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The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1902-03-15

Tho tnir Se1.
.bjsiy % Ni3R 81 I'D beadests
sHritg aetfd ,is 3ais1 oyeit ~ the new
.untury.a aldn1reit-g for charitable,
e1aeaaonli1 atsl-iBts yHgFusqp reaches
.tF94 2 2-f-l, b ny q1at iS1ngyO's2o,
or ABOUT tl,sIltlV every m0ltn. VI
ne tl5.6o1.ga1 giv3H TO fcoileees alone
iuFlns theinsss ak rfeFhs aof o the
year women1oontTiiJittd ssl60eseo04 ut
nas Eeea Aq.ai, thats @A-.e mss giye
nore geIail T. SARe2a9R7 y W Il
contfi0utod Chiefly 70 eharity and re-
iigion Tier beautfdl home m Virginia,
1880 acres Of land aud IN ehdowmsnt
Of 100000 is recent giit. by VIII,
Of MIS-. Indiana. Williams. for girls
school. Mrs. Mccormick, OF Chicago.
continues her liberal gifts to eduta-
ton, and Miss Helen GoaId contr b.
utsd to the same eause most .gener-
ously, Vassar College has been pre-
ssnted with scholarships, as well as
he New York University, the latter
receiving a fund for perp .ual endow
mena. Miss Gould is also interested
in Young Mems Christian Associa-
lions, having erected buildings for
several Yale, College has prohted by
the generosity of several women, A
valuable library, 100000 to establish
0 Y. M. c. A. for the scientific school.
and money to found a memorial fell
lowship being among the important
gifts. Libraries have proited to the
extent OF $1,000. 900 by women's gifts.
In the realm OF charity, riffs and be-
quests are recorded aggregating the
splendid sum Of slo.000.00 Rarely,
II ever. has SO much money been con-
uibuted for charitable purposes as
this year. Upon Easter day alone in
New York churches, nearly half a mill
lion was placed on the aims basins at
the different services, Grace church
giving sl67,60o Of this amount. II IL
safe to say that women gave over half
OF this near half million dollars. At
the tr1ennial convention OF the Epis-
copai church. held at San FRANCHISES.
in October. women gave 100000 for
missions. and pledged the further SUN
Of 900 for . girls school In China.
One Of the most notable gifts for hos
pitfalls is that Of Mrs. Coils p. Hunt
ington. who has presented Der bsauti-
full home in San Francisco to the city.
to be converted into q hospital for
women. The house cost q quarter Of
million dollars and was used only
about two months In the year by the
Huntingdon .--lndianapoiis News 1 D
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1902-03-15

d. W. Randolph. Grocer.
Phone 50. 1913 South Second street.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1902-03-15
CONFEDERATE REUNION

DALLAS, TEXAS.
Owing to the great amount of inter.
est being manifested in the coming re-.
union at Dallas next April the passen-
ger department of the Illinois Central
railroad has arranged to run special
trains through to Dallas via jackson,
Miss. vicksburg and Shreveport
without change, allowing the Old
Veterans an opportunity to stop over
at vicksburg and view the historic
bsttlefelds ON which doubtless many
of them faced the enemy in one of the
tirecest conflicts now recorded in his.
tory.
The rate from all stations will be
one cent per mile each way, and tick
cts will be on sale April 10, 90 and
81. For further particulars call on
or address J. T. DONOVAN Agent,
Paduoah, Ky.
JNo. r HOLLIS. 7. p A., Mem.
ui,ii
ys1 a sySgr p a. nempln
"
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1902-03-15

Our job work can't he excolled.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1902-03-15
DIR. II. I. HESSIG,
R 8illGG a1S Sth and Jackson St.
TELEPHONE 40.
SOUTH CAROLINA INTERSTATE
AND WEST INDIAN EXPOSE.
TON, CHARLESTON, s. O., DE-
GENDER /, i9oi-JUNE 1, 1909.

