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Abilene weekly reflector., 1912-02-29

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mons medicine, made from roots and herbs, lC
has restored 80 many suffering women 20 ne@lCn.
Write tOLYDIA AEPINKMAM MEDlClNECO.
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Your letter will be opened, read and answered
~ + woman and held in strict confidence.
Abilene weekly reflector., 1912-02-29
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Read About These Three Girls. How Sick
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Was Restored by
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Appleton. WIS., / take pleasure IN writing you
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Compound. as she had taken It herself tor the same
trorlbIe with wonderful results. had been sickly
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bad feelings every month that could hardly walk
and conid not sleep nights had dizzy spells, and
uirnples came on my face. But have taken your
Lydia e. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound ana y mas
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Miss CECILIA M BAUER, 1161 Lawrence ST. Appleton WIS.,
A SCHOOL TEACHERS GRATITUDEs
arava have been teaching school for some years and
have neglected health because was too busy with my work
attend myself properly suffered greatly every montn anu was
on the verge of a nervous breakdown 80, m rsLL.,.
wrote o Won about condition and took Lydia Pnknams
Vegetable Compound the Blood Purifier
These remedies have done wonders for me and can mgn anu
SHAyEH r. f. D. No. l. Geneva, Iowa, CO Sam Erickson
A COLORADO GIRLS CASES ~
Nontr C1I was troubled very much with irregular periods
aometes two months would eapse suffered severe neadacn
was weak and nervous could eat scarcely anything - ud
took both lydia Pnkhams Vegetable Compound and bou
Purifier and the result was wonderful feel like another person
think your remedies the best earth and cannot express
nv thanuness you what they have done to me- nep my
neghbors when they sick and shall always IeOmenu yo
medicnes. miss ELLA MCCANDLEss, Montrose Col 4
L II not reasonable to suppose that medicine that did
90 much for these girls will benefit any other girl who Is
suffering with the same troublesl
Does It not seem the only sensible thing to give such
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Abilene weekly reflector., 1912-02-29

restored my health think & the best medicine V sk''en
Miss CECILIA M BAUER 1161 Lawrence st, Appleton WIS
..c.rrcArAr nm fIIIaEssa GR ATITUDEi
The Cairo bulletin., 1912-04-12
Entertaining the Duke.

That irrepressible artist, the late
Phil May, saved the situation" at the
Savage club one night In a very hap
py manner. II was an occasion when
the late duke of Teck was present,
and on account of this royal visit the
entertainment committee thought 1t
incumbent upon them to substitute for
the usual free-and-easy show strict
ly conventional entertainment, which,
for all the dukes good nature, plainly
bored him to death .
The proceedings went on In a
funereal gloom very alien to the sur
roundings, till, in despair. one OF the
committee begged Phil May to cheer
things up bit, as only Phil May
could.
phil" asked for some black chaks
and a drawing board. The duke had
Just become a grandfather by the
birth of the present prince of Wales,
but few saw Phil Mays drift as he
drew, In his own inimitable style, an
infant In long clothes grabbing at a
feeding bottle, till he surmounted the
whole with the prince OF Wales
plumes
The duke was convulsed with laugh
ter and the evening was saved
The Cairo bulletin., 1912-04-12

doing weer impossible 10 taem No
body has ever suggested to them
that they have the possibility of all
crimes in their makeup! Parents
and teachers ordinarily have extra
ordinary skill in evading, but little
in facing, the facts of life.
"Disarmed by her ignorance. the
girl goes out to a freedom such as
no country has ever before believed
it safe to allow the Young, either
girl or boy This freedom Is of
course the logical result of what we
cali the emancipation of women 1t
is the swinging Of pendulum from
the old system of chaperonage and
authority. The weak point is in the
fact that the girl has not knowledge
enough for her freedom 1t is not a
return OF the old system of guarded
girls which Is needed That is Inn
possible under modern conditions,
out of harmrny with modern ideas.
The great need Is that women of the
country realize that freedom unac-
companied by knowledge is one OF
the most dangerous tools that can
be put into a human beings hands.
The reluctance of women to face
this fact Is the most discouraging
side OF the woman question.
The girl who goes forth should
go armed with knowledge She
should feel the pull of the home in
every moment Of loneliness so strong
that she is literally jerked back
when she is ready to slip. This hold
of the home Is no chimerical thing
It is a positive. living reality. The
home has power Of projecting it.
self into the lives of those who go
out from It, 1t is where the girl
does not carry from the home a sense
of an uninterrupted relation--a cer-
tainty that she is a part of that
group and that achievement, that
she is only carrying on, charging,
helping to extend, beautify and ripen
Its work, that she is not homeless
Nothing can SO hold her In her iso-
lation as that sense"
The Cairo bulletin., 1912-04-12
GET TING VOTES
srT.
BY GEORGE FITCH.
Author of "At Good Old Siwash. -

