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The Cairo bulletin., 1909-08-27


the end of the stage leading to the
wharfboat. This improvement will
be much appreciated by the thous.
ands of people who come and so over
this short piece of levee slope every
month.
Much Travel.
II has long been recognized by
Cairo business mcA, that there is
more travel to and from Cairo on
THE Iron Mountain and Cotton Belt
railroads than on any other rail
roads in the city. but few PEG
/ pie. probably, think it to be as
great as it really is, 1t is a common
sight to see from Is to 200 people
coming off the transfer boat and
Itramping up the levee and down Ohio
street, and scattering into the city
and one who has watched the process
tsion regularly and kept account ap
proximately. states that the number
lof people who come and go by the
two roads named will reach from
$4,000 to $1,000 in a sirgle month.
It is said that travel has been bet,
ter during the last month than ever
before, in spite of the fact that the
2-cent rate was abolished and the 8
cent rate restored
Freight business.
Freight business also has beer
heavy from ard to the southwest
territory and the company has been
doing its best to accommodate It
Shippers in Cairo agree that the ser
vice now is all that could be desirel
and there is no kick as to the
rates. That the company desires tt
do all it can to give Cairo shippers
good service may be inferred from
the fact that in response to protes
from NJ Goldsmith, that shipments Il
him were much delayed, a represer
tative came here and adjusted thu
difficulty. Similar complaints from
Others have received like prompt am
satisfactory attention. 1t is stated
however, that Cairo jobbers do moi
work" the territory traversed by
these railroads for all it is worth, a,
though they are doing a heavy bust
mess there.
The Southeast Missouri territory is
very prosperous this year. because Of
extraordinary crops which are taxing
the capacity of the railroads to move
them. The Iron Mountain like al
other railroads has been taking steps
to avoid a car shortage few
weeks ago it had 5000 bad order
ears. These were ali repaired in the
shops at Pine Bluff and put into ser
vice.
At Birds Point.
The situation at Birds point is not
much charged. The river has not
been doing much cutting there for
some time past, ana 1t is believed
that the bank there IS now likely to
remain undisturbed indefinitely II
can not be stated what the plars of
the railroad companies are respecting
the transfer facilities there; but it
is believed to be reasonably certain
that some important improvements
will be made there as soon as it shall
be certain that the river has finished
its work of destruction.
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tH| wy anu LiF country merchants
were also scheduled to play, but they
We're too busy to play the game
DanciIq and Music.
The daccing floor was crowded all
Afternoon and till late last night, many
remaining over till the night train to
enjoy themselves at this diversion
Al Staehle and Peter Lird had
charge of the floor and collected five
cents from every dancer for each
dance.
The music for the occasion at the
dancing floor and ON the grounds.
also at Cairo he'Jre the excursion
started was furnished by VanOsten's
Mound City band and was the sub.
/ ect OF much favorable comment.
Other hmusements.
Among the various contests one
which attracted mucn attention was
that in which the handsomest ard
the ugliest men contendel for honors.
The judges in this contest were Mes.
ihillNH SNObpVdt NdlHtS ana trdllT,
and they declared after due corsid,
|eration of all the points" of the sew.
eral candidates, tnat Sam Richard.
son, of the First Bank & Trust Co
was the handsomest man and Clint
Terrell the shoe merchant, the
.ugliest.
The farmer bringing the largest
family was David Bauer, who had
twelve.
The farmer with the largest team
was VIM Susanka.
Races, etc.
Races and various contests result.
ed as follows
Gents race--1st. Mr.. Sharon; end.
Ed Cokely.
Ladies racce--tst. Miss; Endiaot
2nd, Miss Franciska.
Toys race LIST. Andrew Daylin.
2nd, r. Patten.
Farmers race-1st, Tucker Foster;
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BOOKS RECEIVED.

NO REFUGE But IN TRUTH. By
Goodwin Smith. Toronto: VIM. Tyr
rell & Co.
THE WORLD ALMANAC AND ENCy-
CLOPEDIA. 1909. New York: The
Press Publishing Company.
