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The Cairo bulletin., 1913-07-16

drumming up marriage iieeuses. ANY
fellow can dodge r'eku a ploposa
until he is alone with ;hc t1r doll or
a fine mcoglight hight and then he
tumblos JUST llk .Uway Dumpty.
Another queer thing about the moon
is it gets FUN just as ragniar as clock
work ana goes along just as steadily
rs ever. 1t Is supposed TO belong to
night but many q day you cal look
up yonder and sec it sweeping around
the blue Just as though 1t owned it.
Yes, the moon is a queer proposition.
One might write about the green
cheese and the man in the moon, but
that would only make it harder to try
to understand just what il is.
The Cairo bulletin., 1913-07-16
Two Good "chIld Stories"

Childish naivete and simplicity are
the same the world over, and in all
climes and quarters result In similar
ly amusing and appealing results. A
recent book of Mark Twain remin!s-
cences credits the beloved humorist
with some delightful child stories of
his youthful and cherished girl friends.
One of these angel fishes Dorothy,
was especially rich in apt retoEs.
Dorothy" Mr.. Clemens reported
The Cairo bulletin., 1913-07-16
LADIESI!
HAPPY HOME MATERNITY~

for private and easy connements Forty cxperence'
reliable. adoption in nice homes: come beiore.,mo
You wish Call write either Dr. Turner or florsaeo
Hyatt. Pine Lawn! St. Louis Co.! Mo. STRICTLY
ethical,
The Cairo bulletin., 1913-07-16
OLD C0INa WANTED

sss-We pay CASH premIrms on
hundreds OF Old Coins. Keep ali
money dated before 1888, and send
TEN cents at once for our New II.
lustrated Coin Value Book. AT. j,
may mean YOUR fortune. Clarke 4
Co.. Coin Dealers. Dept. 50, Ls Roy,
". i'-AdH 2-s-1yr
The Cairo bulletin., 1913-07-16
Help Wanted-Female.

WANTED-Th1rty girls at the
Overall factory, steady work, good
pay Twenty-ninth, near Sycamore
D. l.. Marx & Co.
The Cairo bulletin., 1913-07-16
Help Wanted Male.

WANTED FOR u. s. ARMY
Able bodied unmarried men between
ages of Is and IS; citizens of United
States, of good character and tenn
perate habits, who can speak, read
and write the English language. For
information apply to Recruiting Of
iceT, All Ohia st. Cairo, ILL.,, j.. 1 yr
The Cairo bulletin., 1913-07-16

WANTED-Girl to address on
typewriter. Write box PIT, city.
7-16-2t
The Cairo bulletin., 1913-07-16

S2,0O0.000 will be turned loose in
Cairo within IL months for levee i'm.
provements.
The Cairo bulletin., 1913-07-16
Lost and Found.

LOST - Crank off automobile.
finder leave word at Roy Williams
office and receive reward. 7-f2-7t
WOMEN sell guaranteed hosiery
to wearer 40 per cent, profit. Also
.ueekwesr, handkerchiefs and petit
.noats. Make SIS daily. Experience
unnecessary WEAR PROOF SO26
Chestnut St, Philadelphia, Pa.
6-22-Sun& Wed st
The Cairo bulletin., 1913-07-16
From an Immaculate Plant

The main plant of Anhcuser-Busch re-
quires / 10 separate buildings.
1t covers - acres equal to 20 city blocks.
5000 people are employed here and l,500
others in branches.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1913-10-23
IN FASHIONS FANCY, FREE
Philanderer in Loves Garden Asks
for Much From the Darling
of His Heart

For eyes I love them deeply blue,
that rival Heavens fairest hue, and
sparkle like the twinkling star up
where the lustrous planets are; that
carry in their slightest glance a
CLEAN that causes hearts to dance
such eyes, indeed, as greet my gaze
when Phyllis DER my pathway stTays.
For hair I've ever been inclined
unto the russell golden kind, as bur
nished as the copper sun that lights
my way when day is done, and brings
the comfort tried and true when all
my labors hard are, through-such
locks, indeed, as glorify the world
when Helen passes by.
For brows the alabaster sort have
ever been the kind I'd court. Not
overnight, nor yet too low; unwrin-
kled as the fresh dropped snow; that
speak of an intelligence that's nor
NAL rather than intense-in short,
just such a brow as Prue always pre-
sents unto the view.
In figure-well, you cannot beat this
figure that is styled 'petite"-the
slender sort that moves with grace,
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1913-10-23
INJECT ETHER INTO VEINS
All Unpleasant Effects Eliminated by
the New Anesthetizing Method
OF Philadelphia Physician.

