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The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1913-03-10
Domestic Science Club.

The Domestic Science club VT
meet fhis afternoon in the basement
Of the Presbyterian church. The
subject of the meeting viii be
Bread and three Interesting papers
viii be read. Among the varieties
Of bread that will be discussed viii
be White bread" by Mrs. J. w
Rue. Nut bread by Mrs. John D..
Laid and Biscuits by Mrs. Albert
s. Gallagher.
Any persons desiring 10 join the
club are cordially invited to attend
this meeting.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1913-03-10
ust CAGE more
He VIII have his wish granted.
Maintained Belief in lqnorancs.

He'pANHsH SSsei w 'AbSa ahSS.
Opposition 10 state education in the
past was due largely 10 belief that
too much learning was no. good for
the masses. The worthy Hannah
More even. who was one OF the most
earnest supporters of the movement
for the establishment OF schools for
the poor In England had very definite
IDEAS as to how far the children
should be educated. The curriculum,
she declared. should comprise only
reading the Bible and the cateehism,
and such coarse works as may fit the
children for servants, adding deci-
sively. Il allow OF no writing for the
poor"
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1913-03-10
Does Friendship Do Thls2

at may. be true for some natures. as
Leonardo said, that If you are alone
you belong wholly to yourself; If you
have companion. you belong only
half to yourself but 1t is certainly
not so with me. With me friendship
never divides; II multiplies. A friend
always makes me more than am, bet
ter than am. bigger than am. We
two make four or fifteen. or forty
American Magazine.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1913-03-10
Infants Demand "Raatime."

A song writer says ragtime is as
legitimate music as the lullaby, The
ragtime.' he says, marks the passing
OF the old-fashioned mother who lula
bied the baby into dreaUland. Today
tie infant is ragged TO sleep, and,
according TO the statement OF an ex-
perienced nursery maid, they viii not
close an eye unless this particular
kind of music is hummed while they
are being rocked"
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1913-03-10
nURDERERWANTS
MUSIC B[fOREH|S
HANGING OCCURS
Convict to Die for Killing Two
Policemen Makes Eccentric
Appeal in Prison.

San Quentin. Cal. March g. A
woman who will sing Neopolotan
and Athenian ballads for a convict
ed murderer at San Quentin peni-
Tertiary is wanted A Greek muir
derer. who killed two policemen
wants to be hanged as soon as pos.
sible, but wants music first.
"All / ask OF You is lots Of black
coffee. a good cigar and woman to
sing TO me- want good singer
who can give me some of those Ital
Ian and Greek street songs. There
are are a lot Of them | want to hear
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1913-03-10
Sunday Mass Meeting

About i50 assembled in mass
meeting at the court house yester-
day afternoon pursuant TO call Is.
sued Saturday night The meeting
FOR the purpose of listening to the
claims Of aspirants for office Adj
dresses were made by II. A. Stone,
c G, Wilson and Zion Bishop.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1913-03-10

Hazleba- of Paduoah visited friend
here yesterday.
o. NJ. Rendieman of Sparta. III
visited Or, and Mrs, J J. Rendie'
man yesterday.
William Frazier of the Planter
;.otel has returned from visit OF
several weeks al New Orleans.
Mrs L. c. Emf and daughter, Miss
Mildred. will return from 81. Louis,
Mo. today after weeks visit there
Harry Becker OF Paducah. visited
his parents, Mr.. and Mrs George j.
Becker. of 529 Tenth street, yester-
day.
Mrs. Fred Nerdman of St Louis
who has been visiting he siste.',
Mrs. George Schoembs, has returned
home
Miss Bertha Schuler of Mound
City was the guest OF her sister
Mrs. Russell Hubs OF Thirty-fourth
street.
Mr.. and Mrs. f. A. Daley of 5l5
Seventh street have as their gnest
the alters father II II. Grace Of
St Louis.
NJ and Mrs, NJ Rendleman of
Makanda, are making an extended
visit to DR.. and Mrs J. j.. Rendlemaa
Of Twenty-eighth street
Mr. and Mrs G. E. Richey, Mrs
r. H. Hawley and daughter, Miss
Harriet, and Mrs. Nettie Burns Of
Mound City were Cairo visitors yes
terday.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1913-03-10
aSnnbeams. =

Miss Florence Snyder of Pine
street entertained her Sunday school
class Saturday afternoon.
The afternoon was spent in re-
hearsing for an Easter entertainment
which they are preparing to give.
All the conclusion of the afternoon
dainty refreshments were served by
the hostess
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1913-03-10
Modern Woman in Business.

