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The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1909-08-17
ABDUL HAND BETTER.

Constantinople. Aug &c. - Abdul
Hamid. former sultan OF Turkey. now
in confinement in Saloniki. suffered re-
Gently nom a slight abscess of the
throat. but it is better This illness
gave rise TO the reports that Hamid's
life was despaired of.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1909-08-17
CIRCULATION STATEMENT.

Average number of complete and
perfect copies of The Cairo Bull
letin printed daily and Sunday
during the year 1908. ......... 2o8'
Average number OF complete and
perfect copies of The Cairo Bull
letin printed daily and Sunday
during the month OF July, 1909 213c
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1909-08-17

both men arose and Mr. Rockefeller
turning, faced the famous Socialist
With a pleasant smile he extended his
hand aud said; Good morning The
man who had frequently bitterly at
tackled the system which Mr., Rookie
Teller represents took his hand and
shook it warmly ard then passed out.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1909-08-17
MADE A.. SUICIDE
Man: f i Dying 1r War.snsRsol
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The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1909-08-17
Forecasts for Today.

Cairo and vicinity; Fair; continued
warm.
Illinois: Washington, Aug. 16-Fair
Tuesday and Wednesday; light to
moderate north winds.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1909-08-17
UNANIMOUS SENTIMENT
Concluded from First Page).

NN"INI"IIU kIHIH tt Ht dB"J'
now in vogue. Of stripes. iron cells
and other reminders OF degration, as
a.. is in the treatin,nt of she. insane
who Within. i &c fury. were as. eom,'
GlerelA bri!taiizel and. .,I'e'gfaiied..' as
@'6laittts' gre ilil9~:;;;' ..:.'.'' ~. :.
%,.@9hr[gi. ,th5. %lrbate' On the. Indiana.
.ilaIl: N.Fs% p. ~. .Eaa$tNiodd' OF South.
il0a.iEt&:t:i; :.;s:;a C$6gYtjiil :rhlorof6rmiiig
E!.ii {!.s'; b.is 81 @t saggFstion' only male:
.':7ia. elei}afeS ;lauehj;;. Nv. ..', {:
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1909-08-17
WAR AGAINST
TYPHOID FEVER
ALARMING INCREASE OF THE
DISEASE IN DISTRICT OF
COLUMBIA.
WORK IN LABORATORY
Idea OF Physical OF U. S. Public
Health and Marine Hospital
Service Backed BY Mr..
Woodward

Washington, Aug. 16.-ln an effort
to find the cause of the prevalence OF
typhoid fever in the national capital
a archaeological laboratory will soon
be established l. connection with the
contagious disease service of the
health department,
This step was decided on Saturday
following a conference bctw en- Com
missioner mcfarland aud Health OF
ticcr Woodward At its conclusion
The commissioner approved a recon-
incubation to that end made by the
health officer The benefits of the
laboratory are expected to be many
The investigations made by the
public health and marine hospital
service at the request of the commits
siCncrs, upon recommendation OF
Commissioner Macfarlaud, have not
Welded as yet the information de
sired as to the carse of typhoid fever
and the reasons for the fact that
there is still an undue prevalence of
the fever in the district
while the conditions are not SO bad
in this respect Mr. Mcfarland said
Gday as in the summer of 1906.
when, after the health departmcy I
had lone it~ best with the facilities
u IFS command to ascertain the
causes the commissioners turned to
the public health aad marine hospital
service as having a larger stan aud
much better equipment there has
been an increase this year over last
wear in the number OF eases reported
and in the nnnr1r OF deaths recorded.
How Fever Has Increased.
Health Officer Woodward reported
to COMMISSIONER Macfariand. that
from Jan: / IL Ais* 9 .lHoS; the total
dfitfhc i. bf.%Gasg s:%a*is: .i7:'l3. @,6fle:.luf
'ng el,.;s$,&9iSa: ,Ift'b,oq:t: .sA99,stl&:'t6Nil
f:tff was s~3::. anil .:the
iCtiS%rftii@f,lfiil3 Git:in;g. Iii .
.:lei 6i:t:. %f"r: iSsra s':;3f .:Wlfl$
.lf. ii sii .s:!! .'hl;GiEfliS. II ,rai:ii;
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1909-08-17
Concluded from First Page).

