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The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1911-11-30
MAYOR PARSONS
MADE CHAIRMAN
Concluded From Page One.


the banks, either in the form OF
credits or bank notes redeemable
in gold or lawful money.
elasticity Of currency and credit in
times Of seasonal demands and
strinsencies, with full protection
against oyer-expansion.
Legalization Of acceptances of time
bills OF exchange in order to Gre
att a discount market at homo
and abroad.
The organization of better banking
facilities with other countries. to
aid in the extension of our for
eign trade.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1911-11-30

For Cairo and Vicinity: Thurs
day Fair and rising temperature.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1911-11-30

In 1907 Henry F. Gilhofer wrote
a poem on the visit Of Charles
Dickens to Cairo and at The re.
quest OF Mayor Parsons he revised
it for the visit OF Alfred Tennyson
Dickens. The poem follows
Twas away back in the Forties.
Forty two or three or four
When a steamboat passing Cairo
Stored in and came to shore
Aboard the boat was Dickens
With his note book in his hand.
Getting data and impressions
OF this poor benighted land
II think I'll ashore" said he
And take a look around,
SO he went down steps inst sixty
three,
To get into the town.
Well just what did impress him
| nest
T'is shameful to relate.
| Poor Cairo for impressions,
Was not just up to date
The natives here We're very queer
With webbed feet like a duck
They'd founder round the blooming
town
In the mire and the muck.
4 sporting dinosaurs
Round each front door yard played
While ante deluge ichneumons
Their Shiny charms displayed
Oh, Cairo was a cherries place,
A place of dull despair.
The town was rank and damp and
dark,
Miasma in the air.
So Dickens didn't linger long
But steamed on down the river,
A pail was on his brilliant mind.
A green spot on his liver.
Now see the Cairo of today,
A glad and happy place.
No grim despair is lurking there
But smiles on every face.
Her walls to guard against the flood
Like battlements arise.
The hard fought victory she has
won,
A lesson for all eyes.
A town of happy loyal folk.
OF pluck and civic pride.
Less beautiful than some perhaps,
But none more dear beside.
Now comes the son Of Dickens
His note book in his hand
" hat IS the story he will tell
OF Cairo TO the land.
Are we not fair TO look upon
Are we not good to see
Have we not cause for civic pride
Hope for our destiny? Il
It seems that fate had sent you here
To right city's wrong
TO put ms right before the world
in story and in song.
Therefore shall we do you homage
Loudly your praise proclaim
FOR arc you not your fathers son
Great was his name and fame.
lost hearty then IS our welcome,
Glad is our greeting today
AIRY while, show us your smile.
Then God speed YOU on your way. n
Tinka+ pr 7, vIy;-
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-11-18
JIM THORPE. THE INDIAN HALFBAGK
WHO CRUSHED THE HARVARD ELEVEN

either line or backfield, his best form
is probably seen in his work at half
back.
Best HaIfback Football Has Ever De-
veIOped.
Within the past two weeks not less
than % American coaches who have
seen him play aver that he is the
greatest halfback that has ever been
developed. Coach Wharton, Of Penn
sylTania, said after seeing him play
that it was worth five times the adj
mission TO any game TO see Thorpe
through an opposing team. Within the
kicking ankle, but his recuperattve
powers have put him in shape neatly
for the PennsylVania-Indian game.
In his second year also at Pennsyl-
vania's intercollegiate meet he won the
high and broad jumps, hammer throw
and high and low hurdles and a week
later in the Middle Atlantic District
Athletic association meet he took first
place in the five events above men
toned. This same year he substituted
at football, playing several games. The
next season showing great Quahfica-
tons at half Dunting WELL kicking
field goals and scoring the touchdown
tieing Penn
Thorpe sid not return from his 1903
summer vacation. although his enrol
ment term had not expired, but the
lure of a possible position on the
Olympic team next year. it is thought,
brought him back to Carlisle, where
he felt he could be wei trained for
the event across seas.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-11-18
Tho Philosophical Tailor.

