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The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1909-08-20
SPECIAL ASSESSMENT notice.
Ordinance No. 200.

Notice Is aereby given to all per
sons interested, that the City Council
Of the Ci,y Of cairo. limos, has By
Ordinace No, 20), approved July 9oG,
A. y. 1909, ordered the improvement.
Ct Twenty first ana west Twenty fl Isl
streets from the west line CT Conner
cial avenue to the cast line e tfe
Mississippi i4cyae, in HE City of G i
70 County cf Alexander and Sta'e #
Illinois, ny the construction upon the
said TwentyGrst and West Twenty
frs streets, from he west tine G'
Ccmmescia. avenue 70 the east line
of the Mississippi E.cvcc, In sa d ~
Ct Cairo of yir,fied by OK paycm n-
with a combination concrete curb aaa
gutter on both sides Of said bri /;
pavement at the outside edges IF
said brick pavement and with nat1r-
al marginal CurbS set on both sides
Of the SAID Twcntyl.rst and West
Twentyirst streets at all uupavel
street intersections, ut the outsid >
edges Of said brick pavement and he
tween the inside edges Of the gutter
flags of said curb and gutter as eI-
tended around and out to the lot linz
on both sides Of said Twenty-first
and West Twentylirst streets. al said
uapaved street intersections and by
the construction upon the said TWEEN
ty-first and West Twentyhrst streets
of brick catch basins, and by the con
struction in he said West TWENTY
first street from tho brick manhole in
the present Twenty first street sewer.
said manholc being located thirty t3GD
feet west of the east liuo of HolbrCok
avenue to p0in. thirteen hundred
G360) feet west # The east line of
Holbrook avenue Of vitriHed tile pipe
sewer and by the construction in the
said West Twenty-6rst street Of five
(5l brick manholes aud supplying
cast-iron rings and cast-iron covers
therefor, and for the levy and colec-
tlOn Of n special tax assessment upon
contiguous property to pay for th'
said local Improvement. and that said
Ordinance 10. 2o0 - on file in the
Xfcc OF the city clerk of said city
of Cairo. and that the whole Of the cost
Of said Improvement. amounting 10 the
sum of ThirtYTwo Thousand 0ae
9undred and FiuyFlye Dollars AMI
Seventy -Four Cents ($32i55.74). is,
by The terms of said Or@lance M.
200, to be paid 70 special tax assess.
mcnt Ct the whole cost of said I'M
proyement. according to the benefits
and in accordance with the proyisiC MS
Of said Ordinance, ana an assessment
thereof having been made and re-.
turned to-. The said Court, the final
hearing thereon will be had at the
August Probate term Cf said County
Court, at the Court House in she CRY
Of Cairo, Illinois on Tuesday, thr
3tst day # August A. y. 1908, at thf
hour of Mae o'clock n. N, Of said dav.
or rs soon thereafter as the business
Of the Court win Dcrmit All person
desiring may nle objections in sail
Court before said lay and may th"A
ana there appear On .he hearing and
make thcir defense. The said rs
sessment is payable in ten install
lnents and all of said installmcnis
will bear etcrtst as provided by
statute, at the rate Of five per cen.
per annum.
Z Dated. Cairo, Illinois August 10th
/ A. -. 1909.
! WALTER Warbler,
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1909-08-20
CHICAGO LIVE STOCK.

Chicago. Aug t9.-CATTLE- Re
ceipts {. %. steady steers $500
7.S0. COWS and heifers 3.50G
calves staN2.75, stcckers Ell feed
ers 8.75G515.
Peceipts 1900: f0n Is
higher choice he Wy sSl5H p /.
butchers S1'GS -. light mived 775
GS00 chrico Hcbt SOa6S2'. pa"F
ing 7.,1N $50. hulk Of solcs 7G5n
$40.
SHT.EP Pe-eiuts ~ 600. Ice ~
lower -hr.Y sft3- SO. II uiis CO
6751 FcaJllres sa065 "a.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1909-08-20
NEW YORK MONEY.

New York, Aug. 19.-Money on call
steady 214@21a closing bid pa
Time loa"s very drll; sixty days 2M3
per cent; ninety days 3hm3la; six
months 1 per cent. Mercantile paper
4M41a. Exchange steady demand
siS6.65; sixty days 4S5O5d 1870.
Bar silver sos.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1909-08-20
EXCURSION BULLETIN.
SEASON 1909.
Central R. R.

