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The Cairo bulletin., 1912-10-31
EhIId's 900.

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sldts children Of tho nurssry brood n
made Of one ounce tof precipffsae1
enaik, halt an ounce Of powdered Dor
ax aiid~n quarter Oh m ounce eaoh u
powdered nyrfh and powdered assris
scot. Tho tiny child with teeth should
aarA = snst toothhrnah and plain
tator should 10 used.
The Cairo bulletin., 1912-10-31

Miss Bessie. will leave Friday night
Tor the south, where they win spend
the winter.
Mrs, Florence Pool will leave
Thursday night for Centralia, where
she will make ner future home.
The Cairo bulletin., 1912-10-31
Too Late to Classify
FURNISHED HOUSE FOR RENT.

A very desirable home, one block
from Twenty-eighth street, 6 rooms,
furnace heat, modern conveniences.
to rem. to family without children.
Apply 4oT Twcnty-seventh 1916
The Cairo bulletin., 1912-10-31

WANTED-Boy to drive horse and
wagon at Brey, the tailor. lo4
Elshth street. ILL.,
The Cairo bulletin., 1912-10-31
ADJUSTMENTS
CAIRO opGRA. H0usE
Common Law

0" La" han &C and Night Saturday November
m,. At the Gem
Tins afternoon and evening Vaudeville and ,rov;na p.
At the Kmmell
ANS AFTERNOON ana evening Vaudeville Moving Pictures
r,. At the Bou
1his afternoon and evening ..... Movno pioru
The Cairo bulletin., 1912-10-31

and a booklet telling all about the
hair,
Paul G. Sehuh & Sons, Special
The Cairo bulletin., 1912-10-31

---Advt.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-07-16
HISTORIC BL ACKGUARDS
Terhune.
by
BY Albert PaysOn Terhuue.

clever idea and he at once put 1t into
practice. He also seized vessels laden
with other valuables, and altogether
he prospered exceedingly.
Lafitte himself did not go in search
OF such prey. He was q business man,
not a cheap sea rover. By this time
he had a number OF good ships and
nearly one thousand men to send on
his piratical errands. He had fort-
fed town and harbor Of his own at
Barataria and made that place bis
headquarters. Jean had marvellous
control over his men, and. though he
seldom troubled himself to tight. he
was unconquerable. One night band
OF mutineers attacked him In his
cabin. LATTE. single-handed, slew six
of them and beat off the rest.
The pirates called LATTE, behind
his back, "The Old Man" To his face
they called him "Bosse" (meaning lit
orally "prominence") And thus the
word boss" came into our own Ian
guage. He seldom spoke to his men
except when he had TO and held aloof
from them.
thorities he managed 20 steer clear or
active prosecution, though countless
governmental threats were hurled at
him.
When the British planned their at
| tack on New Orleans in the War OF
! 1912 they offered Jean LATTE cap
/ ta.ns commission and $4,000 to join
/ them with his men. Instead OF ac-
| cepting, he sent word Of the offer
| land OF the British plot against New
| Orleans) to the American government,
/ volunteering his services In exchange
| for a pardon. The British, In revenge.
/ destroyed his BaratSria stronghold
| and seized his ships. But the Ameri-
/ can general, Andrew Jackson latter
/ cursing him for "hellish bandft") ac-
! cepted Lafitte's offer. And the pirate
fought bravely for America in the bat
| tie OF New Orleans. receiving q par
don for all past crimes.
After the war LATTE went blithely
back to his cid ways. With his men
be settled On an abandoned island,
where now stands the city Of Calves
ton, and made that place his new
headquarters. Thus he was in a
sense the real founder OF Galveston.
He hit on an odd way to sell his
smuggled slaves. He would arrange
for Colonel Bowie Inventor OF the
bowie knife) to seize tsem from him
and TO take them TO New Orleans
There, as cOnfiscated goods, they were
placed on sale, and LATTE and Bowie
each resped goodly profit.
A visitor to the pirate lair wrote
Cold pieces are as plentiful here as
| Biscuits"
Il 1920 the government captured
Lafitte's Galveston camp and hanged
! many OF his followers
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-07-16
A1edO

