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The San Francisco call., 1909-05-10

CORNER saloon and liquor store $4,000.
Small hardware stock, invoice. must sell
Small roOming house. earning Sli2. monthly,
s275.
We have restaurants. groceries barber shops
dry goods. notions, at bargain prices.
BERG & WILLIAMSON. 212S 18th So
A new cottage. rooms and bath; large lot;
on carline $500 cash.
SIC. .0ON-Haf cash. income $500; think q
10 as sn investment Il fats, 80 foot lot.
fronting on streets.
lots S475 easy terms. ON csriine
The San Francisco call., 1909-05-10
poous To IET-continued

WALLER ST. 660-CIean. sunny, home apart
ments porch, laundry gas coal range, phone;
| O..ab1a
The San Francisco call., 1909-05-10

sol NG French girl wants place in Bevedcre
ai so 5 month: snE kind - work. Two
ofh~r rench girls want SECOND work n so 4
month. Can az MISS Plan kETrfS 1895
Suftcr =. cor Webster. Telephone West 5s25.
The San Francisco call., 1909-05-10
DRUG STORES FOR SALE

s5O00-Fine store. clean stock snd good bust
neSs. in san Francisco; also one at $500. s3 Geo
s3 500; drag stores IN Oakland Berkeley. san
Jose. Pcscade-o and in Lake county. Humboldt
county. Sonorla county. Nevada county and 9th
Oregon for 81, 500; IL you are looking for bUs
ness. or have 0ne for sale. communicate with Us,
California.
TIE F. A. Week REALTY COMPANY. ,
The San Francisco call., 1909-05-10

YOUNG lady bpsE keeper and stenogra pher.
thoroughly experienced. viii accept desirable
position il city OF countrg Address box
pos Call office.
The San Francisco call., 1909-05-10

WANTED cung lady for coffee house; expert
ence not needed. 705 Folsom st
The Cairo bulletin., 1909-03-24
Monte Carlos Balance Sheet.

The gaming tables at Monte Carlo
are once again In full swing, and the
casino is pouring into its Golfers some.
thing like $4,000 ($20,0OO) daily to.
ward the annual million or more it ex.
poets to clear before April closes. But
enormous as the casinos profits are,
it's expenditure is proportionateIy
great and includesspme strange items.
Thus it pays about $4,000 a year for
clergy and schools, 10000 for charity
and 100000 for police and courts.
The maintenance of the casino runs
into hundreds of thousands of pounds,
And yet, In spite of these huge dis
bursements, the shareholders hSve lit.
tie cause to grumble, for they pocket
in dividends something like $500, 900
year; and, even in poor year, can
rely on q return of over 80 per cent
on their holdings.
The Cairo bulletin., 1909-03-24
JIMMIE VIEWED WITH ALARM
saw Dreadful Possibilities In Advent
Of the New Baby.

well, Jimmie" said the visitor. II
understand you have q new baby
here"
YES" said Jimmie, ''he got here
last Tuesday night"
Whom does he look like, your "a
Their or your mother?" asked the Wis
itor.
I'VE don't know yet" said Jimmie.
He SENS kind Of undecided yet"
They tell me he has your fathers
nose" said the visitor.
Yes" said Jimmie. "He has pa's
nose, and mas mouth. and Aunt
Sarah's ears, and between you and
me I'm for givin' him grandpa's teeth
He amt got any Of his own, and
grandpa's got two sets. What I'm
afraid Of is that If they don't give 'em
to him he'll get mine, and need 'em
In my business
The Cairo bulletin., 1909-03-24

