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The Cairo bulletin., 1911-06-25
glsetrIe Power for Houseuork.

The total cost of power for sewing
washing and wringing. mangle iron
Ing, chopping meat. grinding coffee,
and polishing silver would be sum
that almost any housekeeper would be
willing to pay for a few hours more
10 call her own, or for being able to
take more Independent stand on the
servant question. Electricity has ad
vanced far enough now to give her
the opportunity she has longed for
Electrical Review.
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His Strikina rcature.

He was butler nj the British cmbas
sy, and he was very English. He waa
at the telephone. and the society editor
or Washington newspaper was ask.
ing him about n distinguished English
man who had just arrived as guest
at the embassy.
TELL me- said the editor, what he
looks like. Give me some.striking fea
ture by which may recognize him"
We'll" replied the butler In awe
and admiration, "'e as most hintel.
ligent face."--New York Tribune.
The Cairo bulletin., 1911-06-25

Miss Nelletta Gilman entertained
Yesterday afternoon the members of
the Rock Club at the home of her
parents, MIR. and Mrs. J. r. Gilman,
or 1903 Holbrook avenue. The home
was beautiful, decorated with mag.
nolias. The afternoon was spent in
games and music. Miss Nelletta was
assisted in entertaining by her mother
Mrs. ]. r. Ehlman.
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Sale for Taxes Begins Monday.

The sale of property for taxes will
begin Monday at the court house.
Those who have not paid their real
estate taxes will do we'll to step up
to the sheriff's office and liquidate
with the county collectors early on
that day.
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viii Build New Store Fronts

A new and modern front of plate
glass and marble will be built to the
stores of Herman G. Schulz, druggist,
and L. Stevenson, milliner at the
corner of Eighth street and Washing
ton avenue f. A. Budr who owns
the budding VIII have the work done.
The Cairo bulletin., 1911-06-25
plate Glass look a nron.

Two large plate glass windows and
transom lights in the opera house
block fell out to the sidewalk about
10 O'clock yesterday morning and
We're smashed to smitherines on the
stone walk. A setting of the windows
caused the damage.
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Did Not Apnear.

The women's suffragists advocates
and speakers did not appear Friday
night as had been advertised Owing
to the weather it is probably they
were delayed. They travel in an au-
tomobile
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New Works Indebtedness.

New Workers are the biggest Dor
rowers In the world; at least they are
30 collectively. for the city owes seven
times as much as any other city in
the country and more than one-half as
much as the largest twenty-seven 9th
er cities In the land.
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Proved tiIa Rlaht TO paners.

Did the peanut man get his nat
uralization papers?" yes; he proved
to the Judge right away that he was a
good American at heart" "How did
he prove it?" I'm answer to ques-
ton he told the difference betweens q
double play and souble header"
The Cairo bulletin., 1911-06-25
Country Club.

Yesterday was entertainment day
at the Cairo Country Club. The
hostesses for the day being Mrs
Amelia Eochner, Mrs, Miles Fredric
Gilbert, Misses Mildred Hinkle and
Fanny Keegan.
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Papers for Baptist Ladies'.

ANY body having papers for the Cal
vary Baptist Ladies will please call
Home phoneI74, or Bell phone 3S5,
as the papers viii be gathered Mon.
day morning from . 9to IL O'clock
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L-unu complai

Lodger--,I can't stay here any longer.
Mrs Binks. Landady- Why not. slr2
What II your complaint? Ledger
Lung roinl'aiut. Your baby bowls too
much. u London Telegraph.
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ANYTHING to Obliae.

Tourist lat Irish hoteD--You seem
tired, Pat. Waiter Yiss, sorr; up
very early this morning. half past 8.
Tourist don't call half past 6 early.
Waiter tquickly)--Well, half past b
thin. london Punch.
The Cairo bulletin., 1911-06-25

The Troy press says: After all Il
is an alert official who knows enough
to get out without waiting to be put
out" And he cheats his enemies out
of such an exna.ssts pleasure.
The Cairo bulletin., 1911-06-25

Potash enters into the making of
glass. soap. bleaches, dyes, photo
graphic chemicals. medicine, explo.
sives. fertilizer and is used In gold
mining and many other Industrial
processes.
The Cairo bulletin., 1911-06-25

Father (having caught his son In d
lle)- Haven't always told you to tell
the truth? SpnxYes father. but you
also told me never to become the
slave Of habit. Boston Transcript.
The Cairo bulletin., 1911-06-25
One SUGGESTION.

