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The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1902-09-18

"A Ingenious method Of obtainins
pocket money is in vogue in London.
Its originator travels on suburban
lines. When the collector demands
his ticket, he explains at some length
that, having paid for 1t, 1t is his
property. After much time has been
wasted, the collector usually wakes
impatient, and snatches the ticket out
OF the passengers hand. who promptly
summons the company for assault. and
obtains damages.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1902-09-18

A contemporary oriticizes corpora-
tions for lighting revenue laws" It
is probable that the corporations do
fight revenue laws, but not for the
reason that the paper would have its
readers believe. Corporations DO not
night Just revenue laws, but they are
so taxed that they are compelled often
to make a fight in the courts to pre-
vent the wrecking Of their business by
pernicious taxation imposed by hostile
and ignorant Legislators. Everybody
in the state who knows anything about
the attitude Of past legislatures knows
that they have been against corpora
tions, and have so embodied their in
imicsl views into law that it has been
a hard matter to induce capital TO
invest here, and many companies go
elsewhere to incorporate. They don't
want to do business under the laws Of
this state, and all because the gang in
power wants to gouge them In order
to have more money 20 waste in ex-
travagant administration and gratis.
Corporations ought to DO treated no
better and no worse than other things,
and IL this policy should be tried in
Kentucky it would be readily seen
that corporations promptly pay what
is justly due from them.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1902-09-18
CALL FOR A CITY
REPUBLICAN CONVENTION


At meeting of the city Republican
committee, of the city Of Paducah,
KY. held September II, 1909. | was
instructed to call n mass convention
for the purpose Of selecting candidates
for the various city offices. Pursuant
to said instructions the Republicans
Of the city OF Paducsh, KY, are here
by called TO meet ct the city hall in
Paducah, KY, on Tuesday, Septem-
Der 80, 1909 at $3.50 O'Clock p. m. for
the purpose of selecting their candi-
dates for aldermen, city jailer, city
treasurer, city engineer and members
of the board Of education and for the
purpose of transacting such other
business as may properly come before
the convention. Very respectfully.
FRANK NJ. FISHER, Chairman Of
the City Republican Committee Of
Paducah.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1902-09-18

Alabama Republicans will indorse
President Roosevelt for a second
term. So will all other good Republi-
cans. But he will be elected no mat
ter how many states fail to indorse
him. He is the peoples choice and the
vote at the next presidential election
will show it.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1902-09-18

cause after his return TO his district
he made careful study Of the SEN
timent and found amoaH Republicans
chat do not truly represent their
views on the tariff question. Believ-
ing this condition TO exist aud know
ing. that do not agree with many of
my people that trusts, to which I am
and have been opposed, can be cured,
or the people benefited by free trade,
in whole or in part, must decline to
accept the nomination so generously
and enthusiastically made"
Speaker Henderson is doubtless
right 1t is very plain that tariff re-
form is not going to break up the
trusts unless it so Expresses them that
our industries will be left at the mercy
of foreign combinations and ruined,
and with them go large per cent OF
the working men of America. Speak
or Henderson's constituents should
have looked to him for light on such
things. He is an able man, and his
conduct has at all times proven him
to be an honest man. He is more cap
able, perhaps, of passing Judgment on
important questions than the rank and
file Of his constituents, or he would
not be leader among them and q
successful and respected public man
for twenty or more years. He says;
"You cannot kill the trusts by apply
ing free trade without killing our own
Industries. The foreign trusts are
fighting the American trusts, and /
don't believe that, for the purpose of
controlling American trusts, we should
make q market for foreign trusts,
thereby crushing out the industries of
this country.
For three years l have advocated
giving control Of trusts to congress.
In my Judgment proper supervision
can never be had until congress has
power to treat them. l am glad to
see from speeches made by our fear
less and upright chief executive that he
is advocating federal control over these
and while in some quar-
tiers they may sneer at it, / have not
seen any proposition yet except this
that seems at all likely to bring relief.
No proposition has ever been made by
the Democracy excepting to put every
thing on the free list and to give the
country free trade. In other words,
they propose to kill the child in order
to cure it.
"They propose to slaughter every
interest in the United States, whether
capital or labor, in a wild and blind
effort to provide a remedy for trusts.
In my opinion if combinations could
be regulated and controlled we would
have very little demand for changes
in the tariff laws. To show how
strongly the Republican party feels
upon the subject, in its state platform
this year the Iowa convention declares
in favor Of any modification Of the
tariff that may be required to prevent
sffording shelter to monopoly"
II man wants to know something
of Latin he goes to someone who
knows, 8 person who has studied it,.
It is the same way with history, msth-
ematics and with the great public is
sues Of today. The men who have
studied public questions, like the men
who have studied Latin, history OF
anything else, are the ones best able
to render intelligent opinions. The
people should consider we'll the views
of such men as President Roosevelt
and Speaker Henderson.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1902-09-18

