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The Cairo bulletin., 1912-10-27
WICKLIFFE

Navlor Humphrey, Correspondent,
J. ]. Grace is on the sick list this
week.
Mrs. w. r. wall and children; Of
Cairo. arc visiting Mrs. Geo. Ketch
O Few days this week.
T. &. Eichet, mali carrier, left
Friday on husinesg and pleasure trip
to his old home in Wisconsin.
virgil Dennis, who has been sick
for the past three weeks OF typhoid
fever, is some better.
Mrs. May Ella f3irney entertained
the Womaus Club Wednesday.
]. Rudy Dixon, who has been
working at Ed Dunn's livery stable
for the past ten months, has accept
ed a position with r A. Burke, Of
Cairo, moving over Thursday
Mrs. r. J MCGOWAN is visiting
her daughter, Mrs Geo Ketch, this
week.
Mrs. Matte Humphrey is visiting
her granddaughter, Mrs. Tom Old
ham. Of Barlow, this week.
John Rothrock, Of Paducah, is Ia
town a few days this week.
Tom WorthtHeton, one Of Uncle
Sans X. r y. boys, returned Thurs
day from . tour Of the county in his
automobile
The Cairo bulletin., 1912-10-27
Mutt and jeff. =

You can no more make a success
The Cairo bulletin., 1912-10-27

Nothing in Seven Days' is funny to
the persons in It, That's what
makes it so cXcruciatinglY funny to
others The predicamcuts and com
rlications that swirl about the per
sons in the play, the week of mis-
adventures and mix-ups that start
in drawing room, descend to the
Kitchen, climb to the roof and in
Yolyo everybody, create the snap
pcst, wittiest, drollcst comedy of a
decade
'1t is the most amusing comedy
that has been secin in New York in
years said the Metropolitan Maya
zine III you like comedy you must
see this one, and be sure you see the
beginning, because tho laughs start
With the first curtain"
"Seyen Days" dir ct FROM two
years in New York, with a Broad
way cast and production, win be
presented by Messrs. Warc0ha &
Kempcr at the Cairo opera house
Tuesday OCT 20, Adyt
The Cairo bulletin., 1912-10-27
I. G. SHAVER MAKING
ACTIVE CANVAS FOR
COUNTY SURVEYoRSHip

2 G. Shaver Of Olive Branch was
in Cairo yesterday in the inter-
est OF his candidacy for the posi-
ton of county surveyor on the
Democratic ticket and friends pre-
dict his election by comfortable
majority IS he has bocn making ar
active canvas all oyor the county,
meeting as many Of the voters OF
The Cairo bulletin., 1912-10-27

Subscribe for The Bulletin the
best newspaper in Southern Illinois
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1912-05-24
Young Financier.

It appears that there is more or less
humbug about the traditional slowness
of the messenger, the fabulous lazi-
ness of the Office boy-and all that
sort of stuff. At any rate, there is a
young fellow in Cleveland who may
be said to be abreast of the age in
which he lives. He works in a down
town Office building, but he has a
rapidly growing account in a savings
bank
The other day our young hero went
to his bank to make a deposit of 30
cents. The teller, with more than his
customary haughtiness, informed the
boy that the bank would not receive
deposits of less than 81. The kid
didn't waste any time arguing about
it. He walked over to the desk. wrote
a check for 81 and presented it at
the paying teller's window. 1t wac
honored, OF course. Then the little
financier said:
81 wish to deposit $1.50."
And that deposit was accepted. And
the teller ground his teeth.
Haec fabula docet-that you can de
posit cent If you have an account
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1912-05-24
DANGEROUS COLOR is BLUE
Men Who Voyage Above the Earth
Prefer Red for the Covering of
Their Balloons.

In case you ever feel tempted to buy
s balloon, don't buy blue one. Red
ones are the best. There is a scientific
reason why. According to the re-
searches of M. Reynaud, caoutchouc ig
strongly attracted by the ultraviolet
rays from the mercury vapor lamp
with quartz tube, which Is q power
full source of such rays. This fact
has a practical bearing in connection
with balloon envelopes which are
treated with caoutchouc.
Aeronauts are familiar with the dis
oovery that the envelopes suffer dur
ing ascensions, and this is explained
by the greater effect of ultraviolet
rays at high attitudes. Experiment
had already led to using yellow color
ing matter on the envelopes, and red
balloons are sometimes seen, but
never blue or violet. M. Reynaud con-
| siders that red is the best color to
use, as it not only absorbs the ultra
violet rays, but also the blue rays, and
these last are likely to share in the
bad action of the suns rays upon bal
| looms.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1912-05-24
Col Rlaht Ono rhat rhine.