Gecrs had the surprise OF his life
when he found he had to win four
heats with Geraldine To take down
all the loose morey in the 2:11 pace.
The conditions OF the event called for
each heat a race, $3.50 to b. split mp
In each of the four heats.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1909-08-17

The above is a correct statement oI
the circulation of the Cairo Bulletin
for the year 1908 and for the month
OF July, 1909.
CLYDE SULLIVAN,
Business Manager.
:,;snllss sstEsdxassl' swasn' to before sme
IS; !; - :EEs:sISEr1 DBL: E
!: ~ $ 81; 81 - Isl: :Nss.$h ia p e /.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1909-08-17

treasurer. He was regarded as an
able and energetic business man, and
his death will be a great shock to his
many friends.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1909-08-17
Sun and Moon.

Mote: The above sun and moon
record is for Illinois and approXimates
the time at Cairo within few min.
ltesl.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1909-08-17

Extreme Of Loneliness.
German proverb: Without a friend
the world Is a wilderness.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1909-08-17
TEMPERATURE SOME
PLACES UP TO II2
Concluded From First Page)

ter with a temperature of los. Nege-
tation there is whitening and cotton IS
lnasc naIIy. Damaged. e.,
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1909-04-21
CARY WRITES ON SOUTHLAND.

). L. Cary of Jennings, Louisiana,
VINO has been accredited the dis
tinetion of being called the Father
OF Rice Culture has sent to The
democrat a recent issue of the Ri5a
Journal and Southern Farmer, which
contains an article by Mr. Cary, re.
sarding Louisiana Feedstuffs." Mr..
Cary quotes from a speech delivered
by Capt. j. F. Merry of this city de.
fore the Two-State Farmers institute
held at Natchez, mississippi last
November. which referred to the
demands made by southern people
upon the north for its meat, mules,
meal, corn, oats and other food.
stuffs.
Mr.. Cary considers the south as
the greatest productive section in
the world and advances an optimistic
view regarding the natural market
system, the intercoastal canals, i'm.
proving harbors and railways, such
as will rejuvenate and make it in
dependent of neighboring states or
foreign countries for foodstuffs.
Mr. Cary has been in the south
for many years. and holds extensive
interests in the rice belt With Mrs.
Cary. he spends the summer in the
north, visiting with friends in Man
chester for several weeks at that
time.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1909-04-21
FISH HATCHERY MEN BUSY.
I ours truly,
A. R. Heath.


With the coming of spring wealth.
er, the employees at the United
States hatchery southeast of Man
chester are busy in shipping thous-
ands of baby trout in car load lots
to fresh water streams in Wisconsin,
where the government has ordered
these consignments delivered. From
the local station, these tiny fish are
taken out of doors to the large
troughs, which now number sixty.
where they grow and develop into
lake and brook trout, weighing from
two to three pounds each. The main
building at the hatchery is crowded
for room, and for this reason, hum
dreds of thousand little fish are be-
ing shipped away in big tin cans,
which are carried on special cars
furnished by the government.
The buildings, including the CEN
trail station, superintendent resi-
dence, caretaker's home, barns and
ice houses are now lighted by acety-
lene, while the grounds are likewise
Illuminated at night. Uncle Sam fur
nishes his men every convenience
possible. and electric light service
would have been furnished. had it
been available.
The grounds are being cleaned and
made ready for the summer, and will
make a beautiful and convenient
place for private picnic parties and
an interesting place for out-of-town
visitors.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1909-04-21
TO uNvEIL MONUMENT.

The following information given by
Capt. j. f. Merry will be of interest
to the veterans of the Civil war and
members of the w. A. Morse camp.
G. A. R.
THE unwilling of the bronze stat
ute of General Stephen d. Lee will
take place on the Vicksburg Park
grounds June IL. 1t will be remem-
bered that General Lee died last
May as result of forceful address
OF welcome which he made at re-
union of the old First brigade, COM
posed Of the 2lst, 22nd and 23rd Iowa
and 18th Wisconsin regiments. This
Reunion was organized through my
efforts and the assistance of General
Lee. The General, although not in
good health, made the address of vel
come on my personal request, with
whom had been associated in the
Ficksburg park matter since its
first inception
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1909-04-21
TO THE OREGON VALLEY LAND
BOYS OF MANCHESTER AND
GREELEY.
Lake View, oregon, April s, 1909.

