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The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1914-10-20
Nevertheless. the Sald is Rapidly
Adjusting iiself to the
New Conditions
NO SCARCITY FUNDS ONLY
IEM0RALIzGD CONDITION.
This VIII ImproVe SIS Soon as Con,
ditioGs Improve Sufficiently
to Open Stock Exchange


New TcIk. Oct. ETH fail OF
Antwerp created more or less tenn
pOTary depression in inaHcisl CIR
Ciee. the Inference being that that
event would tend TO proiong the
war All indications now point 10
a prolonged struggle. the effect of
which Of course is anything hut en-
eourasinl Nevertheless the world
= raj dly adjusting ITSELF to the
new conditions, Great improvement
has taken place N the credit situa-
lion, sltheush money is still scarce
10 all ciassss OF borroys, aad fIlll
rates OF interest must be expected
tor sonic time TO come. The diff
Guilty la the monsy situation is not
So much the scarcity OF funds as the
demorali1ed condition of credit and
the uncertainties regardiae the CD
lateral These viii doubtless be re-
moved as soon as conditions improve
sufficiently 10 permit reopening of
the Stock Exchange. Those IN con-
troll are wisely lesseuins the re-
striciiops upon trading little by lit.
tie, thus permitting the market TO
adjust itself by quist ans gradual
operations. There has been tire
mendous amount of quiet liauida
ton since the war began. and prices
have already shown material con-
rcssiUns; so that the readustmens
of values to the war level is proh-
ably more complete than realized
il is welcome news 10 hear that tbs
amount Of leans by mem bers of tbs
/ .ondon Stock Exchange is only
abont sffa, 00Y. 900 and that the
hanks will probably carry these
loahs il tho Government. will guar
antee them against losses. which &
not unlikely.
The banking situation has I'M
questionahly improved. Foreign
exchange at the moment Is at
standstill. Progress 10 being made
in the organization OF the Federal
reserve institutions and when this
Is accomplished. II wilt be possible
to further restore our banking sys-
TEN to normal by making prepare
lions for retirement of clearing
house certificates and the emerg-
ency currency. These are events of
the more or less distant future. bull
It is necessary, to take them. into
calculations. The
OF the cotton crop Is al |
the moment receiving tho serious
attention OF the banking commun-
ity and 1t is refreshing to note that
the proposals for Government aid
are being generally discouraged and
are giving way TO more plausible
and souuder propositions.
The worlds foreign trade IL rap
idly recovering from the first shock
OF war. Our own imports and ex-
ports are showing gratifying gains
over August and September. In Inn
ports the increase was s9,436.000
and In exports s45.S31,0 900 over
last month, the excess of exports in
September being SIC, 200 against
an excess Of $4,000. zoe in Ina
ports during August. The large or
ders received by Americas concerns
for military supplies Will serve t.
materially swell shipments abroad
In August and September our cottor
shipments fell off about 100000
bales. This loss will he partly mad
roc I when the stpyliRg exchange
situation is rectified aud arrange
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1914-10-20

fatlon OF the heart,
constipation, hesd-
aches, dizziness,
noise In my ears,
tiniid, nervous. rest
less fselings and
sleeplessness.
II ressi in the ps-
per where . young
" ON an had been
cured Of the same
troubles by taking
|Lydia Il. Pinkham .
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1914-10-20
Germany's Foresight.

trance and Russia are buying c.
600, 900 horseshoes in Pittsburgh.
~" German horse that went to
the front carried extra hogseshoes
strapped to the saddle.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1914-10-20

FOR RENT-.Front room down
town; steam heat; tor gentlemen
only. Enquire NJ, care Bulletin.
1928
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-07-26

know whom Two h..n On bunprv'"
Her voice brol. in a little vail re
scurr,ed o,t % his store ~ Mill no
tho snripy ord hrnLo a n,tcb.r In bis
emharrassaa ha.,a fnraat,ing unsc-
cnup,ahIv n,,aro his yar,o,s u,ers,i,
were ken,
ct baven., INV bread" n. ano,oyized
setting tho mill before nor obut here q
some cold bastv n,ddiny"
She made M cri,ici,n I'M, a,a eayorIv
and whom sbe had oui,a anisbed aid
her head upon nor arms and went
ct was go HUNGRY 4" she exnlained I'm,
this grief for nost trouble gave wav
after n uttle to concentration OF her
gown.
rs there some woman about here?"
