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The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1914-05-05
CENTENARY OF GREAT EVENT
Natives Of India Honored Memory Of
Missionary Who Taught Their
Ancestors.

Few events grip the heart and in.
terest of man sufficiently TO command.
after 100 years, an international. or
even national. recognition. In purely
secular circles the fact that Adoniram
Judson landed on Indian shores 100
years ago may excite little interest.
But to the Christian world 1t was an
event second to but few in the history
of the Christian church
AT the opening service more than
5000 native Christians filled to over
flowing the two largest audience rooms
in Rangoon. while hundreds were turn
ed away for want of room.
The second session was given TO
"reminiscences of Judson by those who
had seen him. 1t was notable that Of
the five living missionaries who had
seen Judson all were women These
were followed by a simultaneous pray
eF service, 1t having been arranged
that at the same hour in America and
all Baptist mission fields they should
unite with the great centennial gather
ing In simultaneous prayer.
The music of the entire celebration
was in charge of two choirs, a Burman
and a Karen, which rendered the most
difficult English anthems, quartets and
solos, TO the great delight and admira-
ton of all present.
After three days at Rangoon the
scene. OF the celebration was trans
ferred to Moulmein for two days, and
then to Mandalay and other places of
interest, closing at Bassein on Deem
Der 30.-Christian Herald.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1914-05-05
EortnightlY Musical Club.

The Fortnightly Musical club
will hold Its last regular meeting
for the season at the library this
afternoon at 2:30 o'clock. The
program will be given by Mrs. AL
bert F. Staehle, Mrs. c. Fred Gall
CHER, Mrs. L. E. Denison and Miss
Zephia Smith.
The program will be as follows
fa) Lawn, OBJ A Legend of the
Plain from prairie Sketches
Chas Cadman; First time here(
Mrs. Denison.
Dearest When | Am Dead, from
the song cycle Love Sorrow" II. c.
Leighter; (First time here) Mrs.
Staehle.
Minuet; Felix Borowski (First
time here); Miss Smith.
Welcome! Sweet Wlnd---aria from
The Morning of the Year; Cadman
Mrs. Staehle.
Variations on Balkan Themes
Mrs. H. II. A. Beach (First tim,
here); Mrs. Gallagher.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1914-05-05
Green Hair the Latest Freak

Green hair, which has so far male
only tentative and fugitive appear
ance at fancy dress balls. is now to
become a recognized addition to the
wardrobe of the woman of fashion.
chat is the effect OF the action of t.e
Fashions Committee of the Coiffeu's
Paris who have decided to equip
srthwith 40 mannequins with 400 col
ofed wigs and to let them loose upcy
tolerant, but startled, world IL,
associated hairdressers find it no o.,
lection that the new coifure will L.,
extremely dear" both in itself and l.
virtue OF the fact that each wig mus.
have a dress TO match. Indeed. when
one considers the obvious scope there
is for freaks which have nothing tc
recommend them beyond their expen
siveness, one cannot but applaud the
lenience and moderation of the great
arbiters Of fashion.-Pall Mall Ga
Zette.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1914-05-05

The Mission Society of the Cairo
Baptist church, will meet this after
noon at the homo of Mrs. j. W
Conkle of 226 Twelfth street. Th'
subject for the afternoon! will be
"The Church and the Sunday
School and MRS. A. II. Newman will
be the leader. The ladies who have
supplies of patch work for the indus
trial school are requested to brine
1t and all interested are invited t.
be present.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1914-05-05
New Zealand Wireless.

Two high power wireless stations al
Awanui, in the extreme north Of New
Zealand, and at Awarua, in the ex
IRENE south, have just been opened
for business. Tests made have indi
Gated that messages may be sent and
received at Awanui and Awarua over
a distance of several thousand miles
There are now six wireless stations
under the control of the dominion
comprising those at Chatham Is
lands, Awarua. Awanui, Wellington
Auckland postoftice, and Auckland ex
hibition.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1914-05-05
Commercial Candor.

II assure you, madam. these kitch
en- knives represent the greatest value
ever offered at the price"
They certainly look nice and seem
very cheap The only question is
will they cut?"
All, madam, II you ask me that
I'm bound to say that they will not
but that is their one fault"
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1914-05-05
Instantly Clears Air Passages; Yen
Breathe Freely, Nasty Discharge
Stops, Head Colds and Dull Head
ache Vanish.

