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The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1909-01-20
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Also to Tourist points In Florida,
Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas and
New Mexico. Tickets sold daily un.
III April Goth. good returning until
May 31st, 1909.
]. II. JONES,
Ticket Agent. Cairo. III.
A. II. HANSON.
Passenger Traffic Manager.
8. @. HATCH,
General Passenger Agent
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1909-01-20

some people have an idea that rney
can't be sincere without saying disa
greeable things to their friends.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1909-01-20

If onehalf the world doesn't know
how the other hah lives. II ought 20
be informed that the process is the
simple one OF not paying its bills
Chicago Daily News.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1909-01-20
RECEIPTS AND SHIPMENTS.

Chicago, Jan. 19,-The following
car loads represent the days move
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1909-01-20

A company is now being organized
In Germany with a preliminary CAPT
tai OF sl25.OO0 to- establish a line OF
passenger airships between the prin-
eipal capitals of Europe. backed by the
krupps and by leading bankers.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1909-01-20
MISCELLANEOUS.
SITUATIONS WANTED

Advertisements of not exceeding
three lines will be accepted free for
one weeks time from any reader of
The Bulletin to be filed by advertiser
in person, on regular form, at the of
flee of The Bulletin Company, 705
Ohio street. The Bulletin Company
assumes no responsibility for any add
vertisemeit or statement made there
in and will not accept under this
heading the notice Of any person
known to be employed.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1909-01-20

FOR SALE Or LEASE.

FOR SALE, LEASE. OR RENT
Two story brick building with base.
ment, 903 Ohio street. Thos. w. Gan
non.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1909-01-20
FOR SALE.

FOR SALE-Two milk cows. In.
quire 3015 Sycamore street
FOR SALE OR RENT-SiX-room
modern cottage at 300G Elm street.
Bargain If taken this month. Apply
2G0l Commercial avenue.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1909-01-20

WANTED-Positlon as nurse in
confinement cases. Apply lilo Cedar
street.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1909-01-20

The bishop Of London's evangelis-
tic committee has started its outdoor
campaign and win hold meetings every
Monday evening in Hyde Park. Lon
don. the plan being to extend the work
If IL proves successful in this place.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1909-01-20

A mining journal published at
Scranton has been calling attention %
the curious fact that in coal mining
communities there Is a marked de-
ficiency in the mortality from tuber-
culesis as compared with that of other
localities
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1909-01-20

SITUATION WANTED - House
keeper or care of children by reliable
elderly white woman. Address Mrs.
Kelley, 2S14 Commercial avenue.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1909-01-20
Alexander
County National
Bank
Commercial Avsnss and Eighth ssrssa
CAIRo, ILLiNOTA
OFFICERS

Accounts u corporations and Inaivf1.
uals especially solicited. Exchange
Furnished 70 any part u the world.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1909-01-20

Yer Freiehs and Passage spp,y ~
isslHszy q Phillips whsrfsest Cairo
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-12-26

rung for the last time before his store his character had faded away as completely as the dying tones of his business. His old ag- grsssiveness had been replaced by servile humility.
 Friend Comes to Rescue.
 Thinking he had lost the old selling ability acquired on the road he soon was back at his first trade on a bookkeepers stool. For three years he scratched away at unintersst- ing figures and might be there yet if one of his old road friends had not lifted him out of his breeding regret and put enough ginger into his wilted ambition to induce him to apply for a sales job with his house. Today the once defeated clothier is the second best salesman for his house. Three years of high salaried work were lost to this man because he did not appreciate his own ability or know how to look for position.
 man should always look for work in busi- nesses with which he is familiar. And then there are two factors to be considered to- gether-never separately One Is present compensation, the other is future prospects. And until a man feels that he has secured the best possible combination of the two he should not cease searching for the right opening He has nothing but his services to sell. He should husband and exploit them as carefully as does the employer his wages.
 A college graduate found himself In Chi cago the first of last July with few college unwearables, an ambition to go into the real estate business, and 30 cents. He was in desperate circumstances, but was resolved that he would accept nothing but position in a real estate office of the right sort. It looked as if he would have to take anything, however, when he broke the half dollar for a Sunday paper and found not an opportunity of his kind listed. His eye did catch, though,
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-12-26

