
he could not satisfactorily master.
Many different methods were tried
Some experimenters placed the center
of gravity far below the wings. in the
belief that the weight would naturally
seek to remain at the lowest point II
was true that. like the pendulum. IT
tended to seek the lowest point: but
also like the pendulum, It tended TO
oscillate In a manner destructive to all
stability.
A more satisfactory system. espe-
cially for latera! balance, was that Of
arranging the wings In the shape of a
broad V, to form dihedral angle.
with the center low and the wing tips
elevated In theory this was AN auto.
matte system, but in practice Il had
two serious defects First, It tended to
keep the machine oscillating: and sec
ond, its usefulness was restricted TO
calm dr.-Century Magazine.
The Cairo bulletin., 1908-12-23
NEWS FROM OUR NEIGHBORS |:

Mrs, w. H. Beverly was u Cairo
business caller Monday.
MI and Mrs, John Saint Were
among the Cairo shoppers Monday.
Roy Meecham of Cairo, is tho
guest OF relatives in this city this
week
Miss Jessie Neadstin spent Mon
day in Cairo shopping.
Mesdames j. W. Johnson and n.
NJ. Palmer We're Cairo shoppers Mon
day.
DR. S, Willard, Pet eMcNeile, J.
/ Il. Coulter and John Cook We're
among the business callers to Cairo
Monday
: Mr.. and Mrs VIM. Potter are
spending the holidays with the for.
meIs parents near Dongola
Miss Tina Quinn spent Monday in
Cairo.
Mr. and Mrs. c. A. Grant were
Cairo visitors Monday.
Capt. Mark Whitaker of Vienna
and son VIM Whitaker of Olmsteo
spent Monday in this city.
Mrs. Pleas Heath was a Cairo
shopper Monday.
G. j. Murphy left Monday for Me
troEolis where he will look after in
terests in the ice plant.
Miss Kate Conley and brothers
Messrs Frank and Thomas Camp.
hell and Mrs. James Doan ana
daughter Ella spent Monday in Cairo
shopping.
Mrs. Richard Johnson of Levings
was the guest of her daughter Mrs.
Rose Corzine on Main street Mon
day.
The news OF an explosion whic;
occurred in Odd Fellows hall on
Main and East First street last
evening has recently
leaked out. The explosion was cause |
by the gasoline lights which were RI.
Gently installed and when it oc
CURED the occupants of the hall be. |
gan climbing out the windows where /
ladders, placed by helping hands !
were waiting to take them to a
place of safety but The flames were
aXtinguished before it was necessary
to use them. No damage was done
to the hall.
Mr.. and Mrs. c. e. Richey We're
he guests of relatives in Cairo Mon
lay.
j, G. Rhine made a business tr.a
% Cairo Monday.
Mrs. Clara Estes left Monday for
Metropolis to visit relatives.
Mrs. j. Childers made a shopping
rip to Cairo Monday.
Misses Beulah and Anna Keller
we're among the Cairo shoppers Mon
lay.
The Cairo bulletin., 1908-12-23
FOR THE NATIONAL ANTHEM
Reasons Why the Popular Choice Ia
for HAL Columbia"

Though Americans are not all agreed
as to what really Is or ought TO be
our national anthem" It Is reason.
ably sure that the popular choice
would not fan upon "liail Columbia, :"
YET that was the song selected by the
Japanese to welcome the American
fleet, and the japanese are generally
discriminating people And in
truth they only followed the European
custom in this, for Hail Columbia"
is usually the tune played upon Off.
cial occasions abroad when it is de
sired to compliment the United States.
1t could hardly be otherwise. be-
cause of all our so-called national
music, Hail Columbia" is thu only
tune excepting Dixie" and the songs
OF the civil war-of American origin.
The tune we call America" IS only
God Save the King and that be
longs to Great Britain The Star
Spangled Banner Is also an English
tune, though we have made it our own.
and 1t may we'll be that foreigners do
not understand the upIift we feel on
hearing it. Even Yankee Doodle" is
of doubtful lineage as well as Of ques-
tionable dignity The Presidents
March, on the other hand, is wholly
Philadelphia product, composed
there and given its popularity by a
Philadelphia lawyers stirring words,
sung by Philadelphia actor. "A
poor thing. but mine own" Tawdry as
it Is, our title to it is clear-even clear. |
er than that of the Red White and |
this is probably one rea- /
son why 1t is everywhere recognized |
as distinctiyely American.
The Red White and Blue" is In |
some respects a better tune, but THE I
Banner" is by so much
the best of the group that 1t has grad
ually gained acceptance to the exclu-
sion OF the others. 1t Is hard to sing. |
but glorious for the band and moth
Ing Is likely to drive 1t out. Certain.
Iy national anthems" never can be
made to order, If prizes would produce
one, we should have plenty to choose
from. But national music is a growth, |
not a manufacture. and having no
body of folk song" to draw upon. we
nave TO depend upon the popular ac-
of some tune that may have
lad only an accidental association
Win any patriotic aspiration.
The Cairo bulletin., 1908-12-23
MCCLURE, ILL.


