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Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1908-04-18
Madam Flint.
(The Mother Of Faro Dealers)
By J. C. WEAVER
vi.

In the neigh forty on 1 Ha near 3 @
f o a sy e them ro nf oe
families the country Hank Flint the father Wv known
od and noted as BREEDER unng and
n WAS ss time the roundup that he was on
REFUSED refuses thu the training of spng ponies to- an h & and
noted their string under disguise
% title 5 sn no & R
of him such occasions For the they found better
in contact with the outfit Flint attached
trip o o"e b who he ~as
clearly known She was of medium height with wiowy figure
pest pair gray eyes imaginable With she the best
bucking sang cowboy complexion
swarty and that she had Mexican blood
and soon became very popular in the cow country
her Flint she accompanied the outfit assistant cook 1t
this roundup that avorie sprinng of Fns
n n@ e oppos ew the outfit had brought to
Feeling that their pony had been undy handicapped by the
weight Of Flint had somewhat copuent she echaenged
CGete crowd and to pilot the home to victory her
country for years after ,-. & .- c- .,,, 49,,
H She rode the het png ponies" H aDy see
added to the Flint band of cattle by her
was this time also that she became initiated into the
games that tine The latter played by making layout
pack flat surface available while another greasy pack dealt
the descent of cattman from the rank of that of
This knowledge of life and though
Gs e % as % thar s
The writer that DEPRESSION will be pardoned this time
The characters embodied sketches really mark epoch the
West They the product of of society correctly
the lack of it, which has passed Measured by
standards they good but though of the ordinary
their they removed from the ranks
of their surrounded they by the rough environments
isolated communities be far removed from the
Nor their and adventures that time considered vicious
old West estimate the life of the
and the mining would be incomplete without them They
historical characters and be looked suche landmarks
which show the advancement in refinement of the West
AS the Sis Flint then remained
the ranch Children the family with regularity until
added the household AS the family increased how
the of the father At proved the
last and he ceased be caeman All that he had left
the ranch and his sprntng He determined follow the life
of horse and selling the ranch moved his family Fort
Steele Wyoming where purchased small home and started out
the road leaving his wife to the home
Life became for Flnts He abandoned
Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1908-04-18
AN INTERESTED QUESTION.

The young wife of prominent New York physician
Sunday school class of small boys One Sunday long
she had finished telling them the of Joseph and his of
colors. she said
as there question would like to ask before
with the catechsm?"
"Yes'm" answered little Sammy Eastwood
"Wel, what is it, Sammy"
will give ride in automobile?'
The question answered then a of
Sammy got the rde.-New York Times
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1908-04-03
TEACHING JOURNALISM.

A writer in a St Louis paper dis
courses Interestingly by way of com
ment upon a new departure in the cur
riculum OF Columbia University
new departure but an old subject con
corning which every man, woman aud
child in the land is thoroughly posted
a fact which will enable them to fully
appreciate what he says, to-wit
THE University of Missouri is to en-
Joy the distinction of being the only
seat Of learning in the country that is
going to teach journalism in the only
way it can be taught The university
will run a daily. Now there is hope
of actually offering to the newspapers
of the United States young men who
will know what to do when they ara
given lead pencil and a writing pad.
Every one of them should be sent to
interview the most disagreeable infu-
entail citizen in Columbia upon some.
thing he doesn't want to talk about.
That's journalism Besides learnil G
how to write to the point, the young
journalist has to encourage the solid
ity of his backbone; he viii have to
curb his credulity for he win fni
that half that some people tell him Is
not so, and that all of what some
others tell him is unworthy of belief
Then he viii encounter that vexing
public parsonage who tells you every
thing after exactlng a promise thai
YOU won't print it. He Win have te
learn the value of having his story
before the public before an imagin
airy rival appears with it. and he
should somehow be made to exper
fence the Christening grief of seems
his splendid sensation reduced L
thirty lipes because the rival beat hin
to il; and this is the one serious de
feet OF the university newspaper
There is no hated rival to battle with
Still, one might make believe ther,
is. We can pretend that the othe
fellows are steaming away with thei
shirts unbuttoned, hopping thei
brows, tossing off sheet after sheet o
the shocking something or other. tina
copy readers are ripping through
with blue pencils, that linotypes ar
gathering 1t up into type. that proof
readers are swiftly coming 1t. tina
make-ups are shaping it, into tn
form that the deafening presses arr
whizsing without pause and that ua
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1908-04-03
NEWSPAPERS IN coLoRs.
Have Been Printed Scarlet, Mauve
and yellow.

