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The Cairo bulletin., 1909-02-23
SENSATIONAL PICTURE SHOWS.

During the last several weeks The
Bulletin has had something to say
about improper theatrical perform
ances. In line with this comment is
thief GLOWING editorial in yesterday:
Chicago Record-Herala:
by decision of the supreme
court OF Illinois the Chicago author
ties find the way clear for the sup
preston Of immoral and otherwis,
objectienable picture shows. 1t is K
be hoped that efforts to this eaaI WI
be probecdted to the limit and tha,
the city win be relieved and KEEP,
free from performances and exhibi
tons that exercise a pernicious influ
ence upon youth and appeal only tc
the morbid tastes of large percent
age Of the adults who patronizt
them.
Such exhibitions have existed il
large numbers and the efforts to regu
late and prohibit them have beer
fought with all the legal machiner,
and means at the command OF their
promoters. That such shows ara
profitable is not to be denied, and II
Is more than ever proved by the
energy of some of the show man
agers in antagonizing Interference
with their business. The very fact
of the profit there is in exhibitions
that appeal to debased tastes and In
culcate the spirit of initiating aud
emulating deeds of Violence accen.
tuates the demand that the city in
the interest OF public safety If moth
ing more. push repressiye measures
until all that is objectionable has
been eliminated. sH
Picture shows that depict innc-
The Cairo bulletin., 1909-02-23

Gent humor. tell stories withou
blood and thunder accompaniment
and portray actual scenes and events
throughout the world that tire elevat
ing In their nature serve a good pur.
pose. They have an educational
value ami they afford means OF enter
tainment for thousands of persons
who cannot AFFORD to attend even
the moderate price playhouses. Be-
tween the good and the bad the line
should be drawn sharply. The show
man who cannot make living within
proper bounds is a parasite entitled
to no consideration"
The Cairo bulletin., 1909-02-23
Biography.

Cuthbert Christy OF the University
of Liverpool. one of the most noted
authorities in the world on tropical
diseases. was born in England, Feb
utary %. 1863, and received his edu.
cation at the University of Edinburgh
AS a special medical officer of the
British army he went to India to
study the plague, and travelled extern
siveIy through the Punjab. Cashmere
ana Befuchistan. In 1902 he headed
the so-called Sleeping Sickness COM
mission sent by the British govern
nent to Uganda.
The Cairo bulletin., 1909-02-23

The Paducah city authorities anf
McCracken county authorities petit
toned the state board of health tc
lift the quarantine, and that body has
declined TO do SO for another week
So far as Cairo. Mound City AMI
Mounds are concerned 1t is all right
AS for Paducah, that city probabl,
has had profitable experience dur
ing the last three weeks. Her sensi.
BILE citizens can not fail to see that
their city has cut somewhat ridicu-
lous figure in the eyes OF the outs. de
world--first, as the baby crying fur
its rubber teet. out of which 1t got a
great deal Of satisfaction for time,
but very little substance. and now as
the man who has caught the bear and
is yelling for some one to help hi,n
let go.
The Cairo bulletin., 1909-02-23
TODAY IN HISTORY
ISIVSySVYvsTSIvSTyyVTvSyVi
February %.

l179-Vincennes captured by an ex
petition under CLARK
.i7sl-George Taylor. one of the sign
ers of the Declaration OF indie
pendence. died at Easton, Pa
Born in ireland l716
lS3G-SaRta Anna invested San An,
tonic after its dismahtlement
by Gen. Sam Houston.
lS6l-Gen. Twiggs surrendered fed
eral property in Texas. valued
at $l,200,000, to the Confed-
eracy
ls70-A bin In congress admitting
MISSISSIPPI 10 representation
was approved.
lS71-Capt Il. 8. Jenkins, deputy
revenue collector, assassinated
at New Madrid, Mo
Funeral ceremonies in New
York City OF the remains Of
the victims of the Jeanette
Arctic disaster
The Cairo bulletin., 1909-02-23