Get q small bottle anyway, just
to try it---Apply a little in the nos
trils and instantly your clogged nose
and stopped-up air passages of the
head VIII open; you will breathe
freely; dizziness and headache dis
appear. BY morning! the catarrh,
cold-in-Eead or catarrhal sore
throat will be gone.
End such misery now! Get the
small bottle of "Ely's Cream Balm
at any drug store. This sweet fra
grant balm dissolves by the hea. of
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1914-05-05
War on Ranch Pests

According to DR.. A. X Fisher of the
biological survey of the department of
agriculture, more than 100000 prairie
dogs. gophers. ground squirrels and
mice have been killed in the govern
ments campaign of destruction The
forage these rodents feed on would be
sufficient for about 1880 sheep, or
about 1900 to 1900 head of cattle
worth at least Sl50,000.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1914-05-05
Indenendent Staff.

The Independent STAFF of the AL
ma Rebecah lodge will eXemplily
the work of the Rebecah degree, at
the regular lodge meeting this even
ing, There will be 8 number of out
of town visitors including members
from Grand Chain. The members Of
this lodge are requested to be pres
ent as an especially interesting
meeting will be held.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1914-05-05
In the Insane ASYLUM.

Visitor-What is the matter Will
that wildly raging man, in straight
jacket over there?
keeper-He got that way trying tc
understand the income tax law.
Visitor-And what delusion can the
man have who seems to be always
Emiiing?
keeper-He imagines he does un
derstand it.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1914-05-05
Mrs. 4Lan. on honored.

Mrs. II. A. Harmon is in receipt
of an invitation to be member Of
the receiving committee at lecep-
tion to be given the National OIL
GERS OF the Wonans' Relief Corps
at the hotel LaSalle in Chicago,
Wednesday, May 20.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1914-05-05
NOTICE TO BIDDERS.

The City Of Mounds, H.. will ac-
ept fer 10 days sealed bids for g.
90 yards more or less OF first class
ill Gravel, hauled and spread on
he streets The Council reserves
he right to accept or reject any or
III bids, |. j. Hudson, City Clerk.
APO lot
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1914-05-05

The Ladies Aid society OF the
Lutheran church will give a PINK
Tea" Saturday AFTERNOON, May IT,
at the residence of Mrs. Frank b..
Schoembs, 33S Seventh street.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1914-05-05
Missionary Society.

The Missionary Society OF inc
Calvary BaptistI church will meet
this afternoon at the home Of Mrs.
C. O. Foster 1911 Washington ave-
nue..
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1914-05-05
Will Give Parties.

Mrs. ]. E Woeiie will entertain
at cards at her home 425 Twenty
eighth street, next Monday ana
Tuesday afternoon.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1914-05-05
Wednesday Bridge Club.

Mrs. Byron Herbert will enter
tain the Wednesday Bridge ciuo
at her home 81 Fifth street We'd
mes day afternoon.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1914-05-05
Record Whaling Sc ason.

The whaling season of 1918 has
eclipsed all previous records, the total
yield of oil for the world in that year
being estimated at 100000 casks.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1914-05-05
Folly of Revenge.

BY taking revenge man is but
even with his enemy, but In passing
1t over he is superior.-Bacon.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1914-05-05
PERSONAL.

Mrs. Walter Arm of Mounds, WIS.,
tied in the city yesterday.
Mrs. L. E. Denison has returned
from a visit to st. Louis.
Mrs. A. W. Weldon has returned
from visit to Centralia and Edo
radc.
Mrs. J. Hopkins of Nashville,
Tenn, is i'll at the Bondurant hos
pital.
Miss Name Powers of SOC Poplar
street. has returned from a visit to
Villa Ridge.
Mrs. ]. Corbett of Wickliffe, was
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1914-05-05

