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Smyrna times., 1901-05-08
AsBURY SUNDAY SCHOOL LIBRARY.
An Effort Being Made 10 Raise Money to Pur-
chase 200 New Volumes.

The Sunday School of Asbury M. E.
Church has determined to increase its
library about 200 volumes. A special
collection was taken up in the school
Sunday afternoon which with what had
been denoted before, made $S2.00. As
this leaves less than $4,000 of the
amount desired, there is nothing in the
way of soon having the books.
Smyrna times., 1901-05-08
TAX RATE FOR KENT COUNTY.
Fixed By the Levy Court Yesterday at IS
Cents on the Hundred.

The Tax rate for Kent County was
fixed by the Levy Court yesterday at
As cents on the 100 dollars, the same
rate as last year. The Levy Court
had contemplated lowering it, but
were afraid to because of the extra de-
mand there will be on the County for
bridge and cause way building. In
New Castle county the tax rate is 80
cents on the 100 dollars.
Smyrna times., 1901-05-08
DovER's REAL ESTATE VALUE.
peeeut Assessment Figures sl,O6l,4 ASS, and Poll
s6O0 Tax Rate 81 Cents on the Hundred.

The real estate assessment for the
town Of Dover has been reported to be
a .6oi, ,455, and the poll assessment
seoO The appeals of property owners
amounted to less than $1,000 me
tar rate was fixed at 81 cents on the
stoo for the general fund aud 10 cents
IN tbe 500 for the water fund.
The bee., 1901-06-27

that the boycott is a vicious and
illegal conspiracy to interfere
with the rights Of others, that it
is a species of application of
force.
1t is interesting to note in this
connection that Wilson <and
Tuck who are exploiting tie pro-
posed boycott are now under
bond to appear at the next term
of the Muhlenberg Circuit Court
to answer a charge of felony in
connection with the application
of another species of force which
the laws of Kentucky say is pun
ishable by term of one to five
years in the penitentiary.
The charge against them is TAX
ing part in the mob which bru-
tally assaulted five non-union
men, at the Greenville depot,
enroute to st. Charles, a part to
resume their work and the rest
seeking a place to earn an hon.
est living.
The bee., 1901-06-27
Common Sense In Labor Decisions.

From the Brooklyn Eagle.
We are getting court decisions
on the rights of employers anC
employed which are in accord
ance with comon sense; that is
they recognize the freedom o.
the individuals to do as they
please so long as they do not in.
terfere with the liberties or the
rights of others. In Chicago OF
Monday Judge Waterman de
cided that certain packers had 8
right to refuse to employ girls
who had refused to work fol
other packers. The girls had
struck voluntarily and had agreed
not to work for a certain firm
because they did not like the
conditions there. The firms en-
gagged in the same business agreed
not to employ the strikers. The
judge holds that the agreement
of the girls was within their
rights and that the agreement of
the employers was also legal. A
man may employ or refuse to
employ whom he chooses. The
court will not go into his motives
so long as he keeps within his
rights. The men may work for
whomever they choose or refuse
to work, exercising their taste
and their judgment in the matter.
By refusing to work for a man
they may intend to injure his
business, but so long as they sim
ply abstain from working for
him they are within their rights.
This decision means that the
courts will not constrain either
the employer or the employed in
the exercise of the right to choose
where he will work or whom he
will employ. 1t means that lock-
outs-which ought to be written
locksout-and strikes are legal,
which we believe has been ad-
mitted for some time. But it
does not mean that boycott has
any justification. The boycott
is conspiracy to injure the busi-
ness of another. 1t, goes beyond
refusing to work for another man
and involves persuading others
to refuse to work for him or to
trade with him. 1t is organized
interference with the rights of
another.
Vice Chancellor Pitkin, of
New Jersey, has just decided
how far interference can go. He
has granted an injunction re-
straining certain strikers in Pat
erson from interfering with the
business of one of the silk mills
in that city. The strikers must
not force themselves on the new
hands in an attempt to persuade
them to stop work and they may
not talk with the new hands
without their consent. The pick
cts may walk the street if they
choose, but they must not con-
strain the liberty of anyone else.
This is in accordance with the
principles on which Judge Water
man, of Chicago, based his de-
cision. The silk operatives may
work or not as they choose. The
mill owners may employ the old
or the new hands according to
their taste, and the strikers must
be protected in their right to
work, and the employers must be
protected in their right to employ
those willing to work. One does
not need to be learned in the
law to understand these decisions
or their bearing on the labor
problem. They are simply the
enforcement of the right of free
dom of contract, which involves
the agreement of both contract
ing parties.
The bee., 1901-06-27

