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THE CAIRO BULLETIN, SATURDAY MORNINO, MARCH 6, 1909.
THE CAIRO ttULLETJN
KHla'bllshea I8tl8.
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Company al 7ltt Olilo Mlrott. Phone (ill.
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claim Mail Matter.
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CIRCULATION STATEMENT.
Average number of complete
and perfect copies of tlm
Cairo Bulletin printed daily
and Sunday during the year
1908 2084
Average numeber of complete
and perfect copies of The
Cairo Bulletin printed dully
and Sunday during the month
ofs January lfdd 2422
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The above Is a correct statement of i
the rrrulatlon of The Cairo Itulletiu !
torthe year 1108 and for the month of j
January, 1909.
CLVD13 SULLIVAN, j
Business Manager.
Subscribed and sworn to before me
tula 3rd day of February, 1909. j
LEO J. Kl.EB, !
Notary Public. '
The Bulletin is on sale at the fol-j
lowing places: . !
Coleman's, 214 Eighth Street.
Halllday House News Stand.
Blue Front Restaurant. j
i
In hia dialogue communication else
where In this paper the "Country
Club" correspondent lKiints cut scnc
of the objections to the "registration'
law," which Is proposed by the Puij
Ballot League for adoption in Cairo;
at the coining city election. The j
matter of expense Is mont'owl, ruelj
the matter of dlsfranchlneuK'iit off
voters,
unless
guard
An rue
and the uaceitninty of purity
good citizens are placed on
vhich ;s rtKard.d as difficult,
j- to all thvsf objections ar
t:vv. Whatever is worth
ctfts somefhlnR in effort
equivalent, and is generally
what It costs; the election 1
bavin.
or it?
wortli
aw also!
disfranchises voters unlosa thv ai
pear and person to vote, yet we do not !
say repeal the election law; and,,
third, good citizens would be niuchj
more likely to take an active pait in(
'lections under the registration law;
than under present conditions, be-i
cause they would not then be com
pelled lo stoop to the vile thhigs that'
now they mrst stoop to In order ti
make any impression on the result.
The eKecutive board of the "Pure
Ballot League" has a circular -
nouncement elsewhuv In this palmer
to which attention is directed.
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1 TODAY IN HISTORY
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' March 0. '
1805 Minnesota, east, of
sippi river, made
the
a
Mi ;sls
part of
Michigan territory.
1S20-
-Authority was given by con
gress to the people cf Missou
ri to l.n in a state constitution.'
-General I'liilip II. .Sherid.ii
1831-
bom. Died August 5. li.sS.
1838 John Stevens, iineu'.i.r a.il,
, founder of , American patent
,1a w.s, died in New Vol k. l'.oi n
there lu 1718.
1SC1 Fort Brown, on ibe Rio Cramb
river, sui rendered lo 111.' Con-:
fedeiates.
1888 Louisa May Alcott. lamiu
writer cf books for children,
died in Boston. Horn in Jer
mantown, Ba No. IS22.
biography.
Schuyler Collax Craves, a note!
physician and surgeon, was born in
Kalaniazoo, Michigan, March C, ls:,.
ITnder commissiou o f major from
President McKinb j, received in i s:s,
lie served during the Spanis'u-Amei i
can war as chief ruigeun of the Fust
Brigade, Third Division, Fourth Army
Corps, and was utationed at Tampa,
Florida, and Huntsville, Alabama.
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l CAIRO IN 1875
a m :
mitmuitiiiiummu
(From The Cairo Bulletin published
by John H. Oberly).
H. Rloms the erocer. corner Rev.
rath street and Washington avenue, j
was building a brick addition to bis
ctere. I
On October 12th F. Brcss wirv.li
TU Bulletin from 1'eoria that John
H. Olierly was elected Grand Master
iif the Utl.i tvilows of Illinois.
The Episcopal parish school wits
removed from the corner of Tenth
street and n uwiiniRtoii avenue to a
uulMing at tile corner of Thirteenth
u:id Washington avenue.
The Ancient Order of Hibernians
fiiivo a Brand ball and Kupper at
Sc heel's ball, on October 18th
which wan largely attended.
.Tin' P. Holier! a of the Jackson
County Kra and Carbondale Southern
llliiu.isiiii. was married to Mf:-s I.il
lie Ozlmrn, ot M in pin shorn, on Oc
tol.er 21st.
Creole City flour.
