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The Cairo bulletin., 1909-09-04
BELIEVED CAPTURE
OF BANDIT MATTER
OF ONLY few HOURS

Lewiston, Pa, Sept. "A highway
man believed to be the same man
who recently robbed the t2ennsyl-
vania train, held up Robert f. Little,
who, with his wife and child, was
driving this afternoon not far from
where the train robbery was com
mited 1t is believed the capture Of
the bandit is matter of few hours.
Tonight more than hundred detec-
tives have the mountain roads sur
rounded and guarded
The robber secured from Little
ten dollars, his watch and hat. The
hat worn by the train robber is in
the possession Of the detectives
The superintendent Of the Pennsyl-
vania railroad said tonight that he
is confident the robber is insane.
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cRIrlclsINe roo SOON.

New Haven, Conn. Sept 3.-The re-
port that Chicago professors disbe.
ffpvEd that Cook discovered that COOK
discovered the pole called forth cuti-
cisms by Director Chittenden of the
Sheffield scientific school, whose
guest Cook has often been, and by
Prof. Brewer. who accompanied Cook
on one arctic trip.
Chittenden said: Il think the stand
taken by these professors is manifest
ly unfair and certainly uncalled for
They come out with their denials and
say he Is falsifying before they even
heard his story. | think they should
wait at least until his return"
Brewer said: II shall believe Cook
until it is proved that he did not reach
the pole. He is an honest man and
would not lie about this matter"
The Cairo bulletin., 1909-09-04
DUTY ON AEROPLANES
Machines Come Under Provision
LeVying Duty on Articles of Val
liable Metal Parts.

Washington, Sept. 3--That the
Payne tariff will subject imported
aeroplanes to duty of forty peg
centum advalorem is indicated by a
statement from the treasury depart,
ment. There is no provision for the
assessment OF duty on flying ma.
chimes, but the Payne law provides
that a duty of forty-fye per centum
on all articles in which the metal Is
the component material OF chief val
ue. The motor seems TO be the part
most valuable of aeroplanes The
Wrights have named price of $500
on these machines and the duty on
one of these built at their British or
French factory therefore will be 49,
375.
The Cairo bulletin., 1909-09-04

and Andrews drove her length
ahead clear to The three quarter pole,
when Proctor began driving Uhlan in
earnest
Rapidly Uhlan closed on the mare
until at the head OF the home stretch
his head was at her saddle, Andrews
was apparently confident and made
no move Until Uhlan reached the
mares neck. Then thirty yards from
the wire, he tapped the trotting queen
twice, but she failed to respond and
Uhlan quickly took the lead and won
by two lengths.
In the second heat, just before
reaching the quarter pole Andrews
created a surprise by fairly jumping
the Belle to the lead in wonderful
burst Of speed. She reached the
quarter in 81 seconds. From this
poit Uhlan was in similar position
as in the previous heat. Proctor
again made drive in the lower turn
and Andrews this time began when
entering the stretch to urge the mare.
| However, Uhlan colared his OPP
ponent when inside the distance post
and Hamburg Belle weakened. All
along the quarter stretch the con
quering horse gated and finished a
| good length ahead.
The fractional parts of the heat
| illustrated Adrews' methods of trying
to escape defeat The quarter was
passed in 81, the half 1;01A three
quarters 1872, mile 2:03h.
In deciding the merits of the two
fastest racing trotters the world has
ever see the score stands one each,
with a third meeting necessary to es'
tahlish the championship. It has
been suggested that the race take
place in Lexington, KY, in October
/ but Columbus wants the race at The
Grand Circuit meeting.
Uhlan is a five year old gelding by
Ringen out Of Blonde, by Sir Walter
Jr. When three years old be sold
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TAFT SAYS NO
TO ". ]. BRYAN
CoMMoNER WANTS U. S. SEnA-
TORS ELECTED BY POP.
uLAR VOTE.
PROPOSITION DECLINED
President Says While he Favors Idea
It is Not Party Measure--Won't
Recommend II To
Congress.

