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The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1911-05-18
SHOOTING A HORSE.
The Way TO Instantly Erd His Misery
Should RE Break a LEG.

When a horse falls ia the harness his
natural inclination Is 10 SET up again.
The shock Of the fail has excited him
more or less. aud in Ills elfogts TO arise
he may further injEra himself as wen
as the harness.
The first action should lie to sit on
his head, pointing his nose upward
with one hand, 10 keep him from
struggling until the traces ard all other
attachments TO the vehicle con be I'm
fastened. If two persons are present
this can be done without di.acuty.
1t d horse breaks his leg the most
humane as wen as the most sensible
action il to shoot him or the spot.
1t is true that cases are on record
where broken legs have been success
fully treated by means Of suspending
the horse in q sling and pulleys, but
the experiments In this direction have
almost invariably met with failure.
To shoot a suffering animal and kill
him instantly is not so simple mat
ter as it at first appears. says Country
Life In America. Many shots are
sometimes fired before death results.
now and where should horse be
shot7
I'll the l2nter of every horses fore
head little above the line OF the eyes
is little swirl something Ike cow
lick. Three inches above this swirl is
the exact spot 10 lodge the bullet TO
insure its piercing the brain. The
bullet should not be of less than IS
caliber
For sprains hot or cold bandages are
recommended. Fomentations promptly
applied sometimes prevent permanent
lameness. Spraining of the back
sinevs is only too common aud I'M
less promptly and property treated re-
suits in knuckliug and other complica-
lions. Bllstering, firing and even
nerying are resortel to, but it should
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1911-05-18
1853 A.
THE LADYLIEE
GIRL OF The The SL L!vl!Mg!Ss
Merely Followed Custom When
She Appeared lmpudent {

Frederick Townsend Martin was
coasiezning the spirit that animates
100 many -slun" expeditions.
u little girl from the east side" be
said. "was invited the other day to q
garden party given by very aristo-
cratic lady to a group Of children.
THE little girl as she drank her tea
-eaid to her hostess:
Does your husband drink
Why--er-Do, not to excess was
TIE gstonighed reply.
How much does be maker
He doesn't work. said the lady.
He il capitalist
sYou keep ont OF debt, ! hopper
OF course, child. What on earth
Your color looks natural. / trust
you dent paint
Look here exclaimed the hostess,
what do you mean by all these impu
dent guestionsT
Tmpudentf said the little girl
Why, ma'am, mother told me to be
cure and behave Ike lady, and when
ladies call at our rooms they always
question mother like that"
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1911-05-18
ILLINOIS CENTRAL
MAY II, 1910
TIE FAST MAIL ROUTE
Tfair Leaves Cairo:

Trair Leaves Cairo:
1:t0 a. m. Daily Chicago Vestibule
limited. arriving Chicago 1910 a. IN
2:16 a, m. Daily st. Louis Night
limited, arriving St Louis 1870 a IN
Sleeping car open at $50 p. m.
go a. m. St. Louis Special.
5;H@ a. IN. Chicago Daily Express
!.:I5 a. tn. St. Louis Fast Mail
IL a. m. Chicago Midday Specis
2:55 o. m. Afternoon Express 70
ST. Louis. Odin, Dillingham;, Mattool
and CGaTpaign.
AIS m. Thebes Accommodation
6:l5 p. m. Chicago and Eastern Elk
press.
1910 n. m cago Night Express
arriving at Chicago 7:i5 a. N.
2:20 a. m. Memphis and Nashville
$40 a. m. Coach section for Mem
tbs and New Orleans.
So a. IN. Seminole Limited for
P!-rAngham and Jacksonville, Fla.
100 a. m. Paducah ami Louisville.
1:i1 PIN. Daily Memphis and New
Orleans.
156 p. m. Daily Nashville. Chatta
nooga and Atlanta.
AIS =. IN. Fulton and Mayflell &C.
comodation
$50 p. m. Paducah and Louisville
Sleeper, Paducah to Louisville, opei
at $3.50 p. m.
5:55 p IL. Memphis and New orlean
Special.
For through tickets, sleeping car
accommodations and further inforrna
ton apply at Illinois Central Tasssn
ger Station. C~'~o. r.
J. K, JONES, Ticket ACT.
S. G. HATCH, Pass Traffic Manager
n. G. PHELPS.
General Pass. Agt Northern and
Western lines.
GEO. n, BOWER,
General Pass. Agt, Sou. lines.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1911-05-18
FOR The CHILDREN
Tie SleepY Donkey.

