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The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1903-04-06

The Hopkins left for Evansville this
morning.
The Pavonia will go out today to
Cumberland river for ties.
The Thomas Parker went to Ten
nessee river today for ties.
The Ten Brock will leave today or
tomorrow for Tennessee river after
ties.
The Clyde will arrive out OF Tennes-
sec river tomorrow and will depart on
return trip Wednesday at 8 O'Clock.
The J. NJ. Bowel will go out today
to Evansville. She has about repaired
her barges damaged in the Friday
storm.
The Buttorff had not arrived at
noon from Cumberland. She is due
to leave today for Nashville. but will
be late.
The Lotus simms passed out of the
Tennessee to st. Louis yesterday
morning. She did not go to Shiloh.
as arranged, on account of her late ar
rival.
The Inverness left this morning for
Cumberland river and had n hard
time leaving the harbor here on &C.
count of the wind. She had q tow of
empties.
The Hosmer is due today from
White river and will load ties near
Cairo for the Russell Lord to take to
Keokuk, Ia. The Lord is now en- route
to that city with ties and will take up
those loaded by the Hosmer upon her
return.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1903-04-06
Dezzra Thurman.
Raymond Perry.
Willard Pruitt.
HISTORIC BELL
SOMETHING OF WHERE THE
SPREAD EAGLES CAME FROM.

The bell Of the Spread Eagle, which
left Paducah Saturday for 81. Louis,
one of the sweetest on any boat, has n
history. II first did service on the
root OF the famous steamer Thompson
Dean, built at Cincinnati more than
forty years ago by Thompson Dean, a
New York capitalist. The boat ran
on the Ohio ana Mississippi rivers for
many years and when she closed her
career the cabin was transferred to the
steamer Will s. Hayes, also an Ohio riv-
er and New Orleans boat, which was
named for the river editor of the Lou
isville Courier-J ournal. The Hay es
was subsequently bought by the An
Choir line Of Louis and taken TO st.
Louis, but was wrecked by an ice
gorge before she ever made trip.
Her machinery was saved and the bell
became part Of the equipment Of the
Spread Eagle. Her engines are on the
towboat Louis Houck, built by the
Leyhes but now belonging to the Bar
rett line Of Cincinnati and being re-
built on the ways at Mound City, Ill.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1903-04-06
Lease
Of Life Renewed
After Terrible
S u f f c ring Fro m
Heart Disease.
DIR. Miles Heart Cure
Gave Me Health.

Some years ago | suffered greatly with
heart disease. tried the best doctors in our
county and got no relief until | began the
use OF DR.. Miles Heart Cure. l used three
bottles and have not had occasion TO call a
doctor since. 1t restored my heart to healthy
activity and has given me new lease OF life.
Prior to taking the remedy was very restless
and got ut a few hours sleep during the
night, felt tired out, had no ambition, was
completely discouraged and had given up all
hopes OF getting better. | had taken so
much medicine without relief that had little
faith when | began taking the Heart Cure,
but after taking one bottle | could rest well.
My stomach did not trouble me and in three
months my health was completely restored.
II is nearly six years since | stopped taking
the Heart Cure and have had no return OF
the old symptoms and know my cure is per-
maient"-LEwIs LAWRENCE, Fl Worth,
Texas.
DIR, Miles Heart Cure pleases every one who
tries H. Taken, primarily, TO strengthen the
heart, the patient is pleasantly surprised 10
Ind that after a short time, his stomach is in
better condition, his nerves are steadier, his
color better, his strength greater, his sppe-
tite is improved and that he rests better at
night The reason Is PLAN. Ii cures the
symptoms by removing the cause. Stop doc
toring your symptoms. Remove the cause
with Heart Cure, the great heart and blood
tonic.
All druggists sell and guarantee first bottle
DIR. Miles Remedies. Send for free book
on Nervous and Heart Diseases Address
DR.. Miles Medical Co., Elkhart, Ind.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1903-04-06
KENTUCKY corroN All EAIR.