NO. i've got a needle and thread.
though, and a thimble my mother had"
lie brought her these implements in
tin box that had once held tobacco.
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| ton. This he now gave with an eager
| rush, as Is the way of the solitary and
| silent when the novelty OF sympathy
suddenly offers.
Lots Of people died that winter. |
stayed out OF school to take care Of
mother and the baby. but the baby only
lived a few days. Then mother died.
She wanted to. guess. she'd been tired
OF things for a good while
But that started father of on big
spree, so when the little chaps all got
diphtheria there was only me to look
out for 'em-and--I didn't know much -
so by the time he got back I was the
only one left. I don't know why 1t
didn't get me. Perhaps I'm stronger
than most.
when he got here and fund every
body gone but me he turned right
around and went back and drank him
self dead in two days. | don't blame
him. / was little crazy too. guess.
| couldn't stay in the house any more
than he could.
Il went up on Phelim and spent the
rest Of the winter tramping around
there and up powasket. I'd come home
and take care OF the COW and have some
milk and curl up beside her and get
warm and sleep little. But | wouldn't
20 into the housp.
Then by and by spring came and the
first grass Did YOU ever no.
tice the first grass in spring? It's as
green as your dress. | looked at the
grass and then went down to the GENE
terry and fixed up their graves some.
And after that | opened the door and
made the fire and swept up.
"By that time | felt more as II I
could stand II. So | borrowed an OK
team and a plough and when had the
potatoes in went back to school. !
thought | might as well he doing that
as anything else"
He stopped. apparently considering
that his narrative came Ia an end at
this point. After little she asked:
And them"
why, | seemed to have more time
than knew what to do with. thought
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all that he knew. As to the town. he
believed ii to resemble that world which
lay to the south as the little trout
stream whose voice was in his ears
rcScmhltd the St. Lawrence. toward
which II hurried. He knew that his
ideas Of it were vague and might be
incorrect in some important respects
Now out Of The Sc unknown blue south
ern depths had suddenly appeared on"
whom he might question.
He had seen others of her kind wear
ing the sleek and infinitely varied livery
Of power and wealth. As he hoed his
beans he had heard with strange stir
ring uf the blood the tally-ho horn Of
a coachful from the big hotel on thu
other side of the mountain. Sometimes
as his business took him up or down thu
slender yellow road he had met them
and been pompouslY questioned on the
Topography of the country, questions
which he had answered ciVily. Pet pie
who came from So great a place as New
| York had a right To- some hautcur of
hearing just as Romans had If ever
their stately togas deign,d to trail
among the peasants vineyards and
lieldS.
Besides, h. should lie among them
prcst ntiN. His way to their city was
chartrd stage 10y stage. as any definite
tourney should be. Barring accidents.
he thought he knew very well where his
goal lay. But with this ambition the
sweet glitter and gayc,y, although he
felt their power, had li,tle to do, nor
| was ii Of the roll OF CAESARS chariot.
hut Of some rcmoter and finer thing
/ that the horn of the tally had spoken.
When after an hours reconstruction
/ he Green Lady issued from his Kitchen
she seemed less as If she Nigh, have
come out Of one of his grandmoth,r's
| stories or the history of that remark
! abe man Ulysses and bore instead in
| her altered gown and coiltd hair tho
unmistakahlc hallmark Of New York,
| hut this made her no less mysterious
to Alois.
lie came down from his woodple and
stood before h with respectful Curl
usity, noting with surprise that she had
| .rought some of his text hooks with her
! Her finger was between the pages n
! his "Iliad" as though to mark place.
"You aren't poseur, are you-a re-
c'lrseo" said she. you don't look" her
eyes swept his six feet Of lean health
as # YOU We're under doctors orders.
$50, belong here. I'm preparing fol
college"
"Eut-yyu live here quite alonc?"
Yes"
Her eyes still questioned.
There used to he eight" said Alols
with a melancholy gaze at the silen
little house. An but me died wlntei
before last"
Her inquisitive eyes were shocked an,
| sorry She turned them away reSpDri,
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-07-26
SON OF THE WOODS a & F Georgia Wood Pangbon

to answer. Besides. in his dream, he
knew that the calling and weeping were
only a dream, and nothing to worry
about-or, II 1t wanted him, let IL come
where he was. .
The leaves parted and wild. tear
stained face looked at him fixedly for a
long moment. He sat up. but the
dream, instead of being disturbed by the
action stepped out into the sunlight.