@. L. Wilson and A. d. Tuck
have recently visited Paducal
to urge a boycott on st. Bernard
coal. They state this openly a!
their purpose through the Padu.
can press and say they have been
appointed a special committee
and sent out over the country
for the purpose of calling upon
union people and others and re-
questing that they discontinue
the use of coal mined by the
company named until they are
able to get control of the busy,
prosperous mines of Hopkins
county.
This is nothing new. The at
tempt has been made time and
again to boycott Hopkins county
coal in the cities which are large
markets for this coal and in each
instance the boycott has served
as an advertisement for and in
creased the sales of this coal.
Whenever and wherever the
walking delegate has failed to
make the coal companies and
their employees follow his dicta-
tion as to the conduct of their
business, the boycott has been in
voked. Time and again has this
been done in Evansville and in
Louisville, and the sales of Hop
kins county coal have steadily
increased in these cities. In
truth the people who want coal
have reasoned well and have
said, eff Hopkins county coal
miners are content and have re-
fused for years to lay down their
tools and close the mines, though
they have been lmportuned to do
so, the coal we order from Hop
kins county mines will come to
our factories and our mills with
certainty and regularity and our
own men will not be idle for
want of coal to run our plant
we want Hopkins county COAL"
The boycott doesn't harm the
business of the Hopkins county
e coal miners but it is intended to
harm the business and hence is
just as wrong as if it succeeded
in doing what the walking dele
gate desires-the closing of every
mine in the county.
The boycott has been well de-
fined as ga conspiracy to injure
the business of another--organ-
lied interference with the rights
of another" This sort of a
conspiracy is what these men
brazenly ask business men in
Paducah, Evansville, Louisville
and elsewhere to endorse and
support. One gentlemen not long
since in Evansville, when ap-
preached by customer with the
request that he discontinue u.s.
ing Hopkins county coal, replied
that he could get along much
better without the customers
trade than he could without Hop
kins county coal. He wanted to
run his plant every day in the
year and could not depend on a
supply of coal from the union
mines of Evansville because of
their frequent strikes.
The courts at Chicago, at Mil
waukee, in West Virginia and
elsewhere have recently ruled
The bee., 1901-06-27
1.-THE LONE GRAVE 90.


made a moonlight trip to the
haunted house on Sulphur Fork.
In all of these rambles Alice and
Finley were constant compan-
ions.
In this manner the short sum-
mer soon passed and the first
fall month was near at hand.
Already the quail could be heard
calling to his mate in the stub
blefield, the chestnut burrs were
falling in the woods and the
leaves were turning brown. The
time of departure has come (;
Alice and Finley are seated on
the bench under the beech. He
has told her of his love in burn
ing words of eloquence and a
happy light is shining in her
beautiful eyes, she has promised
to be his wife in three months
from that day. They stroll
slowly home talking in low tones
of the future, as the last rays of
the setting sun break through a
network of overhanging branches
and light up her gold brown hair
with mellow beauty. He is say
ing to her remember darling, /
love you better than all the
world and will come for you three
months from this day and claim
you for my bride. On the NOR
row they parted, he to resume
his law practice in the city, and
she to return to her far off south
land home and dream of the
happy time when they would
meet to part no more this side of
the great divide.
After reaching home Alice was
so busily engaged preparing for
the approaching wedding. She
scarcely had an opportunity to
answer the long letters from her
lover filled with protestations of
undying love and constancy. The
three fhort months soon sped
away and the day quickly ar
rived for Finley to come. After
the train came in, Alice was in a
state of eager expectancy; she
waited impatiently for the re-
turn of the carria ge and when
she heard the sound of wheels
crunching the gravel on the
driveway, she flew to the win
dow and looked out-the carriage
contained no one but her father
and the driver.
Her father came in with a puz-
zled look on his face and handed
her a letter. Alice eagerly
opened it and took therefrom a
newspaper clipping on the mar
gin was writtin with a lead pen
Gil, Scan you congratulate us?"
The clipping was as follows:
"Married-At the residence of
the BRIDES parents Thursday af-
ternoon at 3 O'Clock, Miss Lille
B. Thompson to Robert j. Fin
ley. The happy couple leave to-
night for an extended tour in the
East"
This was all, but oh, what a
bitter, cruel disappointment to
the trusting Alice. She now re-
allied she had been wasting the
affections of her trusting heart
on one of the most detestable
things the earth contains-"a
male flirt." With look of unut-
erable woe in her sorrowful eyes
Alice turned to her father and
said: sob, papa, my heart is
broken. l have never wronged
anyone in my whole life. How
could he be so cruel? Ny sorrow
is greater than l can bear.''
The sorrowing parents did all
that loving hearts could devise.
They took her to Old Point Com
fort, to New Orleans and beauti-
full Bay st. Louis hoping that
new sights and strange faces
would alleniate her sorrow, but
to no avail. Alice made no COM
The bee., 1901-06-27
THURSDAY. JUNE II. 1901.
ANNOUNCEMENTS.