Complaint is being made that boys
at Standardization. England, have
developed an Objectionable habit Of
following visitors in the streets, offer
ing to tell them AL about Shakes
peare for a half.penny."
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1902-09-18
DAILY THOUGHT.

Adversely is sometimes hard upon
man but for one man who can stand
prosperity there are a hundred that
will stand adversely.
Carlyle.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1902-09-18

An American lady has at her own
expense planted roses properly fenc-
ed in and protected by the side OF a
new road between the villages OF
Nlton and Whitwell Isle Of Wight
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1902-09-18
THE WEATHER.

Fair and cooler tonight with pre-
ceding showers in east portion Prob
able slight frost. Friday warmer
and fair.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1902-09-18
REPUBLICAN TICKET.

HON. p. H. DARBY, Of Caldwell,
for Court Of Appeals.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1902-09-18

1t appears that someth ing more
powerful than the Monroe doctrine is
required to keep peace and plenty in
our South American ueighbors.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1902-09-18

HON. O. H. LINN, of Lyon, for
Congress.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-12-21
MULATTOEs AS WRITERS.
Many Works to Their Credit I'm Lii
brary of Congress.

Washington Letter in Boston Transcript.
Daniel Murray, assistant in the library
or Congress, has compiled list of the
books in that institution written by per
sons or color. His list contains about 2,2Dt
titles, but ii Is OF little historic value as IL
stands, because of the practice into which
ne Tell OF including as colored persons some
whom the world does not SO regard. II Mr.
Murray has heard that the blood OF any
writer of prominence contained a strain OF
the African his works have been promptly
included In this list, with the result that
Murray's conclusions need 10 be taken with
a grain of salt
But stripped of its superfiuities the fact
remains that surprisingly large amount
OF literary work has been done by mulat-
toes. The straight blacks appear TO have
done almost nothing. The subject was re-
Gently brought up by the publication of a
work on chemistry by young colored
man Connected with the Howard University
in this city, named Herbert c. Scurlock.
The head OF that department, Professor
William III. Seaman, testihes to the care
and intelligence with which this chemical
textbook has been prepared. The question
was raised whether IL might not be the
first book on a scientific subject written by
colored man. IL was soon found, however,
that Benjamin Banneker had become emf
nent as an astronomer a century ago. He
sent his almanac to Jefferson, who was SO
interested in IL that, according to tradition,
he invited Banneker TO dine with him at
the White House. Banneker lived at Ell
licotts Mills, near Baltimore, and for years
made his living by compiling the astro-
nomical data for the almanacs of that day.
He was very nearly white; his grand
mother was entirely so.
Another somewhat noted textbook writ
ten by mixed blood was Professor Scar
borough's Greek grammar. He was a VIII
berforce man. Probably the most noted
case of literary talent was that OF Phyllis
Wheatley. Her first book was published
In l773. She was the slave bought by a
Mrs. Wheatley In Boston. who took pity en-
her when as an eight-year-old child
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-12-21
,ess agents. the record breaker by thou