On account of the above occasion
the Nashville, Chattanooga aud 81
Louis railway is now selling excursio,
tickets to Charleston at very Low
rates. Apply to N, O. and st. Il
ticks6u asents for full information.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1902-03-15

%" I.N .IHUu Ln. nN diU nffN
would not Think Of 1t Tgent y;
two and never been married Some.
body fly to her rescue qaick, The
danger of old maidhpcd .stpyos ,beg in
the face even now. .,rf t-.t..,,q
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1902-03-15

A Metropolis man caught bottle
floating in the river the Other day con
tanning the following note;
Louisville, KY, Feb 2s.
To whom may find this note will
find enclosed in bottle description OF
me. Five feet six inches high,
weight 100 pounds, complexion light,
color of hair blonde, age twenty-five
years never been married, but would
like to be. hope whoever finds this
note will write at once. | am impa.
tiently waiting for an answer.
Miss Julia Belle Parker"
The Herald adds;
1t is to be hoped that Metropolis
boys will lose no time in answering
this dear, girls letter. She is impa-
tiontly waiting an answer, and who
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1902-03-15
cLosINa,oUT.


Note these prices: - ny
3.lb can Table Peaches, loo.
BIB can Table Pumpkins i-2 cents.
3.lb can n. o. Molasses, dark, Z Ia
cents.
3-lb can Pie Peaches, Z Ia cents.
lib can Plum Pudding. SC.
&c Celluloid Starch Z for 200.
Mixed Hay, per 90 lbs, zoe.
Bran, per 100 lbs, s1.s0.
bars be Laundry Soap, i0c.
3 goo Bottles Pickles, SOC.
d. W. Randolph, Grocer.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-08-30
A SPIRIT OF COOPERATION.
DEVELOPMENT of the Public Schools,
Especially Those In the Ru-
raj Comm unitieS.

In all the states in the south in
which the education board, has under
taken active work, the organization
has had the emphatic Endorsement,
not only of the chief executive but
of the people, says the Montgomery
(Ala.) Advertiser. This has been due
to the wise and generous fidelity with
which the board has served the inter-
ests of the south. It has won conf
dence by deserving it. 1t has won
appreciat ton, not only by its profess
sions, but by it's actions. 1t has not
attempted the realization of alien and
unsympathetic theories. Placing its
work in the hands Of southern men
men of common earnestness in their
devotion to the south-it has worked
everywhere in sincere and cordial
conformity with the southern inter-
est and southern ideals.
Its chief interest is in the develop
ment of our public schools-especial-
lv the public schools of our rural COM
munities. Its policy is not Interior
ence, but cooperation. The board
is free from all entanglements,
whether ecclesiastical or political The
motive of it's work in this state, ac-
cording to the standpoint of the read
er, may be called patriotic or educa-
tional or religious, but we believe this
motive may he described very COM
prehensively and very briefly in one
Simply phrase-''The Children of Ala
bama."
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-08-30
worry Causes Dyspepsia.

Worry is cause and source Of
much unhappiness. 1t seams the face
with lines and burrows and has most
depressing effect upon that hypersen-
sitive organ, the stomach, which at
such times becomes most unwilling
and laggard servant. Indeed, it is safe
to say that unless encouraged by
Cheerful! temper and bright or, at least,
hopeful thoughts, the stomach will
play truant or sulk or do no good work.
The physiological explanation Of this
is the close alliance of the great sympa-
thetic nerves, which are worse than
the telegraph for carrying bad news;
the work and anxiety which depress
the brain cause simultaneously semi
paralysis of the nerves of the stomach;
gastric juices will not fow-and.
presto there is Indigestion. One sign Of
mental health is serenity Of temper
and q self control that enables us to
bear with equanimity the petty trials
and jars of life especially those arising
from contact with scolding. irascible,
Irritating persons. Serenity of mind
comes easy to some and hard to 9TH
ers.-American Medicine.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-08-30
HOW THE LAKES DIE.
Some Interesting Facts Concerning
the Life History of Inland
Water Bodies.