The aldermen who went to New
Orleans as guests OF Contractor WI.
liams are all honest men, but they
are not avoiding the appearance OF
are not avoiding the appearance of
evil--to the extent that one may ex.
peet public servants to do, who are
sensible as we'll as honest. Mr.. WI.
liams has large contracts for
street paving In Cairo. He
got them not because he was
good looking or a good fellow, or
a shrewd manipulation, but because
In a fair. open competition ne was
the lowest and best bidder. So far as
is known, there is no good reason
why he. should feel under obligations
to anyf member of the city council,
and II would have been better If that
popular idea had been left undis hirbed.
1t Is probably safe to say that this
New Orleans trip at Mr.. Williams
expense Is merely the thoughtless.
ness or the rashness OF innocence
ness OF the rashness Of innocense
and win be construed otherwise only
by the~evli-minded. But Satan could
find followers in heaven-that prob.
ably WIS Why he was, sanished.tF r
The Cairo bulletin., 1909-02-23

A weil.lnown lecturer is foolins
away his time giving q lecture or
Turkey. Why shouid married mer
attend lecture like that? Don't theil
wives talk Turkey to EN- every night
q II q
II you want 10 go to Joyville take
the Smiling high road past Gladstone
creek. Keep to the right all the way.
II You meet poor woman with a
basket. carry il for her. When you
meet a man. say sHowdy" II you
stub your toe, whistle. IL IL rains.
Groom a song. II YOU are Geld. run q
little and think about something that
will make your heart glow. II the way
is long. recall how YOU trudged
every Sunday night up to your best
girls house and never got tired. II a
dog barks at you, don't throw atche
at him. Snap your. fingers and saw
Good doggie," III YOU feel like cry
ing. laugh instead IL you can do. all
this. you'll get TO 10! Vile. all right -
and It's about the only way you even
will get there.
The Cairo bulletin., 1909-02-23
January Circulation.

olss..ss s...ss.. Z3bU
The above is correct statement OF
the circulation of The Cairo Bulletin
farthe year 1908 and for the month of
January, 1909. =
CLYDE SULLIVAN,
Business Manager
Subscribed and sworn to before me
this Bird day Of February, 1909.
LEO J. KLEB.
Notary Public.
The Cairo bulletin., 1909-02-23

1t is very interesting to note how ma
tiohal qualities and characteristics express
and reveal themselves through the pocket,
how much of nations spirit may give
itself body and substance, NAV become OBJ
jectiye, through the manner in which it
uses its purse. A great while ago an old
writer and keen observer of life said: ''The
love Of money is the root of all evil" And
by this sentiment this very notable man
simply meant that money was large me-
dunn through which life revealed and ex-
pressed itself, that the uses of it told much
of the story of life.
The Cairo bulletin., 1909-02-23
OFFICIAL DIRECTORY.
Cairo, Alexander County, Illinois.
Population 16,147.

Cairo, Alexander County, Illinois.
Population 16,147.
Clerk. r. A. HATCHER.
Treasurer. THOMAS Il. MAHONEY
City Attorney, FRANK MOORE.
Comptroller. ERNEST WORKMAN.
Police Magistrate. A. J. ROSS.
Chief of Police. NJ. s. EGAN.
Alexander County, Population 27,467
County Clerk. JESSE f. MILLER.
Circuit Clerk. ALFRED BROWN.
Sheriff. FRANK +. DAVIS.
States Attorney. ALEX. WILSON.
County Superintendent of Schools,
PROF. s. f. GOTT
Assessor and Treasurer. FRED D.
NELLIS.
Board of County Comm ssioners.
j. j. JENNELLE, Chairman,
c. V. NEFF. -
DIR. EDWIN CAUSE.
The Cairo bulletin., 1909-02-23
Intensity
of Life
igh.Pressure
Living Driving
to Suicide
BY GUGLIELMO FERRERO.
Noted Italian Historian Now In America.