The mass meeting held at the Aledo
club for the purpose of discussing
the question of securing a gas plant
for heating purposes, was attended
by 100 of the progressive men Of the
city. President VIII Hall of the
Business Mems association, who had
charge Of the meeting introduced A.
NJ. Barrow Of Muskegon, Mich, district
engineer for the Public Service com
pany OF Illinois, who explained the
amount of business that would justi.
fly his company in installing a gas
plant in Aledo. He said If 400 homes
would use gas. he would recommend
the project to his company. Commit,
tees Of business men were appointed
TO canvass the city.
Miss Amelia Anderson was given a
pleasant surprise at her home Wednes
day evening by 20 of her friends
Many presents and a nice purse OF
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-07-16
LARGEST Water Tank.

The water supply system of Calcut-
ia includes the largest water tank in
the world. 1t covers an area Of two
and a half acres. and the total weight
when it is full OF water is 1900 tons.
There are thirty-two miles of steel
joists IN the vertical columns and brac-
ings and III the foundations twenty
miles of steel toists and tie bars.
The capacity of the tank is 100000
gallons Of water. The tank acts as a
balancer and to assist the pumps when
they cannot send sufficient water into
the mains to meet the demand During
the night hours, when the pumps pro-
vide more water than is required, the
excess quantity goes into the tank.
When the demand is greater the water
from the tank flows automatically into
the mains.-New York Herald
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-07-16

ably Je n "a JcAN lAFt II L
splendid, handsome giant, the hero or
this story-never welded hammer or
shod a horse in all his career. In
stead, he made negro slaves do the
rough work while he strolled about
the city and planned bigger enter
prises.
Jean LATTE was a BLACKBOARD. But
he was a manly, likeable blackguard.
And, once at least, he did our country
valiant service. He was a pirate. Yet
some historians say he went to sea
but twice in his life-once when he
came from France to New Orleans as
a youth and once when he sailed
away from America in 1920, never
again to be heard Of. Others say 1t
was Pierre who set sail in 1920 and
who persisted somewhere in the ocean,
while Jean went to Yucatan and lived
six years longer in ill-earned luxury.
The fact remains that there is no abb
solute knowledge as to whence Jean
LATTE came or whittier he vanished.
He was a man of mystery.
Louisiana in those days consisted
largely Of rich, unsettled land. Into
these waste spaces the pioneers be
gan to come. Huge plantations sprang
up. To work the plantations there
was need for thousands OF negro
| slaves. And the slave trade between
Africa and America throye tremen-
dously A negro that cost $40 in HE
/ African Jungle could often be sold for
| 81 900 in the New Orleans market
! Then the United States declared the
/ horrible African slave trade Illegal
/ This stopped the imports. The plant
ers clamored for more slaves. Gangs
Of smugglers met the demand By
! secretly buying slaves intended fol
/ Spain's Cuban and South American
/ plantations and landing them by nigh
I in the Louisiana bayous. There wal
money in this sort Of business. More
than in biacksmithirg. So, the La
ftte brothers became slave SNUG
glers.
Then Jeans fertile brain still furth
er improved his business n a rathe
original way. What was the use 0
. buying negroes from the Spanish
slave ships OF the Cuban coast when
by Selling those ships, he could &c
the negroes for nothing? 1t was
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-07-16
HIGH AND Low CITIES.
And the Difference In Our Attitudes
East and West.

And the Difference In Our Attitudes
East and West.
The differences between the eastern
and western elevations in this country
are curiously striking. Colorado has
forty peaks that are more than $4,000
feet above sea level. Mount Washing
ton. in New Hampshire. and Mount
Mitchell. in North Carolina, the highest
peaks In the Appalachian system north
and south respectively, are considera bly,
less than half as high as this above the
ocean.
Several transcontinCntal railway lines
in the west pull their main line trains
over a greater elevation than that
reached by the cog railroad up New
Hampshire'S above mentioned peak.
These western elevations are, of course,
reached gradually.
Most large cities lie low. Chicago is
only about COO feet above sea level
and Pittsburgh but a hundred feet
higher. Philadelphia ranges from sea
level to a height in its suburbs of some
300 feet. Minneapolis, near the head
of the Mississippi, has an elevation OF
less than 1000 feet, and various parts
of New Orleans, at the mouth of the
great river. are recorded in the gov
eminent tables as having elevations of
from one foot to fifty feet. st. Louis
lies about halfway between these ter.
minal cities.
Montana is away up. with it's lead.
| ing city perched at the elevation of the
highest peaks of the Adirondack noun.
tains. In Denver there is a mark near
the state capitol which is just one mile
above sea level.-New York Sun.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-07-16
This WOMhN'S
TROUBLES GONE
Terrible Cramps, Dizzy Spells
Nervousness, Misery-Her
Story of How She Got
Well Again.

