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The Brinkley argus., 1910-09-30
The Colored School Opens.

The Brinkley Colored Public school in North Brinkley has opened and the attendance is very promising for a record breaking term.
 D. L. Taylo is principal and has for his 1st assistant Mrs. Prescilla Hibbler, with Miss Ruth Weaver, End assistant and Miss M. E. Harrison in charge of the primary Department.
 The colored people have a nice building and fine grounds and with D. L. Taylor and his good corp of teachers in charge will have a fine school this term.
The Brinkley argus., 1910-09-30
Mrs. ]. w. Savage Falls and
 Breaks Arm.

On Saturday night, at her home on North Main Steet, Mrs. J. w. Savage, in endeavoring to turn on a light fell from chair and was badly bruised, breaking her arm as she fell.
The Brinkley argus., 1910-09-30
F Tor Rice Mill.

R. Gazette Sept. B. ". P. Y been elected secre- ler and general man. Weiner Rice Milling sice Edwin Boysen,
 to death in a Mem
 house.
The Brinkley argus., 1910-09-30
LOST

A bunch of keys on the street Thursday night. Finder return to ARGUS Office and receive re- ward.
The Brinkley argus., 1910-09-30
l Thomas Martin
 lofries.

Iy afternoon at 8 Dln Thomas. Martin Rlantation of Wm.
 xried to Miss Claude W. P. Talkington
The Brinkley argus., 1910-09-30
l lssesors Now
 |sfkine.

d Sewerage asses nmons, A. Flora and ' ire now engaged the sewerage as- hpected to report in
The Brinkley argus., 1910-09-30

Harvill will develop those films Harvill, Cotton Plant.
The Brinkley argus., 1910-09-30

Tell lem you saw 1t In the Aruus'
The Brinkley argus., 1910-09-30

E:-A s6O <scholar- nnch of the Inter-
 ol of Correspond cheap Apply or FOX SlT Brif]kley,
The Brinkley argus., 1910-09-30

ning of Ellsbery, cty in charge of insry.
The Brinkley argus., 1910-09-30

Tell 'em you saw it in the Argus.
The Cairo bulletin., 1910-03-09
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.,
/ LEGAL DECISIONS !
Observation-Disclosures

Taxation Of Private Waterwnr.s tc
Support Competitor. The right Of a
municipality to levy q tax on a pr.
waite Waterworks system for the sup
port 81 a municipal system is dr.
cussed in In ne Beauty Spring Water
Co., l1S New York Supplement, $50.
It appeared that the service fur
nished By the private company wa
inadequate for domestic and fire BRO
lection and the municipality finally
constructed a system of it, OWE,
which was alleged to be operated In
competition with that Of the private
company. Taxes we're levied or
property within the municipal boun
laries, including that Of the water
company for support Of the municipal
water system The hardship Of thus
being compelled to help along a com
Detitor caused the private company
% refuse to pay the portion levied
for THAI purpose Supplementary pro
seedlings were then instituted for col
ection. The supreme court, willie
not fully determining the absolute
rights of the parties. held that the
village authorities had jurtadiction
If the tax debtor and its property,
md that the tax should not be held
void In summary proceedings.
The Cairo bulletin., 1910-03-09
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SOME SHORT TALKS
ON MANY SUBJECTS
BY RETIRED TEACHER.

Many people have idle surplus
money in small or large amount they
are anxious to invest so it will yield
hem large increa G in a short
time, How to make tolerably sure
f retaining what one has ii easier
to tell.
If You can start scheme, and
Old control of it, which win appear
lausible and inviting to others like
orrseif who want to get rich quick
Y, you may get Eod Of their money
and return for 1t only equivalent
nough to keep goa out Of the peni-
entiary, reaping profits SO large our
Investment will multiply rapidly.
But do not lnye in the other fell
oWs scheme, whatever it be, wheth-
n a home production or from dis
ant parts, unless willing to part
with your money permanently, hop
ng to aid some public enterprise
that you may derive indirect benefit
from. DO not be a lamb to the
manipulations OF the stock and pro
duce markets; do not gamble in any
way except for amusement and lin
ited small stakes. and leave such
games as soon as raise Of stakes
Is proposed, or the limit Is thrown
off, for there are sharpers around
the board after your wad. no mat.
ter II you have deemed them all hon
orable gentlemen,
DO not be allured by pro pee,Cses
md agents Of lands, lots, mining ana
'ther stocks that you know noting
of personally. Such properties OF
,alue are not hawEed around or adj
tertised. They find purchasers eas-
lily; more correctly, the purchasers
find them.
Lastly, do not buy tae watercd
stocks of good corporations. TIE wa
Ter will be squeezed out Of them
one DAY; thea the value Of the
'roperties will not BIZ sufficient to
eeure their bonded indebtedness.
The Cairo bulletin., 1910-03-09
CAIRO IN 1884
! ! ! ! : IsI'sss 1ss'ssisssssss 50 Sc
tFrom The Cairo Bulietin.)