Cashier--"But there is not cent
here to pay this check Of yours Fair
Customer am glad that you have
confessed. II your bank is as hard
up. as that you can give me what
money have here and will take my
account to safer institution Puck
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1913-03-10
No Cause for Alarm.

81 thought told you not to eat any
Sorterhouse steak without my permis
sio1s so you did, doc; SO you did,
.Then Why are you disobeying my
order" ibis won't delay the paying
OF your bill. doc! this steak is being
paid for By NJ friend here"
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1913-03-10
PERSONALS.


Sam White Of Iardwel, spent
Sunday IN Cairo
A. G. Elsey of Bardwell was IN
the city visiting yesterday after
neon.
Mrs. A. Comings of Eighth street
has returned from weeks visit at
Danvllle, III.
Miss Lee Hayden of East Prairie.
NO. is attending Browns business
90 lpge here.
Misses Gertrude Fisher and Josie
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1913-03-10

FOR RENTING store room ana
office rooms up stairs. 706 CONNER
cial avenue. Apply to Conrad Alba
zoo Eighteenth street. Adv. 2-27 Z;
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1913-03-10
Her Exclamation.

"You asked what the trump was at
least dozen times last night Yes,
Charley, dear. But didn't really
have to. did that to show was TAX.
ing an interest in the game"
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1913-03-10
He Cant Gee.

Many a man thinks he knows 1t all
q spite OF the fact that he is con
SANITY proving that he doesn't.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1913-03-10
Vote for four
q JOHN T. BROWN
* Q. P. HURD
N M. J. HoWLEY
X {. v. NEFF

these names were recommended by advocates
Of Commission Form Of Government At Mass
Meeting held at Court House, Friday night
March 7th, 1913. So
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1913-03-10
FOR COMMISSIONERS
Nominated at Court House Mass Meeting
Tobe copied at Primary Election to be held Marc
18th, 1913

Names to be written on Primary Ballot with
pen or pencil.
Don't forget to make an x in the square before
each name
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1913-03-10
WASH DAY

has no horrors for the housewife
who has learned to patronize re
liable laundry Why should IT,?
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1913-03-10

o. NJ. Rendieman OF Sparta. Ill
visited DR.. and Mrs. J J. Rendie.
man yesterday
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-06-08
Makes Repairs in Bathing Suit.
SANKEY'S [D0WB[L[E=H][EA|D.E[R

ner we had. Even the fremen used
to observe that the young engineer, al
ways neat, looked still neater on the
days when he took out Sankey's train.
BY and by there was an introduction
under the catalpas After that it was
noticed that George began wearing
gloves on the engine-not kid gloves,
but yellow dogskin; and black silk
shirts-he bought them in Denver, Then
such an odd way engineers have of
paying COMPREHENSIVE George
pulled into town on Number Two, If
it was Sankey's train, the big sky
scraper would give a short, hoarse
scream, most peculiar note, just as
it drew past Sankey's house, which
stood Cd the brow Of the hill west of
the yards, Thus Neeta would know
that Number Two and her father, and
naturally Mr. Sinclair. were in again,
and all safe and sound
When the railway trainmep held their
division fair at McCIoud there was
lantern TO be voted to the most popu-
lar conductor-a gold-plated lantern
with Il green curtain in the globe. Cal
Stewart and Ben Doton, who were
very swell conductors and great ri
walls, were the favorites, and had the
town divided over their chances for
winning it, But at the last moment
George Sinclair stepped up to the
booth aud cast n storm of votes for
old man Sankey. Dotou IS friends and
Stewart 5 laughed at first; but San
keys votes kept pouring in amazing
ly. The two favorites got frightened;
they pooled their issues by throwing
Stewart g vote TO Doton. But it
wouldn Z do. Georgie Sinclair, with
crowd Of ngineers-Cameron, Ken.
nedy, Foley. Bat Mullen, and Burns
came back at them with such swing
that in the final five minutes they fair.
ly swamped Doton Sankey took the
lantern by a thousand votes. But I
understood it cost George and his
friends a pot Of money.
Sankey said all the time that he
didu Z want the lantern, but just the
same he always carried that particular
lantern. with his full name, Sylvester
Sankey, ground into the glass Just be-
low the green mantle, Pretty soon.
Neeta being then eighteen, it was ru-
mored that Sinclair was engaged TO
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-06-08

