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The Cairo bulletin., 1909-12-20


P C. Seullin, alderman $50. 100
Thos. w, Williams, alderman. 90
Total .......,. ...... $2,389 c.
Alderman Nells moved the salary
bin be allowed as read The motion
was adopted by the following vote:
Aye-Burke. Cannon, Davis, Ferguson,
German, Greaney, Kelly Koehler, Nc
Daniel, Magner, Meehan Nellis. Will
liams-13 .-Nay-None.
The miscellaneous claims and ac-
counts were read and,on motion Of
Alderman Davis, referred to their re-
spective committees.
Petitions.
Building petitions were read as fo'.
lows
Carter G Curtiss, to erect a two
story frame apartment house to cost
about $500 on lot 20, block 75--14OO
Cedar street.
julius Weber, Jr., to erect one
story frame building TO cost between
100000 and $150000 on lots and
t. block IA. fourth addition-Thirty-
fourth and Highland.
Mrs. c. P. Wenger to remove frame
building now situated on lots 5 and G,
block 81, city, to lots IA and Is, block
70, first addition.
Alderman Davis moved the build.
ing petitions be referred to the build
ing committee and the removal petit
ton to the building committee and
the street committee. The motion
was adopted.
Alderman Koehler appeared and
took his seat.
The Cairo & st. Louis Railway
Company by l.. z. Fischer, its vice
president and general manager. petit
toned the council to grant to it, for
itself, its successors, 1essees and as.
signs, the right and authority to con-
struct, lease, maintain and operate
single track railway upon Railroad
street from point opposite the north
line of lot numbered twelve Q2), in
block numbered thirteen U3) in
Railroad addition to the city of Cairo
TO and across the intersection OF
Eighth street, which petition was ac.
by petition signed by
he owners of more than one-half the
fronting upon said street be-
tween the points named and by the
certificate of publication of notice
given as required by law, and by an
ordinance entitled AN ordinance
granting the Cairo & st. Louis Rail
way Company corporation or
ganized under the laws of the state
IF Illinois, its successors, lessees and
assigns the right to construct, lease,
naitain and operate a railway
n Railroad street, from a point OPP |
josite the north line of lot numbered |
,welve 12), in block numbered Thir |
cen 13), in Railroad addition to the |
,ity of Cairo, to and across the inter-
section of Eighth street in the city of |
cairo, Illinois" which ordinance was |
cad at length and upon motion of |
Alderman Burke, referred to the ordi |
nance and street committees.
Resolutions and Motions.
Alderman Nelils offered the follow
ng resolution:
Resolved: That the pump and |
water committee take up and consider !,
he ACCESSIBILITY of putting both drain
Ige pumps in shape for use as the
eason is now approaching when the
Jumps will be needed.
On motion of Alderman Nellis the
was referred to the pump |
md water supply committee.
Alderman Burke offered the follow
ng resolution:
Resolved: That the city attorney I
,e and he is hereby instructed to pre-
'are an ordinance providing for the
establishment of a city scale and a
'ity weighmaster. The said ordi.
lance to fix the amount to be charged
The Cairo bulletin., 1909-12-20
Minutes.

Alderman Magner moved the min
utes of last regular and intervening
special meeting be approved without
reading. The motion was adopted by
unanimous vote of all aldermen pres
The Cairo bulletin., 1909-12-20

In the absence of the mayor Alder
man Meehan who had been chosen al
last meeting, presided.
The Cairo bulletin., 1909-12-20
Reports of Officers

Ernest Nordman. city comptroller
submitted his monthly report as fol
lows:
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-12-09

