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The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1912-06-19
DIDN'T SAVEY OWN LANGUAGE
Filipino Draws Down on His Head
indignation Of Amateur In.
terpreter.

A party OF tourists In small Fill
Pine village were trying to make the
native driver OF bull cart under
stand that they wished their baggage
transferred from the bungalow to the
railway station at two o'clock In the
afternoon Bnt the native did not
seem to comprehend either their ges-
lures or their hybrid language.
Standing near the tourists was a re-
cruit of the United States army, who
had been in the islands just a
month and was extremely proud of
the few words of Hog Spanish" that
he had learned. SO he offered his
services rs interpreter
Say, hombre," said he impressively
to the Filipino. when the clock on
that steeple yonder strikes two, ding
ding you get your bull cart, moo
moo and carry these trunks to the
station, 'toot-toot,' Sayey?"
"No sabe." solemnly replied the sa'
tive.
"What.at!" roared the Interpreter.
DO you mean to tell me that you
don't understand your own language
--Everybodys.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1912-06-19
Bear With a Thirst.

There are probably a number OF
men in Maine who remember the tame
bear shat used to live In Redngton
in days when numbering was booming
In that section. This bear was 200
FOUNDER, kind and docile, but the pos
SCISSOR Of one bad habit. That was his
penchant for intoxicating liquor.
Now and then lumbermen would get
the bear drunk, which was an exceed
ingly easy thing to do Bruin preferred
rum, but would drink whiskey if
nothing better was at hand. In the
morning after a nights debauch he
frequently had typical morning
after thirst" which he learned to
quench by turning q faucet outside
the main camp when he would lap up
the water very eagerly that ran from
the tap.
No efforts were made at reforma-
ton, although 1t is not stated that the
animal filled a drunkard's grave. AS
a matter of fact ne lived at the camps
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1912-06-19
VALUE OF The SUNROOM
Wise Woman When experimenting
the Building of Her Home VIII
Add This Apartment.

The wise woman when superintend
Ing the building of her home will add
a sunroom to the house.
This is a place where the children
can gain health.
Greenhouses are built to give sun
light to plant life, but the children
are allowed to grow in sunless rooms.
The sunroom IL best when built
upon the second floor, facing east and
south.
The numerous windows should be
built close together and set In slop.
ing roof.
This room should be arranged so
that 1t is conveniently Independent Of
the rest of the house, in case of III
ness.
Paint the walls cream. and have the
floor parQuet Carpets and rugs
should be eliminated from the sun.
room, They harbor dust and germs,
Where the floor and wall join a
curve should be made, as in the mod
orn hospitals,
The furniture should be of the sim.
Dlest; comfortable chairs, settees and
cushions with washable covers should
be the rule
Here, during the spring months, the
children can study with particularly
Good results, and spend all recreation
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1912-06-19
Birds Nest In Mall Box.

Probably q birds nest In a rural
mail box Ia rare thing. II 1t has ever
happened before, but out In Oswe-
gatchie a small bird has taken posses
sion Of mail box and has already
built her nest and laid three eggs and
# looks as though she would complete
her work of Matching and rearing her
young.
The particular box picked out by
the bird is one that Is In use daily and
the mail carried never misses stop
at this box. Mrs. Bird seems to enjoy
the idea TO have the mail carrier lift
the cover OF the box and deposit the
mail and will sit on her nest as uncon-
cerned as can be. The mail box has
been fixed 80 that It win not close en-
tirely so that the bird may complete
the task of rearing her young, 1t IL
not known what kind of bird this Is.
but It Is thought that II is phebe.
being brown of color and about the
size of a sparrow and laying sky.blue
eggs-Watertown Correspondent New
London Day.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1912-06-19
for a number of years without harm
ing a person, although some Of the
men seemed to antagoniZe him at
times, From the Maine Woods.
Need Of Relaxation.

