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The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1912-05-22
BROWNS KNOCK
PLANK OUT OF
BOX AND COP
St. Louis Takes Game from Mack
men by 5.4
Score

Philadelphia. May 2t.-St, Louis
beat Philadelphia, today, to 4.
Plank was knocked off the rubber in
the fourth inning Morgan gave
three bases on balls and was then
succeeded by Hougk, Brown finish
cd the game for Philadelphia. Home
runs by Pratt and Baker and the
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The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1912-05-22
CUBS, S; BROOKLYN, 4.

Chicago, May 21.--Chicago made
it two out of three today,
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-12-24
ARE KEEPING MONEY AT HOME
Southern People This Year
Has Been Kept.

ATLANTA.-As the season for
making-and breaking sorts of
New Year resolutions rolls around
again there comes with it a series of
reports from this and other Southern
communities tending to show that at
least one good resolution made by
the Southern people last year has
been kept unbroken.
A comparatively few years ago a
little band of business and financial
leaders in the South, representing no
single line of business and boosting
for no selfish projects, pledged them
selves to preach and disseminate the
new business gospel of keeping
money at home by patronizing home
industries and institutions. They
made it apply to all lines of business
and activity. They sought to make
it the slogan of the new South. From
year to year the soundness of the
economic doctrine became more and
more apparent, and year ago
thousands of people had subscribed to
the idea.
The first statistical reports of
Southern institutions which come in
this year to show the splendid re-
suit of putting that maxim into prac-
tica arc made nv the Southern fire
insurance companies, which report
rapid and steady growth The fire in
surance men were among the ones
who first took up and pushed the
idea, not for their own business
alone, but for the upbuilding of the
whole South.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-12-24
BUDGET OF NEW YORK CITY
THE LARGEST IN THE WORLD

of expense which absorb such an in
come, averaged from a large number
of families per month, shows the fol-
lowing figures: Rent, $15.SS; food,
$3.50; fuel, $2.76; light, STAT;
clothing, $1O.43; car fare, $2.51;
lunches, 1882; dues, 81 cents; in
surance, s1.61; incidentals, $685.;
total, $3.50. Upon this basis a fam
lily of five must spend $S74SO a year,
and must earn on an average of
$16.S2 a week.
AS compared to the New York
working man those of Holland and
France live much more comfortably,
while the average German plane of
living" is so much higher as to make
any comparison valueless.
What the investigators regard as
one of the most serious phases of
this situation is found in their state
ment hat workers in tall office build
ings, such as elevator men, porters,
hall men and the like, are likely to
become a race of bachelors, since the
cost of marrying and supporting a
family is far beyond their means.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-12-24
BOOZE IS COMING
BY THE CAR LOAD
Twenty Cars of the Tipsy Stuff From
Jacksonville Are Distributed at
CordeIe for Christmas.

CORDELE. Ga.-The first real
shipment of booze from the Land of
Flowers and parts of which have
never ceasing springs of the water
that cheers" viz. Jacksonville espe-
cially. arrived in Cordele this morn
ing. filing and packing five freight
cars. The Shipment was sent to Cor
dele for distribution to almost every
point on the several linse leading
ont of Cordele for a radius of twenty
and more miles, and of course there
we're those of Cordele who had their
christmas package" among the
seemingly countless boxes and car
tons.
This is merely one shipment out
of Jacksonville of perhaps twenty OF
the same size and larger coming over
the G. S. & F. railway, and most OF
which is distributed from this point.
AS many as eight cars of the "tipsy
stuff" have been shipped to Cordele
for distribution at one time, and as
MANY IS sixteen cars have been dis
tribnted from this point in a day dur
ing the holiday season.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-12-24
GOVERNOR PARDONS
NANNY UPSON'S SON
Executive Made the Heart OF Faith
full Old Negress Glad at Christ
mas Time.