Employers Liability Act Held on-
onstitutional-To the merciless Droad
sides of unconstitutionality, the red
eral employers liability act, created
to decrease the number of railroad ID
talities. succumbed in Hoxie V. NE"
York, N. H. & H. R. Co., 70 Atlantic
Reporter, 754. The Connecticut SUI
preme court of errors criticised as I'M
polite and violative of the long-accept-
ed common law the provision allowing
employees to recover for injuries re-
ceived through the negligence of fell
low-servants. The prohibition against
railroads exempting themselves from
liability for negligence by contract
with their employees was deemed viola
tive of the fifth amendment of the red
eral constitution, prohibiting the dc
privation of liberty and property with
out due process of law, in that 1t de-
MED the parties the right to contract.
Arbitrarily making railroads While en'
gagged in interstate commerce liable to
employees for injuries was considered
invalid except as regulation OF inter
state commerce, it not being sufficient
that it remotely affected such com
merce if that result was secured by in
vading the settled limits of the sover
eighty of the states as to their own in
ternal police. The section providing
for the distribution of the fund recov
cred in an action for death was as
sailed thus: If the damages recover
able are to be treated as representing
the estate left by the decedent, it is
for the state of his domicile to regulate
the distribution thereof, and, if the
damages are treated as fund Great
ed by the act, congress may not bring
into existence a new duty of execu
tors or administrators to collect and
new duty of masters to pay what thu
decedent never owned.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-12-09
WHO Will MARRY AMANDA?

4 fruitful topic of discussion-if
words are to be regarded as fruit:
md ! barren onasif measured by re-
nults--i the u -, of why many
educated WON marry.
An explag he by a Ken
that the han regards the
highly Woman as he would
= b. i Bet which might or
miq We sting, and which
II avoid.
Contributor to the sum OF
is Amanda Saepe Quasita,
kes few remarks in the New
Independent. Unlike another
fbutor to the same publication.
lamented, or at least commented.
ibol the fact that she had never been
sought in marriage, although con
ecious OF no reason why, this student
OF the marriage problem says that
Through the accidents Of propinqui.
W she has received several pro-
poeals from eligible men.
From this invincible spinster's ex-
PLANTATION of the failure of half dozen
American suitors to measure up to
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-12-09
FIRST HOSPITAL IN AMERICA
Founded In Mexico City by cortez u
still 10 Conducted Along Lines
Laid Down by Him.

Writing in the Medical Record,
DR.. James j. Walsh, dean of Ford
ham University Medical school, SAYS
that the first hospital ever built in
America was erected by the Span
lard Cortez in Mexico City in 1924.
1t was endowed out of revenues OBJ
tanned from the properties conferred
on him by the Spanish crown for his
services in the conquest of Mexico.
The endowment was so arranged
that it still exists and is paid at the
present day. A supervisor is named
by the lineal descendant of Cortez at
present. In this hospital women oc-
cupied positions as nurses and ply
sicians, and in their care were all
cases of obstetrics and women's dis
eases. Considerable was known by
the Indians of medicine. The Mexi-
can hospital is fine building, with
arcades and courtyard. 1t is an in
teresting landmark in the history Of
hospital construction and admins
tration.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-12-09
THE RINGING OF THE BELLS.

81 am surprised at your slackness
of costume, Lionel" quoth Harry
Niemyer, as Lionel Adams hove in
view.
"How SOP" queried Lionel, anx-
iously, looking hurriedly over his
faultless attire.
"Why, man." cried Niemyer, "you
have an enormous hole in your right
SOCK"
Mr.. Adams twisted his neck, Cog
gled his eyes, and tried to writhe his
foot into impossible positions, but
could not detect anything wrong. AT
last, much worried, he retired to a
secluded nook, removed his shoe,
and examined the sock most critical
ly. Returning to Mr.. Niemyer, he
exclaimed, with much injury ap-
parent in his voice, "You must
think you are born comique.
There's no hole there
eff there wasn't" returned Mr.
Niemyer, show would you ever get
your foot -"
And Mr.. Adams, with many low
means, did the buying.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-12-09
FEDERAL PATRONAGE
FOR MISSISSIPPI
Hon. L. B. Mosely Now In Wash
in9ton Looking After Gov
eminent Jobs.
Special to The NeUS.

