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The Cairo bulletin., 1911-08-29

Of pale gold satin patterned in a fcral
design worked out In black and orange
colorings
Every woman's purse will not allow
her to purchase such sartorlal lux
ury. but it is stunning neglgee for
the fortunate possessor Of well filled
nurse
The Cairo bulletin., 1911-08-29

II suppose i ISM necessary FOR ms
to tell You thar you're the pretti.st
girl ever Saw
"Oh, no Il iSn't strictly necessary.
but tell me anyway Yon Look 10
handsome when you say irr--Chicago
Record Herald
The Cairo bulletin., 1911-08-29
The Summer PARTING

The Wife Oh Jim, what shall We
do with the cat?
The Husband-Leav her here, Il
wouldn't take eat ] thought anything
Of to the place where we're going to
board.--Puck.
The Cairo bulletin., 1911-08-29
TIME CARD AFRO ELECTRIC ny

Rolf inc cans due 10 leave Second ST., 40
DSAs IsssN is iioith on Commercial Ave.
every ID minutes iruiu a. IN. 10 II D. M.
Going north al anut St every is min qtes
from q a. IN. 10 t"aH pm
Poplar 81 Line l9 aays ss A0e es or Due I've
ing north ON HoiiTops at 5:57, 6:27, SAC 6.57
II2 q. m. and 90 IN. same minutes every
hour until t042 aus .;i2 p. m.
',olng west o. Twenty Eighth st. at DAB:
6:i9; 6:SI; 6:ig and 7aa H. m. and on same min
utes every hour until 1884 and Il:D4 p. M.
Poplar IT, cars due tn pass 81 Mary's nark
ID minutes aitrf having Second ST.
Belt Line Owl Cars n Il;st q on n w ,,sa
m (; 1880 a. u, 80 a III; 800 a. m: 1870 d. M.
500 a. IN.
North on CommefcIal--i2 p. fu.; l a. m! a.
M, a. M; Il. M. IN.
Belt and n@l cars are due to pass West
Ihirty-fourth II " minutes after leaving
Second Street.
The Cairo bulletin., 1911-08-29
An Oriental NeqIigee.

Oriental negligees are not new cos
tunes in the fashion world, but the
pretty boudoir dress pictured is both
smart and the latest design modelled
after the eastern woman's dress. 1t Ia
The Cairo bulletin., 1911-08-29
Or. .shaw's influence on Norway.

Although the Rev. DR.. Anna How
ard Shaw, American suffragist. could
not get permission from the authori-
ties In Christiania to give lectures In
churches, it develops the Norwegians
are planning to give greater opportu-
mites to women who must earn their
own livelihood. A bill has been in
troduced providing literally for wom-
en-. The measure says they shall have
access on the same conditions as men
to offices Of the state with few en-
ceptions.
The Cairo bulletin., 1911-08-29
MAIE.-HELp

WANTED FOR U. S. ARMY
Ablebodied unmarried men between
ages of IS and 35; citizens of Unit
ed States of good character and tenn
perate habits, who can speak, read
and write the English language. For
information, apply to Recruiting
Officer, All Ohio street, Cairo, H.
The Cairo bulletin., 1911-08-29
Yew Tree centuries old.

In the churchyard at Plymtree,
Devon, England. is yew tree whose
age is calculated at 1000 years. and
which is doubtless the Oldest In the
country.
The Cairo bulletin., 1911-08-29
A Girls Superiority.

No man loafer seems to put the
)ob over with such thorough enjoy.
ment as a girl lolline In hammock
and reading a cheap novel.--Atchison
Globe.
The Cairo bulletin., 1911-08-29

1.-THE clnging type OF girl is disap'
Dearing."
Yes, modern woman. with her nu-
merous hatpins. is more like cactus
than a vine. Washington Herald.
The Cairo bulletin., 1911-08-29
coIors OF autternles.

The colors Of butterflies are infIus
enced by the temperstufS Of the eli
In which they live ae I.
The Cairo bulletin., 1911-08-29
The Difficult Part.

The Difficult Part
Getting into debt 10 a good deal like
failing into well. The principal Diff
Guilty IL encountered In getting out i
The Cairo bulletin., 1911-08-29
New York Stocks.

New York, Aug. 20, 1871
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1911-04-26
a Death Lure.