The new ether injection method Of
anesthetizing patients in surgical op-
erations was demonstrated one night
recently before the Philadelphia Coun-
ty Medical society in the Elkin clinic
amphitheater at the Hahnemann hos
pital.
DR. J. W. Hassler and DR.. J. H.
Homan of New York demonstrated
the new method Three operations
were performed by DR. William B. Van
Lennep, chief Of the Hahnemann sur
gical staff, with DIR. G. A. Van Lennep
assisting.
Two were minor operations and one
was a major abdominal operation. In
all cases the subjects were put to
sleep with the ether injection instant
~. With the old respiratory method
narcosis takes from five to fifteen min
utes.
Before operation Doctor Honan
gave a lecture on the new method.
A Z per cent. salt solution of ether
and hedinol, or ether and paraldehyde
is injected into the vein Of the pa
tents arm.
All the operations were attended
with the greatest success. None OF
the after ether effects were notice
able in any of the three cases. More
than fifty physicians and surgeons, to-
gether with one hundred students,
were present at the clinic.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1913-10-23
HOW TO BUILD AN IcE-YACHT.

Ice-yachting is one Of the most ex-
hilarating Of winters sports; and it
IS one that any boy with access to
pond, river, lake or icy street can en-
Joy, because the building of an ice
yacht is not beyond his ability. Fig
ure 1 shows a yacht which is simple
to build. 1t is small, and Of course
with its necessarily small sail area, it
cannot be expected to attain anything
like record breaking speed; but 4
medium speed is safest and is fast
enough to satisfy anybody's fondness
for. sWiftness.
A detail of the ice-yacht's body
framework is shown in Fig. ,. The
seat plank A is a 2-by-10 10 feet long,
the crosspiece B is a 2-by-8 feet
long, and the braces c are 2-by-4s S
feet long. Spike plank A to the center
OF crOsspiece B, at right angles to it,
and spike the braces G to B and to
the edges of A, as shown, trimming
off the ends on bevel to make them
fit. The crosspiece D is a foot-bar
and should be spiked to the underside
Of pieces A and c.
Figs. 3, and show the details for
making and attaching the bow run
ners. The runner blocks E are pieces
Of 2-by-4 IS inches long. Round off
their bow ends as shown. The bot
toms can be simply planned off on the
edges to bring them to narrow sur
faces, but it is best to fasten iron
shoes to them. Hoop-iron can be
used, but half-oyal iron strips are bet
ter. These can be purchased at any
hardware store. The hoop-iron can be
punched with nail for attaching, but
the half-oval iron strips must be
drilled. You can get this done at a
blacksmith shop or a machine shop
at a small cost. The length of block
F should be made equal to the width
of plank &, and the width 6 inches.
Spike the block to the center of the
top of e Zig. ~. Cut the two blocks
G inches long and 6 inches wide,
notch them to fit over the runner
blocks, and spike them to the sides of
the runner blocks and to the ends Of
block F. In fastening the runners in
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1913-10-23

of strap-iron similar to that shown in
Fig. II, punch two holes in each end,
fasten them to the boom and gaff ends
with nails, and reinforce the cOnnec-
ton by wrapping with wire Gig. 100.
Unbleached muslin is good material
for the sail Make this feet along
the huff, or edge along the mast, 8
feet on the leach, or outer edge, and
the respective lengths of the gait and
boom along the head and foot. Loops
of heavy wire, or curtain-pole rings
will make satisfactory mast rings, a
cIothes-line pulley will do for the
mast-top pulley-block, and a clothes
line for sheets and halyards. Cleats
to which to make fast these ropes
should be cut as shown in Fig. Il,
and be screwed to the body frame
| work
Copyright. 1913, by A Nicely HaI)
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1913-10-23
On Crossjnc a River,