Lake View. Oregon, April 8. 1909.
Dear Friends:
| have been here nine days now
and have learned what could to
cur interest here and will say !
have been over about one-half of the
land and will tell you just what l
find. They have lot of very nice
timber that we will get and there is
a fair price on 1t and the price on
the large tracts will not be less
than $3.50 per acre That is the low
est price paid for land here. The
valley and bench lands are fine soil
with the exception of little right
near iowa. Some Of the valley is
broken and somewhat rolling Ent
that will be the best fruit lands and
now about the fruit. They have new
er thought OF raising fruit for bus
tention to the fruit trees and l must
say there are a plenty here to judge
by, and they certainly look fine. APP
ae, peach, pears, prunes. plumhs
and cherries. no dead scrubby ones,
but plenty of them 20 years old that
are thrifty and nice. And they do
not need irrigation. neither does
grain. Last year was the nearest
failure they ever had and still they
are not shipping in much. There is,
a town of 1000 or SO just south of
here Is miles, New Pine creek where
they have some fine orchards and it,
has this place bested a little on fruit.
There are some fine lands that can
be bought cheap down there. And
now about the railroad. The one
from the south will get. here after
while but it cuts but little ice There
are big railroad movements in this
part of the state and there is no
question but what we will get plenty
of railroad in short time.
There are fine openings here for
real estate investments that mus
make money and the country has
just began to move. The Oregon Vail
ley Land Co. are doing a great bust
ness here and will help the develop
ment here greatly. There are lots
of orchards being set this spring.
Some are as much as 90 acres and
! believe if this country fails in fruit
1t won't be the fault of the country.
But now l don't mean to say that we
will all get rich off our 5000 invest
ment nor that this country has no
drawbacks, but ! believe many of us
will realize nice thing on our in
vestment and without loss to any
and that it will average, as to crops,
with any. OF course it looks rough
now for it is mostly sage brush flats
surrounded by hills, no sand but
some little rock.
Yours truly,
A. r. Heath.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1909-04-21
ADRoITLY TURNED.
It Was Small Hole, but the English.
man Crawled Out.

was watching number of young
Ehgiishmen shooting ut a target re-
Gently while l was on the other side,"
remarked an American army officer,
ana at my elbow was pompous Brit
lsher of the old school. who, after
shaking his head impatiently at the
frequent misses that were made, at
length said to me: That only goes to
snow how the young men of England
arc descnerating. All this sort of thing
rejects on the British nation
1T certainly is mighty poor shoot
ing agreed.
At that the old gentleman fiared up
and exclaimed: I say! Perhaps you
can do better. sir?"
III couldn't shoot better than that.
Ia be ashamed to eat breakfast an.
swered.
'Thereupon l was handed rife and
told to show what I could do. shot.
ana the first time missed the target
completely. SO the laugh was on me,
out before they could laugh twice
plugged the bullseye six times in rapid
succession. At this the old gentleman
was trltle disconnected. but he com.
pllmented me by saying: Really, now,
you can shoot bit. can't you? say,
there's nothing like Yankee marks
man with an English gun, is there, old
cEap: Los Angeles Times.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1909-04-21
DUCK SEASON CLOSES.


i Once more the single and double
barreled shot guns hang upon the
walls or packed away for time, be-
cause the duck season has closed,
and the mallards and teel and pigeon
taii and blue bills are safe again to
haunt the "backwaters" or fly over
head at will. Thursday, at sunset,
the hunterman rested, and forsook
his trampings across country and
through water for the rainbow crest
ed birds, which made good sport for
him. There is nothing doing now,
except fishing, and the iointed, steel
poles are being unwrapped from silk
coverings. lines strung, and bait or
dered for the first warm day the man
from the equator sends U.S..
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1909-04-21
STUNNED BY LIGHTNING.

o. e. Holverson, while passing the
Universalist church Saturday night,
was stunned and rendered momen.
tarily unconscious from binding
flash of lightning. Mr.. Holverson is
employed in the August Miller bar
Der shop and in the midst of the
electrical storm. left the shop fos
his home on East Butler street. AS
he reached the church, Mr.. Holver-
son remembers binding flash of
lightning, which seemed to envelop
him in sea of fire. The bolt must
have struck nearby, for the shock
was SO. severe that Mr.. 'Holverson
was knocked to the ground and
stunned. He suffered no injuries,
although thoroughly frightened.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1909-04-21
The Suicide Symphony.