Charles (i.ilii;h.-r of
tin Hliic iM'Oii at I.
an I ra.lucati faii-i.
imiiiiifactiii
Cairo, earii-
tli the .Si.
bv
off
mis
In October two little
and Mrs. R. 11. Cuimin;
.lil.lithe: ia, within a f. v
tlier.
sons
of Mr.
li&hl .11
da;,-; of
d of
el. h
l.ol
Ii. Mj.e
r.. I
ii? lit i
ut the
c (now
in o.-t..
Woeld
i ro-
H.
of St - U HI
or i: Poll':
adverted
A. Whit
li caiii.n i
th.it he
t,.T
on-1
ii I
; t.ie i
ne
business.
LEGAL DECISIONS
v i niMi in tiiLiiiiiiu
.
Muiicianr.
riiit in the
ill! Federal
i.ttd a roof
A' e Servants -Th bank
case of 111 re Caldwell
Reporter. Fil".. had opcr
nardeit. IVtilion. -is. wl:o
were musicians, tor a lterim! of throe
ii;cnths, had been drawing sol'', se
ductive melodies from their iust ru
in. -nts. but ill that time had be. n un
able lo draw anything else,
claimed to l-e servants, within
meaning of the te.ie.a! kitikr
rhey
the
iptf.v
Wl -lite.)
act ciilil'iiii; tin in to
no lit ul tin ir wa'.'i s
s tales t:-l l il t Court
musician, employed 1,
prioiiU ol
. The r
h.ld that
tli-- moatii
regular wages, while n.,t, a "nietii.i!
servant," is siili on.- within the ba.ik-repti-y
statute.
Rfleasft of Promise of Marriage
In Hen lei von v. Spr.iten. ; I'a. ilic
Reporter. 11. it. appeared that 1111
parties cohabit jtel subse.picnt t i de
fi udant's promise to marry plaintiff
ami at his Inst nice and retpi.'st. sh"
Bi'liuitted to severe surgical opera
tions, cruising her serious injuries
find unlit tlm: her to perform domestic
ar. 1 wifely duties. In consi.leiatii n
of her atiieemi-iit to release him from
sis promise of man lase be asreed to
take care of her and support her as
long as she suffered .from her injuries
tllti claim wan mainly that there v.a-:
no eonsidi ratioti lor the contrad and
that
Dure could he no novatitn cf a
contract. The Stiptvnip Comt
I vo.il
V Colorado Ti.l I'uiT loaT
vttit Tii
fen !:i'i'
in (-"ii-to
sur
ptvu'i !e
, :.".iH'ii'. to release, t'a .1
from the promise rd" mart I'lyr
sl.leratlon of bis agreement
port and liitiiutain lie;-, r.n 1
her with medical aftetnlanep. w;r; not
ml stitnliiiK a valid coiitr ict for :i
, , ,.. .a, l!lUinif ., ,.,.
iiact and releasing the defeu.iant
from a leeal contract.
American Democracy.
Privy Coma ilior Zuntz, on his re
turn to lierliii, in u-r a throe-mouths'
visit to the I niied States, delivered a
lecture before the students of ihe In
dustrial hinh Bcbnol of that city, in
whiih he bad much to say in praise of
American students and of the college
system uu.ler which they were trained.
"Our stiiib'iits," he said, "can help
themselves financially only by teach
ing. Thu American student has the
advantage in this respect, because
without losing caste or dignity, he can
breuk stone, act as a waiter or porter,
or do work at any trade. It is not an
infrequent occurrence that a youiia
man acts as a waiter at a gathering of
people where he is received as an
cqiial as soon as his menial dutkn
have been performed."
Why They Don't Clap.
"Have you seen the near
woman. Mucd.? Odell?" she
"No. You oui,ht to see her.
perfect
asked.
And if
ed, you
you want to be really am
ought to go and watch the men gazing
at her wide-eyed, the men with their
wives. They are taking in ail lu r p r
f.ct points, but they are afraid to ap
plaud tier on 'account of their wives.
That beautiful, near pet feet woman
leaves the stage nearly every time
without a handclap ou account of the
WlVfH "
How He Lost Out.
"It seiied me ribt," sighed the
bachelor. "I ought to have remem
bered that women have no ,-u.se of
humor."
"What's gnawing you now?" queried
the Inquisitive friend.
"Why, during leap year a pretty nirl
with an obese fortune proposed to me.
and I said 'no,'" explained the bach
elor, "thinking, of course, she would
take it for granted that my 'no' meant
"yes,' but she simply let it go at that."