Lincoln's reply to a Springfield cler-
gyman, who asked him what was to
be his policy on the slavery question,
was most apt:
You know the old Methodist
preacher out homer" said Lincoln.
''WeII, once a young Methodist was
worrying about Fox river, and ex-
pressing fears that he should be pre-
vented from fulfilling some of his ap-
pointments by a freshet in the river.
Young man said the old preach
er. I have always made it a rule in
my life not to cross Fox river till
got to it
And" said the president, 81 am not
going to worry myself over the slav-
CRY question till I get to it,
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1913-10-23
MARKETS
Milwaukee, Oct. IS. 1913.


Butter-Creamery, extras, Sic:
prints, 32c; frsts, 28@29c; seconds, 20
@27c; renovated. 26@27c; dairy. fam
cy, 2Sc.
Cheese-American. full cream, new
made twins, 151a916c; Young Am
ericas, 160161ac; daisies, 16@161acs
longhorns, 16c; limburger, new. 1511zc.
Eggs-Current receipts fresh as to
quality, ESQ 24ct recandled, extras, 25
G26c; seconds, 16Q1Sc.
Live Poultry-Fowls, 1S1ac; Foost-
ers, 9010c; springers, 1313c.
Wheat-No. l northern. S7hc; No
northern S51sc; No northern. S2cs
No. 1 velvet, Sc.
Corn-No. 5 yellow, zoe.
Oats-No. white, 39039hc; stand
ard. 39% 0401ac.
Barley-No. 4, 55072c; No. 3, $50
75c; Wisconsin, Tic,
Rye-No. ,, 641a@65c.
Hogs-Good heavy butchers, S15@
$40; fair to best light, S.40@S.70; pigs,
100000.
Cattle-Butchers' steers, 6.75@S.507
COWS and heifers, 5.O007.50; feeders,
5000 100; calves, 10.00@10.55.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1913-10-23

place on the bow Of the iCe-yacht
body, set the ends Of plank B be-
tween upright blocks G; then spike
through plank B into blocks F, and
spike the upper ends of blocks to
the sides of plank B.
The stern runner has the rudder-
post attached to it. The runner block
E is similar to the bow runners. Cut
the rudder-post H out of a piece OF
2-by-4 Is inches long; leave inches
of the lower end square, and cut the
remainder of the length round Gig.
y. Notch the top of the runner block
to a depth of 2 inches, to receive the
lower end Of the rudder-pOst; and
spike the post in place and brace it
with the triangular blocks l, as shown.
The tiller X is a piece of 2-by-4 IL
inches long, with 6 inches Of one end
left square and the remainder Of the
length cut round. Bore a hole through
the square end large enough for the
rudder-post to fit in, and bore hole
through the tiller and the rudder-pOst
for bolt to pass through for boiling
the tiller in place. Spike the block
L to the rear end Of plank a, and bore
a hole down through it and plank A,
large enough for the rudder-post to
turn in.
Fig. 9 shows the bench support OF
the mast. Make this about inches
high and 8 inches wide, and of the
right length to bring the uprights
against the sides of plank A. Bore
the mast hole through the bench and
also through the plank A. The hole
in the bench should be so bored that
It will come a trifle back Of the hole
in plank A. so the mast will have
slight rake, or slant, az shown in Fig.
I.
A rug-poIe makes an excellent mast
for a small ice-yacht, but lacking one
YOU can cut a mast out OF piece OF
2-bv-4 or use q small sapling. The
mast should be feet long. Brace
it with rope shrouds fastened to its
TOP and to screw-eyes screwed into
the ends of plank B.
A boat rig is shown in the illus
tration of the completed ice-yacht,
but any other form Of sail that you
wish may be substituted. The boom
for the cat-boat rig should be feet
long, and the gaff, or top piece, about
feet long. Curtain poles will do
nicely for the gaff and boom If you
can get them. Instead OF providing
the mast ends of the boom and gaE
with crotches, you can prepare loops
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1913-10-23

however fast or slow the pace. n.
giantess would do at all in answering
my ardent call, but just a pocket
Venus, say, like dainty Violet or May
A silvery voice like dear Babette's;
a tripping toe like fair Annettes; the
wit of Chloe and the plain and home
Iy virtues of sweet Jane-these are
the points that make for me the per
feet maid whose lord I'd be; and
where, l ask, in all life's whirl can
all be found in just one girl?-Blake
ney Gray in Harper's Weekly.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1913-10-23
DinlomacY.