A man near Meadyille, Pa, has an
innocent looking. sleepy little donkey,
which he keeps in yard back OF his
house. For some time every dog that
passed made it point to stop and
bark at the long cared animal. Final
ly the man became provoked. and one
day when two big dogs growied and
tried their best to jump the fence the
man quietly opened the gate and let
them III. If they had been Siberian
bioodhouuds the barking hrutes could
not have rushed with more ferocity
upon the seemingly stupid little ami
NAL with long, shaggy hair and ears.
Prancing around him on both sides
aud watching their chance 10 grab
him by the throat both together, the
dogs, like a brace Of ravenous wolves,
encircled the donkey. Squirting lazily
ont Of his OF eye. the donkey appear
ed most obliyious 10 his danger The
dogs grew fiercer. AS both were
about to catch his throat in their
teeth the donkey with the speed of
lightning fash lowered his head and
dashed toward the nearest dog as If TO
butt him. Round and round the dom
key whirled as IL on a pivot. Then
his heels flew out. and the next in
slant fifty pounds Of dog went spin
ming through the afr. The fate OF dog
No. was only an aggravation to No,
2. He snapped and growied more fu-
riously at the donkey than before. In
two minutes more, however, the sec
ond savage assailant was cayorting
over the turf in somersaults. and the
donkey had closed his eyes again and
retired on his laurels.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1911-05-18
select CULLINGS
Source Of Life Problem.

The Paris Cosmos proudly announces
that the French scientist Beequerei has
refuted for an Time" the theory ad.
vanced by Sir William Thompson that
life may have reached this globe from
meteoric sources in the form Of mi.
croscopic germs This, says BecQueTei.
is impossible. Interplanetacy SPACE IS
rich in the ultra violet rays, and the
ultra violet rays are fatal to germ LIE;
therefore the germs wouid have per-
ished on their journey long before they
could reach the earth. Fer purposes
Of experiment Becguerel selected the
most hardy bacteria known TO science.
He sealed them In vacuum tubes and
exposed them to the ultra violet rays
for six hours, None Of them survived,
and Recquerel argues that the de-
stFuctige action Of the rays must be
assumed to be universal. Even if Sir
William Thompson's theory had con
tinued to hold the field it would do
nothing to solve the problem OF the
source OF life. for IL life was brought
to the earth hy meteors we have still
to discover bow il came to he Oh the
1leteQfs.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1911-05-18

Hypnotic Holsters? Sure thing
you can" said the man in South street.
See here" he said. picking up an
active one by The body behind the
claws. Tie ssroEed it down the tail
three or four Times. and the lobster be-
came very g,iG and stln. He set it on
the floor against the wall, standing it
up. He took foBr or i've more Holsters
and treated them the same way. Now
watch 'em for minute" he said,
boxing az The row Of prospective chat
inc dish filters. TIE first lobster
gradually became limp ana fell on the
floor with q crash This woke the
third lobster in the row. for it. too.
fell forward Then two more fell.
They all started to make Off. but he
caught them as they tried to scuttle
awaF. Sure thing" said the South
street man 'its aa easy to hypnotic
'em here as on Broadway."--New York
Sun.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1911-05-18
Conundrums,

What IS the difference between a
stylish young lady and a burglar? One
wears false locks and the other false
keys.
Why is watch like a river? Be
cause It won't run long without wind.
ing.
Who was the fastest runner in the
world? Adam, because lie was first in
the human race.
Why should one wear n watch when
be travels through sandy. dry country
Because every watch has q spring
In II.
What is the difference between a
baby and a nightcap? One is boru to
wed. the other worn to bed.
What is that which Adam never saw
nor possessed, yet left two TO each OF
his children? Parents.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1911-05-18
The Veterans Shield.