Prof. Gregory, of Yale, recently
gave particularly interesting lecture
on 1.-The Life History of Lake"
Prof. Gregory, in the course of his
talk, spoke of the way lakes are filled
on one side and drained on the other
by rivers, and called attention to the
rapidity with which lakes are filled
up by the bringing down of sediment
| of various sorts. Rivers running into
lakes are quite dark, but those lead-
ing away are clear. showing that much
has been left behind. The Mississippi
carries yearly to the gulf over 13,000,-
900 tons of matter. Itwould take but .
days portion of this burden to convert
any one of the many ordinary lakes
into broad meadow lands, says the
Springfield (Mass.) Republican.
Some idea of the rapidity with which
lakes die under this process is shown
in the fact that 70 out of 149 lakes in
the Swiss region have disappeared
since 1873. Lakes die by either being
filled up or drained off. The draining
off results when river has worn .
gorge back so that the water all runs
out. The Niagara river is doing ito
best in this draining by cutting as fine
trench as could be made by an en-
gineer. It is cutting back toward
Lake Erie at the rate of over four feet
a year, and in time would kill the lake.
Unfortunately, however, the lake is
destined to be drained through Chi
cago. Lake Tahoe, a beautiful lake
in the Sierra Nevada mountains, is
also one of those destined in time to
be killed as result of the draining
process.
Peat is one of the greatest filters
and works more rapidly than any other
form of deposits. It is estimated that
one-tenth of Ireland is peat, and over
one-fourth of the state of Indiana was
once peat bog. The speaker called
attention to the Dismal swamp in
Florida, which was once vast lake.
but is now great area of bogs and
swamp, with only little lake in one
part. So rank is the growth of this
peat in that hot land that the surface
of the lake is IA feet higher than tho
level of the surrounding boys, showing
that it has been literally forced up
into the air.
Lakes. swamps, boys and then gar
den lands represent the stages in the
process of dying. Filling, draining
and encroachment of vegetation rep
resent the process that kills the lakes
in warmer chimes, while the forces of
the air are agencies in the cooler por-
tions of the country. Prof. Gregory
closed his lecture with an interesting
account of the way the lakes have dis
appeared in the regions in the western
part of the United States, where only
desert land is now found.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-08-30

seashore driveway which now con.
meets Old Phaaerum with New Phal.
.erum and Piraeus, and it is expected
that in the near future this drive
way will be widened into broad
avenue which will pass the geological
gardens now in course of construc.
ton, near Old Phalerum, and connect
with an attractive driveway which
passes along the face of the bluffs
and promontories on the west shore
of the bay, and along the ancient
walls of Piraeus, down to its harbor.
When finished, the whole will form
one of the most attractive drives in
southern Europe, and will make the
means of communication between
Athens and the sea much more easy
and agreeable.
DANIEL E, MGINLEY.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-08-30
Lobster Fishing in Chile.

The island of Juan Fernandez, lying
600 miles west of Valparaiso (made IA
nous by the story of Robinson Crusoe),
promises soon to develop industrial in
terests.
The island belongs to Chill, and the
government is now arranging to make
it part of one of the provinces and es-
tablish local civil government. The
island is about Is miles long and eight
miles in width. There is good har-
Dor on one side, where large ships can
anchor with safety.
A large canning factory has been es-
tablished on Juan Fernandez and tho
fishing industries are attracting tho
attention of capitalists. There are
quantities of Holsters, crabs, and excel
lent food fishes in the waters. The lob
sters are large, of excellent flavor, and
especially suited for canning. They
are easily caught, the supply seems in
exhaustible, and the cost of securing
them is nominal. There are also large
numbers Of fur seals on Fernandez and
other islands near by, the taking Of
which might be profitably included in
the lobster and fish business. The laws
Of Chilli permit the killing of seals from
March l to November /. There is .
ready market for the seal skins in this
port, whence they are shipped to Eu-
rope.
There is plenty of fresh water on the
island; land can be acquired by settlers
without. cost; fruit and vegetables
grow wild and are easily cultivated,
which makes the cost of living com.
paratively low. The company now en-.
gagged in business is charging its plant
and increasing its output. X.
r. E. MANSFIELD.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-08-30
SOUTHERN
EDUCATION
A SHARP CONTRAST
Should Not be Built I'm
the Expense Of the Chill
oren's School Hou,e..

