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The Cairo bulletin., 1908-03-30
Comma Of the AIrships.

W. !. Crawford is securing subscrip
lions for the Mattery Airship exhibit
ton. All three of the ships are to be
here and make flights going and
coming, at least enc return flight
being guaranteed. On the previous
occasion only one snip was here but
there was an immense crowd of PEG
ple from neighboring towns from many
miles away. The coming OF three
ships should be a very much greater
attraction.
The Cairo bulletin., 1908-03-30
Uncle Aliens Gloomy Forecast.

They say" reflected Uncle Allen
Sparks. that this new singer-what's
her name-Tettery something or 9TH
er-Tetrazzini. is it? Thank you
"ell, they all say she's a greater sing
or than Patti. That's going to make
trouble. The first thing you know.
Patti VIII, Gene back to this country
and give another farewell tour Just
TO show EN- II isn't so. b'jucksl"
The Cairo bulletin., 1908-03-30

here this afternoon He predicted
the defeat next fall OF the Republican
and Democratic parties and said it
was time to change the country from
a political junkshop to an industrial
orkshop."
The Cairo bulletin., 1908-03-30
CAIRO LID" STILL ON
Several Boot Leggers" Arrested Yes
terday TO Break Up Peddiing
|. Bottles a. Depots.

There has been some evidence Of
boot lesgiug' for several sundays
past in the lower part OF the city. 1t
has manifested itself by numerous bot
ties of red eye i'll the hands ami
pockets Of people who went away on
trains. There was reason to believe
The Cairo bulletin., 1908-03-30
POLITICAL JUNK SHOP
Is What Haywood Calls Country
Says Time to Make il industrial
Neutrality-suspicious. Teddy.

Chicago. March cav ID. Hay
wood. former secretary 81 the West
crn Federation Of Miners. denounced
President Roosevelt, Governor Good
ing of Idaho. and other public Off
Gals at a mass meeting of Socialists
The Cairo bulletin., 1908-03-30
Newspaper Advertising the Best.

The newspaper is the best advertis-
ing medium, and the more we employ
that and boycott the other the better
for the community. Advertising de-
vices and the billboard are utterly
hideous.-Prot Zueblin. in a Lecture
at Boston.
The Cairo bulletin., 1908-03-30

Miss Hazel Aisthorpe who is super
visor Of music at Grafton Hall semi
nary at Fond III Lac. Wis. is spend
ing the spring vacation with her par.
ents. Mr.. and Mrs. John S. Aisthorpe
.o1 Lower Walnut street
The Cairo bulletin., 1908-03-30
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF
Doinq Mischief.

Some one. probably mischievous
boys. has torn down all or many OF
the big posters put up by the saloon
men setting forth reasons why Prohib-
ton should not be voted for in Cairo.
The Cairo bulletin., 1908-03-30

The Bulletin will only cost Won ca
cents per month and it is certainly
worth double the money.
The Cairo bulletin., 1908-03-30
Good Health Rule.

Drink a cup of hot water Immediate
ly upon arising in the morning and
one before retiring at night.
The Cairo bulletin., 1908-03-30

Judge William n. Butler who spent
Sunday with his family here viii go
to Jonesboro this morning to resume
circuit court in Union county.
The Cairo bulletin., 1908-03-30
Give and Take in Life,

testers must be content to taste OF
their bToth.-Latin Proyerb-
The Cairo bulletin., 1908-03-30

7 hate to hear a man insistin' dat
de world is gi.dn wusser." said Uncle
Eben. -foh de reason dat a mans i'm
preston of de world depends heap
on de Kind O society he gifts into
Washington Star
ne Oao Lsts.
Plenty Of people who have not yet
become grandparents en- remember
when nearly every lovely girl was
called Molly.
The Cairo bulletin., 1908-03-30
PERSONAL NOTES
5SSsSszsgSsSSxxsgsSssasssT

Paul a. Schmuck Of Charleston. Mo.
spent Sunday IN the city.
f. a. Carkuf. of Charleston. No
formerly Of Cairo. is IN the city on
business.
Mrs. NJ. J. Farnhaker came over
from Paducah to spend sunday with
relatives.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Kelch. OF
Wickliffe. KY. spent Sunday here as
guests Of Mr.. and Mrs. W. T. Wal
at The Halliday.
The San Francisco call., 1908-12-06
i" The Spring Cleaning /"