1t is not generally known that cot
ton is grown in Kentucky, but this
is fact that vii! be prominently
brought to The attention Of the visit
ors Of the Worlds fair. Fulton county
grows as fine cotton as Is to be found
anywhere in the south. It, however.
is the only county in the state where
this culture has proved a success.
Many OF the farmers there have turned
from corn and wheat to cotton and
have found It q profitable change.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1903-04-06
EDUCATIONAL BUILDING.


and rural schools Of the state. and an
exhibit illustrating the work OF the
mountain schools. He hopes to enlist
the interest Of all teachers and super
intendents throughout the state with
regard to the proposed exhibits. The
fact that the Kentucky Exhibit asso-
citation has decided to give the most
popular school teacher in every county
in the state a free trip to the Worlds
fair will doubtless add greatly to the
interest in the display to be made by
the educational committee. This COM
mittee will have charge Of the con-
test. so far as the counting of the
votes is concerned. School teachers
and city and county superintendent
in every section Of the commonwealth
have Endorsed the popularity contest.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1903-04-06
KENTUCKY TOBACCO IS KING.

The st. Louis worlds fair officials
have paid Kentucky tobacco the high
est compliment possible in the Agri-
cultural building at the exposition.
Ten thousand square feet will be de-
voted to a collective exhibit Of tobacco
from all over the United States. One
half OF this space has been assigned to
Kentucky. Mr. Charles ID. Campbell
of Louisville Is chairman OF the to-
bacoo exhibit committee Of the Ken
lucky Exhibit association. and. with
the assistance of his committee, is
taking full advantage of the recogni-
ton made the Blue Grass State in its
importance as a tobacco-growing com
mcrwua.th.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1903-04-06
Value Of Good Music.

Good music appeals to the senses.
The primary object Of music is to give
pleasure. II the public thinks 1t is
being taught, 4 viii stay away. II
there is any one thing that grown peo-
pie will not do. it is to 60 to school
ever ecelc.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1903-04-06
Winners of Yesterdays
Prizes In Puzzle Contest.

Winners Of yesterdays puzzle;
Miss Olga Arnold.
Miss Ruth Mitchell.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1903-04-06
PROMINENT MAO
CABEE ELECTED.

Lexington, April 6-At a meeting
Of the Joe's Fork OIL and Mining Co.
here today the Hon. ID. r. Marley,
supreme commander of the Knights OF
the Maccabees OF the World, was
elected president. The company was
incorporated at Delaware, Nd, with
a capital stock of 5000, 900. Plans
were laid today for rapid development
in the Kentucky oil fields controlled
by the company.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1903-04-06
NE WIS OF
THE RIVERS.

Observations taken at a. m. River
2S.4 feet on the gauge, fall Of 80
feet in last 4s hours. Wind south, q
good breeze. Weather part cloudy and
warmer. Temperature IS.
Pell, Observer.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1903-04-06

The Tennessee left Saturday on
time for Tennessee river.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-01

slight tap with little steel bar about a foot long. A moment later he took off the cement and showed that the diamond was broken, pointing out that one of the pieces was flat and :hs other almost round.
 This flat stone" said he. Twill be used to make a rose diamond and the other brilliant. All diamonds are cut as rose diamonds or briliants. The bril- liants have hfty-eight facets and the rose diamond twenty-four."
 But" said I, "are the pieces always large enough to make individual stones 7'
 No" was the reply Many are too coarse for even rose diamonds. Some are very small, but we kesp them all and use them in various ways. Even the dust Is saved. We burn this cement and save every atom that comes from the dia- monds. The diamond dust is employed in polishing and grinding other diamonds. and some of the small pieces are used for glass cutters
 In the Polishing Room.
 Leaing this room, we go on to see the polishers They are on the third floor in d long hall filled with belts and grinding tools. The room is walled with windows. and the men sit with their backs to the light before long benches over which move fiat wheels of soft iron at the rate of 2,0OO revolutions per minute. Each wheel Is as big around as a dinner plate. and It goes so fast that you cannot tell 1t Is
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-01

