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The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1908-05-15

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The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1908-05-15
Position Tina; Strains the Eve.

If you have regard for the strength
Of your eyes never sit looking at ar
object with the head turned The strain
of looking out of the side OF the eye
eventually affects the nerve.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1908-05-15
Church Sale.

The ladies of the Christian church
viii hold sale Saturday at d. r.
Griffons store al Washington avenue
and Twenty-first street. Donations are
solicited
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1908-05-15

Glenn Butler has gone to Champaign
10 spend several days with his brother
Comfort Butler
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1908-05-15

Mrs. William Perez and children Of
De Soto, Mo, are guests of Mrs.
Perez of Center street
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1908-05-15
FLORENCE FAIRBANKS.

Judge John ID. Bristol of Creal
Springs was in the city yesterday on
business.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1908-05-15

James Heston OF Little Rock. Ark.
formerly OF Cairo, who has been the
guest of Cairo relatives returned home
yesterday.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1908-05-15
EVANS REACHES WASHINGTON

Washington, May 14-Rear' Ad
miral Evans arrived here tonight.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1908-05-15
SPRINGFIELD ON NEW CIRCUIT

Springfield. H., May 1.-THE
Springfield Trotting Association was
organized tonight and will become a
member of the Great Western Circuit
taking the place of Galesburg The
races will be held at the state fair
grounds July 27-30.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1908-05-15


have returned from MIL Creek, where
they attended the Lutheran synod.
Mrs Etz, of 225 Nineteenth street
has returned from a three weeks visit
to friends and relatives in Memphis
! Mesdames f. c. Halliday and Harry
f. Halliday returned Yesterday from
Chicago where they spent several
days.
Dr. c. J. Boswell, Miss Fitzpatrick
and Miss Blanche Thistlewood of
Mounds, We're in the city last evening
visiting friends
Edward l.. Gilbert returned last
evening from Alton where he attended
the obsequies of his aunt, the late
Mrs. William b. Gilbert.
Miss Gertrude Perez of Memphis is
the guest of her sisters, Miss Anna
Perez aud Mrs Frances Randall. She
will return to Memphis tomorrow.
Mrs. Charles Gayer of Cedar street
and guest Mrs. Katherine Sickle. of
Memphis, have gone to Villa Ridge
to visit friends for a few days.
Miss Emma Yost of Cairo. was tax.
en- III while returning from st Louis
and is at the home of her uncle. Judge
Monroe c. Crawford at Jonesboro.
Mrs. Dollie Echols OF Noblesvillp
Ind, who has been the guest of her |
brother, Horace Conant, has gone to |
Ky, to visit friends for a |
few days.
Mrs Anna v Cornish and Mrs. Vic |
tor kissinger of Lincoln Neb.. who are |
visiting Mrs. Isabella l.. Candee and |
family will be guests of Mr. and Mrs |
John r. Brown for a few days.
Hon. William b. Gilbert and Nj
and Mrs. Miles S. Gilbert returned last
evening from Alton, where they went |
on the sad mission of attending the |
interment of the remains of the late |
Mrs. William B. Gilbert.
Phil II. Saup arrived yesterday
from Los Angeles. Cal, for a visit |
with relatives in Cairo, and to look
after some business interests. His
family are still at Los Angeles. Mr.
Sam is well pleased with his pros
poets there.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1908-05-15

In Cairo nearly everybody reads
The Bulletin.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1908-05-15

Rev. aud Mrs. Charles II. Armstrong
have returned from MIL Creek, where
they attended the Lutheran synod.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1908-05-15

Compare The Bulletins society
column with the other Cairo papers.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1908-05-15

Hon. William b. Gilbert and Nj.
and Mrs Miles S. Gilbert returned last
evening from Alton, where they went
on the sad mission of attending the
interment of the remains of the late
Mrs. William B. Gilbert.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1908-05-15

Mrs Etz, of 225 Nineteenth street
has returned from a three weeks visit
to friends and relatives in Memphis.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1908-05-15

Mrs Anna V Cornish and Mrs. Vic
tor kissinger OF Lincoln, Neb., who are
visiting Mrs. Isabella l.. Candee and
family will be guests of Mr.. and Mrs.
John r. Brown for a few days.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1908-05-15