How often have taken away a gar
ment for a fault which did not exist.
and which I. Of course, never intended
to rectify. How often have taken
back the same garment without it ever
having been unfolded and been com
mended for the alteration which had
not been made, and then been repre-
hended for not having done what was
right at first. A man to bel good
tailor should be either a phi flsopher
or a mean, cringing slave, VI hoe feel
ings had never been excit d o the
pitch Of manhood-"'Life 81 Francis
Place"
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-11-18

. the AU-American football team, but
it's g good bet Walter Camp picks his
eleven from the following:
Ends-White Of Princeton. Smith Of
Harvard, Wells of Michigan, Daily OF
Dartmouth and FELTON, of Harvard;
tackles-Scully and Paul of Yale Hart
of Princeton and Dean Of West Point;
guards-Fisher of Harvard Duff of
Princeton and Francis of Yale; center
BluethenthaI Of Princeton and Ketch-
am Of Yale; quarterbac k-Sprackli
Of Brown. Mcmillan of Michigan. Howe
Of Yale and Mol Of Wisconsin; half
backs-Wendell Of Harvard, Pend1eton
Of Princeton. Thorpe of Carlisle. Dalton
of the Navy and Camp, Jr.. of Yale;
fullback-Mercer Of Pennsylvania
Munk OF Cornell and Huntington Of
Harvard
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-11-18

close to the National; II he hit the
fence, it would at least be no viola
ton of professional courtesy and he
alone would be the only man to suffer
i'm this race he had no mechanician-
so he steered clear OF his rival and
one Of his wheel hubs scraped one OF
the posts on the side of the track
Leaps Into AIR, Then the Crash.
This was enough; the great car
leaped almost into the air, hit the next
post squarely in the center and Jhens
tearing out three more posts, slipped
off into the ditch at the side. One Of
the "A ratings on the fence hit the
radiator and split in two. One OF the
splints damned clear through the
thigh Of the driver. Another piece
carried away the top half of his steer
ing wheel and struck him on the fore
head. cutting a cash to the bone, sew
erai inches in width another some-
thing hit his right hand and took off
a finger as clean as q cleaVer. But the
car STAYED on its wheels and Aanschue
stayed in his seat pinned down 20 Ihe
cushion by that mammoth splinter
through his thigh.
The other cars were WhlzZlng past,
but there was no stopping; it was only
another accident and the laws OF auto
mobile racing do not give honOrS and
cash prizes to the who stops to help
friend but to the man who gets nome
first But there are always ambu-
lance cars on hand. and soon AID
reached the suffering driver. I'd mad
i'm on the next lap" was the first
thing the big driver said when nelp
reached him. Not q complaint about
the big Snlf0fa1. tho lost finger or the
cut in the scalp. The blood was blind
ing him uuI ne talked through the
blackness OF it about how he would
have won if he had had 20 seconds more
TO do &c in. If that isn't grit, and If
such grit doesn't make sport then
what Will2 In ten seconds more, the
poor fellow was in the ambulance un-
81 81 hrrf hn
sciousness until he could tell somebody
about that race.
Death Cheated Again.
Just a few minutes before this, Han
schUe's racing partner, in another ear
of the same make. had turned into the
soft dirt on the inner curve and had
his car make a complete sOmersault.
Death was only cheated by the Vlo-
lence Of the contact when the car
skidded, for the driver was hurled so
feet into the alfalfa patch inside the
track. The soft, green of the field
saved his bones. The other racers
speeded on past, none knowing what
had happened to their companion and
stop and see; the ambulance corps
numbered over. but the racers kept on.
With such a sight to unnerve a man,
doesn't It take nerve to finish that
racer
Automobile racing is a sport because
IL develops the pluck Of men as no
other sport can develop. it; because it
is the most dangerous sport in the
world. 1t is sport, too, because it
must make the blood Jingle just to
watch the great cars and their nervy
drivers skid and bounce and race over
the earth; they look like some great
human monsters, emitting their clouds
Of smoke like the famed dragons Of
fiction, battling for supremacy or
death AutOmobiling is the greatest
real spOrt-tO watch.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-11-18
The Tobacco Plants sensitivens...