Special to The Ne,Cs.
jackson, Miss, Dec. S.-A special
dispatch from Washington states that
Postmaster General Frank H. Hitch
cock will visit the white house this
afternoon, accompanied by Hon. L. B.
Moseley, federal patronage referee
and Republican national committee
man for Mississippi, to discuss patron
age matters in this state.
This means that Committeeman
Moseley will submit to the president
the list of selections for the various
offices as made by the regular party
organization in this state, and that he
will have the presidential ear for
space of time sufficient to set forth
the qualifications of the aspirants who
have been given the party endorse
ment.
Interest chiefly centers in the Unit
ed States district attorneyship for the
southern &strict, now held by Hon.
r. c. Lee, a Democrat, whose candi-
dacy is sanctioned by the Republican
leaders, and whose chief opponent is
Hon. H. H. Gilmore, of Lexington, also
Democrat, who has Governor Noels
endorsement for the place. The Re-
publican leaders frankly and openly
charge that Governor Noel is meddling
in the affairs of the Republican party.
and that Mr. Gilmore is not the only
person he has endorsed for federal
position; that he is presuming on
President Taft's personal friendship,
which he regards as sufficiently strong
to get some nice jobs for his friends.
At the same time, they are strongly OF
the opinion that Governor Noels rec
concentrations will be disregarded, and
that President Taft will not appoint
to any federal position in Mississippi
a person who has not been endorsed
by the regular party organization.
1t is expected that all presidential
appointments affecting the state OF
Mississippi will be made prior to the
adjournment of congress for the
Christmas holidays. Should some OF
the aspirants who are supposed to
have the personal endorsement OF
Governor Noel no named nv the nerSi-
dent, there are excellent reasons to be-
lieve that their confirmation will be
opposed by United States Senator H
ID. Money.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-12-09

Tom-Slowboy proposed to that
college graduate last night.
Dick-And was turned down?
Tom-He doesn't know. She used
such big words that he couldn't I'M
derstand what she was saying.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-12-09
BANQUET TONIGHT.
You Can Safely Eat One If You Take
Two Mi-o-na Tablets Afterwards.
Hays & Field Guarantee
Them.

1t is really pitiful sight to see so
many thousands of people worrying
about what they can eat and what
they can't eat.
Dyspeptics, they call themselves.
but they stretch the Imagination when
they do it.
All these people need to make them
healthy, cheerful and of sound appe-
tite is box of Mona tablets.
The stomah of a dyspeptic is over
worked and run down. It needs help
to digest the food. but more than
that it needs a prescription that will
cleanse, renovate, strengthen and put
elasticity into the stomach walls.
Mi-o-na is the prescription that will
do this and do it so promptly that
you'll wonder why you didn't try it
before.
1t stops belching of gas and distress
after eating in five minutes. 1t S I'M
Idoubtedly the greatest stomach tonic
ever given to the public by special
list in stomach diseases.
Leading druggists everywhere sell
Mona. Hays & Field sell it in Hat
tiesburg for so cents a large box on
the money-back plan. Test samples
free from Booths Mi-o-na, Buffalo,
N. Y.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-12-09

Financial Concern as Mental Suffer-
ing-The president of hotel company
was seriously scalded by the explosion
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-12-09
A Low STANDARD.

'Women put up with too much in
matrimony. Their standard of mat
rimonial felicity is too low"
The speaker was Mrs. Arthur
Harrison Hodges, the well-known
Duluth suffragist. She resumed:
''Why, once, in the days Of my
slum work, a woman said to me:
"'Mrs. Dobrowsky likes her Sec
ond husband far better than her
first, ma'am.'
'Why% asked.
"'She says was the reply, that
her second husband does so much
time that practically all she earns
she has for herself"
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-12-09
STRANGE SORT OF srEED.

Miss Viola Black is the name of a
little lady who attracted almost as
much attention at Beverly this sum-
mer as President Taft. She has
calf, broken to harness, which she
drives, doing errands for the neigh
bors. She raised the calf by hand
and as soon as it was old enough be-
gan to train it. With the money she
gets from errands she supports the
calf.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-12-09
Five Years
Of Heart Trouble Cured by
Dr.. Miles Heart Remedy

Before l began taking DR..
Miles Heart Remedy l had been
suffering from heart trouble for
over five years. I had pains in
my left side, and under my
shoulder blade, could not sleep
on the left side, and was so short
of breath the least exertion
would bring on the most distress
ing palpitation. l had scarcely
taken a half bottle Of the Heart
Remedy before I could see a
marked change in my condition.
When I had taken six bottles I
was cured"
MRS. c. C. GORKEY,
Mortified, Va.
If there is futtering or palpi-
tation it is an indication of a
weakness of the nerves and MUS
cles of the heart. 1t is not neces-
sarily diseased-just weak from
over-work. The heart may be
weak just the same as the eyes,
stomach or other organs. You
can make a weak heart strong
by taking DR.. Miles Heart Rem
edy. Get a bottle from your
druggist, take it according to d.
rections, and if it does not bene-
81 he will return your money.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-12-09