DAtRC 70
Dawson Springs and return. =. ~ 30
Good six months
Cereieusn Springs and return. $40
Grayson Springs and return. SO
Marion, KY, and return. ....... Abs
Waukesha, Wis, and return. 1920
Detroit, Mich, and return. -. 1870
South Haven, Mich, and return 1850
Bay View, Mich, and return. Pass
Petoskey, Mich, and return. 24-35
Iarbor SPRINGS, Mich, and ret. "a go
st Paul, Mimi, and return. 1885
Denver, Colorado Springs or
Pueblo, Co., and return. -. f.45
Portland, Oregon and return. So. 10
San Francisco, Los Angeles or
San Diego. Cal. ...... e7.5o
Seattle and Tacoma. WASH. 50. 10
And many other points.
Tickets sold daily, commencing
June list, until September 30. and
good returning until October 81, 1909.
Inquiries cheerfuily answered.
J. H. JONES,
Ticket Agent, Cairo.
s.G.HATCH, Gan. Pass. Agt., Chicago
A.H.HANSON, Pass.Trsf.Mar.c hicsgo
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1909-08-20

1870 A. m, Memphis and NASHVILLE.
1925 a. m, Memphis and New Or
leans Limited.
600 a. m, Psducah and Louisville
1:41 p. m, Daily Memphis and New
Orleans. MA
1:41 p. m, Daily Nashville. Chatts-
nooga and Atlanta
4:30 p. m, Fulton and Nafield 40
commodation.
$50 p. m. Psducah and Louisville.
900 p. m, Memphis and New Or
leans Special,
For through tickets, sleeping car
accommodations and further informs
ton apply at Illinois Central Psssen-
ger Station. Cairo, I'll. e
J n. JONES, Ticket Agent
8. A. HATCH, G. p. A.
A. n. HANSON. Pass. Traffic Mgr.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1909-08-20
MINNEAPOLIS WHEAT.

Minneapolis Aug 19.-WHEAT.--
Septembcr closed 09aa 6t9912c; De
cember g5at m95ta; cash No. / north
prn: $50; to arrive 1885; No. ?
northern L@3; to arrive 101 y.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1909-08-20
Single Bessedness Loves Company.

Never marry bachelor girls clubs
never last long Every member who
gets chance ~ marry immediately
decides that tle otl r. jCet got M
the cl~b because they hadn't any
eh--"e end wanted coiHia;y Kansas
rIiy Tires
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1909-08-20
9outhsouns
ILLINOIS CENTRAL
Corrected to August ist, 1909.
THE FAST M1tL ROUTE. Y

1:15 q. m. Daily Chicago Vestihnls
Limited, arriving Chicago 1850 q. m.
2:12 a. m.,Daily St. Louis Night
Limited, arriving st. Louis 7:0S Q. m
Sleeping car open at $50 p. m.
3:20 a. M. st. Louis Special.
500 a. m, Chicago Daily Express,
500 g. m. 81. Louis Morning nx-
press, daily.
11:15 Il. m, at. Louis Fast Mall.
1115 a. m, Chicago Midday Special
2s5 p. m, Daily st. Louis Limited.
2:35 p m, Afternoon Express for
Odin. Effngham, Mattoon Champaign
$40 y. m, Thebcs Accommodation.
7.15 p. m. Chicago and Rasferu
Express.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1909-08-20
MONEY LOANED

10 any one on Furniture, Pianos, Etc.
Goods to stay in your possession.
Lowest rate, best terms.
st.oo per week pays back $1,000 loan
$3.50 per week pays back $500 loan
5000 per month pays back 5000 loan
and SO on. Nothing taken out In al.
vance. Legal rates OF interest. Bus-
ness strictly confidential. Call. write
" phone. Bell phone AS, Home 79l
" / ring,
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1909-08-20
SHERLOCK HOLMES.
n ALL ETC " ARUFR,
Commissioner.

Tired Tom (sadly)-Ah, that patch
tells me that my old pal. Flooding
Pete has been this way. Poor old
Pete!
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1909-08-20
WANT ED.

WANTED TO RENT-Four or FIVE
Dom cottage; modern improvements;
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1909-08-20

Yearly Record of Earthquakes
The worlds yearly record Of earth.
quakes is $4,000.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1909-08-20
Algerian Vineyards Superior,

The vineyards of Algeria produce
the greatest yield to the acre.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1909-08-20

st. Louis. Aug 10 CATTLE Re
eeipts 5000; native spring and ex-
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1909-08-20
; NOT WRONG.

Gracie-Do you think ii IS wrong to
bet on the races7
Cholly-No. not II you pstronize
some poor bookmsker who really
needs the u.onev
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1909-08-20
RECEIPTS AND SHIPMENTS.