CLLILAND--We are authorized to announce
" John r. Gilliland. OF Ilsley Precinct, Post
Office address St. Charles, candidate for County
Clerk, subject to the action Of the Republican
party.
MURPHY-We are authorized 10 announce c.
III II. Murphy, Of Madisonville, candidate for
County Clerk, subject to the action of the voters
Of Hopkins County at the November election.
COUNTY JUDGE.
7IMMER.-We are authorized to announce F.
L v. thinner, of Madisonville, candidate for
County Judge, subject to the action Of the Re-
publican party.
JAILER.
HARRIS. We are authorized to announce ]. F.
III Harris a candidate for Jailer. subject to the
action OF the Republican party
The bee., 1901-06-27

LII a oCCluOOu SPOO hOoi dlO-
quet Spring, one mile from the
old town of Shepherdsville, KY,
is lonely grave inclosed with an
iron railing. The wild rose and
honey suckle vines have grown
in and around this grave and
twined about the fence until it
presents the appearance of a
huge bank of flowers in summer.
Near by stands an ancient beech
tree spreading its friendly limbs
over the grave as if to protect it
from the gaze of the curious OBJ
server. A white marble slab
stands at the head and on it is
carved "Alice, aged eighteen.
Died of a broken heart" In
this lonely place sleeps the only
daughter of Afford Rudolph, of
Pensacola, Fla. 1t may not be
generally known, but once upon
time, Paroquent Springs, with
its cool sparkling blue sulphur
water was a widely known sum-
mer resort and people from far
and near came to spend the sum-
mer month and recuperate their
failing health. The ruins of a
magnificent hotel can still be
seen at this place, and where
once the devotees of pleasure
and fashion strolled along the
cool wide veranders or tripped
the light fantastic toe in the
roomy ball room, the fowls of the
air make their nests and bats and
owls make 1t their abiding place.
To this place in the spring of
1878 the Rudolph family came,
consisting of father, mother and
daughter, Alice; a winsome blue
eyed girl with sunny hair and
sylph like. form. This girl had
been humored from her baby
hood and had never known dis
appointment. She was badly
spoiled by her indulgent parents,
who granted her every whim and
fancy; Notwithstanding all this,
she was of sweet sunny temper
ament and the gayest of the gay
and was soon the petted spoiled
darling of the hotel.
Among the guests was Eugene
Findley, rising young lawyer
from Louisville, KY. He was
the exact opposite of Alice, had
a swarthy complexion and cold
black eyes and seemed to be of a
shy, retiring disposition, never
tleless he could not resist the
bright glances from the baby
blue eyes of the lovely Alice and
soon began paying her marked
attention. Then began a series
of long solitary walks through
the tangled wild wood, gather
ing flowers in the shady dells, or
to listen to the feath-
cred songsters offer up their
songs of praise from the swaying
branches of some near by tree,
or at night when the full moon
cast a silver sheen over the water
of Salt river they would enjoy
long rides on the quite stream,
while the soft sweet notes of a
guitar could often be heard, and |
Alice mingled her bird like notes
with the rich manly tone of her
lover. Their favorite trysting
place, however, was a rustic
bench under an old beech that
had withstood the storms of fifty
winters and bore evidence of a
score of lovers, who had left
their names in its bark and rested
beneath its shade. Finley cut
his name in the bark and the
name of Alice beneath it while
she looked on with an approving
smile.
He had every opportunity to
win the affections of this fair
young girl, and under the per-
suasive eloquence of his silver
tipped tongue and the burning
GLOW of his sDeakin0 eve. the
The bee., 1901-06-27