NEWS FROM OUR NEIcHBoRs


Britton will preside. Last but not
at all the least, on Friday and Satur
|day Miss Ida Johnson will be glad to
show her stock Of trimmed ana
fstreet hats to the ladies' and viii
have with her Miss Howk who will
assist at the opening. To all these
openings the ladies receive a cordial
Invitation and Will be shown all the
latest lingerie in hats that can be
Iobtained. The stores will be taste
fully decorated with plants and
draperies which viii form a beautiful
background 4or the lovely millinery
creations.
George Stubblefleld of UrbanSlale,
was In the city Monday on business.
The following persons became
charter members OF the Modern Ma
tional Reserve, fraternal insurance
order which was organized in the
dining room at the st. Charles Hotel
Monday evening; Messrs. AMI Mes
danes Geo. II. Martin, w. A, Dough
erty, A. l.. Compton, d. H. Mills,
Chas Britton, Hall Whitaker, w. N.
Meyers, j. T. Belts. r. G.. Castor and
Geo. Conrad; Mesdames Hattie Fish,
Kate Richards and Ruby Richey;
Messrs. E. T. Snyder, Byron L. Con-
nell. ]. G. Ford, Dave Harris and
Kern. An elegant three course
luncheon was served and after par
taking of this delicious repast the
members gave ear to some splendid
talks by Hon. Geo. f. Martin, County
Surveyor w. N. Meyers. DR.. Hall
Whitaker and G. s. Britton. Mrs.
A. l.. Compton ana Mrs. E. C. Richey
also favored the party with excellent
and highly apprecited readings Each
lady was presented with an American
beauty rose and ferns. The following.
Officers were elected: G. T.. Martin,
president; J. T. Belts, vice president;
Byron Cornell. secretary; J G. Ford.
treasurer; Mrs. d. II. Mills, chaplain;
w. A. Dougherty, outer guard; w.
N. Meyers, inner guard u
Miss Ora Sims left Monday to visit
her friend, Miss Jessie Mol in Cairo
Il few days.
Miss Mary Overstreet proved her
self an excellent hostess when she
entertained few of her friends at
the home of her uncle Mr.. Joseph
Fullerton on Pearl street Monday
evening. Music. dancing and games
followed by refreshments made pleas
ant the hours after which the follow
ing persons dispersed for their
various homes: Misses Julia Johns.
Jaccard. Allie Belts, Made.
line Coulter, Estelle Brown and
Mona Connell; Messrs. Carl Park
man, Joe Martin, Clifton Benson. Ed
win Freeman. Cole Tarr. John Sheo-
han and Byron Connell
Misses Allie Belts, Mary Over
street. Estelle Brown, Julia Johns
and Irma Tuttle visited Mounds
friends Sunday.
The Cairo bulletin., 1909-03-24
Strange RegMnentaI Customs.

A peculiar Gu stom obtains in an
English regiment. the Twelfth Ian.
cers-the playing of the Vesper hymn,
the Spanish chant( and the Russian
national hymn every night after the
Last Post" hasso,Inded. 1t is said that
the playing Of the Vesper hymn origi-
mated in one of the officers wives pre-.
sentiDg the regiment with a new set
of instruments on condition that the
hymn be played every night. The
playing of the Spanish chant is as a
penance for the sacking of a convent
during the Peninsular war. No rea-
son is assigned fbr the playing Of the
Russian national anthem.
The Cairo bulletin., 1909-03-24
MOUNDS, ILL.
March %.

JVdICU E0r
Mr.. and Mrs. Finley Hubs hava
moved to Cairo where they will make
their home in the future.
Large quantities of green onions
and spinach have been shipped from
her and Villa Ridge this week.
M. j. Mcbride of Villa Ridge was
In town last week
The small pooX scare is over and
the public school resumed business
Monday morning.
DR.. b. A. Royal of Villa Ridge is
havin his rent property in town re.
painted and repaired which adds
greatly to the beauty and convenience
of the same.
The adjusters have been In the
county this week settling the damage
done by the recent cyclone.
Norris Clancy, Jim Tobin anr Dan
Behrant and Christ Reister of Amer
lea precinct drove down this way last
week to take the Government road
to Mound City.
The city council was in session
Monday night and passed the inter.
urban franchise ordinance by a unan-
imous vote. II is now an assured fact
that we will get the interurban and
that this city is on the main line. As
a result of this assurance half a
hundred or more new substantial
houses will be built at once.
J. F. Ericsson will move his shoe
store into the Reader building, in the
room lately vacated by d. Warsaw.
Our contractors are all getting
busy just now and several fine cot.
tages will be started this week..
The ladies of the Congregational
church gave an ice cream social in
the Reader building last night which
was well attended and enjoyed by
all.
The Mound City Enterprise in its
statements about donations from
that city 10 the hard roads move,
gets farther away from the truth than
in anything it has attempted since
it has been "ralSing chestnuts out o'
the ashes. The facts are, Commits
The Cairo bulletin., 1909-03-24
To "save His Eace.v

