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The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1903-05-20

back the World has not had the hsppi-
ness to win the approval Of the Wash
ington Post. The Post retorts that
various crimes are committed In New
York, some of which are unknown in
Kentucky.
ssVery true. Every community,
with the possibly exception of Pitcairn
Island, has its criminals. II would be
unfair to hold New York or Kentucky
or the District OF Columbia responsible
for the deeds perpetraed within its
borders from individual depravity.
What the World ventured to criticize
was a state ofasociety In which muir
der had become a normal feature Of
political controversy, apparently with
the conniv..oe of the whole commu-
nifty. Men are murdered in New York,
but it Ia not customary here for a man
to be besieged in his own house for
three months by assassins, TO be hnal-
" shot down on the steps Of the court
house and 10 lie for ten minutes before
anybody dares to touch his body 1t
Is not usual in New York murder
case for the district attorney to say
that he does not Intend to prosecute
anybody because such an act on his
part would bo-suicidal."
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1903-05-20
SOCIETY, NOT THE CRIME.

The New York World recently criti-
cized the sentiment in certain parts Of
Kentucky that prompted or pardoned
such heinous crimes as the Marcum as
sassination at jackson. A few papers
took up the cudgels in behalf of the
state in the same way that the pot
called the kettle black. They cited the
number of crimes in New York and
other places, without justifyipg those
in ours, and the World, in reply. ex-
plains it was not the crime itself, but
the stete of society that connived at
it, that was criticized. The World
brings home to us some unpleasant
Truths In the following;
"In its structures upon the form of
chivalry shat selects the court houses
of Kentucky IS suitable ambushes for
ehooti4s political opponents Il the
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1903-05-20
COTTON.

New York, May e0-This market
continued on its wild upward course.
and all previous records were broken.
although the advance today was prin-
cipally in the deferred futures. the
December option selling above go.
W. p. Brown is still in New York and
the advance in the price was consider.
ed to be due principally TO his buying.
Mr.. Brown says: al am still long of
cotton and will continue in that posi-
tion for some time. base my judg-
ment in this respect on the fact which
is now apparent that the stock of sc-
tual cotton is very scarce. l do not
think that the mills will close on ac-
count of the present price Of the sta
pie. The new crop this year will be
unusually late, hence record prices are
bound to result" On the other hand
bearish views were set forth as follows
by one of the leading opponents of
Mr.. Brown. The United States CEN
sus report confirmed its previous esti.
mate of last years cotton production
at 10, 66s, 900 bales, there has been
marketed from September last 10. 067,-
900 bales, this leaves the unmarkoted
stock 600, 900 bales, and this does not
suggest a great shortage. Cotton is
selling at II 7-sc q pound at which
price the apparent surplus is worth
CSC, 900, 900 and any attempt to corner
it and carry prices to compel oonsum-
ers to buy 1t at the prevailing high
prices is no small undertaking, and II
cotton remains around the present
prices New Orleans or in other words
W. p. Brown will be called upon in
the near future to take lot of cotton.
ARENZ g. GILBERT.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1903-05-20
POLICE COURT.
An Unusual Kind of Petty Lar
ceny Case.
Will Conner. Almost Wreck, Is in
the Tolls.

The wife of Mack Wright, oolored,
was srraigned In police court this
morning for petty larceny and her case
is most peculiar one. A colored
woman named williams claims that
she became Ill and had q pocketbook
containing %. 40. which she gave to
the Wright woman to keep for her dur
ing her illness. When she recovered
and asked for the money the Wright
woman could not produce 1t and the
owner procured warrant. The de-
PENDANT admits she received tho peck
etbook but that she must have lost
it," She placed 1t in her pocket, she
explained, and this was the last she
ever saw Of il. Judge Sanders heard
the testimony ana left the case open
until Saturday when the attorney will
argue. IL is thought that the case will
result in a dismissal
Tom Wood. colored, was fined $50
and costs for whipping his wife.
The case against the Armour Pack
ing Packing company for maintaining
nuisance by keeping chicken slsugh-
tering house on Third street, was con-
tinued until tomorrow.
viii Conner. white, was held over
TO the action OF the grand Jury In q
house breaking case and committed to
jail In default of a $3.50 bond.
Connor was charged with breaking
into the house of Fred Yopp and steal
ing his clothes and later selling the
garments to secondhand dealer Con-
nor admitted that he took the clothes
and said he bought cocaine with the
money, and that Cordie Russell, q
Hurst boy and himself used the drug.
Conner is well known in police court.
He comes of good family and eau
attribute his present deprayed conai-
tion to whisky and women. He is
almost a wreck mentally and physi.
cally.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1903-05-20
IT'S BENEFITS THAT COUNT.