Continued on Seventh Page.)
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1901-09-27
Fusion SQuIrmers.

The increase for this fund bond
interest is 25 cents on the 800
over last year. 1t was made for
the purpose of paying off $4,000 of
our bonds which fall due this year
Also to meet the interest on addi-
tional outstanding bonds, amount
ing in the aggregate toabout SIS, 900.
This is a legacy of debt left to the
fusion administration and heaped
upon the shoulders of the tax pay
ers by the misrule of a ring, a
clique, which the people, regardless
of party, have cast out. The board
could in honor do no less than fix
a levy which shall meet these pay
ments as they fall due.-Silver
Blade.
How our Fusion friends delight
to misrepresentl A legacy left to
Fusion, indeedl Let us see:
The debt of the county in 1891,
before which party lines cut little
or no figure, was $56,513. In 1891
and '92 we had a democratic board
and by the end of '92 the county
debt had been increased to $110,-
637 During the next four years
the board of commissioners was
Republican and at the end of 1896
the debt was $156,965. During
the last five years the board has
been Fusion, and the debt was
$1S2,0S7 at the end of 1900.
1t will thus be seen that the peo-
pie are obliged to the Fusionists, OF
some of Fusion's component parts
for $79,S40 of the debt created since
1890, and to the Republicans foI
$45,72S.
AS to the bonded Indebtedness
$4,000 was issued in 1887. $4,000
in 1889, or before statehood, $4,000
was issued by Democratic boarC
in 1892, and the balance, $4,000
by Republican board in 1896.
As to the bonds now due, $4,000
the sum of $1,000 is for bonds
issued before statehood, and tn,
sum of $4,000 is of the Pilling-D Dag
gett issue under Democratic rule il
1892.
A legacy to Fusion indeed No
a dollar of the bonds to be paid thi
year represents bond issued b,
the opposition to Fusion. II is no
an example of a legacy TO Fusion
but a legacy OF Fusion that is hurt
ing the taxpayers.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1901-09-27

Our martyred President, in his
last public address, delivered only
few hours before he was laid low
by the bullet of Anarchy, felici
tated himself and his countrymen
upon the industrial condition of
the country in the following lam
guage:
Ny fellow citizens, trade statictics indicate
that this country is IN "A state If unexampied
prosperity
The figures are almost appalling.
They show that we are utilizing our helds and
and forests NJ d mines, and that we are furnish =
ing profitable employment To the millions OF
working men throughout the United States,
bringing comfort and happiness to their homes
and making IL possible To lay by savings for old
age aud disability.
That all the people are participating in this
great prosperity is seen in every American COM
muniIy and shown by the enormous ana I'M
Precedent deposits in our savings banks.
Had Mr.. Mckinley known that
that was to be the occasion of his
last address to his countrymen, and
had he planned it for valedictory,
he could not have summed up the
fortunate industrial conditions at
the close of his career in language
more truthful, appropriate and
felicitous.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1901-09-27

John Westhafer. of Loogootee,
Ind, is a poor man, but he says
he would not be without Chamber
lain's Pain Balm if it cost five dol
lars a bottle, for if saved him from
being a cripple. No external APP
plication is equal to this liniment
for stiff and swollen joints, con
tracted muscles, stiff neck. sprains
and rheumatic and musclar pains
1t has also cured numerous cases
of partial paralysis. 1t is for sale
at the Post Office Drug Store.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1901-09-27
a WORTHY SUCCESSOR.
Something New Under the Sun. "