unfamiliar jobs because they have not learned to sell themselves.
 The men who line up to the newspaper de livery windows for the first sheets--wet from the presses-and race each other to the help wanted" advertisers are energetic, but because they persist in scrambiing along with inc mob their applications are accepted from that commonplace point of view. The man who makes an appeal striking enough to lift himself Above the cfpWd ge<s the Job, and fae disappolnted Job hunters Ehhihe home to repeat the same old methods the next day.
 One day last week e State street depart ment store advertised for department man ager Among the twenty men who saw and answered that advertisement nineteen of them clapped on their kats and rushed to the employment office. The other man stepped Into telephone booth and, getting the SUI perintendent on the phone. said: By D o'clock there probably will be a dozen men in your office looking for that job you adver- tieed this morning. Before you make q de- cision 1t will pay you to see me. will call on you at 10:30-after you have talked with all the others" And before the surprised superintendent could demur the applicant with the new approach had hung up his re- ceiyer. When the man sent in his card at exactly 10:SO the superintendent realized, for the first time, that he really was waiting for this card, that he actually had obeyed the unknown applicant, and that he had not yet made a selection from the nineteen men who had called on him. But he couldn't turn down this one-and he didn't want to.
 There are thousands of jobs waiting for men with the courage to come along and demand them. The weakness of many em- pIoyeS is that they haven't the proper esti- nation of their own ability About five years ago middle aged man failed in the clothing business in Omaha. It was a crushing de- feat for him, and when the auction bell had
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-12-26

reached down, and leaning far over, caught the child up by her hair. I swung her up beside me, and, at the stopping of the train. set her down with the bidding to run along home"
 Barney oldf1eld. the famous automobile driver, once gave a locomotive engineer nervous moment out in Indiana. Oldfield was out for road record. and was tearing down the road like mad toward a railroad crossing. He saw train coming, but he figured that he could get across the tracks moment ahead of its arrival. Too late he saw that the train would reach there the moment he did, and that he was in danger of losing his life. His machine and the locomo- tive met, but at exactly the right moment he turned in the direction the train was going. ran up over the cowcatcher. across the path of the train, and to safety in a ditch on the other side of the track. The train went on without even slowing up.
 Among stories of heroic nerve and devo- ton to duty none surpasses that of an en- gineer on the Lake Shore a few years ago, who, while buried under the wreck of his engine, tightly pinned, while steam was blowing ali over him. ordered his fireman who was trying to aid him, to leave him and flag No. T. which was then almost due. The others had forgotten that another train was rushing on to destruction. but this heroic engineer did not forget. It Is of such stun that heroes are made.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-12-26

essary The pearl button manufacturer may get 12 cents a gross for coat shirt buttons, or he may get $S a gross for the globulaP buttons--when they come into style again.
 Taking this coat shirt button as an ex- ample. think of IA of them sewn F or A to the card, polished front and back, bored with two to four thread holes. and yet sold for eight-ten-thousandthso of cent apiece! But on a cheap coat shirt, cheap pearl button costs no more than this to the wholesale shirt maker who stitches 'em on for the laundry girl to iron of. There are billions of clans yet and the thinnest edges of the shell will make coat shirt button.
 With the price of clam shells up to $20 Q ton along the Illinois river. however. it isn't cer- tain how long the poor clam will stand the rakings of the shell hunter. In the mean time we must have buttons for those coat shirts It seems to be up to the clam.
 With the clam multiplying as he has been doing, the button business has been growing faster in order to supply tho needs of the coat shirt At Keokuk, Ia, recently a big plant started up. merely to cut the button cores :" from the clam shell, shipping these cores by the ton to eastern button anishers.
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 Corine Machine Merely Adapt ation.
 These coring machines are adaptations of the core drill. used in mining operations They are hollow tubes of steel with saw teeth around the cutting edge, and the opera tor manipulating the clam shell. the button cores are cut through and crowd out into receptacle at the top of the tube
 For the flat buttons an automatic machine receives the cores, polishes them on both sides, drills the thread holes, finishes them, and delivers them, counted, ready for the stitching upon the card The standard fiat button machine costing $1 900 will finish and count 100 gross of these buttons in an eight hour day, and there are button factories which operate forty of these machines.
 LpNNk There's no machine for that. Only the needle and thread of the hand sewer is effective But carding buttons is simple matter, and in the button manufacturing towns there Is a population element willing to earn little pin money from the work. A child years old can sew a dozen buttons on card, and to encourage the work the factory issues counted buttons and cards to these workers, allowing them to take the factory product to their homes. where the work is done.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-12-26
By DONALD L. KINNEY.