By Frances Hodgson Burnett Published by
the Century company, New York. Price 75
cents.
1T is just the hundreds and thou
sands of things 1 have to do for people
like the Racketty- Packetty House Dolls
and Winnie and the Rocks and the Cozy
Lion that makes it impossible for me to
attend TO my literary work. OF course.
nothing would get told IL I didn't tell
it, and how is a person to find time for
stories when she works rs hours a day?
You may say that there are not 75
hours in day, but know better. I
work 20 hours every day. whether they
are there or not"
So reads Mrs. Burnett's, or rather
Queen Crosspatch's, foreword to her
story of The Spring Cleaning" This
story is of an old English vicarage and
some of the characters introduced ara
new. This tale is one OF the Queen Sill
yer Bell series and 1t seems more gem
timely tender, less like the fairy tale
style Of the others in the series. The
little Bunch" who is always laughing:
the sad little Jane Ann Biggs. the
London flower girl; the Bensons and
then the beautiful Primrose world.
The Primroses would have a hard time
If Queen Crosspatch hadn't worked So
hard getting hot water bags for them
at the last minute, for one never can
tell what General Freeze is going to
do. 1t is charming story and the
children will appreciates its imagina-
tive qualities keenly.
The San Francisco call., 1908-12-06
/" The Great Miss Driver I"

BY Anthony Hope, author Of The Dolly Dia
iogues, The Prisoner OF Zenda," etc. Pub
lished by the Mcclure company, New York
Anthony Hope is the only one who
has ever succeeded in writing In that
glancing, indirect fashion which he
has made peculiarly his own. He
has had hundreds OF imitators. but
they never quite reach the mark. In
this latest story of his he uses that
style with telling effect, for a more
outspoken, frank manner would make
e very different story OF The Great
Miss Driver"
Jenny Driver is the daughter and
heiress OF Nicholas Driver. Nicholas
has led a lonely and unhappy life. He
has been disappointed in his married
life and has placed his daughter in a
distant village with a clergyman's s
family and given her a small allow
Rnce. She grows up In ignorance of
her father. his position and her wealth.
But some Of the same spirit which her
father possessed animates her and
when she is called upon to take her
place IN county society, she is not the
least bit overwhelmed.
Her private secretary has been in
the employ OF her father and she re-
tains him. He 1t IS who tells the tale.
and though he is very modest, one can
see how successful and resourceful he
IS and what tremendous help to
Jenny.
Jenny takes hold Of business and So
ciey with both hands and is a success
at both The local aristocracy can not
understand her at all and are mex
pressibly shocked at her permitting
Leonard Octon, q mysterious nobody.
TO pay court to her. For a shocking
breach of etiquette he is finally ostra-
cized and though Jenny seems to ac-
cept the edict of the county, she man.
ages to see him.
Jenny then becomes engaged to Lord
Fillingford. an impoverished peer
whose son is almost old enough to be
her suitor. The old lord discovers
Jenny's rendezvous with Octon and
breaks the engagement and Jenny flies
from the village to Europe with Octon.
No news comes for some little time to
her waiting household. and when it
does come it is a shock. Octon has
been fatally wounded in a duel and
dies in the house Of a Miss Driver
whom he was shortly to marry"
Three years pass and suddenly Jenny
electrifes the countryside by return
Ing She brings with her the beautiful
II year old daughter of Leonard Octon
by his first marriage, whom she has
accepted as ward. Jenny makes no
explanation Of any kind for her ac-
tions- She simply takes up life again
as daringly as If she had never left
home and the winning of her position
back is very entertaining reading.
The book is unusual and is written
with finish and Skill but one can not
but feel disappointed in the story az
a story. There is not enough of Jenny
and her life is not at all satisfactory.
One cannot but feel that the .gIan-
eng style so much affected and
usually so we'll liked could be dropped
long enough at the last to give a few
explanations.
If the book had been written before
his Dolly Dialogues" one would have
called 1t a clever piece of work, but
after reading those yet to be sur
passed conversations this work seems
tame and commonplace, considering its
authorship.
The San Francisco call., 1908-12-06