Miss Grace Strachan, president of
the Teachers Association Of New
York. was being congratulated on her
successful fight for equal pay for WON.
en- teachers.
1T is odd" said Miss Strachau,
smiling. "but the men who most ear.
nestly opposed equal pay were men of
the so called chivalrous type-the type
that says woman should be protected,
woman's place Is the home, and 50
forth.
Protectors Of this kind remind me
Of soldier named Carlyle.
Carlyle. veteran private, under
took to train raw recruit. In the
first battle Carlyle was heard repeat
Ing over and over again to his recruit:
BE man. lad. Don't duck. Don't
duck, i tell you. I'm behind you"
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1911-05-18
The Inland Rinq.

Friedrich Haase. the German actor,
who died recently. was the proud pos
SCISSOR OF the Inland ring, which by the
will OF thar famous actor was 10 be
worn By the most worthy" When
August Nilhelm Inland died the ring,
made Of iron and thicklv set with dia-
monds. was given to Ludwig Devrient,
from whom it descended TO Emil De-
vrieDt. The next most worthy" was
Theod6r Doring, after whose death it
came into the possession Of Friedrich
Haase. At various times since his re-
tirement from the stage .Haase has
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1911-05-18

THE BLowoFF AT THE FooT or THE RAP
IDS WHICH REGULATES TIE PRESSURE
IN THE AIR CHAMBER BENEATH THE BED
OF THE STREAM
with the single one at the lower. They
cut this great underground raceway
twenty-five feet wide along its entire
length, twenty-Six and half feet high
at the bottom Of the shafts and forty
two feet high in the central part of the
tunnel The whole undertaking was
hazardous to an extreme, but neither
officers nor men viii admit it. Ii was
oil In the days work with them. More
over, the camp at Cobalt had begun
to taunt them, and they were going to
finish the job or bust"
Across the ridges above the hole
where the rapids roared gangs Of tim
Der Jacks In the meanwhile chopped a
path straight through the scrub toward
Cobalt Swamps, where men. sank TO
their armpits, We're filed in with rock
and timber, and before work on the
power plant was completed they had
laid seven miles Of corduroy road for
the big steel pipe lineth twenty
inch lap welded pipe line Of German
steel which was to carry the air even
tually and was laid in sections as it ar
rived. the various loops and feeder,
ranging from twelve to three inches il
diameter
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1911-05-18
Gold Miners.

1t is chickens that usually pick I'D
gold nuggets. In Nebraska the ducks
have gone into the business and are
likely to put the chickens to shame.
You see, gold is often found in the
sand Of water courses, where it has
been washed down from the hills, and
the ducks that go swimming in the wa.
ter have chances for mining that dry
land fowls can never have. They pick
up tiny nuggets and swallow them, and
then the gold is found In their crops
when they are killed for the table.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1911-05-18
Postinr--A Ham Cana

In this game large circular track
should be marked out, with stations at
equal distances, one for each player
The player at the first station trun-
dies his hoop to the second station.
the player at that station takes his to
the third, and so on, the player at the
last station taking the hoop on the
first again. ANY one steadying the
hoop with his hand is out, and his sta.
ton must be abolished. The player
keeping in and trundling the hoop
round to all the stations wins the
game. If the number of players is
large two or three hoops may be kept
going at one time.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1911-05-18

a western physician received the
ioiioWing from brother physician;
Dear Dock: / have pashunt whose
physical sines shows that the wind
pipe has liberated of and his lungs
haye dropped into his stumick. have
given hy1n everything without effecd
his father il wealthy Honorable and in
hooenshial as he is member Of as
sembly and god nose / don't want to
loss hym what shall do ans by re.
turn male. Yours FRAT Doc Tishbein."
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1911-05-18

He is likely to be ineonspicuously
dressed and never conspicuous in man
ner.
Mr. Rockefeller one evening not long
ago took some business associates
from Germany into Broadway (Sew
YORK; restaurant after the theater. He
wore an ordinary brown oTercoat and
a somewhat dingy brown hat
When he checked his hat and coat
the boy In the check room, who knew
be was going to change jobs the next
day. said to Rockefeller, whom be had
seen several times:
SAY. II think can fix 1t SOS you
can drawsa better hat when you 60
cu- You look ike good fellow, and
bate TO see Jon wearing bum lid
Ike this" a
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1911-05-18

be, borne tn mind TINT these drastic
measures are often unnecessarily TAX
en-. Rest, turning out where practi-
cable under favorable conditions, and
massage often effect a cure
Not infrequently horse will pick up
a nail. 1t IS unnecessary to say that
the first aid is To remove the nail. If
suppuration ensge pouItice the wound
aud give the animal rest until well II
may be well to remove the shoe for q
tine. Great care should lie taken that
the nail be not broken off lush with
the sole and left there to tester. Horses
are peculiarly susceptible TO tetanus,
or locklaw, ana nail often causes ii.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1911-05-18
Reciprocal.