Getting votes Is an accomplish
ment which Is anything from an art
10 felony, depending on the mean
used.
Some men are able to gather votes
In enormous quantities by oratorA
which has a peculiar magnetism TO-
ballots. Others must seize the votes
in enormous quantities by oratorl
which has peculiar magnetism fol
ballots. Others must seize the vote
owner by the button hole and re-
move it from him as he would shuch
an oyster. Still others get down tC
business principles and trade the
owner out of his vote, giving him
as rule a second hand promise
which isn't worth as much as sec
ond hand egg. Then there is an,
other class OF vote collectors who
pay the highest market price and
fall back upon the judicial temper
ament of the Senate when they are
discovered
Vote getting is one of the greatest
of all talents. The man who col
Iects dollars will eventually become
a millionaire with an impaired d.
gestion and impatient relatives, But
the man who collects votes with suf-
ficient genius and success will
eventually become president and
will be embalmed in history and
possibly on postage stamp when he
understands how to attract the
tickle and temperamental ballot
leads a pleasant existence, wander
ing at will through city councils
and legislative halls, and when he
gets tired of politics he trades his
vote collection to the administration
for foreign mission In a salubrious
climate and lives happily ever after.
The secret of vote getting cannot
be taught or acquired. One has to
be born with 1t. Virtue or ability
The Cairo bulletin., 1912-04-12

The voters of Illinois placed their
stamp of disapproyal upon Lorimer-
ism in no uncertain manner Tues
day The blond boss had several
candidates in the field, but most i'm
portant of all was the famed farm
or candidate" Familiarity known as
Len" and also as Small" Len re-
ceived, in the way of ballots, just
what his name would indicate. In
fact, the total was even smaller than
his bitterest enemies anticipated
so small that it will take the farm
err candidate and the brazen sena-
tore some few campaigns to get over
the effects of it.
There has been an awakening in
the grand old state and it will be well
for politicians to be careful in their
selection of political friends in the
future. No one knows this better
than does Uncle Shelby Cullom.
Uncle Shelby permitted himself
to be counted among the friends of
the blond person and as his punish
mcnt, he was showed under. We
have been standing for 'decayed"
politics for SO long that the rest OF
the nation had about concluded VIC
didn't ''dast" start anything, but we
sure went and started something and
It was SOME thing we started.
The Cairo bulletin., 1912-04-12
BOOK CHAT

Ida NJ. Tarbell. writing of "Thc
Homeless Daughter" in the April
american Magazine, makes the fol-
owing comments on the girl who
caves home and goes out into the
world to earn living:
The gnawing loneliness Of the
yirl who has left home to make her
way Is one of the most fruitful
,auses of the questionable relations
which well-born girls form more
)ften than society realizes. The girl
seiHes eagerly every chance for COM
oanionship or pleasure. Her keen
need Of 1t makes here over-apprecia-
tive and under-critical Most Ameri-
can girls are brought up as If wrong,
The Cairo bulletin., 1912-04-12
Avoiding Publicity.

l
The hardest thing on earth TO
avoid is unpleasant notoriety. About
the only way to avoid publicity OF
this sort is to lead life that IS
void of unconventional acts. 0rdi-
nary men and women rarely break
| into print" because OF the fact thai
the exacting newspaper reading pub
| lie does not care a continental boot
| to read about the acts of ordinary
men and women The public wants
news about the extraordinary men
and women and extraordinary things.
The sensational newspapers cater to
a sensational elemert--an element
that is never reached by the con
sentative publications. The sensa-
! tional newspapers very frequently
experience difficulty In satisfying the
greed of their sensational sub
scribers, with the result that fax
ing is resorted TO. Cairo and othe"
cities affected by the high wate'
have been the victims of several SEN
sational newspapers during the fool
and Cairo together with the other
cities, is partly to blame for this
When il became obvious that Their
would be some unpleasant notor,ety
10 avoid, Cairo and nearly every
other city in the high water terri
tory. Immediately began to devise
means of side-stepping notoriety,
with the result that it obtained only
more of it, The best thing Cairo
could have done would have been to.
invite the out-of newspapers
to send representatives to the city to-
watch and trushfully report condi
lions. Several papers in st Louis
and Chicago had special representa-
tives visit the city, but they only re-
manned for short time
This Is no place for me- a rep
resentative of the St Louis Post
Dispatch said last Saturday There's
no story here, Why. the streets
need sprinkling."
His story, published in Mondays
contained this line: Cairo
is suffering more from dust than
from the high water. Its streets
need sprinkling"
That is the kind of notoriety
Cairo wanted, but that was not what
1t expected to get. That Cairo has
the greatest food in his
tory, while other cities were being
carried away with it, is an adver-
tisement of inestimabIe value. III
would be regretable II tho city
lverlooks the opportunity to tell the
world all about the winning fight 1t
fought against the food.
If would be folly to try to make
The world believe no trouble was ex-
1erienced because the world is too
wise. In this instance, Cairo is
making mistake in trying to avoid
lotoriety, because the notoriety is |
If the pleasant class--the kind tina:
lelps to build The next time it be-
comes necessary to seek means Of
wedding notoriety, about the best
hing aCiro can do is seek it--and |
hen it will not get any.
The Cairo bulletin., 1912-04-12