A Boston painter who died not long
ago was broken-down wreck in his
later days Some feeling of pride
and shame chung to him to the last
however, and, although he lived upon
the charity of his friends. he never
asked for money outright. In the
crown of his hat he pasted this re.
quest: please lend me a quarter"
printed in big. staring letters. When
making a call he would doff his hat
with much show Of dignity, and there
would be the mute appeal staring in
the face his intended victim. The
scheme never failed.
The Cairo bulletin., 1909-03-24
Anger as a Virtue.

Anger is one of the sincws Of the
soul: he that wants it hath a manned
mind. and with Jacob, sinew-shrunk In
the hollow of his thigh, must needs
halt. Nor is it good to converse with
such as cannot be angry, and. with the
Caspian sea. never ebb nor flow. This
anger is either heavenly, when one Is
offended for God, or hellish. when
offended with God and goodness, or
earthly, in temporal matters, which
earthly anger may also be hellish. II
for no cause. no great cause, too hot
or too long.-1'honas Fuller.
The Cairo bulletin., 1909-03-24

Oh, courtly maiden young and sweet,
With suing courtieIat your feet,
I've got to earn sfne filthy tin
By putting dimplcsn your chin,
My LADY,
The artist drew yoi rs he chose
And dressed you it;those fassy clothes,
All, ] must call tha. sseans of lace
And tell in raptuit tB thy face,
My lady,
Oh. gallant knight go cut your hair.
Those seeks You sgt must be Il carel
And such nasty boxing sword
IN bet you mace from a board.
My knigit
What rooster woreslat plume? o. say,
cut out that must talk today
on course she lovesou, That's the thing
The artist had in Ind, by jung!
Ny knigif!
Say, You get martd. 40 1T NOW. -
co keep some cilicIns aud a COW.
Yes, fix it up ando If right
I've got to hurry me tonight,
Ny beauts!
Now. there's welding fixed. by gum,
I guess that's beatg Cupid. SOME,
I'm off through sletng snow and rain
To catch that fastt Hen Ellyn train.
loot tooies!
SwssMs4e~s
The Cairo bulletin., 1909-03-24
Exnress Yourself.

Express yourself. If your railroad
crowds its passengers by putting on
an insufficient number OF cars. let
each crowded passenger write a can
did expression OF opinion to the pas
senger agent If Your trolleys are
crowded, don't lazIy subrlit-express
yourselves. Not 10 each other, but to
the man who is running things. Make
it hot for him. He Is there to serve
you. Don't be gentle sheep and bleat
contentedly when you are herded to-
gether. BE goats, and butt in Re-
forms are never anything but the fruit
of strong popular expression
Charles BatteIl Loomis.
The Cairo bulletin., 1909-03-24
A Turtle Which Doesn't Grow Up.

A Brooklyn boy who spent last sum-
mer in Connecticut found turtles
egg in the course Of his country wan
derings. He broke the shell aud
found inside a perfectly formed tur-
tie. He resolved TO bring up the tur-
tie for pet and experienced no diff
Guilty in feeding and caring for it.
The Cairo bulletin., 1909-03-24

sioner D. w. Prindle and Tom Roach
gave the people OF that city a chance
70 donate to the villa Ridge ami
Mounds road. but were completely
turned down. Then II. G. Britton met
two financial stalwarts OF that city.
who, on speculation had bought a
negro grave yard which is located on
said road, and they subscribed two
dollars which it Is said has never
been paid.
The Cairo bulletin., 1909-03-24
Humor There. Somewhere.