He had read OF such things-Calypso
and her isle. for example, and Circe and
La Belle Dame Sans Merci-but they
were classics Classics are marble and
Greek and do not develop ones imagi-
nation into belief. His grandmother's
stories had been neither marble nor
Greek. and these he had believed.
Her hair hung in two dishevelled yell
low plalts. Her arms and throat were
bare. Her gown. except where misty
rags OF lace still chung to 1t. was of silk,
the color OF green flame.
She conveyed no definite idea Of age
or youth. At first he thought her very
young then ne was not so sure. She
might he old with the infinite and un-
whitening old age of mountains and
forests--old as Time or the Greek and
marble goddesses OF whom he had heard
So much in the books that were to take
him to college.
AS to her beauty, It seemed to him
complete Though in her own world it
had long been agreed that Mrs. Bran
dun's looks were on the waneD. She
wrung her slim hands, their Jewels
flashing in the sun.
II am lost"
His brown face was as hcwildercd as
her pale one. He rose and removed his
shapeless straw hat
81 am hungry" said she.
He hardy understood one did not
connect the idea of hunger with ladies
in green who came suddenly out of for
ests on midsummer days.
Il came from" she began. taen
hesitated.
She was not sure that she wanted to
be directed to the Grand Hotel just yet.
She had not lived in the world for-the
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might as well keep on and 20 to COL
ege,"
He came TO another fun stop.
And when you finish college," she
| pursued.
That's four years ahead" he evaded,
with shy smile, through which she de-
tccted the glmmer Of some definite
purpose hunted to It's last cover.
While she rondered how best to un-
| mask II packet uf newspaper clip
! pings slipped ont # the book IN her lap,
! They were thumhcd and ragged. His eye
| caught them a. they fen. and he seized
them as Il to hide them. but IN second
thought placed them in he: hands.
"Isometimcs cut out the pieces in the
eDapors that tell about things that ought
To- be different. | thought maybe by and
| 10y when | got an education | could get
job among those fellows down there
| that are trying Ia set things right
But before she had opportunity To- see
what they were he had caught them
back and ste:ny sorted out number,
which he folded together and put IN the
| pocket Of his "vcralls.
| Some are too bad even To- think Of
he explained with a Kind Of melancholy
wonder In his voice.
| Among those that he returned she
found many turbulent paragraphs on
both sides of the labor question; the
rest were anecdotes of unsanitary
houses. neglected children, sweat shops
and al manner of squa'd wrongs and
stupid cruotics.
You see" he justified himself.
there's iot to- do { y"u give your
mind L. H. It's a puzzle - know just
] h., ,,.1., -.
after Ia got an education could tel
better what To- de- ucNt. Now here
opening anu'hc~ book he showed pasted
inside the cover q half tom newspaper
portralt-"thcre's man. HIS been
doing things down your way NV idea
would be to 20 to him and ask him to
put me at something he'd like done
His sophisticated listener gasped at
,he naive;c Of the plan and yet
There had been a primitive diroctncss
in the aitack which this man had mad,
upon primitive ana staguant evils, H.
had gone forth as simply as MEDIEVAL
knight against a dragon. ana h's vic
tory had been as simple and as epic
! Alois's plan seemed made Of the same
stun, "Drr roincr Thor" she unused
regarding him with new interest.
Il know your hero" she said,
His face took ON thr drwy wonder Of
a novice who secs a vision.
You know-h.m?"
"Ive met him now and then al
dinners
What id he say?"
She laughed. The young expect THEN
dcmigod's " rds TO te always winged.
Why don't remember. About wha,
other people say, | suppose, at dinner
Wc--thpN--' she explained delicatciy
aren't supposed 10 talk shop at dinner
YOU know W. have way "f pre-,
tending that everything in life is very
jolly and gay, and that none ~ II,
is in earnest, Perhaps We really thinh
just that, We have Ia pretend to a.
least, | dare say rs as good way
as any other"
He prctends too" .\lo.s wondered.
oh, yes Al least Re was prt.nd!nl
when ! saw him"
lis this picture Ike inn"
~ muoh. That's radg handsome
suppose, for a cdmpa "a picture. He,
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length of time she had lived in II With
on, learning to prize the flavor Of nov
city. So many things had grown stale
and bitter From the stale and bitter
she had fled weeping into the forest.