ATLANTA, GA gracious and
beautiful young woman in rich APP
parel and costly furs, Atlanta's
greatest merchant king and a half
dozen of the most prominent citizens
appealed to Governor Brown yester-
day to give back to NANNY Epson"
her son, Doc Crosby, who had served
ten years of life sentence.
H. S. Johnson, head of the house
of Chamberlain-Jo hnson-DuBose, his
son, Henry, Jr., treasurer of the COM
pany, and the gracious young wife OF
the latter, Colonel Mcbride, Roy Dor
sey and others came with Nanny
Upson, who has been faithful cook
and employe of the Johnson family
for many years, and asked the exec
utive to approve the action of the
prison board in recommending COM
mutation to present service.
1t is stated from the record that
Crosby's crime did not actually just
ify a sentence of more than for vol
untary manslaughter with a ten-year
sentence.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-12-24
AN ARSON TRUST DISCOVERED.
Arrests in the Middle West Disclose
Widespread Operations of Band.

The operations of an alleged arson
trust, charged with causing scores of
fires in the middle west during the
past few years, have been exposed
by the arrest of Ben Kahn, former
South Bend, Ind, merchant, and Ben
Franklin of Chicago. Kahn's store at
South Bend was fired last April, and
although his stock was worth only
$4,000 he carried $4,000 insurance,
distributed among seven companies.
Franklin is charged with being the
actual operative for an alleged com
bination of insurance adjusting con-
Germs, who make a practice of set
ting fire to heavily protected mercan-
tile establishments on commission
basis.
1t is reported that several other
arrests are imminent. The two men
in custody are held in default of
$4,000 bail each The insurance
companies have lost several million
dollars through the operations of the
so-called arson syndicate.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-12-24
HERE is AN OSSIFIED MAN
viii Give $1,000 to Surgeon Who
Can Break His Back. The Story
of a Peculiar Ailment.

Frank Worden of Colfax, Iowa,
will give $1,000 to any surgeon in the
United States who will break his back
with anything short of a sledge ham
mer.
Worden is an ossified man. He is
farmer. With the exception of his
eyes, tongue and arms from the ell
bow down he is one huge piece of
bone, without joint or hinge of any
kind. His body is as hard as stone
and as rigid as piece of steel. He
cannot laugh, he cannot even smile.
Eighteen years ago Worden awoke
one morning with stiff neck. There
was no pain, but he could not move
his head. He paid no attention to it
at first. But the affection grew
worse. When Worden felt his jaws
becoming set he placed small wedges
of wood between his teeth and in
that position the lower portion of
his face became rigid. In time the
wedges were removed and the teeth
we're left about half an inch apart.
Through this aperture he is fed liquid
food. He cannot masticate.
Gradually the hardening affected
his body, his limbs and then his feet.
In eight years Worden's feet and legs
were as rigid as stone. By this time
also the arms were perfectly rigid
except at the elbow Surgeons say
there is no regular circulation of the
blood through Worden's body. Wor-
den lies on his back all the time.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-12-24
OLD GUINNESS CASE
CROPS UP ONCE MORE
Woman in Canada Said to Be Mrs.
Belle Guinness, ON Whose Farm
13 Dead Bodies Were Found.


LA PORTE, Ind.-Information
that Mrs. Belle Guinness, on whose
murder farm near here in 1908 thir-
teen bodies were found, is believed to
be in Letheridge, Alberta, Canada,
was received today by Chief of Police
Meinke in telegram sent by Freder-
lex Wise. A woman answering the
description of Mrs. Guinness has been
under surveillance several hours. The
local police were requested to send
man to complete the Identification.
The statement of George Meyers,
convict, that Ray Lamphere, who was
employed by Mrs. Guinness, had said
that the body of a Chicago woman
was placed in the Guinness home to
create the impression that the owner
of the farm was burned to death, has
caused a revival of many old theories.
A number of kilograms and letters
were received today by the police de-
partment. Chief Meinke believes that
Mrs. Guinness is alive.
Attorney Worden, who defended
Lamphere when he was tried for ar
son, declares that he has evidence,
which he is guarding, that is more
sensational than that given by Mey-
ers.
Meyers says he knows the name OF
the man who drove Mrs. Guinness in
an automobile from her home to Chi
cago, but refuses to give it to the
authorities. Meyers. who was out or
a parole, has been returned to pris-
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-12-24
GUARANTEES ANE.
Dangerous Plant Diseases and Insect
Pests Liable to Be Introduced.