The epidemic of suicides which seems to be
sweeping America is caused mainly by the strenuous
life led here 1t is very very difficult get into the
soul of who has taken his own lfe The n-
tensty of life in this country is certain to be fol-
lowed by somewhat corresponding longing for
death. 1t is only psychological reaction Amer-
cans however sleep too little and this very likely has
something to do with it, The nerve centers are never
relaxed. In this country | understand there is a
great increase of nervous diseases aid neurashena
People are all trying to keep up appearances"
as You say The struggle to do this is hear-breakng
In ancient times the world was not nearly so rich as
to-day, but economic conditions were much fairer.
Now the world is richer but the contrasts hntween
The Cairo bulletin., 1909-02-23
CIRCULATION STATEMENT.

Average number of complete
and perfect copies OF the
Cairo Bulletin printed daily
and Sunday during the year
1898 ............. $50. .2Os4
Average nunieber OF complete
ana perfect copies OF The
Cairo Bulletin printed daily
and Sunday during the month
of January 1903 ........... 2422
The Cairo bulletin., 1909-02-23

There seems to be a strange weakening
in the whole habit and science of intellec-
tual war. And, like most things that de-
cay, it begins, as il were. to die at both
ends. Thus in the same way religion gem
orally breaks up into skepticisrn and sn-
perstltion simultaneously Thus the old
dignity and deccncy of patriotism have
been threatened by two heresies. one which
SAYS that you should love all other countries
and conquer them, while the other saws that
You should love all other countries and let
them conquer YOU. Similar has been the
fate of the true idea of fighting. whether
The Cairo bulletin., 1909-02-23

pies between her
firmly pressed fin.
&c tips. such a
headache-and In
threshing time!"
go right to
your room, dear,
commanded Lucy,
her sister and
guest of honor on
the great Iowa
farm. Go straight
to bed and leave
II all to me. !
will prepare din.
ner for the men.
NJ rs. Ramsey
d r o ppe d h er
hands and looked
aghast at the
neat, pretty figure
from the netrop-
oils.
"Oh, you needn't
stare at me In
that fashion. dear,
! know what you
are imagining.
You think just. be, .
cause ! am from
the city and a
stenographer that
| don't know how
TO cook! Now.
you DO as I tell /
you. Go TO bed, |
put a hot.water |
cloth on your |
head and try sleep |
Ing off that head. |
The Cairo bulletin., 1909-02-23

ache. And whatever you do aont
worry"
With some missivings. deadaned
somewhat by the terrible throbblng
In her brain. Mrs. Ramsey pulled her.
self ap the long stairs OF the great
farm house. Creeping into her room,
she threw herself upon the bed.
For time she listened anxiously.
Down below she heard encouraging
noises In the kitchen. Little BY little
the pain ceased and she was soon fast
asleep. Al dusk when the threshers
came senrryiug into the yard, some
in wagons, others astride harnessed
horses, Mrs. Ramsey slept ON unmind.
full ta,
The threshers, dirty and hungry
washed at the pump some of them
who had broken bread at the Ram
sey table, mentally picturing the
spread which they were to enjoy. At
last they were ready. Filing into the
dintng-room ravenous beyy OF men
stood transfiXed. Lucy's meal curf
sisted OF sailed waters stacked criss
cross, an individual dab of cottage
cheese, lettuce sandwich for each
man, a cup of cocoa and buttonhole
boquet tied daintily with bunch OF
baby blue ribbon.
Q o @
Two Views of Marriage.
Tive Views Of Marriage" was pub.
iished early in the last century. Married
persons are directed to read the lines as
they are printed single once are to reAe
the first and third lines then the second
and finally the fourth In each verse.
That man must lead happy life
who's freed from matrimonial! chains:
Who is directed by his wife
Is sure 10 suffer for hio pains.
Adam could ind no solid peace
When Eve was given for a mate
Until he saw u woman's face
Adam was IN a happy state
In all the female face appear
Hypocrisy. deceit and PRIDE
Truth. darling Of a heart sincere,
Ne'er known In woman to reside.
What tongue is able TO unfold
The falsehood that IN woman dwells7
The worth IN women we behold
Is almost imperccphble.
Cursed he the foolish man, | say
Who changes from his siuglenoss:
Who viii not Yield 10 woman's sway
Is sure Of perfect blessedness
Author Ifnkuntuu
The Cairo bulletin., 1909-02-23
Bluff
and Noise
Modern
Weapons
By @. K. CHESTERT0N.