"Any suggestions as TO the music for
the dinner tonightf'
"Well. play something loud with the
soup course. You nnderstandf'--Wash.
ington Herald.
The Cairo bulletin., 1911-06-25
Two Recruits from Local Station.

Samuel Sudberry of Cairo and
Charles Beggs, OF Cypress, Ill.,, have
re-enlisted in the army and were
sent Thy sergeant Kresky TO jefferson
Barracks, Mo, for fourth instruction.
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Prologue, spoken o. roFDes KIDD
ertson
Scenes from The merry Wives Of
Windsor. in waico Mss. Kendall
Miss Ellen Terry and Mrs.
Charles Calvert win appear
The second act Of David Garrick,
with Sir Charles .Wyndham.
Edward Terry. Weldon eros
smith and Miss Mary Moore
The Forum scene from Julius
Caesar" the actors including
Sir Herbert Eeerbchm Tree ana
L. Willard.
"Tle Critic" including George
cyril Maud. Charles Hawtrev
Oscar Asche. Gerald du Mau.
rier. Laurence Irving LADY
Tree. Winifred EMERY Marie
Tempest Geftie Nlllar. Inv
Elsie. and Violet Vaab,ush
The Vision of Delight" in whf.h
will be seen Mrs. I.angtrv. Mrs
Patrick Campben Iena Ash.
well. Ellis Jeffreys Eyelvn Mil.
lard Gertrude Kingston Marie
I.oehr. Eva Moore LILLIAN
Braithwaite EVELYN D,Aroy
Lillah Mccarthy. Mabel Hack.
new. and Constance Collier al
large number of other leading
actresses and singers win com.
nose tine chouses
The Natiorl,l Anthem i, will ha
;ung bv Miss Clara Butt
The King and Ouaen will no recaiv.
ID ON their arrival at the tbaatare
" Sir Herbert Tree ap1 Sir Ichn
lare the later ~ wsom win remain
II their maiestie,s disDosal throuoh.
,ut lha evening rs commemorative oe
ne executive committee who, com.
lrises the following well.known mem.
1ars ut tho aran,atin ,nro5essio,,- Sir
,baaese Wyndbqm chairman Sir
Gohn Hara t;eofge Alexander C,YiI
uau5a Charles uaUytrav II n Try
nr ue,,art Trench uarbart ,TrAe
md A,4bnr poa,chia,. ar ora nizine sac.
,atarv
Tho antira oronl tiar of tr,e houea
,as heen rears,apoe. On a N form, rho
.oya, bov in which mo KING and
,ueen ami their nrjncinal quests are
10 he seated while two other large
,ovas and 95o calls nave also haan
Engaged Nv the conrt officials
Tho design for the decoration of
the interior of the theatre is q move,
mo and consists almost wr,o5v al
,eal frnit of the most vivid coIo,s
bv ne own aaavee For
he oval hoxae and the vestihrlo in
winch their maiastiee win hold a
.aceu-ion Of their euaste however
,root ,Aassas 80 ori,osor ron,t,o,. r,s
az bvAranqaae and lniae will ha uti.
Ii,ad and thesa win Nc toned down
raduallv n harmonize Wit, the rast
# the scheme On the outsida hal.
,onv +ba columns ora 70 ha dranad
win immortal nurnla curtains inres-
,acad vim, f,uit aarlandO hnnnd with
,olJan ribhons Small growing frees
viii ,ha nlooal oil, ovar tho ha1conv
water VIII play
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Funeral Today.

The funeral of Albert Frost Sr.
tcolored) will be held today at II NJ.
from residence 1916 25th st.
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Naughty Nine

The Naughty Nine" will meet
with Mics Ethel Champion, Twenty
fourth and Holbrook, Thursday even
ing.
The Cairo bulletin., 1911-06-25
Grenada Was Bought Cheap.

The island Of Grenada, In the Brit
ish West Indies. was bought by the
French from the Caribs by solemn
treaty in the middle of the seventeenth
century, and the price paid Svas Two
bottles of rum. Esau's mess OF pot
tage was good stroke of business by
comparison. The Carlbs soon regret
ted having sold their birthright and
vainly tried to get the island back by
force. 1t is now one of England's most
prosperous colonies in the West Iraies.
The Cairo bulletin., 1911-06-25
Apsentmindeu.