tering; but the picture sketched or fn- lshed, Is now, and will always be, mir rored In the eyes of every beholder. If It IS only for a moment the people of the South will, on these occasions of Confed- crate reunions, lift the nobly pathetic picture and reverently uncover before 1t; for spite the effacing influence of time it may never be forgotten that William of Oranges followers were to Holland what the men who fought with Bruce. and Wal lace were to Scotland. what Marathon's
 ten thousand" were to Greece, what in- deed, Thermopylae's three hundred were to Sparta, the Confederate soldiers were. are. and will be-always-to Amer jeans of the Southern States.
 It is to the Confederate soldler-to his high example in courage, in fortitude In patience and in the capacity to suffer and to be still-that the younger genera ton Of the South owes whatever is worthy In its civilization. This debt. may never pc paid, certainly not, within the life- time of the Confederate soldier; but the hsroto sacrifice and the inspirfting ex- ample can live again in our remernb- rance and in the remembrance of our children. The reunion to bc held in May will remind us Of the high civic respon- sibility that is ours and will prompt us to a wider and a wiser patriotism, It will teach us that the lamp of ideallsn should be kept forever glowing, and it will help the world to understand that tha spirit of the Confederate soldier. like the breath of the Holy Man, died not with the prophet but survived him.
 Page NJ. Baker,
 Editor New Orleans mes-Democrat
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-01

United States some of the best stones have come to us and We are now taking about $5,000,0o0 worth every year. We have now the green Hope diamond, for which Pierpont Morgan Is said to have offered a quarter of a million dollars, and several other large stones are now being cut which may go into the hands of American millionaires.
 In a Big Diamond Factory.
 In company with Mir. Frank D. Hill, our American Consul, I was shown over one of the largest and richest of the Dutch diamond works this afternoon. It was that of Mir Roster, on Zwanenburger straat. the factory that cut the Kohnoor for Queen Victoria, the one in which the Grand Mogul was shaped and the one where the Orloff diamond was polished up for the CEar of Russia. It is, ven ture, the most important diamond-cutting mill of the world.
 And still it Is anything but imposing. It Is dirty thTee-story brick building in the Jewish quarter of Amsterdam, situated on a narrow street and looking more like a tenement house than a mill which grlnds ornaments for mlllionares and their heiresses. The hall which we ent- cred was narrow and the wooden stairs we climbed were no better than those of many barn in Pennsylvania. The walls 2s high up as your shoulder were painted dead black and whitewashed above. The steps were black and everything was so
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-01

It is with these feelings and feelings
 kindred to these, that Americans Of the
 South are looking forward to the next
 annual reunion of Confederate Veterans.
 The local Committee is actively at work.
 Ample preparations are making to receive
 the hosts of ex-Confederates that will
 soon converge upon New Orleans from
 every section of the Union. The people of
 this city hope and expect that the grim
 men in gray who forty years ago imper-
 fled all for their country-and regretted
 not that they imperiled twill conie, in
 large number to this hospitable old city
 of ours and receive here the welcome and
 benediction of their grateful countrymen.
 The date Set for the reunion draws near.
 We want the venerable and yeneRated be-
 roeS--the thin gray line that is growing
 thinner every year-to move with martial
 tread once more through the streets of
 the metropolis of the South. From Lou isiana and her neighboring States of Mis- sissippi, Alabama, Texas and Arkansas; from far-away Tennessee and Florida; from farther away Virginia, the Carolinas, Georgia, Kentucky and Maryland, and from the more distant Northern and Eastern States in which Southerners have, since the war, found congenial homes and won enduring reputation-from every point in the Union, we desire that ex-Con- federates and the sons and daughters of ex-Confederates shall come to New Or leans.
 In the impressive procession will be men who represent the splendid soldiery of the South that was ready at the ca1 of duty-and is ready stiIl-to fight vail antly and to die without a murmur. Men who fought not for fame, nor for em- pire. not (thank GodD for money, but for friends and hnsmen, for home and coun- try In renecting upon what the Confed- crate soldier was, as well as upon what he did, the people of New Orleans have highly resolved that the reunion of this year shall be the most interesting, the most impressive and the most successful of all that have been held by the heroes In gray. The organization of United Con Veterans, has, 1t is true, reached, if 1t has not passed, its zenith, Its meri- dian spiendor-the force and the fire that once inhered to it-has waned with the years. Against 1t the fiecre gales of necessity, and the fercer gales of time itself. have blown pitilessly. Nu- merfcally, It's power is necessarily fast morally, it's energy for good | Is strengthening every hour. The memo l ries awakened by 1t and the pride stirred | by a sight or the Confederate Veterans as they pass in annual review on the oc- | casion of these reunions-are forever con | secrated and hallowed In the hearts of the | Southern people. We need not recount | all the names on the sacred list nor tell | the sad. brave story over in all it's des- | olate grandeur of Ideal and starving snf- |
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-01