How shall our colleges assist Amer
can youth to secure the art of relaxa.
ton and to obtain the ability to relieve
the tension OF the workaday world by
beneficial and delightful relief from
business strain? Such gifts,will often
be the chief assets OF q college mans
training. Business men and profess
sional men, too, frequently reach mid
die life with no interest outside their
specialties. When business is over,
life is a blank There are no eager
voices of pleasant pursuits calling
them away from the common round
and routine tasks 1t is too late to
form habits. The rich rewards that
education may give in leisure hours
are lost, swallowed up by a. thousand
things that are merely on the way to
the prizes that count. This is a ter
rife loss, and for this loss our col
leges are In part at least at fault
The Century.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1912-06-19
PENNY WISE, POUND FOOLISH
Contractor Saved Mis- Nickel, but Was
Out Something on the Trans.
action.

How to save a nickel and lose q
thousand dollars Is lesson learned
by Bronx contractor. He was at
the Fordham station OF the Third ave-
nue. elevated and he wanted to go to
West Farms, at the esd of the Lenox
subway. to submit bid on contract.
The ordinary way TO make such trip
would be to pay two car fares, but
this careful contractor saw way to
complete the journey Tor single
fare, but he says he Will never do 1t
again.
He bought an elevated ticket and
rode down town to Third avenue and
One Hundred and Forty-ninth street,
where he got transfer to the down
town subway train. lie intended to
ride down to the next station, Mott
avenue, get of there and cross to the
uptown side and ride back to his des-
tination, thus saying tive cents, In.
fortunately that day there was an &C.
Cident In the subway, the trains were
blocked for nearly an hour and he
was IN train that was stalled hall
way between two stations. When ne
finally did arrive at the Office he found
all the bids had been opened and the
contract awarded. His bid, however
was lower than the one accepted yet
il was for sum sufficiently largo tc
have shown him cool profit o.
81 900.
Then &c went out ana spent about
$40 in drinks to drown his sorrow.--
New York Times.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1912-06-19
On Boston. Common.

Comparatively few people know that
there was once "spinning school,
on Boston Common. Winsor's Memo
rial History OF Boston records that
upon the arrival In Boston Of some
Irish spinners and weavers b spinning
craze took possession Of the town.
land the women, young and old, high
and low. rich and poor, hocked into
the spinning school, which for want OF
better quarters, was set up IN the Com
mon, In the open air. Here the whirr
of their wheels was heard from morn
ing TO night" Thirty-flve years later
the Society for Encouraging Industry
and Employing the Poor again used
the Common as a spinning school,
about 800 young women appearing
there.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1912-06-19
TELEGRAPH OF SAVAGE.
SENDS NEWS SWIFTLY OVER
GREAT DISTANCES.
Natives OF the Sudan Use Horns Of
Elephant Tusks, Tomtoms and
Whistles Basutos Employ
Large Gourd Drums.

The principle of telegraphy would
appear to. have been anticipated by
the savage tribes Of Africa in the
heart OF Africa This barbaric system
of communication. a. once practical
and effective, survives to this day
ami its value has been tested many
times.
French explorers seem to have been
the first to bring this system to the
knowledge Of civilized people. BY
means Of it news OF important events
In the interior OF the Sudan reaches
all the trading ports. on the coast in
very short time.
The communication Is made by
means of various Instruments, the
most common ones being horns, toni
toms and whistles, The horns are
made Of solid ivory, followed out CT
elerhants' tusks. The mouthpiece Is
at the side These trumpets are of
various sizes, but the favorite ones
are very long and give seven distinct
notes, produced by plugging the
mouthpiece with corks Of different
sizes The ordinary tomtom is hol-
ow bit of wood, With a goatskin
stretched over one end,
The following instance illustrates
the manner In which this native tele-
graph is employed, The post com,
mander st Stanley Falls was once. in
| formed by native Of neighboring
village that provision train had been
attacked two days before at point
1870 miles further dow 49, the Conso. A
week later the party arrived and con-
Grmed the story In part.
They had reached the scene Of the
alleged attack at tie time reported,
but the shots that the natives had ta-
ken as Indications Of a conflict with
robbers had been fred at a herd OF
antelope.
At "a later period, when an officer Of
the French Congo came to grief In the
rapids, the accident was reported the
next morning at a village 1856 miles
distant.
Among the Bengala tribe sort OF
xylophone is used with four notes, by
means OF which the natives communi-
cate over great distances in a kind OF
telegraphic language.
An American missionary working
among the BasutCs discovered that the
villages had means OF conveying mes
sages from one chief to another or OF
transmitting tho intelligence of defeat
or victory
The Basutos hollow out q large
gourd and thoroughly dry 1t. Then
kidskin, as hard and as thin IS narch-
nent, Is stretched across the hollow OF
this gourd. When beaten with pad
ded drum stick this gives forth a
sound that can be distinctly heard at
distance Of from flve'to eight miles.
In every village there is class OF
men who are utilized az scouts.
Among these there are always some
trained to use the gourd drum. The
code Is what might be called an Al.
rican Morse alphabet and Is beaten on
the drum in the open air.
The sound Ia carried across the val
legs and glens to the next village.
where 1t Is interpreted by another
scout. II the message is for dis
tant village he repeats it on his drum
and In this way it is carried from vii
lags to village, with very little loss Of
/ time until 1t reaches the person for
whom it Is intended.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1912-06-19
THE THREE FLApPERS.
BY Steel Booth.


