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The Cairo bulletin., 1911-01-16
MEMS SHIRTS
CLEARING SALE LIST

Mems Shirts formerly 81 90 and s1.25, .G1n
Now offered for ...........' wv
Mems Shirts, formerly 81 so, Qhn
Mems Shirts, formerly So 00 CT gh
Now offered for ........ .........."W lRUJ
Mans Shirts, formerly So so, CT Ak
Now offered for .,. ......-... D lsfJ
Mems Shirts, formerly s. 90 and So 50, CT or
Now offered for .... ...'-.. ~ lsVU
Boys Shirts, formerly 75c, HQn
Now offered for ..... ~. .~.... ...... fJU
Boys Blouse Waists, formerly &c. gAn
Now offered for .....@....l .....5... .G... J1fU
The Cairo bulletin., 1911-01-16
This Genuine Sale OF hight
looked. DOn't fail 10 see o
prices. This will prove to
The people greater bargains
FURNISHING GOOD!

Mems Half Hose, Silk, formerly 81. 90 now offffe
Mems Half Hose, formerly 81 90 row offered for
Mems Half Hose, formerly Soc and 75c now offe
Mems Half Hose, formerly 25c and 35c now offert
Mems Half Hose, formerly 15r, for Csc now off
Mems Neckwefr. formerly zoe now offered for
Mems Neckwear, formerly 81 90 now offered +
Mems Neckwear, formerly 81 so and So 90 now
Mems suspendcrs, forredy Is row offered for
Mems Silk Suspenders, formerly 81 90 now off
Mems Silk Handkercl .icfs, formerly sec now off
Mems Underwear, formerly Soc per garment nov
Mems Underwear. formerly 81 90 per garment
Mems Underwe4r, formerly 81 so per garment
Mems Underwear, formerly So ZOO per garment
Mems Underwear, formerly So Of per garment
Mems Sweater Coats, formerly " SO now Offered
Mems Sweater Coats, formerly s4OO, now offere
MEMS NIGHT
Mems Night Shirts, formerly 50c now IS
Mems Night Shirts, forme rly 81 80 now IS
Mems Pajamas, formerly 81 30 now ..$
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Ne call special after lien to cur OVID
garments, rsrginO in price from SAL
al $3.50 aud The $50 coats at SIT 81
ior to those made by M1h-c,ass city|
to SIS for the same ga,mev's. Men i
Them will surely appreciate these q
Seryaliyc dresser.
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they were sure that his little ghost had
already dubbed up through the wicked
gray stuff and had gone on its way to
glory They struck him at last laid him
stiff upon the ground and while they bent
over him they found some breath in his
body and In his pocket a book on ele-
mentary physics.
He was sixteen and had never been to
school. Yet on the same day that he
bought the elementary physics" he had
brought home a volume Of Macaulay's
Essays He hoped some day to save 500
and become a cabinet maker. but this
seemed long way off. The miners.
there in the Shamokin fields, would hear
nothing against him because none OF his
elders was as handy or nearly as willing
as he to write them a letter when they
had something to tell the folks at home.
He became somewhat Of an orator in the
knights of Labor, and one day, when a
lad Of eighteen and not yet five feet tall
nor is he nova typesetter who heard
his gift of CAB during a labor meeting
let loose on him the bug for studying
law.
And it was with Kent's Commentaries
under his arm that the lad got to going
down into the mines now in the gray
hours.
In those inky caverns. By the Pickering
flame on his cap, he studied law at
odd hours by day. More study was
day in the darkness and sweat and i'm
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ppnnSy iTa:ita. another GIiondrm farm hoy
who became house painter. He switch
ed off to dentistry and after extracting
teeth and howls from his townsfolk for
fourteen years. packed off to China. built
and operated the first wooden mill in the
Chinese empire, went through the Boxer
rebellion, came home with good-sized
wad, entered the wholesale lumber bust
ness at fifty-one and the House OF Req
resentatives, the other day, at goingoa
sixty-two.
There. too. Is John FAIR OF Scranton.
Pa, who from newsboy became printer.
from printer became publisher, from
publisher real estate operator and from
real estate operator Congressman. And
his colleague, Charles Bowman. in the
neighboring eleventh keystone district.
started out as a woodworker before work
ing his way to a college degree OF civp
engineer. which, coupled with grit and
ability. led to his advancement as coal
road manager, mine superintendent and
mine owner.