It is now clear to all that the spirit of
 he that loseth his life shall save 1t ~ the spirit of greater love hath no man
 than this, that he lay down his life for
 his friend"-gave impulse and character to the Confederacy from the moment when
 Mir Davis was inauGurated at Montgom-
 cry to the hour when General Lee sur
 rendered at Appomattox.
 1t is right that the people of the South.
 of the Union, and of the world, know
 this There was time when Americans
 of the Northern States failed to compre-
 bend the real significance of the Con
 federacy;. a time when they failed to ap-
 preciate the controlling motive Of the
 Confederate soldier; a time when the lin-
 gering animosities of war blurred the his
 toricaI perspective and made 1t dlfhcult,
 if not impossible, for Federal and Con-
 fedsrate to appraise accurately one an-
 others character. That time ls now hap
 oily passing, if, indeed, 1t Is not already
 past When Lee surrendered at Appomat- tox a great issue was decided. For four wears Federal and Confederate had stru8- eIed in civil war. Each side had spoken It's mind from the cannon's mouth. The Reclamation was Voclferous, the rnetorlc magnificent. the argument conclusive. And when the footsore Confederate sol dier surrendered his gun, wrung the hands of his comrades in silence, and, button- ing his parole in his faded gray Jacket ss Grady has pictured him, began the slow and painful homeward journey, he rsaIized that the war was over. that slavery was abolished, and that. hence forth. the right to secede from the Union could have no place in the American ponty. =. AL. ..S.. st tgnifcance of Appomattox. The surren- der of Lees army. the parole of the Con- federate soldier, meant more than the emancipation of a race, more than the political welding together of separate and Individual States. It meant that with the echo of the last gun should die every ig- noble prejudice and memory; that beneath inc repelling features of war should be dIscerned the redeeming nobleness of both Federal and Confederate; that recipro- cal confidence should solidify and purify our political life; and, finally, that, as one nation, we should become one people
 1t is not too much to say that this larger significance of the titanic struggle of forty years ago Is now understood ana throughout the Union. Re- gently, and specially within the last few years, the feeling has become strong among thinking men everywhere that in "the irepressible conflict" both Northern CTS and Southerners defended, the right as God gave them to see the right" and that it was in the inscrutable wisdom of Providence that the pure purposes of the South were crossed and her brave armies were overwhelmed.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-01

the oil is much below that of the United States in character and the output Is not large.
 Big Amsterdam Banks.
 There are many big banks here some backed by Jews and some by Christians. The Jewish population is large. comprls- ing altogether some 34o0O. Many of the Jews are descendants of those who came here from Lisbon during the middle ages and engaged in lending money and in shipping projects. Others came from Ger many and eastern Europe. The Dutch themselves are among the safest and best business men of the world and with the Jews make a strong combination. They have never been afraid to invest in ven- lures that promised well and they have always pushed out for new things.
 Amsterdam laid the foundation of her wealth through her spice trade with the Dutch East Indies. She had the monop- oly of this trade when the Dutch East India Company was formed and she is today one of the chief spice markets of the world. She has had to have plenty of money to back her enterprises and this has led to the growth of a large banking business.
 One of the oldest banks is that of the Netherlands, which Is quoted at 200 per cent and upwards The French bank shares are worth as high as 800 and the German Government Bank shares sell at aS. Then there is the Java Bank, which
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-01

and there are a number of other compa- nies which pay from 6 to 14 per cent. right along.
 . Money in Diamonds.
 The Dutch are making fortunes out of diamonds. They buy them in the rough and cut and polish them for the markets They have been doing this for generations and have made Amsterdam the chief dia- mond cutting and polishing place of the world The work Is mostly done by Por- tugese Jews, who have been engaged in 1t from father to son for hundreds of years. There are 12OOO such men here who do nothing else. and they are the most skilled of their kind In the world. They work for the capitalists at regular wages. some in little shops and others in factories. There are Tn all about sixty factories in the city, with 700 or 800 poll ishing stones, in which the men work day in and day out upon diamonds for ex- port.
 About $20, ,00o, 900 worth of rough stones are bought every year and when polished are sent to all parts of the world. Within the last few years of good times in the
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-01