best known by his Madame Butterfly
but that does not by any means imply
that that is his best work. 1t merely
appealed to a popular taste.
The scene of this little story Is laid
In Philadelphia, but it could be In any
Atlantic city. The dedication OF the
book is an indication of its subject:
ITO the gentle strangers In our gates
who speak in other words and under
stand in other ways than ours=that
both words and ways may be more and
more one
Most of the characters are italian.
and so perfect is the foreign atmos-
phere which Mr.. Long has created that
one can almost smell the garlicl That
is hardly fair or decent TO say Of this
book, for 1t is pretty and dainty through
out.
charming family OF children who
believe their father infallibIe is most
pathetically appealing, and no woman
can read of the poor little things with
out feeling the deepest sympathy.
Signor Martinos. the Florentine bar
Der, Is always giving way to his quick
and ungovernable temper, but he is the
kindsst hearted barber that ever lived
and really one of the great characters
of the book.
The volume contains a dainty colored
frontispiece by James Montgomery
Flagg and Is artistically printed and
bound. The book is sure to add fame
TO Its author as we'll as its publishers.
The San Francisco call., 1908-12-06
" Wolf: The Memoirs of a Gave DweIler "
By 2. b McCord. PubIished bx B. w. podra

By p. B. McCord Published by B. W. Dodge
Co., New York. Price 81.
The author of this story is not
daunted by the fact that he has had
two predecessors in his chosen field
Jack London, with his Before Adam"
and Stanley Waterloo, with .The story
of Alb" Both OF those stories, not
withstanding the much advertised coh-
troversy about plagiarism. were very
interesting, and one need not be told
that both authors were masters of the
pen. Mr.. McCord, we believe. is
newspaperman. connected with the art
department Of a Newark, N. T., paper.
His style is hurried and shows little
care in writing and no polish.
The first part OF the book. entitled
Pioneer Days" is in the nature of an
introduction. 1t purports to tell of the
early days of the writer's family when
they left Pittsburg ito make the than
tedious trip down the Ohio and IN the
Mississippi to that thriving. CROWNS
town OF the west, ST. Louis" This in
troductory chapter Is by far the best of
the book. tt sketches the life of the
pioneers in clear lines and fntroducas
a very interesting and typical charac-
The San Francisco call., 1908-12-06
" Primary Elections

By Prof c. Edward Merriam. University ~
Daics4g; 6Dniecago; author OF a History Of American
Political Theories" Published BIZ the Uni-
versity Of Chicago press. Price, by mail pre-
paid, $I.35.
Primary Elections. a Study Of +ba
History and Tendencies of Primary
Election Legislation" is the title and
authors description of the latest addi
ton to the meager photography of that
greatest of American pursuits-parti-
san politics
The author. c. Edward Merriam. is
associate professor of political science
In the University of Chicago. He has
contributed several works to the liter
ature Of political science, among them
A History of American Political The
ories."
Half Of Professor Merriam's latest
DOCK Is devoted to recital of the de-
velopment of the delegate convention
system Of nominating candidates for
public Office and the evolution of le-
galtzed primary election systems from
the primitive caucus down to the mod
ern direct primary election laws. The
second and larger half Of the book is
given over to summaries and conclu-
sions and sections from statutes select
ed as illustrative Of the several types
OF primary election legislation.
The chapters devoted to the history
and evolution of nominating systems
are sketchy and comprehensive rather
than thorough, and are decidedly char
acteristic OF the textbook designed for
academic research. But they indicate
painstaking effort. are concisely writ
ten and are generally accurate, II re-
grettably incomplete.
In his summaries and conclusions
Professor Merriam is more convincing
In his treatment of unsolved conditions
and theories than In his cons4da~att--.
of actual accomplishments In the field
OF primary election legislation. In
every instance he is the student rather
than the prejudiced advocate of one or
another system.
The book. which was probably de-
The San Francisco call., 1908-12-06
" Cardinal Newman ;

By Charles Sarolea. D. PHI, D. Lit I'm
ported by Charles scribners Sons. New York.
Price SIPS.
The series of books under the general
title of The Worlds Epoch Makers"
and edited by Oifphant Smeaton is be-
ing published by the Scribners Two
Of them have been received. but do not
come up to expectations. The first. a
work on Newman, contains nothing
new (for that matter could 1t contain
anything new with IS or more well
known lives of Newman already in ex-
istence?) but, as the author says in his
Introduction, is "a modest attempt to
deal dispassionately and effectively
with some of the fundamental prob
lens which are suggested by the writ
ings of Newman and which have hith-
erto received a somewhat one sided
treatment even from those English
critics who have made an exhaustive
study OF the great cardinal"
The author, Charles Sarolea of the
University OF Edinburgh, is a scholarly
writer, and his book is filled with sta
tistics and references to other writer's
which would take one a lifetime to
hunt UP. If It were the first and only
work upon Newman it would be more
appreciated, but, considering the tre-
mendous amount of literature already
issued about him, this book seems al
most unnecessary.
The second book. "Wycliffe and the
Lollards,' is a very difficult book to
read. 1t is written in the poorest of
schoolboy English and is very badly
put together. Lechlers Life of Wick
liffe"s seems to be the only source of
the authors information and he gives
no other references as to his state
ments- The greater part of the book is
devoted to showing up the abuses In
=, oh tr-n1,
author seems TO roll under his tongue
as a delicious morsel, but which has
little to do with Wycliffe. In fact. the
book has little to do with Wycliffe and
the Lollards, anyway, only about a
quarter of its space being used for that
purpose. No new light is thrown upon
Wycliffe and his methods, and one can
not but conclude that there Is little
excuse for so badly written and useless
q book.
The San Francisco call., 1908-12-06
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The San Francisco call., 1908-12-06
! By GRACE poawoRga