His neighborinS district. tho eleventh.
has just sent to the House Bob Lee. the
erstwhie blacksmith. who went from the
forge into business, and from the twenty
fourth comes Charles Matthews. who. al
though now a prosperous banker an.
manufacturer. started to work. when
child. in the rolling mills OF New Castle.
his present home.
None of these men had worse strug-
gle in the beginning than George KONG
of Baltimore who did not learn to read
and write until after he had mastered the
trade of ship-calker. He is now super
intendent and general manager OF one OF
the Monumental city's largest manufac-
turing plants Such another is James p.
Maher of Brooklyn. who a boy was
apprenticed to q halter. which trade he
afterward followed, until becoming q Ia
Dor union official and politician.
Two boys who paid their way through
school by working in country stores be-
tween sessions were Lobeck of Omaha
and Kindred of Long Island City. n. Y.
the former Of whom became a drummer.
state legislator and city official, and the
owner.
Copyright, 1911, by John Effreth watkins.I
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mines at $40 month. for there were
four younger children at home. At
twelve the little family was left moth
erless. Meanwhile Davy had borrowed
some schoolbooks, and that was how
he came to get far enough along to
swallow Macaulay and elementary
physics when he was sixteen.
If there is any poor lad In the land
who has his lip out these days because
he thinks he has no chance, swallow
not only this story of Dave Lewis, but
these additional scraps from the lives of
the other new self-made representatives
in this Sixty-second Congress, now sit
ting in solemn session. 1t has taken this
month that they have been here hag
Cling to sort them out, and 1 count about
bakers dozen OF them whose climb to
the white-domed temple. of our law
makers has been against terrific odds.
There is John Smith. one Of the new
Michigan members. whose immigrant
parents brought him when an infant of
two from Ireland to Ohio, where, he tells
me. he was apprenticed to carriage
painter when eleven. But at thirteen,
when his father, mother and ten brothers
and sisters moved to Michigan, he be-
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house. carriage and sign painting. grain
ing and frescoing: and he also did paper
hanging on the side. Next he opened a
store which sold wall papers. paints.
glassware, silverWare and crockery. and
after this lie patented some oil stoves
and opened factory for making them.
At first he made the patterns himself and
two other men finished the product. but
the business grew. in spite of a fire that
wiped the plant out. Besides a printery.
factories for manufacturing portable
houses. tools and machinery were later
added to the Wilder industries, and he
woke up one morning to find himself a
capitalist.
With all Of these irons in the fire. you
would wonder how this one-time steeple-
jack could get time to start the study of
law at forty-five. But that's exactly
what he did, under the tutelage Of a lead
ing attorney Of his town with whom he
spent every available afternoon. And a
few years later he spent two days in
passing the federal bar examination al
Washington. where now. while attending
Congress-, he maintains a law Office,
where cases involving patent, corporation
and general law are thrashed out be-
tween sittings of the House. If Wilder
has ever wasted any time You could
count it off while holding your breath
just once. Like every body else that ever
came out of the Maine woods. he is a
hustler from Hustlersville. Hustler
county
It's shame that the editor thinks We
had better begin now to taper down
these chapters about the new self-mades
of the House, for each bears good
dose of tonic for the youth who sulks
about not having chance in life.
There is Bob Difenderfer of the eighth
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show strange discrepancies. Even tour
lists realize that the great show halls
are not all. A little world of cutoff
termediate stories above lowered ceilings.
central rooms without light, immense
closets, narrow corridors and stairways
used to shelter the guards families. Now
they are empty-relics of the ancient
service of kings.
side the walls have secret passages and
stairways. long forgotten, stopped up. cut
of, maybe, but all the more dangerous as
refuge for Rallies who has found way
to enter the Louvre and get to them.
Certain crude thefts have reached the
public ear Such were the miniatures
OF the Lenoir collection. the historic
series of gold coins from the First Valois
to Charles x. the jeweled poignard of
Francis /, the agate Of the Sainte-
crown Of King Agilulf and the priceless
jeweled vases Of the Abbey Of st. Denis.
They were crude takings-leaving a
vacant spot. But since the trick of SUBJ
shutting limitations, what plumber may
not have been slowly and methodically
gotten away with? The treasure of Bos-
coreale. when presented by Edmond de
Rothschild, was recognized as undoubt-
are questioned. The famous tiara itself
by the greatest experts.
