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The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1898-12-22

potency there was no question, and he
would not vote even for going into an
election until things were better adj
justed. He would give Dr. Alvey u
chance to establish his claims, and II
he did, every councilman would doubt
less vote for him.
Dr. Robertson said when he went
to Germany he registered from .ew
York. came back here and III ~ ,yas
no question raised as to 4. r,,i1en-
ship. lie further illu' ,,.,,A h. lie
.,id ahout the ami. St'a''" W. nv
sa'u apouV '''o "pp .scatkAn FVr place
on the pension board, when there
were NOT ..sosgsA republicans, some
ue'lNia' waS appointed. lie called
W ~ Stewart to substantiate him,
ou y Tho lattct replied that he never
, acard Of a republican holding place
under a democratic administration.
TWE DOCTORS STATEMENT,
Or. Alvey then said that lac had
made no application for placc on
the pension board aud had never
claimed to he republican; also that
he did not claim 10 be a registered
voter, but a registered physician,
Councilman Clark aTN'sc at this
juncture and said bn Alvey had
stated 10 Councilman Ezell In his
Mr. Clark'sl presence that he was a
registered Votcr and voted In Novem-
Der. lie said DR. Harry y. William
son also said mr. Alvey had applied
for pace on the pension board, and
when asked II he was "A republican
said that he was. Afterwards when
DIR. Williamson heard Dr. Alvey was
a candidate for city pysician, hc asked
him II the council knew his politics,
and ne relpicd that they did not, and
he didn't intend for them to know IL
until IL was too late. 1t began to
look bad for DIR. Alvey.
Councilman Fowler said he was sat
isiicd DR.. Alvey was eligible.
DIR. Williamson arrived az this
lunctNfc, and said he would not nave
come had he not been requested. He
substantiatcd what Mr.. Eel said
DIR. Williamson claimed DIR. Alvey
had said 10 him, DR.. Williamson.
Or. Alvey here again denied that
he had ever applied for place on the
board uf pension examiners.
Councilman Fowler withdrew his
motion tu 90 into the election Of a
city physician. and Councilman Win
stead moved that a committee be APP
pointed 10 investigate the matter
Dr. Alvey said he preferred having
IL settled then. lie had shown all he
could show. and wanted no further
time. He thought he was eligible or
he would withdraw from the race.
The motion to refer to- a committee
prevailed 10y a vote Of TO I.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1898-12-22
new POINT RAISED.
The City Attorney Was Not Con
suited by tho Board,

There is a new point raised in the
matter Of the board OF education sue
ing the city for $4,000, The city
charter says, Section 81;
The city attorney shall be the
general law officer Of the municipali-
ty. He shall attend all meetings of
the common council, advise the same
and al other city Officials in all mat
tiers pertaining to their duties or af-
fecting the interests Of the city,
whether called upon TO do so or not,
and generally attend TO all legal bust
ness of the city, except prosecutions
in the police court, and appeals there
from.
IL is now claimed by the mayor and
attorney that IL would have devolved
upon the city attorney TO advise the
board Of education which is composed
of "clty officials" in the franchise
tax matter, over which it and the
council disagreed, and TO have brought
the suit. Instead OF that they declar'
the board has exceeded its authorit!
and not called upon its own legal ad
wiser, by whose advice IL would hav
to stand. Instead, IL kicked from TIN
traces and consulted another lawyer
land then had him bring suit agains
the city,
An answer TO the boards petition
lis now prepared by the city.
l. There will be an accumulation 0
slack 10 your coal house, don't thro'
Iit away, get one Of Scott Handwar
ICot4. Noofe'z Air Tight Heaters. 4
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1898-12-22
UNDER SURVEILLANCE.
The Negro Editor Who Abused
the President.

WASHINGTON. Dec. -. - The
negro editor Fortune who abused
President Mckinley for the latter's
speech Is under police surveillance.
II Fortune makes further incorporate
snecchcs he will BIZ imprisoned.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1898-12-22
BLAMES GEN. MILES.
Gen. COrbin Holds Him RESPONSE
BILE For Bad Camps.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 22.-Gcn.
Corbin was before the war inyesti-
eating commission today. He says
that Gen. Miles was to blame for the
bad condition of Camp Algcr.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1898-12-22
WILLIS ESCAPED.
Officer UIlman Shot at Him Three
Times.

