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The Cairo bulletin., 1911-01-14
RIVER NEWS
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n The river marked $50 feet on the
Cairo gauge last eyenig, showing a
nm cf i5s feet in "a hours.
Rising divers We're reported yester-
DAY from points above here as fol.
lows: Pittsburg s.b Cincinnati g, Mt
Carmel n, Kansas City ., Hermann,
Mc. 4, St. Louis 4, Chester 4.
Several big coal tows are coming
out OF the Ohio. The John Al Wood
and the. Spragae are on their way.
Others are To fellow
fThe Fred Hartweg went to the
low'er Mississippi early Thursday
morning with 4 barges or rock, 0
tlufty harees and derrick boat,
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THE WEATHER
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Yesterdays Cairo Temperature,
General Conditions.

The day was cloudy and quiet. The
X government bulletin reported rain or
snow from p points, extending light
" over the upper river valleys. Be
low-zero temperature was reported
from 10 points in the northwest the
lowest being "A below zero at Cal.
gary, Alberta.
The Cairo bulletin., 1911-01-14
STUMPSANDCROWS
RESPONSIBLE FOR EXPLOSIONS
YESTERDAY AND SHOTS LAST
NIGHT IN MISSOURI.
Slevee Builders Used Dynamite to
Clear Gro-nd ~ DISTINCTIONS
Farmers Shot Birds to
Save Crops.

Two explosions carry yesterday
morning, that sounded as
Trough they came from the west end
% the city caused much speculation
Ms to what was the cause. Ii was re.
ported thar the boiler at the Clarke.
Danforth Handle factory haa exploit
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TRANSFERS or REAL ESTATE.

Margaret Casey to ]. c. Crowley,
quit claim deed Jan. II. lots 10 and
20, block %, first addition, and lots
10, 16, and H. block Is, fifth addition;
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Forecasts For TO-DAY.

Cairo and vicinity. Rain anu
Golfer.
lHfnois: Washington, Jan. 49, Rain
IN south, rain or snow in north nor
tfon Saturday. Colder Sunday and
fair In north; probably rain in south
portions. Variable winds, becoming
northwest
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able soon to bring out some OF the
"big boys" of the athletic field. The
first big affair will take place on the
cath of this month.
The Cairo bulletin., 1911-01-14
sun and Moon.

INote: The above sun and mooI
record Is for Illinois and approxi-
mates the time at Cairo within lew
minutes.]
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-10-18
Plan to Foil Cupid.

Because in eighteen months six stem
ographers left him to be married, At
torney George NJ. Weichelt Is desper-
ate and intends to get a written con-
tract with the next girl he hires. He
has been two weeks without a stenog-
rapher because none of them will sign
the contract.
''Wanted-Young woman stenog-
rapher who will sign contract not to
get married; life position; best salary.
is the way his lad" reads in two pa
pers. He said:
1.-THE first and second girl stenog-
raphers I ever employed promised me
faithfully that they would never,
never think of marrying. Each mar
ried within four months. The next
one got married the first pay day. After
that tried out a half-dozen young
men, but they drank and gambled. and
I had to go back to girl stenograph-
ers."=Chicago dispatch to Philadel-
phia Record.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-10-18
FARMING NOW HAZARDOUS.

The substitution of power machinery
for hand labor has made agriculture
Hazardous industry. Corn shredders,
grain separators, gasoline engines,
threshers, cream separators, and other
forms of machinery have changed the
character of agricultural processes, un-
til much of the labor in the industry
has become more analogous both in
method and in danger to factory work
than to earlier agriculture.
Don D. Lescohier of the Minnesota
state bureau of labor in the Survey
even says that much of the machin-
cry used is far more dangerous than
that used in most factories, for suf-
ficient attention has not yet been paid
to guarding it. The public has not
known enough about the number and
the cause of accidents on farms to
realize that farmers need legal protec-
ton against unguarded machines as
badly as do factory workers. Proven
ton is further retarded by the fact
that the accidents are distributed over
so wide an area that the persons in
jured do not combine and crystalline a
| sentiment for protection. When five
men in a factory are killed in a year
the operatives begin to ask why these
accidents are happening and how they
can be prevented; but when as many
occur among the same number Of
farmers they do not realize that they
have need to cooperate for protection.
Sixteen fatal accidents. two likely -
result in death. eighty-five serious in
juries, and thirty-two severe ones-s
total of 1876 aecidents-were reported
from Ninnesota's agriculture during
the past twenty months. eighty-twO Of
them, including four fatalities. in the
last eight months were especially in
complete but there is no reason to be-
lieve that the records even for the last
eight months are not a complete toll of
the accidents. The figures given must
be considered as Illustrations rather
than Statistics
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-10-18