Yet II a museum like the Louvre is not
safe, what shall be thought of country
churches and collections in small places?
It 10 q danger Of the hour, dependent on
the immense rise IN the value OF art anti
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from his pocket and began unlocking.
He inserted q crank in a hole thus omen
ed and began to turn.
II was heavy winch work. The photog-
rapher alternated with him. Inch nv
inch up rose the smooth steel bottom of
the empty case.
i perceived by day. it formed the top;
the entire inside Of the case was coming
up. At certain height. the sunlight
pouring in the window glints-topaz. anne
thyst and emerald. pearly chrystoberyl.
green jargoons and reddish alexandrtte-
from an extraordinary golden edifice that
rose up. up. between two crowns.
Last glory OF the old regime" the
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pure air it was hard to keep awake
a difficulty which he overcame by hold
ing his book in a position that hurt his
arm.
The pain kept him awake, but he was
up as early as ever to dig In the mines
And he kept on digging till one day.
when they missed him. That day he
washed the sweat off his face and put
on his Sunday clothes. They told aft
erward of seeing him enter the court
house. That day he came home bear
ing in his pocket license to practice
law in the state of Maryland. And the
other day he took his oath as a new
member of the Sixty-second Congress-.
So much and a bit more for Dave
Lewis. son of poor Welsh immigrants.
who settled down to life in Pennsyl-
vania log cabin, where he was born
and where. at the age of five, his
mother taught him how to read a lit
tie. At Sunday school he learned a bit
more. At nine he began work in the
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came a farm laborer, at the same time
picking up the trade of stone mason.
To spread the mortar and set the stones
plumb was Johns ambition till he was
seventeen. Then he woke up and entered
the little schoolhouse at the crossroads.
He had to do extra jobs In summer to
make up for the time thus spent. But
when he was twenty-one. with four brief
winters Of schooling to his credit. John
found that by working for himself he
could earn enough in summer to keep him
in school during the spring. as well as
the autumn. Thus he worked his way
through high school and into the Uni
versity Of Michigan. to the profession Of
a lawyer to a bank presidency and q
seat in Congress.
The same Kind of stuff is in Frank
Buchanan new member from Illinois.
In the days of Daniel Boone his ancestors
pioneered from Virginia into Jefferson
county. Indiana. where they raised fine
crops of both vegetables and youngsters,
but the yield Of the latter was so plenti-
full that when it came Franks fathers
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to digging up the Regent diamond. They
must have found some unexpected diff
Guilty at the last moment
I say dug up advisedly. It is de-
scending mechanism. The other morning,
armed with a special permission, I &C
companied my photographer to the Gal
lery of Apollo before opening hours. The
sun was striking in the east windows.
where sleepless Charles TX promenaded
lonely at daybreak with his little dogs
waiting for the court to wake. Here. too,
fell the Huguenot gentlemen marked to
kill' on st. Bartholomew after fleeing
from chamber to chamber and gallery to
gallery-all except De Iezac. who crafty
took refuge within the ruelle Of the
Princess Margot's bed
ITO photograph the crown Jewels read
left Of them" he added. II must lift
them up first
He laughed. The great glass case was
empty, and it had no top. He took key
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guard said, reverently: ''the COM
memorative monument of the peace OF
Teschen in ITO. 1t is a chef-d'oeuvre Of
German goldsmith-jeweler' work, the
most remarkable
The photographer stopped turning, and
the guard stopped talking. The case was
no longer empty. Inside it blazed a
mass Of prismatic colors. binding to
the eye, like a heap of a million electric
sparks, but white, pink, yellow, red, blue,
green, orange. brown and opalescent,
dancing. changing. And beside them an
effulgent center Of reflections, a pure foun-
tain Of light. image of the very sun, most
perfect Of the worlds great diamonds!
1.-The Regent" murmured the museum
guard. ''The pile of colored lights beyond
is the sWord-hit of Napoleon, estimated at
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cured said Thomas ION the order OF an
American collector"
Indeed this ordering of unique OBJ
jects is the queerest detail OF the I'm
broglio, justified vaguely by foreigners
supposed vague ideas that since the
separation churches and municipalities.
at least are free to sell.
So modern Rallies scour France, nlling
orders.
Only one thing hurts their trade-the
danger that the hayseed have already
made a secret deal and substitution.