Pests Liable to Be Introduced.
The attention of the federal horti-
cultural board has been called by the
bureau of plant industry and the
bureau of entomology to the fact
that dangerous plant diseases and
insect pests are liable to be introduce
ed into the United States ON sugar
cane brought into this country.
Therefore, in accordance with the
plant quarantine act of August goth,
1912, public hearing will be held
to consider the advisability of re-
stricting or prohibiting the importa-
ton of sugar cane into the United
States. If the proposed quarantine
is established it will probably re-
strict or prohibit the importation of
all sugar cane plants and parts OF
plants from foreign countries into the
United States, including Porto Rico
and Hawaii, and also from Porto
Rico and Hawaii into the continental
United States.
The public hearing on the proposed
quarantine against sugar cane will be
held at the department of agriculture
in Washington on January Z. At
this hearing those interested may ap-
pear and be heard either in person
or by attorney in relation to the pro-
posed quarantine
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-12-24
MAY Be GIVEN TO GEORGIAN
WHO WILL SUCCEED AAIBASSA-
DOR REID CREATES INTEREST.
Senator's Bacon and Smith Are Both
Discussed for the Place. Mr.. Bry-
an Is Also Mentioned.

WASHINGTON, D. C.-Who is go
ing to succeed Whitelaw Reid as am
bassador to the Court of st. James?
That is the question which has rele-
gated everything else to the rear
here since the death of Mr.. Reid, and
the question above all others that is
absorbing senatorial and diplomatic
circles at this time.
President Taft, by taking the posi-
ton that he would not attempt to fill
this place, because the appointee,
even if named Immediately, would
have only about two months to serve,
has probably relieved the senate of
situation which would in all prob
ability have brought about a first
class fight when the matter of con-
firming the nomination should be
brought up.
Aids Cabinet Puzzle.
Another thing that the president
has unconsciously done has been to
make it easier for President-elect
Wilson to pick the members of his
cabinet.
Should the new president name
either of the Georgia senators, Smith
or Bacon, for instance, or former
Governor Montague of Virginia. or
Harry St. George Tucker, also of that
state, it would probably eliminate
such state from consideration in max
ing up the cabinet, as the gift of the
British ambassadorship would far
outshine anything else that could be
given.
Turning to the South the Georgia
senator's and both of the Virginians
Just named have been much discussed
here during the last day or two, and
naturally w. j. Bryan and Senator
O'Gorman have likewise come in for
considerable amount of gossip in
connection with the matter
Bryan May Get 1t.
Many persons point out that II MT.
Bryan is to receive anything from the
new administration President-elect
Wilson could do no better than to
give him the vacancy-the highest
which could be bestowed upon any
one in foreign field.
Closer to the new president than
almost any of those being discussed
is Senator O'Gorman. He would make
good successor to Ambassador
Reid, it is said, and the appointment
would be more than pleasing to the
new administration head.
If the South is to be drawn upon
it will be well to keep an eye on both
the Georgia senators and Tucker and
Montague of Virginia. They have al
ready been set down for something,
and it may be that one OF them will
be called upon to serve his country
abroad.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-12-24
HOW WOMEN PLAY THE GAME.

No Matter How Pleased When Host
ess Isn't at Home Mustn't Look 1t.
Two Kansas City sisters were max
ing a round of calls a few days ago.
There were many to be made, and
whenever there was nobody at home
and cards could be left with the maid
there was much time gained. One
of the sisters smiled contentedly
when the callers, as had happened
several times that day. were informed
that the prospective hostess was not
at home. The other sister repressed
the smile severely.
you mustn't look so pleased when
we don't find them at home" she
said as they went down the walk,
"they may be watching us out OF the
window"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-12-24

WASHINGTON, D. ca motion
iof a more specific decree in the Uh-
ion Pacific merger dissolution was
made in the supreme court To-Day
ny Attorney General Wickersha1n'
Oaief Justice White stated formahy
mat the court would take it under
consideration.
The railroad attorneys explained
70 the court that they considered the
only practical method for the STOCK
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-12-24
THE CITY'S EXPENSES FOR 1913
WILL REACH THE ENORMOUS
SUM OF $500, 100000.