One day a huge Irish batteryman,
stood in the crowd at the suffers nj
Nashville Presently a little Irishman
rushed up, flung his coat on the
ground, threw his hat beside it, and
jumping on them, yelled in high
voice, quivering with rage:
"Oi wud loike to find tn mon that
bate up poor Tim Murphy"
The big Irishman tapped his chest.
Dim tn mon" he beloved hoarsely
The little Irishman whirled around
Gee" he piped. "Ye did him UP
foiue"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1913-10-23

arinette.-Gustav V. Tutas, a
blacksmith Of Pound, this county, be.
lieveg he has discovered the long lost
art of tempering copper. Tutas has
tempered a piece of copper so hard
that a file makes no impression on it.
He is having his process patented
Sheboygan.-Mis more than a
week, the body Of Miss Minnie Maui
man, aged So, of Scott, was found In
the river near Beechwood.
Eau CIaire-Col. Henry NJ. Atkin
son. aged IA, founder of the Eau Claire
Leader, died at his home here.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1913-10-23
HDon't Stop for Me-"

In the fight at Great Bethel, Order
" Sergeant Goodfeliow Of Colonel Al
lens regiment, was mortally wounded.
He handed his musket to a comrade-
oh" said he, Il guess I've got to go"
"Oh, don't mind me, boys" he con-
tinued, go on with the fight; don't
stop for mel" and pressing away
those who attempted to support him,
he sank down upon the ground. Just
at that instant his colonel passed, and
looking up to him he gasped, Good
bye, Colonel" Colonel Allen turned
CHASTITY white as he observed it.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1913-10-23
Cheers for the Ladies.

One Sunday three ladies called upon
a certain general at the Union camp
at Savannah. He stuck his head out
OF the flap of his tent, and whispered
to his orderly:
Three chairs for the ladies'"
The orderly got up on box and
shouted to the boys in camp:
Three cheers for the ladies'" The
boys took it up with a will.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1913-10-23

artist than lawyer, Notwithstanding
the environment, and it is so with
most professions. The exceptions
seem to be due to training and in
fuence, not to plain hereditary trans
mission.
A superficial likeness to parents
seems hereditary, but that is all that
we can assert. and that outward like
ness by no means infers an inward
likeness. There is nothing so easy
and nothing so fatal as this tendency
to attribute to heredity what is due
to training or want of training. It
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1913-10-23
BRETON HAUNTED HOUSE

A strange story OF q haunted Breton
peasant family is told in the London
Graphic
The family Groguennec. poor but
honest peasants, lived content and IN
disturbed till eight years ago. when
an old aunt died and left them a small
fortune Then their troubles began.
The ears of corn dried on the stalks.
the COWS gave no milk. the horses
slipped their halters in the stables
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1913-10-23
Questions Without Answers.

Declare to goodness, ma'am," said
the elevator man in the Woolworth
building, you've hardly any idea of
the questions people can ask. One
man looked in here the other day and
asked me how many windows this
building had in it. Another one, nice
looking old man he was, says to me
the other day, he says: Who is Mr..
Woolworth going to leave this building
to when he dies?"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1913-10-23
LITTLE KNOWN OF HEREDITY
Much Is Written and Said. but Really
Scientists Admit They Are Crop
ina for Truth.

