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The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1902-03-14
PENSION BILL VETOED
GOVERNOR OF VIRGINIA DIS.
APPROVES ON TECHNI.
CAL GROUNDS.

Richmond, Va. March l4.-Gover.
nor Montague has vetoed the joint as
sembly resolution appropriating $500.
coo for pensions for Confederate vet
Grams, on constitutional and technical
grounds.
His message says in part:
1.-THE justice and expediency Of
pensions are not involved. All are
agreed that the state should do its
utmost to ali tho needy and deserving
veterans. but all must concede that
the needy and deserving alone should
be the recipients Of the money appro-
priated. The present law l. far from
satisfactory, resulting in Irregularities
and injustice which should not be pos
sible under any future pension legisla-
ton.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1902-03-14
FOR HARVARD.
MRS. HUNTINGTON, RoCKEFEL.
LER AND MORGAN CON-
TRIBUTE NEARLY
$1,000, 900 TO MED.
ICAL BRANCH.

Boston, Mass March IA gift OF
$3.50, 900 from Mrs. Coils p. Hunting
ton, announced today, more than COM
pletes the sum offered by John ID.
Rockefeller OF New York for the en-
largement and endowment OF the Har-
ward medical school. Mrs. Hunting
tons subscription is specifically for
the erection Of building in memory
Of Ter late husband, to be called the
Coils p Huntington Laboratory OF
Pathology and Bscteriology.
With Mr. Rockefeller's gift aud the
pledge made by J. p. Morgan last
June to give three buildings at a cost
exceeding 100000, an aggregate Of
s2,s2l, 225 will be available for the
use OF the medical school
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1902-03-14
METRIC SYSTEM
BILL PROVIDING FOR GOVERN
MENT ADOPTION INTRO
DUCED IN HOUSE.

Washington, March 1.-THE bill to
adopt the weights and measures Of the
metric system a. the standard for the
United States, was introduced by
Representative Shafroth of Colorado,
WAS ordered fayorsbly reported ty tie
House committee on coinage, wei ghts
and measures 1t provides;
THAT after January !, 1904, all
the departments of the government Of
the United States, in the transaction
of all business requiring the use Of
weights and measurements except in
completing the survey of public lands,
shall use only the metric system, and
after January 1. 1907, the weighs
and measures and metric system shall
be the legal standard weights and
measures Of and in the United
States"
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1902-03-14
OPEN SALOONS
AND A KILLING OCCURRED FIVE
DAYS LATER AT CADIZ.

Hopkinsville, March l4.-Licenses
for four saloons were granted in Ca
dir, and they opened for business Mon
day. March 8, for the first time in
several years. The first killing oc-
CURED Saturday night, March sth.
Scott Thomas, after drinking heav.
lily at tine new liquor houses and be-
coming into xicated, went to the home
of Alfred Bridges about eight miles
from town. where an entertainment
was in progress. He became very
boisterous and Bridges asked John
Francis TO take him outside. Francis
led Thomas from the room into the
hall. with Bridges walking behind
them. Thomas pulled loose and. pull.
ing pistol from his pocket, fired at
both the other men. He missed Fran
els, but Bridges was shot directly
through the heart, dying instantly. A
second shot was fired at Francis and
then, in the excitement, Thomas made
his escape and has not been captured.
The Bridges family have offered a re-
ward Of $500 for him.
Tue men were both prominent in
their neighborhood and were cousins
- q 81. ~
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1902-03-14

II what is claimed at Frankfort is
true, the appropriation bill for Ken
lucky exhibit at the Worlds Fair will
be defeated because the capitol appro-
priation bill was. 1t is claimed by the
friends of the capitol bill that it was
the friends Of the other measure who
defeated it, and that they will retail
late by beating the worlds fair bill.
This sort Of business shows what kind
Of men we have in the legislature.
They are willing to sacrifice honor,
pride. and everything else to crafty
petty spite. They are willing to make
Kentucky appear in the eyes of the
other states as a bankrupt common
wealth, or one composed Of men with
out pride or enterprise, and to cause
every citizen Of the state to feel
ashamed of it.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1902-03-14
THRILLING EXPERIENCE
Col. Q. Q. Quigley and Grand Daugh-
ter in a Cyclone Recently.
Their Train Hi by Twis,er, Blu a, the
Passengers Escaped Injury.