One Was Lacking.
"We thought yon would be married
by now," they told the girl. "The last
time we saw you you were with a fel
low you seemed po fond of."
"You did." she sighed, "i wag j
still am awfully fond of him. but, you
see, it takes two to get married."
What She Went For.
First Shopgirl Miss lilank U going
away.
eV-cond Shopgirl Is eh- b:. in for
good?
First Shopslil No, tor better or
UNCLE HENRY
OIM WOMEN
They Know How to Be Curious
But Men Make Blunders.
"Women are curious." said I'ih b
Henry, when he wits quilt) sure r;he
was down at the other end of the Hat.
"What 1 mean Is they have curiosity.
Any fool knows they're curious, inclin
ing queer.
"Yes, sir, they never take anything
for granted. Men alwavs do. that is
married men. They do if they know
what's good for 'em. Y'ou hear iue.
son?
"Now, take the man that ate the1
first oyster. He was a woman, more
than likely. That is to say, tdie was
probably a man. Y'ou know, 'twas a
woman ate it. or else she put him up
to it. Probably got him to open the
shell and then double dared him, same
as Eve.
"Her dealre to know whether it
would poison him, together with his
dodbusted pride, laid the foundation to
the Immortal oyster fry In a box, of
which, young friend, she has been the
midnight recipient ever since. See
what 1 mean? Hu gut the first oyster
and she got the information and all
the rest of the future oysters.
"Now Adam Of course he wasn't
married to start with. He was merely
happy. Tben the snake gave him
curiosity, which he bad no business
with, and he began to wonder what a
woman looked like. One came along
and married him. And marriage then
became the mother of invention, ami
has been ever since. Oct the idea? Aii
the sons of Adam are a lectio tainted
like.
"Don't gu by me, sou. Look at his
tory. Hannibal, he had curiosity; the j
male kind. He was itching to tee I
what sort of a collar and elbow cus
tomer Scipio was. lie wanted to .-:'-
Sclpio very badly, lie saw him very
badly, and he saw bis tiiiUh at the j
same tune.
"And how 'bout Haroun Al-Raschld.
the original Arabian date maker?" to
was c'jiions. Ho you know what hap
pened to him, Son? No? Well, neither
do I, but it was sure something awful.
"And Richard the Lion H..urte-rt, and
Peter the Hermit, and the painw d led
skins who wondered what I'.iliy Rep a
wanted with their golf links; an i
Wiley Riley, and Gen. Izy Putnam
and Cotton Mather and Aguiaa'uo -how
'bout 'em? All curious, by
gracious, and dodging bricks. That Ii.
the survivors.
"See what I mean? Jlan's got r.o
business tiyin? to be curious success
fully. No, sir. Now take me. I'm
not more than so so ori wondering
about things. Wb. n I slip my foot an 1
begin probiitK around i -.'et i.d i
You hear me, sorT' I "et mine p!-'!:ty.
"Last Tuesday 1 think it was. I
comes homo along about the uvular
time feeling round about the usual
-way, 4 ges-i -aftd-fakes off tuy r-h' ':
puts on my slipper and honso co r.
and wairs for the dinner b'-ll.
"All right. , Pretty soon it bc-fina to
ring. Up I gets and goes in to dinnei. j
Like that. All right. " 1
"Say, son, he had a layout there
that was something neat and nobby.
The hand that wields the ladle rules
the world, all right. Our cook came
with a trunk full of references that
ninelled like chirography exhibits in a
divorce suit. She had references in
every language but you can't eat ref
erences. "Put my wife Is some cook herself.
You know what she had done? She
had chased the cook for the day and
bad got up the whole feed herself.
Honest, non, I could have kicked ni
6i If for eating lunch.
" 'Henry,' she says, 'sit down.' sh"
says, 'and eat It all up," she says. I
cooked it for you.'
"Well, you know me.
a glass of water, and
strong when We passed
I started with
I was going
the bet quar-
ter with a near cup of black coffee
a piece of pie like mother cou
and
Jut
make If she got the recipe direct from
Mrs. (labriel. When I romped across
'he finish line with a toothpick In one
hand and a finger bowl in the othi r I
was txi contented and peaceful I was
breathing to the tune of 'Now I La..
Mc Down to Sleep.'