Lincoln, Neb., Sept. president
Taft has declined TO recommend that
congress pave the way for the direct
election of senators by providing for
a constitutional amendment.
Action to that effect was urged by
William J. Bryan In personal letter
to the president, but the chief exec
tive in reply says he does not con-
slider it a party question. Mr.. Bryan
made public the letters that passed
between himself and the president.
The Bryan letter was as follows:
Lincoln Neb. July Is, 1909
Hon William Fl. Taft. the White
House. Washington, d. c..
Dear Sir Now that the states are
goins to vote on the ratification OF the
amendment specially authorizing an
chance to vote an amendment progid-
ing for the selection of United States
senators by popular vote2 In your
speech Of acceptance you said yoa
were personally inclined to favor such
a change in the constitution. Would
not this be an opportune time to pre-
sent the subject to congress? Two
constitutional amendments, one all
thorizing an income tax and the other
providing for the popular election OF
senators would make your administfa-
tion memorial; and pledge you what
lever assistance can render in seeuf-
ling the ratification OF these amend
| ,ments4 gsitA gseat9respeats arm
yours truly,
wv. j. BRYAN"
The response Of the president vas:
The White House. Washington, d.
G., July %, 1909"
Dear Sir have your kind letter
! of July 13. am not prepared to urge
as an administration matter the sab
mission of an amendment changing
the constitution with reference to the
election Of United States senator's by
+, popular vote. AS said in my speech
of acceptance, hardly deem this
party issue and as there Is a very wide
| difference of opinion in my own party
| in respect to 1t, | think it ought to he
presented to congress, not as a party
or as an administration question, but
as matter of individual opinion
VIVA great respect. ! am very sin
cerely yours, w II. TAFT"
Hon. William Jennings Bryan, the
Commoner Lincoln. Neb.
Mr.. Bryan adds the following edi-
|torial comment:
at is as we feared it would be.
President Taft declines to recommend
the submission OF constitutional
amendment providing for the election
lof United States senators by popular
vote In the same speech III which he
declared for an income tax, he said
he was personally inclined to favor
the popular election Of senators. He
recommended an income tax but de-
clines to recommend the senatorial
proposition"
The Cairo bulletin., 1909-09-04
ANOTHER SONDERKLASSE RACE
WON BY JOYETTE OF BOSTON

Marblehead, Mass, Sept 3.-To-
days International sonderklasses race
was won by the Joyette of Brooklyn.
Taft, with his family, witnessed the
contest from the presidents yacht,
the Sylph.
The Joyette was extremely fortu-
nate, for the Heyella, the German
challenger. led the fleet Of six yachts
at the end Of the first trip over q wind
ward leeward course, with the Joyette
three minutes behind her. in fourth
place.
Going out to windward the second
time the Joyette took a hitch to south
east, while the other racers stood In
The Cairo bulletin., 1909-09-04
PRINT PAPER TO co up
Indications Are Canada viii Prohibit
Expectation and u. S. Con
sumers Will Suffer.

Quebec, Sept. "A deputation rep,
rcsenting all the pulp paper manufac-
turers, all Canadian owners of rights
to cut timber on t,.c crown lands of
Quebec, have asked the government
TO prohibit the export of wood pulp
to the United States Indications are
that expectation viii be prohibited
throughout Canada. The consequence
will be sharp advance in print
paper in the United States.
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shore The Joyette thus ran into q
fresh breeze, and worked into tho
lead Had one Of the German boats
followed the request of the committee
to chase any American boat that split
the tacks the result might have been
different, AS It was the Ioyette round
ed the turn far in the lead and 1t was
only simply a spinnacker run to tie
finish for the Joyette to receive the
winners ovation.
The Joyette's victory gives her two
legs on the Taft cup and tied her with
the Ellen for the Governor Draper
cup. On Monday the Joyette. Heveila,
and Ellen will contest for the Ta.t
cus.
The Cairo bulletin., 1909-09-04
BIG FOUR is BLAMED.

Kankakee, III, Sept 3.--The coron.
er's jury today held the Big Four rail-
road company responsible for the
death of Mrs George Granger of Kan
kakee. Miss Geneyieve Rabig. OF Chi
cago, and the injury of five others
when an automobile in which they
were riding was straca by d train a
fortnight ago The jury concluded
that a dangerous crossing caused the
fatalities.
The Cairo bulletin., 1909-09-04
SAYS "TELL WORLD | THANK
GOD THAT ! AM BACK AGAIN"
interviewed When Vessel Hans Edge Reached
Cape Shagen Yesserday-Due at Copenha-
gen Today, Where Royal Welcome
Waits Him--TeI|s More of
His Trip

stores at Etah, was greater than
April 81. | long to get back to ciyili-
zation, to press my WIFE to my heart.
am the happiest man living. Tell
the world thank God am back
It was hoped the Egede would ar
rive tonight and Minister Egan had
prepared to shoot skyrockets from the
Fedora, but gale was In progress
making it improbable that the steam
er would arrive before tomorrow.
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LEFT IN A BIC HURRY
Cornelius Vanderbilt Sails for Europe
Without Notifying Hudson
Fulton Commission.

