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The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1911-08-04
How tn Re prominent

why aren't you q suffragette?
Il think can get more publicity
by opposing the movement" an
swered the prominent lady courte-
ously.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1911-08-04
Nothing to Wear.

wife back from the seashore
YETI"
Eyes; but confined to her room. "
TOO bad What does the doctor
say?"
I'VE have no doctor The wash.
woman says she'll have her out in
about four days"
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1911-08-04
OWES
HER
HEALTH
To Lydia E. Pinkf1am s
Vegetable Compound
Scottville, Mich want to te
you how much good Lydia T.. Pinkham

V @ ge Ia bic Com
pound and Sanative
Wash have done me.
/ live on a farm and
have worked very
hard. / am forty
five years old, and
am the mother Of
thirteen children.
Many people think
1T strange that ] am
not broken dow n
with hard work and
4 n
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1911-08-04
The Moneys Wnrth

The meals are pretty bad" com
planned the guest
But look at these gorgeous sun
sets. expostulated the landlord
the most magnificent on the whole
coast"
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1911-08-04
ILLINOISCENl'RAL
august /. 1919
THE FAST MAIL ROUTE,
Trains Leave Cairo:

1910 a. m. Daily Chicago vestibuls
limited. arriving Chicago 1874 a. IN.
2:Is a. m. Daily ST. Louis Night
limited, arriving St. Louis 1920 .. n
sleeping cars open at $3.50 p. 1pe
$3.50 a. IN. ST. Louis Special.
500 a. III. Chicago Daily Express
Ills a. m. st. Louis Fast Mall.
11:15 a.m. Chicago Midday Special
2:40 M Afternoon Express for
st. Louis. odin. Efhnghsm, Nation
md Champaign.
AIS a IN Thebes Accommodation
AIS p. m. Fulton and Mayfield 40
commodatIou.
6:l5 p. m. Chicago and Eastsrs
Express
1910 p. m. Chicago Night Express
arriving at Chicago 7:15 a. IN.
2:20 m, Mempsis and Nash
Vile.
$40 a. m. Coach section for Mem
phis and New Orleans.
$40 a. m Seminole Limited for
Birmingham and Jacksonville. Fla.
800 a. IN. Paducab and Louisville
1:41 p. IN. Daily Memphis and New
Orleans.
156 o. m. Daily Nashville, Chstts-
1ooga and Atlanta.
$50 y. m. Paducab and Louisville
Sleeper. Paducah to Louisville, open
At $3.50 .. IN.
N5;55 .. N. Memphis and New or.
loans Special
For through tickets. sieeping car
accommodations and further informa.
ton apply at Illinois Central Passep.
ger Station, Cairo. III.
J. II. JONES, Ticket Agt.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1911-08-04
A Wnman,s Commitment

Dear, you have beautiful hair f"
Thanks"
But isn't it good deal of trou-
bic to find that peculiar shade in the
shops?"
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1911-08-04
Circulation Statement.

Circulation Statement,
Average Number OF complete
and perfect copies Of The
cairo Bulletin printed daily
and Sunday during the
year 1910 ..... 22S7
Average number OF complete
and perfect copies of The
Cairo Bulletin printed daily
and Sunday during the
month OF July. NIL. 1904
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1911-08-04

RnIs Ituo cara due to leave Second ST., 60
DCh bfhS Ing north on Commercial Ave,
every Is minutes from n IN. to II y. m.
Going north on Walnut st every 10 minutes
from 8 a. m. to 1888 y, m.
Poplar ST. Line 9 iesye so Aoe es st. Que sue
ing north on Holhrook at 5b7, 6:27. $40, 6;57,
7;l2 a. m. and on the same minutes every
hour until 1912 and 1ll2 p. IN.
tioIng west On Twenty Eighth st. at 5aia,
| $40; Ssh 6:l9 and 7nl a. M. and on same min
utes every hour until l0.3i and l;0i .. M.
Poplar st. cars due 10 pass st Mary's park
| 10 minutes after leaving second ST,
Belt Line Owl Cars nc s5 D. on M T Essa q.
| m 80 A. M: 2.30 a. m. 800 a, IN; $50 a. m,
| $40 q. m
North on Com incredibly. m, a. m. a.
~. ga. IN. q. m; o a, m.
Belt and owl cars are due to pass West
| Thlrty-fourth st 10 minutes after leaving
| Second Street.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1911-08-04

Gave me a two weeks vacation
and three days extra to rest up"
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1911-08-04
All She Could Saw.