Mrs. Dollie Echols Of Noblesville
Ind. who has been the guest of her
brother Horace Conant, has gone to
Smithiand, KY to visit friends for a
few days
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-08-23
"Barbarians at Play"

J. T. Lincoln, in the August Atlantic.
 The green field lay bright in the sun shine, while beyond rolled the ocean, blue as the sky above it. About the side lines great ladies and gentlemen of fash ion were gathered to enjoy the game. Some sat in finely upholstered carriages, drawn by magnificent horses, whose gol- den harness trappngs glittered in the sunshine; others sat in automobiles, while others, clinging to the tradition of an earlier day were there on horseback. On the piazza of the clubhouse finely gowned women and well groomed men drank tea while they watched swift footed ponies, bearing their crimson and yellow clad riders helter-skelter over the field. As for the game, it was splendid show-they played well, those husky young fellows, with a skill and courage altogether admirable, giving the lie to inc notion that wealth and dissipation necessarily go hand in hand.
 As I watched the game, admirlng the skill of the players and realizing the magnificent surroundings in which they snend their iyes-surroundings permit fling of infinite leisure for the cultivation of body and mind-the words of Matthew Arnold. in his beautiful apostrophe to oxford. came to my mind. There are our young Barbarians at play Arnold, if will be remembered, referred to the upper, middle and lower classes or Eng lish society as Barbarians, Philistines, and Populace. The aristocrats he said, inherited from the Barbarian nobles, their early ancestors, that individualism, that passion for doing as one likes. which was so marked a characteristic. From the Barbarians, moreover, came their love of field sports, the care of the body, manly vigor, good looks, and inc
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-08-23
JUST TWENTY MORE PERSONS INDICTED Thirteen Are Accused of Killing
 William BoWe SOME ARE NOT YET FOUND Those Indicted Are Charged With Bur elary, Larceny, Riot and Murder,
 and Many More Indict-
 ments Are To Come.
SOME ARE NOT YET FOUND

Springfield, H., August 22.-Twenty more indictments, making 50 all told, in connection with the race riots were returned by the special grand jury of Sagamon county late today.
 The latest batch of accusations in cludes five indictments against Thomas Marshall and 12 other negroes, whom he is accused of having led in mur- derous assault upon William Bowe, chief clerk of the county treasurer's of- flee.
 and death for a week.
 The negroes are charged with having committed assault with intent to kill upon Bowe. In addition they are &C., ! cused of assault with deadly weapons upon John Waiting, a white man who was shot at Fourteenth and Mason streets in the Friday night riot last week.
 The other indictments returned today are against whites and are based upon l destruction and footing of Eoper's 1 restaurant
 | This was the third successive day on which the grand jury has returned in- l dictments against the alleged rioters and their leaders. Thus far, however only one person, Abraham Yaymer stand accused of murder, he having been charged with complicity in the lynching of William Donegan. About 35 men are in jail awaiting the dis position of their cases by the grand jury. Several of those indicted today have not been apprchended as yet, and their names were suppressed at the or der of Judge Creighton of the circuit court, who issued bench warrants fer tn cir arrest.
 The list of those indicted today, to- gether with the offenses with which they are charged. fellow:
 Joseph Rose, peddler, burglary ana larceny; Grover c. McCauley, barber, burglary and larceny; Roy Young, hostler, burglary, larceny and riot; Fergus O'Toole, saloon-keeper, riot, | James L. McPee, railroad employe, riot ing; Herman A. Stricklett, railroad em- ] ployee, riot; P. K. Line, laborer, rob l bery; Roy Foster, no occupation, riot Fred Withite, telephone company col | lector, riot; Ollie Adams, laborer, riot; | Allen COX, no OCCupdlloii, IloL, ileHl 1 Collins, no occupation, riot; Thomas Marshall, negro miner assault with in tent to murder; William Rowe, assault with deadly weapon on John Walling; | assault and battery on Albert Brady, Elmer Brown and Charles Hung; Hade Gray, a negro laborer, and 12 other ne groes, same charges as against Mar shall.
 After todays returns the grand jury l adjourned until Monday. Thus far 90 indictments have been returned against l 36 persons. Tonight, for the first time since the rioting, the stores were al lowed to keep their doors open after 6 l o'clock. The streets were crowded early in the evening, but there was no 1 sign of disorder. The only establish ments which are still feeling the effects of the riots are the saloons. Mayor Reece has made no announcement as to when they will be allowed to resume | business, but it Is thought that per mission will be given next Monday or | Tuesday.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-08-23
THE EVER GENIAL TAFT.
How He Helped a Filipino Official to
 Get Out of a Carriage.