Color photography has made rapid
strides of late years, and at no distant
date bids fair to become available for
all amateur photographers. instead of
remaining as now the hobby OF the
favored few.
The so-called three-color process has
been successfully practiced for many
years. But the labor entailed in taking
three negatives, printing three posi-
| tives, coloring these in their correct
tints, and accurately adjusting them in
superposition too often spells failure,
besides. taxing the patience to an extent
which would have led JOB to make
colored remarks.
Four years ago the new autochrome
process invented by French firm at
tracted great attention. Splendid re-
suits are obtained and the method is
comparatively simple. The great bulk
Of amateur photographers, however,
| have held aloof from this process, the
reason being not so much the increased
cost of the plates, compared with those
ordinarily in use, as the fact that pic
lures are obtainable only on glass.
Prints on paper cannot be made by
this means and this, after all, must be
the ultimate goal of any process of
color photography if it is to appeal to
the majority of amateurs.
Many endeavors have been made to
rectify this defect and to perfect
process of printing on paper in natural
colors from autochrome and similar
plates.
Dr.. j. H. Smith. who had been work.
ing on these lines long before the adj
vent of the autochrome plate, redoubl-
ed his efforts after its appearance, and
has now succeeded in inventing
means of printing colored photographs
on paper. The new process is to be
rlaced on the market at an early date
by a French company in Paris, which
has been formed for this purpose
Paris Edition of the New York Herald.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-10-18

There came woman singing down the
Her hair was gray, and yet her voice was
young
As springs new leaves. About her figure
hung
And as she neared me her two eyes did
Pupils to pan: yet laughter was her
mouth.
Her hands a distaff held and only that
No thread or twisted strands about 1t
wound,
And she did sing a melody profound
strain.
It am BeHef-OId Age and Youth in one;
Proud mother to that immortality
Men worship, ere the tree of Life decays;
My banner is of song, of Hope deferred;
My garment, invitation to the saints;
Ny distaff, thoughts that twist themselves
about
Into rope of Faith. may be Truth
I cannot tell: look in these eyes and guess;
Hear then my voice, vince at these age
old locks,
Wear thou my smile" Then did she dis
Leaving me, doubter, skeptic, wonder
Thinking of man and God. of earth and
sky,
OF limitation and the illimitable.
And as I puzzled, came her voice once
more,
Her banner urging man from out the clod
To heights beyond: Il am Belief, Belief
may be Truth and yet I cannot tell
All full amazed, bowed 1 my head to
earth.
The while her footsteps pounded in my
heart.
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know how to tell you. but vivien and
are engaged. Won't you wish us
happiness, please. I'll be terribly good
to her"
Mrs Vaughan hesitated, reached her
hand toward Miss Somerset weakly,
and bowed to the inevitable. She had
to- There were too many on deck to
permit of a scene.
Come in out of the wind, children -
she said, with a deep sigh. Wen all
have neuralgia. Vivien, give me your
arm"
Doris looked after the others with
gay amusement cleaning in her dark
eyes.
down at the water. / love to see the
foam break around the prov. Wasn't
mamma dear not to scold a bit? Did
you see her loo reproachfully at you,
just as If your lack of attention had
permitted this affair to grow"
Derington's hand closed firmly over
as it rested beside him on the rail.
Doris, it hasn't been a joke with
me. 1t is deadly earnest. refuse to
be disengaged, so to speak. as soon as
we pass the Narrows. Will you be my
wife ~
Doris glanced at him, with CLINT of
reDuke IN her eyes.
"I never meant for you to carry it
so far, Dick. Truly
why do you suppose I have trailed
after you over the map of Europe for
three months. To act as Raleigh's best
man? Listen. He promised faithfully
to act as mine long ago"
Doris turned her head suddenly at
the long pause that followed. and
found his face so near that even an I'M
preiudiced onlooker would have exon
Grated her from blame in what fol-
lowed. Derington's lips found her own,
and the wind blew her hair across his
eyes. Silently he held her close under
the shadow of the great gilt figure
head. until suddenly Doris laughed
softly
Mamma will be so glad to have you
in the family, Dick she whispered.
But I'm perfectly sure papa will call
you a kidnapper. - Copyright, 1911,
by Associated Literary Press).
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-10-18
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
IFron the Chicago News.I