The large barn of Chas. Names
was destroyed by fire Friday night
along with u tons of hay, 1900
bushels of corn, wakons and har,
ness and three fine horses and a
mule r hree other horses and mule
were badly singed but will live. The
total loss will reach $500 with 5000
insurance.
y disastrous fite was threatened
Sunday night about ~ o'clock when
the residents were awakened by the
fire whistle at the stave aud heading
factory to find that the slaves in the
yard were on fire. Manager Bus6y
was on the scene in a short time
and formed a bucket brigade which
fought the fire heroically for two
hours and finally succeeded in get
ting 1t under control. Much coo,
ness and courage was exhibited by
the fire fighters and they deserve un
stirted praise. Had the fire not beer
stopped our high school would havt
been destroyed in addition to an II
stitution that furnishes employment
for a large number of men VIII,
would have been thrown out OF work
at bad time. The loss was about
5000 slaves. Manager Busby fed
the men after the fire and thanked
them for their services.
DIR. Samuel Norris. who has been
On the sick list has recovered and
is able to be out
Mrs f. A. Barton and niece were
in Carbonate Saturday shopping
Mrs John ]. Porter and. son Wi.
liam were in Anna on business Mon
day.
Several here are on the sick list |
Mrs. Spence has returned from |
Cairo accompanied by Mrs. A. Con
nell and they are visiting at thc
home OF r. 4. Barton.
Operator Berry and Agent Barton
If the l. c. were in Carbonate
Sunday.
The Cairo bulletin., 1908-12-23

MOUNDS, I'LL.
December %. 1903,
. . . . . . . . . . . . = .

Congressman N. b. Thistlewood re
day and will spend the holidays her.
with his family
Mrs. A. c. Burr and Mrs. w. H
Burkheimer were pleasant callers at
this office Monday.
Captain James Barteson OF Ohm
stead was in this city Monday.
Jim Makoney of Valley Recluse will
soon have his fine country home fin.
ished. 1t will be quite an ornament
to that part of the county.
Esquire l.. A. Hawkins of the west
side was in town on business Tues.
day morning.
Let the farmers improve their prop.
erty throughout the county The cit.
les will take care of themselves.
The old saying, Murder will out, =
win probably come true as our Off
Gals are gaining new evidence in re.
gard to the mysterious murder that
occurred here Friday,
Mr.. and Mrs. Robt. A. Cunningham
and Miss Annie, will spend the holi-
days in Sikeston, Mo-, with their two
sons.
Our substantial farmers all over the
county are busy now, Joe Bour is
building a fine dairy barn. James Ma,
honey is building fine dwelling
house, Warren Grain is building a.
big dairy barn and a large concrete
cellar. T. C. Makoney is putting up a
nice grain barn, w. c. Hendricks is
building a fine stock barn and some
are building fence and blowing and
others are working on the public
roads.
One case of smallpox was reported
in North Mounds, but we are inclined
to think that 1t was a false alarm An
order has been issued, however, for
every body to be vaccinated.
b. |. Brltton, our big, little mer-
chant, went up to st. Louis last Week
to bid on the job of fencing the gov
crnment road. But Ben was too short |
to reach the persimmon.
T. c. Mahoney OF Valley Recluse
came to town the first of the week |
and reported that the gravel road
from America to the Meridian was
about completed and that the people
We're going to extend the road from
the Meridian to Mounds. This would
be a great boon to that part of the
as the people could drive TO
Cairo then without going through the
boys of Mound City.
Mrs. Lucy Welton died at the home
If her son-in.law. John Mahoney IN
his city on Sunday night, December
20, 1908 The deceased was about 80
years old and had made her home in
his county for many years, She was
he widow of Esquire Wetoh, a yeter.
IN of the civil war. She leaves four
daughters, all married. The funeral
ook place Tuesday at p. N. in Con
,regational church.
The Cairo bulletin., 1908-12-23
A Heart for Every One.