IN certain town in the south thor.
n'e or six beautiful church
muses. some of which have stained
9ass windows and cushioned seats
rooao ply the half dozen cost from
Nv twenty to thirty thousand dollars
ne single school house in the town
- . oarn-like structure containing
one large room heated by a box stove
Tue MIDDLE, but with cracks in the
oof, wall and roof through which q
cat could 60. The house and eon;n.
ment probably cost when new less
'nan nVe hundred dollars. Were the
county poor house or Jail in no bet.
yer condition the judge Of the su.
rer'or court would probably charge
Tue jury to find bill of inducement
against the county commissioners
ou' who ever heard Of judge or iury
among us considering the question Of
. school house? A certain communi-
y IN the south has three good
cnurcnes, one of brick, and a Meth
GUST parsonage built at a cost of
S'oo' and little old school house
ouiIt many years ago at a cost of
800. There are manv cities in the
south in which the church property
Is worth from five to twelve times as
much as the public and private school
property. In one city the Sunday
school rooms of single church cost
nve times as much as the public high
building and it's equipment-nearly
half as much as all the school build
ings in the city. The property own
ed by one of the 30 or 40 religious de-
nominations in one southern state is
valued at twice as much as all the
public school property in the state.
The denomination has about 10000
members, while the population of the
state is about 2,0OO,O 900 and the school
population is 100000.
The church is all right, and no one
will complain that it has cost money
or wish that it were one whit less
commodious, slightly or comfortable.
But that the school house should be
the miserable, cheap, ugly, cramped,
uncomfortable pen that it is, is all
wrong.
What is the lesson of it all? That
teachers and officers must do as
preachers and church officers have
done. They must make the people
believe that better school houses are
needed, and then they must labor
with untiring zeal until they are
built. We are not too poor to build
these school houses. The community
that can build four or five good
church houses can build at least one
good school house. Is is only neces-
sary to awaken the conscience of the
people. Preachers, judges and juries
should help in this, but it must re-
main largely the business of teachers
and school officers.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-08-30
Shipbuflding i'm Virginia.

In the Census Bulletin of recent
date on manufactures is pointed out
that between 1890 and 1900 Virginia
advanced from position of COM
paratively small Importance to a
place among the leading shipbuilding
states. 1t will doubtless be sur
prise to most of our readers to know
that in 1900 Virginia was the first
state in the amount of capital in
vested in this industry, third in the
number of wage earners and wages
paid, and fourth in the vlaue of prod
ucts. It's capital invested in ship
building increased from less than a
third of a million dollars in 1890 to
nearly fifteen million dollars in 1900,
which is two and one-third times as
great as the entire capital invested
in the shipbuilding industry in New
England, more than double the cap.
ital so invested on the Pacific coast,
and almost equal to the entire
amount of capital invested in ship
building on the Great Lakes.-Rich-
mond Times.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-08-30
THE BELLS OF BOW.
Something of the History of LOndon's
Legendary Chimes of st.
Mary's, Cheapside.

Up in the steeple of St. Mary-le-
upon the legendary chimes which
have kept time with the Emusic Of
humanity" since London became ia
nous among the cities of the earth.
For more than 20 generations, says
the London Telegraph, they have
commented like Greek chorus upon
all the drama of life and fate packed
within the walls of the old capital or
acted in the modern arena that con-
centrates in it's seething existence of
everyday-more intense and innu-
merable contrasts of fortune than
any other environment of the world.
Turn again, Wilmington, thrice
lord mayor of London"-what child
does not know that it was the faraway
rhythm of Bow bells which spoke
sooth to the ear of the poor apprentice
in doublet and hose, recalled him with
in the gates of the picturesque medic
val city, with its pitched roofs and
gables, and made him the civic ances-
tor of Sir John Dimsdale? There is no
single episode of English folk-tales
more profoundly characteristic of the
spirit of the nation, or more expressive
of the unique place which the typical
church of Cheapside has always held
in popular imagination:
Westminster and St. Pauls have
been the shrines of the realm asso-
ciated with all the pomps and vicissi-
tudes of the state. But St Mary-le-
Bow alone has been regarded as the
symbol associated with the joy and
grief, the mirth and care of private
men. The lives of centuries of citizens
have been accompanied by the dancing
peals or the iron sorrow of its bells.
They have rung the generations into
being. They have rung them away.
They have been glad for births and
weddings. They have been mournful
for deaths and partings. And ever they
have seemed like the disciples to speak
to every man in his own tongue. Ina
word, the city and Bow bells "have
triumphed and have saddened" to-
gether, and the changes in the steeple
have made equal measure with the
changes of life.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-08-30
I'm the Public Eye Abroad
Commercial, Industrial Political Conditions In
Foreign Lands.