on an advertisement for man to work in a railway baggage room from o'clock in the evening until midnight That evening he began work at 25 cents an hour. With the dollar day thus earned he managed to pay for his board and room for ten days and was enabled to look for that particular job he wanted during office hours.
 Sncsess Not Result of Luck.
 At the end of the ten days search he found the job, took it, worked nights for the rail- way company for week longer, and now IS making good so rapidly with the aged mem bers of the Arm that after the first of the year his, name will also appear in gold letters on the firm door. His success is not the re- suit of luck but of 8 definite method of hunt ing job.
 Of course, this young fellow might have saved himself the necessity of overall work if he had taken an earlier step in his job hunting and either secured job or lead to one before his graduation. But many men have Leen lured into foreign fields which they wish trey never had eeen because they did not first make an investigation of possible prospects before they went there.
 Some time after the civil war young Buff falo dry goods clerk decided that he wanted to build his future in the sunny south, where it never showed, and accordingly took the train for New Orleans. In two days be found that Yankee could not then buy job, that clerks had at least to speak some French, that the proprietors themselves could walt. on most of the trade in that blasted period, and that everything and every one was against a northerner looking for work It was year before he was able to get back to Buffalo. where he took his old job at S2 less week.
 The wise man, looking for job in new
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-12-26
lob Hunting A Satisfactory Results

paper information was supplemented with reports from banks, collection agencies, state reports, and finally by personal talks with persons who had visited the coast and had secured intimate and unprejudiced impress sions of the country. When all this was done, and not until then. the prospective sst- tier felt justified In looking for a position
 q y Guns Trained on Possibilities. {, when he had determined that there were at least three cities which offered nearly equal opportunities for his advertising abil- ity, he trained his guns on possible employers for the first time. His first shot was in the form of | white n,argined advertisement in the classified columns of the leading papers in the three cities. Two days later all the advertising agencies and larger business houses received short letters calling their attention to the advertisement and saying that a second and more detailed letter would follow in i've days. It did. and that double barreied campaign for a job drew replies 100 of them.
 The young man stiIl played his cards with clever hand. and the result was that he.not only checked every effort to rush him to a decision but succeeded in influencing the most of the possible 100 employers to hold open their offers until he made these men personal visit, two weeks hence. When he finally landed on the San Francisco railroad platform his family and baggage around him. he was not one of the unfortunate un- employed" but much sought man. Nearly fifty concerns were bidding for his services. A man who could so cleveriy exploit himself could certainly sell goods for them. and they were willing to buy him. The job that he now has is paying him 90 per cent more than even his former position. and his future Is as bright.
 Job hunting Is an unfortunate circumstance or a finely cultivated art. If you were up against 1t, what would you make oft
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-12-26

button itself. With the acceptanee-er tol- eration-of the coat shirt the chief work or the laundry began to be the smashing of pearl buttons
 new shirt, going to the laundry the first time with seven shell buttons up the front Of it, averaged three buttons remaining when 1t was returned At the third wash there were only the threads that once held the but tons in place. You can't buy anything but a coat shirt nowadays. with the result that the clam shell rakers are muddying the llli- nois and Mississippi rivers until in few years New Orleans will be so far from salt water that a refrigerator line will be neces-
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-12-26

they were saved by the quickness of Sam and his nerve"
 Nerve of Fiction Variety.
 Another hero in overalls recalled an inci- dent of nerve. It was on what Is now known as the Monon route" he said. " It was in the early days of railroading out there when the engine of one of the trains was deraied turning over on its side. The engineers foot was o0ught between the tender and the engine footboard. The scala ing steam and water were slowly roasting him to death while the trainmen were en- deavoring to release him. The only way was to cut his foot off at the instep, and the only tools were cold chisel and a hammer. He insisted that 1t should be done and while the conductor was using these rude tools the brave engineer encouraged him. Strange to say. he recovered and lived many years after ward, still running his engiue."-
 Well. boys" said an engineer who had been running on the Chesapeake and Ohio railroad for thrty-two years. " have per haps, been fortunate, and have never had what you would call any peculiar experi- ences. I never touch drop of liquor under any circumstances. yet I feel sure that if my train should meet with bad accident and
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-12-26
By EDWARD MAULEY.