press agents. the record breaker by thou
sands of barrels.
For instance, the American liner Phila-
delphia, which sailed for Cherbourg and
Southampton last Wednesday, had on board
about 5000 barrels and 5000 boxes of APP
pies, while the North German Lloyd liner
Kron Prinz Wilhelm, which sailed yester-
day, had about 200 boxes more Some OF the
apples, of course, were going to dealers
in England and Scotland, but no inconsder-
able part was consigned TO individuals,
as a memento of the season of rejoicing,
sent by some one on this side who was near
TO them either by friendship or blood.
The apples for gift purposes are all
especially picked, and then wrapped in
fancy tissue paper. This is true especially
of the fruit that is sent across in boxes
and baskets. For weeks past the big fruit
erers have been getting in the choicest
apples, and after they had polished them
to a glossineSs that gave them an almost
mirror-like appearance they were placed
on exhibition for the scrutiny of the foreign
trade, and for days past the houses of the
fruit dealers have been thronged with the
intending purchasers, and the clerks have
been kept constantly busy disposing of the
fruit, and taking down the names of some
cousin, sweetheart, or friend on the other
side of the Atlantic. to whom the fruit was
to be sent.
The boxes and baskets in which the ap-
pies that are sent across are made uD in
all kinds of fancy designs in colors to suit
the fancy OF the purchaser. The apples
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-12-21

wrapped up in a piece of carpet she was
offered for sale. Mrs. Wheatley soon dis
covered that the forlorn girl had native
talents, and so began to educate her. In
less than eighteen months she could read
the Bible with ease and in less than two
years she began to write verses. She mar
ried a man named Peters and died OF
tuberculosis when about thirty-three years
old. She wrote a poem dedicated TO Gen.
Washington. with which he was so well
pleased that he wrote her an interesting
letter. For years this poem was lost, but
IL was finally uncovered in 1851 when GER
tain Washington papers were transferred TO
the Boston Athenaeum. This girl also
wrote rather meritorious poem dedicated
70 Whitefield, the great evangelist.
Among the other colored writer's are DIR.
Edward w. Blyden. who was for a long
time Liberian minister at London. His
most noted book is Liberals Offering to
Christianity, Islam and to the Negro
Race" Martin r. Delany, who was a
major In the United States army during
the civil war, wrote two books, the better
one OF which treats OF the condition OF his
own race. There has been a number OF
novels by colored people as well as many
treatises on the race question.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-12-21

are then packed away in the baskets and
boxes in any style that the purchaser may
desire, and it may be stated that the fruit
erers can fix them TO suit the most fastid-
ious taste in that line.
The most popular apples for foreign gifts
are the Pippin and the Baldwin. and since
the season began the fruiterers have had
their agents out laying in great stores of
the choicest specimens of those two species.
Asked the other day why it was that the
American apple is so popular abroad the
manager of one of the transatlantic express
companies said that it due simply to
the superior flavor and the great beauty
of the American variety.
There are apples on the other SIDE" he
said, but they are not to be compared
with the American product. Not only is the
American variety infinitely superior in
flavor, but it is also susceptible of greater
and much more lustrous polish. Why, some
of the apples We have been sending over
this week look like French plate mirrors,
they are so shiny. We are not sending any
apples to places outside of England and
Scotland and Ireland. The French, Ger
mans and Belgians, it would appear, have
not learned what fine treat they are miss
ing, and until they do the trade so far as
they are concerned will probably amount
TO very little, just as II does to-day. The
apples are all placed in the coolest and best
ventilated parts of the cargo space on
board ship, and owing to their splendid
preservative qualities they are generally
in perfect condition when they are landed
on the other side OF the ocean,"
Besides apples a great many pears and
California oranges are also being shipped
across for the Christmas season. Pears are
a great deal more difficult to keep in good
condition than apples and oranges, and
hence they are not shipped across in such
great quantities. Oranges, however, are
sent In great numbers, the Philadelphia
having on board last week more than a
thousand boxes for Christmas gifts to peo-
pie in Great Britain.
Sailing tomorrow is the great Hamburg
American liner Deutschland and as she
will be the last ship TO leave this side that
will reach the other side more than a day
ahead of the holidays, she will carry a
record-breaking cargo of Christmas gifts,
among which will probably be thousands of
barrels and boxes of apples for people in
Great Britain.
Besides apples. oranges and pears, there
is also being shipped across this season
a large amount of American-masie candy
The candy is going in boxes and baskets,
in lots OF from one to ewtnty pounds. Ii is
put up in attractive style, the boxes and
baskets being masses of gayly colored tissue
paper and ribbons. The amount of candy
already shipped according TO the foreign
expressmen amounts TO several tons, and
another large consignment is expected TO
go by the Deutschland tomorrow after
noon.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-12-21
producing some pretty designs and figures