There are few subjects on which so
much scientific nonsense is talked
and written as on heredity. Not very
much is known Of it as regards plants,
less of animals. and almost nothing as
regards humanity. To read books on
heredity, especially those of the Eu-
genie Society, is to read a mass OF
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1913-10-23

suggestions and hazardous inductions
where most of the facts are negative,
and only the exceptions are positive.
The very meaning of hereditary" is
not understood. If any quality is truly
hereditary, then it is always heredi-
taTy. 1t never occurs except as the re
suit of heTedity. and it is constant,
that is to say, it invariably follows.
But there is no quality of which this
can be said. That genius is not here
dftary is known. Even talent is not
Nor is any aptitude. A lawyers son
more often wants to be soldier or an
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1913-10-23
ADDronFIsfe

Look here, Mr.. Humperdinck," said
Slathers, the iceman, to his neighbor:
who enlivened his days by an occa'
sional horse trade, that team you
sent me won't do at all. They're moth
ing but q pair Of skates"
Veil" retorted the Dutchman, w
not? D'ttent you tell me you wanted
EN- for IN ice yaSon?"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1913-10-23

terrified into h rave; then the moth
er began to fai, It'll mysterious NAL
ady, and one Gey in broad daylight
in the fields {; I invisible giant hand
seemed to grin the younger son, and
ever since age jztng pains have seized
him at intervf
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1913-10-23

and stxyed. At nighttime the house
seemed filed with a rushing wind.
chains cIanked, the furniture. even to
the heavy Breton wardrobes, was
thrown about.
They called in the priest to counsel
and pray, and Just for so long there
would be truce, but whenever the fam
lily was alone and the last candle
blown out again began the uncanny do
ings. Six years ago the father died.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1913-10-23
It EXC ID Her Appetite.

The banali-- OF a sea poem by Al
fred Noyes lcd a Philadelphia some
teer at the Franklin Inn to say:
This poem of the sea reminds me
of a young woman from Illinois who
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1913-10-23
Mistake.

Mrs. Vastlee Rich (sentimentally)-
'Longfellow says: We cannot buy
with gold the old associations Vast.
lee Rich-"Don't you believe it, my
dear. When I was in politics 1 found
that cash would purchase the ancient
est organization on earth.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1913-10-23
Painful Situation.

My friends" acclaimed an orator
during a convention-"My friends,
say to you that this great republic OF
OUTS is standing on the brink OF an
abscessi ''-Saturday Evening Post.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1913-10-23
Her Way.

THE other night when I went home
hungry and wornout, my wife gave me
the cold shoulder"
"You are to be pitied."
mot at all. liked it and she cooks
II deliciously."
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1913-10-23
CcrtrarI Effect.

There is one very queer thing about
Jaggles."
What's THAR"
His dry humor is SO much more evt-
dent when he's been drinking"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1913-10-23
That Weather Strop

Eyes, sir, voted for him." said the
boss barber in low, tense tones, "but
l didn't know he was one of thosa
self-ghavers!"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1913-10-23
Chicago. Oct. IS. 1913.

Cattle-Beeves, LOO095O; stockers
and feeders, 5.25@77O; cows and heif-
ers, 3.60@840; calves, 700@1L00-
Hogs-Light, S.O5@S.70; heavy, 1855
@S.65; rough, 7.85QS.O5; pigs, 5000
SEQ.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1913-10-23

saw the Atlantic for the first time at
Cape May.
AS she stood on the windy beach,
gazing dreamily out over the vast blde
expanse of tumbling water, I said to
her:
so this is the first time you've
ever seen the sea, eh!'
Yes, the very first time she an
swered.
And what do you think of itT /
asked.
All, she said, with an ecstatic
smile, 1T smells just like oysters!'
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1913-10-23

The auto cannot be blamed for hu
man recklessness.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1913-10-23

excuses supineness ia governments
and professions.-H. Fielding Hall in
Atlantic Monthly.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1913-10-23

certain round WOTm, 8ncyI05L0ma quo
denale. in the human alimentary canal
According to CastelIant and Chalmers,
the disease is believed to have been
known TO the ancient Egyptians IN
der the term "heItp." which is men
toned in the Ebers paDyrus, written
some one thousand five hundred an
fifty years B. c, In the papyrus the
disease was called AAA, and certain
remedies we're suggested. Another an
cient reference occurs in the Sanscrit
Harita Samhita, where it is recorded
that the trouble was due to swallowing
clay. But whatever the ancients knew