IFron the Chicago News.l
Gossips tell all they know and then
some.
The social whirl has made many a
girl giddy-
Most of lifes so called tragedies re
merely comedies.
The motto Of a grass widower: "once
stung, always shy"
Money makes the mare go; the lack
of it makes her go hungry.
Many a self made man merely offers
an explanation that doesn't explain.
People who take the will for she
deed never break into the millionaire
class.
A wise girl never tries to fool her
mother. She lets the old lady fool her
self.
The one way to help a worthless
man along is to administer a swift
kick in the proper place.
1t sometimes happens that a man
who never even saw an airshfp flies
just as high and falls just as hard.
It is only the very young man who
wants to paint the town. An old man
is satisfied if he can fresco the corners.
A man has reached the age of dis
erection when he is willing to admit
that other men may have opinions diff
ferent from his without being fools.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-10-18
ouAKER MEDrrATIoNs.

CF'rom the Philadelphia Record.l
Many a white lie has left a black
mark behind it.
It is always easier to float a rumor
than to sink one.
Even the bakers don't all sleep on
houry beds of ease
The truth is mighty. but II must be
handled with care.
The dressmaker allows many OF her
best ideas to go waist.
The weather man regards the ladder
of fame as a question OF climate.
1t would take the X-rays to find oU-
what some people see In each other.
The people we don't trust too far are
really those we don't trust too near
There is no reason why you should've
try again. even II at first You succeed
The people who get left are not apt
to believe in the doctrine of the survival
Of the fittest.
Billy-'I'll bet you a kiss on the Ath-
Ietics." Milly-'I'n go you. Wen let
Jack hold the stakes.
TIE football player might console
himself with the thought that there
are other people who miss the goal CT
their ambition.
Mrs. Buggins-' Even when wear a
dcco1ette gown you never notice what
have or" Mr.. Buggins-"No, I'm
too busy noticing what you have on.
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physicians and nurses hastened to the
scene. Food, clothing, hospital supplies
and money poured into the death
swept valley. Special trains loaded
with supplies and men started for the
town almost as soon as the news Of
the disaster was received. The state
of Pennsylvania and the entire nation.
if necessary, stood ready to relieve suf-
fering and to save life, without re-
gard to the cost in labor or money.
All this is right: nor should it be 9TH
erwise, says the Journal Of the Ameri-
can Medical association. Yet how
strange that our sympathies should be
aroused to immediate and purposeful
action by the loss of 40 lives in a sud
den and unusual way. when we are
calIous and Indifferent to the fate of
thousands who die from preventabIe
but familiar causes. A Johnstown flood,
an Iroquois fire, a San Francisco earth
quake, will convulse the world with
horror, yet the death from preventable
diseases of over 600, 900 people in the
United States each year excites little
interest. The newspapers announce the
Austin dis3 ster with e~ont page ''stor-
les and enormous headlines, yet The
United States census report for 1908
(the last one available) shows that in
that year in Pennsylvania alone, 2.450
people died of typhoid. 1920 of dipa-
liberia, S.709 of tuberculosis, and that
9,O26 infants under years Of age Cleo
of infantile diarrhea, a total mortality
of 22.099 from only four preventable
diseases in only one state. So accus-
toned are we to these enormous losses
through familiar diseases. that we ac-
cept them as a matter of course and
as the inevitable lot OF mankind. Yet
each of these diseases. is as preventabie
as was the Austin food.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-10-18
GLOBE SIGHTS.
[From the Atchison Globe.l


A child will cry all night over the
loss of a thirty cent pup
1t doesn't take much of a cold wave
to bring out a new overcoat-
So much time is taken for investiga-
lions they should all be thorough.
The average man can stand being
bald. but how it must hurt a matinee
idol.
car looks more than lonely; he looks
Neither are dead mans letters
worth SO much more than those from
the living.
is to live after one has become entire
~ helpless.
ANY man who can have fun throw
ing confetti shouldn't brag about his
sense of humor-
Some men are home so little there
is doubt about them being acquainted
It is a woman notion that no plum
Der OF. paper-hanger ever won a prize
for neatness.
You aren't hearing as much of the
Square Deal as formerly, but you are
getting just as much OF II
Nothing else seems SO much larger
than it is as the bit of chicken that
lands between ones teeth
Someone has to keep a lighthouse,
while others must herd sheep Why
are you kicking about your job?
Just because the moral is pointed
in the last chapter, is no sign people
read the book through just to find it.
Very few men are as good as the
attorney for the defense would lead
the jury to believe his client is.
No boy ever had bed at home so
good that he wouldn't like to give it up
to sleep in an unventilated cave.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-10-18