a number of lives were lost. some newspaper reporter. and probably the general public would try. to lay the blame on me. and say that was drunk That is one of the things with which railroad men have to contend. The public has the idea that we are set of rough, hardened men. who care little for life. An engineer knows that his life Is in danger. and If he did not think anything of the pas sengers, he is not going to take any risk that he can avoid. If an accident does happen, his first thought Is to protect his train. If there is likelihood of another train coming in either direction. It is not so much thought of him self or the lives of his passengers as 1t Is of his duty"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-12-26


 M several exhibitions of nerve that
 A have a right to be classed among the heroic. One occurred about twelve years ago. on the Pennsy lvania lines west of Pitts burg Sam Galloway was one of the best en- gineers that ever drove an engine over any road. He not only knew all about an engine, and how to handle 1t. but he was perfectly cool and collected under all circumstances.
 He was hauling a fast train, and had left Pittsburg more than an hour late, with or dars to make It up. It was In the spring of the year, just as the ground began to thaw He was going at a fifty mile gait rounding the base of a hill-on one side was the hill and the other a creek. some forty feet below when he saw a great rock, which would weigh more than a ton. suddenly fall on the track short distance ahead of him. His first impulse was to apply the brakes, but there would not be time to stop, and 10 hit the rock seemed certain to topple engine and train into the creek.
 " Instead of reversing he pulled her open another notch or two. the train fairly jumping forward as 1t felt the increase of power. He struck the rock under full head way, drove it from the track rolling 1t down the side into the creek, while the engine and train fairly leaped over the broken rails. The blow was terrific, and Jolted passengers
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-12-26

country, studies his ground and lays his wires as carefully as the congressman in close territory. He determines. first If the country is really as lavish in its rewards as he has been led to believe. He then inquires if the opportunities for following his trade are as promising as the country, if the ch- mate will agree with him, If 1t is good place to rear his children, If living expenses are high or low, and all the more personal in- formation that he may want to know before he decides to shift his home to new scene. The securing of this preiinalnary information was probably never more thoroughly done than by young married man who has just accepted high saiaried position on the Pa cidc coast.
 Knew the Ground First. On account of his sick mother this young fellow learned three months ago he would have to move to the coast in q short time The removal meant agreat deal and would in many ways determine the limitations of his future. He was then climbing rapidly in fast growing advertising agency and felt that his greatest prospects lay with the com pany that he had materially helped on to moro than healthy business legs. The call to the coast however, was insistent, and he laid his first wires.
 These were in the nature of request to the government for reports on the agricul- iural, mining, forestry, canning. and miscei- laneous coast industries. From these he se- cured an unbiased and accurate report on the condition of the primary sources Of wealth. His next move was to write for the preparedness of railroads, cities, chambers of commerce, newspapers. and business houses. These he compared with the govern ment figures. secured more specific de- scription. and took out the elastic from ex- travagant claims. He readJusted his men, tai picture of the new country to match the information he had thus far learned. The
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-12-26
By IRWIN ELLIS.

sary to get oyst<s in fresh from the gulf.
 And the coat sh. t will have done the most of it. Several yea ago the Bulletin of the American Forestry association announced that the spring floods If the Mississippi river carry out every year. fTiore soil than will be dug from the entir ( Panama canal. This was before the upp Mississippi and the Illinois rivers were .irred to their depths to find shells enough co make buttons enough for the coat shirt. When the globular pearl button shall come in again and the coat shirt hunt continue. what won't become of the poor freshwster clam?
 Today the greatest fields for the fresh-
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-12-26

shirt waist the hook and eye with the hump reappeared. My friend closed his plant. I met him on the street the other day. how ever, and he was smiling.
 "They seem to be coming my way again" he said. Within six months I expect some- thing doing in the button line again. But" his face falling little. " clam shells in the last year have gone up from $10 to $20 a
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-12-26
Child Saved by Her Hair.

An old engineer on the Baltimore and Ohio railroad sald I had thrilling experience once. We had just left small town in Ohio and were going at good rate of speed,
 when I noticed several children playing near the track about sixty feet ahead. l blew the whistle several times and the chill dren scampered away, all except a little girl, who seemed fascinated by the onrushing train. put on the brakes. but saw that she would be run down unless something were done at once. Letting go of the throttle