Towley Brown Is terribly absent
minded The other evening he sat up
till after o'clock trying to remember
what it was he wanted TO do Cowley
Did he remember? Towley Yes; he
discovered that he wanted to go to bed
early.
The Washington times., 1911-11-22

of Thanksgiving unless they receive
the money due them for the latter
half of the month.
In point of fact, Thanksgiving be-
comes something of a mockery to those
who, in the midst of their own strait.
ened circumstances, can only look on
from afar, 30 to speak, at the good
cheer and the holiday enjoyment Of
the balance of the community. A little
bit more activity on the part of the
paymaster during the next few days
coupled with a desire to give pleasure
to the thousands of employees ant
their families, will make this one Of
the most delightful Thanksgiving sea
sons in the history of the District, ant
1t is earnestly hoped that the mattel
may be arranged.
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NOW WE GROW RAISINS FOR
OTHERS.

1t was out of the mysterious East
that all the goodies which gladdened
the old-time Christmastide seemed to
come, and for that reason the holiday
season held a particularly alluring
charm. In the South, where the
Fourth of July fireworks were un-
known until recent years, the pyro-
technics were concentrated upon Christ
mas Eve, and who does not know that
it was the Celestial Empire which gave
us frecrackers and pinwheels, roman
candles and skyrockets, and all the
blazing, corruscating saturnalia of
light?
1t is well within the memory of the
older youngsters that the orange
groves of Florida and California have
assumed a commanding place in the
fruit markets, so if the oranges of
those elder days did not really come
from Italy or Smyrna or some other
distant bourne, they We're scarce
enough and dear enough to have come
directly from the hanging gardens OF
Babylon or the nurseries of Haruu
al Raschid.
Certainly, the raisins were exotic
and, what is more, they lent a more
distinctive character to Christmas, per.
haps, than all the other fruits. Filling
the interstices between the apples and
the oldfashioned red bananas, OIL
served up in the fruit cake which
graced the openwork Sheffield cake
basket, they were as much an integral
part of the holidays as the snow out,
side and the blazing hearth within
Wherever the other fruits may have
come from, these undoubtedly must
have been gathered in the very vine
yards of fsiryland and ripened in the
The Washington times., 1911-11-22

sun Of old Santa Claus own benignant
smile.
And now comes the statement that
the United States during the last fiscal
year exported ls,bOo,Oo0 pounds of
raisins-valued at million dollars
to other countries, while we imported
less than 100000 pounds, What a
reversal since the old days when we
imported 5O,oooOO0 pounds--a large
quota of which went to the making
of Christmas good cheerl It is as
IL we had gone about supplying our
selves with all the raw materials for
the season of groaning tables which
now draws near again. The Pacific
Slope has become the fruit bazaar OF
the twentieth century.
Are they as good as the old.time
raisins which came from across the
seasi There was art In the prepara.
tion of those raisins of childhood
not in fancy but in reality. They
were not the kind that are dipped in
lye and salt and olive oil to give them
the artistic shrivel necessary. The
green branches were cut in such way
that the grapes dried in the sun which
had wooed them into mellow ripe.
ness. The Muscatels and the blacl,
Sultanas Of Smyrna were like impris.
oned sunlight sweetened with honey
from Hymettus.
Perhaps some of the modern kind
are prepared in the proper way, but
candor compels the statement that
they do not taste as they did of yore
Perhaps the explanation partially lies
in the fact that we can no longer ap-
proach them with the taste and the
zest of childhood.
The Washington times., 1911-11-22
ARMY AND NAVY ORDERS
ARMY.


Lieutenant Colonel WILLIAM D.
CROSBY, Medical Corps, is relieved
from further treatment at the Army
and Navy General Hospital, Hot
Springs, Ark, and will return to
his proper station.
Lieutenant Colonel HARRY G. CAVE
NAUGH, retired, is relieved from
station at Wilmington, Del, and will
proceed to New Castle, Del, and
take station at the latter place in
connection with his duties pertain
ing to the Organized Militia of
Delaware.
First Lieutenant WALTER SINGLES,
Coast Artillery Corps, is detailed for
general recruiting at New York city,
and relieving First Lieutenant
HENRY w. TORNEY, Coast Ar
tillery Corps, from further duty on
recruiting service.
First Lieutenant HENRY w. TORNEY,
Coast Artillery Corps, is assigned to
the Fourth Company, Coast Artillery
Corps, vice First lieutenant WAL
TER SINGLES, Coast Artillery
Corps, who is relieved from assign
ment to that company and placed on
the unassigned list
First Lieutenant FRANK II. PHIPPS,
JR., Coast Artillery Corps, is de-
tailed for general recruiting service
at Columbus Barracks, Ohio, re-
To-'in@ FIRST lieutenant JOHN L.
HOLCOMBE, Coast Artillery Corps,
from duty at that depot and from
further duty on recruiting service. <
The Washington times., 1911-11-22
LET PAYDAY COME BEFORE
THANKSGIVING.