According to tradition. Kenith, the
legendary king of Scotland. was al
lured to his death in a most novel man
ner. Kenith had slain son and broth
er of Fennclla, who to be avenged or
dered WiltuS. famous silversmith, to
construct a death dealing statue Of sill.
yer. I'm its right hand the statue held
n basin and in the left hand an apple
OF pure gold. both set with diamonds
and other precious stones. To touch
the apple was to defy death, it being
so arranged that any one guilty OF
such vandalism would he Immediately
riddlcd by poisoned arrows shot from
openings In the body Of the statue.
Zenith was invited TO inspect the won
der, and. rs Fennela had hoped, he
tried to pluck the precious imitation
fruit. When his hand touched the M.
pie he was wounded by the arrows and
died where he fell
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1911-04-26
Lucky He Stuck to His opinion

Pride Of opinion is perhaps the most
common fault of us fairly educated
and intelligent moderus. We form our
Judgments and then, as it were, defy
any one to change them. 1t is said
that no one has ever been converted
by abstract argument.
At the time of the great disaster In
Martinique the Italian bark Orsolina
was taking on cargo of sugar there.
Her captain was accustomed to vOlca-
noes, and he did not like the appear.
ance Of Mont Pelee. Not half his
cargo was on board. but he decided to
sail for home.
'The volcano is all right" argued
the shippers. "Finish your loading"
81 don't know anything about Mont
Pelee," said the captain, but if Vesu-
vius looked that way I'd get out Of
Naples, and I'm going to get right out
of here"
The shippers threatened him with
arrest. They sent customs officers to
detain him, but the captain persisted
In leaving. Twenty-four hours later
the shippers and the customs officers
lay dead in the ruins of St. PIERRE
Christian Herald.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1911-04-26
A Miser's LuxurY.

There was Middlesex couple once
who lived on sum to shock the most
reckless OF our correspondents. Daniel
Dancer was the man. He looked on
saving as an art and saved for arts
sake. His father left him q farm and
eighty acres. and his sister helped him
carry out his scheme of life. He let
the land lie fallOw, says the London
Gest. 1t costs money to cultivate land.
For food the couple believed in ore
day. one meal. The batch Of dump
iings baked on Saturday lasted out
the week. For clothing he depended
on hay bands 'swathed round his fee,
for boots and round his body for O
coat" But Daniel had weakness
He would buy clean shirt each year
And out Of this arose the tragedy Of
his life-a lost lawsuit over three
pence Which. in Daniels judgment, the
shirt seller had wrongfully pocketed.
He died in 1874 worth $4,000 q year.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1911-04-26
A STUDY OF NAPOLEON.
Mental Changes of the Fiery Corsican
Shown by His Chirography.

Mental Changes Of tho Fiery Corscan
Shown by His Chirosraphy.
Interesting and exhaustive studies
have been made in France Of Ma
poleon's chirography. When a young
man Napoleon did not have q bad
hand. although. like some other great
men, he could never learn to spell
When he was an artillery officer his
writing was simple and legible, as his
life was simple and direct. But when
the Corsican Captain Bonaparte dis
tinguished himself at the siege Of Tou-
Ion and became the French General
Bonaparte his writing took on what
has been called "a furious illegibility."
Curiously enough. from that time
there seems to have been gradual
degeneration until, profoundly discour-
aged and utterly humiliated, he
7cratched an undecipherable. mis-
spelled scrawl of submission to the
prince regent on July IA. 1915.
1t Is said that this change from a
simple TO confused writing began at
q certain date-namely. with a report.
skillfully garbled. of the part he took
IN what Carlyle called the whit, of
grapeshot that spoke from the steps Of
st. Roch on the 18th vendemaire"
(Oct s, l795).
The eliminating eccentricity of his
tortuous strokes Of the pen was exhIb-
tied In the letter p. This showed plain.
~ the mental changes of tho man who
would unhesitatingly declare war
against the flrst conner. who would d.
vorce the wife he loved, who would
propose a kingdom of Haiti for Louis
XVIII. who would freeze nearly a
million men upon the steppes of Rus
sia. This letter P became of strange
and abnormal form. 1t was excessive
~ developed. For twenty years the
great general used this extravagant
and. according to the investigators, ac-
cusing letter, especially noticeable In
his later unroyal signature, NP.-Har-
pers Weekly.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1911-04-26
F0RET0LD BY DREAMS.
Two Remarkable Cases In Which Sleep
Warnings Came True.