Col. @. @ Quigley and grnnidnurh-
ter, Miss Faith Langstaff, WHO lrst
here few days since for Pass Chris
tian, were aboard the train that was
caught in the terrible cyclone Of
March l2. Letters have Just been re-
ceived here stating that they reached
New Orleans an hour late, but were
most grateful to get there at all, and
uninjured. The windows Of the car
were all broken and the trainmen
said all that saved the trnin and its
passengers from being blown over the
embankment was that the trees fell
across il and not the other way.
They saw an entire family living in a
cabin by the roadside injured and
their home destroyed. II was GER
tainly a narrow escape and sll here
who read of 1t yesterday little dream
ed they were so nearly represented in
it. 1t is a matter Of congratulation to
the friends Of Colonel Quigley and
Miss Langstsff that they suffered no
in iury
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1902-03-14
PLACING THE BLAME.

II is the opinion of many military
authorities who have been in the Phil
ippines that che instruction would
have been over long ago had it not
been for the so-called "peace party"
in the United States. General Fun
ston, who has Just returned, made
speech at Chicago banquet the other
night, in which he declared:
Had it not been for the so-called
peace party in the United States the
instruction would have been sup
pressed finally in January, 1900.
Since that time 900 lives have been
sacrificed and millions OF dollars have
been spent. We're it not for the hope
OF the few leaders still under arms
that the United States is on the verge
Of civil war in their behalf all resist
ance would be at an end
After detailing some Of the mean,
contemplate tricks Of the treacherous
natives, he continued:
THE great mass Of the natives in
the Philippines do not know what in.
dependence is. Ninety-fve per cent
want to be left alone and prefer to be
governed by others than themselves.
The case Of Cuba has been held as III
example OF what we could do in the
Far East.
II believe my experience in bott
countries has given me an insight IN
the character of both peoples. There
are forty Cuban leaders who are ths
superiors Of any leader the Filipinos
ever had. There is no comparison be.
tween the two. And am not lying
awake, either, thinking Of how love
the Cubans."
He also made the assertion that out
of 700 natives captured and sentenced
to death. 500 were imprisoned instead.
The sooner people take common
sense view of the Philippine situation,
and do away with the maudlin senti-
ment that prompts them to extend to
the lazy, murderous Filipinos undo
served sympathy, the sooner will the
insurrection be suppressed. The Span
ish. after all, may not have been so
cruel as the world has beeen led to be-
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1902-03-14

Hon. Dave Colson of Bell county
has announced his candidacy for Con E
gress, to succeed Congressman Bore
ing, in the Eleventh district. Mr..
Colson Is one of the best known ald
ablest Republicans in the state of Ken
lucky, and is liked wherever he is
known. He is most attractive gen
tleman, both personally and intellectu-
ally, and will make a good race.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1902-03-14
POLICE COURT.


W. +. Eskridge, claiming to be an
officer of the law in Caldwell county,
is in pretty tight box here as re-
suit of little too much whiskey.
This morning he was drinking at the
Richmond bar when he started a quar-.
rel with q gentleman named Harrison.
He lost his temper and drew large
as blue steel revolver and began ia
flourish it about Officers Woods and
Collins were summoned and arrested
him and three warrants have been is.
sued against the gentleman, one for q
breach of the peace, another for carry
ing concealed and deadly weapons and
another for hourishing a pistol. Hi
case was continued until tomorrow
when he is more able to testify.
+. ". Fenor and Frank McCoifrey
two steamboat men, the former ON the
government steamer Lilly, were fined
o. and costs each for breach OF the
peace They had fight, but no one
was injured
william Harrison, white, was finet
si and costs for being drunk.
Walter Shannon and Ella Hill, col
ored, were arrigned for a breach o.
the peace and the case continued
Rube MoGrew. white, was fined ti'
and costs for breach Of the peace.
Walter stsrks, colored. who 4
charged with having broken into an |
O. box car. was again before the court
but his case was continued until 10
morrow morning.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1902-03-14
ORIGINAL 40 sIgxrErfR.
David Nssts.. Of Plasnasld. cesn-. rs1D
Of BIS Experiences.