| the guest Of Mrs. Catherine Brack'
EFT yesterday.
Miss Alice Hacker who has been
quite III at her home on Fifth stree;
is able TO be out.
Mr.. and Mrs. F. 4. VanAustin Of
Chicago, formerly Of this city, are
guests at the Halliday.
James Cowctl of Twcnty-eighth
street, has returned from a visit
with relatives at Golden.
Mrs. j. w. Wilson of Eighteenth
street, has returned from visit
with relatives at Birds rcint.
Miss Gertrude Leroy of Washing
ton avenue. left yesterday afternoon
for a visit to Murphysbo-o.
Frank Spencer has returned from
a week end visit with his sister Mrs.
John +. Welson OF villa Ridge.
Miss Anna White of Maynard,
Ark, Is the guest OF Mr.. and Mrs
Earl Parker OF 52S Thirty-fourtii
street
Mr. and Mrs. j. f. Lsele of
Evansville, Ind, are the guests of
DR., and Mrs. II. A. Moreland of
Sixth street
Miss Emily c. Tillotson of New
York. who has been the guest o.
Mrs. j. j. Rendleman left yesterday
for Little Rock, Ark.
Mrs. Mary Richie who has been
the guest Of Mrs Peter Saup OF lower
Washington avenue, returned TO her
home at villa Ridge.
Mrs. j. S. Leslie and daughter
Jennelle of Mounds We're the guests
.of DR.. and Mrs. II, A. Moreland Of
Sixth street Yesterday.
Mrs. Ruby Berry has resigned her
position at Walls AMI accepted a
position in the millinery depart
ment at kaufman Bros.
Miss Edith M. Ollie Of Sikeston,
Mo, spent Sunday here as the guest
of her brother J, d. Dill and family
of lower Washington avenue.
Mrs. G. b. s. Pennebaker has re-.
turned to her home at Columbus.
Ky" after visit with her daughter
Miss Ruth, who is attending school
here.
I other ..sa,es combined produce. Tn
3gum picker wears steel climbing spur
on his boots and In his belt he carrie
q light Ratchet. Strapped to his wais
Is bag with wide mouth for the re
ception of tho gum Climbing n free
! the picker proceeds from limb to -"
49,. Ga ~ ulss.s
Mrs. A. j. Ross has gone to Cln-
ton, KY, for few DAYS stay and
from there Will go TO Jackson. Tenn,
Mrs, Ross is to make the visit mart.
| ~ on account of her health
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1914-05-05
MAY nav Party.

The teachers of the Presbyterian
Sunf school will give a May day
- III the basement annex of the
4alch surday afternoon for the
81. aa ( the primary depart
wt
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1914-05-05
Vlctlmized.

did you come back on an all-stsei
train" when the walters and por'
ters finished plucking me ] felt sure
that 1t was"
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1914-05-05

Mrs. A. j. Ross has gone to Clin-
ton, KY, for a few days stay and
from there Will go TO Jackson. Tenn.
Mrs Ross is to make the visit part
ly on account of her health.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1914-05-05
Keeping London Clean.

II has been computed that $685..
9s7 gallons Of water was made use OF
last year In the washing and sprink.
ling of the streets OF London.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1914-05-05

I other ..aees combined produce Tha
s gum picker wears steel climbing spurs
on his boots and In his belt he carries
light Ratchet. Strapped to his waist
Is bag with wide mouth for the re.
| ception Of the gum Climbing a tree,
! the picker proceeds from limb to 10
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1914-05-05

Miss Alice Hacker who has been
quite III at her home on Fifth street
is able to be out.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1914-05-05

1.-The s-lest OF Mrs. Catherine Brack
EFT yesterday.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1914-05-05

Mrs. G. B. s. Pennebaker has re-.
turned to her homo at Columbus.
Ky, after a visit with her daughter
Miss Ruth, who is attending school
here.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1914-05-05

Mr.. and Mrs. f L. VanAustin Of
Chicago. formerly oil this city, are
guests at the Halliday.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1914-05-05