NEW YORK.-The largest budget
which has ever been adopted by any
city in the world has been passed by
the board of estimate here, but New
Workers are so used to big financial
Goings of all sorts that the fact has
caused little comment save for some
more or less subdued grumbling at
the increased expenditure. AS a mat
ter of fact, the budget estimate Of
more than 1913, 100000 for the city's
expenses of 1913 is, with one excep-
ton, larger than any other govern
ment-municipal state or national
in the western hemisphere. The ex-
ception is, of course, the United
States itself.
Some idea of what such a budget
really amounts to may be gathered
from the fact that it is as large as
those of Switzerland, Denmark, Swe-
den, Norway, Greece and Servia COM
bined. New York maintains no
army, but the appropriation for the
schools next year would keep up
very respectable military establish
ment.
In fact, the school money about
equals the yearly pay of the whole
United States army at the present
time for both officers and enlisted
men. More than $36,700,000 is set
aside for the educational needs of
the city, which supports, besides the
elementary schools and the great
high school system, normal college
and the College of the City of New
York, where any young New Yorker,
boy or girl, may get a modern col
lege education free of tuition.
The police department will cost
s16,OOO,O0O next year, the fire de-
partment $S,9OO,O0O, public charities
S3.6OO.0OO, and so it goes. The New
Workers find some comfort in the fact
that the tax rate is not going up with
the growing budget. The increase OF
s11. 100000 over the 1912 forecast
is met in part by an increased assess
ment of $3.50, 100000 on the taxable
real estate, and direct Improvement
in the returns from certain proper
ties of the city which pay revenues,
notably the great city docks, which,
under efficient management, will
hiring in a total of s9,500,000 more
than they have this year.
Can live on $1,000 Year.
Twelve hundred dollars a year is
the sum fixed upon by Investigators
as the lowest upon which an average
family can live on comfortable
American plane" in New York, and
families thinking of migrating to TINS
city are invited to ponder on this fig-
IRE before moving.
Of course a family can exist mere
for less. but in making the investlga-
ton rye bread and sausage wages =
have not been considered necessities
of life. though not with the Injuries
and allow them to live in comfort.
While 500 a month is the sum
which is held necessary to accomplish
this end in this city it is admitted
that in other parts of the country
as much could be obtained from 500
or $40. An income of 5000 for
family of FIVE, the Investigators con-
clude. will provide only the minimum
of nourishment and comfort and VIII
not meet any extra demands, such as
might arise from sickness or other
causes.
The tabulation of the various items
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-12-24

WASHINGTON, D. C.-Nearly 400
temperance workers from through
ont the United States who have been
here to urge the passage of legisla-
ton prohibiting the shipment OF
liouor into dry territory left today
for their homes with the intention OF
raising a fund of half million dol
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-12-24
REFUSES HIS wIFE's FOOD.

Mrs. Thrailkill of Atlanta Now After
Divorce From Husband.
Whether or not a husbands refus-
al to eat his wife's cooking consti-
tutes a just ground for divorce will
be settled one way or the other in
the Fulton county court at its next
term, when the case of Mrs. Lillian
Thrailkill against Thomas B. Thrail-
kill comes up for hearing.
She complains that her husband
continually turned up his nose at her
culinary efforts, and went often to
the home of his aunt for his meals
This slur on her ability as a house
wife. SAYS Mrs. Thrailkill, cut her SO
deeply to the heart that it made Eer
life miserable.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-12-24
VIII Raise Half Million Dollars for
Nationwide Crusade Against Liquor

lars. in one-year installments Of
500, 600 for the Inauguration of
nationwide crusade. The workers
have been in session two days, the
conference closing last night with a
banquet. at which Senator Kenyon
was the principal speaker. All mem
bers express a determination Of push
ing a winning campaign.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-12-24
i" Just What Do You Mean"' Is
Asked of The u. S. Supreme C0u'7

- ba distributed without irreparaoIe
n iurv would be for the Union Paclnc
c.,nnanv to offer the shares to It's
own shareholders, pro rata, accord
80 - the amount of their holdings
GO purchases at fair price or TO
distribute the same as a dividend 10
US holders of its stock entitled to a
s,U,dend They declared mat the
attorney general was opposed 70 sucn
plan.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-12-24
12vc TURKEYS IN A DROVE.