New York, Sept. 3.-Cornelius Van,
derbiIt, who was TO take prominent
part in the Hudson Fulton celebra-
tion this month, sailed suddenly for
Europe today on his steam yacht,
the North Star, without explanation
to the Hudson-Fultor commission. His
family Is now in Germany.
The North star sailed so hurrieily
she is expected to stop at Halifax for
coal.
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TOOK DESPERATE CHANCE.

New York, Sept. 3--Rudolpn
Francke, the last white man to see
Cook before his final dash. said;
Cooks strength Of purpose was won.
derful When left him 500 miles from
the pole. he said 4 am going to take
a desperate chance. | believe | shall
succeed, but If 60 down | go alone. Y
Attorney General Wickersham to
night denied the interviews that cred
tied him with statements concerning
the territory of the polar regions.
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RACES CALLED OFF.

Kalamazoo, Mich, Sept 3.--The
Great Western Circuit races were call
ed off today on account Of rain.
The Cairo bulletin., 1909-09-04
Chicago

Chicago .....,.. .......10 . 3
MISUNDERSTANDING and Bergen;
Pfeister, Higginbotham, Brown, Ar
cher, Needham and Moran.
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NATIONAL LEAGUE.
Standing.
Game is Protested

Brooklyn, Sept. 3.-With the score
to 2 at the end OF the eighth Nc
Tntyre weakened and eight Chicago
men crossed the plate in the ninth
President Ebbetts entered a protest
as there was an agreement 10 call the
game at SIS. This would make the
game revert to the eighth
Score. r. r. r
The Cairo bulletin., 1909-09-04

Blue Hill handicap. trotting. va'ue
$20oo, $1,000 to winner then graded
10 $50 to tie sixth horse; mile and
half. Peter Balta, won; Olga W.
second; Ralph Wick third. Almaden
Lady Jones, Joe Onward, MacDougal
Lester BOY. Albert ", Boxer, Prince
LavaIard started. Time BIS
Neponset hanlicau.- pacing 81 GOA
lCAntinneG on Sacond Pagal
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Second Game.

Batteries--Coveeskie, Moren and
Doom; Dubec, Cantwell, Ewing and
Roth.
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New York Wins.

New York, Sept 3.-Doyle made
two singles, double and a triple, in
today's game.
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PHILADELPHIA Wins.
THREE | LEAGUE.
Runched Hits.

Springfield, Sept S.-The home
team buched hits at opportane times
Score: r. H. E.
Springfield ,....... ....... 4 5 /
Bloomington .. ..y.3 3 9
Batteries Steiger and Johnson;
Limric and Smith.
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AMERICAN LEAGUE.
PLAYED Tie Game.

Cleveland. Sept. 3.--Clevelanj and
Detroit played tie game. The game
The Cairo bulletin., 1909-09-04
BASEBALL NEWS
OF BIC LEAGUES
CHICAGO BEATS BROOKLYN IN
NINTH fsNlNC-EBBETT' EN-.
TIERS PROTEST.
MADE AN AGREEMENT

To Call Game at 5:15-Hrookiyn 5: Led
In ahth-Detroit and Cieve
land Play Tie Game
Other Results.
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Decatu Shut Out.

Decatur, Sept 3-Peora shut ort
Decatur in an exciting pitching con
test
The Cairo bulletin., 1909-09-04
An Even Bre ak.

Philadelphia, Sept. 3.-Philadelphi
and Cincinnati broke even in double
header. The second game was won
by PHILADELPHIA in the thirteenth
The Cairo bulletin., 1909-09-04

for $500 and tie same season won
a race to matiee wagon in 2:13A
which is the record for the age that
way hitched. Last year Uhian won
all his races excepting the American
trotting derby. securing a record of
2:07A, the fastest record by a geld
ig of that age. This season his
single defeat was by Hamburg Belle,
at Cleveland, he having previously
tied the gelding race record of The
Abbott in 2:03%, which he repeated
at Buffalo, and bettered today by half
g second.
Soprano, in the breeders fu.
turity for trotting foaIs of 1906. to-
day equalled the record of Fantasy,
-2:0S4, that stood for many years as
unappr0achable. In both heats
Czarena held the cantage till we'll to
the wire, when Diekerson brought up
the winner ahead just by inches. both
of the FLIES being uader stiff drive.
In the Blue Hill handicap for trotl
ters Prince L.ayalard tripped and
broke his hind leg above the ankle,
A policeman ended his suffering with
a bullet. The horse was IS years old
and had campaigned all over the
country.
The Cairo bulletin., 1909-09-04

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WORDS OF WISDOM.