A Republican county convention
was held on April 9Th presided over
| by Capt. N. d. Thist!ewoc,l 1T which
delegates were appointed TO the en-,
suing state convention. VIM, D. Lip
pdt and A. Coming took part in tae
proet edinss,
Mr.. II. II. Caadee and CAPT. ]. G.
D. knight were elected members Of
the Beard OF Education on April 9TH.
Only SIS votes were pciled.
Nineteen pereons We're confirmed
by RI. Rev. George r. Seymour at
the Church of the Redeemer on the
evening Of April 10th,
on April 18Th. VIM MeIlale, c, r.
Woodward. john Wood Samuel GTr
4ud Chaa. Lancaster were elected
aldermen.
Mr. Ebarhafd Butcher ami Miss
Dora bunker were married on april
i4th.
The Arab Fire Go. installed officers
on the evening Of April 2lst with in-
teresting ceremony. ! Among the
members honored were Thos. j..
Kerth, president; A. I-ohr. yice-nres-
tdent: AMI c. V. Neff and J. H. Ritz
tenhouse. directors. After the exer-
eises the gallant company paftook q!
4 banquet at Charlie Powers rastau
rant
Three co!orea girls riding in n
canoe il Lake Edwards ga Apfi
10Th, were thrown into the water hyl
HE oyertaFning Of the boat. uns
caught hold d the canoe end he'd tc
I until help came. The Others were
drowned.
The Cairo bulletin., 1910-03-09
The Bulletin ID on sale 1t the fol
owing places:
coIen1an's, 214 Eighth street..
Halliday House kews Stand.
Bius Front Restaurant.
Meshew News Agency, 27f Eighth
xtreet and IL Sixth street.

An ugly epithet was applied to
Chief Egan ia the course of a story
on the election, in yesterday morn
ing's Bulletin 1t was uniRtentional,
being the result of mistouch' on
the keyboard Of the linotype, which
caused one letter To be changed in tine
written word The Bulletin had no
intention Of applying such a term TO
Chief Egan. la its editorial criti-
cisms Of him and of others it has
studiousIy avoided the use Of epi.
thets and it certainly would not know
ingly permit their use in its news
columns. It's aim has been to point
out evils of condition, Of policy or
method, and it has avoided PERSONAL
ties as far as possible SO far as
Chief Egan is concerned. The Bulle-
tin respects him as man and citizen,
and its complaint against him has
been that as chief OF the police de-
partment, responsible with the mayor
for its general conduct and character,
he has not seen to it that its service
to the people has been clean and
efficient for law and order. And in
respect to all that IL has said on this
score, The Bulletin has nothing to re-.
tract.
The Cairo bulletin., 1910-03-09

The appointment of Night Sar.
geant Cower to be the successor Of
Chief Egan may or may not mean a
change in the police policy OF the
city government. Doubtless it will
depend entirely on what manner of
orders he gets from the mayor The
latter Is ultimately responsible to the
people for the character and conduct
Of his police department more d.
rectly than for the character and con.
duct of any other department of the
city government, for his orders are
supreme there. His Honor is quoted
as declaring that Mr.. Cowell was the
logical man for the place" This can
be granted only on the theory that
the policy Of the past five or six
years Is to be the policy or the future.
II the mayor had in mind any decided
change in policy and wished to give
the public some proof of his strength
Of purpose In that direction, he prob.
ably would have named some one as
chief who had not been tremendously
and more or less intimately identified
with the old regime, which has drag
Eed this community through blood
and tears at home, and plunged It into
an abyss Of infamy abroad But The
Bulletin Is willing to judge Chief
Cowell on the record he shall make
realizing the while that he must be
rather timid about making any
changes that will mean better govern.
ment, SO long as the mayor stubbornly
refusessto see anything in the awful
record OF the past that calls for n
change OF police policy in this city.
The Cairo bulletin., 1910-03-09

"a " gstssf aYs IN y
ff 'fF' n IL l'i
The Cairo bulletin., 1910-03-09
AL Dangerous Doctrine.