From the Success Magazine.
 It was in Iloilo, Island of Panay, F. l., where I first saw the great and only original genial handshaker and dispenser of ood-humor-William H. Taft. If there was any one that had certain vocation down to a science, 1t was Taft. He was the one that introduced the glad hand" system from one end of the Philippine archipelago to the other. hearty handshake and the heart-to-heart talk that went straight to the affections of the simple natives.
 I well remember when Taft arrived in Iloilo. About LOCO natives in holiday at tire welcomed him, also the president of the town, who was a small, ,dried-up little man, weighing probably 80 pounds. It was with great ceremony that big Taft was handed from the steam launch to an open carriage. As he sat down he seemed to expand and spread all over the seat until almost nothing could be seen of the mummifed little Filipino, who sat next to him.
 After a drive through the town-of course, Taft had been grasping the hand of every one he could reach-they ar rived at the presidents home. Taft started to alight first, and as he backed out of the carriage on one side it sank down, low and lower, the little president
 
 the step. The nervous little Filipino was trying to give assistance. Suddenly Taft removed his great weight from the step and the open carriage snapped back to It's original position with a sudden jerk. The little president, just as if he had jumped from a spring board, shot over the other side of the open rig into the street.
 There was no doubt that the big Secre- tary wanted to laugh, but that was out of the question. As they walked into the house together Taft, genial as us- ual, said: 'I know you were getting impatient waiting for me. It's my mis- fortune to be big, clumsy and slow. If l could only get down to your manly size, my dear MT. President, if I were nimble and spry you, l would always make my exit like that And Taft rip pied all over with joy as he started to distribute glad handshakes to every one within reach.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-08-23
COMMANDER KEY
 WINS HIS FIGHT Contention Is Gained On Build
 ing BattIeShipS MANY IMPORTANT CHAN GES All the New Vessels of the Navy Will Be More Effective Fighting Ma chimes Than Any Now In
 Use In Any Navy.
MANY IMPORTANT CHAN GES

Washington, August 22.-(Special.)- officials of the navy department here are in receipt of information from New port, R. sI., where the naval college mas been In session, to the effect that Com mander Key Is winning out in his fight against the board of construction or the navy, and securing a number or concessions to plans for the new battle ships of the Delaware class now in the ship yards.
 Commanders Key and Sims have been two of the most outspoken critics or the plans of the new warships, either within or outside the navy. Their po- sition as aides to the President have been of great value in enabling them to present their views with Sthe most force In the quarter where their criti- cisms could be most effective It is known here that they have won over the President to their way of thinking, and that the visit of the President to Newport and his conference with the Naval War college was to point out the necessity of giving careful considera- tion to the Key-Sims criticisms and suggested Improvements.
 In official circles here it Is said that Key and Sims have won in their con- tention as to the planning of armor belt and ammunition hoists. They are con- tending also for freer decks and larger guns on the ships of the Delaware class. They argue that the decks of the newer vessels should be free of most of the superstructure, supports, hoists, etc., which, they hold, are im- pediments, and serve to obstruct the best working of the ships and to lower her free board. With these removed and heavier, guns installed, Key and Sims believe the fighting efficiency of the new boats would be greatly in creased.
 Nearly all the experts of the navy are now at Newport taking part in the conferences, the details of which are unknown here. Reports have been to the effect that the conferences have been marked by much difference of opinion, especially between the board of construction, who are defending the plans of the new ships and the critics of the Key-Sims school who are point ing out alleged defects. The conces- sions made are held to prove that the differences between the two sch ools of construction are not irreconcilable. and that an agreement will be reached without friction.
 In unofficial circles here it is the general opinion that the critics of the present board of construction have won and that all the new vessels of tn @ navy will be more effective fighting machines than was possible under the plans of the board. AS consequence, 1t is expected there will be a shake up in the personnel of many of the most important boards of the navy estab- lishment and that new blood will be infused generally. This will sound tn e death knell of fhe present regime, in which the spirit of bureaucracy has grown to an alarming extent.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-08-23
WAS KILLED BY GRIEF.
Horse Dealer Who Stabbed His Friend
 Dies of RemorSe.