physical or mental Most attempts the thing full of
idiy of bullying and these two truth the being the
atropc forms OF the modern mobdy the habit of admir-
Ing power rather than valor That word wy
stirring 1t putting full struggle
settlement the translation Of beg for
you are WORTH On most political platforms in newspapers
ana magazines observe that there present
either avoid or conduct it by mere bluff
and Evasion and the onv pvra-
The Cairo bulletin., 1909-02-23

uTcHts x man must be deaf 70 his opponents argu-
ments; he may be deaf and silent and this is called
dignity; or he may be deaf and noisy, and this ia
called 'sashng journalism" But both these things
are equally remote from the fighting spirit which in
wolves an interest in the enemy's movements in order
to parry or to pierce them.
The good conyersationalist is good listener: he
learned in the arguments of his adversary he wish
es to have every word Of the speech which he to an
swer The object Of fighting is to hit. not MERELY to
hammer. The swordsman who can only keep up a
clatter with his own sword on the other sword is as
weak as he who drops his own sword ana runs away
from the other And most of the gladiators Of our
press at present are of one type or the other.
The Cairo bulletin., 1909-02-23

rrnProvso 1soss Irim5aer.
A hedge trimmer. operattd on the
prineiple OF a BARRIERS clippers. has
been patented By resident Of Oregon.
The Cairo bulletin., 1909-02-23

luxury and poverty very garng Many immigrants,
ignorant of the language without funds rela-
tes unable employment discouraged
struck me the fact that persons in the soae lower classes
society taking their lives period in ancient
tory where suicide the
times the did
htical reasons than for anything else.
The Cairo bulletin., 1909-02-23

The Bulletin Ia on sale at the fol
lowing places:
Coleman's, ga Eighth Street. ,
Halliday House News Stand.
Blue Front Restaurant.
The Cairo bulletin., 1909-02-23
CAIRO IN 1875 .
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
lFrom The Cairo Bulletin published
by John II. oberiy).

Owing TO the prevalence of small
pox In the city, Mayor Winter re.
quested all persons not aleardy vac
cinated, to be yaccinated at once, and
stated that the city would pay for
those unable to pay.
The Cairo bulletin., 1909-02-23

Nest Deadly Of PoIsons.
Prussic acid poisons even living
Thug plapts as well as anituala
The Cairo bulletin., 1909-02-23
| WIS xlaH''

How Lucy Fed the Hungry.
"Oh. such a headache" cried Mrs.
Ramsey, holding her throbbing tenn
The Cairo bulletin., 1909-02-23

The Taylor Literary Society gave
an entertainment at the Atheneum OF
the evening of May 2ist for the bene.
fit of the Woman's Club and Library
Association. Among the artists who
took prominent parts in the program
were John s. Aisthorpe and John s
Hacker.
The Cairo bulletin., 1909-02-23

Early on the morning of May 18th
the furniture store of Henry Rich
noff, then on the site of the DR. Rem
dleman building on Commercial ave
nue., near Seventh street. was burned
out. The fire extended to the adjoin.
ing building on the south, doing con,
siderable damage. The loss was es
timated at $4,000.
The Cairo bulletin., 1909-02-23

John Clancy was nominated by the
mayor for the position of City Jailer,
and was confirmed by the city coun-
ell on May H.
The Cairo bulletin., 1909-02-23

Nick Cantwell. who had recently
purchased the old Freeman Hotel
southeast corner of Fifth and Walnut
streets, had the building torn down
for the purpose of building cottages
on the site.
The Cairo bulletin., 1909-02-23
o O o
Slivers of Thouuht