"Then cloion: Then the house of
cards ctuiiipled up Into ;i landslide and
I got it .good. At that p. holot'b ai
moment, u.s tbcv sav in the claries. 1
hi 'JaU to
how in
wonder 1;
. The fact
y, w In rejote ..
U 1 be;,.n to
curious.
"'Wife,' I says with diflicul'y on ac
count of the too much feed. 'it.-,' 1
says, 'aoct pt the jusuraiues uf my
i-steenieil com, ideialion. You have
lorie youiselt proud," I says. 'And,
pil'.hee,' 1 says, 'why this unusual but
most delectable lepusto banquet?' 1
says. 'Hid you expect company?' I
t-.iys.
"'No,' she says, I didn't expect any
thing," she says, 'and that is just what
I got,' she says, like that, lijit of dis
aiiiecable. It may iuti te-t you to
know, H my,' she says, "that il.i. is
our w.-ib ling aniiivi rsarj ," she says,
or it may not, now you have eaten my
lovely food and are not likely to get
any nioie,' the says. 'Y'ou forcot our
w ii. ling day, Henry, and luy feelings
are hurt,' nhe says, 'so I sha n't forget
it e ver,' she says.
"And she won't forget it, cpler.
Xiither will I. She's got It In for me
now for fair. Too much curiosity, sou.
' The only safe way for a man is to
nevtr open his mouth unh ss he's go
ing to put something into is. The min
ute you b't anything out you spoil the
pic lure.
"When a man beglnr to ask bis wife
lUtstious, Just thai minute he begins
lu luake a boite lik a .vt.U"
The Erfy Bird.
The man who thinks be Is going to
RUciee.) ineiely Ij.-cshi be. t' ls UJI
eiilj is iikclj to be a l.!iiie.
r FOR.
K.U nml manr tlrti hy .Miaul!. rimt. b. . It
you littv rto tir i.ii..i lu )ioue, Iwru or slur,
yvl rl.l i.f tli. hi ultli
STEARNS' ELECTRIC
RA T and ROA CH PASTE
tiitM'iilv piiMtMiitflt'tfrnitiitor. Aiurd'l
C oirfcriiiM'lif ninl thr vermin. lri vm mt "J
tuicuoutuf tliebuuttfi .uu. Motivjr back if It fail.
Siot h.iXV; 1ft ..z K t 1 IK) S.-M
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or ,n.ixpf prepaid -gSATff
vu rvrf i (1
ftUarn' Electric PatC,
GOOD COOKING IS CLUB'S AIM.
Six Brooklyn Men Say They're Proof
Against Culinary Lures.
New York Sworn to celibacy and
the protection of their clubhouse and
home from any encroachment by the
fair sex. the Six Merry Bachelors are
now comfortably Installed at CuS At
lantic avenue, Brooklyn.
The liaeheloia" Home club is the
name that appears upon their sta
tionery and it is an odds on wager that
none of it has been received by any of
the girls.
The by laws of the organization con
tain this significant clause: "No mem
bers of the opposite sex are to be al
lowed within this club. Any members
who wish to see holies must call upon
them elsewhere. This is an organiza
tion which is not Interested in Wom
an's FUffruso. but Is vitally interested
in making homo interesting to men
who desire the Joys and comforts of
true bat helorhood- and good cooking.
The Bachelors' Home club is inter-J
national in its personnel. There are j
one Kngllshuian, one Norwegian, una i
Swede, one German, one Roumanian
and one American.
"We have solved the secret of th
lonely bachelor," said .Manager K. A.
Yeungniark. "We solved it by bandimt
six bachelors In a clone brotherhood
and consigning the loneliness of one
liiill bedroom to the ash . heap.
have all the comforts of home and ex
cels ufVy prepared food.
"Moreover, we havo six other appli
cants who would join the organization,
and in May we propose to take a
house.
"We nil do our own housework
rooking, washing and general house
cleaning and there Is not another
i bachelor cluh in Brooklyn like ours.
I There are thousands of lonely btich
I elors in the city to day, living In small
J furnished rooms, who have no appre-
elation of the 'all the home comforts'
i of such a club as ours."
WA3HTUB AWAITS BAD WOMEN.
Iowa Judge Will Make Fair Prisoners
Work, Too.
Pea Moines, la. Punishment such
as will in:tke most women shudder has
been prescribed by Criminal Judge
Jesse Miller of Polk county for all
women convict, d at
Ton vtct i d aTTTT-lie u le n ced by
him to the county jail.