ter of those times. travelling Jesuit
priest. The priest left a manuscript.
which he considered of great value and
interest to the world with all sorts
OF conditions as to its opening and
disposition. That manuscript is the
chapters of the book which follow.
Thinking to cast an atmosphere of an
tiquity over the manuscript, the author
writes in what he believes to be an
old fashioned manner. 1t Is labored
and rather brutally frank-almost
coarse at times. Perhaps the author
thinks that all that is necessary to
create the illusion of age Is to rub off
& bit of the polish of today from his
text He has unveiled nothing new.
His story Is very like the other two
which are already familiar to us. and
not clever. The author has done some
good Illustrations for his text.
The San Francisco call., 1908-12-06
" The Worlds Great Events "
BY Albert Psyson T

BY Albert Payson Terhune, author Of ssDr
Dale,' etc, Published by Dodd. Mead 4
Co., New York. Price S1.2o.
This volume would better have been
named "Scrappy Comments on Some of
the Worlds Great Events" The book
consists of 80 of these scraps, and tiny
scraps, too-for few exceed FIVE pages
OF large sized type.
They originally appeared in the aNew
York Evening World and the author
disarms close criticism in his choice of
The San Francisco call., 1908-12-06
" The letters of Jennie Allen {"

By Grace Donworth. Published by Small.
Maynard Co., Boston. Price si.5o.
The letters of Jennie Allen to her
friend, Miss Musgrove, will cure the
worst case OF blues in the world They
force laugh in the midst of bits of
pathos that wilt one to tears, and they
are clean and wholesome and altogether
fine.
Jennie Allen Is a young woman who
does sewing at home for big wholesale
dealers In ready TO wear clothes In
addition to this hard work she has a
huge family of little brothers and sis
ters. married brother with his wife
and babies. all on her hands, and she
does most of the house keeping for
them The observations of Jennie are
all told in q series of letters to Miss
Musgrove, lady whom she has seen
only once, but taken a tremendous
fancy to, and she grows as confidential
as though she were writing a diary.
There is no attempt at spelling, and
her humor is quite unconscious, as also
is the pathos. The letters reflect the
sayings and doings of the very poor
tenement house people. Some of the
sayings of Jennie will be quoted, one
can be quite sure. They are almost
epigrammatic.
He is Maine man. but a perfeok
gentleman. So is his mother"
She is Irish, but very pleasant"
1t seems to me as IL that was the
way of the world. A few folks enjoy
the fruit and othars slip down on the
pealings"
Through the letters runs the thread
OF two love stories. quaint and honest
and natural; every word leaves us
keenly interested. The end of the book
nnos Jennie telling OF her happiness in
the love making of Mr.. Spinney and of
Its superiority TO the articles handed
out by Dante to Beatrice and Petrarch
to Laura 1t is a genuine work of art
this book, and deserves to live.
The San Francisco call., 1908-12-06

the erect or this interest very plainly.
Now Mr. Conrad. having recently writ
ten two short stories. each with an
archy for a theme. includes in one Of
them paragraph that might be a
naive confession OF the brOoding de-
light he takes in this type OF mind.
But, indeed" says the author, speak
ing through his man. Il don't UNDER
stand anarchists Does man OF that
OF that-persuasion still remain an an
archist when alone. quite alone. and
going to bed, for iustance2 Does he
lay his head on the pillow pull the
bedclothes over him and go to sleep
with the necessity OF the chambarde-
ment general. as the French slang
has 1t. OF the general blowup always
present In his mind7 And. II so. how
can her
That Gay Prodigap' is a compiIa-
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ing, In romance and history II Is
semihumorous IN character and Is ded-
icated to The School Ma'ans OF Amer
lea most OF them sweet
enough to kiss The book
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IT Is written by Paul Lafargue. who
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