The Chung Ngoi Can Pc, which rec
emily celebrated its jubilee by appear
thS ON scarlet pages, has had many
equally unconventional predecessors.
When the stock of white printing
paper In the Island of Trinidad once
ran out the Port of Spain Gazette
made brilliant appearance on mauve
paper, with bright yellow inside
supplement, followed by an issue
rinted on cerise paper, with a mag
enta supplement; a Cape newspaper
was once published on brown pape-
the normal use of which was for par
cells, and two successive issues OF Il
native journal of Ahmedabad, were
brilliant yellow and a dark green
Even more remarkable was lie
Mouchoir de Poche Politique, a
French daily paper, which was printed
on linen, and served the double pur-
pose of news purveyor and hand.
kerchief.-From the Westminster Ga
Zette.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1908-04-03

William H Heimbach of Allentown,
Pa, an expert breeder of fancy fishes,
has recently sold a lot OF Japanese
fringetails and some Chinese fantails
lcr $40 each. Several Of the fringe.
tails. with bodies less than three
inches long, have tails four inches long.
The parent stock was imported from
the orient but Mr. Heimbach has sue
ceeded in raising about SEQ Of the fish
in an elaborate hatchery he built ad-
joining his home. The fad, in addi-
ton to bein. Expensive, requires in.
finite patience and care The fish
must be kept and bred in still water,
which is supplied with oxygen by
mans of odd plants procured chiefly
from China. The breeding of these
top fish, of which single specimens
are worth from s. to $40 Is said to
be the acme of piscatonal culture. A
well stocked FIVE gallon aquarium is
worth about $3.50
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1908-04-03
Their Favorite Notices.

Many well-known men have favor.
ite notices which they endeayor to
live up to, and, curiously enough,
some OF them are particularly applica-
BILE to their professions Speech is
silvern, silence Is golden" is the
maxim which Sir George Lewis, the
famous lawyer always bears ~ mind.
Tell the truth and shame the devil" Is
Mr.. Labouchere's very appropriate
motto; while Sir John Fisher sdopts
the significant words: The frontiers
of England are the coasts sf the
enemy John Burns is very fond OF
the saying: The world is my coun-
try and to do good is my religion; So
while the British premier gives the
text of st, Paul as his motto: An
things are lawful unto me, but all
things are not expedient"
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1908-04-03

Yesterday while in Des Moines. Ia,
Mr.. Bryan wired "A withdrawal OF his
acceptance of the New York Demo
cratic clubs invitation to be present
at their banquet on April Is. Mr.,
Bryan gives as his reason for this ac-
ton that his presence would be en-
barrassing both to himself and to the
club. This is a plausible explanation
and harmless withal. but there is
good ground for a belief that Mr.
Bryan has a more definite more
Reighty reason for declining to go TO
New York on this occasion. Some
evil minded persons may suggest that
Mi Bryan still regards the east as
the enemy's country" but this prob.
ably is doing him an injustice. Tn
soubtedly hidden deep down In his
heart Mr.. Rfyan has an entirely differ
INT and a very much more serious
'eason it is his mortal dread of the
number ''13f And nobody can blame
lim-so very much.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1908-04-03
ADDITIONAL CITY BRIEFS.
Mrs. Ailleary compIimented.

Yesterdays be,Dempcrat had thu
following concerning Mrs C. L. Hill
leary, formerly Of this city and wife OF
The gentleman who became general
passenger agent of the Lake Shore &
Western railroad on the list. inst. The
Forestry Committee ofthe ST. Louis
District of the Missouri Federation
will send out programs next week TO.
ArbOr Day celebrations. very pretty
little pamphlets, with suggestions as
to the order of exercises for the day
that teachers may follow This was
decided at a meeting of the commit
tee yesterday at the home OF the
chairman, Mrs. c. l.. Hilleary, and is
only one OF the many interesting
things that the committee has done
under the leadership Cf Mrs iiilleary
On April Is. Mr. Sylvester Of the High
School will give a lecture with store
optican views, under the auspices of
the Twentieth Century Art Club at
the Cabanne Branch Library.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1908-04-03
TIME CARD CAIRO ELECTRIC RYE