No more easy days to rear!
novels and dream of romance,
reality and punishment Is the
tlon of the court. The jailers,
dime
Stem
the judge's Instructions, have secured
the proper paraphernalia for adminis
tration and thete will be no retracting
i from the orders.
The decree has gone forth. Fvery
woman committed to the county jail
will be commuted to hard labor at the
washtub.
Since this announcement a wave of
reform among womn offenders has
commenced. Judge Miller believes
the washtub work the hardest that
can be imposed upon women.
Not only will this punish the wom
en, says the judge, but it will save the
county a big laundry bill. Men com
mitted to the jail have the rather
prosaic roi k pile as their means of oc
cupation. T;o;c i; to be no discrim
ination. Woim-H with soft hands and
polished nail.- who fall under the ban
of the coiiit will have to plunge Into
the washtub just the same as other of
fenih'is. ESKIMO TO SEEK POLE.
Sole Survivor of Band Brought Here
by Lieut. Peary.
New York. Not only will Mene Kee
.shco, the young F.shimo who Is the
sole survivor of a band brought hero
by ConiiiKinder Peary in l.S9f, remain
in thi.i city to study civil engineering,
but wh"n he completes his education
be Intends to head a polar expedition.
I icing an FNkiino, Mctie naturally
thinks be is w.li Htteil to endure tho
b.ir.lsbips of the far north.
"The explorers who are trylns to
find the north pole; now don't know
how to do It," he says. "They fit out
comfortable ships with a crew of 5u,
carrying electiic lights and things to
make life pass pleasantly up there,
whete th y know It will be lonesome.
They Ftay in a comfortalite harbor un
til spring and then make a dash to
see how f;ir I hey can go.
"The north pole will never he dis
covete.i in s;iich a way. The man who
finds It will go as far as he can In one
season and make a permanent camp
there until the next season."
Next to Sunshine
pure air ami deep l-reruhinp, ths
best medicine for all run down con
eliUomj of t'tie rt.uc. u'i, wives and
liloocL it that Urtfailine; rcr.o.aler,
restorative and tonic
Seedam'4
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TAFT'S SECRETARY OF STATE
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LlIIT-T 1HIIMIII lllltBWMMS ! I I ITfff
Philander C. Knox of Pennsylvania, secretary of ctate In the cabinet of
President Taft, Before accepting his present post Secretary Knox was senator
from his state,
OUITS "AD" HUSBAND
WIFE LEAVES HUSBAND PICKED
FROM 1,000 PROPOSERS.
Mrs. Struvnez Finds Snags in Honey
moon Trait More Joys in Single
ness Than Bride's Philos
ophy Kenned.
Chippewa Falls, Wis. Just one
month ami Mrs. Prances Livingstone
Struvnez, who was Miss Prances Liv
ingstone, leaned back In content and
told a newspaper man it paid to ad
vertise. Mrs. Struvnez, alter 1 .000 proposals
by letter in answer to her advertise
ment for a hii.-band, hau changed her
name that. day.
Now rho bus recanted that senti
ment and says marriage was a failure
In her case.
A honeymoon trial -of miiy-3-O-tJay
sutheed lo convince Mrs. Struvne?.
there were more joys in single bless
edness than had been dreamed of In
h.-r philosophy. So she has left her
"want ad" helpmate and gone back to
her home near the village of Boyd.
' From the great mass of proposers
Miss Livingstone chose Louis Struv
nez of Dorchester. WW, a widower
with two children. After the ceremony
the bride went to live with her bus
band and his children.
The coude Issued a statement to a
local paper requesting that no more
bo printed about, them, saying they
were satisfied with their lot. and
Wanted to live in peace.
Perfect bliss aipareiJly followed
the union, and it w;is a shock to their
neighbors when the bride parked up
her suit case and announced she was
on the point of ilepr.i t ni e.
Mrs. Struvnez wiil not state the ex
act cause for her latest step, nor
whether she will apply for a divorce.
Mrs. Struvnez, when idte was Miss
Livingstone, had faith in the theory
that everybody of her sex has some
body of another sex waiting around
for him or her some place.
She fiddled around her home town
until one day. she mad" up her mind
she wanted to get mat tied. Now, of
course, there were unmarried men In
and about Boyd, and perhaps they
were marriageable, and maiiiige:ihle,
and even agreeable. But they did not
suit MWs Livingstone; and still confi
dent that iJon:ewiieie the voice of
love was c.-illiti!.' for her, she resolved
to meet the call a' bant half way.