Hindsboro, III. -" Your remedies have
relieved me of all my troubles. would
have such bearing down misery and
cramps and such weak, nervous, dizzy
spells that l would have to go to bed.
Some days / could hardly stay up long
enough to get a meal.
The doctors medicine did me no good
so changed to Lydia E. Pinkham's Veg
etable Compound and got good results
from the first bottle. l kept on taking
it and used the Sanative Wash with II,
until was well again. / think every
woman who suffers as have, could take
no better medicine. Mrs. CHARLES
MATTIsoN, Box IS, Hindsboro, Ill.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-07-16

That all political parties have their
troubles Is shown by the experience
OF the Socialist administration in
Lorain, o. Lorain began the year
1912 with the first Socialist admins
tration in the city's history; today, by
reason OF troubles within the party,
there IS not a Socialist in the Lorain
City Hall. Mayor Pape Ttarted the
trouble by Diminishing q Socialist d.
rector OF pubic service, George A.
Sturck. and appointing a Republican
in his place without consulting the
party's advisory beard. The mayor
wes then expelled by the party. The
other Socialist city officials thereup-
on either resigned from Office OF left
CHE party.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-07-16

Mrs. ELvA BARBER EDWARDS, Box "a,
Cathlamet, Wash.
The makers of Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound have thousands Of
such letters as those above-they tell the
truth, else they could not have been OBJ
/ tanned for love or money. This medicine
is no stranger-it has stood the test for
years
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-07-16
DAVENPORT

False Fire Alarrn.-A fire, started at
the levee yesterday morning between
Main and Brady streets, attracted con-
siderable attention The TRICKY ElecT
trio company had dumped several
loads Of wire there for the purpose Of
burning of the insulation. As the fire
got under way great clouds Of smoke
rolled up. Soon a large crowd had
gathered and yet the fire department
had not put in an appearance. Final
~, under orders of Fire Chief Denger,
hose company No. l came down and
extinguished the blaze because the
electric company had failed TO obtain
q permit from the mayors Office.
%
Regatta Causes DefieIt.-The deficit
from the recent regatta Will be in the
neighborhood OF $1,000 according TO
preliminary figures compiled up to
date by the Commercial club. II was
at first thought that the local boosters
would not lose more than $500 but lat
er returns indicated that the net de-
felt would be over $4,000 az least. All
of the prizes were given as advertised
and all OF the bills will be met. The
unfavorable weather on the last day
and the small attendance OF the last
two days. coupled with the cost OF ad-
vertising and OF purses for the win
ners, IL given as the principal cause of
the deficit
Foreigner Steals Money.-In order
TO send money back home TO his folks,
Mike Gasepetros, a foreigner, became
u thief He was arrested yesterday
afternoon by Constable Phil Kahles
and now faces charge Of grand lar
ceny. The theft was committed at
the New Kimball hotel where Case,
petros is employed as a laborer He
is accused OF stealing s. in cash and
a check for the sum of $50. He claims
that he sent the money back TO his
home in Greece and that he gave the
check 70 another man who skipped out
TO Chicago with II.
o.
Obituary Record.-Louis Schlueter
died at 2:8O o'clock yesterday morning
at his home. T25 West Fourth street
after an Illness of some duration. He
was born in Davenport. Dec. %, 1863
and has lived here all OF his life. He
is survived by one sister. Mrs. Johan
ma Schick, and a nephew in Iowa City
Herman Rosencranz. The funeral vii
be held from the late home, Wednes
day afternoon AT . o'clock, with buria
in Paramount cemetery.
Mrs. Emma Hill, S24 Brown street
passed away at las O'Clock YESTERDAY
morning at 81 Luke's hospital afte
an illness OF more than two years
duration. She was born March 90
1857. I'm Davenport, being az the tim,
Of death IS years OF age. Deceased
was united in marriage TO Ernst HiU
Feb. %, 1876. The survivors are he
husband and seven childTen-Mrs. Al
VIVA Hoist, Mrs. Laura Schneckloth
Mrs. Amanda Smith. Henry, Adolph
William and Walter Hin. and tw,
brothers, William and Henry Stolten
berg. all Of this city. The,runeral will
be held from the home, S24 Brow
street, at 2 o'clock, Wednesday after
noon, with interment in Pine Hill
cemetery,
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-07-16
Testimony of Trained Nurse.