With great difficulty, surgeons in the
Germantown Hospital extracted from
the left eye of William Meehan a l.
inch piece of steel that had been i'm
bedded there for nearly two weeks.
Meehan was working in his blacksmith
shop on September %, when a number
of fine particles of steel blew into his
eye. He succeeded in removing most
of them and thought he would have no
more trouble. Finally, however, his
eve became swollen and gave him so
much pain that he was obliged to go to
the hospital. An examination there
disclosed the fact that a piece of steel
about an inch long was imbedded in
the flesh surrounding the eyeball. The
surgeons, after removing the metal.
said if it had remained there a day
longer it would probably have caused
blood ng.-PhiladelphiaR Record.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-10-18
JNYHAWKER JOTS

Beloit business men and farmers con-
tributed over $500 in cash and work
and fixed up a Scenic Loop road which
is said to be one of the prettiest in the
state
The Leon Indicator, which was
burned out some weeks ago, has de-
cided to quit business 1t has turned
it's subscription list over to the Au-
gusta Journal.
According to several OF the Kansas
Weeklies, the prevailing price for
turkeys nowadays is Is cents pound.
Unfortunately, however, this is not
Thanksgiving time.
No doubt about it, Jack Frost is a
multitudinous individual. Many of
the Kansas papers have reported
visits from him in their neigh bor-
hoods at one and the same time.
According to the Valley Falls Far
mers' Vindicator there was lapsus
pengua" in a fire item it printed on a
previous occasion. Will the scholarly
Ralph FaxOn come to the rescue with
an explanation?
A Jefferson county farmer asks the
court for some relief because his wife
not only refuses to prepare his VIC
tualS and discharge other W1fely du-
ties, but incidentally she frequently
calls him "a niger and "a jackass. .
Neighboring towns in Mcpherson
county are called Bunker Hill, Battle
Hill and Contention And the news
reports from them printed in the Can
ton Pilot would indicate that they
are as peaceable as any of the other
communities in Kansas.
Simultaneous with the announce
ment in the Canton Pilot that
Burke's Big Uncle Toms Cabin show
would play in its town soon was the
statement that James Lagree had be-
come a. resident of the city.
"A young lady asked us the other day
how to keep her hands white" says
the Rossville Reporter I'VE told her
to soak her hands three times a day in
dishwater. She went home and gravely
asked her mother to save the dish
water after she got through with it.
The Zenda correspondent of the
Kingman Journal protests that the
printer who sets the Zenda items in
type does not punctuate properly But
the correspondent is then fair enough
to add that the only difference be-
tween us is that don't punctuate at
al
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-10-18
JOURNAL ENTRIES

In the ups and downs of life there
seems to be many more of the latter.
+ X x
What has become of the old-fash-
toned sutton who formally asked the
consent of his girls parents to marry
her?
x X
Presumably, it is because a man is
the architect of his own fortune that
so many wobbly ones~are developed
x
Why is it that women cry so easily
when it so speedily destroys for the
time being whatever good looks they
have?
X
Many a housewife is of the opinion
that the best and surest way to bring
on a rainstorm is to give the windows
in her home a washing.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-10-18
HUNOR or THE DIP