That's the r'iiMit) she tidverti::".!.
And that's the rea-eui she v.ax Jubi
lant after the marriauo ceremony win
performed. over having, as she
thought, proved conclusively her idea
that it was easy enough to 11 ml the
right mate if you go at It In the light
way. '
Win n she placed h r advertisement
In the local paper she didn't expect
to net more than a d"Cen replies.
The press of two hemispheres took
up the Ftory and soon answers begn
pouring In. When the number
reached l.OuO she began the work of
classification and elimination.
By this method she became con
vinced Struvnez was the nearest to
being be,- ideal. She sent for him.
he nril"ed. the next day they went
for the license, and so they were mar
ried. Reaches Goal After 25 Years.
Canal Hover. O. When Marvel
Barnhlll took the oliice cf probate
Judge of Tuscarawas county he ob
tained an honor he has sought a long
time. Twenty-five years ago he was
a candidate for the office, and was a
candidate either for the nomination
or tlie office at every sui ceeding elec
tion, except where Hie incumbent was
n man belonging to his party, the Pern
oeratic, and was up for reelection.
The Only Limit.
Men do lets than they ouvht unle't.i
UeJ do iui Uiattilt y e. Ctuljri
v
BACHELOR HAS SNAKE IN HAT.
Believes It Drives Away Pain That
Comes witn Neuralgia.
St. Louis. James Barker, a bach
elor. 7:: years old, living at Wiiidoiu, in
St. Louis count', has a snake in bis
bat. Otheis have- bad snakes in their
hats and also In their boots, but Bark
or is a temperate nitnoiign not a
healthy man. He keeps this snake in
nis iiat, ne sajs, net ause it is a sure
cure for the most virulent form of
neuralgia.
Recently he visited the courthouse
at Clayton to get, em the pauper list
While wailing to have the blank filled
out lie took off bis hat. Reposing in
the toi) of his headpiece was a snake
v utility Clerk Rhul was frightened
when be saw it. Knowing bis own so
briety, he wanted to test it on the
iiet-ro jauitor and bad him invest!
gate.
i In ti they asked the bachelor for
an explanation. He said he suffered
untold agony I nun neuralgia, which
jcaused his lace to swell to large pro
portions. A friend told him to put a
snake in his hat.
Now the snake is writhing inside his
hat and be is bothered no more. Bark
er says he would rather have the
snake w rithe oil his head than writhe
with pain himself.
In any event the snake slides down
the Incline of bis bald pate inside the
hat, and now lie has no more neural
gia than has the couit house tower.
SAD PLIGHT OF 24 VOTERS.
Little Strip of Cleveland Suburb Is
Left Out in Annexation.
Cleveland, C If a community of In
telllgent, ambitious Ametican citizens
is amputated lyiwilllngly from the
body politic of a village which is in a
hurry to become part of a big, bad
city, what is to become of it?
About a hundred of the inhabitants
of Cuyahoga comity are wondering
what Is the answer. So far the answer
seemed to be: nothing. That is, it-
said community is to become nothin
so far as being a municipal unit Is
concerned.
The people who live In tho strip tif
territory bounded by P. nn street, the
Nick.-l Plate railway ..n I the Ike
Sbo. '.... :.., in Colli!:'.' od will be in
ju.st that plight when the rest of the
village finally becomes a pnrt of Cleve
land. Not only will they be in this
sad plight, but ft is a question whether
they wiil ever get out of it.
ft takes at least 110 qualified voters
to make a township. In the stiip there
are only 24. Some say it must be 23.
That means no mayor, 110 vlllae coun
cil, jail, constable t:or anything tdse.
Worst of all, no right to lire protec
tion or power to build pavements, lay
sewers or Issue bonds (lit refor. There
are. not more than 20 hoilr.es in the
area and not a school or church.
Finds New P'nts for U. 3.
Washington. - N. K. Hanson, who for
tight months has heen traveling
Ihtough Russia, Siberia, Central Asia,
Turkestan and northern Africa in
quest of new vaiieties of alfalfa and
clover for cultivation in this country,
iias it turned wiib more than 300 lots
of seeds jii.d j hints. Hu found two
new varieties of alfalfa In a section of
Siberia where the mercury freezes and
there is 110 snow. 1 lie department of
agriculture will experiment with
the
new plants In northwestern states
Eachelora' and Widowers' Tax.