The idea that music may be harm
ful-that it can create fever in the
blood dangerous to life and reason-
Will come MS revelation to many.
Friedrich Nietzsche, the well known
German philosopher. declares that
there is something in some music.
most notable in Wagner and Tschai-
kowsky. which acts unfavorably on
the brain and nerves of many people.
Tschaikowsky's baleful influence can
not be denied. He destroyed himself
after composing his famous Sixth
Symphony" and. as several have died
by their own hand after playing it, it
has come to be known as the suicide
symphony"
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1909-04-21
DEADLY poIsoMs. J:
One Whit of Pure Prus=ic Acid i.
Sufficient Ia kiu

One Whit of Pure Prus.ic Acid Is
Sufficient to Kill.
The Giscoverer of prussit. ,c;d wa.
instantly killed by inhaling one Will
of his own handiwork.
Purc prussic acid is never sold mr.
handled. The smell of It is ALWAYS
fatal. 1t kills not In three minutes az
half an hour. hut the instant II enters
the lungs as a gas. The mixture or.
dihartly sold as prussic acid is 9s PARTS
water to two parts of the drug. Even
IN TINS form 1t is very deadly. A 20
per cent mixture of the acid would kill
nearly as quickly asTif pure.
Atropine. though 1t has no harmful,
odor. Is SO deadly that as much of it as
wSald adhere to the end of Al molstened
iorehnger would instantly cause death.
cyanide Of potassium has a pleasant
smell which is not Injurious. but Il
small quantity swallowed kills at once.
Pure ammonia If inhaled would
cause death almost as quickly MS prus
sic acid.
When carboy of nitric acid is bro
Ken some one has to suffer. 1t will
burn wood. eat through iron plates and
destroy whatever it touches. Such an
accident once happened In an acid fac
Tory. Every one ran away. leaving
the acid to amuse itself by setting
fire to things. Soon 1t was seen that
the building would be destroyed and
hundreds Of people thrown out of
work. and four men volunteered to put
out the fire in the acid room. They
succeeded and came out all right. Five
hours later all were dead.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1909-04-21
A LIVE COAL TRICK.
Teaches Natural Law, Yet Has All the
Appearance of MAGIC.

reaches Natural Law, Yet Has All the
Appearance of Magic.
No one would suppose that 1t is DOS.
sible to hold a glowing coal on a piece
OF linen or COTTON without burning the
cloth. but that such can be done is easy
lot any one TO prove, and at the same
time the'eSpcriment teaches an ilnpor.
tant natural law. Every child knows
that the telephone and telegraph wires
are made of copper because that metal
is good conductor of heat and cleo
tricity, which is only another form of
heat. If poker is heated in the fire
you pick up Il cloth to hold the outer
end, although 1t has NOT been in the
ire, because experience has taught Won
that the heat is connected through the
metal from the fire to the outer end.
RMS experiment with the flaming
coal Is based upon this principle and
the additional one that linen and cot
ton are poor conductors of heat. Take
globe of copper and draw a piece of
cloth tightly over 1t so that there is
not wrinkle at the top. If the linen
or cotton is closely woven the trick is
al the more certain. Then. holding the
cioth tightly in place, you can safely
put glowing coal on top of the cloth,
and while 1t burns fiercely. the cloth
VIII not even be scorchcd.
me reason is that the great conduc-
tivity of the copper draws the heat of
the coal before 1t can burn the cloth
10 not make this experiment with
good handkerchief first. for If the cloth
Is not tightly drawn it may burn. but
take some worthless piece of linen or
muslin. and after you arc certain of
your experience you can astonish your
friends who do not know the 'sftrt'rct.-
Post. 4..slt{sli},
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1909-04-21
Towers.


The patient architect had lust sue
ceeded in getting Mrs. Drippingold to
decide between the charms of renais.
sance, classic and Queen Anne for the
plans of her magnificent new country
house.
1.-THE only details amt goin' to
leave to your discretion" said the
wealthy lady. ''is the matter of tow
ers. i want plenty of towers that
folks can see for a long way of when
they're ridin' by"
But what kind of towers do you
want?" inquired the unfortunate archi.
tect-"Norman, Gothic
Mrs. Drippingold closed the English
novel of high life on which her soul
had been feeding.
why. ancestral towers. OF course.
Puck.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1909-04-21