D3vtu Hoftoos OF EA8souo4os ~o.1f -
Of Bis Experiences.
One Of the most original bcekeepers
in Connecticut is David Norton Of
Plainheld, says a correspondent OF the
Hartford Courant Mr.. Norton IL over
70 years old and is In the bee business
with his son. At a recent meeting Of
the Connecticut beekeepers' associa-
ton. Mr.. Norton spoke at length OF his
bees and OF his method OF working
over them. In the summer this enthu-
siastic apiarist sits out among his bee
hives under a large yellow umbrella
and often maps there, lulled to sleep by
the humming He handles the bees
fearlessly. and is never stung by them.
This year the honey produced by his
bees exceeded largely the amount OF
neighboring beekeepers. In his apiary.
he says, the bees enter each others
hives Unfortunately II they ind their
own hive crowded, and deposit their
honey burdens, and they are like one
happy family He observes none OF the
usual precautions in regard TO putting
a new queen in u hive-simply after
the colony has been queenless awhile
he puts the hew queen In. and the bees
never fail to give her a kind reception
This Is contrary to most apiarists' ex-
perience, as a new queen IL usually
placed In a wire-screened little box
that is plugged with sugar. The bees
observe their new queen through the
wire and thus become accustomed to
k.- La, thA nlnA
and free her and she walks quietly on
to the combs In the HE. II a new
queen, ordinarily, Is put unprotecteo
into a colony Of strange bees they XIII
her. Mr.. Norton approves OF very
large hive, 20 constructed that II can
be enlarged or contracted. In the heat
OF the day the hives In this unique
apiary are sheltered uneer umbrellas.
In regard TO moving hives Of bees. Mr..
Norton says he experiences no incon-
venience from losing bees. as In most
cases where the bees return TO the old
location; but he says lis bees after
flying out Immediately note the new
spot, and invariably return 10 H. A
suggestion offered by Mr.. Norton
whereby bees would alwa-s know their
own hive. which he had tried expert
mentally. was 10 paint each hive a dif-
ferent color The bees remembered the
color OF their own hive easily. Just as
I they do the tints Of the blossoms. Mr..
[ Norton thinks that the bees have be-
/ come so accustomed TO himself and his
son that their working among them
does not In the least disturb them.
therefore these beekeepers can open .
hive and examine the combs at leisure,
while the bees fly about and do not
get into an uproar. That there Is a
great future for the boekeeper and
large profits In the bee business when
properly conducted. Mr. Norton does
not doubt. but says that his only re-
gret IL that he did not begin az bee
, keeping earlier In life.-Chicago News.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1902-03-14
CONSIDERATIONS OF MONEY.
. writer Protest. Against the raklsg
of Interest.

Sach laws as the prohibition TO take
ntercst for money loaned to one In
i.Etroas Exodus. xii. 20; Jeyiticus.
XIV. 60. compare Psalms. Nv. 81 Is
a protest against the business OF mon
lending as carried on In Bahylonia,
where thousands Of tablets found be-
lcath the mounds reveal the extent to
vAich this enterprise was developed
n the commercial centers OF the Eu-
lhratea valley or course. without
money lending commerce on a large
-c7!c cannot ice carried on. but this Is
yastly what the Pentatouch aims 10
avoid, says Morris Jastrow. In the In
dependent. The ideal which Il holds
10 is not commerce. but agriculture.
70 las no sympathy with commercial
MANSION; II does not hold out the
hopc-nGy, Il distinctly discourages
tho prospect Of the people becoming
The rivals OF the Babylonlaus and
fhccniciens. the great merchants Of
antiquity. The progeny Of Abraham Is
20 be "as numerous as the sands of
'h0 sen" but nowhere "a wealth held
70 either as goal or even a posi-
bllity. The picture which the COM
nilcrs Of the Pontateuchal codes had in
mind was that OF each man sitting
with his family under the shade Of his
lg tree. Every pater familias was to
own the land which he cultivated.
Country life IS given the preference
over city life. Hence interest is in
tentionally taboood as an effective
blow against converting the people
into a commercial nation.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1902-03-14