In practically all European ma
tions the craze for gambling con-
tinues with all the fervor of past cen
turtles. It is craze that pervades
all classes of society from the very
richest to the very poorest, and to
attempt to stamp it out would meet
with SO violent protest that it
would be next to impossible to ac-
complish the result. Many of the
smaller states and principalities de-
rive no small amount of their income
from this mania for gambling by
providing the people with the means
for satisfying it, and, of course,
reaping the profit that always falls
to the hands of the party running the
schemes.
The state lottery is prominent
feature in Prussian family life, for
almost every Prussian, high or low,
is in some way interested in it. The
rich man takes whole ticket with
the chance of winning $4,000 livres;
the middle-class paterfamilias takes
a quarter of a ticket, the working
man or woman takes tenth, and
still poorer people club together to
take tenth among them. The whole
ticket costs eight ivres, and as the
100000 tickets are nearly always sold,
upwards of 100000 livres are col
lected twice a year by the officials of
the lottery department..
A large sum is returned in prizes,
which are all paid in cash, but the
government still makes very hand
some profit.
The drawings are conducted
on a system which the expert
ence of more than 100 years has rem
dered practically perfect, and even a
suspicion of trickery is precluded. A
boy from an orphanage takes out
from the wheel one of the little num-
bered rolls, another orphan boy I'M
folds it and passes it to an official,
who reads it aloud. Simultaneously
another boy has taken from a small
er wheel a little roll on which the
value of a prize is written. This is
handed by another boy to an official,
who then says how much the number
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-08-30
Not q work Of Charity.

In speaking of the purposes OF the
education board, the Worlds Work
says:
:sThe aim of the board is not a
missionary aim. It is broadly patri-
otto. It will do it's work in prac-
teal way-its personnel is guaran-
tee of that-without fads or theories,
without sectional feeling, race preju-
dice or any aim except the building
I'D of the neglected masses OF our
population. It is organized on a
broader basis than any body was ever
before organized for such a purpose;
and it's personnel includes men of
northern birth and men Of southern
birth. It is not unlikely that this
board may exert the strongest force
in aid of popular education that has
ever been brought to bear on public
opinion. 1t ought to receive a larger
fund than any board has ever had to
administer; for it has machinery. ex-
ner;ence, sources of definite, first
hand information, and practical abil-
itv such as has perhaps never been
brought to such an undertaking"
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-08-30
An Accomplished Monkey.

The Star Of the Maryland exposi-
ton midway is Esau, chimpanzee 3
years old captured in eastern central
Africa. Esau, in full dress suit, sizes
up visitors at glance, and offers or
withholds his hand according to his
prepossessions. He insists on clean
linen, makes his own toilet, brushes
his hair before q mirror, plays a
small piano, works a typewriter,
wears a ring on each hand which he
will not permit to leave his sight,
uses knife and fork correctly. stirs
his tea with q spoon, and owns q
dog, with which he often romps. If
Esau can stand the climate he may
live to be 4O.-St. Louis Globe-Demo'
crQk,
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-08-30

pany, who recently made a tour OF
the continent, claims that in short
trial made, the use of the vans has
proved highly satisfactory, both in
cost and convenience.
The vans employed by this COM
pany are Is feet long by eight feet
wide and about six feet high. They
are solidly built of wood, specially Sc
lected for protection against damp
ness, and are covered with thin sheet
steel. They are readily conveyed
onto and from ships and railway
cars by the usual hosting apparatus.
AS new phase of international
commerce, the matter will be
watched with interest.
H. W. HARRIS.
Improvement of Roads Near Athens.
The highways now connecting Ath-
ems with it's seaport, Piraeus, and
with it's bathing places on Phalerum
bay are narrow, poorly graded, poor
ly turnpiked, and poorly kept, maxi
ing transportation between these
places by carriage, wagon or wheel
quite disagreeable.
A new boulevard is now being con-
structed, starting at Hadrian's arch
on the Boulevard Amelia, Athens, and
extending in direct line and grad
ually sloping grade to the shore Of
Phalerum bay, at a point nearly mid
way between Old Phalerum-the
bathing place of the old Athenians-
on the south shore of the bay, and
New Phalerum, the bathing place Of
the modern Athenians, on the north
west shore.
The boulevard will be about 3H
miles in length and 9sA feet in
width. 1t is intended to divide it in
to carriage drive, bicycle path
and promenade for pedestrians, by
rows of shade trees. Mrs. Syngros,
a wealthy Athenian, has furnished
the money to construct and finish the
boulevard, and the cost is estimated
at $5s,s23.5o. The grading, culverts
and bridges are well under way, and
it is hoped to have the whole finished
by next December.
The new boulevard will intersect Q