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The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1910-06-29

Cali Phone (Home No. 712-W
Psompt attention will be given
plumbing and heating work. w. j.
Boyle.
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$I.z5 a Leg

FOR RENT-Alter July Isl.
StOreroom in Opera House Block,
finest stOrerOom in the city.
Inquire OF First Sank and Trust
Co., Agents.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1910-06-29

FOR RENT-after July ISL,
stOreroOm in Opera House Block,
finest StOrer0om in the city.
Inquire Of First Bank and Trust
Co., Agents.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1910-06-29

Davis, of Eighteenth street, next
week.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1910-06-29

W. L. Marlborough. of Jonesboro,
Ark, is spending few days in the
city. He is vocal and instrumental
soloist.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1910-06-29
PERSONAL MENTION.

G. A. Swoboda is Ill at his home on
Twenty-eighth street.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1910-06-29

Mrs. D. H. Wearen leaves today for
visit with relatives in Charleston,
Nc
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1910-06-29

Mrs s. w. Hodge of Paducah is il
Cairo on a visit to friends.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1910-06-29

Mrs, A. H. Davis of Eighteenth
street leaves soon for a visit with her
daughters. Misses Goldia and Kate
Davis of Carbonate.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-01-08
Negro Pays His Share.

The next census will show that the ne
gro is doing his share to build up the
soutIl-quite as much the white man.
Georgia is called the empire state of the
south because it is the richest and most
progressive, the most rapid in its adj
yancement
Mr.. Coon shows that since the census
of 1880 the value of property owned by
negroes in Georgia has increased 81 per
cent, while the value of property owned
by white people has increased 30 PEI
cent. and that estimate is based upon the
local records. which cannot be prejudiced
In 1891 property owned by negoes in the
state of Georgia was listed for taxation
at S14, 1a:, 7:J,' and in 1907 it was listed at
Sd, 9o4. SD.
In North Carolina there has been even
a greater increase. The total valuation of
negro property listed for taxation in 1891
was S~O1S.4l6 In 1908 ii was $21, lie, 1902
an increase of III per cent in seventeen
years. while the increase i'll the valua-
tion of white property was 50 per cent
during the same period.
What is true in these two states is I'M
doubleday true i'm others. and the showing
of the next census will no doubt surprise
people.
In the District of Columbia, however
different conditions prevail, and the col
ored children here the wards of the
nation AS President Taft tersely ex-
presses it. the responsibility for their
welfare and their education rests upon
Congress.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-01-08
NEW B. & O. FINANCING.
Bond Issue Aggegating $25 900, 900
or $4,000 600 Is Looked For

NEW YORK, January S.-The Baltimore
and Ohio railroad will bring out some
new financing in the comparatively near
future. Just what form this financing
will take has not been determined as
yet neither has the time nor the amount
of securities to be issued. 1t may be said
that the probabilities favor an issue Of
bonds during the latter part of February.
The Baltimore and Ohio has no obIga-
tons maturing within the next two years,
but the company's recent acquisition of
the Chicago Terminal Transfer Company
cost 1t Sl6OOO.GtO Part of the proceeds of
the proposed financing will be used to
meet 1.-THE payments for this property.
Just what amount of new securities the
Baltimore and Ohio will issue will he de-
termined largely by Daniel Willard, the
newly elected president OF the road
Shortly after Mr.. Willard enters upon his
new duties, January IL, he will make d
trip of inspection over the lines of the
company to determine the physical needs
of the property. 1t will he on his report
that the amount of new securities will for
the most part hinge.
The Chicago Terminal Transfer Com
pany has been in very poor operating
condition for some years past and has
consistently shown deficit The Balti-
more and Ohio viii make considerable ex-
penditures of money on the property with
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-01-08
LARGEST OF FINANCIAL
TRANSACTIONS RECORDED
Receipt for Over One Billion Dollars
in Money and Securities Given by
Treasurer McClung to Treat.