BELT LINE cars due to leave Second st. 60
lag north on Commercial Ave, every Is min
utes from n. IN. to II p. M.
Going north ON Walnut 1T. every is minute
from G.: 0s 4 m. to i0;5 .. nj.
POPLAR ST. LlNE-Holbrook Ave, car
20 leave second 1t. going nerth ON Hcibroo
Ave, at 5:57; 6.27; 6:42 6:67; 7:I2 a. m, and q.
same minutes every hour until io:4s and II. /,
y m.
Going west on Twenty Eighth st. ut So
6:lg; 6:A; 6;49; and 1904 n. IN and on sRme min
ui.s every hour until 1884 and 1894 p. M.
Poplar st. cars due to psss 1T. MAry's PAX
Is min utes after leaving second 81.
BELT LINE OWL OARS north ON Walnut
1889 p. M. 1884 a. M; 80 n. m.; 2:s0 r. III,
3 so \. IN. at u. M; s 80 H. IN.
North on Commemorative p. NJ; 100
IN. z 90 q. nj. 90 N. M, 4 10 n. m, q. m.
Belt and Owl cars are due to pass Wes
Thirty fourth 81. Is minutes after leavirs
sacoAd st
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1908-04-03
HE BLAMED THE GOVERNMENT.
Unoblielne Man Saw No Reason for
Putting Himself Out.

Say" remarked the post Office
clerk who was OFF duty, as he watched
a friend atiix two stamps TO the corner
Of an enevelope. why don't you put
those stamps on horizontally instead
Of vertically? Don't you know you
would save a lot of work for us
stampers II you put you stamps beside
each other instead of under each
other? We always have To make two
strokes when canceling vertically
pasted stamps by hand, and they don't
work well through the stamping ma
chimes either"
is that so9" queried his friend, az
he took another envelope and pro.
ceeded to afliX two stamps to IT in a
vertical position. Then, by the great
horn spoon. why doesn't the govern
ment sell its stamps in horizontal
lines? Look at these, Here | boug1t
90 cents worth of two.cent stamps
and they come 10 me in vertical lines.
If | buy five twos get them attached
one to the bottom Of the other. Do
you think I'm going to the trouble OF
tearing each stamp OFF just to please
government clerk by pasting them
side by side? Guess again
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1908-04-03
a True Friend.

A true friend will tell one hi faults.
Is saying We often hear but - true
friend. If he is wise In the knowledge
OF human nature. Will tell his virtues.
The fact is that In this busy world Of
ours. with its keen struggle and sharp
competition. we are pretty apt to be
told our faults by those who are not
frieRds. and TO be brought face to face
with our mistakes and failures so often
that We sometimes lose hope and cour-
age. Whoever has a word Of honest
praise for another should feel that he
holds something which is that other 3
due, and hasten 10 pay it, The word
IF blame may be a goal. but the word
Of hearty commendation will be some
thing To live up to- through many q
trying hour-The Parish Visitor.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1908-04-03
Wine
Drives
Away
Wit
By ANDREW LANG.

Elusive This melancholy reflection when after
pleasant and merry meeting remember the good things which
remember dWerng, that b several times
rewarded by laugh and that c. spakd But where are these
good things I'VE had good talk bud recall little Of it.
We be certain that few men any at alan write
their with wine busy in their brains lie who
should try this burns the candle both ends but without producing
brilliant illumination Now, this proof that the wit
out Perhaps Of letters
will try writing while he drinks bottle of champagne and
after reading morning, will tell what he thinks Of it, He
probably will have confess that the wit has been driven out by the
though may have seemed splendid while he writing Indeed any
spirits think. makes o,erestnate the work
posed while lasted and the best things done sober and fi
trustlul mood
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1908-04-03
The
kIasEaieSS
Ball
Room
By BERTHA V. 0'BRlRN.

state of things become occurred the pretty girl that she
making huuiating confession
The deart social affair, to be almost thread
Society makes secret of itand society DANES confess
Of the vcxng problems they have to deal with
talked about this muamentcd dearth Of
Nv society folk. but when
place the world found that I'd nave pass the
game expensive. Seems that fellow with decent
pride oudnt to tax. part in anything unless he could
play right takes money And then, suppose YOU should fall in
girl who had been brought luxury and you'd have TO ask
down peg. Ia hate ask to do that for me-
SAID another g" believe at cn balls simply be-
Social functions aren't the masculine
They don't appreciate tbs privilege Of standing around
eneased in iy linen and tight Ip TO be agreeable
pretty girl aung; bevy of thsn is dng and It's bad
form to pick choice and devote yourself think popular
in society is martyr.
PEOPLE general very free to pce wa at the Top of the quail
ties that make eligibility But society rich Young bachelors
scarce ON the there hundreds Of girls being brought up
IN fashion keeps famie, aragey IT refractory ends
the hope Of the egb be caught The poor
sees and he $ wary
After said the fact is that back Of the man ball room
grave problem sheds much light the eyeeurng question: why
there &C many old madsS"
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1908-04-03
DID YEARS WORK IN A NIGHT
College Man Who Proved the Worth
lessness of Examinations.