STERLING HELLO.
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Spooning Spots.

JEROME :. MOVABLE, the Duluth phi.
} lanthropist, paused. in an eloquent APP
peal for fresh-air fund. to tell an appro-
pirate story.
"A little country weeker,' he said was
questioned on his return home about the
lovely countryside he had visited.
seen trees he said and fIowers
and COWS, and hedges, and
Hold on. Wot's hedges? Wot are
they made of" asked another bow.
Where l wuz, said the little fellow,
the hedges wuZ made of bushes and
leaves and sWeethearts'
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$1,000, 600, but impossible to replace fol
less than double. Every stone Is OF
perfect water. Napoleon broke up IA
nous historic pieces to get them. one
here one there"
The case stood as tourists see it. The
device Is simple. The great ornamental
pedestal surrounded by the railing Is
q fireproof safe Of chilled steel-burglar-
proof, affirmed the guard. Each four
sides of glass remain in their place
empty. Their steel top Of daytime be-
comes. by night. their bottom-formine
the top of the safe. fixed with four bur-
glarproof locks. Are they burglarproof?
Much depends upon the time the burglar
has to work upon them!
The Regent diamond! The value Of the
worlds great stones does not depend
aione upon their size, but on their HIS
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hide inside the Gallery of Apollo. 1t Is
kept lighted all night, and since the
minister's new orders, q Waterman IN
the Salon Care (where they keep the
Mona Lisao Is relieved every two hours.
while patrol makes the entire round
of the palace. Finally We have sup
pressed the camp beds. SO that the watch
men must stay awake all night"
1t was admitted strange that the glass
should have been cut from the inside.
Why should burglar already inside
cut pane?' asked the reporters
Opinions differ" replied the chief of
the flying brigade.
But the Paris public had only one opin-
ion-the pane was cut out as a blind to
simulate a burglary from the outside.
and the fact that they took the trouble
to cut IL shows how near the parties were
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Plays and Smokes.

CHARLES FROHMAN. putting on n
- long. black Havana. talked with "a
New York critic about plays
"A play" said Mr. Frohman, as -
blew toward the ceiling a swirl of alc-
matte smoke "a play is just like a CIGAR
If It's good, everybody wants a boz. ., 4.
II It's bad. all the putting OH cart.. voa't
make IL co.
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BIZ JOHN ELFRETH WATKINS.

HEY heard the rat
tie, then the roar.
They saw the
Stag pile slide, and
when the dirty
cloud of dust had
disappeared t h e y
knew til 1T the
kid" had been
sw allow ed up.
While they bent
their backs to
shovel him out
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quities. The Louvre authorities are
Photographic separately every object
and the beauX arts commission is pro-
ceedinS with the same process through
out the whole land, wherever things are
classed as national property. Yet there
are connoiSSeurS who have become so
wrapped up in the fascinating task of
adding to their collection that they have
lost all moral sense. Men of wealth. rank
and learning, of the Hottest honor and
integrity in every other respect, are abso-
lutely unbalanced when II comes to buy
Ing an old jeweled COPE a historic dia-
mond or an alabaster statuette of the
twelfth century.
The French Rallies know this.
The inventor of the profession. the gen
tlemanly Antoine Thomas OF Clermont-
Ferrand, now in Jail because he gave
himself up to get back from the police
letters compromising to a lady. sold the
Ambazac reliquary for 100000 francs. the
gold statuette Of ST. Baudine for 10000
francs and the treasure Of RamoE for
GO.COO francs.
To fill London order for the alabaster
Knight Of Cologne he sacked the museum
Of Gueret. taking a gold-and-ivory bust of
st. Pardoux. thirteenth century
cloisonne cross. six fourteenth century
coppers and lot Of priceless old en-
broideries.
To get the Madonna of Crozant. Thomas
invented the substitution trick. The
Crozant population was astounded to be
handed back their jewel-dressed treasure
she had always seemed to be standing in
her old niche. The same happened with
that gold statuette OF st. Baudine. pro
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WHY the Louvre Burglar
" Did Not Take Them
Curious Mechanism in Threat
ened Palace-Loot of French
National Treasures In and
Out of Museums.