PENSEES EFT REFLEXIONS; DE IA
BRUYERE EFT AUTRES: Auteurs
Francois. Compilees ct Arrangcrs
par Cornelia Sisson Crowther. New
York: William r. Jenkins COMPANY
LECTURES EFT CONVERSATIONS. -
lUstrees De 30. Gravures Par Du-
Bots ct De Geer, professeurs lie
langue ct de literature Franco Sc:
New York: William r. jenkins
Company.
REFORM, an Essay on the Political
Financial and Social Condition "f
the United States. Showing Dangers.
Defects and Remedies. BY Col
Ralph De Clairmont. Boston: The
Roxbugh Publishing Company.
THE WI SICIANS' LIRRARY-LARGER
PIANO COMPOSITIONS OF ED
WARD GRIEG. Edited by Bertha
Feiring Taper. Boston: Oliver Dr.
son Company.
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lar by a hating. apologize narrator, to
eptomize the state of English society
He checks his story frequently to moral
ize. and it is with difficulty that the
tale advances. Briefly, it is the expert
ence of a young man whose uncle in
vents quack medicine and exploits 1t
to build an immense fortune ard to gain
commanding position in the British
financial world. finally collapsing in dis
grace when he exceeds his carrying ca
pacity The story is very vague and
doubles and turns SO completely that it
is difficult to know just when and
where things are happening at times
Young Mr.. Ponderevo is a curious mix
ture of stanch and flabby moral fiber.
He is not particularly interesting or con-
vincing, and he Is certainly not a vivid
storyteller Mr.. Wells is at his best
when he hits upon some specific Incl
dent. He might have excised 40 per cent
of his text and left better story. The
figure of Edward Ponderevo, the pro-
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THE MYSTERY OF THE PINCKNEl
mn Il.

the New York artists with the findings
of the Corcoran jury was SO great that it
lent pertinence to the subject and
promised to bring about a revolt No re-
Election was cast upon the fairness of the
Corcoran Gallery management. and it was
stated that those who made complaint
were not artists who had gone unreward-
ed. but exception was taken to the fire.
quency with which prize awards went to
members of the organization known as
1.-The Ten" and to painters of the social
eds Pennsylvania group. Apparently the
writer felt that honOrs should be more
evenly divided. that none should have
monopoly. and that prize giving was after
all a mistake. Now to an extent this
may be true. but unless the system is al
together abolished, what. so long as some
are better painters than others, is there to
do about it? AS matter of fact. nothing
could have been fairer than the manner
in which the awards were determined in
the Corcoran exhibition. The jury was
composed Of five men representing as
many different cities-Mr. E. 8. Tarbell.
Boston: Mr.. Irving R.. Wiles. New York:
Mr.. Hugh Breckenridge. Philadelphia:
Mr. Richard N. Brooke. Washington. and
Mr.. Walter MacEwen, Paris-all paint
ers of distinction.
After the pictures in the exhibition were
hung this jury met. and after barring
themselves from all awards each took a
pencil and paper and individually and
alone made circuit of the galleries. list
ing those pictures which seemed worthy
of award. Then a meeting was held and
the lists compared and, curiously enough.
it was found that all five collectively en-
braced just ten names and that every list
included the four to whom the prizes
were given. Thus, in measure, the de-
cision was unanimous and the only ques-
ton decided by discussion was how the
four should be ranked-that is. which first.
second, third and fourth. Furthermore 1t
might he noted that each Of those who
received q prize came from d different
city. worked in different style and pre-.
scented a varied subject. This in itself
might have allayed suspicion. but it SEEM
ed to have had the opposite effect-to
have been thought too obvious. Now. 1t
is true that the same men again and
again win prizes. but 1t does not neces-
sarily follow that they do not deserve
them. If 1.-THE Ten have way of 60
ing off with the spoils. surely 1t Is not be-
cause they are unduly favored. but be-
cause they paint better pictures-or are
thought to do so. Prizes cannot be given
alphabetically or Unfortunately. or they
would lose their significance. There are
always grumblers-always some who sus-
pect Injustice and favoritism. and quite
naturally these are not the ones who ac-
cumulate honors. for 1t takes big men TO
do big work 1t may be true that all
prizes are not wisely bestowed. In fact
it is true that a great many are not, but
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moter. Is clearly drawn but he becomes
rather vague toward the end of his ca
reer. His life seems to offer greater pos
sibilities than are actually developed
The true Wellsian touch appears in the
final chapter, describing the fallen finan-
cier's fight from England into France
by means of a new form of dirigible
balloon invented by his nephew.