Chicago, Aug. l9.-The following
car loads represent the days move
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1909-08-20
EAGLE LOAN BANK,

fnlnCOrporatci Nicholson Bros. Props
90 COM mercial Ave, opposite Opera House
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1909-08-20
Stocks, Bonds, Cereals

!. :. !. !.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-23
AYHAWKER JCTS

Don't be touchy.'' advises Tom
ways having his feelings hurt"
The Wichita Beacon says that AT
torney General Jackson acts as if the
Topeka club had black-balled him.
''It is not true" said Bill Sincaller,
that it takes two to have row.
can go down the street and get UP a
row any old time. "o--vinland Vine.
1t might be that the Marias des
Cygnes river would conduct itself in a
more Iadyl-ke manner ii given good
American name, thinks Walt Mason.
THE best missionary work any girl
can do says the Atchison Globe, rs
to help her mother" And yet" adds
the Hutchinson News, Elsie Sigel was
helping her mother christ1anize the
Heather Chinese"
Ottawa has been moving her Chau-
tauqua ahead for a few weeks each
year for some time now in order to
avoid the floods" says the Lawrence
Gazette. but the floods evidently are
onto the Chautauqua circuit, and keep
tab on the dates"
The Auchison Globe printed recently
the following: 1.-THE real dread of men
is not the devil. but old age. An old
gentleman who is considerably past 20
yesterday worked Il hours on farm
below town, picking peas He managed
to earn 81 cents. He needs a pair OF
shoes and is working to earn them.
The paragraph was reprinted In the
Lincoln CNeb) Journal which caused
citizen of that town to write the Globe:
IF the inclosed clipping is true, send
the name and address of the old gen
tleman to Box 1854. Station A, Lincoln,
Neb., and the price of a pair of shoes
win be sent. Sincerely. One Vino Feels
for the Aged" To this the Globe adds:
THE story was true. but the writer of
the item provided a pair of shoes as
soon as he heard of the case. And
Charley Bradley of Bradley & Ostertag
threw off something on the shoes in
order that he might have an extra good
pair
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-23

cussing the subject of sheath and
medieval gowns. and the relative
merits of cart-wheeI and peach
basket hats with a group of women.
TO have them all assert that they did
not see anything inherently funny in
either gowns or hats, nothing to
cause spontaneous laughter at any
rate. They looked shocked and
seemed to think it rather irreverent
handling of sacred subjects. But
when I was talking to a member of
the staff of this magazine about the
Illustrations, he said: L think we
exactly as they are. What's the use
Of caricaturinS a caricature p
still, that is not necessarily an
argument against women's deficient
sense Of humor. 1t may mean that
clothes are too vital and intimate an
interest in her life for her to be able
to view them humorousIy.
"a great queen was willing to go
down to posterity wearing hoop
skirt Nevertheless there was an
early Victorian simplicity and mod
esty about that rat-trap garb that has
nothing in common with the glazing
poster effects of today. Then, woman,
as a violet by a messy stone, Shrank
and buried her dropping head and
coy bushes in the deep shade OF the
sheltering poke bonnet. Then, the !
waiting LoVe-laee beheld the lady of
MS dreams auNd1lCS DIS a pd@cO4A
floating along the earth. its slender
stem crowned by large coal-seuttle. |
All Clarissas were alike in appear
ance, and it took keen eyes to tell
who was who. Thus the mystery OF
the inscrutable feminine was more
intact and inviolate than ever
But now woman scorns conceal
ment Mystery! She apparently |
abjures it. Fearlessly she emerges
seem to shrowd the curves of grace.
And there is not a line concealed,
lot a petticoat retained; and yet, oh
curious paradox she retreats behind
he revelation and remains as great a
MYSTERY as when she employs every
levfce of incognito. Has a bed-slat
'orm? Has telegraph pole shape 2"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-23
TARIFF TTNKERING.