Il dreamed that the ship was in
heavy sea. that big wave came over
her bows, pressed down upon her.
and then she rolled over on her star
board side and disappeared"
This Is not an extract from a story.
1t Is evidence. given ON oath, during
the inquiry at London into the mys.
terlous disappearance of the Waratah.
the vessel which. on her second voy.
age. mysteriously disappeared in July,
1909, and has never been heard of
since. And SO impressed was the pas.
senger with the vision that he left the
vessel at Durham. from which point
she continued on her iii fated voyage.
Thus one more was added to the ex-
traordinary condolences In which
dreams have figured
The third Lord Waterford was able
to verify story of an extraordinary
dream coming true. Talking one day
with the landlord Of the inn in the vii.
lage close to Curraghmore, man
rushed up and said there had been a
murder on the hills. Then it must be
which Lord Waterford. not unnatural.
~, became very suspicious. The land
lord proceeded to explain that in the
night he dreamed that two men had
come to the inn and that the taller of
the two had murdered the shorter
with very curious knife.
He told his dream to his wife, who
laughed at him. But. to his horror.
the men he had seen while asleep
came to the inn, and one used the curl
Gus knife to cut up his food. They
left, and soon afterward news of the
murder arrived. Search was made for
a tall man answering to the landlords
description. and one was quickly ar
rested. In prison he confessed he had
murdered his short companion.-Pear-
sons Weekly.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1911-04-26
CATCHING COLD.
Que 20 infection and Not at An q
Changes IN ths Wsathsr

Que 60 Infection and Not st An %
Changes IN che Wsathsr.
Have you ever noticed In church
Immediately after a prayer or a SER
mon b finished some one starts a
cough and then q whole battery of
coughs explodei The modern physi.
clan viii tell you by way of explana-
don that microbe emanations from the
breath Of the coughers nnd their way
into the respiratory tract of others.
Who thereupon cough too. Not alone
In church. but In theaters and other
indoor places where people gather in
large numbers, is this coughing habit
noticeable.
In an article dealing with this sub
5ect published In the Independent It Is
explained that colds are slight infec-
tious fevers which spread particularly
among the population Of cities and
which are due to contagion and not at
all TO changes In the weather. These
may predispose by lowering resistive
vitality and by disturbing the circula.
t1ou In mucous membranes, but Il is
the presence Of an infectious germ
that gives rise to the symptoms Of the
cold. When one Of these bothersome
affections gets into household usual.
" more than one person suffers from
Il. and II spreads In Offices and schools
and the like. II Is much more fire.
Quently caught In a crowd than any
where else.
The people who have a succession of
colds during the winter time and
those who have TO work where many
people come and go during the day
are particularly susceptible to them
1t II not to some sudden change In the
weather that the physician looks for
the origin Of cold. but to some rath
er intimate contact with other suffer.
ers from similar affection.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1911-04-26
"Eatinq Crow.0

The term "eating crow" comes from
an ante-RevoutiOnary story. A soldier
or an English regiment stationed in
virginia shot a pet crow belonging to o
FARMER. The latter entered a COM
paint with the colonel. who sentenced
the soldier to eat the crow. The farm.
er was left alone with the soldier TO
see that he did it. After the soldier
Had consumed Il portion Of the bird
he look his gun. presented it at the
larmer and told him to eat the re-
malnder Of the crow or he would shoot
him. This was the origin OF the eat
Ing crow story.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1911-04-26
Tho Cowboys Handkerchief.

"Have you ever wondered why the
cowboy pictures by painters who have
made n study Of western life depict
the man Of the plains with his red
bandanna halfway down on his chest
instead Of fitting snugly around his
neck" queried a ranch owner Of Cali
fornia.
"I'll tell you. When a cowboy starts
on long ride over the plains one of
his principal annoyances is having to
wipe dust from his eyes. His heavy
gauntlets make 1t impossible to use
his hands. and he ties his handkerchief
loosely around his neck and when
occasion requires uses it to clear his
eyes. 1t is the most convenient place
to carry the handkerchief while riding
q horse. ."-Washington Post.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1911-04-26
FAMOUS STAR GROUP.
The Constellation Orion In Legend and
Literature.