Attention has been called to the fact
tina: Thanksgiving falls this year Just
two days before "pay day" in the
District. Precedents show that it lies
in the discretion of the paymaster to
pay off the policemen, firemen, and
other employees of the District be.
fore Thanksgiving or else make them
wait until the regular salary day ar
rives. This being the case, it is hoped
that the more generous precedent will
be followed, and that these public ser.
wants may be enabled to get their
money on the day before Thanksgiy.
ing, in order that they may share in
the good cheer which prevails on that
occasion.
There is all the more reason for this
because the concession in point of time
is SO small. Thanksgiving usually
comes practically a week before De-
cember !. This year it is on next to
the last day of the month and there.
fore only two days before the regular
pay day.
1t is hardly necessary to point out
that a great majority of the firemen
policemen and other employees have not
been able to lay aside enough money
to 81 ebls them to enter into the spirit
The Washington times., 1911-11-22
TAKES A HARD FALL
OUT OF THE SMOKERS

To the Editor OF THE TIMES:
! see IN YOUR good paper many ar
ticles recently about women smoking
ir public places. OF course. tobacco
dealers. manufacturers. and growers of
the illegitimate business. are in favor
of such depraved. disraraging. deteri-
Gus and Injurious manners. But when
men and women practice their unna-
tural, unnecessary, unclean, ungodly,
and unhealthful habit in public places,
1t is indeed very unjust to all who are
sufficiently intelligent to prefer decent
air, clean lungs, and pure hearts. 1
don't belie> that any intelligent lady
of good character has any desire to
have poisonous tobacco smoke mixed
into the air that she must breathe. 1t
is time that smoking Is the habit of the
densely ignorant. 1t does not require any
good manners. or puliteness to be a
The Washington times., 1911-11-22
NARROW MINDED PEOPLE
FOUND ON BOTH SIDES

To the Editor OF THE TIMES:
] saw recently in The Times an ar
ticle concerning the LomaX woman.
To begin with, 1t is plain to see that
this article was, without doubt, writ
ten by a Northerner. and II he or she
Whichever the case may bel will look
around i am sure that narrow-minded
people can be found on both sides.
'Southerner' evidently has the idea
that seems to be prevalent throughout
the South, and that is that Southern
people put the negroes too much on
equality with themselves. l have trav-
eled a great deal and find that these
conditions exist more through the
North than elsewhere. Do not misun-
derstand me: there are exceptions to
every rule.
1 believe that our Southern friend
feels as l do, as we'll as many others,
that a person with even a spark of
Christian spirit would not care to see
life taken II 1t could be prevented.
We should not take that which we
cannot give, and 1t does not lie within
our power to give life.
Nov, my dear Southern friend do
not be so sarcastic In your remarks
concerning the South, as we have a
right to our opinion as we'll as you
have to yours. In all these years, all
prejudice against each other should
have disappeared.
(Mrs) CLARA CLAYTON.
st. Elmo, Va.
The Washington times., 1911-11-22

charged with crime. To pardon her
would cast a reflection on the judiciary
Of the District and set precedent
which would probably be taken ad-
vantage of by future criminals. But
they say she should not be hanged be-
cause she was found guilty of murder
in Washington, the Capital Of the
nation and also because she is a
woman! AS much as to invite the
murderess TO Washington where she
instinct" of humanity" and others of
the same ilk. l am no woman-hater
neither do ! have special dislike for
the negro, but when II comes to the
commission of crime and the punish
ment therefor ! do not believe there
should be any distinction between color
or sex. / hope ! have not done society
an injustice by writing these few lines
in this case. NJ.
The Washington times., 1911-11-22
THINKS GREEN MAKES
THHE JUDICIOUS GRIEVE
To the Editor Of THE TINES.