THE MYSTERY OF THE PINCKNEY
DRAUGHT. By Charles c. Mott, for
merly Chief Justice of the United
States Court of Claims. New York:
The Century Company.
One might at first glance conceive this
book of Judge Motifs to be novel, but
as matter of fact. it is an historical
monograph dealing with a question which
has for many years been mooted by
writer's of the story of the Constitution
namely, whether the so-called Pinckney
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draught of the Constitution of the United
States now in the State Department was.
in fact. prepared by Charles Pinckney
of South Carolina. For long time it
has been dScredited as worthless doc
ument. Judge Mott, however. some
years ago conceived that an injustice
was done to Pinckney's memory by this
imputation upon the draught, and set
out to ascertain its history, with the
result of this instructive and highly en-
PERTAINING work, in which he reaches
the conclusion that the draught is actu-
ally the work of Pinckney. Students of
the early history of the republic will
find much of Importance in this consci-
entious, exhaustive treatise.
THE MISSIONER. BY f. Phillips OPP
penheim author Of Anna, the AL
venturesS," etc. Illustrated by Ere /
Pegram. Boston: Little. Brown <
Co.
A young man who spends on the poor
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an inheritance of tainted money. and
young woman beautiful. arstocratic. rich
and frivolous, are the hero and heroine
of this book. How they approach each
other from their extreme viewpoints of
life to meet at last on the ground of
mutual appreciation makes a love story
in which the excitement of mystery
and adventure has its part in the ro
nance. English fashionable life in both
town and country serves for the storys
background. though there is also the
glare of Paris gayety. in which the mis-
sioner takes his part. with revel at the
Rat Morte by way of climax The one
villain makes his exit with a hravado
rather creditable for an eX-convict who
boasts of being king of the Apaches. and
the two disappointed lovers marry COM
fortaby. and add their happiness to that
of the missioner and his bride.
OriSon SWEET Marden, author of
Every Man a King" and editor of
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Success Magazine. New York:
Thomas Y. CroWell & Co.

DR.. Marden has been for some years
engaged in propagating the idea Of sue
cess and OF right thinking and exploit
ing the propulsive, creative power of
thought In his latest volume. Peace.
Power and Plenty" he carries this doc
trine out in terms of practical applica-
ton discussing the law of opulence.
health through right thinking, character
building and health-building during sleep:
poverty a mental disability; fear. the
curse of the race: good cheer. etc. In
his vigorous style he sets forth vital
truths effectively. The book is veritable
storage battery of power.
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yO NJ y X Il y w afternoon at .
o'clock the exhibitions Of con-
temporary American paintings
and of the works in sculpture
of the late Augustus Saint eau
dens. which for the past month have been
set forth in the Corcoran Gallery of
Art, will close, and for fortnight, at
least the gallery will not be open TO Wis
itors. . These exhibitions have attracted
wide and most favorable attention. not
only in this city, but all over the United
States They have been visited by be-
tween forty and fifty thousand persons
and viewed by the directors of all the
leading American museums and galleries
of art. prominent collectors and critics.
While there has been some adverse crit
icism the opinion has prevailed that bet
ter displays have not been made than
these. and through their merit the city
itself has been advanced In the estimation
of the art world. Furthermore, the sales,
which testify to substantial apprecla-
ton, have been gratifying; fifteen pictures.