Much of the publicity which has
been devoted in the news from Wash
ington over President Taft's efforts for
a revision of the tariff downward has
revolved around his ideas concerning
the necessity of placing various raw
materials on the free list or for de-
cided reductions in the existing tariff
schedules on these commo dities. It is
understood also that he seeks not only
to reduce the duties on these socaIIed
raw materials but he desires to have
moderated the high rates which have
been placed by both the senate and
the house upon manufactured articles.
It is to be sincerely hoped that he
will be successful in both of these
aims. If he should succeed in only
placing a few raw materials on the
free list or having the duties on them
lowered to a considerable extent, and
the textile schedules and other equal
ly Objectionable schedules are sub
stantialIy left unchanged, the result
would be nothing but a one-sided re-
vision downward out of which little
good would result to the general pub
lie. OF course free raw materials
would help out some and would be far
better than high tariffs on them, but
If the consumers of the country are to
get any relief through a revision of the
tariff there must be a decided looping
off of the schedules on manufactured
articles.
Recent reports from Washington
indicate, though, that if Mr.. Taft
secures any of the concessions he is
after, they will be yielded to him by
the conferees as the result of trades
and that the revision of the tariff
downward will not be along scientific
lines. Evidence abounds on every
hand at Washington that the revision
of the tariff by the conferees will be
the same old kind of tariff making
that has prevailed in congressional
levels ever since there has been such
a thing as tariff legislation One set
of congressman will make conc essions
on certain schedules if the schedules
in which they are particularly inter
ested are fixed to suit their fancy. This
means that the shrewdest dealers in
the tariff game and the selfish com
munities that have the strongest men
in congress are bound to get the best
of the argument. Such is not a pleas
ing outlook but it is an inevitable one.
And conditions will remain this way
in the making Of tariffs, whether con-
gress is controlled by Republicans or
Democratic matters not which
until a bona fide tariff commission is
created to handle this great subject as
it should be. A step to the creation
of such a commission is provided for
in the senate bill. It should be re-
ceived favorably by the house. It is
the one bright spot in the whole
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-23
GLOBE SIGHTS.
[From the Atchison Globe.1

LFrom the Atchison Globe
The stuff that melts in your mouth,
is never good for you.
A woman never loafs. However,
she shops, entertains and visits.
Take the average man of rs, old
and half sick, and what a faithful
husband he is!
Every three years, a new play ap-
pears based on a little, meek hus-
band, and big, bossy wife,
Nearly every woman seolds when
her husband helps himself to some
thing in the refrigerator.
The biggest nuisance is the man
who is always saying: You ought
to take something for that"
The man who is always making
good resolutions is at least better
than the man who is always doing
mean things.
There are number of disagree
able things to step in. But did you
ever have experience with chewing
gum
When real nice women speak of a
husband who is Not True to his wife,
they say the words in Mortified
whisper
A man is never discharged because
of old age so long as he does his
work as well as the average man in
the shop.
Do a creditabIe thing, and nobody
cares much. But if there is a Joke
on you, everybody Will become inter
ested at once.
If a man uses My dear as a han
die, he can coax anything from 4
woman except her poeketbook: To
win that, he must say it twice.
An Atchison woman is mad enough
all the time to engage in a fuss.
Awaken her at midnight. out of a
sound sleep. and she. would be ready
to scrap
The marriage service should be
amended: Some women don't seem
to understand that they should at
tend all the funerals for the family,
and write all the kin letters.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-23
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
[From the Chicago News. ]

IFrom the Chicago NeWs.1
kissing breeds microbes and matri-
nony.
Silence IS an argument that doesn't
appeal to women.
The hardened cynic delights in sitting
upon soft people.
And the man you hate is usually a
better man than you are.
The lazier a man is the easier Il is for
him to turn down a job
Real poverty may bring less misery
than marrying for money.
Your neighbors are very sure to come
down to your expectations.
Great genius nearly always has a lit
tie insanity mixed with it.
The man who makes himself great is
greater than the man who is born
great.
1t does lc ok as If the more experience
some people have the less they know.
And a man may be a winner even "a
he doesn't Win--providing he doesn't
lose.
Men seldom envy a man whose wife
is so homely that he isn't Jealous OF
her.
Few men are able to stand prosperity
il is said. Well they don't have to:
they are in position to sit down and
take it easy.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-23
HAS A BED sLAT FoRArq

The August American Magazine
contains an article entitled 1.-THE
Fantastic Feminine" by Mrs Wilson
Woodrow. It is illustrated with
photographs of gowns. corsets, hats
and hair actually worn in America
today. People do not realize to what
limits and ridiculous extremes fash
ions of the day unconsciously lead
them. and Mrs Woodrow's article,
most entertainingly written, will
prove a revelation to women in gen
eraI and to husbands and fathers who
are paying the bills that prevailing
fashions create. Says Mrs. woodrow:
Il have splintered many a lance
in defense of woman's sense of
humor, ever maintaining that it was
as keen or keener than a mans, only
less obvious because more subtle. It
was rather a blow then, upon dis
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-23
a SUMMER AMBTTTON.