Willis Dunlap, who drives for Barry
& Henneberger, was arrested at an
early hour this morning by Officer
Joe Ullman and Bob Mccain, on a
charge of beating woman.
The prisoner was turned over to
Officer Ullman to take TO the lookup,
but made his escape at Tenth and
Trimble, and was not recaptured.
The officer fired three shots at him.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1898-12-22
suits For Divorce.

Mrs. Willie Conner has filed suit in
the circuit court against her husband,
VIM. Conner, alleging abandonment.
Simon Amos filed suit against Bet
tie Amos, alleging abandonment.
They were married in 1873.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1898-12-22
A Bad Hall.

The man that hailed on another
mans overcOat at the Palmer house
barber shop last Saturday night will
be prosecuted for keeping same unless
il is returned this week.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1898-12-22
Prices That Talk.

We are selling for cash only
Best patent -four per bbl., $500
Best patent Hour per sack, - zoe
. pound PKG hest rolled eats, csc
? cans best corn, ----- l5c
10 bars LenoX soap, DC
Pure wheat bran, 100 lbs, CSC
Best sorghum, per gal, $3.50 pc
Everything else goes al sneil
lproft. Allklnds 81 fresh meats %
ihand. Ffeedollycfy. sE'cler,l1 IL Z. 1.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1898-12-22
GAME LAW.
Only a Few More Days to Hunt
Quail.

Local Sportsmen are making the
best Of the quail season, which will
end January |. After that date the
birds can no longer be legally killed in
Kentucky.
Many hunters go to the woods daily
to have few more hunts before the
law expires.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-07-29
SENATORIAL GAS.

The Neae Jersey Herald remarks that
"a syndicate of which Senator Smith is a
prominent member has purchased the
Newark Gas Co." While "gas 5" of
necessity must be prominent feature Of
Senator Smiths campaign to capture the
New Jersey Legislature, we are of the
opinion that already something more
substantial than the aforesaid q has
been placed in the hands of the willy
Senator's henchmen for distribution in
Morris as well as in other Republican
counties. At least, that is what is cur
rently reported by those who are gener-
ally pretty well informed.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-07-29
CAMPAIGN FULL OF GINGER

There is no more dashing and effective
campaigner in the State than Mahlon
Pitney. Young and vigorous, thorough
lY in touch with affairs of New Jersey,
his views broadened by an experience of
four years in Congress, having kept his
pledge to his constituents. he is peculiarly
fitted u asaeh the comprehension of the
masses and round up as great a tidal
wave of Republicanism as that which
bore John W. Griggs to victory on its
crest.
Pitney is without that obnoxious notion
that he was foreordained to wear the
purple and sit on throne. He just is
one of the common Jerseymen, full
hearted and considerate of others, but
superior in knowledge to many because
of his Unborn energy to grasp information
and analyze what he found.
Mahlon Pitney would make an ideal
candidate for Governor, but there are
others just as good, and now that he is
an opponent to Foster M. Voorhees,, you
may expect to see the woods full of cam
didates- before the end of summer.
This is the Gubernatorial situation as
it strikes the New York Press. How
ever the convention will not be held be-
fore September Is, and the weather is too
hot to discuss futures just now.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-07-29
so-cALLED twAR NEWS. .

The man who set out early in this war
to keep current with the course of its
published news and to retire thoroughly
posted individual at its end, was stark
and staring idiot in the second week and
persisted miserably, tangled and knotted
into inextricable and impossible plights
of mind and body. Since his wretched
extinction no sane man has dared to at
tempt to keep pace with the lightning
vagaries that contradict each other each
instant orlwith the miraculous iapdoo-
die Of war humbug dealt forty editions
day to ravening millions open mouthed
for the rot which is fed for their diges-
ton and their pennies. At the very sun
burst of the century, of centuries, when
the simplest utilities and economies have
become SO keenly new-wrought that the
smallest aids to existence are scientific
marvels and joys, the generic daily news
paper has refrigerated toward darkened
seras and conditions, or created them, in
which its relationships to enlightened
events are of not the slightest consistency
or value and its literature original only
in the fact that it is employed hourly by
itself to belle its own statements.
We view the baIeful innovations Of
certain Of the wealthy and powerful Am
erican daily journals as subversive Of the
genius and the mission Of the responsible
newspaper publication Of the period ana
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-07-29
pITNeY,s POSITION.