All, there's a heart for every one.
II every one could find II
Then up and seek, ere youth Is gone
Whate'er the toll, ne'er mind It
For II you chance to meet at last
With that one heart. intended
To be a Blessing unsurpassed.
Till life itself is ended
How would you prize the labor done
How grieve If you resigned It:
For there's heart for every one.
If every one could find It!
Two hearts are made the angels say
TO suit each other dearly.
But each one takes different way
A way not found so clearly
Yet though we seek and seek for years
The pains are worth the taking,
For what the life OF home endears
Like hearts of Angels making2
Then haste, ana guard the treasure now
When fondly you've enshrined 1t.
For there's a heart for every one,
If every one could find IT,
The Cairo bulletin., 1908-12-23
A Comparison,

planted some seeds IN the garden,
They sprang up side by side;
Some were bent low by the rain and hail
While others stood high In pride.
A wee sprout was crushed by heavy
stone.
Another was stunted and torn:
But one there was that reached toward
the sun,
Like IA king who great blessings had
borne.
SO men spring up in the wide, wide
world.
A hundred and more at a time,
And some grow straight as "a poplar tall.
And others are olackencd with crime.
A genius. paupcr "a royal prince
In the scjt-samc city abide.
10. behold how the law Of Nature
In Us is cNumplhcd.
-Jcannette G Klauder
The Cairo bulletin., 1908-12-23
Unto the End.

Brief space for tears and prayers
70 him who loves and dlres
Tho high gods send
But laushtpr-liEhted DAYS
Through al MES winding ways,
Unto the end
stand beside tho sea.
And salt waves cover me
With spray.
] know that I who stand
BetwiNt the sea and land
All day
Shall be rs yellow dust
Blown here and there
Heavens winds shall carry me.
I visit not where
But this one thing I know.
Wbcre'er my dust shall blow.
The life OF love will go.
Frederick r Marvin.
The Cairo bulletin., 1908-12-23
VERSE WORTH READING.
Loves Threads OF Gold.

In the night she told story,
In the night and all night through.
While the moon was In her glory,
And the branches dropped with dew.
Twas my life she told, and round II
Rose the years as from deep,
In the worlds great heart she found
Graded like child asleep.
In the night I saw her weaving
BY the misty moonbcam cold
All the welt her shuttle cleavins
With Il sacred thread OF gold
All she wcpt me tears of sorrow,
I.ulltns tears so mystic sweet,
Then she wove my last tomorrow,
And her web lay at my feet
Of my life she made the story,
] must weep-Su soon twas told
But your name did lend 1t glory.
And your love it's thread Of god
Jean lngelow
The Cairo bulletin., 1908-12-23
Not Free Lunch

Il say walter" queried the seedv
restaurant patron. What can you give
me- for breakfast"
4 csnt give you anything" replied
the man behind the white apron. but
you can have steak and eggs for
quarter
The Cairo bulletin., 1908-12-23

During one Of the political tours OF
NJ Cleveland. in which he was accom-.
panied by Secretary Olnsy. he arrived
during o severe storm 81 a town In
which he was Ia speak. As he entered
the carriage with his friends and was
driven from ths station the rain
changed 10 hais s~,l immense stones
battered and ,st'Is against the We
hicle. a brass bad. rather demoral-
ized by the storm stuck bravsly to lie
post and played.
THAT Is the most r,2listic music
have ever heard" remarked the pres!-
dent
What are they piaying'~ asked The
secretary Of state.
Hail 10 the chief with real
hall rejoined Mr. Clsyeland --Har-
per's Weekly.
The Cairo bulletin., 1908-12-23
HANDSOME SOUVENIR TO
). EVERY LADY PURCHASER.
Al S0lOm0n'S Clothes Shop.

OF st, Louis, general agent; all of New
York Central system. Messrs. Il. w.
Moore of Murphysboro, division SUI
perintendent; A. b. Minton of Mobile,
Ala, master mechanic; Il. c. Rendell,
superintendent of transportation. all
of the Mobile & Ohio railroad
The Cairo bulletin., 1908-12-23
The Pursuit Of Litsrstur.