diamond," he went 1n. as he picked up a
 little piece of white stone not bigger than the head of pin. ESQ I take a little dia- mond with q sharp edge like this. and fix 1t in some cement It the end of this split ting tool.' and he thereupon stuck 1t in some cement on the end of a stick not unlike the handle of d shoemaker's awl. He softened this cement in gas flame and cooled it after the stone was fixed by dipping 1t in some water. As 1t be- came cold the cement hardened and the diamond was firmly held. He then fixed the rough diamond into a similar tool, and taking the first diamond, which he called his diamond knife, he scratched with it again and again upon the flaw. making a noise as though sharpening gritty slate pencil. It was only a mo- ment until he had cut a little notch In the diamond He then stood the tool holding the diamond in hole in a lead plate fastened to the table in front of him. He picked up a blade of steel an inch wide and about three inches long. He fitted the blunt edge of this into the flaw, and gave the back of the blade a
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-01

stock exchange are those of Dutch com panies doing business in Hollands East Indian colonies. There are no end of com- panies here which have been organized to develop Sumatra, Java,. Borneo and the Celebes, and many of them are paying big dividends. They give some idea as to what our capitalists may do in the Philippines later on. Take the matter of tobacco, there are fourteen different com panies which have estates in Java or Su- matra, and the stock of many of them is far above par.
 The Deli Maatschappy ranges from $4o0 to $500 for $100 shares and 1t pays divi- dends of from 10 to 2S per cent The Sem embah Tobacco Company pays 8 per cent. the Amsterdam Deli from 47 to S5 per cent, and the Rotterdam Deli about 32 per cent. The Padang Tobacco Com pany ranges from 120 to 179, and the Ser dang is over POS Some of the companies doing business in Borneo are paying good dividends.
 The Dutch petroleum enterprises are less prosperous. The companies here have oilfelds in Sunnatra and Borneo but so far
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-01

does large trade in the East Indies, paying between and s per cent; a Neth- erlands Bank and Credit Association for South Africa, the. Amsterdam Bank, the Rotterdam Bank and a number of oth- CTS.
 East Indian Mining Stocks.
 Within the past few years quite deal of speculation has been done in mining shares of the Dutch colonial companies, which are exploiting mines of gold, coal and tin. The companies operate In Bor- neo, Sunatra, Banka and the Celebes and in Dutch Guiana on the north coast of South America. So far the gold mines Of the East Indies have not amounted to very much. but .he shares of Guiana companies are quoted at 200 and more and appear to be doiag well. The tin mines of the Island of Banka are very profitable Ono til company has recently doubled It's dividends. and tn. Biliton mines are turning cut even more than in the past.
 The Dutch steamship companies are making money. The Holland American line pays good dividends. The great com pany that has the monopoly of the trade of the Malay archipelago is prosperous,
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-01
CARPENTER TELLS
 OF AMSTERDAM
Many Mislionaires in the Dutch City. Heavy Invectment.c in Amer
 ican Securitiec.

Copyright, 1903, by Frank G. Carpenter,
 Amsterdam.
 Amsterdam is me of the richest cities or Europe. It has several multi-miliion- ares, scores of millionaires and thousands wno nave luxurious incomes. It has some or the chief banking firms of the world ana It's stock investments are almost as varied as those of London An enormous amount of American securities are held nere' and our stocks are bought and sold Svery day on the exchange I am told mat tne Amsterdam brokers have made something like s5o.0O0,0oo in the past few years Tn American stocks and that they consider our securities as good as any oi the world. Not long ago there was something like s5.oOo.o0O worth of United states steel stock held in Amsterdam. in- cduolng 1850 shares of the preferred and A1e'VV shares of the common. There is niucn southern Pacific and Grand Trunk. some c. B. and O.. quite a lot of Den yer ana Rio Grande, some Atchison. To- peha and Kansas City and in all more or iess Of about one hundred different American stocks. '
 Ainong the leading securities sold on the