I'll love you when the stars are
dead"
Slid he
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1911-08-04

What do we live for II not 10 make
he world less difficult for each u,her?
George Eliot
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1911-08-04

I certainly have aconsiderate
boss.
How now?"
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1911-08-04

Said he.
Whereat tho clustered damsel said
"Gee!''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-19

butt of their joke. To solicit business
 from them thereafter would be to revive
 to memory of how they had made sport
 of him. He did not have much capital
 but he determined to risk it all if neces-
 sary then and there. Thanking the man
 who had brought the news to him he
 hurriedly made preparations for the con-
 spirators. He went to the hotel people
 and ordered so many baskets of cham
 pagns that he astonished the manager.
 Then he purchased all the fine cigars that
 were obtainable in the neighborhood. The
 chef got orders to be ready to meet any
 demand made for foodstuff Enough whisky and other liquor was bought to meet the most extreme needs
 The baskets of champagne were stacked up until the walls of the room were hidden
 from view. All the wine coolers obtain ! able were brought into requisition and then tubs with cracked ice were filled with | more bottles. The boxes of expensive | cigars were opened so that there should | be no delay in the serving of them. When | everything was ready Norton felt satis- | fled
 Listening to dry speeches or cheering good ones is thirsty work at any time | It is particularly so when your humor | is boisterous. Those master mechanics | had their minds set on slkylarking. Those | of them who had not been to Norton's | room to try his stuff had their thirsts sharpened by the stories they had heard | from the others. A lot of them were afraid if they did not get in early they | would not know whether what they had | hard was true or false. They wanted te | sample the goods
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they burn as fast almost as the cheap ones. There are champagnes that mel low the mind and have bouquet of their own.
 With as much care as if he was to have for guests the most discriminating and critical of people, Norton selected his stock of goods, and then when the dele gates assembled he went among them. He was one of many who were seeking to entertain them and win little of their attention. Occasionally he got one to ac- cept his hospitality. That one was likely to remember 1t enough to mention it to another. AS the convention dragged along of his callers. The visitors were not slow to realize that the stuff put before them was unusually good.
 But all this did not bring business. If Norton directed the attention of one of his callers to the injector, or if the caller felt in duty bound to inspect the display, it did not result in anything further than a promise to consider the machine when any were required. The fine cigars, the choice champagne, the delicious snacks on the sideboard were far more attractive to the men than any old injector that ever was made. They could see injectors any day in the week. They had been handling them, it seemed, all their lives, but they never had been up against such good free eating and drinking and smoking before, and they were much too practical to waste any more valuable time on common ma- chinery than politeness to the host neces- stated. s'
 There is a delight in entertaining those
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who are appreciative. The men who ac- cepted Norton's invitation certainly were appreciative, if the way they waded into his supplies was any criterion. But when expensive entertaining is provided to at tract business and there is no business forthcoming it is likely to become a trifle irksome to the man who is paying the bill
 Norton saw his money going, and the
 convention drawing to a close, and per- haps he felt bit sorry for himself Then, l suddenly, a situation developed that put him on his mettle. One of the delegates
 who had enjoyed his cigars and his
 liquors to the fullest came to him to warn
 him of what a lot of the men planned to
 do to have sport with him.
 Some one said you were putting up
 the best of stuff of any of the supply men
 here,'' he said, and told what he thought you had spent for cigars, for champagne and for whisky. Others chimed in and
 said they never had anything to equal it.. Then some one proposed that just as soon | as the convention adjourned the whole gang would swoop down on you and eat
 and drink and smoke you out of house and home You know how the boys are. They think it is big joke. When they've
 cleaned up everything you've got they'll guy the life out of you. m sorry for you, old man, but they're passing the word and I guess you're in for it.'
 | Norton realized in an instant what all | this portended. If that wild bunch of railroaders succeeded in making him ridic- ulous he would be remembered for all | time by them as the man they made the
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To them convention is more of a frolic or vacation than serious gathering They meet old friends, make new ac- quaintances and try to forget the clangor of the shop and the turmoil of the round- house. Perfunctorily they listen to heavy addresses by more or less able members Of the organization and promptly forget most of what has been said by the speak CTS.
 Norton knowing his men, laid his plans to gain their attention. He was not rich and the injector in itself was not enough to attract them, but he determined to do well whatever he did. Before the con- vention he had an earnest talk with the hotel people. He paid a good deal of at tention to the selection of the room in which he was to display his machine. Many a good display has gone unseen be- cause it was bit out of the way. But Norton was far more solicitous about the quality of cigars, the grades of liquor and wines and the kinds of foodstuffs he was to have in his room than he was about anything else. A sandwich is sandwich the world over, but to man from the Far West who rarely sees an oyster except one of the cove variety that comes from a can, an oyster pate served ex- qulsitely is something to remember Some men-many of them, in fact-do not know rye whisky from bourbon and master mechanics are not supposed to have the most delicate of judgments in matters of this sort but there are some appreciative palates in all bodies of men. There are cigars that delight the senses and make the smoker look upon the giver with grateful eyes, but they cost money and
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They wanted. too, to be in when the
 with the innocent man who had been
 spreading such expenseve stuff before a
 lot of mechanics.
 Out of the convention room they swooped. When they got to the corridor some of them began to run. By the time the leaders reached the door of Norton's s room the others were in full chase. It was well that Norton's room was big. It was well, too, that there was an out let trdough the adjoining room. Norton
 had walters ready. So soon as the first who entered could make known their de- sres they were served. Then they were asked to make way for others. Norton worked like Trojan. So did each of the walters The host was beaming. He let the visitors know that he was delighted to see them. It was good of them to come to him in such number. Why had not they come before? They drank and they took cigars or took a bite of some thing to eat, and made room Tor those behind who were pressing to get up to the firing line. |,
 The walters poured and poured and poured, and when they were tired they handed glasses and bottles over to the crowd and let them help themselves. More baskets were opened. More dozens of bottles were put deep in the ice to cool. Outside those who had not been able to get in were becoming anxious in the ex- treme They had some idea of how those ahead were wading into the stuff and they feared a. sudden drying up of the well I from which the bubblng supply was com ing. They struggled to get in, and when they succeeded their fears were banished. There was a bottle for each and every one of them-two bottles, three bottles, | q CsD..x frnt 1 the convention had been served. Then they had to begin all over again. By this time they were wondering when Norton s stock would give out. They had begun to appreciate that the joke was not on ] him and that they were not going to josh
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-19