II good looks or eloquence or wis
Ion or hypnotism have nothing to
10 with the case. Guessing of the
next thing two-year-old child VIII
10 is good practice. When you can
do this every time you are fairly
likely to guess what the public will
do next in the voting line. A man
nay fill an office with great ability,
saving the public a wagon load of
money and yet fail to get hat full
Of votes at the next election, be-
sause he wore plug hat where the
plain people could see IT, On the
other hand, an official may spend
three years with his feet on a ma
hogany desk. which the people have
paid for and his hands in every
The Cairo bulletin., 1912-04-12
The Snellhinder.

The spellbinder we have always
with US, but sometimes he. is worse
than others. This is one of the
times that he Is worse. Every fourth
year he breaks forth in all his fury
lis voice is heard in conventions,
where he eulogizes "a man who" II
rips the atmosphere at county fairs
and picnics, where he begins.
"Lad-e-e-es and Gentlemen" or
Friends and Fellow Citizens" 1t
sounds at political rallies and in
theaters, town halls, courthouses
and school houses, where he declares
that the country has reached a crisis
and can only be saved from a fate
worse than that OF Rome by eIectins
his candidate and his party. Il
hoarsely rasps from cart tails
where the spellbinder Is usually a
Socialist picturing the blight Of
capitalism It huskily gurgles from
rear platforms, where the candidat,
smiles, grasps hands thrust over tn,
railing and INDUCES In politica
platitudes.
This Is the year, fellow citizens
when we go through it all ono,
more. The one good thing about 1
is that we do not have to hear thu
spellbinder unless we choose. Tn,
probability is, however, that we our.
selves will get all "het up before
the fghs u over aud viii ~ out Il
The Cairo bulletin., 1912-04-12

every speech on our side, even If for
no ether reason than to swell the
crowd and add to the enthusiasm
This is the year when the air is
heated, sawed. jammed and filled
full of noises Well, it Is a great
spectacle to see a sovereign people
chose their servants. although it is
an awful strain on the ear drums
and the English language.
The Cairo bulletin., 1912-04-12
luaIifiad.

Saphedde-Society is terrible
bore. Don't you taInk SO. Miss Cut
ting?
Miss Cutting some peoples.
A Tragic Possibility.
Uncle Leven, a griz5led old wood
sawyer, was told by lady for whom
he had ben working to wait in the
kitchen for his supper. Aunt Caroline,
the cook, filled his plate with choice
bits from the great house" table, and
Uncle Leven fell upon them with rel
ish Soon, however, cloud crossed
his face.
What all you, Unc' Leven?f asked
Aunt Caroline solicitously. SIS you
got er pain?"
"'Tain't dat, Sis Calline." said
Uncle Leven. but rs feared III git
filled up befo' eats all ] wants"
Youths Companion.
The Cairo bulletin., 1912-04-12
COZ THERE AT LAST
STORY or THE StilPWEECk AS
TOLD BY A WOMAN.
There Was a Joke In Il but II Took
Her Long Time to Reach tho
Point, According to Tale Re-
lated by S. {. kissr.