The mayor of Lexington has taken
exception to a paragraph in one OF
his papers that Lexington has the
highest tax rate In the Union for the
benefits received BY the taxpayers.
Mayor Duncan writes card to the
paper, and proves that heisscmething
of a juggler with figures. He gives q
table showing the tax rates to average
s1.75 in the Eve cities, Covington,
Frankfort, Newport, Owensboro and
Padueah. The. highest is Owensboro,
with = % tax rate. The mayor in
compiling his table, however, neg
lects to show what the people get in
the respective cities in the way Of
benefits. A city could web afford to
have even larger tax rate if the pub
lie were provided with modern con-
veniences and up-to-date, well-man-
aged utilities in return.0Cty a
But Lexington seems to be as unfor.
tunate as Paducah. Last year we had
a s1.S5 rate and not a single improve
ment was made. There was absolute.
ly nothing.at the end of the year to
show for the expenditure of nearly
5000, 900 except number of fat, sleek
officials who had a good time and
never managed to miss salary day.
This year the rate is sl.65, and we are
not promised an abundance Of i'm
provements, although probably some
time during the year the legislative
boards will decide just what those we
are to get will be. Thus far, however,
no one knows exactly, and we don I
know whether our new sidewalks are
10 be of gravel furnished from the
graft, sand from the bar. COM
mon everyday brick, or granitoid
such as real cities have.
We fully agree with the Lexington
Leader, however, in the following,
which applies as we'll to Paducah:
"'Tax rates are not alwayS oonclu-
sive proofs of the comparative tax COL
lections of several cities, or of the
comparative efficiency of municipal
administrations.
Few cities in the United States
assess property upon as high vslua-
tion as Lexington, and few cities of
its class raise as much additional rev.
enue for public expenditure from spe-
cial taxes, licenses. etc.
"If Mayor Duncan were to prepare
a comparative statement Of the annual
receipts and expenditures of the cities
he has named 1t would be . more
effective answer to the offending par
aghaph he has quoted" -,r SD.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1903-05-20
THE CLEVELAND PROGRAM.
(St. Louis Globe Democrat. }

(St. Louis Globe Demoerst.)
Col. wattersop sizes up tine Cleve-
land situation in this way: He says
the ex-president's admirers have been
"misled partly by the clamor Of the
mugwump contingent and wholly by
the st. Louis demonstration" and
they think they can capture the Dem
ocratic two-thirds rule. Assuming
that they can nominate him, they take
it for granted that "he can carry New
York. They do not doubt that they
can buy New Jersey and Connecticut.
But one additional electoral vote will
be needed, and they are not wide of
the mark in thinking they can flip
this from some of the many rotten
borough states Of the Rocky mountain
range. As for the solid South, It will
have to take him willy-nilly. II can
not help itself"
But the colonel is not deceived by
the outlook. He sees and says that
Cleveland and the Morgan syndicate,
which is booming him, could neither
carry New York nor buy New Jersey
or Connecticut. Moreover, as he looks
at things. Maryland, West Virginia,
Kentucky, Missouri and, perhaps,
Tennessee, would become not merely
doubtful states, but almost certainly
Republican states" This looks to be
. pretty safe forecast. 1t will be well
for those who may be inclined to ques-
ton this prophecy to remember one
thing. The colonel saw this Cleve
land denomination cloud long ago,
when it was not nearly so large as q
mans hand. When he first mentioned
his discovery the world laughed ct
him. 1t is not doing any laughing
now.
OF course the Cleveland third term
folly has . chance to commit race sui.
eide before the convention of 1904
meets. II it should be successful in
the convention, however, the people
will make short work of it at the
polls. Cleveiand's syeophants say that
their idol is popular with on element
of the Republican party. A-.Tiiis Is one
of the things, il it exists, that they
ought to keep silent about. To the ex-
tent that Cleveland may be agreeable
to q few Republicans, he will be cut
by many times that many Democrats.
The men who elected Cleveland when
he was elected did this because they
thought he was different from the Re-
publicans. II he fooled them then he
cannot do it again. As between q
Democrat with Republican leanings
and Republican who is robustly and
Complementary Republi can, the RE-
publicans will command tho support
Of hundreds of thousandsdef stalwart
and straight-out Depocrats.
-----IN
DIR. ]. r. g. y in Owensboro
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1903-05-20