The Constellation Orion In Legend and
Literature.
The constellation Orion Is mentioned
In the literature of all ages. In Egypt
Ii represented Horus. the young or ris
Ing sun, In boat surmounted by stars
closely followed by Sirius. which was
shown as COW. II has also been
found sculptured on the walls Of
Thebes 5000 years ago. And on the
men Of that early time 1t shone down
from the same position and with the
same brightness as 1t does on us today,
O striking example of the unchange-
ableness Of the heavens.
From the days Of the early Hindus
to the present the constellation has for
some reason borne always a stormy
character. Allusions to its direful In.
duence are found everywhere among
the classic writer's. Thus Milton wrote:
When with fierce winds Orion arrived
Hath vexed the Red sea coast.
The loss of the Roman squadron in
the FIRST Punic war was ascribed to the
fleets having sailed just after the ris-
ing Of Orion. The group has also been
employed as a calendar sign. its morn.
Ing rising indicating the beginning Of
summer, It's midnight rising the season
Of grape gathering and its early even
ing rising the arrival Of winter, with
its attendant storms. In recent times
the group has always represented a
great hunter or warrior. Its present
title came into Greek astronomy from
the Euphrates and originally signiHed
the light Of heaven.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1911-04-26
DON'T GET TOO SEDATE.
Play 10 a. Good For Grown Person. q,
For Children.

For Children.
Play Is just as necessary to keep
grown man young and a middle aged
man from growing old as 1t Is to make
child grow into q man. Words.
worth's lines are as sound physiology
as good poetry:
My heart leaps UP when behold
The rainbow In the sky
so was 1t when my life began:
SO be it when / am man
Or let me die.
In childhood we play because we
are young. In middle age we are
young because we play, and IL we
keep IL up we shall never know that
we are old until we are one day sud
denly dead. Yet the absurd idea has
grown up, and Mrs. Grundy has adopt
ed Ii with her usual fatuousness, that
play Is something undignlGed In
grown man and unbecoming In lady.
And this unfortunately Is one Of the
rare instances where thinking makes
1t So" After man has practiced this
belief In the uselessness Of exercise
for half decade or so and become
fat and pompous and red faced or pale
and slack muscled and short winded
then the contortions that he indulges
In when he decides to unbend and try
to play furnish considerably more en-.
tertainment TO spectators than to him
self.-Dr. Woods Hutchinson i'm Out
ing
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1911-04-26
MONEY MAKER COTTON SEED

Will pay you, If you are raising
cotton. If you are not posted, II
will pay you to investigate. We can
furnish a limited quantity Of pure
seed. raised on our farm where
there has never been any blight.
$1.O0 per bushel. Let us book your
order at once if you intend to plant
Money Maker. c. p. Osteen Co.,
Sumter, S. c. 2-l-tf
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1911-04-26
Dangerous Sport.

First Lady (reading a newspaper
This golf seems to be a very danger.
Gus game. Did you see what hap
pened to man named Taylor? He
went into bunker and was in two
when he came out.
Second Lady-How dreadful!
Yes. here are the words: Taylor
getting out In two, Braid secured a
half"
docs 1t say what happened to tho
other halfT
mo, but there was worse to follow.
According to the report, Taylor then
fell altogether to pieces. Word of
Golf.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1911-04-26
EXCURSION RATES VIA. SOUTH
ERN RAILWAY.
Account Annual Reunion. United
Confederate Veterans.

The Southern Railway announces
greatly reduced and attractive round
tip rates fom all points to Little
Rock. Ark. and return, tickets 10 be
sold May 18th, 18th and 18th, with
nnal limit good TO reach original
starting point returning not later
than midnight of May card, unless
extended at Little Rock until June
18th. 1911, by depositing tickets and
upon .,ayment OF fee OF fifty cents
per ticket.
For sleeping car reservations an
ply TO $. VI. Mclean. l.. T. A., Column
bia. s. c.
Passengers desiring reservations I'm
special sleeping cars should apply for
space promptly.
For further information as to
tickets. etc. apply to ticket agents or
address.
j. l.. MEEK.
Asst. Gen. Passenger Agent.
Atlanta. Ca.
n. r.. MCGEE,
Division Passenger Agent.
Charleston. s. G.
y. IT, ACKER.
Travelling Passenger Agent.
Augusta, Ga.
l-22-5-t5.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1911-04-26
SHIRKlNG JAIL WORK.
BidweIl, the Forser, Was a Champio,
at Malingering.