Miss Sankey; was going to marry her,
And marry her he did; though that
was not until after the wreck in the
Blackwood gorge after the Big Snow,
1t goes by just that name on the
West End yet; for never were such 3
winter and such snow known on the
plains and in the mountains One
train on the northern division was
stalled six weeks that winter, and one
whole coach was chopped up for kind
ling wood. The great and desperate
effort of the company was to hold
open the main line, the artery which
connected the two coasts. 1t was a
hard winter on trainmen. Week after
week the snow kept falling and blow
ing. The trick was not to clear The
line; it was to keep it clear. Every
day we sent out trains with the fear
that we should not see them again for
week Freight we didp t pretend to
move; local passenger business had to
be abandoned, Coal, to keep our en-
gines and our towns supplied, we had
to carry; and after that, all the brains
and muscle and motive power were
centered Oh keeping One and Two, our
through passenger trains, running
Our trainmen worked like Amer
cans; there were no towards on our
rolls. But after too long strain meu
become exhausted, benumbed, indifrer-
ent; reckless even. The nerves 90 out,
and will power seems to halt on in
decision; but decision is the life of
the fast train. None of our conductors
stood the hopeless fight like Sankey.
He was patient, taciturn, untiring; and
in conflict with the elements, fero-
cious, All the fighting blood of his
ancestors seemed to course again in
that struggle with the winter king.
I can see him yet, on bitter days. stand
ing alongside the track in heavy
pea Jacket and Napoleon boots, seal
skin cap drawn snugly over his straight
black hair. watching. ordering, signal
ing. while Number One, with its frost
bitten sleepers behind rotary. tried
to buck through ten and twonty-foot
cuts which lay bank full of snow west
Of McCloud.
Not until April did it begin to look
as if we should win out. A dozen times
the line was all but cboked on rs
And then, when snow plows were dis
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-06-08

may remember at McCloud, where they
change engines and set the diner in
OF out, the pretty little green park to
the east of the depot, with a row of
catalpa trees along the platform line.
1t looks like a glass of spring water,
regular West End day, sunny and
delightful, you would be sure to see
standing under the catalpas shy,
dark skinned girl Of fourteen or ff-
teen years, silently watching the prep
arations for the departure OF the Over
land And after the new engine had
been backed champing down, and har-
messed to its long string of vestibuled
sleepers; after the air-hose had been
connected and examined; after the en-
gineer had swung out of his cab, filed
his cups, and swung in again; after
the fireman and his helper had dis
posed of their sllce-bar and shovel
and given the tender q final sprinkle,
and after the conductor had walked
leisurely forward, compared time with
the engineer, and cried, "All Abo-
o-o-ardl - then, as your coach moved
slowly ahead, you might notice. under
the receding catalpas, the little girl
waving parasol or handkerchief at
the outgoing train. That is, at Con
ductor Sankey; for she was his daugh-
tci, NStld .oduhey, leJ uotuci NdS
Spanish, and died when Neeta was n
wee bit. Neeta and the Limited were
Sankey's whole world.
When George Sinclair began pulling
the Limited, running west opposite
Foley, he struck up great friendship
with Sankey Sankey. though he was
hard to start, was full of early day
stories George, it seemed, had the
faculty Of getting him to talk; per
haps because when he was pulling San
keys train he made extraordinary ef-
forts to keep on time: time was a
hobby with Sankey Foley said he
was so careful Of it that be let his
watch stop when he was off duty Just
TO save time. Sankey loved to breast
the winds and the foods and the SHOWS,
and If he could get home pretty near
on schedule, with everybody else late.
lie was happy; and in respect of that,
as Sankey used to say, George Sin
| clair could come nearer gratifying Sam
key 5 ambition than any engine run
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-06-08

captain had flipped a coin with his
guest TO decide which way TO go. The
coin fell tail, and the "Cozy" stuck
her nose to the south and breasted the
long swell that told of heavy blow the
night before, An hour s ride southwark
sufficed to bring her close in to the
Western Pacific railroad tracks, which
run across the southern end Of the lake
a few hundred feet out from shore. Here
the railroad has spent many thousands
Of dollars defying the lake, which rises
up in wrath every few weeks and tries
to blow the whole railroad out of the
water. IL has succeeded pretty well on
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-06-08