Here is another story about Taft In
the far east that is told by Frederic s.
Isham, the novelist:
Two Cinnamon In Shanghai were
discussing the president-elect's visit
to that place shortly after the depar-
ture of the Taft party.
mir. Taft is certainly very big
man." said, one, making gesture that
implied large circle as he spoke.
HE is that" answered the other.
I'VE have certainly had consider
able sphere of American influence In
our midst recently"
And yet they say Cinnamon have
no sense of humor.
The Cairo bulletin., 1909-03-24
Afahanistan Crows Opium.

According to the Sind Gazette the
cultivation of the opium poppy is just
starting in with a vim in Afghanistan.
where it was supposed that under
governmental pressure poppy cul-
tiyation was growing less throughout
India. The first imports of Afghan
opium into India were received last
wear and it was pronounced better
thar Malwa opium.-Consular Re-
ports.
The Cairo bulletin., 1909-03-24
u y =
SIi(rs Of Thounht.

5Ilfrs Of Thought.
A baby al dynamite are two little
mites that (use a lot Of excitement
in any homo
Il 4 Il
The size da mans head doesn't in
dictate wisdh. A pumpkin would
would wear number fourteen.
4 X &
The novelt tells us of the kindling
eye. He san, Ills eye kind!ed as he
beheld her Hauteous FORM" and after
marriage sh@had to kindle the fires,
II 4 &
Some md work on the square and
some loaf d The corner" says j, w.
Van Dorm. Aud again, some men loaf
on the sqprd and work UP corner
on corn.
Il 4 II
In nine cbses out of ten, 1t isn't
our work that tires us; ii is our pleas
ure Wel.ndw when to stop our work,
but few of vi know when to stop our
recreation.
= :, =
A grouchy editor says: When a
man finishes making call, he puts on
his hat and .gaAs. but when to woman
finishes ore, SHE will stand in the hall
and tell everything she knows Yes,
and I'll bet cookie there was a time
when this selfsame editor has stood in
the hall with woman and couldn't be
pried loose until the clock struck mid
uiyhtt
The Cairo bulletin., 1909-03-24
circumstantial Evidence.

Shells it true that Miss Blank Is
going TO marry the price?
He--Er-well, they have issued de-
NAL of the story which contradicted
the report as TO the falsity OF The ru-
NOR that the account was untrue.
The Cairo bulletin., 1909-03-24
The One Execution.

"You say your insurance proposition
is one of the best ever?"
Yes, sir"
young man, you interest me. You're
the first OF the Alps agents I've met
this year whose proposition wasn't
positively the best. Kansas City
Times.
The Cairo bulletin., 1909-03-24
Lettino the Other Fellow VERY.

What will you do when racing is
suppressed
Il don't know" answered the book
maker, but I'll get on some way My
observation is that people with easy
money to distribute will always find
some way of handing 1t to u.s."
The Cairo bulletin., 1909-03-24
A Fiery WRONG.

+, sTsn't 1t dreadful there should be
such a crime as arson?"
4 Indeed, 1t is burning shame"
The Cairo bulletin., 1909-03-24
No. . Real Artist.

''Pretty fine artist, isn't hei"
s.No, indeed. He paints only the
pleasing kind Of pictures. kansas
The Cairo bulletin., 1909-03-24
Only Re Failure.