Malingering IS common In jail, but
surely case quoted from his own ex-
perience by DR.. Quinton, the late gov
ernor Of Holloway, In Crime and
Criminals" Is record. The "hero"
was violent prisoner who feigned
stiffness Of the index finger to avoid
oakum picking. He was so angry
when the finger was forcibly bent
that ION returning to his cell he
promptly placed the offending finger
IN the hinges Of his table, which was
attached to the cell wall, and violently
raised the leaf, with the result that
the finger was absolutely shattered
and had to be removed"
Another case even more remarkable
In its way was that Of the notorious
American criminal Bidwell, who was
sentenced to penal servitude for life
in connection with the Bank Of En-
land forgeries.
"He was In good health ON convic>
ton. but never did any active work.
FeiSning loss Of power In his legs, he
lay In bed from day to day and from
year to year, dsfying an efforts Of
psEsuasfon ana resisting all unpleasant
cosrcfvS measures devised-to make him
work. when saw him at Dartmoor at
the snd Of eight OF nine years Of his sen.
tsnes isae disdse Of his legs had Yva.
dsrsd him almost cripple. The mus
eass were extremely wasted, and bcth
hip ana knes Joints were contracted
In . state Of ssmihsIion. 20 that hs
lay doubled up In a bundle. Though
hs was examined time after time BY
experS, no one succeeded In discover.
Ing any organic disease or any cause
for his condition other than his own
drmly expressed determination never
to do a days work for the British
government, a threat which, I believe,
he ultimately carried out"
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1911-04-26

Columbia, April 21.--The move was
made before the new jispensary COM
mission today by the Carolina Glass
Company. OF this city. to have return
% nearly $4,000. seized by the old
dispensary commission out OF funds
owed the company by the several
county dispensaries. and also to havs
q rehesring upon the whole Carolina
GLASS Company case. involving a judg-
ment against the company OF over
$4,000 by the old dispensary COM
mission. The amount sought to be
recovered was taken over by the
former commission. Of which DR..
William J. Murray was chairman. on
this whole Judgment. from the money
owed tho glass company by county
dispensaries for goods furnished.
The amount the commission claim
% was owed the state was the diff
ference between the whole Judgment.
$4,000. and the amount owed the
glass company for goods furnished in
State dispensary days. $4,000 In
round numbers Thus the alleged
over Judgment was about $4,000.
Upon this nearly $4,000 was applied.
although counsel today contended
the Supreme Court had rursd the
commission had no authority 20 in
auire into other things than that
which the State wss indebted for, or
the claims agains: the state. Thus
BY this contention. the s2s.00o could
not be collected from the Glaes Com
pany.
Among matters brought into dis
cussion again are the Stevenson let
ter. In which the Glass Company
claimed II was assured the funds In
the county dispensaries. for sales af-
ter certain date would not be touch
si; and the decision Of the Supreme
Court. by which the contention Is
that the commission could not COL
iect any over-judgment against the
company; and the large amount paid
Attorney Fielder on the ovsr-judg-
ments.
Attorney w. III. Lyles. representing
the Glass Company stated that the
nrm owed the state OF South Carolina
nothing. and that II was unjust to
have this money taken over from the
county dispensaries and half Of 1t
60 TO Attorney Fielder.
Mr.. Lyles understood from Mr.. Eel
ders published letter that this was
counsers expectation. Arguments
were completed today in the case.
The Carolina Glass Company was
represented by Lyler & Lyles, J. r.
seibles and ID. w. Robinson, of this
city. Attorney General Lyon was
called before the commission. He
outlined the history OF the Glass
Company. telling OF the previous
course through the. courts and other
things about the case that are mat
ters OF record.
The dispensary commission is
meeting tonight but nothing will be
given out for publication until to-
morrow. 1t Is announced thae a
statement OF some interesting matter
may be made tomorrow. The Caro-
Ina Glass Company decision is ex-
pected. The statement Of the At
torney General and the argument
made by ID. w. Robinson. closed the
Glass Company hearing today. The
decision alone Is now awaited.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1911-04-26

from tn action
Of the digestive
fluids Of the
whales stomach.
So far as we
k n O ", Jonah's
case was the
o n Y one I'm
which any one
spent parts Of
three days and
nights in the bel
ly Of a fish.
True, the throats
Of the majority