valued at S3S,42J. being ticketed with the
word sold by last Wednesday. Among
the paintings purchased this week We're,
it is pleasant to note, Edward W, Red,
fields prize picture, ''The Island, ana
Irving X. N1leS Hltle Stihc, thC W ~
dow From here many of these pic
lures will go to other exhibitions, the
PENNSYLVANIA Academy of the Fine Arts
drawing upon it directly for quite num-
Der. The Saint Gaudens exhibit, winch
has more than shared the interest in
honors, is, in it's entirety, to go from the
Corcoran Gallery to the Carnegie lnstl-
tutp at Pittsburg and then to the Art
Institute of Chicago. Owing to dryness
and consequent fear of fire, the ever
green's, which served as backgrounds Tor
the large sculptures in the atrium, had
to be removed early this week, so that
the effect of the exhibition was lessened
at the last but these works really need
no adornment and through their own Dig
nity and merit proclaim their worth
That no definite movement has been made
toward securing in permanent form
group of Saint Gaudens' work for the
National Gallery is a disappointment. but
if NAV vet be done: it is not too late
A LONG article appeared recently in
"A the columns of a New York news
paper upon the injustice and futility OF
nrize awards in art exhibitions, in which
speciaI reference was made to the prizes
given by the Corcoran Gallery. The
writer. in fact, took these awards as his
text. declaring that dissatisfaction among
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Typewriter Girls of New York.

FIOn the New York Press.
One of the largest agencies in th.
city that keeps tab on the typewritin.
industry says there are. or were. on
December 1. 1900 women typists in
this city. For some reason not eX-
planned the number OF men in the
business was not stated, but ii wds
limited that the number is much smaller.
Unless man is an expert in stenogra-
ply as we'll as typewriting he can do
better in some other business.
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IN the issue OF January g. the publication
was incorrectly ascrbed 10 the Macmillan
Company. whereas il should have been
accredited to Doubleday. Page e. Co. New
York. The papers comprising this volume
were originally printed serialy in Nc
Clures Magazine.
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juries are not infallible in judgment and
prize giving is no easy work. 1t is i'm
possible except on general principles. to
make any statement at this time In regard
to what is done in other cities, but it can
be declared confidently and upon the best
authority that in both instances-that is,
this year and eighteen months ago. the
Corcoran juries rendered their decisions
and made their awards without prejudice
and without instruction. And it might be
added that as a rule there is no profess
sion in which fewer petty jealousies are
manifested than in that of painting.
THROUGH the Corcoran Gallery's exhi-
bition OF cotemporary American
paintings will be concluded tomorrow, 1t
need not be thought that the remainder
of the art season will be uneventful.
About the middle of February the Wash
ington Water Color Club will hold its
annual exhibition in the hemicycle hall
of the Corcoran Gallery. and in March
the Society of Washington Artists will
make its regular display. Later the Cap
ital Camera Club will probably hold an
exhibition in the same gallery we'll as
the Architectural Club. Meanwhile,
moreover, it is possible that a collection
of water colors by Boutet de Monvel will
be exhibited here by the Century Com
pany, and that one or more Of the we'll
known New York painters will hold ex-
hibitions in the Corcoran Gallery of their
works.
A MEETING of the National Academy
Aof Art was held in this city the Sth
instant and the following regents, NOM
mated by various art organiza tons, were
elected: Herbert Adams, president of the
National Sculpture Society; Theodore \.
Ely, president of the Pennsylvania Acad-
envy of Art: G. l.. Berg, director of the
art department of the Alaska-Yukon eX-
position; G. II. Hutchinson. president of
the Art Institute off Chicago; Theodore
Marburg, president of the Municipal Art.
Society of Baltimore: j. Piefpont Morgan,
president of the Metropolitan Museum,
New York: Walter Scott Perry, director
of fine and applied arts Pratt Institute,
Brooklyn: Henry Read chairman of COM
mittee city and county of Denver; Earle
Shane, Charleston, s. c.. H. Winthrop,
vice president OF the Copley Society,
Boston, and s. w. Weis, vice president of
the Art Association of New Orleans.
These newly elected regents, with those
already constituting the board among
whom may be named the Secretary and
assistant secretary of state. Senators
Lodge and Newlands Mr.. Freer of De-
troit, Mr.. Walters of Baltimore Mr. A.
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j. Parsons. Mr.. F.. d. Millet and Mr.. E.