abled and train crews desperate there
came storm that discounted the worst
blizzard of the winter. AS the reports
rolled 10 on the morning of the 9Th,
growing worse as they grew thicker,
Neighbor dragged out, played out, men
tally and physically, threw up his hands.
H. showed all day the 9th, and on Sat
urday morning the section men report
ed thirty feet i'll the Blackwood can
yon 1T was six clock when we got
the word. and daylight before we got
the rotary against it. They bucked
away till noon without much headway,
and came in with their gear smashed
and a drlving-rod fractured. 1t looked
as if we were at last beaten. Number
One pulled into McCloud that day
eighteen hours late; it was Sankey's
and Sinclair s run west
There was long council In the
roundhouse The rotary was knocked
out; coal was running low in the chutes,
If the line WASH t kept open for the
coal from the mountains. it was plain
we should he tied until we could ship
it from Iowa or Missouri. West OF
Medicine Pole there was another big
rotary working east, with plenty of
coal behind her; but she was reported
stuck fast in the Cheyenne Hills. Fo-
ley made suggestions. and Dad Sinclair
made suggestions. Everybody had
suggestion left The trouble was,
Neighbor said, they didn I amount to
anything. or were impossible. "It's
dead block, boys" announced Neigh
Dor sullenly after everybody had done.
"We are beaten unless we can get
Number One through today. Look there,
by the holy poker, it Is showing again, y
The air was dark in a minute with
whirling clouds. Men turned to the
windows and quit talking. Every fell
low felt the same-hopeless; at least
all but one. Sankev, sitting back of
the stove, was making tracings with
a piece Of chalk. 'You might as we'll
unload your passengers, Sankey,' said
Neighbor. You II never get 'em
through this winter
And it was then that SankeY pro
posed his double header.
He devised a snow plow which com
bined in one monster ram about all
the good material We had left. and
submitted the scheme TO Neighbor.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-06-08

several occasions, and the railroad is
still fighting to maintain its precarious
foothold After a run of several miles
along the fill, the "CozyN took the
trough of the sea and headed for the
southern end of Stansbury island, which
lies twenty-five miles due west of Salt
air. Right here let it be chronicled
that the trough of the sea is no fine
figurative expression calculated to dis
play the writer's knowledge of sea
going phrases. It IS a real trough and q
real sea, the trough being pretty much
like pig trough and the sea being
rather piggish as we'll in trying to climb
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-06-08

gated is the lake No other form of
life is found upon it. Even the in
domitable sagebrush wearies Of it's
striving for foothold and appears
about ready to give up the fight More
than likely, this is the secret Of its
popularity with the birds,
Of the few who have ventuTed out
on Great Salt lake, probably nobody is
better acquainted or more at home
in the brine than Blair Richardson of
Tuttle Brothers company, who has
navigated the lake for the last twelve
wears. Richardson used to sell pop
corn at Saltair when he was Just
boy. and it was then that the spell Of
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-06-08

Indian pony, and that name made more
trouble on the pay-rolls than all the
other names put together. Nobody at
headquarters could handle 1T; 1T was
never turned in twice alike, and they
were always writing Tom Porter about
that it was Sitting Bulls ambassador
who was drawing that money, and
that he usually signed the payroll with
a tomahawk. But nobody at Omaha
ever knew how TO take a joke. The
first time Tom went down he was called
in very solemnly to explain again about
the name; and being in hurry and
very tired Of the whole business, Tom
spluttered: "Hang it, don't bother
me any more about that name! If
YOU can't read it make it Sankey,
and be done with it
They took Tom at his word They
actually did make it Sankey; and
that's how our oldest conductor came
to bear the name of the famous singer.
And more I may tell you: good name
as it was-and is-the Sioux never
disgraced it.
] suppose every old traveller on the
system knew Sankey. He was not only
always ready to answer questions; but,
what is more, ready TO answer the
same question twice. II is that which
HdheS cOnuucLOro Srdy-Deane0 anu
spoils their chances for heaven-an.
swering the same questions over and
over again. Children were apt TO be
startled bit at first sight of Sankey,
he was so dark. But Sarkey had a
very quiet smile, that always made
them friends after the first trip through
the sleepers, and they sometimes ran
| about asking for him after he had left
the train. OF late years-and this hurts
bit-these very same children, grown
ever so much bigger, and riding again
TO or from California OF Japan or Aus.
trala, will ask. when they reach the
West End, about the Indian conductor
But the conductors who now run the
overland trains pause at the question
checking over the date limits on the
margins Of the coupon tickets, and
handing the envelopes back. look al
the children, and sav quietly, "Hc ism Z
running any more. -
If YOU 'haNe ever gone over our line
] 10 the mountains or to the coast. Won
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-06-08

the lake got into his blood. He hob
pobbed with the old cronies who oper-
ated sail boats on the lake at that
time, and it was not long until he had a
lapidated old skiff, to be sure, but
seagoing boat nevertheless, and he has
never been without a boat from that
day to this. His first boat has grad
uated into sturdy motorboat known
as the ''Cozy,' which has poked its
weather beaten PROV into more strange
and unknown places on the lake than
any other boat that ever braved the
heavy brine. Tt is said of Richardson
that if he were put in the middle of
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-06-08