Saute Fe, N. M. A bill has been in
troduced lu the New Mexico leg
islature providing for the clas
sification o" bachelors and widowers
and the levying of tax against them.
Bat helots between the ages of 23 and
I". lo pay $10 aiinur.l tax and widowers
a'HI be roiiiiro.l to pay 1't annual tax
The rev ni'.- Item (he source Is to
provide supp. it f"r immariled women.
ThB Cairo Bulletin Is the only Cal
n paper with th service of tho Aano
r(ted 1'rtM.
OFFICIAL DIRECTORY.
Cairo, Alexander County, Illinois.
Population 1C,Ur.
Clerk, H. A. HATOHER.
Treasurer, THOMAS 13! MAIIONEi
City Attorney. FUAMC MOOR13.
Comptroller, ERNEST NORDMAN.
ToUeo Magistrate, A. J. ROSS.
Chief of Police, M. S. EC3AN.
Alexander County, Population 27,467
County Clerk, JESSE E. MILLER.
Circuit Clerk. ALFRED BROWN.
Sheriff, FRANK E. DAVIS.
States Attorney, ALEX. WILSON.
County Superintendent of Schools,
PROF. S. 13. C.OTT.
Assessor and Treasurer, FRED D.
N ELLIS.
Board of County Commissioners.
J. J. JENNELLE, Chairman.
c. v. n'i:fI' v
DR. EDWIN GACSE.
TIME CARD CAIRO ELECTRIC RYS
Hl'll I tiiA dm due lu leave Seotmd Hi. 10.
Ut.ll LI1IC tnK north on t'ciuuuerelal Ave
every 10 inliuiuu trout tl . in. lu II p. ui.
tiuliiK 11. .rlli. 011 Walnut t.every Ikuilnultii
from i.aiS a. 111 to W.'.ti p. 111.
Pnnlir CI lino Holhrook Avs. ear due
I UfMdl OX. MIlC t leave Hrcoud Ml. ko
Iiiij iiortli on lliilbriHik , at G:'i7;tC'Z7; H.H.i.Ll
7:1:! a.m. an.l 011 tnu uaniu mlauli every bout
until lu:l-' and 11:12 p. m.
t.elnif went 1111 Teuty Klutuh HI. at (;4l;
ti.lu; fi::i. HAS an.l 7:01 a. 111. an. tun yame uila
ut.tf every l.uiir until lU.'M ami 11:04 u. ui.
Poplar St. . am Uiiti lu pasN St. Mary' ( ark
lb liniuiUn after leaving Heuund Ht.
Bell line Owl Cars rVm
m.; 1 : a. 111.; 'i-:J a. m.; 8 A) a. m.; :SUa. iu.;
j:;ii a. iu.
Nurlli on Commercial- 12 1. 111. I I. m. IS,
111. II a. in. 4 a. 111. G a. 111.
Melt ainltiwl cam aredua to ai Wes
Thlrty-louilri Ml. lb uitiiulca aftur luavlu
Sueund Si.
BOOTS AM) SHOES
Manufactured. Repaired.
Win k 111 at I y nn. I .pilik Iv dene by
machine ur by I1.111.I. In tug your
hlieca lieft' w lien lu net .1 i.f repair,.
E. 11IALMI Fill R
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PRICES WITHIN EASY REACH
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QUOTE YOU.
THE BULLETIN CO.
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ltv hot) i.rs
It all ffMtt Uara, lrorrM aa4 Rtaad
W. J. NlCMOl.H. K. P. KlIC.TMC.
.Iuiin M. M eKillAl 1..
Kilcoyne Electrical Co.
House Wiring and Fixture Work
a Specially.
HLADOLAK1LKS
1211 Sixth .Street.
r hones: I See cs fur Conlncls.
North German
Lloyd
Lar,FHrtcij Luxuriou- Tto Scrt
Hqulp.xd SV 'ti sod Shirlt.' M;al I
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Ths Drawback.
"'Some acquire fame,'" quoted the
Philosopher of Folly, " 'some achieve
it, uihI soiiiR hnve it thrnrt upon them.'
Lut those that have It thrust upon
them seldom know what to do with
It."
Game to the Last.
An In.llan woman named Partridfia
has heen niarilp.i to three men, n&ined
Riihln, Spariow am) Quavle, and has
Ihorceil tn. h of them. This particular
HmtiltlKO 13 ct 1 (airily a bird Omaha
tttti.