To the Editor of THE TINES:
In one of Shakespeares dramas We
md "Gratiano speaks an infinite deal
OF nothing, more than any man in
Venice" and the lines are peculiarly
apropos to the discussion In the Mail
bag which might properly be labeled:
Andrew Jordan Green versus the Per-
sonnel OF the Juvenile Court" / would
suggest to Mr. Green that before max
ing another contribution he hie himself
to some quiet country place and there
absorb the beauty of the pastoral scene
until his mind assumes a tranquility
sufhcfenl TO enable him t. write calmly,
accurately, and to the point; for his
articles, thus far, while perhaps making
the unskillful laugh, cannot but make
the judicious grieve."
If this treatment proves ineffective,
then l would further suggest that ne
SIMPLY forget abe at 1t, for another out
burst will certainly merit the distress
cry. Officer, he's in again!'
NJ. JOSEPH RYAN.
The Washington times., 1911-11-22

captain. Why not get some one to
represent the rich uncle and give Peggy
what she wants-a trip to Trouville,
pretty flowers, gorgeous clothes, dia-
comes an old friend Auberon Blow,
funniest comedian of the company, dis
guised as a street hawker. He is down
on his luck and consents to imper-
sonAte rich uncle from America and
give Peggy the time of her life. Done!
Peggy goes to Trouville. and the cap
tain and her other admirers follow,
when upon the scene Unexpectedly turns
The Washington times., 1911-11-22
Simplicity at Rites
For Nine. Bonaparte

strictest simplicity marked the OBJ
sequies for Nine. Caroline Leroy Bona
parte, widow of Col. Jerome Bonaparte,
who died at her residence, 1921 k street
last Sunday, at the age of seventy tive o
years. The Rev. Edward L. Buckley,
lie Church, celebrated the mass of
requiem at IL O'Clock at the church,
only the immediate family and a few
friends baing present. There were no
honorary pallbearers, and after the con-
Clusion of the ceremonies the body was
taken TO Baltimore, where interment
pss pss,, made @Sa.,1 IN the family pPt in Louden
The Washington times., 1911-11-22
ETHEL GREEN,

lie. walters, flower girls, BARRIERS, and
the usual army Of bellboys and hat
and-coat banditti. The head barber OF
the hotel, Umbles, part played by
Sam Collins, loves Peggy and intends
James Bendoyle, who Immediately falls
in love with her. but Peggy will have
none of him. having plighted her troth
already to the barber, who has a rich
uncle In America, somewhere near Ko-
komo, from whom he epects to inherit
a fortune.
Bright thought strikes the lovelorn
The Washington times., 1911-11-22
AS TO RESTRAINTS OF
TRADE.

1t is difficult to understand why one
restraint of trade is to be regarded as
laudable and desirable, while another
is to be made the subject of prosecu-
ton.
The cotton growers of the South al
ways feel we'll disposed toward a "bull
pool" that proposes to boost their
prices for them, but they are likely
to come around asking prosecution Of
the manipulators of q "bear move
ment." On the other hand, the spin
ners feel amiably enough toward the
managers of the bear project, but view
with alarm the prospect of q success
ful bull operation that promises to
push their prices.
Just now a group of powerful South
ern interests are planning a sort of
valorization of the cotton crop. Why
notf The price of coffee to the whole
world has been approximately doubled
because the government of Brazil and
the state of Sac Paulo joined in guar
anteeing a monopoly of coffee. The
thing has worked well-for the coffee
growers, and also for the financiers.
This latest project of Southern
union Of interests behind cotton pool
with $25,OOO,OOO capital at command
is really deadly parallel to the Bra.
lillian coffee monopoly, except that it
does not have the actual, open in
dorsement of government. It is
planned, however, to get as near to
this as possible, through the interest
and Endorsement of governors and
other men of equal prominence.
When a valorization plan comes this
close to assuming official character, it
is time to consider what is to be done
about it. The banking interests back
of this cotton project propose to ad-
vance money to the cotton raisers, 30
that the latter, without paying any
interest, may yet be able to get
money and keep their crop off the
market. That is just what the Bra
lillian valorizstion plan accomplishes :;
and this Government is now in the
way of prosecuting the American
agents of that valorization syndicate
for conspiracy in restraint of trade.
1t is we'll enough to talk about the
law OF supply and demand being supe.
rior to all such interpretations in be.
half of monopoly; but is its The Ger
man potash monopoly, a government
yalorlzation of supply that cannot
be duplicated anywhere else, seems to
have successfully repealed the law of
supply and demand. So has the Bra
lillian coffee monopoly. So, almost
certainly, could a government backed
yalorization of cotton in this country.
Plainly enough, monopoly that i'm
poses excessive prices on consumption
is a tax on other industries for the
benefit of the one that collects this
benefit; consequently, it is not likely
that this country will officially val
orize any staple. When it gets un-
officially done, no matter how specious
may be the plea that it is done in the
public interest, it is just as much in
opposition to the real interest of the
community.