The Crown Prince of Greece is at the
 head of national athletic matters. He is absent from Athens at this writing but have had a talk with his grand cham . berlain, Count Mercati, as to what this country expects to do in the Olympic games of the future. He tells me that the government is rather hard up for
 money, but that it is anxious to have
 one of the great international athletic
 contests of the near future held here. Said he:
 Our people are liberal and without prejudice, and some of the nations feel
 that they are more sure of having a
 square doal at Athens than anywhere
 else. This is especially so of the Amer jeans, who. justly maintain that they were unfairly treated in London" | I asked as to the accommodations
 and as to whether Athens could take care of the crowd that would come to such a competition.
 Count Mercati replied:
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-19

Copyright, 1911, by Frank G. Carpenter.)
 Athens.
 nHE shoes of America are now large
 ly blacked by young Greeks. Every x town of any size in our country, has it's Greek bootblack establishment, and the work is done by boys who are shipped there by contract and whose wages are sent back home to their pa rents. In talking with these little fel- lows you will find them as bright as new dollars, and If you can speak Greek you will discover that almost all have had some education. Not a few have gone to school at the night schools at Ath- ems and other Greek cities, and many have begun the study of the classics at home. Athens swarms with boot blacks and newsboys. They have come here from all over the country to earn their own living. I see them working at
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-19

the American school. It is now carried on in a building belonging to the insti- tuition, situated beyond the kings palace on the slope of the hill facing Mount Hymettus. The house cost about $i0,000 and is surrounded by a beautiful garden. Entering a large hall, steps of Pentelic marble lead by easy flight to the second floor, where are the library of the school and the offices of the director. The li- brary is one of the best equipped private ones of the kind in Athens, and it has, I should say, about POGO volumes. The present director of the school, MT. Hill, is a graduate of the University of Yer mont, and later on of Columbia, and he has with him eight other professors, who represent Dartmouth, Johns Hopkins. Harvard, Princeton, Columbia and some other colleges. There is one woman among the graduate students, a Miss Stone, who is making a speciality of the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-19

outside. They had an excellent director. They were straight and well developed and they marched we'll their shoulders thrown back.
 Entering the buildings. I was taken from room to room, finding leach filled with 30 or 40 boys as bright as any to be found in America. My guide was a director of the Greek National bank, who devotes his evenings to this work. Each class stood up as we entered and they rose again as we left In some rooms they were studying arith- metic, in others geography and in oth- CTS how to read and write Creek l was told that the school was attended by about 800 bootblacks each year.
 These boys get an education at no cost to them except what they pay for their books. They are taught habits of thrift The teachers have a savings bank and each boy can deposit and
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-19

topography of ancient Greece, and who has travelled extensively through the interior.
 The director of the school tells me that its allowance is not sufficient to carry on a great archaeological work. It has something like 5000 year and with this it is trying to excavate Old Corinth, which, when in it's prime, held half a million, and was the largest city of Greece. The Americans have been work ing there for more than 10 years. After visiting the site I hope to describe what they have done.
 In addition to the American school, a number of other nations have similar in stitutions. The French are spending eight or ten times as much as we are, and their archeologists have laid out over s160.0O0 in their works at Delphi. The Germans have an archaeological in stitute which has spent S200,000 i'll dig ging up old Olympia. and the Austrians
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-19