Many of our New Jersey contempor-
aries seem to be unnecessarily mystifed
about the attitude of Congressman Pit
ney with regard to a reelection. To all
his friends and supporters in the Fourth
District Mr.. Pitney has been entirely
frank about the matter at all times in the
past, and is not less so now.
His nomination by the convention in
1894 against his own protest is well re-
membered. In 1896 he realized, even
more than before, that he could not
afford the interruption to his professional
business, which followed his election to
Congress, and he would not then have
accepted a denomination, except for the
important issues raised in that campaign.
In view of these issues he felt it to be a
public duty TO stand for reelection. He
declared then, and has since uniformly
stated, that he would not be candidate
for third term. He still adheres to
that position. While approaching high
ly the honors he has received from his
constituents, he will not again be can
didate.
His attitude is not due in any sense to
an apprehension that the district cannot
be carried for the Republican ticket. On
the contrary it is well known that he
considers the prospect for the election of
Republican from the Fourth District
as more favorable than it seemed in 1894
or in 1896. But he feels that his bust
ness interests have already suffered by
his absence in Washington to an extent
which he can ill afford. He has there
fore asked his friends to see to it that he
is not nominated, and we have no doubt
they will heed his appeal.
Our Democratic brethren seem highly
elated over the prospect of Pitney's re-
tirement, and in consequence are claim
ing sure victory in the Fourth District.
We beg to remind them of the equally
confident predictions they made four
years ago and again two years ago, and
of the grievous disappointment which
befell them.
We predict that the Fourth District
will again elect a sound money Con-
gresham in 1898, even though it will not
be Mr.. Pitney.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-07-29
LIguI. HoasoN IN MoRRIsTowN.

That the brave act of Lieutenant Hob
son in directing the Merrimac expedition
into the mouth of Santiago harbor is ap-
preciated by his fellow-countrymen the
spontaneous greetings which meet him
everywhere attest. When it became
known that he would pay a brief visit to
his sister, who is at present in Morris
town, the word was passed along the line
and at every station large numbers en-
Enthusiastically greeted him. Superintend-
ent Reasoner met him at East Orange.
At Summit number from this city en-
tered the car and were given a hearty
hand-shake by the hero. To the Editor
of the CHRONICLE Lieutenant Hobson
said, when told that even heartier well
come awaited him at Morristown: "That
is hardly fair. don't know why the
people turn out this way. l only did my
duty, the same as any other officer of the
United States navy would have done, and
my men were right with me from the
start-not one showed the least fear"
Lieutenant Hobson preferred not to
talk at any length as to his plans for rails
ing the Cristobal Colon and the Maria
Teresa Of the late Cervera squadron, ex-
cepting to say that provided haste were
made, he was sure these ships could be
raised, and at moderate cost when COM
pared with that of building new vessels.
They would become valuable additions
to our navy"
The Lieutenant was dressed in mixed
travelling suit, and his pale face showed
one effect of his imprisonment. This was
not Lieutenant Hobson's first visit here,
and he expressed himself as having the
kindliest recollections of Morristown.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-07-29
HOW TO BE HAPPY.