What is said to be the largest financial
transaction in the worlds history occurred
here yesterday. 1t consisted i'm the giving
of a receipt for S1.28O. 1874 g46.ss % by
Lee McClung, the treasurer of the United
States, TO Charles III. Treat, who retired
from that office October 81 and is an
acknowledgment of the money and Sc
curities i'm the Office as of November /.
change of treasurers.
Since November Treasury employees
have been counting the cash and secur-
tiles in the Office under the supervision
of committee made up of Arthur T.
Brice, representing Mr.. McClung f. b.
Daskam, chief of the public moneys di-
vision, and A L. Huntington. the chief
of the loan and currency division.
This committee certified to the new
treasurer that the money it receipted for
was on hand at the time he took office.
The count this year was completed in two
months less time than ever before Ii
shows less actual cash in hand than four
years ago. when Mr. Treat assumed the
Office but this was more than offset by
the large increase in bonds deposited to
secure circulation.
The receipt was signed i'm triplicate
Mr. McClung retaining one copy. MIR.
Treat getting another and the third being
the property of the government.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-01-08
Negro pop Paid negro Paic
Argument Heard in the South.

The conventional argument is that the
colored children get all they are entitled
to. considering the small share their
parents pay of the funds raised by taxa
ton. That argument might apply every
where but YOU never hear it except in
the south. The poor people in every
county, every city and every village IN
the United States get more than their
share of the benefits of the taxes. The
laborer who owns no property. the i'm
migrant who has just arrived from some
foreign land, unane to speak our
language. has the same benefits of the.
pavement. of police protection. of fire
protection and of the free public schools
the millionaire. who pays taxes upon
his large estates. and the corporations.
taxes. really get no benefit from the
schools at ALL But this question is never
raised anywhere except by the white peo-
pie i'm the southern states, where it is
equally for their advantage to have the
negro children educated. if education pro-
notes civilization and the public well
fare. If it does not the schools should
be closed entirely.
But private inquiry has shown and the
returns of the next census will demon
strate that the colOred people of the
south actually contributing to the
education of the white children. When
the taxes paid by the railways and other
corporations and the funds raised from
liquor licenses and other general sources
of revenue are deducted from the total l..
negro property owners pay more than 10
per cent of the balance.
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large negro population, and congress
should set a good example by giving the
negro children a chance Mr.. Charles l..
Coon. recently superintendent of educa-
ton in North Carolina. has made thor
ough inve Stigation of this subject ana
has brought out some startling ngureS.
The total population of eleven southern
states is 1S.915.665, of which II ,ll6.29l, or
500 per cent, is white and I.l0.29l, or
io.1 per cent, is black
These eleven states are spending SS2
G6S.S51 annually for elementary schools
all told-a little more than Pennsylvania
and sd 100000 less than New York
OF this sum ST. .334, 40, or So per
white children and 81, 736.3I5, or las
per cent. fer colored children.
The white children thus get % per cent
more than their proper proportion ana
the colored children 26 per cent less. Ihe
consequence is that the class which needs
the most education is receiving the least.
Not quite Il per cent of the money de-
voted to instruction is placed where II
can do the most good-in the support OF
while practically all the schools In the
south for secondary and higher education
Of the negro race are supported by De
neyolent people in the north.
The total of salaries paid public schooi
teachers of both races i'll the eleven
southern states for 1908 was $23, ID 1.
of which S3.S1S, 705. or less than II per
cent, was paid to the colored teachers.
who taught more than 40 per cent of the
children. The proportion varied In the
different states.
The following table will show the per-
centage paid to white and to colored
schools in the states named.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-01-08
Fatally Stricken at Work.

BALTIMORE. January S.-Sezed with
an attack of heart failure while engaged
in experimenting some work on pier No
d of the Northern Central railway at
the foot of Clinton street, Canton, Capt
George Ruths. 1850 North Broadway, of
fetal storekeeper for the United States
government and one of the best known
residents of East Baltimore dropped
dead shortly after o'clock Yesterday
afternoon Coroner Sudler of Canton
gave a certificate of death due to hear,
failure. The body was removed to Capt
Ruths' home. Born in Hesse Darmstadt
Germany. seventy-three years ago Can't.
Ruths came 10 this country when a
young man. He served in the 4th Mary
land Regiment. attaining the rank OF
ca plain. and was wounded in the battle
OF Cold Harbor. After the war he en-
tered the custom house service where
he served in various capacities for a
number of years.
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CALLS HIM DESP0T
Representative Norris Bitterly
Arraigns the Speaker.
RULE OF HOUSE ABSOLUTE
Secret of His Power Declared to Rest
in His Authority to Name
the Committees.