separately, and the difference in
the yield and quality of corn pro
duced was carefully noted and re
corded. In the Farmers Variety
Test the best sample yielded at the
rate of 49.7 bushels per acre, while
the poorest yielded only 100 bush.
els per acre or difference OF
1917 bushels. This is more than
J enough to pay all expenses OF rails.
! ing the crop and about the same as
the average yield for the entire
state.
The average of the five highest
samples is aga bushels and the five
lowest 2O.4 while the average of the
so samples was 32.S bushels. Some
of the yields are very low and many
of them fell far short of what could
have been accomplished with good
seed.
Note the close relationship be-
tween the variations in yield and the
variations in per cent. stand The
per cent. stand is the ratio of the
number of stalks counted in Octo-
Der. If one hundred kernels were
planted and there We're only seven
ty-eight stalks in October we would
have rs per cent. stand. The great
est cause of low stand is dead
kernels, marked b in the germina-
ton test. You will notice that the
five low samples had 29.2 per cent.
which failed to grow. Kernels show
ing weak termination also failed
to produce mature and strong stalks.
These facts are further proof that
If we grow more corn per acre we
must use better seed. 1t certainly
would be paying proposition to
spend good many hours work and
use the utmost care in selecting,
caring for and testing each ear of
seed when by SO doing we get
fifteen or twenty bushels more corn
per acre when we plant it. The re-
cord shows wide variations in yields
OF different ears. AS an example
ear No. 1928 yielded at the rate of
46 bushels per acre while ear No.
1888 produced one barren stalk.
Every farmer could, in short
time, greatly improve the maturing
and yielding qualities of his corn
if he would devote small plot of
ground to corn breeding.
He could keep record of each
ear and select seed from the ear
Hest maturing and highest yielding
ears which produced the smallest
percentage of suckers and bar
rem stalks.
I'm general the results show con.
clusively that men are planting seed
which produce only about half as
great a yield as was obtained from
their neighbours seed when grown
under the same conditions"
Below will be found the results
of the analyses made by the sta
ton, showing the Individual findings
In corn planted and terminated, to-
sether with the percentage of worth
less ears. The station is to con-
tinue its work this year, and it. Shout
be made use of much more largely
this year than last by the farmers
OF the county. The report follows:
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1909-04-21
A GREAT COMBINATION.
When Husband, Wife and Mother.in.
law Co.ooerate

law Cooperate.
Shortly after his marriage, which
took place in 1880. John Burns. the
British labor leader, settled down as n
1ourneyman engineer in Battersea and
twenty years after confessed that he
was the first engineer to make with
his own hands an electric tram
car in Great Britain. In those DAYS.
however. people did not believe that
electric traction was possible, and
Burns had to take the dynamo and
tram to the Crystal palace and run the
latter round the grounds for six months
before people could be induced to be-
lieve in the novelty.
But the people We're so nervous that,
although the charge was only sixpence,
none of them would venture In the
newfangled invention. Then Burns was
struck with II brilliant idea. He said
to his wife. You have got to come
down to the palace three times a week
and get into the first electric tram car
us dccoy duck for the Others" This
was only temporarily successful. So
Burns brought along his mother-in-
law, and" said the energetic labor
leader when relating the incident.
when Il husband, wife and mother
tn-law cooperate success is assured.''
London Tit-Bits.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1909-04-21
M. W. A. PICNIC IN JULY.

The annual midsummer picnic of
the Manchester camp of the Modern
Woodmen CT America will be held at
the Fair grounds July 5. instead of
July 4, as reported some weeks ago.
l. was understood that preparations
were being made, whereby the city
would unite with the local camp in
making the national holiday memoI-
able one in Manchester. by observ-
ing a picnic on that day, but the af-
fair will be held the following day,
to which the camps CT the towns in
the county have been invited.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1909-04-21
Lett Him In Doubt.

A certain young artist in New York
who is on terms Of comparative init
macy with the janitor of the apart
ment house wherein he maintains his
studio is in some doubt whether the
said janitor is cynic or something of
an art critic, or both.
zone day while doing bit Of repair
work in the STUDIO" says the painter.
Mike scrutinized bit of my work
with ominous solemnlty. When ! indi-
Gated n portrait of myself the blow
fell. SaidI:
1.-THE paint on this is badly cracked.
which spells the likeness
with no, more expression in his
countenance than is to be seen in the
face of representative of Buddha
Mike replied:
"'Not Mt all, SIR"