No mans a fai;e until he's dead
or loses his couEe. and that's the
sans thing-Geon Horace Lorimer.
The Morning examiner. [volume] (Ogden, Utah) 1904-1910, 1909-02-14

hundred pictures in the valley below and the hills be-
yond and the winding check Mrs Glow took him IN
eagerly. 1t meant work, but it cash, and
cash the article that her husbands farm would
produce.
Whatever fate it that sent this note into the
life of the boy that fate had selected kindly fer the
stranger brought with him and palette and
brush and paint and because he bought the services
of young Henry to carry these things. heaven
opened to the dreamer. The stranger surprised TO
find that the boy in setting his easel and stool for
him would, himself judge tho view and shift these
paraphernala exactly TO the point that the would
have chosen. Shy too. the youngstcr offered
for instance. that distant cunp of trees which in
evening mist cmpurplcd sometimes in the
morning tender blue like that he picked out
upon the palette that the trunks of the which,
that particular hour ranged from veyetblack and
brown to sv rgray certain lights and against
tain coors appeared distinctly red of tone.
One whole month of this ecstasy was permitted the
boy, month in which before his worshipping eyes
wrought the magic of completed canvas, and
thcn-thc magician away! Before he left he
profcrcd check in payment of his BILL but Jim Glow
would have of it He had never handled check
in all his life and it did appeal to him. What he
wanted to grcenbacks and silver. The artist
laughed
Very we'll" said he, ell go to town and get it for
you" and in his blackboard the little pony that had
brought him there, took him to the world again
He did not come back. because he could not get his
check cashcd in the village he waited until he got
TO the, city, and from there Jim money order
with careful explanation of how to get it cashcd
Unfortunately that letter went astray and in the heart
OF Jim Glow there grew up natural resentment
against the whole tribe of artists When Henry find
ing discarded brush and squeezing out scan supply
OF colors from the empty tubes the artist had left
him, tried his hstng hand at painting upon Of
the smooth saty stones with which the farm abounded
Jim CLOVIS patience turned to violent anger. and he
fought this development of The boys worthless
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That's what father says, and he made fun Of it,"
he replied, but that's the way l have seen it along
sometimes in the early mornings; that IS good deal
like that only didn't have any Of the real color that
it ought to be-"
Again the artist looked musingly from the boy to
the sketch and to the house Instantly he could see
such carly morning, one OF those misty gray dawns
in which, when the sun has just begun to struggle
through. there comes for few moments that strange.
cctng buencss of tint to pcrvadc all distance and to
swathc all objects He talked but little further with
the boy; mere conventional words Of encouragement,
and drove away in deep thought though once he
turned around to look again the youngstcr where he
stood in the middle of the road gazing rucfuly his
unfinished sketch Henry thought that the artist
displeased in some way, and he threw down the
stone and broke it, then crept of behind the underbrush
at the upper side of the road to bury himself for half
Z day in misery.
But after the lapse of i week there came wonder
fu express package to the village for Henry Glow
In it were half dozen stretched canyascs, block
OF skctching canvas. palette, palctteknife dag
zling supply OF paints and brushes The materials
all cheap but they ample and for the first
time in his life the boy sturdy opposed and dcfcd MS
father In the face of scorn and rdiculc of fierce i'm
precation, and even of whippings he persisted until
at last Jim Glow forced to confess that the boy
worked much better and more steadily about the
farm since by this alone could he hope to ward off the
objection to his painting times. What reinstaking
study tho youngscr spent upon the coloring in meadow
and woods and sky that, so plain seemed now so
elusive, only those who have gone over the toilsome
road may know; as only they, too, may understand
how he boarded paint and canvas a miscr does his
gold making each stroke count and putting it down
only after grave and earnest thought until at last he
began to force those evasivc chromatic harmones
come forth at his bidding.
It three years after his first visit when the ar
list again, and in an automobile now for in those
three years he, too, had worked, and success had
CoPYNGHT. 1903
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all wasted Trouble slipped from the boys back
as soon as it came, tbrashng made HIM remember
TO be stcadiastly industrious for time, but at the