Just as emerged Tuesday noon
from II. f. Moreland's Sheet Iron
Works, where | had just placed an
order, not for tin cans to tie to
certain persons, but large steel
booth for Kimnel's New theater,
was greeted with:
"Mr. Wot Nox II we 'Squaw-
zottes' are to be called 'Fan-Shes
why. should not the three 'Flappers
in the Home of II. S. G. M. be
called the "Fan-lIes?"
THE 'Flappers?' Come through
Come through, Elucidate, please,
said |.
"A 'Flapper' Is young duck that
has Just shed It's coat Of down ant
emerged from the waddling stage,
replied the "Fan-She."
I've got YOU" said. |.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1912-06-19

he owed to the perusal of the Bible
his vocabulary. The variety of ex.
preston to be found ON the part OF
the different writer's Ia strangely com.
mingled with unity of expression due
in large part to the fact that all of
these men are writing with. at least
one great purpose In view. For we
have In the Bible a style which Is
more or less uniform from beginning
to end--eyen the style Of expression.
The Christian Herald. 4
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1912-06-19
Calculating Nature.

rs that garden you are making ?"
NO." replied Mr.. Crosslots. tits a
subterfuge. tear up as much of the
yard as my wife will allow me to and
then let 1t alone all summer. It's lust
that much less territory to run tbs
lawn mower over"
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1912-06-19

The Chicago hostilities have tee
totally obscured the baseball hori-
zon, The rain really wasn't neces-
sary.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1912-06-19
PHELPS KNOCKED
FR0MB0X, NICHOLS
RELIEVING HIN
No Games at Cairo or C'arksville
Yesterday on Account Of
Wet Grounds

liopkinsyille, Ky, june ls,--The
locals defeated paGacah, today, in
tie only game played IN the Kitty.
Tlelps was knocked from the box,
Nichols being sent in to relieve him.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1912-06-19
His OutIst for Originality,

HAS that young man nerve and
Originality?" YES" replied Miss
Cayenne; but he uses them all mp
III selecting funny hate"
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1912-06-19
PIRATES MAKE IT
THREE OUT OF FOUR
American Association.

At Milwaukee-Mi Milwaukee 6, Min
neapolis 5.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1912-06-19
SENATOR'S WIN
SEVENTEENTH STRAIGHT

Washington, June Washing
ten won it's seventeenth straight to-
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1912-06-19

At other places, open dates.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1912-06-19

At Toledo Columbus A, Toledo
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1912-06-19
hours in this room.

tIIE5 IVVEII'
This Is an excellent reason why the
sensible woman should set this trap
| to catch a sunbeam"
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1912-06-19

Batteries-W Works and Stanage;
X aler, George and ONeal.
Rest of circuit, open dates.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1912-06-19
TIGERS WIN BY PUNCHING HITS.