the mark we quote:
Il have often found men more COM
panionable than women Intellectually.
But one does not marry for the sake
of intellectual discussion. And as a
sutton the Americans Of my acquaint-
ance are failures. They propose,
which is the main thing, but with no
romance or charm. pass
over plainness of face and meanness
Guilty was that in every possible re.
spect l was their superior.
This they said themselves and they
we're quite right. l was mora accom-
plished, more Travelled, more socially
experienced, more versatile. Tneir
enjoyment of my company consisted
largely in sitting back to listen to my
words, with fascination not unmixed
with terror. Uneducated
women admire these men, because to
them they seem remarkable"
But let Frenchmen, Germans, Eng
lishmen. Swedes. Polacks, Norwe-
gians, Russians, Italians, Portuguese.
Spaniards, Hungarians and men OF
other nations cheer up. There is a
chance for some one to win this maid
en- of high education and high Ideals.
AS the poet has put it:
She is a woman, therefore may be
wooed;
She is a woman, therefore may be
For, says Miss Amanda Saepe
Quaesita-the name, of course, being
merely a nom de plume-American
men only are the subjects of her
scathing criticism. Europeans are all
right. The only detail in which they
fail, SO far, is that they have not
looked upon the loneliness of Amanda
and fallen at her Trilbyesque feet to
sue for the great good fortune of hear
ing her talk about her education and
her travels for the rest of their ma
tural lives and be fascinated and per-
haps terrified by the tales she tells
of what hotels and historic sights she
stopped at in "furrin parts" But for
the fact that such foreigners as she
had had the experience of admiring
have not popped the question in
rhyme, blank verse or oratorical
prose, they suit Amanda from the
ground up. Man-save in America
is an imperial animal worthy of cap.
ture.
With steady nerves and feeling OF
sureness that compels admiration
Amanda Sapient Quod Frat Demon
strandum, winds up with this meaty
paragraph of helpful hints:
IF the good hearted, companion
able, honest American man would
wake up. use his wits, straighten his
necktie, improve his manners, become
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-12-09
informed on things in general, try Sc

informed on things in general, try se-,
riously not to marry but to make him.
self manageable and above all get
over his terrified admiration OF the
nimbler sex, cultivate his capacity to
contradict her, and even bully her
now and then-he would get what he
wanted in wives as he has done in
every other department of life.
Meanwhile the woman who has
taken her education more seriously
will like him, will play with him and
will work with him, but she has too
much romance left in her to marry
where she cannot wholly respect, or
to substitute for love liking not un-
mixed with contempt"
The advice which tail-ends the arti.
Gle is not exactly germane to the sub
ject under discussion, which is not
How Can American Men Achieve
Matrimony?" but "Why College Wom-
en- Do Not Marry" AS matter OF
fact, American men find it reason
ably simple matter to marry. Gener-
ally speaking, and leaving out Of con-
sideration a small class of the idle
rich in a few of the largest centers
of population. they marry and live hap
PLY despite the expansion OF their liv-
ing expenses. And they get what
they want in wives" to borrow the
phrase Of the fair disparager of the
American as a lover. They may some
times find it impossible to marry an
Amanda, but, after all, it is best that
they should not. What would it profit
a man if he should successfully storm
the citadel of Amanda's affections, and
for one brief and glorious moment feel
himself to be an Anthony playing OPP
posite Cleopatra, only to go through
life being made to feel like an anthro-
poid ape at an endless session Of the
Culture Club of Keokuk?
The question is, therefore, not what
American men must do to their neck
ties, and how they must burnish up
their brass and acquire interestingly
bad morals, in order to win wives.
The question is, who in the world is
to be depended upon to inspire Aman-
da with admiration and propose to her
without first learning whether he is
to be supported happily in idleness
ever afterward as reward for hav.
ing played Chopin, and hoppered Ger
bets upon her superiority as talker
upon travel?
Casting a careful eye over the STU
alton, there is no happy prospect dis
coverable. In order to buy bonbons
and automobiles and furbelows and
trips to Europe for his prospective
wife the average American man must
continue to make boilers and bricks
instead Of bon mots; must continue to
can meats and vegetables instead OF
playing Chopin; must continue to fish
in the stock market for the where
withal that is the sesame to marital
happiness, instead of helping to make
tea in charming corners and playing
the ingratiating arts Of the green
goods vender while striving to ascer
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-12-09
ILL-TIME ED.