A story that s. r, Kiser told nj tho
recent banquet given by the Chicago
Association Of Commerce for the sons
Of members follows:
Il told you about the difficulty Of
getting 2 woman to see the point of q
Joke. Vow. there is another kind OF
wopan She is the woman who starts
10 tell you joke and has difficulty In
reaching the point of 1t,
One OF the loveliest little women
that | ever knew had this trouble.
She had once been unfortunate enough
to be in a shipwreck. The vessel on
which she was a passenger had been
driven upon SONG rocks and was rap
Idly pounding to pieces when the life
savers succeeded In shooting limo
over the upper works OF the boat,
thereby rescuing the passengers one
at time by means of the brooches
buoy. There was : little incident con-
nected with the woman's trip from
the ship to the shore which she told
In about this way:
40. It was the most awful expert
ence | ever had in all my life. | do
hope nothing of the kind will ever
happen to me again. but do you know
when | was about half way between
the ship and the shore swinging on
that little bit OF line and expecting
every minute was going to be my
last. the funniest thought Fudden'y
popped into my mind just when was
there half way between tho ship and
the shore, and O! how those waves
dashed and roared beneath me as
swung there just as II they were 60
ing to tear me into pieces in a min
ute. My, It was awful! But as I say.
was there half way between the
ship and the shore when this funny
thing came to my mind Of all the
places In the world. I cant imagine
why 1t came to me there, You know
my husband always treats me Ike
mere child, he doesn't let me handle
the money and wouldn't even allow
me to 60 around and buy piece Of
steak. but just as | was there about
half way as | say, this funny thought
struck me-and my, 1t was dark, aw-
full dark,
"'Wcll, as I WAS there, I say, swing
ing on this little BIT of rope about half
way between the ship and the shore,
and suddenly this funny thought came
to my mind. Now. the captain, |
thought. was a coward the minute we
got on the rocks. because he gave up,
hut the mate was one OF the bravest
men ! ever saw in my life. But there
I was half way between the ship and
the shore and with nothing hut that
little bit of rope between me and
death expecting every minute to be
the last minute OF my life, and sud-
denly this funny thought sprang into
my head and I was thinking also that
my children would have stepmother
inside of year II was drowned, and,
0, how II Numbered and llghtened,
and my, how wet | was, ! never was
so wet In my life. I sometimes think
it runs In our family because | had
n cousin drowned at sea. Well, as |
say, there | was, about half way be-
tween the ship and the shore, swing
ing there, and suddenly the thought
popped right into my mind just as
suddenly aa II some one had spoken It
to me right out loud--suddenly the
thought popped into my head there,
We'll, | had the breeches on for once
The Cairo bulletin., 1912-04-12
Not Tender All over.

A heggar had been for long time
besieging an old. equity, testy. limping
gentleman, who refused his mite with
great irritability, upon which the men,
dicant said
"Ah, please your honor's honor,
wish providence had made your heart
half as tender as your feet."--Tit.
Bits.
The Cairo bulletin., 1912-04-12
More Police for New York,

The police department of New York
asks the board OF estimates to appoint
one thousand more policemen for next
year III that city, and to grant an APP
preparation OF $2,5O0,00o additional
for the department. The appeal is
urged ION the ground that London,
with only onethird more population
than New York, has almost double
the number OF policemen.
The Cairo bulletin., 1912-04-12
After SlzInn Him Up.

The jury In the breach OF promise
case had Just filed In.
The Judge--What Is your verdict'
gentlemen?
The Foreman--We award the plain'
tiff $3.50.
The Judge--Will the defendant
stand up? | request the jury to look
him over. And now I want to ask
your foreman II he punctuated that
amount properly? Wasn't 1t $3.50?
Very Well; next case.
The Cairo bulletin., 1912-04-12
a Turning Worm,

See that measuring worm crawling
up my skirt!" cried Mrs Bjenks.
That's sign I'm going TO have a new
dress"
Wei. let him make 1t for you,"
groWled Mr.. Bienks. And while he's
about II, have him send hookworm
10 do YOU vp the back. I'm tired Of
tho Job. Liverpool Mercury.
The Cairo bulletin., 1912-04-12
HUMOROUS QU|PS
The AlaY Size EAlt

My dear. If should fall In love
with another woman, would you sue
for her alternating my alfections?"
asked aIr Snathers. tentatively.
No, indeed. answered Mrs. Smath-
ers, who had recently been outpolnt-
ed in a little domesiic argument, Il
would ask the woman 70 give me a 2.
cent postage stamp and call it
square,
The Cairo bulletin., 1912-04-12
Pleases Himself.

"Dibbie is an entertaining talker,"
I'D like to see the sort of man he
could entertain with his talk"
We'll, the next time you pass him
on the street, take good look at
Dibble"
The Cairo bulletin., 1912-04-12
a Modern N ,thuselah.

she-This sword belonged to my
father.
He-Did he fight in many battles?
She Mercy yes! Gettysburg, Bun
ker Hlll and a lot more l can't think
Of.
The Cairo bulletin., 1912-04-12

The capture of several of the Vir-
GINA bandits means that the stat
is to be put 10 the expense Of a tria'
after all.
The Cairo bulletin., 1912-04-12
a Rare Possibility.