Detroit, Mich, June 17.--Detroit
punched hits in the first and second
INNINGS today and won.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1912-06-19

Ciarksyille-E Evansville. rain.
The Clovis news. [volume] (Clovis, N.M.) 1907-1929, 1912-05-09

Would like a list Of several
good cheap farms within from
five to ten miles Of Clovis. Am
expecting a number of land buy
ers from the east in a few days
and want q list Of the best bar
gains in land.
w. L. Mansfield, Mgr.
Mansfield CLAIBORNE Co.
Clovis, N. M
The Clovis news. [volume] (Clovis, N.M.) 1907-1929, 1912-05-09
Post Win Make Rain as i
is Needed.

Fort Worth, Texas, May 8rd.
There will be rain every two
weeks at Post City this summer.
according to calculations of c..
w. Post, the wealthy manufae-
turer and founder Of Post City.
who is q demonstrator Of the
possibilities of rainfall by daa-
mite conclusion.
Of this work, Mr.. Post today
talked entertainingly, passing.
over the item Of ST. 600 for each
battle with the skies as an in
significant point. First, he is
absolutely satisfied with the re-
suit Of the tests. He doesn't
ask the interviewer to take his
judgement for it, but states the
facts.
Inc iiIsI dJLehlpJ aL using lou
pound charges failded. T h e
next with $50 pound charges
Was successful, as have been the
others, though the charges have
been considerably reduced. The
cost, as indicated, was approxi
mately 81, 900
This brings a rain covering a
territory of about twenty-five
miles. The cost is figured at a
quarter Of a cent an acre. Four
teen hundredths of an inch is
the average artificial rainfall.
Mr.. Post contrasts the cost
with that Of irrigation at from
$l2 to SIS an acre, with the adj
ded advantage of water for pas
lures and trees, as we'll as for
land under cultivation.
The Clovis news. [volume] (Clovis, N.M.) 1907-1929, 1912-05-09

The bin introduced ia congress
for the purpose Of shortening the
period of residence required up
on homestead entries from five
to three years, has not yet be-
come law, and this office is
therefore. unable at the present
time, to furnish any definite in
formation as to it's pr obable ef-
feet. Very Respect.
I'LL. Proudfit.
Assistant Commissioner
The Clovis news. [volume] (Clovis, N.M.) 1907-1929, 1912-05-09

Residence OF Five
Years REQUIRED.

Department of the interior, us
Land Office. Washington, April,
10th 1912
The Clovis news. [volume] (Clovis, N.M.) 1907-1929, 1912-05-09
American Bank
& Trust Company
CAPITAL $50, OO0.00
CLOVIS. N. MEXICO.
The High Cost Of Living

You're late again, 2 said Mrs.
81 Hawkins to her lord and mas.
ter, 4 suppose you have been
down to the store, arguin' poll
tics again. Hope you have dis
covered something certain con
corning the high cost of living
/ declare everything from beef
steak to matches has gone up il
price so that L@5n't know what
we are an coming to, especially
The Clovis news. [volume] (Clovis, N.M.) 1907-1929, 1912-05-09

Department of The interior, us
Land Office. Washington. April,
10th 1912
Mn. William r. Wagner,
Cameron, New Mexico.
Sir:
In reply to your letter of April
4th.. 1912 you are advised that
the Department held in the case
Of John B. Day, decided January,
IL, 1912, that a person holding
an original homestead entry UNI
der Section 2286, Revised Statu-
ties and an additional under the
Enlarged Homestead Act is re-
quired to submit proof upon the
original entry within the statu-
tory period of such entry, but
as to the original entry, it will
only be necessary to show COM
pliance with the general home
stead laws as to residence and
cultivation and improvements.
In order to perfect title to the
additional entry, the entryman
must continuously cultivate to
agricultural crops other than
native grasses an area equal to
one-eighth of the area cf the
additional entry, beginning with
the second year of entry, and
an area equal to one-fourth of
the area Of the additional entry,
beginning with the third year of
the entry, and must main tain
residence for the full period of
five years from the date of the
additional entry. Such residence
and cultivation however, may
be had either upon original or
additional homestead.
The Clovis news. [volume] (Clovis, N.M.) 1907-1929, 1912-05-09
100000 Death Benefit