From the New York American.
 Grief over having stabbed his friend in a quarrel caused the death of George S. Hammond, a horse dealer yesterday in Bellevue Hospital. The quarrel was not a serious one, and the wounds inflicted were slight, but Hammond felt so terribly about it that he was seized with an at tack of heart trouble while being ar raigned in the police station, and col lapsed. He died a few minutes later.
 Hammond and Henry Noise, also a horse dealer, had been conducting series of horse trades Yesterday they met and Meise asked Hammond concern ing $50, which he claimed was owed him.
 How about that fifty?" asked Meise. When do l get it?''
 You never will get it." replied Ham mond
 The men stopped and were talking quietly Hammond drew a penknife and began to sharpen a pencil At this june ture he became excited with him. In the scufhe Meise was cut several times on the arm and neck.
 When the men were separataed Ham, mond noticed that his friend was cut, and excdaimed
 My heavens! I never meant to cut you, Henry"
 Several bystanders who saw that Meise was cut, grew excited and called an am- bulance. They also notified Policeman Quinlan, who arrested Hammond
 When taken to the station house, Ham, mond was told that he was charged with felonous assault and would be locked up. As he was being taken to cell he stag gered and fell to the floor.
 An ambulance from Bellevue was sum- moned, but Dr. Ford told the police that Hammond could not recover.
 Meises wounds were slight, and after having them dressed he hurried to the police station to have the charges against Hammond withdrawn. When he arrived there he was informed that his friend was dead
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-08-23
All-Electric Railroads.

From the Boston Transcript.
 The more general application of elec- tricty on our railroads is to some extent in the experimental stage, and doubtless defects will develop that must be cor rected in the interests of both safety aiil economy; but there Is not likely to be any backward step in the application of this force. The movement is entirely for ward. It heralds the dawn of a newer day for transportation. Seven years ago Senator Depew, at a gathering of rail- road men, said that in ten years there would not be a steam locomotive east of the Mississippi, outside the scrap heap. Doubtless there must be a few years of grace allowed for the fulfillment of this
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-08-23
TO INVESTIGATE
 JAPANESE ARMY

Tokio, August 2.-(Special.)-The ap- pointment of a commission to investigate charges laid before the Mikado charg- ing corruption, disloyalty and incompe- tency in the Japanese army and navy was made known today though the per sonnel of the commission was not an- nounced.
 It is made up of some of the military and navay leaders in the recent war with Russia, whom the Mikado believes he can trust.
 The investigation will be secret. The recent killing of Captain Kawaita of the Japanese army by a Japanese gendarme in Pekin, who was trying to arrest the captain on suspicion of having sold mil itary secrets to Russia and the suspend ing of Yokushau, Japanese naval clerk, who had given out forbidden information of his department, gave publicity to the trouble.
 Japanese newspapers who tried to un- cover the scandal were suppressed, but enough leaked out to show that army and naval officers have been disposing of se- crets by wholesale
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-08-23

most imposing room in the house-opens out through French windows upon. a tiled terrace, which. in turn. gives upon the wooded hills and a pergola running down to a large summer house. Almost every bedroom has its own bathroom, and, to add the last touch of comfort, the house will be lighted with acety- lene At one end of the house is the bil- Hard room, at the other the library, and there is a small room which may be used as a breakwater to hold back stran- gers or business callers. There is no for nal drawing room. MT. Clemens will have an ideal home, but 1t Is miles from lemon and up a very difficult road. Perhaps his place will be 'self-con- tained'' and have its own mechanics; otherwise he will have hard time If a water pipe bursts, with the nearest plumber ten miles away.
 Since this paragraph was put into type MT. Clemens has moved into his new home, which (true to his word he did not see until 1t was ready for occupancy, and the cat purring on the hearth. He is, am delighted to say, delighted with it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-08-23
MARK TWAIN'S NEW HOME. His House at Bedding, Conn.,, Large
 Enough for Small Hotel.