"Crack" went the baseball bat, and
"crash" went the big windowpane OF
a kosher butcher in East Eighty-sixth
street as the ball found its mark, says
the New York Daily Mail.
Like flash, out darted the butcher
and with mrltitudinous outeries start
ed in pursuit of half a dozen small
boys, who were Logging it for dear
life in the direction OF Carl Schurz
Park.
His chase would have proved fruit
less had not policeman, by one OF
those miracles that occasionally hap
pen, come around corner just ahead
OF the fugitives and proved nimble
enough to grab one OF them.
The prisoner, knuckles in eyes, pro-
tested that he hadn't done nothin'
and there was growing a doubt as to
the value Of the ca pture until pow
erful female voice descended from an
upper window acrass the street, say
ing:
Dots do boy! Dots de boy! hat
him myself seen from my upstairs
window down."
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1912-05-24
The Best Woman.

Miss Susan B. Anthony, the social
reformer, had no more bitter oppo-
nent that Horace Greeley, the famous
editor and journalist. 1t was for a
long time his custom to wind up all
debates with the conclusive remark:
"The best women l know do not want
to vote"
When the New York constitution
was being altered in 1867 Miss An
thony laid trap for him, says BIZ
ographer. She wrote to Mrs. Greeley
and persuaded her not only to sign a
petition herself, but to circulate the
paper ard get 800 signatures among
her acquaintances.
In committee Mr.. Greeley, who was
chairman, had listened to the debate
and was prepared to intfcduce to the
convention an adverse report. He
was just about to utter his usual "set
tier" when George William Curtis
rose.
''Mr. Chairman" said he, 'T hold in
my hand a petition for suffrage signed
by 300 women of Westchester, headed
by Mrs Horace Greeley"
The chairman's embarrassment could
hardly be controlled. He had found
that one of the "best women l know
wanted to vote.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1912-05-24
a Birthday Toast.

There is no modern instance for
which wise saw may not be found in
Shakespeare, apt and to the point; the
move we reect on his wondrous works,
the more we are lost in astonishment
at the depths of that unfathomable
mind that has given volume to the
world containing passages quotable In
relation to every occurrence of life,
and poetry Of such excellence as may
challenge the combined talent OF men
to produce it's equal. Without Shake
speare our dramatic literature would
have taken a respectable station In
modern Europe; with Shakespeare 1T
is upreme-invincible; our drama
challenges all the world; tasteless and
semi-barbarous as 1t was, he converted
it into feast of reason for men OF
education and refinement. (Cheers.O
The age of Elizabeth may well, indeed,
be called the golden age of literature
when 1t could boast q, Shakespeare
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1912-05-24
SHE PICKED THE WRONG MAN
Woman With Prominent Jaw Did Not
Get the Seat She So Evil
IDENTIFY Desired.

She had a jaw that somehow re
minded one of the cowcatcher on To-
comotive-perhaps because it was al
ways somewhat in advance of her
countenance. Also there was a look
of determination in her eyes, and it
was evident, from the manner in
which she elbowed other passengers
aside, that she had no desire to be re-
garded as a shrinking violet. Yet she
was rather good looking, and she was
dressed in such a manner as to indi-
cate that she was free from the ne
cessity of practicing economy. After
she had fought her way into the car
she looked at the men who We're oc-
cupying seats and then stationed her
self in front of a smallish, gray-ha1red
gentleman whose expression was kind
and even lamblike.
The woman engaged his attention
by kicking his toes. He curled his feet
back under the seat and continued to
read his paper. Then she "hemmed'
loudly and bumped against his knees
He looked up at her, INDUCED in a
sigh of weariness and tried to make
room for her by crowding closely tc
the woman who sat at the left OF him
She declined to bulge, however, ano
the old gentleman again turned his
attention to his paper.
Exasperated by such ungallant be
havior on his part, the woman witf
the decisive jaw said in tones that II
no wise suggested the haunting mel
ody of tinkling brook:
st suppose I'll have to stand all th'
way home. I've heard of men wh'
had the decency to get up when thu
cars were crowded, but guess They're
all dead"
Madam" the little old gentleman
mildly remarked, 81 would give yo1
my seat, but I'm saving it for lady.
Chicago Record-Herald.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1912-05-24