Love is never preserved in family
Jars.
Poets are born-thercfore parents
must be to blame.
People with small minds are apt
to use some big words
It's impossible to make n doctor
believe that health is wealth.
Many a woman acquires her repu-
tation for beauty at drug store.
What's the matter with putting
up an umbrella for a rainy day?
Clubs for men have added much
TO tho comforts of home
It takes vigorous brains to gener-
ate vigorous thoughts
a woman judges the value of n let
ter by tho length of the postscript.
If there's one thing q boy enjoys
seeing more than a circus &c is dog
fight
Although a cyclone carries every
thing before it. a lot OF rain is left
behind
Fortunate is tho man with a pull
provided he doesn't pull the wrong
way.
One way to buy experience is to
speculate in futures.
Invisible patches are not used fin
patching up quarrcls
Wise is the man who knows when
TO treat and when 20 retreat
It's easy for a deaf mute TO love a
girl more than tongue can tell.
Many a spiustor who could have
married I'm haste repents at leisure.
Many q married womans idea OF
a stylish hat is one that costs more
than her husband can afford to pay.
From Pointed Paragraphs" IN
the Chicago News.
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Reluctant English Courtesy.

That gifted publicity man, A.
Toxin Worm, made the preposterous
claim in London, last winter, that he
would see to it that there was no
"booing" of the actors at the OPEN
ing performances of 70. II. Sothern.
This popular English diversion con-
sists of believing through the hands
and no first night is supposed to
be complete without these vocal in
terruptions.
On the night of Mr.. Sothern's first
performance some forty-fve evil
looking men, bearing black jacks in
their sleeves were distributed
throughout the gallery and pit. There
was no interruption from the audi
ence that night, but only the occa-
sional dull, thud of black-jacks upon
knuckles. Every hand that was
raised, as a preliminary to the boo
ing" process, received a quick blow.
Mr.. Worn says that he never saw so
many limp hands, and so many be-
wildered faces assembled in any one
place as he saw that first night among
the crowd that left the theatre.
At the close of the week that digni-
fed journal, the Times. commented
grayely upon the growing courtesy of
English audiences toward American
actors, and witnessed the case of six
productions by Mr.. Sothern without
a single boo. Success Magazine.
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APrGSGnt Day Utopia

Hugo Parton, writing in the Out
ing Magazine, says that the happiest
and most beautiful spot on earth to-
day is the island of Moorea, one OF
the Sandwich Islands in the South
Seas. AS a contrast to strenuous
American methods this description
sounds alluring:
Whenever you are thirsty n word
will send 1.-the, brown body scramb-
ling up tall palm tree trunk and in
two minutes a green cocoanut is
ready for you to quaff-the nectar
OF the Polynesian gods. 1t is worth
the trip down here to eat the native
'vittals,' for you get at every meal
things you never tasted before, and
each seems better than its predeces-
sor. To see your dinner of fresh
water shrimps. sharks fins and
roasted sea urchins. The bananas
you eat-there are eleven varieties
baked, raw. fried, dried, grow
few rods back in the valley. ditto
the breadfruit, the pineapples and
about everything else on the board.
It's nice to have you morning coffee
grown in the back yard. Guavas
grow in such profusion they are used
as pig food, grated cocoanut is fed to
hens, while sensitive plant is consid-
cred excellent fodder for cattle.
For perfection of the human body
the Tahitian is unexcelled, If indeed
he is anywhere equalled. They are
large race. both men and women
being noticably taller and more fully
developed than Anglo Saxons. Every
man looks like a picked athlete with
sloping shoulders and barred chests.
A crowd OF them together reminds
one of the scene in locker build
ing" toward the end Of the fall when
the varsity squad is narrowed down
and the afternoons practice is just
over. 1 doubt if any Society Islander
ever went through a whole day irghis
life without having a wreath of flow
ers on his head or a blossom behind
his ear. The love of flowers is in
nate with man, woman and child:
they can't pass through a patch Of
woods without emerging with a gar
land. Every gay mood calls for flow
ers on their hats, I'm their hair. be-
hind their ears-and their life is an
almost unbroken sequence of gay
moods Scarcely q native on the ISL
and OF Moorea can speak a sentence
Of English. but every one you meet
greets you with n courteous smile
and the welcoming words Ia-ora-na'
(Yorana) D."
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SPORTING NOTES.