Peter L. Harris, the well known
grain expert Of Lincoln. was condemn
Ing the reciprocity idea.
THE United States promoters Of Ca.
madam reciprocity expect much Of it,"
he said They expect to gain practi.
cally everything and TO give practically
nothing. Well, they'll get left-like Hi
Billings.
tai went to q horse sale one day and
bought horse for SIS. when be rot
the horse home be offered 1t bucket
OF water. but 1t wouldn't drink. After
that he gave it feed OF corn, but Ii
wouldn't touch that either.
By gosh he said. you're the very
horse for me II you'li only work."
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1911-05-18

munity 1000 miles fuom its coal sup
Ply. Up in the Canadian wilderness
such power as this is more If mir
acle than a brick fiat with steam hear
and porcelain tubs, for the miner can
EXIST without a bath. bur lie can't UNI
cover pay rock without power 10 drive
the drills that do it,
When the price Of coal in northern
Ontario began to cat into the ore
profits the miners harnessed the Mont.
real river Tor power.
Ragged Chutes. the point where the
miners located their plant. Is nat
ural water power In itself. 1t is ten
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1911-05-18
new TALES
THAT ARE TOLD
An Offer Not Accented.

Percy Rockefeller, who In credited
with being the one new live wire in
the Rockefeller family, keeps his ear
to the ground and watches the goose
bone for public sentiment.
He IL as likely to be seen In the
smoking room OF a club at midnight
as coming from meeting Of trustees
OF some social or spiritual organiza-
ton in (which the family is interested
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1911-05-18

named &itterwurzer, Matkowsi ard
josef Kainz as worthy of the Inland
ring, but they all left the stage of
Ilfe' before Haase, who after consul
tation with his friends concluded TO
name Albert Bassermann as the ring
heir, and he now wears #.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1911-05-18

ONE OF TIE NESTS OF GIANT STEEL TUBES
WHICH CONVERT TIE ROARING TORRENT
INTO a HUNDRED wHIRLP0oLs AS THE
WATER DROPS TOWARD THE AIR CHAM
BER.
miles from Cobalt. Here the river for
about 1000 yards whirls down thir.
ty-tiye foot grade and for four seasons
in the year is boiling, tossing torrent.
The Theory as pracuced was to drop
this Surging tide down q GOO foot shaft
near the top Of the rapids. then 10
catch the air bubbles as they rose
from the water, racing through a sub.
terranean chamber toward q tail shaft
leading up again 10 the bed Of the
river 1000 feet downstream.
4 Big Undertaking.
Building this power plant vas about
one hundred times more Of q prouosi,
ton than ITS originators foresaw. First
the low masonry dam was completed,
6G0 feet across the river the water
ways thus erected having a capacity OF
200 cubic feet per second. Immedi
ately above the dam, In the center Of
a large concrete basin, two eight.foot
steel shafts, each containing sixty-six
pipes fourteen inches i'm diameter, were
sunk 10 depth Of $50 feet. 4 thou
sand feet downstream the other shaft
was sunk into the rocky bed, and then
in three shifts, and working day and
night, the miners chopped a subter.
ranean chamber connecting the two
shafts at the upper end OF the rapids
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1911-05-18
Mine Plant
Run by
Air Bubbles

ACE in a mining
camp a modern
department store
c 0 m p lie tel Y
equipped with
telephone service
and automobile
delivery and sell
ing hydraulic en-.
ergy over the
counter I'D hun
dred pound pack
ages, and the city
bred man mag
not d fair idea "
what 8 power
plant means 90 an
industrial com
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1911-05-18

New York city, with more than three
times the population Of Philadelphia,
has no more homes owned by theii
occupants than has the City Of Broth
erly Love.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1911-05-18

When He Discovers the Cause.
A man never begins to blame WON.
an for his downfall until somebody has
found him out.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1911-05-18

Draws Heavily on Oxygen Supply.
An ordinary gas jet consumes as
much oxygen as five persons.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1911-05-18

Consider how few things are worthy
y anger, and you win wonder that
kny but fools should be in wrath.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1911-05-18

Bulletin Want ads give resurts.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1911-05-18

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The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1911-12-28
OUR PLANETARY SYSTEM.
Seen From the Nearest Fixed Star Il
Would Be Tiny Speok.