producing some pretty designs and figures
upon the wall.
her dolls and playthings, and blossomed
into the real Miss Powell. The piayroom,
with its boarded partition and its unique
decorations, was abandoned by her and
thereafter became the storeroom for the
family. Some years later Mr.. Powell
erected a residence in another part of the
city and the old home was rented.
A couple of stamps escaped the papering
process and found their way into one OF
the books in the library, although just
how this happened is not known. In after
years young man, while visiting at the
new Powell home, came across the two
stamps In the book.
This young man belongs to guild known
as philatelists. to use the scientific term.
or. in the common vernacular, stamp
cranks, and the instant his eye fell upon
one of the old stamps he was nearly over
common TO the craft He knew he was be-
holding the rarest and highest-priced speci
men of proprietary stamp, and 1T made
him faint
When the young man spoke about the
stamps and asked where they came from
and IL there were any others, Mr.. Powell
laughed and assured the young man that
there were hundreds and perhaps thousands
OF them pasted upon wall in the old
house. The young man evinced desire
to know more of the old house, and Mr.:
Powell accompanied him TO the scenes OF
his earlier married life.
The room referred TO by Mr.. Powell was
readily located, and the wall was of boards.
as had been said, but there were no stamps
upon the wall: nothing but light-colored
paint.
The young man whipped out penknife
and attacked the painted wall, and after
some little scraping and peeling came upon
the wood. Sure enough there upon the
board could be detected the coloring, and
family, the design of the stamp but the
paper itself seemed to have disappeared:
there appeared TO be no texture or fiber.
Inquiry developed the fact that some
years before, when the house was under
going repairs. the board walls had been
treated TO two coats OF paint. The present
occupant of the house remembered that
there had been some doubt 10 whether
IL would be best to soak of the old stamps
before painting, but the painters had as
sured him that would be entirely unneces-
sary, that there would be stamps after
the first coat OF paint.
The brush artists were good guessers
There was not the slightest outward evil
dence of the existence OF 500, 600 worth of
stamps upon the wall.
Various schemes were employed i'm the
effort TO recover some OF the stamps, by
soaking the paint with chemicals, by
scraping. by planning OF the back OF board
until the paint had been reached. but with
out success.
1t was found that there was no longer
any body 10 the stamps, the action OF the
per in the paint itself. The stamps had
originally been printed upon very thin, It's
sue-like paper. and upon this fiimsy ma
terial the paint had wrought its deadly
work.
And there 1000 stamps, more or less. each
one catalogued at $50. remain to-day,
hidden from view and beyond the reach
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-12-21

newspaper works. an art in itself. man
may know all about literature and may be
able to write weighty essay but he may
be a complete failure in the newspaper
field. To be successful newspaper man
one must be much more than educated.
He must be alert and able to see what the
readers of his paper desire and give 1t to
them. He must condense, when necessary,
and, above all, he must be energetic and
conscientious 1t is much like learning any
other of the so-called liberal professions,
only that man must be peculiarly adapted
before beginning his training. Where col
lege men have failed / have seen copy boys
succeed" said the editor of great metro
politan daily, and it is fact.
The college graduate is generally too i'm
patient TO serve the necessary time In learn
ing what is required of him, and in many
instances gives up in disgust. If on enter
Ing newspaper work he would make up his
mind that he has many things to learn
there would be fewer failures.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-12-21
Schools for Chinese Children.
New York Evening Post.