Husband-Whati Three hundred and
fifty dollars for that gown? MY dear.
how extravagant you arei
Wife-No more than you. Didn't you
spend SIS for your last subtitle.
Mrs. outlate-what was the ailment OF
the friend you sat up within
Outlate-Er-strabimus; he couldn't see
straight.-New York Sun.
Peculiar chap, very. His wife is boss
WHATS peculiar about that7''
He admits it."-Louisviue Courier
Journal.
Mrs. Knicker-Does your husband rage
when he gets the biils7
Mrs. Bocker-Yes. though always
place them face down just as the walters
do.-Harper's Bazaar.
Hell told your father I could not live
She-And what did he say2
He-Oh. he offered to pay my funeral
expenses.-Boston Transcript
Let us take heart, though fortune fiout
Our honest hopes Of bliss.
Next year the pennant will no doubt
Washington Star.
why does your new baby cry 80
SAY II all your teeth were out. your
hair off. and your legs so weak that you
couldn't stand on them. I rather fancy
you'd feel like crying yourself. "-Lppin-
colts.
Old I'm Observation-Disclosures you don't
believe in the benefit OF work. supposel
Young 'Un-Don't /. though? II the old
guy nor hadn't worked like horse all
his life, I shouldn't have what I have
now.-Fliegende Blaetter.
The Man at the Door-Afadam, I'm the
piano tuner.
The Woman-I didn't send for a plano
tuner.
The Mani know it. lady; the neigh
bors did.-ChicagO News
Tattered Tim--Tve been trampin four
years ma'arn. an it's all cause heard
the doctors recommended waliSin' as the
best exercise.
Mrs. Prim-Well. the doctors are right.
Walk acknowledgements OF the South
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-10-18
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR


LFrom the New York Press-l
It's such a great gift not to be bored
by good people that nobody has IT,
When a woman wants advice from a
man she'd better give Il to herself
A man takes his party politics SO Sc
riousiy that the Ten Commandments
become joke to him.
Girls have a very fair understanding
of many things till they get married
and their husbands revise their knowl-
edge.
A widow can grow more excited
over getting engaged for a second we'd
ding than a girl can over being mar
ried the first time.
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DIsAsrERs And DIsEAsE.

The nation has been shocked by an
other appalling disaster. this time in
Pennsylvania. A dam built across a
narrow gap between two hills to hold
back vast volume Of water. suddenly
gave way. The food poured down the
valley, carrying death and destruction
with it. About 40 lives were lost in
few minutes. A wave of sympathy
swept over the country. Red Cross
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dRHEEEEl.:.A
Ml2S38 ~

The city commissioners seem bent
upon encouraging few citizens in he
beIiet that a public park is private pro-
perty, and nothing more or less than 4.
free annex to their front yards
Ballooning has been stopped in To-
peka because Il is a dangerous sport"
Some day, they viii read the report that
young man was killed in a Chicago
saloon by being ''beaned'' with a base
ball bat. aud then the city commission
ers viii forbid the game on the grounds
that it Is a dangerous sport"
All of which leads TO the sweetly
solemn thought that ROman's suffrage
isn't such a bad bet after all II We
had it in fun force here, there Is a
chance that at least a few young or
middle-aged women would have some
thing to do with the management OF
the city.
The leaves are beginning to fall, hut
the shoe tops and gas bills are rising.
Something has delayed the Christ
mas numbers of the magazines, but you
can find out what you want to buy by
asking any enterprising merchant. DO
your Csc.
An eastern eacher complains that
with the Jays work followed by an
evening spent in grading papers and
doesn't get time to take her daily bath.
The average school teacher is kept IN
hot water all day by the pupils, and
doesn't need a bath
Last Sunday the enlisted men on the
battleship California were treated 20
champagne by their captain. The treat
would hardly be called zone on The
house." but 'one on the cabin" might
be appropriate.
"Procastinate.'' according TO Hon
Webster, means TO put or" We mated
to use rough stuff, and welcome this
more elegant chance to suggest that It
is almost time to procrastinate yo"r
summer ones.
Every one you meet has something 70
offer for your cold, but advice Is
blinkety- blankety poor remedy.
Why is it. that If she has no inten-
ton of putting It on exhibition. a wo-
man Will buy a silk underskirt when
a newspaper would make just as much
noise?
Hep
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Why not take Topeka's city COM
nissioners on a balloon trip and show
them how free from danger the sport
Is? Then if they persisted in their re-
fusal to be amenable to reason, why
let 'er go Gallagher. or give the rip
cord a pull
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-10-18

The uncertainties of baseball are
shown by the fact that while the To-
peka team ended the season in seventh
place, it stood fifth in the team aver
ages. So. on form. its hitting and
fielding really entitled it to a higher
Mace in the league race.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-10-18

Rather has it been a blessing in dis
guise by giving the native laborer a
chance to develop into a skilled work
man. This is also additional proof that
there are two sides to every question.
And nowadays. there are sometimes
three and four