Just believe yourself especially blest if
you have anything at all, and thank
Heaven it is a good deal more than you
are entitled to. In that way you get at
your calibre and develop gratitude at the
same stage, and when you find how little
is required to supply your real capacity
and how inexpensive it is TO be appreci-
alive, then you'll feel comfortable at see
ing some one else getting thing or two
that you wouldn't have had room for.
Contentmenti is not riches, but the grace
of wishing for nothing and being graf
fled if you don't get it. To crave an OBJ
ject impossible for you to possess is to
fritter away great interval in anxiety
that could be employed in catching fish;
while to burden yourself with thing
that you don't want but only wish to pos
sess is to bereave some one else of an ar
ticle he wouldn't have as gift.
Be content. To be satisfied with what
you have is contentment itself, if you
have enough. Do not envy the things of
others, even if they have to pay for them.
Be cheerful. Nothing like being cheer
full, even when you can't. If the wealth
or is intolerable, bear with it and breathe
it occasionally; if very hot, recall that
there is hotter place than the weather.
IF you are resident of Morristown you
should find many reasons for being very
happy and not few for hoping you are
not solitary in enjoying it. Cultivate a
kindly interest in all created things, bar
ring few, and let your communications
be to the point.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-07-29
THE PEACE OF SPAIN.

So far as this war goes, it might as well
be accepted as settled that the fighting
stage has been passed. If the United
States were piratical power the present
opportunity is theirs for free and easy
embarkation of naval forays against any
thing Spanish in any sea; but even that
would not be war, since there remains
nothing to fight. With General Miles at
the gates of San Juan and three Ameri-
can expeditions hot in his wake; with
Merritt at Manila and Dewey's guns ram
pant for more Spaniards. we yet believe,
and yet reiterate our conviction, that no
more battles are to be fought.
The attitude of this country is never
theless such that, because we are the vic
tors, we cannot offer terms, but must go
on as though the end were as far as ever.
The army and the navy must be kept in
belligerent activity, and d shot here and
there, or heavy bombardment, or brief
infantry skirmishing, may continue to il
lustrate the situation at various points,
but Spain without a navy Spain whose
national life breathed through the guns
of her warships in all her centuries sis a
giant without his locks, warrior with
out shield or buckler. Spain is undone,
and her day of battle is ended.
She Graves peace, and she would i'm
plore it if peace to her meant peace. But
it would signify the transition from an
external to an internal conflict, that Bit
terest of all bitter strifes. So that Spain,
conscious of chivalrous foe without and
of fierce and passionate hosts within, will
prolong the formality. of outward resist
ance while this appeases her inward ene-
mics. but she will not fight us more.
Meanwhile it will probably be the pol
icy of this government to forcibly possess
her colonial acres, in lieu of indemnity
for the costs of this war; for there will
remain to Spain no possible reserve of
cash when her own cormorants have let
go of her collapsed resources. 1t is mer-
ciful and needful to the poor old kingdom
that we continue in sundry ways to en-
gage the fears of her people and divert
the deep and bloody schemes of her polit-
ical cutthroats. When peace with us has
been proclaimed. that instant these rest
less and ambitious fends will fall upon
their mother and devour her.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-07-29
THE N. Y, 7fsT.

It is well settled that the list New
York regiment acquitted itself with dis
tinguished valor in the decisive battle at
Santiago; in reality, that truth was then
and there established. We long ago gave
in our testimony of faith on this precise
point. Nevertheless, we are opposed to
the interminable newspaper certifcation
of the courage of this corps, as not only
calculated but certain in effect to mar or
tarnish if not to obliterate its title to well
won fame. Whatever the original source
of assault on its behavior under fire, and
whatever the weight and effect of that
assault, the tedious emulation of need
less testimonials and daily array of wit
nesses that some of the newspapers have
persistently forced upon the country are
creditable neither to the press nor to the
regiment, but a positive injury to the fu-
ture renown of the latter, whose real adj
mirers and champions ought to call off
these publications.
It was the fate of Claudius' queen to
convict her lord through ito much pro-
testing his innocence. The list is per-
manent regiment of the N. Y. N. G. and
as such will have continuity and 8 fu-
ture after the war. The utterly untimely
and needless panegyrics and unnecessary
daily and hourly parade of evidence that
its members were not towards at Santi-
ago are not hattering to the fame of the
organization while it keeps wide open a
fatal door through which its enemies, If
it have enemies, will not fail to see their
chance to say that the list had to estab-
lish its manhood in battle by newspaper
testimonials. Give the list fair play by
giving it rest.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-07-29