Cathlamet, Wash.
al am a nurse and
when / do much lift
ing / have a female
weakness, but l take
Lydia E. Pinkham s
V e g g ia bic Com
pound and l cannot
say enough in praise
Of it. | always rec
ommend it for fe-
male troubles. 3" -
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-07-16

Phoenix, Ariz.-By reversing the de-
cision of the lower courts in the case
oil S. A. Bayliss, negro, against the
Phoenix board Of education, the SUI
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-07-16
The worlds most successful med

The worlds most successful medi-
cine for bowel complaints Is Chamber
lain's Collie. Cholera and Diarrhoea
Remedy II has relieved more pain
and suffering and saved more lives
than any other medicine in use. IN
valuable for children and adults. Sold
by all druggists.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-07-16

Replace Old crossine-Workmen
yesterday laid new crossings at the
point of Intersection of the Rock Is
land railway tracks and the Moline
Watertown interurban line below War
ner's crossing. The crossing was in a
deplorable condition and during the
last week hardly a day passed but
some car was thrown off the track jolt
ing over the railroad right of way, and
as a consequence endangering the
lives of passengers.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-07-16
Quite Liberal.

Patience Isn't she liberal in her
views: Patrice-Sure. She can't keep
s thing to herself.-Yonkers States
man.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-07-16

force the submission of the woman's
equal suffrage amendment to the con
stitution under the initiative and refer
endum law.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-07-16

Mysterious Fire.-Ffre Of an un-
known origin started in the roof Of
the Arthur Sundblad residence at 1913
Fourth avenue at 6:15 yesterday morn
ing. With the use of the chemical fire
extinguisher, firemen from the central
station. who responded to the alarm,
subdued the flames before any dam
age, aside from few burned shingles,
resulted.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-07-16

Jefferson City, Mo.-The votes for
women petitions mailed TO Secretary
of State Roach, it was announced, lack
a sufficient number of signatures to
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-07-16

Purchase Fire Team.-A committee
of three from the East Moline city
council went to Galesburg Saturday,
where a fine team of blacks, each five
years old, was purchased at price of
$3.50. The team arrived in East Mo-
line yesterday and was Immediately
pressed into service. The animals are
for the fire department and Broncho,
the horse in service heretofore will
now be used as a substitute only.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-07-16
Jean Lafitte, and the pirate
Trust"

PE WO youn g
Frenchmen-
% ] e a u an d
Pierre La
itte - started a
blacksmith shop
in New Orleans
in 1903. I b e y
had not the look
or II a II n er OF
blacksmiths. Prob
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-07-16

All the news all the time - The
Argus
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-07-16

preme court upheld the constitutional
ty of the recently enacted state law
to segregate negroes from white chill
dren in the public schools.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-07-16

Foreigners Fight.-Allowing their
race prejudice to get the better of
their judgment, Axel Tolberg and w.
P. Davis got into trouble with Oscar
Lindquist, bartender at DeClerk Bros. >
saloon at 1860 Third avenue, that land
ed them in police court Saturday even
ing. According to evidence submitted
at the hearing before Justice Harvey
Williams, fight with the bartender
took place as the result of objections
which the offenders made to drinking
at the bar with two negroes. When
the bartender objected to their objec-
tons, they proceeded to beat him up.
A lively skirmish ensued in which it
Is alleged some of the fixtures of the
place were broken. Lindquist swore
out warrant for their arrest. At the
hearing Tolberg pleaded guilty to the
charge OF assault and battery and was
let off with "a fine of S5O5, but his
companion, assuming a knowledge OF
/ the law superior to that of the dis
pensers of justice refused to admit the
charge against him. At the conclusion
OF the trial that resulted he found him
| self assessed $1055.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-07-16