I should like to go, when the sun is low,
Where the black bass lie in wait;
Where the pike are out and the pickerel
stout
Take chances and grab the bait;
Where the current strong bears the boat
along
Ger the rivers pebbIy bed
And Silvery fin flashes out and in
Ere the scaly school has fled.
I should like to hide by the Willows side
When the south wind softly signs.
Through my rod and reel what joy to
feel
The retort of a finny prize!
But the years have flown since line
I've thrown
And have hauled a big fish out,
And it's half a score since I've pulled an
oar
And I'm wheezy. slow. and stout.
Well, the reason why I should like to try
Once again the anglers fate
Is that now the boys with display and
noise
And with preparations great
Are about to fit and to fish a bit
And 1 know what yarns they'll spin
OF the wonders wrought and the fish
they've caught
And 1 want to sit and grin.
-~CthfcagO News.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-23
QUAKER fluctuations.

LFrom the Philadelphia Record.l
1t isn't the high liver who is on his
|uPpers.
Even the poet is not always we'll
yersed.
Don't borrow trouble unless you OK
pect to pay it back.
Many a girls beauty is spoiled by
an ugly frame of mind.
It is just as well TO check your en-
thusiasm before It runs away with you.
The Gramatist who is looking for a
telling situation might get a Job in a
bank.
Perhaps our clouds have a silver lin
ing. but it takes other people to see
it.
The man who puts his pleasure be-
fore his business is in a far way to
lose both.
The actress who is ambitious to be
a star naturally tries to make a show
of herself
Nell-"DId you ever see such a tall
fellow? Belle-''No. he is little short OF
the ridiculous"
The people who live on the top floor
Of an apartment house are apt to look
down on their neighbors.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-23

Jack walked back to the Office ana
waited until the detective should re-
vfve. When he saw him coming ne
Went outside to meet him.
II am quite ready to go with YOU
he said, with a queer smile.
The detective stared.
III you were guilty do you sup
pose I would have taken you after
what you did down there in the
mine? didn't come to take you
Your father engaged me to find you
a year ago. Your brother confessed
and is paving the penalty. IL wasn't
necessary for you to hide all these
months"
STILL" said Jack, with flashing eyes
and leaping heart, Il am glad that l
id-"-(Copyrighted 1903 BY Assoc
cfated Literary Press.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-23
a LITTLE roo MUCH Is AsKED

A LITTLE TOO MUCH Is ASKED,
Americans are a credulous lot.
{ That's why so many and varied gold
brick games flourish in this land.
| Americans are also hero worshippers
of the deepest dye. And if there is
one man that many OF them have set
up in their minds as a hero Of multi
tudinous hues, that individual is none
other than Theodore Roosevelt.
quondam president, ertwhile editor
and all the time the Nemesis of wild
beasts. and also of tame ones if wild
ones are not available, as was testified
to by his experience with certain bears
in the Louisiana cane-brakes. That
he is as mighty a Nimrod as ever
pulled a trigger or hurled spear in
the days when there were no triggers
to pull is not to be gainsaid.
But creduIous as are his host of
admirers at home here. and also
abroad, "Bwana Tumbo" though he
may be in the eyes of East African ma
tives, it is asking of them a little too
much to believe that recent tale from
Africa that he fought to a fragile ne
less than a dozen hippopotami which
surrounded a roW-boat which he and
a couple of. African scouts occupied
recently in Lake Naivasha. The story
runs along that Colonel Roosevelt and
Ms men set out for the lair of the hip
popotami in a small row-boat. They
unexpectedly came upon a bunch of a
dozen of these animals, which i'm ne
diately attacked the boat THE ma
tives became terrorizeG,'' so the story
goes, "but Mr.. Roosevelt was not dis
mayed and selecting the finest bull and
the largest COW, killed them. Event
ually the rest of the animals were
driven off," So far this is a probable
tale. But the details of the hip
attack spoils its probability.
1t is told that some of these beasts, in
their charge on the boat, dived under
it and struck the bottom of it with
their backs.
Now what possible chance would
mere row-boat have to keep from be-
ing smashed to srnithereens if only |
one hippop0tamus, let alone three or
four of them, dived underneath it, !
raised uD and struck the boats bot
tom with tits back. The kind of hip |
popotami that Mr.. Roosevelt amuses |
himself with are of the three-ton |
variety, according to previous dis |
patches. Imagine, please, what would /
be left of row-boat after it had been |
struck a blow by one such beast. If |
were fish this tale would |
be magnificent fish story as such |
stories go. Their cIeverness and great
ness are measured by the ingenuity of |
their fabrications.