All Doctors have tried to cure
CATARRH by the use of powders,
acid gases, inhalers and drugs in
paste form. Their powders dry up
the mucuOus membranes causing
them to crack open and bleed. The
powerful acids used in the inhalers
have entirel y eaten away same
membranes that their makers have
aimed to cure, while pastes and
ointments cannOt reach the disease.
An old and experienced practitioner
who has for many years made
close study and speciality of the
treatment of CATARRH, has at last
perfected Treatment which when
faithfully used, not only relieves at
once, but permanently cures CA
TARRH, by removing the cause.
stopping the discharges, and curing
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"SNUFFLEs the GuaranteedCArARAH
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"SNUFFLEs" is the only perfect
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by and is also wonderfully quick to
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HEAD.
CATARRH when neglected Otter.
leads to OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES"
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The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1901-09-27

THE world never paid greater
honor to any one man than it has
to William Mckinley, nor was
their ever greater grief felt over any
one mans death before. 1t is a
happy thought, in connection there
with, that William Mckinley won
all this by his individual efforts -
spurred on by an ambition to de-
serve we'll of his oountrymen
William Mckinley came from the
ranks of the common people. He
had no advantages of birth or
station over that Of the average boy
of today. His life and career is an
cbje,t lesson of the oppor
tunities open to every boy in
America. We sometimes hear the
agitator and breeder of discomfort
say poor man mas no show in the
world nowadays. The career of
William Mckinley proves such
statements demogogic and false,
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1901-09-27

The railroads have again in
augurated a series of homeseekers
excursions to last through the fall
and the Northwest promises to Sc
cure another large immigration.
Homeseekers are beginning to APP
pear in Boomers Ferry again and a
number have been located adjacent
to this place recently.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1901-09-27
a Wall of Calamity.

The new editor of the Rathdrum
Silver Blade is what Artemus
Ward wolld call an "amusin' cuss."
In a recent issue, speaking of the
industrial condition of the country
we find this astounding expression
in the middle OF a lengthy editor
ial of like rot:
We deny that this country is better of now
than in 1896.
The Blade should not humiliate
its readers by presuming so much
upon their ignorance. Every body
knows that the conditions are so
vastly improved over 1896 that
there is no comparison. In 1896
the dark pail of the panic was still
hanging over us-confidence was
not yet restored, Failures and fl
nancial ruin was still in the land
The mills were not yet open. Sam
uel Gompers estimated that from
100000 to 100000 laborers
we're out of employment. All ranch
products a few-were down
to bedrock prices.
How is it now? We do not hes
itate to say that there is not man
in America that is out of employ
ment except by choice. Right
here in Kootenai county public and
private enterprise has had to lag
for lack of labor to push it along.
Let the editor of the Blade enquire
of some of the ranchers on the
Rathdrum prairie, men whom he
ruhs up against every day, how the
price of cattle today compares with
the prices in 1896, and we might
go on and specify instances of i'm
provement indefinitely, while in no
line is there any change for the
worse. Confidence is restored, and
failures are of only normal occur
rance. The records of the savings
banks shows that the people are
accommodating money as at no period
in the history of the country.
But the most significant sugges.
ton in the Blades column of cal
amity is its question suggesting
that even the merchant is not bet
ter off since 1895, because he re,
ceives no more now for his goods
Thanks, brother, for that conces
sion! 1t is not often that a popu
list writer is so frank. We wer,
under the impression that alon,
with the increased demand TO
abor. with the attendant increas
of wages. and the general upwar,
tendency of all products, that per
haps the merchant had been force
to raise his prices to some extent
but according to the testimony o
our calamity bowling contempor
ary this is not true, and the rancho
AID the laborer are better off thar
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1901-09-27

we supposed.
President Mckinley sounded the
right key in that last speech at Buff
falo, and all the Gala nifty bowling
on earth will not prevail against
the facts.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1901-09-27

of So. Glen Falls, N. Y, des-
cribes condition which thous-