A contemporary, who fiourished with
him-Ben Jonson-has said that man
could not be a poet without being a
good man. Of our bard he has also
said that he was of an honest, good,
an dopen nature. For myself, can
only say that love the man and hon
or his memory in the fullest sense Of
the words on this side of idolatry.
(Cheers) 1 give now 'The immortal
memory of William Shakespeare. =
From a speech made by Benjamin
Webster, London comedian and actor.
manager, at Shakespeare festival
dinner given at the Town Hall, STRAIT.
ford-on-Avon, April 26, 1858.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1912-05-24
EXPLAINING WHY ONE LIVES
There Are Times When Logic and De-
votion Require That You
Should Be Dead.

The Dominic had another observa-
ton or two to make in the line of his
usual thoughtfulness. did it ever
occur to you," he asked, that one of
the hardest tasks a man may have to
perform, sometimes, is to explain why
he is alive? The necessity has arisen
after certain battles, and it may arise
after shipwrecks. Several of these
men whom We are awaiting may hnd
1t awkward tomorrow to explain their
continued existence. The world re-
quires certain adherence to the log
ical necessities of things, and when
all logic, human and divine, has de-
manded that man should die, and
he is nevertheless alive and we'll, the
anomaly Of his healthy presence is
something that he cannot account for,
with all his explanations.
81 was an army chaplain once, and
I saw a captain, whose duty as the
personal aide of a general in battle,
was to stand by that generals side
when the bullets flew. 1t happened
that a bullet-two bullets-three bull
lets-struck the general, and none
struck the captain. The general fell
dead; and an hour afterward, when
the captain was back at headquar
tiers explaining that there was urgent
need of reinforcements at the front
and that the general had fallen, that
captain had great trouble in explain
ing why he was not shot, too. In
fact, the mystery has never beer
cleared up yet. The fact that rein
forcements were not needed at al
has always clouded the captains
story, though there was no positive
proof of cowardice against him.
mo; when logic and all the laws o
human devotion require that yol
should be dead, you had much bette
be dead than alive, for all the res
OF your life will be but living death.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1912-05-24
Smoking to Be Stopped.

Statistics gathered through investi-
CATION by the authorities of New York
city show that 3,245 fires in 1910 and
1882 in 1911 were caused by the care
lessness of smokers, mostly in places
of industry. Fire Commissioner john
son, who has been studying the laws
relating to the prevention of fires, as
we'll as to their extinguishment, has
discovered statute which forbids
acts which endanger the health or
safety of any considerable number OF
persons, and he is going to attempt to
make it applicable to smoking in fac
tories. He has therefore ordered 4O,-
900 notices-printed in English, Yid-
dish and Misunderstanding smoking
In factory buildings. These will be
universally distributed and followed
by vigilant and constant inspection to
prevent the violation of his order.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1912-05-24
RECORDED QUEER BET
LOSER PAID GUINEA A DAY FOR
THREE YEARS.
Made Wager with Clergyman Based on
Expectation of Napoleon's Death
and Finally Was Released
From 1t by a Jury.

"One of the most curious bets l
ever heard OF WAS made in England
hundred years ago." said Angus Nc
Gregor, an attorney of Edinburgh,
Scotland, at the Belvedere.
THE wager was between a knight,
who was also a member of parlia-
ment, and a clergyman, for in chat
day it was not considered scandalous
for dominies to put up their money
on sporting propositions. 1t is but
fair to the preacher, however, to say
that the other man did the banter
ing, and this was the knights singu-
lar offer: That If anyone of crowd
present would put up 100 guineas
(something over $500 he would give
to such person one guinea day dur
ing the remainder or the lifetime OF
Napoleon Bonaparte.
in making such an extraordinary
offer he evidently thought the great
Corsican had but few days to live.
Before the others in the company
could recover from the shock of the
strange proposal, the clergyman shout
ed out that he would accept the terms
and then and there the wager or deal
was consummated, there being wit
nesses to the act of the minister in
putting 100 guineas into the challen-
gers hands.
"a splendid bet it was for the rev.
erend gentleman, but miserably poor
one for the other, who had to surren-
der guinea every day and this he
continued to do for the better part OF
three years. Along toward the close
of 1914 the knight wearied of his los
ing game. AS you American say, he
began to have cold feet. At first he
tried to beg off, but the parson would
! not listen to his entreaties. A bet
was bet he contended, and the fact
that he was ahead to the tune of some
800 guineas made him not in the least
compassionate. Boney might live a
good while longer and that daily rev.
enue was very sweet.
'As a last resort the knight refused
to pay any longer, and the parson
brought suit before a judge. Eloquent
and learned counsel spoke on both
sides, but it must have been that the
advocate for the defendant knight pro.
duced the most convincing argument
In telling the jury why his client
should not be made to pay any longer.
''In the first place." said the law
yer, his client had not in the begin.
ming made the bet seriously; 1t was a
sort of jocular proposal, but once be.
ing made the proDonent was too game
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1912-05-24
All Fond of WaIklna.