A curious fact is the tobacco plants
habit Of erecting its leaves at shutdown
and dropping them at sunrise. OF
course it is only possible while the
plant is immature-while the upper
leaves are not more than two-thirds
developed-but it is so marked as to
make wide difference in the looks Of
a field at evening and twelve hours
later. And the results are so benefcent
as to make it seem the result OF rea-
son. for if the dew fail is heavy it all
runs down to the stalk. rickles down
to the root and thus fordGes it against
the blazing sun. while If the leaves re-
manned in pendulous spread the mois-
ture would either drop from their
points beyond reach or else evaporats
In the morning SUP
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-11-18

fore Stovau had chance to show his
mettle- 1t viii be interesting to see
how the Cleveland fans receive Davis
who is superseding popular idol
Mrs. BrIttOn's Sentiments.
One cannot help admiring the senti-
ments of Mrs. Helen Hathaway Robin
son Britton, the first woman baseball
magnate in history. who says in re-
gard to the clamOr of st. Louis fans:
we intend to see the Cardinals win a
pennant first; new grandstand can
come later" That is the right spirit
Mrs. BrittOn proves herself a true
spOrtsWoman. Such policies in back
of the club should prove great help
to Roger Bresnahan in rounding out
q winning team.
Still a little early to think about
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-11-18

A young man who dropped Int the
recorders Office for a marriage picsnss,
finding that a license had just been is
sued containing the name Of the lyolue
lady who was to figure in the docu-
ment sought purchased his license all
the same with the name Of another
girl inserted. Thai was his day for
getting ready to married, and he
didn't propose let small matters
bar the way.-B sas City Journal.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-11-18
BISBEE GOLFERS
HERE FOR GAMES
Play Practise Games in
Preparation For Sun
davis Tournament

The Warren Country club golf team.
of Bisbee, Ariz.. arrived in FL Paso Sat
urday morning and is preparing for
the match game with the FL Paso
Country club. which will be held on
the local golf links Sunday morning.
Saturday. the El Paso team members
and the Warren team played practice
games at the Country club, but these
VIII not count IN the match games of
Sunday. During their stay in the city
the visiting golf players will be the
guests of the Country club
The Warren team is composed Of; II.
Zeismer, N. J. Brophy. ". Lennert. 7. r
Curry ". 3. GOhring, H T. Hamilton,
J B Lewis. Ira JerOlaman Thomas
Beckett, r. P. PeltOn, H Poppen and
J. p WinsOn
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-11-18
FOOTBALL CLAIMS
FEWER VICTIMS
Yale to Lose Nine Men;
Harvard and Prince
ton Friends
(By w. S. Farnsworth).

New York. Nov, 1S.--Now thaS new
football has been mastered. the casu-
atty list is so small that one needs a
microscope to read 1t. Football as it
is being played this fall is game
that requires Is percent brains and p
percent speed and Drawn. And Wnere
brains rule over beef in any game
naturally there is less chance for in
jury.
The new" game last season wasn't
a success, but solely because the big
eIevens could not grasp the situation
With one seasons work under their
belts, the coaches and players this
year were greatly benefited and from
the opening day of practice took up
the new style of play.
And as a result there haven't been
over three or four deaths recorded
this fall Just glance at the follow
ing figures and then you viii ap-
preciate what new football has ac-
rom Dlfshed.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-11-18

one of the best Of the middleweights
In the country today and should be
given every consideration IN any elm
nation tourney that is arranged for
ne can make the weight and has the
class. Moha, when his hands are right
VIII also be a hard customer TO deal
with and can make the weight.
Jack Dillon, of Indianapolis. is an
other one TO be figured with, while
Buck Grouse, the Pittsburg youth,
looks extra fine and Jimmy Mason, his
manager, feels that he Is the one real
coming champion. Grouse put Billy
Berger away when the best most OF
the other middles could get was a
draw or point decision over him. Leo
HOuck, Willie Lewis and Harry Lewis
all claim attention in that class and
George Knockout Brown, whom Nate
Lewis Of Chicago is putting to the
front seems to be gaining.
It would be well for two cities to
start elimination Journeys and match
up the winners Of the two and then
match up the winners Of this one with
Johnny Thompson on his return from
Australia, II he still retains the
cOlors, and also with the English and
French middleweights for they have
q feEH1Eood ones over there now, es-
peel -, Carpenter and Mar
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-11-18