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s F MADEME1|
s. y . %is@6s'HOUSE

TONIC Storiettes and
i Thumb-Nail Anecdotes of
Some Wondrous Struggles
for Education and Advance
ment-A Boy Who in a Dark
Mine Studied Law by His
Pickering Lamp-O theirs
Have Climbed Mine Shafts,
Bridge Piers and Church
Steeples on Their Way to
Congress - Newsboys, Me-
chanics and Men of Lowly
Occupation Who Won Their
Way.
By JOHN ELFRETH WATKINS
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INCE the munich
pality Of Soudeilles
Is accused of sell
ing the real head Of
st. Martin, France
is again excited
over her nationa I
arr treasures: and
the mysterious bur
glar OF the Louvre
looms up an onni-
nous figure.
Is the Regent
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TX. The two squares-neat work of dia-
mond-cutter and shoemakers wax-stood
leaning againt the window on the outside
sill.
At once they notified the director of
national museums, who Immediately con-
suited with the project of police and the
minister of beaux arts. They declared
that they could make nothing Of it, but
added for publications:
"Reassure the public. Not picture is
lacking from its frame nor an art object
from its case. and the crown jewels
thanks to mechanism not necessary to
describe-could not have been in danger
To reporters. who admired the quick
verification--there are 2G,5OS art objects
and a quarter as many paintings-they
continued:
1T would be impossible for thief to
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MARn.ANp

turn, there was mighty little land to sup
port his family. also fashioned upon
Rooseveltian ideals.
When the lad was about eight the
father died. leaving the mother with the
children and mortgage on the farm. SO
Frank had to get to work. For three or
four winters he managed to squeeze in a
few weeks schooling. between late har-
vest and early planting. but soon had TO
say goodbye to the schoolhouse alto
gether.
His first job away from home. he tells
me. was at one of the Kentucky river
locks Then for time he worked in
timber, becoming superintendent for a
time. Working his way down the Mis-
sissippi he reached the bridge that was
being put across that river at Memphis
and got new job here. thus learning the
trade of bridge builder and structural
ironworker when past twenty-five.
While working on the great bridge that
was reaching from Louisville to Jeffer-
sonville. in 1893. thousand tons of the
steel work crashed down. carrying fifty
of his fellow workmen to death.
But Providence was kind to Buchanan
that fatal day. With handful of CO.
laborers he was left high and dry upon
a narrow pier that lowered ninety feet
from each side this pier. and there they
chung in midair. with no means OF es-
cape, save bit of two-inch line only
twenty feet long.
n
Il y
While anxious crowds looked on from
the river bank Buchanan and his COM
panions raveled the line into separate
strands and tied these together into a
single, slender rope. Then down 1t they
went, one by one. hand over hand. 1t
did not snap. and they reached the river
in safety. After making other escapes,
nearly as narrow as this. Buchanan got
to be walking delegate" in the Bridge
and Structural Iron Workers Union,
which, while he was still in his thirties,
elected him its International president.
He served four successive terms, declin-
ministration that Sam Parks, an officer
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of the union. was arrested in New York
for holding up employers by unscrupu-
lous means. Buchanan fought Parks and
Parks methods at risk of his life. and
before retiring from the presidency eN
terminated this Objectionable element from
the union. Then Parks died in Sing Sing
and Buchanan went back to work When
elected to Congress from Chicago last
fall he was working at his trade as an
inspector and subforeman. He is now
forty-eight years old
Church steeples. rather than mine
shafts and bridge piers. were among the
hazards which William Wilder of the
fourth Massachusetts, district had to con-
quer before reaching the congressional
goal this glorious spring. He was born
in Belfast, Maine, where his mother
taught school and his father was a me-
chanic, but when young William was
eleven he was moved with the rest Of the
family baggage to Massachusetts,. Here
the lad started in much as Frank Buchan
did in 1ndiana-worked on the farm, went
to country school between seasons and
worked in the woods chopping timber.
At fourteen, getting a job with q farmer
who owned a card mill, he alternated be-
tween field and factory, and at fifteen
went to work for another farmer. who
part Of the time kept him in the woods
cutting chair stock and the remainder of
the time had him at work in his factory
for this employer, too, was both farmer
and millman.
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At sixteen he became a painter, and
by seventeen was boss at the business.
1t was from now until he was twenty
nine that he crawled up and down all Of
the church spires in the neighborhood,
giving them fresh coats Of color. During
this dozen years there was no handler
man in Gardner-his present home-at