That Chicago husband who Is con-
tending that he Is entitled to d.
sorce because his wife plays poker
should pause 10 consider that he IL
setting up 4 dangerous doctrine. 1T
~ M poor rule that does not work both
vars. Chicago Inter Ocean.
The Cairo bulletin., 1910-03-09
CIRCULATION STATEMENT.

average number of complete and
perfect copies of The Cairo
Bulletin printed daily and sun
day during the year 1909 22f5
Average number Of complete and
perfect copies or The Cairo
Bulletin printed daily ana sun
day during the months Of Feb
r,ary 1910 ...., 22os
The Cairo bulletin., 1910-03-09
February Circulation.

The above Is correct statement
Of the circulation OF The Cairo Blu
Ietin for the year 1909 and for the
month of February. 1910.
CLYDE SULLIVAN,
Business Manager.
Subscribed and sworn to before NE
this 4th day Of March, 1910,
LEO J. KLEB,
Notary Public.
The Cairo bulletin., 1910-03-09

Reib's Toggery sale begins Thurs.
lay morning. See show window.
The Cairo bulletin., 1910-03-09

TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY.
FOR RENT-Two very desirable
front rooms, 40 T3enth street. Bell
Phone 6S8.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-24
MOMENT OF DEFEAT

N ERHAPS some of our readers may
not appreciate a sermon on a
Il prize fight. But the ending of the
career of the gentleman known as Bat
Ting Nelson was so strilSingly like
many instances in the competitive
struggle for existence that we may be
pardoned for calling attention to it.
Only the successful man who breaks
down or who stays too long in the
game or who meets a sudden and un-
expected reverse" as it is politely
called, can appreciate the agony of the
moment of defeat. And if that agony
should be brief, and he should emerge
from it more determined than ever to
do or de- he will recognize the fact
the moment of what the world calls
defeat is the supreme moment both of
training and of test. Under modern
conditions, all the worlds more or less
of a prize fight, and all the men and
women are merely "bruisers."
Therefore the sympathy extended to
Nelson should not be of the superior
or patronizing kind. On the contrary,
let everybody hope the young man may
now "find himself" and engage in
an occupation in which his fighting
qualities will stand him in good stead.
A man who is a man for a. that" gets
up again when he is downed. The
other kind of man stays down.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-24

N ROFESSOR FISHER of Yale is not
the first to suggest that the in
Il creasing cost of living is merely
the result of a depreciating purchasing
power of money, caused by the rapidly
accommodating quantity of gold, the
monetary standard of the world. Nor
is his lucid discussion of the relation
of gold to the cost of living in the Re-
view of Reviews much Of a help to-
ward the solution of the perpleXing
problem.
In so far as a general increase of
prices of, all things in that part of the
world having a recognized monetary
standard-which is gold-the eminent
Yale man is correct But the weak
ness of his theory is demonstrated in
the frequent, continual fluctuations of
prices of foodstuffs and other necessar-
les of life, regardless of the output of
gold and regardless too, of the natural
working of the law Of supply and de-
mand.
1t is not a plenitude of gold or it's
money substitution that adds cent or
two a pound to the price of beef every
other week or every other month. If
the great increase in the worlds guam
tity of gold and it's credit equivalent
were the main cause the increase in
not the fact. Prices most affected are
those of foodstuffs, clothing and those
things considered to be- essential to
comfortable existence.
Again, if Professor Fishers theory
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-24

worthy of his signature, Student"
like other searchers for truth, is not
infallible. He affiirms that
Gold is a commodity, the value of
which is determined by the amount OF
social labor crystallized in its pro-
duction, same as all other commodi-
ties. The value of gold changes
the same as other commodities"
Gold uncoined is commodity, and
prior to it's legalization as standard
of value for currency gold dust and
bullion were, like other commodities,
subject to increase and decrease of
value. That which Student here calls
"value" is the labor cost of commodi-
ties. gold included. and such cost has
little to do in determining its real value
or even its market price. Gold, it is
true, was a commodity 'same as 9TH
ers" prior to it's legalization as a money
standard When laws were enacted
declaring government coin containing
a given number of grains of a given
fineness legal tender the commercial
value ofsuncoined gold was practically
settled. Our student comrade makes
some nice distinctions "a la Carl MarX)
between this and that which do not
care to discuss, SO will close.
w. N. SLOCUM.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-24
TRUST AUDACITY