''FREEHoLDER" in the New York Press
of yesterday does considerable guessing
relative to New Jersey politics in general,
and especially as tomatters in the Fourth
District. He quoted Mr.. Pitney as a
recently saying. she would not have the
Congressional nomination if it were
rendered to him on gold platter
What Mr.. Pitney did say was that she
could not afford to take the certificate of
election if it were rendered to him on a
gold plate" The Congressman appre-
ciates the high honor conferred upon
him by his constituents but is firm in
his often expressed determination not to
serve another term in Congress as it has
already seriously interfered with his law
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-07-29

as the one lamentable deficiency among
our progressive blessings. When public
prints pursue their livelihood and procure
their. revenues through daily repeated
and hourly reiterated matter without
truth or sincerity, and commonly SO ex-
posed to be in the same edition, they Of
fend the public intelligence and mortify
the American spirit and name.
So monumental has the vice of profess
sional news invention and news exagger-
alton grown to be that in the grave mat
ter of securing a correct record of trans
piring war events it is seldom that two
published accounts in different papers
even approximately coincide, and it is
now quite as seldom that two readers can
be found who cheerfully believe either of
them.
WE desire most cordially to invite the
patrons of these columns to be prompt in
the service of their favors of all kinds.
The CHRONICLE goes upon the press each
Friday at 10 noon by the clock, and by
the same sign all composition ceases at
1890. Unless of special Importance, no
copy, however brief, can be accepted af-
ter 10. It's the universal experience that
those earliest with their favors compel
the fairest advantages. To our reverend
friends we wish to do exact impartiality,
giving to the regular church notices an
equal publication, or emitting them all
when otherwise crowded. Many of these
reach us duly, but others come at a time
when we cannot print them; and the plan
we foster for general fair play is thus
frustrated.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-07-29
THE CODE DUELLo.

Dueling in this country, where it was
practiced chiefly in the South and to an
extent in the West. has been badly shat
tered of late years by heavy legal penal
ties and wholesome public sentiment, but
not effectually stamped out. In France
the code duello is still recognized and re-
sorted to on slight proyocation, or on no
provocation; but in France dueling was
always a ludicrous and harmless farce.
Not SO in this country. where it almost
without variation involved certain death
to one or more of the principals who met
afield to adjust their grievances. AT the
South the deadliness of the practice and
its common prevalence have always been
marked, and many precious life has
been uselessly rendered up on what came
to be enormously known as ''the field of
honor The other day at Memphis the
mortal challenge was passed between a
Mississippi United States Senator and a
local Tennessee editor, but the authorities
nipped the proceeding by arrest. The re-
marks of the editor in his own behalf at
the hearing of the parties before the court
were remarkable for epigrammatic and
clinching sarcasm not less than for admir-
able and straightforward English. He
said:
If the Court please, presume this case
So Of soI, 1c
the facts on one side of an impending con-
fict, and the facts on the other side are
assumed. desire to insist that there is
no evidence before the Court to show that
am in any way involved. The testimo-
ny shows that | have been attending to
my editorial duties as usual, duties that
not only consume great part of every
day, but also of every night in the week.
| have committed no overt act, made nc
demonstration or threats, and l assure
you that [ am destitute of that characrel
of courage which seeks to exploit itself in
the midst of women and chilren on a
crowded thoroughfare, and / am as des
/ titute of that character of honor which
seeks street broils with hoodlums, who
fight for glory, or with Hessians, who
fight for pay.
If ever have dificulty-and I sin
cerely hope / never shall-it will be with
some one who is, at least officially, a gen
tleman; and of this see no present OF
prospective danger. If the officials who
swore out the warrant, taking me from
my desk, were moved by desire to pro-
tect me, must say it was entirely I'M
necessary, because / have prudence
enough to prevent me from being led into
an ambush to be assassinated by either
domestic or imported bummtrs. pro
test. your Honor, that this warrant i;
unnecessary, and the charge upon which
it is based is groundless.
But the editor was bound over in So,
500 to keep the peace.