In advance sheets of Senator Ia Fol
iettes publication Which Lave reached
Washington Represe NATIVE George ".
Norris Of Nebraska. one Of tho leadina
epuhlican insurgents of tine House. APP
bears as the auth Of an article entitled
The Secret of His Pow er.' in which he
bitterly arraignS Speaker Cannon as a
despotic Iron duke ruling the House
of Representatives with a ruthless hand
To-day, as far as the enactment of
legislation is concerned" says Mr.. Nor
ris. the House of Representatives bears
about the same relation To the nationa!
government as the appendix does to the
human bOdy-it has no we'll recognized
function For all practical purposes our
national government, like Gaul of old, is
divided into three parasitic Senate. the
President and the Speaker.
This perversion of the real intent and
object of the Constitution has been
brought about SO gradually and quietly
that until recently the people have not
understood the method of its accom-
pishment. That the Speaker possesses a
power second only to the President has
been well understood by the people at
large for several years. That by some
mysterious power he controls the House
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-01-08
Virginia Supervisor Reported Dying.

BALTIMORE. January Suspension
Walter r. Grant of Grantlands Henricu
county Va. who suffered a stroke of
paralysis Wednesday night while on his
way to Clifton Springs, n. Y. and who
Was later removed to the Union Prot
eStant Infirmary, was reported last night
as being in a serious condition. Mr.
Grant has been in bad health for some
time yet showed no symptoms of paral-
ysis until the moment of the stroke Mr.
Grant is one of the best known citizens
of Henrico county. and it was chiefly
through his work and influence that the
broad-tire law. which will go into effect
next year In Virginia. was adopted AT
the last county election he was made "A
member of the board of supervisors from
Tuckahoe district.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-01-08
Colnred Col5red.

The amount proposed FOR schools for
colored children for next year is smaller
tiian for any year except 1901, When no
money was appropriated. and 1903, when
lac amount was S9,t13.
While economy is all excellent virtue,
and the determination of President Ialt
10 cut down the expenditures OF the gov
eminent to the lowest possible amount IS
universally commended. i do not believe
the constituents of any member of the
Senate or House of Representatives VIII
Justify him in economznS at the EXPENSE
Of the coIored children of the Natonal
capital. Not long ago President TAFT
gave his views OH that subject in positive
and eloquent terms. In speech at the
laying of the corner stone OF the new
library at Howard University, he said:
"The institution here Is the partial re-
payment of a debt-only partial-to race
10 which the government and the people
Of the United States are eternaily m
debted They brought that race into TINS
country against its will. They planted 1t
here irretrievably. They first put IL In
bondage. and then they kept ii in the
isnoranc that that bondage seemed 10
make necessary under the system then IN
vogue Then they freed ii and put upon
il the responsibilities of citizenship Now
some sort of obligation follows that chain
or facts with reference to the people who
are responsible for what that government
aid The obligation would be clearer. or
he easier, were it not for our constitu-
tional system, which throws generally
upon the states the burden of education
and leaves to the general government only
certain limited jurisdiction with respect
to the people. However. in so far the
District of Columbia is concerned. the re-
sponSibilty rests entirely with Congress
II is generally assumed that the best
practical use that can he made Of money
i TO spend it where it is needed most.
II IS generally assumed that schools are
the basis of civilization and that the
most thoroughly educated community is
the most highly civilized. 1t will be ad-
mitted. also. that the object Of govern
nent is to promote civilization. | under
stand that one of the members of the
House committee on appropriations not
lonG ago declared himself opposed TO the
encouragement of art schools because
lie had once read in Il history that the
decadence Of the ancient Greeks and the
'ecline Of the Romau-empire were due 10
The love of art. But there is no danger
nf Such lamentable calamities followin !.
The appropriations that are asked for
the colored children of the District 50
far as ] can see. because they are de
sired for ordinary elementary school
buildings. for manual training schools
and for normal schools in which teach
ers for the elementary branches may be
trained
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-01-08
TNEEDSHOWN
Local CoIored Schools De-
cIared Inadequate.
ESTIMATES ARE CUT DOWN
Congress Refuses to Grant What
Commissioners Ask
VIEW OF PRESIDENT TAFT
Unfair Distribution of Educational
Fund Among the Races in the
Southern States.
VIEW OF PRESIDENT TAFT
BY WILLIAM Z. CIRTIS.