n f all the trust magnates, the Gug-
genheims are the most frankly
" audacious. Their transactions lack
refined caution and the polished
veneer of g-pardonism, and hope-I-
't-intrudery which glosses the ope-
rations of trusts controlled by people
with less aggressive names. Thore
was an element of rare franlzness in
the bald brutality of a statement made
by Simon and Daniel Guggenheim to
the Denver newspapers:
1--WE have kept up the price of lead,
and we propose to do the same with
silver. The American Smelling
and Refining company now controls the
silver output of South America, Central
America, British Columbia and the
United States, which is nearly so per
cent of the output of the world"
From this it will be seen the Gug-
genheims are still 20 per cent short of
their ambition.
The Guggenheim interests, tagged for
Identification with the capital repre-
sented by each, are as follows: Ameri-
can Smelling and Refining company,
800 900, 600; American Smelters Secur-
tiles company, $77OOO,O0o; Guggenheim
Exploration company. $22,OOO,OOO. To-
tai, $199, 100000.
Writers still talk of the resources
of the United States"
The population of the United States
owns the .eggshell, but the GuSgen-
helms and others are scooping out the
lAna
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-24
BROTHERHOOD OF MAN NOT TO
BE REALIZED AT PRESENT

los ANGELES, Feb. 2O.-tEditor
1IeraId1. While the Letter Box usually
Yields lively ideas of divers kinds, 1t
sor,etimes lets loose queer expressions
p.or instance. the Box, this morning
astonishes its readers with the fol-
lowing: 49,
etization of gold is one of the causes
high prices and idle men. But the unit
value Of am hours work by pair of
human hands can never be Demon
etized." -
what the writer probably means Is
that while we are told the rapid IN
crease of the gold product is one or
the causes of high prices ana lale men,
we know the price of an hours lapor
hv nair of human hands does not
increase. . -,
When he says that labor cannot be
s.demonetized," perhaps he means that
labor. instead of gold, should be the
standard of money value. l, also,s WISH
n could be, but in our era an insuper-
ah1e objection to a labor standard Is
the fact that the various kinds of labor
are not equally productive. Some peo-
ple casually called "cranks') hold that
as all mankind have, by nature equal
rights. therefore all should have equal
shares of life's bounties. BUT unaer
the grab game rules that now govern
life,s reckless race, instead of helping
the cripples who straggle in the rear,
the prevailing cry is "the devil take
the hindmost."
/ like the spirit of your letter, Com
rade Marsway, but 1 do not think 1t
nrobable that before the close of the
twentieth century the brotherhood OF
man. will succeed in establishing JUS
tice on earth. Evolution, though sure,
is slow. -,
Another contributor, while evidently
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-24
CONSERVATION

AZ CONSERVATION Is a Roosevelt
policy. This alone is enough to
1 ~ recommend it to citizens who
have learned by experience to asso-
ciate Rooseveltism with robust COM
mon sense. But beyond its associa-
tion with Roosevelt, it appeals to the
people on its obvious merits. The ne
cessity for a conservation policy is
demonstrated in the history of other
nations. in the history of various sec
tions of the United States, and in an
old English proverb: you CAN'T
EAT YOUR CAKE AND HAVE IT,
Over and over again condition has
been produced in the United States
(and in other countries) which may
best be described by phrase even
more robust than the "cake" meta
phor. "A burst and a starve." We
don't need men to tell us conservation
as definite policy will take care of
itself without any special effort or
special measures. 1t would be as SEN
sible to say. Leave the stable door
open. Perhaps the horse won't be
stolen"
at the chamber of commerce banquet
were to the point, and should be re-
membered: "At the rate at which they
are disappearing, the forests Of this
state will not last more than sixty
years. What man is there who will
say that it is not for our benefit that
our forests shall be. conserved? In
the -fot
capable of generating enormous water
power. These streams the federal
government has taken under its pro-
lection. 1t will not permit them to be
taken up and owned by private par
ties. It will grant private parties per-
mission to use the power sites for lin
tied perioG. and on payment of rea-
sonable rentals. 1t is denied by GER
tain men that there is anv intention
to form an electric light power trust
in this. country or state. A similar
denial was made when the movement
for the consolidation of the railroads
of the country began. Standard Oil
and the sugar trust made similar de-
malls. Do you of Southern California
believe that there is not in existence
south of the Tehachapi sturdy, able
bodied monopoly? Let any man who
doubts it invest in an independent
electric power plant with the idea of
competing with existing plants"
At this stage Of our civilization,
when mechanical power is becoming of
more and more Importance to the peo-
pie, all attempts made to obtain mo-
nopolistic control of sources of power
supply must be stoutly resisted, be-
cause a surrender of the power supply
is equivalent to a complete surrender
OF the Industrial liberties of the people.
For this reason conservation, as Theo-
dore Roosevelt and his followers
realize, is not merely a business"
policy. 1t is a PATRIOTIC policy.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-24
CALM THINKING NEEDED TO
BRING ABOUT NEEDED CHANGE