Francis Riggs. will meet the 9th of this
month to form q permanent organization
and to arrange for a convention. TO be
held in this city In March, to form a
federation of art societies in the United
States. This convention was to have
been held this month. but. owing to the
pressure of other matters, has been de-
ferred until after March A. This Ma
tional Academy of Art holds a charter
from Congress, and it's object is the pro-
motion of art interest and knowledge in
the United States
HR. MEX WEYL has his studio at his
AVA home In r street this winter. and
there, since his return from Chicago. he
has painted, from sketches, several very
attractive pictures. Two are autumn
scenes, in which broad views are given of
open fields and wide stretches of sky.
groups of trees clad in bright -colored
foliage, giving in each instance accent and
interest to the compositions. The third Is
nocturne, or more truly q twilight pic
ture for the great full moon Is seen just
appearing above the horizon. Again the
composition is simple, but nicely adjust
ed. and the quality of mixed light is de-
lightfully rendered. These are all excep-
tionally fine paintings. Enthusiastically
strong, thoroughly individual, but full of
sentiment and genuine feeling.
MISS CATHERINE c.. CKITCHER,
w. who has a studio again in Washing
ton this winter after several years alb
sence abroad. will be represented in the
Pennsylvania Academys exhibition next
month by two portraits, and is proposing
to hold an exhibition OF her recent work
in this city, in the near future. She is
now finishing a portrait of q young girl
wearing a black hat with blue plumes
and simple white gown, seated upon a
sofa upholstered in old gold damask.
which is both picturesque and convincing.
Miss Criteher's style has a note of dis
tinction and her work a verility which is
very engaging.
7 Asst Monday afternoon Mr. Ernest
- Moore gave an exhibition of a num-
Der of his recent paintings at the studio
which he has taken temporarily on Con-
necticut avenue. Portraits of his wife of
Mrs. Shaler and Mrs. W. s. Bowen were
shown. together with those of DR.. Wiley
Mr.. Bailey Willis. Mr.. Ralph Cross john
son and Mr.. Head. And In addition to
these there were two moderate-sized
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A CORRECTION.

In The Stars review of Miss Ellen
Terry's The Story of My Life. printed
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NEW BOOKS.

OF MARYLAND; From
the Revolution to the Year 1908. by
Heinrich E.wald BuchholZ. Bait
more: Williams and Wilkins Com
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CURRENT NEWS AND NOTES OF ART AND ARTISTS

40 MORROW afternoon at 3
o'clock the exhibitions Of con-
temporary American paintings
and of the works in sculpture
of the late Augustus Saint Gau-
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marines, both done very lately. the one
cold blue picture of the sea. the other an
exquisitely colorful Interpretation of an
ocean sunrise. These. in a measure. Were
both done as playwork, and the latter
manifested especially the temperament OF
the painter. Not only was it clever, but
spontaneous and toneful-fresh in treat
ment and yet poetic in suggestion-a real
ly charming and accomplished piece of
work The portraits have been COM
mented upon previously. except the one
of Mr.. Ralph Cross Johnson, which had
not heretofore been shown. And il is
perhaps of all the best the most searching
and direct. Mr.. Moore has the faculty
of getting a likeness. but he is at the
same time a good painter-perhaps at
times a trif1e academic, but even then
sound and accomplished.
THE National Society Of the Fine
Arts will hold it's annual meeting
and election next Wednesday evening in
the Auditorium of the Masonic Temple. at
which time Prof. Otto Simons will give a
lecture on Handel, unsteady illustrated
Last winter for the first time the innova-
ton of a musical lecture was tried. and
with such success that il was directly de-
termined to repeat it. The subject last
season, however. was not Handel but
Beethoven. And why should not an art
society occasionally Widen Its boundaries
enough to include music, which is without
question not only one Of the great arts.
but closely akin to painting architecture
and sculpture.
NEXT Friday, January ~ Miss Grace
E. Atwater, secretary of the WASH
lngton Water Color Club. and Miss Lesley
jackson, who is also well known as a
water colorist. will sail on the s. S. Re-
public from New York for Spain. where
they will spend the rest of the winter In
the early spring they will probably go to
Italy and later to Brittany and England
remaining abroad for at least a year
This will mean a temporary loss to the
local art colony. but a future enrichment.
as one may look forward with pleasure BILE
anticipation to the results of the trip.
both Miss Atwater and Miss Jackson
knowing how to discover and interpret in
attractive guise the picturesque bits which
the average unseeing traveller passes by
A addition to the cOterie of local ar
lists is Miss Anna V. Hyatt. the
sculptor of animals. who is spending the
winter here and working at the Geological
fark- LEILA MECHLIN.
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