Mrs. J. corbett of wicklife, was
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miles from the entrance between the
breakwators The depth of water avail
able via this route probably does not
exceed twenty feet. At least, any navi-
gator would be taking his chances If he
needed and counted upon more. -Ac-
cordlngly. It is out Of TIE question for
any of the big ships to put themselves
Immediately before the town.
AS the crows fly, the distance from
the sea to Tamp,co Is not more than SIX
miles. and just beyond this there ~
plenty OF water for the heaviest dread
thoughts. From positions there, in the
broad sweep Of the open Gulf, battle
ships could readily lombard the city
with their big buns. and, as the land
lies. this would be fairly easy
But. even So. remember that the bat
tie giants must stay in the ohng. and, If
theirs Is to be- the work Of hating
blockade runners. they must be ever
on the go or ready to move. Service Of
this sort il a continual drain upon the
fuel tanks or the coal bunkcrs, ald
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would be Vera Cruz and Tampico, but
the purpose, undoubtedly. would re-
solve itself into bockading both coasts
OF Mexico. This would be part OF a
programme which would involve SELF
ing every Mexican custom house in
lprder 10 gain possession of the enemy's
financial throttle. The quickest way
to bring the Mexican Government to a
realization OF its mistake would be to
choke all channels of external supplies.
This would not he an easy task. be-
cause there Is u fairly good stretch
of shore line on both the east and the
west coast. and then there is the bor-
der we cannot watch which consti-
tutes the boundary along British Hon.
duras and Guatemala. Dreadnoughts
are not adapted to work Of this sort.
\ battleship blockader is an expensive
piece OF military machinery. and. worse
than that. 1t means exposing just so
many more men to the risks OF acct
dent and the perils of disease. The
Mexicans know this. Indeed. 1t ia only
necessary 10 recall some of the con-
ditons under which the American ships
operated in the Gulf and on the Pacific
coast during the Mexican war to UNI
derstand the circumstances that would
have to be faced to-day in case of hos
Titles
As Maclay has graphically put 1t. in
his History Of the United States Navy"
1T was not the Niexcans alone that
our officers and sailors were called upon
to fight They We're constantly eN.
posed to malaria and fever arising from
the low swampy grounds along the
coast near which the vessels were COM
PEELED to harbor.
The sick list increased at an alarm
ing rate. and the sick bay was always
crowded In one week four officers
died and the staff of surgeons was so
reduced that at one time there was
only one physician for seven ships and
only two assistants in the hospitals.
The Mexicans had entertained
great hopes OF yellow fever breaking
out in the American squadron and do
ing more injury than they could ex-
pect To do with their cannon.
Another peril to which the Americans
We're exposed and on which the enemy
counted. was the strong northerly gales
which swept the approaches To the har-
Dor with great fury. In the gale os
March 81 the Hunter went down. and il
was only by the greatest cXcrtions that
Capt. Perry managed to rescue ~ crew
of sixty men. In July of 1877 yellow
fever broke out in the Mississippi and
she was sent To Pensacola"
1t was harder matter in those DAYS
than it would be now to maintain the
crews of the ships in anything like ply
steal well being because for months at
a time the vessels We're Obliged in the
earlier stages OF the war to cruise up
and down in the open waters of the
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but for encircling coral reefs which
helm in n measure to break the full
force of the seas that sweep In before
n nor,bor from the Gulf Of Campeche
Tho entrance 10 the harbor Is none too
wide To blockade Vera Cruz would
no n far moro troublesome undertaking
than that OF battcrIng down its fortifl-
cations
In tho old davs the wooden shios that
hammered away M the Mexican sea
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Gulf or to roll away at anchor near
the coast when the weather permitted.
Fresh provisions Were to be had only
at long intervals. and the men were
compelled to live for the greater part of
the time upon salt meat and the reSu-
lar navy ration.
Some Of these conditions have been
TERED by modern developments. but
still the physical circumstances of the
Gulf coast OF Mexico remain unchanged.
The waters near the shore are frequently
dotted with coral reefs, the available
harbors for large ships are few and far
between, and there Is still the menace
of violent storms. while the risk of
fevers must be reckoned with despite
the march of medical science and the
sanitation and hygienic precautions
common TO al American lighting craft,
Small vessels would be at a premium
Take. for instance, the port Of Tam
pico. The city of Tampico lies in from
the coast on the Panuco River. dis
lance 10y the waterway of about seven
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sp.c,ol Correspondence Of TUX srN.

BERLIN, April 0-Tho kai>er'S capital
- the most goddess city in the Christian
world. II nodlincss j. TO be based solely
upon church attendance of cIty's pop
ulation, according to census taken OF
church attendance in Ber!in's churches
on n recent Sunday. This census. taken
primarily to see how far the church icav-
ing" crusade had actually affected church
attendance, showed that less than , per
cent of Berlins Protestant population
40 10 church.
Berlin has bur scVcuty-tWo Protestant
churches Tor population of over 1000 900.
approximately 81, OO0 people attended Bcr-
Inns srNent y-tWo churches ON the Sunday
That the census was taken. That means
that less than three out oi every hundred
persons went To church that SUNDAY But
even to get that ligure IL was necessary
to add the attendance at the morning SER
vice to the number who attended church
in the evening. Only two churches were
filled. the DOM" or cathedral, where tho
kaiser's chaplain. DR.. Dryandcr. preac hes.
and the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church
These are the citys two show churches, "
which are largely attended by visitors
or the other seventy churches few had
half their pcws filled and many less than
onc-fourth
A. against these statistics Americans
residing in Berlin make better showing
n churchgoiug people. Between % and %
per cent. OF the big American colony at
tend the American or the English church.
Discussing the contrast. the Rev. Dr.
John ID. Crosscr of Chicago, who Tor the
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Jansle aud sharks the Guards.