new YORK Evening Post.
IL is now settled that the Chinese chill
dren of California will not be permitted to
attend the regular public schools. but must
be educated in the institution especially
provided for their race where such schools
exist. Wong Him, doctor OF San Fran
cisco, sought an order from the United
States Court 10 restrain Mary +. Callahan
from denying his son Henry admission TO
the Clement Grammar School. Judge De
Haven has denied the application, ana holds
that the San Francisco law putting the Chi
nese into separate schools is not contrary
to the fourteenth amendment TO the Con-
stitution. The allegation that the exclusion
OF Chinese from the public schools is 'ar-
bitrary and the result OF hatred for the
Chinese race" the opinion saws. Is not a
matter for the court 10 inquire into. The
relief sought is refused because there was
not even an allegation that the school for
Chinese did not give just as good an educa-
ton as those TO which Chinese were not adj
unfffed
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-12-21

Correspondence Chicago Post
Senator Casey, of Minnesota now OF
North Dakota, said to me this summer:
When we divided the Territory OF Dakota
into two parts / strenuously objected TO
the word 'North'-North Dakota. That
word Is cold: IL makes people shiver: II will
keep settlers away: IL will prove serious
obstacle 10 the pioneer growth or The
State"
He was right That word North" has
cost the State twenty-five years delay in
It's development The Western emigrant
does not warm 10 the suggestion OF a rig
orous North, but now that North Dakota
lands have quadrupled in the last ten or
fifteen years. the North" Is no longer a
bugbear. But the bad report true or false
about a man, city or a country. travels
fast and Tar, and Is remembered long. while
the good remains al home and Is often
slow In becoming well and widely known.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-12-21
A TREASURE in STAMPS
WALL PAPER WORTH FIFTY DOL
LARS FOR EACH SQUARE INCH.
Third OF a Million Dollars Worth
room by n Little Girl.
New York Sun.

New York Sun.
Part of one OF the walls Of an old-fash-
toned residence in Albany is adorned with
wall paper valued at upward of $4,000, or
about $50 a square inch. The high-priced
wall paper consists of very rare revenue
stamps, priced in current catalogues at $50
each and readily selling at 500 each.
Fairy tales OF apartments having walls
pIastered- with stamps OF great value have
gone the rounds OF stamp journals. but this
IS a true story. A local stamp dealer has
investigated the matter personally and
youches for the accuracy of the state
ments.
A quarter of century ago V. r. Powell,
of Albany. manufactured certain prepa-
ration which at that time required the af-
fixing OF a proprietary revenue stamp upon
each package
After a time the law imposing stamp
taxes was repealed Having several thou
sand Of the unused stamps on hand and
there being no further commercial use for
them and no market for their sale to col
lectors, Mr.. Powell. rather than throw the
pretty things into the stove, took them
home to his little daughter. then ten or
eleven years old. That was the last the
busy fatner tnouSnt OF MS surplus revenue
stamps.
one small room in the house had been
set apart for the exclusive use OF little
Miss Powell as a playroom. The room
was located In an IL" and the partitions
were OF boards instead of lath and plaster.
She had long wanted a papered room.
and one day, when the novelty of the
stamps as playthings had worn off and she
was debating the problem what next TO do
Nth hon nRnfIFrR0
might paper her room with them Without
delay she set about the task and in the
course OF three or four days had affixed the
entire lot OF stamps. some 1900 In all, one
by one. upon the Wainscoted wall.
There were enough OF the stamps TO COW
er practically one side OF the room as high
a. size could reach. and with the help of
some OF her girl friends she succeeded In
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-12-21
APPLES FOR CHRISTMAS GIFTS.
Americans Send Them to Their
Friends i'm England.

New York Times.
Apples by the barrel, apples by the box.
and apples in all kinds of fancy wicker
baskets are among the most popular of
the Christmas presents that Americans
are sending to their friends and relatives
on the other side OF the Atlantic this year.
Every outgoing steamship that cleared this
port last week carried great quantities of
the luscious fruit, one steamship alone
the White Star lineer misunderstanding
stored away in her hold no less than 10000
barrels of the choicest apples grown in
American orchards.
While for many Christmases past the
American apple has been favorite gift
and the steamship companies have carried
great quantities of them to England. this
year is, according to the freight and ex-