LOS ANGELES, Feb. 22.-GEditor
Herald: Pinchots policy OF conserva-
tion has a ring of true Americanism
about it. Every intelligent reader and
close observer sees the need of some
conscientious and tactful leader to save
the people from the contemptuous tyr
amy of the foxy political bosses, who
are more concerned about individual
power and selfish interests than the
welfare of the people.
Even now the masses are becoming
restless at the alarming growth of
privileged class, and subject people
whose faith and confidence in the hon
esty and integrity of their leaders are
becoming weakened, 1t is becoming
daily more apparent that the big inter
ests are beginning to regard the people
as sheep not safe to be led by any other
than their (the interests) own masked
herders.
Nothing but impartial courts and the
wisest craftsmanship can save the
country from great social and po-
liticaI revolution.
Spasmodic or violent action in the
cause of reform does not bring the best
results. Calm thinking and intelligent
voting are the proper things. Eternal
vigilance is the price Of liberty.
A. HAYSEED.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-24
Views of Professor Fisher
Do NOf SOIpe the Problem
(san Jose Herald)


were wholly correct, the increased pro-
duction of foodstuffs and other neces-
saries from year to year would serve
in a measure to check the tendency
toward higher prices attributable to the
abundance of gold. To the contrary,
prices have risen regardless of gold
production and an increasing supply
of necessaries.
Indeed, Prof. Fishers theory is cor
working of the law of supply and de-
mand is correct, but there are other
agencies concerned, agencies which
give no heed to these things.
Finally, if the abundance of gold
We're the main cause, an adjustment
would be easy, But the difficulty is
that the seemingly exorbitant rise in
prices isn't General. For example. the
wage Garner complains that his wages
are insufficient to provide amply for
his and his familys living, but the
demand for a proportionate increase in
wages encounters the plea that the
employing interests cant afford to
increase wages" Or, If the disposition
is to increase wages, it is threatened
that the price of production must be
raised, and as this production includes
transportation of foodstuffs and cloth
ing, it is obvious that the threat is
implied of still. fufther- advances in
the prices Of these things.
Consequently, the gold theory is sim
ply going around in circle. II
reaches no conclusion.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-24
OFFICE HOLDING

<kCj INCE was o." says President
Taft, "I can hardly remember
~ a time that I was not holding
Office" This is indeed a record. OF
course it is not without its disadvan-
tages. A gentleman who has spent all
of his life in holding office and has had
no actual, personal experiences in the
transaction OF business, is naturally
more dependent upon advisers as to
business policies than a man who upon
experience can found initiative. 1t has
often been remarked America is Gre
ating an office holding class. which of
course suggests that such class, while
its establishment may not be without
its advantages, is contrary to the first
principles of Americanism.
According to old-fashioned ways of
thinking. public service was patri-
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-24

otic duty to which a citizen, expert
enced in citizenship could devote part
of his life. Curiously enough, the presi-
dents statement was made just before
he addressed the Society of the Cincin-
natl. Now, the original Cincinnatus was
strenuous opponent of professional
office holding, and the Roman legend
has it he was summoned to his public
duties from the plough and when his
public task had been performed went
back to his farming and gave another
citizen an opportunity of serving the
people.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-24

do not think there is any ground what
ever for believing Socialists have a
talent for invective.
Their teachings are peaceful and
peace bringing. Their discussions are
conducted in terms of economics. Their
cult deals with the social system,
and the worst that can be said of
them is they are faddists, always
talking about tomorrows possible mil
lennial dawn and Golden Age, for the
construction of which apparently no
one has yet even struck pay dirt. But
they have not talent for invective.
Mr.. Osborne's idea of socialists is
founded upon hoary superstition and
old wives fables.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-24

This community sympathizes sin
cerely and heartily with the president
of the board of education and of the
chamber of commerce in the tragic and
unexpected death of his bright and
promising young son, Joseph Scott, jr.
Mr.. Scott is one of our most valued,
most valuable and most esteemed citi-
zens; and his bereavement is, in a
sense. that of the community with
which he is so closely and so honorably
Identified.