From Putnam's and the Reader for
 August.
 I had the pleasure of seeing Mark Twain's country house at Bedding, Conn.,, few weeks ago. Innocence at Home" as he calls 1t, was not quite fin- ished. though in the main part of the building the paper was on the walls and the water was running in the pipes. AThere was, however only one piece or Furniture in the house and that was tho billiard table. Everybody who knows Mr. Clemens knows that he has two inc grained habits-smoking ana phnaro playing. Some of his friends think that he smokes to excess. but, as ne mas pointed out to them, he never smokes more than one cigar at time. The Bedding house is very attractive It IS large-almost large enough for small hotel--and 1t overlooks lovely woooed valley. It might have been placed fur ther up the hill to advantage, for now, while it gets the sunrise, hill in front of the house cuts off the sunset View' and also the summer breezes from the
 south and west The dining rnom-tf
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-08-23
SERIOUS CHARGE
 AGAINST CASHIER

Chattanooga, August 22.-According to a director of the Bank of Stevenson, Ala, N. A. Alston, the abseonding cashier, got away with upward of $S00O0. Aston Is described as about 30 years old, below average height and weighing about 40 pounds; dark hair and eyes and dark complexion. The cashier left Stevenson on Southern train at o'clock Wednes- day evening for Chattanooga. He has not been seen since. The suppositon now is that he did not lose the money in stock trading, but that he has larger portion of it in his possession. Police all over the country have been notified to be on the lookout for him.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-08-23
ARMED POSSE OF FARMERS
 IS HUNTING DESPERADO

Middletown, N. Y, August 2.-(Special.) An armed posse of nearly 200 farmers, sheriffs deputies and detectives late to- night are ranging the Shawungunk noun tains, six miles from this town, deter mined to bring back dead or alive William Monroe desperado who has twice es- capped from seemingly certain capture by fighting furiously with a heavy iron bar as his only weapon.
 Tonight he batted his way out of a cornfield where he was surrounded, laying low a half dozen of the posse with his weapon and took to the mountains.
 The whole countryside hereabouts is in terror, for as he ran through Gardner to- day Monroe shouted:
 "Ive got one more visit to make-one more family to kill-before they get me. And they'll get me dead only
 Nearly every farmer in the section has had trouble with the man during the last couple of years, and each fears that his
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-08-23
Carl's Aspirations.

From the September Dellneator
 Little Carl years old, had been teased a great deal by his uncle about the vocation he would choose when he became a man. One day he overheard his mother and a caller talking about certain gentleman being a bachelor
 When the caller left, his mother mo- ticed that he was unusually quiet and seemed to be in a deep study. Finally he said to her, Mama, is a bachelor a good trader"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-08-23

complexions. frhe chivalry of the Bar barans with its characteristics of high spirit, choice manners, and distinguished bearng,-what is this,' he asks, but the commencement of the pollteness of our aristocrtic cass?' '"rhere are our young Barbarians at play That line of Arnold's coming to my mind which at that moment was contrasting the scenes I have described, suggested the thought that despite the familiar words in the Declaration of Independence, and our inherited repugnance to the idea, we have an upper middle, and lower class in America
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-08-23
GoIdsboro Cargo Shipped.

Mobile, August 22.-The Mallory line steamship Sabine sailed from this port today for New York, having as part of the cargo $50 packages, the last re- maining of the cargo of the steamer Goldsboro, which reached here two weeks ago from Puerto Cortez. The contents of the packages remain as much of a mystery now as at the time of their arrival here.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-08-23
cubans Denounce Verdict.

Havana, August 22.-Corporal Cooper and Private Gwinnelle of the Eleventh cavalry, who were recently acquitted of the charge of having murdered two Cuban boatmen. sailed today on board the transport Fitzpatrick for the United States. The Cuban newspapers bitterly attack the verdict, denouncing 1t as gross miscarriage of justice.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-08-23
Killed By Bumblebees.

Columbus, O., August 22.-John Stans- berry, aged 73, farmer, who lived near Dublin, died yesterday within 2o minutes after he had been stung by bumblebees. Stansberry had been in apparently the best of health. He was stung six times, and within three min utes he became unconscious, and was beyond aid when physicians arrived.