Written for The Star and the Chicago Record
Herald.
There is an urgent need OF more school
houses and larger schoolhouses for the
colored children of the District of Column
lila. The accommodations for them at
present So inadequate that many of
the children can attend school but half a
day. and that is a violation of the law.
The members of the board of education
appreciate the situation clearly and in
their estimates to the Commissioners they
asked for S6,c',.Oo for new buildings for
colored schools and s1.:53Gso for new
buildings for white schools, making a to-
ial of s. 163, 40. of which - per cent was
10 he expended for the benefit of colored
children.
The board of Commissioners. in its
attempt to carry out the economy policy
of the present administration and to obey
a recently enacted law limiting its es
Inmates. cut the estimates for white
schools down to S3S1.OoO and the estimates
for colored schools down to $4,000, a to-
tai for both of S614.0OO. of which IA per
cent was asked for colored children.
And then the House of Representatives
IN the District appropriation bill which
was passed December II 1899 increased
the amount asked by the board of Com
missioners for new schoOlhouses for
white children by Sal .O0o but cut down
the allotment for schoohouses for col
ored children by $4,000. fully 60 per cent
from $4,000 to S:t5.0O0-giving the col
ored schools only per cent of the total
appropriation instead of the - per cent
asked by the board of education and the
il per cent asked by the Commissioners.
But this is not unprecedented.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-01-08
dead IN HIS TUNNEL
Bank Borrower Caught Like
Rat in a Hole.
WIFE SEES BODY FOUND
Plot for Great Robbery Was Prob
ably Inspired by Moving
Picture Shows.
WIFE SEES BODY FOUND

NEW YORK, January S.-Isaac Finkel-
stein. the turnover of Ludlow street, was
found trapped in his tunnel last night
like rabbit in her warren. Sappers and
miners had been digging thirty-six hours
for him.
Nothing more futile and hopeless was
ever seen. There he lay, under the mid
die of the street, a crushed. miry sem
blance of man, his face in the dirt. his
hands stretched out before him, pointed
toward the unattainable millions in the
vault Of the East Side branch of the
Fourteenth Street Bank and the diamonds
in the window of the jewelry shop next
door
His wife and their five children saw
the first stroke of the pick that uncov-
cred his shoes. They had been watching
the sapperS in the trench all night and
all day. Sarah, the eldest child, was
hard-eyed and defiant
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-01-08
Shoots His Bride for Burglar.

CAPE CHARLES. Va. January s.
Mistaking her for burglar while she
was walking in her sleep. jefferson Tay-
Tor, a farmer residing at OakhalI, snot
and seriously wounded his wife in their
home The ball entered the woman's hip
and has not been found. Taylor was
awakened from his slumbers by hearing
noises in an adjoining room. Thinking
burglars were at work. he seized his re-
voIser from underneath his pillow and
started to investigate. AS he peered into
the room from which the sounds emerged
he discerned a figure in the darkness and
opened fire He was Mortified when he
recognized the voice of his wife eXclaim-
ing You have shot me- Mr.. and Mrs
Taylor have been married only three
DAYS The wife had never intimated to
her husband that she was victim of
somnambulism. The woman was taken
10 Salisbury Hospital.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-01-08
Train Kills Man Picking Up Coal.