1t will be seen from these figures th?t
q large percentage OF those who escape
are recaptured. The French authorities
figure that instead of supplying enough
guardians To watch over the convicts--
] TO so is the present perccntagc--thcp
can count that the jungle and fever guard
the penal settlement we'll enough on the
land side. while the sharks keep IA watch
ful lookout for any cOnNiCts who attempt
to escape by water.
1T Is interesting in this connection tn
NOTE that the penal settlement ON New
Caledonia, according to a decree Just is.
sued, IL to be abandoned and all the Grim,
inals kept there will he transported 10
French Guiana The policy was followed
of giving criminals who showed them
selves worthy plots of land that theY
could cultivate, turning them into
co'0nsts instead OF prisoners. This plan
only became "colonists' TO find an easier
way OF escaping
yhis penltentiary. much more famous
SAan that OF Cayenne. has been in use
more than half century.
NJ. GalmOt tells Of returning on tho
steamer which was taking back To the
penal settlement sixty men who had heou
recaptured I'm France The jalor on board
the vessel pointed OUT the cOnvicts, who
he said, were his most faithful clients
There Was ono, he said who returns
every three months and has done 80 for
nve years Another ~ sort of travelling
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The tremendous amount OF work and
engineering skin involved in the re-
building of the big st. Lazare Station In
Paris. an undertaking resembling very
closely the construction OF tho New York
Grand Central Station. has directed at
tentlon To the rehabilitation OF the
great French railway system that con-
meets Paris with the great ports OF IIavro
and Cherbourg, known az the Quest Etat.
1t was January |. 1909, little more
than five years ago, that the OrganiZa-
ton known In France under the name OF
Chemns de far de rEtat was created. 1t
Is interesting to record the results of the
management by the state of nearly 5000
miles of up TO that time non-productve
roads. In fact II was the rundown con-
dition of the roads belonging to the
Quest AMI to few smaller companies
which Obliged the State to buy them. I'm
der the laws regulating the ownership
and operation OF the French railways
the Government is obliged to guarantee
the payment of the Interest on the bonds
and stock and even to lend money for
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there Is likewise a steady tax upon the
nerves and physique OF the men.
The craft that would try To run In
through the blockade would OF necessity
he OF moderate draught, with considerable
speed. and able to hug the coast closely
So that they could sneak by under cover
Of night or through the protecting
screen of fog or ran. Thus it Will be
seen how untitled the drcadnought or
the lig armorcd cruiser j. for work
IN this particular region. and It y quite
clear that il would bc necessary to
count much upon the activities Of
the smaller craft. principally upon the
little eunboats and the speedy torpedo
boat dcstroyers. These are the Vcs-
sells that may Yet have To take the
measure OF the Mexican fighting craft
So far "a being within easier reach
~ the guns Of the American feet Vera
cruz il more exposed than Tamp.co. be-
cause tie city lies Immediately upon the
coast and not back and up tho river.
lis harhor would be no harOor at all
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roads around Paris WAS started. Ihe
-, Ld2aic station il being entirely re-
built. with the addition of "a suhtcrrairan
station for the electric roads OF the
suburbs. The stations at Kouen. Dicppe
Charities, TrouVillc, ta"n, therbourg. ST.
Malo. l." Mans aud prcuX are undergoing
reconstruction.
The freight is being a. carefully cared
Tor 10y ia" management as the passen-
gers There are no express companies in
France and the transportation of freight
Is made by the railroad companies them
selves. Among the most pcrishable
freight which under the former manage
mont was the object of claims amounting
yearly to several million dollars one must
count the linen going to Belgium, fruit,
vegetables, fish. Nc. shipped to large
cities and especially the apples OF Nor
mandy and brittany sent either to large
French cities or to foreign places.
Tho management knows of course that
there Is still "A great deal to be done and
knows II better than any one elise, but
the improvements are by no means at an
end.