One of the Democratic msyoralty as
pirants, according to reports, is going
to make his race on platform of mu-
nicipal ownership. paying particular
attention to municipal ownership of
the water works. When the people,
no matter Of what politics. find out
that they would have to pay for water
Just the same If the city owned the
water works, they will probably see to
it that the city is not bonded for wa
terworks.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1903-05-20
OUT OF SERVICE.
l. y. WILL SEND A NEW BOAT TO
TRANSFER TRAINS.

The Illinois Central transfer steam
boat Osborne has been ordered out Of
the service by the local inspectors,
Stockholm and Green and was yester-
day stopped and the tug Lizzie Archi-
bald substituted. The tug brought tho
trains over on q barge but this morn
ing the voolfolk was chartered and
will do the work until the Osborne is
repaired or another boat substituted.
10 is reported that the Osborne might
not be placed in service again here and
that another boat will BE- secured for
this place. Nothing definite has been
decided, however.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1903-05-20
CHASED DEER ON BICYCLE.
Animal Seemingly Enjoyed His Race
With the Machine.

Animal Seemingly Enjoyed His Race
With the Machine.
c. ID. Storms OF Honesdale. Pa. was
making a bicycle trip on the towpath
of the abandoned Delaware q Hudson
canal tho other day. When he was
between Glen Eyre and Rowland, in
Pike cour;y, says the New York Sun.
big buck sprang out of thioket and
into the canal Just ahead Of him.
The deer paused a moment and took
a wondering look at the man on the
wheel, and then went bouD ling along
the dry bed of the big ditch. Storms
put ON all speed, but the buck led
him q. chase of more than mile, keep
ing well ahead Of him.
Coming to a lock In the canal the
buck leaped out OF the canal at one
bound. cleared the towpath at anc der.
took TO the Lackawaxen river. crossed
to the. other side, bounded across the
track Of the Erie railroads Homes
dale bftnch. few yards ahead Of an
esst-bo'fnd coal train, pnd disappeared
into TIA W0r0u. \. .. I. Nh. ..... 4
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1903-05-20

Hon. John g. Carlisle's little joke
about the Democrats standing a good
chance to win "if their leaders could
get together" is perhaps not fully ap-
precisted by the Democrats. Mr.. Car
Isle is probably trying to get even
with them for the many mean things
they have said about him since he re-
fused to support Bryan and the 16 to
crowd.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1903-05-20
DUTIES OF JAPANESE WOMEN.
Are Taught to Work and Manage
Households Excellently.

Are Taught to Work and Manage
Households Exeellently.
No matter what the station q
japanese woman occupies she Is
brought up to be able to sew. cook
and attend TO every detail Of work
about her home. In the land OF the
chrysanthemum the highest class Of
women never go TO market The mar.
ket comes to them-that is. the deal.
ers. call and offer their wares for
sale at their customers doors. Tho
fish merchant brings his stock and,
II any is sold, prepares II for cook
ing. The green grocer. the cake deal
er. and nowadays, the meat man, all
go to their patrons houses.
Nearly all japanese women mako
their own clothes; at all events even
the very richest embroider their gar.
ments themselves. Dinner 10 served
at or q little before dusk the year
round. A small table about one foot
square and eight inches high Is set
before each person. On this e q
lacquer tray with space for four or
i've dishee. each four or i've Inches
IN diameter f..t b..
There are definite plates for each
little bowl and dish. The rice bowl
Is on the left, the soup bowl In the
middle. 70 ssr
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1903-05-20
FULTON PASTOR.
EPISCOPAL CHURCH AT HICK-
MAN CALLS REV. O. l.. PRICE.