him as they had proposed. Maybe the champagne had a good deal to do with thu light in which they now considered Nor ton. He had not appealed to them par | ticularly before. Of course some of them had smoked with him and had drink with him and had talked about how well | he had entertained them, but this thing | of having enough champagne on hand to drown the whole convention and enough cigars of the finest quality to supply every man with all his pockets would hold was a novelty. And he was not ostentatious about it, either. Apparently he was delighted to have them and only was sorry that there were not more Of them
 The men who had proposed the raid on l Norton and the ridicCling of him after his supplies had been exhausted now slapped | him on the back and made the announce ment that Norton was good fellow. Everybody agreed with him and gave voice to the fact. Norton hid his enl- barrassment by seeing that his guests wanted for nothing. From that time on there was no question of Norton's popu- larity with that crowd.
 | The fate of a business house depends sometimes on a single act. Norton's in-
 jector might have succeeded even if he had not made the sacrifice he did that last | day of the Master Mechanics convention,
 but it is doubtful What Is certain, how
 ever is that the men who swooped down upon him in a registering spirit that meant a ridicule fully as bad as hostility left his room feeling he was a mighty good fellow. What Is certain also Is that from
 Q business standpoint Norton never had
 reason to regret the money he spent in that days entertaining. The Master Me- chanics never forgot him or his injector.
 That accounts in part for the wealth that came to Norton and for the fact that
 when the International Steam Pump com pany was formed the Norton injector was one of the first to be taken into the trust.
 mopyrieht, 1911, by Richard Spillane)
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-19

and Russians have recently entered this field.
 This structure Is one of the finest ath- letic grounds of the world. I went out to see it this afternoon. It is situated be- tween Mount Lykabettos and the Acropo- lis, on the very site where was the great stadium of the past It is of the same size and probably of the same character. Im- agne a marble amphitheatre which will seat 55,00O spectators and has an arena 600 feet long. The marble seats rise up the side of 8 natural amphitheatre made by the hills, and over 1t shines the blue sky of Greece. The arena itself is of the shape of a great horseshoe, with long ends. It is covered with black sand, and this forms a striking contrast to the silver white of the marble. It was here that the Olympic games of some years ago were run, and here will be held some of those of the future.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-19

"At our last Olympic games we used the exposition hall in the palace grounds almost adjoining the stadium for the foreign athletes. This was made into a great dormitory and 1t could pc so used again. The hotels would take care of the strangers. and in addition the people of Athens, who are very hospltable, would open their houses to them. Yes, I think we can take care of all who may come.'
 Can a Greek Win the Marathon?
 I asked the grand chamberlain some questions as to the possibility of the modern Greek in the ring and on the track.
 He replied:
 "I think we have fair chance at the marathon and that we can hold our own in all sorts of wrestling. We are not the equals of the Greeks of the past and we have not their har- monious physical development nor their
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-19

have his own bank account. The other
 day one of them left for America, talk
 ing along 1200 francs. or s240, which
 he had saved in this way.
 was surprised at the teaching and
 the high class of some of. the studies.
 The ordinary branch es are the same as
 those of our graded schools but in ad-
 dition they read the classics and many of them can quote Homer and Demos- themes. There is man of Greece in
 every school room and the children are instructed in Greek history and they follow the newspapers more close fly than our boys at home.
 The Greeks are now spending great
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-19

their books on the streets during their spare moments. and 1t is not an uncom- mon thing for newsboy to practice writ ing in copybook while waiting for the papers to come from the press
 I venture there is no nation whose children are so anxious for an educa- ton as this, and none where the peo- pie are more ready to give it. There are three night schools for poor boys in Athens alone, with branch schools in other towns throughout Greece. l went to 8 school last night which held BOO boys ranging in ages from 10 to 14, and saw one class Of 15O going through gym nastic exercises and dril lon the street
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-19

staying powers. On short runs we are distanced by the athletes of some oth- CT nations. You must remember that we are not old as an independent gov ernment, and that for 400 years or more we were under the rule of the Turks, who drowned on all physical exercises and prohibited gymnastic training. Today we make as much of athletics as any other nation and we are especially rigid as to the athletic training of our schools. In the Greek colleges every student at the end of two years after admission undergoes a physical examination, and if he can not show evidences of his gymnastic training he must remain where he is, do not think that the case in any college of other countries"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-19

What He Got His Boy "Einstein, vat did you get your little boy for his birthday"
 Y got der doctoy,"
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1911-05-20
ECZEMA BROKE OUT ON BABY

When my baby was two months
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CASTLE soap and powders. but they
did no good. She would scratch. as
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sleep for more than a week. One
day l saw In the paper the advertise
ment of the Cuticura Soap and Cuti-
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when I first used the Cuticura
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