Driven Twenty.six Miles From Mis-
souri, County to Market
A flock of 1880 turkeys was drl'-
on into sedalia from the northeastern
mart Of the county and sold here to-
dov Inv John Golden at 16b cents a
Mound The turkeys were driven 20
miles and travelled at the rate Oh TWO
n,i1os an hour. The birds brought
their owner nearly $S,2OO.-Sedaha
(Mo) Dispatch.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-12-24
GIVES 81 A DAY TO CHURCH
Mr.. Knight of Chicago Has Laid His
14,6OOth on Contribution Plate.

f4.6OOth on Contribution Plate.
A dollar a day for 40 years has
been the contribution to his church
OF C. H. Knights, a member of the
En2lewood Baptist church of Chica-
20. The fact was told by Rev. Smith
T. Ford, pastor of the church, after
Mr.. knights had laid his 14,6O0th
dollar on the contribution plate.
Mr.. Knights began his systematic
giving of a dollar a day to the church
while he was young man in his 2o's
and on a modest salary. He never
allowed anything to interfere with
the daily allowance.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-12-24
MARRIAGES
THEY ARE BOUND 10 COME,
SAYS A YALE PROFESSOR IN
AN INTERVIEW.
ARE NOW TOO HAPHAzARD

terest in Pedigrees of Children as
We DO i'm the Blue Ribbon History
of Our Dogs and Horses.
NEW HAVEN When American
life is guided by standard of wealth,
as we see it today, we shall have
pedigreed marriages., marriages
which I believe will solve many Of
the perplexing questions of our so-
called modern civilization"
This interesting prediction was
made here today by Professor Irwin
Fisher of Yale University to a repre-
sentative of the New York American
in discussing the future of a depart
ment of national health, which meas
ure is now before congress for action
AS president of the committee Of
one hundred on national health, COM
posed of the most noted men of the
country, which has for it's chief OBJ
iect the establishment of this depart
ment, where human health may be
made matter of equal Importance
to the health of animals, Professor
Fisher has made an exhaustive study
of the subject.
When public opinion has been
sufficiently developed on this point"
said Professor Fisher, we shall take
as deep interest in our own pedigrees
and the pedigrees of those whom our
sons and daughters marry as we do
today in the blue ribbon history Of
our dogs and horses.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-12-24
Now Too Haphazard.

Human heredity is now depend
ent on haphazard selection" said
Professor Fisher. Little attention
is paid by those who contemplate
marriage as to how much stamina,
how much physical beauty shall be
transmitted to the next generation.
81 once asked a millionaire dog
fancier why he took so great per-
sonal interest in his dogs and paid
little or no attention to the nurses
who cared for his children and he
replied: My dogs have pedigree,
"Our genealogical records speak
of landed estates, social position and
titles, but have little or nothing to
say Of physical, mental and moral
stamina.
In fact, have known of many
physicians and others who are Civ
ing this subject deep thought, who
have recently looked carefully into
the pedigrees of the families their
children married. | know of at least
one engagement broken where a
faint in the family of young man
would have without doubt rendered
the life of the young woman to whom
ne was betrothed one of misery.
Marriage, above all human
choices, must as rule be left to the
individual guided of course by his
ideals alone. Once the Importance
of a physical pedigree is realized
ones own pride in his OWL inherit
anee will show itself in a similar feel-
rg >. responsibility for the unborn
race
American mothers who practically
sell their daughters to degenerate
noblemen to satisfy selfish social am
bition should be frowned upon by
women of high social and moral
standing in the community These
mothers should be made to under
stand that they have lost caste, rath~
er than gained it, by bartering their
children to the degenerate owner of
title. A mother thus commits a
double crime-the added crime to
progeny, the greatest crime of al,
Title No Criterion.
"A title conveys no real idea of
the true nature of its owner. The re-
suit is, as we are frequently called
upon to witness, great human unhap-
piness among young American heir
esses, who have exchanged a pot Of
, gold for title.
Health, beauty and vitality are
much more natural objects of youth
full admiration than titles or wealth,
which now exercise for the most part
a baneful influence on marriage.
Health marriages, or marriages
where the health of both parties has
been considered before marriage /
feel sure will result in a decreased
number of divorces. In the granting
of divorces today we hear a great
deal about the artistic temperament,
incompatibility Of temper and such
things. Of course there are scores of
people who never should have mar
ried, but the true keynote Of much
marital trouble is the question of
health"