San Antonio. Tex. Nov. 1S-Betting
on baseball games was scored as one
Of the greatest detriments to the game
before the National Association of Pro-
fessiOnal Baseball Leagues At the sug-
gestlon Of president Baum Of the Pa
cific Coast league. the attorney general
gal authorities of the states. viii be
pedtiOned to exercise their power to
stop pool selling, lotteries and other
gambling devices affecting baseball
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-11-18
No DECISION IN SECOND
TRIAL OF HOUNDS EVENT

No decision was reached at the end OF
the second trial Of hounds in the an
aged stakes Of the National Fox Hunt
ers' association, which started from
here today Another trial viii be neces-
saEy. Forty-seven dogs started I'm yes
terday's trial, 80 having been elimin-
ated
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-11-18


with
III
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-11-18

The ship Ada Iredala, abandoned
afire at sea in October, 1876. drifted
2, 400 miles as a derelio| nd was
picked up and towed to till anre.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-11-18

kings.
be the
as the
2fhen It
ent and
the Ari-
asst week.
thousands,
& brought
Has the big
of Arizona,
nobody who
eut was dis
ng to watch
-Very muscle
around the
ne TO watch
ng. smoking
that circle
train, their
erve TO guide
away from
be terrific If
sjudEment of
. Of the great
that is being
5.
on the pro
events at the
as seven cars
4 the events.
nothing upon
bed that could
removed and
driver and
5VGl the running
so tEat there would
slble chance Of con-
arters. the big cars
e. with their clouds
pbscuring them often
rlOus race for victory.
head and a perfect
erVe and a trained
car through a race
HE stake. Sometimes
or four cars at the
eek at the same time,
er than the Washing
- at e. PasO. and the
ems his speed too much
liable 10 lose the race
to slacken his speed,
be his life. Two Of
Phoenix events
-fheir desperate
men miracu-
q his car over
ack as ne at
turn and the
corner, went
ehce as he curved
effort to pass the
Loose earth caused
his steering judE-
Of an inch wrong
Il to the second
lion meant a wrecked Z
MANNED for months.
pass a National car,
in a big yellow car,
on the outside OF the
Shat il looked as IL
be other man to get
impossible to stop, (
nade the last mile
lar track in 56 sec
ng one In "a. and he
his eye to get him
uld have been unnrO- /
lsO highly dangerous (
s If he had gone too
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-11-18
ONE ROUND HOGAN
WINS IN BOUT WITH BROEYN

New York. n. Y, Nov 1S-"One
Round" Hogan easily had the better of
seven of 10 rounds in q bout with
Knockout" Brown at the Madison
Athletic club last night. Tt is the sec
ond time that Hogan has been credited
with a victory over Brown
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-11-18
apke's Three Greatest
Battles Recalled By Andrews

Among the Greatest Fights Ever Staged in America and Made
Fame for PsPke.
By 7. S ANDREWS.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-11-18

PAPKES announcement
he would retire from the
and devote himself to the
calls three Of the great
-er staged IN this country
Papke participated.
in question were with
OF Chicago and the late
hel. The first was held
* in Milwaukee on Dec
and resulted in a draw
nds OF the fiercest bat
bic.
On Of the contest, Papke,
ger, Tom Jones, came Up
and when Billy appeared
ington House the fans
to see a rosy checked
a bOy-but well built.
Be an remarked: Why its
o aad that fine looking boy
tlter Of Kelly's stamp"
be- stripped off for action
K lat night Papke appeared
a. g daisy and all smiles.
IA battle that viii 90 down
1a1 Of sport as one Of the
z 0und affairs ever seen
ne boys thai night drew
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-11-18

.dianap-
he high
| selling
~ with
I'D who
q Tnu-
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-11-18

on the pro-
/ events at the
. as seven cars
IL the events.
nothing upon
bed that could
5 removed and
driver and
the running
#n.aan n-nTz
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-06-18
@rare for Our
Common Duttes