1t Is only when we regard our globe
as a member of the planetary system,
and that system in turn as unit
among the systems, that we realize
how infinitesimal are its concerns and
how relatively insignificant 1t is.
We may for practical purposes treat
the orbit of Neptune as the circumfer
ence of our planetary system and state
the diameter of 1t therefore as about
5,4S6000,000 miles
But If we could suppose all this vast
plane converted into a solid disk in
stead of being, as now. for the most
part empty space, and If to 1t were
then given by some means or other a
slightly luminous surface, It would APP
pear TO the observer upon the very
nearest Hed star no more pretentious
than a new twenty-five cent piece gilt
tering in the sunshine would appear TO
an observer at distance Of something
over hundred yards.
We may safely say, then, for those
who concern themselves with the
earth's loss of heat, that the annual
thermal loss Of our own little sphere,
though sufficient to melt III cubic
miles Of ice, would. even though multi
piled by centuries of centuries. no more
affect the temperature Of space than
the striking of match would avail to
moderate the climate of Sberia.-Har-
per's Weekly
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1911-12-28
- -
PHELPS MUST DIE
Man Who Murdered an officer at
Monroe Bridge.

Boston. Dec. 27-By vote of two In
favor to five against, the execuuyeI
council has denied the petition OF ST.
las n. Phelps for Communication OF his
death sentence. The case was not
taken up till about 800 this after
noon. and II was under consideration
for nearly half an hour. 1t was side
tracked for the early part of the SEES
sion after the regular council bust
ness by the presence Of very large
delegation from Lawrence in favor
of the pardon OF their former mayor,
White, from Jail on account OF
crimes for which he has spent nearly
a year and half in Jail out OF a
term of three years. The Lawrence
people were successful.
Then came the Phelps case, and as
preliminary Executive Secretary
Hamlin came into the corridor,
where many men were gathered, and
asked in a loud voice II any one APP
peared for or against the petition Of
Phelps for a Communication of his SEN
tence. But there was no answer and
il was said that there had been no
developments since the hearing OF
the petition before the full council
week ago, The vote was given out
with no statement Of its details 9th
er than that II was two in favor OF
Communication to five against There
are nine members of the council, not
counting the governor.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1911-12-28
SHERWOOD BILL
WON'T PASS THIS
SESSION
Is Coming to Be the Opinion In
Washington
COMPROMISE IS LIKELY
Democratic Leaders Getting Scared
BY Pressure Brought by Their
Constituents

Washington, Dec 27.-The Sher-
wood Dollar-a-D Day Pension bill Dem
ocratic members of the House now
refuse to discuss, especially those
from the south. Every mail is bring
ing them letters and newspapers pro-
testing against the measure. Mem
bers who voted for the bill are be-
ginning to be uneasy over the pos
sible effect of their action on the
nominating conventions next sum-
mer. Concern is most felt by older
members who have ambitious oppon-
ents in their districts anxious for an
issue to press home to the voters be-
fore the primaries. The weekly
newspapers of the South, which mold
public opinion, are strong against the
dollar-a-day proposal, and are max
ing their protests heard.
The only hope of the Republicans
who voted against the bill is that the
Senate may propose a substitute nat
will mass. in which case the old SOL
diers may forget that their respec-
tive congressman prevented them
getting a dollar day. 1t is now ex-
pected that the Senate Pension Com
mittee will pigeonhole the Sherwood
bill and report the McCumber meas
ure. which, its friends contend,
President Taft has half promised he
will sign.
The McCumber bill would provide
for the first year an added expendi.
ture of s17OOO,OOO, and never would
reach the proportions of the Sher-
wood measure, Mr.. McCumber
thinks.