BALTIMORE, Md, January S.-While
picking coal from the tracks of the Bal
timore and Ohio railroad at point about
100 feet west of Scott street yesterday
morning John Spence of Morrell Park
was struck by an eastbound New York
express train and instantly killed. The
body was removed to the morgue, and an
investigation will be held this afternoon
in the southwestern police station spence
left a widow and four children. Accord
ing to Philip Hurst. who was a witness
of the accident, Spence was standing in
tie middle of the track when the train
struck him. and. although the engineer
cid all in his power to stop the express,
it was impossible, as short curve pre-
vented the driver from seeing Spence
until almost upon him.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-01-08
Olcott Describes Conditions.

Mr.. Olcott Of New York i'm a recent
speech in the House of Representatives
allied attention to the fact that a. lin
the elementary grades over eleven classes
above the second grade are now being
taught upon a halliday basis in I'M
avoidable violation of the law because
tl.ere arc neither permanent nor portable
buildings enough 10 accommodate these
children: ~ that the colored elementary
schools have not one adequately equipped
manual training center. i'm spite of the
great need for hand as well as head
training. ~ that the Armstrong Manual
training Scfool-a high school-and the
NJ street High School are very greatly
"Nercrowded- 10 the great injury of their
Instruction and training, and that this
congestion grows worse each wear: az
fhat the normal school. which trains all
the teachers in the colored elementary
schools. and consequently all the teach
'-rs Of the vast majority of the colored
children in Washington is at present
iudicrously housed i'll parts OF two ele-
inentary school buildings To the grave
embarrassment of its important work:
- that some of the schooIhouses are
Hnht FOR use-for example the dilapi-
lated wooden structures at Fort Slocum.
chain Bridge road Ivy CITY Renninp
road and Birney annex
X Is not necessary TO argue in favor
OF making provision for the education of
all children in the city of WASHINGTON
both white and black. In such educa-
and no expenditure of the government
IAN possibly be made more important
than the proper housing OF children who
are educated at public schools Eve,
q, .'fne when deficit in the Treasury
stares Congress in the face IL will he
the falsest kind of economy not to pro-
,'de suitable buildings for the educatiou
II the children in the District.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-01-08
Settle Camden Estate Suit.

PARKERSBURG. w. Va, January s.
The celebrated suit of the state of West
Virginia against the estate of former
United States Senator Johnson N Cam
den for $1,1OO,G0O, which amount was
claimed by the state as forfeit for
failure to return true and full property
valuations to the assessor, has been COM
promised, according to a semi-official an
made here. BY the terms OF
the compromise the Camden estate will
pay the state S1OO.HN. This is the lar .
est proceeding OF its kind ever brought
under the forfeiture clause for new state
tax laws and was generally regarded : :,
test case. The compromise was reached
upon the eve of rendition by Judge Moss
of his decision upon the merits of the
case,
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sparks when ignited. Addresses were
made by the newly e'ected officers and
others. songs We're sung. stories told. and
stunts peculiar 10 the order were in
troduced to the surprise and amusement
of the large gathering.
Monarch Collins. after his installation
announced that a large class was already
in waiting for the next grand ceremonial
session. the date OF which he would
shortly make known. He assured the
prophets the condition of the grotto, bot h
as to membership and finances. was
highly gratifying and the prospects for
the future exceptionally bright The ses-
sion closed al late hour
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the intention of putting it ultimately on
paying basis.
Taking the above factors into considera-
tion a conservative estimate would place
the amount of new financing at S25.OO9.n0a
or S:,0HDu.0;O. 1t will probably be nearer
the latter figure.
Baltimore and Ohio stockholders believe
that the company has gained valuable
asset through the acceptance of the presi-
dency by Mr.. Willard. They of the
opinion that. with his energy and uni
versally recognized ability, very able
management of the road is assured.
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Memoranda.

Tug NJ. Mitchell Davis of this city is at
Baltimore with a tow of oyster-laden yes
sells from a down-river point: schooner
Fair American is at Potomac point load
ing for this city: schooner Martin Wag-
ner i at a lower Potomac point loading
for this city: schooner Mabel and Ruth.
with lumber from North Carolina for this,
city. is at Norfolk; schooner Edwin and
Maud is AT Baltimore with lumber from
North Carolina port. schoone. S,donia
Curley is lying at "A Rappahannock river
point with lumber for this city.