What do they do at the Chaucei
club7"
"Oh. the members talk about one
another"
And what n all the members are
present."
Then they have to talk about Chau.
Ger"
The Cairo bulletin., 1908-12-23
MOUND CITY, ILL.
- . y .

Dec. u. 1908.

Dec. u. 1908.
Mrs Hattie Fish made a business
trip TO Cairo Monday.
Mrs. Fred Hoffman and daughter
Josephine visited relatives in Cairo
returning home Monday.
AIRS. Corzine and Mrs Hugh Ma
son spent Monday in Cairo shopping
Miss Lurlene Bartlett returned
home Monday from Marion where
she kas visited her friend Miss
Goodall the past few days.
The Cairo bulletin., 1908-12-23

Maids should b periodically can.
iioned rot 70 allow too bot water 10
= us-d Eith gold decorated china
sosp st.luld b used spzriEgly. kzGss
gAklslkE.I.
The Cairo bulletin., 1908-12-23
LETTERS TO SANTA
A Little Late But Still in Time to
Receive Attention From the,
Old Man.

Dear Satna Claus: came neaI
forgetting to write you a letter
want a choo choo train and some
building blocks so | can learn to be
a carpenter and a little wheelbarrow
SO | can wheel sand and concrete
Mamma is going to get me some shot
gun shells so you need not bring
any. Please don't forget my little
friends Jim Piersol and George Lowe
also Jim MAckey, He wants an air
ship. My little brother Freddie
wants rubber doll and A. b. G..
book. Papa wants a whistle to blow
on the ferryboat Dear Santa
hcpe YOU will be good to all other
little children too. Good bye Santa
Your little friend
rIINS W.T.
The Cairo bulletin., 1908-12-23
Out Of tire nornina.

WI there really ha a moruLfE7
T. there such a thing a. Har9
Could ] Sc % from THE mountains
u ! were as tall as rhegg
Has % FEET Ike uatrr- lIIies7
Has o. feathers nEe "a hfra-
o. y brought from famous COUNTRIES
~ which ] have never heard7
o.. some scholar, On. s1rns s1fiort
on. ssne wise ran from the szlaai
Pi-zss o. tel q utfi. pfig1m
nsrs ths pace sailed mcrnlnE nsai
-Er1llT Dtokkna@n
The Cairo bulletin., 1908-12-23

In Cairo nearly everybody reads
he Bulletin.
The Cairo bulletin., 1908-12-23
vi ~ .. w I'LL.
1915 Park Place West.

Dear Santa Claus; am a good
little boy and want a few things t.
play with, a little drum, foot tool
horn, sack of peanuts and anything
nice to eata or play with. And Dear
Santa Claus please don't forget my
little friend Geneyieye McNulty She
wants an Oriental doll picture BOOK
and a sack of nuts. Good bye Santa
Claus. Your little friend
TOMMY O'LOUGHLIN,
22S Twenty-first Street.
The Cairo bulletin., 1908-12-23
PRACTICAL POINTS.

Success Is the ability 70 forget fall.
Ure.
You can't play hooky with the school
Of Experience
The meek may inherit The earth but
the mortgage Is held by the other fel.
law
Don't hide your light under a bushel
Use reflector and make the most
Of H.
The reason that babies are 50 er-
pensive Is because the sfork has such
long bill-BObemisn Magazine.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-11-11
CLOTHES LINE THIEVES
Take Their Pick in Two Gardiner
Yards Monday Night.

1t was learned Tuesday morning rat
sometime during Monday night clothes
line thieves had operated in the yards OF
Augustus Bailey at the corner of School
and Dresden streets and c. s. whitney
at the corner of Beech and Neal streets.
From Mr. Bailey's lines about $40 worth
of clothing was taken. The thieves TOOK
the pick of the line their booty includ-
ing valuable shirt waists and high-srade
underwear. A few evenings ago Mr..
Bailey changed the kennel of his bulldog
from the stable to the cellar. Had the
kenncl remained in the stable the dog
would undoubtedly have heard the thieves
while thev were at work on the line and
given the alarm, Mr.. Bailey thinks the
theft was committed by someone familiar
with the place. who knew that he mao
chas sed, the dog from the stable to the
cellar.
A handsome silk waist was included In
the clothing Of, Mr.. WhitneN's yard, as
well as other articles which cannot pc
readily dupliC