Now after a night ~ amazement she
had com. out into - nnrn. me- MAC. win
, morning vounp man in i, If she her.
self. by age and experience. belonged
properly to later and more arid time
If day that was no good reason for
foregoing IA misplaced hour of youth
u'ness which fate had thrown in her
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whatever il is. Very likely ! have
wrong ideas. know it's said you can't
believe the newspapers.
"It's all the truth | know" she main
tanned uneasily. Tit isn't very nice
is it? But it's the best have"
Then the first thing to do is to make
money"
He lay down with his hands clasped
under his head his face hidden 10y his
straw hat, and was silent for long
time. At length he sat up and fixed
her with a bright stare.
You mean II | worked and made
money could live the way you people
over there at the hotel live; eat and
dance and see things and travel-see
YOU as--as people Of your own sort see
YOU"
Why, as to that"
See YOU" he repeated with a Curl
Gus smile. AT first didn't understand
what there could he to interest one in
living that way--there seemed To be
no centre, nothing one could grip. But
when | look at YOU understand better,
Who are you?'
Her pulses answered his headlong
speech with "A juhiiant thrill, of youth,
Her eyes half clo sed with the primi-
tive pleasure of holding So fine a thing
rs this young heart in the palm Of her
hand, and she smiled-a smile symbolic
Of the lure Of the worlds brightness
and Of herself. The drowsy midsum-
m,r enchantment thiCkened about them.
Mos came nearer, awkwardly, on his
knees.
DO you know" he said. what
thought when YOU came out Of the
woods? My heads So full you know
Of these old Greek and Latin yarns I'm
examining up ON. | kept thinking Of
| Gree and Calypso and all that queer
| lot, but-you wouldn't turn people into
pigs. would YOU" He smiled t.mid,y
at his figure of speech, then went on:
| What you've been saying sounds a lit
| tie like IL but there are other
stories about saints appearing when
| people We're puzzled and needed to be
| told what to do. Which are
! yuu?'
The Green Lady opened her lips to
speak. then shut them without a word,
frowning at her small glttering hands
olasped over the forgotten book in her
lap,
Turn people into pigs?
Had one power, then, To make a diff
ference? What right had she 10 bc
ccho.ng those bitter, futile old phrases
| that she had heard So often? They
! hung stale in the pure air like the rcek
If essences. They had seemed true
enough VIII, re she came from. Now IL
was as IL a lie and n poison had gone
out Of her.
But above all what manner Of woman
was she To faunt the last glow of her
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rather gray and tired looking. I'm sorry
| didn't notice him more. The people
! know don't take him seriously. We
are Of the easygolng sort. Life is
short we say, and what's the use.
why" she broke out frctfully, what
Is the use? These things" she touched
the clippings have always existed in
one form or another, and always will.
People like your idol just stir them up
and spread the poison. Why? Let the
Person who made the world take care
Of ii.
why. look at it," she said harshly,
stretching out "A delicate hand toward
the quiet hills that were like the patient
backs of Sleeping herd of behemoths.
Look at the mere bulk of the world
Could YOU move II by pushing with
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ing up the hill to his breakfast. in all
tn" world nothing more gloriously alive
and hungry than himself
Had it not been for his appetite,
Taking the frying pan upon his knees.
he ate it quite clean and polished. set it
down with "A sigh and examined his
stone jar of cOrnmeal. When his fin
ger, plumbing the yellow depths.
touched bottom before the second joint
was covered he became very grave. He
took his hoe in silence from its nail
just outside the door, put u book in the
pocket of his overalls and marched To
his potato field. arriving at that place
of business promptly at :, according to
custom.
The morning was drowsy and lovely,
developing, as the sun rose, into one Of
those days tina, never fully wake up, but
stay drcamily abed until twilight. The
air Of the valley was hot ana still. In
the inCessant mutter Of the brook moth
ing was said about high ambitions and
the glorious things that lay beyond a
summers toll with books and vege-
tables.
Al O'Clock Alois hooked his hoe over
the limb of an apple tree and took his
book to the border of the woods. He
found the dreams of the day, however.
AZ thick there as in the field, and put
ting ambition aside for the moment he
filed his corncob pipe with tobacco
raised in his own garden and lay on his
back among the pine needles, his knees
crossed and his arms under his head.
with no luft!cr thought in his brain than
To IDLY follow the pattern Of the pine
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The location must have been trap
pers choice in the first place and the
steep acres of corn and potatoes an
afterthought Of changing time and Gus
tom. Mount Phelim is hardly a person
to take kindly to the corn and potato
habit There are many tentative pines
and naples among the weeds that
spring up in the burrows.