" HE Oldest man IN The tram SER
vice didn L pretend to say how
long Sankey had worked for the
company. Pat Francis was a
very old conductor; but old man San
key was veteran when Pat Francis
began brakiug. Sankey ran passen-
ger train when Jimmie Brady was run
uing-and Jimmie afterward enlisted
and was killed III the Custer fight.
There was an odd tradition about
Sanhey name. He was tall. swartby
fc'low, aud carried the blood of a
Sioux chief in his veins. 1t was in
the time of the Black Hills excitement,
when railroad men, struck by the gold
fever. were abandoning their trains
cNeu at way.siations and striking across
the divide for Clark s Crossing. Men
10 ran the trains were hard TO get,
and Tom Porter, trainnaster, was put
ting III every man he could pick up,
without reference to age or color. Por-
ter Che died at Julesburg afterward)
was n great ''lollier.' aud he WASH u
afraid Of anybody on earth. One day
. war party of Sioux clattered into
town and tore around like storm
They threatened to scalp everything,
even 10 the local tickets. They dashed
IN on Tom Porter, sitting in the dis
pdlCher once upstairs, Wnlie the dlS'
patcher was hiding below, under loose
plank III the baggage room floor. Tom
being bald as sand hill. considered
himself exempt from scalpiug parties
anyway. He was working a game OF
solitaire when they bore down on him
and got them interested in it. That
led to a parley, which ended by Por
ter 5 hiring the whole band to brake
on freight trains. Old man Sankey
was said to have been one Of that
original war party.
Now this is merely a caboose story
told on winter nights when trainmer
yet stalled in the snow that drifts dowI
from the Sioux country. But what
fellows is better attested.
Sankey, TO start with. had pecu
liar name-nn unpronounceable, unspel
liable. uurnanageable name. uevc
heard IL. so | can I give IL 10 YOU
i,y ,.ar
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-06-08
A Story of Snow-Bucking on the Frontier

Neighbor studied it, and hacked -
all he could, and brought u osos
tbe Office. 1t was like stalking os
thing on the last cast OF the aice, a.
we were in the state of mind Hn'
precedes desperate venture:
talked over an hour, ana otoets
finally given by the superlnteaa.snaa;, ga,
rig up the double header ana get sS''
the snow with 1T. 49, r;cl
All that day and most OF tno ls e.
Neiphbor worked twenty men on g.
KEYS device. By Sunday mosaiuk
was in such shape that we pegan
take heart "If she don Z get sniIIs ~
She II sure get back again, ana vi
Mai most of ,'em don't do, gLos
Neigbbor as he and Sankey snOs
tbc nov ram to the engineers g.
They had taken the 566, GeoIss
fS" Rnrns' : the 4o7. for the other.
hind these were Kennedy. with Tne
anG arHD Cameron. with the 296. Tne
gines were set in pairs, neaJsD .L Du1lcI
way, and buckied up nke psoh ths he>|
over the pilots and stacks o. nIor|
enniues rose the tremendous dria|
wIicb were to tackle the "oIS' h
ever recorded. before or sincet nd 4
West End. The ram was deslsip sac|
york boib WAYS. Under the cos''
tender was loaded with pig iron Am
The beleaguered passengers ropds or e
be,. Ono sidetracked in the ys,St
gerlv watched the preparations ESs
Was making to clear the iins. esnneI|
amateur anna on the train had his nsr, e''
our taking pictures OF the Issat ra.a m1b
town. gathered in single g.esSt n ~
lacked Locked silently on, and listened ~
frosty notes of the y-selalgIiniusr|
tbey went through their prso apnsi W.
maneuverg. Just as the nha, sa.or n
was given by .sankey. co5atSSs'af com ,Ss aee>|
charpe the sun burst through, ,spssd .nu n
clouds. and wild cheer Ioiio";t s. q N
ram yaJno, out Of the western yaIaa' mex Mk /.
looked on as a sign of goou ''
sec the sun again. ~, hill mu
Little Neeta. mp on the ,,ad mtd
have seen them as they, PunoO; la. .b
she heard the choppy y,hat
5u,' ! en screech of the 500; for tnss ss,v|
never forgotten, whether Ine
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