Quite the whole Supreme court can
be seen walking in Washington, Chief
Justice Fuller was too old to walk, and
he rode, but Chief Justice White dear.
ly loves to walk, and is usually seen
in company with some of his Associate
Justices, Holmes, MeKenna, Lamar,
and now Pitney, who promises to use
the streets of Washington as often as
his distinguished predecessor, Justice
Harlan. And since he requires some
coaching from the Chief Justice, it is
natural to see him in Justice Whites
company Justice Hughes is also oft
en- seen walking on the streets OF
Washington.
The diplomats like to walk. Ambas
sador Bryce, as typical of the English
man he is, never misses his daily walk
The cabinet men are also fond of walk
ling, and especially Secretary Nagel
and Postmaster-G General Hitchcock
The Italian ambassador is frequently
met with his daughter, the Donna Be
atrice Cusani. The Turkish ambassa
dor likes to promenade Connecticut
avenue with his daughter, Mile. Zia
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1912-05-24
SAW HIS DUTY POINTED OUT
Advertisement Of John Ware Gave
Valuable Idea to the Travelling
Salesman.

while working through Pennsyl-
vania recently saw an advertisement
that ought to bring relief to few dis
tressed souls" said the travelling
salesman. ''It headed the personal col
umn and said:
"'Be it hereby known to all my cor
respondents that have this day de-
stroyed all letters they would wish to
be destroyed. JOHN WARE
THAT notice was so extraordinary
that stopped over for late train and
called on John Ware. He was genial
old man and willing to talk. He said
he was a person to whom people vol
unfairly confided secrets; that many
persons in bursts of confidence had
written letters to him which they NO
doubt afterward regretted having
written.
Sometimes they said, Destroy
this;' sometimes they didn't. Anyhow,
John Ware had kept most of those In
/ eliminating letters. But now that he
was getting old he had seen what
harm might result from those letters
falling into strange and unscrupulous
hands, and he had burned them and
had taken that novel way Of notifying
his correspondents that they were
safe.
"That talk with John Ware set me
thinking. The first thing did when I
got back to New York was to burn 2
batch of letters"
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1912-05-24

to back out. Secondly, 1t was con-
trary to public policy to give legal
sanction to such bet. Napoleon was
Britain's most dreaded foe and for a
British subject to have procuring
interest in prolonging the enemy's
life was horrid and untenable
thought. The jury took the same
view and freed the knight from fur
ther payments. ."-Baltimore Ameri-
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1912-05-24
The Last Call

Work on Building will be commenced
within two weeks. Necessary tools and
material will arrive in few days.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1912-05-24
Where the D anger Lay.

Poorman-When you call on Miss
Applegate. beware t>f the bulldog, or
you'll get nabbed.
Richman-That's all right; the bull
dog and I are good friends. It's Miss
Applegate Ill lookA, ,ut for.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1912-06-07
NOTED POET WELL GUARDED
PaIudan-Mulier Was Kept From All
Social Intercourse by His
Eccentric Vito.

The famous poet of Denmark, Palu-
dan-Muller, was closely guarded in his
later years by an eccentric wife, great
ly his senior OF her preposterous odd
ity writes Mr.. Edmund Gosse in 1.-TWO
Visits to Denmark" stories were
everywhere current in Copenhagen.
She kept him as much as she possibly
could from all intercourse with the
outer world. During a visit to Copen-
hagen the host of Mr.. Gosse decided
to invite the poet to dine, and his
daughter and guest were sent on a
mission to invite him.
If we could secure him for a night
convenient to him, writes Mr. Gosse,
all that was brightest and best in Co.
penhagen was to be constrained to
come, too. But fortune was against
us; If we had found him alone it is
possible that success might have
crowned our efforts. When we ar
rived, with our dinner invitation on
our lips, We were damped by being
told that the poet had gone out for a
walk, but that Mrs: Paludan-Muller
would receive us. The fierce little
lady, in fact, closed our retreat by
peeping round the edge Of the door
and commanding us to enter. Miss
Aline Fog, overwhelmed by the event,
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1912-06-07