$500 weekly benefit for Ac-
cident or Sickness; $1,000 for
loss of limb or eyesight; 500
for Emergency Relief Benefit.
Cost is $500 per year. No 9TH
er dues or assessment. Men
and women between is to SIS
are accepted. Reliable company
with 500, OOO 90 State Deposit
for the protection of Policy hold
ers and to guarantee the pay
of claims. Write for further
information giving your age,
sex and occupation. Address
Dept. All, American Registry
Company, Erie, ia.
July 25.
The Clovis news. [volume] (Clovis, N.M.) 1907-1929, 1912-05-09

When prosperity is the sub.
ject, the increased deposits
in this Bank prove that
prosperity is here again.
Are you sharing in it? If
not, it is possibly because
you are not doing business
in a business way.
We suggest that you open
an account with us. Our
officers will gladly show you
the benefit Of such an ac-
ton.
The Clovis news. [volume] (Clovis, N.M.) 1907-1929, 1912-05-09

if all your kin that have been
writing about visiting the Paci.
6c coast come out On us this
summer.
Nothin' chat 7 know Of T.
hinder EN-, remarked ST. As
far as / can find out. about Che
only thing that hasn't been re.
vised upward in the last few
years has been the railroad rates.
Speaking Of railroad rates Jake
Beeheimer certainly got a set
ting back this afternoon. He
was saying that everything out
here was higher than 10 was
back east, and that it was all on
account of freight rates. There
was a travelling man at the store
who showed him and us a few
mighty interesting facts, and
kinder made me think I'd been
thinkin' wrong. It seems that
an Investigation was recently
made as to the relation between
the high cost of living and
freight rates. Inquiry was made
in fifty towns to learn the freight
charges paid by a family Of five
with an income Of $3.50 annually
and spending it for the house
hold. The freight rate was
traced from the fields and pas
lures to the mills, factories and
packing houses. 1t was found
that highest total freight char
ges that could be taxed any fam
lily on the list Of towns was 81. 70,
Dot including fuel"
you are not telling me what
happened to Jake" interrupted
Mrs. 81. well, Jake got to
telling how much more his cloth
ing cost because of the freight
rates than it would back east, "
replied ST. He said that a pair
Of shoes that cost $500 in Bos-
ton or Chicago was sold here for
$500. this fellow showed that
the st9fekeeper that taxes an in
crease like that and claims tn at
it is on account of freight rates
wasn't playing exactly fair; and
showed that the freight rate on"
a pair of shoes was a little more
than two cents. a coat that sold
for $3.50 carried a freight
charge less than half a cent
more than the shoes. For every
thing else that Jake had on the
freight rate was less than a cent
except his pants and undershirt
where the rate was a little over
a cent apiece. The fellow
showed from Jake's own figures.
estimating the cost of the cloth
ing he had on at $44. rs, that the
total weight was a little over 8.
pounds and That the freight
charges on the whole outfit was
less than ten cents. The freight
charge on the whole bin of
goods would be less than two
tenths of 1 per cent of the total
cost, which kinder made me be-
lieye that the scream about high
freight rates is more or less a
bluff on the part of the store
keepers for The purpose Of BOOST
ing prices. Why in Leadville
you pay Is cen is for a glass of.
beer that costs only 5 cen Is in
Denver, and they tell that the
extra dime in Leadville is on ac.
count of the freight rates.
Are freight rates any higher
now than they used to be?' in
quired Mrs. ST.
Mott so. replied 81. Freight
rates have been revised down
ward for the past twenty years,
while everything else is higher.
So / guess we will have to quit
charging up the high cost of liv-
The Clovis news. [volume] (Clovis, N.M.) 1907-1929, 1912-05-09

constantly on hand fresh
Bread, Pies, Cakes. etc. Also
best Chill served ia city. First
door south of Owl Drug Store.
The Clovis news. [volume] (Clovis, N.M.) 1907-1929, 1912-05-09
DR.. D. D. ~Swearingin
Physician q Surgeon.

make a speciality of diseases
.Of the eye. ear nose and throat
and fitting glasses.
McBee Bid. opposite p~ostoilice.
Office phone l73 Res. 1872.