Some college professors insist that
the examination system is a failure
and they can cite nceszHyhich
they believe bear out e side of the
case. One of these facul,. men. a re
cent graduate from a large university,
said:
when | was In college there was a
man Of great capacity who had neg
lected one course from his freshman
year when he got condition. when
it came down to his senior year he
had to make IT up, but he let it go
until the very last set Of examinations.
Then he had to get. il off or lose his
degree
This man knew so little of German,
the course in which he was deficient,
that he could not efen read the print
ed words with ease. let alone under.
stand them. But he passed the ex-
animation.
He went to a man In his class who
was proficient in German armed with
sets of examination papers I'm that
course for about six years back They
picked out the recurrent questions I'M
I'll finally they saw that there we're
enough which were included I'm the
various papers of each year to in
sure a passing percentage.
This man, who as | said was of
great capacity, then proceeded 10
memorize a correct answer to each
OF these quess.ons. He had a kevword
for each question. so that be would
recognize ii even If it were not worded
exactly as the one on a previous IA
per.
With this sort of work, which took
him about all night, he went into the
examination and passed OF a year.
work triumphsntly."
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1908-04-03

Mary Margaret Anglin, the cele,
brated American actress, was born
AprTl 3, 1876, at ottawa, Ontario. She
studied for the stage in a New Yorl
dramatic school and her first appear
ance In a school performance attract
81 the favorable attention Of Charles
FTohman, under whose management
she later acted for several seasons
ultimately becoming leading woman
II his Empire theatre stock company
Her professional work began with the
role of Madeline West in "Shenan
doah.' in 1894 at the Acadamey OF
Music, New York Her first import
ant parts were Mercedes in Monte
Cristo" Virginia in "Virginius' and
OpheIia in Hamlet played with
James O'Neill. Her most momentous
achievements have been RoXane In
"Cyrano de Bergerac," Mrs. Dane in
Mrs. Danes Defense MabeI
Vaughn in THE Wilderness" Mar
guerite Gautier in "The Lady of the
| Camelias, Hester in "Zira" Frou
Paula in THE Second Mrs. Tan
queray" and Ruth Jordan in The
Great Divide"
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1908-04-03
Making Money By Givina Advice.

Human nature has been very much
the same since the beginning, AMI
there have always been philosophers
and giyers Of advice. Recently there
have been translated from monuments
in western Asia, believed to be 5000
years old, tabloid talks for the benefit
of mankind which, but for greater dig
nifty, in phrasins are not unlike the
sentences of the young men AMI
young women of the American press
who do plain and fancy writing by
the day or hour" TO quote New
York Journalists statement of the ma
lure Of his duties.
In the time Of Ptah.Hetop, who
was either " perfect feudal lord
or had sufficient influence to get that
description of himself chiseled in EN-
during stone, 1t was written:
eff thou deslrest that thy conducr
should be good, keep myself from an
attack of bad humor. It is fatal
malady. It causes wife and husband
to hate each other.
's.etter a compliment than rude
ness.
BE not of irritable temper In re-
gard to thy neighbors.
"I.et thy countenance be cheerful
during the time of thy existence
In the time of Ptan-Hetop these
Things were engraved laboriously u'
on monuments and read by persons
WHO happened along or came especi-
ally to acquire merit by gaining wis
dom. Today they are printed IN
thousands of one-cent newspapers
and ten-cent magazines and scattered
over the face of the civilized earth
so that he who runs cannot escape
reading them. But just as it befeI
in the days of "the perfect feudal
lord" they serve. chiefly, to give EN-
plovment to formulators of advice
rather than to prevent any one from
avDidinp an attack OF temper, paying
a compliment when he harbors a
crouch" being pleasant to the neigh
bors or wearing the smile that does
not come of during the time of his
earthly existence.
Bnt giving advice is not wholly
unavoidable. Doubtless the thinkers
who were employed to cut their max
inns into the monuments of western
Asia 5000 years ago were paid, ana
were accustomed to let their minds
dwell upon the pay rather than t.
own philosophy. And the modern
space writer's get coumn rates. even
If they do not succeed in getting their
fellow-men to live up to the search
ings of today and of eighty centuries
ago.-Loulsville Courier-Journai
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1908-04-03
Famous Beauty a Woodcarver.