1T Ia said that fly can see an OBJ
iect one fiyerlaillionth of an inch In
diameter"
Maybe a fly could ace some good In
old Mr. Groucher'
The Cairo bulletin., 1912-04-12
intending immigrants Turned Back.

intending immigrants Turned BACK
About two hundred and fifty thou'
sand Immigrants are turned back
every year by the immigration ON
cials of this country. To guard the
ports and boundaries against those 70
whom the law forbids entry, the gov
eminent employs nearly two Thousand
trained men.
The Cairo bulletin., 1912-04-12
Routine Resumed.

Moster-So you have friendly do
inSs with your brothers people once
more?
Pat--Yis, sir Ills family and ourn
do be scrappin' again as If they'd
niver bin parted. Harper Bazaar.
The Cairo bulletin., 1912-04-12
AMERICAN AeeREsslvEREss.

We are constantly declaring
that we do not covet the lands or
things of others and believe that
we never give Others cause for
complaint. much less for war.
How we ever could have arrived
at this belief 1t is hard to under.
stand. Certainly our history
does not justify 1t. for here are
some of the things that we have
done: Robbed the Indian OF his
country. deprived the Filipino of
his independence, taken half OF
Mexico. gone to war. hoping to
get Canada. and afterward al.
lowed our citizens to harass or
attack her; declared the Monroe
doctrine and stretched 1t, beaten
Colombia on the Panama canal.
driven out Castro and squelched
Zelaya This does not mean that
this nation has not done great
and generous things. We have
handed her independence to Mex.
leo once. to Cuba twice. 1t
means. notwithstanding the the
Org we hold Of our nonaggres-
siyeness, that we are. In fact,
and the world knows US as an
aggressive and often provok-
ing people. Colonel Robert l..
Billiard. 2. S. A.
The Cairo bulletin., 1912-04-12

body's pockets and yet bg heading
a subscription for the food sufferers
by few choice words, he may get
so many votes that he is henceforth
encouraged to stand away from his
office altogether.
Because of the peculiar methods
in which votes can be charmed out
of voters, great many office hold
ers spend their entire time in think
ing up these charms and this Is one
Of the things which is the matter
with this country.
The Cairo bulletin., 1912-04-12
Same as Ever.

Miss Gaddie--Enemies. are YOU 4
Why, thought she loved you not long
ago.
Miss Bright-So she did: and she
loves mo not now.--Catholic Standard
and Times. .,....,-,.....
The Cairo bulletin., 1912-04-12

The British cry that Captain
scott did not care so much TO dis
cover the south pole as he did to
make scientific observations has a
certain flavor of sour grapes.
The Cairo bulletin., 1912-04-12

President Taft is going to "cinch"
the Federal vote. He has removed
the gag rule" upon civil service
employees, which virtually forbids
them to petition Congress, except
under certain restricted conditions.
The Cairo bulletin., 1912-04-12

mat was a pretty good race
NED Gilbert ran with his broken
ankle. There are certain politicians
who doubtless wish their ankles had
been fractured, too.
The Cairo bulletin., 1912-04-12
CIRCULATION STATEMENT.

Average number OF complete
and perfect copies OF The
Cairo Bulletin. printed daily
and Sunday during the year
Of 1911 =. 2277
Average number OF complete
and perfect copies OF The
Cairo Bulletin, printed dur
ing the month OF January
The Cairo bulletin., 1912-04-12
SimiiituSs.

shot an arrow in the air,
1t fell 10 earth know not where;
tried the aviation game,
Tho airshIp acted much the same.
The Cairo bulletin., 1912-04-12

Isn't 1t almost time for China tx
have another revolution, an election
or something
The Cairo bulletin., 1912-04-12

Fall River, Mass. woman left
S100, GEO to horse. How would
you like to be a horse?
The Cairo bulletin., 1912-04-12

The blue ribbon at London do
show was won by Texas pur
Where was the houn' dawg?
The Cairo bulletin., 1912-04-12

If Illinois cuts any figure in poll
tics. Bill Taft had better oil up
his steam roller right now
The Cairo bulletin., 1912-04-12

How shall W style a rebel genera
who rebels against another rebe
general?
The Cairo bulletin., 1912-04-12
POLITICAL ANNOUNCEMENT,

We are authorized to announce
tho candidacy of James Meehan for
Alderman from the First ward, sub
jcct to the election of April 16,
We are authorized to announce
John w. G. Fry as a candidate for
Alderman from the Third ward at
the city election or April Is.
The Cairo bulletin., 1912-04-12

The one good thing about The CO;
situation is that most Of MS do not
have to buy coal in summer.