Secretary Root is rapidly proving
his ability by his excellent work in
military affairs. He appeared before
the senate committee day or two ago
and made fine argument in favor Of
the bill creating a general staff, and
consolidating the quartermaster' com
misssry and pay bureaus of the army
under one head, and known as the sup
ply bureau. He said the experience
of the department during the war with
Spain had demonstrated the wisdom
OF this consolidation, and that it was
demanded by all considerations OF ex-
pediency. efficiency and economy. He
said the creation of general staff
would give an official standing TO ma-
nv army officers now detailed for spe-
cial work in the war department. the
work upon which they are engaged, he
said, the preparation of plans for mil
itary organization, etc., is veryneoes-
sary in case OF hostilities.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1902-03-14
LEGALLY DEAD.
JIM YOUNGER UNABLE TO EN
TER INTO MARRIAGE CON.
TRACT AND ASKS GOV
ERNoR VAN SAINT To
AID HIM.

st. Paul, MINI, March i4.-Jim
Younger wants TO get married. He
cannot, because ne is legally dead I;
hence is unable to enter into any con.
tract Younger submitted the ques-
tion Of whether or not he could wed TO
Governor Van SAINT. who has looked
Into the matter, with some surprising
results In Minnesota a man who Ia n
life prisoner is oivilly dead. The
only way he can make any binding
contract in the eyes Of the law Is
through the board which paroles him
Il is not probable, however. that the
three members OF the board Of control,
separately or a. n whole, will agree to
enter into a marriage contract Cor the
benefit Of the psroled life convict.
The only way for Jim Yoanger to
become a married man In Minnesota is
to get a pardon. Another phase Of
the law is that neither Jim Younger
nor his brother Cole. IL they establish
any business Of their own. as has been
contemplated, can be held for any
debts which they may incur. Young.
er's application says nothing OF the
proposed bride.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1902-03-14
RINGS RETURNED
ONE OF THE GIRLS WAS AR.
RESTED, BUT HAD NOTHING.

Yesterday two women Of ill repute,
claiming to come from Mayfeld, ar
rived in the city in half intoxicated
condition and proceeded to Court
street to secure lodging in one Of the
resorts Of that locality, which they
failed to do. They remained there
some time talking to the women and
left Soon after their departure two
fine rings were missed apd the officers
were notified OF the affair and officer
Orr, Of the depot teat, instructed to
keep lookout for them. He found
that they had gone to the depot again
and were preparing to return to May
field or some other southern point, but
when he reached the depot the girls
ran, one going in one direction and
the other taking al opposite course.
One was arrested and taken TO the
station where u search was made but
nothing was found. The girls COM
panion was never arrested but the
rings have been returned.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1902-03-14

The recent wreck on the Southern
Pacific railroad near Ell Paso, Texas,
has already cost the company in set
thing for claims alone, $4,000, and
there are many more to hear from.
One man who lost three children in
the wreck was paid slO, 900, and sign
ed contract obligating himself to in.
stitute no legal proceedings against
the road. The promptness with which
road has settled claims is said to be
unprecedented. -Four claim agents
have been kept busy constantly since
the wreck.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1902-03-14

I II Governor Beokham puts his fist
to the bill passed yesterday quail can
not be killed in Kentucky for the pur-
pose of sale for two years. And out
side hunters will have to pay sa5 for
the privilege of hunting in the state a..
None Of this however, worries tine
hunters in this section Of the state.
When birds are hard to find here Pa
ducah nimrods cross over into Illinois
or Tennessee, and generally manage to
get all they want-but don't say any
thing about it.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1902-03-14

Colonel r. @. Clowrey, the newly
elected president of thewestern Union
Telegraph company, worked his way
up from the humble position of mes
senger boy. This is not very remark
able, however, when we remember
that in those days messenger boys
were perhaps not SO slow as they are
NOW
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1902-03-14
RUSSIAN POLICE METHODS.
Iortars Abolished by Alexander .. frao-
tlcsd Under Nicholas ~.