IhuustffdI ENhIpItIoh. - ArraHSe-
ments have been completed for an in
dustrial show to be held here Aug. u
to 10 inclusive, by the Globe Exhibi-
ton company of Chicago. under auspic-
ton. The show will be along lines
different from anything ever seen in
Moline.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-07-16
MOLINE

Breaks Forearm.-Lawrence Kelly,
1885 Thirteenth avenue. in an effort
to board car at Campbell's island
Sunday morning, stumbled and fell
with the result that his right forearm
was fractured just below the elbow.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-02-12
The Human Lincoln.

From the Philadelphia Ledger.
The figure OF Lincoln. in the passage
of a century and three years since his
birth, never was allowed to become in
the minds of men marmoreal alb
straction, for his broad-gauge humanity
was his first and most appealing char
acteristic. Though statues have been
made to preserve In permanent material
the form and likeness Of Lincoln as he
was seen by his cotemporaries. he was
the least statuesque of men. The i'm
perious pose and theatric visage of the
small politician trying to resemble a great
statesman was not for him. He loved his
fellow men; he dealt plainly with them:
he spoke and acted as one of them. When
he was called to the presidency he asked
his law partner, Herndon, please to keep
the old firm name on the sign till he
came back from the White House. The
old friends who found him In the new
place called him Abe" He rebuked
the pompous formality of an ambassador
or the arrogant gentility of an Austrian
count. while for the poor and humble he
found kind words that brought them to
his level and him to theirs. THE Lord
prefers communicating people-that is
why he made so many of them," was one
of his characteristic sayings. When he
formulated the classic and re-echoing
phrase of "a government Of the people,
by the people and for the people," he
knew what 1t meant by contact with all
classes from the lowliest to the most ex-
allied.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-02-12
Life-Savers at Niagara.

A notable instance Of the policy OF
locking the door after the horse Is
stolen is afforded by the introduction
of bill In the House for life-saving
station at Niagara Falls. suggested by
the recent tragedy there when thrce
persons were carried to death by the
breaking of the ice bridge across the
gorge. There have been fatalities
enough at the cataract to have sug-
gested such a precaution long ago. but
none just like the latest. Yet it Is
doubtful whether a life-saving station
would have been of much use, for in
the great majority of instances people
have been killed by the falls in cir
cumstances to preclude rescue. Now
the edge of the falls above the brink
and have chung to rocks or roots
caught on the islets, but in all such
cases, when their rescue has been eff
fected, 1t has been as we'll accom-
pIished by the crowds on shore as
a fully equipped life-saving station at
hand. Possibly some good might have
been accomplished in few instances
Nv the use of line-carrying gun. but
there has hardly been the demonstrated
need of a complete life-saving establish.
ment. The lives that were lost the
other day might have been saved had
II been possible to send a line out to
the foe. This could have been accom-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-02-12
Democratic Economy
From the Philadelphia Inquirer

The democrats of the House in COM
mittee of the whole have voted to reduce
our pitiable little army to the extent OF
five cavalry regiments. They will lop of
nearly 1900 men-if they have their way
and they expect to save $4,376.0O T.. al
is their idea Of economy The .emo-
Gratis Of the House Furthermore in.end
to stop all construction of battlesni IS
This is also their idea of economy. At a
time when the Panama canal is approach
ing completion. when England Is about to
make a tremendous naval base out OF
nearby Jamaica, these democrats assail
the nations defenses on the plea Of saw
ing money-and then rush off to fairly
squander money in foolish investigations
and in other directions. Our army Is
small There is no contention that il
ought to be greatly increased. But with
Hawaii. Porto Rico, the Philippines and
the Panama canal to look after and
guard, the argument that there should be
a reduction Is singulariy lacking in in
telligence. =.