The melancholy days seem to have
given way for the coal scuttle days.
Some time am going to make my for.
tune By inyentIng a furnace that will
eat its own ashes
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-10-26
INSURGENTS ENLIST
DEMOCRATIC VOTES
viii Attempt TO Gust Speaker
al Present Term

Minneapolis, Mimi, Oct &c. - The
insurgent Republican congressman
In combination with Democratic
members of the house, will attempt
to oust Joe Cannon as speaker at the
next session. Congressman Charles
r. Davis of the Third Minnesota dis
trict, who conferred with other Min.
nesota members here, said the anti.
Cannon men would not wait for the
Sixty-seeond congress. He believes
they can Dust Speaker Cannon during
his present term, and they are al
ready outlining their plan of action.
Congressman Davis says all the In.
surgents want is an opportunity, and
he believes the opportunity will
come. "The plan for the removal of
Cannon involves n question of parlia-
mentary procedure, and Cannon, as
speaker. will have the upper hand in
the beginning of the fight" he said.
"An investigation has convinced us.
however, that speaker Of the house
can be removed. and Cannon will be
removed II the insurgent Republi
cans, with the Democratic minority,
can bring about such result"
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-10-26
COOLLY DESCRIBES
SLAYIkG OF WIFE
Otto Mueller Clears Mystery Of
Annie LuthGr'S Death.

New York, Oct. &C. otto Mueller,
who, under the name of Fred Geb.
hardt, was arrested at Astoria l.. l.,
for the murder of Annie Luther,
whose skeleton was found week
ago last Sunday nisht in the woods
near lslip, l.. J., has confessed that
he shot Annie Luther IN tho woods
near Bay Shore on April ., 1908. :
Il told Annie Luther" confessed
Mueller, "out at Bay Shore thai was
married and had wife and two chill.
dren, and that ! must leave her and
go back to my wife. ! had taken her
down to Ba- Shore to show her some
property. She screamed and ran af.
ter me. She kissed me and pulled
me back. shot her then. did not
look at her after that and | don't re.
member whether | shot her more
than once. left her in the woods
after | shot her and went over to the
Islip station and came home threw
the revolver out of the car window
on the way home"
For just a little more than year
and half from the SUNDAY that
Mueller shot Annie Luther he and
his wife, Annie Merger, and their two
children. have lived in the History
frame house in Astoria. Nothing
seemed to bother Mueller, except
that he seemed to be money mad"
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-10-26
WORST is YET TO COME
English Suffragette Tells What the
Women Are Ready to Do.

New York, Oct. 20. - A Carnegie
hall audience, TO most of whom the
question of woman suffrage had hith.
erto meant a matter OF academic dis.
cussion or the more or less amusing
pranks OF band of yellow bedecked
limelight seekers, heard Mrs. Emme-
line Pankhurst tell what militant
methods really are.
1--WE have been severely criticised
for using what has been described as
force, but ] want to say right here
that worse things than have hap
pened may happen II the government
drives us too far We are prepared
to go just as far as they drive us.
We are willing TO take all the odium
that may be attached TO us because
we are sure that our cause is a Just
one. There are hundreds of women
who are ready to 30 to prison and
ready to submit to that last ordeal OF
starvation to the edge of death, II
necessary"
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-10-26
NERVOUS
TROUBLE CURED
A Wisconsin Case in Which the
Merits OF the Tonic Treat.
ment Were Well
Shown.