Perhaps Phelim likes the habit of
humanity itself no better than that of
corn and potatoes, for one winter he
and Powasket together filed that little
valley so full of snow and zero weather
that these--and other causes-wiped out
all but one Of a family named Frechette.
They spared Alois. who thereafter
throve in loneliness like a hardy seed
ling from whose roots number Of
weaker brethren have been torn. for
such is the survival Of the fittest.
Alois woke to the before sunrise
clamor of a nestful of hluebrds above
his window, which were scheduled for
flight at that hour. He yawned. rose
on his elbow and regarded with slice by
smile the dcwy oblong of green twilight
that marked his open door. Now that
all his crowdng family had forever gone
out through that door he saw no object
in closing 1t except against storms and
winter.
TIL light growing, he fiSh,d out a
battered geometry from beneath the
sack VI pine needles that served HIM
as a pillow. Some quarter Of an hours
scowling and muttering served him with
this. and then a long sonurOus call as
of distant trombone, summoned him
to- seize his milk pail and meet his little
black Lizette. who waited him sad eyed
and fragrant with milk, in the pink
light and the dew.
Her six quarts-save one for his
Notwithstanding deposited in the tiny
log fortress Of a dairy by the brook he
came back 70 his house and built his
fire and set on the frying pan with
slices of bacon in It. when this had
yielded its fat and was sending up
pungent smoke he added thick slabs Of
Indian pudding Craftily drew tn" whole
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your FISTS [ II is
ground where we
sit? No more can
you or your SUPER
man alter men and
their troubles. Their
selishness and in
difference are in
vincible. What's the
sc of letting "A
drowning man drag
you down p" she con-
Cluded with "A kind
of satirical pride in
having spoken well.
You mean there :
no use in any
thing ."
II didn't quite say
that, did H." She
wondered II she had,
1T comes to that,
doesn't it?"
"Why-not quite.
one may still have
a very good time.
There's music and
pleasant people and
good things to eat
and see and smell"
~ . IN ore than
that"
M "A n y pc p ] e
think that / 3
enough. Very many
people think So"
II d rather" h e
said simply, you
told me the truth,
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arrangement To a
part Of the stove
where 1t would siZzle
for ten minutes or
so without becom-
ing charcoal an d
went down TO the
brook for his bath.
a deep. still pool
had been naturally
fenced off from the
shallow turmoil of
! the brook by the in
terveninE root of AN
oak, shaped ike "A
great smooth knee
as though "A giant.
sitting on the bank
ages ago 20 cool his
feet in the stream,
had forgotten what
he was about and
been changed to "A
tree.
Cod cold as
only "A m % untain
brook can lie on "A
midsummer morn
ing. Alois went in
ut h "A : h out,
splashed and grunt-
ed until "A cloud Of
clean ID row n mud
was stirred up from
the bottom. came
out and danced up
on the moss in the
sun until he was dry
and then went sing
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-05-14
RESOLUTIONS HIT
NJ M'CORM|CK HARD
Democratic League Says Democ-
racy Should Be Delivered From
Vance c. Mccormick
SLAPPED In HIS HOME TOWN
Labor Record Set Forth in Detail
of Resolutions Adopted
Last Evening

Resolutions praying that the DEM
ecracy of Pennsylvania be delivered
from Vance c. Mccormick because of
his labor record were adopted by the
Dauphin County Democratic League
last night at a meeting held in the
Wyeth Building. The league was
formed here after cCormick had an
bounced his candiL .cy and his news
paper had denounced Ryan for enter
ing the field.
President Hartman handed McCor-
mick a few choice knocks at the start
OF the meeting, and then presented
II. Il. Meyers, who spoke on Demo
cratic principles and the right of a
man to think as he pleases to run fof
office II he pleases ana to vote for
whom he pleases.
Other speakers were Calder B
Shammo, candidate for the House,
Bart Shelly, Steelton Charles Myers
Middletown; City Chairman Fl. o. Hol-
stein and others.
The resolutions, which were evi
IDENTITY the result of eonsiderabl,
search of files of newspapers. wer,
adopted as follows.
''The campaign To determine wheth
er the Democratic Organization O
Rennsylvania shall be controlled by
small contingent of office brokers n
directed by the unbought, unDosse,