ttcsd tnder Nicholas ".
The centenary OF the abolition in
Russia OF the torture as an organized
system Of legal inquiry has provided
the Russian press with a text for nu-
merous articles on the humanity and
progress OF their country. No doubt
IL was a great step to take. but II has
stlll to be ratified In practice before
Russia has any particular occasion TO
rejoice In the old days the torture
WIS applied TO all suspects as a hrst
means Of inquiry. and when the IN
happy wretch had been compelled TO
confess something-usually. as the
Empress Catherine expressed II, any
thing which was put into his mouth
he was subjected to second "in-
quiry" by the same or more severe
means. IN order 10 secure eonhrma-
ton OF his FIRST confession. Occa-
sionally the whole process was re-
peated twice more. with a view to
eNtorting the names OF aocomplices.
The tor,ures applied were much the
same as In other countries. but could
be added TO by the ingenuity OF indi-
vidual officials
Thus. during the reign OF Anne.
when the ex-tablo boy and fayori;e OF
the empress. Biron. was in power, II
was a favorite form Of torture 20 stand
a culpriI naked In the snow during the
severe northern frosts Of midwinter,
either ioe-cold or cold and hot alter
nate,y. a form OF inquiry" which had
tho disadvantage OF too often killing
the poor wretch before he had time
to confess anything Thumbscrews.
the clog and every form OF whipping
and beating. with almost as many
names for the various processes as are
to be found IN the dialogues o. the
slaves Of Roman comedy. were every
day attributes OF the old Russian halls
Of Justice
Just 100 years ago the Emperor AL
exandor l. abolished the torture as
being a shame and a reproach 10 all
mankind" But he forgot TO order the
legal instruments Of torture 10 be des-
troyed. and these la 5crci on and were
undoubtedly used for another quarter
Of a century. Omclally the torture
has. Of course. actually disappeared
at any rate. those forms OF II which
require elaborate Instruments TO their
application are no more 20 be found.
In actual fact. however. says the Lon
don Standards Moscow correspondent,
and In secret there Is a great deal OF
torture going on In the most cnlight-
ened centers Of the Russian empire
at the present day. and IL is exercised
by the police intrustod With the dis
coyery OF crime, the detective polica."
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1902-03-14

Policemen will hereafter probably
have to wait until the conviction of
person arrested for felony, before they
can collect the two dollars the state
pays tor arrests in felony cases. The
bill making this provision has passed
IN the Legislature, and will probably
become law. 1t is generally regard
ed as a good one, as many q person is
charged with felony principally be-
cause the officer making the arrest,
and who usually swears out the war
rant. gets two dollars for 1t, no mat
ter wether the charge is ever sustain.
ed or not. II cost the state over 500,
900 last year.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1902-03-14
now

The only bill introduced at the in
stance of the humane societies is that
prohibiting the docking of horses, and
il will probably be defeated, as the
owners of horses seem opposed TO it.
and have a stronger pull than the
other fellows.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1902-03-14

General Methuen was not killed al
ter all. People who were Mortified at
the alleged account OF tho execution of
Commandsnt Scheepels should remem-
Der that everything You see in the tel
egraphic dispatches isn't necessarily
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1902-03-14
CANALLEGIsLArIoN UNLIKELY

Washington, March Ex-senator
Morgan is proceeding to IlunGe ahead
with his canal bill. This, in the opin-
ion of some senators, may send the
bill over until the next session. The
senate is almost certain to divide in
the choice Of routes and there is not
much chance Of passing u bill this SEES
sion.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1902-03-14

The house has passed bill that
ought to become law. h is to pre-
vent professionalism among jurors,
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1902-03-14

The Browns and the Joneses arc
great friends. Mr.. Brown and Mr.
Jones are friends because they like
the same things. and their wives are
friends because they dislike the same
2eople.-New York Times.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1902-03-14

Conylets in Sing Sing prison enjoyed
sweet morsel Of revenge the other
day. when George Blssert. the New
York policeman sentenced for extor-
ton. arrived there to serve his time.
As he was led to his cell the other
prisoners jeered Justify. for they all
had learned of his coming. Some par
ucularly iubilant yells were uttered by
the fellows whom Bissert had helped
to striped suits.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1902-03-14

Lexington thinks the defeat of the
capitol bill means that ultimately the
state capital will be moved to Lexing-
TON
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1902-03-14

Paducah is not second class CITY.
She is firstclass city-but in tho sec
ond class. -
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1902-03-14
FRIDAY, MARCH Ia, 1909.
DAILY THOUGHT.

IAN optimist is believer; he who
has confidence in human nature, in So
ciety, in its future"