Yale has thirty-five candidates for
positions in the hockey team.
w. X. Vanderbilt heads the list Of
winning owners on the French turf
with total of $263,640.
Hal Chase may be compelled to re-
turn to the New York Americans or
retire from professional baseball.
Arthur Curtiss James has been
named to succeed Cornelius Wander
bilt as commodore of the New York
Yacht Club.
Mrs. c. r. Stout, the national cham
pion Of 1901 and 1902. with card
Of eighty-nine, won the gross score
prize in the women's golf tournament
at Fox Hills.
The Boston Americans have sold
outfielder Chadbourne and pitcher
Glaze to the American Association for
$500 each. This is the first wedding
out sale of the winter.
That the French Jockey Club will
raise a bar to professional horsemen
from America to prevent a rush Of
horsemen to that country was an
nounced as settled fact.
1t is said that Harry Wolverton,
who handled the champion Williams
DOIC team III inc lIl-OldlO 1ehBuo
this year, will manage the Newark
Eastern League team next season.
Joe Tinker, the Cubs great short
stop, has gone on the stage. He is
playing the part Of Bud Hall. coach
OF the college crew in Brown, of
Harvard" now touring the Western
cities.
1t has been definitely settled that
q
and Jack Johnson for the heavyweight
championship of the world will take
place at Sydney. N. S. W., on Decem-
Der rs.
There is going to be a bitter fight
to restore racing at Hot Springs, Ark.
The business men there have COM
bined in favor of the sport, and they
say they hope to be successful la their
efforts
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A Forbidden Weapon.

Every traveller knows that there
are certain restrictions upon the in
reduction of arms into foreign coun-
tries. Among the weapons which il
is forbidden TO take into France is
the "tromblon," which is expressly
mentioned in the Penal Code as a
weapon the carrying and sale of
which Is not allowed And yet the
"tromblon" is not a firearm which is
commonly used nowadays. for IL is
nothing else than the blunderbuss.
weapon which old caricatures show
to have been carried by the guards
OF coaches as a protection against
highwaymen and to have been hung
over his fireplace by John Bull at
the time OF the scare OF a Napoleonic
invasion hundred years ago. The
blunderbuss had a flint lock, a short
barrel and q muzzle like a trumpet.
the bell mouth being designed to
scatter the slus5 with which the
primitive piece was charged. Any
one who buys one at an old curiosity
shop had better take care how he in
Produces 10 into France. for the PEN
atty for doing so ls fine of 200
francs London Globe.
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NEWSY GLEANINGS.

Americans still remain the feature
on the London Stock Exchange.
The first American Catholic Mis-
sionary Congress convened in Chi
cago.
Persians at Teheran appealed to
the Powers to uphold their demand
for a constitution.
At Berlin popular sentiment for a
rapidly increasing.
Plans for the ter-centennial ami
versary of the discovery OF Lake
Champlain were made public at Bur-
lington, VT.
Count Hulsen-Haseler. chief OF the
German Military Cabinet. died in the
presence of Emperor William at Do
naueschingen.
II. Clay Pierce, the oil man, sur
rendered himself in Austin, Texas. to
answer charge OF false swearing in
n previous case.
On February 1 1877 new pay-as-
you-enter cars will be put in opera
ton on Eighth and Madison avenues,
New York City.
A report made public by Comptrol-
Ter Metz shows that n strip of land
worth 5000, taken for a street in
Rosebank, S. l., cost the city $500.
The Tribuna, a Government organ
at Rome, Italy, demanded that the
engagement of the Duke of the
Abruzzi and Miss Elkins be either
confirmed or denied.
Selling pools on horse races and
maintenance of betting rings at race
tracks are under the ban of the law
in the State of Washington, according
to a decision of the State Superior
Court.
When the Kings County Grand
Jury visited Brooklyn IN. W Police
Headquarters they were shocked to
learn that men measured women
prisoners by the Bertillon system,
and overheard detective order a
woman prisoner to put down her
dress.
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1t has been discovered that a happy
miller's family living i'm The vicinity
of the battlefield of Waterloo have
derived regular income since 1916
from the sale of a rusty iron nail. 1t
was not many years after the battle
that an eccentric EnGlishman. on the
strength of an eyewitness evidence.
discovered that Napolcon's hat had
been hanging ON that NAIL the EN-
peror having rested awhile at the
mill during the battle. An offor for
the old nail was Immediately accepted
by the previously guilolcss miller,
who after the deal replaced it by an
other old nail and painted an In
scription round DC ON the wall point
ing out its historical value. one nail
after another has gone to enrich coll
lecuons as priceless Napolsonio rel
ics,--Argonaut.