turn of furrow some harmony of key-tonc in Garth
and tree and hill and sky would impress him. and he
would pause and marvel at this wonder of light and
color, while his plow chokcd within the soil and the
idle horses calmly thrashed their tails.
Color Always and everywhere there was color.
even in shadow and backcst night and he grew to
rcvcl in it, seeing it kccny where others blndly saw
but mist sterile ground grazing land but fruitful
trees barren but promises OF fair weather or foul
Thus Henry Glow might have lived and died and
have become clay again, but IN that blessed Summer
came a stranger, who travelling idly through the
country this quaint little gray house with its
many-mes broken roof and its queer angles and its
multiplicity of moss-grown stone steps, and also
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a monochrome. Trees and shadows, atmosphere and
foreground and distant silhouette all Garth and heaven
displayed this keynote in varying depths and tin;.
There was crudcncss in the drawing the limbs OF the
trees were stiff and clumsy and at unnatural angles
and the leaves badly grouped-brt the colcrl It
was startling in its boldncss, and yet looked,
and looked and looked again resolved itself into
live landscape with vibrant harmony, caught IN
Of those misty evenings when Nature herself had
wrought IN monochrome
who has been teaching you," he asked the youth
sharply
NO ono" replied the other in humbeness Il wish
they had
NO oneT repeated the artist to himself But
some One did,
Jim Glow stood in frowning dsapproval at the
kitchen steps. where the youth had led the way to
show the view from which the painting had been
made
C" want to take your boy away with me-" said the
artist and Hcnrys heart lcapcd into his throat With
trembling anxiety PAIN keen that he thought he
should under it, he caught at the artists coat
and held to the hem of it might to the spar
that should save him from engument while he waited
in fearsome silence for what might follow
"What for ?" inquired the father.
Il want to educate him; to make an artist of him.
A good man paid my way to such success as I have
gained and I can pay him back, for he is dead.
This is the only way in which can make reimburse
mcnt and have set aside the sum that my years of
training cost for just that purpose. waiting until
should find worth while. have found him
there"
Jim shook his head.
II can't spare Henry He amt much help. but he's
some. an if he was gone Id have t git round
the place"
81 sec,' said the artist, frowning How much
would such cost you?"
Twenty dollars month and his keep" responded
Jim. figuring shrewdly
There would be difference between his keep
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crowned his efforts His famous picture "The Valley
Farm, had been the start OF it, and now, in sort Of
mpcrsona gratitude the first rung of his ladder he
ourncyed out to sec it. He had almost forgotten the
boy except of the minor incidents that went to
make up the entire episode, but the boy had not for
gotten him. He had mentally elevated the artist to
almost Olympian glory and it with the trem-
bling timidity in which one might await the smile or
the frown Of deity that he brought forth his can
vases to show. One by the artist picked them
up and set them down, without comment but with
growing interest. until by and by he
that startled him.
Sunset it called, but such sunset Here
was flaming sky of reds and ycllows, but nscn-
sblc gradation from the sccl-bluc OF the zenith
deep the ntcrsccs OF the the horizon
and that tint everywhere 1t was almost
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ness with bitterness; nor it altered much when,
after long time the money order came back to the
artist and he, contrc. made special trip from the
city to Jim CLOVIS place to pay the money
The artist big enough and broad enough to
ocpt in meencs this injustice for he was one of pity
ing hcatt who knew that not all Gods children may
have the larger gift OF understanding but before he
away he the fiat stone with the crude daub
upon it. II was picture of the house as seen from
the high bank the opposite side Of the road, and its
drawing was rough and of proportion, though it
had some perspective The coors too, wcrc raw. but
one thing struck him most forcbly The house itself
was weather cr-beatcn gray, but it had been painted
delicate blue, that blue The artist looked at the
boy curiously.
That is queer color you gave the house." he said.
The boy flushed
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= TOW destiny to send such delicate bios
som to the home Of the CLOVIS, in all defiance
n OF hercdity OF one OF the many mysteries Of
life which will probably never be solved AS
mere baby his beauty was exceptional; his