There is absolutely no way Of reaching
the nerves with medicine except through
the blood The nerves receive all of
their nourishment and support from the
blood which, under healthful conditions,
carries the elements needed to rebuild
wasted nerve tissues.
Let the blood become deranged and
deficient in these elements and the
nerves will be badly nourished aud
headaches, neuralgia, sciatica, func-
tioual paralysis and II host of other ner-
vous troubles may result.
The tonic treatment with DIR. Will
liams' Pink Pills consists in building up
the blood and through it restoring
strength to the starved nerves. Cures
made Il this way are not temporary for
as long as the blood is pure aud rich
there is no fear of Il nervous breakdown.
Miss Elsie Peterson, of II, +. ID. No. 9,
Houlton, Wis, advises all nervous suf-
ferers to give DIR. Williams Pink Pills q
trial. She says:
MY sickness followed a fall and grew
steadily worse although was treated by
doctor for some time. l was extremely
nervous and had severe pains in my
back and side. Later / suffered with
cramps in the stomach, which nothing
was able to relieve. My head ached
every day and L had dizzy spells. My
eyes twitched and seemed TO be losing
my sight. They became so affected that
l could not see across the room.
After had given up the Doctors
medicine was advised by u neighbor to
try DR. Williams Pink Pills. soon be-
gan to feel better and the nervousness
gradually left me. AS my nerves be-
came stronger l had no more trouble
with my eyes. can now eat and sleep
well. DIR. Williams Pink Pills are GER
tainly grand remedy"
Every nervous sufferer should have a
copy of our booklet, Diseases of the
Nervous System"
Dr. Williams Pink Pills are sold by
all druggists, or sent, postpaid, on re-
ceipt of price, so cents per box: six
boxes for $3.50, by the DR. Williams
Medicine Company, Schenectady, N Y.
They are guaranteed to be free from
opiates or any harmful drug and cannot
iniure the most delicate system.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-10-26
SAY MACK fAV0RS HARMON
Democratic National committeeman's
Friends Discuss Situation.

Democratic National committeeman's
Friends Discuss Situation.
Buffalo, N. Y, oct. 20. 49, The Ma
tlonal Monthly, owned by Norman f.
Mack chairman Of the Democratic
national committee, gives much
space in its November issue to an
article by Judson Harmon, governor
OF Ohio, in which he bitterly assails
the Republican administration on ac.
count of new tariff and other alleged
political iniquties.
Governor Harmon was the chief
speaker at Democratic day ut the
Texas state fair at Dallas on oct. lG,
and his address there, taken in con.
nection with his artscle In Chairman
Mack's National Monthly, has given
rise to the statement in political
quarters close TO Mr. Mack that the
chairman of the national committee
is through with Bryan as a presiden-
tial possibility and is now grooming
the Ohio governor for the contest for
the nomination in 1912.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-10-26
THE MEAT OF IT

Mrs. r. X. Hawley of Cleveland.
o., died on board the steamship Ced-
ric while en- route home from Europe.
One man was killed and four in
iured in boiler explosion at the
Pabst brewery, Milwaukee.
James A. Goff. Massachusetts
trapper, has announced that he. will
present Mrs. Taft with a coat made
entirely Of skunk skins.
Five men were injured In prema-
ture dynamite explosion at the Ohio
Iron and Steel plant at Lowellgille, o.
Louis Wanner. weary OF life
through long illness, leaped to his
death from the suspension bridge at
Cincinnati. o.
Mrs. j. j. Chilberg. wife OF Seat
tie banker, is minus $4,000 worth of
jewels which her husband by mis-
take threw from the window of a
car en- route from Seattle to San
Francisco.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-10-26
Deafness Cannot be Cured

by local applications. as they cannot
reach the diseased portion of the ear.
There is only one way to cure deaf
ness, and that is by constitutional
remedies. Deafness Is caused by an
iEhamed condition OF the mucous lin
Ing OF the Eustachian Tube. When
this tube is infamed You have a
rumbling sound or imperfect hearing.
and when 1t is entirely closed, Deaf
ness is the result, and unless the in
fammation can be taken out and this
tube restored to its normal condition,
hearing win he destroyed forever; nine
cases out of ten are caused by Ca
tarrh, which is nothing but an in
famed condition of the mucous sur
faces.
We will give One Hundred Dollars
for any case of Deafness (caused bs
catarrh) that cannot be cured by
Halls Catarrh Cure. Send for circu.
lars. free.
+. J. CHENEY A. CO, Toledo. o
Sold by Druggists. 75c.
Take Halls Family Pills for con-
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