"Ever try this keep a-smiling
proposition"
"Tried it once, but with poor
success. Unfortunately, I started
he experiment oil a day that the
boss felt grouohy. Louisville Cou-
rier-Journal.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-12-09
SOME INTERESTING
~ COURT DECISIONS

~ a defective coffee urn, which 'n0
company had purchased through a 'oo'
her Tn the action brought against
tho manufacturer to recover for ln]ur'
ies to his mind, body and nervous sys'
tenn, the president testified tha' na
rro,lv he was much interested IN the
condition of things during MS lor''u
absence. because every dollar ne nay
an Garth was invested in the entert~
prise. and he had become personally
liable to a bank in large sum Invest
ed in it, and that he had expehoeu
81. 800 in a trip to the South TO Regain
control of his shattered nerves anu
his scalded person. In Statler "
George A. Ray Mfg. Co., So Northeast
ern Reporter, 1868, the New YORK
court of appeals, while holding the
manufacturer liable to the president
for the damages caused by the negh-
gently-constructed urn, was unable 10
grasp the theory on which the anxiety
caused by the financial concern ana
worry could be attributed to the acci-
dent. The testimony served to show
either the interest which the plalntlH
had in the business, and which was
liable to suffer as the result OF his IN
Jury, an element of damages not plead
ed. or else it tended to show that busl-
ness anxiety, rather than accident, al
fected his nerves and mind. II recov-
cry for a trip to the South were al
lowed, recovery might be had for a
voyage to Europe, and perhaps the
hire of a palace, which. OF course,
would be preposterous.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-12-09

Liability for Explosion Caused by
Lightning-One who was engaged in
blasting was killed by an abortlve
explosion of charge of dynamite
caused by flash of lightning during
a thunder storm. In Baccelli v. North
River Stone Co., 11S New York Sup
Elemental Reporter, 30, the admins
traitor of deceased sued to recover
damages for his death. The New York
supreme court held the master not
liable in failing to anticipate that the
use of electric eXploders would be dan
gerous in a thunder storm, in the abb
sence of some proof that such an ac-
cident was likely to happen.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-12-09

tain how much hard American cash
the fair American could afford to give
for a highly-polished husband.-Louis-
Vile Courier Journal
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-12-09

Liability of Saloonkeepers for Death
Due to Intoxication-One Jacob Wood
ring, addicted first to drink and as a
consequence thereof to violence, was
sold liquor, whereupon, following his
natural bent, he became intoxicated,
quarrelsome. vindictive and abusive,
ranged to such an extent that he made
an unprovoked and deadly assault
upon one Grosjean, who struck him so
violently that his death ensued. In
Woodring v. Jacobino, 103 Pacific Re-
porter, 500, the minor child of decd
ent sued the seller of the deranging
elixir for damages for her fathers
death. The jury found that appellant
had conducted a saloon; that he had
sold liquors to Woodring, which intox
icated him, causing him to become in
volved in the disastrous alteration
with Grosjean; that the liquor was pur
chased from appellant under circum
stances which would have led man OF
ordinary intelligence to believe intoxi
cation would probably result there
from; and that respondent had sus
tanned loss in her support and mainten
ance in the sum of $500. The Wash
ington supreme court refused to dis
turb the judgment of the trial court.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1909-07-08
KING PETER FALLS FROM
HORSE; SERIOUSLY HURT
Servian Ruler is Carried to Castle oy
Attendants-Wili Recover IN
Few DAYS.

BELGRADE. July Seized with
fainting fit. King Peter today fell
of his horse while riding In Ptopshirc-
or Park. He was severely bruised and
shaken and was carried TO the castle
by atte ndants IN serious condition.
The whole city is arousej at the ac-
cident because, Ii Is feared, that
should King Peter die, the political
autonomy OF SeryN will De menaceG.
Since the Balkan trouble and the dis
covery OF an alleged plot by Peter for
the formation Of . Slavic empire. Aus
tria has watched every move OF Servia
ana Russia has been ready 10 step
in 10 hiC aid should his kingdom be
menaced.
The court surgeon issued state
;nent a short time after the accident
stating that his majesty was not seri-
cusly injured and would recover IN
a Few days.