whom there * no message in the sigh
Of the winds and the singing OF the birds
has surely cause for the Imagination
of WEAKNESS, just as a man who refuses
TO eat has cause fo- hunger. II We are
ready to hear and to respond to the
music of the common duties, then we will
find little WEAKNESS and much happi-
ness.
1t Is not only the daily routine which
Is included in the expression common
duty" There are duties which are COM
mon in the sense of being everybody's
business, and yet they are not small nor
often isolated. Such are the duties We
owe to God and to man. Our daily
prayers. our Bible reading, our church
worship--for these we need grace if We
would live and pray as we should. And
the public duties which call uS-the I'M
ceaSins struggle for right. the battle for
the weak against the strong the warfare
against injustice and evil. these ore calls
which we must obey If We are decent
men and women. Oh. how many and how
constant they are! They meet US at every
turn and in our NeaknesS-if we seek
no Gods Srace--we almost despair of
any victory Take the ciliid-wclfare mat
ter for Instance We hear great deal
about 1t in exhibitions and magazine ar
ticles, but not much active service is
done. The other night on the street. at
- O'clock. | saw poor little lad selling
papers.
II was furiously hot, and in his eN-
lIauStion the lad Was sitting on mousse
step. lying down at times and then
rousing himself to shout, Papers.
papers," | asked him how old he was
and he said six going on to seven.
hardly wondered that little later
storm broke upon us which seemed all
image of the wrath Of heaven. what are
we coming 10 when our children, con-
corning whose care Christ especially
spoke are ground down under the upper
milestone of parental neglect ana me
under milestone of greed for gold. Even
our horses and dogs are better cared Tor
and more earnestly looked after than our
children A child of six selling papers
on the streets at 80 AT night. Where are
our societies. our police. our mothers
ongresses? Where are our ieglsi ators-
God help us-who will not give US laws
for the protection of our boys nor pro-
vide adequate punishment for the muir
derers of children?
Common duties. Yes for they touch
the common life of our streets and our
cities and our homes. They are calling
every day If we fail to do them we are
guilty Yet who is sufficient Tor these
things? Surely we need the grace OF
God, and He is ready to give II we ASK
His grace is sufficient II is' the grace
Of uncea sing enthusiasm, mighty falth'
overlooking love and conscious fellowship
with Him.
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9n the Cburfbes

- III; entire British embassy staff.
III headed by Ambassador James
Ervce. viii attend a special serv-
ice in connection with tho coronation cerr-
monies in London. III st Johns Epsco-
pal Church. Lafayette square. Thursday.
The service is to he held for the ben lit
or British subjects in this country. and it
is expected that large number will come
from nearby cities Ia pay a tribut" OF re
Spect TO their SoVeTcgns by attending.
Rev. Or W T. Thirkield. president If
Howard University. will speak tho
SUNDAY night mass meeting Al the Inter
national SUNDAY school convention in the
coliseum San Francisco on the 18th, on
tho theme "a New Program for sunday
School Extension Work Among the col
orsd People" lie is the guest Tor I'VE
weeks Of the chairman of the interna-
tiona committee.
< < i
Coming 10 Washington at the invitation
OF the President and Mrs. Taft 10 attend
their silver wedding anniversary. Eabols
I,eyanthel of Philadelphia and Marsolis OF
New York will arrive in the city TO-DAY
and will deliver sermons at speciai serN-
ices 10 he conducted this evening In Adas
Israel Temple 9TH and I streets north
wc.. They will be mot II '1ion s;atlo1
by I;ani,i los III, til,tSla+. Nc;ui,t'S -
otHcr III a. .n-.tca I"
-A-enu ti.t .Ct,.--S.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-06-18
EST Tbere Mere $40 Bops

a CROSS old woman Of long ago
- Declared that she hated noise;
The town would be- pleasant, you know,
II only there We're no h"ys."
She scolded and frctied about it till
Her eyes grew heavy lead.
And then. Of a sudden. the town grew still,
For all the boys had fled
The dogs sleeping the Iivelong day
Why should they bark or leap?
There wasn't whistle call 10 play,
And they could only sleep.
The pony neighed from his lonely stall,
And lonKed for saddle and rein:
And the birds on the garden wall
Chirped only a dull refrain.
The cherries rotted and went to waste
There to climb the trees;
And nobody had a single taste.
Save only the birds and bees.
There wasn't messenger boy-not one
To speed as such messengers can;
II people wanted their errands done
They sent for messenger man.
There was little. I ween. Of frOlic and noise;
There was less of cheer and mirth:
The sad old town. since II lacked its boys,
Was the dreariest place on earth.
The poor old woman began to weep,
Then woke with a sudden scream:
Dear me!' she cried, II have been asleep3
And ch, VIA; Eorril dream
- Robt. Clarkson Tongue In st. Nicholas.