Rev. O. L. Price, pastor of the Epis-
copal church of Fulton, has been call.
ed to pastorste of the Episcopal church
at Hickman, Ky, Rev. Price has
the matter under consideration bus
has not made his decision.
!, Rev. Archer Boogher, who has been
pastor of the church st Hickman, ten
dered his resignation Sunday to accept
q call at Roanoke, Va.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1903-05-20
STOCKS.

Wall Street, New Yck, May 20-Li-
quotation was resumed soon after the
opening, and was prominent through
out the entire list, but more so in At
Gibson and the industrials. The stock
was well taken. however. for there are
q great many standard stocks which
are now selling on fair investment
basis. The United States supreme
court has reversed the interstate COM
merce commission regarding advance
in freight rates IN the south. this
should have favorable effect on the
market. The market Is still threat
ened with gold exports, however. and
the labor situation everyw here is drift
iag into an acute condition. So far
there has been no indication of revival
Of interest on the part Of the public,
and the trading of the day was prsc-
tically all between professionals. The
rate Of call money has not been Affect
ed and there was little doing In time
loans. 1t Is interesting I o note that
year ago yesterday was low day before
the big advance started which ouimi-
mated In September. Conservative
bankers say that a reaction is due and
that there should be substantial re-
oovery from this level.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1903-05-20
M'kINLEY's FAvoRlrE FLOWER.
How the carnation Came to Be So
Iected by the Late President.

now the Cafnation Camo W % "
Iected by the Late President.
"Carnation day" has but recently
been observed all over the country as
q sort OF tribute to the late President
Mckinley, who during the later years
OF his life was seldom seen without
one OF these blossoms In his button
hole. 1t is related that Mr., McKin.
ley never showed any particular fond
ness for the carnation until some girls
attending the Lake Erie college at
Painsville, o., elected him an honorary
member of their class and pinned their
class flower In his buttonhole. The
incident occurred on Nov. 10, 1898,
while the president. then governor.
was In Painsville, a guest Of the Gar
field club. He devoted no little time
70 the college girls who had honofed
him, and his attitude thereafter show
ed that he appreciated their admira-
ton. He often remembered and was
remembered by them thereafter. Mrs.
Mckinley also took great interest In
the class and It's insignia and was ac-
customed to provide a bunch Of carna-
tons for her husbands room each
morning. The first reunion OF the
class took place when Mr.. Mckinley
was nofdinated for the presidency and
the class sent him congratuiAtory
telegraph He Visited the colleg9osev-
eral tiroes and was a mfmber Or its
4 -.-..1 - x~..~<.on |||I.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1903-05-20
FIRE IN TRIGG.

Cadiz, KY, May 20-The dwelling
house Of Circuit Clerk A. O. Burnett
was destroyed by fire Monday. The
fire was discovered about o'clock
and was thought to have been extin-
guished and every body retired again,
but in about an hopr they -wbre awak-
ened to find the garrett in s4ull blaze.
Most Al the agn'ehold apa kitchen
furnitnre and clothing were destroy
ed. Loss about $4,000. with 81, 500
insurance. ". 4. :. 4. 2 ...,..X
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1903-05-20

Hon. John W. Yerkes, one of Ken
tucky's most honored and illustrious
Republicans, is being fsvorably men
toned as a candidate for vice president
on the Roosevelt ticket. He would
no doubt add strength to the ticket,
for he is a man universally liked and
respected by people Of all political
xart;aa
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1903-05-20
HELEN GOULD SENDS BIBLES.