Lady Colebrooke, famous alike for
her beauty, accomplishments and skin
as a political hostess. possesses a won,
derfully complete carpenter and WOOD
carving shop at Arlington. Lanarkshire.
Here she has not only turned ont
some clever pieces Of work but has
also taught some of the village girls
on her husbands estate how to fashion
wood with hammer and chiscl. Lady
Colebrooke "a clever SCULPTOR taa-
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1908-04-03
TODAY IN HISTORY
April 3.

April 3.
l3GG-Richard II. Of England born at
Bordeaux
l7s3-Washingto Irving, American
writer, born in New York City
Died at ilyington, n. 81, Nov
4" 9S, 1859
17g7-Francis T.. Lee one Of the sign
ers of the American Declaration
Of Independence, died Born
Oct a. 1874
22-Edward Everett Hale born in
Boston.
1S37-John Burroughs, famous Am
eriean naturalist, born at Rox
bury. n. Y.
1s5i-John Wilson christopher
North Scotch writer and poet
died Born May 10.
1SG5-Federal troops occupied Rich
mond, Va
lS98-China leased Wei-HaiWei to
Great Britain
1S02-Large section of Atlantic City
destroyed by fire
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1908-04-03

That the chaplain of the Republican
convention in this state prayed
Heaven to help Uncle joe might be
better understand if one could have
had a lock at the convention as the
reverend gentleman did Ordinarily
one would think that a smile such as
the Cairo postmaster can emit would
encompass and subdue and render com
paratively harmless almost any sort OF
a convention. But perhaps the Cairo
postmaster could not smile his sweet
est, knowing that the Cannon reso-
lutions were to be perpetrated
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1908-04-03
ANCIENT AND MODERN FICTION
Really Little Difference in the Method:
of Writers.

The historian Freeman once said:
Il never let d man die at the end Of
a chapter" The modern serial, or con
:inued story, eXemplities like theory
of pausing at the very brink OF an alb
sorbing event. We consider a year
long serial one of considerable length;
yet in France. in 1910, the first two
parts of the Astree, one OF the most
celebrated Gallo novels, were pub
lished four or five years before the
third part, and several more in ad.
vance of the fourth and fifth parts.
About the same time iourished Mile.
de SCudery, memorable as the author
OF the first romance of any note writ.
ten by a woman She composed and
published by installmcnts novels Of a
length unknown to the readers Of to.
uay. Every story was originally is
sued In patches OF small octavos,
sonlCtimes running to a score or so.
She has been described as the most
mtiless writer Of fiction that the world
has ever known"
The same Seventeenth Century, says
Harpers Weekly, illustrates, again.
the willingness OF French writer's to
abide their time The poet Malherbe
wished to console a friend on the
death of his wife. BY the time the
poem was finished, the gentleman had
been consoled, remarked, and was
himself dead
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1908-04-03
ALDERMAN THIRD WARD.

EDWARD A. BURKE authorizes MS
announcement as candidate for re-
election as a member of the city coun'
cii from the Third ward of Cairo, III
nois. at the election to be held on
Tuesday. April II. 1908.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1908-04-03

81 NpoS
The above is correct statement o.
the circulation of the Cairo Bulletin
for the year 1907 and for the month
OF March 1908
CLYDE SULLIVAN,
Business Manager
Subscribed and sworn to before me
this first day of April, 1908
LEO KLEB.
Notary Public
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1908-04-03
G.
LAlzNS E<,e,<X. e

"Whcn the wine il in the wit is out )"
says the proyerb. But every one who takes
the usual modest share of wine ut any feast
must have observed that the wit seems to
come in with the wine. \ dinner party
seems and sounds much livelier after Tie
guests have had a glass of champagne To
themselves they appear much brighter, hap
pier, wittier than they were while waiting
for some late guest, or while trying 10 find
a topic which may interest a fair neishbor.
To themselves they seem wittier, and they
certainly are gayer and more yoluble. But
II il rot So nnrtain that the annaarance
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1908-04-03

We are going to have an interurha1
railway from Kentucky soon, it SO V q
and ii Mr.. Mckinley has not hitherto
thought of the Cairo proposition IN
connection with his system. the X 20
lucky project may tend to make hin,
take another look at us.