hydro -carbonic origin. Water Is ut.
terly useless. Danger may be at
times reduced to a minimum by pre-.
venting contact of air with the flame,
choking it between blankets, mats.
damp cloth, earth, or sand, but this
Is by no means always sufficient For
this reason. scientists are interested
IN some experiments made recently in
German laboratories bearing on the
possibility of controlling fires Of vary.
ing chemical origin. It is said that
If a stated quantity of caustic soda
solution be mixed with an equal uuan.
tity of alum 1t forms dough-or NOR.
tar-fifteen times as great as the or.
iginal single quantities. This dough
is very light and foamy. If this sub
stance be flung over the petroleum.
etc., and the entrance of air impeded,
the fire will at once be put out.
An experiment was lately tried in
Germany to establish these facts be-
yond question. An improvised fire
extending over four cubic millimeters
was extinguished in less than two
minutes by an eighty-per cent. solu.
ton Of the above mentioned sub
stance. f.. r.. -,
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make its Inhabitants very proud Of
living there. In the first place It 10
ancient, charter having been grant,
ed 1t in 1853, and the same year wit.
messed the establishment Of the first
parish church, which can assure you
is no commonplace house of worship
1.-THE present structure isn't so very
old and yet it dates from 1910 and
looks good to last another century.
The remarkable feature, however, il
that in its history Of over $50 years
this church has had but eight minis.
ters, including the incumbent. Sew.
eral of them were pastors for fifty
years or more and the average is over
thirty years, which imagine is rec.
ord no other religious congregation
can duplicate. baltimore American.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1912-06-07
Plants That Go to Sleep.

Plants have a mind of their own
on the subject Of winter sleep, and
gardeners have tried various meth.
DDS Of waking them up prematurely,
to furnish blossoms at a time when
they are scarce and costly. Mere
greenhouse heat and moisture failing
to yield the desired results, they have
successfully tried warm baths and
ether vapors to shorten the hibernat.
ing period of bulbs. From Germany
comes a description Of the latest MAN
devised by man named Weber. BY
sticking needle into the base of the
bud he has caused it to unfold two
or three weeks ahead of it's fellows.
Still more time was gained by inject
ing water into the buds. Not content
with water, physician has tried in.
jections of water with ten per cent,
of alcohol. BY this means he sue
ceeded in gaining ten days in the
budding Of oak twigs.
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lost her presence of mind, and blurt-
ed out the invitation which it would
have been wiser to suppress. IT,
The answer came at once: "Impos-
sible. my dear lady, impossible! I
could not sanction it! Mr.. Paludan-
Muller is weak; he is good-natured;
he is only too ready to go into So
ciety. It is my privilege to prevent
it. I say to him, You are too deli.
cate, my dear, to mix with others.
You must positively consider your
health"
Miss Fog feebly asked whether the
poet might not himself be appealed to,
Such old friends! so small party!
so early an hour" The lady was quite
obdurate, however. II could not trust
him with your message. He is so
weak, so good-natured: His place is at
home with me. l do not wish to dine
abroad, why should he?"
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Just Hia lob.

Joakley-Now, there's a fellow who
doesn't do anything but pick up pins
all the time" -ua" Liz ~ 49,
Coakley-Well, welll that's a queer
superstition. .: .-0E
% Joakley-Oh, no; it's not supersti.
ton, but an occupation. He's EN-.
ployed In a bowling alley.-Catholic
Standard and Times.
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PUTS OUT PETROLEUM FIRES
Caustlo Soda Solution Mixed With
Alum Is Found to Be Most 80
Efficacious.

There are no fires more disastrous
than those in which petroleum min.
eral essences, benzoin, etc., play a
part, on account of the difficulty of
getting them under control. No real
ly eff1cacious method has ever been
put into use to ~extinguish fires OF
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Kent Its Ministers Lone.

"The town of Lancaster, Mass, in
which live" said Mr.. Harold Parker,
lis place Of little size-not over
1000 population-and yet it has
enough of individuality and quality,
not to speak Of history, behind it to