New Yors, May 20-Miss Helen
Miller Gould has been sending to the
United States soldiers and sailors all
over the country and In the Philip
pines. Cuba and elsewhere bibles con-
tanning quotations. She has quoted
1000 verses. Il Is declared that Miss
Gould writes them from memory. A
quotation is written by her on the fly
leaf of every copy Of the New Testa-
ment and the Psalms she sends out.
Miss Gould's favorite quotation Nie
from Psalms l;i6, Happy is that peo-
pie whose God is the Lord"
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1903-05-20
BOOTH HARRINGTON WORSE.

Indianapolis, May 2o-Members Of
the family Of Booth darlington, the
author. who is III with typhoid Fever,
are much alarmed over his condition,
and the worst Il feared. Al :
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1903-05-20
THE WEATHER.

Generally fair tonight and Thurs
day. ~
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1903-05-20
WEDNESDAY, MAY, 90 1908.

DAILY THOUGHT.
"Cultivste happiness as an art On
science. - lsol rr. co.,. ailfi rl
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1903-08-08
THE CRACKER TRUST
SAID TO BE GIVING IN
Lockout Is Not Profitable, and Crusade
Of Organized Labor Against Pro.
duct is Telling on Sales.

Chicago, Aug. 6.-Boyce's Weekly
says that rumors Of q settlement; Of the
National Biscuit company lockout are
being investigated and the union lead
ers say they believe that the end is in
sight. Since May the two largest
factories in Chicago have been closed
on account Of the trouble between the
company and the cracker packers and
other unions. Several times it was re-
ported that the company was ready to
reinstate the discharged workers and to
treat regarding wage scales, but no re-
suits followed. Now the forelady of
the Bremner factory, Miss Russell, has
requested Secretary Daisy Soaring of
the Cracker Packers, Icing Room and
Label Girls Union to call a special
meeting of all girl employees Of this
company. She said the principal OBJ
ject was to secure the addresses of
this company. She said the principal
object was to secure the addresses Of
these girls However, the union lead
ers are anxiously hoping that settlement
results will follow. The girls and the
other unions claim that no assertions
have taken place during the three
month lockout, but that many Of the
members are employed in other fac
tories,
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1903-08-08
NEGRO BRlCKLAYERS.

Louisville, KY, Aug. 6.-The strike Of
the bricklayers at the new power
house Of the Louisville Railroad Com
pany, stopped work on what is to be
the biggest smoke stack in this part Of
the United States. The stack, when
completed will be 239 feet high. The
interior will be thirteen feet in diameter
at the top, or big enough to let a street
car through. :
The stack is now forty-hve feet above
the ground, but sixty-five feet Of it
have been built, for the Foundation is
twenty-five feet lower than the surface.
The chimney at the bottom is square.
For twenty-five or thirty feet it re-
mains SO, and then it becomes octogonal
in shape. The .octogon will be con-
tinued to the height Of eighty feet, and
after that thechimney will be circular,
and tapering to. the top. III. ...-.,>.
While contractor .Gest bases his con-
tract prices on the Bricklayers,, Union
scale, he employees, negroes and non-un-
ion men, 50 the union men refused to
work with the non-d escripts.: =s..s.rss: -,
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1903-08-08
Sale Of Mems Furnishings
<<eHIe"'Oo friday and Saturday Of this week this Store

has threatened our public and private
institutions and the lives of our citizens
for the last six months.
The coroners jury in the case Of
Phillip Fiere, the Italian and alleged
union miner who was found fatally in
jured near the scene Of the blowing up
of one Of the buildings of the Sun and
DON mine, returned a verdict that he
''came to his death as result of an at
tempt on his part and others to blow
up the buildings of the Sun and Moon
mine.''
1t was first reported that Fiere had
been shot, but later it developed that
some missile tore through his body,
leaving CHASTITY wound. It is posi-
BILE that he was not guilty Of the OUT
rage.
Much of the ''evidence' being found
against the union miners is newspaper
manufactured stuff published to in
huence public opinion.